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"You should make a woman angry if you wish her to love"
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"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."
Oscar Wilde
"A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one"
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
"What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series."
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"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
Albert Einstein
"When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking."
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Robin Rug
My favorite time of the year is spring,it's going by fast. I'm trying to slow it down so I can enjoy it. Yesterday, I went to the greenhouse to buy impatients and they were about sold out with very limited colors. It took me awhile but I got most of the colors I wanted. I thought I was getting there early enough,everyone else must of thought the same thing.
I have been hooking and this is my latest rug. The design is by Country Stitches it measures 14.5" x 21". I listed it on Ebay. Until next time... Julie
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Donaji & the Magical Poncho
This is the story of a fearless girl and her encounter with the wicked cold wind god
4.34 / 5.00 6,392 ViewsYour sister has been captured by Don Tony and the only way to get to him is by traveling to the Reef! You need "Reputation" to get to the Reef though. You will have to do jobs for other fish in order to get known!
Arrow keys to move!
SpaceBar to interact with other fish or objects.
a pretty fun rpg...some parts were hard....next time make it longer...keep up the good work!
i didn't really like it its boring the music gets annoying but the fishies looked funny :)
Great concept, just needs polishing.
The gameplay was pretty entertaining, but it felt limiting. When the only thing you can do is swim and talk, it doesn't feel as much like a game.
I really enjoyed the artwork for the characters, but it lacked a background. Save for the mini-map, there wasn't much of a way for me to tell where I was.
With a little more work, this could be a really fun little RPG.
A quick, fun play
Despite a few things i thought could be improved, like the lack of a moving background when you swim around the sea and a few collision detection problems, this was good. Like i always say, gameplay comes before everything else.
There is only one thing to say........
I am dissapointed, you guys usually make some of the best stuff, but this....... is crap, I hate to say it. The graphics are sub-par, the movement is smooth but at times can be hard to control, and most importantly, its short, and pointless.
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The billionaire co-founder Newport Beach-based PIMCO built this home in the Palm Desert resort community of Indian Wells, CA.
Gross is well-known for his hefty real estate purchases, he paid $23 million for a Newport Harbor home, only to tear it down and put the land back up for sale. In 2010, he also paid $35 million to purchase Jennifer Aniston's home in Beverly Hills.


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2005-11-24 11:20 AM Danke Previous Entry :: Next Entry Read/Post Comments (0) Well, okay, I try not to be all twee, and I save most of my looking-back for New Year's, but, briefly, a few things I'm thankful for: A loving wife, dear friends, continued health, good books, good television, a day job I sometimes love and never hate, and ongoing success with my writing. The universe has been good to me. The successes are large, the setbacks minor, and I'm far more fortunate than most. There, that's that. Happy turkey-and-parade-and-football day, all you USAians. Hope you don't have to endure too many family feuds, and that the sweet sleep of tryptophan defuses any stress. I hope I get the opportunity to do my annual reading of "Thanksgiving" by Joyce Carol Oates. It's a great story. Rick Kleffel is enthusing about Rangergirl. I'm looking forward to meeting him. I think I'll be able to talk more about my love for Santa Cruz than I would in most interviews. In about an hour we're heading into San Francisco to have dinner with Richard Doyle, his husband Ricky, and various others. Should be a lot of fun. (Richard's art show last weekend was awesome, by the way. I think Heather is going to post some pictures soon, and I'll link when she does.) Read/Post Comments (0) Previous Entry :: Next Entry Back to Top |
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Is 2009 going to be a good year? Well with brand new gay-tastic episodes of some of our favorite shows (Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters, anyone?) premiering this weekend, we'd say the answer is most definitely YES.
> 10:00 PM The Graham Norton Show, BBC America (1 hr) NEW
Out Irish comedian Graham Norton presents his comedy chat show. Tonight, Brendan Fraser stops by for a visit.
> 8:00 PM Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, ABC (1 hr) NEW
Gay designer Eduardo Xol helps the crew make a family's dreams come true.
> 9:00 PM Desperate Housewives, ABC (1 hr, 1 min) NEW
Andrew introduces his mom to his future mother-in-law. Something tells me this ain't gonna be pretty.
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NFL Team Valuations
#28 Buffalo Bills
Team Value1 |
$799 mil |
Buffalo Bills are owned by Ralph Wilson Jr, who bought them in 1959 for $25,000. | |
Player-costs-to-win ratio8 | 69 |
Coach | Chan Gailey |
Metro area population | 1,124,000 |
Revenue per fan11 | $59 |
Media Partners | |
Preseason TV | WKBW-TV |
Radio | WGRF-FM |
National TV ratings rank9 | 13 |
Valuation Breakdown | |
Sport | $566 mil |
Market | $108 mil |
Stadium | $92 mil |
Brand Management | $33 mil |
The skinny
The Buffalo Bills have deteriorated markedly since the glory years in the 1990s when they were led by coach Marv Levy and quarterback Jim Kelly. The team has not had a winning season since 2004 and has not qualified for the postseason since 1999. The Bills have posted a wins-per-payroll ratio below the league average each of the five past seasons and have had five different head coaches the past 12 seasons. Incredibly, the team, which had the lowest ticket prices in the NFL in 2009, saw fit to increase ticket prices for the 2010 season by $10 a game for season ticket holders along the sidelines in the lower bowl of Ralph Wilson Stadium, and the team's average ticket price will go up to $59 from $51. The Bills are in the midst of a deal where they are getting $78 million from Rogers Communications to play three preseason and five regular season games in Toronto from 2008 through 2012. The deal has increased the team's fan base north of the border and helped the Bills boost season ticket sales over 55,000, their third-highest figure in history.Major corporate sponsors are Verizon Wireless, PepsiCo (nyse: PEP), M&T Bank (nyse: MTB), Anheuser-Busch InBev (nyse: BUD), Xerox (nyse: XRX), Toyota Motor (nyse: TM).
Naming rights sponsor is NA.
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Rank | Team | Current Value | 1-Yr Value Change | Debt/Value | Revenue | Operating Income
1-Yr Value Chg. | -12% |
Ann. Value Chg.2 | 23% |
Debt/Value3 | 16% |
Revenue4 | $228 mil |
Operating Income5 | $28.2 mil |
Player Expenses6 | $142 mil |
Gate Receipts7 | $45 mil |
Ralph Wilson Jr
Facility Information
Ralph Wilson Stadium
Owner | County of Erie |
Year Opened | 1973 |
Capacity | 73,079 |
Cost To Build | $22 mil |
Concessionaire | SportService |
Average Ticket Price | $51 |
- Revenue and operating income are for 2009 season and net of revenue sharing and stadium debt service.
- 1Value of team based on current stadium deal (unless new stadium is pending) without deduction for debt (other than stadium debt).
- 2Current team value compared with latest transaction price.
- 3Includes stadium debt.
- 4Net of stadium revenues used for debt payments.
- 5Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
- 6Includes benefits and bonuses.
- 7Includes club seats.
- 8Compares the number of wins per player payroll relative to the rest of the NFL. Postseason wins count twice as much as regular season wins. A score of 120 means that the team achieved 20% more victories per dollar of payroll compared with the league average.
- 9Rank based on average rating in local market for regular season games from Nielsen out of the NFL's 32 teams.
- 10Renovation
- 11Local revenues divided by metro population with populations in two-team markets divided in half.
- Valuation Breakdown:
- Sport: Portion of franchise's value attributable to revenue shared among all teams.
- Market: Portion of franchise's value attributable to its city and market size.
- Stadium: Portion of franchise's value attributable to its stadium.
- Brand Management: Portion of franchise's value attributable to the management of its brand.
- NA: Not applicable.
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The singer, along with Ke$ha and rapper Nicki Minaj, will take her "Last Girl on Earth Tour" on the road beginning in July, stopping in all major cities across North America to promote her woefully underappreciated Rated R.
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Growing Your Own Food
How to Start a Vegetable Garden by Birgitt Evans
Healthy Gardens Grow From Healthy Soil
Everything in your garden begins with the soil. According to the Master Gardener Handbook, "perfect soil" consists of 25% Air, 25% Water, 5% Organic Matter and 45% Mineral Matter. We classify soils depending upon the size of the soil particles. Soil Particles range from large or "Sandy" to medium or "Loamy" to very fine or "Clay" with Loam being considered the best for growing plants. Here in Alameda County, most areas have clay soil, but there are a few places with sandy or loam soils.
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Improve Your Soil With Compost
Any type of soil benefits from compost. Not only does it have nutrients that improve soil fertility and help plants grow strong and healthy, compost increases water retention in your soil so you don't have to water as often. Adding compost will save money on your water bill and you can make it in your own backyard for free. Instead of sending your yard trimmings off to the landfill every week, you can turn these recyclable organic materials into rich compost for use in your garden.
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Garden soils are rarely fertile enough to supply all of the nutrients required for the best growth of plants. Nitrogen is naturally low in almost all California soils, and soil in many regions of the state is also low in phosphorus, so these nutrients should be added to the soil before planting. Most California soils have adequate amounts of other essential plant nutrients, but poor growth of vegetables and other plants may indicate a deficiency of one or more nutrients. Soil tests, or consultation with a Master Gardener, can help you decide whether other nutrients are needed.
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Many of us are intimidated by the seed packet display in the nursery, and we choose to purchase the seedling plants already prepared for us by growers. If you have not tried to grow vegetables from seed before, you will find that it is not only easy to do, but economical, fun, and extremely rewarding. Another benefit is the wide selection of varieties available from seed catalogs. Growing different varieties is important for an extended harvest and to find plants that grow well in your area. Vegetable plants sold in seedling form are generally available in only one or a few varieties.
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If you prefer to not experiment with seeds, or are just in a hurry, purchase young plants from the nursery for transplanting into the garden. Compared to growing from seed, buying young plants is easier and faster and gives instant results, however this convenience comes with some sacrifice. Locating a nursery that sells high quality plants, finding a good selection of varieties that grow well in your area, and having the availability of varieties at the proper planting time are all potential challenges. And even if you are growing from seed, you will end up with young plants ready for transplanting, and so transplanting becomes a segue between the seeds and the growing garden plants.
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We all know the idiom "you reap what you sow", however home vegetable gardening involves more than just sowing seed and then harvesting the crop. Between the sowing and reaping is a good deal of monitoring, watering, fertilizing, controlling pests and weeds, etc. Initially the garden must be planned, soil and irrigation system prepared, and which crops to grow must be carefully considered to make the most efficient use of space and to allow for the growth of both cool- and warm-season crops in the same physical space. Planning also minimizes the reuse of the same beds for the same crops, which reduces disease.
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There are a variety of reasons for building raised beds for vegetable gardening. Reasons include compacted/clay soil, soil that has been tested positive for lead (often from old paint), a sunny spot that happens to be in a driveway. For some, raised beds can provide a dual function of growing food and delineating outdoor space. Raised beds can be any height and built from a variety of materials, ideally ones that are being reused for this purpose. Raised beds sometimes have a bottom (with drainage holes) if they are going to be on asphalt or to keep out gophers (wire mesh bottom is cheapest and most effective). There are a few things to keep in mind when you decide to put a raised bed in your garden.
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Reduce Pests and Diseases By Changing Your Cultural Practices
Often, the best way to deal with pests and diseases in a vegetable garden is by avoiding them altogether. You can do this by changing the timing of your planting of a specific crop so that you avoid a pest altogether or you can select a disease resistant variety of a susceptible vegetable crop. You can also use things like barriers, traps or protective covers to exclude a pest from your crop.
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You've designed, planted and tended your garden and now it's time for the payoff – the harvest. If you've planted a variety of crops they will ripen at different times, so you need to walk through the garden several times a week to look for crops ready to be picked. Some crops like lettuce can have a long window for harvest (especially in cooler months) but others such as zucchini or sweet corn must be picked within a fairly short window or they become monstrous or ripen beyond their peak flavor and their quality is diminished. It is best to pick produce in the morning, before they wilt in the afternoon heat. If you must harvest in the evening, you can rehydrate greens in a tub of cool, clean water.
Continue Learning About The Vegetable Harvest: Harvesting Vegetables
Selecting Fruit Trees For Your Garden
There are many factors to consider when selecting a fruit tree for your garden. One of the most critical is chill hours. Chill hours are the number of hours at 45°F (7°C) or less that the fruit tree requires each winter in order break dormancy and flower and bear fruit the next season. A second factor is how much fruit you can eat, process or give away. A mature apple tree, for example, can provide 100 lbs of apples at harvest time. Finally, you need to consider how much space, ideally in full sun, can you provide a tree with that could grow to 15 feet tall and 10 feet wide.
Continue Learning About Selecting Fruit Trees: Selecting Fruit Trees For Your Garden
The ideal planting time is December through March when nurseries stock bare root fruit trees. The best spot in your garden for a fruit tree gets at least 6 hours of sun, is out of the wind, and can be easily watered. The hole you dig should be twice as wide as the spread of the tree's roots, but not too deep. The graft union (where the rootstock is grafted onto the type of tree purchased) should be 2 to 4 inches above the soil, and the tree should be on top of a small mound with sloping sides when planted properly, especially in heavy clay soils. Trees should be watered deeply after planting.
Continue Learning About Planting Fruit Trees: Planting Fruit Trees
Growing your own fruit, whether its apples, peaches or pears, requires that you plant your tree in a location where it receives at least 6 hours of sunlight a day during the growing season. Sun, plus regular irrigation are the two keys to successful fruit production. Fruit thinning is also very important because many fruit trees will produce more fruit than their branches can hold, especially when trees are young. Managing pests and diseases and fertilizing are all aspects of growing your own fruit.
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Once a fruit tree has been properly planted, its growth form should be trained by pruning and other practices. Correct training will allow the tree to make fruit at a height that is easily accessible, and will keep the tree productive and healthy. Learning how to train and prune a fruit tree requires some basic knowledge and experience. This article will provide you with basic information about how a plant will respond to various pruning cuts, and how these cuts are used to create a tree form.
Continue Learning About Pruning Fruit Trees: Pruning Fruit Trees
Some fruit will become fully ripe while still on a tree (Santa Rosa Plum and apples) while others (European pears and avocados) need to be harvested and put into cool storage to finish ripening. Some citrus fruit can be held on a tree (some mandarins) while others need to be picked when ripe. When harvesting most fruit, you want to twist and pull the fruit up as opposed to down. (Persimmons, however need to be cut from the tree.) Carefully put fruit into your basket to minimize bruising or breaks in the skin. Harvesting when it's cool (like in the morning), and cooling fruit as soon as possible, will help promote quality and shelf life. Once your fruit is harvested, you can decide if you want to eat it fresh, freeze, can, dry or cook it.
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This has been a point of contention in my relationship with my husband – who LOVES Christmas music – for as long as we have known one another. Creating a cheerful, holiday atmosphere with lights, a tree, trimmings and various festive elements (illegal fire-works, toilet papering…) is something I actually love to do – and every year Mr. Pancake mistakes my enthusiasm for decorating for open-mindedness regarding his musical choices and makes a failed attempt to employ the songs of the season. Upon hearing Bing Crosby croon, 'White Christmas', I can be counted on to instantly kill the mood by offering an ill-timed,
"Did you know that Bing Crosby viciously beat his children? It's true – Merry Christmas!"
I do have my reasons. I've held a lot of different kinds of jobs in my lifetime, many of which have been in retail. My collective experience in varying service industries and with the public have rendered me nearly incapable of enjoying Christmas music as a result. My three year tenure at Victoria's Secret in the Battlefield Mall was particularly formative in this regard, having worked every single Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve during my employ. There is nothing quite as unpleasant as the task of tagging hundreds of Gentlemen's Thongs™ with garment sensors while simultaneously being aurally assaulted by the strains of 'Jingle Bells'. I'm no fan of irony, yet my experiences with beloved Christmas songs is steeped in it. It was hard to feel anything but animosity for Paul McCartney's, 'Wonderful Christmas Time' when my memories of the tune are forever linked to being told that a customer of mine relieved her bladder in the dressing room – and I was expected not only to clean up her urine, but also to continue waiting on her as she barked demands to me as the song was playing loudly in the background.
There are (rare) exceptions to my rule – I like good music after all and there are some examples of really great winter/holiday-themed songs out there – it's just a shame that most of music I hear this time of year reminds me of urine-soaked, floral carpeting and unflattering men's underpants.
With that, I leave you with one of my favorite Christmas traditions – an audio clip of David Sedaris reading "The Santaland Diaries", an account of his stint as a Macy's Christmas Elf in Santaland. I re-read it every year and it never fails to fill me with joy…


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Intel concluded a search for a new CEO by picking an inside candidate: COO Brian Krzanich will replace outgoing leader Paul Otellini on May 16 . The chip giant says Kraznich's new job will pay $10 million in cash and stock this year.
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Jewish World Review July 18, 2005 / 11 Tammuz, 5765 Europe's Two Worlds By Mort Zuckerman
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Europe is caught, in Matthew Arnold's famous words, "between two worlds; one dead, the other powerless to be born." The world that is dead is the European nationalism that turned the continent into a blood-soaked battlefield in the first half of the 20th century. The hope of the founders of the European Union was that it would replace the cycle of war with a cycle of cooperation in sustaining basic principles of democracy, human rightsand no more war.
The world that has proved powerless to be born is something Winston Churchill once called "the United States of Europe," a single political entity sharing a common constitution, laws, and foreign policy. With their rejection of such a constitution recently, however, voters in France and the Netherlands dealt what may be a fatal blow to that goal. (All 25 states had to agree for the constitution to take effect.)
Why the rejection? Fear. Fear of war has been overtaken by fear of the cheap labor of Eastern Europeans allowed to work in countries like France and Germany for the same low wages and lousy benefits they earned back home. The most disturbing fear in Europe today, however, is the fear of Muslim immigration and the emergence of a Muslim underclass disproportionately represented in the local prison population and increasingly sympathetic to radical political Islam.
With unemployment as high as 10 percent, the first fear is easy to understand, if exaggerated. When al Qaeda bombs kill scores in London, however, the second fear becomes a horrible reality. The deeper issue here, of course, is the lack of a European identity strong enough to transcend national identities. The unprecedented wave of Muslim immigration exacerbates this problem. Faced with outright rejection at worst, or an obviously chilly welcome at best, many new Muslim immigrants hew to their ethnic and religious identities, leaving many Europeans feeling even more threatened.
There is no European equivalent of the American dream. Americans in all 50 states are still Americans. Europeans in 25 different countries, by contrast, prefer to be French, Dutch, British, or Hungarianand want to remain so. In America, people move freely from state to state. In the countries of the European Union, most citizens are committed homebodies. Fewer than 2 percent live permanently in an EU country other than their own. About half of all citizens in Europe speak only their own native tongue. There are no common European media, which means that the political debate within the EU remains staunchly national. The Common Market failed to forge a common identity compared with the national citizenship that comes out of a shared history, a common language, and a common destiny.
Jobsnot cows. On the economic side, Europe has failed to provide the better jobs and opportunities people expected. Neither the single market nor the single currency has delivered on its promise. In those countries sharing in the euro since 2002, average unemployment is 9 percent and getting worse. In the past 30 years, average incomes have declined relative to America's. Growth has been anemic, which led to higher unemployment, which begat higher social expenditures, which begat higher taxes, which begat even lower growth.
A chasm has opened up between two versions of what a single European market should be. The British, the Irish, and the Scandinavian countries pushed for an economically liberal, outward-looking EU free from the interference of Brussels-inspired regulations and can point proudly to their lower unemployment rates compared with those of France and Germany. The Brits are pushing hard for change. Prime Minister Tony Blair, soon to be the EU's new president, wants to take on the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, which distributes 40 percent of the EU budget to 5 percent of the population and keeps food artificially expensive. Agricultural subsidiesi.e., keeping French farmers happyamount to seven times the money the EU spends on science, research, and education. "Money for jobs," says Blair, "not cows."
The clash between market-oriented Anglo-Saxons and welfare-minded continentals has left both sides unhappy. Too diverse to be contained, the EU may have to become a looser, less federalist, and more decentralized club, for the lack of a political center puts the equity of the euro at risk. As one commentator put it, European citizens "don't want to break 25 eggs to make the great European omelet." Which means a United States of Europe is a world increasingly powerless to be born.
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As our two previous items concerning furloughed American Airlines flight attendants are still receiving plenty of comments, we thought it only fair to mention AA today announced it is sending recall notices to 200 flight attendants "to address projected attrition through the balance of the year," says this press release. And, indeed, among those being recalled will be some of the former TWA flight attendants who've been waiting to be called back to work ever since American bought the airline in 2001.
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An Italian priest burned a photo of Pope Benedict to protest the former pontiff's abdication, telling a shocked congregation that emeritus pope had abandoned his flock.
VATICAN CITY — An Italian priest set fire to a photo of Pope Benedict during Sunday Mass in protest against his abdication, telling a shocked congregation that the former pontiff had abandoned his flock.
"It was wonderful," the Rev. Andrea Maggi from Santo Stefano Protomartire church in the small northern village of Castel Vittorio, told La Repubblica daily, defending his act.
He compared Benedict, who resigned as pope on Thursday, to Captain Francesco Schettino, who is accused of abandoning the Costa Concordia cruise ship that capsized off the Italian coast before all passengers were rescued.
Gian Stefano Orengo, mayor of the municipality in the northwestern Liguria region, told Italian radio the action had prompted half of the congregation to walk out.
"Before starting the homily, the priest took the photo of the pope and he said this is not a pope, this is not a shepherd, he abandoned his flock," Orengo said, adding that Maggi then used a candle flame set alight the photo of Benedict.
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Esprit Man by Esprit is a Woody Aromatic fragrance for men. Esprit Man was launched in 2013. Top notes are apple and pineapple; middle notes are tarragon, lavender and violet leaf; base notes are sandalowood, musk and vanila.
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This is a pretty good fragrance in the low price sector.
It is not too brash, and it does not smell like the thousand other cheap perfumes you have smelled before.
Of course it doesn't last as long as others, but you could just reapply.
I like to wear it in spring and summer, it would have needed a bit more punch for the colder seasons.
I have two 30ml versions of this fragrance. It's actually quite nice. It's fresh and sweet. Love the pineapple fruity notes. I carry it on my bag since it doesn't last very long, but the 30ml bottles are easy to carry around and re-apply. It's perfect for spring and summer.
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Pilot Study of Rituximab for the Treatment of Acute Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP)
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Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, Idiopathic |
Drug: Rituximab Drug: Placebo |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor) Primary Purpose: Prevention |
Official Title: | A Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo Controlled Pilot Trial of Rituximab for Non-splenectomized Adults With Acute Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura Receiving Standard Treatment (R-ITP) |
- Feasibility of recruitment [ Time Frame: 3 years ]
- Degree of adherence to the study protocol [ Time Frame: 3 years ]
- Event free survival in controls [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- Bleeding [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- rescue therapy [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- Platelet count response [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- Quality of life [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- Circulating CD-20 positive lymphocytes [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- Platelet associated IgG [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
Enrollment: | 60 |
Study Start Date: | September 2006 |
Study Completion Date: | June 2011 |
Primary Completion Date: | December 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
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Active Comparator: A
Drug: Rituximab
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Other Name: Rituxan, Mabthera
Placebo Comparator: B
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Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is an autoimmune disease characterized by severe thrombocytopenia and bleeding. With current standard therapies, adult-onset ITP tends to recur thus exposing patients to prolonged risks of hemorrhage and toxicities of standard treatments. Rituximab, a chimeric anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody, has been shown to be effectively raise the platelet count in some patients with ITP and there is clinical and biological evidence to suggest that, if given early, rituximab may prevent ITP relapses.
We have designed a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled pilot trial of rituximab for the treatment of non-splenectomized adults with acute ITP who are receiving standard treatments. The primary objectives of this trial are to determine the feasibility of recruitment, randomization and blinding; the safety of rituximab in ITP; and the event rate in the control group which will be used to calculate the sample size for a larger trial. Secondary objectives are to determine rates of 6-month event free survival where an event is defined as any of: a platelet count <50; the need for rescue treatment; or significant bleeding. Data from this pilot trial will inform the design of a larger phase III trial.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Non-splenectomized patients with acute ITP, where "acute ITP" is defined as a platelet count below 30 at the time that standard treatment was recommended by a physician and for which no treatment had been received for the preceding 30 days.
- Must be receiving standard ITP treatment.
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- Cardiac arrhythmia.
- Uncontrolled hypertension or inability to hold antihypertensive medications for 12 hours prior to and throughout study drug infusions.
- Known coronary artery disease, angina pectoris or myocardial infarction within the last year.
- Significant pulmonary disease within the last year.
- Stroke, transient ischemic attack or venous thrombosis within the last year.
- Secondary causes of thrombocytopenia (splenomegaly [palpable spleen or radiologically confirmed >14 cm], drug-induced thrombocytopenia, hereditary thrombocytopenia, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, myelodysplastic syndrome).
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia or lymphoma.
- Active or metastatic cancer.
- History of hepatitis B or C or HIV.
- Active infection in the 4 weeks before randomization.
- Inherited coagulation factor deficiency.
- Aspirin, aspirin-containing compounds, salicylates, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDS) medications, clopidogrel or ticlopidine in the 7 days preceding study drug infusions; vitamin K antagonists (warfarin) in the 3 days preceding study drug infusions; unfractionated heparin or low molecular weight heparin in the 24 hours preceding study drug infusions.
- Elevated INR or prolonged PTT; LDH, serum creatinine, liver function tests (AST/SGOT, ALT/SGPT, alkaline phosphatase, total bilirubin) increased more than 1.5 times upper limit of normal.
- Prior rituximab treatment.
- Unable to schedule 4 weekly study infusions.
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding.
- Known sensitivity to murine proteins, Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cell proteins or to any component of rituximab.
- Participation in another clinical trial.
- Geographic inaccessibility.
- Failure to provide written informed consent.
- Any additional laboratory test result, health related illness or other diagnosis which, in the opinion of the treating physician, may put the subject's health or safety at risk.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00372892
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St. Paul's Hospital | |
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6Z 2A5 | |
Canada, Nova Scotia | |
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre | |
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 1V7 | |
Canada, Ontario | |
McMaster Univerisity | |
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8N3Z5 | |
Grand River Regional Cancer Centre | |
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, N2G 1G3 | |
London Health Sciences Centre | |
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 4S2 | |
Ottawa Health Research Institute | |
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1H 8L6 | |
University Health Network | |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 2C4 |
Principal Investigator: | Donald M Arnold, MD | McMaster University |
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Responsible Party: | Donald Arnold, MD, McMaster University |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00372892 History of Changes |
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Study First Received: | September 6, 2006 |
Last Updated: | June 6, 2012 |
Keywords provided by McMaster University:
Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Rituximab Feasibility study |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Purpura Purpura, Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, Idiopathic Blood Coagulation Disorders Hematologic Diseases Hemorrhage Pathologic Processes Skin Manifestations Signs and Symptoms Thrombotic Microangiopathies |
Thrombocytopenia Blood Platelet Disorders Immune System Diseases Hemorrhagic Disorders Autoimmune Diseases Rituximab Antineoplastic Agents Immunologic Factors Physiological Effects of Drugs Antirheumatic Agents |
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Justice for the family of Marvin Booker may have to wait. On Monday, Booker's brother, sister-in-law and cousins stood in front of the statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. in City Park and expressed their disappointment that the civil lawsuit they filed against the city and the sheriff's deputies whose actions they say led to Booker's death at the Denver jail in July 2010 will now be delayed. The trial was supposed to start today.
"We know for a fact that it was a murder that night," said Booker's brother, Spencer Booker, a preacher in Kansas City. "They need to face us."
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On July 9, 2010, the 56-year-old Booker was brought to the Van-Cise Simonet Detention Center after he was arrested for failing to appear in court for a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. He spent several hours in the jail's processing area, mostly sleeping. At some point, he took off his shoes "for comfort," according to the lawsuit.
Attorneys for Booker and the city differ on what happened next. In the civil lawsuit Booker's family filed in October 2011 against the city, four law enforcement officers, Denver Health and two nurses, attorney Darold Killmer recounts the events like this: When Booker's name was finally called, he began walking toward the booking desk -- without his shoes. When he realized he didn't have them, he told the deputy who'd called his name that he needed to retrieve them from underneath his chair.
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The deputy told him not to, but Booker didn't listen. The deputy then "pursued Mr. Booker and grabbed his arm in an attempt to restrain him," Killmer wrote. "In what may fairly be described as a massive over-reaction, four other deputies then rushed in, violently restraining each of Mr. Booker's limbs and wrestling him" to the floor. One deputy put him in a "sleeper hold," while others attempted to subdue him with nunchucks, handcuffs and a Taser. They then carried his "limp, lifeless" body to a holding cell and left him until someone realized he wasn't breathing and called for help.
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However, attorneys for the defendants say the force used on Booker was necessary. They say he was belligerent, spitting at officers and telling them, "Fuck you." He resisted gentler attempts to restrain him, they say, and showed surprising strength in doing so.
They also point out that Booker suffered from several medical conditions, including congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. His heart was twice the normal size and an autopsy showed he had cocaine in his system. Booker, the defendant's lawyers wrote, "possessed most, if not all, of the classic symptoms for somebody at risk of sudden cardiac death."
This past July, the defendants asked a federal court judge to dismiss the civil lawsuit altogether. Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey had already decided not to press criminal charges, finding that Booker's actions "necessitated the use of force."
In December, U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson declined to do so. "If what they say is even remotely true and your officers did to this man what they claim they did," he asked the city's lawyers in court, "then how is it even conceivable that a reasonable officer wouldn't understand that that was unconstitutional and wrong?"
But the city and the other defendants are appealing Jackson's ruling -- and, Booker's family says, delaying justice. Though the trial scheduled to start today will now be postponed, or canceled if the defendants win their appeal, Spencer Booker and his wife Gail decided to travel to Denver this week anyway. They spent Monday marching in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Marade, which began in City Park at the foot of the King statue. Wearing a long black overcoat to protect against the morning chill, Spencer Booker said his brother Marvin was a King scholar who memorized the civil rights leader's speeches and even recited one when the King memorial was erected in the park in 2002.
"The officers (involved in Booker's death) have declared that they have 'qualified immunity,'" Booker told a group of assembled journalists. "'Qualified immunity' means to me that if my brother had a gun and tried to shoot at them, they could take his life. If my brother had a bat and was trying to beat them, perhaps they would have had 'qualified immunity.'... But my brother only went to get his shoes."
Booker said the family wants the deputies to answer for what happened. "For me, justice would be for them to face the citizens of Colorado," he said, "and let them decide whether or not they were justified in what they did to my brother by murdering him."
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#81) Cinnamon Bread Pudding
Do you love food?
I love food. I love food so much that I really, truly hate to see any be wasted.
That's why bread pudding is such an awesome sweet treat - a real "recycler recipe" :) It lets you use up stale bread that would otherwise end up in the trash and you can dress it up with whatever fix-ins you have in the cupboard (chocolate chips, dried fruit, bananas)!
For this bread pudding I used some homemade raisin bread (compliments of my mother-in-law) and some whiskey left behind from a recent girls' night.
I made the dessert for a small potluck with some of the girls and it was a hit. Although I found it a tad too sweet, the pudding was rich and the sauce was gooey and delicious - sounds like a great dessert to me :)
What are your favourite "recycler recipes"?
Cinnamon Raisin Bread Bread Pudding
3 cups stale cinnamon raisin bread, torn into bite-size pieces
3/4 cups milk (I used skim)
2 eggs
1/2 cup sugar (could easily use 1/4 cup)
1/2 cup brown sugar (could easily use 1/4 cup)
1 tbsp molasses
1/2 tbsp vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
-Set aside bread.
-Whisk together milk, eggs, sugars, molasses, vanilla, and cinnamon.
-Add bread and stir to coat. Let sit for 20 minutes.
-Preheat oven to 350oF.
-Butter 6 muffin cups.
-Divide mixture between 6 muffin cups.
-Bake for 15-20 minutes until custard has set. (A kinfe should come out almost clean)
-Let cool slightly in cups before serving.
Whiskey Caramel Sauce
2 tbsp butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 oz whiskey
1/4 cup evaporated milk or heavy cream
-Melt butter and sugar over medium heat.
-Add whiskey and let cook off for about 10 minutes, stirring often.
-Slowly add milk/cream, stirring constantly. Cook over low-medium heat for another 5 minutes. (I made mine ahead of time and as it sit in the pot it got thicker)
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Option Pricing using Realized Volatility
In the present paper we suggest to model Realized Volatility, an estimate of daily volatility based on high frequency data, as an Inverse Gaussian distributed variable with time varying mean, and we examine the joint properties of Realized Volatility and asset returns. We derive the appropriate dynamics to be used for option pricing purposes in this framework, and we show that our model explains some of the mispricings found when using traditional option pricing models based on interdaily data. We then show explicitly that a Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedastic model with Normal Inverse Gaussian distributed innovations is the corresponding benchmark model when only daily data is used. Finally, we perform an empirical analysis using stock options for three large American companies, and we show that in all cases our model performs significantly better than the corresponding benchmark model estimated on return data alone. Hence the paper provides evidence on the value of using high frequency data for option pricing purposes.
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2009-33, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
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"Modeling and Forecasting Realized Volatility,"
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01-01, Wharton School Center for Financial Institutions, University of Pennsylvania.
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Predictive Active Set Selection Methods for Gaussian Processes
Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article – Annual report year: 2011
We propose an active set selection framework for Gaussian process classification for cases when the dataset is large enough to render its inference prohibitive. Our scheme consists of a two step alternating procedure of active set update rules and hyperparameter optimization based upon marginal likelihood maximization. The active set update rules rely on the ability of the predictive distributions of a Gaussian process classifier to estimate the relative contribution of a datapoint when being either included or removed from the model. This means that we can use it to include points with potentially high impact to the classifier decision process while removing those that are less relevant. We introduce two active set rules based on different criteria, the first one prefers a model with interpretable active set parameters whereas the second puts computational complexity first, thus a model with active set parameters that directly control its complexity. We also provide both theoretical and empirical support for our active set selection strategy being a good approximation of a full Gaussian process classifier. Our extensive experiments show that our approach can compete with state-of-the-art classification techniques with reasonable time complexity. Source code publicly available at http://cogsys.imm.dtu.dk/passgp.
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Journal | Neurocomputing |
Volume | 80 |
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- Gaussian process classification, Active set selection, Predictive distribution, Expectation propagation
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Urban grocery shoppers rejoice! In two years, Denver will finally boast a full-service grocery store in the heart of downtown. The mixed-use project, first reported by the DenverInfill blog, will be located at 20th Street and Chestnut Place, two blocks from Union Station, and will be helmed by the Nichols Partnership, the developers behind the Spire. Only one question remains: What grocery store will we get?
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[qoute] and they're part of what exactly.. hmm what i don't get is.. they do seem to have technology so they're not far back in time, and it seems like no one from "outside" the villages ever plays a part.. hmm so its just these villages of sound, leaf, sand, wind, mist.. etc[quote] well basically what he said above, But ALSO each village is part of a country, like leaf is part of FIre country. And the President of fire country has power of leaf village. |
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