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Arellano Named NSCAA Regional Scholar Honorable Mention
Jan. 3, 2012
BALTIMORE - Loyola University Maryland junior Hector Arellano has been named to the 2011 University Division Men's Scholar All-East Region Honorable Mention Team, as announced by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA).
An engineering major with a 3.68 cumulative grade point average, Arellano played in all 18 games for the Greyhounds this season, starting 17, and was named to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference All-Academic Team at the end of the year.
In a 3-0 win at Manhattan on Oct. 7, Arellano scored his first collegiate goal – and game winner – when he headed in a corner kick from sophomore Stephen Dooley.
The midfielder from Virginia Beach, Va., then notched his first career assist against Rider on Oct. 15, when he set up sophomore Geaton Caltabiano for the game-winning goal. He also contributed an assist on Oct. 21 when he intercepted a pass in Canisius' defensive end and chested the ball to Caltabiano for the game-winning goal.
To be nominated for the NSCAA Scholar All-Region Teams, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) throughout his career; start more than 50 percent of all games and be a significant contributor to the team; be a junior or above in academic standing at the current institution; be in his second year at the current school; and submit an official copy of a certified transcript.
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Satisfy your senses with this aromatic gluten-free Persian orange and almond cake.
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Energy 2111kJ |
Fat saturated g |
Fat Total 24.00g |
Carbohydrate sugars g |
Carbohydrate Total 58.00g |
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Protein 12.00g |
Cholesterol - |
Sodium 248.84mg |
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Gluten intolerant and non-gluten intolerant friend love this cake. My gluten intolerant friend froze what was left and it was just as yummy as when I first made it. The flavour is amazing and I will definitely make it again.
My favorite cake from now:-))
Delicious gluten free recipe. Easy to prepare & bake and always enjoyed. I finish off the top with flaked almonds toasted with caster sugar in a frypan and pour the syrup over just before serving.
Easy and fantastic orange cake. Especially using organic oranges from the neighbour's tree next door!
Takes a bit of time but the steps are easy and the result well worth it. A moist tasty dessert cake which is gluten free. Looks and tastes impressive.
Not a cake to start making at 10pm, by the time oranges soaked and cake cooked made for a late night.cake took longer than stated time. Cake tasted really good until we made mistake of pouring all the syrup over it at once, next time will pop syrup in jug next to cake then people can have as much or little as they want. I wouldn't have any.
Awesome flavour and so moist. Especially if you use oranges from the backyard tree rather than from a supermarket.
Cooked for 1.5 hrs and could have done with longer still! Cake sunk slightly in the centre. The cake was so moist that I didn't even use half The syrup... Beautiful flavor and would make again. Next time I will bake for longer though!
The staff at work absolutely loved it. Melt in the mouth!!
Lovely moist cake. I garnished with orange blossom fairy floss and rose petals. Friends are still raving about it and request it every time it's my turn to bring desert
I used ' No Egg' egg substitute and served with soy ice cream, that made it a gluten free vegan cake. ABSOLUTELY LOVELY.
Love this recipe. I make a half batch but add 80g gluten free plain flour and cook in un-oiled silicone muffin trays for 30 mins (160°C fan oven). Then freeze the 10 muffins and syrup separately so there's always a g/f dessert in the freezer for my son which I can heat up and serve with soy icecream.
I baked this for my friend who is coeliac for her birthday. It was an absolute winner!! Everyone loved it and asked for the recipe. Such an easy delicious cake to make and the fact that its gluten free makes it that much better. 10/10!!
Great recipe! All my family enjoyed it. Its worth taking the time to cook the oranges properly. The only difference i made was added 1/2 less sugar because the oranges were sweet to start with. Delicious cake!
A delightful cake. As preparation of the oranges is the most time consuming part I boil extras, pulp and freeze in a tupperware container for quick access on days when I'm short on time.
Absolutely delicious. Made it with egg substitute for someone who was gluten intolerant and vegan:)
On the several occasions I've baked this cake I've been told its resturant quality! Certain to be a crowd pleaser - and on that note, you can serve a small army with it too!
I opted for this recipe because I wanted a light, gluten free cake for a family celebration. It was pretty easy to make, although a little time consuming because of the orange preparation. I too couldn't find orange blossom watr so I left it out, and I don't think it's affected the syrup overly in taste. I found the cake sank quite a lot in the middle - adds to the rustic appeal of the cake I guess! It's also a bit of a tricky one to get out of the cake tin (I didn't have a springform so opted for a loose-bottom tin). A fresh, light and moist cake option.
This cake is very sweet even without the syrup! I've made it twice and it's a delicious option for entertaining gluten intolerant friends. Tonight I'll be serving this cake with a small dollop of double cream to offset the sweetness of the cake. I buy orange blossom water from an organic marketplace that happens to have a lot of baking supplies. I can't say I've seen it in the big supermarkets yet.
I couldnt find Orange Water in my area so i left it out. Still tasted great without it
Everyone loved this cake - so yummy! I cooked mine for an extra 10 minutes. Didn't use all the orange syrup on top of the cake so just served it extra on the side along with cream. Got orange blossom water at the local deli and know it's also available at Thomas Dux.
Yum! Needs to be cooked well or the middle will be too moist so I would recommend at least 60min!!! Can't say this enough...yum
Delicious - also added coconut which made it really moist. used individual tins for 20minutes in oven
So delicious and so easy to make, I found the orange blossom water in a specialty grocer, definitely a 5 star recipe
our gluten-free friends along with many others loved this cake. we found the mascarpone too heavy, most preferred whipped cream. I also couldn't find any orange blossom water so just omitted it - it was beautiful
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Following a two-part, £10 million restoration, Horace Walpole's 18th-century gothic villa, considered to be Britain's finest example of gothic revival architecture, will reopen to the public this Sunday 1st March.
The celebrity home of its day, Strawberry Hill was transformed from modest Twickenham house to "my very own little gothic castle" by Horace Walpole, one of the most influential writers, collectors and historians of the 1700s and youngest son of Britain's first Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole.
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July 7th, 2013 01:52 AM #6
I second what jyoti said. Thisbe's lovely .
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I think the story isn't a big deal as most people don't know it and Juliet hasn't suffered from R&J.
It's the rhyme with frisbee that bothers me as that's what everyone says to me as soon as I mention it.Mum to Mousie, Foo, Bumptious and Pudding.
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Honestly, my first association with Thisbe is the player's performance of Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Thus die I, thus, thus, thus / Now I am dead / Now I am fled / Tongue, lose thy light / Moon take thy flight / Now die, die, die, die, die...) It's a very funny scene and I can't hear Thisbe without laughing a little bit. I don't think it's terribly usable. It strikes me as kind of a silly name.
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Yeah, I'm with daisy451. My first association with Thisbe is the hilarious scene in Midsummer, so it's a very comedic, silly name to me. I think it's still usable, though--it just feels a bit heavy-handed, kind of like wearing a shirt that says I'M WHIMSICAL in huge letters. To me it's a GP name.
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The Orioles plan to offer a minor league contract to veteran left-hander Mark Hendrickson, and he will bring a new look to spring training, reports Eduardo Encina of the Baltimore Sun.
The 6-foot-9 Hendrickson began to reinvent himself as a sidearm pitcher in December and threw for the team at least week's three-day mini-camp. Given Hendrickson's size, there appears to be plenty of upside if the southpaw is able to refine that sidearm delivery.


text: I II I HEN picking over the causes for the |; ; ' current economic crisis, we think M If we know where to point the finger: it was them greedy bankers wot dunnit. It was they who lent American house buyers more money than they could hope to repay, and sold on the risk in ever more complex, opaque packages, rewarding themselves handsomely in the process. While there is truth in that picture, it ignores the complexities of a system that , led the initially small perturbation of the "sub-prime" mortgage crisis to morph into systemic collapse. Moreover, concentrating on the specific causes of that one event fixates on the past at the expense of the future. When the next crisis comes, the disturbance will probably ripple out from another quarter of the economy, taking us completely unawares. Can we prepare better? Perhaps - but only if we fundamentally change our approach to economics. Instead of making unrealistically simplistic assumptions about human behaviour and the properties of markets, we can harness the number-crunching power of modern computing, coupled with our emerging understanding of the physics of complex systems, to rebuild economic theory from the bottom up. Extending that approach to the social sciences more generally could help us develop forecasting tools to assess a whole range of problems threatening human society - not just the ravages of the markets, but wars, disease and demographic change. Investigating the roots of our recent financial crisis using conventional economics rapidly hits a problem: the theories deny that such things ever happen. Economists employed by central banks and government treasuries favour using statistical models fitted to past data or "equilibrium" models that assume markets find stability if left to their own devices, a quality characterised by the 18th-century Scottish economist Adam Smith as the "invisible hand". Such models assume that markets never crash on their own. ,r~ The Earth simulator Packing the world of human interactions into a computer could help solve our planet's woes, says Philip Ball 48 I New/Scientist [ 30 October 2010 Instead, speculative bubbles and catastro crashes are caused by unpredictable event the wider world, such as political upheava technological innovations. That's not the only convenient simplific Individuals and institutions are also assu to have access to all the information that e on an object's price, and make the decisio on whether to buy it in their own self-inte according to a rational cost-benefit analys That's like choosing to buy a chicken sand MedJwatch......... only after taking into account the current 2 of all other chicken sandwiches in the wor Vlercator Gold 58 "That is psychologically unrealistic," sa Messaging fntl...,,......034 Daniel Kahneman, an economics Nobel G 1 ,: intl Wts..,.,. 0. laureate at Princeton University. Not only .1*2 Metairax.................... 5'2 we act on the basis of incomplete informa 35 but we often make economic decisions ag our rational self-interest. We pay more fo 23 brand-name goods that are not necessaril 33 superior to unbranded ones, for example, and we sometimes buy a sandwich regard of the price, just because we are hungry. i'vft • Messy mathematics The central characteristic of agents in an economy, be they companies, banks, trad or individual consumers like you and me, Kahneman, "is not that they reason poorl but that they often act intuitively". This is the downfall of many attempts to model w ** economic and social interactions: the """a^^lKlulil^ assumption that everyone behaves in the same rational way. We clearly don't. What's more, the number-crunching power now at our fingertips means such assumptions are no longer necessary. Rather than solve mathematical models o an economy, we can use computer model simulate how people and institutions int and how their actions combine to dictate the ups and downs of markets. By feedin whatever rules for human behaviour we li into a model and letting it roll, we can see consequences without worrying about ho messy it makes the mathematics. This approach, called agent-based modelling, has its roots in the computer studies of so-called cellular automata, popularised in the igyos by the British mathematician John Conway's "Game of Here, individual cells in a grid interact wit one another according to simple rules, for example reproducing or dying depending the number of neighbours they have. Suc simple rules can rapidly give rise to comp yet organised collective behaviour. Agent-based economic models have a similar starting point. Agents representi "The idea is to create a predictive model of global social, environmental and ecological behaviour" or just copy the most successful strategy to atmospheric chemists, so any whole- institutions. This would include previously followed by others. economy model would need to draw on confidential details such as information on Crucially, they can also learn from the knowledge of experts in finance, labour individual loans and who underwrites the experience and respond to one another's markets, supply chains, marketing, retail risk for credit defaults. decisions. For instance, an agent might buy a and perhaps even psychology and law. Even with that data glut, we would stock with a certain probability if its price falls Vast computing power would also be probably need many models to generate below a threshold - a threshold which could needed to run the actual model and follow useful predictions. "There will never be a differ between agents - but with an increased the interactions of millions, or perhaps correct and final model," says Silvano Cincotti, probability if other agents are also buying billions, of agents representing companies a complex-systems engineer at the University the same stock. and institutions with diverse agendas of Genoa, Italy, who attended the Virginia Just as in the Game of Life, complex and decision-making rules. And just as workshop. "Economics is a self-referential behaviours soon emerge from such simple climate models need a stream of data from system - the model influences the system beginnings. In 1998, economist Thomas Lux, meteorological stations to provide a constant you're studying." In other words, if people now at the University of Kiel in Germany, reality check, an agent-based economic model get wind of predictions, they change their and physicist Michele Marchesi of the would need colossal amounts of information behaviour on the basis of those predictions, University of Cagliari in Italy showed that about market transactions, prices, consumer quite possibly invalidating them. a basic economic model containing agents behaviour, employment and business growth, All this would imply that real-world agent- with various trading strategies could produce government fiscal policies and interest rates. based models won't be around any time soon. realistic patterns of price fluctuation. Not Basically, it would need everything concerned In fact, a proof of the principle already exists. only that, but they could also produce new with business, banking, finance and day-to- Called Eurace, this is the largest agent-based phenomena alien to equilibrium models but day economic behaviour. model of an economy developed so far and familiar to real markets, such as bursts of Right now we don't have that data, but we was created by a European team, including transactions separated by relatively calm could do soon. In the US, for example, the Cincotti, between 2006 and 2009. periods (Nature, vol 397, p 498). Office of Financial Research, whose creation Eurace simulates a fictitious economy Around the same time, economist Blake was mandated by Congress in July 2010, with several million agents, whose markets LeBaron, now at Brandeis University in will have unprecedented powers to demand for labour, goods, credit and finance act as Waltham, Massachusetts, and his colleagues information on transactions by financial the perfect place to test the effects of different showed how a similar model could produce business-as-usual fluctuations punctuated by occasional big variations and even crashes (Artificial Life and Robotics, vol 3, p 27). Lessons learned These models show that Smith's invisible hand is not so much invisible as non-existent. Herding behaviour, panic selling and market instability arise not just through uncontrollable external events, but also through the way we make decisions and the influences others have on our decision-making. What can we learn from this ? In June this year, scientists, economists, computer modellers and policy-makers joined together at a workshop in Warrenton, Virginia, sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, to see what lessons we might draw from agent-based models of the recent crisis (see "Picking over the debris", opposite). They also explored whether they might help us prevent any future slumps. One central question emerged: is it feasible to build an agent-based model on a scale capable of simulating a nation's or indeed the world's economy? Such a model would be a huge step towards better understanding the consequences of policy decisions before we make them. It would also be a huge undertaking. Just as modelling Earth's climate requires the expertise of everyone from marine biologists 50 I NewScientist I 30 October 2010 What turned the modest d ra n a i n the debt on were faulty, and the the US housing market in mid-2007 "derivatives" they created had msly economic policies. How, for example, should into a global catastrophe? A new way developed such byzantine complexity non we deal with the massive government debts of modelling economies, bes=3 en that it was almost impossible to the incurred as a result of the financial crisis? Is the economic behaviour of individuals, keep track of what risk went where. the answer fiscal tightening - reducing the or agents, is supplying us with As soon as the first bankruptcies debt with high taxes or low public spending - fresh insights. were announced, the whole system te as pursued by the current UK government? Whafs certain is that rising froze because no one knew where !a Or quantitative easing, keeping taxes low house prices and low interest rates the debts lurked, and so couldn't Incotti, and plugging the debt by selling government encouraged people to release the tell who to grant a loan to. versity bonds, as has been favoured in the US? equity on their house by refinancing, An advantage of agent-based lia Eurace's simulations suggest that, in the long while banks were falling over models is that they can simulate tial run, the American approach boosts economic themselves to offer such loans. the web of interactions between em growth and employment levels more. But according to models developed banks explicitly. Just as with )le by Andrew Lo at the Massachusetts power grids, computer viruses and ar Institute of Technology, one crucial disease epidemics, the topology of ions, Crisis observatories factor in causing the situation to this web - what is linked to what else, More work is needed to prove that these and spiral out of control was the tendency and how many connections exist - is igent- other preliminary results from Eurace scale of home-owners to increase their thought to determine how it behaves 5 soon. up to the size of a national or indeed the world "leverage" - the ratio of their loan under stress. Researchers at the ;xists. economy, says Cincotti. But it looks set to be a burden to their property value - in the Bank of England, among others, are iased far more promising vehicle for understanding good times but not decrease it in the now trying to tease out the network and the niceties of economics than the old one- bad times. When there was a critical properties in financial markets, ing size-fits-all approach. fall in house prices, everyone was in the hope of identifying generic Why stop there? If it is possible to simulate caught short at once. vulnerabilities and dangers in y an entire economy using agent-based The problem also lay in the way the the system. If they can find them, kets modelling, can we encapsulate more facets debt was handled. The tools banks agent-based models might help as of human activities and impacts in a model? used for calculating risk when selling us to avoid a repeat of past crises. 'ferent That is just what the researchers behind the pan-European Future Information and a gap in the knowledge landscape," he Communication Technologies consortium "We've invested billions each year in a (FuturlCT) are planning. Coordinated by Dirk such as particle physics, nuclear fusion Helbing, a social scientist at the Swiss Federal and medicine, but just a fraction of tha Institute of Technology in Zurich, they have socioeconomic sciences. We have dire recently submitted a proposal to the European our curiosity outwards, not towards th Commission to develop a model that they dub living Earth." the "Living Earth Simulator". Early next year, Helbing and his coll The idea is to plug a whole-economy model who include Cincotti, will find out if t into models of other "Earth systems", such convinced the EU sufficiently to award as climate, transport, population and water €1 million in development funding fr resources, to create a predictive model of Flagship Programme, which seeks to f global social, environmental and ecological large-scale, visionary initiatives. A dec behaviour. 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Eugene Yelchin
"I'm a risk taker. That's why I score like crazy."
"Arkady's Goal" is another brilliantly told story about the sad lives of children and families in Stalinist Russia, but has a glimmering light of hope about it. Eugene Yelchin wrote and illustrated the beautiful, meaningful book. John Orr
With book of three, so ends this trilogy
"The Book of Life" is the highly satisfying end of Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy, and makes John Orr hope that she is planning to write more stories about the witch Diana Bishop and the vampire Matthew Clairmont. The entire trilogy is fascinating it is a thinking person's magical vampire romance. Read the review of "The Book of Life."
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"The Spirit and the Skull" is a fascinating stand-alone from one of our favorite writers, J.M. Hayes, about an indian spirit man who has murders to solve. And who finds himself traveling, in spirit dreams, 15,000 years into the future. Read John Orr's review.
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"A Better World" is a terrific science-fiction thriller, with plenty to say about a schism that may already be happening in our own time and society. Plus, it's a fun read. See John Orr's review.
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Nikki Einfeld as Konstanze, left, and Michael Desnoyers as Belmonte are in big trouble after Kevin Thompson as Osmin, right, catches them trying to escape in "The Abduction from the Seraglio" by Mozart, staged by West Bay Opera.
"The Abduction from the Seraglio," a brilliant work by the 25-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was beautifully staged by West Bay Opera in February. Read John Orr's review.
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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company performs "Story/Time."
"Story/Time #40" already happened. The next time Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company performs "Story/Time," it will be different in ways we cannot predict. Virginia Bock was at Stanford to see "Story/Time #40," which was impressive. Read her
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Carl Lumbly as Leo Price, left, and Cathleen Riddley as Mrs. Jessalyn Price in "Tree," at San Francisco Playhouse.
"Tree," by Julie Hébert, is a powerfully staged and performed exploration of the meaning of family, at San Francisco playhouse. The show runs January 24 through March 7, 2015. Call 415-677-9596 or visit www.sfplayhouse.org. Read Kevin Kelly's review.
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Mini Lili shows up with a smile on her face in "Kurios."
"Kurios Cabinet of Curiosities," the latest show from Cirque du Soleil to arrive in San Francisco, is an absolute feast for the eyes and a kicking-off place for the imagination. Kevin Kelly reviews. Update: The show has since moved on to Seattle, Washington, through March 22, 2015. Keep track at www.cirquedusoleil.com.
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Don't let the smile fool you, kiddies! The character Kyle MacLachlan, left, plays on "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." is crazy on a stick, full-blown sociopathic psychosis and then some. Great performance by MacLachlan. That's Chloe Bennet as Skye he is imploring. Bennet is a series regular, MacLachlan is not, but he's so great in the role that we just had to mention him.
"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." is terrific fun, despite our initial rejection of this show, which brought Agent Phil Coulson back to life after he was killed in "The Avengers." Now, our founder, John Orr, stands before us, cup of coffee in hand, and proclaims, "My name is John. I am a fan of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'" Read John's column, then send him money.
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Maestro Ludwig Wicki conducts the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra in Lucerne, Switzerland, during a performance of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Symphony San Jose will perform the Trilogy April 16-19, one of only two North American performances, the other slated for Lincoln Center in New York.
Call 408-286-2600, extension 23; or visit www.lotrssv.org A sale date for single-screening tickets will be announced later.
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Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Katheryn Winnick and Alan Arkin in "Stand Up Guys."
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Tower of Power rocked Yoshi's Oakland with ten sold-out shows recently. Tony Lacy-Thompson was there for the tenth of ten, and reports back on a great show. Read his review.
Tower of Power has been around for more than 45 years, and is still one of the funkiest, hottest bands in the biz, with that amazing horn line and the amazing rhythm section. They'll be at Shoreline Amphitheatre on Saturday. Tony Lacy-Thompson talked with tenor sax player Emilio Castillo. Read the interview.
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Puddles the Pity Clown performs an amazing cover of Lorde's "Royals." Yes, it's a weird act, but ya know, whatever works. This guy's done plenty of interesting work as an entertainer, including under his real name, Mike Geier. Check out his fabulous video.
Judy Garland was an amazing talent, unmatched in many ways. Want the proof? Lend eyes and ears to her singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in a poor quality recording from the ancient days of TV. Fabulous.
Some guys singing "Bad Romance." It's so much fun.
Molly Bell is amazing. We have a profile of her here in Regarding Arts, but here's a favorite video of her performing in Divas for Life. Find out more about Divas for Life.
Lake Street Dive is a band formed by Rachael Price, who is a wonderful vocalist. I love this tune, which I heard on A Prairie Home Companion. Then I found this video.
"Laundry Room." Another from The Avett Brothers. Here is another tune that delves deep into emotion and yearning.
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps." Fabulous band performs in 2004 to honor George Harrison upon his posthumous induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Jeff Lynne, Steve Ferrone, Dhani Harrison and Prince. Mike Campbell of the Heartbreakers does the early solo stuff. Prince shows up and takes over.
Tim O'Brien: "Hey, Joe," at Celtic Connections 2009, Glasgow Scotland.
Trucks & Tedeschi Band: "Midnight in Harlem," at the 2010 Guitar Festival.
Van Morrison: "Real Real Gone."
OK Go: "This Too Shall Pass." Incredible Rube Goldberg machine video.
Willie Dixon: "I'm Nervous." Funny and charming video of the great songwriter, singer and bassist.
John Lee Sanders: Fabulous musician. Give a listen to "Midnight in New Orleans".


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US 20040215500 A1 Abstract A system and method for managing marketing communications. The invention provides a system for rapid response marketing which is based upon performance of marketing communications. The system provides a rapid, data driven and highly efficient marketing capability for an individual advertiser.
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Description [0001] This invention relates to customized continuously interactive marketing systems and methods which are performance based and create a rapid, data-driven, efficient marketing capability for an individual advertiser. [0002] By way of background, technology is increasingly allowing marketers to measure the results of their marketing investment. The efficacy of a marketing investment takes on heightened importance in the networked marketplace of the Internet where every competitive seller is one click away. Marketers that are quickly able to read the results of a marketing campaign and react accordingly, stand the best chance of gaining market share. [0003] In order to understand what marketing investments work, marketers must integrate varied data sources. These sources may include, but are not limited to, media contracts, media delivery information, call center volume, store foot traffic, sales scanner data, focus group responses, and web site traffic. [0004] Typically, the management of varied marketing functions are outsourced to specialists such as advertising agencies, public relationship agencies, eCRM consultants and the like who have the tools and the specialized experience to perform niche tasks. However, a unified ongoing picture of all marketing communications activity with performance-based assessment and reaction capability is not provided. The benefit of continuously evaluating all marketing investments on an objective basis in view of a requirement of actual sales or other ultimate business objective or goal of the marketer, suggests that marketers establish an in-house integrated continuously interactive marketing management capability. [0005] A growing number of both traditional, as well as dot.com commercial enterprises, utilize the Internet for business activities involving the provision of goods and services. The success or failure of such businesses is often related to their marketing systems. Technical advances have dramatically altered traditional marketing and transformed marketing into an exciting new discipline. Marketing often moves with the speed of electromagnetic transmissions. The integration of the various contemporary marketing communications parameters into an efficient and productive system specifically adapted to rapidly monitor and assess the achievement of marketing goals on an ongoing basis with a reaction capability is highly desirable. [0006] The World Wide Web, which is not yet a decade old, serves as the vehicle which permits or supplements the operation of traditional businesses as well as a growing number of web-based businesses. Conventional business methodologies and practices are quite different in structure and function from those utilized and under development by internet businesses. For example, many web-based businesses can be regarded as stores with centralized service, information, sales, customer relations and other functions. Some costs to internet businesses, i.e., advertising, have proven, at least to date, to be considerably more expensive than those charged for other traditional media by advertising agencies. Accordingly, effective integration of the various functions that constitute a marketing system which can be modified and adapted to both internet and traditional businesses is highly desirable. Implementation of integrated marketing systems will markedly influence the success or failure of businesses. [0007] Therefore, an object of this invention is to provide a means for the integration of various marketing functions for businesses that will benefit from rapid application of marketing performance data. Another object of this invention is to provide integrated marketing systems that are specifically adapted to the needs of the particular user. Yet another object of this invention is to provide a system and method for assessing, selecting, developing, and implementing a fully-integrated individualized marketing system for a particular user. These and other objects of the invention are achieved by the present disclosure of systems and methods relating to integrated marketing systems. [0008] The present invention provides a system and methods for the construction and use of interactive marketing programs useful for commercial business activities where success is predicated in significant part upon the ability to rapidly and efficiently effect interactive marketing thereby managing relationships with customers. The interactive marketing needs and capabilities of individual businesses vary considerably. The present invention enables the integration of variable strategic business objectives and technical capabilities with marketing tools and practices to effect desirable interactive marketing systems. The success or failure of implemented interactive marketing systems can thereafter be evaluated. [0009] Varied information is first gathered from the particular user. Such information includes, for example, the identification of user marketing objectives, technical and personnel capabilities, historical marketing efforts, monetary constraints, time or other implementation parameters and other selected variables. Information obtained from the user is assessed in view of the user=s strategic business objectives, including evaluation involving various interactive marketing tools, materials and methods comprising customer acquisition, customer retention, branding and intellectual property, conversion, insight, public relations, recruitment, and international components. Following the obtainment of information data, assessment and evaluation, systems recommendations are determined and provided to the user for implementation. The implemented systems may optionally be monitored and their effectiveness determined. [0010] The present invention provides businesses, including e-businesses, with a means of managing customer relationships by rapidly and efficiently designing customized interactive marketing systems. The ability of businesses to effect interactive marketing systems that suit their individual requirements and have adaptive ability to accommodate market conditions that rapidly change will often determine the success or failure of a particular business. Thus, the invention produces user-specific interactive marketing systems that accommodate and accomplish marketing objectives of the user. [0011] In a process of the invention, the initial step involves diagnosis which includes client or user data accumulation (FIG. 1, Step 1) and data assessment (FIG. 1, Step 2). The client should identify its quantifiable objectives designated to accomplish its strategic business goals. Such objectives include, but are not limited to, such considerations as customers, revenue, expenses, profit, costs per customer, etc. In support of interactive marketing system development, implementation and maintenance, it is preferred that a centralized database, utilizing either commercially available or customized software, be maintained. Multiple databases may also be used. Technical and personnel capabilities are identified, including but not limited to database architecture to support granular tracking of marketing efforts, staff capability to facilitate implementation of customized tracking, data queries, etc. Historical marketing efforts of the client, if available, should be identified, including but not limited to magazine, newspaper, radio, television, web site utilization, or other advertisements. Existing marketing staff capabilities, including experience of personnel, hiring plans etc. should be determined. Following client data accumulation, it is assessed and the marketing challenges, including strengths and weaknesses, of the client are delineated (FIG. 1, Step 3). The diagnosis step enables the overall extent or scope of work that is required for the client=s customized interactive marketing system. [0012] The design of interactive marketing systems for business enterprises, including e-businesses, involves the identification and evaluation of, or research of various contemporary marketing tools and practices and the expectation that they will change both quantitatively and qualitatively as technology advances and tools are developed to better capture the behavioral aftermath of marketing investments. Current marketing systems and practices involve several items, including but not necessarily limited to, customer acquisition, customer retention, branding, insight, conversion, intellectual property, public relations, personnel recruitment, and international relationships. [0013] A variety of approaches are available to effect customer acquisition for businesses. Representative tactics include: (1) affiliate and pay-per-performance business relationships; (2) referral (viral) marketing, i.e., mechanisms for turning current customers into advocates for your business as perhaps best exemplified by the footer you see attached to the bottom of every Email sent by a person with a hotmail Email account informing recipients that they can get free web-based Email at http://www.hotmail.com; (3) distribution practices; (4) search engine listing optimization; (5) various promotions; (6) e-mail advertising; (7) co-operative advertising; (8) on-line advertising, i.e., advertising agency review, direct media purchases, ad serving; (9) creative optimization; (10) return-on-investment and back-end metric analysis; and (11) guerrilla marketing, i.e., grass roots, non-media delivered advertising, i.e., stenciling your brand name on the sidewalk in chalk. It is understood that other customer acquisition tactics may be presently available or available in the future. [0014] Customer retention is a common concern of many if not most businesses. Tactics employed for customer retention include but are not limited to the following or combinations thereof: (1) outbound Email programs; (2) loyalty programs; (3) various promotions; and (4) customer service enhancements, i.e., inbound Email management, Instant Messenger support, etc. [0015] Branding is a process that occurs over time and is an important goal for businesses. Tactics employed to facilitate branding include but are not limited to brand auditing, positioning review, tracking studies, search engine buzz indices, brand management tools, and using advertising agencies. A brand audit should assess a client=s strengths and weaknesses, determine what the particular brand should mean and accomplish over time, and determine appropriate legal protection and modes of effective exploitation. Brand management tools include, for example, appropriate brand guideline materials and methods, appropriate color palettes and the like. The use and role or interactive advertising agencies should be determined. [0016] Conversion is a situation where a business is able to attract people or users to their web site but has difficulty converting such web visitors to customers. Tactics employed to facilitate conversion include but are not necessarily limited to the following or combinations thereof: (1) personalization of content; (2) dynamic publishing; (3) collaborative filtering; (4) promotions or special offers; (5) targeting lead generation; (6) two-step conversion process; and (7) advertising agency review for site design. Personalization of content is based upon the particular profile of the user. [0017] Insight involves a situation where a user or client expresses the need to be better informed about their customers, and/or their competition, and/or how a product or products is being utilized. Tactics or processes that may be employed individually, collectively, or in part or combination thereof include, but are not necessarily limited to: (1) market surveys; (2) customer focus groups; (3) click stream pathing and behavioral profiling; (4) user laboratories; (5) customer advisory board(s); (6) lifetime value analysis; (7) competitive tracking tools, i.e., expenditures, messaging, audience composition etc; (8) news clipping service(s); (9) competitive review process template. [0018] The acquisition and maintenance of desirable public relations is an important part of an interactive marketing system. Accordingly, a client or user can facilitate appropriate press or media coverage by means of the following non-limitative procedures or tactics which may be employed individually, collectively, or in part thereof: (1) press kit design and content construction; (2) media outreach, i.e., identifying for the client or user who could or should be contacted, and procedures for such process; (3) public relations agency review; (4) speaking bureau(s); and (5) guerrilla publicity stunts. [0019] A client or user may desire to develop international or non-United States segments of their customer base. This objective can be facilitated by use of the following non-limitative methods or tactics which may be used individually, collectively, or in part thereof: (1) ad-serving domain targeting; (2) dynamic, local language publishing; (3) international search engine registration and optimization; (4) identification and market assessment of foreign countries of market importance; and (5) review of international marketing vendors. [0020] Intellectual property assets of the client business are enhanced and newly created during the development and implementation of an interactive marketing program. Sufficient modes of legal protection of these assets should be selected and effected continuously to maximize their business value. Traditional modes of legal protection of intellectual property include trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets. The success of an interactive marketing program may depend upon the implementation of intellectual property protection for their particular system or parts thereof. For example, branding often involves the successful use of trademarks or servicemarks. [0021] The recruitment and retention of qualified staff, while not a marketing system in strict definition, is an important facet of an optimized marketing system. Implementation of a marketing system of the invention depends in significant part upon the client or user having access or such qualified personnel. Knowledge of what personnel will be required to implement an interactive marketing system can be provided to the client or user if desired. Recruiting includes the following non-limitative tactics or methods which may be used individually, collectively or in part thereof: (1) development of organizational charts and job descriptions; (2) identification or candidate requirements; and (3) providing leads to prospective candidates. Once qualified personnel are hired, appropriate training on the full use of the integrated marketing systems of the invention should be effected. [0022] Once the client or user diagnosis stage and the interactive marketing materials and methods assessment stage of the invention have been completed, a customized interactive marketing system is constructed and recommended (FIG. 1, Step 4) using the criteria, tools, systems and processes herein described. Thereafter the client or user will implement and manage (FIG. 1, Step 5) the interactive marketing system. The systems implemented by the client or user should thereafter be monitored (FIG. 1, Step 6) using established metrics reflecting the marketing goals of the client or user. [0023] The continuously interactive rapid response marketing systems of the invention comprise several components. In the event the business does not have marketing communications in place, marketing of any convenient type may be implemented by any convenient means know to the art. There is a means for selecting marketing communications activity. A means for collecting performance data of the selected marketing communications activity is present. Any of the wide variety of marketing communications may be utilized and data collected by any convenient means, including manual, visual, electronic, telephonic, or any electromagnetic-based monitoring means or the equivalent. Once the marketing communications data are collected, such is processed or organized. Such processing may be manual or use any conventional computer or other suitable reporting means. One or several databases may be maintained. A means is available for evaluating the processed performance data. Preferably, the processed performance data of all marketing communications activity or investments are evaluated relative to the performance of the expected contribution of marketing communications to the business objectives or goals of the marketer or business enterprise. In the system of the invention, there is a means for reacting to the evaluation by modifying, if necessary, marketing communications activity. Marketing activity for any given communication may be increased, decreased, canceled or left unchanged. New modes of marketing communications may be implemented at any suitable time. [0024] Marketing communications activity may involve printed or electronic media or any combination thereof. Historical marketing performance data, if available, may be used for comparison purposes. Data from industry norms may also be used. 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Ask The Macro Manager: How Much Protein Is Too Much?
How much protein is too much? Is there such a thing, and can it hinder my muscle-building goals?
Great question! This one's sure to rattle some cages and ruffle some feathers. Put simply, yes: There is such a thing as too much protein, and overeating it can hurt your muscle-building goals.
Traditional bodybuilding dogma has always held that more protein is better. While this is true to a point, it can sometimes be more beneficial to decrease your protein intake and get those nutrients from other sources.
Dietary Displacement
Think about your diet as a pie chart: x percent of that pie will be made up of protein, y percent fat, and the remainder carbohydrates. Regardless of the percentages you pick, they will always add up to 100%. You can never eat above 100%, so increasing one nutrient source will always decrease your intake of another.
If you continue to drive your protein intake upward, chowing down on more dry chicken breasts, then the protein percent of your pie will get bigger and bigger. This shrinks the fat and carbohydrate pie slices, thereby reducing your intake of essential fats, fiber, fruits, vegetables, and grains -- all of which play important roles in a muscle-building diet. Depending on your fitness goals, there are actually ideal ranges for each macronutrient.
Synthesize, Don't Oxidize
We typically oversimplify protein, thinking it will always go toward growth. It actually does more than drive protein synthesis and provide amino acids for building muscle. Once those needs have been met, your body will actually break down and oxidize protein for energy. You don't necessarily want to be a protein oxidizer. You don't want to train your body to break down protein (dietary or muscle) and use it for energy. Just as switching from a high- to low-carbohydrate diet causes your body to increase the enzymes that burn fat as fuel, eating protein far beyond your body's ability to build muscle with it will cause increases in the enzymes that oxidize protein (both dietary and muscular) for energy.
Maximizing Protein Synthesis
Instead of offering your body excess protein to oxidize for energy, your goal should be to maximize protein synthesis by eating the proper amount of protein at the right times.
We now know that there is both a protein threshold and timing component to protein's muscle-building ability. For whatever reason, people have long assumed that you can only digest 30 grams of protein at a time. Perhaps people thought our intestines contain a magical sensor that stopped absorbing protein once it registered 30 grams. Whatever the logic, your body can certainly digest much more than 30 grams of protein in one sitting.
However, 30 grams may be the proper amount of protein needed to get blood amino acid levels high enough to flip the muscle-building switch. The switch analogy is appropriate here. Like a light switch, once you flip the muscle-building switch, you can't turn it "more" on. When you hit the protein threshold and initiate protein synthesis, you can't initiate it more.
The other component to protein synthesis is flux. Giving yourself an infusion of amino acids throughout the day via proteins shakes, eggs, steaks and chicken isn't actually maximizing protein synthesis. Instead, you need a change in your blood amino acid levels. To reboost protein synthesis, blood amino acids need to drop and then spike. This occurs naturally when you eat 4-to-5 meals per day, but not if you're drinking a protein shake at every turn. I know it seems counterintuitive, but skip the constant protein shake sip and you'll actually maximize synthesis.
So, How Much?!
To maximize protein synthesis (and muscle growth), you know your goal: eat the right amount of protein at the right times. There are no steadfast numbers that say that X grams of protein are enough, where Y protein is too much. Over time, however, I have found that hypertrophy is maximized when protein constitutes 30-to-35% of your total calories.
This gives you enough protein to maximize protein synthesis and build muscle, but not so much that you displace the opportunity to hit optimal levels of other essential nutrients. 30-to-35% of your daily calories is still a lot of protein, and essentially double the RDA, but it falls within the National Academies of Medicine's "acceptable macronutrient distribution range," so you don't need to worry about any adverse effects.
Instead, you'll be able to enjoy myriad benefits: a well-rounded diet that's great for overall health and still provides plenty of protein to support synthesis and muscle growth.
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One guy writes a book about what is technically the most efficient way to climb a mountain. Another guy has climbed mountains his whole life. Who do you want as your instructor?
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Horus, exactly! If this guys credentials arent good enough, find your own. As adults, some of us anyway, we need to make that decision based on our knowledge what is credible and what isnt. Just because that girl is 5'0" and 98lbs (referring to jstewart1) doesnt mean she is a fitness expert. people just want to think they are smarter than everyone else. i dont have a Phd and am not a nutritional consultant, so i wont disagree with anything this expert has to say about nutrition.
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Bodice, I would definitely want the guy that wrote the book. I mean, that's a no brainer. If you asked which I would like as a climbing partner, the answer would be different. Of course, I'm assuming the guy who wrote the book wrote it based on accounts from guys that climbed mountains all their lives. That's how it works. With the guy that climbs, you get one source. With the other you get compiled and distilled experiences to show what works best on average. How is this even an issue?
But hey, mountain climbing isn't bodybuilding, It actually takes an instructor that climbs with you. That's definitely not the case with bodybuilding.
Sure you can. That's why it's a comparison. Comparing things that are identical is pointless.
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I find it amusing that every body jumps on this guy because he does not look like Arnold. If we were to stick to this mentality every strength or conditioning coach in professional sports must be a idiot. After all the majority of them don't look like the guys and girls they are training.
I seem to recall another PhD on this site who pushed consuming 2 grams of protein per lb of body weight (although in the same proportion as outlined in this article). The logic being you couldn't consume that much food so you would have to supplement heavy. I don't suppose its a coincidence that this site makes a good chunk of its profits from the sale of such supplements. He also mentioned saturated fats as having benefits but no one jumped down his throat. That being said hes ripped so he must know what hes talking about.
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last time i checked, saturated fats were healthy for humans and especially athletes. Saturated fats are also anti-bacterial, anti-viral and helps with the absorption of vitamins. Its the vegetables fats which are to be blamed which turns rancid and turns into trans fat when heated. And also extra virgin olive oil, which people use to cook food instead of using it on or as salad dressing, etc. Just consume saturated fats from grass fed cows, or their natural diet, not grains to fatten them up.
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Saturated fats are great if your goal is to end up with clogged arteries and heart disease. And yes, there are plenty of studies to back this up.
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finally a article about not needing a diet that is spiked in protein , as a person studying nutrition ive been waiting for this and never thought i would see the day on this site
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Every method doesn't work equally for everyone. If you aren't happy with your progress then try this out. What could it hurt. If it doesn't stop and try something else.
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Great information Mike. I enjoyed reading it, as always. And as the saying goes: Too much of anything can cause problems.
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I find it funny that some of you are saying he doesn't look ripped -- of course he doesn't, he's wearing a BLACK shirt and Khakis...both of which are loose-fitting. You can't tell if he's got a beer-belly or a six-pack under there. On top of that, everyone's body is different, and what works for one, may not necessarily work for another...that's why there are percentage ranges for these things, not hard numbers. You fiddle with ratios until you find something that works for YOUR BODY. All this advice on what to eat and when are just guidelines and can only get you close...you need to do the fine-tuning yourself.
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What he is saying is backed by scientific evidence and what has long been studied by nutritionists for many years. Everyone has their story about how they took 2 grams of protein per pound of body weight, and they got jacked. However, what is to say that that person, having took maybe 1-1.5g per pound, would have been even bigger? That's my point. You're listening to Broscience. That's one way which worked for them, but they have no idea what the best way is. This man is simply stating that through his doctoral studies in Nutrition, he has seen that the best results come from a lower concentration on protein in order to avoid protein oxidation. Take it or leave it, it's that simple.
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This is a really good article and answers a lot of my questions, supplemented with knowledge I already have.
Protein, especially good quality protein, isn't exactly cheap nowadays. Knowing that I could essentially be wasting money by taking protein in excess is valuable info.
And seriously, don't bag on him. He doesn't need to cite anything. When you go to the doctor, and ask for his diagnosis do you ask him to cite everything? No. You go to the doctor because he has a Ph.D and studied his a$$ off and knows things you do not.
And one last thing, along the lines of what other commenters posted. The overall tone of the article is doing things in moderation and balance. Given that the site this article is posted on sells supplements, well you get the idea.
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