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Posted by Adeline Chong on August 5, 2013 05:45 PM
Kanebo's voluntary recall across Asia of its skin-whitening product range in early July was a wakeup call for consumers as well as the skin lightening industry. Kanebo, the second largest cosmetics company in Japan after giant Shiseido, sells products in over 50 countries across Asia, Europe, and the US, with its whitening products comprising nearly 30 percent of its skincare range.
Nearly two months before its July 4 recall, a clinic reported to Kanebo that three patients had complained of skin damage following use of a Kanebo whitening product. The company withheld the information for over a month before notifying the government and issuing a recall, a move that garnered worldwide criticism. The products, which gradually lighten the skin, are a part of a $13 billion industry in Asia alone, where fair skin has long been associated with an elevated social class.Continue reading...
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Posted by Adeline Chong on July 22, 2013 11:56 AM
McDonald's announced recently that it will be opening its first outlet in Vietnam next year in Ho Chi Minh City, the country's commercial hub.
While the fast-food giant has an immense presence in greater Asia, McDonald's is late to market in Vietnam, where Yum! Brands' KFC and Pizza Hut, along with Burger King, Subway, Jollibee (Philippines), and Lotteria (South Korea) already have a solid presence. Trailblazer KFC opened its first restaurant in 1997 and now has 100 outlets in Vietnam. Burger King, meanwhile, opened just last year and has 12 outlets, while Starbucks opened its first location in Ho Chi Minh City this past February.
McDonald's apparently considered the market over a decade ago, however the lack of a domestic cource of beef and a poor supply-chain infrastructure deterred the company. Prior to that, the company was briefly banned from the country in the 1990s—about the time that the local economy became accessible to the rest of the world, according to the Financial Times.Continue reading...
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Posted by Abe Sauer on April 19, 2013 11:41 AM
"I cried three times through the entire movie and when Allison finally 'sees' Frank in the mirror, I completely lost it!… I want to go to Seattle, and then to New York!"That reaction of a Weibo user to seeing the new blockbuster Chinese rom-com Finding Mr. Right is not uncommon. It's the kind of reaction that led Chinese tourism site tuniu.com to find in a recent survey that inquiries about Seattle by Chinese tourists jumped 120 percent in the last week of March, when the film debuted. Seattle isn't letting the opportunity go to waste either, with its China-side marketing team leveraging the film's huge popularity to drive interest from a group that has become the world's most lucrative tourism demographic. A demographic that is increasingly taking its cues from popular movies, but only those that can emotionally connect.Continue reading...
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brands under fire
Posted by Shirley Brady on January 24, 2013 12:27 PM
IKEA is in hot water in Thailand for its holiday campaign that aimed for the funny bone and ended up hitting the Adam's apple — and offending some viewers in the process. The TV commercial, released on Dec. 25th and promoting an end-of-year sale, shows a couple strolling through the store, only the gentleman doesn't realize his companion is transgender.
As Reuters reported, "The 20-second commercial shown on YouTube and on Bangkok's trains in December and January entitled 'Luem Aeb' ('Forget to Keep Hidden'), was disrespectful to transsexuals, according to the Thai Transgender Alliance, which demanded an explanation from IKEA. Transgenders, or "Ladyboys" as they are often referred to, are widely accepted in Thailand and are commonplace in the fashion, beauty and entertainment industries, but are not officially recognized as women."
According to Reuters, a letter of apology from the company to the transgender group is now in the works. See the commercial, along with other holiday spots from IKEA Thailand, below.Continue reading...
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sip on this
Posted by Dale Buss on December 10, 2012 05:39 PM
The notion of civet coffee is strange enough — it's pricey java (approx. $500/pound) brewed from lightly digested coffee cherries that are plucked from the dung of a nocturnal, long-tailed, catlike animal that prowls the coffee-growing lands of Southeast Asia.
But now an entrepreneur in Thailand, Blake Dinkin, has gone the nascent civet-coffee industry one better. His Black Ivory Coffee brand is produced after elephants at the Golden Elephant Triangle Foundation are given Thai Arabica beans, removing some proteins in the digestion process, and expel the half-digested coffee. The company plucks out green coffee beans and processes them into a smooth brew that it claims tastes less bitter than regular coffee because Dumbo's process of semi-digestion strips out much of the protein.
Dinkin says he can take the inevitable humor. "There's always going to be an element of [poop] jokes in doing Black Ivory Coffee," Dinkin told the Associated Press. "But the reason why it's taken me nine years to develop this is I'm really trying to make a serious product."Continue reading...
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luxury watch
Posted by Barry Silverstein on September 18, 2012 11:56 AM
London may have been the Olympic city this past summer, but it was also "Audi City." The German luxury car brand launched its first digital showroom in London, just in time for the Olympics, pitching it in a movie-style trailer. The innovative concept was designed to digitally present Audi's entire line of cars in a compact space, using such "groundbreaking media technology," says Audi, as the ability for visitors to "digitally select their vehicle from several hundred million possible configurations and experience it in realistic 1:1 scale on screens that almost fill the entire space." More Audi Cities are coming soon.
Audi didn't start the trend of marketing cars in big city downtown areas, however. In May, BMW opened its first "BMW Brand Store" in metropolitan Paris, positioning it as "Future Retail." Unlike the Audi concept, real cars appear in the Paris space, along with an employee BMW unashamedly refers to as a "product genius" in a nod to Apple's retail concept, the "Genius Bar."
Not to be outdone, the iconic Rolls-Royce brand, a motorcar brand many might consider ultra-stodgy, is making a few breakthrough moves of its own. The venerable Rolls-Royce brand, has been around since 1904, but the British icon clearly don't want to be left behind in the 21st Century. In the fourth quarter, Rolls-Royce plans to open a boutique — don't call it a showroom — at Rama 3 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Rolls-Royce already has a Bangkok showroom, but the boutique, the first of its kind to be located in an upscale shopping mall, will feature additional products. Still, why open a "boutique" in Bangkok?Continue reading...
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sonic truth
Posted by Mark J. Miller on May 21, 2012 04:04 PM
Like that smell oozing out of the curry joint you just walked by? Well, if you're in Thailand, don't try to replicate it — you may find you're stepping all over somebody's trademark. The nation's trademark law may soon change, and one of the funkier twists before the Senate for approval would allow businesses to trademark smells and sounds, according to the Bangkok Post.
In order to brademarked, the sounds would need to be "distinctive," the Post notes. The bill being considered describes it as "a sound that is not directly descriptive of the character or quality of the goods, a natural sound of the products/services or sound arising from the functionality of the products/services." So a BBQ meat joint can't trademark sizzling meat, for example, although Thai-originated Krating Daeng (you may know it better as Red Bull) could consider trademarking a bull's snort if it wanted a sound associated with its brand.Continue reading...
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brand challenges
Posted by Dale Buss on November 4, 2011 05:31 PM
It's nightmarish to consider from a corporate and brand perspective, but the record flooding in Thailand that has endangered lives is also wrenching apart supply chains for both Toyota and Honda, and could become a major disruption to their business. The fear is that the leading Japanese brands do not pass "Go Back to Market" and instead proceed right back to "Supply Chain Jail."
Not even eight months after the March 11 tsunami and earthquake devastated the big Japanese brands' supply lines stretching from Japan and around the world, company executives are confessing that they still don't know quite how badly they'll be nicked by the flooding. The waters didn't reach Toyota's own plants, for example, but they did badly affect suppliers in Thailand that ship electronic components for Toyota vehicles to the automaker's plants around the world.
Already, Toyota has cut back on overtime and Saturday work at its U.S. facilities through at least next week (and is sticking to a plan to open a factory in Indonesia), and Honda has conceded that up to half its North American production ultimately could be affected.Continue reading...
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(Baseball StL) – In the latest roster tweak, the Cardinals have brought back reliever Marc Rzepczynski from AAA Memphis and optioned Carlos Martinez.
The left-hander has been in Memphis since late April, and at the time had an ERA of 7.88 and a WHIP of 2.00.
In the minors, Rzepczynski's opponents hit .263 against him as his WHIP dropped to 1.4 and he improved his groundball ratio.
Martinez threw only 3.1 innings in his latest stretch at the big league level, appearing in three games before being optioned again.
With Rzepczynski's past struggles and rumored sparring with the coaching staff, it's likely the Cards are bringing the lefty back to showcase him for a deal.
Assuming he carries his AAA improvements over to the big league level, a lefty reliever will be a valuable commodity if the Cardinals decide to make a move.
With a stable of young relievers finding success in the bigs, the Birds have no reason to bring Rzepczynski back from a roster standpoint. If he makes a strong showing in his first appearance, look for Zippy to be heading out of town in a transaction before the end of July.

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The Old English Sheepdog is a loyal energetic canine companion, and has for centuries been used for herding. This animals herding instinct is great, by nudging into the animal to guide it where it needs to go, instead of biting or harming the animal in anyway. If you are in Texas and you have a ranch, these dogs would be perfect for you. Their character is strong willed, but can be trained if the trainer is firm. Standing near 2 ' tall and ranging from 60-100 Lbs these sheep dogs make great companions.
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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 956359, 13 pages
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An Algebraic Criterion of Zero Solutions of Some Dynamic Systems
1Department of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China
2Department of Mathematics, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150040, China
Received 19 October 2012; Revised 7 December 2012; Accepted 7 December 2012
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"The spirit embodied in this Festival is part of what makes our community great and the world a better place for what it does to connect and celebrate our beauty as a human family."
These were the words of an International Festival planning committee member in a thank-you email sent to other committee members. There is no better way to describe the mood of the festival. As I returned to work on Tuesday morning, co-workers asked me about the festival and I said, "It was a great success at the RMH booth! We were busy providing more than 150 blood pressure screenings and more than 150 diabetes screenings." I still feel that our work in promoting good health by doing health screenings is extremely important and valuable. Another very important aspect of our presence at the festival that should not be overlooked is showing that RMH welcomes, supports, and celebrates our diverse community. Having staff at our booth bilingual in Spanish and English and having literature on interpreter services available in Spanish, English, Arabic, and Russian showed our efforts in trying to better meet the needs or our Limited English Proficient (LEP) population.
What really made my day at the festival was something that might have passed unnoticed...an Arabic-speaking woman approached our literature table and her attention went directly to the interpreter services flyer written in Arabic. She took her finger and followed the writing and at the end of each phrase she would nod and say "yes." She continued until she finished reading the entire flyer. She spoke very limited English and I was unable to communicate with her, but the fact that we had something at our table she could read, hopefully sent a message that RMH is committed to reaching out, learning more about, and meeting the needs of our diverse community.
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Alex Makes: Homemade Vegetable Stock
by Alex Guarnaschelli in Recipes, June 28th, 2011
Every week Alex Guarnaschelli, host of Alex's Day Off, shares with readers what she's eating — whether it's from the farmers' market or fresh off the boat, she'll have you craving everything from comfort food to seasonal produce.
Why make vegetable stock? That has been a question I've asked myself for years, until I gave it some thought. I find when I make vegetable soups, I turn to butter or cream for thickness — I wanted another option. Why not vegetable stock? Unlike meat stocks, they don't need long-term cooking to bring out their flavors. Vegetable stocks are a cheap date. Here are a few rules I follow:
1. Avoid any really strong herbs (i.e. dill or an abundance of rosemary) or vegetables that may have a bitter skin (i.e. squash or rutabaga). Mushroom scraps are gold to me (don't forget to wash them first).
2. Strike a balance: If you're mixing a lot of different vegetables, try to balance between inherently sweet vegetables (squash, peas and corn) and slightly bitter (chicory and endive) ones. For a thicker stock, wrap a handful of lentils or dried white beans in cheesecloth and cook in the vegetable stock until tender. Purée the beans and put them back in the stock to thicken.
3. Make sure your vegetables, both whole and scrap, end up cut to a similar size and thickness when they go into the pot. That way, they will cook more evenly and result in a better flavor.
4. Scraps definitely belong here but don't go overboard. One of my mentors wisely told me, "Stock pots are good for scraps but they are not garbage cans."
5. How much stock do you really need? Not much. Better to make less stock with more flavor. Be skimpy when adding the water and generous when adding the vegetables. I made a lot of vegetable stock that tasted like dish-water before learning my lesson.
Simple Vegetable Stock
Makes 3-4 cups
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 medium-size yellow onion, peeled and sliced
1 carrot, peeled and sliced
1 parsnip, peeled and sliced
2 stalks celery, peeled and sliced
1 leek, stemmed, washed and sliced
½ cup white mushroom scraps, washed, if available
Sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
In a medium pot, add the olive oil and all of the vegetables. Season with salt and pepper to taste. 'Sweat" the vegetables for 5-8 minutes, stirring, and then cover with about 1 1/2 quarts cold water. Cold water, as it's true with water boiled for tea, will yield a stock that is less apt to be cloudy.
Bring the water to a gentle boil, skim the fat and reduce the heat so the stock simmers. Cook for 25-30 minutes. Taste it. If weak in flavor, cook a little longer.
Strain, pressing on the vegetables to extract the maximum flavor.
Use immediately or freeze to use at a later date.
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Katherine Taylor Little Elm, Texas It is intriguing to watch how people communicate with each other in their home landscape versus an environment that is foreign to them. Our body movements change in order to accommodate the contours and textures of the place where we are. Even the rhythm of a conversation shared between two people changes in relation to their immediate environment. A specific landscape and the bodies within it begin to function together as a unit, creating a single form that represents an experience of that specific place. |
I am making sculptures that express this experience shared between our bodies and the landscape. I use porcelain because the smooth and subtle sheen of its fired surface relates to the soft and glowing appearance of skin. These sculptures are composed of contours that suggest the curves of the human body and also the curves that a mountainous landscape can mark on a horizon line. Curving surfaces are stacked against piled forms, compressed together creating the same dark lines, shadows, and cracks that our bodies can sense when moving across the earth. Glazed areas on these sculptures are like tattooed skin, clothing, or flowers that become the colorful jewels of the experiences of people and places. |
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The Browns will most likely hang on to their fourth overall pick. If all goes as expected, the team should choose Alabama running back Trent Richardson. But the Browns don't want to be finished there. Several NFL experts think the Browns are exploring trade options with the Buffalo Bills to try and move up to get the Bills' 10th pick in the first round.
The speculation is the Browns would trade away their 22nd pick, and a possible first rounder in 2013, or maybe even their 37th pick this year to grab Notre Dame wide receiver Michael Floyd.
The Browns have a lot of needs, and offense is a big priority for them in this year's draft. But there are some obstacles standing in their way. Will the Minnesota Vikings hang on to the pick ahead of the Browns in the first round? Or, will they trade down and let a team like Jacksonville, Tampa or Miami move ahead of them?
The Browns won't let that happen.
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The Bills do like Michael Floyd as well, but have also talked about a quarterback. The team worked out Ryan Tannehill but that would be a mute point with the Dolphins, who will be grabbing him two picks earlier. If the Bills are convinced they could still get a wide receiver with pick 22, they might consider to slide down and collect extra picks.
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The relative importance of dispositional optimism and control appraisals in quality of life after coronary artery bypass surgery
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Similar mechanisms have been proposed to explain the stress-buffering effects of both dispositional optimism and perceived control. Yet dispositional optimism as a personal resource should function independently of situational control appraisals. To evaluate the unique and additive contributions to adaptation of control appraisals and optimism, we followed 49 individuals scheduled for coronary artery bypass surgery. One month before surgery dispositional optimism was associated with neither health locus of control nor specific expectancies about the outcomes of surgery. Dispositional optimism, however, was associated with perceived control over the course of the illness and with quality of life appraisals. Although presurgery optimism predicted life quality 8 months after surgery, this was not the case when general and specific control appraisals and specific expectancies were included in the prediction. These findings are discussed as they relate to current conceptions of trait optimism.
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- Title
- The relative importance of dispositional optimism and control appraisals in quality of life after coronary artery bypass surgery
- Journal
Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Volume 16, Issue 1 , pp 25-43
- Cover Date
- 1993-02-01
- Print ISSN
- 0160-7715
- Online ISSN
- 1573-3521
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- adaptation
- coronary bypass surgery
- optimism
- control
- quality of life
- Authors
- Terence E. Fitzgerald (1)
- Howard Tennen (2)
- Glenn Affleck (2)
- Glenn S. Pransky (3)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. St. Joseph's Pain Therapy Center, 28801, Ashville, North Carolina
- 2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center, 06030, Farmington, Connecticut
- 3. University of Massachusetts Medical Center, 02125, Boston, Massachusetts


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Here's a mind-bender for you: What do Fedor Emelianenko, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Wanderlei Silva, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, Rich Franklin, Vitor Belfort, Rousimar Palhares, Kazuo Misaki and Michael Bisping all have in common? I'll give you a second.
*humming the Jeopardy theme*
*twiddling my thumbs*
*trimming my nails*
Okay. The answer? Dan Henderson has beaten all of them. Isn't that an incredible list? Add to it these names: Rafael "Feijao" Cavalcante, Renato "Babalu", Murilo "Ninja" Rua and several other Brazilians with cool nicknames and you have what might be the most impressive resume in MMA history.
And yet, when you get into discussions about who the best fighter in MMA history is (I'm assuming you get into these kinds of discussions all the time), does Dan Henderson's name come up? I bet it doesn't. I bet it isn't even mentioned.
Normally, comparing an MMA fighter's resume to a basketball player's resume is a fools game. One is a team sport, and the other is an individual one. However, the more I think about this comparison, the more valid it seems. I'll spare you the superficial buildup. Isn't Dan Henderson's career comparable to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's?
Bear with me. They both have a signature move that is synonymous with their names (Dan with the right hand, Kareem with the sky hook). They've both competed at a high level for far longer than logic would suggest. They both won titles more than a decade apart. They both came through in big moments but were never consistently spectacular. And, as I mentioned in passing, they're both extremely prolific, historic figures in their respective sports without being considered "the best ever."
Convoluted comparisons aside, I want to focus on that last part a bit. Why ISN'T Dan Henderson considered the best fighter ever? He knocked out Wanderlei Silva and Michael Bisping in brutal fashion. He became the first man to ever put Fedor Emelianenko's lights out. He has a much more impressive resume than his former stablemate, Randy Couture (who everyone talks about in reverential tones). He's held both PRIDE and Strikeforce belts, leading to his amiable quote "Every time I win a title in another organization, Dana has to go and buy it to get me back." If you made a list of the 50 most iconic moments in MMA history, Dan is probably involved in at least 5 of them. So what is it? Why is Dan Henderson only looked at as a solid, perennial contender?
The grappling stands out. Despite being an Olympian in the wrestling department, Dan's defensive wrestling and positional grappling have always been subpar. If Dan wants to take you down, he's probably going to take you down. If you want to take Dan down, you'll probably be able to take him down. Jake Shields spent what seemed like their entire fight mounted on Hendo. Murilo Rua and Yuki Kondo both controlled Henderson for large portions of their bouts. Mauricio Shogun basically had Henderson dead to rights for the latter part of their barn burner.
Hendo has, somewhat unfairly, been dubbed "Decision Dan" by detractors of his. He's arguably been beaten by Allan Goes, Carlos Newton, Murilo Rua, Rich Franklin, Murilo Bustamante, and Yuki Kondo. He was incredibly green in the Newton and Goes fights, and those are fights that I can rationalize him getting the nod in. Still, they were very competitive. The Ninja fight is interesting, as he was thoroughly outwrestled by a jiu-jitsu guy for most of the fight. He just couldn't seem to get out from underneath Rua, but he put together a wild flurry of punches in the 3rd round that turned the tides and earned him the nod. Put it this way: there's no way Hendo wins that fight under the unified rules, and even PRIDE's "we judge fights as a whole" policy couldn't save this decision from heavy scrutiny.
And then there's the Yuki Kondo fight. I will go to my grave believing that Kondo beat Dan Henderson. He outwrestled him for stretches, touched his face up with punches and palm strikes, and had Dan openly frustrated by the 3rd round.
This brings me to an important point. Whenever there's an unpopular decision, fans blame the judging, but there's also a part of them that blames whatever fighter "undeservedly" got the nod. Thus, the "Decision Dan" moniker. As though it were somehow Darren Elkins' fault that all three judges decided to turn in an atrocity of a scorecard and leave poor Michihiro Omigawa with his dick waving in the wind. As though it's Dan's fault that he's gotten the nod a few times in fights that could have gone either way. It isn't. The guy just finds a way to win, even when he's not at his best. That's the mark of a great fighter.
Where do I stand on Dan Henderson? It's a tough one to figure. He has 8 losses, but he could easily have 11 or 12. He's so inept at positional grappling that it's one of the first things I think of when his name comes up. I don't think I've ever seen him throw a punch to the body, which would be a wonderful way to set up even more KO's than he already has. He's been dropped numerous times throughout his career, even by journeymen like Akira Shoji. His gas tank seems to run on "E" after 10 minutes of hard fighting (which is partially responsible for his grappling follies). He's been known to swing wild at times, and leave himself exposed. He has some big flaws.
Hang on though. He's emphatically, and often in riveting fashion, beaten a who's who of fighters from 3 weight classes (Who else can say that?). He has one of the most powerful right hands the sport has ever seen, and he has absolute faith that he'll be able to put that right hand on someone and render them motionless, no matter who it might be. He's a classic example of a smaller man that's always able to find success against the big boys (due, in some order, to the hardness of his head, the angles that he throws his bombs from, and of course, the power), and he has a truly unique resume. He's just a confident dude, and more often than not, he backs it up with results.
I'm not a fan of rankings. I'm cool with them if they're somewhat vague, like "So-and-so is a top ten welterweight" or "What's-his-nose is clearly the #1 contender at heavyweight." But once you start getting into the "He has 3 quality wins, and he only has 2, but the guy with 3 quality wins beat one of those quality guys after he was coming off of a recent lobotomy, so his 2 quality wins are actually better, so he should be #5″ and blah blah blah wakka wakka wakka … it just makes me want to drop acid and wander into oncoming traffic.
But. BUT. If Dan Henderson beats Jon Jones at UFC 151, he HAS to be considered as a top 5 all time great fighter, in any weight class. He just does. Mind you, I don't think he's beating Bones. In fact, I think he's going to get the kibosh put on him. If and when that happens, though, he'll still hold a special place in history.
Dan Henderson isn't the greatest fighter ever. At this point in MMA history, it'd be hard to give anyone that designation. Jon Jones appears to be headed in that direction. Georges St-Pierre, Anderson Silva, Fedor Emelianenko, Junior dos Santos, Chuck Liddell, Wanderlei Silva, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Matt Hughes … these are all acceptable names to mention in any "greatest fighter ever" discussion. But so is Dan Henderson's. And for an undersized light heavyweight who's put a hurtin' (almost solely based on his punching power) on a Hall of Fame's worth of great fighters, that's pretty damn good.


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January 16, 2013Congressman holds Inaugural Address Competition for students
By Tiffany Esshaki
Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., explains congressional districting to students at Groves High School Jan. 9.
As President Barack Obama prepares for his second inaugural address, students across metro Detroit are being asked to share their own visions for the country's future.
U.S. Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., stopped by Groves High School Jan. 9 to visit an Advanced Placement government class and speak with students about his 30-year career in Congress. While he was there, he announced a competition open to high school students throughout the 9th Congressional District, inviting students to record and submit their own inaugural addresses on Levin's website.
According to a statement released by Levin's office, students can upload their two-three minute videos to the congressman's website through Jan. 25, addressing "the nation" with their own opinions and ideas on where the country is and where it should be heading in the coming years.
Each student who participates will receive a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, and finalists will be featured on the congressman's website. The winner, chosen by a judging panel of local residents, will be announced the week of Jan. 28 and will be invited to have lunch with Levin.
"I look forward to seeing how our talented high school students combine the rich history of presidential inaugural addresses with their own visions for the future," said Levin in the statement. "Inaugurations are a great opportunity for us to look both to the future — and the past — and celebrate our great nation."
The Groves students present for Levin's announcement Jan. 9 were excited to hear from the congressman, who discussed new district boundary changes, a few historical inaugural speeches, and topics the president could possibly talk about when he presents his second inaugural address Jan. 21. According to Anne Cron of Birmingham Public Schools' community relations, the junior- and senior-level AP government students were pleased to receive their lesson for the day from an experienced politician.
Class instructor Robert Divizio said he will encourage his students to participate in the competition.
"This contest will give the students a chance to go back and read historical inaugural speeches and reflect on how they relate to the challenges we face as a country today," said Divizio in an email. "I think this contest will generate some real excitement."
One student who plans to record an inaugural address entry is Rebecca Starr of Franklin, who is a junior at Groves.
"I do think I will do the project. I have learned so much in my AP government class, and it's really got me interested in our government, and I think it's important to know what challenges we're facing as a country. This is a great opportunity to take a closer look at that," said Starr.
Participating students must attend high school in Michigan's 9th District, which due to recent redistricting has changed. A complete list of communities in the district can be found on the congressman's website. Students without video recording equipment can schedule an appointment to record a video at Levin's district office in Roseville by calling (586) 498-7122.
More information on the contest, including details on how to submit videos online, can be found at www.levin.house.gov.


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The diet may be hard to get used to and force you to sacrifice some of the foods you love, but once you have the memory of the associated pain, you become motivated to avoid future flare ups.


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Portuguese Consulate Services
Consul Services will continue to be available at the UPSES for the following dates for 2015:
January 21,22; March 17,18; June 23,24; August 4,5; September 22,23; October 20,21.
A staff member of the Portuguese Consulate in San Francisco will be traveling to San Diego and thru the usage of portable stations will be able to provide amongst others the following consulate services:
· Collect biometric data to issue documents (ID's) including, the "Citizen Card" (Cartão Cidadão).
· Collect data to issue traveling documents including, Electronic Portuguese Passport
· Provide Notary Services
· Proceed to register for electoral census
· Collect and deliver documents to appropriate governmental agencies
· And many other services
The Portuguese Government wants to the Consul Services to become more accessible to vast number of Portuguese communities living throughout the world including California. San Jose, Turlock, Tulare, Los Angeles, and San Diego were the chosen as the Cities to provide these services.
Acquiring dual citizenship can become useful to you. Take advantage of it. For additional information, you may contact the Portuguese Consulate in San Francisco by calling (415)346-3400.


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After a tendering process started in late 2011, the UK Cabinet Office selected over 250 vendors providing about 1700 services that government agencies can choose from in order to meet their cloud needs. Yesterday it opened its cloud store.
The store, which admittedly in its early stages, allows to browse services by type (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, specialist cloud services) and deployment model (private, public, hybrid), as well as by vendor name and service description.
This looks like an impressive and comprehensive list of services. Hoverer the site offers a number of caveats though.
The first and probably most important one is about assurance and accreditation.
We're still in the early stages of this work and have hundreds of products to assure, so most of the products you'll see in the pilot CloudStore have not yet been assured.
The next stage will be to accredit some of the products in line with CESG guidance on information assurance. This means that once products have been accredited, Government buyers will be able to use them straight off the shelf without having to go through the accreditation process again. There will be products available up to IL3.
In fact I have tried to browse quite a few services and in all cases a purple ribbon at the top of the page warns you that "the service is waiting to be assured". It appears that they are pretty much where the US government was when they first opened apps.gov, although in that case only public services were available.
The selection is quite impressive, and there is a fair amount of small players alongside the usual, large service providers. Search capabilities are moderately effective but information about suppliers is reasonably consistent to at least get to know who are the players.
The best thing is that government agencies can buy services straight from those vendors without issuing a European call for tender, which implies significant time savings.
On the downside, besides the time taken by the accreditation process, a fundamental question remains about the readiness of both prospective users of cloud services and their suppliers to really meet the objective of "moving away from custom built and hosted IT to cloud based services bought as commodities on short term contracts" as the cloudstore itself states.This is certainly not unique to the UK public sector and delves into the relative immaturity of standardization activities around cloud. However the whole idea that shifting between suppliers of a commodity service across a number of short-term contracts may take some time to materialize. Also, it is not entirely clear how agencies can assess the risk that those suppliers pose in term of long-term viability of their offering.
The Cloud Store is a great first step toward what Gartner calls a storefront in its research, (see Five Roles for Government in Cloud Computing – login required) but there is still quite some way to go before agencies can move safely into the cloud territory.
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With onshore flow and available moisture, showers will move through the region this evening. Snow levels will be around 4,500′ so this will mean rain showers for the Valleys, and a rain/snow mix for the Basin. More importantly, a much stronger system will be moving into the region tomorrow dropping snow levels and bringing high snow accumulations to the Cascades. A winter storm warning is in place for heavy snow for both the Cascades and Siskiyous through Friday evening. A winter weather advisory is in effect for the Valleys into Saturday morning as well.
Showers will begin by early afternoon as the cold front nears. Snow levels will be around 4,000′ tomorrow afternoon and quickly drop with the passing of the front. By about 3pm precipitation will be widespread and intensity will begin to strengthen among the showers. Precipitation will fall as snow for the entire duration of the storm in the higher elevations, while it will start as rain and possibly mix with snow or even change to snow in the Foothills by Saturday morning.
Upsloping winds will allow for a good foot of snow to fall in the Cascades, with even higher amounts further north. Crater Lake could see as much as 18″ by Saturday morning. Heavy snow will allow for snowfall rates to exceed 1″ an hour, in fact it's quite possible 2-3″ of snow fall per hour. The Siskiyou's could see roughly 3-8″, with locally higher amounts.
Snow levels are going to drop to 2,000′ and even 1,500′ is possible in some locations. This will allow for snow to reach the Valley floor, so 1-3″ is possible in the Foothills by Saturday morning.
Winds will gust to about 40mph along the Coast and in the Basin. The higher elevations of the Valleys will gust to about 30mph. Sneaker waves are going to be a threat tomorrow afternoon & evening along the Coast. Wave heights will reach 20 to 25 feet so folks along the Coast should stay away from the water at all costs.


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Lee, the fourth-year receiver had five catches for 91 yards, including his first touchdown of the year, a nifty catch-and-run down the right sideline with 3:37 left in the half.
Lee had not caught a pass this season but he and Keenan McCardell -- who had nine catches for 83 yards -- helped offset the loss of Keyshawn Johnson, the all-pro receiver.
Former Giant Joe Jurevicius added three catches in extended action for the defending Super Bowl champions.
Tampa Bay attempted to run out the clock late in the game but when the Giants stopped Michael Pittman on a fourth-and-inches deep in New York territory, the Bucs defense had to step up.
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This Friday in Abu Dhabi, Marussia reserve Max Chilton will get his first official taste of a Grand Prix weekend when he takes part in the opening free practice session around the Yas Marina Circuit. This is what the British driver had to say about the upcoming experience
Q: Youve spent the past three race weekends as reserve driver for the Marussia team. How have you found the experience?
Max Chilton: Its been a real insight to see how a team works over the course of a race weekend. I spent a little bit of time with Marussia on the weekend I was announced in Singapore but working with them fully has been extremely interesting for me. There are a lot of meetings that go on behind the scenes where a lot of complicated discussions occur between engineers and various team members but its great to be involved and see it from the inside with a great team like Marussia.
Q: What have been the main differences from working in a GP2 team to an F1 team?
MC: Probably the number of people who are involved. The F1 team is much bigger than anything in GP2 and certain departments have four times as many people than Im used to. So thats been a bit interesting to get your head around. However, I now know everybodys names which is a bonus!
Q: You have previous experience driving the Marussia Formula One car; do you think this gives you more of an advantage for Fridays free practice session?
MC: Its always good to know the car inside out before getting in it so I definitely think that my experience of testing the car and knowing all the controls will help me. The track is going to be very green during the first free practice session so thats going to be a little tricky, so Id imagine there wont be a lot of people pushing particularly early on.
Q: Youll be gathering data for Marussia during the practice session. Does that add more pressure?
MC: No, not really. Ive already been given the plan for the session and a run-down of what well be working on, but it doesnt add any pressure at all because Im just doing my job.
Q: Youve driven the Abu Dhabi track previously. What are your thoughts on the circuit?
MC: I like the circuit. I know its not high on some drivers lists but I think it has a lot of good features such as the last sector which is a nice challenge. I enjoy driving it and find the high-speed chicanes particularly interesting, so Im really looking forward to getting out there on Friday with the team and doing my best to gather data for them.
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I made a Persona 4 Arena Arcade Machine
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So this is something I've had done for a little while. For whatever reason I never bothered to put it up here, even though I planned too. Well with all the news of Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold (amazing name by the way) I figured now would be a good time to show this thing off.
I'm not very good when it comes to writing so I'm just going to show the pictures. If anybody wants to know anything about it feel free to ask though.


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Crave 76: It's a trap! (podcast)
What better way to spend Valentine's Day than talking to your own hand-crafted Admiral Ackbar puppet. Am I right?
A special Valentine's Day episode of Crave featuring robots, champagne, littleBits circuit boards, and zombie chocolates. Plus, X-ray leggings, spider battle bots, hoverboards, Star Wars crafts, and a peek at the perfect date movie, "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."
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An impressive standing rib roast is actually quite easy to make for a Christmas dinner or dinner party, especially when it's seasoned the night before with prepared horseradish, garlic, and herbs. Roast it with mushrooms and onions to build the foundation for a red wine sauce that can be mopped up with warm, crunchy popovers. Turn any leftovers into tasty Roast Beef and Caramelized Onion Sliders.
Special equipment: You'll need kitchen twine for this recipe.
Game plan: The roast is ready for the oven after 1 hour's seasoning time, but for best results, season it overnight. And it takes 2 to 2 1/4 hours to roast, so plan accordingly.
- 1Mix all of the measured ingredients in a small bowl until combined; set aside. Cut (2) 24-inch-long pieces of kitchen twine; set aside.
- 2Rinse the roast under cold water to remove any bone fragments, pat it dry with paper towels, and place it on a cutting board. Following the line of the bones, cut the meat away from the bones in 1 piece. Rub the meat all over with the horseradish mixture. Fit the meat back onto the bones, matching the original position. Tie the meat onto the bones using one piece of twine in between each bone.
- 3Place the roast fat-side up on a large plate or baking sheet and refrigerate uncovered overnight. (Alternatively, it can be roasted after sitting at room temperature for 1 hour.)
For roasting and the sauce:
- 1Remove the roast from the refrigerator and place it fat-side up in a roasting pan. Let it sit at room temperature for 1 hour. Meanwhile, heat the oven to 450°F and arrange a rack in the lower third.
- 2Roast the beef for 45 minutes. Meanwhile, trim the stems from the mushrooms and cut them in half; set aside. Peel and cut the onion into eighths through the root end; set aside.
- 3Remove the roasting pan from the oven. Scatter the mushrooms, onions, and rosemary around the roast, stir to coat them in the drippings, and spread them into an even layer.
- 4Reduce the oven temperature to 350°F and roast for 45 minutes. Stir the vegetables and continue to roast until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center of the roast registers 125°F for medium rare, about 30 to 45 minutes more.
- 5Transfer the roast to a cutting board, tent it loosely with aluminum foil, and let it rest for at least 20 to 30 minutes. Meanwhile, make the sauce.
- 6Using a slotted spoon, remove the vegetables and rosemary from the roasting pan to a medium bowl; set aside. Pour the roast drippings into a small heatproof bowl and discard when cooled.
- 7Place the roasting pan across 2 stovetop burners over medium heat. Return the vegetables and rosemary to the roasting pan, add the wine, and cook, scraping up the browned bits from the bottom of the pan, until the wine is reduced by about half, about 5 minutes.
- 8Increase the heat to medium high, add the beef broth, stir to combine, and bring to a simmer. Continue to simmer, stirring occasionally, until reduced by about half, about 5 minutes. Meanwhile, set a fine-mesh strainer in a large frying pan.
- 9Pour the vegetable mixture through the strainer and discard the contents of the strainer. Place the frying pan over medium-high heat and bring to a simmer. Reduce the heat to low and swirl in the butter 1 piece at a time, making sure each piece is completely melted before adding the next. Taste and season with salt and pepper as needed. Remove the twine and bones from the roast, slice it, and serve with the sauce.


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Yesterday's 3 mile run was much better than Monday's. My hubby was home so he came along and that helped pass the time too. Family runs are my favorite :). I love when my husband crosses in front of the jogging stroller and Z yells out "Daddyyyyy!" My husband says "yes, sir?" and Z giggles. It's too cute.
I tried a new health food shake this morning. My friend sells Beachbody stuff and is always talking about how great Shakeology is. My curiosity got the best of me and I ordered the chocolate version. Wow, it's good! It tastes like a chocolate milkshake, except it's actually good for you! I had it for breakfast at around 8:30am and I'm still not hungry at 11:15am. That's good for me. I am usually looking for a snack by now :). It is pricey so I'll have to see how much I like it and if it does help me on my quest to lose these last few pounds before I decide to stick with it.
I'm thinking of trying to add in more runs during the week. Right now, I run Monday, either Tuesday or Wednesday, run Thursday, rest Friday, long run on Saturday, rest on Sunday. I'm probably going to stick with resting on Friday and Sunday because I like rest days surrounding my long run day. During the week though, I find that I just don't feel as good on the days I don't run. It's hard to always fit in my runs with a busy 1 year old, but I'm going to try to run Monday through Thursday and if I don't run, I'll try to cross-train.
We're having another beautiful day here so once Z wakes up from his nap, we'll be heading out for another 3 miles.
Happy running!
P.S. Last night I signed up for the Joggermom virtual marathon. It's such an awesome idea and I'm looking forward to tracking my mileage in May. With my half marathon being in May, I think I should be able to cover the 26.2 miles pretty easily (easy to rack up the miles, not easy to actually do all that running!). I think this is the perfect challenge for us running moms. Most races aren't stroller friendly so this is an awesome way to "race" and bring our babies along!


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As seasons change, you change your clothes with them: heavier coats in the winter, t-shirts in the summer. It's all about balance and protection. But did you know your skin care products should work the same way? They're your skin's wardrobe. Unfortunately, many people mistakenly use the exact same products 365 days a year. The hectic ups and downs of spring weather – cold one day, warm the next, along with increases in humidity and seasonal allergies – can leave skin looking like a patchwork quilt with oily patches, dry patches, and breakouts.
Much like you would switch from winter boots to sandals, you need to adapt your skin care to help balance it. Here are 5 easy ways to help your skin make a perfect spring transition:
- Lighten up. The cleaners and creams that kept your skin moisturized and hydrated throughout winter can be too heavy for spring. Warmer temperatures and higher humidity slow the rate of transepidermal water loss (that's the natural process of how your skin regulates its moisture level), so your skin is able to hang onto moisture more easily. It's time to switch to lighter products while still feeding the skin. Try looking for an exfoliating cleanser to help shed winter's dullness and keep it comfortable throughout the changing weather.
- Don't skip the toner! Toner is an absolutely essential step after cleansing, as it returns your skin back to a comfortable pH and replaces essential nutrients that tap water can strip from your skin. Going without it can leave skin vulnerable to spring's frequently changing weather patterns. On cooler or drier spring days, take your facial toner with you and mist on as needed to replenish lost hydration and even set makeup.
- Protect against sensitivities. Fresh-cut grass, weeds and pollen can leave skin sensitized, so everything from the daily essential you regularly use to the way you touch your face may need to change. To start, protect skin against visible irritation by applying a soothing skin serum under your moisturizer. If spring allergies leave your skin continually red and upset, you may want to switch over to a full sensitive skin care line, and use a more gentle touch when applying.
- Avoid artificial fragrances and dyes. Read your skin care labels – Yellow, Blue, Red and "fragrance" don't belong there. They serve absolutely no purpose in your skin care, and can irritate sensitive skin types or skin that has become sensitized in the spring. If you like gently scented products, look to those that contain essential oils or botanical extracts. Both are often added for their beneficial effects on the skin, but also provide a pleasant aroma.
- Don't forget the sunscreen! Spring showers might keep the sky looking overcast, but 80%* of UV rays can penetrate through clouds. Never walk out the door without applying a moisturizing broad spectrum sunscreen either alone or under your makeup to ensure you are protecting your skin from early aging and the risk of skin cancer.
Does your skin have its springtime wardrobe ready? Follow these tips and see skin that's balanced, clear, glowing and ready for a great season.
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Jebe (or Jebei; Mongolian: Зэв, Zev; birth name: Zurgadai) (died 1225) was one of the prominent Noyans (generals) of Genghis Khan. His clan was Besud, which belonged to the Taichud tribe, which was at the time of Genghis Khan under Targudai Khiriltug's leadership.
In 1201, during Battle of the Thirteen sides, Genghis Khan was wounded by the arrow to the neck, then his loyal subordinate Jelme cared for the injured Genghis Khan.
After the battle, Genghis Khan asked the defeated to reveal who shot "his horse" in the neck (euphemizing his own injury as his horse's in an apparent attempt to conceal his injury, or possibly to prevent false confessions). Jebe is said to have voluntarily confessed that he shot Genghis Khan himself and not his horse, and further said, that "if Genghis Khan desired to kill him, it was his choice, but if he would let him live, he would serve Genghis Khan loyally". Genghis Khan, in his own usual custom, highly valued honesty and loyalty in his soldiers and so, in the traditions of nomadic chivalry, pardoned him and praised him on this account. He then gave him a new name, Jebe, which means both "arrow" and "rust" in Mongolian. Jebe was not his birth name (which was Zurgadai), but a nickname based on this occasion.
Jebe is further known to have become one of the best and most loyal commanders of Genghis Khan in later conquests. His ability as a general puts him in one rank with Subutai ba'atur.
After Jebe scored great victories over Kuchlug of Kara-Khitan, Genghis Khan himself, though glad of his general's victory, was said to be concerned, not knowing if Jebe would seek greater ambition at his expense and rebel against him. When word of this reached Jebe, he immediately returned to where Genghis Khan was and offered 100 white horses (the same kind of horse that Genghis Khan was riding when Jebe wounded him) as a sign of loyalty. From then on Genghis Khan never doubted this skilled general again.
He likely died on his way back from the conquests of Kievan Rus. He had made the legendary raid around the Caspian Sea where he and Subutai defeated the Kievan Rus' and Cumans at the Battle of the Kalka River, which preceded the conquest of Kievan Rus, and left an indelible mark on history with his conquests in China, the conquest of Central Asia, and into Europe at Kiev and the Rus.