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Don't Google the InBar. If you do, you'll find the Indiana State Bar Association, International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, an Israeli kibbutz in Galilee, or a night club in Croatia. You won't find the D-friendly InBar snack. Not yet, at least.
But Dr. Don VerHulst, chief science officer of the year-old Michigan startup company InBalance Health, is out to change that.
As one of the co-founders of the small biz based in Wayland, MI (western part of the state south of Grand Rapids), VerHulst is the designer and driving force behind a whole new approach to diabetes-friendly snacks.
You might say he's a man on a mission to bring us yummy, healthy D-snacks.
Although generally appearing in a white lab coat in publicity stills, VerHulst (who calls himself "Doctor Don") has never practiced medicine and actually views himself as a medical outsider. He says he went straight from medical school into "natural alternatives, helping people learn how to detox their bodies with foods, diet, and lifestyle."
His now-deceased father had type 2 diabetes, and VerHulst objects to the standard medical D-care that he says is "growing like no other health problem out there."
Instead, VerHulst believes in using natural solutions as much as possible.
"In modern medicine we poison ourselves to health," he says, pointing out that most pharmaceutical agents are "poisons with a desirable side-effect." His philosophy is simple changes and judicious use of pharmaceuticals. Before taking any drug, VerHulst says, ask "is your body deficient in that?" In the case of type 1 diabetes, yes, insulin is needed. But he objects to the quick use of insulin in type 2s, saying "my passion is to let people know there are solutions other than insulin" for type 2 diabetes.
To that end, he decided to dedicate himself to creating a healthy snack that tasted good, wouldn't spike blood sugar, and would help people lose weight. Which sounds like a familiar dream, we know…
Building a D-Friendly Snack
InBalance boasts that their product is "doctor-formulated to be diabetic-friendly"; VerHulst was the formulator. He knew in advance that he wanted a product that was high in protein, high in fiber, low in net carbs, gluten-free, and allergen-free. VerHulst says it's actually easy to formulate a healthy bar, but "the challenge is in not having it taste like sawdust."
InBars come in four flavors: Strawberry Banana, Chocolate Fudge, Chocolate Mint, and Chocolate Cherry. Why so much chocolate?
"People love chocolate," VerHulst says. "People want what they want, and we want to give it to them in a healthy way." He says his personal favorite is Chocolate Cherry, and he generally eats one every day.
VerHulst freely admits that the InBar isn't unique in the market place. The brand that most notably comes to mind is Extend Bars from Dr. Fran Kaufman. "But looking at the ingredient list, I wouldn't eat them," VerHulst says, adding that what sets the InBar apart from the competition isn't what's in the InBar, but what isn't in the InBar. And what isn't included is chemicals. The InBar contains only 100% natural organic ingredients.
Now, let's look at the label to find out what is inside these snack bars…
What's in an InBar?
The bulk of the bar is made up of organic sunflower seed butter, gluten-free cellulose, organic rice bran fiber, organic rice protein, pea fiber, and organic crispy brown rice. The bars are indeed allergen-free, gluten-free, and vegan.
Each bar has 140 calories, 17 grams of carbs, and a whopping 10 grams of fiber—giving it a "net blood sugar impact" (by subtracting the fiber) of only 7 grams of carbs.
By comparison, the Extend Bars are largely soy protein, uncooked cornstarch, and glycerine based. They contain the sugar alcohol maltitol, nut products, artificial flavors, caramel color, and Splenda. Depending on the flavor they also contain such ingredients as rice starch, oligofructose, milk protein isolate, maltodextrin, sodium caseinate, soy lecithin, and arabinogalacten. And no, I have no idea what half of those things are.
That said, Extend Bars are also gluten-free (and kosher, according to the label) but not allergen-free. Extend's Delight Bars run close to the InBar in calories and total carbs, with the Extend clocking in at 150 calories and 20 grams of carbs, but they boast a much lower 1-2 "official" net carbs per bar depending on the flavor. I say "official" because Extend has subtracted 100% of the sugar alcohols from their carb count, as the FDA allows, while in the trenches most people find subtracting 50% is more realistic.
The science behind seeking low blood sugar impact couldn't be more different between the two products. The InBar uses very high fiber content to reduce the impact of the carbs it contains; the Extend Bar uses some fiber, but counts largely on the reduced digestibility of sugar alcohol, uncooked cornstarch, and glycerine to lower its carb impact.
I found it noteworthy that InBars don't contain any sugar alcohols, the go-to alternative sweetener that many companies use when making D-friendly snacks. The problem is, sugar alcohols are not digestive-system friendly; they tend to upset most folks' stomachs.
Instead, all InBars include the "InBalance Proprietary Sweet Blend" in lieu of sugar or corn syrup. This is like the Colonel's seven herbs and spices. But thanks to food labeling laws, we know that InBalance's secret recipe is organic blue amber agave, organic brown rice syrup, and Lau Han Guo.
WTF is Lau Han Guo and is there a vaccine for it?
Actually, it's a very sweet fruit from China, a.k.a. Monk Fruit. According to VerHulst, it's "probably one of our key success ingredients. It has two hundred times the sweetness of sugar but no glycemic imprint." He also feels it's more "palatable" than stevia, with no metallic aftertaste.
Made in the USA
InBalance designed the InBar. They market it and sell it. But they don't manufacture it themselves. While VerHulst declined to say who makes the bars, he did confirm that they are made right here in the USA. The first batch was 250,000 bars. And in November, they announced their first distributor in northwest Indiana. (Extend Bars are made in the USA, too, in Louisiana and at other sites, so this isn't necessarily a differentiator.)
VerHulst says the InBar was very well- received when it debuted at a recent East Coast health food expo, has been picked up nationwide by a number of locally-owned health food stores, and that InBalance is on the verge of penning agreements with Vitamin Cottage, GNC, and Wild Oats natural foods stores. He hopes you'll see InBars there within the next 60 days.
Testing Out the InBar
As mentioned, VerHulst and his team set out to create a snack bar that is high in protein, high in fiber, low in net carbs, gluten-free, and allergen-free and tasted good. In terms of taste, he says the best research done so far is on his kids, and that his oldest son now eats an InBar every day — which is odd, since "I can't get that kid to eat anything healthy."
Then there's the issue of blood sugar impact. InBalance is in the process of developing a clinical trial of the InBar in conjunction with Michigan State University, which will study the glycemic response of the bar. VerHulst also hopes to determine the Phytochemical Index of the InBar, which he says is a measure of the nutritional value of a food, beyond just its glycemic index. That includes postprandial blood sugars and hemoglobin A1C.
"It is impossible to say specifically how much an InBar will raise a given individual's blood sugar, as many factors play into this physiologically," VerHulst said. "But we can say that all of the ingredients in the InBar are low glycemic." He also pointed out the omega 3s and fiber in the bars lowers the glycemic index even more.
After talking to VerHulst I soooooooo wanted to like his blood-sugar friendly snack bars and see if they lived up to their taste and low-BG-impact claims. Did they succeed?
Well, I've never tasted sawdust… But I didn't care for these bars myself.
I tried two bars that had been sent to me by InBalance's PR firm: chocolate fudge and strawberry banana flavors.
I'm generally quite the chocoholic, so I started with a nibble of the first one. It wasn't bad, but I was underwhelmed. It's a heavy, dense, and slightly dry bar. And I couldn't taste the chocolate. I don't care for banana flavors for the most part, but VerHulst had told me that customers feedback indicated these tasted like strawberry Twizzlers licorice. Actually, it does, sort of — like Twizzlers with the consistency of glue-bonded sawdust. I liked it better than the chocolate one, but I don't think I'd pay $3.49 a pop to eat any of them.
Actually, our whole team obtained some sample bars from InBalance. Amy and Mike both reported not seeing any noticeable difference in their BG readings compared to eating any other "healthy" protein bar; their numbers went up and down just as you'd expect when eating and bolusing accordingly. Mike didn't care for the taste of any of the four flavors (though choc fudge was the best), and he saw no indication that these were any more "diabetic-friendly" than other protein bars in his house. Amy says she liked the "crun-chewy" consistency of the bars but thought the flavor was awfully bland — not a hint of chocolate taste in any of the bars with that label.
From my side, I nibbled on the Cherry Chocolate InBar that I'd grabbed for lunch on my way out the door one morning. Before this "lunch" I was at 117 mg/dL flat and level, so I ate the bar with a glass of water and bolused for the 7 net carbs. Here's what happened:
Over the next two hours I steadily rose, hitting 150 at the one-hour mark and then sticking in the mid-170s for the next hour. Three hours after eating, I took a correction bolus of 3/4 of a unit… ironic, as the original calculation was less than a half-unit. The taste was better than the others, and I didn't get hungry all afternoon. This treated my blood sugar better than most "diabetic-friendly" bars (which really aren't), but I gotta say the others treat my taste buds better.
One Final Taste Test
To make sure none of our team's taste buds weren't off because of our diabetes (what – another complication?!), I held an informal focus group amongst the various humans who live under my roof in New Mexico. Ten-year-old Rio declared the strawberry banana to be "not very good," and the chocolate fudge to be "just horrible."
On the other hand, my mother-in-law liked both and found them delicious. My type 2 spouse, the target demographic for the product, said she found them "middle of the road, not bad, not great," but was also insulted that the chocolate didn't taste chocolatey. "I can't taste the chocolate at all," she observed.
My own mother thought that as health foods go, they weren't bad. She preferred the chocolate.
"If you were desperately hungry and had to eat, it would be fine," she told me.
Me: "Doesn't sound like it will be your go-to snack, Mom."
"No," she said, "but you can't carry an ice cream sundae in your purse, either."
{See also: Amy's "Clash of the Gluten-Free Protein Bars" post from last Spring, in which she compares 5 different brands.}


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Ever wonder how cotton from the southern United States makes it to the interior of Turkey? It is likely shipped by Mediterranean Shipping Company, the second-largest shipper in the world. With so much of the world's precious cargo on board, Mediterranean Shipping strives for efficiency in all aspects of its business. The company recently conducted a pilot deployment of Microsoft Office 2010 and discovered great benefits. From the robust data analysis tools, which help employees complete complex calculations faster, to enhanced e-mail management tools and online access to spreadsheets to help make working together simpler, Mediterranean Shipping has found a lot to be excited about. The software has helped boost productivity, improve business insight, achieve higher IT efficiency, and minimize operations costs.
A privately owned company, Mediterranean Shipping has become successful through organic growth. A key strategy has been to operate as efficiently as possible, with an emphasis on lean operations and low overhead. To this end, the company keeps employees productive by investing in innovative technologies. For its United States–based operations, Mediterranean Shipping relies on an IT staff of just 15 people to support 1,100 employees.
Fabio Catassi, Chief Technology Officer at Mediterranean Shipping Company says, "Our organization is highly streamlined, with an intense focus on teamwork and the use of technology. We aim to empower business users by giving them efficiency-enhancing tools that don't require a lot of IT staff time to implement and support."
Financial success for Mediterranean Shipping hinges on its ability to maximize ship load and keep the price per shipping unit as stable as possible. Business intelligence is mission critical, and to gain the figures the company needs, users analyze in detail every aspect of shipping activity, including schedules, routing, information about ports of call, and vessel capacity, on the more than 10 million containers that the company transports each year.
Delivering these insights, however, required a great deal of effort from the IT department. IT staffers had to first understand the type of analysis required by the company's Commercial department, then aggregate raw data from the company's 22 terabytes of stored data in partial reports that were exportable to a Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet, then the business user had to write macros and employ standard PivotTables to interpret the information from the spreadsheets that the IT department delivered. "It took several weeks to build a specialized analysis model and involved multiple people from IT to provide business users with the level of detail they required," says Catassi.
Yet, the company actually wanted to extend its business intelligence activities by combining its own shipping statistics with general market statistics. This would create even more data preparation work.
For many years, Mediterranean Shipping has relied on Microsoft products and technologies to run its technology infrastructure and to develop mission-critical line-of-business applications for customer relationship management, booking, contract management, equipment control, statistical analysis, and more. Mediterranean Shipping employees around the world use Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server data management software daily to analyze the company's data.
The company's intensive reporting generated hundreds of thousands of documents and spreadsheets. Some of the Office Excel 2007 spreadsheets were as large as 100 megabytes (MB). "We joke that our business runs on Excel," says Catassi. "But sharing 100-MB spreadsheets through e-mail was not possible, so users had a hard time collaborating and synchronizing information with each other." And with branch offices located around the world, the IT department had to rely on costly storage, backup, and replication technology so that spreadsheets and other information created at one office could be accessible to all. "For proper performance, we had to have a local copy of each spreadsheet available at each branch office," says Catassi. "Disk space was expensive, and we couldn't buy bandwidth fast enough to meet the replication demands."
The company is also highly reliant on Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 messaging and collaboration client. "Our employees live in Office Outlook," says Catassi. "E-mail is a great tool, but it can also be the worst enemy of a company." Like most companies, Mediterranean Shipping found that inbox clutter was inhibiting user productivity. "Each time a new message arrives, a user loses focus. We've seen studies that illustrate how much these distractions can cost a company in terms of productivity." Catassi says that in addition to the productivity loss, cluttered inboxes also meant more work and more expense for the IT department, because users frequently requested additional mail storage space.
In a matter of days, the Mediterranean Shipping IT department helped pilot users combine internal shipping data with external data about general market-based shipping statistics. Pilot users also are taking advantage of Slicers in Excel 2010, which allow people to filter PivotTable views within their spreadsheets to better understand large amounts of data quickly and easily. For instance, if a business user wants to filter information in a spreadsheet according to Mediterranean Shipping ports in certain geographic regions, he or she can do this dynamically, within Microsoft Excel. "One port may belong to several different geographic groupings," explains Catassi. "In the past, we could provide users with the flexibility to achieve different views of information—but that level of analysis required a lot of back-end database structuring and maintenance."
In addition to the improvements it has found in performance and analysis in Excel 2010, Mediterranean Shipping is also taking advantage of enhancements in Microsoft Outlook 2010. Employees enjoy the Conversation View feature in Outlook 2010 and other conversation management tools that help them remove redundant messages from an e-mail thread, consolidate many e-mail messages into a single conversation, and give them the option to ignore irrelevant conversations. Eliminating redundant messages also saves storage space.
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Users also can work faster with the 64-bit version of Excel 2010. "We already went through the pain of migrating to 64-bit computing," says Catassi. "Now, we get to just sit back and enjoy the performance boosts of 64-bit versions of the Office 2010 programs."
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A Better Way to Bet on Growth Stocks
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Growth stocks have been outdoing value lately, and plenty of financial advisors think the trend will continue. With the economy sluggish, investors will gravitate to companies with reliable earnings, advisors argue. If you want to emphasize growth, you can buy an ETF like SPDR S&P 500 Growth (SPYG) or Vanguard Growth (VUG)
For even more juice in a growth rally, consider a pure fund like Guggenheim S&P 500 Pure Growth (RPG) or iShares Morningstar Large Growth (JKE). "If you decide to bet on growth--and you have a lot of conviction--then pure funds are the way to go," says Matt Hougan, president of ETF analytics for IndexUniverse.com.
Pure funds provide a concentrated dose of an asset class. That can boost returns when the sector rallies. During the rebound of 2009, the Guggenheim pure ETF rose 50.1%, while the conventional SPDR S&P 500 Growth returned 37.1%. Whether or not they lead over the short-term, the pure funds can make sound choices for investors who are looking to emphasize a sector or diversify a portfolio.
Besides pure growth funds, companies have also introduced pure value ETFs. Those tend to outperform when value stocks lead the markets. Choices include PowerShares Fundamental Pure Large Value (PXLV) and Guggenheim S&P Smallcap 600 Pure Value (RZV). When small value funds soared in 2010, the Guggenheim pure fund returned 28.6%, compared to 24.7% for iShares S&P SmallCap 600 Value (IJS), a conventional fund.Some of the pure funds have recorded sound long-term track records. During the past five years, Guggenheim S&P 500 Pure Growth returned 4.1%, compared to 2.7% for the conventional SPDR growth fund. But pure funds tend to trail conventional peers when their sector is out of favor. If value leads for the next five years, then the pure growth funds could be laggards.
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Decorating Sunrooms
by Giorgina Devereaux
Decorating sunrooms provides a strong sense of accomplishment, and with good reason.
A sunroom is like a cozy retreat where we can relax and unwind at the end of a long day as well as provide a fabulous gathering place for family and friends.
Regardless of its function, a sunroom deserves to be decorated in a style that is inviting, comfortable, and that welcomes the outdoors inside.
Before deciding
on the type of sunroom decor, consider what the function of your sunroom will
Since some
sunrooms also have walls, incorporating color will add a lot of beauty to the
There are different types of furniture that can be used to furnish a sunroom. However, when decorating sunrooms, some pieces are more prevalent than others.
Family Room Furniture Ideas
Commonly used
sunroom furniture used for decorating sunrooms includes wicker and rattan.
When decorating sunrooms, you can find the following furniture pieces in wicker and rattan:
This furniture
is also sold as a conversation set consisting of a sofa, loveseat, end table,
and coffee table.
This furniture is available in the following finishes:
You can find seat cushions in a variety of colors to suit your taste when decorating sunrooms. Cushion colors include:
· Orange
· Blue
· Red
· Yellow
· Green
· Tan
· Black
· White
· Floral Patterns
· Striped Patterns
· Pineapple Motifs
Microfiber/Leather/Upholstered Furniture
You can also opt to furnish your sunroom with furniture pieces consisting of microfiber, leather, and upholstered materials. There are many different colors and patterns to choose from when decorating sunrooms. It all depends on what your preference is.
Home Office
If you are considering using your sunroom as a home office, it is an excellent choice since there is no shortage of light. Some pieces you may want to include are a nice desk (in the finish of your choice), ergonomically correct chair, file cabinet, bookshelf, and media cabinet.
Some prefer
using their sunroom exclusively as a gym because it welcomes the outdoors
What to
incorporate into your gym depends on what physical activity you like.
Billiard Room
A sunroom can
also serve the purpose of being a billiard room.
Since a sunroom has abundant lighting during the day, it is important to have adequate lighting during the evening hours.
You may want to
include a ceiling fan when decorating sunrooms, along with the light kit.
Ceiling fans come in handy because it allows you to stay cool when necessary while providing lighting.
If you are not
interested in a ceiling fan, you can opt for a ceiling fixture.
Flooring and Rugs
Flooring choices that require minimal care is tile, slate, and hardwood. To soften the overall look of the room, consider incorporating natural-fiber rugs, such as, sisal or hemp, which resist moisture damage.
The beauty about using rugs in decorating sunrooms is that they come in a variety of designs and patterns. A good material to keep in mind when choosing a rug are those made from polypropylene fibers. Polypropylene will not rot or accumulate mildew, and can endure through the sun, snow, sleet, and rain.
Some accessories you may want to consider when decorating sunrooms are picture frames, bird sculptures, figurines, a piece of art featured on an easel, and a decorative accent box.
Other ideas include incorporating a water feature, such as, a fountain and faux
Another way
to welcome the outdoors inside is by including silk plants.
Shade Screens:
may opt to have shade screens installed in your sunroom to give you the ability
to control and adjust the light as well as the heat and cold.
The beauty about some of these shades is that they can
accordion back
into a very compact size allowing the maximum amount of light to enter the room
and can be stopped at any position.
Solar Shades: This is a type of roller window shade that is usually made from a synthetic mesh fabric. It is available in varying levels of opaqueness. The higher the opaqueness of the solar shade, the more light is allowed inside. This is a great choice for windows that have a view since it reduces glare while improving energy efficiency by reducing solar heat gain and providing important UV protection.
Window Film:
Direct sunlight can result in fatigue, eyestrain, and loss of concentration.
Treating your windows with a special window film will provide significant solar insulation. The window film is a laminate made of high performance metallized polyester film that increases comfort by reducing heat and glare.
This film is applied directly to the interior side of the glass and helps correct temperature imbalances between the sunny and shady areas. It helps reduce cooling and heating costs since it reduces the cost of cooling by rejecting up to 79% of the sun's heat and decreases heat loss by up to 30%, which results in saving money on your energy bill.Also, this window film adds visual appeal and enhances privacy. It is available in a variety of colors and patterns, tinted, semi-reflective or fully-reflective film. When looking outside, you have a glare-free and distortion-free view.
You can have translucent or daylight reflection films applied to the inside of your windows, which guard against prying eyes or choose blackout (opaque) films. There is also a range of frosted decorative films that are available and provide an attractive finish to internal partitions.
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The Baptist College of Health Sciences Alumni Association is an independent organization that cultivates lifelong relationships with current and future alumni. As a committed partner and supporter of the college, the Alumni Association strives to promote pride in and recognition of BCHS and its graduates. Whether you studied nursing, diagnostic medical sonography, medical radiography, nuclear medicine technology, radiation therapy, respiratory care, or health care management – at any of the Baptist Memorial Schools or the Baptist College of Health Sciences – if you are a Baptist alum, we want to hear from you!
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The Baptist College of Health Sciences Alumni Association is governed by a board of directors, including president and officers representing the college by geographic region. The board meets twice per year: June and November. The alumni board of directors is listed below. If you are interested in serving as a board member, please contact the alumni office at 901-572-2853.
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|Lori Turpen
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|Damon Mays
|Kathy Fish
|Sarah Brumley
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A lovely colbolt blue hobnail glass Biscuit Barrel. This particular Biscuit Barrel is very rare with the blue overlay on the alternating hobnail flat surfaces. It still retains its original silver plate stand and features the hinged lid usually associated with this design. Traditionally Biscuit Barrels would be be the elegant receptacle for the biscuits (similar to American crackers but sweeter) served at tea time. As the tea services became more elaborate and ritualized, more elegant the Biscuit Barrels were needed. We currently have a collection of over 100 Biscuit Barrels - ranging from the traditional cut glass versions, to ones with elaborate etched designs, rare colours and unique designs incorporated in wooden barrels. Please contact us in you are looking for something in particular. Biscuit Barrels make great wedding presents, elegant display pieces for marble collections of marbles, match books and even have been known to store Christmas ornaments!
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In homage to the action films of the early 1980s, Cherry Bomb follows a young dancer and her quest for revenge against the group of men who brutally assaulted her. Seeing no justice coming from within the system, Cherry enlists the help of her estranged older brother and some heavy firepower as the two siblings set out on a reckless revenge mission. Things start to spiral out of control when a mysterious hit man named Bull is hired to put an end to Cherry's bloody tirade. She soon realises that there is more at stake than she ever imagined.
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NEW ULM, Minn. - The MLC men's basketball team lost its conference opener by a score of 80-53 Tuesday night against Bethany.
The Knights struggled offensively against the Bethany pressure defense, shooting 27.4 percent from the field and 16.7 percent from beyond the three-point arc for the game.
Bethany shot 41.1 percent from the field, but also made eight three pointers in the game, and capitalized on a number of offensive rebounding, outscoring the Knights 26-11 in second chance points.
MLC struggled in the first half, shooting 24.1 percent, but stayed within striking distance with an eight-point deficit at 32-24 going into the half.
The Vikings took control in the second half, shooting 46.2 percent from the field and making five three point baskets as they pulled away from the Knights down the stretch.
Galen Holzhueter led the Knights with 17 points and 11 rebounds for the game, while Justin Eternick came off the bench to score 11 points, ten of which came in the first half.
With the loss, MLC dropped to 0-10 overall and 0-1 in the conference, while Bethany improved to 3-9 on the season and 1-0 in league play.
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What Makes a Face Feminine?
Women's faces tend to be smaller, less long, with more delicate jaws and brows, and less-recessed eyes, says Richard Russell, Ph.D., a psychology professor at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania who studies facial attractiveness. Using makeup strategically can play up these characteristics.
Contrast Is Key
"Putting on lipstick and eyeliner makes the eyes and lips darker, which increases the contrast between [those features] and the rest of the face," says Russell of the reason we apply makeup in the way we do. "Women who naturally have less contrast between their features and their skin may experience a greater 'boost' from wearing lipstick or eyeliner than women who naturally have more contrast."
Makeup artist Andrew Sotomayor suggests the this strategy: "Try shimmer highlighter above the cheek bone, a neutral taupe under the cheek bone to define the bone structure and enhance your complexion. It brings youth to the face, lifts your face, and makes you look more engaged and happy." One product he likes: Lancôme Blush Subtil Palette All-In-One Contour, Blush & Highlighter, $42.
Smile Like You Mean It
When you smile sincerely, it shows not only in your mouth but your eyes, science finds. The corners of your mouth pull back and up, your cheeks are raised a bit, and lines form around and under your eyes.
Even when you're not feeling happy, you can fake it with a lash-curler and a little makeup. "Curling your lashes and applying mascara helps give the eyes a more lifted look," says Sotomayor. "Have your lashes point up and you'll look more awake, more energized."
To enhance your smile, try an "old Hollywood trick" he suggests: Trace a natural lip liner a little below your lip line starting at the center and then sweeping up toward each corner. "It's not about making the whole mouth bigger, but accentuating the angles from the bottom of the lip to the outer corner," he explains. "You're actually painting a smile."
Raise Some Eyebrows
In the one University of Quebec study, androgynous faces with lowered eyebrows and tight lips were more likely to be identified as male, and faces with smiles and raised eyebrows were often labeled feminine.
"Having a slightly raised brow opens the face a little more, a welcoming expression," says Sotomayor. When lining brows, accentuate the arch slightly by "extending the end of the brow to widen the eyes and open the mouth." Eyebrow pencils he likes: Maybelline DefineaBrow Eyebrow Pencil, $7.99 at Walgreens and Chanel Crayon Sourcils Sculpting Eyebrow Pencil, $29.
Sculpt Your Chin
A jutting chin may be perceived as masculine — but not universally. In Australia, for example, where more whittled chins are the norm, a less prominent look is preferred. So, is "looking" masculine or feminine hard-wired in our brains or cultural? "It's a major, ongoing question," says Dr. Russell. "The evidence so far indicates that the perception of femininity and attractiveness is to some extent universal and to some extent culturally determined."
As for your own chin, if it's too prominent for your taste, makeup artist Sotomayor has a few tips. "Take a little sculpting powder in medium, and blend a little under the chin, or under the tip of the nose, to shorten it slightly. Also, choosing a brighter lipstick draws attention away from the chin." One product he likes is Kevyn Aucoin Beauty 'The Sculpting' Powder, $44 at Nordstroms.
Create a 'Golden Triangle'
The distance between a woman's eyes and between her eyes and her mouth are key factors in determining how attractive she is to others. According to researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Toronto, the ideal vertical distance between the eyes and the mouth is 36 percent of the length of the face. The idea horizontal distance between the eyes: 46 percent of the width of your face.
Sotomayor's reaction? "If you're calculating the distance between your facial features mathematically, you're way to too worried about how to do your makeup—and that's coming from a makeup artist!"
If you do want to widen your eyes a bit, though, he suggests extending eyeliner out farther at the corners of your eyes and swooping it up slightly. Adding a little extra liner to the outer corner and a couple additional sweeps of mascara at the outer edges should do the trick. Whatever the math, he says, "Women always want to widen the eyes." He's fond of the black-bronze shade of Yves Saint Laurent Effet Faux Cils Crème D'Eyeliner, $28.
Listen to Your Heart...Literally
How you feel about yourself affects how others perceive you—and obsessing over your looks can be depressing. A recent study asked women to listen to their heartbeats. The better they got at doing so, the less likely they were to think of their bodies as objects. So breathe. Relax. Listen to your heart. You're only as beautiful as you feel.
"The definition of feminine is changing faster in every country around the world than ever before." adds Sotomayor. "It's broadening. You don't need to be a girly girl if you don't want to. Women are so powerful, and they use makeup in different ways." What's key is to use makeup in a way that makes you feel good. "Putting on a little makeup reminds you that you are beautiful and powerful, and you have things to get done," says Sotomayor. "Take a few minutes to create a more beautiful, more cared-for version of yourself."


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Tosedostat OPAL Study In Acute Myeloid Leukemia Published In Lancet Oncology
SEATTLE, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (NASDAQ and MTA: CTIC) and Chroma Therapeutics Ltd. announced today that Lancet Oncology has published results from the OPAL Phase 2 study of tosedostat in elderly patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Tosedostat is an oral aminopeptidase inhibitor which has been shown to deprive tumor cells of the amino acid building blocks they need to make proteins necessary for tumor cell survival. The lead author was Dr. Jorge Cortes, Professor of Medicine and Internist, Department of Leukemia, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
The trial showed that once-daily oral tosedostat resulted in a disease control rate of 51%. Subset analyses suggested the greatest benefit occurred in the difficult-to-treat patients with prior myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) or those that had received prior hypomethylating therapy (HMA). Adverse events were mild, predictable and manageable.
About the OPAL StudyThis Phase 2 multicenter, randomized study evaluated the safety and efficacy of two dose regimens of tosedostat to determine an appropriate regimen for future clinical studies. The study enrolled 73 patients randomized to two treatment arms: tosedostat 120 mg once daily for six months or 240 mg once daily for two months followed by 120 mg once daily for four months. The median age of the patients was 72 years old. Prior primary induction therapy for AML included 58% of the patients treated with Ara-C plus anthracycline or other Ara-C regimens, 36% of the patients treated with HMAs and 7% of the patients treated with other regimens. Fifty-two percent had been refractory to primary induction therapy. As previously presented at the 53 rd American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting, results included:
- Overall response rate (ORR) of 22% (16/73), with 10% (7/73) achieving a complete response (CR) and 29% (21/73) of patients achieving stable disease (SD) for a disease control rate of 51%.
- High response rates were observed in patients who previously received HMAs or initially were diagnosed with MDS, with an ORR of 38% (10/26) and 37% (7/19), respectively.
- Median overall survival (OS) for patients achieving a CR was 322 days; partial response (PR) 195 days; and SD 162 days.
- Adverse events were similar between dosing groups. Tosedostat was generally well-tolerated, with the majority of adverse events of grade 1 and 2. The most common treatment-related serious adverse event was febrile neutropenia reported in 29% of patients.
"There are limited therapeutic options available for elderly patients who, after failing hypomethylating therapy, experience AML progression from MDS," said Dr. Cortes. "The novel mechanism of action and observed response rate in this completed Phase 2 study suggests that tosedostat could address this unmet medical need. We are currently conducting a Phase 2 study investigating the combination of tosedostat with azacytidine - an HMA, or low-dose cytarabine, a standard leukemia therapy in patients with relapsed or refractory AML and MDS - to determine if tosedostat would be safe and more effective when used in combination with these agents."
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We saw Uncle Kenny in Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" music video handling the solo. He has also been featured in the Guinness Book of World Records for playing the longest note ever recorded on a saxophone. His latest album, "Heart and Soul," has been nominated for a Grammy Award.
Kenny G has collaborated with various artists including Andrea Bocelli, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin and Weezer. With more than 75 million records sold internationally since 1982, Kenny G is a legendary icon to see live.
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BlackBerry loses home advantagePUBLISHED: 23 Mar 2012 07:43:51 | UPDATED: 23 Mar 2012 09:12:47PRINT EDITION: 23 Mar 2012
Ouch ... BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has faced the same fate as Nokia - being outsold by a mobile phone rival in its home market. Photo: AP
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Research In Motion's woes have worsened, with its once unbeatable BlackBerry handset losing the No. 1 mobile phone market spot to Apple's iPhone in the company's home country, Canada.
The turnaround, reported from data compiled by Bloomberg and IDC, is another ignominious defeat for RIM, which has lost marketshare around to the world to Apple and a bevy of Google Android-powered smartphones in recent years.
According to the data, RIM shipped 2.08 million BlackBerry's in Canada in 2011, compared to the 2.85 million iPhones gadget kingpin Apple sold. In 2008, RIM outsold Apple by almost five to one, Bloomberg and IDC said.
"For RIM, it its home market, to lose that No. 1 position to iPhone is strategically important," BMO Harris Private Banking fund manager Paul Taylor told Bloomberg. "It does identify, even with a home-country bias, how consumers are responding to the greater functionality of the iPhone."
RIM joins fellow one-time mobile phone titan Nokia in facing the embarrassment of losing out to a rival in its home country. In 2011, Google Android handsets outsold Nokia phones in Finland.
The Bloomberg and IDC data came as the Wall Street Journal's AllThingsD blog reported that Research In Motion is looking to recruit a software developer skilled in creating applications for Apple's iOS operating system.
"What does RIM want with its own iOS developers? That's not clear, and the company has not responded to requests for comment; it is in the quiet period prior to reporting earnings next week," AllThingsD's John Paczkowski writes.
"Perhaps it has something to do with RIM's BlackBerry Mobile Fusion effort, though presumably that wouldn't require app developers. That said, given the consumerisation of IT and RIM's efforts to hold on to enterprise clients that might be slowly slipping away from it, having a BB Fusion app in the App Store might be a wise idea."
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In 2002, I cofounded 34 Million Friends of the United Nations Population Fund because the Bush Administration withheld $34 million from the United Nations Population Fund which works worldwide for women's reproductive health and family planning. The idea was to ask 34 million Americans for one dollar. We've raised a lovely $4.2 million and counting. This movement is alive and well. I've written a nice book "34 Million Friends of the Women of the World" which chronicles the rather amazing adventure of 34 Million Friends. If you go to CONTACT at the web site, you'll see that this effort has been supported and recognized with several awards. Jane Roberts and Her 34 Million Friends is Chapter 8 in the Kristof-Wudunn book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. I was also one of the 1000 women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 as part of 1000 Peace Women. I speak widely to spread the word about women's education, health and human rights being key to any hope for people, the planet and peace. Please take a stand for the women of the world with 34 Million Friends of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
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Gender equaltiy is the greatest cause on earth. I will keep working at this until I droporp!
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It's so exciting having you with us, I am sure you will have a fabulous time with your new online friends as well as find this to be a very positive experience. I encourage you to take advantage of the numerous resources and features available through our vibrant online community. I encourage you to participate in the My Story Writing Opportunity for a chance to win $100 and be published in World Pulse Magazine. Learn more here: http://www.worldpulse.com/pulsewire/programs/mystory
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Thanks for sharing your profile. I, too, share your passions in gender inequality, education and women's rights. I have heard Jane Robert's interview at NPR about 34 Million Friends a few years ago and was left a deep impression. I'm a filmmaker and am in the process of producing a documentary "Rise of the Phoenix" about the changing status, roles and rights of women in this seismic transformation of China's economy. I have noticed that besides your excellent credentials and expertise in being an activist you have a wide network in fund raising. This is the area I found most confounding and difficult in terms of media funding.
I have started my documentary last year and would like to continue with phase 2 production this year. Can you share some of your insights in raising funds for independent film projects like these where money is tight and extremely competitive. I have posted my project on http://media.gfem.org/node/12418
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I agree with you, oppression can be turned into opportunity. Women need to be positive in face of oppression in order to change the status-quo


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Richer couples! Cheaper mortgages! Millions of unwanted houses! Despite all this, young home owners declined for 30 years, even before the Great Recession. Here's how the American Dream shrank.
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When older generations wonder what's the matter with Millennials, they often judge their younger cohorts against such financial and social benchmarks as finding a job, getting married, and buying a home. These observations often come wrapped in weak science -- "blame Facebook for their indolence" -- or dripping with judgment -- "blame their parents for making them weak." The science is weak, but the observations are true. Fewer young people are finding jobs. Fewer young people are getting married. Fewer young people are buying homes.
Between 1980 and 2000, the share of late-twenty-somethings owning homes had declined from 43% to 38%. The share of early-thirty-something home owners slipped from 61% to 55% in that time. After the boom and bust were over, both rates kept falling. The rate of young people getting their first mortgage between 2009 and 2011 was chopped in half from just 10 years ago, according to a recent study from the Federal Reserve.
One headwind is student debt. "Close to $1 trillion, America's mounting
pile of outstanding student debt is a growing drag on the housing
recovery, keeping first-time home buyers on the sidelines and limiting
the effectiveness of record-low interest rates," Bob Willis reported in Bloomberg Businessweek.
This is good news and bad. Rising student debt is a sign of more students. We should want (and expect) more people to go to school in a recession. But the trepidation of first-time home buyers hurts housing sales, feeding a pernicious cycle. Bad housing numbers circulate back through the economy in the form of low residential investment, scant construction, and fewer housing services.
The decline in young home owners is a puzzling trend. Interest rates have steadily declined over the last 30 years. Mortgage lending has loosened. Women have ascended in the workplace and supplemented their spouse's earnings. How in the face of all of these positive developments did home ownership among the young keep falling?
To understand why young people are buying fewer homes, begin by asking yourself: What do you need to buy a home? We'll start with three basics. You need a mortgage. You need income for the downpayment. And you probably need a spouse. Controlling for income, gender, and education, a married person is 23% more likely to own compared to someone who is not
married, and many more couples buy a home as they are preparing to wed.
"The 1980-2000 decline in young home ownership occurred as improvements
in mortgage opportunities made it easier to purchase a home," Martin Gervais and Jonas D.M. Fisher write in their seminal paper Why Has Home Ownership Fallen Among the Young? So we can't begin by blaming too few available mortgages. Government interventions and mortgage innovations (remember subprime lending?) should have meant more young couples buying houses. With the rising employment and earnings of women, households should have gotten richer. That, too, should have increased homeownership. It didn't.
Instead, we can begin by blaming a shortage of couples. The decline of marriage and the increase in "household earnings risk" account for practically all of the decline in young home ownership, Gervais and Fisher conclude. So, to understand the decline of young home ownership, we have to understand the decline of marriage.
Unfortunately, the decline of marriage isn't an easier trend to unpack. I offered some thoughts here, which I'll try to sum up in a sentence: Higher college-graduation rates have delayed marriage for many, and as women moved toward financial equality with men (and as technology made it easier to be alone) financially motivated marriages went down, and contently single ladies went up. "A decline in the incidence of marriage mechanically lowers home ownership," Gervais and Fisher write.
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scales in multiple languages
The Society has produced a series of pain scales
in multiple languages to assist an encourage improved assessment
both by the healthcare professional and the patient, for whom English
is not their first language. Difficulty in assessing pain is one
common barrier that can inhibit effective treatment, particularly
when the patient's first language is not English, so it is hoped
that these pain scales will go some way to combat this.
The pain scales are recommended to be used by
GP's and Accident and Emergency staff and may well also prove useful
in a wider range of situations in which the communication of pain
is necessary.
The pain scales we present on the website are
judged to be easiest to use and best understood of the simple scales
available for adults with no cognitive impairment. The scales assess
different, partly separable, aspects of pain, plus pain relief.
They are not intended to be combined in total or averaged. The best
source of information about them is in a chapter: Jensen MP, Karoly
P, Self-report scales and procedures for assessing pain in adults,
in Turk DC and Melzack R (eds.), Handbook of Pain Assessment, 2nd
edition, New York: Guilford Press, 2001, pp 15-34.
The translations were done professionally into
the languages most often used in the UK by adults.
Reliability and validity
Because pain often fluctuates over time, a high index of test-retest
reliability is not the goal - it might indicate insensitivity to
change rather than reliability across time. As single item scales,
there is no question of internal consistency, and as self-report,
there is no inter-rater reliability. What helps to achieve reliability
is that the scale and the response options are easy to understand,
and in this it is somewhat better than the visual analogue scale.
Because pain is a subjective experience there
is no "gold standard" criterion for validity. However,
in a broad sense these pain ratings do bear the expected relationships
to related variables, such as disability and mood, and are also
correlated with the amount of activation in certain areas of the
brain concerned with pain processing [Coghill RC, McHaffie JG, Yen
Y-F (2003) Neural correlates of interindividual differences in the
subjective experience of pain. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences 100 8538-8542].
Printing and downloading
The following pain scales can be downloaded and
printed free of charge from this web page. Arabic and Urdu are read
from left to right, instructions and scales, so have additional
instructions. Both of these languages, and Gujurati, have numerals
unlike those used in English and the 12 other scales.
Please Note: All the pain scales consist of the
foreign language scale followed by the English language translation.
The English scale at the top of the list is provided for information
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Rush Hour Swallowed Up in the Maw of Michael Huynh
A late-night standby will be revamped to become an Asian burger joint.
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Plus: Todd English wars with his ex-fiancée, and NYC wants to keep Tavern on the Green, all in our morning news roundup.
Plus: Carnival opens on October 10, and Gael Greene remembers Chanterelle circa '79, in our regular roundup of neighborhood food news.
Plus: Jay Cheshes on Prime Meats, and Robert Sietsema, in our weekly roundup of restaurant reviews.
An update on Michael Huynh's Vietnamese beer garden.
Preview the menu and take a slideshow tour of Michael "Bao" Huynh's new beer garden.
He's coming to the old Klatch space, and randomly appearing on fish-sauce bottles.
Plus, more from last night's Community Board 3 licensing meeting.
Yes, the pandan flavor is "a fine, silky number."
A look at the rest of the menu, blood pudding and all.
Also in this week's magazine: Michael "Bao" Huynh's recipe for daikon rice cakes.
Michael Huynh's new partners are optimistic; his old ones, however, aren't so sure about the name BarBao.
Michael "Bao" Huynh teams up with the group behind BLT Market and the designer of Allen & Delancey.
Michael Bao (and possibly an oyster bar) is coming to the Upper West Side.
Bijou lounge hides beneath Merkato 55, and Le Pain Quotidien mobilizes staff for its big opening in Tribeca, in our daily neighborhood roundup.
Bun has presumptuously awarded itself four stars (!!!!). Obviously it's time to check in on the little restaurant that could's Sisyphean endeavor to never, ever close.
The Vietnamese restaurant was supposed to start its 24/7 schedule today, but a free-food promotion ran it ragged.
Michael Hunyh may have found a restaurant home he can stay in, according to Gael Greene.
Forget gratis falafels and complimentary scoops of fro-yo— Bun is unleashing a free-for-all that is so friggin' generous it may well put them out of business.
Plus: Mesa Grill's role in a forthcoming mystery novel, what Michael Huynh is up to, where Kid Rock eats barbecue, and more in our morning roundup of food news and gossip.


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Carpe diet: How to serve carp
Emperor's Choice doesn't normally serve Illinois River Asian carp on its menu. But when we showed up at the Chinatown restaurant toting more than 15 pounds of the stuff in a plastic bag last Friday, chef Thomas Lui was happy to show us how it would be served on a typical Chinese table. We did call ahead and ask, though. Our meal came out in four courses as follows.
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#27 - mrswagly (09/10/2013) [-]Now don't get me wrong I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Halo 1-3, but the halo series died once 343 got a hold of it. Halo 4 is a terrible thing that has has happened to the Halo series mainly because of one thing, Buy able armor and skins that increase your abilities. That is something you would never see Bungie doing -ever- with Halo. They care about their games, not some BUY2WIN whore money. 343 did these things right when they got the title too, so what else do you think they're gonna do for Halo 5? Online Passes?! That would make me furious. They would just be raping the dead body of Halo. I'm not going to go on about the fact that they made Master Chief wear a god damn cloak when he's wearing MJOLNIR armor (which makes no ******* sense) or how now Master Chief speaks way too often now, but I will say this you shouldn't buy games that are now terrible just because they were great in the past./end rant Now I've probably stirred up the Funnyjunk Halo fan boys. pic related.
#72 to #27 - senorfrog (09/10/2013) [-]
You fly Valkyries and you are a Spartan, should stick with the viking music
#32 to #27 - asheskirata (09/10/2013) [-]
Since when does the armor increase abilities? Buyable? You unlock it through ranking up. Bungie did the buyable armor system in Reach. 343 hasn't put anything in their game that you have to pay to add besides DLC, just like Bungie. Please don't ever speak again.
#130 to #32 - mrswagly (09/10/2013) [-]
The new "Champion's Bundle" is a bunch of skins that you can't earn through ranking up, you have to buy them. I apologize, but I had heard that the people who bought and wore the skins got special abilities from it in slayer, but the armor mods were actually released free of charge. No, by the way I'm not gonna stop speaking because some stupid asshole said so on the internet.
#133 to #130 - asheskirata (09/11/2013) [-]
And didn't you read what I said? I said they haven't put anything that you have to add except DLC. If you're so hard off that you get pissy over a 10 dollar DLC for armor, skins and 2 fresh maps, then I suggest you stop playing games, because that's what most DLC consists of.
#135 to #133 - mrswagly (09/11/2013) [-]
I'm not gonna hand video game developers money by buying their stupid dlc's that barely add anything to the game like skins and 1 map( I'm not ******* counting pitfall because it's just a remade version of the pit). I will buy their DLC if it comes with worth while content. By the way I was never one of the people who complained that they wanted to buy their skins and upgrades (nobody). Also why the **** would I stop playing games all because the video game developers put DLC's out that I'm not gonna buy because they're just whoring for money. I will take my money elsewhere however if their content continually becomes worse and worse. Not every company put's out stupid DLC like you think.


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Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP Announces Class Action Lawsuit Against Yum! Brands, Inc.
Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of a class (the "Class") comprising all purchasers of the publicly traded securities of Yum! Brands, Inc. ("Yum" of the "Company") (NYSE:YUM) between October 9, 2012 and January 7, 2013, inclusive (the "Class Period"). The Complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period the Company and certain of its executive officers issued materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business and financial prospects.
YUM, together with its subsidiaries, operates quick service restaurants in the United States and internationally under the KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell brands. On November 23, 2012 reports in the Chinese media disclosed that certain of the Company's chicken suppliers had been feeding toxic chemicals to chickens sold to KFC China. On December 20 and 21, 2012 news outlets reported that the Company knew well before October 2012, but sought to conceal, that certain chicken suppliers in China had injected chickens with excessive antibiotics and other illegal chemicals.
Then, on January 7, 2013, in a filing with the SEC the Company lowered its China Division's full-year 2012 guidance for same-store sales, due to publicity surrounding the Chinese government's review of Yum's poultry supply. As a result of these disclosures, on January 8, 2013 Yum shares dropped 5%, from $67.89 per share to as low as $64.40 per share.
The Complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period the defendants misrepresented and/or failed to disclose that: (1) slowing economic trends in China were stronger than reported and could not support Yum's China Division's forecasted sales results or the Company's increased earnings-per-share growth; (2) defendants knew but concealed that the Company's own food safety inspections had already discovered high levels of antibiotics and other illegal drugs and/or chemicals in chickens purchased from a Chinese supplier -- Shandong Liuhe Group; and (3) Yum had continued to buy products from Shandong Liuhe Group until as late as August 2012.
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Rainy season is supposed to be predictable… around mid to late May it will be mostly grey and rainy for a couple of weeks, then the rest of the summer is sunny with occasional late afternoon cloudbursts, until late October, when we get the same grey rain stuff again for a couple of weeks.
So, this year it came late… for most of the last couple of weeks it has been "dreech", to use a good Scots word. Of course the Scots have many, many words to describe rain and grey weather, much as the Eskimos have many words for snow.
At The Reef in East End, we get less than 40% of the rainfall of Seven Mile Beach and George Town, but this weekend I am sure even The Reef has been dumped on.
Here I am on Sunday morning, and it has been raining pretty much non-stop since, oh, 4pm Friday.
I'm just REALLY glad that this was not going on last Wednesday, when they had all the windows and doors taken out of the house by 7:30am and did not get the place "dried in" until nearly 7pm. Phew !


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Everyone should
enjoy a basic right to privacy, according to one of the more compelling
arguments against WikiLeaks' "megaleak" of over 250,000
diplomatic cables.
In this view,
a diplomatic communication should be protected so U.S. diplomats
can communicate candidly to Washington, without fear their words
will be made public and used against them.
Yet, regardless
of this argument's merits, it is curious that many of those
making it were comparatively silent over the National Security Agency's
warrantless wiretapping program that was exposed back in 2005, when
it was the Bush administration deciding, without judicial oversight,
to pry into the private communications of American citizens and
Following the
disclosure of this surveillance program, which was widely seen as
violating the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as well
as the privacy rights of millions of Americans, Congress simply
amended the law to make President George W. Bush's activities
The "Protect
America Act of 2007" amended FISA to lower the standard
for the President's subordinates issuing issue a surveillance
The bill's
proponents insisted that the surveillance targets were foreign terrorists.
But the word "terrorist" is nowhere in the legislation,
whose broad language simply granted the Executive Branch power to
spy on communications of anyone, for up to one year including calls
and e-mails to the United States, if it was "reasonably believed"
that the person was abroad.
So, according
to the view of a majority in Congress, intercepting the private
e-mails and phone calls of American citizens is fine if they were
thought to be traveling abroad, but releasing secret diplomatic
cables makes WikiLeaks a criminal enterprise and Julian Assange
a "high-tech terrorist," according
to Vice President Joe Biden.
Rep. Peter
King, a Republican from New York who is expected to take over the
chairmanship of the House Homeland Security Committee in January,
has even advocated placing WikiLeaks on the foreign terrorist organization
list, although the State Department claims that there is no
serious consideration to do so.
it is troubling that at the highest political levels in Washington,
there is an equation being made between exposing government secrets
and "terrorism," a comparison that is especially worrisome
in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last June that upheld the
"material support" clause of the USA Patriot Act.
In a June 21
decision, the Court ruled that associating with groups designated
as "foreign terrorist organizations" by the State Department,
including providing "expert advice" to these organizations,
can open up American citizens to prosecution.
Human rights
groups claimed the law's vague language violates their First
Amendment rights and inhibits their work by preventing education
projects and limiting their ability in offering advice on how to
resolve conflicts and work within the political process.
They brought
the case to challenge the constitutionality of the law on First
Amendment grounds, seeking to apply the judicial standard of "strict
scrutiny" – favoring a fundamental constitutional right
over an asserted government interest.
The Supreme
Court, however, held
that the government's sweeping restrictions were justified
by the interest of combating terrorism.
the Court agreed with the plaintiffs that the statute does criminalize
speech on the basis of its content, but decided that the government's
interest in isolating groups on the State Department's foreign
terrorist organization list was sufficiently great to overcome the
heightened level of scrutiny.
As Chief Justice
John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion, conflict resolution
and humanitarian work "helps lend legitimacy to foreign terrorist
groups – legitimacy that makes it easier for those groups to
persist, to recruit members, and to raise funds – all of which
facilitate more terrorist attacks."
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24, when it raided the homes of activists in Chicago, Minneapolis,
Michigan and North Carolina. The targets were members of grassroots
organizations including the Palestine Solidarity Group and the Freedom
Road Socialist Organization.
The activists
were accused of providing "material support" to the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia and the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine, designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the
State Department. The activists have been subpoenaed to testify
before a secret grand jury.
In a
response to the latest round of subpoenas issued by the FBI
in December, the Committee to Stop FBI Repression stated that "These
newest subpoenas are an attack on the Palestinian solidarity movement
and an attempt to silence criticism of U.S. policy toward Israel.
is nothing criminal about standing in solidarity with the Palestinian
people; demanding an end to U.S. military aid to Israel; and demanding
an end to the occupation. There is nothing criminal about traveling
to Palestine and coming back to educate the U.S. public."
Yet, considering
the legal precedent set by the Supreme Court's interpretation
of the material support clause, the activists may have some difficulty
in proving their case. As Roberts wrote in the Court's ruling,
any activity that is seen as "lending legitimacy" to U.S.-designated
terrorist organizations is fair game for prosecutors.
It is a very
broad standard and, if political figures such as Rep. King have
their way, it is one that could soon be applied to supporters of
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Uttoxeter Golf Club withdraws infill plans - for now
Posted: December 19, 2012|
By JAMES BRINDLE
PLANS to infil waste at Uttoxeter Golf Club which had caused anger among neighbours have been withdrawn, the Advertiser can reveal.
The proposals by the Wood Lane club to make health and safety improvements by infilling around 30,000 cubic metres of landfill saw councillors, residents and the town MP object.
Most of the objections related to the proposed lorry movements to transport the waste to the site, as well as what was perceived as a lack of consultation.
Chairman of Uttoxeter Golf Club told the Advertiser that following the concerns expressed by some of the neighbours, the board of directors would 'review their plans' but will resubmit 'simplified' plans in the near future.
He said: "It was never the intention to cause any distress or disruption to the locality and the scale of the plans had been grossly exaggerated.
"Uttoxeter Golf Club is a local club set up by like-minded people to create a facility for Uttoxeter and the surrounding area that is totally run and supported by members and with the view that only the club would benefit from any enhancements or surplus.
"In the New Year, following full consultation with our neighbours, local businesses and councillors, we will produce a simplified scheme, which will allow the club to move forward.
"The course will be made safer by infilling just the very dangerous ravines and this will help to making the golf course less difficult for potential new/learner golfers.
"We would welcome anyone to come along and have a conducted tour of the golf course to see what a great facility is on the doorstep."
Mr Trumper added that the club could suffer if it did not continue to try and make the club more appealing to potential members.
He said: "If we were unable to make the course appealing to a greater membership, it could have an adverse effect. The club is a registered charity (CASC), which means that we offer a variety of membership schemes."
"As an example, five day membership from £250 and a seven day from £299. Junior membership is £60 but there is a special deal if joining with a parent/grandparent. Special reduced full memberships for the 18 to 30-year-olds and students in full time education irrespective of age are also available.
"Our club professional Adam McCandless is a well-respected teacher of golf and he taught a local lad who has won on the European Tour and other world events beating the likes of Tiger Woods. For any information or lessons please call Adam on 01889 566552."