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The Symantec™ Secure Site Pro Multi-Domain Wildcard allows you to make that statement – and make it affordably – across your entire web presence. This product is unique both in terms of its versatility and its scalability: it's the perfect solution for any company or organization with a web presence that extends beyond just a site or two. Using the Wildcard SAN fields during the generation process you can opt to enter an FQDN and encrypt a domain, or use an asterisk and encrypt all accompanying sub-domains. This gives you the flexibility to secure your entire portfolio of websites, plus it gives you room to grow. If you add a site or a sub-domain, simply update the CSR and re-issue your certificate. It's as easy as that.
And because this is a Symantec™ product, you get a whole host of other benefits as well. In addition to being able to leverage the highly-regarded Norton Secured seal on all of your domains and sub-domains, a surefire way to let potential visitors know they're safe on your site.
The Secure Site Pro Multi-Domain Wildcard is also ECC-capable—putting it well ahead of the curve. With apologies for the bad pun, ECC or Elliptic Curve Cryptography, is a different kind of hashing algorithm from RSA and DSA—one that offers better security and optimized performance. ECC keys are smaller than their RSA and DSA counterparts, but by virtue of the math behind the algorithm they're also more secure. This in turn requires less processing power from servers and computers, which greatly improves performance. ECC has yet to be widely adopted, but it will be in the next several years.
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It's been an exciting week of college playoff action for several Whitecaps FC alums.
Simon Fraser University – with Residency graduates Alex Rowley and Jason van Blerk in their ranks – have reached the Final Four of the NCAA Division II Tournament while goalkeeper Erin McNulty (pictured) starred in a penalty shootout to send Penn State into the Elite Eight of the women's NCAA Division I competition.
Elsewhere, Ben McKendry's University of New Mexico made the Sweet 16 phase after winning their second round match on Sunday night.
Starting with SFU, the Clan secured their spot in the Final Four in Georgia after overcoming the University of the Incarnate Word Cardinals 1-0 in the Elite Eight on Saturday night.
SFU will now have almost two weeks to prepare for the Final Four, which will take place in Evans, Georgia from November 29.
Rowley and van Blerk's team will play either Saginaw Valley or Northeastern State in the penultimate round.
In Albuquerque, Ben McKendry played the full 90 minutes as the Lobos ousted the University of Virginia 3-1 in the second round of the NCAA tournament. UNM hosted the match after having a bye in the first round.
The 13th-seeded Lobos now travel to fourth-ranked Connecticut for a Sweet 16 matchup on Sunday.
Down in Florida, and the season is over for recent Canadian U-20 call-up Daniel Stanese as Florida Gulf Coast University were eliminated in a penalty shootout by state rivals University of South Florida.
Despite the loss, Stanese and his fellow defenders finished the season on a positive note, allowing just one goal over 592 minutes.
The season also came to a close for fellow U-20 call-up Callum Irving, who's Kentucky Wildcats fell 1-0 to Xavier in the NCAA tourney.
North Carolina duo Amber Brooks and Ranee Premji are into the quarterfinals after the Tar Heels knocked out ninth-ranked Baylor on penalty kicks in the third round of the women's NCAA Tournament on Sunday.
It's North Carolina's first appearance in the Elite Eight since 2009. They will face third-ranked BYU in Utah on Friday.
Elsewhere, goalkeeper Erin McNulty made a spectacular recovery in the penalty shootout to also send Penn State into the quarterfinals.
The Nittany Lions were trailing 2-0 in the shootout before Whitecaps FC women's star McNulty pulled out three consecutive stops to clinch the win over Michigan on Sunday night.
Up next for PSU is a home date with Duke on Friday night.
Back to Canada, and last week's women's CIS championship triumph by Trinity Western University continued an impressive streak of title wins for Whitecaps FC U-18 graduates.
This year saw a staggering eight former 'Caps lift the Cup with the Spartans, which included Nikki Wright, Tessa Meyer, Natalie Boyd, Alicia Tesan, Jenn Castillo, Jenna Di Nunzio, Vanessa Kovacs and Lindsey Pulice.
In 2011 and 2010, the successful Queen's University outfit had Brie Shaw and Mikyla Kay in their ranks while in 2009 and 2008, TWU's victorious team featured Wright and Meyer (both years) as well as Boyd and Tesan (2009 only).

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text: School Nutrition Examines Poverty and Hunger in America February 1, 2013—An estimated 46.2 million Americans live in poverty; some of them are students who receive free and reduced-price meals at your school. Even so, how much do you know and understand about the prevalence of poverty in your community and across the nation? The February issue of School Nutrition, SNA's award-winning flagship publication, examines the poverty and hunger in America's communities with an eye toward how school meals can be part of the solution. This issue also takes a look at healthy and versatile one-bowl meals. Though estimates show that poverty growth in America may be leveling off, children comprise 34% of all people living in poverty. "Poverty & Hunger in the Land of Plenty" explores the breadth of poverty from coast to coast and details what else you can do to address these issues in your community—and across the nation. Bonus Web Content: School nutrition professionals already make such a difference in the lives of the hungry school-age children in their communities. But many of them go above and beyond in their efforts to help provide hunger relief. Don't miss their exclusive online-only stories. While summer may be a welcome break, it's also a time when, based on a family's circumstances, many kids may not be guaranteed regular access to healthy meals. School nutrition operations can make a difference for these students by offering or contracting for a summer feeding program. Learn about these models and gain advice from colleagues across the country who detail what they have learned about serving summer meals in "Summertime—But the Living Isn't Always Easy." Bonus Web Content: In addition to serving summer meals, many school nutrition programs offer afterschool snacks and supper to hungry children in their communities. Find out more about these programs, as well as survey findings that will help to shed light on low participation numbers for summer meals and an overview of USDA's Seamless Summer Option. Federal school meal programs make a big difference in providing children with essential nutrition support. But what about when schools are closed? And what about other family members who are going without? That's where federal programs and relief programs coordinated and funded by nonprofit organizations come in. "Feeding Our Neighbors" presents an overview of such resources, so that you can help to be an information source to children, parents, coworkers and others who may not know where to turn. Today, just about anything can be served in a bowl, to the delight of school nutrition operators and students alike. Take a look at the success and versatility of bowl meals in K-12 operations and beyond in "Super Bowls." Bonus Web Content: Learn about industry's efforts to assist school nutrition operations in offering delicious, innovative bowl items, check out a recipe idea from one of the magazine's Kitchen Wisdom Panelists and more. Related Link School Nutrition –February 2013


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Edward Furlong has been axed from his latest movie following his recent arrest on a domestic violence charge.
The Terminator 2 Judgment Day star was taken into custody after allegedly shoving an unnamed woman at a residence in Los Angeles on Sunday (13Jan13).
He was denied bail at a hearing on Tuesday (14Jan13), and he has been dealt another blow after producers behind his new film, Other Plans, decided to let him go.
In a letter to Furlong's rep, obtained by TMZ.com, they state "Given Edward's current status as being in jail awaiting arraignment on two charges of criminal domestic violence... we are no longer able to engage his services for the film as per our agreement".
Producer Joe Eckardt also tells the website that the project had already "suffered way too long waiting for (Furlong) to be clear of his legal issues".
He adds, "It's time to move on now and make our film without him".
Furlong was arrested twice on similar domestic violence charges last year (12).
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LaDoma L. Rierson 1916-2012
RUTHVEN — Funeral service for LaDoma L. Rierson will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at Zion Lutheran Church in Ruthven. The Rev. Tom Summerfield will officiate.
Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery, Ruthven. The Martin-Mattice Funeral Home in Ruthven is in charge of arrangements.
Visitation will be Friday, Dec. 14, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Martin-Mattice Funeral Home in Ruthven.
LaDoma Louise Rierson was born July 23, 1916 to Clarence and Hazel (Buchacker) Loomis of rural Ayrshire. She was the oldest of six children. LaDoma received her education at Silver Lake Community School in Ayrshire.
On Oct. 20, 1936, LaDoma married Hendrick Rierson of Ruthven. To this marriage two children, James and Richard, were born.
LaDoma was a homemaker, avid quilt maker for Lutheran World Relief and worked with her husband in their International Harvester Farm Implement business. She was a member of the Ruthven City Council and held the position of City Clerk for several years. In addition, LaDoma was an active member of Zion Lutheran Church, serving in many different capacities.
LaDoma passed away at the Ruthven Community Care Center on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, at age 96.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Hendrick; and her brothers, Dick, Dale and Don Loomis.
She is survived by her sons, James of Wichita, KS and Richard (Susan) of Bonita, CA; grandchildren, Curtis (Mandi) of Wichita, KS, Scott (Jennifer) of Chula Vista, CA, and Chris (Amy) of Brandon, FL; four great grandchildren, Kay-leah and Tyler of Chula Vista, CA, Dane and Derek of Brandon, FL; a sister, LaVonne Simonson of Ruthven; a brother, David Loomis of Ayrshire; several nieces and nephews.
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The Gentle Warrior (Part 2) - Mrs. General Lee in Richmond
- John Perry Contributing Writer, Faith in God and Generals
- 2003 7 Feb
God in His wisdom had denied her the use of her legs, but He gave her some movement in her hands: she could still knit like lightning. She set up a vigorous cottage industry in the Caskies' second floor parlor, encouraging her daughters Agnes and Mildred and all her neighbors to knit socks and gloves for Confederate soldiers. Mrs. Lee had them packed into boxes and sent to her husband in the field for distribution to the most needy. In one six-month stretch Mary and her helpers knitted 859 pairs of socks and 190 pairs of mittens. Cotton thread was four dollars a spool and knitting yarn available only by barter. Mrs. Lee sent out "yarn scouts" who combed the city for supplies.
"Tell the girls to send all they can," General Lee wrote his wife. "I wish they could make some shoes too."
Mary Chestnut, wife of former South Carolina senator James Chestnut, came to call and described Mrs. Lee's room in her diary as "like an industrial school: everybody so busy. Her daughters were all there plying their needles, with several other ladies." Another visitor portrayed her as "always bright, sunny-tempered and uncomplaining."
Still others wrote with astonishment of Mrs. General Lee's indomitable spirit. "Almost unable to move," one of them recalled, "Mrs. Lee was busily engaged in knitting socks for sockless soldiers." A neighbor who dropped by noted that Mary "listened, and strengthened, and smiled even when her own heart ached. The brightness of her nature, amidst uncertainty and pain, was wonderful."
New Year's Day brought news of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Mrs. Lee had no use for Lincoln or his politics, but she had been a moral opponent of slavery all her life. By the time she inherited Arlington almost six years earlier—long before the war or thoughts of war—the slaves had already been promised their freedom and Mary saw that they received it. The day the president's proclamation was issued there were no slaves at Arlington: they were working for wages or long gone in search of other opportunities and adventures.
Another new law that winter affected her far more: An Act for the Collection of Direct Taxes in the Insurrectionary Districts within the United States that required her to pay a $92.07 levy on Arlington in person to Union authorities. Even if she hadn't been the wife of the Confederate general-in-chief, it would have been impossible to travel to the courthouse in Alexandria. Just getting downstairs to the street was an excruciating, dangerous, and time-consuming ordeal she seldom attempted. Within a year the estate would be sold on the courthouse steps for non-payment of a lawful tax.
Winter turning to spring brought soothing, cheerful mornings and temperate days. Mary sat at the window enjoying the view of rooftops and the intense blue Virginia sky, her knitting needles flashing in the sunlight. And yet there was a sinister side to the emerging dogwoods and apple blossoms. The same sun that nurtured them ripened the seeds of war: companies and battalions abandoned the safety of their winter encampments for another season of killing and being killed.
Overmatched as they were, General Lee's men continued to stand steadfast and even to gain ground. Against the worst odds of the war so far—134,000 United States troops under Fighting Joe Hooker to Lee's 60,000—the Confederates made a bold offensive at Chancellorsville, just west of Fredericksburg, before daylight on May 2. Within four days the Union army had retreated north across the Rappahannock.
It was a great victory but at a terrible price. The day of the attack General Stonewall Jackson, Lee's fearless and indispensable tactical mastermind, was accidentally shot by one of his own troops; eight days later he died of pneumonia despite the amputation of his shattered left arm in a desperate attempt to save his life. He died on the tenth, and the next day Mary heard church bells tolling all over Richmond to mourn his loss.
The next month brought the kind of news that every soldier's mother hoped never to hear. Brigadier General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee—"Rooney," her second son—was shot in the thigh at the battle of Brandy Station on June 9. She thanked God that the wound was not life threatening and rejoiced when Rooney received a furlough to recuperate at Hickory Hill, home of her husband's Uncle William Wickham.
There was no question in Mary's mind that she should nurse him back to health, and so she made the difficult trip by carriage to the plantation, a few miles north of Richmond on the Pamunkey River. Rooney was healing nicely and recovering his strength until the morning of June 26, when a posse of Federals rode up the drive to the plantation office that had been converted into Rooney's quarters, claimed the bedridden officer as a prisoner of war, bundled him into old Mr. Wickham's carriage, and disappeared as fast as they'd come.
The news that summer continued grim, though it would be yet awhile before they realized July of 1863 marked the beginning of the end. On July 4 Vicksburg fell at last, starved and exhausted after forty-seven days, giving the Union undisputed control of the Mississippi from New Orleans to St. Louis and splitting the Confederacy in two. The same day back east, General Lee retreated in a thundering downpour from the hills of Gettysburg, the deepest penetration ever into enemy territory, despondent over opportunities lost but determined to carry on.
When Mary Custis Lee returned to Richmond it was to a small rented house at 210 East Leigh Street. There the mistress of Arlington House had not a chair or a spoon to call her own. But she borrowed odd pieces of furniture, found a cache of linens (this difficult because so much had been torn up for bandages) and carpets (likewise rare, cut up for army blankets), then set up her sock factory and resumed knitting day and night.
Early in December, one of Mary's most frequent and fervent prayers was answered when Robert arrived at Richmond on official business and came to be with her at the house on Leigh Street. It had been six months since they'd seen each other, and each was distressed by the other's appearance. Robert saw Mary's disability was worse than ever, the lines of pain and worry in her face chiseled deeper. Mary saw a man aged dramatically, his beard nearly white now, his figure so heavyset that he had had to order bigger uniform jackets, his energy and mobility impaired by the pain of angina and the burdens of an unwinnable war.
And yet there was so much to be thankful for. Mary and her husband hadn't spent Christmas together since 1859. The cramped and modest house on Leigh Street was far from the elegant ballroom at Arlington, appointed with Washington's favorite furniture and decorated every Christmas with garlands from Arlington Forest, dried fruits, lavish bows, the fragrance of roasted pheasants drifting in from the dining room and the Custis and Washington family silver polished to its utmost brilliance.
The great house and its contents were in the hands of strangers now, and what little silver Mary was able to save sat tarnishing, buried in the dirt somewhere far away. But it was Christmastime and Robert was here with her, as were all three of their daughters and oldest son, Custis. They'd heard, too, from Rooney in prison at Fort Lafayette, in good health and good sprits, his wound fully healed.
They decorated their small rooms with holly boughs and cranberries, built up the fires of scarce and expensive coal a little brighter in spite of the cost, and celebrated gifts that no war could take away: the gifts of love between husband and wife, between parent and child, and the unspeakable gift of God's only Son to a hopeless and fallen world.
Sitting quietly before the fire late on Christmas Day, Mary let her thoughts drift to the image of a young woman, newly engaged, standing straight and beautiful at a window overlooking her mother's vast rose garden and on toward the silvery Potomac River shimmering in the moonlight. Ancient oaks towered overhead. God had just entered her life and she couldn't sleep on account of it. She was too excited and couldn't make herself lie down until she captured her emotions on paper. They were too precious and intimate to put in a letter, much less talk to anybody about. And so she put them in a prayer journal, a letter to God:
I would not exchange the hope I have now in my Saviour for all that the world could give. I now solemnly dedicate myself & all that I have or may possess to His service. Have I not the sweetest promise for the days of temptation & darkness? Why should I fear? Oh doubting soul, trust entirely to thy God for He will yet glorify thee! My prayer is for a stronger faith, though I sometimes shrink at the tribulation I may be called to endure for this purpose. But Jesus is all sufficient.
Separated from her home, her health, her heritage, her livelihood, her friends, her worldly riches, and even her beloved husband who had returned to his troops in the field, faith was about all Mary Custis Lee had left in these troubled times. But faith was all she needed.
Mary smiled and looked into the fire, her eyes dancing.
Excerpted from Faith in God and Generals, compiled by Ted Baehr and Susan Wales. Copyright © 2003, Ted Baehr and Susan Wales. ISBN 0-8054-2728-7
Published by Broadman & Holman Publishers. Used by permission. Unauthorized duplication prohibited.


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CFOs To Go
This story appears in the November 1997 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Having problems handling your payroll internally? Need help developing a bankable financial picture of your business? Or do you need someone to help you create a corporate tax strategy? If so, you might need to hire a chief financial officer (CFO). Can't afford one of these pricey execs? Try hiring a temp.
"We manage the financial side of a business, and that can mean hands-on development of policies and procedures for cash management," says Michael J. Kettner of CFO Resource Group Inc. in Lexington, Massachusetts. "It could also mean negotiating with vendors or helping find a banker who works with companies in your industry." Kettner's firm has part-time CFOs for hire so companies can get the services of a permanent CFO without the expense of a full-timer.
CFO Resource Group provides assistance to start-up and existing small businesses on an as-needed basis. There is no monthly retainer; a day rate of $500 to $1,200 is usually charged. "Our typical client is a [fast-growing] company with $2 million to $25 million in revenue," says Kettner, whose three-year-old firm primarily services clients in the New England area.
There are several other independent companies nationwide that outsource CFOs, including CFO2Go Inc. in Bothell, Washington, and CFO Associates in Stamford, Connecticut. Check your local Yellow Pages for more resources.
Two For One
Financial pundits constantly urge consumers to invest now to maintain a good lifestyle during their retirement years. For some, that means investing in variable annuities.
"Variable annuities are commonly referred to as a mutual fund inside a tax-deferred insurance wrapper," says Patrick Reinkemeyer, editor of the Morningstar Variable Annuities/Life newsletter.
Variable annuities have two basic components, he explains. The investment component lets you invest in stocks and bonds through mutual funds. The second part, an insurance policy, guarantees a steady income for a pre-selected time. Variable annuities differ from mutual funds in many ways.
Variable annuities are usually more expensive, says Reinkemeyer. For mutual funds, the average expense ratio is 1.4 percent of assets; for variable annuities, it's 2.13 percent.
"However, in variable annuities, money accumulates tax-deferred," says Reinkemeyer, adding that typically, mutual funds are not truly tax-deferred unless housed in a retirement vehicle such as an IRA or 401(k). "Every year, I pay [capital gains] taxes on any securities bought and sold within the mutual fund."
In contrast, securities can be freely bought and sold within a variable annuity. "Mutual funds don't annuitize," says Reinkemeyer. "When you take money out of a mutual fund, you pay taxes on it because it's being sold."
Tony Sagami of ProFutures Financial Group, an annuity distribution firm in Austin, Texas, offers another caveat. "[When distributed,] variable annuities convert capital gains into ordinary income, which is taxed at a top rate of 39.1 percent compared to 20 percent for a top mutual fund's [capital gains] rate," he says. "So when you take money out of variable annuities, you'll pay more in taxes."
Reinkemeyer says the best candidates for variable annuities are people who've maxed out their annual IRA and 401(k) contributions and are willing to invest for eight to 10 years. Be prepared to ante up at least $2,500, and be aware you'll be charged if you cash in an annuity before age 591|2.
Straighten Up
If organization is not your forte, a new software program from Nolo Press may be just what you need. Personal RecordKeeper 4.0 for Macintosh and Windows 3.1 and higher allows you to organize 27 areas of your personal and business lives, from emergency information to business contacts. Once you've input the raw data, Personal RecordKeeper lets you generate reports including home inventory and net worth statements to aid in estate planning.
Organized as a database, the program also has the ability to assign a password and lock specific categories. Personal RecordKeeper, which retails for $49.95, is available at major computer software stores or from Berkeley, California-based Nolo Press.
Contact Sources
CFO Associates, (203) 322-8262, http://www.cfoassociates.com
CFO Resource Group Inc., 4 Militia Dr., Lexington, MA 02173, (781) 674-1117
CFO2Go Inc., (425) 488-4096, email@example.com
Morningstar Inc., (800) 735-0700, http://www.morningstar.net
Nolo Press, (800) 992-6656, http://www.nolo.com
ProFutures Financial Group, 1310 Hwy. 620 S., #200, Austin, TX 78734, (800) 320-1775


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Climate data 'has helped African farmers boost production'
[DAKAR] Farming communities in Africa are benefitting from an exchange programme to improve access to, and understanding of, climate science, according to a report presented at a seminar.
The seminar, held in in Dakar, Senegal, last month (20–21 November), discussed the results of the programme — which encompassed two demonstration studies in Kenya and Senegal — and identified the opportunities and challenges faced in making better use of short-range forecasts and early-warning systems for flooding.
- Exchange scheme involved Kenyan, Senegalese and UK climate scientists and development experts
- Early-warning systems for flooding helped local communities, according to study
- Immediate and short-range forecasts have helped to boost harvests, says Senegalese expert
HFP started the programme in 2009 between climate scientists and development and humanitarian policymakers in Kenya, Senegal and the United Kingdom to use climate science to boost the resilience of communities in the developing world.
The findings show that the programme better-prepared the two countries for floods that hit in 2009, meaning they were able to save their cattle and food supplies.
Additionally, as part of the programme, weather forecasts were given in television and radio broadcasts. The Red Cross also sent forecasts in text messages to its volunteers' mobile phones and they passed these on by word of mouth.
During the project, experts from all three countries shared their experiences in harnessing climate science for adaptation to help rural African populations exposed to drought and flood risks.
According to Mariane Diop Kane, head of forecasting at the Senegalese National Agency for Civil Aviation and Meteorology (ANACIM), communities exposed to flooding and drought risks must be informed about established and potential climatic threats and have the support needed to make use of this information.
"One must overcome obstacles to establish a more-efficient dialogue between climate scientists, vulnerable communities and humanitarian and development organisations," Diop Kane tells SciDev.Net.
ANACIM's director of production, Chérif Diop, explains that the provision of immediate and short-term weather forecasts helped to boost agricultural production.
Sokhna Sall, a farmer in the village of Djoly Mandakh in the Kaffrine region, tells SciDev.Net that an early-warning climate system installed as part of the programme has also allowed local farmers to adapt maize and sorghum production to forecasts.
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Senegalese Red Cross, ANACIM, the Humanitarian Futures Programme and climate scientists from the UK Met Office, the University of Liverpool and the University of Sussex.


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Crave piña colada goodness without the alcohol or the crazy-high calorie count? Good news, Thirsty! This cocktail-inspired smoothie swap is pure joy in a glass...
2 tsp. fat-free non-dairy powdered creamer
1 no-calorie sweetener packet (like Splenda or Truvia)
1/2 cup plain light soymilk
1/3 cup fat-free vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt
1/3 cup canned crushed pineapple (not drained)
1/8 tsp. coconut extract
1 1/2 cups crushed ice or 8 - 12 ice cubes
In a tall glass, combine creamer with sweetener. Add 2 tbsp. hot water, and stir to dissolve.
Transfer mixture to a blender. Add all remaining ingredients, and blend at high speed until smooth. Pour and enjoy!
Serving Size: 1 smoothie (entire recipe)
Calories: 161
Fat: 1g
Sodium: 101mg
Carbs: 32g
Fiber: 1g
Sugars: 21.5g
Protein: 5g
PointsPlus® value 4*
Smoothies can be so deceptive. They seem all virtuous, with their fruit-boasting ways. "Look at me! I'm made with real pineapple!" You might even think this piña colada pick is a great alternative to the actual cocktail, given that there are no calories coming from alcohol. But check out the stats below. Even an ENTIRE pineapple doesn't have that many calories or grams of sugar! Still, we crave a blendy coconut-pineapple sipper as much as the next person, so we whipped up a recipe for a freezy-licious creamy swap. The tropical flavor is absolutely incredible, and the stats REALLY cannot be beat. What's that? The Burger King peeps are no longer offering their Piña Colada Smoothie? They must've heard what we were up to... Happy sipping, humans!!!
Serving Size: 1 medium smoothie Calories: 500 Fat: 7g Sodium: 240mg Carbs: 101g Fiber: n.a. Sugars: 93g Protein: 4g
PointsPlus® value 13*
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Spotify's Daniel Ek wants to turn you on to new music
- Spotify will pay %24500 million in music royalties this year
- Has music library of 20 million songs
- Inspiration was the original Napster
LOS ANGELES — When you've just turned 30, are worth $300 million and are the co-founder of the biggest thing to happen to music since Apple's iTunes, well, you can afford to splurge.
Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify music-subscription service, has a passion for collecting guitars. He has 42 of them back home in Sweden (his favorite: a rare 1959 Fender Stratocaster), and he says he never travels without one.
In an interview at the tony Petit Ermitage hotel here, he has his publicist fetch his latest — an $850 SoloEtte "traveling guitar" by Wright Guitars of Oregon. "I love to noodle around," he says, playing a few chords.
Ek's done more than just noodle in online music. He's been more successful at advancing the notion of subscribing to a celestial jukebox than anyone before. While music-subscription services Rhapsody, the legal Napster and MOG (soon to relaunch as Daisy) all pre-date Spotify, Ek has 5 million paying customers — (five times Rhapsody's base) — and 20 million active members who use the ad-supported free version. (Spotify charges $5 monthly for ad-free listening on a PC or $10 for mobile access.)
His twist on rivals was emphasizing the social aspects of music — showing what your friends are listening to via Facebook. Others had tried to do that but not as successfully.
Now, he wants to take the social aspect of discovering new music to the next level by showing you what your favorite artists listen to.
With a library of 20 million songs, it can be overwhelming for Spotify subscribers to figure out what to play. "The biggest feedback we get from users is, 'What if I don't know what to listen to?' " says Ek. At the same time, "When we sat down with artists, it was, 'How can we get heard?' "
The solution — "Discover and Follow" — was announced in December but has rolled out so gradually that it will finally be in all user accounts by the end of the month.
Beyond just seeing who your friends like, you can follow via the new Discover tab the musical tastes of your favorite artists and music "influencers."
It shows you, for instance, that Justin Bieber listens to Michael Jackson, Rhianna, Jackson 5 and Frank Ocean, or that Maroon 5 digs Al Green, Beck and the Black Keys. Followers of bands will get alerts and updates whenever they release new recorded music.
Inspired by Napster
Ek's inspiration for Spotify was the original Napster, which illegally offered a database of the world's music for anyone with a computer to tap into.
Napster "changed my life," Ek says. "You could search for any band, and there it was. It allowed me to listen to all this music that I never knew existed."
The music labels persuaded courts to shut Napster down, then watched in horror as CD sales dropped 50% in the last decade anyway. Some $13.7 billion worth of CDs and other packaged music products sold in 2012, compared with $4.9 billion for digital downloads and subscriptions worldwide, according to researcher Strategy Analytics. By 2017, the firm sees CDs falling to $9.5 billion, while digital grows to $6.7 billion.
A computer whiz since his teen years, Ek was a multimillionaire by age 23. He created code for a Swedish online ad network and got paid $2 million for his efforts. He decided to follow his passion to create a music start-up with Martin Lorentzon, whose Sweden-based TradeDoubler online ad firm acquired Ek's Advertigo in 2006. Ek was all of 24 when he began knocking on record-label doors with a seemingly nutty idea: Give him access to their music and let him offer it for free, like Napster did. The twist: He'd offer advertising support.
"At the time, they thought I was crazy," Ek says.
EMI was the first label to sign on, and Sony, Warner and Universal quickly joined in.
The service started slowly, focusing on Sweden and then Europe. Facebook was such an important early partner that Spotify housed several of its engineers at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
Spotify was "front and center to millions of Facebook users who could see what their friends were listening to in real time," says Ted Cohen, managing director of Tag Strategic, music industry consultants.
There was also a tech innovation: When music fans clicked play to hear a free song on Spotify (via Facebook), the first 15 seconds were streamed at a lower bit rate, so that it would play immediately, instead of waiting for "buffering." The bit rate was improved once the song continued. "Spotify sacrificed quality for immediacy," Cohen says. "It paid off."
Before Spotify, early music services such as Rhapsody focused on listening via the computer. In the iPod and then smartphone era, Rhapsody and the revived, legal Napster struggled to satisfy consumers who wanted to play their subscription songs on mobile devices. Rights issues for the most part prevented easy access, but they've long since been resolved. (Napster was later acquired by Best Buy, then went to Rhapsody. It's now defunct.)
Instead of focusing on listening on the PC, Spotify's main focus from day one has been on the smartphone as its primary audience.
Clearly, the strategy worked. It took seven quarters for Spotify to reach a million paying users, while it took Rhapsody 11 years to get there, notes British-based analyst and blogger Mark Mulligan.
But the disparity between Spotify and digital music's biggest gun — Apple — is quite wide.
Apple has 450 million customers who use iTunes. At some point, it is expected to answer the growing popularity of music-subscription services — whether that be with a twist on Pandora's and Slacker's ad-supported personalized radio, or a straight music-subscription service, like Spotify and Rhapsody.
"Apple is having a delicate dance with rights holders right now," says Mulligan. "They account for so much of the digital music market, if they do a music service, and they get it wrong, they could kill their download business."
Meanwhile, the biggest gripe from musicians as digital music has shifted from CD to downloads is that they aren't reaping the benefits. But that's changing, says Ek. Spotify has paid $500 million in royalties in its five years of existence and is growing so fast that it will pay $500 million just this year.
"I can't say the money from digital is meaningful at this point," says legendary music industry manager Irving Azoff (The Eagles, Van Halen). "There's money there, but the digital side is still lagging."
However, he believes subscription music, led by Spotify, will bring the industry back. "It will make recorded music healthy again."
A huge impact
Spotify is already making a huge impact on the charts with its one-two punch of digital downloads and music streaming. One of the biggest hits of 2013 is Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' Thrift Shop, which has been No. 1 on Billboard for four weeks.
The duo aren't signed to a major label and have credited their success to No. 1 status on iTunes (where they sold more than 1 million digital singles) and Spotify. Grammy darling Mumford & Sons also picked up early audiences online. Their debut album saw 8 million streams on Spotify.
Meanwhile, Spotify is in 17 countries and will add at least another 17 this year, says Ek.
Mulligan says Spotify needs to expand fast, because only a tiny portion of high-end consumers are willing to commit to $120 yearly for music.
"Less than $5 (a month) would be mass market," he says.
Wall Street doesn't share Mulligan's concern. The latest round of financing — $100 million from a variety of firms, including Goldman Sachs, Accel and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers — valued the company at a cool $3 billion, according to PrivCo, a website that tracks private companies.
Ek had no comment and won't say when the firm will be profitable.
Meanwhile, Ek spends his days traveling the globe, spending one to two weeks at home and the rest of the time in New York (where Spotify has an office), Los Angeles, San Francisco, Asia and Latin America.
"I get to meet really interesting people," he says. But there is a drawback — some 2,000 e-mails daily. "If you write to me and it takes a day for me to write back, don't take it personally," he says.
If you really want to reach him, send a text.
You might want to add what you're listening to, to get his attention.
Getting started
New to Spotify? Here are CEO Daniel Ek's three ways to start getting the most out of the service:
1: "Download it on your computer, fire it up, search for any song in the world you could imagine and listen to it. It's going to be there, and it's going to be lightning fast."
2. "Go to our App section," which offers musical lists, radio and playlists. "If you're a fan of Billboard Music, for instance, you'll find great reviews for artists you may like. Or if you're into indie music, there's Pitchfork. If you're like me and you like to sing to music, there's a great lyrics app, Tunewiki on there as well."
3. "Find your friends on Spotify. If you go check out them, you'll find all their music. You can take cues from them and find what's really interesting."


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AILA Doc. No. 08030369 | Dated March 3, 2008
On February 13, 2008, the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law held a hearing entitled "Problems with ICE interrogation, detention, and removal procedures." Multiplying immigration raids across the country, the dramatic expansion of immigration detention, and the lack of any safety valve to allow non-citizens to remain in the U.S. legally have created a system rife with abuse. AILA welcomes this opportunity to highlight the importance of enhancing procedural safeguards within our immigration system to ensure that the due process rights of everyone in America are respected.
AILA commends the Department of Homeland Security for implementing a series of reforms to ensure non-citizens in its custody are treated humanely including the issuance of humanitarian guidelines for large worksite raids and recent directives supporting the favorable exercise of prosecutorial discretion in cases where nursing mothers, sole caregivers and others merit release from detention. While the issuance of this guidance is an important first step toward ensuring fair and humane treatment, the hearing highlighted the need to ensure the Department's guidance is consistently followed by DHS officials in the field. AILA encourages DHS to work collaboratively with Congress to implement additional reforms that will ensure detainees and individuals encountered during raids are treated humanely including enhanced training requirements and the issuance of regulations regarding the treatment of detainees.
AILA is deeply concerned about testimony at the hearing regarding humanitarian and civil rights abuses against detainees. Specifically, inadequate due process protections in our current system and a failure by the federal government to guarantee the protections of current law have led to the following troubling developments during recent ICE enforcement actions:
Explosive growth in the numbers of non-citizens in immigration detention has also resulted in inconsistent and sometimes poor conditions of confinement. Although federal immigration authorities adopted generalized detention standards in 2000, these standards have not been consistently enforced. Despite the Department of Homeland Security's monitoring of conditions, widespread reports of abuse persist.
Our current immigration system does not include many of the basic procedural rules that would ensure individuals with valid claims to relief from deportation are permitted to remain in the U.S. Core due process protections were stripped from our immigration laws in 1996 resulting in the mandatory detention and deportation of many long-term permanent residents. Procedures such as expedited and administrative removal result in individuals being removed from the U.S. without a hearing. In many cases, our current immigration system does not permit immigration judges to consider individual equities such as the length of time a person has been in the U.S., their ties to the community, U.S. citizen family members and dependents, or whether the individual has a job and pays taxes.
Our government should ensure that the tenets of due process that underpin American society are respected. We must transform the chaos and lawlessness of our current immigration crisis into a system that respects due process, law and order and confronts the human and economic reality of millions of undocumented workers in America.
AILA calls on Congress to reform these laws to ensure that due process is respected and that government officials and judges have the discretion to ensure that individuals with strong connections to the U.S. are not mandatorily detained or deported. In the interim, AILA calls upon ICE to ensure that the rights of immigrant workers are protected, and that appropriate attention is paid to the safety and welfare of children and their families.
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The typical financial adviser serves about 160 households, according to PriceMetrix, a financial-practice management firm. These are men and women, with children and pets, working to pay their bills, plan for retirement, fund college and meet every other financial obligation of a modern family. And many of them are making the same mistakes.
We asked advisers to spill the beans so you can avoid these missteps: What are some of the worst blunders they see clients making?
Emotional missteps
Fear trumps logic. For many investors working to build their retirement nest eggs, emotional decisions can derail the best of plans.
"It usually happens when the market dips or is dropping. We have had a few clients like this," says David Hunter, a fee-only adviser in Asheville, N.C. "They give up, and sell out at bad times, especially in down markets. Then to compound one bad move with another, they will settle for annuities or very low-interest investments—simply for the psychological guarantee!"
Hunter says the majority of new clients coming to his firm have the same issues. "They realize after two bad decisions it's time to reset and get a professional's help again," he adds. One client duped by a bad emotional decision even lost money in a Ponzi scheme known as ZeekRewards. Luckily, it was for only a small amount, Hunter says.
Retirement-account blunders
In a December NerdWallet survey of 100 financial advisers, 60% recommended workers contribute at least 10% of their salary into a 401(k). And that's exactly where Laurie Itkin, a financial adviser in La Jolla, Calif., sees the biggest mistakes from clients: in their company-sponsored retirement accounts.
Cashing out a 401(k) for any reason is a big decision, especially for something as risky as starting a business. Itkin says she has seen clients launch successful enterprises after tapping their 401(k)s—but, even after generating profits, they often fail to rebuild their retirement assets. She says business owners shouldn't neglect their life-after-work strategy; instead they should contribute to a retirement plan such as an SEP IRA.
Draining or not retaining a retirement plan is one mistake. Guessing when it comes to investing is another.
"According to a recent TIAA-CREF survey, more Americans spend less time planning for an IRA investment than choosing a restaurant, flat-screen TV or tablet computer. That goes for 401(k)s, too," Itkin says. "Very few employees take the time to research the lowest-fee funds in their plans, such as index funds, and most admit they pick their funds using 'eeny, meeny, miny, moe.'"
Too quick to trust
Guy Baker, a financial planner in Irvine, Calif., believes people may be a bit too quick to trust professional advisers. Clients often seek his opinion when looking for services and advice he doesn't offer, such as in legal matters, retirement administration or taxes.
"I learned many years ago my recommendation carried a lot more weight with clients than I ever understood or expected," Baker says. After he "felt the backlash" from a few clients who were disappointed with the professional referrals he made, he became more judicious in his recommendations.
"The client presumes this person is honest and competent and has integrity and character. They figured if I had vetted them, they didn't need to do so. It made me a lot more cautious of who I introduced to my clients," he says. "I learned I was, in fact, putting my seal of approval on this person and would be held accountable by the client if the relationship did not go well."
Deferring to their spouses
Another common error Itkin notes: women deferring to their husbands on investment decisions.
"We don't like to think about it, but approximately 50% of marriages end in divorce, and since women outlive men, there's a good chance they will spend part of their life as widows. And women are increasingly the primary breadwinners in their households, yet the majority of those women do not know how to invest that income so it can grow," she says. "Women cannot afford to stick their heads in the sand about finance and investing, because there is a good chance they will end [up] in charge of managing their money at some point in their lives."
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Grails Flot Plugin
compile "org.grails.plugins:flot:0.2.3"
To install this plugin type this command from your project's root folder:
grails install-plugin flot
Provides integration with Flot JavaScript plotting library.A demonstration of the plugin is online on my Grails web application GrailsBox here.
DocumentationOnce installed, this plugin defines two tags: <flot:resources/> and <flot:plot/>.
<flot:resources/> tagYou must put this tag in the head section of the GSP page; as the Flot JavaScript library is based on jQuery, the plugin includes the jQuery 1.3.2 JavaScript file that comes with it. By default, the tag will generate a reference to that file. But, in order to use the plugin with the Grails jQuery plugin, you can ask the tag to not generate the reference to the internal jQuery JavaScript file, by using the attribute includeJQueryLib like this:
In the same way, you can choose to not include the excanvas JavaScript file for InternetExplorer, supplied with the plugin (for example, because you would like use your own excanvas file); for that, add the includeExCanvasLib attribute on the tag (since 0.2.2):
<g:javascript library="jquery"/> <flot:resources includeJQueryLib="false"/>
Since the 0.2.1 version, you can also declare the use of some Flot 0.6 plugins, by using the plugins attribute with a value that is a Groovy list of Flot plugin names. For example, to use the image and pie Flot plugins, you must use the resources tag like this:
<flot:resources includeExCanvasLib="false"/>
Note that at the time of this writting, the pie plugin (jquery.flot.pie.js) is not included in the Flot 0.6 distribution, but I added it in the Grails Plugin. Another point: becareful to the names used in the plugins attribute value, because there is no control to verify if the corresponding JavaScript file exists. The use of 'aplugin' name must correspond to a jquery.flot.aplugin.js file supplied by Flot. If the a "min" version for the Flot plugin aplugin exists, you can choose to use 'aplugin.min' instead of 'aplugin'.
<flot:resources plugins="['image', 'pie']"/>
<flot:plot/> tagThis tag permits to plot a Flot chart, and has the following attributes: id (required), style (must be used to set the chart's dimensions), data (required), and options. Here an example coming from the demonstration. Having defined the FlotController like this:
here the index.gsp source code:
class FlotController { def index = {
[data: [[0, 10], [4, 5], null, [6, 2.5], [12, 10]]]
This page displays two charts, and the second chart is a pie: it's the reason why we have defined the pie Flot plugin in the resources's attribute plugins. As you can see, you can define data series through JavaScript code, and fetch data from the controller as for d4 data series. The example shows also what you can use for attributes data and options: they should reference JavaScript variables. The plot tag generates a div element and a jQuery.plot Javascript call; in the case in the example, we will have:
  <title>Flot</title> <meta name="layout" content="main" /> <flot:resources plugins="['pie']"/>
This page tests tags from the Grails Flot plugin.
 <g:javascript> var d1 = []; for (var i = 0; i < 14; i += 0.5) d1.push([i, Math.sin(i)]); var d2 = [[0, 3], [4, 8], [8, 5], [9, 13]]; // a null signifies separate line segments var d3 = [[0, 12], [7, 12], null, [7, 2.5], [12, 2.5]]; var d4 = ${data}; var data = [d1, d2, d3, { label: "server data", data: d4}]; var options = { lines: { show: true }, points: { show: true } }; // Data and option for the pie var d5 = []; var series = Math.floor(Math.random()*10)+1; for( var i = 0; i < series; i++) { d5[i] = { label: "Series"+(i+1), data: Math.floor(Math.random()*100)+1 } } var pieOptions = { series: { pie: { show: true } }, legend: { show: false } }; </g:javascript> <flot:plot id="placeholder" style="width: 600px; height: 300px;" data="data" options="options" />
 <flot:plot id="placeholder1" style="width: 600px; height: 400px;" data="d5" options="pieOptions" />
So you can have a closer look to the Flot documentation to see how you can define data and options!

Version History
- 0.2.3 - This release supports Flot 0.7.
- 0.2.2 - The resources tag takes now a new optional attribute, includeExCanvasLib.
- 0.2.1 - Support for Flot plugins added; the Grails plugin contains also the pie Flot plugin.
- 0.2 - This release works with Flot 0.6.
- 0.1 - Initial release (Flot 0.5)


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DETROIT - Dennis Wideman had a goal and an assist to lead the Calgary Flames past the Detroit Red Wings 4-1 on Tuesday night.
Jarome Iginla, Curtis Glencross and Mark Giordano also scored for Calgary. Mike Cammalleri had two assists and Miikka Kiprusoff made 19 saves before being replaced by Leland Irving to start the third period because of a lower-body injury. Irving stopped six shots.
Johan Franzen scored for Detroit and Jimmy Howard made 19 saves.
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Hello, just wondering if anyone can help me with this problem. I had write a program which creates 100 random integers, each in the range 1 to 1000, inclusive. The user guesses a number and is told whether or not it is among the random numbers & this continues until the user guess correctly or enters 0 to signal that he/she gives up. The program had to include a static function called member which returns a boolean value indicating whether or not an integer x occurs in an integer array w where x and w are parameters.
Here is my code:
class GuessGame { static boolean member(int x, int[] w)//returns true if x occurs in array w { int i=0; while(i<w.length && i!=x) i++; if(i<w.length) //if found return true; else return false; } public static void main(String[] args) { int[] nums = new int[1000]; for(int i=0; i<nums.length; i++)// fill array with random numbers in the range 1..1000 { nums[i] = (int)(1+(Math.random()*1000)); } System.out.println("Take a guess.."); int guess = Console.readInt(); while(guess!=0) { if(member(guess, nums)) { System.out.println("This number is among the random numbers."); break; } System.out.println("This number is not among the random numbers, try again."); guess = Console.readInt(); } }//end main }//end class
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Apple drops shares plan after ruling
Apple has dropped a planned vote of shareholders after a US judge blocked the move in an ongoing spat over what to do with the tech giant's huge cash pile.
The judge backed a lawsuit by activist shareholder David Einhorn, who wants Apple to return more cash to shareholders.
Apple boss Tim Cook had called the lawsuit a "silly sideshow" but has complied with the judge's ruling.
The firm has $137bn (£90bn) in cash.
This is despite having already repaid $10bn via dividends and share buybacks.
Following the preliminary ruling by US District Judge Richard Sullivan in New York, Apple has dropped plans to ask shareholders to vote on whether to abolish a contractual right that the company currently enjoys to issue such preference shares without limit.
Apple had bundled the move, together with several other changes to the way in which the company is organised, into a single voting proposition for shareholders - something that Mr Einhorn said is illegal and the judge agreed.
"We are disappointed with the court's ruling," Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said. "[That proposal] is part of our efforts to further enhance corporate governance and serve our shareholders' best interests."
Mr Einhorn objects to the fact that a significant percentage of his investment in Apple shares in effect sits idle, invested in cash that pays very little return and has accused Apple of a "Depression-era mentality".
He wants Apple to issue perpetual preference shares to existing shareholders. These are a special type of share that pay a regular flat dividend in perpetuity, and which receive their payment in preference to the dividends paid out on ordinary shares.
Apple has said that it is keeping hold of the cash so that it is ready to make a major acquisition as and when the opportunity arises.
Apple has built up huge cash reserves by making extremely profitable products like the iPhone, iPad and the iPod.