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I read about Gaussian processes today on Wired: "deep neural networks" and "Gaussian processes". The following quote caught my attention: "Gaussian processes are a good way of identifying uncertainty. 'Knowing that you don't know is a very good thing,' says Chris Williams, a University of Edinburgh AI researcher who co-wrote the definitive book on Gaussian processes and machine learning. 'Making a confident error is the worst thing you can do.'"
This is obviously also very important for note-taking. Any relevance to recent political developments is, of course, purely accidental.


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What is Endometriosis?
Endometriosis is the growth of tissue that is normally found in the lining of the uterus (endometrium) in a location outside of the uterine cavity. It can occur on the ovaries, surface of the uterus, on the intestine, or on or in other organs. With the changing hormone levels during the menstrual cycle, the tissue may grow and break down, leading to pain and eventual scar formation. Over 5.5 million American women have symptoms of endometriosis.
Endometriosis Symptoms
The most common symptom of endometriosis is pain that occurs prior to, during, or after menstruation. The pain can occur during sexual intercourse, during urination, or during bowel movements. Some women have severe, disabling pain. It can also cause chronic pain in the low back or pelvis. Other women have mild symptoms or no symptoms.
Endometriosis or Menstrual Cramps?
Most women report having mild pain with menstruation, and over-the-counter medications may provide relief. If your menstrual pain is persistent, severe enough to interfere with normal activity, or lasts longer than 2 days, consult your doctor.
Endometriosis in Teens
Endometriosis can begin in teens as early as the first menstrual period. It's important to consult a physician if a teenager has menstrual pain that is severe enough to interfere with normal activity. Over-the-counter pain medications and careful recording of the symptoms may be the first step in management. Treatment options for teens and adults are the same.
Endometriosis Infertility
Infertility can be the first sign of endometriosis in many women. About 30% to 40% of women with endometriosis have some trouble conceiving. The reason for this is not well understood, and scarring of the reproductive tract may play a role. Hormonal factors also may be involved. Fortunately, treatments to overcome infertility are effective for many women.
Endometriosis or Uterine Fibroids?
Severe menstrual pain can be caused by other conditions, including fibroid tumors. Fibroid tumors are noncancerous growths of the muscle tissue of the uterus. They can cause heavier than normal menstrual bleeding and cramping. Both endometriosis and fibroids can cause pain at other times of the month as well.
What Causes Endometriosis?
The reason that endometriosis develops is not well understood. Hereditary factors seem to play a role, and some areas of endometrial cells outside of the uterus may be present at birth. It is also possible that endometrial cells may travel to abnormal areas during menstrual bleeding, during surgeries, or through the bloodstream. Immunological factors may be involved, as a defect in the immune system could cause failure to eliminate the misplaced endometrial cells.
The brown cells seen here are endometrial cells removed from an abnormal growth on an ovary.
Who Is at Risk For Endometriosis?
Risk factors for endometriosis are varied. It is most common in women:
- Who are in their 30s and 40s
- Who have not given birth
- Who have periods that last longer than 7 days
- Who started menstruating before age 12
- Who have short menstrual cycles (shorter than 28 days)
- Who have a family history (mother or sister) of the condition
Endometriosis Diagnosis: Tracking Symptoms
Taking notes about your pattern of symptoms can help your doctor determine if you have endometriosis.
When tracking endometriosis symptoms, note the following:
- The severity of the pain
- When the pain occurs
- The duration of the pain
- Any changes such as worsening of the pain
- Pain during sex, urination, or bowel movements
- Pain that restricts normal activities
Endometriosis Diagnosis: Pelvic Exam
A pelvic examination will help your doctor identify anything abnormal in the ovaries, cervix, or uterus. This exam can sometime reveal masses, scars, or cysts that are due to endometriosis. The pelvic exam can sometimes identify other conditions that can cause similar symptoms.
Endometriosis Diagnosis: Pelvic Imaging
Even though imaging studies cannot confirm the diagnosis of endometriosis, ultrasound, CT, or MRI scans are sometimes used to help in diagnosis as these scans can detect larger areas of endometriosis or cysts related to endometriosis.
Endometriosis Diagnosis: Laparoscopy
Laparoscopy, a surgical procedure, is the only way to definitively diagnose endometriosis. In this procedure, the surgeon examines the inside of the abdomen and pelvis with a viewing instrument inserted through a small incision. Small tissues samples (biopsies) can be taken for examination by a pathologist to confirm the diagnosis.
Treating Endometriosis Pain
Medications like acetaminophen and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen can help relieve the pain, but these do not affect the endometriosis itself.
Medical Marijuana for Endometriosis
The functioning of the uterus is related to the body's internal cannabinoid system, which has led researchers to explore pain treatments for endometriosis using medical marijuana. A 2010 study looked at the effects cannabinoids had on controlling endometriosis growth and pain. Researchers called the results of the study on rats "promising," although it drew few conclusions.
Birth Control Pills for Endometriosis
Taking oral contraceptives to reduce the amount of menstrual flow can often reduce the pain associated with endometriosis symptoms while producing shorter and lighter menstrual cycles. Sometimes the pills are taken continuously, without breaks for a menstrual period. Progesterone-only therapy (as opposed to combined estrogen and progesterone therapy) can be given by injection or pill form. The endometriosis symptoms may return after the therapy is discontinued.
Hormone Therapy for Endometriosis
Other hormonal therapies mimic the hormonal state of menopause, eliminating menstrual periods and reducing the pain of endometriosis. GnRH agonists interrupt the production of female hormones.
List of GnRH Agonists
- leuprolide (Lupron)
- nafarelin (Synarel)
- goserelin (Zoladex)
These agonists can have unpleasant side effects such as hot flashes, vaginal dryness, bone loss, and changes in mood. Danazol (Danocrine) is another medication that lowers estrogen levels and has some weak male hormone activity. Its side effects can include acne, facial hair development, weight gain, reduction in breast size, and voice and mood changes.
Endometriosis Treatment: Excision
At the time of laparoscopy, the surgeon can remove endometriosis growths or scars. Most women will have pain relief after this is done, but recurrence of endometriosis symptoms occurs in about 45% of women a year later. Recurrence is more likely with time. Hormone treatments after surgery may reduce the chance that endometriosis symptoms will return.
Endometriosis Treatment: Open Surgery
Very severe cases of endometriosis may require open abdominal surgery to remove endometrial growths, or even a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus). Parts or all of the ovaries may also be removed in these cases. Even with removal of the uterus and ovaries, endometriosis returns in about 15% of women.
Getting Pregnant With Endometriosis
Laparoscopic surgery to remove growths can help affected women get pregnant. Treatments like in vitro fertilization can also help overcome infertility associated with endometriosis.
Coping With Endometriosis
While endometriosis can't be prevented, some lifestyle measures can help manage the condition and improve endometriosis symptoms. Exercise may help relieve pain through the production of endorphins. Some women find that techniques like yoga, massage, acupuncture, and meditation are helpful in managing symptoms.
Is There a Cure for Endometriosis?
Endometriosis symptoms go away with menopause for most women. Many women find that endometriosis symptoms are relieved during pregnancy. And in about one-third of cases, the symptoms disappear on their own.
Endometriosis Symptoms, Stages, Treatment
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The Bay Bridge is falling down, falling down, so that a bigger, better bridge—one less prone to falling down during an earthquake—can be erected in its place. If two architects get their way however, it might become this:
"Imagine housing, recreational and cultural facilities connected to a continuous, lushly planted, green strip, floating above the water-an aerial garden, as the city's newest park through which you could walk and wander and enjoy the most spectacular views of the bay," reads an excerpt from the proposal by architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello. The image here depicts a "tennis court, bicycle path, and observation module."
This image is an outdoor auditorium.
This final image shows off the Bay Bridge's deadly suspended swimming pool and some living/recreational quarters, as well as the green grass that would line the length of the "unwanted" bridge. One "little" caveat: In the event of a major earthquake, the Bay Bridge would probably survive, but as a result of the catastrophe would be unusable thereafter, rending all of these additions worthless. This is precisely why the idea is all but certain to be rejected (at least for this bridge, in this area, anyway). [BLDG Blog]


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Sure, I could take them all to the barber, but the last time I did that it cost me $80 and they got the same crappy haircut I could have given them.
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The Diary of Pelly D
Other Editions of This Title:
Hardcover (3/29/2005)
This is the diary of Pelly D. It,s totally secret, so if you are reading it I hate you already.
The notebook is wrapped in faded brown paper, sealed in a battered water can. Toni V, who works on the City Five demolition crew, unearths it as he's drilling through concrete. He shouldn't smuggle it back to his room, and he definitely shouldn't read it. But he does. At first, Toni V thinks Pelly D is rich, stupid, and petty. Yet he can't help starting to care for her, especially as she begins to write about the gene tagging, the bombs, and the fighting. Her words slowly reveal the chilling state of her world. What happened to Pelly D? Toni V needs to know. He has only one clue:
Dig—dig everywhere.
Greenwillow Books, 9780060766177, 304pp.
Publication Date: February 5, 2008
About the Author
L. J. Adlington is the author of The Diary of Pelly D, which was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. She graduated from Cambridge University, and has lived and worked in Japan and Spain. She now lives in York, England, where she teaches hands-on history lessons for museums, schools, and historical sites.


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The primary function of a standing committee is to consider thoroughly each bill or resolution assigned to the committee and to make a specific recommendation on what action should be taken regarding the bill or resolution. A standing committee is required to take final action on every legislative proposal assigned to the committee.
There are thirteen standing committees in each house, divided by subject matter. In the Senate, most committees consist of seven or nine senators. The President Pro Tempore, with advice from the Majority Leader and Minority Leader, selects the members of each Senate committee and the chair and vice-chair. In the House, most committees consist of thirteen or fifteen representatives. The Speaker of the House, with advice from the Majority Leader and Minority Leader, selects the members of the House committees and the chair and vice-chair. Most legislators are members of two committees. Some serve on more than two committees, but that is rare due to the fact that two or three committees are usually meeting at the same time.
Following the introduction and first reading of a bill in either house, the presiding officer assigns the bill to a committee based on the subject matter. Generally, bills dealing with certain subjects are assigned to the same committee.
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Well let's try this again…
I have a friend who recently powered through all five seasons of Friday Night Lights. She couldn't sleep, she couldn't focus, she could think of nothing else. Now she knows. I receive at least half a dozen emails from people every week who are powering through all five seasons of Friday Night Lights. Now they know.
If you have never powered through all five seasons of Friday Night Lights but you intend on watching the premiere of Nashville tomorrow on ABC at 10pm (CTV in Canada), you will know too:
Connie Britton is … every superlative times the most.
YES we are watching Nashville.
YES we are recapping Nashville. (And by "we" I mean Duana.)
YES we still would even if it wasn't getting some very strong reviews. (Click here and here and here and here to read a few examples.)
YES even if it means suffering through Hayden Panettiere.
Because Connie will make it worth it. She is universally beloved, acknowledged as the best by almost every critic, and Nashville is Connie Britton's show. Television: where (more) actresses over 40 are thriving!
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For this activity, teens study "Pass It On" billboards created by The Foundation for a Better Life either online or on-the-go, and create an original billboard and inspirational phrase for a person of their choosing.
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What makes a movie work or fail? A well-made movie can draw viewers in so completely that they can forget that everything they see and hear was planned out by the filmmakers. This printout prompts teens to look at several distinct elements of a movie and decide on their overall effectiveness.
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Millennials & Cars
The day before the OEMs reported their generally solid February sales, Zipcar (zipcar.com) released the results of a survey that it conducted focusing on the Millennials, people between 18 and 34 years of age. Millennials with licenses. And they included older people in the calculations, to provide context.
The results ought to give those who are doing product planning for light vehicles a bit of a pause, if not full-on eye-bulging.
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For those of you not familiar with Zipcar, it is a car sharing service that was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2000. It started small, initially offering vehicles in Boston, New York, Washington DC, and San Francisco. Then it was on to Chicago, Baltimore, Toronto, Vancouver. Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburg. Baltimore, Providence, Los Angeles, Austin, Miami. There are more than 300 college and university campuses with Zipcar availability. Zipcar's fleet numbers greater than 10,000, and it includes more than 30 makes and models.
So say I want to join Zipcar. The closest locale to this office is Zipcar in Ann Arbor (home, as you probably know, to The University of Michigan). I pay a one-time application fee of $25 and an annual fee of $50. That's it. Then I have access to an array of vehicles that will cost no more than $8.50 per hour or $77 per 24-hour period (that's the weekend rate; weekdays are cheaper). That includes 180 miles, gas and insurance. The fleet in Ann Arbor consists of Fords (Escape, Focus hatch, Focus Sedan), Hondas (CR-V AWD, Civic, Insight hybrid), the Scion xB, and Toyota Prius. Remember, this is a university town.
Cars are reserved via the web, including mobile apps. Cars can be selected by type and by location. There are a multitude of Zipcar parking spaces around metro areas. Members have a "Zipcard," an RFID-based credit-card sized tool that lets you unlock and lock the specific car that you've reserved. The keys are in the car. Drive it, and return it to a Zipcar spot.
According to Zipcar, owning a car costs about $800 per month. A person who uses Zipcar for 10 two-hour, two three-hour, and two 24-hour trips over a given month will spend about $333. No, it is not for everyone. But the number of people for whom it makes sense is growing. (As is the number of car sharing services.)
So, back to that survey. When asked what would have a bigger impact, losing their computer, phone or car, 35% of the Millennials surveyed said computer, 30% phone, and 28% car. Contrast that with people between the ages of 45 and 54: 17% computer, 28% phone, 45% car. Clearly the car is much more important to that older cohort. By far.
Or this: 25% of those between 18 and 34 say that various car sharing applications and alternatives are reducing their driving frequency; only 12% of those over 45 say the same.
Or this: 73% of the Millennials prefer online shopping to actually driving or riding to a store.
I'm not suggesting that these results indicate that the auto market is going to shrivel up and phones and computers are going to replace cars and trucks. But I am suggesting that there is a marked shift in the way that younger people perceive cars and trucks, one that people in the auto industry ignore at their peril. OK. Maybe that sounds a bit dramatic. But when the loss of a phone is equated with the loss of a car among those Millennials surveyed, it is clear that we're not in Motown anymore, Toto.
While plenty of people at OEMs think that by adding all manner of clever infotainment in their vehicles is the way to attract younger buyers, it seems like the only consequence of that is poor scores on Consumer Reports ratings because THE KIDS DON'T CARE. They're not particularly interested in driving, so you can build an Internet node on wheels and it doesn't much matter.
But here's a clue: 80% of the Millennials agreed with the statement "In today's economy it can be difficult to own a car because of the high cost of gas, parking and maintenance." OEMs can't do much about the parking. But the other two factors—and I can only assume that the cost of buying the car in the first place is a metric—are areas that can and should be addressed. Fuel efficiency and low maintenance costs can trump all the digital functionality in the world, it seems.
Buying a Car from a Vending Machine
Although used-car shopping is something that we don't ordinarily cover, this is a bit too, well, bizarre to overlook: The Carvana Car Vending Machine.
What You Can Learn from Firestone & Ford
During recent months, the Firestone/Ford Explorer fiasco has shaken the entire automotive industry to its core.
Ford Quality: Not An Overnight Sensation
When it comes to quality, it seems as though Ford Motor Co. is on a roll.


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Memorial Site Memorial Site
Visits to the Police Memorial
01 May - Workers Day
26 August - Hero's Day
26 November - Police Day
10 December - Human Rights Day
26 December - Family Day
- The first normal policing in the country was done by the German "Kaiserliche Schutztruppe" as part of their overall responsibilities.
- However on 1st MARCH 1905 the first police for was established in the form of the "Kaiserliche Landespolizei fur Deutsch Sudwestafrika.
- During 1907 this force reached an establishment of 400 members and during the same year it took delivery of its first motor vehicle. However, the horse and camel remains for years the standard means of transport. Camels were mostly used at places like Stampriet, Tsinsabis and Witdraai. The last camels were withdrawn from service just after the Second World War.
- The period of policing by the "Landespolizei" ceased with the South African invasion during the First World War, where after policing again falls within a military formation. Five regiments of the South African Mounted Rifleman stayed in the country on garrison and policing duties after the withdrawal of the South African Main Force.
- In the meantime the recruiting of a military police force commenced in Bloemfontein (South Africa) and during February 1916, the new force took over the policing function with 52 officers and 1100 other ranks.
- Also during 1916 a Training Centre with 16 instructors was established for training of the members who were mostly young and inexperienced. They were subjected to a five months intensive training course. The Training Centre also trained police dogs which followed in the footsteps of the "Landespolizei" who also used dogs for detection purposes.
- The military police force was disbanded on 31 December 1919 and the members were taken up in the South West African police force.
- A detective unit was established during May 1920.
- Mounted police patrols in the Khomas Hochland normally lasted for three weeks at a time and some of the camel patrols, lasted as long as 65 days.
- During 1939 the South West African police force was disbanded and the policing responsibility was taken over by the South African Police.
- On 1st April 1981 the policing function was carried over by the South African Police to a newly established South West African Police force.
- On the 21st March 1990 the country became independent and together with the newly born Namibian nation, that was also the birth of the new Namibian Police Force.
- The information above was verified with the National Archives of the Ministry of Basic Education & Culture.


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The existing two-lane urban street will be upgraded to a three-lane urban street with shared center turn lane. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2012. The project also includes:
The open house will provide an opportunity for the planning team to share and obtain information on the current plans. Participants are encouraged to discuss their questions and concerns with the project team.
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Hi Morwenna and all - I'd dearly love to join in with this. But my personal preference would be to start from the beginning, I'm usually hesitant to dive in at a random point - in this case at rotk, as it's been at least a year since I read fotr and TT. I feel I'd lose enjoyable, analytical insights from the earlier chapters, which would shed light on the latter ones. Plus I joined the forum long after those chapters were initially covered here - would be fun to go on this journey alongside you guys from ch 1.
Would anyone be interested in returning to the beginning, building on previous analysis, but also addressing new/follow on questions? I'm happy to get a new batch of the questions going for The Long expected Party. We can pick up from the existing thread on that chapter.
What do you think? If you're not keen on going back to the start, no problem...but if you like the idea, I'll get started!


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. The Italian Text with a Translation in English Blank Verse and a Commentary by Courtney Langdon, vol. 2 (Purgatorio) (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920). https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/2310,
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Dante's masterwork is a 3 volume work written in Italian rather than Latin. It embraces human individuality and happiness in a way which suggests the beginning of the Renaissance. This is a bilingual Italian and English edition. Vol. 2 Purgatorio (Purgatory) shows how souls might be perfected in a painful process which leads ultimately to one's moral development and improvement.
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Introduction to the Purgatorio
The Shore of the Island of Purgatory. Cato
The Shore of the Island of Purgatory
The Angel Pilot and Arriving Souls
The Repentant who died Excommunicated
Antepurgatory. The First Ledge
Those who Neglected Repentance until Death
Antepurgatory. The Second Ledge
The Negligent who died by Violence
Antepurgatory. The Negligent who died by Violence
Address to Italy and Florence
Antepurgatory. The Vale of Flowers
Princes intent on Earthly Glory
Antepurgatory. The Vale of Flowers
Princes intent on Earthly Glory. The Serpent
Antepurgatory. The Vale of Flowers
Dante's First Dream. The Gate of Purgatory
Purgatory. The First Ring. Pride
Instances of Humility. The Expiation of Pride
Purgatory. The First Ring. Pride
The Lord's Prayer. The Proud
Purgatory. The First Ring. Pride
Instances of Punished Pride. The Angel of Humility
Purgatory. The Second Ring. Envy
Instances of Generosity. The Envious
Purgatory. The Second Ring. Envy. Valdarno and
Romagna in 1300. Instances of punished Envy
Purgatory. The Second Ring. Envy. The Angel of
Generosity. The Third Ring. Anger. Instances of Gentleness
Purgatory. The Third Ring. Anger
Free Will and the Corruption of the World
Purgatory. The Third Ring. Anger
Instances of Punished Anger. The Angel of Peace. Love
Purgatory. The Fourth Ring. Sloth
Love and Free Will. Instances of Punished Sloth
Purgatory. The Fourth Ring. Sloth. Dante's Second Dream
The Angel of Zeal. The Fifth Ring. Avarice and Prodigality
Purgatory. The Fifth Ring. Avarice and Prodigality
Instances of Liberality and of Greed. The Earthquake
Purgatory. The Fifth Ring. Avarice and Prodigality
Statius. The Cause of the Earthquake
Purgatory. Statius. The Angel of Justice
The Sixth Ring. Gluttony. Instances of Temperance
Purgatory. The Sixth Ring. Gluttony
The Punishment of Gluttons. Forese Donati
Purgatory. The Sixth Ring. Gluttony
Instances of Gluttony. The Angel of Temperance
Purgatory. The Seventh Ring. Lust
Sensuality Punished. Instances of Chastity
Purgatory. The Seventh Ring. Lust
Instances of Natural and of Unnatural Lust
Purgatory. The Seventh Ring. Lust. The Angel of Purity
Dante's Third Dream. Virgil's Last Words
Terrestrial Paradise. The Divine Forest
Matelda. The River Lethe
Terrestrial Paradise. The River Lethe
The Mystic Pageant of the Church
Terrestrial Paradise. Lethe
Appearance of Beatrice. Disappearance of Virgil
Terrestrial Paradise. Dante's Confession
His Immersion in Lethe. Beatrice Unveiled
Terrestrial Paradise. Vicissitudes and
Transformation of the Car. The Harlot and the Giant
Terrestrial Paradise. Beatrice's Prophecy
Dante's Final Purification in the River Eunoë


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We've all heard about the Kindle. And most of us know about the Nook. And while Borders is not selling a dedicated eBook reader of their own, they have just doubled down on digital distribution.
While Borders already sells electronic books (in ePub format), they've bought a fair chunk of eBook retailer Kobo. What's this mean? Well Kobo distributes, not just to eBook readers, but to the iPhone, Blackberries, Palm phones and Android handsets.
And though Borders has not yet announced plans to distribute books through smartphones, their money speaks differently.
Also something odd to ponder: most of Kobo's 2 million titles are free. [Kobo via The Register]


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- 1/2 cup chilled buttermilk plus additional for brushing
- 3/4 cup dried berries and cherries mixture, large pieces coarsely chopped
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
- 1/3 cup honey-crunch wheat germ
- 1/3 cup (packed) dark brown sugar plus additional for sprinkling
- 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1/2 cup chopped almonds
Recipe Preparation
Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 400°F. Line rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Mix 1/2 cup buttermilk, dried fruit, and vanilla in medium bowl.
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Workers sort paper at a Calgary recycling facility. Some experts say that recycling might actually not be environmentally helpful.
Kevin Libin, National Post · Dec. 4, 2009 | Last Updated: Dec. 4, 2009 8:02 PM ET
The City of Calgary introduced its blue box, curbside recycling program this year, and there was rejoicing. Calgary, the last major Canadian city to offer it, had, until recently, asked citizens to deliver their own recyclables to green bins located every few blocks, or to hire, at $10 a month, a private pickup service. To those concerned about environmental appearances, it was embarrassing.
"It means something to me that we're the last large city in Canada to implement curbside recycling," said Druh Farrell, the alderman championing the program.
Approving the $50-million plan (plus another roughly $50-million a year recycling tax on homeowners) meant that Calgary had emerged from the "stone age," sighed a columnist with the Calgary Herald, relieved of being "the laughingstock of the country" for living in a city of eco-barbarians.
If symbolism, and the urge to feel ecologically righteous, were the objective, then the blue box program — part of the city's ambitious goal to divert 80% of trash from landfills by 2020 — succeeded the moment it began. But if the aim is to help the environment, Calgary, ironically, may have been just as well off in the Stone Age.
Before this year, Calgary was already diverting more than 20% of city waste from landfills through private arrangements. In terms of making an environmental difference, that's getting close to what cities should aim for, says J. Winston Porter, who, as former assistant administrator for America's Environmental Protection Agency, was the first to establish nationwide recycling targets in the United States in the 1980s. His target then was 25%, and it's a number he largely sticks by. Diverting 35% of waste into recycling is about as a high as any city can justify, he says.
Trying to recycle more can be wasteful, if not harmful, he says, even though many major cities are setting targets at 70% or higher.
"People say you can't recycle too much. It turns out you can," says Mr. Porter, president of the environmental consulting firm, the Waste Policy Center, near Washington, D.C. "If you spend enough money, you can recycle anything. That doesn't mean you should."
While a blue bin out front makes us feel we're helping the planet, recycling most household materials has either minimal environmental impact, or even a negative one. Homeowners dutifully put out their glass, plastic, steel and aluminum packaging. But the only really valuable item, Mr. Porter says, is the metal. That sounds like an economic assessment, but it's a key environmental measure: resources to make metal are at a premium, and production is energy intensive. Recycling metal pays because it saves on limited resources and energy — in other words, it's better for the environment. The trouble is that in the typical North American city's solid waste stream (including trash and recyclables) aluminum and steel generally account for just 2% by weight. Glass sent to recycling facilities is heavier, making up 3 to 5% of typical city waste by weight. But although it demands more energy, there isn't much use for it.
All the glass collected this year by Calgary's new program ended up at the East Calgary Landfill, where it is piling up for want of a buyer. "It's a product that there just isn't any demand for," Bill Stitt, general manager of Metro Waste Paper Recovery Inc., the city's recycling contractor, told a local paper. Edmonton is stockpiling, too, as are a number of other Canadian cities. The price of sand is simply too cheap, and the impracticality of reusing bottles of varying quality and colour is too big a headache to make it marketable.
Glass is a "red herring when talking about recyclables," a Recycling Council of BC spokeswoman conceded to the CBC this year; since it doesn't break down, there's no effect on air or water when it's buried in landfills. A 2003 study by Enviros Environmental Consultants UK found that "from a global warming perspective, there is limited environmental benefit to using recycled glass" but continuing with the exercise of recycling was "an important part of the UK meeting its overall glass recycling targets." That is, so politicians could meet their set goals, even if there was no environmental point to it.
Unfortunately, recycling plastic often doesn't make much more sense. Germany has stockpiled millions of tonnes of recyclable plastics in rural fields, like above-ground dumps. "These cheap plastic bottles, it depends on the price of oil, but the market is not worth much," says Daniel Benjamin, an economist at South Carolina's Clemson University who studies recycling. Though it makes up roughly 5%, by weight, of a typical North American garbage stream, applications for used, mixed plastic are limited. "We're talking about a few dollars a tonne," Professor Benjamin says.
San Francisco's Department of Waste recently calculated it paid $4,000 a tonne to recycle plastic bags. Its resale price for the recycled product? $32. "Nobody wants it. There's no value. It doesn't make sense," says Joseph Gho, CEO of EPI Environmental Products Inc., a Vancouver manufacturer of biodegradable plastics. "Besides the financial, the economic cost, you've got the environmental cost" of recycling unwanted material. "The trucks running out there, burning fuel … you have to use energy, you've got CO2 emissions."
That's why curbside recycling requires, wherever it's implemented, millions of tax dollars to stay afloat: the inputs required are greater than the savings. Even in New York City, where area land is some of the most expensive on the continent, it costs $240 to deal with a ton of recyclables, compared to the $130 a ton of landfills, says Angela Logomasini, Director of Risk and Environmental Policy at Washington, D.C.'s Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Often the effects of aggressive residential recycling programs harm environmental goals. Citywide blue box programs typically mean a whole new fleet of trucks: Calgary now has 64 more diesel-burning rigs retracing the same tracks its garbage trucks did just a few days earlier, roughly doubling carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants.
A 2000 study by the London-based environmental group Friends of the Earth found that collecting yard waste for recycling (ie, making mulch) emitted 264 more pounds of CO2 than burying it in a landfill. In 2002, two of Sweden's leading environmental authorities argued that recycling's benefits were usually undone by the resources required to collect and process it. The promise of environmentalists of a "flourishing recycling market" where reused goods would find ready buyers "was already a dream 40 years ago and is, unfortunately, still a dream," they conceded. Better, they wrote, that most materials be incinerated at waste-to-energy plants, which is easier to do, and generates electricity, offsetting the need for fossil fuels. "We believe that incineration of household waste including disposable packaging and food waste, with energy recovery, is best for the environment, economy and management of natural resources," wrote Valfrid Paulsson, former head of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, and Sorren Norby, former president of Keep Sweden Tidy.
The approach is catching on. Britain is building 50 new waste-to-energy incinerators; Denmark's environmental protection agency recommended in a 2002 report that the country would be best to reroute parts of its recycling program to incinerators instead. With pollutants having been cut dramatically from the process, and a smaller CO2 footprint for power than coal, converting waste-to-energy makes as much sense to Europeans as does growing grain to burn for bio-fuels.
"It's done in Japan, in Europe, in Russia, all over the world, and we're actually way behind on waste-to-energy in North America," says Patrick Moore, chairman of Vancouver environmental communications firm, GreenSpirit Strategies, and a co-founder of Greenpeace. "Wherever there's diminishing returns [on recycling], that's where we should be converting waste to energy."
Here in spacious North America, incineration can't usually compete with cheap landfills. In the late-eighties, Americans panicked over landfill shortages after a media scare set off when a garbage barge, the Mobro 4000, floated for months off the U.S. east cost seeking a ready landfill. Its owners' bad management was the real culprit, not landfill scarcity: In fact, the U.S. and Canada both have more cheap space for landfill than anyone could ever need. "The only problem is will," says Ms. Logomasini. A study out of Washington's Gonzaga University calculated that all the garbage produced by Americans over the next 1,000 years would fit into a landfill just 44 miles square and 100 feet deep—less than one-tenth of one-percent of American real estate.
The idea of burying garbage in the earth instinctively turns off some people, Mr. Porter admits. But, unless we adopt European levels of incineration, landfills are the final destination for pretty well everything we produce. "Landfills are always going to be with us," Mr. Porter says. "If I leave a foam cup resting in a landfill, I don't see why that's a problem."
A certain amount of recycling will always be with us, too. It has been for ages, wherever the value of useful materials — paper, aluminum, copper, etc. — created businesses eager to reprocess the products at their own cost. For cities determined to do their part, or, likelier, looking to seize the profitable part of the recycling business, Mr. Porter argues that there are easier, more environmentally friendly options than immense, mandatory blue box programs. First, cities should drop the ridiculously high targets to recycle 70, 80 or 90% of waste. And instead, have homeowners bundle their paper, cardboard and aluminum — the worthwhile stuff — into special coloured bags alongside their regular trash pickup. Those bags can then be separated at the landfill, and the rest trashed. That would eliminate all the extra trucks, energy and cost that so many cities incur so that green-posturing politicians can delude citizens into believing they're helping the environment, when really, they could be making things worse.
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Is a Long Commute Hazardous to Your Health?
Commuting is a stressful daily activity for much of the American workforce and it is not something people enjoy doing. But it may be worse for you than you thought, since several factors involved in commuting contribute to poor health.
A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine looked at the commuting habits of workers in two Texas cities. Those who traveled more than 15 miles to work each day were more likely to be obese and carry fat around the belly, which leads to heart problems. They were also less likely to get exercise compared to those with a five-mile commute. Those who traveled more than 10 miles per day also had a tendency to have high blood pressure.
It appears that commuting eats time and energy and aggravates people.
Researches measured commutes, put the subjects on treadmill tests and then looked at blood sugar, cholesterol and energy levels and more.
"The study is the first to show that long commutes can take away from exercise and are associated with higher weight, lower fitness levels, and higher blood pressure. And all of these are strong predictors of [heart] disease, diabetes, and some cancers," said researcher Christine M. Hoehner, PhD, MSPH, an assistant professor of public health sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
The ultimate result is that commuting can cause stress and lead to bad eating behaviors, such as noshing on fast food picked up at gas stations while driving.
The suggestion to combat problems caused by commuting is to use the stairs and a pedometer, along with eating well and exercising to establish balance.


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16 May, 2011
DC Artists Ivan Reis and Joe Prado Sign at Midtown Comics Grand Central!
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Ivan Reis and Joe Prado Sign at Midtown Comics Grand Central!
Tuesday, May 17th, from 4:00PM to 5:00PM
Midtown Comics – Grand Central
459 Lexington Avenue, NYC
New York, NY, May 13, 2011- Midtown Comics in New York City will present artists Ivan Reis and Joe Prado signing at Midtown Comics Grand Central on Tuesday May 17th from 4:00 to 5:00 PM.
Ivan Reis is an artist exclusive to DC and has penciled such titles as Action Comics, Green Lantern, Justice League of America, Rann-Thanagar War, The Authority, Wildcats, Teen Titans, 52, Superman, Countdown, Infinite Crisis, Green Lantern: Blackest Night and Brightest Day.
Joe Prado got his first American comics work sharing penciling duties with Ivan Reis on Action Comics for DC Comics. Since then, he's worked on such titles as Superman, Teen Titans, Birds of Prey, Rann/Thanagar War and Brightest Day.
Both Ivan Reis and Joe Prado are set to draw the upcoming Aquaman series written by Green Lantern scribe Geoff Johns.
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Microsoft has set the date for the unveiling of its Windows Phone 8 smartphone operating system: October 29, four days after the scheduled Windows 8 launch.
There are good reasons to link the two together. Microsoft is promising a shared code set between its desktop and smartphone operating systems, allowing developers to write crossover applications and giving IT managers control over smartphone encryption and device management.
Details on the event are sparse, but it's reasonable to assume that Microsoft will be showing off Nokia's finished Lumia handsets at the launch (which El Reg got its hands on last month), and there have been persistent rumors that Redmond might have its own handset on display – although Microsoft denies that's the case.
Developers are also a little in the dark. Microsoft has been very tight-lipped about the details of the new OS, and has made the software development kit for the platform available only to a select few developers with which it already has a relationship. This might be good for surprising people, but means there will be a paucity of apps at launch.
If Windows Phone 8 is going to be the success Microsoft hopes it will be, the company will need to have devices ready to go into shops close to the launch. The last quarter of the year is the biggie for mobile phone vendors, and if Microsoft is to have any hope of making an impression on the mobile market, it will need to have representative handsets available to the public either at launch or immediately after.
Existing Windows Phone 7 users are, however, out of luck with the new OS. Windows Phone 7 is based around Redmond's older CE platform (Dubbed WinCE for good reason), and Windows Phone 7 users won't be able to upgrade to use the code-sharing features, although Microsoft will release an upgrade to make Windows Phone 7 handsets look like Windows Phone 8 systems. ®


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The new Center for Disaster Philanthropy hung out its shingle in Washington, D.C., last week, just as Tropical Storm Isaac was battering the Caribbean and approaching the Gulf Coast and the nation was about to note the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
CDP has as its mission to help individual, family, corporate and institutional donors leverage and coordinate their resources throughout the life cycle of domestic and international disasters, according to an announcement.
It is set up to provide insights and strategies from experienced disaster philanthropy specialists, and offers mechanisms for pooling resources for maximum effect.
Robert Ottenhoff, until this past March the president and CEO of nonprofit information provider GuideStar, has joined CDP as president and CEO.
CDP offers donors several distinct services:
- Experienced professionals will help philanthropists craft strategies around their disaster giving, develop disaster-specific response programs and conduct due diligence to identify effective grantees.
- The center will host a community of like-minded philanthropists in order to inspire greater collaboration and effectiveness.
- The Disaster Recovery Fund is a full-service, multi-funder grantmaking tool that focuses on the entire landscape of disaster preparedness, response and recovery.
CDP's website provides expert information, disaster management primers, issue insights and recent disaster updates, and will continue to produce and distribute original content, according to the announcement.
The new foundation was co-founded bythe Irene W. and C.B. Pennington Foundation president and CEO, Lori Bertman, who serves as CDP's inaugural board chairwoman; Arabella Advisors managing director Eric Kessler; and Baton Rouge Area Foundation president and CEO John Davies.


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Super Bowls ads selling for more than $4 million
NEW YORK -- Super Bowl ads have sold for more than $4 million for some 30-second spots for this year's game.
CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves said Tuesday that all the commercials for the NFL championship Feb. 3 in New Orleans were sold out.
Companies paid an average of $3.5 million for a 30-second spot last year. TV's biggest event averaged more than 111 million viewers in 2012.
For CBS, the entire company is taking part in promoting the Super Bowl. The network's telecasts will be headquartered in New Orleans' Jackson Square. The sets will be used by 15 different shows from nine CBS divisions, from the main network to cable channels to online to radio.


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Although the $17 billion exchange-traded note (ETN) market represents less than 2% of the trillion dollar ETP universe, it's been making a lot of noise.
In late March, the VelocityShares Daily 2X VIX Short-Term ETN (TVIX) lost more than 60% in value in a just few trading sessions, wiping out traders who were making bullish bets on the VIX. They thought they were buying an ETN, but instead wound up with TNT.
Following a similar path (pun intended), the iPath DJ-UBS Natural Gas ETN (GAZ) whose share price is supposed to follow natural gas futures contracts, declined around 40% in value from its March 19 closing price of $6.02. Put another way, GAZ like TVIX took a detour through Hades.
All of this rightly sparks concern about the reliability of ETNs to perform as they were designed. Notes trading at massive premiums or discounts to their share prices isn't how they were intended to function.
Can ETNs be trusted and should advisors continue using them?
Recipe for Disaster
Depressed stock market volatility thus far in 2012 has pushed the VIX index to 5-year lows. But this isn't the only contributing factor to the sub-par performance of leveraged long VIX products like TVIX.
TVIX's issuer, Credit Suisse, stopped creation of the notes on Feb. 21 — causing further instability in its share price. As demand for VIX exposure soared, TVIX's share price began trading at an 80% premium to the underlying value of its assets.
"Clearly everything would have been easier if TVIX had been able to close to new investors the way a mutual fund can when it encounters capacity constraints, but ETNs and ETFs can't do that," said Loren Fox, senior research analyst at Strategic Insight. "TVIX-gate is less about the structure of ETNs than it is about the possibility that the VIX futures market may be too small to support so many assets in VIX futures-related exchange-traded products."
The VIX is a forward looking tool that measures the expected future volatility of the S&P 500 stock index 30 days into the future.
"An ETN will nearly always track its benchmark in terms of NAV because the issuer of the note is required to match that performance," said Gary L. Gastineau, author of The Exchange-Traded Funds Manual, 2nd Edition (Wiley, 2010). "In a few cases the ETN market value has temporarily diverged from NAV, usually because of a delay in creations or redemptions."
Although ETN issuers are quick to laud the benefits of no tracking error or the tax efficiency of notes, issuing and redeeming shares without negatively impacting an ETN's market price doesn't always work as expected.
Double Dipping
Meanwhile, Credit Suisse and Barclays Bank have been "double dipping" by lending out ETN shares to traders that short them, while simultaneously collecting fees from ETN investors that are long these very products. Not only has this practice ruffled feathers, but it's gotten the attention of financial regulators.
Barclays Capital began lending out shares of GAZ earlier this year even though the ETN was closed to new retail investors, according to a Reuters report. This counteractive move contributed to a decline in GAZ shares, badly damaging ETN investors who were attempting to go long natural gas. Because Barclays wasn't creating new GAZ shares, but merely lending shares from its own inventory, it wasn't required to notify GAZ note holders beforehand that new shares would flood the market.
Likewise, Credit Suisse offered ETN shares for lending to its affiliates.
Through such double sipping, Credit Suisse and Barclays Bank were able to charge higher lending fees because shares in the ETNs were in short supply as a result of the fact both sponsors ceased issuing new shares. Traders that shorted TVIX or GAZ made money, while shareholders in both notes got creamed.
Why would ETN sponsors lend out shares they knew were in short supply to the detriment of their shareholders?
That ETN sponsors would risk damage to their reputations and their businesses to lend shares strongly suggests that ETN issuers, particularly European ones, are badly undercapitalized and desperate for cash. Does that sound like the type of entity to which you would gladly entrust money?
Will Regulators Step Up?
The ETN industry, like a celebrity in the midst of public scandal, has said very little about the operational problems of its products, instead opting for cryptic behavior and website statements.
Meanwhile, the Securities and Exchange Commission, along with state securities regulators from Massachusetts, are investigating ETNs. Could it be the ETN market is out of control because securities regulators have allowed it to become that way?
The SEC should take clues from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: When medications available for public consumption don't perform as they should — or worse, when they hurt people — the protocol is to pull those drugs from the market immediately. And so long as ETN issuers are incapable of preventing their products from trading at massive premiums and discounts or suffering from other operational difficulties, the SEC has a strong case for pulling them from publicly trading markets.
"ETNs don't necessarily complicate asset allocation, but they may complicate the related process of risk management," says Fox. "They're not ETFs, so often they are less liquid than ETFs and they are more likely than ETFs to use complex derivatives."
Moreover, the very name "ETN" probably doesn't reflect all of the financial risks these types of products contain. A more apt description for ETNs might be "Debt or Credit Linked Derivatives."
What should policymakers do? At the very least, a temporary ban would allow regulators to reassess the true risks of these very complicated products.
What should financial advisors do? As the aftermath of GAZ and TVIX sorts itself out, advisors should view these products with high alertness and caution


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API-Friendly Site Provides Opportunity to Support Economic and Community Recovery Efforts
Gilt, along with a consortium of other leading companies, today announced the launch of the Donate Today, Save Tomorrow initiative. The effort will support economic recovery and aid residents and businesses impacted by Hurricane Sandy.
Gilt.com/give is the noncommercial site developed by Gilt for individuals to donate funds to the hurricane relief effort. In return for $25, $50 or $75 contributions, donors will receive a voucher for a discount of up to 50% off, or other offerings provided by participating merchants.
Currently there are over 70 participating merchants from eight states, with more merchants signing up each day. Vendors across the country from New York to Chicago to San Francisco have joined the effort, including Tribeca Grill, Delmonico's, Setai Spa Wall Street, Clifton Charles, Bindle & Keep, Fatty Cue and Orla Kiely. Heavily impacted merchants unable to offer a discount will be highlighted in the directory so that Donate Today, Save Tomorrow can help aid them in their recovery process by encouraging donors to patronize their businesses. Marketing partners for this initiative include NYC & Company, AOL, Tumblr, Virgin America, Klout, Kelsi Dagger and Pour La Victoire.
100% of proceeds from donations will go directly to one of six relief organizations aiding communities impacted by the storm. The organizations are the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, Robin Hood Foundation, City Harvest, Habitat for Humanity, Food Bank NYC, and the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund.
gilt.com/give provides a developer-friendly API, gilt.com/give/api, which allows interested developers to participate in this initiative in unique and creative ways. Twitter followers can tweet the hash tag #DTST to raise awareness about the effort.
"The impact of Hurricane Sandy to families and local businesses has been catastrophic. As a company founded and headquartered in New York City we are proud to help develop a program that can contribute to revitalizing the communities impacted by the storm," said Kevin Ryan, CEO and Founder, Gilt.
About Gilt
Gilt, www.gilt.com, is an innovative online shopping destination offering its members special access to the most inspiring merchandise, culinary offerings, and experiences every day, many at insider prices. Gilt continually searches the world for the most coveted brands and products, including fashion for women, men, and children; home decor; artisanal ingredients; hotels and travel experiences on every continent; and unique activities in a growing list of cities and destinations. We believe that every day is an opportunity to inspire and be inspired.
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Remember in the middle of last month someone jacked two trailers outside of Toronto and made off with $US1 million in PlayStation 3 and PSP merch? Cops have made an arrest and recovered half the stolen property.
It's not known if the suspect, a 39-year-old man, is the person who actually stole the goods or someone merely in possession of them. But having more than 2,000 games and 1,600 PSPs/PS3s isn't exactly "Really, I just got a great deal on Craigslist."
As to that, cops are still warning area shoppers that any crazy cheap PSP and PS3 deals could be stolen goods. So I'm sure the legitimate used market there appreciates this guy, too.
$500,000 In PlayStation Products Recovered [The Toronto Star, via Game Politics]


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The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced today that the club has signed former Mexican international Pavel Pardo. The defensive midfielder will be added to the Fire's roster upon the receipt of his P1 Visa and International Transfer Certificate (ITC). Per club and league policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The Guadalajara, Mexico product will be eligible for selection by interim head coach Frank Klopas when the Fire host the Philadelphia Union at TOYOTA PARK on Wednesday, August 3 at 8:00 p.m. CT (My50). Per MLS and club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"Pavel is a very talented player who can help our team," said Technical Director and interim Head Coach Frank Klopas. "Pavel's international credentials and track-record as a professional were defining factors in us bringing Pavel to the Fire. He will provide additional depth in the midfield as we push for a playoff spot in the second half of the MLS season."
Pardo began his career with hometown Mexican Primera side Club Atlas, where he appeared in 156 matches and recorded seven goals from 1993-98. Following a brief stint with UAG Tecos, Pardo joined Mexican giants Club America for the first of two career stints in 1999. It was with las Aguilas that Pardo made his mark, appearing in 244 matches, scoring 24 goals from 1999-2006 while helping the club to the 2002 Verano and 2005 Clausura championships as well as the 2006 CONCACAF Champions Cup.
His play for America propelled him to Europe, signing with German side Vfb Stuttgart in 2006. While with Die Roten, Pardo appeared in 71 matches, scoring four times while helping the Reds to the 2006-07 Bundesliga title, the club's first since 1992. He returned to Club America following the 2009 Bundesliga season, going on to play in another 86 matches for las Aguilas through the 2011 Mexican Clausura.
Pardo, 35, is the second-most capped player in Mexican National Team history, with 148 appearances for el Tricolor. The central midfielder appeared in seven matches for his country during the 1998 and 2006 FIFA World Cups, helping the side to Round of 16 appearances in both tournaments. Pardo was also a member of the Mexican side that hosted and won the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup and was a part of Mexico's CONCACAF Gold Cup winning team in 2003.
In conjunction with the Pardo signing, the Fire announced today that they have released midfielder Bratislav Ristic. The Serbian midfielder appeared in 17 games, starting 13, for the Men in Red after joining the club in 2010.
Name: Pável Pardo Segura
Position: Midfielder
Height: 5'9" (1.75m)
Weight: 150 lbs. (68kg)
Date of Birth: July 26, 1976
Place of Birth: Guadalajara, Mexico
Hometown: Guadalajara, Mexico
Citizenship: Mexico
Last Club: Club America (MEX)
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things i like right now by mariah of size too small
- Candles & Candlestick Holders: Every day as soon as the sun sets, we light candles in our home. They create the best mood – super cozy.
- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros: Do yourself a favor and listen to "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
- Stationary: I love cards and stationary and Rifle Paper Company is at the top of my love list.
- American Apparel Deep Neck V T-shirt: I've been a long time fan of this particular shirt. I have it in a bunch of colors, but grey is my favorite.
- Window Pane Check Bedding: I'm obsessed with this simple graphic print for bedding.
- Eternity Scarves: These are the best- sewn in a circle, all you do is loop it around your neck. It holds the perfect shape all day. I wore mine all winter long.
- Rachel Comey Ankle Boot: I love this new ankle boot Rachel Comey has come out with. It's the perfect shade of brown.
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That said, while I think it would be a unique opportunity to see the reality of the human body, I also understand there are some serious ethical concerns with some of the exhibits that are out there. There are concerns about the industry such exhibits might create and whether the cadavers had proper releases and/or might be executed political prisoners. So, some serious concerns here!
On the web forum where I heard about this, attendees had a wide variety of feelings about what they saw and who attended. There's also the question of whether the exhibit is presented in an artistic or educational manner or if it's simply macabre. Most that attended said it was tastefully done, but that it could create some odd and unexpected reactions. Several said parents brought their small (toddler) aged children. hmmmmm.....
Here are the websites and a brief intro on the two exhibits I know that are touring various museums:
This unique exhibit is a display of over 100 authentic human specimens, including whole bodies, individual organs and transparent body slices preserved through a special process called plastination. It provides viewers with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to look inside the human body, and to see and understand our own anatomy and physiology. This will provide a new appreciation and respect for the human body and what it means to be human. It's an inside look at the human body and is designed to show how the choices we make affect our overall health.
and here's one article discussing the controversy on where the bodies came from for this exhibit:


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During the ridiculously cold winter months, I always tell my clients that revamping your skincare routine is the key to fantastic looking skin that glows. Even a few minor changes can make a huge difference in your skin, and help protect it from the drying winds, and harsh weather. You can easily maximize the time you spend on your beauty habits by adding these extra products into your daily practice. I am a huge proponent of using products that give you the biggest bang for your buck, and help to keep your skin moisturized, even when you are short on time.
1) Try a dry oil that works on your skin, face, and hair! Argan Oil is the newest beauty craze that has taken the industry by storm, because of its healing qualities, and superb nourishing benefits. This all-in-one elixir does wonders to replenish lost moisture, due to its extremely high levels of Vitamin E . This makes it perfect for healing many skin ailments, such as weather burn, cracked cuticles, rosacea, and more. I even use this oil on my split ends to help restore the luster in my hair. My current product of choice is the fantastic Josie Maran Argan Oil line.
2) Most people forget about taking the time in the shower to pamper yourself and care for your skin. My number-one tip is to maximize the time you spend in the shower by using a deeply nourishing body wash (that can also double as a shaving cream!). The heat and steam of the shower make it the perfect time to relax and hydrate those dry areas on our bodies that go neglected. Utilize a loofah, or sponge, and lather up with a skin softening body cleanser. My product choice is Dove Nutrium Deep Moisture Body Wash.


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Ken Shamrock Accuser -- I'm Obviously a Girl!! [Photo]
Ken Shamrock Accuser I'm OBVIOUSLY a Girl
Here she is ... the woman Ken Sharmrock roughed up in a California mall because ... for some crazy reason ... he thought she was a dude.
Her name is Melinda Garcia ... she weighs 120 pounds ... and tells TMZ there's NO WAY Shamrock could've confused her for a man. In fact, she claims Ken is straight up LYING about the fight.
We broke the story ... Shamrock claims he was breaking up a girl-on-girl brawl in a mall in Modesto, CA earlier this month when someone jumped on his back. Shamrock claims he believed the person was a man, so he took "him" down. Turns out ... "he" was actually a "she."
But Garcia claims it's all BS ... claiming Shamrock didn't actually break up the original fight, but rather screamed at her to do it ... which she did.
Garcia claims Shamrock began to yell at her for not stopping the fight sooner ... and then snapped and PUNCHED her in the face.
Garcia says her mom ran over to intervene ... and Shamrock punched her too.
Soon after the alleged girl-punching, security and police arrived to the scene ... and only then, Garcia says, Shamrock backed off.
TMZ has text messages from Garcia to her sister (who goes by "Hoochie" in the phone) just moments after the fight in which she describes the incident.
Garcia tells TMZ ... if the police don't press charges, she plans to file a lawsuit.
A rep for Shamrock tells TMZ ... Ken doesn't believe he did anything wrong ... and only acted in self-defense.
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CHICAGO — It's just what you need to "Fuel Your Body." That's the motto behind Fuel Premium Protein Shake which has hit the market in 12oz. SLEEK cans from Rexam.
With just two grams of sugar, Fuel delivers 30 grams of protein and is packed with fiber, vitamins and minerals. Whether it's filling the afternoon snack craving, or serving as lunch on the go, Fuel is specifically formulated to support the maintenance of good health.
"From chalky shakes to sawdust texture packaged meals, most 'healthy products' just don't taste that good," said Aaron Parkinson, founder, Nutrié. "So we set out to change that. Fuel is a revolutionary new idea in the health and wellness industry. It's fulfilling, healthy and delicious. And thanks to our great-looking Rexam SLEEK can, it's easy to grab and take with you anywhere so you can drink it any time of the day."
Fuel is one of the three health products available as part of the Automatic Body program from Nutrié. Created by celebrity trainer Kim Lyons from the Biggest Loser, Automatic Body is a revolutionary weight loss system designed to help people lose weight and keep it off.
Nutrié chose the Rexam SLEEK can because of its unique shape as well as its portability, durability and graphic capabilities. The company also benefits from the fact that cans are the most sustainable beverage packaging choice in the world, as they are recycled at more than double the rate of any other beverage package.
Rich Grimley, president and CEO, Rexam BCNA, says the SLEEK can is an excellent choice to help build a beverage brand and business. "Our 12oz. SLEEK can is the perfect packaging solution, delivering the best in colorful graphics as well as superior recycling, filling, distribution and retail display economics."
About Nutrié
The Nutrié commitment is to keep everything as simple as possible. This means providing products and programs that give consumers the best chance to succeed in their personal health goals. It means producing the best tasting products while also providing the most convenient way of consuming them. All Nutrié products are packaged in a way that makes it easy to stay on track. No mixing, no blending, no powders or pills… just tasty beverages that taste and look great. It also means proving great customer service, helpful support systems, and timely deliveries. And it means standing by our products. Nutrié is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. We are proud to produce all of our products in the United States under the strictest of quality controls.
About Rexam
Rexam is a global consumer packaging company. We are one of the leading global beverage can makers and a major global player in rigid plastic packaging for healthcare applications. We are business partners to some of the world's most famous and successful consumer brands. Our vision is to be the best global consumer packaging company.
We have 67 plants in 24 countries and employ 11,100 people. Our sales from ongoing operations in 2012 were in the region of $7 billion. Rexam is a member of the FTSE 100 and its ordinary shares are listed with the UK Listing Authority and trade on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol REX.


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While strategic workforce planning (SWP) is most often undertaken at the organization level, we are beginning to see examples of national efforts to ensure that a country will have the right talent, with the right skills, at the right time, place, and price to meet employers' future needs. Canada's Forum for International Trade (FITT) is one such example. Learn how FITT engages multiple stakeholders and uses innovative practices to identify the skills Canada will need to maintain its strength in global markets.
Join Dr. Mary Young, Principal Researcher, Human Capital at The Conference Board as she welcomes Caroline Thompkins, President of the Forum for International Trade Training and Dr. Rick Guzzo, Co-Leader of Mercer's Workforce Sciences Institute, and hear about the challenges that employers face when using national labor market data in strategic workforce planning.
Audience: Human Capital professionals charged with strategic workforce planning, talent management, leadership development, workforce readiness, diversity & inclusion, strategic human resources, employee engagement, or human capital analytics would benefit from this webcast.
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Every auto show has plenty of girls whose job is to look pretty next to all the new cars. The exception was not a 2009 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
Sometimes these girls are more interesting than the vehicles they are standing next to. Below we have a video and pictures showing beautiful girls next to the cars we have been talking about for the last four days.
In continued more beauty ladies… (photo and video)
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NASA and SpaceX have confirmed that the new launch date for the blastoff of the Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station will be 7 May.
Liftoff was supposed to happen today, after it was supposed to happen on February 7, after it was expected before the end of last year.
The Falcon 9 rocket will now boost the Dragon into orbit on 7 May at 9.38am EDT (13.35 GMT/14.35 BST).
During the flight, the craft will have to test and prove its ability to rendezvous and berth with the ISS before it'll be allowed to actually give it a shot. This newest delay, according to SpaceX founder Elon Musk, was to do more testing on that docking code.
The Dragon has already proved it can take off and land, but the software required to get the craft to pull in alongside the fast-moving ISS and dock with it is tricky stuff.
Instead of the launch, SpaceX is using today to do a static fire test, which it will be webcasting from 14.30 EDT (18.30 GMT/19.30 BST), with the actual blast scheduled for 15.00 EDT (19.00 GMT/20.00 BST). This is a rehearsal for the actual launch and will be counted down by engineers just like the real thing.
SpaceX said again today that the 7 May launch would be the first attempt by a commercial firm to send a spacecraft to the ISS, so there was no guarantee it would run smoothly.
"Success is not guaranteed. If any aspect of the mission is not successful, SpaceX will learn from the experience and try again," the company said in a canned statement. ®


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Is Wall Street Disenchanted With Apple?
Dec 18, 2012 4:31 PM PT
These days, it seems Apple can do no right on Wall Street. The latest snub came from Citigroup, which downgraded the company to "neutral" from "buy" on Sunday. More significantly, the price target was dropped by US$100 to a modest $575 per share.
Citi analyst Glen Yueng questioned the strength of the iPhone 5, pointing to cuts Apple made with its suppliers.
It may be that the mystique around the iPhone 5 is diminishing as competing products -- such as Samsung's offerings -- gain momentum, he suggested.
Citi's decision comes amid other worrisome signs for Apple. There is increasing evidence that the iPad mini is eating into the iPad 4's sales. Also, both Walmart and Best Buy are selling the iPhone 5 at reduced prices.
Then there is Apple's stock, which has dropped some 25 percent this year. Indeed, after Citi's announcement it dipped below $500 per share for the first time since the beginning of the year. It rebounded to nearly $534 on Tuesday.
Much Ado About Nothing?
Evidence is mounting that Apple is indeed fallible, but it is hardly time to consign the company to failed status.
Apple will report an outstanding quarter in January, predicted Covestor Portfolio Manager Doug Estadt, who holds Apple stock.
"Furthering the bull case for Apple is that its stock is now trading on a price-to-earnings basis at a fraction of what it has in the recent past -- about 20 percent of its P/E earnings ratio five years ago -- but 80 percent of its revenues are from new products released in the past 90 days," he told the E-Commerce Times.
That refutes any misplaced fears of Apple becoming stagnant, Estadt argued.
An Apple TV may be coming soon, Estadt noted, and some forecasts have called for sales of up to 156 million units in the first year of its release.
The Competitive Factor
The Apple TV is an exception in that it will be an entirely new product for Apple and a space in which there is not much competition -- at least not yet. It can't be ignored that much of Apple's product line consists of upgrades of previous releases, and that there is significant competition for these products.
"The main reason Apple is being downgraded is because there are competitors sprouting up all over the marketplace," Kenneth C. Wisnefski, founder and CEO of WebiMax, told the E-Commerce Times.
"Years ago no one else made an MP3 player like the iPod. The same goes for mobile and tablet devices. Now Google, Samsung, Motorola and other brands are effectively making smartphone and mobile tablet devices that can compete against Apple and at a lesser price point," he pointed out.
Apple has yet to budge on pricing to any great degree, Wisnefski said. It released the iPad mini at a relatively high price point even though the intention was to compete with smaller and less expensive tablets.
"Going forward, I think we are going to continue to see enhanced competition for some of Apple's more innovative products that can hinder their rate of growth over the next five years," he concluded.
Positive Fundamentals
The bottom line is that while Apple may no longer be uniquely positioned in the consumer electronics industry, its fundamentals are still very positive, said David Cadden, a professor of management at Quinnipiac University.
"Apple has gone through this type of response several times since 2000," he told the E-Commerce Times.
One positive explanation for its stock fluctuations: The market may be taking year-end profits after a year of huge growth in the stock price, noted Cadden, in anticipation of rising tax rates in 2013.


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I don't know if it was intentional but these two separate covers for True Life Secrets tells a story of wanton betrayal, jealousy and revenge. Neither book contains a story with a scene resembling the cover action. The first is a pretty iconic cover, having been used on a few books and as examples of the genre.
True Life Secrets #23 (November-December 1954) is a recycled cover, initially published in My Desire Intimate Confessions #4 (April 1950). The second cover, with the angry gent wanting to know just what the lady did to get the pricey necklace is from True Life Secrets #25 (March 1955). So while the story presented by the covers is coincidental it is pretty neat to have turned out that way.
If I saw issue #25 on the rack back in the 1950s I would have picked it up based on my memory of cover #23. I would have been disappointed but cover disconnect was the way the comic book game was played back then. The budget, deadlines, disposable nature of comic books back then and people not giving a darn about the craft contributed to the practice. Covers were uncomplicated sales gimmicks and rarely represented the contents.
The art for the issue #23 is credited to Leon Winink and Ray Osrin. The second book is uncredited.


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