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The ciabatta slices make for man-sized crostini, perfect for a Super Bowl party. If you can, always cut the bread into bite-sized chunks for more manageable portions.
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- 1 cup fresh basil leaves, loosely packed
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 1/4 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
- 24 large cooked shrimp, sliced in half lengthwise
- 8 (1-inch-thick) slices ciabatta (from 1 large loaf)
- 4 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
- 2 teaspoons fresh rosemary, coarsely chopped (from 2 sprigs)
- 1/2 cup chicken stock or low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 (15 ounce) can white beans, drained and rinsed
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 4 ounces arugula, coarsely chopped (about 4 cups loosely packed)
- 2 teaspoons chile-garlic sauce
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In blender, pulse basil, 1/4 cup olive oil, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper until smooth. Transfer to small bowl, add shrimp, and toss to combine. Refrigerate, covered, at least 1 hour and up to 24 hours.
- Brush ciabatta slices on both sides with oil (about 1/4 cup total) and sprinkle with salt and pepper (about 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper total). Arrange in single layer on rimmed baking sheet and bake until golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes.
- In heavy medium saucepan over moderately high heat, heat 1/4 cup oil until hot but not smoking. Add garlic and rosemary and sauté until golden, about 2 minutes. Add stock and beans and bring to boil, then reduce heat to moderate and simmer, uncovered, until liquid is reduced by 1/3, about 2 minutes. Transfer to blender and purée until smooth. With motor running, add 2 tablespoons oil and blend until incorporated. Blend in 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Set purée aside.
- In small bowl, whisk together lemon juice, remaining 1/4 cup olive oil, remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt, and remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
- Transfer arugula to medium bowl, drizzle with olive oil–lemon juice mixture, and toss to combine.
- Spread about 2 tablespoons white bean mixture on each bread slice, then top each with 1/2 cup arugula and 6 shrimp halves. Drizzle 1/4 teaspoon chile-garlic sauce over each slice and serve immediately.
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- Calories415
- Carbohydrates23 g(8%)
- Fat32 g(49%)
- Protein10 g(21%)
- Saturated Fat5 g(23%)
- Sodium367 mg(15%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat4 g
- Fiber4 g(14%)
- Monounsaturated Fat22 g
- Cholesterol35 mg(12%)


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Watch 5 Seconds of Summer Perform 'She Looks So Perfect,' 'Amnesia' + 'Beside You' on 'Jimmy Kimmel' [VIDEOS]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
So much 5SOS, so little time!
5 Seconds of Summer finally dropped their long-awaited self-titled debut album in the U.S. this week, and Luke, Calum, Ashton and Michael have made their way around the press circuit, including performing in front of an enormous crowd yesterday thanks to Jimmy Kimmel.
The guys performed three of their hits in front of the die-hard crowd of fans, including 'She Looks So Perfect,' 'Amnesia,' and 'Beside You'. Needless to say, 5SOS totally rocked each performance, pouring all of their energy into the live show. And the fans were equally as passionate, singing out every lyric at the top of their lungs, especially when the band encouraged them to belt out the chorus. We love it.
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text: For any period of less than five years, says Oakmark's Bill Nygren, "you are evaluating serendipity rather than skill."' By Kathy Kristof, Contributing Editor From Kiplinger's Personal Finance, March 2013 When I applied for a job with the Los Angeles Times in 1989, the editors told me they wanted someone to write about investing. I replied that they were interviewing the wrong girl. Of course, I did want the job. The Times was a great newspaper, and it happened to be in my hometown. But investing? I confessed I knew little about it. But the business editor knew my work ethic. "You'll learn," he said, and hired me.See Also: The Art of Selling Stocks Over the next 20 years, I read voraciously and regularly spoke with some of the nation's best stock pickers. I discovered that discipline, tireless research and luck played big roles in determining investing success. Yet what appeared to differentiate great investors from merely good ones was how they handled periods of adversity. The best recognized their shortcomings without sacrificing their strategy. The worst unloaded their stocks and abandoned their approach. Sponsored Content That's one of the reasons Bill Nygren, longtime manager of the Oakmark and Oakmark Select funds, became one of my investing heroes. A value investor for some 30 years, his 2007 results were so poor that this magazine removed Select from its Kiplinger 25. But Nygren and his co-managers maintained their discipline, and the performance of both funds improved dramatically. Advertisement Too soon to judge. Although my "Practical Investing" portfolio got off to a fast start, it now lags the market. (It was up 13% through January 4, two percentage points behind my benchmark.) Disappointed with my results, I called Nygren for advice. He said it was too soon to judge my performance. For any period of less than five years, "you are evaluating serendipity rather than skill," he said. What's been weighing on my portfolio's returns lately has been a sharp drop in two technology holdings, Apple (symbol AAPL) and Intel (INTC). Although Apple is still up substantially since I bought it, my gain has been cut in half. Intel, which soared nearly 20% in the first months I owned it, is now down 4%. The market seems to be suggesting that Apple's growth is on the wane and that the personal-computer business is toast, a big negative for Intel. He owns them, too. Nygren, who also owns Apple and Intel, thinks that both are bargains and that the market is wrong. He doesn't know when the stocks will emerge from their funk, but he's convinced that they're worth owning for the long term. That aside, I came away from the hour I spent on the phone with Nygren realizing that I've made three mistakes. First, he believes my rule demanding that I hold a stock for at least one year is ill-conceived. Nygren sells for one of two reasons: A stock has done so well that it's fully valued, or a firm's financial performance or strategy has failed to live up to his expectations and is unlikely to meet them in the foreseeable future. A trigger could occur in a week or in a decade. Advertisement Second, a good value investor needs gunpowder — cash you can put to use when prices of superior companies go on sale. Unfortunately, my portfolio is fully invested in stocks. And third, although my initial idea of buying shares in $10,000 increments was meant to make tracking performance simpler, Nygren says it's smarter to buy more of the stocks you like the most. As a result of our conversation, I will review every stock, regardless of how long I've held it, to decide whether it stays or goes. And I'll be looking for ways to build cash for snapping up bargains, which I may or may not purchase in $10,000 baskets. Nygren's final bit of advice is something I've heard others say before, but it bears repeating. People need to approach stocks as rationally as they do shopping. Says Nygren: "If you see a $50 shirt on sale for $25, you buy it. Investors go the other way. If something sells for $100 and it goes to $125, they buy it. If it drops to $75, they lose interest." Kathy Kristof is a contributing editor to Kiplinger's Personal Finance and author of the book Investing 101. You can see her portfolio at kiplinger.com/links/practicalportfolio.


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Intel has reportedly put back the release of its upcoming X48 gaming chipset to allow motherboard makers to clear the decks of boards based on the X48's predecessor, the X38.
Originally due to appear next month, the X48 - reviewed here - will apparently now surface in February or March, motherboard-maker moles cited by DigiTimes claim.
The X48 surfaced back in September before the X38 had even gone on sale. Since then, the new part was claimed to support only DDR 3 memory - albeit at up to 1600MHz, this speed coming courtesy of Intel's so-called XMP (eXtreme Memory Profile) specification, designed to make overclocking a less hit and miss operation.
X48-based boards will sport up to four DIMM slots, two per channel. However, only two 1600MHz, 1.8V DIMMs can be added to the board. Anyone using 1600MHz memory will only be able to connect up a 1066MHz or 1600MHz FSB processor. Only non-ECC memory modules are supported.
The X48 supports two x16 PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 slots and connects to Intel's ICH9 southbridge chip, which brings six 3Gbps SATA ports, Gigabit Ethernet, 12 USB ports and six PCIe lanes for configuration as two x1 ports and either a x4 connector or four more x1 slots.
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Let's separate church, state
I agree with a few things Dr. Anderson says in his essay "Why They Kill." I disagree with his thesis, unproved and unprovable, that humans are "risen" apes. If this is true, then it may be millennia before mankind can breed out this kind of barbaric behavior.
His Sunday sermon solution, then, that everyone should realize we are all brothers and sisters is pretty pathetic. First, he says, we have evolved the trait of killing in packs over seven million years of hominid evolution, then he asks, "Can't we all just get along?"
I think the solution does not lie in hopeful tripe, but in taking away power from the group, religion, or state to engage in killing. Dr. Anderson is right that the link between the governing power and the religious power, commonly evolved as the Church-State system, has bathed human history in blood. So... separate Church and State.
In 1786 Jefferson's bill, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, guaranteed forever that churches in Virginia would not be supported by the State. Other states followed along, and by the 1830s, all states had given up their Church-State system. The concept was guaranteed federally in 1791 by the First Amendment.
What has been the result of this Church and State separation in the United States? There are 2300+ various religions with memberships of over 2000 or more– and certainly a large group of folks like Dr. Anderson who don't believe in God at all– living together in peace in the United States.
And the rest of the world? According to the Council for America's First Freedom in Richmond, there are at least 24 nations now engaged in religion-motivated wars, most of which are of the militant Islamic variety.
Now the United States is embroiled in an attempt to introduce democracy into an area of the world which reveres a theocracy. Can it succeed? God knows. I did interview a prominent Islamic cleric in Richmond two years ago. I asked him point blank, "Can Islam and democracy co-exist?" He answered emphatically, "Yes!!"
Dr. Anderson blames our shortcomings on evolution. Whether he likes it or not, it gives us all an excuse to remain as we are. I say, we have the God-given power; let's rise up off our opposable thumbs and do something about it.
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9 Top Hotel Gyms with an amazing view
Boxing beneath palms, yoga within sight of magnificent peaks: Exercise in these hotels and enjoy the added bonus of a fantastic backdrop.
Into the blue
There's no presidential suite on the top floor of the Ritz in Lisbon, but there is a gym and it comes with an outdoor running track and a spectacular view. Prefer a pool or spa? The hotel has them too.
Runners' paradise
The facade of the Marquis Reforma in Mexico City was designed by an art deco fan. On the treadmills beneath a glass dome flanked by palm trees, you run and run and run into the light.
Airy arena
Hotels often hide their gyms away somewhere between basement boiler room and staff cloakroom. Not so the Grand Hyatt in Denver, which has weights, a running track and sun beds on the roof. Exhilarating! By the way, 12 laps around the tennis court equals one mile.
Change of perspective
Even standing on your head in an Ecocamp tent here in Chile, the awe-inspiring scenery all around makes the world a beautiful place. After hiking through Torres del Paine National Park, you can relax your burning muscles in the Yoga Dome.
On top of the world
This pool is almost in the sky. High above the noisy streets of the bustling Japanese capital – 47 stories to be precise – guests at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo can swim laps, stretch and exercise in peace, and all within sight of Mount Fuji.
Boxing in the breeze
Vacationers on Koh Samui island can test their physical limits with a round of Thai boxing. After sparring against a backdrop of turquoise-colored waters, follow the path through the bamboo wood to the spa.
Bavarian Breather
Snowcapped mountains, green pines, a gently curving valley high in the Bavarian Alps: Schloss Elmau will set your pulse rate strolling at a low 40 beats per minute – perfect conditions for archery on alpine meadows or practicing the poses of jivamukti yoga.
Endurance in the shade
Shimmering in the sun, the Andalusian countryside stretches away to the Sierra Parapanda. If you're here to burn calories, you won't even have to step outside the heavenly Cortijo Bujio – workout on a cross trainer beneath a thatched roof and a turn in the pool will do it.
Island indolence
This tiny atoll in French Polynesia was once actor Marlon Brando's private getaway. The blue waters of the lagoon will render you blissfully comatose. Should the state pass, there are plenty of activities to get into: diving, swimming, working out and tennis.
Getting there from Germany
Lufthansa flies daily from Frankfurt (FRA) to Lisbon (LIS), Bangkok (BKK), Tokyo (HND), Denver (DEN) and Mexico City (MEX). Check meilenrechner.de to see how many miles you can earn.


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Laggavitsa is affluent of Kalamas river and wells out of Mourgkana mountain. Its springs are full of water even during summer and were named "mana tou nerou" ("mother of water") by the locals.
Close to the river there are many small villages which still preserve their traditional character. Few are the lucky people who visit the area which is probably the most unknown part of Epirus. Laggavitsa gorge combines natural beauty with human activities.
On its "walls" millruns have been curved which lead the water miles away. Stone bridges which are nowadays demolished and their ruins are in the water and one that still stands there, old pathways, mills and cultivation bermes accompany the hiker. On the right riverbank you can still see a type of bridge that bears a millrun and was built for transferring water.
Start your route from the bridge that is located below Charavgi. The route to Leptokaria lasts approximately three hours and is rather easy. On your way you will see ruined bridges Likos and Brania.
It is worth to visit the abandoned Aghia Marina monastery. It is located in an ideal position with great view of the river. The foundations of a big bridge, which once connected the riverbanks, are still preserved close to it.
Stay in one of the rooms to let. You can eat in Charavgi (Likos) and (mainly) in Leptokaria.
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The law school offers a broad and varied concentration of securities and corporate law courses. Within the concentration can be found more than a dozen lecture and seminar courses and similar number of externship programs. The classroom courses include: Corporations; Securities Regulation: Enforcement Procedures and Issues; Securities Regulation: Issuance; Securities Regulation: Trading; Corporate Finance Seminar; Securities Regulation: Investment Company and Investment Advisers Act; and Securities Market Regulation Seminar. The externships include clerkships at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and other self-regulatory organizations as well as several brokerage firms.
The securities and corporate offerings are structured in a manner that provides students the opportunity to participate in this area of study at varied levels of intensity. Those students wishing to gain only a basic grounding in securities law are encouraged to take, in conjunction with the basic core offerings in Corporations, either Securities Regulation: Trading or Securities Regulation: Issuance. Students who intend to devote a portion of their practice to securities/corporate law are advised to take both of these basic securities courses in their second year, as well as at least one of the more sophisticated securities offerings such as Corporate Finance, Securities Civil Litigation, Securities Regulation: Derivatives Seminar, Securities Market Regulation Seminar, the Securities Regulation Investment Company and Investment Advisers Act, or Securities Compliance (a transition to practice course) in their third year. Students interested in specializing in securities law should consider enrolling in most of the securities classroom offerings as well as one or more of the externship programs.
Such securities specialists can take between 12 and 18 hours of securities courses with appropriate planning. Those students intending to practice either partially or totally in the securities/corporate law area should also plan to take a range of other business law courses including, but not limited to, courses in Antitrust, Corporate Tax, Banking Law, and Labor Law.
The law school maintains an active Securities Alumni Group that meets for an annual luncheon and occasional lectures. Because of the school's location, it is fortunate to have its securities offerings taught by senior staff from the SEC and FINRA as well as by full-time faculty members.
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Roy Hibbert had 26 points and 10 rebounds before fouling out, Paul George added 23 points and 10 assists, and the Indiana Pacers barely completed a sweep of their four-game road trip with a 109-106 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night in a battle of division leaders.
Hibbert, who was serving a one-game suspension from the league when the Pacers lost to the Clippers 99-91 at Indianapolis on Feb. 28, made all eight of his shots in the first half and finished 11 for 14 from the field to help his team extend its winning streak to five and increase its Central Division lead to 6 1/2 games over idle Chicago.
All five Pacers starters scored in double figures, with David West getting 16 and backcourt mates Lance Stephenson and George Hill chipping in with 13 apiece.
Jamal Crawford scored 25 points off the bench for the Pacific Division-leading Clippers, whose magic number to clinch the first division title in the franchise's 43-year history remained at two. They failed on their third attempt at their 50th victory, which would break the franchise record set by the 1974-75 Buffalo Braves. Blake Griffin had 17 points.
Center DeAndre Jordan, whose games this season have fluctuated between dominant and invisible, played 17 scoreless minutes and went to the bench for good with 6:26 left in the third quarter. The Clippers were outscored 42-25 while he was on the floor.
West, playing his third game after missing the previous six with a lower back sprain, capped a 12-2 run on a 16-footer that gave the Pacers their biggest lead, 79-55, with 3:27 left in the third quarter.
The Clippers, playing almost the first 8 minutes of the fourth quarter with all of their starters on the bench, narrowed the gap to 89-81 on Eric Bledsoe's 11-footer with 7:24 to play.
West then tipped the ball away from Crawford near midcourt and got it back from George for a fast-break layup that gave the Pacers a nine-point edge. Chris Paul reported back in with 4:07 remaining and set up Crawford at the right sideline for a 3-pointer that cut the margin to 97-93 with 3:38 left.
Hibbert fouled out for the fifth time this season with 1:35 remaining and the Pacers ahead 99-93. The Clippers briefly seized the moment, as Paul (10 points and eight assists) converted the ensuing free throws and Griffin added a dunk to bring Los Angeles within 99-97 with 1:11 to go. But West canned a fadeaway jumper, and the Pacers clinched it by making all eight free throws in the final 32 seconds.
The Pacers never trailed, opening the game with a 10-0 run and holding a 51-43 lead at halftime. Clippers rugged forward Matt Barnes, who doesn't need much provocation to get agitated, was called for a flagrant foul 1 when he dragged Stephenson to the floor by the left arm near the Pacers' basket with 4:27 left in the third quarter and the Clippers in a 73-55 hole.
Los Angeles scored 100 points for the 45th time this season, equaling the most by the club since the 1993-94 squad did it 48 times under coach Bill Fitch. The franchise mark for triple-digit games is 73, set in 1978-79 under coach Gene Shue, when the Clippers played their first season in San Diego after leaving Buffalo. Their highest total in Los Angeles is 65 games, in 1992-93 under Larry Brown.
NOTES: The Pacers' 48-27 record is their best since they finished a franchise-best 61-21 in 2003-04. But they are only 19-19 on the road. ... The loss snapped the Clippers' franchise-record streak of 10 straight wins against Eastern Conference opponents. ... Los Angeles has a better winning percentage when Griffin scores fewer than 20 points (28-14) than it does when he gets 20 or more (20-11). ... Griffin's hurried 19-footer over Tyler Hansbrough from the left sideline was short, but Caron Butler made a leaping tip-in to beat the halftime buzzer. ... Clippers reserve F Lamar Odom - still looking for his 300th career double-double - came within one point getting it. He has played in 128 regular-season games since his previous one on April 8, 2011, when he had 13 points and 14 rebounds for the Lakers at Portland. Odom has started only seven games during that stretch. ... Griffin posted career highs of 47 points and 19 field goals against the Pacers on Jan. 17, 2011, at Los Angeles.


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I've had Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" stuck in my head for a week and it's driving me insane. How can get this song out of my head so I can think straight?
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Ouch! And now it's stuck in ours, so thanks. Now, we need to work on getting it out of our heads together. Let's start by taking a look at the phenomenon behind what scientists call "earworms" so we can understand what's going on before we banish this horrible song from our brains.
Why Songs Get Stuck in Your Head to Begin With
We know that some people are more susceptible to earworms than others, but according to research from James J Kellaris, PhD at the University of Cincinnatti, nearly all of us (about 98%) have had a song stuck in our heads at some point.
So where do earworms come from? It's a mixture of things. Scientific American points to one survey that suggests they can come from pretty much anywhere:
Hearing The Village People's "YMCA" can get the mental tape rolling. Other head music may be induced by a memory from summer camp, the stresses of work or simply the boredom of office meetings.
Essentially, earworms are triggered not just by hearing a song, but also by memory, mood, stress, and even boredom. One commonality does exist in the types of songs that get stuck in your head. According to psychologist David Levitin in a conversation with CNN, it's a pretty simple formula:
The songs that get stuck in people's heads tend to be melodically and rhythmically simple, says Daniel Levitin, a psychologist who studies the neuroscience of music at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. It's usually just a segment of the song, not the entire thing from beginning to end... "What we think is going on is that the neural circuits get stuck in a repeating loop and they play this thing over and over again," Levitin said.
Neural circuits stuck on repeat? Not fun, right? Photo by Matthew Hickey.
What You Can Do to Get Rid of a Horrible Song
Everybody's a little different, and getting rid of that looping song in your head depends on your own disposition. As far as science is concerned, no verified cure for earworms exists. That doesn't mean, however, you can't find a successful approach to combating them.
With that in mind, here are a few different tricks for destroying that tune and getting your thinking brain back.
Identify The Song to Destroy It
In some cases (the worst ones), you have a melody or chorus stuck in your head, but you have no idea what the song is. Some people believe listening to a song from start to finish is enough to get it out of your head, but you have to know what song it is first.
To do this, you can use an app like Shazam, or Soundhound to identify the song. Just hum or sing the tune into the app and if you're lucky, it'll identify the song right away. From there, you can either rest now that you know the earworm's origin, or try listening to the song in full on YouTube to get rid of it.
Replace Your Earworm with Another Song
Another method to get rid of an earworm is to try and replace it quickly with another catchy song. Since earworms come from so many different places, your best solution might be to hear another song.
Amazingly, webapps exist to help you out. Earwurm and Unhearit will both load up a random popular song with the intent of removing your old earworm. It may be like sending in a mountain lion to kill a snake, but at least it gets the first song out of your head.
Another method provided by one researcher suggests that singing God Save the Queen" incredibly slowly seems to work to banish a song altogether.
Distract Yourself to Forget Your Earworm
Another common solution for getting rid of an earworm is to distract yourself away from the song in your head. For some strong-willed people, this is as simple as thinking about something else. For the rest of us, it takes a little more work.
For instance, you can try a little cognitive therapy on yourself. WebMD recommends stopping unwanted thoughts (or songs, in this case), by keeping a rubber band on your wrist and slapping yourself, or by adding a positive thought (maybe make up a killer music video in your head?).
Otherwise, you can try distracting yourself in other ways. Check into Facebook, take a walk, do a crossword puzzle, play a game on your phone—anything that gets your mind off the song in your head.
Mash It Up with Your Own Custom Earworm Killing Playlist
If using one random song is like sending in a mountain lion to kill a snake, then overwhelming yourself with a playlist of nothing but earworm songs is like sending in a robot dinosaur with lasers for eyes to kill the mountain lion. This solution is a custom made, earworm playlist filled with popular songs. We know that the songs that get stuck in people's heads are harmonically and rhythmically simple, so your playlist should include those elements.
To create your own playlist, you can follow the same basic principles of setting up an exercise playlist. The trick is to sort your songs by beats per minute (BPM), and identify the most simple among them. You can use third-party utilities to automatically get the BPM of your iTunes library, we like Free BPM Detector for Windows, and Tangerine for Mac. Most pop songs have a BPM of about 120, so that's a good place to start. From there, pick out a ton of simple songs, create your playlist, and rock out until that earworm is gone.
We've also started a collaborative Spotify playlist of earworm songs. If you use Spotify, go ahead and add whatever song is stuck in your head right now so we can all hear it.
Getting rid of an earworm isn't an exact science, so you have to find which method works best for you. If you want to take part in some of the research into earworms, the University of London teamed up with BBC 6Music and the British Academy, to create a simple questionnaire where you can submit your own experiences.
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Juice fasts were once nothing more than glorified starvation diets—far from healthy, let alone safe. But the new cleanses are energizing, slimming, and relatively satisfying—as well as hugely fashionable.
Some high-profile celebrities are unabashedly hitting the bottle. No, not hitting the bottle as in they need to check into detox—hitting the bottle as in it's their way of detoxing. They are juice fasting to cleanse their insides, which presumably improves their outsides by helping them lose weight.
The latest juice-cleanse delivery diets—such as those from Blueprint Cleanse and Organic Avenue—with their potent blends of fresh vegetables, fruits, and spices, promise a renewed vitality and better health. Last winter, when Gwyneth Paltrow was briefly in a New York hospital, she reportedly took delivery of Organic Avenue's LOVEfast, which is mainly juice with perhaps a side of seaweed salad. Last summer, Oprah Winfrey blogged about her 21-day cleanse, although—as you might expect of a woman who has publicly regretted going on a drastic four-month-long liquid weight-loss diet 20 years ago—her regimen included solid foods. These new cleanses are a marked improvement on the older detox diets, like the "master cleanse," which offered minimal nutrition and rapid weight loss (Beyoncé was rumored to have lost more than 20 pounds for Dreamgirls by sipping this mixture of lemon juice, purified water, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper).
Surprisingly, most cleanses aren't touted as weight-loss programs. (Technically, anyhow: Invariably, plenty of women are still signing on in hope of dropping a few stubborn pounds.) They claim to rebalance the body, purify the liver, and regulate the digestive tract's PH balance. Or, as in the case of John Gray's 30-Day Mars Venus Wellness Solution, a detox promises to enhance your sex life. "Detoxing gives you more energy, and more energy gives you more libido," Gray says.
The regimens vary widely in duration and strictness: Some last just one day, whereas others stretch on for weeks. The most stringent are essentially flavored water; others offer vegetable and fruit juices; and Winfrey's plan, based on Quantum Wellness (Weinstein Books) by Kathy Freston, included real meals dominated by organic produce and whole grains. "As a chef and lover of food, I can't imagine an all-liquid cleanse," says Tal Ronnen, founder of the Veg Advantage program and Winfrey's cook during her three-week detox. "A cleanse is simply about eliminating certain foods that tend to be irritating to the body. Alcohol, sugar, animal products, and caffeine act as stimulants and depressants and exhaust the body. Cleansing gives the body a chance to heal."
It's probably no accident that people's efforts to clean up their acts (and alimentary canals) are coinciding with the focus on cleaning up the environment. "We've all been talking about greening the planet, and now we've gotten around to talking about greening our bodies," says Adina Niemerow, a holistic chef and author of Super Cleanse (HarperCollins). For centuries, people have been fasting as part of a spiritual quest. In recent decades, cleansing was embraced by yoga enthusiasts and raw-food devotees and "pretty much anyone with a long, gray braid," says Zoë Sakoutis, founder of the Blueprint Cleanse. "It was either superhippie or really elitist."
These days, though, the average Jane is increasingly taking stock of her diet and deciding to turn over a new leaf—by, say, liquefying a bushel of leafy green vegetables. Christine, a fashion stylist in New York City, likes to do a weeklong cleanse a few times a year following "some kind of food-and-drink free-for-all, like a vacation, the winter holidays, an extended birthday celebration....the list goes on," she says. "For my job, I do a lot of weeknight socializing that includes wine, cheese plates, foods you pop in your mouth without even thinking."


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My recommendations this week. As usual, I normally pick one or two good posts from my week's readings, or left from the prior week! Hope they are useful or at least interesting to you, as well! If it is your first visit, even better! ;-)
I've been off in Texas all week with my grandkids, taking them to school every day and picking them up while daughter recovered from a sprained ankle - she's doing fine!
When I got back, I had received a great packet of information - military and pension files on my 2nd great grandfather, Michael Smith, a Civil War veteran - 65 some pages. So happy to get it, many hours of reading, writing translation/transcription actually, and story writing ahead!
So, a big shout out to the National Archives for their online "National Archives Order for Copies of Federal Pension or Bounty Land Warrant Applications at: eservices.archives.gov/orderonline for a fine job done for me, again! Hope you have good luck, as well!
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"Sing Children Sing". It's great you still have those books.ReplyDelete
They're lovely things to have - memories of songs from childhood are so strong aren't they?ReplyDelete
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I really enjoyed this posting. I'm teaching a HISTORY OF THE BOOK course next fall and this is a great example. The bookplate in the front is wonderful and I even see a little marginalia on one of the pages you selected to scan. This is really a treasure!ReplyDelete
We were so happy to come across it, again. This book certainly has a special history! ;-)ReplyDelete


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As a tech boy I am always less interested in marketing per se than I am in marketing through services – solving problems and creating something useful – and this is what I was hoping to find on my first visit to SXSW. Initially though I found myself in a Comedy in Technology talk where the little fella above did five minutes of standup – he's been created as part of the drive to make robots more human, using comedy as a barometer for their humanness – pretty impressive, but still some work to do.
The Beyond Mobile talk was a great example of what I hope is a trend towards a "less is more" mentality, suggesting we need to stop making everything 'smart' and instead have one or two smart devices and create many interfaces into them. Also suggesting that devices need to get 'dumber' is right up my street. The best solutions are not always the ones that add a million buttons and an Android OS to your microwave – instead just make your microwave remember the time after a power outage (after all, for 99% of the time we only use out microwaves as a clock).
In the same vein was a talk by Golden Krishna (who recently joined Samsung) about his premise that The best interface is no interface. In his paper he discusses the 13 steps that are demanded by car-door unlocking apps now coming to market. Is this really a more efficient system than a key? Or a better system than the non-app solution developed by Mercedes ten years ago?
The Robot in your pocket: AI powered applications talk from Gravity's Amit Kapur and Xobni's Jeff Bonforte also ran on a similar theme (and is well worth listening to here). Phones have 14 sensors typically – all of this data is available to us and to developers and yet we are still not using it to its full potential. For example, asking Siri to "call Chris" pulls up a list of the Chris's in your address book. With your behavioural data at its disposal, surely Apple should know that most evenings at 6pm the Chris I call is Chris Smith as I try and organise a quick beer after work?
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Barbara G. Stymiest
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CICA Conference on International Reporting Standards
June 11, 2007
Toronto, Ontario
Good morning and thank you Ron for your introduction.
I am, of course, very pleased to be here and see so many familiar faces and some new ones. Certainly, as the country's largest bank, RBC is a complex organization with a significant need for great accountants. In fact, RBC ranks as the top employer of CAs in the country. So if you're one of the few people here that I haven't met before, I'm sure it's only a matter of time!
I last spoke at a CICA conference 19 months ago about a very similar topic. At that time, I addressed the delicate balance required to achieve good financial reporting among a myriad of interests.
That day, the substance of my remarks was devoted to the principles of good disclosure. Naturally, my conversation today is an extension of those comments as a discussion of accounting convergence certainly relates to good disclosure.
Today, I am here to provide some perspective on the efforts and decisions taken to align Canadian generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, with International Financial Reporting Standards, known as IFRS. My views are the product of years of working both as a reviewer and preparer of financial reporting - first as an auditor with Ernst & Young, and, for the last 15 years, as a CFO, CEO or Chief Operating Officer with three major public companies.
As I prepared for this session, I came across an old magazine article headlined "New Math for a New Economy" from Fast Company back in 1999.
The article lamented the gaps of today's accounting standards - specifically the method of determining the value of intangible assets that are central to New Economy companies.
In this story, Baruch Lev of New York University's Stern School of Business, keenly observed that today's systems of accounting and financial reporting date back more than 500 years. "These systems are not only part of the old economy," Lev says, "they're part of the old old economy."
And as our past can be helpful to understand our future, I thought it might be worthwhile for a short history refresher.
As many of us are familiar, Luca Pacioli, the Franciscan friar and Italian mathematician who lived in 15th century Venice, wrote about a system used by local merchants to keep track of their businesses.
Luca essentially described the accounting cycle as we know it today. He described the use of journals and ledgers, and he warned that a person should not go to sleep at night until the debits equalled the credits!1
Luca's ledger included assets -- including receivables and inventories -liabilities, capital, income, and expense accounts. He demonstrated year-end closing entries and proposed that a trial balance be used to prove a balanced ledger. Also, his tome discusses a wide range of topics from accounting ethics to cost accounting.
So what would Brother Luca, the Father of Accounting and the original standardsetter say about convergence of accounting standards?
Living in the Italian Renaissance, as a teacher and friend to Leonarda Da Vinci and a contemporary of Christopher Columbus, Brother Luca would arguably be a very early observer to the new world economy, to what has become broadly known today as globalization.
I suspect that if he could see more than 500 years in the future, he would have understood the importance of a common language. And he would see value in a common set of principles to evaluate and understand the financial well being of a company regardless of whether it was located in Venice, Paris, Beijing or the soon to be discovered New York.
While he might have been curious at the intricacies and minutiae behind FIN 46 or AcG 15, I am reasonably confident Brother Luca might have understood and agreed with arguments in favour of a uniform set of high quality globally accepted financial reporting standards.
And given his writings and observations on accounting were of Renaissance Venice and not from the corner of King and Bay, he may also have agreed with the idea that accounting standards should be organic and evolve to accommodate the times and concerns of the day.
In 2007, the times and concerns revolve around a global economy characterized by rapid, frequent and free flows of capital across borders and markets. But our world has at least one thing in common with Renaissance Italy: trade and commerce are still pursuits of commonality:
Financial reporting, it would seem, is only one of many areas in trade and commerce being standardized.
Accounting convergence is a necessary reflection of the global characteristics of our economies and capital flows. And ladies and gentlemen, that train left the station, with the EU, Japan, China and a number of other countries on board. Even the Americans are considering the journey.
While there is some discussion on both sides of the Atlantic about the faults of IFRS and the hardship it might cause companies, there is little dispute about the merits of having a set of universal standards for how the world's companies report on their finances. At dispute is how we get there and how quickly.
The concept of converging Canadian standards with international ones is not only a good idea, it is a necessary one that has benefits for Canadian companies and investors in a globally competitive market. Consider these factors:
First, Canada's very small share of global capital markets makes it inefficient for us to maintain our own standards.
Second, our largest companies that are listed in multiple jurisdictions, such as RBC, must now file financial statements based on two or more sets of accounting standards. Convergence will allow these companies to free up resources dedicated to maintaining their accounts according to multiple standards.
Third, Canadian public companies stand to gain by simply making it easier for international investors to understand and compare their financial statements against global peers. Making it easier for investors, regulators and other stakeholder to compare the financial condition of a Canadian based company to that of an Italian one can have tangible benefits to shareholder value and efficiency.
For example, different accounting standards today force a fund manager in the U.K. to make some additional effort to compare the performance and condition of Canadian-based Company XYZ with its Italian competitor Company ABC.
Arbitrary measures to make them comparable may result in ABC being perceived as more attractive, and prompt management of XYZ to resort to other, sometimes more costly, measures to enhance its marketability, including higher dividends or share issuances.
Greater clarity and comparability of information will help reduce the cost of capital, making firms more efficient and globally competitive. Undoubtedly these are compelling motives for Canadian industry.
For Canadian investors, the benefits could mean potentially more issuers in the Canadian market. For a country that accounts for less than four per cent of global market capitalization, we should embrace every opportunity to make our markets more attractive to new and international public company issuers.
This is an area that I know something about, having traveled the planet to promote our market and our country. It's clear to me that international investors have become or are rapidly becoming comfortable with IFRS.
But don't just take my word for it, listen to John Thain, head of the New York Stock Exchange. In his mind, four factors have conspired to cause a significant decline in the number of European issuers on Wall Street:
The development of international standards will allow a single company to file the same statements in multiple jurisdictions, an option that largely doesn't exist today. Conceptually, commonly accepted international accounting standards would have an impact on financial reporting similar to the impact the multijurisdictional disclosure system had on making it easier for Canadian and U.S. companies that wanted to raise capital in each other's markets. To be sure, MJDS was not without its problems, but it was a massive step in the right direction.
Now I'm not going to pretend there aren't some headaches that need to be cured before we have seamless accounting convergence. While IFRS promises users greater transparency and comparability, preparers will take the brunt of the convergence blow by having to rework systems and retrain their staff with respect to the new standards.
IFRS also demands preparers provide significantly more information than they do now. This increase in information will, in turn, require even more work so that investors can clearly see what they need to see. But I agree with those that say that is not a reason for giving up. As the FT noted in its Lombard column, "Users need a year or two to adapt to the system before significant change is contemplated. You generally grow through teething problems."
Many have pointed out that there are several aspects of IFRS that do not enhance disclosure or provide a clearer3 picture of a company's financial position. But I have to assume any new pathway will develop obstacles that can be smoothed over time.
For example, while I readily admit the methods need sharpening and fine-tuning, it is logical that the concept of fair value accounting, which we recently adopted, can more fairly represent current economic reality - and is therefore closer to what investors, regulators and management teams require for their purposes. However, it has required us to educate and help some of our stakeholders to understand these disclosure changes as certain historical figures are no longer comparable.
A year ago, Marc Lackritz, the President of the U.S. Securities Industry Association, told a U.S. Congressional subcommittee4 just that. He said: "We believe the greater use of fair value accounting, and the simplification and convergence of accounting standards would further assist issuers in providing better quality information to investors."
Other features of IFRS should help make boards pause for thought when considering the price they are paying for takeovers; for issuing share options to employees; and for properly funding their pension obligations.
These are all important aspects of economic reality.
The critics of convergence - and their numbers appear to ebb and flow - have not come up with a better way. Even the critical and cynical Financial Times has admitted that "If there is to be global convergence, IFRS is the only ship leaving port.5" Obviously the SEC gave the IFRS ship a massive tailwind when it said last month that foreign issuers would no longer be required to reconcile financial statements to U.S. GAAP by 2009.
So if we agree that we need a set of standards accepted in all jurisdiction and that IFRS is the only, if not the natural choice, let me return to the question I referred to earlier. How should we converge and how quickly?
I won't presume to second guess the Accounting Standards Board or the CICA for the work they have done or for the strategy they have laid out for convergence. Instead, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate them for demonstrating the leadership that can help ensure Canadian companies, Canadian markets and Canadian investors are on equal footing with the rest of the world.
The leadership of the two bodies has balanced the need for a swift timetable with the capacity of the profession, especially in the context of other equally pressing regulatory reforms, notably Sarbanes-Oxley and the Basel II Framework. With a similar spirit of balancing change and stability, I expect that the Accounting Standards Board will have a continually keen and diligent view of ongoing IFRS developments to ensure that whatever cutover date is chosen, there would be minimal disruption to the profession.
Indeed, simple accommodations have already been made to ease the burden on the profession. For example, I want to applaud the AcSB for observing the basic principle of not imposing changes to standards that may require extensive systems changes or information gathering that would later become obsolete at the cutover date.
I also want to note the extensive communication and methodical consultation being done - sometimes tedious, but always necessary -- to get the consensus required for a smooth changeover.
At RBC, we are in the early stages of discovering and planning the changes we'll need to make from our systems and information gathering processes to performance management framework and staff training. The work required is the responsibility of a diligent and exceptional set of CAs and I'm pleased to be able to count on their advice.
I note that there are some people here from our team today and I'm quite sure their attendance has little to do with my presence. More importantly, it is the content of the next two days that likely motivated their registration - again hats off to the CICA for creating a topical and interesting agenda.
I'll close now with one final reference to Brother Luca, who not only created our discipline but inspired all accountants toward excellence. "If you cannot be a good accountant, he warned, "you will grope your way forward like a blind man and may meet great losses."
I wish you all the best of sight and clarity and a successful conference.
Thank you for inviting me this morning.
1) L. Murphy Smith, D.B.A., CPA, Professor of Accounting,
Texas A&M University. http://acct.tamu.edu/smith/ethics/pacioli.htm
2) Interview with John Thain by John Authers, FT.com, March 5, 2006.
3) FT.com "Lombard: Rentokil's choices for restructuring," August 25, 2005.
4) Statement of Marc E. Lackritz, President, Securities Industry Association, Congressional Testimony, Committee on House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises, March 29 2006.
5) FT.com "Lombard: Rentokil's choices for restructuring," August 25, 2005


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Watching over … do we need a boss to keep us on track?It feels as though we're part of a culture that loves to worship heroes. The superstar CEO. The rock-star entrepreneur. The trailblazing humanitarian. The fearless editor. The visionary politician. A lot of it implies that we anxiously crave inspiring leaders to follow. But it's worth asking the question: to what degree are leaders still relevant in a modern world?
The shift towards a leaderless society can be seen in movements like the Arab Spring and the Tea Party, neither of which have formal leaders but have amassed a significant amount of support. And during 2010 and 2011, Belgium went 541 days without a government leading the way … and yet life carried on just fine.
What's to suggest that businesses can't be stripped of leaders in the same fashion? Professor David Day from the University of Western Australia believes formal leadership isn't always necessary. He tells me that's because "leadership is a process not a position".
This means leadership can be produced by a group of individuals who collectively set a direction and then build commitment towards that goal. "This is why people need to be prepared to step up as a leader when needed even if they are not the leader in terms of position," he says.
In her book The End of Leadership, Harvard's Barbara Kellerman writes that the leaders of today are weaker than the leaders of yesterday, and part of that can be attributed to the empowerment of employees.
She likens it to the traditional role played by wives. Once upon a time, they were subservient, effectively owned by their husbands within a legal system that recognised the man as the master. Now, it's a different story, with marriages represented by much more equal relationships.
Similarly, for a long time, leaders were required to be dominant, asserting their power over obedient followers. "No longer," writes Kellerman. "Now followers, like wives, are far sturdier than they used to be, stronger and more independent." And that independence means they want to have a greater say.
I asked Professor Gayle Avery from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management for her views on whether leaders are necessary. "I think the point revolves around the distinction between leaders and leadership," she said.
Leaders are those who are appointed to a specific position of authority, usually with a job title to match, such as Team Leader or CEO. In other words: hierarchy.
Leadership, on the other hand, is what emerges when individuals are perceived by colleagues as the natural influencers of a group. Professor Avery refers to it as organic leadership, which means it has less to do with a boss ordering subordinates around, and more to do with shared decision-making.
A few months ago, The Wall Street Journal ran a profile on a company called Valve Corp, based in Washington, which prides itself on being boss-free. Its 300 employees recruit new workers, determine each other's pay, and collectively decide who to fire. And, of course, promotions do not exist.
So, just because a team lacks a boss doesn't mean it lacks leadership. Still, problems remain. One potential risk is the issue of accountability. When someone isn't formally in charge, it can be difficult to figure out who's responsible for a team's under-performance. (You know, who to blame.)
Another downside is that if you have a leaderless team – one that fully embraces the democratisation of work – there's the possibility of endlessly delayed decisions. That's why it's often said that dictatorship is the most efficient form of government. It may not be the most desired, but it's arguably the most efficient.
Perhaps a similar principle applies in the workplace. Or, could it be, that Tina Turner had it right all along? Maybe we don't need another hero. You tell me.
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In the process of a physical exam leading up to a scheduled hip replacement, melanoma was discovered on Dan's* back. Because the hip surgery was only two weeks away, the doctors acted quickly and aggressively to remove the melanoma. Dan, a 52-year-old mechanic was fortunate that the melanoma had not spread, and they were able to remove all the cancerous tissue. He enjoys his life in northern Michigan with his wife, two children, and one grandson.
What was your first sign that something was wrong? What symptoms did you experience?
I didn't really have any symptoms. My wife is the one who noticed it on my back, in the middle of my shoulder blade last summer. At that time, it was a smooth, light tan mole, but it had irregular edges. My wife wanted me to have it checked out, but I never did. When I was in for a physical exam prior to my hip surgery, the doctor spotted it and noticed that it was irregular. He referred me to a dermatologist.
What was the diagnosis experience like?
The dermatologist immediately felt that it was melanoma, but didn't know to what extent. He did a small biopsy on it, but didn't think it had spread at all. When the tests came back and confirmed that it was definitely melanoma, he wanted to take out a bigger area. The doctor explained initially that if the results came back positive, I would have to have more taken out. He referred me to a surgeon.
What was your initial and then longer-term reaction to the diagnosis?
My initial reaction was to hurry up and get it taken care of because I didn't want it to interfere with the hip surgery. I was just relieved that they were able to get it all. When I went in the second time, it had not come back indicating that they had gotten it all and it hadn't spread.
How is melanoma treated?
When the dermatologist looked at it, he agreed with the doctor who did my physical that it was melanoma. That same day, he cut out an area about the size of a quarter, and approximately 1/4 " deep. They biopsied the tissue and it came back positive. So the dermatologist referred me to a surgeon and I went back a week later to have more removed in the same area. This time the incision was about 6" long and about ½" deep. At that point, he felt he had gotten it all. I didn't really have any pain; I just felt a lot of pulling. I go back for a follow-up visit in six months.
Did you have to make any lifestyle or dietary changes in response to having melanoma?
The only change is that I need to keep an eye on any changes that occur with other moles and be sure I keep the follow-up visits with the dermatologist.
Did you seek any type of emotional support?
It was somewhat of a stressful time because I was trying to finish up things at work and around the house to get ready for my hip replacement. Finding out about the melanoma and having to make the additional doctor visits added to the stress. I guess we just pulled together as a family.
Does having melanoma have any impact on your family?
I don't really think so, other than my wife helps me keep an eye on any changes in other moles on my body.
What advice would you give to anyone living with melanoma?
Get it taken care of as soon as possible. If it's not detected early, it can spread into the lymph nodes and can be much more serious. Also, limit your sun exposure.
*Not his real name
Interviews were conducted in the past and may not reflect current standards and practices in medicine. Talk to your doctor to learn more about how this condition is diagnosed and managed today and what treatment approaches are right for you.


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As we social and financial conservatives begin to wake from our stupor, move on from the re-election of the most liberal President in American history, from Thanksgiving and the madness of black Friday and head towards Christmas we need to pause from our optimism and a future out where we fit in increasingly unconservative country and political apparatus.
As conservative, most of us tend to live on the optimistic side of life that lends us to believe in people as their ability to be self-reliant with the ability to rise to the occasion to do what is right for their country. Capitalism, small central government and taxes, faith in God and country, sound economic policies are all central tenants of conservatism and are optimistic ideals at their heart because we feel that we needn't rely on the government or theirs for our prosperity but we can accomplish our "pursuit of happiness" and American dream with the help of the creator and the support of our family and hard work. That is why this past election has hit the conservative movement so hard but it can cause conservatives to become cynical. Tired and ready to throw in the towel on their core beliefs…and this is where the true defeat would take place because the balance will have truly shifted if conservative abandon their fight to show that these ideas, conservative ideas, are what is needed to correct the ship of American exceptionalism that has made us the world power and the beacon of freedom to those people oppressed and victimized by tyranny.
With 4 million evangelical Christians ( along with undocumented conservatives) staying home from the polls because their candidate of choice was not picked in the Republican primary we move dangerously close to a socialist/communist government that has never, in the history of those philosophies from Stalin to Castro promoted God, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, So, those that did not vote in protest or "lack of enthusiasm" have indirectly helped strengthen the very government the profess to oppose...except it and own it with no getting out of free card or "don't blame me I didn't vote for him mantras since by not voting for the opposition of the current regime you did vote for the winner.
Those of you that did vote and c=voted for the Republican candidate are not off the hook either since we need to figure out why those around us did not vote the way we did and did we all do what we could to influence, persuade and cajole those voters that were on the fence are did we just hang with our conservative homies and bask in the glow that we all thought Obama was going to loose this time because know one in their right mind would vote for him again….word to the wise, they did and we lost. The conservative movement and the Republican party needs to start actually reaching out to ALL Americans because it is documented that we as a country live our lives more closely to the ideals of conservatism than we do liberalism, progressives or socialism, all races, creeds and colors. Why are we not able to reach out to all the people of this country and explain to them that they need to vote as they live? It's a lack of effort and the feeling that we are above explaining ourselves in a practical and sensible way so all of the American people understand how the liberal movement and Democratic part has changed, what conservatism actually is and why they need to vote as things are now and not as they once were in this country. Finally, we as conservatives needs a positive campaign of what we are FOR and why and leave the negative "NO" campaigns to the other guys since we are the movement of optimism and believe in the American citizen we need to start showing this all the time not just during elections. Conservatives need to band together and promote the American we all live and the one that with sustain itself as the home of the brave and land of the free for many years to come.
Next Part II - What do we need to do next – create viable candidates.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Being a Conservative in a Post Conservative World – part I
As we social and financial conservatives begin to wake from our stupor, move on from the re-election of the most liberal President in American history, from Thanksgiving and the madness of black Friday and head towards Christmas we need to pause from our optimism and a future out where we fit in increasingly unconservative country and political apparatus.
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Labels: Conservatism, conservative and liberal reaction to election, conservatives, Conservatives form rival group to Episcopal Church
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Save Medicare - Least We Can Do Romney/Paul
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Mute Button
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YIKES!! Where as All The Bacon Gone!?!
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Chris Christie discussing the upcoming debates on ABC's This Week
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Fahrenheit 451 and the Flame of Liberty
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Political Ad Day
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Occupy Oakland Scuffles With Obama Campaign Staffers
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Mercedes-Benz UK are running a pretty interesting campaign called "Escape The Map". It's lead by a TVC challenging a much younger demographic to jump online and play the "Escape The Map Game". I'll be honest, it's a pretty weird game, and that's a dam expensive car, but you have the chance to win a new Mercedes C 63 AMG Coupe if you can escape the map, so I guess it will actually get plenty of people playing!
Basically, you've got to navigate through the interactive video experience, completely various challenges along the way to escape before your head becomes blurred out. If you escape, you'll be in the draw for that car… Would love to hear your thoughts?


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Quick question on the new multiple comparisons procedure such as Tukey's. There is a "connecting letter" option showing which pairs are statistically the same based on sharing the same letter. Can this table (i.e., the letters) be saved as a data set for further analysis and export, say to Excel? I usually use the letters in an excel program I wrote to summarize means.
On 6/26/2011 7:07 PM, William Gould, StataCorp LP wrote:
Following long tradition, we are informing Statalist first:
Stata 12 begins shipping Monday, July 25.
Orders are now being accepted at http://www.stata.com.
Below are some highlights.
Automatic memory management
Automatic memory management means that you no longer have to
-set memory- and never again will you be told that there is no
room because you set too little! Stata automatically adjusts its
memory usage up or down according to current requirements.
The memory manager is tunable. You can set a maximum if you wish.
Old do-files can still -set memory-. Stata merely responds, "-set
memory- ignored".
We have tested the memory manager on systems with 1 TB (the largest
currently available), and it is designed to scale to even more
Import Excel files, export PDFs, and new interface features
Importing Excel files is easy. And the new Import Preview Tool
lets you see the file's contents and adjust import settings before
you import it.
You can now directly export PDFs of graphs and logs.
Stata's windows are now laid out to fit wider screens better. You
can still get back the old layout from Edit -> Preferences.
A new Properties window -- always available -- lets you manage
your variables, including their names, labels, value labels,
notes, formats, and storage types.
The Viewer is now tabbed, and it has buttons at the top to access
dialogs, to jump within the document, and to jump to Also See
The Data Editor also has a new Properties window; has another tool
that lets you Hide, Show, Filter, and Reorder the variables; and
has the new Clipboard Preview tool, which lets you see and prepare
your raw data before pasting.
Structural equation modeling (SEM)
-sem- is a new estimation command, itself the subject of
an entire manual.
If you are new to SEM, you should be interested if you fit linear
regressions, multivariate regressions, seemingly unrelated
regressions, or simultaneous systems, or if you're interested in
generalized method of moments (GMM). And if you think you are
still not interested, take a look anyway. SEM is a remarkably
flexible framework.
If you know about SEM, you will be more interested in path
analysis models, single- and multiple-factor measurement models,
MIMIC models, latent growth models, correlated uniqueness models,
and more, all of which can be fit by -sem-. You will also be
interested in -sem-'s standardized and unstandardized coefficients,
direct and indirect effects, goodness-of-fit statistics,
modification indices, predicted values and factor scores, and
groupwise analysis with tests of invariance.
You can use the GUI or command language to specify your model.
The command language is a variation on standard path notation.
You can type
. sem (L1 -> m1 m2 m3)
(L2 -> m4 m5)
In -sem-, lowercase names refer to variables in the data and
uppercase names are latent variables. The above corresponds to
m1 = a1 + b1*L1 + e1
m2 = a2 + b2*L1 + e2
m3 = a3 + b3*L1 + e3
m4 = a4 + b4*L2 + e4
m5 = a5 + b5*L2 + e5
L2 = c1 + d1*L1 + e6
Maximum likelihood (ML) and asymptotic distribution free (ADF)
estimation methods are provided. ADF is generalized method of
moments (GMM). Robust estimates of standard errors and SEs for
clustered samples are available, as is full support for survey
data via the -svy:- prefix. Missing at random (MAR) data are
supported via FIML.
Survey, cluster robust, and mixed models
-xtmixed- now supports sampling weights and robust and cluster-
robust standard errors for use with survey data, although you do
*NOT* use the -svy:- prefix as you might have expected.
That is because multilevel models with survey data differ from
standard models in that sampling weights need to be specified at
each modeling level rather than just at the observation level.
Sampling weights must reflect selection probability conditional on
selection at the next highest level.
Thus, -xtmixed- expects you to specify a weight for each level in
your model and warns you if you do not.
Multiple imputation
-mi impute- now supports
1. Chained equations.
Chained equations are used to impute missing values when
variables may be of different types and missing-value
patterns are arbitrary. The first variable could be
imputed using logit, the second using linear regression,
and the third using multinomial logistic regression.
2. Conditional imputation.
Conditional imputation is customized imputation within
group when group itself might be imputed. You can
restrict imputation of number of pregnancies to females
even when female itself contains missing values and so is
being imputed.
3. Imputation by groups.
Australians could have their missing values imputed using
data from other Australians only.
-mi estimate- now
1. Supports panel-data and multilevel models, so you can use
-mi- with -xtreg- or -xtmixed-.
2. Allows you to measure the amount of simulation error in
your final model, so you can decide whether you need more
-mi predict- and -mi predictnl- create linear and nonlinear
predictions in the original (m=0) data, and not just for complete
observations but also for observations with missing values.
Time series
Check out the
1. New estimators for
a. GARCH
b. ARFIMA
c. UCM
2. New postestimation command -psdensity- to estimate the
spectral density of a stationary process using the
parameters of a previously estimated parametric model.
3. New command -tsfilter-, which filters a series to keep only
selected periodicities (frequencies) and which can be used
to separate a series into trend and cyclical components.
Multivariate GARCH deals with models of time-varying volatility in
multiple series. These models allow the conditional covariance
matrix of the dependent variables to follow a flexible dynamic
structure and the conditional mean to follow a
vector-autoregressive (VAR) structure.
ARFIMA is a generalization of the ARMA and ARIMA models. ARMA
models assume short memory. ARIMA models assume shocks are
permanent. ARFIMA provides the middle ground. ARFIMA stands for
autoregressive, fractionally integrated moving average.
UCM stands for unobserved component model and decomposes a series
into trend, seasonal, cyclic, and idiosyncratic components after
controlling for optional exogenous variables.
Business calendars
There is a new %t format: %tb. The b stands for business
calendars. Business calendars allow you to define your own
calendars so that dates display correctly and lags and leads work
as they should.
You could create file lse.stbcal that records the days the London
Stock Exchange is open (or closed) and then Stata would understand
format %tblse just as it understands the usual date format %td.
Once you define a calendar, Stata deeply understands it. You can,
for instance, easily convert between %tblse and %td values.
Constrasts and pairwise comparisons
We were tempted to call this "Stata for Experimentalists" except
that the features are useful to Stata users of all disciplines.
Contrasts, pairwise comparisons, and margins plots are about
understanding and communicating results from your model. How does
a covariate affect the response? Is the effect nonlinear? Does
the effect depend on other covariates?
New commands -contrast-, -pwcompare-, and -marginsplot- join
1. -contrast- compares effects of factor variables and their
interactions. It can perform ANOVA-style tests of main
effects, simple effects, interactions, and nested effects.
It also decomposes these effects into comparisons against
reference categories, comparisons of adjacent levels,
comparisons against the grand mean, orthogonal
polynomials, and such.
In addition to predefined standard contrasts, user-defined
contrasts are also supported. Consider
. contrast ar.educ
The -ar.- out front is one of the new, predefined contrast
operators. -ar.- stands for "adjacent, reversed", and
-contrast ar.educ- compares adjacent levels of education,
for instance, high school to some college, some college to
college graduate, etc.
2. -pwcompare- performs all (or subsets) of the pairwise
comparisons. This can be done for all levels of a single
factor variable or for interactions or interactions with
continuous variables.
3. -margins- now allows the new contrast operators and has a
-pwcompare- option to perform pairwise comparisons.
4. -marginsplot- graphs results from -margins-.
ROC adjusted for covariates
New command -rocreg- is like regression for ROC. You can model
how sensitivity and specificity depend on covariates, and you
can draw graphs.
Contour plots
You just have to see one. Visit
There's more. For instance -rename- has a new syntax that allows
you to rename groups of variables.
. rename (vara varb varc) (varc varb vara)
swaps the names around.
. rename jan* *1
renames all variables starting with jan to instead end in 1.
. rename v# stat#
renames v1 to be stat1, v2 to be stat2, and so on.
. rename v# v(##)
renames v1 to be v01, v2 to be v02, ...
. rename (a b c) v#, addnumber
rename a to be v1, b to be v2, and c to be v3.
. rename v# (a b c)
does the reverse.
There really is a lot more. See http://www.stata.com/stata12.
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Holiday season also means more celebrations. We had thanksgiving (for which I didn't cook or bake since I was away), Christmas for sure, and lots of birthdays! This time, it's John's turn, one of my good friends at work. I literally had a headache for two days trying to come up with a cake, preferably something I've never tried before and something I've been wanting to try, but not so overly complicated, and the most important thing is, it has to taste great!
I know him pretty well to know that he doesn't like chocolate, so chocolate cake is out of the list. He loves coffee and fruit-flavored cake. We're pretty much shared the same taste in food. I thought of making a light cake with yogurt mousse, white peach, strawberry mousse, along that line, but the weather wasn't really supporting at all. It has been really cold here in San Jose, dark, cloudy, and rain at times, typical winter weather. I dont think that yogurt mousse cake would be suitable for the weather. As much as I adore light and fruit stuff, with this kind of weather, all I was thinking was something with coffee, chocolate, banana, caramel, tea, citrus flavor. It's interesting to know how weather can affect your mood and your selection of food :).
It wasn't until Saturday evening that I decided that I'll just make tiramisu. You would probably know by now that I'm such a sucker for tiramisu, really. I don't know how many times I have declared my love for tiramisu in this blog, but I'm pretty sure you got the idea :). But don't get me wrong, I didn't decide this solely for this reason, but one thing for sure, if the guy loves anything other than his family and friends, it would be his booze (no worries, he's not an alcoholic though)! Plus, there will be no baking involved since I can just buy a store-bought lady finger (Savoiardi). I was thinking of making it a cake version with chocolate cake (he wouldn't mind), but the idea went away when I thought that I had to bake some :). I'll blame it on the weather for this as it makes me want to cozy up under my blanket the whole day, not doing anything. So tiramisu was perfect as it was quick, boozy, and who doesn't like tiramisu anyway? To make it different, I used Baileys Irish Cream instead of the usual rum. I've always wanted to try this, but ended up using rum everytime. I guess I was too scared :(.
I was also using this opportunity to try out my new baking tool, cake textured sheet. I just spent a lot buying some baking stuff online. While they definitely would add to my growing baking tools at home, I felt kinda bad for it :(. This one is one of the things I bought. Cake textured sheet is basically just like a textured sheet plastic. It comes in probably a little bigger than a half-sheet pan size, so I had to cut it to fit 8" square pan. I used my 8" square pan for this as my square cake ring is too short. The cake has to be completely frozen before you can peel the plastic off. I tried removing it after about 3 hours in the freezer, but some of the the cream stuck on it. I really like the look of it after I dusted cocoa powder on top and put some gold dragees. Ever since I used Valrhona cocoa powder and high quality chocolate (I use Valrhona, Callebout, or El Rey), I'm never going back to the standard grocery store chocolate and cocoa powder. Valrhona cocoa powder has deeper cocoa taste to it, it's rich in flavor. Tiramisu is definitely one of the more expensive cakes in my repertoire :D.
Fortunately, everybody liked the cake and the appearance of it (phew!). It's a little sweeter than the one I made with rum, I guess it's because Baileys is sweet and it's adding some sweetness to the overall cake. I'm glad that the cake wasn't too boozy as the last time I made tiramisu with rum, I went overboard with the rum and almost got everybody at work drunk :P. Overall, the tiramisu is equally good with Baileys, but if I have to choose, I think I like the rum version better :)
I made the leftover cream into this mini version with chocolate sponge drenched in the espresso/baileys mixture