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Elana Joelle Hendler of EJH Brand made it her summer goal to shape up her patio along her patio along the Venice, California canals just in time for summer. Here's how it went down:
The goal: Decorate my beautiful flagstone patio with lively green colors, fresh herbs and fragrant aromas.
Theme: West Coast casual chic.
Additional goal: Appease my utter obsession with succulent decor by adding arrangements lining the house and in accent pots.
Succulents: When I moved to Venice, I was so inspired by the succulent decor you can find practically everywhere around here that I started incorporating it into the branded look for my business, including a live EJH succulent wall. I haven't looked back since. They are an excellent patio choice because visually, they are fascinating, offering a variety of shapes, textures, colors, and sizes. They are also very low maintenance.
How I used them: First, I bought large pots in three different sizes to create a sense of high and low. This is a great way to break up the monotony of a space. I planted several different types of succulents with different shapes and colors to create elements of a dynamic dessert garden on my patio. Then, I used the same varieties and planted them on the border of the house and covered the dirt with red and white rocks to hide the dirt and add texture.
Herbs: By complete coincidence, I choose plants that are actually accounted for as essential oil candles in my EJH Signature Candle Collection. When shopping the nursery, I was immediately drawn to the Greek sage. From a distance, it looked like lavender but as I came closer I could see the beautiful soft and fuzzy texture of the leaves with pretty purple flowers.
Benefits of sage: Beautiful seasonal flowers, pretty leaves, medicinally used for centuries to cure so many ailments from skin to memory loss and is also great for culinary enthusiasts. Grab a few leaves and throw them into your fresh soups and meat dishes. If you're not going to cook, you can always just enjoy how lovely they look on your patio on a warm summer day.
Next, I headed over the rosemary and lavender. There is no better way to make your patio feel like a spa retreat like lavender. Not only does it add a chic rustic look, they smell wonderful and promote calm. Cut off a few sprigs and tie them together with a string and place them around the house next to the bathtub.
Table Top: Last, I planted some fresh oregano and chocolate mint leaves in shiny silver pots to decorate the patio table. I'm not one for overly ambitious patio table decor, so for me, the fresh herbs and a lavender candle to light on summer nights is all I need to enjoy the summer at home, in style, on my patio!
What's on your patio this summer?
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Recap: Top Chef DC, Episode 1
Another year, another season of Top Chef! It's hard to believe it's been six whole months since the Voltaggio brothers'
scripted totally believable, not-at-all-producer-influenced sibling rivalry played out before our eyes on the Las Vegas finale! This season, Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons set up shop in Washington D.C., and brought master chef Eric Ripert with them on their quest to weed through the crazies and find someone worthy of being crowned the next Top Chef.
[Warning: there are tons of episode spoilers ahead. Seriously. I can't even count them all. There are also some photos of a guy with a pony-tail dreadlock, so proceed at your own risk.]
Meet The Chefs!
The first 15 minutes of the show were all about introducing us to the "eccentric" chefs we'll all be watching this season (and by "eccentric", I mean "a few of these people are totally out of their freaking minds"). Arnold Myint, a chef/owner of three restaurants in Nashville, proudly announced that he got a facial and hired a wardrobe stylist before coming on the show. Um, chill out, Arnold. It's Top Chef, not Top Complexion. And by the way, Frosty called. He wants his scarf back.
In other news, contestant Kevin Sbraga is the executive chef of a place named RAT'S. Seriously? I don't even want to know what the special of the day is. That has to be one of the worst restaurant names of all time, right behind Sewage King and Salmonella Palace.
Rounding out this season's cast of "eccentric" chefs is John Somerville, a guy who sports one over-sized ponytail dreadlock, and thinks his ingredients "sing" to him. I think he's right. Just tonight, I heard an onion melodiously begging him to cut his hair.
The Quickfire
For their first quickfire, the 17 chefs competed in a mise en place tournament. They had to peel potatoes, brunoise onions, and break down chickens while Tom Colicchio ran around in circles blowing a loud whistle in their ears. Wow. I haven't been that annoyed by a whistle since that horrible Ace Hardware commercial back in 2007. Shudder.
Of course, it wouldn't be a Top Chef mise en place tournament without blood! This season, Amanda sliced her palm open while peeling potatoes. She was fine, but she didn't make it through to the next round.
Kenny, Angelo, Timothy, and Kevin were the top four contestants, and had 30 minutes to create a dish out of the ingredients they had just prepped. Padma and Tom showed up, tasted everything, and declared Angelo's chicken with curried onion jam and potato noodles the winner.
Angelo took a moment to talk about how totally awesome he thinks he is before setting a very lofty goal for himself: "I want to be the first contestant to win every single challenge," he said. Coincidentally, he also wants to be the first man to walk on Mars, and perhaps most difficult of all, to be able to listen to a Stevie Wonder song without tapping his foot.
The Elimination Challenge
This week, the chefs were asked to create a dish that reflected where they're from. They split up into groups, and then headed to the Top Chef house to plan their menus. Many of the chefs took the opportunity to explore the house, but not John. He instead chose to write in his journal, and to show the world he's not afraid to wear loafers without socks. Please pass the Odor Eaters!
"I want to give the judges a piece of who I am," John said. Well, John, as long as it's not something that's been rotting in your hair for the last 11 years, I'm sure you'll be fine.
The next day (or "whenever" in the world of Bravo editing), the contestants served their food to 300 Washingtonians at the annual cherry blossom festival. Before long, Padma, Tom, Gail, and new judge Eric Ripert showed up to taste their creations. So far, Eric's been entertaining to watch. The guy doesn't even need to open his mouth for you to know what he thinks of the dish. It's written all over his face:
The Judges' Table
The top performers were Kevin, Alex, Kenny, and Angelo. Without much fanfare at all, ANGELO was named the winner of the elimination challenge; the judges loved his Connecticut-inspired arctic char with smoked bacon froth. As a Connecticut resident, I just didn't get how his dish was supposed to represent the state. We're not exactly known for arctic char or bacon. But now that I think about it, there is a lot of froth on the disgusting Long Island Sound—so maybe that's what he was going for.
Stephen, John, Jacqueline, and Timothy were the worst performers of the evening. Ripert said Stephen's ribeye looked like a "chicken nugget" (it totally did), and hated that Tim left the skin on his fish. Meanwhile, Jacqueline's low-fat chicken liver mousse was a total failure. She tried to blame her poor performance on the fact that she "didn't have the recipe memorized"—even though she's made it "hundreds of times." I understand, Jacqueline. I like to forget disappointing things too. In fact, I can hardly recall the plot of Sex and the City 2.
Finally, John took a page from the Sandra Lee handbook and used frozen puffed pastry as the main ingredient in his maple syrup mousse dessert. "I guess it was just me being stupid, but it was just supposed to be an instrument to bring the mousse to your mouth," he explained. Sorry, John. We have those fancy instruments already. They're called spoons. You used frozen pastry. I'm sorry, but you are the weakest link.
In the end, the judges couldn't look past John's nasty maple mousse, and he was the first chef to be eliminated. Don't worry, John. If all else fails, you can always just try out for Next Food Network Star. I hear they'll take anyone these days.
What did you think of the premiere episode, Serious Eaters? Was the right person sent home? Who are your early favorites?
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Certain European fashion houses are upset that blogs have posted their Spring/Summer ad campaigns before they break in February fashion magazines. Are we really still having this debate?
According to Women's Wear Daily, the brands reacted with "puzzlement and consternation" when scans of their ads appeared on the likes of Modelinia, Fashionologie — and the Wordpress-hosted blog of Conde Nast-owned Love. That magazine's editor in chief, Katie Grand, told WWD that "practical steps have been taken to ensure no unauthorized campaign content can appear on the blog at any point in the future."
The campaigns that have been taken down appear to be Dior's, Balenciaga's, and Celine's, although they can still be easily found on other, less institutional blogs. (Love's blog still has authorized advances of Spring/Summer campaigns from Burberry, Givenchy, Valentino, Loewe, Gianfranco Ferre, and more. The accompanied commentary from creative directors and photographers is a sign of how hard it is to talk intelligently about visuals, or maybe how many fashion people aren't much with words. Example: "It was all the things I expected it to be and it was super fun doing it!")
The impact of premiering a campaign in a key print buy has already been lessened by the digital age, crowded with other visual amusements and almost impossible to control. So shouldn't these houses be happy anyone wants to look at their ads at all? Especially when they're being posted free on the sites of magazines they normally have to pay to display their campaigns? Then again, giving these companies the benefit of the doubt, trumped-up controversy is its own selling strategy.
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Six Top Tech Trends to Watch in 2014By Samuel Greengard
Six Top Tech Trends to Watch in 2014
Digital technology and always-on connectivity have created new and impressive opportunities for the enterprise. But behind the façade of browser interfaces, mobile apps and cloud-based data that's accessible anywhere and anytime across the organization, there's one simple truth: IT is becoming far more complex.
Businesses, educational institutions and government agencies are discovering that they must approach IT in new and radically different ways. Here are six information technology trends that will sweep through the enterprise over the next year:
The app-centric enterprise emerges.
Consumerization, bring your own device (BYOD), personal clouds and mobility have created an entirely different IT and computing environment. Today, the focus is less on a traditional client-server computing model that requires monolithic enterprise applications and more on narrow, highly targeted functionality through apps, which are increasingly delivered via an enterprise app store.
"The explosion of mobile devices has increased the number of tech-savvy employees over the past five years, all of whom are pushing to consumerize the way that IT departments operate," observes James Gordon, vice president of information technology at Needham Bank in Massachusetts. "Employees want to be able to download the apps they need, and they don't want to have to ask for download permissions or access rights in order to get their job done."
This translates into a greater need to monitor how apps and data are used on the network and to block unwanted software that poses a security risk.
It also requires business and IT leaders to "fundamentally rethink how they deliver applications and services," says Tiffani Bova, a Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst. "It's not about devices, but, rather, what you can do on the devices."
PwC technology industry sector lead Tom Archer adds that business and IT decision-makers must examine how best to adopt an app-centric framework, but they also must understand how the enterprise can fully tap the environment. "It changes engagement models, economic models and operating models," Archer explains. "It alters workflows and creates different cost and pricing paradigms."
The shift from personal devices to personal clouds accelerates.
Cloud computing is changing the face of the enterprise in profound ways. One of the most significant but overlooked areas involves personal clouds. Employees are turning to applications such as Salesforce, DropBox and Evernote in droves—in some cases leading organizations down the path of shadow IT. Personal clouds are also ushering in a more mobile-centric approach that allows users to rely on a spate of devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers.
Gartner predicts that in 2014 the personal cloud will replace the PC at the center of users' digital lives. "Personal clouds offer a much more flexible and productive way to manage applications and data," says Bova.
She notes that the trend is fueling further consumerization of IT and creating a more application-centric computing environment. It's also leading to a more OS-agnostic approach to IT and creating "new and different delivery models, pricing structures, usage patterns and application design requirements," Bova adds.
Six Top Tech Trends to Watch in 2014
Big data and analytics get real.
There has been no shortage of hype about big data and analytics. However, the technology is now advancing at a rapid pace and, thanks in part to clouds, better ways to extract data and next-gen analytics tools such as IBM's Watson, organizations are able to transform a growing mountain of data (including unstructured data) into knowledge.
"With 80 to 90 percent of data today existing in an unstructured state, big data tools are essential for distinguishing the 'signal from the noise,'" says Menka Uttamchandani, vice president for business intelligence at Denihan Hospitality Group, which operates 14 boutique hotels in the United States. Although BI has been around for years, she says that organizations are now learning how to plug in the right tools and build better partnerships, cultivate the necessary internal skill sets and create an analytics-friendly culture that takes appropriate risks.
Joshua Greenbaum, principal at Enterprise Applications Consulting and an IEEE blogger, says that real-time capabilities are emerging. "There is now the opportunity to look at vast amounts of data in real time and use the data to understand the supply chain, logistics, customer behavior, patient outcomes and many other things in a way that wasn't possible in the recent past," he says. "Big data is creating a new lease on life for many traditional processes."
The Internet of things connects to business.
The growing number of connected devices and machines is radically changing the business and IT landscape. Cisco Systems' Internet Business Solutions Group predicts that the number of Internet-connected devices will hit 25 billion by 2015 and reach 50 billion by 2020. The firm also forecasts that 99 percent of physical objects will eventually become part of a network.
"Literally any sensor—physical or virtual—can be transformed into the source of data," says Dejan Milojicic, 2014 IEEE Computer Society president and senior research manager at HP Labs. "And all that data, once collected, can be analyzed, so the opportunities are infinite."
John Devlin, a practice director at ABI Research, says that businesses must begin to understand market opportunities for the Internet of things, a.k.a. the Internet of Everything. Big data and the cloud are integral components.
"The underlying technologies for the Internet of things already exist," Devlin says."A large part of the puzzle is understanding how to fit all the pieces together in an appropriate manner." That includes understanding which systems and tools work best, and building in secure access and authentication, he points out.
Séverin Kezeu, CEO of SK Solutions, a Dubai-based manufacturer of anti-collision and safety systems for aerospace, construction and oil and gas drilling, says that the Internet of things provides a way to dive deeper into big data and analytics, including historic, real-time and predictive systems. SK Solutions has already built connected capabilities into its ERP system through an SAP Internet of things solution. The system is used to deliver relevant and actionable insights, as well as better decisions.
"This can be an iterative process for many companies as they uncover unexpected insights and connections from new streams of data," Kezeu says.
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Emerging standards take hold in software-defined everything.
The virtualization of networking, storage solutions and data centers has revolutionized the way businesses operate, manage content and connect with third parties. However, "The explosion of software-defined solutions has grown so rapidly that there are few standards that mandate how data is stored, shared and managed between vendors and businesses," states Needham Bank's Gordon. Software-defined everything (SDx) takes direct aim at that challenge.
The term, as defined by Gartner, strives for "improved standards for infrastructure programmability and data center interoperability driven by automation inherent to cloud computing." But decoupling the hardware that executes the data transactions from the software layer that orchestrates them isn't an easy task—and not only for technical reasons.
Currently, SDx incorporates various initiatives, such as OpenStack, OpenFlow, the Open Compute Project and Open Rack. However, Gartner notes that other sticking points exist: "Vendors that dominate a sector of the infrastructure may only reluctantly want to abide by standards that have the potential to lower margins and open broader competitive opportunities—even when the consumer will benefit by simplicity, cost reduction and consolidation efficiency."
There are also the realities of operating a business. For example, Gordon says that public clouds are not compliant with the regulations he faces at Needham Bank.
Nevertheless, "Software-defined everything is moving beyond technology as organization apply the concept to business models, including people, structure and data," PwC's Archer says. "We are likely to see quite a bit of movement in the space in 2014."
Enterprise social collaboration grows and becomes more holistic.
Although it's nearly impossible to find an organization that hasn't been touched by social media, business and IT leaders continue to underutilize these tools internally. A recent McKinsey & Co. survey found that 80 percent of executives believe collaboration is critical to growth, but only 25 percent describe their organization as "effective" at collaboration.
"The value of social tools extends far beyond marketing and listening," Archer points out. "Employee collaboration is a natural next step as organizations look to increase the speed at which data moves."
In fact, emerging social collaboration tools largely deliver on the lost promise of 1990s-era knowledge management systems. Mobility, clouds, unified messaging and always-on Internet have made real-time communication possible, as well as making it easy to find experts within an enterprise. Archer says that these systems, when used effectively, serve as platforms for a wide array of interactions.
Ted Rubin, an independent consultant and co-author of Return on Relationship (Tate Publishing & Enterprises, 2013), points out that some organizations are increasingly connecting internal and external systems—sometimes through APIs. Using this approach, "It's possible to introduce an extremely high level of communication and transparency," he points out.


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The road to sainthood is difficult, but newly canonized Jeanne Jugan knew that patience would bring otherworldly success.
In the last few years I have been a friend to an elderly man and helped care for a frail and aging relative who needed daily assistance and biweekly trips for renal dialysis treatment. When I took on these tasks, I thought, "Here's my chance to be a saint."
Indeed, I found joy in putting aside the pursuit of my well-being for another. But after a while I realized the sainthood thing was not what I expected it to be. The nearly infinite patience my tasks required eluded me in the long run. Trying to be a person totally for others led me to emptiness and exhaustion. You can give so much that you no longer have anything to give, and that's where I found myself.
Then one day I came across a quote on the Internet from someone named Jeanne Jugan. "Be kind," Jeanne said, "especially with the infirm. Love them well. Oh yes! Be kind. It is a great grace God is giving you. In serving the aged, it is [God] himself whom you are serving."
Such was God's little joke on me, reissuing the demand to live generously in my situation and as a duty to God no less.
Jeanne Jugan, it turns out, will be canonized on October 11. As a young woman in early 18th-century France, Jeanne became increasingly aware of the condition of destitute, old women and began taking them in. News of her charity spread, and she attracted more residents and other women interested in living in the house and serving. With the community of elderly women and associates growing, they moved to a series of larger and larger houses, leading eventually to the established community and network of houses of the Little Sisters of the Poor.
Despite the noble simplicity of her vocation, however, Jeanne found herself encountering opposition and betrayal. The occasional turndowns, slaps in the face (both literal and symbolic), and "not in my backyard" reactions all pale in comparison to the worst offense.
That came from a priest, the Abbé Auguste Le Pailleur. As the confessor of two of Jeanne's early companions, Virginie Trédaniel and Marie Jamet, he gained influence among the small band of the first sisters. In 1843 he called a meeting of the community, which, instead of reelecting Jeanne as leader, voted for Jamet, a person Le Pailleur could dominate.
But he was not done. He now decided history was to know him as the founder, and many believed him. The hoax went so far as to become part of the training of the community's novices. Only after Jeanne's death was the truth about the founding restored.
Le Pailleur's final blow was to recall Jeanne from her labors in the field to the motherhouse for what turned out to be her forced permanent retirement.
These betrayals complicated her story for me. This woman who seemed to be calling me to self-sacrifice—"Refuse God nothing. . . . Accustom yourselves to do everything for him. . . . Let us love him very much, that is all that is necessary"—did not find that road smooth.
Though eclipsed in nearly every way, Jeanne's submission to what happened was nearly complete. But was that the call to me: To accept every slight, large or small, every time someone rejects or neglects the value of what I have done or does not respect me as a person? To welcome every unreasonable demand? To live these words of Jeanne: "In our joys, in our troubles, in the contempt that others show us, we must always say, 'Thank you, my God,' or 'Glory to God' "?
I had to ask myself whether I could live for God and others while giving up recognition and support, as when the Catholic hospital abruptly shut down the program that matched me with my elderly friend due to "budgetary reasons," leaving us to figure out how to continue the relationship on our own.
Jeanne's reaction to the events that befell her did not take the form of righteous indignation or self-pity. She did not let the wrongs against her make her resentful. The open hands with which she served others were also open hands through which she allowed credit for her work to pass.
Still, she didn't completely take things lying down. To Le Pailleur she once said, in a tone that history does not note, "You have stolen my work from me, but I willingly relinquish it you." Late in life others would overhear her saying, to no one in particular, "I began the work, all the same!"
The call to service does not mean being perfect or never encountering difficulties. While Jeanne rarely considered her own limitations, she taught me to honor my own. And she helped me gracefully bear a lack of recognition and support while not letting myself get walked over.
My favorite image of the new saint is when she lived in the infirmary after 1870, nearly blind. When the almost 600 Little Sisters novices would leave their home, Jeanne's infirmity would not prevent her from going to the window to wave and smile at them—the real spirit behind the sisters.
This article appeared in the Octoboer 2009 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 74, No. 10, pages 47-48).


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Long, Long Ago
Winds through the olive trees softly did blow
Round little Bethlehem long, long ago.
Sheep on the hillside lay whiter than snow,
Shepherds were watching them long, long ago.
Then from the happy sky Angels bent low,
Singing their songs of joy long, long ago
For in a manger bed, cradled we know,
Christ came to Bethlehem long, long ago.
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Music: Joyce Jensen
Artist: Jensen
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: Ensign
Composition Date: 1975-12-01
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A fine example of the brilliant cartography National Geographic is known for, this map, which was published in December 1955, features outstanding geographical detail and an abundance of historical notes. Colorful and detailed coastlines combined with stunning ocean bathymetry and a submarine topography inset make this map perfect for collectors.
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DRHOOK- Cutting and rutting: What's the point of circumcision anyway?
"Penis is a polite word," my high school biology teacher told our class. There are so many words that every Tom, Dick, and Harry can use to substitute for the word penis. I had heard of forehead, foreshadow, and foreclosure, but never heard of foreskin. I imagined it to look like the hood on a bald monk's sweatshirt.
Should parents be forewarned about the foreskin?
For the record, I don't lean one way or the other in the "to circumcise or not to circumcise" debate. But that is a question for parents of a male infant.
"San Francisco, Open your Golden Gates...." (thank you, Judy Garland). That song might need to include, "Circumcision can put you in jail and net you a fine," if a ban on circumcision hits the ballots there next year.
Circumcision dates back thousands of years to Egypt, where the procedure was done, among other reasons, for hygiene.
Circumcisions became popular in Western cultures in the mid-19th century, supposedly to prevent masturbation. I totally believe that. John Harvey Kellogg, founder of Corn Flakes (emphasis on un-Frosted Flakes) was a huge opponent of masturbation. But you know what you call a man who doesn't masturbate? A liar.
Back to circumcisions. They are done for religious reasons (Jewish, Muslims) and cultural reasons. Circumcision is the #1 operation in the U.S., the only country in the developed world in which circumcision is done for nonreligious reasons.
But the rate of circumcision in infants has been dropping, especially out West. About 65 percent of American male infants born in a hospital had a circumcision in 1999.
The rate of complications of circumcision is low: 0.2-0.5 percent. Did you ever see the Seinfeld episode of the mohel with a bad tremor at the bris? Oy vey zmir!
Hospitals have contraptions to reduce the risk of a bad foreskin removal, though if the penis is pulled or clamped too hard, damage can occur to the urethra (the duct in the penis where urine flows out). If the glans (head of the penis) is caught during the excision, it can even be chopped off. (Could you imagine Lorena Bobbitt doing circumcisions? Poor thing.)
Bleeding and infection are the main complications and almost always are quickly treatable, although if someone has a bleeding disorder, like hemophilia, it can be more difficult.
An abnormal scar can adhere to the glans of the penis, which surprisingly I see fairly often in my practice. If the scar is bad enough, it can cause an erection to curve like an exit ramp.
Cicatrix is not The Matrix sequel or a female cicada. It is a circumferential scar (meaning all the way around and covering the penis shaft like a stocking) so it can hide the penis from plain view. I saw a picture of it and the surgical repair, and I'll admit (even as a doctor) I thought I was going to faint.
Some nerves are cut in circumcision, so perhaps there is less sexual stimulation, but in fact, only a sexually active, uncircumcised grown man who then gets a circumcision will be able to report if there's truly a difference.
Men who have been circumcised have less risk of HPV virus. HPV can be a cause of penile (and cervical) cancer. HIV and Herpes Simplex II are less likely to occur in circumcised men. Smegma, a cheesy excretion from the glands in the penis, doesn't accumulate under the foreskin after circumcision.
The foreskin causes phimosis the first years of childhood, which can make it more difficult for mothers to clean their infant boys. Phimosis can also occur later in life, which means the glans of the penis can't retract underneath the foreskin.
Like I said, I don't have an opinion about circumcision, so, please, no one yell at me. I don't have kids and never will! I'm definitely not a cut above the rest in the kid department.
Dr. Hook cracks a joke or two, but he's a renowned physician with an interesting website, drjohnhong.com. Email him with your questions.


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Two years ago we wrote an amazing Gift Guide. We got such rave reviews that we decided not to bring it back last year just to keep everyone on their toes. Check out our old gift guide here, but if you want to be super hip and in-the-now, read on to our new and fresh Best Gift Guide EVER!
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Okay so after our Halloween costume post we have been getting about 67,000 emails a day requesting we do a Holiday gift idea post. I know what you are thinking. Oh my Gaaaaaaawd it's 10 days before christmas and I don't know what the frick to get Uncle Ted or Aunt Felicia or cousin Alfred. Especially cousin Alfred. That guy is Craaaaaazy. Well we've put together a list that has something for everyone (even Alfie).
Buying for a music lover? Buying for someone that wants to keep music alive, well into the future? Are you not buying for Chad Kroeger…lead noise maker of Nickelback? Well we've got the perfect gift for you. What is cooler than the classic Black band T? I know. The classic black band T that donates part of it's money to help ensure children across the country have access to music programs at school. That's cooler. Check out Guataca to order one today!
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Buying for a Bacon Lover? No? Then you are clearly buying for a Cupcake Lover! Pretty much anyone can fit into one of these two categories. What's a better gift than something you will 2-3 times every single day??! Nothing I tell ya! Bacon or cupcake flavoured toothpaste will make anyone's holidays seem like a miracle on [insert street name here].
Buying for a stinky car person who loves Kraft Dinner? Who isn't! Why not switch that smelly sock box into a delicious Kraft Dinner-mobile. That's right, its a mac & cheese scented air freshener.
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Buying for someone who never wants to do anything ever? Well clearly this person is going to run out of excuses not to do anything. What's better than the instant excuse maker!? Also, on a side not you should probably break ties with this person. People who don't like to do anything are usually pretty toxic and or boring.
Buying for someone who is too busy to be hygienic? Two words. Pocket. Shower. Wha? I know right! I'm a pretty busy woman believe me… I haven't showered in weeks and I smell like a bed of roses (without any dead rats hidden in the sheets). My secret? Pocket Shower!
Buying for that crazy drunk in your family. Hint hint* This one's for me! Just kidding. But seriously this is pretty cool. A hangover cookbook. Wha? Yes, I said it, a cookbook for hangovers. Sounds ahhhmuzzing!
Buying for a girl who wants to pee like a guy? Enough said. Female urination device.
Okay I think that just about covers everyone. You are welcome! Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! Peace in the middle east!


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There is nothing on earth, that I hate as much as crawly things without legs. (Opps! That did not come out right. I don't mean to say he is a crawly thing without legs. He just likes to ignore things that need to be done.) Now, my hatred does not include larger things, like snakes, which are also crawly and without legs. Although, after I found a snake in the basement, it did take me about six months to stop searching the basement floor for snakes everytime I went down there. I am quite sure they know it is me descending the stairs and they then hide behind the washing machine, or on a more evil note, the toilet so as to scare the holy s__t out of me.
But, show me a maggot and I will become a quivering mass of jelly. A quivering mass who will sit on the couch for days making sure I do not have one of those things on my skin or in my hair.
So, the other day we had tiny little fruit flies; LOTS of tiny fruit flies. Husband took out the inside garbage and hosed the can down inside and the lid and also did it to the outside cans. He did not tell me he had found maggots in the lid. The lid which I put my hand in and brush the top of. So, this week those same flies are everywhere. I tell husband, that's it, the garbage can goes outside (the inside kitchen one.) I was refusing to use it.
He took the can out, bleached it, did not wash the outside (I have no idea why that bothers me, but it does) and then proceeds to come in and tell me that the whole domed lid was covered in :::::::::: MAGGOTS. OMG, MAGGOTS.
Freakin, I stuck my hand in that lid. I felt the warmth and humidity and probably touched them. OMG, MAGGOTS.
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A Christmas Wrap-Up (Part 1)
Every December we like to take a look back at what happened during the year in RSBS. And with Christmas upon us and the annual RSBS holiday break about to take place, it's that time of year again. Granted, there's no way we could do this without all the hard work put in by the interns so I want to take this opportunity to personally thank them and ask them to keep up all the good work next year.
Now, before I get to the part you're all waiting for, I want to take a moment to recognize a couple other people without whom this blog would be a much sadder place. The regulars probably know him best from his appearances on the podcast but for me, his occasional pieces really put into words what I wish I could express. In particular, this year I appreciated Mark Piebanga's midseason post about Don Kelly. For me, it crystallized who the Tigers were at that point in the season.
Similarly, the brilliant ranting and raving of Johanna Mahmud always bring a mid-week smile to my face. Whether he's once again lamenting the shortcomings of the Cubs via musical theatre allusions or cautiously hoping for change with the arrival of Theo Epstein, Jo hits the nail on the head as often as not in a way only he can. However, the edition of Setting the Mahmud that really did it for me was his takedown of the Red Sox in the key of Arthur. Nothing says b*tchslap quite like setting your role model loose on the AL underperformer of the year.
For the main event, though, I thought long and hard about the season my co-author had. I watched with amusement his two-part Libertarian "coming out" as he confessed his love for the still-feisty Ron Paul. I also applauded along with everyone else as Jeff completed his first marathon, and this from a guy who, two years ago, was out of breath after running a block.
But the real marathon was the baseball season and if you don't believe me, just go back through the record. It started in April with Franklin's blown saves and four months later, Jeff had all but given up on the Cards (and totally given up on the Rays). Just a few short weeks later, though, his dreams came true while attending his first World Series game and a few days later, that dream reached its apex as the Cardinals won the World Series. But as happy as he may have been in that moment, and all joking aside, I don't think any of us could possibly understand how hard the Albert Pujols news hit him. Baseball, just like that marathon, has its extreme highs and lows. In 2011 we watched Jeff live them both.
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4-Hydroxy Tryptamines
The indole ring of tryptamine provides a number of possible locations for functional groups to be substituted. Addition of a hydroxy group at the 4-position produces a large number of active psychedelic compounds including some true classics.
4-hydroxylation of alpha substituted tryptamines such as AMT has been conducted but further exploration has been limited due to potential toxic effects.
The 4-hydroxy analogue of α-MT has been looked at in human subjects. It is reported to be markedly visual in its effects, with some subjects reporting dizziness and a depressed feeling. There were, however, several toxic signs at doses of 15 to 20 milligrams orally, including abdominal pain, tachycardia, increased blood pressure and, with several people, headache and diarrhea.
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4-hydroxylation of the n-alkylated tryptamines is more fruitful. For instance, 4-hydroxylation of DMT (dimethyltryptamine) produces the classic psilocin (4-HO-DMT, 4-hydroxy-dimethyltryptamine). These 4-hydroxy n-alkyl tryptamines are similar in general psychedelic character, moderately potent (active at 10-25 mg) and of medium duration (2-6 hours).
Other functional groups can be substituted at the 4-position which are converted to 4-HO tryptamines in the human body. Psilocybin (4-PO-DMT, 4-phosphoryloxy-dimethyltryptamine) contained in psychedelic mushrooms is water soluble and too polar to cross the blood-brain barrier. After consumption phosphatase enzymes rapidly break apart the phosphoryloxy group producing the active psilocin (4-HO-DMT, 4-hydroxy-dimethyltryptamine).
The phosphoryl group in psilocybin that is cleaved off by enzymes is known as an ester, and other esters can be substituted that react in similar ways once consumed by man.
O-acetylpsilocin (4-AcO-DMT, 4-acetoxy-dimethyltryptamine) can be thought of as psilocybin with an acetoxy group instead of a phosphoryloxy group. Like psilocybin, it is rapidly converted to 4-HO-DMT in the body. This produces a compound with a similar subjective experience to that of psilocybin.
4-HO tryptamines can therefore have a 4-AcO pair with very similar effects. The 4-AcO partner tends to be slightly less potent, have a longer duration, and be subjectively "smoother" than the 4-HO counterpart. It is a matter of debate whether this is simply the result of varying rates of administration due to metabolic conversion, or if 4-AcO tryptamines are active in their own right.
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More than anything else, it will be how well and how wisely the United States uses its immense power that will determine the future. The United States does not need the world's permission to act, but it does need the world's support to succeed.
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Hello everybody! I'm new to this forum and also not very experienced in Java. I follow it as a course in my study!
I'm currently working on a assignment wich is to create an ecosystem.
I need a method that moves my objects to a random empty(null) space in a two dimensional array(wich is the grid).
This is what I came up with, at the moment I let it print out the x and y step for testing purposes. It only needs to return an int[] with the x and y direction step. The argument it gets is a 3x3 grid containing an object form my IDier class in the middle. I let a for loop find al objects in the grid and put them into the move method. However it doesn't returns something for every object. Why is this?
public int[] loop(IDier[][] omgeving){ boolean dierGeplaatst=false; Random generator = new Random(); int x= generator.nextInt(3)-1; int y= generator.nextInt(3)-1; int[] richting={0,0}; if(dierGeplaatst==false){ if(omgeving[1+x][1+y] == null){ System.out.println(x+","+y); richting[0]=x; richting[1]=y; dierGeplaatst=true; } else{ dierGeplaatst= false; }} return richting; }
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Home is where the recovery isOctober 4, 2012: 10:12 AM ET
This article was published in the October issue of Money magazine.
Stop me if you've heard this one before: The housing market has finally hit bottom. After years of false hope, that may seem hard to believe. But home sales are indeed rebounding. And prices nationwide climbed 2.5% in June.
Be careful, though, about how you invest in this nascent recovery. Homebuilder stocks have been surging for months in anticipation of a rebound. Shares of Lennar and KB Home have soared around 60% in 2012, while PulteGroup has more than doubled.
"Things are looking up in housing," says Harry Clark, CEO of Clark Capital Management Group, "but you can't buy the builders now."
Related: Housing recovery is finally here
As for real estate investment trusts, many are getting frothy for an altogether different reason. As yield-starved investors have flocked to them to boost income in an era of low rates, REITs have returned twice what the S&P 500 has over the past three years.
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Fortunately, you have cheaper options. Rising home sales have historically boosted revenue for housing-related retailers such as Home Depot (HD). The home-improvement chain, shares of which Clark's firm owns, says sales will jump 4.6% this year, after having fallen 1% over the prior three.
While HD shares are up 35% this year, they trade at a price/earnings ratio, based on projected profits, 20% below that of the homebuilders -- even though the stock has historically traded at a premium.
Tim Holland, a portfolio manager for the ASTON/TAMRO funds, which owns the stock, thinks HD has more room to run as the market slowly recovers.
Shares of home-goods sellers Williams-Sonoma (WSM) and Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) have also lagged the builder rally, though they enjoy much better growth.
Prefer to go with a fund? S&P Homebuilders ETF (XHB) owns all three stocks. Despite its name, this ETF holds 70% of its assets in shares of home-appliance, -furnishings, and -improvement chains and building-material makers.
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Another option: lenders in healthy states that aren't suffering through the aftermath of a major housing bubble, Holland says. These banks will benefit as purchases and refinancings climb. He owns Little Rock's Bank of the Ozarks (OZRK). At 7.3%, Arkansas' unemployment is below the U.S. average. The bank is also pushing into Texas, with a booming energy sector.
As for an indirect play, there's Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB). Though not a pure housing stock, Warren Buffett's company owns several related businesses, such as the flooring company Shaw Industries and the paintmaker Benjamin Moore, notes David Rolfe, manager of the RiverPark/Wedgewood Fund, which owns the stock. Berkshire also has stakes in leading mortgage originators Wells Fargo and Bank of America.


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Sheryl Gay Stolberg and religion reporter Laurie Goodstein profiled GOP candidate Rick Santorum for the front of Sunday's New York Times and seemed uncomfortable with his brand of strong Catholicism: "From 'Nominal Catholic' to Clarion of Faith – In Santorum's Religious Journey, Wife and Family Were Key."
The Times described how Santorum's dinner-table discussion with his future father-in-law led him on his path of strong anti-abortion and Catholic convictions.
For Mr. Santorum, a Republican candidate for president, that conversation was an early step on a path into a deeply conservative Catholic culture that has profoundly influenced his life as a husband, father and politician. Over the past two decades, he has undergone a religious transformation that is now spurring a national conversation about faith in the public sphere.
On the campaign trail, he has attacked President Obama for "phony theology," warned of the "dangers of contraceptives" and rejected John F. Kennedy's call for strict separation of church and state. His bold expressions of faith could affect his support in this week's Super Tuesday nominating contests, possibly helping with conservative Christians, especially in the South, but scaring off voters uncomfortable mixing so much religion in politics.
Central to Mr. Santorum's spiritual life is his wife, whom he calls "the rock which I stand upon." Before marrying, the couple decided to recommit themselves to their Catholic faith -- a turnabout for Karen Santorum, who had been romantically involved with a well-known abortion provider in Pittsburgh and had openly supported abortion rights, according to several people who knew her then.
The Times could not even discuss the tragic loss of Santorum's son without wedging in its preferred liberal labeling of partial-birth abortion.
The loss of the Santorums' son Gabriel, in 1996 -- just as the senator was leading the fight in Congress to ban the procedure that opponents call partial-birth abortion -- was devastating for the couple. Mrs. Santorum was nearly 20 weeks pregnant; doctors discovered a fetal anomaly. After a risky operation, she developed an infection and took antibiotics, which the couple knew would result in the birth of a baby who would not survive.
Critics likened it to an abortion, but in a 1997 interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer, Mr. Santorum said that was not the case. Mr. Schoeneman, the couple's friend, said the death convinced them that "God had a purpose in Gabriel's life, and they were going to live out that purpose in their lives." Both Santorums began speaking out more strongly against abortion; Mrs. Santorum became prominent in her own right after publishing a 1998 book, "Letters to Gabriel."
This portion was particularly dense with slant:
Many Catholics take issue with Mr. Santorum's approach to their faith. Mr. Santorum, polls show, has lost the Catholic vote in every primary contest so far, some by wide margins.
Garry Wills, a cultural historian and professor emeritus at Northwestern University, is among many Catholics whose touchstone is the Second Vatican Council from 1962-65, which opened up Catholicism to the modern era and proclaimed that the church is its people, not just the pope and his bishops.
"Santorum is not a Catholic, but a papist," Mr. Wills said in an e-mail.
Mr. Santorum's defenders say there is nothing troubling about his approach to faith and politics. "What he is saying is something very simple: I should not shed my moral beliefs when I walk in the Oval Office," said Mr. DeWine, who is also Catholic.
The blunt statement that Santorum "has lost the Catholic vote in every primary contest so far" is far from obvious, as the Times' own David Leonhardt explained last week. As for "Many Catholics," the Times means "Many Catholic Democrats."
Regarding Garry Wills' "papist" crack, my MRC colleague Tim Graham reminded me that Wills has been trashing the Catholic Church hierarchy in books as far back as 1972.


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"The ageing population phenomenon being observed in many countries poses serious social policy challenges. Longevity risk – the risk of paying out on pensions and annuities longer than anticipated – is significant when measured from a financial perspective. Longevity risk transfer markets: market structure, growth drivers and impediments, and potential risks is a forward-looking report released by the Joint Forum on longevity risk transfer (LRT) markets. It makes the following recommendations to policymakers and supervisors:
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BUILDING ON NATURE: The Life of Antoni Gaudi by Rachel Rodriguez explores the childhood inspirations of the Catalonian architect and how they affected his work. Young Gaudi was fascinated by honeycombs, leaf patterns and other natural phenomena. It was these early interests that would become vaulting cathedral walls and strange curving chimneys, and readers will love to explore the buildings he created (even if only on the page). Julie Paschkis has done a stunning job incorporating the sinewy grace and movement that characterizes Art Nouveau style with child-friendly details. You'll feel like you are inside one of Gaudi's own creations!
EAST-WEST HOUSE: Noguchi's Childhood in Japan by Christy Hale focuses on the early years of architect Isamu Noguchi. Isamu was born to a Japanese father and a white American mother and raised partly in Japan, where he was bullied for being gaijin (a foreigner). Like Gaudi, young Isamu turned to the beauty of the natural world and made it an inspiration for his art. His mother was supportive of Isamu's artistic bent and allowed him, at age 8, to help design their home. It would be known as the East-West house, and would combine elements of traditional Japanese and Western design. And the book itself does the same - Hale's wonderful collages manage to evoke both traditional Japanese woodblock art and Midcentury American cool. Simply gorgeous.


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