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*UPDATE* = Ok ok I admit that I bought a Laura Mercier Oil Free Tinted Moisturizer today and their Powder Puff. But its a moisturizerrrr! Skincare doesn't count!
Today I am making a declaration – a declaration of NO BUY for the next month!
A month, you scoff? That's nothing! But you are talking to a shopping addict here, I am the worst kind of emotional shopper…
In the last week alone I have hauled from three times from Chanel, from Bobbi Brown, Reebok Easytone trainers, random clothes and make up from ASOS, not to mention a general haul at Boots, and a very expensive but utterly amazing CP from Japan the lovely Kuri got for me and is currently winging its way to me in the UK!
And there is eBay which is the bane of my life, constantly tempting me.
So there you go – I am declaring a no make up/clothes/shoe buy for the next 4 weeks, instead I am going to try and do another blog sale to balance things out a little and focus on finishing of these YouTube videos I have filmed!
If you want to subscribe now to the You Tube Channel, its here – but I will of course announce when the new videos are up!
No hauling for a month! I might die! Halp!

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Sequel of Celebration and Success: A Summary of Events from the International Summer School, Beijing, 2017
On the 5th of June 2017, Youth Time hosted its seventh annual International Summer School and the second in Beijing, China following the great success one year previously. In association with our partners and friends at the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation, the event brought together experts, speakers, and participants together from all corners of the globe. Through a comprehensive series of masterclasses, workshops, and cultural exchange programmes, young entrepreneurs from far and wide were equipped with the necessary tools to formulate their own successful businesses and social enterprises.
Explore Summer School Beijing 2017 Day-By-Day
With the Youth International Summer School (organized by Youth Time International Movement and China Soong Ching Ling Foundation) coming up to us in rapid pace, we are excited to share with you more in depth details on the program. As such, you can expect to be provided with an overview of the yet confirmed international speakers and the material they will be offering at the event. In case you didn't sign up yet for the event, which will take place from the 5th till 10th of June 2017, get ready to find out what you could be missing out on.
Building And Leading High-Performing Teams: Expert Nick Fewings Will Tell You How To Do It
With the Summer School Beijing 2017 coming up soon, we are starting a series of articles about all the international professionals who will be working with us during the event. In an open interview they will present themselves and reveal their plans to us. One of the main speakers during the Summer School of this year is Nick Fewings, CEO of a learning and development company called Ngagementworks. Nick has over 20 years' experience of leading and working with teams and as such, is rightfully to be introduced as an authority on creating high-performing teams.
Learning Leadership By Experiencing Powerlessness. Interview With International Summer School Trainer Bogdan Vaida
We continue to acquaint you with the team of trainers and experts who will be sharing their knowledge with us during the Youth International Summer School, Beijing 2017. Meet Bogdan Vaida, a young experiential trainer from the Romania who uses the appealing catchphrase: 'I teach students how to become their own teachers' and at the openings day of the event, will moderate The Labyrinth workshop. Let's find out what Bogdan is made of and what he'll be offering us at the event.
Learn To Be Sensitive To The Cultural Needs Of Others, YT Expert Explains How
The following trainer has been with Youth Time on several occasions in the past. As these were all enlightening performances, we are happy he will once again be sharing his experience with the participants at the Youth International Summer School Beijing 2017, this time in his Communicating Across Cultural Diversity Workshop. Meet Hrishabh Sandilya, a Prague-based entrepreneur, academic, and commentator, who according to his own words combines his love for cities, with a passion of social entrepreneurship and teaching politics.
Understanding And Implementing The Theory Of Intercultural Communication And Marketing With Specialist Dorotea Milas
With the Summer School Beijing 2017 just around the corner, we are filled with great excitement and anticipation for what promises to be a most spectacular event. In the build-up to the educational and inspirational series of master classes and workshops, we continue to interview the experts who will be presenting on their specialist topics. One of the main trainers during the Summer School of this year is Mrs. Dorotea Milas, Lecturer at Zagreb School of Business, Croatia. Mrs. Milas research interests are in the fields of philosophy (ethics), religious science, communication and cultural studies. She has participated in national and international scientific and professional conferences and has published several scientific and professional papers.


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Bats silent amid Ross' seven scoreless
PHILADELPHIA -- A brilliant rebound performance by Tyson Ross was cast in vain as Reid Brignac ended a scoreless game in the ninth with a three-run, walk-off homer.
Ross, who allowed a season-high six runs in his previous start, threw seven scoreless innings, but Cole Hamels' gem shone brighter in Philadelphia's 3-0 victory Wednesday night at Citizens Bank Park.View Full Game Coverage
PHILADELPHIA -- A brilliant rebound performance by Tyson Ross was cast in vain as Reid Brignac ended a scoreless game in the ninth with a three-run, walk-off homer.
Ross, who allowed a season-high six runs in his previous start, threw seven scoreless innings, but Cole Hamels' gem shone brighter in Philadelphia's 3-0 victory Wednesday night at Citizens Bank Park.View Full Game Coverage
"Both guys were outstanding," Padres manager Bud Black said. "It was a great, great pitchers' duel."
Right-hander Nick Vincent came into the ballgame in the bottom of the ninth and struck out Marlon Byrd. He then got two strikes on both Domonic Brown and Carlos Ruiz, but both hitters got away from him -- Brown drew a walk, and Ruiz was hit by a pitch.
On the third pitch he saw from Vincent, Brignac launched the winner into the stands beyond the right-field fence.
"Nick pitches aggressive; part of his strength is his aggressiveness," Black said. "He's a guy that's not going to be tentative. I think more than anything, he hasn't gotten the ball down when he's needed to. Tonight, it was a little bit elevated in the hitting area."
Black thought Vincent matched up well against Philadelphia's bottom half of the order, and he had planned to bring in Dale Thayer to pitch the 10th if the Padres could escape the inning.
"Nick's been a good pitcher for us," Black said. "You look at his internal numbers. I thought that part of the order, the bottom half of the order, was a good matchup for Nick. It was right, left, right, left. That was good for him."
The home run was Brignac's first of 2014.
"It was a cutter," Brignac said. "It was something that me and [hitting coach Steve Henderson] had talked about before the at-bat. The first two he threw in the at-bat were balls, and he left the third one up a little bit."
Over their past nine games, the Padres have mustered just 14 runs.
Cameron Maybin was San Diego's first baserunner on Wednesday night. He laced a double to left field to begin the third inning and advanced to third on a sac bunt. But Maybin was stranded after Hamels set down the next two batters.
The Padres threatened again in the fourth after loading the bases with two outs. Chase Headley and Tommy Medica singled, and Rene Rivera drew a walk to set the stage for Maybin. Hamels fell behind him, 2-0, but came back with three straight strikes to get the out.
San Diego's most recent batting slump is just a small sample in what has been a season-long offensive power outage. The Padres entered Wednesday worst in the Majors in team batting average, slugging percentage and on-base percentage.
Still, the Padres have to tip their hat to the red-hot Hamels, who entered the game 5-0 with a 1.47 ERA in his past six starts against the Friars and continued the trend Wednesday night. The San Diego native twirled eight innings of scoreless baseball, allowing five hits and a walk while striking out a season-high 11 batters.
"He came out and had all his pitches working," Black said. "Changed speeds. Threw a lot of good pitches behind in the count. We had a couple of decent swings, but not enough."
Ross' outing, meanwhile, was nothing to scoff at, either. He allowed four hits and a walk in seven scoreless innings. His slider was accountable for five of his seven strikeouts.
"He's got one of the best sliders in the game, for me, and I'm not being biased here," Black said. "He's got a good slider, and it was working tonight."
It was Ross' eighth start this season of six innings or more pitched while allowing one earned run or fewer.
"I don't know if it was his best, but he threw the ball well. No doubt about it," Black said. "We're seeing before our eyes Tyson grow as a Major League pitcher. It's great to see his development from where he was a couple of years ago."
Even while lowering his ERA to 2.97, Ross is just 6-5 on the year.
"You just have to look at the positives," Ross said. "Put up some zeros out there, gave us a chance, and just try and move forward and do the same thing next time out."
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Minor shoulder problems, such as sore muscles and aches and pains,
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Your shoulder joints move every time you move your arms. To better
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Shoulder problems can be
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Shoulder injuries most commonly occur during sports activities, work-related
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Injuries are the most common
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A sudden (acute) injury may occur from a
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and swelling may develop soon after the injury. If nerves or blood vessels have
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numb, tingly, weak, or cold, or it may look pale or blue. Acute injuries
You may not recall having a specific
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Overuse injuries occur when too much stress is placed on a joint or other
tissue, often by overdoing an activity or through repetition of an activity.
Overuse injuries include:
Overuse and acute
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If a cast or splint is applied, it is
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will give you instructions on how to
care for your cast or splint.
Home treatment may
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If your injury does
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help relieve pain, swelling, and stiffness. It may take up to 6 weeks or longer
before your symptoms are gone. Use
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Call your doctor if any of the following occur during home
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Shoulder injuries such as bruises,
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Men taking a logical approach to natural testosterone management know that there's no magic-bullet pill that magically raises and improves testosterone status just by taking it. And there never will be. Testosterone support products can work well, but if all you're willing to do is buy and take a pill, don't expect to be bowled over by your results. Instead, getting good results with natural approaches depends doing everything you can – great or small – that favors testosterone production. At the same time, you'd want to avoid all the things that undermine testosterone production. So at a bare minimum, a man would want to be in a program of regular strenuous exercise like weight training, eating a healthy diet, taking supplements (especially zinc) , and working with a doctor to determine what his hormone levels actually are. By the same token, he'd want to avoid alcohol (and other drugs), overeating, gaining weight and failing to get enough sleep. Should we add also green tea extract to this list of things to avoid? Find out in today's AllStarHealth blog.
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TORONTO – With the US World Cup bid in the final stretch ahead of FIFA's Dec. 2 announcement of the 2018 and 2022 hosts, MLS Commissioner Don Garber announced that the league and its marketing arm, Soccer United Marketing, will make a $2 million donation to the US Bid Committee.
"We hope it will help our federation to be able to use additional resources both to build the sport but also to bring home the bid in the next couple of weeks," Garber said at a US Bid Committee luncheon on Friday.
"We recognize that the league has an enormous amount to gain should the World Cup come to the United States, not just with what we could do to build our league further and get more deeply connected with fans and help develop more players, but also the obvious benefits that will come with having that 12-year run-up."
MLS has supported the bid by providing assistance with marketing and promotion while also housing US bid staff at the league office in New York. Two MLS owners and Garber are also on the World Cup Bid Committee.
For the first time, US Soccer President Sunil Gulati commented on the suspension of two members of the FIFA Executive Committee this week ahead of the vote to determine the World Cup hosts. The US now has to convince at least 12 of the remaining 22 members to vote for the American bid.
[inline_node:308616]"It's going to be 12 votes instead of 13, so it's going to be easier," Gulati said. "I don't think it changes the game dramatically for us.
"They went a long way in trying to bring order to the process and make sure the process was fair. I'm confident that this will be a fair process."
On Friday, the full FIFA evaluation reports for each bid were released and Gulati addressed the issue of government guarantees, which was flagged by the world governing body.
"Because of the federative nature of our government, we were not able to sign the guarantees in the exact form that FIFA wanted," Gulati said. "But they're quite comfortable with the guarantees we've given them."
In addition, Gulati said that should the US win the bid, it would consider any new facilities that are constructed before 2022. He also said that he expected World Cup finalists to establish their base camp in Canada.
With a European country guaranteed to host the 2018 World Cup, the 2022 event is being contested between CONCACAF and Asian confederations. That plays into the US' favor, according to Gulati.
"FIFA's system, in terms of its rotation policy, is based on confederations," he said. "Asia has had a recent World Cup in 2002. From that perspective, if you follow the rotation policy – a policy of fairness – it needs to come back to CONCACAF."
Aside from the infrastructure, the US believes FIFA values a very important aspect of the American bid: the size of the country.
"The legacy, the upside of a market like a country like the United States, to be more engaged in the world's game, is something that is unique and extraordinary," Gulati said. "One of our goals is to go from 100 million who watch the World Cup to 200 million. There aren't many countries who are bidding that can do that. Size matters."
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Oh man. Oh MAN. Oh man, oh man, Oh man.
No, not a crap TV game show from the Nineties, but that episode of Game of Thrones.
TYRION! Am I right, beloved Throners? AM I RIGHT?!?!
Phew, I'm still all riled up after that one. Money, sex, power. That's what we love about Game of Thrones, and that's what we got. And while we welcomed the return of the boob alert (a-WOO-ga! a-WOO-ga!), it was the balls that really stood out.
That's right, we're talking stones so big they'd make ancient henges feel inadequate. They were everywhere this week, and by no means restricted to our favourite fellas. Some of our ladies showed such fortitude that testicles should rightly be renamed "outside ovaries".
That's pretty much going to be the tone from here on in, so let's gird our loins for another thigh-slappingly fun Raven On Game of Thrones recap.
Reminder: spoilers will be included below, so only read on if you've seen the episode. We're discovering the storyline through the TV series (reading the books after each has finished), so no dropping important future plot points in the comments, or we'll demand TRIAL BY WOMBAT! Er, I mean COMBAT! Although trial by wombat would be amazing, can you imagine? Those squat, stocky little buggers going at it tooth and claw to prove Tyrion's innocence… look, please don't report me to the RSPCA).
I can't be held completely responsible for being nads-obsessed this episode. They set it up from the very beginning, as Stannis' arrived in Braavos to plead for finance from the Iron Bank to raise an army. The opening shot was Stannis Baratheon sailing merrily through the spread legs of giant Colossus - truly a "look-up, hello-boys" situation.
Showing Game of Thrones has real world relevance, Stannis and Ser Davos were kept waiting by the Iron Bank of Braavos for longer than sanity and/or a full bladder can tolerate. No doubt the Iron Bank too has closed branches and offshored its customer service to the Summer Isles or something to make a bit of extra coin.
Doctor Who fans had a minor geek-out when Mark Gatiss appeared as the branch manager who demonstrated that, after amassing unfathomable fortunes, what the Iron Bankers appeared to value most was impeccable posture.
Stony-faced Stanny let his Onion Knight do most of the negotiating, which wasn't going very well as 32 ships and 4000 hungry soldiers didn't seem to be enough collateral for the moneymen. It was only when Davos decided he'd rather risk rudeness towards some gittish bureaucrats than face Stanny's wrath that the gloves came off. Literally.
Ser Davos flashed his stubby fingers, removed as punishment for smuggling, to show them that the Lord of Dragonstone was a man of his word. He also pointed out that while Stanny may only have 32 working ships and 4000 hungry soldiers, Tywin Lannister was getting on a bit and his dynastic legacies were less than desirable. It was a display of big salty ... courage.
As we waited to see if the Iron Bankers would deliver Stannis his war chest, chests of a different sort were being liberally splashed about in another part of town. Salladhor (Cellar Door) Saan (the most beautiful name in the common tongue), was regaling a couple of water nymphs with a daring tale of bravery in the face of danger.
I laughed as I realised the joke he was telling - I heard it as a girl from my own merchant seaman father, although in his version the protagonist was Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar. Turns out my Dad was a shameless joke thief as well, as Ser Davos arrived in time to berate his old smuggling compadre for unoriginality.
Ser Davos' sparklingly good mood and fat wad of gold indicated that his diplomatic skills had won over the Iron Bankers (hopefully he negotiated a good deal on repayments and read the fine print about fees, because that's where they get you). Cellar Door must now leave his mermaids and haul his ... anchors off to battle again.
Someone who has been taking her sweet time getting battle ready is Yara Greyjoy, back for the first time this season. I suppose it takes a long time to sail from the Iron Islands to … actually I've got no idea where Ramsay Snow was. White Harbour, maybe? I know he was on his way to Moat Cailin, but I don't think they were there yet.
Anyway, the point is, Yara revs up her men by reading aloud Ramsay's letter about lopping off her brother's mainsail, and they're all too keen to follow her on a surprise raid on the Bolton bastard's bailey.
I loved watching Yara in action - Balon had referred to her as a badass in series two, but we'd never seen it. The bit where she axed a patrolman in the head? Impressive. And the bit where she held a servant at axe-point, demanded to be taken to Theon, then when he did said "Thank you" and slit his throat as casually as you might shut a door? Classic.
Only problem was Ramsay himself, who was roused by a loud banging ... and then the Iron Islanders turned up. Boom! Sex joke!
The bastard confronts Yara in the kennels, where she was trying to persuade Theon to flee with her. But Theon is no more, and his pathetic, grimy, beyond-messed-up replacement Reek doesn't want to leave his cage.
In a testosterone frenzy Yara and her men kick Ramsay's men's asses, but their victory is short lived when he threatens to cry havoc and let slip the rabid crazy dogs of war. Yara escapes by boat, declaring her brother to be dead. Game over, you might think, but apparently not, for Ramsay rewards his creature with a bath, and asks him to pretend to be Theon Greyjoy for a mission. So Reek is still a rook on the Game of Thrones game of chess board …
Drogon, the largest and fiercest of Daenerys' flying reptilian brood, is seen not only acting the goat, but eating it too. The poor goat-herder who lost his stock in the unexpected fire event pleads with Daenerys for compensation, which she grants three times over. It's a class move, but that's the kind of queening Dany could do in her sleep.
Far more of a pickle is the plea by Hizdahr zo Loraq (whose name was obviously invented by George R. R. Martin gaily plucking letter tiles out of a Scrabble kit) to allow the former masters of Meereen to be taking down from those large wooden crosses and given proper burials. It turns out Hizdahr's Dad spoke out against the crucifixion of slave children as a warning to Daenerys, but was still murdered on her orders.
Echoing what Ser Barristan told her two episodes ago, Hizdahr asks if it is right to answer a crime with another crime. Fairly ballsy thing to do, given what happened to 163 of Meereen's finest toffs. Daenerys squirms at the idea that the situation isn't as black and white as she'd like it to be, but she relents and allows him to bury his father.
Missandei confirms that there are still over 200 supplicants waiting to ask Daenerys a favour. A nod from Ser Jorah speaks volumes - this is what queening is all about, love. Sitting around all day listening to boring complaints from ordinary people who wouldn't even know what an Iron Throne was.
For Daenerys, it's the realisation that it takes more guts to be a half-decent ruler than it does to be a mighty conqueror. Irony upon ironies, she's come full circle and found herself in the same position of her formerly hated enemy, Robert Baratheon. Sure, she's unlikely to start drinking and whoring anytime soon, but still, she'll need to make some decisions on whether she's ready for this life.
Across the Narrow Sea, Varys briefs the Small Council on Dany's most recent movements much to Cersei Lannister's chagrin. Relations between her and her father, which seemed to soften last week, frosted over again as he slagged her off for dismissing Ser Barristan Selmy back in the day.
Prince Oberyn Martell, one of the new, ahem "members" of the Small Council, watches proceedings with an endearing lack of interest, with a relaxed posture and his mind no doubt lingering on last night's licentiousness. In every sense, he is a man fond of a leg over. Mace Tyrell, meanwhile, wants to be important but is reduced to fetching quills for Tywin. He's the Smithers to Tywin's Mr Burns.
Oberyn and Varys have a very interesting conversation in the Great Hall, where Tyrion's trial is shortly to begin. The Prince of Dorne may be able to spot an accent, but he cannot understand Varys' declaration that he is not a sexual being, at all, in any way. For a man like Oberyn, who breathes sex more easily than oxygen, it's incomprehensible.
For Varys, of course, it makes perfect sense. The way he sees it, balls ruin the world. Sexual desire is a distraction that gives only ephemeral, short-term satisfaction. Far more impressive is the ability to focus that energy into bigger things - and who else but Varys would give such a not-so-subtle nod to the Iron Throne when discussing ambition? For a eunuch, he really has got quite a pair.
Finally it's trial time, and Jaime and a couple of gold cloaks fetch Tyrion from his cell. Jaime can barely speak to his brother, only to explain that the handcuffs were his father's orders. Tyrion gives the first of a series of heart-breaking looks that would be enough to make your weep, if you weren't so excited about how the hell the whole thing was going to play out.
As it turned out, the rest of the show was a legal procedural worthy of Dick Wolf himself. It was so "Law & Order: G.O.T" that I wouldn't have been raised an eyebrow if Detective Olivia Benson had showed up as a surprise witness.
The lovely King Tommen, who I'm growing more and more attached to every week because of his sweet face and kind eyes and yes I know his mum's his aunty, shut up, he's still nice, recused himself from the trial, leaving Tywin, Oberyn and Mace in charge.
Accused of killing his nephew, Tyrion utters the first of his courtroom zingers, declaring that Joffrey choked on his pigeon pie, and either the bakers or pigeons could be held responsible, just "leave me out of it".
A parade of witnesses then roll up to bag out the little Lannister, including the odious gold cloak Meryn Trant, a teary Cersei, and doddering grand maester Pycelle - all of whom want revenge for personal reasons.
(If I may approach the bench for a moment, how did Pycelle come to have Sansa's necklace? Ser Dontas was shot and left on a dinghy out to sea, and Baelish threw the necklace on top of him after taking it from Sansa's neck. I guess the boat could float back to King's Landing and be found, but it all seems too convenient for me. I think Littlefinger's little finger is stuck in this particular pie too.)
Even Varys, who once took Tyrion's side, showed no mercy in denouncing him to the court. "Sadly, I never forget a thing" is his reply when Tyrion asks him if he remembers his former praise, shaking his head like a disappointed father. Sometimes I want to hate the Spider as much as I hate Baelish, but something stops me. I think it's because despite everything, he's less ... violently creepy.
Tywin calls an adjournment, and is accosted by Jaime while enjoying a spot of lunch. He offers to renounce the Kingsguard and become the Lannister heir at Casterly Rock if his father spares his brother's life.
Tywin's reply? "Done."
The LOOK on Jaime's FACE! It took him a few seconds to realise that he had just been played like a cheap fiddle. His father was RELYING on his natural sympathy for Tyrion to kick in, and let him make the choice to give up his oath, rather than force him to break it. The cajones on that man to play a long game like that.
All Jaime could do was make the best of it and give his Dad his word. He must have walked out of the room swearing more than Hugh Grant at the start of Four Weddings and a Funeral.
As the trial resumes, Jaime relays the info to Tyrion, who seems confused but accepting - after all, he trusts Jaime.
But then. THEN. The Crown calls one last witness.
NOOOOO WHAT ARE YOU DOING SHAE NOOOOO was my initial, completely rational reaction. In a brutal scene that had me tearing my hair out, Tyrion's one-time lady dumped a massive bucket of manure over her one-time Little Lion.
Much was the truth - she had been Tyrion's whore, he had pulled away from her after marrying Sansa - but she also made up the theory that they plotted to kill Joffrey. She knows that isn't true.
So, my beloved Throners, I'm rather torn as to how this came about. Was Shae found and forced to testify? Perhaps she never left for Pentos after all; maybe Cersei's goons found her and said it was testify and live, or just die straightaway. Or did she go willingly to Tyrion's enemies to bust him? Surely Tyrion told her enough that his family posed a deadly risk to his life?
Tyrion's turmoil during this scene was just epic. His face was an IMAX screen, twisted and turning in heartache, love, hate, despair and finally - rage.
Sweet, sweet, ball-tearing rage.
After whispering that he wished to confess, Tyrion combined about ten years' worth of "Why does my Dad hate me?" therapy sessions into one beautiful diatribe against Tywin, the court, and the kingdom at large. I adored the disgust he spat at them all, decrying their pretensions at justice and finally demanding a TRIAL BY COMBAT.
It was a sense of deja vu, as Tyrion had previously demanded a trial by combat at the Eyrie in series one. But surely he cannot call upon his one-handed brother Jaime as a champion this time? Bronn is nowhere to be found - surely Tyrion won't fight himself. No, I have another theory, and that theory involves Inigo Montoya and his quest for revenge. If true, we will see one ballsy showdown indeed ...
Yay! Best Moments
Tyrion going full Michael Douglas in Falling Down batshit crazy. Glorious.
Zing! Best Lines
"I have been to Essos and seen the Unsullied first hand. They are very impressive on the battlefield … less so in the bedroom."
Yep, Oberyn sure spent his time wisely in Astapor.
Eww, gross
Ramsay Snow ordered Reek to take off his britches for a bath, and as he did, Ramsay looked down, smiled, and got a strange light in his eyes. It was the look of someone proudly surveying their handiwork. Ughghghgh.
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The Ferrari California apparently isn't easy to drive, which may explain why Ferrari/Fiat Chairman Luca Montezemolo beached one off the track this weekend at the Ferrari World Finals with Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso in the back seat.
As you can see in the videos below, Massa and Alonso try to help their boss out to no avail. What's a chairman to do? Just have the team send another Ferrari and let the track workers deal with it.
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Power of Story
"Education Uprising," the Spring issue of YES!, connected people across the country and helped catalyze the movement to reclaim education—a living example of how national conversations can change.
The struggle to save the world's greatest communication network.
Making Social Security solvent in the long run isn't that hard. But who should bear the cost?
And 25 other facts you should probably know.
This issue of YES! looks at the ways new voices are being heard, and at how their stories are transforming our culture.
Today, six corporations own most of our media—but we could be poised to take it back.
Bullying, police brutality, and everyday insensitivities are regularly lampooned with Australians Aamer Rahman and Nazeem Hussain's weapon of choice: comedy.
First the anger, then the love—overcoming generational anger to find the courage required for the difficult work ahead.
The viral success of "The Meatrix" shows how a good story trumps a mountain of facts.
Las Cafeteras uses acoustic instruments and punk attitude to spread their message of social justice and equality.
Low-power FM radio stations bring a much-needed focus on local issues and culture.
Filling a void left by big city newspapers, online projects combine community news, journalism, and conversations with our neighbors.
Rachel Corrie was killed in 2003, but her passion for peace lives on in her writings.
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Snowshoe hares make their home in dense coniferous forests. Within the United States, most of the coniferous forests are found on mountaintops, such as the Rockies, or near the Canadian border. Snowshoe hares can be seen foraging among the brush. As global warming heats up northern latitudes, the hare's snowy habitat is likely to retreat northward, further constricting the animals range. Warming also may cause snow to melt, then freeze, crusting the surface and allowing some predators to hunt for the hares more efficiently. Snowshoe hares have an interesting adaptation that helps protect them against predators. Depending on the season, their fur can be a different color. During the winter, snowshoe hares are white which helps them blend in with the snow. In spring and summer the snowshoe hare turns a reddish-brown. This color helps them camouflage with dirt and rocks. Snowshoe hares are nocturnal, so look for them at dawn or dusk. Adopt a snowshoe hare today!
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Years of missing J. K. Rowling's genius on the big screen finally felt quenched with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie. It flickered in me those familiar goosebumps I used to get on witnessing the Warner Bros Pictures logo hit the big screen. It would sublime that renowned rad symphony that went Na-Na-Na-Na-Na in the backdrop.
Direction of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fewer directors could ace a prologue in such terse frames than David Yates himself. The beginning of the Fantastic Beasts movie is so laconic, and yet so colloquial that you can't stop yourself from feeling mesmerized by his fleeting frames.
Years of directing Harry Potter franchise has chafed off its shine on him. It becomes evident the moment Yates gets behind the lens. There is plenty of experience under his collar that he has garnered over time, and it has prepared him upfront to deliver some fine seamless finishing.
David Yates's work speaks volume when you find him easing into the magical world without us realizing it. It is apparent with his overtly long and meandering walks alongside our protagonist that only stops when he successfully wraps up his scene. He is that kind of a genius that magically seems to get better with magic.
References and Comparisons (Spoilers Ahead)
Comparisons ensue when you place it against the likes of one of the best Hogwarts franchises of all times. In Fantastic Beasts movie, the frequent disappearing acts seem to happen effortlessly. There is more magic entailed here which acts as a great plus. What makes it further embellished? None other than the movie's thrilling 3D effects. They are absolutely ravishing! David Yates makes sure there are plenty of them sandwiched at odd junctures to aggrandize the flick's theatrics.
Fantastic Beasts franchise appears to be much darker than Harry Potter series if we take their first epicsode into consideration. But as far as storytelling pace is concerned, Potter franchise would beat it to pulp any day. There are references galore from the Potter world that don't hold back from tingling your inner "pensieve".
Calling Hogwarts Hogwash is a smart jest deliberately put to show what others think about the best school we know hitherto. That remark brings a smile to your face as it tries to wryly devalue our favourite fantastical school. Then at one point you hear the word Dumbledore and you can't pay attention enough. The fact that Dumbledore supported and believed in Newt Scamander even though he was expelled helps you to accept him more easily. Then doors get opened with the only opening charm that we have ever come across: Alohomora. All of it takes you back in time.
Fantastic Beasts
Since the primal theme of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is revolving around amazing creatures, we find it as one the major driving plots. But J. K. Rowling loves to make connections, and everything connects so beautifully that the end result becomes really satisfying. You don't really see the end coming from miles and it kind of flabbergasts you.
Out of all the amazing creatures that were unleashed in New York, Niffler is the most adorable of all. The creature was first referenced in Harry Potter series where an allusion of sorts was made when Lee Jordan had released two of these fantastical creatures to trouble Dolores Umbridge. It is a cute little thief who has an inbred penchant for shiny things. We see plenty of it to fall in love almost immediately.
Then there is a creature called Bowtruckle that has letting go issues. It looks like a stem cum mantis and stays most of the times hidden under Newt's collar. Swooping Evil is one of the most badass creatures which assists our protagonists during desperate times.
Demiguise's power to grasp futuristic events has been beautifully portrayed. The concept of Occamy 's, the serpent's, behaviour to occupy space is brilliantly thought of. Thunderbird is one of those titular fantastical beasts that reminds you of Buckbeak from the HP saga. However, this one has weather control under its aegis and is closely related to a phoenix.
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If we squint hard at its downsides, the first one would be the introduction chapter to the Beasts. It is almost abrupt, something that takes away the joy from a well written account. The need of the hour was the wonderment that it was supposed to tag along whilst launching each creature. We have been fed fantasy so much in the past that the way Yates introduces them ends up becoming a tad forgetful.
Do you remember how Buckbeak made a lasting impression, and is still remembered whenever you get a faintest reminder of its colossal import? To match that level of recognition David Yates should have resorted to some awe-inspiring calm.
Then there was this moment when Newt takes Kowalski into his suitcase. There in an attempt to introduce him to the astounding abode, he does some eye-popping magical shenanigans. It becomes almost overwhelming at one point. I overheard one of the fellow spectators complain:
"What is he trying to do?"
Primarily because Newt stays reticent most of the times and well quilted under his acting wraps. To play a nerdy character that asks him to stay shy, gnaws on his character's capabilities.
The Pairing Up
The chemistry Queenie (Alison Sudol) and Kowalski (Dan Fogler) bring into the tale is akin magic. Their side-plot is amazingly portrayed as well. It almost takes the lead characters Newt and Tina out of the picture entirely. It is both a good thing and a bad thing for the story. Reason being it leaves you with a rare feeling of insouciance towards any budding relationship between the latter couple, taking away their supposedly thunder. Their lack of nerd chemistry "obliviates" you from seeing them go anywhere in the long run.
Colin Farrell does plenty of justice to the character of Graves. And then that remarkable acting in those final rad moments make for a resounding icing. Johnny Depp was an insane revelation as the badass villain we all wanted. But a lesser renowned face would have done Grindelwald justice I think. Let's see how he fares in the future runs. Keeping fingers crossed on that one.
Music by James Newton Howard is extraordinary as well. Very soothing and aptly placed! Sways you like an Occamy to a tune of roach!
The Final Verdict
Overall, the Fantastic Beasts movie was beautifully packed in one magnificent capsule of delight. Can't wait to find out where this brilliant prequel takes us. Most interested in how Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will connect dots and give more Easter eggs to make magical omelettes from.
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There are four main goals that David Canter and his team of Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services practice management consultants and relationship managers are trying to accomplish on behalf of RIAs who custody with Fidelity IWS. They are: helping advisors grow; helping them be more efficient; keeping them current on regulatory and legislative developments in Washington; and managing human capital at their advisory firms.
As part of that effort, Fidelity IWS announced Wednesday that it has launched a benchmarking program and a Web-based practice management dashboard tool for its affiliated advisors. Using as a springboard the 2011 Fidelity RIA Benchmarking Study, on which it partnered with Quantuvis Consulting (and with whom it will continue to work on future studies and building the dashboards), Canter said in an interview Tuesday that the study and dashboards are meant to not merely allow RIA firms to benchmark themselves against the broader industry and their specific peer groups, but also to provide actionable steps to achieve their goals and monitor progress toward those goals.
"If firms want to grow, they have to devote resources" to achieving those goals, Canter (left) counseled, beyond merely hiring a business development officer. "This benchmarking program doesn't just put benchmarking findings into a box," Canter said, but is a true, "dynamic" business planning tool that allows firms to set goals for themselves.
The benchmarking dashboards–which provide both financial and marketing views–allow firms to insert their business financials and service data quarterly into a secure website, and then to choose up to 38 peer groups, based on metrics like business model, AUM, numbers of employees, annual revenue and region, and benchmark themselves to firms that are not only like theirs, but also to firms that they aspire to be like. Using dials for separate measurements, the firms can include their own goals to see how they are performing against those goals and their peers.
The marketing dashboards cover metrics like the number of clients added to the firm, marketing expenses, acquisition cost per new client and marketing costs per advisor.
Sporting an intuitive approach using an online wizard, the dashboards meet advisors' needs for an online tool–"advisors want elegant and easy," said Canter–while in a future iteration, said Mathias Hitchcock, part of Canter's team, advisors will be able to upload their financials from standard accounting software packages, and download their data as well from the dashboard. A future iteration of the dashboards, said Canter, might include the ability for advisors to share their data with other advisors in a custom peer group.
Advisory firms are given the option of sharing their data with Fidelity, which will allow Fidelity IWS' relationship managers "to offer more targeted consulting," said Hitchcock, who joined Fidelity IWS in 2008 and has been working on the benchmarking tool for the past 18 months.
Canter, executive VP for practice management and consulting at Fidelity IWS, joined Fidelity in 2009 and is a veteran of Schwab Advisor Services who also worked for several advisory firms, so he has seen how advisor practice management works, he said, from both the provider of services side and the advisory firm side. He called the benchmarking dashboards a "strong business readiness tool" for advisors.
The Benchmarking Study done with Quantuvis found several disconnects when it came to advisor marketing and business development. First, while the majority of the 375 RIA firms surveyed viewed marketing as "critical to their future growth," fewer than 30% of those firms have a written marketing firm.
Second, while the majority of surveyed firms said their principals are responsible for generating 81% of their business, 75% of the firms do not have "robust" succession plans, Canter said.
Third, while 78% of the firms said they viewed client service as their largest business opportunity and 78% said service was the largest driver of referrals, 91% of firms do not actually measure client satisfaction.
While this year, Canter said, Fidelity's consultants and 50 regional relationship managers spent their advisor practice management efforts on marketing and business development, in 2012 they will focus on helping advisors build "actionable succession plans." He suggested that there will be consolidation in the advisory world, regardless of whether regulators and legislators in Washington set up an SRO for advisors or not.
"There will be more deals" over the next 10 or so years, Canter said, driven not only by demographics, but also by the HighTowers, United Capitals and Focus Financials of the world.


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In her new book Elizabeth Gilbert picks up where her bestselling memoir "Eat, Pray, Love" left off. After she previously swore off marriage Gilbert finds herself searching for its true meaning and chronicling her journey in "Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage."
After reading the excerpt below, head to the "GMA" Library to find more good reads.
Excerpted from Chapter 1: Marriage and Surprises
Late one afternoon in the summer of 2006, I found myself in a small village in northern Vietnam, sitting around a sooty kitchen fire with a number of local women whose language I did not speak, trying to ask them questions about marriage.
For several months already, I had been traveling across Southeast Asia with a man who was soon to become my husband. I suppose the conventional term for such an individual would be "fiancé," but neither one of us was very comfortable with that word, so we weren't using it. In fact, neither one of us was very comfortable with this whole idea of matrimony at all. Marriage was not something we had ever planned with each other, nor was it something either of us wanted. Yet providence had interfered with our plans, which was why we were now wandering haphazardly across Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Indonesia, all the while making urgent—even desperate—efforts to return to America and wed.
The man in question had been my lover, my sweetheart, for over two years by then, and in these pages I shall call him Felipe. Felipe is a kind, affectionate Brazilian gentleman, seventeen years my senior, whom I'd met on another journey (an actual planned journey) that I'd taken around the world a few years earlier in an effort to mend a severely broken heart. Near the end of those travels, I'd encountered Felipe, who had been living quietly and alone in Bali for years, nursing his own broken heart. What had followed was attraction, then a slow courtship, and then, much to our mutual wonderment, love.
Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Committed'Our resistance to marriage, then, had nothing to do with an absence of love. On the contrary, Felipe and I loved each other unreservedly. We were happy to make all sorts of promises to stay together faithfully forever. We had even sworn lifelong fidelity to each other already, although quite privately. The problem was that the two of us were both survivors of bad divorces, and we'd been so badly gutted by our experiences that the very idea of legal marriage—with anyone, even with such nice people as each other—filled us with a heavy sense of dread.
As a rule, of course, most divorces are pretty bad (Rebecca West observed that "getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking very valuable china"), and our divorces had been no exception. On the mighty cosmic one-to-ten Scale of Divorce Badness (where one equals an amicably executed separation, and ten equals . . . well, an actual execution), I would probably rate my own divorce as something like a 7.5. No suicides or homicides had resulted, but aside from that, the rupture had been about as ugly a proceeding as two otherwise well-mannered people could have possibly manifested. And it had dragged on for more than two years.
As for Felipe, his first marriage (to an intelligent, professional Australian woman) had ended almost a decade before we'd met in Bali. His divorce had unfolded graciously enough at the time, but losing his wife (and access to the house and kids and almost two decades of history that came along with her) had inflicted on this good man a lingering legacy of sadness, with special emphases on regret, isolation, and economic anxiety.
Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Committed'Our experiences, then, had left the two of us taxed, troubled, and decidedly suspicious of the joys of holy wedded matrimony. Like anyone who has ever walked through the valley of the shadow of divorce, Felipe and I had each learned firsthand this distressing truth: that every intimacy carries, secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. We had also learned that marriage is an estate that is very much easier to enter than it is to exit. Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you—the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love—may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. Thus, you can feasibly find yourself trapped for months or even years in a loveless legal bond that has come to feel rather like a burning building. A burning building in which you, my friend, are handcuffed to a radiator somewhere down in the basement, unable to wrench yourself free, while the smoke billows forth and the rafters are collapsing . . .
I'm sorry—does all this sound unenthusiastic?
I share these unpleasant thoughts only to explain why Felipe and I had made a rather unusual pact with each other, right from the beginning of our love story. We had sworn with all our hearts to never, ever, under any circumstances, marry. We had even promised never to blend together our finances or our worldly assets, in order to avoid the potential nightmare of ever again having to divvy up an explosive personal munitions dump of shared mortgages, deeds, property, bank accounts, kitchen appliances, and favorite books. These promises having been duly pledged, the two of us proceeded forth into our carefully partitioned companionship with a real sense of calmness. For just as a sworn engagement can bring to so many other couples a sensation of encircling protection, our vow never to marry had cloaked the two of us in all the emotional security we required in order to try once more at love. And this commitment of ours—consciously devoid of official commitment—felt miraculous in its liberation. It felt as though we had found the Northwest Passage of Perfect Intimacy—something that, as García Márquez wrote, "resembled love, but without the problems of love."
So that's what we'd been doing up until the spring of 2006: minding our own business, building a delicately divided life together in unfettered contentment. And that is very well how we might have gone on living happily ever after, except for one terribly inconvenient interference.
The United States Department of Homeland Security got involved.
Reprinted by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., from Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert. Copyright © 2010 by Elizabeth Gilbert
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WASHINGTON, August 9, 2013 – United Processing LLC, a New York Mills, NY firm, is recalling approximately 12,600 pounds of boneless veal products because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, E. coli O145 and E. coli O45 the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The following products are subject to FSIS recall:
The products subject to recall bear the establishment number "M- 27450" inside the USDA mark of inspection on a generic box label. The products were produced on June 17, 18, 24, 28 and 29, 2013 then distributed to wholesalers in New York and California for further processing.
FSIS became aware of the problem during inspection program personnel review. The firm sampled the product per their food safety program, and inadvertently shipped the product into commerce.
FSIS and the company have received no reports of illnesses associated with consumption of these products.
Many clinical laboratories do not test for non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), such as STEC O26, O103, O45, O111, O121 or O145 because it is harder to identify. Infections with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli can result in dehydration, bloody diarrhea and abdominal cramps 2-8 days (3-4 days, on average) after exposure to the organism. While most people recover within a week, some develop a type of kidney failure called Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS). This condition can occur among persons of any age but is most common in children under 5 and older adults. Symptoms of HUS may include fever, abdominal pain, pale skin tone, fatigue, small, unexplained bruises or bleeding from the nose and mouth, decreased urination, and swelling. Persons who experience these symptoms should seek emergency medical care immediately.
Consumers and media with questions regarding the recall should contact the company's plant manager Jon Gorea at (315) 768-7100, ext. 228.
Consumers with food safety questions can "Ask Karen," the FSIS virtual representative available 24 hours a day at AskKaren.gov or via smartphone at m.askkaren.gov. "Ask Karen" live chat services are available Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET. The toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) is available in English and Spanish and can be reached from l0 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. Recorded food safety messages are available 24 hours a day. The online Electronic Consumer Complaint Monitoring System can be accessed 24 hours a day at: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/report-a-problem-with-food.
|USDA Recall Classifications
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|This is a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.
|Class II
|This is a health hazard situation where there is a remote probability of adverse health consequences from the use of the product.
|Class III
|This is a situation where the use of the product will not cause adverse health consequences.


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Cuisinart Commercial Wine Opener
Remove either synthetic or natural corks in a matter of seconds with this fully automatic rechargeable wine bottle opener. Since it requires no manual twisting or pulling and can open 120 bottles on a single charge, it's perfect for entertaining large groups where multiple bottles need to be at the ready.
- Simple two-button operation: one for removing the cork from the bottle, the other for removing the cork from the opener.
- Rechargeable NiMH battery can open up to 120 bottles on a single charge.
- Reliable, commercial-grade motor is quiet during operation.
- Attractive countertop charging station serves as a compact storage unit.
- Brushed stainless-steel exterior is corrosion-resistant and easy to clean.
- Includes a removable foil cutter.
- Charging base: 4" x 5 1/2" x 12 1/2" high.
- Wine bottle opener: 2 1/2" diam. x 12" high.
- Made in China.
Use & Care
- Charge the unit for at least 10 hours prior to first use.
- This product is intended for use in the United States and Canada and is built to United States electrical standards.
- Always unplug the unit before cleaning.
- To clean the housing, wipe with a clean, damp cloth.
- Never immerse any part of the unit or battery in water or other liquids.
Shipping Information
UPS can deliver most in-stock items within 3–5 business days. UPS is unable to deliver to P.O. boxes.
Shipping Rates
The shipping rate varies depending on your order total and shipping destination. View Shipping Options and Charges.
Next Day Delivery
For an additional charge of $26 per address, we can expedite delivery to most destinations. This service is not available for some oversize items, items shipped directly from the supplier (including perishable and custom-manufactured items), out-of-stock items and items to be shipped outside the contiguous 48 states.
Orders received by 9:00 p.m. ET Monday through Thursday will arrive the next business day; orders placed Friday through Sunday will arrive on the following Tuesday.
Return Policy
At Williams Sonoma, we take great pride in the quality and craftsmanship of our products. Attention to design, materials, safety and construction are our priority. Upon receipt, please inspect your purchase and notify us of any damage; we will arrange for a prompt replacement.
If within 30 days, you are dissatisfied for any reason, you may return your purchase for a refund of the merchandise value. An original receipt or gift receipt is required for all returns and exchanges. Returns with a gift receipt will be refunded in the form of a Merchandise Credit for the amount indicated on the gift receipt. Returns with original receipt will be refunded in the original form of payment, cash and check refunds over $100 will be issued as a company check (may take 14 business days from time of request).
For all cutlery returns (knife sets, single knives, cutting boards, knife sharpeners and knife storage), please contact us at 888.922.4108 to initiate the return.
We cannot accept returns on monogrammed, personalized, special-order items, custom upholstery, food, items shipped direct from the vendor or on items damaged through normal wear and tear. Final sale items ending in .97 or .99 cannot be returned.
Made to Order and Final Sale Furniture items are non-returnable and cannot be cancelled once the order is placed.
For returns of items purchased from your Williams Sonoma Gift Registry, we will gladly provide a refund or exchange for the merchandise within 90 days of your event or within 90 days of purchase, whichever date is later. View Full Returns Policy.
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Recent News
December 13, 2013
Bee International Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Egg in "Sweet Spots"
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding a recall of 2oz. packages of candy "Sweet Spots" because they may contain undeclared egg protein. People who have allergies to egg may run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume this product.
The recalled "Sweet Spots" were distributed nationwide in retail stores and through food distributors.
The product comes in a 2oz clear plastic package marked with lot code 2158613 on the back and bearing the UPC 0-73563-00471-6. It is a candy item consisting of small drops of candy on a backing paper that are peeled off and consumed.
The full recall can be found at www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm378586.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery.


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Predictably, in the aftermath of AZ Alkmaar keeper Esteban Alvarado being attacked by a fan, defending himself, then being sent off, the focus is on Alvarado's and the referee's actions. The Dutch FA has ruled that while the referee was correct in showing a red card, Alvarado will not receive the mandatory suspension due to the "exceptional circumstances." They're still debating whether to replay, resume, or abandon the match altogether.
Perhaps more ink should be spilled on other side, the side of 19-year-old fan, who "had been drinking," had already been banned by Ajax for a year but snuck in, and is now banned for life. It would be reactionary to say that Ajax and Dutch soccer have major problems because of what happened yesterday, but not too far to say that Ajax and Dutch soccer definitely have major problems.
A few years back I attended a match at Amsterdam Arena, one of the newest, largest, and blandest of European stadiums. I was struck by a noteworthy design feature: just outside the northern corner of the stadium, there is a little-used train platform. It only opens on certain match days, when special trains from around the Netherlands are packed with fans of the visiting team. The train makes no stops from the home city until this special station at the Arena, where it discharges the away supporters and waits for the match to end. Those fans walk from the platform through a covered tunnel that leads them to their own entry gate. There they fill the away stand, which is enclosed on all sides by a high fence. All of this: the fence, the tunnel, the exclusive train platform: it all exists for the sole purpose of making sure visiting fans never interact with Ajax supporters.
The platform and tunnel can be seen here from above, and in this video showing Ajax fans being forced back by police horses as they attempt to rush and intimidate arriving Feyenoord supporters.
Hooliganism is alive and well in the Eredivisie, and not just in the aren't-they-cute-but-irrelevant rivalries like Millwall/West Ham in England. Ajax is one of the most successful and storied teams in all of Europe, yet look at the restrictions they're forced to apply. They had to move their two biggest firms, F-Side and VAK410, to the opposite side of the arena from visiting fans. For most games, visiting fans are not allowed to attend unless they travel by the special train and sit in their guarded section. Against rivals Feyenoord and ADO Den Haag, visiting fans aren't allowed to attend at all.
So much effort has gone into protecting and policing the supporters, that perhaps there isn't enough done to protect the players. While Ajax and AZ aren't particularly rivals, security still had to devote its efforts into keeping the fans from each other. In the end, then, there weren't enough guards outside the stadium or on the edge of the pitch, the two places Alvarado's attacker could have been stopped. But he's the story today, when maybe the real story should be the 25 other Ajax fans arrested during the match.


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LOS ANGELES, April 24 (UPI) -- Heather Graham decries the movie industry as "totally sexist" in a recent interview with Esquire magazine.
The 44-year-old actress recently guest starred as sexy mom Julia on Californication, and says she is "just glad to be working" despite the industry's sexual stereotypes and sexism.
"I like to approach things the same in art as in life," Graham asserts. "You can choose to look at the positive side and enjoy whatever roles you're given. You can find the silver lining in anything."
"I'm not saying the movie business isn't sexist. It's totally sexist," she clarifies. "If you look at all the movies being made these days, eighty percent of them about men."
"It's a sexist world and a sexist industry," the star continues. "But I've been very lucky as an actress, to work as much as I have and as consistently as I have. And when you don't see the kind of stories out there that represent you, you have to make them yourself."
Graham took matters into her own hands and wrote a script that she'd like to direct. The story is about sex from a woman's point of view, "specifically women who like having sex."
"When do you ever get to see a movie from the point of view of a woman who's more interested in having really great orgasms than finding a husband?" she asks. "I'd like to direct it and star in it. We're actually in the process of casting it right now. So knock on wood, hopefully we're doing it this summer."
Graham will next appear in Behaving Badly alongside Selena Gomez and Mary-Louise Parker.


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There is little disputing that right now Barack Obama is the world's biggest celebrity. Movie stars want to meet him. Foreign leaders want his autograph. Americans just want to shake his hand.
But lately it seems the popular president has become a one-man stimulus plan for the television industry.
Obama did a recent promo for "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" during the host's first week on the job. He participated in a skit via video on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." NBC was taking pre-orders for its "Inside the Obama White House" DVD ($19.99) the day after the two-part special aired. Now ABC is promoting its special Obama access June 24: shooting "Good Morning America" from the North Lawn – including exclusive interviews with the president and the first lady – holding a primetime health care Q&A with Obama in the East Room, and anchoring "Nightline" from the Blue Room in the executive mansion.
And on Tuesday Mariah Carey's husband, Nick Cannon, was using the White House as a backdrop for a promo of the NBC reality show "America's Got Talent," which he hosts.
The White House had cleared Cannon in to do the spot. The rapper/actor was on the North Lawn giving his pitch while the president of South Korea's motorcade rolled by in the background.
"Talent is taking over the world," he shouted, as the pillars of White House gleamed in the distance.
The president and first lady have been vocal since the election about wanting a more accessible White House that's open to the public. But when Cannon showed up it all started to feel like too much to some White House observers, who groaned that this sort of on-site mish-mashing of pop culture and government is cheapening the executive office. TV host Bill Maher summed it up this week when he accused Obama of being obsessed with his television appearances.
"I don't want my president to be a TV star," Maher said on his HBO television show.
"You don't have to be on television every minute of every day—you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order,' " he continued. "TV stars are too worried about being popular and too concerned about being renewed."
But, in addition to getting to showcase his image and his message on the tube, Obama sells.
These days an endorsement from the popular commander-in-chief is as good as it gets. After Obama said he was reading the novel Netherland, sales of the book increased 40 percent. In fact, it's been doing so well the publisher, Vintage Books, moved up the paperback release date and launched an advertising campaign highlighting Obama's readership. Michelle Obama, too, holds her own – selling out cardigans just by wearing them to lunch. And more than 9 million viewers tuned in for "Inside the Obama White House."
As Desiree Rogers, the White House social secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in April: "We have the best brand on Earth: the Obama brand."
Everyone is trying to cash in, said Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture at Syracuse University. He pointed to Obama's O'Brien cameo as an example.
"I imagine Conan was walking on air with that endorsement," Thompson said. "It's the endorsement of endorsements."
Cannon was even willing to settle for the first dog.
"I want Bo," he told Urban Radio reporter April Ryan. "We like dogs on the show. I got a Frisbee. … I'm just gonna throw it around."
The "Talent" host was upfront about trying to use the White House and its real-life cast of characters to help publicize his show.
"We up here politicking," he said, "trying to see if we can get somebody to do a cameo, anybody."
The White House said Cannon's stand-up and the ABC and NBC news events are simply Obama living up to his promise of accessibility.
"This is just another example of our efforts to open up the White House and give more Americans an inside look," said Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest. "We're trying to engage Americans who consume various different kinds of media."
An NBC spokeswoman said the network chose to film at the White House because it's "iconic to the nation's capital" and the show "celebrates America."
Other presidents have tried to expand the media umbrella. Bill Clinton had local weather forecasters deliver their reports back home from the North Lawn when he was working on climate change. The Bush White House put up a giant tent on the North Portico to have talk radio hosts there to interview Cabinet and administration officials.
"It's always had a policy goal with it," said presidential historian Martha Kumar, who works out of the White House press room.
Earnest said Obama's "prominence in media benefits our policy agenda," and that the Obama administration has struck a balance amid the vast interest in the president and his family.
"There's a way to be both accessible but also appropriately respectful to the house and the presidency," Earnest said. "The American people expect both things."
The recent smattering of Obama-TV, leaves open musings of possibilities to come.
With NBC and ABC getting exclusive access, what's in store on CBS? (Although the network has already gotten Obama White House time via "60 Minutes," Katie Couric and Bob Schieffer).
And with Obama doing this much TV at the White House after only five months, what could be next? Thompson said he doesn't know but that based on Obama's moves so far, "Virtually anything can happen."


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We noted earlier that real GDP growth declined in the second quarter from 2.0 percent to 1.5. In the final quarter of 2011, GDP growth was 4.1 percent, according to the latest adjustment.
Alan Krueger, chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, had this to say about the latest economic news: "While the economy continues to move in the right direction, additional growth is needed to replace the jobs lost in the deep recession that began at the end of 2007."
Does the Obama administration really believe that the economy is moving in the right direction when GDP growth has slumped from 4.1 percent, to 2.0 percent, to 1.5 percent? That's like baseball manager claiming that his team is moving in the right direction when its record over the past three seasons has fallen from .550, to .515, to .510. Such a manager would probably be fired, along with the GM who hired him.
But in this case the economy isn't even at ".500." GDP growth of better than 2 percent is the norm in the United States. Traditionally, we hope for 4 percent and expect at least 3. So even if the economy had held steady at 1.5 percent growth, this would still be bad news.
Krueger agrees that 1.5 percent growth is insufficient — he says additional growth is needed to replace jobs lost in the recession that began in 2007. But 1.5 percent growth has never been considered acceptable. If there had been no recession, that growth rate would be woeful.
The adminstration has either accepted American decline or is lying about how it views the latest economic news. I'd bet it's some of both, but mostly lying. In either case, Krueger should be fired, along with the president who hired him.