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The internet went crazy last week when Brad Pasiley and LL Cool J dropped their new single, "Accidental Racist" -- and "Saturday Night Live" hit the nail on the head with their latest sketch!
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"Country music is about stories, OK. So what I wanted to do was show folks the gritty racial reality of a man in Starbucks talkin' to his barista," Sudeikis (Paisley) said in the sketch. Thompson (Cool J) added, "And I wanted to tell the story of a rapper, you know what I'm sayin', who needs to get his name out there because he has a new album about to drop."
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Everywhere I turn lately, I am seeing info about de-toxing—from the "Master Cleanse" to a variety of juice cleanses and menu programs of recipes, supplements, mixes, workouts, products—all supposedly dedicated to "cleansing." Yes, some of them are a step up from the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.). However, I see a lot of commonly held myths being perpetuated and crucial information missing which would take the seemingly complex mystery out of why it's so easy for some of us to look/be our best, while others of us attempt to follow the aforementioned options and either:
A) Lose weight while unknowingly aging ourselves inside & out via the very process.
B) Never get very far due to cravings, relapses, time-constraints etc.
As a StyleNectar and InClassicStyle reader, you have followed my progression from eating what is widely considered healthy, organic fare (advocating portion control for richer recipes) to investigating vegetarian, raw vegan and Nutritarian approaches—and arriving, finally, at my current status of being Vegan (for me a combo of 80% raw, 20% cooked food). For the record, I must clarify while I absolutely respect & DO recommend learning the science/research behind Dr. Fuhrman's Nutritarian lifestyle, (I eat 95% of the types of foods he endorses) I found two major shortfalls to his approach:
1) Your recipes aren't very tasty . . . sorry Dr. Furhrman. With the exception of your frozen banana ice cream—which, albeit yummy, leads me to point #2 ……
2) The good doctor doesn't incorporate appropriate food combining. Improper food combining, unbeknownst to many with the noblest of healthy lifestyle intentions, is actually THE very cause of diet sabotage and accelerated aging.
For those of us with exceptional standards, who aren't simply trying to wean ourselves off fast food and sodas, we'll be interested to understand the keys to appropriate food combining that Dr. Fuhrman omits; huge secrets to anti-aging and optimizing one's health, longevity and beauty. Why doesn't Dr. Fuhrman include them? My theory is his intention of targeting the large, average S.A.D. following audience who wouldn't be ready for this level of information. However, I am hopeful that you are ready to learn these powerful secrets that I share with you today. :-)
Chalk it up to the fact that I never watch TV—and I grew up without a TV—that perhaps I am less conditioned and more apt to be open minded. My love of learning and obsession for figuring out how to optimize my short time on earth has the affect that I am always evolving and changing. As a result, many things have fallen away from my life that no longer serves my needs, thus providing a cherished freedom from the confines of habit and conditioning. Our lives are like pieces of art that we refine for the duration. It all starts with acceptance of where we are, a desire to go beyond that which causes us to suffer, and a willingness to see the reality beneath the surface.
One of the biggest secrets to staying lean and aging beautifully pertains not just to WHAT we are eating but HOW we are eating—it all comes down to digestion and enzymes. (1)
Enzymes are essential to life, perhaps more crucial than the air we breath, as without them our biochemical processes would cease. Over 5000 different types of enzymes work together with vitamins and minerals acting as catalysts to accelerate chemical reactions. When our body has an abundance of enzymes, it can protect itself and repair the damage from almost all degenerative disease disorders. As we age our enzymes are depleted—which causes us to age more quickly, get disease earlier in life, and acquire physical and mental impairments as our body degenerates. These facts explain our bodies can better handle a diet of bread, pasta and cooked foods without much difficulty. However, this type of diet causes rapid aging and depletion of enzyme supplies.
Lack of enzymes in the body makes the blood dirty (10), the base of many diseases and the reason why we're causing virtually all of our own disorders and diseases every time we eat a cooked or processed food. (5, 6) These dead or denatured foods have no living enzymes with most nutrients diminished significantly.
The harder a food is to digest, the more enzymes required. The S.A.D. diet consists of an inflammatory and acidic diet of excessive protein, . . . yes, it's a huge myth perpetuated by the meat industry (1) . . . poorly combined meals, genetically modified processed foods, chemicals, powders, etc., requires so much work and enzymatic activity to digest that the body has none left over for cleansing and providing energy! For most of us, all our energy is going just to digestion! The easier our food is to digest, the less enzymes required, the more energy for our bodies, and the less disease and aging we will experience. Cooked and processed foods overwork and drain our body's energy.
An easily digested diet—based on fresh greens, vegetables and raw fruits—floods our body with enzymes, which contributes to the body's ability to protect and repair, instead of continually and slowly draining the body's energy and enzyme reserves. The more enzymes we take in, the more quickly our body can restore and strengthen itself, freeing up energy from an otherwise taxing digestive process. Thus our body has a chance to detoxify and cleanse away aging disease-causing toxins trapped in our cells. Suddenly we have more energy than we have ever experienced before when all our energy was devoted to digestion alone! Excess fat melts away and our body becomes lean & toned with minimal effort.
When eating a toxic diet of inflammatory acidic foods, our body goes into overdrive not only digesting but hiding those toxins as far away from the internal organs as possible. FAT CELLS (9) are created solely for this purpose! Transitioning to a cleansing enzyme rich diet signals to our body that it is safe to shed those toxin-laden fat cells so they may be released from our body. I was personally floored to learn that it is not necessary or even ideal to spend hours working out—a process in itself, if overdone, that creates excessive aging inside and out (2, 3, 4)—partly because the protein intake required to support such activity is incredibly taxing on the digestive system (7) and for other reasons I'll go into in a future post. This is not to say it's not important to exercise and be active—I personally love walking and yoga in moderation.
We benefit far more from an attitude of compassionate self-acceptance than we do from one of tough love—via themes like Just Do It!—which wreak of the unconscious forcefulness frequently followed by "beatings" in our heads for not living up to some arbitrary goal designed to sell product. As we can see from just looking around, these over popularized slogans don't seem to be serving the population's waistline very well . . . leading to my final point about the over popularized trend of temporary cleanses and why they're not effective. Consider a juice "detox" for 3 days or a "cleansing diet" for one month—what could be harmful about that you ask?
First, the sudden influx of non-toxic enzyme rich activity will signal our body to release a slew of toxins—flooding us with an overload of toxicity our immune system very well may not be able to handle, often resulting in an individual becoming quite ill.
Secondly, removing deeply embedded layers of toxicity accrued over a lifetime requires a careful transition into a permanent detoxifying lifestyle. Real cleansing and removing years of accumulated toxins is a gradual process to be approached with a great deal of careful conscious awareness. It requires gradual changes of implementing an alkaline diet and long-term dedication. Otherwise, once the aforementioned temporary "detox" or "cleanse" is over and we return to our previous average diet, we're just reabsorbing all the toxicity we've stirred up into our systems, completely defeating the objective.
Below is a beautifying, satiating and enzyme rich green smoothie that would be a safe introduction for any person interested in transitioning into a detoxifying lifestyle. I personally switch it up with my Quadruple Berry Acai Smoothie (coming soon) each morning—keeps me buzzing along until 3 PM, which is so not they way I used to be. I have to remind myself to eat these days because I have so much energy. When we ingest this alkaline enzyme-rich diet, our bodies become so efficient at putting our nutrition to use, we don't actually NEED to eat as much—which leads to decreased appetite, as well as a lean, toned physique.
Please enjoy!
Daily Detox Green Smoothie
(Makes two, 32oz servings. Feel free to freeze or refrigerate leftovers.)
- 16 oz cold water
- 6 oz romaine (or green leaf lettuce)
- 6 oz spinach (or kale-bitter stems removed, collards-bitter stems removed or – dandelion greens-stems removed) NOTE: If you're not used to green drinks start with a smaller amount of the bitter greens. As your body chemistry changes from incorporating more greens, so will your palette and you'll be able to enjoy larger quantities of the stronger greens. As always, be sure to rotate your greens so you're receiving a balanced intake of the various nutrients they provide)
- 1/3 of a fennel bulb (or substitute celery)(Switch them up like we do the greens)
- 1 Fuji apple
- 1 pear
- handful fresh mint WITH delicate stems (not super woody ones)
- giant handful fresh cilantro WITH stems (VERY cleansing)
- 1/2 lime
- 8 oz frozen pineapple (or sub frozen peaches or banana)
- Stevia to taste, if desired
- Chunk the ingredients in order to fit into your heavy-duty blender (The best investment we can make in detoxifying lifestyle is a Vitamix Blender)
- Add the water and romaine to the blender and incorporate on low.
- Add spinach, blending on low till incorporated.
- In same manner add the fennel, apple and pear, using high if necessary.
- Feed in the herbs, lime and pineapple and blend till incorporated.
- Add Stevia to taste and blend once more. (By limiting the amount of blending on high, we keep the smoothie colder & incorporate less air.)
Recipe Inspired by Victoria Boutenko's, Green For Life
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1. 7. Dr. Campbell's China Study, and Dr. Fuhrman's book Eat to Live, http://www.healthbanquet.com/enzymes-for-health.html
2. http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/15/1903.long
3. http://institutefornaturalhealing.com/2012/10/eat-this-before-your-workout-for-a-strong-recovery/
4. http://institutefornaturalhealing.com/2013/02/why-too-much-exercise-is-bad-for-your-heart-and-body/
5. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/08/21/enzymes-special-report.aspx
6. http://www.enzymestuff.com/digestion.htm#4
8. http://www.vivawoman.net/2009/10/23/too-much-exercise-can-cause-aging/
9. http://www.wellnessresources.com/weight/articles/why_toxins_and_waste_products_impede_weight_loss_-_the_leptin_diet_weight_l/
10. http://voices.yahoo.com/why-take-digestive-enzyme-supplement-2603185.html, http://www.pyroenergen.com/articles/enzymes.htm
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Doutzen Kroes is, as Janis Ian might say, a regulation hottie. But that doesn't stop Victoria's Secret from doing some heavy Photoshop work on her swimwear photos before they make their way to the retailer's website and catalog.
Fashion Spot user Lovemusic22 posted the images below on the forum yesterday, credited (per the website's rules) to Victoria's Secret. The shots, as a fellow user pointed out, aren't up on the VS website, however, and while still drop-dead gorgeous, bear some marked differences to those the company uses on its website. This led Jezebel's Jenna Sauers to do some investigative work (ie, look at the bikini pics realllly closely) to pick out what, exactly, gets the retouching treatment between raw material and the ad-ready image.
As you can see, wrinkles between her eyebrows, scars on her right leg, folds in her skin, and unshaven armpits are all present and accounted for, unlike in the super-smooth photos posted by the retailer online. Some of the Photoshop adjustments are justifiable — seeing the nude underwear a model wears beneath the sample swimsuit is, after all, simply unnecessary. Others, however, seem outright bizarre, such as smoothing out Kroes' killer abs.
The brand has been known to flub it with the Photoshop in the past — witness Candice Swanepoel's poorly-sculpted shoulder or this model's carved-out thighs. These pictures just show what little work even needs to be done in the first place. Oddly, other VS shots posted by the same user (and there are many) seem to bear the usual signs of retouching — poreless skin, smooth lines, nary a stray hair in sight — despite being similarly absent from the retailer's website, but these are definitely the raw snaps, as we'll no doubt see when the tweaked versions officially land online.
Check out some of the photos from the set below and tell us what you think about VS's Photoshop practices (or, you know, just ogle Doutzen in all her natural glory).
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In an earth bound fountain clock, using laser cooling technology, the time of flight is limited by gravity to about half a second (the atoms fall). In order to increase the time of flight and the accuracy, it is necessary to operate in microgravity. The PARCS project (Primary Atomic Reference Clock in Space) aims at building such a clock which will operate in the International Space Station.
It is expected that, although the atoms will not fall under gravity, the time of observation will be limited by the thermal expension of the atomic cloud. To achieve a time of flight of several seconds, we will have to implement the most advanced laser cooling techniques, and reach unprecedented low temperatures.
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AAA Exclusive: 7 questions for Roger Ibbotson
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Today, we bring you the first in a series of exclusive interviews with key players in the world of alpha-centric investing. Approximately once a month, we'll pick someone from the pages of AllAboutAlpha.com or from the alternative investment industry in general and pose 7 topical and straightforward questions.
By Andrew Saunders, CAIA (AllAboutAlpha.com Editorial Board)
Roger Ibbotson, Ph.D., is the Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Zebra Capital, a role he has held since the firm was founded in 2001. However, many of you will know Roger as the founder and former Chairman of Ibbotson Associates, which he founded in 1977. (He sold his interest in Ibbotson Associates to Morningstar in 2006 and is no longer an executive with the company.)
Roger is also a professor in the Practice of Finance at the Yale School of Management. His book with Rex A. Sinquefield, Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation serves as the standard reference for information on investment market returns. He also co-authored two books with Gary Brinson, Global Investing and Investment Markets, and in 2001 completed an investments textbook with Jack Clark Francis, Investments: A Global Approach. Roger also recently published the Equity Risk Premium with William Goetzmann and Lifetime Financial Advice with Chen, Milevsky, and Zhu.
As regular readers are aware, Ibbotson conducts research on a broad range of financial topics, including investment returns, mutual funds, hedge funds, international markets, portfolio management and valuation. He is a regular contributor and editorial board member to various trade and academic journals and has received several awards, including the Review of Financial Studies Award (Best Paper in 1992) and the Graham and Dodd Scrolls (6 times). His publications are regularly listed in the Top Ten Social Science Research Network Download lists.
He has also served as a consultant to many companies in the financial and investment industry and has managed bond portfolios, traded equity securities, and managed asset allocation accounts.
Q1: Roger, as we approach the second year anniversary of the great quant meltdown of August 2007, how would you characterize investor familiarity, knowledge of and openness to quant strategies?
During the summer of 2007 the risk (volatility) of hedge funds doubled. It was also a time when many strategies were highly levered and underperforming. Since most hedged funds targeted volatility, many had to unlever at the same time. Many of the quant funds had similar holdings, which caused the meltdown as they rushed to the same exits. During the summer of 2008, something similar happened, but this time the cause was the short selling restrictions that the government implemented in an attempt to prop up the most vulnerable companies. Once again the quant strategies suffered.
In both cases, the quant funds that were able to stick with their strategies were able to quickly recover. But those who targeted volatility got whiplashed. Those who kept their leverage intact did reasonably well. Unfortunately, many investors lumped quant funds into one big category, and have become wary of the whole group.
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Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops was asked during Monday's news conference about the wide open nature of the Big 12 Conference, which has just one unbeaten team left in Kansas State.
Oklahoma football: Bob Stoops will keep Big 12 opinions to himself
"I don't look that far," Stoops said. "I have to play this week. I don't get involved in those conversations. At least I try not."
He later admitted having a "sense" of who in the conference is good and who isn't, but said he "isn't much for sharing" those views.
"We have our opinions, but I'm not gonna go stating them," Stoops said.
So did he think his squad would hang nearly 700 yards of total offense on Texas last weekend, when OU won 63-21 in the Cotton Bowl?
"I don't know that I anticipate that," he said.
How about holding the Longhorns to two first downs in the first half?
"Probably not, but who knows?" he responded. "It's always possible."
Last week, Oklahoma athletics released a video of Stoops giving out game balls about as fast as running back Damien Williams could run 95 yards down the Cotton Bowl field.
This week, Stoops said he "didn't have enough" game balls to give out for Oklahoma's performance against Texas.
How can you give a guy like Williams a game ball for his 95-yard run but not also hand one to Trey Millard and Kenny Stills for the blocks they threw during the run? How do you choose just one guy out of a starting defense that didn't give up any points the entire game?
Stoops said he couldn't choose. That's why he gave two games balls.
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I was watching the an episode of "Hollowed Ground Outdoors" a few weeks ago with my wife. No, I'm not a hunter but this is a hunting show that our son produces and hunts in, so a proud mom and dad watch the show. That week's show featured our son and some other guys hunting geese in Oregon. There these guys were in a blind, in the cold (you could see their breath) waiting for these birds to fly over and then shoot them.
What interested me was watching the geese flying before their demise. You see, in the Fall of the year you will see geese flying south for the winter in the "V" formation. It has been learned by people who study such things, that as each bird flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds at least 71% greater range than if each bird flew on its own. Whenever a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to go through it alone and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the power of the flock.
When the lead goose gets tired, he rotates back in the wing and another goose takes over. The geese honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep their speed.
There are two purposes that the "V" formation serves. First, it conserves energy. Each bird flies slightly above the bird in front of him, resulting in a reduction of wind resistance. Second, it is easy to keep track of every bird in the group. Finally, if a goose gets sick or is wounded by gun shot and falls out, two geese fall out of the formation to help and protect him. They stay with him until he is either able to fly again or he dies and then they launch out with another formation to catch up with their group. Here's the point.


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Pharmacokinetic Study of Marine Active in Health Men
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Hyperuricemia is often associated with metabolic syndrome, which is a known precursor of atherosclerosis. The Yaizu Suisankagaku Industry Company have developed industrial production, named Marine Active. Human clinical trials showed reduction of creatine phosphokinase activity and sero-uric acid. Randomize, double blind clinical trial is entrust to our hospital. This study design is blood sampling from the health men who take 1 gm of marine active to analyse the pharmacokinetics of anserine.
Hyperuricemia, Anserine, Pharmacokinetic
Drug: Marine active
Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Pharmacokinetics Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Hyperuricemia is a common metabolic disorder. It can result from a decreased renal uric acid excretion, increased urate production, or both. The classical association with clinical gout is well-known. The principal indications for uric acid–lowering therapy, including allopurinol, probenecid and sulfinpyrazone, are the patients with gout history, macroscopic subcutaneous tophi, frequent attacks of gouty arthritis, or a documented state of uric acid overproduction. Hyperuricemia is often associated with metabolic syndrome,which is known a percursor of atherosclerosis. For the gout attack only 5% per year of the hyperuricemic population, medical management is not indicated for patients without gouty arthritis. Diet control is the leading way to control serum uric acid level, but usually it is not enough. So how to management hyperuricemia is important and is a potential management.Histidine-containing dipeptides such as Anserine and Carnosine have been studied extensively in recent years. These dipeptides were shown to be effective in acting as buffering agents against protons developed during anaerobic exercise. Anserine and Carnosine also have strong anti-oxidant activity, anti-cancer activity, immuno-response modulation, fat reduction and enhanced wound healing functions. The Yaizu Suisankagaku Industry Company have developed industrial production process to extract and purify the dipeptides from Bonito and Tuna. The extract, named Marine Active, was able to offer anti-fatigue activity by animal trial data. Human clinical trials showed reduction of creatine phosphokinase activity and sero-uric acid. Randomize, double blind clinical trial is entrust to our hospital. This study design is blood sampling from the health men who take 1 gm of marine active to analyse the pharmacokinetics of anserine.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 35 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
-Male volunteers, age between 20 to 35 years
Exclusion Criteria:
- Chronic medical history
- Significant liver or renal dysfunction,
- Have been administrated by any drug within 2 weeks before the initiation of study.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00207974
|China Medical University Hospital
|Taichung, Taiwan
|Principal Investigator:
|Kuo-Chin Huang, MD
|Chinese-Western Medicine Cooperation, China Medical University Hospital
No publications provided
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00207974 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|September 16, 2005
|Last Updated:
|November 16, 2005
|Health Authority:
|Taiwan: Department of Health
Keywords provided by China Medical University Hospital:
Hyperuricemia, Anserine, Pharmacokinetic
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Pathologic Processes
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on October 06, 2015


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YIELD: Makes 4 to 6 servings
ACTIVE TIME: 10 minutes
TOTAL TIME: 30 minutes
- 2 large garlic cloves, finely chopped
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- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
- 1 (15") loaf Italian bread (about 3 1/2" wide)
- 4 tablespoons grated Parmesan
Preheat oven to 350°F with rack in middle.
Mince and mash garlic to a paste with a rounded 1/4 teaspoon salt using a heavy knife.
Stir together butter, oil, and garlic paste in a bowl until combined well; stir in parsley.
Halve loaf horizontally and divide butter mixture between halves, spreading it evenly.
Divide cheese between halves and spread it in an even layer.
Put halves, cheese side up, on a large baking sheet. Cover the bread with a large piece of foil, tenting it slightly on the top and tucking it under the bread.
Bake 15 minutes.
Remove foil and turn oven to broil. Broil bread until golden, 1-3 minutes.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories408
- Carbohydrates41 g (14%)
- Fat21 g (33%)
- Protein12 g (25%)
- Saturated Fat11 g (54%)
- Sodium689 mg (29%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat2 g
- Fiber2 g (9%)
- Monounsaturated Fat7 g
- Cholesterol40 mg (13%)


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Friday, school let out, and I had a blissfully relaxed and lazy evening. Which is lucky, because then it all kicked off....woke up early Saturday reday to drive the three hours north to Liverpool, to attend one of my favourite Join Meets, Loverpool. Arrived in time for a nice cup of tea with Jamanda and Laurie, and then off into town.
We met by the Catholic cathedral, as is traditional. That building is something else - it looks like an embassy from Star Wars or Star Trek! (Don't believe me? I'm sure google has pics!) A good couple of dozen Joinees from here, there and everywhere. Lots of chat and hugs and banter, and then we split into teams for our RAoK (Random Acts of Kindness) challenge - part scavenger hunt, part doing nice things for the people of Liverpool. I was on the kickass team 4 with Siobhán, Angel, Sheli, Ems, Jamie, Katie Boo and Craig and it was a riot - giving out sweeties and hugs, buying drinks and pies for people, making old ladies smile, and generally being silly. :-)
Then Craig, Sheli, Ems, Siobhán and I formed 'Team Eat' and went for tapas (mmmm, tapas), and were joined by the lovely Tigger, before joining the whole gang in the pub. Such a fun evening - laughs and hugs and tears and chat and fun and raising lots of money for a very worthy charity. Thank you, Team Loverpool - it was a triumph! By the time we got back to Casa Jamanda I was wiped, and was soon bundled up like a caterpillar, fast asleep....
....Sunday I woke up on the couch, in a room with eight good friends - it's very like boarding school at Join Meets sometimes! A lazy morning getting showered and fed and sorted, a quick jaunt to Asda, and then a lazy afternoon grilling and chilling in the park. How lucky am I? Then at teatime I headed home.
Yesterday was my one home based day of the break - lots of sleep, some baking, and just generally *not* haring about. I'm just about to jump in the shower and pack now....off to London today, then on to Birmingham tomorrow. Then back here Friday. Then back to London Saturday. Good thing I like to be busy, eh?
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Friday, 14 December 2012 at 11:45
If you're running a small business then I'm sure that you're always trying to find ways to acquire new consumers and also sell much more to the customers that you already have.
Up until recently this could mean methods such as the Yellow pages, TV, newspapers, pamphlets and so on.
But over the past decade or so the growth of the web has opened up a whole lot of different advertising options, like Facebook.
Facebook actually gives you more than one technique to advertise your company which makes it an extremely formidable platform, especially when you look at the total number of members Facebook currently boasts.
So how does one start.
Well there are two main marketing to take advantage of - free and paid.
Just like the advertising program run by Google's Adwords, Facebook operates an effective advertising network which will allow businesses to run ads inside of the Facebook website that take visitors to your own website.
Exactly where this differs from Adwords is in the targeting tools. Since Facebook collects so much information about its users, it can then offer any advertisers some very powerful targeting resources so you're able to truly advertise to a portion of the user base whom you think best represents your prospective clients.
You'd start by narrowing the targeting to your own location prior to working out who you prefer to market to by age, sex and even hobbies.
If you'd like to try the free approach to promoting with Facebook, your starting point is to set up a facebook page for your small business.
This lets you develop your own small community within Facebook that can be used to keep clients and prospective customers up-to-date with regards to anything that's happening in your business.
This tends to be less concerned with making sales and more to do with developing relationships and customer loyalty.
If you want to get the most from Facebook you should combine the free and paid approaches.
So you should not only build a Facebook page for the business, and experiment with a few advertisements guiding individuals to your business's website, you may want to test using adverts to connect people to your Facebook page itself.
This strategy generally contributes to cheaper ad expenses helping you build your fans noticeably faster.
If you haven't already gotten started with Facebook, there's really no better point in time than now.
Begin by putting together a fan page for the small business. If you really want to help your fan page shine you might pay someone for a comparatively small price to customise the page.
When this is set up commence trying out a number of Facebook ads to see if you're able to see some income out of it. This might take some testing and tweaking but as you get more knowledgeable your expenses will fall drop and you should be getting some really targeted visitors fairly cheaply.


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March 2011 (San Diego, California) – Nestled in the Dehesa Valley, just 20 minutes from Downtown San Diego the Sycuan Golf & Tennis Resort is a welcoming destination resort for active travelers. The recent completion of their $2.7 million dollar renovation project revamped their 100-room hotel, offering guests the opportunity to unwind in handsomely appointed rooms, with awardwinning amenities at their fingertips.
Repeatedly named the best golfing in San Diego, Sycuan Golf and Tennis Resort features 54 holes of professional-worthy greens, including two 18-hole championship golf courses, one 18-hole executive golf course, extensive golf practice facilities and a pro shop with luxury golf brands. The verdant 425-plus acre property also boasts two swimming pools for cooling down or sunbathing, 11 nigh-lit tennis courts to perfect your swing and the Primrose Spa to unwind and nurture your body after a day of activities. Sycuan Golf and Tennis Resort's dining options include the Café Grill, along with the Echo's Lounge and room service. Guests can enjoy a complimentary shuttle ride to the Sycuan Casino and indulge in gaming, fine dining and live entertainment, just a short five minute jaunt from the resort.
The 100 guest rooms at Sycuan Golf and Tennis Resort exude a warm and stylish interior design concept featuring views of the rolling green hills and lush golf courses. The rooms have been upgraded with new plush carpeting, high-end drapery and bedding, flat panel televisions, granite vanities, elegant bedroom furniture and stunning mosaic-tiled headboards. Capturing the essence of their valley location, the charming earth tone rooms offer guests the chance to relax and rejuvenate after a day of golf, tennis, hiking or exploring San Diego.


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Table to Query Embedded SQL Code within Console Reports and Filters
So I've made a few reports and filters that and reused SQL statements when gathering simliar data. Anyway, I ran across a table join that was mostly correct but will invalid results for certain data sets. I know how to correct the join, that's not the problem. Does anyone know what SQL table stores the embedded SQL code used to run reports and filters? I'd like to track down the other reports and filters where I used a the same table join.
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I am not aware of a table which would hold them for all filters and reports.
To modify an existing out of the box filter, you can export it, modify the code and import again. Usually that should overwrite the existing one, as long as the ID stays the same.
Otherwise you can of course clone any report or filter, fix the code in the clone and then use the clone instead of the original.
Its saved in xml representation in the item table in the state value.
Simple raw SQL Filter looks like this.
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Okay my life is taking an amazing turn and I'm afraid its true. It all seems to good to be real. I'm 16 years old and in grade 11. A month ago {sept.6} I got a new mare. A 16.3 hh, Canadian Warmblood mare out of Gervantus II. 6 years old and has had 3 months. I've been working with her for the past month and its going AMAZING!!! We've started jumping and its heaven! And the good part is...I only pay half of board. $150 a month and I do whatever I want with her. They cover worming, farrier, and blankets etc.
And then next good news! I'm now being paid to ride a horse! A girl at my barn does not have time for her TB and he needs work and so I let her know I'd be willing to ride for a little bit of cash, as I'd like the experiance and need the money. I think it'll be 10-15 bucks a ride depending on what I'm expected to teach him. If he has a ****ty attitude as a horse in general i'm raising it to 15-20 though. I'm so excited!!!
That sounds good!! Is the mare yours, or are you leasing her?
I'm leasing her.
That's very nice! I'm glad it's working out for you and you can make money on what you like!
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The 18th Annual Author Dinner of the Friends of the ODU Libraries will feature guest speaker David Poyer, an American author and retired naval officer: "Readings by David Poyer: From Bute Street to Best Sellers." Poyer began writing in 1976 and has published 30 novels. He is called "the most popular living author of American sea fiction."
Also at the dinner, the Friends will present their Outstanding Achievement Award to Sheri Colberg-Ochs, an ODU professor who specializes in diabetes and exercise research.
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After the Cleveland game, it was easy to rant and rage against a bad effort by the Wolves. It was disappointing to see them come out flat. It was frustrating to see them take a team lightly.
Unfortunately, there are no easy answers tonight, just one simple question: WHY wouldn't the ball go in the hoop?
The defense was decent, but nothing earth shattering. The Raptors clogged the paint well, keeping the Wolves from getting easy layups in their half court offense and preventing Kevin Love from getting put backs. But whenever the Wolves wanted a good look at a three or a jump shot within 20 feet, they were able to find their spot. That damn ball just wouldn't go in.
The main culprit tonight was Love. Love was 3-16 from the field, and an uncharacteristic 5-10 from the line. Again, fatigue didn't really seem to be the issue, although it's impossible to know for sure.
Lost among Love's incredible stats so far this season is the fact that, despite his gaudy scoring numbers, Love's footwork in the post actually leave quite a bit to be desired. He settles for threes too often, without really making an attempt to score down low. And while his three point numbers for the season are impressive, a power forward who claims to be the best power forward in the league, and who is about to make max money, should be able to do both.
Of course, I still believe that the Wolves will (and should) offer him the max immediately. And before I can make it sound like I'm criticizing him any more than I should for a night that is almost certainly going to be an aberration, let's get to some bullet points.
- I'm still hesitant to utterly trust +/- stats, but today they are too glaring to ignore. The starters' combined +/- was a little unbelievable: -95. The bench was +45. I mean…come on. It would be one thing if the bench was actually getting more minutes, but the starters played 126 combined minutes, and the bench 114. I still trust Adelman more than I trust myself or any other armchair analyst out there, but for most of the third quarter, the Wolves were getting destroyed with their starters in. Then Barea entered the game near the end of the quarter and almost single-handedly managed to get the Wolves from 12 points down to 4. I just don't understand why he came out and Luke Ridnour came back in, unless limiting Barea's minutes was a requirement today. If that was the case, fair enough.
- Anthony Randolph did that Anthony Randolph thing where he showed flashes of the star player he COULD be before becoming a non-factor again. For roughly 5 minutes of game time, he was the most dominant player on the court. He was hitting from the outside, drawing charges, and contributing the highlight of the game, for either team. Honestly, between Randolph and Beasley, the Wolves have more unfulfilled promise than entire draft classes.
- A related note: as pointed out by Toronto's announcers, if Rubio wins the Rookie of the Year award, he will be the third player for the '09 draft class to win it. Not a strong selling point for the classes of 2010 and 2011.
- Can someone explain to me why it enrages me so much whenever Andrea Bargnani scores? He's 7'0 tall and he can consistently stroke the ball from three point range. He appears to have developed some post moves over the extended summer. You would think I would be used to him putting the ball in the basket by now. But somehow, I've never quite adjusted. Anyway.
- 18 turnovers. 33% from the field. 29% from the three point line. I know what you are thinking. "18 turnovers? Wow, somehow it felt like even more than that." I agree, actually. Whenever the Wolves really needed something to happen, it felt like they were forcing the issue rather than trusting in their offense. We can take some heart from those numbers and knowing that the Wolves were still in this game as it wound down. But Toronto turned the ball over almost as much (16), and they actually managed to shoot worse from the three point line (16%). They did manage to shoot over 44% from the field though.
- Jose Calderon came out the victor in the Spanish point guard battle. Calderon had 14 points on 6-11 shooting to go with six assists. Rubio also had 6 assists but shot just 2-9 from the field and scored 10 points.
- The worst thing about losing this game, to my mind, is the fact that it wasted an opportunity to come out of the season's only back to back to back over .500. To do so now, the Wolves would have to beat an excellent Chicago team tomorrow in Minneapolis. Chicago played a tough game last night as well against the Pacers. It wouldn't be completely stunning to see the Wolves compete and lose by single digits. But more on that tomorrow.
In fact, more on everything tomorrow. Another night, another loss by the Wolves, who look increasingly bipolar on the court. It's probably time we resigned ourselves to this sort of thing.


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How to Escape Being Sexy, Smart, and Single
Are you smart? Are you sexy? Are you gorgeous? Then why are you still single??? You might answer, "beats me". But when you're the only single girl out there, then something has to be done – ASAP! Let's see what we can do to help.
Love yourself. First, you should know that there's nothing wrong with you. If you know yourself enough, you will acknowledge that you are a very foxy lady. It seems weird sometimes how love works for some couples but it just doesn't work for you and your dates. But you have to remember, before you delve into the kind of love where it involves another person, you must first love yourself. You have to see for yourself what makes you a very lovable person.
Indulge in a little dosage of vanity. Vanity is said to be every woman's flaw. But who doesn't want radiant skin, salon treatments or stilettos ? And who says no to make up? Of course all women should be a little vain to look her absolute best. Feel totally sexy by pampering yourself. You deserve to be glamorous!
Picture-perfect close-ups. There is at least one photo in which you look totally stunning – almost resembling a celebrity! Grab that photo and take hold of it (scan it so you can have a digital copy, have it copied several times) so you can use it every time you want to make a good impression.
Oh yeah. You might be the looker but you might be a bitch. Why not try stopping to be one.
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More Aid, More Democracy
Yang, David W., The Christian Science Monitor
In highlighting the need for political reform in developing countries, President Bush's call for a "new compact for global development" will deepen the discourse at this week's UN summit in Monterrey, Mexico.
Most of the debate leading up to Monterrey focused on how to raise more money, setting off a somewhat myopic bidding war among donors. The problem is not largesse, though more funds are certainly needed to achieve the UN's ambitious goal of halving global poverty by 2015. Rather, the weakness lies in the donors' failure to link development to democracy.
Indeed, the record of aid shows that only democratic rule can provide long-term support to economic development in an era of globalization. That is why Bush's appeal last week for developing countries to "walk the hard road of political, legal, and economic reform" is so important to the debate on development aid.
In fact, the entire draft Monterrey Consensus is based on the relationship between political and economic development. At the summit's close, world leaders will make a commitment "to promoting national and global economic systems based on the principles of justice, equity, democracy, participation, transparency, accountability, and inclusion."
However, to implement this rhetoric, world leaders will need to strengthen each of the six instruments of development finance that form the Monterrey agenda - domestic capital, foreign investment, trade, official development assistance, debt relief, and the international financial architecture.
They can do so precisely by advancing democracy at both the national and global levels.
First, while a democracy cannot ensure that economic policies will always be sound, it can provide a more productive environment for the saving and investment of domestic capital. It can do so because the democratic values of equality, transparency, and accountability translate in the economic sphere to clearly defined property and labor rights, free but well-regulated exchanges in the marketplace, just settlement of contract disputes, and fair taxation.
Second, the presence of these institutions attracts foreign investment. Whether foreign investors risk their capital in emerging markets greatly depends on the stability of local financial and legal systems. A foreign investor has a better chance of finding transparent banks, effective market regulation, and independent judges in a democracy. …


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They didn't claim that current space standards are at a peak, and further improvements in technology have already been hinted at providing optical storage sizes in the hundreds of gigabytes and beyond. Nor did they claim optical storage will be disappearing anytime soon. After all, CDs are still around.
Sony didn't speculate on what sort of new technologies will succeed optical formats. When the day comes portable 50TB media is in demand, however, Sony believes it won't be an optical disc that provides it.


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