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Full-figured women rely on Black Men Jeans jeans as an essential part of their casual attire. There are many varieties and colors of jeans that are available for this group. If you are a plus size lady you can find jeans that are made for your specific body type whether you are tall or short, pear-shaped or well-rounded. There is a jean available that will emphasize your best attributes and camouflage your flaws. The right fitting jean is a great addition to any wardrobe.
It is important to accept the shape and size of your body, and get over the fact that you are not a size 6 or 8, before you go shopping for a pair of jeans. When you do not accept yourself, they are negative thoughts, and they will make you have a negative image about yourself. Focus on the fact that you are a healthy woman. This will make it easier to find a pair of jeans that is so you!
It depends upon the manufacturer, of course, but larger size jeans usually come in sizes 14 to 28. Size 14 in a plus size garment generally corresponds to a 16 regular. Larger size dungarees are offered with "Misses" measurements and with "Junior" measurements. The former term means that the legs are looser, the hip section is wider, and the waistband sits higher than it does in the Juniors.
Jeans in a "junior" cut fit snugly in the leg and sit low on the waist. They are rather form-fitting, and full-figured shoppers should try on both jean cuts, taking into consideration their comfort and style, as well as the look. Model the different cuts in a full-length mirror, or, better yet, a three-way mirror, so that you can evaluate the fit from a number of perspectives. Make sure you are completely satisfied in every way before you buy. There is no best cut-it is a personal choice.
Full figured women who have a "pear" shape prefer boot cut jeans. A pear shaped body can be described as being biggest in the middle section (from the lower part of the stomach to the upper thighs).
Boot cut jeans are popular because they de-emphasize the longer part of the body, which is a slimming look. Boot cut jeans generally look better with shoes with a heel or even platform shoes instead of shoes with a flat heel.
Tapered jeans usually do not look good on a plus size woman and should be avoided, unless you really want to draw attention to the least liked parts of your body. Tapered style bottoms should really be reserved for the very thin girls.
Let's start with the colors that you need to have. Think PURPLE! Not just one hue, but all of shades of this versatile color. Try every shade from lilac to plum. This color is going to rev up your wardrobe and get you noticed. Purple is truly a winning color for everyone.
How do you make this color work for the office? Take a tailored updated suit in a neutral color (Grey, Khaki, Navy or for evening Black), add a lilac shirt, a printed or checked tie (with a bit of purple to pull out the color from the shirt), a great pair of leather dress shoes and belt and off to the office you go.
Do you want a more casual look? Get yourself a polo in a purple hue, throw on some distressed jeans and tennis shoes and you are ready to hit the streets. No matter how you choose to wear this color you are going to look fresh, clean and summer hot!
Next on the list is Black and White Stripes. I know I know you don't want to look like you just got out of jail. Just for the record, most jail jump suits are blazing orange. These Stripes are going to rock your wardrobe. Just please keep in mind not to take them to seriously. When going with a striped shirt you should consider layers. Throw a blazer or sweater over the top or even a printed t-shirt underneath and roll your sleeves.
Finally, and only for the brave of heart are neon colors. Crazy bright blues, yellows, loud oranges and even bright pink are the way to go. Neon colors are great for a jacket or details on jeans, shoes or even a gym bag. Just remember neon is going to draw a lot of looks. So make sure you don't mind the wows, the no's and everything in between.
Now let's talk denim. We all have that pair of jeans that we go to time after time. But guess what? It's time to go out and get you something new and fresh. That's right put those old jeans down and take your keester to a shop. This summer jeans are being worn both loose and tight. Find what works best for your body and what you will actually wear. Denim jackets are back with neon detailing and are super fitted.
Suits inspired by Seville Row are the last on our list. When updating your suiting look for items that are well tailored and offer modern details. Think classic colors done with shiny finishes, closely matched colors and fresh new pinstripes.
It's summer. So get out there, freshen up your look and enjoy! There is nothing like shedding those dark colors and brightening up!
The right pair of denim jeans may be the single most important piece of clothing in your wardrobe and will without a doubt be the most versatile piece in your collection. Plus size denim lines are ever increasing and the trend focused options available in standard sizing are rapidly becoming available for the plus size community. From your favorite tee to a kimono top, your entire look can be changed without ever taking off your denim. However, what looks stylish and sexy on one woman, makes another one look frumpy or outdated. So, how do you know what's right for you? Below are some basic guidelines to follow when shopping for the perfect piece of denim.
The golden rule is: Know what thyself is workin with! If you got it flaunt it, accentuate the positives. Booty like J Lo? Mile long legs? These are the features you want to accentuate. Work with different washes and of the minute denim shapes like boot-cut and wide leg that enhance your favorite features.
What is your body style? Wide Hips, avoid the temptation of drowning yourself in relaxed fit jeans, they will only add inches where you're trying to lose them. Instead draw the eye down and balance the body with a pair of slight flare boot-cut jeans in a mid rise that's fitted throughout the hips. If you have short legs, make sure you pay attention to the length; this is one of the most important aspects when choosing a pair of jeans. Denim should be about a half of an inch above the ground when wearing heels or flats. Darker washes, with a front crease from the knee to the hem, also elongate your legs. A new option re-emerging is the higher waist trouser jean, which not only slims, but creates the illusion of mile long legs. Girls with a boyish figure or a body style considered to be rectangular will want to opt for a cut that will add the illusion of having curves, such as a mid-rise flare leg jean, where the denim is fitted through the hips and thigh, with the flare beginning above the knee.
The devil is in the details; you will want to consider different details of the jean itself. A fan of distressing and aged denim? Make sure not to go overboard. Extreme fading or jeans that appear to be destroyed may be popular with 15 year old pop tarts, but in reality can look tacky and dated. Dark denim in a crisp shape is always chic, as is a medium wash with well placed whiskering. Pay attention to pocket shape and angle. Hexagonal shapes that angle in towards the center tend to work best in creating a heart shaped booty for any body. Pockets placed slightly higher on the tush tend to make a flat booty look perkier and higher. Flap, or cargo pockets, also add some oomph to a small tush. Long pockets that pass the bottom of the tush are fantastic for shaping and lifting an ample booty. Avoid excess fading on the butt and the thighs, as they will make these areas look larger. Also pay attention to a lot of whiskering around the zipper area, which can also accentuate the hips. When considering rise, most women will be best served by a mid rise (a few inches below your belly button).
When choosing the right pair of plus size denim know your body type first and foremost, it is the basis of your search. Know which styles will work with your type and most importantly, what makes you feel fabulous.
Plus size lingerie used to come supplied in something resembling industrial webbing. You know, it was a little like those cargo restraining devices that truckers use to secure heavy loads on long motorway journeys. Kind of military issue looking, functional but not very pretty to look at. Well hang onto your liberty bodices ladies because plus size lingerie just got sexy. Now you can buy the most beautiful and feminine little pieces of next to nothingness in just about any size imaginable.
With the advent of the internet and online shopping plus size lingerie has been made available in all those styles that were once only available to anorexia stick insects. Those ladies blest with a fuller figure can now lounge in lace or sleep in silk to their hearts content. With elegant pure silk nightwear in super plus sizes and matching lingerie sets up to double E there is something for everybody's body so to speak. Every woman deserves to feel sexy and feminine no matter what shape or size she is. Wearing nice lingerie in pure silk or soft smooth satin will make her feel special and confident whilst maybe even a little sexy too.
There are also some lovely ranges of plus size bridal lingerie available online too. With pure white satin basques and body shapers that will look stunning under that dream wedding dress complemented by those silky smooth bridal stockings and suspenders. With such a wonderful selection of beautiful bridal lingerie any bride will have a day (and night) to remember. Talking of the wedding night, there are some fabulous matching nightgown and robe sets available for the larger lady in the most sensuous fabrics. Pure silks and satins trimmed with delicate lace or satin bows will be a dream to wear on your wedding night or honeymoon.
All the styles you have always dreamt of are now readily available in silk, satin and lace. Now you can feel pampered and special in the bedroom as you recline in decadent silks or satins. The materials are stunning in both colour and texture, smooth to touch whilst beautiful on the eyes. Silk that shimmers and shines with every movement or smooth slinky satins soft against the skin. If you crave the ultimate silky luxury there are several online lingerie stores that will supply pure silk or satin slips made to measure for a perfect fit whatever your shape and size. Imagine the thrill of wearing one of those hand made creations of pure silk under your favorite dress. The feel of all that pure feminine silk brushing over your body, every movement a constant reminder of your intimate silky secret indulgence.
So ladies, the world of lingerie is your oyster at last. No more drab industrial strength canvas for you. Slip into silk and satin to feel like a real woman. Luxuriate in a full length silk nightgown and curl up with your partner for a romantic evening indoors or lounge around the house in a pair of shinny satin pajamas. Dress to please even if it's to please yourself. Treat yourself to something soft and slinky, you know you deserve it.


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Chinese Actress Jingchu Zhang stays at the Dan Tel Aviv
The Chinese actress Jingchu Zhang chose the Dan Tel Aviv as her hotel of choice during her location hunt for a film to be shot in Tel Aviv. She was delighted by the suite facing the sea and all the special treats waiting for her in the room; not to mention the wonders of Tel Aviv. Looking forward to welcome her and the rest of the crew back during the filming.< Back to In The News

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MIAMI BEACH (Oct. 7)
Brigadier General E. Ben-Arzi, president of El Al Israel Airlines, today received a citation from the American Society of Travel Agents, for Israel's "courageous stand" in fighting against the continuation of pro-rata charter travel to Israel. The award was presented at the 34th annual World Travel Congress here which he addressed. In his response he urged the delegates to play a responsible part in the growth and development of the tourist factor, warning against the "blandishments of the get-rich-quick gimmick, the here-today-gone-tomorrow operator, the below-the-belt discount and the under-the-table arrangement. "


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If you are considerably older than the long lasting orchid in your pot, you might recall Jean Kerr's bestselling 1960 collection of hu morous essays, `Please Don't Eat the Daisies', made into an equally hilarious movie starring Doris Day and David Niven, and then blooming again as a successful TV series. Today, you would be counted among the outre-food-nibbling avant gauche set, if you did not indeed eat those common or garden daisies. Yes `flowery' is now more than just the language on luxe menus.
Culinary flower power is as old as your grandmother's remedies. It has been jumped up in gourmet kitchens for several years now, but it seems to be in high bloom these days. Will it be a case of the geranium-scented roast that `once has blown, forever dies?' Perhaps when the long-lasting love affair with the natural ends up in divorce proceedings as messy as a dropped egg. But this is unlikely to be any time soon considering that today no flower dares raise its head without fear of being lopped off for a salad, stew, souffle or even shorba or saalan. Sad, but what to do? Chefs are ever under pressure to produce `something hatke' for the haute gourmand.
For ever so long, everything served had to be `baby', to the extent that a wit had commented, `Soon it will be illegal to eat any vegetable that is past the age of puberty . Now we've pushed the age even further back, and catch it at the flowering stage.
So like little girls in English fairy tales, chefs, umm, skip through gardens and woods gathering all the buds of May and the whole year. Last year, London's historic Kew Gardens had a summerlong show-off, The IncrEdibles. It displayed not only the traditionally eaten seeds, roots, shoots, fruits and leaves, but also the jaw-dropping variety of blooms served up by different cuisines.
Elderflower wine can go into retirement, the younger ones have taken over the table.
Returning, I found that the London-based Vineet Bhatia had taken a Kew from that show, and created a marigold-centred menu at his Mumbai Oberoi restaurant. It opened with an amuse bouche of a vegetarian Marigold Tomato Caviar and closed with `Golden Mary', a dessert duo in which a ShrikhandMarigold Kulfi cohabited khullam-khulla with a Marigold-Menthol `Paan'acotta, with the festive genda-phool in everything in between.
Jiggs Kalra, the big degh of innovative menus as much as of revival cuisine, was arguably the first to put unusual partners onto the same bed of rice, polenta or pureed pumpkin. Taking the gulab out of the garnish, the jal and the gulkand, he created rose petal icecream as apt toast to the English rose, Princess Diana, when she came visiting. It may have taken some of the edge off having to visit the Taj Mahal in pensive single-ness while her prince cavorted back home with his mistress, named after the delicate camellia, but there the connection ended.
Jiggs had been my brash-colt colleague at the Illustrated Weekly of India, and provider of many fine meals in those days of papad-thin finances thanks to the food column he had talked himself into at the now-also-defunct Evening News of India. So, I can take an aunty-ji pride in the way his son Zorawar has turned into a chef-restaurateur.
At Masala Library , in Mumbai's swashbuck ling Bandra-Kurla Complex, Zorawar presents `gourmet Punjabi'. You might dismiss that as an oxymoron, but his molecular gastronomy creations would shut you off in mid-scoff. The s phool mandi has insinuated itself o into his lauki and lamb. And his `paan candy floss' sorbet arrives as a potted plant bearing fluffy cotton-woolly blooms looking too good to eat. The too-good-looking-to-eat celebrity chef Vikas Khanna also uses mango and mustard blossoms in his recipes, but certainly not in the way your dadi did.
It must be out there, though I haven't come across the gourmet avatar of the little white flowers of the drumstick tree so delicately used in Kerala's muringapoo thoran, lightly stir-fried and tempered. Such lush states half as gold as green can afford to cook flowers instead of letting them turn into the more economic fruitvegetable. Bengalis go into ecstasies over their mochar ghonto and chops, but personally , I don't think it's worth all that effort of separating the banana flowers's sap-sticky stamens from pistils.
But I am a huge fan of the delicate kumro phooler bhaja; there is something deliciously decadent about the thought that, left on the vine, the bell-shaped yellow bloom would have turned into a pumpkin which could have fed an entire village.
The mashimas I buttered up to gain entry into their ranna-ghor didn't stuff these with ricotta the way Anurudh Khanna (executive chef at the Westin, Pune) and Mikhail Shahani (of Mumbai's Two One Two) do with zucchini flowers. The former uses lavender in creme brulee and smoked salmon.
One concluding conundrum: if the whole flower-bed ends up on our plate, will the table's `floral arrangement' soon have to be composed of broccoli and bhindi? Eek!


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Saturday, July 29, 2006
We went to see Scoop, Woody Allen's new movie, yesterday. It's light and insubstantial. Very old- fashioned in some ways, almost like a color version of some old b&w comedy/mystery from the '40s. The plot is kind of silly, an amiable shaggy dog story, and any mystery fan is going to be onto it almost instantly. It relies on a non-scary ghost to kick it off, and I can't even begin to tell you the number of flaws in it. We liked it anyway. That's because Woody Allen's humor has always connected with me, and Judy gets it, too. Heck, we're still laughing about lines from Take the Money and Run, which we saw 40 years ago. ("I have a gub.") Hugh Jackman is appealing, and Woody's great at playing the old magician, Splendini, who poses as the father of Scarlett Johansson. His jokes are even older than the ones from Take the Money and Run, but some of them are very funny. And, as much as I hate to admit it, Johansson has finally won me over. She's much more interesting to me as a nerdy college journalism student than when she's tarted up the way she is for The Black Dahlia. I can't recommend Scoop, and I can see why it hasn't gotten great reviews. All I can say is that it made me smile and that I enjoyed it.
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- mtmorgan said...
I'm a bit of a lapsed Woody fan. I think Crimes and Misdemeanors was the last good film he did before Match Point, which is fantastic. Maybe his best. I'd like to see Scoop on the big screen if it ever comes around here. Which is unlikely. Good to see Woodman 's still in a criminous mood.
- Bill said...
Barely criminous, though.
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Oh science, you sure do have a thing for making mice do strange things. The latest strange thing they've done to mice? Made them super strong.
By altering a gene that inhibits muscle growth, Swiss scientists were able to brew up a batch of mice twice as strong as normal. These findings could lead to new treatments for ailments that cause muscular degeneration — or at least that's what these scientists put in their grant applications. In reality these guys are probably dreaming of injecting themselves with the stuff and cruising the library for scientist chicks.
"Let me carry that box of beakers baby — I have the strength of two normal scientists. Oof, wow, still kind of heavy. Maybe if you take the other end…"
Oh, and super strength wasn't the only power they managed to give these mice. They also had super endurance and an extra resistance to cold. I can only imagine the havoc this is going to cause in the world of professional cross-country skiing.
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Image Fusion
Image fusion is the very latest imaging technology that combines the anatomical detail of CT (Computerized Tomography) technology with the molecular metabolic information derived from PET (Positron Emission Tomography).
Almost everyone is familiar with CT or "CAT" scans, which have been commonplace in medicine for approximately 30 years. CT scans are great tools when looking for cancer yet they are sometimes unable to detect tiny, often sub-clinical masses. Dedicated PET imaging is a nuclear medicine procedure in which a radioactive isotope, is injected into the patient. The glucose, or "sugar" component of the FDG allows it to be "taken up" in cells seeking sugar. Because cancer cells are sugar-seekers, a disproportionate amount of FDG is captured within malignancies, making even tiny tumors visible on PET scans.
PET therefore, succeeds where conventional CT fails, because it provides for the imaging of very small tumors, and while a diagnosis of cancer cannot be made without a biopsy, PET can prove to be a strong indicator. PET has also proven very useful in staging cancer patients, sometimes eliminating the need for surgery.
At the SOMC Cancer Center we are able to utilize the CT/PET image that has been taken and combine it with our treatment planning CT. This is very helpful to your radiation oncologist because he/she can design your treatment around the cancer that is visualized on your combined CT/PET image. In essence, it provides the best of both the CT and PET worlds and matches to our radiation treatment plan.
Who do you call if you have questions?
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Got a 'Crush' on hits from 1986? It'll be gone after this podcast
Let's face is: 1986 was a forgettable year in pop music. The chart was overrun with bubblegum pop and Reagan-esque anthems about drugs and safe sex.
Band like The Jets -- the '80s version of the Osmonds meet the Gosselins -- cranked out tunes that we've largely forgotten. And for good reason. They felt shabby and disposable. But now, 24 years later, they seem ... okay, they're guilty pleasures at best.
So it's with a certain amount of melancholy that we give you this week's Stuck in the '80s podcast: The Horrible Hits of 1986.
We promise you'll scream and pound your head against the frozen tundra of whatever icestorm-stricken state you live in. But somewhere along the way, you'll find peace of mind with that year in pop music. (But better have an ambulance standing by. Just in case.)
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When the news came out that bighorn sheep will be reintroduced to the Santa Catalinas, suspicions quickly arose: They must be doing it so hunters can kill the sheep.
Locals such as Tommy Di Maggio, who runs a pack-goat outfitting business in the Rincons and Catalinas, concluded the whole project doesn't make sense without a hunting motive.
"This is another opportunity to have a place where you can cull, harvest, bighorn sheep," said Di Maggio, who is a hunter himself, though he doesn't like the idea of moving sheep to hunt them later.
These concerns worried me, too, but it turns out the picture is more complicated than that. Hunting of older rams in this herd, if it's ever established, may become possible over the long run, but not for at least five years.
And even if it does happen, it's likely to be limited and isn't necessarily a bad thing - except to those rams that are killed.
The hunting of bighorns and their survival have been paradoxically linked in Arizona since the 1950s.
The Catalina Bighorn Advisory Committee, the diverse set of interest groups who have put together the project, hasn't touched the issue of hunting of the transplanted bighorn population. This committee includes representatives of several groups who more often fight with each other than cooperate, but they've been able to agree on the plan to introduce 30 bighorn sheep per year to Pusch Ridge, starting in November and going for three years.
Hunting the bighorns "is an issue we haven't even talked about," said Jenny Neeley, a member of the committee who is the Sky Island Alliance's conservation policy director. "It isn't even on our radar."
Randy Serraglio, a committee member from the Center for Biological Diversity, wrote me an email before dropping off the grid in the Rocky Mountains last week:
"By rule, a reintroduced herd cannot be hunted for at least five years. Beyond that, there is a very careful demographic formula used to determine how many tags can be issued for a given herd without affecting the population, which is usually a very low number (e.g., only one tag issued for the entire Silverbell herd last year). So, the Catalinas herd will not be hunted any time soon, if ever, therefore a non-issue at this point."
In the state, 107 tags are available for bighorn sheep this year, meaning up to that number of mature rams may be killed by hunters, Arizona Game and Fish field supervisor Joe Sacco told me. That compares with 42,280 deer tags.
While bighorn sheep are not an endangered species, they are more sensitive to human activity and other pressures than some other large mammals are. One reason is that the ewes only give birth to one lamb at a time, meaning the survival of each year's young is key for the population to take hold.
Members of the committee think the improvement in sheep habitat produced by wildfires in the Catalinas over the last 10 years, along with planned burnings, will help allow the newly introduced animals to do better than the old Pusch Ridge herd did as their numbers declined in the 1980s and 1990s. Predators such as mountain lions can hide in the brush that survives in the absence of fires, and food plants also can flourish after fires.
If a Catalina herd becomes established, hunters will be interested in them, longtime Tucson sportsman Larry Audsley told me. But removing older rams - those permitted to be killed by hunting regulations - can leave the population largely unaffected.
"It's not a bad thing at all to remove a dominant ram and let other, younger rams, with different DNA, keep the gene pool diverse," Audsley said.
Even if you write off that explanation as mere justification by hunters, there are a couple of other factors that suggest hunting would not be a bad thing if it ever comes to that.
Audsley and Vail-based hunting guide Pat Feldt surprised me by explaining that people actually eat bighorn meat. I suspected that they were strictly a trophy-hunting target, which would bother me. Feldt called it "one of the finer meats in Arizona."
"Everybody's main goal is to kill a nice big trophy ram. You take the meat out with you, and you eat the meat," Feldt said. "It's not like eating domesticated lamb. Lamb has a strong musky flavor. It's a milder flavor."
Audsley said he ranks bighorn sheep meat as worse than elk but better than deer.
Hunting of sheep has also helped their recovery in Arizona. The tags cost $280 each for residents, or almost $1,500 each for non-residents, and there are occasional raffles of opportunities to hunt anywhere in the state that bring in more than $100,000. Hunters are allowed to take just one ram in their lives.
Between 1984 and 2011, the tags and raffles have raised $6.8 million that goes back into helping bighorn sheep populations.
"It's unquestionable that it's been a benefit," said Brian Dolan, an Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Society member who is on the Catalina project committee.
Game and Fish funnels the money to organizations like the society, who carry out projects like building water catchments in bighorn territory.
For some people that may be a distasteful compromise - letting animals be killed in the hope that it helps the same species thrive. But I'm pragmatic - and a fisherman who made peace with this sort of compromise and fiddling with nature a long time ago.
As always, Game and Fish's decisions require monitoring. But in the long run, we can count ourselves lucky if hunting in this new bighorn population becomes possible.
"Everybody's main goal is to kill a nice big trophy ram. You take the meat out with you, and you eat the meat."
Pat Feldt
Vail-based hunting guide
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Affiliation: Columbia University
Country: USA
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- Polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of varicella-zoster virus isolates from the United States and other parts of the worldP LaRussa
Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA
J Infect Dis 178:S64-6. 1998..At this point, there is no evidence that wt strains resembling the vaccine are circulating outside of Japan. This indicates that this PCR assay can be utilized to distinguish rashes due to vaccine and wt VZV...
- Viral strain identification in varicella vaccinees with disseminated rashesP LaRussa
Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 19:1037-9. 2000..Although some vaccinees will develop zoster, it is less common in recipients of vaccine than in those who have had natural varicella...
- Association of HIV-1 viral phenotype in the MT-2 assay with perinatal HIV transmissionPhilip Larussa
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 30:88-94. 2002..35) and log(10) viral load (OR = 2.11; CI: 1.19-3.74). Finally, the association of NSI phenotype with transmission was stronger in transmitting women who received azidothymidine during pregnancy compared with transmitters who did not...


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Julie B. Schweitzer, Ph.D.
Director, Attention, Impulsivity, Regulation (AIR)/ADHD Program UC Davis MIND Institute; Co-Center Mentoring Director of the MIND Institute; Co-Director, Mentored Clinical Research Training Program – CTSC, UC Davis; Director, UC Davis Schools of Health Mentoring Academy; Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UC Davis School of Medicine
UC Davis MIND Institute
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Sacramento, CA 95817
Phone: 916-703-0294
E-mail: email@example.com
Dr. Schweitzer's interests include the identification and treatment of attention-deficit/ hyperactivity (ADHD) and related disorders in children and adults using behavioral, neuropsychological and functional neuroimaging methods. Other interests include the use of reinforcement and learning paradigms in imaging as applied to psychopathology. Dr. Schweitzer's goal is to apply translational research methods using a variety of basic behavioral and physiological techniques to develop novel treatment and preventative approaches to addressing attentional disorders and optimal treatments based on subtypes of ADHD. Additional funded collaborative work includes projects testing the effects of prenatal drug exposure on adolescent brain function and behavior and the effects of schizophrenia on reinforcement and learning impairments via fMRI and behavior. Dr. Schweitzer is the Director of the ADHD Program at the MIND Institute at the UC Davis School of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Schweitzer is committed to the development of junior faculty and postdoctoral scholars in the implementation of translational research. She is the Associate Director of the Mentored Clinical Research Training Program within the UC Davis CTSC and on the steering committee of the Mentoring Academy for the UC Davis Schools of Health Sciences.
A.B., Psychology, University of Southern California, 1982
M.S., Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1987
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1990


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Custom Search
What Robots.txt is And Search Engine Robots Explained
You have a website and it has to be indexed by search engines so that users can find you through search engine search. This task is accomplished by search engine robots.
Search engine robot is also known as crawler or spider.
Search engine robots are also called search engine spiders, search engine crawlers, etc. These robots are human written software programs that can automatically and constantly visit millions of websites everyday and include what they find into search engine databases. This process is called crawling or spidering.
When a robot visits your site, the very first file it looks for is robots.txt file which should locate in your web root directory. That is the directory where your home page locates. For example, http://www.yoursite.com/robots.txt
Simply put, robots.txt gives you total control of
Using Robots.txt is not compulsory. If missing, search engine robots assume your entire site is allowed to be visited and indexed by any crawlers.
Search engine robots are automated crawling software that visit websites and travel the web via web links. Commercial robots follow The Robots Exclusion Protocol. Not all robots comply with the Protocol, but majorities do.
You can create robots.txt by using simple text editor such as Notepad. In this file, you control the following two things:
1. Which search engine robots can visit your site.
robots.txt code examples:
If robots.txt file does not exist or the file exists but has empty content, it indicates that all robots are allowed to access any part of the site.
Note: in the following syntax, anything after # is comments. Robots ignore that part.
More robots.txt tools and resources
Ban bad web robots
Not all search engine robots are good. Anyone with good programming skills in languages such as C++, and scripting languages such as Python or PHP can write a robot program.
Because of its low Barriers to Entry, there are hundreds of web crawlers out on the internet. Some of these robots are written to fetch and download web pages of a full website onto computer hard drives for the purpose of plagiarism. These robots sometimes do not even obey the rules you set up in robots.txt. These spambots could seriously eat up your website's monthly bandwidth usage.
If you are concerned about spambots, you can set up bad robots trap and then ban them.
Read the following two articles for some great information:
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If anyone needs further proof that capitalism kills (and warps and maims), on top of the already endless volumes written condemning the system, a recent scientific study published in the highly respected peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet explores the correlation between privatization and mortality in the former Soviet Union and other Eastern European socialist countries from last century. The study, titled "Mass privatization and the post-communist mortality crisis: a cross-national analysis," is significant because, as the editors of The Lancet introduce it:
A useful drug alters the course of illness in around one in ten people who take it, as opposed to placebo. What about an intervention that saves millions of lives? Or an intervention that kills millions of people? The economic and social restructuring of
The study examines the effects of mass privatization in the former
The authors, David Stuckler from the
The highest rise in male mortality rates were experienced by the five countries
The authors are not making the case that privatization alone causes an increase in mortality, nor even contribute solely to the conditions which may lend themselves to such an increase. In fact, they show that those countries that adopted a more gradual approach in transition to capitalism, where increased unemployment was absent and where foreign direct investment was prevalent, did not see a marked rise in mortality.
That is not to say that privatization and private ownership of productive assets, defining features of the capitalist system (along with markets and corporate hierarchies), do not help create the conditions which may lead to increased mortality rates. The authors, again focusing only on former so-called socialist countries, find "rapid mass privatization" to be associated with an increase in male mortality rates due to possible contributing factors such as psychological stress, decreased access to medical care, as well as decreased quality of care, increased poverty and unemployment, loss of social capital, social disorganization, and increased alcohol usage. Such factors not only plagued the former so-called socialist countries of last century, before their transition to capitalism, but also afflict actually existing capitalist countries everywhere today.
The key findings of the study are:
Mass privatization programs were associated with an increase in short-term adult male mortality rates of 12·8% (95% CI 7·9—17·7; p<0·0001), with similar results for the alternative privatization indices from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (7·8% [95% CI 2·8—13·0]). One mediating factor could be male unemployment rates, which were increased substantially by mass privatization (56·3% [28·3—84·3]; p<0·0001). Each 1% increase in the percentage of population who were members of at least one social organization decreased the association of privatization with mortality by 0·27%; when more than 45% of a population was a member of at least one social organization, privatization was no longer significantly associated with increased mortality rates (3·4% [95% CI −5·4 to 12·3]; p=0·44).
Interpreting these findings the authors propose that "Rapid mass privatization as an economic transition strategy was a crucial determinant of differences in adult mortality trends in post-communist countries; the effect of privatization was reduced if social capital was high. These findings might be relevant to other countries in which similar policies are being considered."
First, there is the authors' curious use of the phrase "economic transition strategy" which implies here, whether the authors used it purposefully or not, that there was a conscious economic program to move from one economic system (central planning) to another (capitalism). Why would the former socialist block consciously move towards capitalism? Was it a democratic decision desired by the majority population of the
What is also interesting is the last finding above, "when more than 45% of a population was a member of at least one social organization, privatization was no longer significantly associated with increased mortality rates," suggesting that greater community organization, solidarity, and perhaps even participation and membership in a social organization ("social capital") significantly diminishes health vulnerabilities in positions of class disparity, however, not completely, nor even remotely enough to ignore class discrepancies in wealth, power, and privilege. The study's finding suggests that greater community participation can counter the re-production of mild class disparities correlated with extreme consequences (in this case increased mortality rates associated with many other factors) in the economic sphere, at least to a degree. Does this mean that 100% community control over socio-political and economic institutions could greatly enhance quality of life? It is certainly an argument that anti-capitalists have made.
Additionally, critics of capitalism and authoritarianism could point out the adverse effects of market competition on community membership and participation where patterns of bargaining power in market transactions favoring private consumption of goods and services over public ones remove incentive to behave in solidaritous ways that foster community—a necessary pre-condition for collective participation and building "social capital." Critics would also point out that whether an economy is centrally planned or market capitalist people have no decision-making control over their lives. Unless one is positioned within the top 20% of the wealth and power scale, decisions about where one lives, works, and what they produce or consume—their social and material destinies—are determined by structures and forces entirely outside of their control. Such dispossession from power over our lives and the things that affect us, whether from racism, sexism, ageism, or classism—accumulating and generalized oppressions afflicting every moment of daily life—could just as easily result in "psychological stress," alcoholism, and mass anti-social behavior as they do from privatization, poverty, and job loss—factors the authors of the study identify as possible contributors to what they call a "mortality crisis."
The conclusion we should draw, of course, is the necessity of realizing a new classless and participatory society; the result of struggle for transformation of the totality of social and material relations and for perpetuation of self-management, solidarity, equity, and diversity where socio-political and economic institutions are under total social control.


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Hi Sublimers Gods...
I want to say, SublimeText is awesome, and I just love it... just a couple of things to make it perfect!:
1- I need a replace in all open documents: That would be nice and I don't know why this feature is not there.2- It was better the previous icon of sublimetext.3- The price of sublimetext is a little expensive... if you sell it $30 would be nice.
Thank you for create such a great program.
Saludos from Costa Rica...
1395 opened features requests on userecho
How is it possible to manage all these requests ?There are probably lot of good idea among them, but I don't even have the courage to look at them and vote.
Does it really useful to add new requests ? Look like a waste of time...
Not to mention the ones I've recently looked at have all be completed in the latest nightly builds, yet still not marked, so there are bound to be duplicates.
If Jon could appoint moderators for userecho that could be handy!
Brad Choate -- bradchoate.com/ did it for TextMate and I can assure you that it is really useful. You can publish your code as you see it in ST2 in any forum not just as mere plain text, but with its alignment and syntax coloring. The plugin for TextMate is doctohtml.rb and yes, it is written in the marvelous Ruby. The problem here is it depends on environment variables and some snippets written in the TextMate libs.
Is the code what I miss most in SublimeText2. Does anyone have done anything related to it?
This will do what you want ; https://github.com/facelessuser/ExportHtmlYou can get it from github or install with package control.
Thanks a lot… It is really powerful…!
Buenas, compre el producto, muy buen editor de textos. Por ahora lo que quiero que agreguen es soporte para Pascal y Mediawiki, si bien Pascal no lo uso, el formato de Mediawiki si.
I'm using the terminal plenty. And I'm sure many users are. I'd love it if you could just create projects with sublime's ctl!
Great software!
Hi, I'm newee on sublime, before I was using dreamwaver cs6, and I'm missing one of the features, wich displays the related files of the document, I mean, I was able to see the "file1.js" and all the other java or css files within the same group.Is this option allowed in the current version, or is there a package for do that?
You must be mistaken the feature is still there. I am not surprised you are leaving cs6 it's not as good.
Syntax highlight keyword can add&edit&set highlight color.
for Retina display
Define a custom filter method for the quick panel
API for sidebarAPI for access indexed symbolsAPI (documented) for generating custom autocompletesAPI for change width of autocomplete windowAPI for tooltips
Yeah, More API + APis!! No features, just APIs!
What about Open sourcing the shipped Packages/ folder, lot of "errors" have been fixed by the community.
Would love to see the core packages open sourced.
I've been curious about what it would take to get a community driven 'core packages' group setup on github and have an alternate channel for Package Control to hit and grab those.


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Real Salt Lake registered its first ever win in Texas last summer, when the team overcame the absence of four key players due to international duty to win 3-0 at FC Dallas on July 13, 2013.
Despite playing without Gold Cup participants Captain Kyle Beckerman, goalkeeper Nick Rimando, forward Alvaro Saborio and defender Tony Beltran, RSL still romped over FCD, getting a spectacular one goal, two assist performance from midfielder Javier Morales and tallies from Ned Grabavoy and Olmes Garcia to beat Dallas 3-0. The win was RSL's 100th in regular season play and the team's first in 23 matches in the Lone Star State. The match also marked Jeff Attinella's debut, with the then-third-string 'keeper coming on for an injured Josh Saunders, who suffered a torn ACL in the game.
RSL will again be without Beckerman, Rimando and Saborio this Saturday, when the Claret-and-Cobalt will host FC Dallas at 7:30 p.m. MT at Rio Tinto Stadium. Check out the highlights of last July's win before Saturday's match, and let's hope for a similar result this weekend.


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theJudeAbides wrote: Additionally, I'm glad to see them giving the Imperials some love. Other than the Star Destroyer and TIE Interceptor, they've largely ignored the Imperials in the UCS line (Meanwhile, the rebels have the X-Wing, Y-Wing, Snowspeeder, Tantive IV, and Millenium Falcon).
Largely ignored? 10143, 10174, and 10175 cause me to take issue with that statement.


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Calamos reopens its Bronze-rated convertible fund, while ClearBridge announces plans to close to new investors its Silver-rated small-cap growth fund. And a small UBS international-stock fund is set to get a dramatic makeover.
On Sept. 5, Denver-based money manager Arrowpoint Partners, which is headed by former Janus portfolio managers, closed on its purchase of Aster Investment Management, which is the advisor to the Meridian funds. Terms were not disclosed. Just prior to the closing of the transaction, shareholders of the funds approved a new investment management agreement in which Arrowpoint's Chad Meade and Brian Schaub became the new skippers of Meridian Growth MERDX. Meade and Schaub managed Neutral-rated Janus Triton JATTX from July 2006 to May 2013 and Neutral-rated Janus Venture JAVTX from July 2010 to May 2013, posting top-flight returns at both charges, before joining Arrowpoint. They're expected to ply a small- and mid-cap growth strategy at Meridian Growth that strongly resembles the one they used at Triton. The San Francisco-based managers they're replacing at Meridian Growth are expected to stay on at the firm; William Tao is supposed to assist Meade and Schaub, while Jamie England and Larry Cordisco will continue to work on the value team. England also will continue comanaging the very small Meridian Equity Income MEIFX, which has assets of just $30 million.
The name of Meridian Value MVALX has changed to Meridian Contrarian as part of the agreement, but its strategy and managers aren't changing.
Calamos Reopens Convertible Fund
Calamos Convertible CCVIX announced its reopening as of Sept. 6. The fund closed in October 2012. John Calamos Sr., Calamos' CEO and co-Global CIO, pointed to a robust new issue market as the reason for the fund's reopening. Driving the new issue market, he said, have been an improving global economy and widening spreads that have increased interest of convertible security issuers. He also noted that, in a rising-rate environment experiencing economic expansion, convertibles have historically performed better than more-traditional fixed-income counterparts. This Bronze-rated fund, which has assets of $1.1 billion, is managed by a team of experienced managers and analysts with top-down input from Calamos Sr. and Gary Black.
Separately, Calamos Convertible in June added Eli Pars to its broad team of managers. Pars is a senior vice president and co-portfolio manager on Calamos' Growth/Fixed Income Team, focused on global convertibles. With the addition of Pars, Calamos Convertible now has 10 named managers.
ClearBridge to Close Silver-Rated Small Cap Growth Next Month
ClearBridge Small Cap Growth SASMX is closing to new investors as of Oct. 1. This fund, which has a Morningstar Analyst Rating of Silver, has had strong performance, including top-quartile returns in 2011 and 2012, which attracted more and more inflows. The fund, managed by Aram Green and Jeffrey Russell, now has $2.6 billion in assets.
UBS to Convert International-Equity Fund Into Sustainable Fund
UBS is planning to give a significant makeover to a small international-stock fund, converting it into a fund focused on global firms whose business models stand to benefit from sustainability trends and that are in socially responsible lines of business.
Around Oct. 28, UBS International Equity BNIEX will change its name to UBS Global Sustainable Equity Fund and swap out its management. Current managers Nicholas Irish, who is based in London, and Stephan Maikkula, who is based in San Diego, will be replaced by the Chicago-based duo of Bruno Bertocci and Shari Gilfillan. (Bertocci had comanaged the fund from 1998 until 2003.) UBS long has had a global sustainable equity strategy available overseas, and Bertocci has been that strategy's lead portfolio manager since 2007.
Irish and Maikkula will remain with UBS, and Irish will stay on as the manager of the $87 million Nationwide Global Equity GGEAX, which was a fund adoption of UBS' former global equity fund. Both Maikkula and Irish will continue to manage strategies for clients globally, including U.S.-registered funds through UBS' subadvisory business.
On the revamped fund, Bertocci and Gilfillan plan to invest at least 65% of assets in companies based outside the U.S. and will use both positive and negative screening processes to identify potential securities for the fund. They plan to exclude stocks related to alcohol, tobacco, defense, nuclear weapons, genetically modified organisms, water bottles, gambling, and pornography. They'll also look for fundamentally attractive, undervalued companies whose business models benefit from sustainability trends, particularly in the areas of energy efficiency, environmental, health-care, and social improvements.
UBS International Equity has just $18 million in assets. The fund has meaningfully lagged its category and index over one- and three-year time frames and has roughly produced the same return as its category and index over the past five years. It also has underperformed meaningfully over 10- and 15-year time frames.
Senior fund analysts Greg Carlson, Cara Esser, and Gregg Wolper and fund analysts Robert Goldsborough and Kailin Liu contributed to this report.
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Hi all,
I live over in the UK and have started a cake decorating business in the last 6 months or so formally. I have a website which rates as second on google when you type in wedding cakes Swansea, which is where I live. Although I am not getting as many requests as I would like. I have some links with local wedding businesses but it appears that most are not keen and have friends in the field that they are helping to promote only. I have been given mixed ideas about doing wedding fairs and whether they pay off at all.
I am wondering if there are any other ways which I can promote my business. I'm not sure how much money to put into advertising as I don't know if the rewards of it are enough.
Any advice would be great.
I looked at your website which makes a very nice presentation. There are two BUTS...
In the galleries, there is a link to your facebook page under the page header. Why isn't that just shown under "contact"?
My browser froze before the entire wedding cakes gallery loaded. Something is trying to run much bigger files than other sites with similar catalogues.
So--I don't know what that does to your local sales. You may be coming across as "too big" in a market where there seem to be local decorators.
You will already have read on Cake Central, that in North America, bridal fairs are generally not worth the investment. We don't know what level of fees you would be charged in Swansea or Bristol or London for that matter.
So maybe you need to link up with a local venue that is known to host high-end weddings.
Thanks for the reply, I'm unsure what you mean by "too big" Are the pictures too high quality ?
any advice?
Facebook? not sure how that happened as I am a bit of a novice
Thanks again
I meant that the pictures make you look like a very high-end and therefore high-priced business.
Let me steer you to what might be a local example. If you have ever been to Plas Bodfa, you might know that it was at one time an expansion of a cottage-sized Victorian-reproduction needlework business. The prices went up from 70 to 105 pounds each for the regular kits at about the time that the expansion took place. There was a lot of marketing to "spend the day at Plas Bodfa" but needleworkers soon noticed the increased prices and stayed away in droves.
That business has since moved on to Oxford, with a by-apppointment-only office. That business has stabilized by making significant changes. The original distribution of products through needlework shops has resumed, and the prices have not gone up in several years.
I have worked in small towns and I can tell you that it is very important to have your ear to the ground when you are trying to build up a small business. If you are asked to provide your wonderful modelled flower arrangements for other peoples cakes, do so. That's a very good foot in your local door.
Thanks once again for your reply. I am pleased you like my work.... Maybe I need to put some more basic wedding cake designs on or prices on some of my cakes not to frighten people away. Its all new really so I will keep on trying
Thanks again
I would highly suggest doing any sort of fairs, festivals, or any place you can find to get your name out there in the public. Of course this depends on any booth or table fees they may chage for you to attend. If it's an outrageous amount then at this early stage I would wait. Also, don't limit what you offer to just wedding cakes. In fact, don't limit to just full size cakes. Here in the US cupcakes and cake pops have become a BIG party trend, EVEN for weddings believe it or not. Here in the states as part of weddings vendors also rent out chocolate fountains and other such items to make the event more fun and enjoyable. Check into having other services you can supply. And don't limit yourself to just weddings. Bridal and baby showers are becoming a BIG deal here where I live. My family and I own and manage a small independent living retirement community and as part of that we have just about the best large room in which to hold a function in my small little town. I see bridal and baby showers growing to the size of 50, 60, or even 70 or more people. It's crazy! They're getting as large as the weddings sometimes. Where ever you display your work have samples for these events and perhaps include other events such as groom's cakes, anniversaries, birthday party cakes for adults and children, and any others that are popular around your area. Decorate and take numerous examples you've decorated using the fake styrofoam cakes. And all cake vendors around here have large photo albums of their past work. Most importantly, offer free samples that include both cake and some frostings. People always pay attention if you offer them some free food, especially men. Men have been known to order cakes and other desserts for parties. Here a big event is the Superbowl party (our big American football event) but I'm sure you have HUGE sports events that people want sweets for also. These are all things that I did to promote my home selling business I did for 17 years with an American basket company. I wasn't trying to get them to place orders for cakes but instead book home shows for ladies to have people in to buy the baskets and pottery I was selling. I often included food in my displays as examples on how to use the items and when you offer free food you'll always get people stopping by. The concepts to growing and promoting a business are basically the same no matter what business you're you have.
Be willing to do functions for non-profit or charitable organizations either free or at a reduced rate. Obviously we live under two different tax systems so I don't know how you'rs works but here in the states when you do donations, either financial, goods, or services to non-profit groups it's a tax deduction. If you have this also then you will get some benefit besides a good reputation from donating cakes. I've received quite a few orders for a "pink ribbon" cake which is a major symbol for a breast cancer awareness group in the US. It's the Susan G Komen Race for the Cure and their major symbol has become a pink ribbon. Shaped cake pans can now be purchased like these ribbons (and used in numerous ways other than this one) and by making and donating just one I've received numerous paid orders for others. This is how it can often work. I also make quite a few things for my church, some simple items which they use for the coffee fellowship between services and others quite large and formal. Most people in church now know I bake and SEEM to enjoy my baked goods.
I just got off the telephone with a friend who does wedding cakes and other types for individuals and groups for payment. She was placing her latest order for numerous dozens of my parent's farm fresh eggs. We both believe in using 1st rate ingredients in our items. She has coming up next weekend besides a wedding cake two other large cakes for non-profits. I'm pretty sure she'll offer these cakes free to the organizations since they're both connected with military veterans groups. She spent much of her married life as a wife to an Army chaplain and they are both still very involved with veterans. Her work is beautiful and her cakes delicious so that while she won't be paid for these, the word gets around to hundreds of individuals that she baked the cakes. That will be better publicity than anything in print could do for her.
One of the things I was taught while working towards my Master's degree in Management is that by far THE best advertisement (for better or worse) is word of mouth. You'll find you'll get more orders from friends, family and people who know you if they like your work than any advertising you can do anywhere else. But on the other hand, poorly satisfied customers can also spread a bad reputation faster than you can blink an eye. I guess in the long run what I'm advising to you is just get out there and bake, and bake, and bake for anyone, anywhere that you can find and if they like you're work, your business WILL grow. This same friend that I was telling you about gave me a wonderful compliment after the first very large cake I baked for our church several years ago at Christmas for the children's pageant. She said the cake was beautiful but tasted even better. THAT is what you're striving for in every product you produce. No matter HOW beautiful or incredible the cake looks, THE most important thing is it taste even better. When you're customers feel that way about you they WILL keep coming back again and again. In my family we had a beloved friend, now sadly passed away, who I first know baked for our family was my parent's wedding cake. I couldn't count the number of items she created for us, not just for big events in the family, but even small orders like little mints at Christmas, to use for parties, and the very last cake she did for our family was the one she did for my graduation party when I earned my Master's degree, over 30 years after that first wedding cake for my parents. In fact, after she retired from baking when my brother and his wife were expecting their first child and I was having a shower, I was completely clueless on who to get to do the cake. I followed someone's recommendation and it was HORRIBLE. I swear it had to be the dryest cake ever baked. I learned a good cake decorator is like gold. There's very little that can spoil a function worst than a miserable tasting cake. It was lovely to look at what this lady did, but none of that made up for it's poor eating quality. So good luck and let me know how it goes.


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A warm welcome awaits anyone who cares to visit the Bradninch allotments at the Bithywind site opposite the junction of Hele Road and Westfield.
The Town Council rents the Bithywind area from the Duchy of Cornwall and it currently has 36 half plots and 13 whole plots. There is a communal container on site for storage of items that can be shared but most plot holders prefer their own shed where they can collect water rather than use the 4 taps provided.
We like to think the allotments holders are a friendly bunch and they grow a weird and wonderful range of flowers, fruit and vegetables.
The allotments offer the opportunity to grow those things for which you may not have the space or the correct situation in your own garden, in addition to offering an amazing view of Bradninch and its environs.
We offer whole and half plots at the current cost of £20 and £10 respectively and this price will rise to £25 and £12.50 for the 2011/12 season. Perhaps families might consider sharing a plot to grow fresh fruit and vegetables available on demand and get fresh air and exercise as well.


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Dick has posted a new blog on his myspace. Includes info about Dani and Nick. They are driving back from Minnesota as I type this. He does not know anything about Chris (Dani's ex-boyfriend) and says his relationship with Dani is going good. They are planning a trip to NYC together soon.
Other info there too about what he has been doing, his take on the Reality Awards show fiasco with Johnny Fairplay and Danny B. (I don't know how to spell his name)
Also visited Dani's myspace and she had a short blurb on there about being gone.


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Need Help With What Color To Make Baby Blocks???
Decorating By ranbel Updated 8 Dec 2008 , 11:15pm by ranbel
Hi all,
I have a baby shower cake this week and here are the color combo/theme.
Colors are brown, blue & beige.
The bottom tier is stripes and top tier is polk a dots. She wants bears and block. My bears are going to be brown (of course) and not sure of what colors to make the blocks.
My thought is: all pale colors: blue, yellow & green.
Do you think these colors would look good or should I go with all the same color, like blue?
I would stick to all one color out of your palette. All blue would be very nice.
Found these online for inspiration
there are two blue/brown cakes so scroll down
and another
Thanks dinas27. I always second guess my self. My first thought was to go with all blue...I don't know why I put myself thru this unecessary worry. As they say, always go with your instinct.


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STANFORD – We're paid for our words and our opinions, our ability to make a point concisely and colorfully.
Sometimes, we're of the opinion to just get out of the way and let someone else's colorful words do our job for us.
"We just couldn't get the friggin' car," Noel Mazzone said, "out of the starting gate."
The UCLA offensive coordinator couldn't have been more on point, even as he couldn't have been more off target. Ah, Coach, starting gates are for horses, not cars.
But Mazzone's overall thought was accurate, just like he was again when he, attempting to explain why the younger Bruins were suffocated Saturday, made up a word in crediting Stanford's veteranness.
And after just one postgame interview, we're suddenly rooting for this UCLA team if only to have more opportunities to talk to Mazzone, who can be as colorful as Lane Kiffin is relentlessly gray.
Unfortunately, the Bruins just lost for the first time this season, 24-10, to Stanford, and now they have to travel to play Oregon, meaning they'll almost certainly lose again, and an assistant coach's words become such less publicly valuable with each defeat.
Yeah, UCLA's football team was standing right on the edge here at Stanford Stadium, the edge of something both inviting and frightening. A victory would have made the Oregon game a best-in-the-West showdown.
"Games like this you want to win so bad," quarterback Brett Hundley said afterward. "That's really all I can say. You want to win these games so bad, so bad."
Best in the West? UCLA? Didn't Rick Neuheisel just leave, his sad postgame pep talks to the disappointed fans still rattling around an emptying Rose Bowl? Isn't it supposed to take more than a season and a half to come back from a hole dug deep enough to be a grave?
Beating the Cardinal also would have legitimatized everything Jim Mora has done with the Bruins, undefeated through five games this season or not.
If you don't think Mora's program is still in need of validation, consider that UCLA entered Saturday ranked four spots ahead of Stanford in the latest Associated Press poll and yet the Bruins still were underdogs – by nearly a touchdown.
But this, this was UCLA's moment, the Pac-12 and ABC so sold on the possibilities this game held that the kickoff was moved from night to day to accommodate more national exposure.
Mora says he doesn't believe in statement games – "We don't live that way. That's what outside people do." – and that's a good thing because he won't be aware then that his program just unmistakably stated it isn't ready for this stage.
But, let's be realistic about this. The Bruins' failure Saturday was hardly an epic one. Since the end of the 2009 season, just five schools have beaten the Cardinal and only Oregon has done it here.
Struggling to keep up with Stanford, particularly with an inexperienced offensive line that keeps getting less experienced with each injury, isn't a shame. More accurately, it's a fact.
Especially for the Bruins, who could greatly improve their chances of making a BCS bowl in the future by simply refusing to schedule Stanford. Too bad the Pac-12 insists on these things.
Since the start of last season, UCLA is 0-3 against Stanford and 14-3 against everyone else. Those three losses to the Cardinal have all come in the past 11 months.
The Bruins have lost to Stanford at home and on the road, in the regular season and in the Pac-12 title game, in the damp night air and, this time, in the brilliant warm sunshine.
"If there was a game I wanted to win more than any of them, this was it," linebacker Jordan Zumwalt said. "The opportunity was there to take a step. … They also had the opportunity and they seized the opportunity."
What did it take to beat the Bruins in this one? In part, Kodi Whitfield's absurd one-handed touchdown catch that will be replayed more than that video of the cat playing the piano.
UCLA was in this game until the final minutes despite the offense gasping and Stanford controlling the clock, doing what Stanford usually does – grind and pound and bore the life out of the opposition.
"I don't see it as a setback," Mazzone said. "I see it as just part of the learning process of becoming a great football team."
Well, Coach, there you are wrong. To be sure, this was a setback. But maybe it also will prove to be part of a learning process.
The Bruins aren't ready for this stage yet, but they're a lot closer than they rightly should be this quickly.
The "friggin' car" was gassed and ready to go. UCLA just needs a few more horses, that's all.
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Two teams tied for second place in the competition and were awarded $5000 each. Chemofilter is developing an innovative approach to reduce the systemic side effects of chemotherapy in liver cancer, increasing treatment efficacy, and Bladder Sense has devised a system to help individuals at risk of urinary incontinence better control their bladder function. M3D, a Big Data analysis venture, received honorable mention in third place.
"The mission of the Entrepreneurship Center is to encourage startup ventures and commercialization of UCSF inventions. We are tapping into our world-class scientific and medical talent, providing the knowledge and support to help bring their technologies to the outside world," said Stephanie Marrus, Director of the Entrepreneurship Center at UCSF. "It has been gratifying to watch our scientists and physicians in Idea to IPO absorb the elements needed to successfully commercialize their ideas. In only 12 weeks, people who entered the course without business experience left with quality venture presentations that have funding potential."
Marrus added, "Course directors Steve Burrill, a global life sciences investor, and UCSF faculty member Charly Craik have been major contributors to the success of the course from its inception. Burrill & Company upped the ante this year by providing seed funding to the top-rated entrants. We also had great participation from leading entrepreneurs, investors and industry experts as lecturers, mentors and judges."
The 17 proposed new ventures addressed a variety of market segments: digital health, medical devices, diagnostics and therapeutics. Most participants were from UCSF, but the course was also open to participants from Berkeley, Stanford and industry.
G. Steven Burrill, CEO of Burrill & Company, noted, "We are impressed with the diversity, quality and funding potential of the new ventures coming from this course. These are some of the most promising new enterprises we have seen over the life of the course and we think many of them will be of interest to the investment community."
Idea to IPO is the Entrepreneurship Center's experiential, team-based course that challenges participants to develop the business plan for a healthcare or life science venture that has the potential to scale to a significant enterprise. The course is aimed at faculty, researchers, post-doctoral scholars, clinicians, residents and PhD and masters students, who learn from leading industry players how to take a raw idea, assess its market potential, create a venture, access capital and move toward commercialization. The class concludes with a presentation to venture capital and angel investors.
For more on the competition, see http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/04/105096/innovative-course-teaches-how-turn-ideas-life-sciences-ventures
To view videos of the top three presentations, see the following:
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? Chemofilter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjeT9W9oTV4
? M3D: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkdFR8tr9Wc
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(This makes enough for a big crowd (up to 20 people) so cut in half if you like)
4 bags sauerkraut (2 lb. bags)
4 apples, cut into large chunks
1 large onion, minced
1 1/2 cups white wine
12 juniper berries, crunshed
3 bay leaves
salt, pepper
Drain the sauerkraut and place in a large pan with the rest of the ingredients. Bake at 375 degrees for two hours, stirring from the bottom every half hour. This will also help to get a more even browned look, since the part near the edges seems to cook quicker.
After two hours, add the roast pork, covering with pieces of bacon. If desired, add pieces of sausage that you sautéed in a separate pan and cut into slices. Cook the roast until it still has a little spring to it, because it cooks a little more when you remove it from the oven. For the roasts in the picture (1 lb. 8 oz. each), they were cooked enough within 45 minutes, but next time would take them out a little sooner. The internal temperature should reach 140 degrees, but if you take it out at 135 or 138 degrees, it will reach that internal temperature just from resting for 15 minutes.
Brine for pork:
For one roast of about 1 1/2 pounds:
1 1/2 cups water (or enough needed to cover the roast half way)
2 T. salt
seasonings - I used fennel seeds and homemade seasoned salt made with home grown herbs - sage, rosemary, thyme and salt. (But this was another reason my pork was too salty, so I'd eliminate the ordinary salt and just use the seasoned salt next time.)
2 T. sugar
Place 1/2 cup water to boil with the salt and sugar. When the sugar has dissolved, take off the heat and add the remaining 1 cup water and the other seasonings. After the water has reached room temperature, pour into into a container with the pork. Let it soak for at least four hours, preferably overnight, flipping the roast once.


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Some of the liveliest discussions at this year's AcademyHealth Meeting were on state reform. The Massachusetts legislation and now implementation has served as an engine for discussion for many previously jaded health systems scholars, reformers, and activists. With California now following Massachusetts' lead in proposing universal coverage, many scholars are wondering how this scenario will play out to 2009 and a new administration.
Health policy researchers are counting how many states it would take to create a tipping point to induce federal legislation creating universal access. Besides Massachusetts and smaller programs in Vermont and Maine, California has legislation on the table, and other generally large and Democratic-leaning states, such as Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New York, are discussing programs that either start with universal coverage or start with universal coverage for kids. This discussion, however, is not limited to "Blue" states, as states such as Colorado and Kansas engage in discussion for reforms in finance and coverage of their residents. Even Texas has passed expansions to its SCHIP coverage.
SCHIP reauthorization was another topic of interest at AcademyHealth. For virtually all health services researchers and state policymakers, SCHIP has been a notable success. First and foremost, it has actually worked. It has significantly decreased uninsurance among low-income children, and children are the only group not to have suffered declines in coverage during the 1997-2005 period. SCHIP has also generated a great deal of data and research on program design, enrollment outreach, and retention, keeping researchers employed but more significantly having important spillover effects on Medicaid and getting more Medicaid-eligible beneficiaries enrolled and retained.
There have been some bumps on the road, and the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) eligibility requirements are a big bump, but most researchers and certainly state SCHIP directors hope that in the current reauthorization process, SCHIP programs will be allowed to expand income eligibility requirements to something substantially higher than 200% FPL and have more flexibility to offer premium assistance or subsidies to families. SCHIP directors hope to retain the flexibility they have had on easing enrollment, using techniques like passive enrollment and express-lane eligibility, but many SCHIP advocates are open to ceding back to the federal government authority to standardize quality measures across the states.
The SCHIP reauthorization discussion also has important ramifications for the state initiatives. Many of the state initiatives depend on SCHIP eligibility expansion and the availability of federal dollars to provide universal coverage for kids. What happens if in the SCHIP authorization debate, efforts to find funding offsets to expand income eligibility to 300% or 350% FPL fail, and states are mandated to limit SCHIP eligibility to 200% FPL? Will states such as Pennsylvania and New York continue their initiatives without SCHIP expansions?
Prior to the passage of SCHIP in 1997, several states such as New York and Florida had already established expanded coverage for kids, and these programs were then grandfathered in under the SCHIP legislation. This example of states taking initiative to then prod the federal government to take action and make federal dollars available has not been lost on the states, or on advocates for children. Some of the states considering providing universal access to insurance to their citizens or at least to all their kids are hoping that their example will prod the federal government to act after 2009 and perhaps even grandfather in their particular programs with the requisite flexibility and funding required to sustain them.
This push-pull relationship, sometimes known as federalism, is somewhat curiously missing from the presidential campaign. It is fascinating to watch the dynamism and creativity of the states float under the radar of the presidential campaign. The leading Democrats have had little to say about states' respective reform efforts. Both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama represent states in the forefront of the reform efforts. Senator Obama also played a key role in the Illinois legislature in promoting a study of health system reform. It would be interesting to know how their experiences with their home states have informed the programs they propose and what role they see for the states in a federal reform program. Equally invisible has been any discussion of the potential success, viability, or generalizability of state reforms on the part of Republican candidates. Governor Romney and Governor Huckabee have both had extensive and illuminating experience in promoting legislation for significant health care reform. Romney led the Massachusetts reforms, and Huckabee has been a leader in public health legislation on obesity and education.
Perhaps we have to thank the current administration for making state creativity in health care reform both necessary and ongoing. Let's hope that as the presidential campaign soldiers on, the creativity of the states informs the debate and engages the federal government to act in both a responsible and creative fashion.


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Beijing: A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake followed by a strong aftershock jolted northwest China's remote Xinjiang region today.
The earthquake struck the province at 5:19 pm (local time), according to official readings by the China Earthquake Networks Centre.
The epicentre's depth was measured at 12 km at Yutian county in southwest Xinjiang.
An ensuing 5.7-magnitude quake hit the same area at 5:24 pm with a depth of 5 km followed by several tremors, the centre added.
No immediate casualties or damage have been reported.
The region is sparsely-populated mostly by ethnic Muslim Uygurs.


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This Week in Food Blogs: Summer Calls for Snow Cones, Galveston Trips & Pie
Grab a snow cone from MAM's House of Ice this summer.
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CultureMap Houston: It's that time of year when the heat settles in and we all start looking for ways to cool off. If you're not close to a pool and a jug of ice water doesn't do it for you, then a snow cone should do the trick. CultureMap Houston's Kate Bentsen lists five places for you to get your iced treat fix this summer. Top your snow cone with gummy bears at MAM's House of Ice in the Heights, or opt for an exotic flavor like Lime-Thai Basil or Vietnamese Coffee at Yeti Sunshine's trailer.
Adventures in a New(ish) City: As many Houstonians head to Galveston for beach trips and vacations, they'll all be searching for the perfect places to eat. Kim had dinner at Olympia The Grill at Pier 21 and enjoyed classic Greek dishes like grape leaves and a Southern interpretation of falafel.
Bon Appetit: Summer and Thanksgiving have one thing in common: Pie. It seems that during both seasons, Americans make a lot of pie. Bon Appetit lists the six common mistakes while making the fruity desserts and how you can avoid them. Don't waste those sweet seasonal fruits by making a crappy pie. But, of course, if it doesn't turn out well, a scoop of vanilla ice cream can make it all better.
Zagat Houston: Gingerbread cookies shouldn't be reserved for the colder months. There's always a good time to have a soft spice cookie, and Marcy de Luna says the gingerbread men at French Gourmet Bakery on Westheimer are not only cute, but exactly what you should pair with a cup of coffee.
Gastronaut: We all know that the wait to get into Coltivare can be a bit long at dinner time, but Katharine Shilcutt suggests the best time to visit the new Italian restaurant from Revival Market's Ryan Pera and Morgan Weber is during lunch. This service only occurs on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. until 2:30 p.m., and features five pizzas, a variety of salads and options not available during dinner, like a cheeseburger and a chicken sandwich.
Hank On Food: The Capital Grille now serves a variety of new waygu burgers. Hank visited the location in CityCentre to try these menu additions. Joining the current wagyu burger offerings are the Kona Crusted Wagyu Burger, the Wild Mushroom Wagyu Cheeseburger and the Oscar-Style Wagyu Burger, which was Hank's favorite. This surf-and-turf burger features lump crab meat topped with a Bearnaise sauce sitting on a wagyu beef patty. Hank suggests pairing it with a Belgian Witbier or a glass of Malbec. Throw in some truffle fries to send this meal over-the-top.
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Lorenzo Alexander, FirefighterPosted by on May 24, 2011 – 9:02 am
Lorenzo Alexander has never been one to shy away from a challenge, and he's always been one who likes to contribute to his community. So it shouldn't really be a surprise that Alexander would use this time of labor uncertainty to find out exactly what firefighters go through — axes, facemasks, iconic hats, hoses, and all. FOX5's Dave Ross has the report (and the accidental soaking of his cameraman).
It certainly appears to be the sort of thing that'll keep a guy in shape. "You know what that's like?" Alexander tells the Fox cameras, still sweating from being run through firefighter basic training in full gear. "It's like a two minute drill in the fourth quarter and the offense is coming out [with] like a Peyton Manning, just running it, running it, running it."
There's a couple of notable differenecs, of course. "You're trying to save somebody's life," Alexander says. "Got eighty pounds of gear on you. Gotta crawl, gotta climb, gotta save your own life at times."
It's amazing to see how firefighters train, and to understand just how grueling their work is. But for Alexander, the practical aspect of this experience is probably what he says after struggling to control the firehose: "That's a workout right there."
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BOJ the top buyer of Japanese equities
Bank's ETF purchases up 40% in 2016, hiding foreign investors' selling
TOKYO -- The Bank of Japan is set to become the biggest buyer of exchange-traded funds in 2016 for the second straight year.
According to data through Thursday, the value of the BOJ's ETF purchases this year has topped 4.3 trillion yen ($36.5 billion), up 40% from 2015. Last year, the central bank bought more than 3 trillion yen worth of ETFs.
The data was released by the BOJ and compiled by the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
While foreign investors sold more than a net 3.5 trillion yen worth of Japanese shares through Dec. 16, trust banks, including those commissioned by the Government Pension Investment Fund, bought a net 3.5 or so trillion yen worth of shares, the data shows.
The figure for trust banks was below that for the BOJ, which "will become the largest buyer of ETFs this year," said Masatoshi Kikuchi of Mizuho Securities.
This year, the central bank increased its buying after doubling its annual ETF goal to purchase 3 trillion yen worth of the instruments. The decision came in July as the bank stepped harder on its yen-printing pedal.
The central bank's ultimate goal is to flood the economy with so much money that prices get moving predictably upward again; the BOJ is targeting a 2% inflation rate.
The value of the bank's ETF holdings, based on purchase prices, is 11 trillion yen. However, unrealized gains send the market value to 14 trillion yen, according to an estimate by Mitsubishi UFJ Kokusai Asset Management.
Although foreigners have bought more than a net 2 trillion yen of Japanese shares since November -- Donald Trump was elected president early that month -- the amount does not offset their selling in the first half of 2016.
The BOJ's ETF program has propped up share prices but distorted "the formation of stock prices," said Shingo Ide of NLI Research Institute.
The ETF-buying program allows the central bank to purchase a wide range of stocks regardless of the issuing companies' business results.


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Nice doggy: Hair of the Dog is a tiny Oregon brewery known for hop-forward ales, most packing an alcohol content of 10-plus percent. Ruth, its American pale ale, is the lone exception to this rule. The alcohol here is listed as 4.5 percent by weight — by volume, the more common measurement, that's 5.6 percent, right in the midrange for pales.
Let there be light (body): Spring is almost here, and this beer geek's fancy turns toward lighter-bodied brews. Ruth is ideal for picnics or baseball games. The hazy straw-colored beer has soft, yeasty aromas of orange blossoms and fresh bread. Organic Pilsner malt and Pacific Northwest hop flowers deliver a balanced blend of sweet and tangy flavors.
Sticker shock: While lovable, Ruth isn't cheap. At the KnB in Del Cerro, a six-pack ran $15.99. With tax and CRV, that's $17.55, or nearly $3 a bottle. Hair of the Dog's beers are all produced in small batches, so you expect premium prices. But should this Dog command Westminster Kennel Club Best of Breed prices?
Numbers: About 40 bittering units.
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When fully enrolled, KIPP Austin will serve over 5,000 students ? more than doubling the number of college-ready low-income, minority students in Austin. KIPP Austin Public Schools is part of the national network of charter schools, KIPP, the Knowledge is Power Program (www.kipp.org). KIPP Austin Vista Middle School (KAV) opened in July 2012 with 114 founding 5th grade students. At KIPP Austin Vista, we work to individualize all of our students? experiences in the classroom, through reading and writing workshop and the use of technology, as well as outside of the classroom by offering clubs and extracurricular activities that invest students in school and build their character traits and intellectual habits. Each student?s path will be different, but all students will leave KAV on the path to college and a life of choice. KAV is located on KIPP Austin?s South Campus at 5107 I-35 South, Suite A Austin TX 78744. 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