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As March 1 marked the last day of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, it's a good time to take inventory of your approach to eating.
"Is food your frenemy?" asks California psychologist Dr. Sherrie Campbell, author of Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person. It's key to love yourself more than you love food, Campbell says, because otherwise you're giving food too much control over how you feel about yourself. Campbell lists five progressive red flags, in order, that let us know we're heading in a dangerous direction:
1. You use food to feel good. Eating replaces boredom by giving you something to do, and of course it tastes good. "Our bodies respond physically and emotionally when we eat," Campbell says. "Who doesn't want to feel good? Food is a quick fix to getting our mood elevated."
2. Food makes you feel bad. Before and during the meal or snack, you feel great—but then comes the letdown. Maybe you ate too much or ate the wrong type of food. We feel bad when we lose control, and that leads to guilt and self-loathing, according to Campbell.
3. Feeling full makes you feel fat. "It is hard for many of us to tell the difference between fat and full," Cambell observes. "When we feel full we are often feeling fat and writhing in the discomfort of our recent eating adventure. We can't stand ourselves, our loss of control; we are full of regret." It can make you want to never eat again.
4. You try to balance any overindulgence. Do you ever feel that, if you just exercise enough or if you barely eat for a couple of days, you'll make up for last night's nonstop snacking? "We go extreme the other way trying work off our bad behavior," says Campbell, which she says puts our self-esteem on a roller coaster ride.
5. You can't get your mind off the eating cycle. Fat/thin, fat/thin—it begins to be all you think about. You label your days and, when you've determined that you're having "a fat day," you let your insecurity take over, asking anyone you can find whether you look fat. On "thin" days you're just as focused on being thin. Campbell calls this having a "Jekyll-and-Hyde with food," and you may find it running your life.
At this point, you're about at rock bottom. How can you climb back up?
Make friends with food, Campbell advises. Since we cannot survive without food, we must come to terms with it. "The way to make food your friend is to know your limits," Campbell adds. "Food should make you feel good about yourself, not bad."
Rather than giving into the temporary euphoria of tasting something good or eating a lot only to have it lead later to self-hatred, learn to see the rewards in self-control! Recapturing your self-control will help you love yourself.
"When we are in a love-hate relationship with food, we are actually in a love-hate relationship with ourselves," Campbell continues. "We cannot feel love for ourselves if we are buried under feelings of having no control. We are feeling fat and unattractive, or full and guilty. Nothing positive can enter when we allow food to trigger these low-self-worth emotions. It comes down to being healthy and disciplined. Control is sexy, control is confident and control is elegant."
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Aleander Ermolov, Security Researcher, Embedi
Maksim Malyutin, Security Researcher, Embedi
Presented by Donald Anderson and Dmitriy Evdokimov.
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The best known execution environments are Intel CPU and Intel ME. UEFI BIOS and Intel ME firmware (and a few other blobs) are system firmware. Ring 3 in the CPU is the least privileged (for user applications and the like), Ring 0 is the kernel and Ring -2 and Ring -3 have many more privileges. Intel ME is based on the MCU with ROM and SRAM, the most privileged and hidden execution environment. It has a runtime memory in DRAM, hidden from the CPU. It works even if the device is turned off, as long as there is power.
There have been known issues with reverse engineering, which tend to fall into various categories: Unknown ME ROM contents, code is partially compressed with Huffman (dictionary is unknown), undocumented MEI communication protocol and inaccessible UMEI.
The main firmware components are the bringup module, kernel and drivers and services (to support timers, network, heci, ...)and applications that implements different Intel technologies: PTT and AMD, etc. Intel AMT features a web-interface, SOL, IDE-R, KVM. It is part of the vPro brand. Allows remote power on and other things. A very powerful tool.
Intel AMT can be accessed cia a network or a local interface.
How can this be attacked? When accessed through a regular we-browser, Intel AMT redirects us to a logon page and challenges us with a password. If you send the wrong password, you'll get an error. They snooped the packets to look at the authorization headers. They did a quick search on things like nonce, user, login, etc - found use of cnonce. Discovered an issue with how strncmp() was used: if an empty string is given, strncmp() returns 0 which also means authentication success.
There is a vuln where an attacker can log in as admin user, as long as the right ports are open. Turned off devices can be attacked as well. This was previously released.
Intel has created a patch for this, provided to all OEM vendors and they have all made new firmware patches. As it's in the firmware, it requires manual updates from the user. There is Intel AMT code in all modern chips. There is an Intel MEI(HECI) that can be used to check the state of he Intel ME subsystem.
HECI is used to configure Intel AMT. HECI is based on DCMI-HI protocol. Message sent to Intel ME should contain the command description, groupID, command, and results.
Non-vPro systems do not have user interface for disable Intel AMT. Once it's activated, you're stuck. After some reverse engineering, they found the commands for activation and the code to acknowledge. If you don't want/need Intel AMT, make sure you check often to make sure it is turned off.
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As though he needed it, House Speaker John Boehner received yet another reminder Tuesday of his principal challenge of finding a resolution to the fiscal cliff morass without alienating the core of his own party, a position that has been all too familiar in recent years.
Shortly after Republican House leaders offered a proposal to avert impending tax hikes and spending cuts, conservatives attacked it as a betrayal of core principles, putting the top GOP lawmaker in a difficult bargaining position against President Barack Obama.
"Speaker Boehner's $800 billion tax hike will destroy American jobs and allow politicians in Washington to spend even more, while not reducing our $16 trillion debt by a single penny," Republican Sen. Jim DeMint said Tuesday in a statement. The South Carolina senator – an influential figure among conservatives – was referring to the new revenue projected in the GOP proposal that would come from closing loopholes and deductions in the tax code rather than rate increases.
The president continues to push taxes increases for those making more than $250,000 as part of his plan to raise $1.6 trillion over the next 10 years, but he suggested those tax rates could eventually be lowered. NBC's Kristen Welker reports.
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The White House rejected that proposal at first glance, reasoning that Boehner and House Republicans offered no concessions to Obama's central demand that income tax rates be allowed to increase for the wealthiest Americans.
In short, Boehner is being pulled in opposite directions by an administration which demands more compromise from Republicans, and by conservatives who expect the speaker to cede no ground. That leaves him with few options to craft a deal. (Boehner allies point, ironically, to some past comments by DeMint suggesting allowing some tax increases might be politically expedient.)
Tim Phillips, the president of the Koch Brothers-backed group Americans for Prosperity, said Monday that Boehner's proposal "leaves conservatives wanting."
"By placing an $800 billion tax hike on the table, Republican Leaders are engaging in little more than pre-emptive capitulation," Heritage Action -- the political wing of the Heritage Foundation think tank -- said in talking points provided Monday to its followers. "The latest Republican proposal to President Obama is nothing but bad policy and a highly questionable negotiating tactic."
The fiscal cliff counter-offer issued by House Republicans has one thing in common with last week's White House proposal – neither was designed to win any bipartisan support. The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd reports.
This pressure on Boehner from his right flank could have the unintended benefit of signaling to the White House just how narrow his space to negotiate really is. But if Republican leaders do strike a deal with Obama, rank-and-file GOP lawmakers might publicly break with their leaders for fear of alienating constituents and incurring a primary challenge in 2014.
That's a now-familiar dynamic to anyone who closely tracked the fiscal fights which dominated Congress for much of 2011. The government was brought to the brink of shutdown several times as conservatives balked at supporting deals Boehner had struck with Obama and the Democratic-held Senate. This same discord produced that summer's debt limit deal, which established the automatic spending cuts that make up half of the fiscal cliff.
It's this same cast of characters who must now forge the kind of compromise which has eluded Washington for months.
"We're nowhere. We're farther than where we started," Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the former GOP vice presidential nominee, said of the negotiations Tuesday on WTMJ radio in Wisconsin. He said that Obama is now demanding higher tax rates than the ones on which he had campaigned.
Related: Fiscal cliff deal may be found in the middle
As if to illustrate the delicate balance Boehner must strike, when Oklahoma Republican Rep. Tom Cole suggested last week that Republicans should accede to Obama's request that Congress authorize extended tax cuts for all but the top 2 percent of earners, the GOP speaker emerged to dismiss it. "I told Tom earlier at our conference meeting that I disagreed with him," Boehner said.
Adding to Republicans' political headache was a new poll released Tuesday suggesting Republicans would assume the lion's share of blame from voters if the government were to cross into the fiscal cliff. Fifty-three percent of Americans said Republicans in Congress would be more to blame for a failure to reach consensus in a Nov. 29-Dec. 2 poll conducted by the Pew Research Center and the Washington Post. That's unchanged from a month ago, despite a messaging barrage by both GOP leaders and the president over the past few weeks.
"If you watch the nature of what Republicans have done here, we've talked about this and passed legislation last year," House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., responded on CNBC. "We've responded to every presidential proposal. We've been first on the mix. The actions don't hold up to where the polls are, but we want to make sure we solve this problem and that we don't go over the fiscal cliff."
News reported Monday by NBC that Boehner had moved to strip four GOP lawmakers of plum committee assignments due to disloyal behavior during the past two years has only threatened to exacerbate tensions between Boehner and influential conservatives, too.
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Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, leaves after a news conference Nov. 30, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
"The dirty little secret in Congress is that while refusing to kowtow to the wishes of party leaders can sometimes cost you some perks in Washington, the taxpayers back home are grateful," said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola.
"This is a clear attempt on the part of Republican leadership to punish those in Washington who vote the way they promised their constituents they would -- on principle -- instead of mindlessly rubber-stamping trillion dollar deficits and the bankrupting of America," added Matt Kibbe, of the Tea Party-oriented group FreedomWorks.


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We've got a little something different for you today, folks. As you know, we love alternative looks for some of our favorite characters. So today we've got a smexy version of that classic monarch, Nintendo's Princess Peach.
Princess Peach has known more than her fair share of perils, always being the victim of kidnapping at the claws of Bowser and his ilk. But she's also shown that she can take care of herself, be it on the tracks in Mario Kart or in the arenas of Super Smash Bros. This makes Peach one of the more versatile characters in the Nintendo universe, and one of the most accomplished royals to ever serve in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Here is old favorite Liz Katz in her Sexy Princess Peach outfit. The costume stays true to Peach's look, complete with the long stockings and gloves, all while giving it a tantalizing boost. The addition of the tiny crown is the icing on the royal cake and the fact that this set was shot in front of a castle is just an awesome touch.
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Steel Diver is an oddity. Originally developed as a tech-demo for the 3DS, it's been fleshed out as a full-priced retail game to fit inside Nintendo's generous launch window, where it joins the trickle of titles emerging for the 3D handheld. Up to a point, you can see Nintendo's thinking here; more than any other 3DS title we've seen so far, this one uses the whole raft of 3DS-specific features, from 3D itself to motion controls. Unfortunately, while that makes it a great tech-demo, it doesn't actually make it an unmissable game.
You can see the game's roots in its narrative premise - a storyline so spectacularly perfunctory that we won't even bother to describe it here - and in its lack of atmospheric build-up, cutscenes and other fripperies. The actual gameplay, however, is worth looking at in detail. At first, Steel Diver looks like an aquatic variation of the old-school, horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up - a sort of R-Type meets Crimson Tide. In a submarine, you make your way from one end of the level to the other, squeezing through narrow underground channels, blasting enemy subs with torpedoes and avoiding enemy missiles, depth-charges and natural hazards. You have three different subs to choose from, with one small and maneuverable, one large and heavily armed, and one that sits in-between, and each has its own unique weapons and controls, plus corresponding pros and cons.
The difference lies in the control system. Rather than control the sub directly with the D-Pad, you use the stylus to move sliders and steering columns that alter your sub's speed and course. With the game set underwater, everything moves at a slowed-down pace, so playing Steel Diver isn't so much a game of rapid action and reaction as it is about anticipation and getting a feel for how each sub responds. At first it all seems a bit pedestrian - even frustrating - but the more you play the more you find something unique and challenging about the very deliberate style of the game. It's different to anything you've played before.
There are two basic single-player game modes, with time trials through courses without enemy subs involved, and the proper campaign, consisting of a series of missions that escalate in difficulty. The early missions are a bit light on excitement, but later on underwater volcanoes, some elementary puzzles and a handful of boss battles mix things up a bit, and there's a little more tension and ingenuity at work.
There are other good ideas here, too. Each mission ends with a periscope-targeting mini-game, where you rotate on the spot to turn the periscope and unleash torpedoes on enemy ships (you can use on-screen controls if space is tight). These sections are fun, and substantially more impressive graphically than the basic game. We also like the way the game handles damage, with leaks appearing on the 3DS touchscreen which have to be rubbed to fix them up. Once it gets going, Steel Diver has the makings of a roughly enjoyable little gem.
Sadly, that gem is spoilt by some pretty major flaws. For a start, there are only seven (yes, seven!) actual missions in the campaign. Each takes between 5 and 15 minutes, and two of these are locked at the start and can only be unlocked by repeating the previous five missions with all three subs. This is a bit of a chore, particularly as it also involves our other big whinge; with only the five missions to work in, there's no room for a proper difficulty curve. Once the first two missions are over, the level of challenge goes from nightmare to medium with no consistency. There are no checkpoints in the missions, just pockets of air where your sub can automatically repair, and there are some hazards in later levels where your sub is just too cumbersome to get out of harm's way. Annoyingly, you'll find the worst right at the end of the level. Factor in that you can only move forwards or reverse, not actually turn to move from right to left, and Steel Diver can get extremely aggravating. Only the extremely patient need apply.
To some extent, the brevity is compensated for. Finish the campaign and you can do the lot again in a harder expert mode. What's more, Nintendo throws in a bonus mode which expands the periscope mini-game into a trio of different scenarios and a battleships-style multiplayer strategy mode, but there's still just not enough game here to make the purchase worthwhile. The presentation isn't up to Nintendo's usual high standards, and - despite the odd bit of nice underwater scenery or school of fish - the graphics are a bit on the basic side as well. Only the periscope sections, with their powerful rolling seas, look like what you'd expect from a next-generation handheld. Were this a sub-£5 download game we'd probably say this isn't a major problem, and suggest that you take a look just to sample the strange and curiously addictive gameplay. Unfortunately, at nearly £30 Steel Diver doesn't come close to representing good value.
At heart, Steel Diver is an interesting game with a handful of strong ideas, but those ideas should have been developed over a longer and more polished campaign. Once, Nintendo could have got away with charging full-price for an experimental but short-lived title, but in the days when Xbox Live Arcade, PSN and the various app stores are offering stronger and equally innovative efforts for much less, Steel Diver simply doesn't measure up. Until you see it in a bargain bin, leave this one to sink.


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Expert tip: Begin at the base and squeeze several times as you gradually work toward the tips, says Polly Osmond, a makeup artist for Victoria's Secret in New York City. Lashes should curve, not bend sharply.
The Good Housekeeping Research Institute (GHRI) tested mechanical and heated curlers to see which ones are worthy of a spot in your makeup bag.
What We Looked for in Eyelash Curlers
Scientists in GHRI's beauty lab evaluated heated and mechanical eyelash curlers for how well they increased the curl of women's lashes. They also tested how quickly heated curlers warmed up.
A panel of women testers evaluated heated and mechanical eyelash curlers for:
• Ease of use
• Clarity of instructions
• How comfortable they were to handle
• Whether they pinched or hurt skin during use
• Speed at which they curled lashes
• Effectiveness at making lashes look curlier
• Ability to make lashes look fuller
• Ability to make eyes appear more defined
• Ability to curl all of the lashes
• Tendency to pull or break off lashes
• Likelihood of using it in their regular eye makeup routine
Women also evaluated each heated and mechanical eyelash curler for how quickly they curled lashes.
How We Tested Eyelash Curlers
In the GHRI beauty lab, a professional photographer took photos of volunteers' eyelashes from three angles before, immediately after, and four hours following the use of each curler and a leading mascara. GHRI scientists then measured the angle of lashes in the before-and-after photos to determine how much curl the tools produced.
Scientists attached thermocouples (a kind of thermometer) to the heated curlers and measured the time it took for them to reach their maximum temperatures.
Consumers tried blinded heated and mechanical curlers at home for a week to evaluate ease of use and performance.
How to Safely Handle Heated Eyelash Curlers
While GHRI scientists didn't find any safety issues with the heated curlers, they do recommend these safe-handling instructions:
• Don't hold them against lashes for more than a few seconds.
• Avoid direct contact with eyes.
• Do not use with wet hands.
• Do not clean with water—only wipe with a dry tissue.
• Turn off after use.
• Keep away from children.
• Always follow the manufacturer's instructions.


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Aleksandra Kurzak is no stranger to The Royal Opera, where her Rossini roles have included Rosina, Mathilde di Shabran and Fiorilla. Her new disc for Decca is a celebration of Rossinian high-wire acrobatics: opening with Semiramide's famous bel canto show-stopper 'Bel raggio lusinghier', Kurzak dazzles throughout in a recital designed to show off her spectacular abilities. Kurzak's voice is growing richer and she is clearly moving on towards a more dramatic repertoire: catch her in Rossini-mode while you can.
Piotr Beczala - Heart's Delight: The songs of Richard Tauber (Deutsche Grammophon)
In the mood for a little summery schmaltz? Polish tenor Piotr Beczala has just released his homage to Richard Tauber, and it is irresistible. Beczala clearly idolises Tauber and he sings his great predecessors music with such flair and élan it's impossible not to be swept away by it. Anna Netrebko makes a welcome appearance for the duet 'Lippen Schweigen' and Beczala even goes as far to duet with the great Tauber himself. It's all good fun, and impeccably sung with real integrity. Enjoy without guilt!
Ailyn Pérez, Lawrence Brownlee and Anthony Michaels - Moore The Rosenblatt Recitals (Opus Arte)
Opus Arte has just launched a new venture with the Rosenblatt Recitals, and the first three discs of the collaboration are now available to savour: soprano Ailyn Pérez must take the winning stakes in a ravishing recital of song and opera, but Lawrence Brownlee impresses hugely throughout his recital of lieder, American song and spirituals. Anthony Michaels-Moore too, so long a favourite on the Royal Opera House stage, is in on superlative form with songs by Stanford and Vaughan Williams. These three discs bring three artists to the recording front that are sadly under-represented thus far, and are hugely welcome.
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A while back, there was a seminar at work during a lunch break. It was about healthy choices for busy people and it was very infomative. We had switched to organic produce long back, but i just had an overall idea of how organic is better than non-organic and this seminar was a real eye opener for me. She mentioned about the top 10 foods that we should never buy non-organice and apple was in that and i think she mentioned that a non-organic apple is 97% contaminated with the pesitcide, which was a big shock for me. We have grabbed the non-organic apples quite a number of times if we could not go to whole foods or if we are really in a hurry to just grab and go. All the other supermarkets like Publix, Krogers and Walmart carry organic produce too, but it is limited. Please check this link that lists out the top 10 foods that you must buy organic and also the ones that are okay if you dont have a choice and end up buying non-organic.
I have some more useful information to share, but don't want to overload with all information in one post and will share them as i go.
Now let me share the Keerai masiyal the way my mom and mil make. It is nutritous and is easy to make. It has lentils for protein, the goodness of spinach. I just make this and have this with rice on hectic days.
Ingredients :
Baby spinach ( I use 1 box of earthbound farms organic baby spinach)
Toor daal - 3/4C (uncooked)
Grated coconut - 2 spoons
Jeera / cumin seeds - 1 spoon
Redchillies - 4
Salt to taste
Mustard seeds, hing and a spoon of urad daal for seasoning.
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Cut baby spinach and steam it in microwave for around 5 minutes. Pressure cook the daal and keep it aside.
Grind coconut, jeera and redchillies with little water. Add this and the steamed spinach in a pan. Add some water and let it cook till the raw smell goes away. Add the cooked daal and salt and cook it for another 5, 10 minutes till it thickens. Season with mustard seeds, hing and urad daal.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Antonio Smith picked up the ball J.J. Watt forced Titans running back Chris Johnson into fumbling, and the Texans' defensive end ran from the Houston 37 all the way to the end zone.
Smith walked around the end zone holding the ball up just in case he'd scored a touchdown.
Officials insisted the play had been whistled dead after Smith recovered the ball, so the Houston Texans forced five more turnovers and also had six sacks in beating the Tennessee Titans 24-10 on Sunday to clinch a second straight playoff berth.
``They blew the whistle,'' Texans coach Gary Kubiak said. ``I think it could be a touchdown for us but unfortunately they blew a whistle, and it's not. There's nothing you can do about it. We did a great job of getting turnovers all day long.''
Easy for Kubiak to be charitable after his Texans set a franchise-record for wins in a season by improving to 11-1 with their sixth straight victory. They also improved to 6-0 on the road - the NFL's only unbeaten team away from home. And just for good measure, they also swept the Titans, the team they replaced in Houston, for only the second time as a franchise.
Fullback James Casey, who caught a 5-yard touchdown pass from Matt Schaub, said the feeling of clinching is a lot different this year than last season. The Texans are happy to know they're in the playoffs with more goals still ahead.
``We have a lot higher aspirations this year, but still we clinched the playoffs and that's hard to do,'' Casey said. ``We're in it now. We have a shot. We have other things we want to do too. We want to clinch the division, we want to get home field advantage, so we have a lot of work to do and are already looking forward. We know we have a really big game against New England on Monday night, so we're excited about that.''
Rookie Whitney Mercilus had two sacks, Watt had another sack giving him 15 1/2 and the Texans also batted down a handful of Jake Locker's passes.
``We kind of got after him and frustrated him a little bit, and that was our goal,'' Watt said. ``The defense played great, and I think the defense did a heck of a job. I'm very proud of how we played.''
Schaub also threw for 207 yards and two touchdowns, including a 54-yarder to Lestar Jean on the opening drive to put Houston ahead to stay. Arian Foster scored on a 2-yard TD run as the Texans led 21-3 at halftime to avoid any overtime drama after needing extra time to beat Jacksonville and Detroit in a span of five days in their last two games.
``Our defense really won the game for us,'' Schaub said. ``They created all those turnovers and stops on fourth down. The game ball goes to the defense because we weren't holding up our end on offense.''
For the Titans (4-8), the issues are growing quickly. They lost a second straight game and now have combined for 13 turnovers in back-to-back home losses. Locker fumbled twice and was intercepted three times. Right tackle David Stewart broke his right leg on the opening series, and left guard Steve Hutchinson hurt his right knee late in the first half.
``What could go wrong, would go wrong,'' Titans coach Mike Munchak said.
Tennessee outgained the Texans 354-332 in total offense with Locker throwing for 309 yards in the debut of offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains. He took over when Chris Palmer was fired a week ago. But when Locker settled down, his teammates took turns dropping balls or wiping out big plays with penalties.
``When he got going, then other people took their turns at making mistakes, so it was just sloppy, on the offensive side of the ball, at different times throughout the game,'' Munchak said.
NOTES: Andre Johnson, the AFC offensive player for November, had five catches for 56 yards after totaling 35 catches for 614 yards over the past month. ... Foster's streak of rushing for at least 90 yards a game ended at five. He ran for 38 yards on 14 carries. ... Stewart was taken to a hospital after being carted off the field. ... The Texans first swept Tennessee in 2004. Now they have won four of six in this AFC South rivalry.
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THURSDAY, Sept. 2, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly 500 Americans have died of complications from the H1N1 swine flu since the virus first surfaced last spring, including at least 36 children younger than 18, a new government report shows.
And 67 percent of those children who died had at least one chronic high-risk "neurodevelopmental condition," such as epilepsy, cerebral palsy or developmental delay, U.S. health officials said during a news conference Thursday.
Bacterial infections -- such as bacterial pneumonia -- were another contributing factor to an increased risk of death in children, including most children older than 5 who didn't have a preexisting high-risk medical condition. This suggests that bacteria, in tandem with the H1N1 virus, can cause severe disease in children who may be otherwise healthy, the officials said.
But the officials, from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stressed that the pediatric death rates and complications from swine flu are very similar to the rates of death and complications seen in children sickened by the seasonal flu each year.
"Each year, there are 50 to 100 deaths from influenza among children in this country," CDC Director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden said during the afternoon news conference. "These [swine flu] findings are not unexpected. It's what we see with seasonal flu. But only time will tell what will happen in the fall and winter."
The officials noted one difference in death rates of children stricken with seasonal flu vs. the newly identified swine flu. In past seasonal flu outbreaks, the children who died tended to be 5 or younger. But since the H1N1 virus first surfaced in mid-April, the death rates have been higher for children older than 5, according to a report in the Sept. 4 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
CDC officials continued to emphasize that for most people, adults included, infection with the H1N1 swine flu produces mild illness and the recovery is fairly quick. And the virus has shown no signs of mutating into a more virulent form during its travels from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere.
Frieden said children, particularly those with underlying medical conditions, need to be treated promptly if they develop a fever, and "are at the front of the line for vaccination when it becomes available."
Federal health officials expect an initial shipment of 45 million swine flu vaccine doses to be ready by mid-October.
The CDC is recommending that all children aged 6 months and older be vaccinated against the swine flu virus. Children should also be vaccinated for seasonal flu, Frieden said.
Dr. Pascal James Imperato, dean and distinguished service professor in the School of Public Health at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York City, said, "Young children with serious medical conditions are always at greater risk for severe illness and death from seasonal influenza compared to their healthy counterparts."
The H1N1 deaths of children younger than 18 last spring documented by the CDC confirm that such risk also exists with the swine flu virus, Imperato said.
"There is nothing surprising in this finding," he said. "It is significant that of the children who died, 22 had neurodevelopmental conditions, which obviously placed them at special high risk. Such children should clearly be high in the priority list for immunization not only against the H1N1 swine flu, but also against the seasonal flu."
Besides children and young adults, who seem to lack immunity to the H1N1 virus, pregnant women, people with preexisting health problems, such as diabetes, and health-care workers also top the CDC's list of vaccine candidates once it becomes available.
Dr. Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City, said the new CDC report "emphasizes the need for antivirals in children who are sick, as well as vaccination of all children as soon as it is available."
"Since infants cannot be vaccinated before 6 months and won't be able to mount an immune response, this also emphasizes the need of pregnant women to receive the vaccine as soon as available," he added.
As H1N1 vaccine testing continues, the CDC is looking for any adverse side effects from the inoculation, Frieden said.
"We know that every year, there are cases of paralysis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, there are women who have miscarriages, there are people who have sudden death," Frieden said, referring to side effects from seasonal flu vaccines.
"In all of those situations, we need to know very clearly how many we would expect if the vaccine doesn't cause any problems whatsoever," he said, referring to the swine flu vaccine.
Frieden noted that with the start of school, cases of H1N1 infection are on the rise, particularly in the southeastern United States where schools got under way earlier than in many other parts of the country.
"With school resuming, we do expect to see more cases," Frieden said. "We are seeing it now, and we expect that will continue."
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Interview with Diana Sokolic : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Diana Sokolic : I often g to the theatre and I like to dress for the occasion. I like to have something new and different every time I go. Once while I as thinking what to wear this time, there was a movie with Fred astaire on TV. I saw his elegant figure, his sleek suit, his cuffs...and viola! The idea was born. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Diana Sokolic : The idea was to make something nice and wearable, something different from usual jewelry. I remembered cuffs and plastrons worn by men in the last century and decided to revive it in a modern way, this time as a part of women garment. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Diana Sokolic : Plan is to distribute FRED to concept stores. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Diana Sokolic : Designing was not a long process. I had a very clean picture in my head. So draw it, made a cut out of paper, tried several dimensions and that was it. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Diana Sokolic : Being an artist by proffesion, for me art is the way of living. I have the strong urge to design space around me, things I use or wear... These cuffs are just one of things I have designed to meet my estetic standards. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Diana Sokolic : I intend to produce work myself. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Diana Sokolic : I have designed this because of a lack of stetement fashion details. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Diana Sokolic : Target for my product is every self-confident woman . .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Diana Sokolic : There is no similar design or resembling concept :) .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Diana Sokolic : Being an artist by proffesion, the painter, my main tool is paper and pencil. I drew few sketches, than made a cut out of paper and than started making cuffs . .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Diana Sokolic : The uniqueness pf this design is that a piece of mans garment is used as womans jewelry. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Diana Sokolic : Knowing contemporary materials is here more important than technology. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Diana Sokolic : Chalenge was the LACK of technology i.e. trying to produce the designed item at home without any professional equippement. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Diana Sokolic : I wear my cuffs a lot and they are both noticed and liked. I wanted to explore the opinion of professional audience. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Diana Sokolic : Every new design is a new challenge because it puts new questions and new problems in front of the autor. Solving those problems improves the author himself. .
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Bisaproperty avait besoin d'un nouveau design de logo et a lancé un concours sur 99designs.
Un gagnant a été sélectionné de 69 designs proposés par 20 designers freelance.
"Bisa Property" needs a contemporary and fresh new face. We are a property developer and serviced apartment business traditionally entrenched in Apartment development but looking to also get into commercial etc. We want to portray a new modern face in the market that aspires to develop products that connect with todays work and home lifestyles. The company is moving into its second generation of management and wants this reflected in a fresh and stylish logo.
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The logo is to contain the words "Bisa Property". Style and font is left entirely to your own interpretation.
UPDATE: Its been a bit unimaginative so far...so could the focus perhaps shift more to an eco or environmentally aware development feel...ie more in touch with the elements. ignore most of the following for design influences and use an open eco book!
Our company is Canberra based in Australia but looking to expand operations further around the country. We sell property to both investors and home owners and as such would like a logo that reflects our attention to design and innovation as well as matching lifestyles to living space. It also has to be broad enough to encompass commercial and industrial development also with a design focus (small companies would buy from us looking for a distinctive identity). it should also be still tied loosely to a corporate feel as the company wants to keep the logo as it hopefully increases in scale towards the big end of the market.
Bisa Property is also a holding company for our residential property assets that are used to run our serviced apartments business
Would like to have a logo both with and without a tag line. The tag line you can use for now can be "Life Space" but should provide for a longer tag line if needed. Please feel free to come up with a better tag line.
The logo will progress to stationary and then to web site. Preferably with the same winner but not limited to that.
As you can see, there are some conflicting emotions...stylish, young, modern developer wanting to connect to lifestyle crowd, against corporate aspiring future, industrial and commercial developer, and established reputation. I'll leave it up to you.
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Men's Pro Road Racing Returns to Montreal
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After a day in transit from Quebec City, the GP Cycliste concluded with a second ProTour race on the famed Mont Royal circuit in the center of Montreal. Thousands lined the long main climb up Camilien-Houde, and saw Robert Gesink of Rabobank launch the race winning attack on the last lap. Canadian favourite Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Transitions) was part of the chase group that came to within four seconds of Gesink on the line, but he could only manage third, behind Peter Sagan (Liquigas Doimo).
The 16 lap race took the riders around a 12.6 kilometre circuit with historic significance - Eddy Merckx won a world title on it in 1974. It was used for the 1976 Olympic road race, and Steve Bauer won the inaugural edition of the GP des Ameriques World Cup here in 1988. Since then, it has also been part of the Classique de Montreal and the Women's World Cup series.
After the start on Avenue de Parc, the riders turn left and immediately begin to ascend the two kilometre Mont Royal climb. Over the top there is long, gradual three kilometre descent and then the nasty, short Polytechnique climb, with an 11% section. It is followed by sharp descent and the riders then skirt the base of Mont Royal back to Avenue de Parc. They head past the start-finish line, downhill towards the skyscrapers in downtown Montreal, before making a final u-turn and a last little kicker up to the finish line.
The first lap saw a flurry of attacks, which stretched the peloton out and saw riders getting shelled already. Nothing stuck until late in the lap, when two riders got away - Maarten Tjallingii (Rabobank) and Gorka Izagirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi). They were joined early in the second lap by Alfredo Balloni (Lampre - Farnese Vini) Angel Madrazo Ruiz (Caisse d'Epargne) and Julien Bernard (Ag2r-La Mondiale). They were joined by Kevin Seeldraeyers (Quick Step).
The early break
The gap yo-yo'd at 15-25 seconds through the lap, and finally started to grow on the third lap. The group dropped to four, when Balloni managed to somehow crash on his own on the descent. The peloton backed off somewhat in their chasing at this point, and the gap gradually extended to three and a half minutes by the halfway mark; the maximum it would achieve.
Team Sky and RadioShack were both keeping a watchful eye and setting tempo at the front, and were joined by Hesjedal's team as the race passed the ten lap mark. The gap started to drop fairly rapidly at this point, especially when Chris Horner (RadioShack) launched off the front of the peloton, and was joined Tiago Machado (Team Radioshack), Francesco Gavazzi (Lampre - Farnese Vini), Daniel Oss (Liquigas-Doimo), André Steensen (Team Saxo Bank) and Chris Anker Sorensen (Team Saxo Bank).
Horner's group quickly swept up the remnants of the break and went almost a minute clear with four laps to go, but Garmin-Transitions strung the rapidly disintegrating peloton in their efforts to bring the leaders back. Horner, Sorenson and Gavazzi dropped the rest of the leaders and continued to dangle off the front through the next two laps, but Svein tuft went to the front for Garmin and pulled the remaining 35-40 riders in the field to within sight of the leaders by the start of the last lap.
The three at the front were caught and Levi Leipheimer immediately attacked, going nowhere. However, Gesink's counter was more successful, and he opened a ten second gap before the top of the climb. Nine riders took up the chase, including Hesjedal, Sagan, Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Haimar Zubeldia (RadioShack) and Maxim Monfort (HTC-Columbia).
It looked like Gesink would surely get caught, but the young Dutchman continued to hold off the chasers to the line, rolling in just ahead of Sagan, who outsprinted Hesjedal for second.
Hesjedal and Gesink
"I didn't think I was going to be able to hold it because I was suffering," commented Gesink. "Especially at the end when the group almost caught me. The whole last lap I doubted whether or not I could finish. I just had enough at the end. This is one of the highlights of my career, becaue I have never won a one day race before."
For Hesjedal, it was the conclusion of a successful weekend of racing in front of a home crowd, that saw him finish fourth in Quebec, third in Montreal, win the Most Aggressive award in Montreal and be the top Canadian in both events. "This has been an incredible weekend," commented Hesjedal. "I came into these races with the Number 1 bib, and I think my team helped me honour that. Racing here in front of my family, my fiance and all these people ... it has been amazing."
"When Robert [Gesink] made his move, I thought there was still plenty of race left to catch him. We had a good group to work with, but he rode a very strong race."
Race Notes
- Ivan Basso (Liquigas Doimo) did not start due to illness, and riders began abandoning early. In total, there were 75 abandons, and only 34 riders were left in the peloton at the end. After Hesjedal, Tuft was the top Canadian finisher, in 57th place, 4:51 back. Will Routley was the top rider for Team Canada p/b SpiderTech, in 65th place at 9:02.
- Hesjedal's fourth and third places have moved him up to sixth in the ProTour rankings, with 307 points. Alberto Contador (Astana) leads with 482, followed by Joaquin Rodriguez (Katusha) at 428, Cadel Evans (BMC) at 390, Gesink at 369 and Luis Leon Sanchez (Caisse d'Epargne) at 307.
- Prior to the race start, UCI President Pat McQuaid officially opened the Canadian bicycle industry trade show (ExpoCycle) with CCA President John Tolkamp.
BTAC President Jean Cloutier, CCA President John Tolkamp, UCI President Pat McQuaid and BTAC Executive Director Janet O'Connell at the opening of the 2010 Expocycle Trade Show
BTAC Executive Director Janet O'Connell, , UCI President Pat McQuaid, CCA President John Tolkamp and BTAC President Jean Cloutier
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Doubts and peace
So the other day I had a difficult phone conversation with someone close to my heart - ie I care for this person but it's so hard to reach to said person...
And honestly, this person said things that made me doubt of decisions we have made - like me leaving government to work on the private sector then on our home business, me staying at home with my kids, me homeschooling... and so on. As much as I would like this person to support me and accept the decisions that I/we make, there is no point of trying anymore. I'm giving up.
But the doubts crept in my mind... depression hit home, tears came down the cheeks...
Things that were said:
"knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have help to pay for your master degree since it is almost as thought we have thrown the money through the windows"
" you have a master degree in IT not in teaching"
"I am not sure your kids will be equipped properly when the arrive in high school because you yourself (as in me...) have lost more than 60% of your French and don't know how to write it anymore because of the errors you make"
and so on...
But it hurts so much when it comes from someone you love and you care for. *sigh*
So this was my day a few days ago... depression, tears, deflated, unsure of my decisions.
Then I finished to watch a DVD I have borrowed from the library title Be Still. It is about contemplative prayer. And one section of the DVD is listing scriptures to ponder on. The one that caught my eye was Psalm 62:1-2.
"For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.
He only is my Rock and my Salvation, my Defense and my Fortress, I shall not be greatly moved."
Amplified version
These verses were a balm on my soul the next day and since then I feel better. Do I have teary eyes sometimes still? You bet but I also know that God is there for me and sustain me and love me.
Further down in the Psalm it says " Trust in, lean on, rely on, and have confidence in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is a refuge for us (a fortress and a high tower). Shelah [pause and calmly think of that!]
Yes indeed God is my refuge and when I feel attacked and start doubting because of the lies someone throw at me (whom is guided obviously by the Father of Lies), I know that God is there to give me strength and show me the Truth.
Never forget that God is bigger than lies. I know I got reminded of this truth over the week.
Not as often...
I guess I am not as often as I would really like on this blog. I find it hard to be splitted in two and between the business, homeschool, family, this blog and my review blog - I am a bit out of breath.
So to my friends on homeschoolblogger and others (family and friends reading about our life), I apologize.
As I said, my review blog is keeping me busy. Wondering what books I would suggest to read, please jump to Canadianladybug Reviews! to check it out. I am starting to expand my review experience. Back in the Fall I reviewed a game called TriviaThon. Quite interesting game actually. I would recommend it to anyone - even the people who are not too fond of trivia type of games. In 2010, I have already two extraordinary products lined up. I'm becoming more bold and offer reviews to various companies. Already I know two products are coming my way but I won't tell you what it is yet.
On the family side of things, every one is healthy. No H1N1 so far and no we didn't take the shot either... That caused some tension elsewhere but I prefer not to expand on this. Business is getting better slowly so I won't complain. Problem is when you are in contracting, you work and sometimes you get paid later. We are fortunate to have one third-party that pays every two weeks but most third-parties pay a month later. So for one contract we are paid as we speak while the other... we wait.
Jérémy, Jasmine and my husband has a birthday. Jérémy was back in November while Jasmine and Daddy was not too long ago - respectively the 19 and 21 of December. Also on the 19th, we (my husband and I) were maître of ceremony to the wedding of our friends Rachelle and Tyler. This was the first time we were doing, the first time I saw a bride spinning at her own reception ( for 30 minutes) and the first time I heard Tyler speak in French for more than a couple of words. He said his vows in French in honor of Rachelle - isn`t it cute? I thought it was very impressive and very romantic.
As I write this, they are on honeymoon so we won't see them until next year I think.
On the homeschool front - we are advancing at a steady pace. Math U See is more than half way done for Alexandre and Dominic, and I don't feel as stressed as as I was in the previous years. So I guess it's good. The kids go to AWANA and have swimming lessons. All are doing great at swimming even Jasmine who now jumps by herself in the water - mind you I need to catch her...!
As you can see we survived our chaotic year on multiple fronts.
I wish all a Merry Christmas. For now I need to get some accounting done.... *grin*
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July 6, 2011 — Breastfeeding offers no protection against relapses of multiple sclerosis (MS), a study shows.
Women with MS are known to have higher relapse rates in the year following childbirth, and several studies have offered conflicting evidence about the role of breastfeeding in reducing the risk of such flare-ups. The new study, conducted at MS centers throughout Italy, shows that breastfeeding does not reduce the risk.
"It's a well-designed study that does a nice job of resolving the controversy," says neurologist Dennis Bourdette, MD, director of the Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Center at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, who reviewed the study for WebMD. "It resolves from my standpoint that breastfeeding is not protective."
The study is published in the online edition of Neurology.
Between 2002 and 2008, the researchers, led by Emilio Portaccio, MD, of the University of Florence, followed 298 women during their pregnancies and for the first year after giving birth. Of those, 104 women breastfed for at least two months. The rest of the women breastfed for less than two months or not at all.
The researchers report that 112 women had one relapse in the first postpartum year, while 20 women had two or more relapses. Such relapses led 39 of the women to stop breastfeeding altogether.
After analyzing the data, the researchers found that breastfeeding did not determine the risk of relapse. Instead, the most reliable predictor of a flare-up following childbirth was the number of flare-ups both before and during pregnancy. In other words, the more active a woman's disease during those periods, the more likely she was to have relapse in the months after delivery.
MS and Pregnancy
An estimated 2.5 million people worldwide have multiple sclerosis. An autoimmune disease, MS impairs the nervous system by damaging the myelin sheath, a protective substance that surrounds nerve fibers.
Much more common among women than men, MS has no known cause or cure. However, drugs and other therapies can help manage the disease course and control its symptoms, which include vision problems, fatigue, weakness, tremors, and trouble with coordination.
For women seeking to get pregnant, Bourdette says, the standard practice is to stop taking MS drugs, some of which can cause spontaneous abortions. While pregnancy does not affect the course of the disease over the long term, Bourdette says that the risk of flare-ups goes down during pregnancy.
The risk of flare-ups goes up after giving birth, particularly during the first three months after delivery. Mothers who choose to breastfeed must stay off MS drugs because they may affect the baby.
"A decision has to be made about whether or not to breastfeed," says Bourdette. "It's a highly personal and individual decision. In my practice, most women choose to breastfeed for three to six months, but if they have a relapse, they may change their minds."


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As Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), my primary goal is to make sure all of children are capable of success. We must hold high expectations for each of them. It is our responsibility to ensure they receive the supports needed to succeed in college, career and life.
To prepare our students for higher learning, all public schools in the State of Illinois, including CPS, recently began implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). These standards were adopted by 45 states and they describe what students are expected to learn at every grade level to be prepared for college.
Based on these new standards, the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) will raise the performance levels of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) for elementary and middle school students (grades 3-8) beginning this school year. These new performance levels will align with the more rigorous CCSS in English, language arts and math.
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By raising the bar on the ISAT, it is likely that scores for students may decrease. In many cases, some students who previously met or exceeded standards on the ISAT will instead show the need for improvement.
However, even if scores do drop for your child, it does not mean they know less than they did before or are less capable than they were in previous years. ISBE is simply raising the bar on the ISAT in order to align it more closely with standards that better indicate if students are on a path for college and career-readiness.
ISAT testing begins March 4, 2013. As we receive the results of the revised statewide tests, your school staff will be able to provide the appropriate support and help for your child based on the new learning standards, if necessary.
Though ISAT testing may be more challenging this year than in the past, the new higher standards will better position all CPS students for a successful future in college and career.
These changes also pave the way for the state to replace the ISAT tests in math and English language arts with the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exams. The PARCC exams will line up with the Common Core State Standards and provide better information about students' abilities to master the critical thinking skills needed for college. The new PARCC tests are scheduled to begin in the 2014-2015 school year.
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Now that nuclear-thermal rockets are becoming a reality, we may very well be shipping off the first human pioneers to Mars (both safely and efficiently) in the not-too-distant future. This, of course, leaves the question of exactly who will become the first generation of Martian-Earthlings.
The prospect of actually being a founder of a colony on an entirely different world is practically incredible to the point of being inconceivable. But of course, any future space explorers will have to resign themselves to the fact their ticket to the next frontier probably isn't going to allow for any flights home. So anyone willing to take the leap is going to have to want it—bad.
Considering everything this one-way trip entails, assuming technology has allowed for a sufficiently inhabitable home on Mars, AND assuming you happened to be one of the lucky few picked, would you be willing to pack your bags for Mars—never to return? Talk it it out down below.
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Quality Control for the Global Multi-Tiered Supply Chain (Luncheon + Presentation)
Institute for Supply Management [ISM] of Silicon Valley
Friday, February 15, 2013 from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM (PST)
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Over the last decade, many firms have outsourced a significant portion of their manufacturing operations to reduce costs and to focus the limited capital available on product development. As a result, the modern supply chain is now increasingly complex, with specialized manufacturing processes distributed across multiple-tiers of a globally distributed supply base.
Unfortunately, this increase in supply chain complexity makes it difficult to control product quality across the supply chain.
Existing systems and tools designed for a simpler era of manufacturing are inadequate for today's globally distributed multi-tiered supply chain. A significant percentage of defects now originate in the supply chain. These defects disrupt production, delay shipments, and result in wasted capacity, often making their way to the end customer, resulting in expensive warranty claims, and reputation-damaging recalls.
Supply chain professionals across industries are now struggling to deal with the disruption and chaos caused by quality problems originating in the supply chain. Thousands of man-hours are spent each year in the chaos - emails, phone calls, emergency trips to suppliers and customers etc, returned parts, expedites, recalls etc. - caused by defects originating in the supply chain.
Session Objective: Supply Chain Managers measure supplier effectiveness in terms of Quality, Cost & Delivery, with the percentage of defective parts received by the buyer as the standard measure of supplier quality. But why wait for failure and the resulting chaos to occur before you determine your supplier's effectiveness?
In this session, you will learn about a comprehensive framework for Supply Chain Quality Control that enables firms to deal with the complexity of the modern supply chain. You will learn how to use this framework to establish the required controls for each part at each tier of the supply chain in order to reduce the risk of defects.
We will introduce the key elements of the Supply Chain Quality Control framework with examples of how to use each of these elements, and help you to strengthen your measures of Quality for supplier selection, monitoring, and development.
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Sara Fletcher is currently Director of Product Management for 1factory, Inc. Sara's career experiences include Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Management, Program Management, and Quality Control roles across the semiconductor, bio-tech, and solar industries. Sara is an expert on Factory Capacity Planning and Simulation. She holds a BS in Industrial & Systems Engineering from San Jose State University.
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Feeding a hungry crowd? Turn to these mouthwatering chimichangas, which feature slow-roasted beef and melted cheese inside a crispy tortilla. Everyone will want the recipe!
Total TimePrep: 1 hour Cook: 7-1/2 hours
Makes16 servings
- 1 boneless beef chuck roast (3-1/2 pounds)
- 2 cups chopped peeled potatoes
- 1-1/2 cups water
- 1 tablespoon reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons garlic salt with parsley
- 3/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2 cans (4 ounces each) chopped green chilies
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
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- 16 flour tortillas (10 inches), warmed
- 4 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- Optional toppings: guacamole, salsa or sour cream
- Cut roast in half; place in a 4- or 5-qt. slow cooker. Arrange potatoes around the roast; pour water over potatoes. Drizzle meat with soy sauce. Sprinkle with garlic salt and pepper. Top with green chilies. Cover and cook on low for 7-9 hours or until meat is very tender.
- Remove roast to a platter. Shred meat with two forks and return to the slow cooker. Combine flour and taco seasoning; stir into meat mixture. Cover and cook 30 minutes longer or until juices are thickened.
- To assemble chimichangas, using a slotted spoon, spoon 1/2 cup meat mixture off-center on each tortilla. Sprinkle with 1/4 cup cheese. Fold up edge nearest filling; fold in both sides and roll up.
- In a large skillet, fry chimichangas, folded side down, in oil in batches until golden brown, 2-3 minutes on each side. Drain on paper towels. Serve with toppings if desired.


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Ralph Lauren's Spring 2014 collection at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week was kicked off right with John Lennon's "No Body Told Me" carrying the mod 60's styles of this year's collection. The show was held at the St. John Center Studios on Washington in the ultra trendy Tribeca neighborhood with 52 fresh looks for Spring 2014. Vogue editor Anna Wintour, whom I had the pleasure meeting, looked on point in a tweed suit with violet tinted shades, sitting front row. While Jessica Alba, opted for a free flowing, pink gossamer skirt and textured, black sweater.
The new Spring/Summer 2014 Ralph Lauren line represents original American style through veritable and vibrant tones like classic red, intense cobalt blue, illuminating orange, and vibrant yellow. This years spring collection runway was full of cropped wool crepe blazers and ultra posh minis. While leather trench coats in black and white combinations carried the look of the ensembles when paired with ultra sleek minis. This years' runway look was complete with shiny, patent leather Mary Janes paired with knee-highs and oversized, yet trendy black sunglasses. Stark white, cotton canvas dresses and leather dresses stole the show, while jumpsuits kept it young and fresh. Plaid fabrics and calfskin leather school bags added a traditional element to the show while patent boots, and pumps added an edgy appeal to the new spring line.
Be sure to follow Splash Magazine's coverage of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week's Fall/Winter Collection 2014. Be sure to visit Ralph Lauren's website for more.
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Food waste is one third of the residential garbage in Seattle (nearly 45,000 tons) and is transported by train 300 miles to an Oregon landfill. Food waste takes up space in the landfill, and produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas that affects climate change.
Instead, food waste can be collected and turned into compost at a local compost facility. Compost nourishes soil for healthier plants and gardens. Compost-rich soil also absorbs run-off and breaks down urban pollutants like oil, grease, metals, fertilizers, and pesticides which can harm fish in urban streams or Puget Sound.
Benefits to Properties
In addition to compliance with Seattle city law, property managers report the following benefits to having a successful food waste collection program on their properties:
- Helps prevent costly repairs due to clogged drains and sewer lines
- Improves morale as residents like "green" features
- Can reduce garbage service or overflow costs, especially when combined with a successful recycling program
These case studies (pdf) provide examples.
What about in-sink garbage disposal?
Garbage disposals use unnecessary fresh drinking water and energy to process material that can go into the food waste collection cart. Depending on how long the disposal is turned on, it can use as much water as several toilet flushes. Garbage disposals send food waste through the sewer system, adding an extra load for treatment. The water treatment plant must use more water and energy to clean the water of additional nutrients and solids before discharging it into Puget Sound. In addition, any fats, oil or grease (FOG) going down the sink or disposal with food waste can build up in drains, causing expensive sewer clogs and overflows. Your building's maintenance staff will appreciate less stress on the plumbing if you use the food and yard waste cart!
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Let us introduce you to Will Jackson, producer and engineer for bands such as the Kaiser Chiefs, The Pigeon Detectives and The Cribs. Will is the proud owner of two Helios microphones, which he admits that he uses on pretty much anything and everything, from vocals to drums; two Orpheus mics, which he cites as being excellent for recording acoustic guitar, electric guitar and as drum overheads; and a Sigma for guitar amps and acoustic instruments.
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One Google, one dashboard. The Account Activity Report pulls together a user's, um, use of all of Google products, feeding into one convenient report, according to their official blog. (click here to opt-in).
With YouTube, Gmail, Google Docs, Google+ and dozens more products all under one sign-on, keeping track of everything needed to be compiled.
As the company points out on its blog, it's also easy to notice any security breaches that may have happened somewhere in your Googleverse.
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The AAR is designed for "transparency and control, summarizes the data associated with each product you use when signed in to your account and provides links to change personal settings" -- that's how the splash page reads once you opt-in. (Our test report took about two minutes to generate.)
Still in beta, a dropdown at the top of the report implies that users can choose a range of dates to analyze. Our first report goes back a month.
The report provides browsers used, top search queries, most contacted people and email quantities, both received and sent.
For personal productivity, analyzing email volume may be most useful, but seeing that "california pizza" is a top search might also help with other productivity goals.


text: Diamondback terrapins are turtles with concentric, diamond-shaped markings and grooves on the scutes (plates) of their carapaces (top shells), which range from medium gray or brown to nearly black. Their skin color is a pale to dark gray or black, flecked with dark spots, blotches or stripes. The hingeless plastron (bottom shell) is yellow to green or black and may be marked with dark blotches. No two individual diamondback terrapins are exactly alike in coloration and pattern. Their feet are strongly webbed; the hind feet are especially large and flat. These large webbed feet and muscular legs make terrapins strong swimmers, a necessary ability when living in an environment with daily tidal changes and strong currents. Mating takes place in the early spring, with nesting extending through mid-summer. Females lay two to three clutches of eggs annually, with clutch sizes ranging from four to 23 eggs. During the cold winter months, diamondbacks hibernate, buried in the mud at the bottom of tidal creeks. In the northern part of their range, terrapins enter hibernation in November or December and emerge between April and May. Hibernating terrapins remain completely submerged and inactive throughout the winter. Oxygen needs are greatly reduced due to low metabolism and inactivity during this dormant state. Dissolved oxygen is also absorbed from the water through the mouth and tail opening (the cloaca). Did You Know? This is Maryland's state reptile and the mascot of the University of Maryland. Diet Diamondbacks are well adapted for eating hard-shelled prey, including aquatic snails, crabs and small bivalves, such as blue mussels and clams. Females have broad plates on their jaws to help crush prey. Terrapins also eat carrion, fish, marine worms and insects. They are almost strictly carnivorous but sometimes ingest small amounts of plant material while eating other prey. Size Adult males are significantly smaller than females in weight and carapace length. Males reach a maximum shell length of 5.5 inches, while females can grow up to 11 inches. Females also have wider heads, deeper (taller) shells and shorter tails than males. Range Diamondbacks live in coastal salt marshes, estuaries and tidal creeks along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts from Cape Cod, Mass., to Corpus Christi, Texas, including the Florida Keys. Seven subspecies occupy this range, with some overlap in distribution. The northern diamondback exhibited at the Aquarium inhabits a range from Cape Cod, Mass., to Cape Hatteras, N.C. Population Status Diamondback terrapin populations have declined considerably in many parts of their geographic range and are listed as endangered, threatened or species of special concern in some states. The current status of the northern diamondback population throughout the Chesapeake and coastal bays is unknown. The species is currently classified as "apparently secure" by both Maryland and Virginia . Terrapin populations fell to dangerously low levels in the 20th century after a long period of large-scale harvesting for their meat. Commercial harvest of terrapins ended in Maryland in 2007. Other factors causing declines in terrapin populations include the loss of salt marsh habitat and destruction of nesting beaches due to waterfront development, road mortalities of nesting females, boat strikes, excessive predation by raccoons and continued commercial harvesting in a few states. Terrapins are attracted to the same bait used to lure blue crabs. When trapped in submerged crab pots or commercial fishing gear, air-breathing terrapins will eventually drown. The loss of adult terrapins in crab pots is believed to be a main cause of population declines in many parts of their range. Almost all deaths in crab pots could be prevented by equipping these traps with turtle excluders, or "bycatch reduction devices" (BRDs). This simple modification still allows large crabs to enter but keeps adult terrapins out. Maryland crabbing regulations require that all recreational crab pots (waterfront property owners are allowed two) be equipped with BRDs. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources provides information on how to make excluders, and the devices can also be purchased at many bait shops. Predators Nesting terrapin females are vulnerable to predation by raccoons. Eggs and hatchlings are preyed upon by a wide variety of animals including crabs, crows, gulls, herons, rats, muskrats, foxes, raccoons, skunks and mink. Terrapin eggs are also destroyed by the invasion of introduced beach grass and common reed. Survival rates of nests and hatchlings are very low due to high predation and flooding. Back to the Top


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I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined the team at ActionSprout, where I'll be serving as Director of Strategy. ActionSprout is a startup that was founded last year by my dear friends and fellow Groundwire alums Drew Bernard and Shawn Kemp, and we make tools that help nonprofits organize action and raise money on Facebook. (For a quick example, check out this ActionSprout campaign from the Sierra Club, going live today, where they're organizing folks in support of an environmental high school program in Los Angeles that's threatened with closure.)
To say I'm excited would be an understatement.
First, I'm excited about the opportunity to have a huge impact on how progressive activists (and political candidates! and companies!) communicate and organize online. Facebook has become a huge communications channel, but until now, the tools for organizing people in meaningful ways there have been pretty limited: you can "Like," "Share," and "Comment." That's about it. But with ActionSprout, organizations can take advantage of Facebook's Open Graph to create all kinds of new action posts (e.g. "Stand with…" "Support…" "Stop…" "Donate…") that are far more meaningful and engaging. And did I mention that we can let groups take online donations directly inside of Facebook? So far as I know, we're the only tool that makes that possible right now! I think we're going to upend the conventional wisdom that "you can't raise money on Facebook."
We've already thought of a thousand ways to use ActionSprout, and I can't wait to see the creative things that all our smart friends and allies are going to come up with!
Second, I'm exciting to be working with Drew and Shawn. They're fearsomely fast and creative visionaries. I'm stoked to be able to help them paint boldly on a wide-open canvas.
Third, I'm excited to be working for a startup. I've long been nursing an entrepreneurial itch, and ActionSprout feels like the perfect way to scratch it: innovative, social-mission driven and with nonprofits as the primary customers. What's more, Drew and Shawn are both successful startup veterans, and so I have two amazing mentors as my colleagues.
I've still got two quarters of grad school remaining, so I'll be part-time from now until June, then ramping up from there. I'm going to initially focus on helping our early customers get up and running, building out a partner program for strategy, campaign and social media consultants and getting done what needs doing.
If you're interested in finding out more about ActionSprout, drop me a line and I'll give you a tour, or even better, just head on over there and check it out yourself. There's a short video, some case studies, and best of all, you can test drive it for free.


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