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As a child, I grew up obsessing over Sridevi. I'd love to age like her because she's so timeless. It's not like she's trying to look she's 25, you know what I mean? I think that's what makes her so beautiful. I know I'm gushing, but I'm a total fangirl. (Laughs) Sridevi will always be my beauty icon.
I try not to complicate things when it comes to beauty. There's so much information out there and I think it's amazing to learn about new products and things, but it's impossible for everything to work on you. Personally, I like keeping it simple.
I only got serious about skin care in my mid 30s. It's not the smartest thing, I know. I think people should really start looking after their skin in their late '20s at the very least. My sisters and I have a massive age gap and they're so particular about everything that they use. I always laugh, like "Dude, I had no idea what was going on with my skin until, like, three or four years ago."
That whole thing about buying products that break the bank – it's a myth. It doesn't work like that! I used to use tons of Crème de la Mer, and all it did was make me break out.
The one thing I'm particular about is visiting my dermatologist every four weeks. She usually does a mix of microdermabrasion with a glycolic peel for my face. She's recommended a few things that I've just started using – I blend the Auriga Flavo-C Cream and the Avène TriAcneal. The Flavo-C is basically for – I hate that word – but it's an "anti-aging" cream. The other one is for acne prone skin.
I used to break out a lot, so I really simplified my skin care routine. I'm still a product junkie but I don't experiment too much with night creams, cleansers and stuff. The one thing that I really, really love is a good face masque. I would use four a day if I could – but to be a bit more realistic I use them, like, four times a week.
I love all of Origins' face packs – I'm currently using the Origins Out Of Trouble 10 Minute Mask and the Drink Up Intensive Overnight Mask. My skin looks instantly fresh, you know? Like I've taken a five-hour nap. My sister, who's a makeup artist with Burberry, also recommended the Glamglow Youthmud Tinglexfoliate Treatment. I tried that too – the only problem is that you have to use it up quickly because it dries out too soon.
I bleach my face regularly – so whenever there's redness, I use the Dermalogica Multivitamin Power Recovery Masque. It's one of my trusted favourites and it's perfect when the weather is dry. During the day, I also use Caudalie's Beauty Elixir as a pick-me-up.
I'm also pretty crazy about body oils, but I use them only in the night. The Caudalie Divine Oil is pretty genius. There's this other brand called Pahadi Local – they sent me their Gutti Ka Tel which is a pure apricot kernel oil extract and I've been using it religiously for my massages. It's so good for soft skin.
"I've been using the original Issey Miyake perfume for fifteen years. I finally decided to play around with perfumes two years ago and fell in love with For Her by Narciso Rodriguez. It's super refreshing because it's got these strong citrusy notes. I really like Chance by Chanel perfume for the day – it's quite light and nice."
"If your skin care regimen is sorted, half the job is done. If I'm meeting a client or stepping out for lunch, I use the Chanel Vitalumière Aqua Foundation. It's great for a clean, non-greasy look. The Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer and the Bobbi Brown BB Cream (SPF 35) are great alternatives when I'm not attending an event. I've also been using the Yves Saint Laurent Touche Éclat Concelear for five years now and it covers all kinds of spots.
For the nights, I love the Nars Sheer Glow Foundation as well as the Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation. They're both amazing for coverage. Also, I have a little secret. I apply the Charlotte Tilbury Wonderglow – which is sort of a primer, on top of my foundation. That's probably not the right way to wear it, but it gives me this amazing sheen all over my face. Like I said - I'm a product junkie!
I don't know how to use eyeshadow; I'm too lazy to learn the technique. For some reason though, I'm always buying them and then giving them away. It's so stupid. (Laughs) But I've gotta tell you, I feel like I have a PhD in kajal. I'm not very loyal to one brand. I'm currently using the Rock 'N Kohl Eye Pencil by Charlotte Tilbury and the Kat Von D Eye Pencil and they're both thick, jet black pencils with amazing texture. I've just started using the Benefit They're Real! Push-Up Liner as well, and it's fabulous. I love it because it gives you a really smooth cat eye. To get the eye makeup off completely, I use the Lancôme Bi Facil Eye Makeup Remover.
For my lashes, I love the Lancôme Hypnôse Volumizing Mascara because it adds so much more depth and definition to the eyes. I like my cheeks to have a natural, healthy glow – so I'm a huge fan of the Nars Blush in Orgasm.
The most important thing about a lipstick for me, is the colour. The texture is secondary, although it helps it it's great. My favourites are M.A.C's So Chaud, Flat Out Fabulous and Relentlessly Red. I wear this pale pink shade a lot called Kinda Sexy, which looks really great on my skin."
"This year, I'm going to take putting oil in my hair seriously. I'm calling it Project Oil. (Laughs) The best thing you can do for your hair is to shut up, stop making excuses and just oil it. My mother-in-law picks up a bunch of oils from a store in Lucknow called Sugandhco. They make pure oils – almond, castor, olive, coconut – and she blends, like, six or seven oils together and sends it to me. It's all organic and so effective. I don't even need to blow dry my hair when I use it.
When you have coloured hair, using sulfate-free shampoo is a bit of a no-brainer. I use the Kérastase Réflection Bain Chroma Riche range because it stops my hair from getting too dry."
As told to Akshara Subramanian. Photographed by Shovona Karmakar.


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You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error. Items should be returned in their original product packaging. Just do a Secure Log In, click on Contact Us, fill in the form (including your order number and product name) and we will guide you through the process.
The following specific conditions and exceptions apply:
For items directed to our Returns Center, expect your refund within 4 weeks of giving your package to the return shipper (though in many cases you'll receive the refund much sooner).
This time period includes:
5 to 10 business days for us to receive your return from the shipper
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We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.
Some items (such as electronics) may have special returns policies.
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Chris Sale, Nelson Cruz must-plays in today's Daily Fantasy
Doug Fister, Nationals (vs. Phillies) – Fister has been very good in his last three starts, allowing a total of four runs in 19 2/3 innings, good for a 1.83 ERA. He faced the Phillies once before this season, picking up the win while surrendering two runs on four hits and five strikeouts in seven innings. His relative lack of strikeouts does limit his ceiling in a game such as this, but he's projected for just 13 points, a total he can easily surpass against an offense as anemic as Philadelphia's.
Jose Abreu, White Sox (vs. Twins, Logan Darnell) – Abreu extended his hitting streak to 20 games on Thursday with a 3-for-3 effort that included two doubles (he was also intentionally walked twice). The perfect night pushed Abreu's slash line to .305/.356/.636 on the season. The White Sox' slugger typically carries a four- or five-point projection, but today that is down to three. Take advantage of the low score.
Mike Trout, Angels (@ Rays, Jeremy Hellickson) – The primary reason for going with Trout on Friday is his four-point projection, one or two below his usual total. Any time you can get a stud like him at a lower price, you have to take it. Tampa Bay isn't the best place for hitters, but that really doesn't matter to a guy like Trout. He's 1-for-2 with a double and a walk in his career against Hellickson. A word of warning, though, that Trout is just 7-for-39 in his last 10 games.
Other Recommendations
Chris Sale, White Sox (vs. Twins) – Sale's 18-point projection is a bit prohibitive, but he's too good to leave off this list whenever he pitches.
Sonny Gray, A's (vs. Royals) – Gray has allowed four runs in his last 35 innings, a stretch covering five starts. He has 31 strikeouts in that same span.
Adrian Beltre, Rangers (@ Indians, Danny Salazar) – Beltre is 6-for-16 with a home run, two doubles and four RBI in his last four games.
Victor Martinez, Tigers (vs. Rockies, Franklin Morales) – Martinez is 3-for-4 with a double, three RBI and a walk against Morales in his career.
Matt Kemp, Dodgers (vs. Cubs, Kyle Hendricks) – Kemp took an 0-for-2 on Thursday, but was 12-for-19 with three homers and eight RBI in his previous five games.
Nelson Cruz, Orioles (vs. Mariners, Roenis Elias) – Cruz has mashed lefties to the tune of .337/.444/.573 with five homers in 108 plate appearances this season.


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The Importance of a Rose: Biocultural Diversity
Andrea Pieroni is an associate professor of food botany, ethnobotany, and ethnobiology at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy. He is also the academic coordinator of the international post-graduate Master´s program in Pollenzo. Pieroni trained in Medical Botany (Pharmacognosy) at the University of Pisa, University of Antwerp, and at the University of Bonn.
In this talk from MAD2, Pieroni calls for scientists and chefs "to come down from their towers" and exchange ideas.
To learn more about MAD and support our efforts, visit the About page.


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Don't mention the "S" word- business case for sustainability
Don't mention the "S" word
By Graham Sprigg, CEO of IMS Consulting
Justifying the business case for sustainable development can sometimes be very difficult. For many of the companies I've had the privilege to work with over the past 30 years, it's simply put as the way we do business round here.
Over-thinking the question often gets you nowhere and those organisations who are really, truly successful at embedding sustainability into their brand are the ones who just get on with it and don't spend too much time analysing or measuring the outcome. Of course, there are plenty of stories of companies adding millions to their bottom line as a result of better sustainable practice.
After the launch of Plan A, M&S announced that their sustainability programme had added £70m to profits – and that was at the height of the recession in 2010/11. (This increased to £135m in 2012/13). And there are other stories of those who are not so savvy. BP's shares went from $59.50 immediately prior to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster (in April 2010), to $28.90 by June of that year.
I get mixed reactions from senior company executives when the "S" word is mentioned. While it's often hard to attribute good (or bad) practice directly to profit or share price, there can be little doubt that the way a company approaches – and communicates - its commitment to sustainable development will have an effect in at least three aspects of their business.
These are: their ability to attract and retain staff (and this is particularly true for young graduates), their resilience to new regulation – turning costs into opportunity (eg the Carbon Reduction Commitment) and brand value – which relies heavily on how sustainable actions or initiatives are communicated. As Peter Drucker, the father of modern business consulting said a long time ago; "Business only has two functions - marketing and innovation. All the rest are costs."
If we apply this to 2014 it fits very well with the business case for sustainability. Companies who consistently innovate, and tell their stakeholders what they are doing, are more likely to succeed.
One day, perhaps not long from now, the "S" word will no longer be needed in business. Sustainability strategies will simply become business strategies and it's likely everyone will be a bit better off because of it.
IMS Consulting helps companies turn cost into opportunity, by ensuring that the sustainability of goods and services provides maximum benefit to mankind; with minimum impact on the planet. Visit http://www.imsplc.com to understand more.
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Mock Election and political debates at Spotlight
This year's 2017 General Election has truly been a game changer for young people. 1 million young people registered to vote in a month and up to a staggering 72% voted on the day, a stark difference in comparison to 2015 where voter turnout was only 43%. Young people across the nation as well as Spotlight young people, challenged the "Disengaged Youth" stereotype by collectively making their voices heard.
Spotlight young people are volunteering, getting involved in inspiring projects and leadership opportunities. For the few weeks running up to the election day, Spotlight sparked the political conversation by holding various debates on pressing issues. A Question Time event on voting was hosted, in collaboration with For Women of Colour and Bite the Ballot.
Spotlight also engaged young people by having a dedicated "Get Inspired" day, running a social-media campaign and a Mock Election on the 8th of June. Kim Nguyen, Project Worker at Spotlight said "It is apparent that young people today are more involved than ever and we hope that young people in Poplar & Bow and across communities will feel empowered to make a change!".


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Kings Point Baby Boomers
Old enough to have done it all - young enough to do it again
The Kingspoint Baby Boomers is not accepting new membership at this time.
Click Here for New Member Application
Thank you for your interest.
The Kings Point Baby Boomers Club was the brain-child of Ken and Cheryl Kaplan,
who began spreading the idea of a club intended for those Kings Point residents
who desired to extend their network of friends to include those of a similar age
group and social interests. It wasn't long before it became obvious that there
was a need to address the "Boomer" generation's unique life style, including their
music, their memories and their need to share their retirement years in a more
upbeat environment. The Club's organization meeting was held in September 2005
with approximately 20 people in attendance, and its first officers were elected.
The need for a Mission Statement to properly describe the purpose of the club
and its openness towards "Boomers" of all ages, was the next major hurdle
to be overcome, and with the spirited help of Michelle Jolly and the newly
elected officers, the following Mission Statement was adopted.
A new generation of retirees, known as Baby Boomers, has arrived at Kings Point.
Some are snowbirds, securing their retirement homes early and making solid real
estate investments. Many are enjoying full time retirement at a younger age
than their parents did. Many of us still work part or full time, and are unable
to participate in daytime activities.
Our goal is to create a more youthful vibe in King's Point, generating
activities that will embrace the nostalgia of the 50's, 60's and 70's and
take advantage of the evening hours. We welcome all who have the
'spirit' of youthfulness and wish to share in our activities.
Within the first nine months, the membership of the club grew from 20
to over 400 individuals, enjoying activities including Wine and Tapas
Party, Twilight Bowling Party and Buffet, Pot Luck Dinners, Game
Nights, Dances, Karaoke, Shuffleboard/Volleyball/Billiard parties, and
trips to the Doo-Wop Reunion and Key West.
The Fine Print
All members must reside in Kings Point.
Guests, sponsored by a member, are welcome at most events.
Annual dues for the club are $10.00 per person per Club Year (April 1st through March 31st).
A completed Waiver of Liability and the first year's dues are all that is required to secure membership.
For all the details, see the Club Bylaws.


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- Preheat your oven to 180°C, grease and line your shallow tin with baking parchment ready for your mixture.
- Add the butter, sugar and honey to a pan and place over medium heat until melted. Remove from the heat and add your rolled oats and ground cinnamon. Grate your apples, skin on or off, entirely your choice and add this to the mixture too.
- Spoon your mixture into the shallow tin and press into corners of the tin with a fork, bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes. Once golden brown remove from the oven and leave to cool for 10 minutes then cut into squares (or any shape you so choose)
- For decoration you can add a few slices of apple to the top or you can drizzle over some honey.
Sunday, 18 January 2015
Domestic Goddess | Apple and Cinnamon Flapjacks
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This looks amazing, xoxReplyDelete
They tasted pretty good too, just going by my own opinion though as my partner refuses to eat anything remotely healthy! HahaDelete
Hannah xx
These sound delicious! I love apple and cinnamon, such a good combination :) xxReplyDelete
Apple and cinnamon are my favourite flavours and scents, I had thought of adding chocolate but that would defeat the purpose of making something a bit healthy haha!Delete
Hannah xx
These look so tasty! I normally stick to my peanut butter flapjacks but I'm going to have to give these a go!ReplyDelete
Katie xx
Ooooh peanut butter flapjacks sound lovely! I will have it give those a go next time! :)Delete


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By using XaaS, you can create and publish actions to extend the operations that the consumers can perform on third-party provisioned resources.
In this scenario, you create and publish a resource action for quick starting of Amazon virtual machines.
- Install the vRealize Orchestrator plug-in for Amazon Web Services on your default vRealize Orchestrator server.
- Create or import a vRealize Orchestrator workflow for resource mapping of Amazon instances.


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With Christmas on the horizon, many of us are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our Black Friday bargains and presents.
Research has shown that 60% of people have experienced problems with deliveries, and not even Santa is off the hook. From arctic winds to sandstorms, your presents have to withstand a lot on their way to you.
If you do find yourself with a damaged item, there's no need to worry. Protective case experts, the Case Farm, have put together this simple guide to make sure you have a replacement under the tree well in time for Christmas morning.
Your rights
If you receive damaged goods from a retailer, you're protected under the Consumer Rights Act. The Act states that the retailer is responsible for the condition of the item until you receive it, so even if damage was caused by a courier or third party, the retailer must offer you a repair, replacement or refund.
Some retailers may try to claim you need to take up a claim with the courier company, but this is not the case. As your contract is with the retailer, it is their duty to fix any issues with the item you receive.
What to do if an item arrives damaged
When you receive a damaged item, it's important to notify the retailer quickly. Take pictures of the damage if you can, and contact the retailer in writing. You'll then have a record of communication if you run into any issues.
Most retailers should deal with your complaint without an issue, offering a repair, refund or replacement. If they request that you return the faulty item, make sure to do so promptly, and get proof of postage in case your parcel goes missing.
If you run into problems when contacting the retailer, or you're unable to reach a satisfactory agreement, it may be worth getting in touch with the Consumer Ombudsman. The ombudsman provides free, fair and independent advice to help resolve disputes and bring complaints to a conclusion.
These simple tips should help to make sure that your gifts are in tip top condition come Christmas morning, no matter how far Santa has had to bring them!


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Project reference: 611516
Funded under: FP7-ICT
SEMEiotic Oriented Technology for Individual's CardiOmetabolic risk self-assessmeNt and Self-monitoring
From 2013-11-01 duration 36 months
( http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/110656_en.html )
Atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), including heart disease and stroke, are the leading causes of mortality worldwide. The atherosclerotic illness develops insidiously, and clinical manifestations often become evident in its advanced stages. This explains why CVDs represent one of the major challenges to the health systems and considerable efforts are profused to treat clinical manifestations of CVDs. These efforts have granted significant advances with actual improvements in patients' outcome, quod ad vitam and valitudinem.
Despite the success of the pharmacological, interventional, and surgical treatment of the CVDs, all these therapies cannot modify the epidemiological impact of the disease. Moreover, the cost of current health systems grows exponentially with the widespread use of complex diagnostic procedures, as well as with population aging. At present, the strategy of prevention, which attempts to modify some patho-physiological factors related to the genesis of the disease, seems to be the only way to limit the epidemic growth of CVDs.
Cardio-metabolic risk is a cluster of risk factors indicative of a patient's overall risk for CVD and type-2 diabetes. They include obesity, physical inactivity, smoke, alcohol abuse, abnormal lipid metabolism, hyper-glycaemia, and arterial hypertension. Educational programs and lifestyle interventions represent effective tools for reducing cardio-metabolic risk profile and incidence of CVDs. Such a prevention strategy is individually tuned and requires an expensive organization of the health systems. A rationale alternative to intensive individual coaching is the development of systems for self-learning and self-monitoring. These systems may help people to change and maintain their lifestyle providing tailored suggestions about nutrition, weight, physical activity, fatigue, and stress according to daily surveys. Data collected by such coaching systems could be analysed and interpreted by health care professionals so as to support decision making targeted to the specific individual conditions. This approach has the potential to result highly cost-effective and might foster the diffusion of self-coaching systems with favourable impact on social, physiological, and environmental factors that, at present, remain barriers for the success of large-scale preventive intervention on CVD and diabetes.
In SEMEOTICONS, we propose the definition of the digital semeiotics of the face, i.e. the computerized evaluation of facial signs, focused on those signs that relate to some widely-recognized risk factors of CVDs. These signs above will assessed by a number of computational descriptors that will be extracted from different observation modalities (morphometric, biometric, colorimetric, gestural and emotional analyses of the face, spectroscopic analysis of skin and iris, sub-cutaneous substances and the function of sub-cutaneous tissues, compositional analysis of breath and exhaled gas). An interactive smart mirror, easily deployable in normal-life settings, will be developped which will seamlessly integrate contactless sensors, such as three-dimensional (3D) optical sensors, a multispectral camera, gas detection sensors, and microphones. A touch-screen interface will be also included for user's interactions and output visualization. The resulting device will be a kind of "wise wizard" mirror, called Wize Mirror. The integration of semeiotic descriptors will occur by a virtual individual's model used to compute and trace the daily evolution of an individual's wellness index. A health diary about this index will be created so as to enable the individual to evaluate and personally relate his/her lifestyle to his/her well-being. A personalized user's guidance will be supplied according to user's profiling so as to provide useful suggestion on correct lifestyle self-monitoring.


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| Yahoo Agrees a Deal to Serve Google Search and Ads
Yahoo reaches a deal to optionally serve Google search and ads.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Oct 21, 2015
| Yahoo Ads Network Carried Flash Ads Exploit For 7-Days
Hackers used Yahoo's ads network to deliver malicious content to out-of-date versions of Flash.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Aug 5, 2015
| Yahoo announces plans to kill off several services
Say goodbye to Maps, Pipes, GeoPlanet and PlaceSpotter APIs, and some regional sites
|Yahoo Corporate
|June 5, 2015
| Yahoo To Close Its Directory, Yahoo Education, and Qwiki
Yahoo announced its Directory is to close December 31, 2014.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Sept 26, 2014
| U.S. Government Threatened Yahoo With $250,000 per day Fine If It Didn't Release Data
"At one point, the U.S. Government threatened the imposition of $250,000 in fines per day if we refused to comply."
|Yahoo Corporate
|Sept 12, 2014
| Yahoo Drops "Do Not Track"
"...web browser Do Not Track settings will no longer be enabled on Yahoo."
|Yahoo Corporate
|May 4, 2014
| Yahoo Locks Down More Data Encryption
"In addition to moving all of our properties to encryption by default, we will be implementing additional security measures such as HSTS, Perfect Forward Secrecy and Certificate Transparency over the coming months."[br][br]"We will continue to work hard to deploy the best possible technology to combat attacks and surveillance that violate our users' privacy."
|Yahoo Corporate
|Apr 3, 2014
| Yahoo Moves To Stop User Access of Its Services with Facebook, Google IDs
The sign-in buttons for Facebook and Google will eventually be removed from all Yahoo properties, the Yahoo spokeswoman, though she declined to provide a timeframe.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Mar 5, 2014
| Is Yahoo Getting Back Into Search
Sources said Mayer has put a priority on the projects...
|Yahoo Corporate
|Feb 3, 2014
| Yahoo Mail User Accounts Compromised
Recently, we identified a coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts. Upon discovery, we took immediate action to protect our users, prompting them to reset passwords on impacted accounts.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Jan 31, 2014
| Yahoo Announces A New, Unified Approach To Advertising
"The new Yahoo Advertising includes a comprehensive suite of web, mobile, and video ad products across native, audience, and premium display, which are accessible through a new buying platform."
|Yahoo Corporate
|Jan 8, 2014
| Yahoo Acquires Natural Language Tech Company, SkyPhrase
"We are excited to join Yahoo Labs to continue to work on our shared vision of making computers deeply understand people's natural language and intentions."
|Yahoo Corporate
|Dec 3, 2013
| Yahoo Moves To Encrypt More Data Flow To Improve Privacy
"There is nothing more important to us than protecting our users' privacy. To that end, we recently announced that we will make Yahoo Mail even more secure by introducing https (SSL - Secure Sockets Layer) encryption with a 2048-bit key across our network by January 8, 2014."[br][br]"Today we are announcing that we will extend that effort across all Yahoo products."
|Yahoo Corporate
|Nov 18, 2013
| Yahoo Mail Gets a Refresh, With New Features
"Our hope is that the new look makes your daily communication habits a little more inspiring and that it will be easier than ever to manage your email."
|Yahoo Corporate
|Oct 8, 2013
| Introducing Our New Logo!
Yahoo! has! a! new! logo!
|Yahoo Corporate
|Sept 5, 2013
| Yahoo To Launch New Logo 4 September, With 30 Days of Change
Yahoo is about to start what it calls is 30-days of change, including a new logo.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Aug 7, 2013
| Yahoo Acquires Email Contact Discovery Company, Xobni
"At this moment, we're unpacking our boxes from San Francisco and settling in to the new Sunnyvale space at Yahoo! HQ."
|Yahoo Corporate
|July 4, 2013
| Report: Yahoo's Bid for Hulu in $600M to $800M Range
The site, which has both a subscription and an advertising business, was on the market in 2011, with the hope for a bid of $2 billion that came with several years of programming rights. The sale was pulled after those higher bids did not materialize.
|Yahoo Corporate
|May 27, 2013
| Flickr now offering 1TB free space for your photos
No limited pixels, no cramped formats, no memories that fall flat. We're giving your photos room to breathe, and you the space to upload a dizzying number of photos and videos, for free.
|Yahoo Corporate
|May 21, 2013
| Yahoo buys Tumblr for $1 Billion Cash
Yahoo's! board met on Sunday and approved the all-cash deal to buy one of the fastest growing social media sites on the web: an official announcement will be livestreamed from New York as soon as Monday afternoon.
|Yahoo Corporate
|May 20, 2013
| Report: Yahoo Struggling To Escape Search Partnership With Microsoft
Meanwhile, Google had indicated to Yahoo over the past year that it is willing to enter into a potentially more lucrative partnership to provide Web-search and search-advertising technology to Yahoo, according to people familiar with the matter.
|Yahoo Corporate
|May 8, 2013
| Yahoo Acquires Summly News App
Today, we're excited to share that we're acquiring Summly, a mobile product company founded with a vision to simplify the way we get information, making it faster, easier and more concise.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Mar 25, 2013
| Yahoo Confirms It Will Run Google AdSense
...we're excited to announce that we recently signed a global, non-exclusive agreement with Google to display ads on various Yahoo! properties and certain co-branded sites using Google's AdSense for Content and Google's AdMob services.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Feb 7, 2013
| Yahoo Reports 4Q $1,346 million and Full Year Results $4,987 million
"I'm proud of Yahoo!'s 2012 and fourth quarter results. In 2012, Yahoo! exhibited revenue growth for the first time in 4 years, with revenue up 2 percent year-over-year," said Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Jan 28, 2013
| Mexican Court Rules Yahoo To Pay $2.7 Billion Over Breach Of Contract
In a statement on its website Yahoo said the 49th Civil Court of the Federal District of Mexico City had "entered a non-final judgment of US $2.7 billion against Yahoo! Inc. and Yahoo de Mexico" in the case.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Dec 3, 2012
| Yahoo To Ignore "Do Not Track" in Microsoft's IE 10
Recently, Microsoft unilaterally decided to turn on DNT in Internet Explorer 10 by default, rather than at users' direction. In our view, this degrades the experience for the majority of users and makes it hard to deliver on our value proposition to them. It basically means that the DNT signal from IE10 doesn't express user intent.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Oct 30, 2012
| Marissa Meyer Outlines Some Of The CEO's Future Plans For Yahoo
Her goals: To grow users and usage, as well as advertisers and talent, using personalization.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Sept 26, 2012
| Yahoo And Alibaba Close $7.6 Billion Assets Deal
Yahoo has closed the multi-billion-dollar sale of half its assets in China's Alibaba Group.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Sept 18, 2012
| Google's Marissa Mayer to be new Yahoo CEO
"Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next C.E.O. of Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America."
|Yahoo Corporate
|July 16, 2012
| Yahoo chief executive steps down
Yahoo has said that Ross Levinsohn will temporarily replace chief executive Scott Thompson, who has stepped down in the face of controversy about his allegedly inflated CV.
|Yahoo Corporate
|May 14, 2012
| Yahoo's CEO, Scott Thompson, Plans To Close About 50 Non-Core Products
He said he had asked: "How would we build Yahoo from the ground up if we were building it from scratch today?"[br][br]As a result he said it would be "shutting down or transitioning roughly 50 properties that don't contribute meaningfully to engagement of revenue".
|Yahoo Corporate
|Apr 18, 2012
| Yahoo Q1 Posts $1,077 Million Revenue, 1pct Up On Previous Year
"In the first quarter, Yahoo!'s results came in at the high end of our guidance range and beat consensus on revenue and profits," said Scott Thompson, CEO of Yahoo!. "We also made changes to resize the organization and establish a new leadership structure to quickly deliver the best user and advertiser experiences at scale."
|Yahoo Corporate
|Apr 18, 2012
| Yahoo Patent Filing For eBook Advert System
It suggests users could be offered ads as hyperlinks based within the book's text, in-laid text or even "dynamic content" such as video.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Apr 10, 2012
| Yahoo To 'Re-Shape The Company' And Cuts Around 2,000 Jobs
"Today's actions are an important next step toward a bold, new Yahoo!, smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require."[br][br]"Today, the company will begin the process of informing employees about these changes. As part of that effort, approximately 2,000 people will be notified of job elimination or phased transition."
|Yahoo Corporate
|Apr 4, 2012
| Yahoo Suing Facebook For Patent Infringement
The 19-page lawsuit over 10 patents - related to advertising, privacy, customization, messaging and social networking - comes as Yahoo is seeking to right itself under new CEO Scott Thompson.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Mar 13, 2012
| Yahoo Seeks Licensing Fees From Facebook
Yahoo has asserted claims on patents that include the technical mechanisms in the Facebook's ads, privacy controls, news feed and messaging service, according to a source briefed on the matter.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Feb 28, 2012
| Jerry Yang leaves Yahoo
Yahoo has announced that Jerry Yang has resigned from his position with the Board of Directions, as well as with the boards of Yahoo Japan and Alibaba.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Jan 18, 2012
| Yahoo Names New CEO, Scott Thompson
PayPal President, Scott Thompson, names as Yahoo's new CEO.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Jan 4, 2012
| Yahoo Acquires Ad Targeting Software Firm, Interclick, For $270 Million
According to Yahoo, Interclick will give it data targeting, optimization technology and more premium inventory to sell. Yahoo has been exploring an ad partnership with Microsoft and AOL to compete better with Google. That partnership would pool inventory into premium packages.
|Yahoo Corporate
|Nov 1, 2011
| Carol Bartz Fired as CEO of Yahoo
"Carol Bartz's tumultuous tenure as the CEO of Yahoo has come to an abrupt end according a report from All Things Digital. Bartz was named CEO of the Internet giant in January 2009 after previously serving as CEO of Autodesk." - mashable.com
|Yahoo Corporate
|Sept 7, 2011


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In the book trailer for the novel Baby
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their losses and how they are ready to speak freely to friends and
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It may not get much better for a long time.
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get worse. Getting pregnant again may not give you the release from grief
you seek. Just give yourself time and surround yourself with people who care
and understand. Forget the rest of them, for now.
If I could make one recommendation that has
helped me tremendously, it would be to put together a memory box of your
baby's things, even if it is only sympathy cards and a positive pregnancy
test, or just letters you are writing to him/her. For several months, I went
into the nursery and opened that box and cried every single day. I found
that if I didn't, I felt like I was in a grief-fog all day. The memory box
validates my baby's existence. Since I don't have a grave or a container of
ashes, I go to it.
This is the number one complaint of women. They feel sad, overwhelmed, and grief-stricken, and
their partners are still watching football, going to work
just fine, or even telling them to "get over it."
There are a few critical points I want to bring up about
This is the number one complaint of women. They feel sad, overwhelmed, and grief-stricken, and
their partners are still watching football, going to work
just fine, or even telling them to "get over it."
I am so jealous of pregnant
women, even family and friends
This is perfectly
natural, and is reported by 100% of women who have lost babies. Why you and not
them? Why does your teenage niece get to have a baby when you don't? Or that
woman who is still smoking? Or the five friends of yours who are pregnant right
You will feel surrounded by babies and pregnant women. You
will see reminders of your loss everywhere. This is something you are going to
have to tough out. Here are some things that might help:
Buy something for your baby. Or better yet, make a
little memory box. (See memorializing
your baby.) You will feel comforted and more like a mom yourself--because
you are one!
Don't feel obligated to go to baby showers. Don't
bother with excuses, or to explain yourself. Just send a lovely note with a
gift certificate to the mall, or Target, or an online baby store, and say,
"Wish I could have made it. Best wishes." Will some people be
upset? If it is your best friend, or your sister-in-law, maybe. But that's
okay. One of the two of you were going to get bent out of shape with this
situation, so let it be the one who is about to have a joyful moment and
will forget all about it in a few weeks.
Don't bottle it up. If pregnant co-workers or friends
talk incessantly about babies, just say, "I am so happy you all have so
much to look forward to. I can't wait until it is one day my turn."
Then walk away! There is no need to stand around and endure the
conversation. Even if they say something negative about your sensitivity,
they are just projecting how guilty they feel for upsetting you. They know
it's their fault. And they have no idea how hard this is for you. Often
you'll find out who has had a miscarriage before, because they will seek you
out with a sympathetic, understanding ear.
Remember that this is a joyful time for them. You too
will want to shout to the rooftops when your healthy baby is born. They are
having a happy moment, and in the momentum of their anticipation, they don't
always remember that you are grieving that very thing that they have. When
women are pregnant, and blissfully ignorant that anything could ever go
wrong, they don't always put others' feelings first. Forgive them, and don't
seek their company if you cannot handle it. Joining in their joy will be one
of the last things you will be able to do as you heal from your loss.
Laughing at a baby shower will be a sign that you are moving through your
healing stages and looking forward to a happier future. This is going to be
a long way down the road, and may not happen until your own little one is
safely delivered. It's okay, and don't beat yourself up about it. You're a
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The migration of your record can be mediated using the Identity Manager application. Each staff and faculty member will need to login, read and accept the terms of service individually there's no opportunity to delegate this step to others.
If you've forgotten your current password, there's no opportunity to reset it prior to migrating your account. You must come by the Identity Help Desk at 4101 SAASB to have a new password issued a migrate your account.
Note that all U-Mail accountholders will have their Identities migrated automatically.
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Well folks. Have a read from many well knowns in the MT industry from 2009 on a few blogs contained in the link below. I maintain my continued stand. Our industry needs to be managed, regulated, enforced, standardized, whatever word you choose to use, and taught how to perform proper quality management activities. And yes, many of these people have flown the coop by now, it appears. The Future of Medical Transcription (2009).
How do you think these industry professionals did on their predictions? Comment below.


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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Australia and Malaysia led an intensified multinational search on Monday for the remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean and prepared to deploy an underwater device to detect any pings from the aircraft's flight data recorders, or black boxes, only days before their batteries are expected to die.
But as searchers contended with a revised search area the size of Poland, there was no immediate indication that they were any closer to finding traces of the aircraft or its 239 passengers and crew members. The plane has now been missing for more than three weeks.
Although frustrations and costs have grown, Malaysian and Australian officials asserted they would keep searching indefinitely.
Malaysia has been under increasing pressure, particularly from relatives of Chinese passengers on the March 8 Kuala Lumpur-to-Beijing flight, to produce evidence of the plane's fate. Most of the passengers were Chinese.
"We understand that it has been a difficult time for all the families, and we appreciate that many families want to see physical evidence before they will accept that MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean," Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia's defense minister, said at a news conference here.
"We will continue with all our efforts to find MH370," he said. "This is a promise that Malaysia intends to keep."
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia, whose country has been coordinating the search in the Indian Ocean, said that he was not considering ending Australian participation.
"We can keep searching for quite some time to come," he said.
Ten planes and 11 ships on Monday scoured the latest search area, about 1,100 miles west of Perth, Australia. The Australian defense minister, David Johnston, said about 100 air personnel and 1,000 sailors were in the zone.
On Tuesday, 10 planes and nine ships were scheduled to participate in the search, officials said, although the weather and the visibility were expected to be poor.
Additional ships were en route, expected to arrive within days, including an Australian naval vessel, the Ocean Shield, equipped to detect the pings of the plane's data and cockpit voice recorders, according to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
Capt. Mark Matthews, a supervisor of a team from the United States Navy that is involved in the search, said the effectiveness of the detection equipment would depend on "how effective we are at reducing that search area."
Captain Matthews said the so-called pinger locator, towed behind the ship, was a batwing-shaped device with a microphone that could pick up signals from Flight 370's data recorders.
In addition, the ship is also carrying an unmanned underwater vehicle that can be deployed to map a debris field on the ocean floor using sonar, and then use a camera to provide what Captain Matthews called "a full mosaic" of the debris field.
But the ping detector's utility, in the absence of more specific information about the location of the wreckage, is doubtful. The device will be towed at an average speed of about three miles per hour, Captain Matthews said, and the submersible moves roughly three and a half miles per hour.
"Nothing is fast in underwater search," Captain Matthews added.
Searchers say there is no time to waste: The pinger locator will be ineffective once the batteries powering the flight data recorders die, which is expected to happen next week.
Mr. Hishammuddin said the Malaysian prime minister, Najib Razak, would travel to Pearce Air Force Base in Australia on Wednesday to thank the multinational force participating in the search and to view the efforts.
Since Friday, when the search zone was shifted from an area about 700 miles south, aircraft have made daily sightings of floating objects. On closer inspection, none of the items have been linked to the missing plane, a Boeing 777-200.
The Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Map of the new search area, which is about 700 miles to the northeast of the previous search areas.
Two planes flying over the zone on Sunday spotted what Mr. Hishammuddin called "potential objects." A ship in the area was sent to the spot on Monday to retrieve them, he said.
As a measure of how difficult it has been for spotters on the planes to classify objects in the ocean, crews on two ships pulled several objects from the rough waters on Saturday, raising hopes that the first physical evidence of the airliner had been found. But the items turned out to be "fishing equipment and other flotsam," the Maritime Safety Authority said in a statement.
In Malaysia, more than two dozen relatives of Chinese passengers on Flight 370 arrived from China on Sunday to press Malaysian officials for more information about the inquiry.
Mr. Hishammuddin reaffirmed on Monday that the Malaysian government intended to host the families at a briefing with high-level officials, and said the meeting would be broadcast to Beijing for relatives of passengers there.
The Malaysian government has endured withering criticism from the relatives and friends of Chinese passengers, both in Malaysia and in China, who have accused officials of withholding information and not doing enough to find the plane.
The group that arrived Sunday protested at a hotel near Kuala Lumpur and demanded an apology from the Malaysian government for declaring last week that the plane had ended its flight in the southern Indian Ocean, saying there was insufficient evidence to support that conclusion.


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Today I'm thinking about a story that Scott Shickler shared last summer at the 7 Mindsets University. It's about a legendary swimmer named Florence Chadwick. It was on the fourth of July of 1952, and this 34-year-old woman who had already swum back and forth across the English Channel set out to swim the stormy seas of the Pacific Ocean off of Catalina Islands en route for California. The water was choppy and the weather chilly. A dense fog hung in the air, making visibility so difficult that she could hardly see the boats alongside of her. After swimming for fifteen hours, Florence begged her mom and trainer, in one of those adjacent boats, to allow her to stop, but they told her she was close and encouraged her to keep on. Unable to see the shore, Florence became disoriented and just couldn't go on. She was taken out of the water, only to be told that she was less than a half a mile from her goal. It was the only time she had quit.
In a news conference the next day, Florence said this:
So my reflection questions today include:
What are the things in life that keep you in the fog?
How easy is it to lose sight of the shore because of that fog?
Who is in your boat, helping you stay the course?
What are the benefits to perseverance and endurance?
What are the risks?
If you could talk with Florence Chadwick, what would you ask?
What would you say? And how would those words help you
to keep on swimming the next time you're in the fog?


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Security Improvements in Internet Explorer for Windows Vista
Internet Explorer 7 introduces several security improvements to help mitigate attacks when it is used on Windows Vista®. The improvements are as follows:
- Protected Mode. Security feature that defends against "elevation of privilege" attacks, helping to prevent attackers from hijacking the browser and executing code through the use of administrator rights.
- Data Execution Prevention (DEP). Security feature that helps prevent damage from viruses and other security threats by monitoring applications that are invoked through Internet Explorer to make sure they use system memory safely.
- Improvements to secure HTTP (HTTPS). HTTP communication over an encrypted transport mechanism, such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS).
Internet Explorer 7 Protected Mode
Protected Mode in Internet Explorer 7 is a defense-in-depth security feature that takes advantage of three new technologies available in the Windows Vista security model:
- User Account Control (UAC). Implements the principle of least privilege whereby all users on a computer run as a standard user. When a task requires more privileges than a standard user, the user is prompted with an elevation request that will temporarily elevate the user's rights to perform this task if the user's account has the necessary credentials.
- Mandatory Integrity Control (MIC). A model in which data can be configured to prevent lower-integrity applications from accessing it. The primary integrity levels are Low, Medium, High, and System. Processes are assigned an integrity level in their access token. Securable objects such as files and registry keys have a new mandatory access control entry (ACE) in the System access control list (ACL).
- User Interface Privilege Isolation (UIPI). Blocks lower-integrity processes from accessing higher-integrity processes.
Leveraging UAC, UIPI, and MIC, Internet Explorer 7 Protected Mode runs all Internet Explorer processes with reduced rights, even if the logged-on user is a member of the local Administrators group. Because of the reduced rights, ActiveX controls and toolbars will trigger a UAC elevation prompt, which helps to mitigate browser installations of malicious software that require no user action.
Internet Explorer 7 Protected Mode is enabled by default on all Internet Explorer security zones except for Trusted Sites.
Data Execution Prevention
With Internet Explorer 7, Data Execution Prevention (DEP) can be enabled on the Advanced tab of the Internet Options dialog box. DEP helps to protect the computer by not allowing code to run in an area of memory that has been designated for data. DEP is useful to mitigate against buffer overflow attacks.
DEP is turned off by default in Internet Explorer because of compatibility issues. Before enabling DEP in Internet Explorer 7 in your organization, make sure to test all of your applications and make sure that they are compatible.
Improvements to Secure HTTP (HTTPS)
HTTPS uses encryption to help protect your Internet traffic from snooping or tampering by others on the network. HTTPS uses either the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols to protect data.
In order to improve security and add new functionality, changes have been made to the HTTPS implementation in Internet Explorer 7. New protocol defaults in Internet Explorer 7 reduce the likelihood of someone taking advantage of configuration or protocol weaknesses to intercept or modify Web traffic that uses the HTTPS protocol.
These changes include:
- Both 40-bit and 56-bit encryption ciphers are disabled by default.
- The TLS implementation in Internet Explorer 7 has been updated to support extensions described in RFC 3546.
- Internet Explorer 7 supports Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) key lengths of up to 256 bits.
- Certificate revocation checking is enabled by default in Windows Vista. You can improve the performance of certificate revocation checking in Windows Vista by using Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP).


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But let me tell you, this is pretty tasty and you can make it as healthy or unhealthy as you like!
You will need:
3 cups meat substitute such as:
-vegetarian beef crumbles
-TVP (small crumbles)
-choice of beans
(or a combination of any)
Taco seasoning
1 can of kidney beans, drained
1 1/2 C biscuit mix (DIY recipe)
1 C non-dairy milk
Any optional toppings you want such as:
Tomatoes, chopped
Black olives, sliced
Chili peppers
Vegan cheese
Vegan sour cream
1. Heat oven to 400F (200C) and grease an 8" baking dish.
2. Follow the taco seasoning directions and mix with any or all meat substitute combinations. Stir in kidney beans.
3. Once everything is combined and seasoned, put the delicious bean mixture into the baking dish. (If using vegan cheese, sprinkle this on top now).
4. In a bowl, combine the biscuit mix and non-dairy milk. One mixed, pour over top the mixture.
5.Bake uncovered for 20-25 minutes or until lightly brown on top.
6. Add toppings and serve!
This makes about 6-8 delicious portions.
Just writing about it makes me want to go make it again. Perhaps I will!


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Wireless security vendor Bluesocket has purchased open source IP PBX maker Pingtel, in hopes of creating a platform that will allow customers to inexpensively blend mobile and fixed wireless voice equipment.
With the acquisition, Bluesocket now has the technology to make devices for mid-size companies that quickly integrate wired, wireless and voice networks to streamline infrastructure.
According to Bluesocket, it plans to create such devices and provide them to other vendors on an OEM basis. Bluesocket will also extend this to small businesses that want to unify their voice and data networks based on standardised gear.
"The opportunity lies in the fact that the wireless LAN and unified communications markets are converging," said Mads Lillelund, CEO at Bluesocket, in a statement. "As a result of this acquisition, we are better positioned to deliver an integrated solution that meets the mobility needs of customers across a variety of industries."
The company says it will focus on handing off cellular phone calls to Wi-Fi networks and vice versa as a way for businesses to save on cellular costs when end-users make wireless calls within corporate campuses.
Bluesocket says it will continue support for Pingtel's open source IP PBX, call-centre server and presence-server projects that all operate under the umbrella name SIPfoundry.
No Pingtel employees will be laid off, and according to Bluesocket, it will boost its research-and-development funding to reach its fixed/mobile goals faster.
Pingtel has not been alone in making its IP PBX software public. Competitor Digium has done the same with its Asterisk platform. With $13.8 million in venture funding, Digium is looking for partners that can customise and add to its core platform to develop systems that could replicate what Bluesocket is shooting for.


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Back at Wentzville Cruise night it seems like this would be a great time to check out some of the non Mopar cars before I slam you guys with all the Mopar goodness. There was a little something for everyone at the Rod Run. I gotta hand it to them, they put on a heck of a cruise. The place was packed with cars. Cars like this awesome Buick convertible. For some reason when I hear Bruce Springsteen's "My Home Town" and he says "big ole Buick" I think of this car.
This post will probably low on words and high on pictures of sweet rides. Hit the jump for a bunch more.
The backside of that big ole Buick. Such a classy ride. It's gotta feel great cruising in that thing.
Ford's of course were out in force. Sometimes in photos it's hard to tell but these are huge cars.
The Chevy boys were out and ready to race. This Chevy II was shaking the whole place as it rumbled by.
Another Chevy, less racy. Still cool.
The Ford Econoline is certainly a collectible. I always think of our buddy Neal from the WHDOW bunch when I see one.
These gen 2 Camaros are pretty awesome well done. I'll have a video from this bad boy soon.
A line of new muscle. Which one do you want?
Heading the other way as the light fades.
It was such a great time at Wentzville. I hear they have another event later in the summer. Hopefully I can get to that one too. More later in the week!


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In a helpful post at the Originalism Blog, Professor Michael Ramsey, a prominent expert on constitutional war powers, provides a powerful response to the "swift action" rationale for unilateral presidential action. As he points out, under modern conditions it is possible to convene Congress for a very quick vote. If members of Congress agree with the president's view that swift military action is essential, they can give him the authorization he needs very fast. If they do not, that suggests we do not have a broad enough national consensus to justify going to war, and also that the president's view may be wrong (or at least open to serious question). Moreover, as Ramsey also emphasizes, the president still does not need congressional authorization to preposition troops where they can act quickly, if necessary, or to defend American troops or civilians against actual or imminent attacks. He only needs it to initiate a war in which the US is not already involved.
I would add two points to Ramsey's careful analysis. First, this case – like the 2011 Libya intervention – is not a situation where a crisis developed so quickly that the president had no time to seek congressional authorization for the use of force. ISIS has been gaining ground against Iraqi government and Kurdish forces for many weeks, and its murderous and genocidal intentions have also been clear for a long time. President Obama had plenty of time to seek congressional authorization during that period. To be sure, some specific aspects of the tactical situation have only emerged recently, such as ISIS' siege of thousands of Yazidi civilians on a mountaintop. But the possibility that ISIS would threaten large numbers of civilians in a position where local forces could not save them was readily foreseeable long before then. To deal with such a likelihood, Obama could (as Ramsey suggests) have sought a conditional authorization for use of force that might, for example, be triggered by a presidential finding that only US action could save large numbers of civilians. Moreover, even after getting an unqualified authorization, Obama would not be obligated to actually order the use of American military power if he thought that the tactical situation on the ground did not warrant it.
Second, this is one of those cases where the changing circumstances stressed by "living Constitution" advocates strengthen the case for imposing tighter limits on government power. As Ramsey notes, it is easier to quickly convene Congress for a vote today than it was in the 18th century. In addition, the modern United States has the capacity to intervene in a much wider range of foreign conflicts than the much weaker America of 1787. This added capacity creates some important benefits for American foreign policy. But it also increases the risk that unilateral presidential action could initiate dubious interventions that are not in the national interest. We cannot completely eliminate the possibility that congressional dilatoriness or inaction might prevent the president from using force in a situation where it is needed. But that risk has to be weighed against the risk that unilateral presidential action might lead to an unwise intervention or one that lacks sufficient political support to make it successful.


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Allah Almighty said, "Neither the heavens nor the earth can contain Me, save the heart of a believer."
The doorway to the Divine Presence is in your heart. Through meditation in Islam, you learn to look within. You learn to awaken the capacity for consciousness in your heart. Through meditation in Islam you learn to surrender yourself. You learnt to root and anchor yourself in a state of divine presence. You learn to connect with the Divine Presence of Allah.
Meditation is absolutely essential in Islam. In fact, meditation is Islam. It is the state of Islam, and nothing can be more necessary now.
Meditation in Islam
In this video, I discuss the preeminent position of meditation in Islam, and how this foundational practice establishes the inner constitution necessary to truly and fully submit to God Almighty and to Divine Will as it manifests in each blessed moment.
In learning about meditation in Islam, you will also learn about the mind-body connection, the importance of physical relaxation, and how meditation in Islam serves to cultivate the presence and sincerity necessary to truly benefit from worship and spiritual practice.
Meditation in Islam: Spirituality
In understanding the importance of meditation in Islam, it is necessary to remember that before the blessed Prophet Muhammad (saws) was appointed as the last and final Messenger, and to call humanity to the pure worship of the One God, it was his practice to seclude himself in a cave known as Ghar Hira upon Jabal Nur, the "Mountain of Light."
At the time, there was no other religious practice established. During such periods of seclusion and meditative spiritual practice and presence, the Prophet (saws) cultivated the capacity to carry the light and power of Allah Almighty. The blessed Prophet (saws) simply sat in long periods of stillness and surrender seeking Truth and the Presence of the Eternal Lord of Creation.
Meditation in Islam is essential to cultivate the spiritual capacity that makes the forms and rituals of the religion truly beneficial.
Meditation in Islam: Surrender
"Islam" literally means the "Way of Surrender," and by practicing meditation in Islam, we learn to truly and fully surrender and submit to Divine Will as it manifests in each moment.
Meditation in Islam teaches a human being how to become present and to live in the Now, the only moment there truly is and the doorway to the Divine Presence.
The ego, or nafs, is continually seeking escape from the Eternal Now and perpetuating itself into past and future. Yet through meditation in Islam, we learn how to transcend ego, time and dunya, the illusory world of form, and connect with that which is Absolute and Eternal.
Meditation in Islam: Transcendence
The blessed Messenger (saws) described the holy struggle to transcend the self as jihad an-nafs, and taught that the way to the Divine Presence of God is in overcoming the lower self, ego consciousness as it manifests in the body and the mind.
With meditation in Islam, we learn how to still, calm, quiet and surrender the lower self, which includes the desires and movements of the mind as well as those of the body.
Through meditation in Islam, we progressively develop the capacity for selflessness and emptiness within, the necessary condition to carry, manifest and transmit the Light and Will of the Divine.
Meditation in Islam: Peace
Peace cannot be realized in the outer world unless peace has become manifest in the heart, and this applies to us individually as well as collectively.
With meditation in Islam, we learn to transcend the story of "me" and the drama, violence and conflict that arise from ego-based consciousness, which as a result of its inherent state of separation necessitates competition and conflict.
Meditation in Islam teaches us how to remain rooted, anchored and present in the Divine Presence of Allah Almighty regardless of external circumstances and situations. Thus, the believer becomes a mountain and pillar of faith, strength and security, and can fulfill his or her true function as a selfless vicegerent, or khalifa, of God serving the wellbeing of all others.[hr] [box]
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When I got home from rescuing Scooby, I took Dash to the vet for his bi-weekly antigen shot. For quite a few months I've been thinking that these shots were a miracle cure, because his coat had started looking so much better. For a short time Dash was actually looking whiter than Dot. Now, all the bronzing and skin discoloration had returned and I have no idea why. Dash's diet is the same. His routine is the same. I can't think of a single good reason why he has brownish spots on his coat again. I guess I shouldn't be surprised though. Similar things happen with my own health all the time. Six months ago, I was convinced that my doctors had finally cured my persistent coughing spells that were often accompanied with severe heartburn. The coughing spells have returned though, after being completely gone for at least six months. I don't know why the coughing has returned. I'm still taking my meds. My diet is actually much healthier than it was a year ago. I even gave up drinking. Sometimes taking better care of yourself just seems pointless.
It's beginning to seems like buying a new large format printer was pointless too. So far, the new printer seems to exhibit exactly the same flaws that eventually drove me crazy with the old printer. I've only had this printer a week and I've already had to unclog the lines. You'd think that I'd at least get a six month grace period or something. Instant clogging just isn't fair. It looks like I'm going to have to upgrade my expensive RIP software as well. I've already discovered that the old RIP won't work with the new printer.
Scooby is getting neutered today. Tomorrow afternoon, I'll go back to the vet and take him over to his temporary new home. Boarding kennels leave a lot to be desired, but I'm certain this dog will get a lot more attention at the kennel than he ever got at his first home. We'll make sure that when he does find his forever home, he'll finally get the second chance he deserves.
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Eighty per cent of scientific data are lost within two decades, according to a new study that tracks the accessibility of data over time.
The culprits? Old e-mail addresses and obsolete storage devices.
"Publicly funded science generates an extraordinary amount of data each year," says Tim Vines, a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia. "Much of these data are unique to a time and place, and is thus irreplaceable, and many other datasets are expensive to regenerate.
"The current system of leaving data with authors means that almost all of it is lost over time, unavailable for validation of the original results or to use for entirely new purposes."
For the analysis, published today in Current Biology, Vines and colleagues attempted to collect original research data from a random set of 516 studies published between 1991 and 2011. They found that while all datasets were available two years after publication, the odds of obtaining the underlying data dropped by 17 per cent per year after that.
"I don't think anybody expects to easily obtain data from a 50-year-old paper, but to find that almost all the datasets are gone at 20 years was a bit of a surprise."
Vines is calling on scientific journals to require authors to upload data onto public archives as a condition for publication, adding that papers with readily accessible data are more valuable for society and thus should get priority for publication.
"Losing data is a waste of research funds and it limits how we can do science," says Vines. "Concerted action is needed to ensure it is saved for future research."


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'Tis the season to eat outdoors! On the few days that the sky is clear, anyway. Actually the skies were notably oppressive and dispensing much water on Friday evening, but our friends persisted with a barbecue anyway. They charged us with bringing a salad so I took inspiration from one that we ate at the last barbecue we attended, an asparagus and risoni salad prepared by meveg of Eat More Vegies.
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'Wall Chart' Seen Diagnostic Tool With Uses, Flaws
Washington--When Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos released this year's "wall chart" of state performance indicators, he challenged educators to reverse what he termed signs of "stagnation" in student achievement.
But the data he presented, skeptical state-level officials said last week, are unlikely to drum up many recruits.
They acknowledged that the annual exercise has aided school-improvement efforts by shining at least a one-day spotlight on the state of education. And its impact has spurred, they said, a variety of state and national efforts to increase the flow of information on school performance.
But the performance data on the chart--high-school graduation rates and college-admission test scores--may not support the Secretary's grim conclusions, the officials insisted.
And, in a broader indictment, they warned that the data are too limited to provide any guidance on how to boost performance.
"Publication of something like this causes political gnashing of teeth, finger-pointing, and excuse-making," said H.D. Hoover, Iowa's testing director. "None of those things change education."
What is needed, he and others suggested, is a broader set of indicators that show how well a state's students perform in particular subject areas. The forthcoming National Assessment of Educational Progress, which will for the first time provide state-by-state achievement data, will serve this function, many predicted.
Meanwhile, educators said, the wall chart should provide examples of states and districts that have improved their performance over time.
Despite their expressions of disappointment with the chart as it is, however, few officials said they would like to see it abandoned.
"It's better to have partial information than no information," said Ramsey Selden, director of the state education assessment center for the Council of Chief State School Officers. "At some point in time, you have to use the best information available."
But Mr. Selden cautioned that "you've got to be careful how you use'' that best-available information.
'A Good Goad'
First unveiled by former Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell in 1984, the wall chart has evoked strong reactions from educators, who had until then strongly resisted state-by-state comparisons.
They objected in particular to the use of the Scholastic Aptitude Test and the American College Testing Program test as measures of a state's student performance. Such tests, they pointed out, are taken only by college-bound students, not a sample of all students in the state, and do not reflect the effects of a state's instructional program.
Nevertheless, the publication of the chart made such comparisons inevitable, and in 1984, the state chiefs voted to establish a new set of indicators that would better reflect state practices. That vote also helped set in motion the idea of expanding naep to produce state-level achievement data.
The publicity surrounding the chart also spurred the growth of performance indicators for individual states, according to W. Ross Brewer, director of planning and policy development for the Vermont Department of Education.
"It serves as a good goad to get us moving on collecting and disseminating information," he said.
An Approximation
In releasing this year's version of the wall chart May 3, Mr. Cavazos suggested that student performance "has been stagnant."
Average sat scores, he noted, had declined by two points--to 904 out of a possible 1,600--since last year, and act scores had risen over that time by one-tenth of a point, to 18.8 out of 35.
In addition, he said, while several states had improved their graduation rates substantially since 1982, the2p4national average had improved by less than 2 percentage points.
"We are standing still," Mr. Cavazos said, "and the problem is that it's been this way for three years in a row. And, frankly, this situation scares me." (See Education Week, May 10, 1989)
Some officials conceded last week that the scores may in fact provide a good approximation of student performance.
"My perception," said Mr. Hoover of Iowa, which ranked first last year among the states that use the act, "is that if we had a true state-by-state comparison, truly sampled kids, and if all kids tried, I would be surprised if states such as Iowa didn't finish where they finish on act comparisons. In fact, I'd be amazed."
Similarly, Terry E. Peterson, special assistant to the South Carolina joint business-education committee, said that his state's data on college-going rates, college-freshman performance, and other factors, correlate well with the wall chart's findings that South Carolina's sat scores have improved substantially since 1982.
Wilmer S. Cody, Louisiana's superintendent of education, said naep data indicate that student achievement is improving more rapidly than the admission-test scores would suggest.
But naep scores also show that much of the improvement has been in basic skills, according to Mr. Cody, and that in higher-level skills, such as those measured on the act, there has not been a significant increase in performance.
Questioning Conclusions
But while these officials were willing to concede that data on the wall chart may reflect actual performance, they questioned the conclusions Mr. Cavazos drew from them.
"I don't think it's useful to seize on year-to-year trends," said Mr. Selden. "If scores don't move for one year, does that mean the whole system is stagnant?"
Many school reforms enacted in the past few years have yet to yield achievement gains among the high-school juniors and seniors who take college-admission tests, added Mr. Cody of Louisiana.
"I have no doubt achievement is going up," he said. "But that has not yet been reflected in the act"
In addition, he noted, "the dropout statistics [on the chart] suggest a seel17lrious problem in the U.S. It does not look like we are making much progress."
But the experience in his state, he said, suggests that the statistics do not tell the entire tale.
"We are aggressively trying to attend to that matter," he said of the dropout rate. "We'll know in two or three years whether we have succeeded."
Moreover, the graduation-rate statistics may not indicate that more students are dropping out of school, Mr. Selden noted. In fact, he said, they could reflect the increased time it may take some students to graduate because of the toughened course requirements and exit tests implemented during the past few years.
"Are they dropouts, or kids the system legitimately applied higher standards to?" he asked. "We don't have the information yet to interpret this."
Charles E.M. Kolb, deputy undersecretary of education for budget, planning, and evaluation, acknowledged that "it's too soon to write off the reforms."
"People shouldn't despair," he added. "They should roll up their sleeves and go to work. Many states have done that."
"The point here is to be challenging," he said. "We have more work to do."
But state officials contended last week that the wall chart has had little effect on state policies because the data do not provide enough information.
More Than a One-Day Story
In fact, as Mr. Hoover of Iowa pointed out, the most significant gains in student achievement nationally--those in the early 1980's--predated the publication of the chart.
Mr. Hoover also noted that policymakers who draw inaccurate conclusions from the data may slow educational progress. Iowa's high test-score ranking, he indicated, has convinced some lawmakers that the school system is good enough as it is.
"People in Iowa worry about complacency," Mr. Hoover said. "If this has had any impact in Iowa, it has been as a way for politicians not to put as much money in education as some wish they would."
Mr. Peterson of South Carolina proposed that, to help states bring about improvements, the Education Department should highlight model districts and states that have improved school performance.
"If there are some 5 or 10 examples of successful endeavors to raise sat scores and graduation rates," he said, "that would give evidence that a concerted long-term effort can make a substantial difference."
The forthcoming naep comparisons should also provide information states can use to boost achievement, said Mr. Cody, who formerly served on naep's policymaking body. That assessment is expected to highlight states' strengths and weaknesses in individual subject areas and on topics within those subject areas.
"If naep follows its past practice, that will be far more informative on what is going on," said the Louisiana superintendent.
Perhaps the most effective way for the Education Department to influence performance, suggested Mr. Brewer of Vermont, is for Secretary Cavazos to report more frequently on the state of education.
The current annual report, he noted, "produces a one-day story on the front page of the newspapers, and that's it."
"What we need is something that would sustain attention on education more regularly," he said. "The wall chart doesn't do that."
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As an athletic enterprise it is akin to Linford Christie reinventing himself as a 1500m runner in his early 40s, but the 2000 Olympic kilometre cycling gold medallist Jason Queally, who retired in 2008, has confirmed he is making an unlikely comeback in a very different discipline, the team pursuit.
The rider who began British cycling's recent Olympic gold rush has his eyes on a place at the London Olympic Games and stands a strong chance of being named this week in the Great Britain squad for the world track championships in Copenhagen this month.
It would be one of sport's more surprising comebacks if Queally were to go all the way to London as he will be 42 when the Games open. But if he makes the five-man team-pursuit selection for Copenhagen – with four selected to ride on the day – it would be an astonishing achievement, as few riders make the switch from the sprint side of track racing to the endurance side, let alone doing so at an age where most have long since retired.
"It's going to be really tough," Queally said, "because there are riders like Geraint Thomas and Bradley Wiggins who are not in contention for places at present [the Welshman and the Londoner are concentrating on their road careers with the Sky pro team] and guys like Andy Tennant are going faster all the time." But Queally was part of a quartet that posted a more than respectable time on Tuesday over 3km, and that has increased his chances of travelling to this year's world championships.
After Queally retired in 2008 when he did not make the cut for Beijing in the sprint squad, he switched initially to riding for the Paralympic team as a tandem pilot. But this week he revoked his Paralympic status meaning his move to team pursuiting is irrevocable.
Queally's move reflects an increasing belief in the British cycling team that the 4,000m team pursuit is turning into an event where pure speed is as important as endurance. The mainstay of the squad, the Beijing gold medallist Ed Clancy, has won national championship medals at the discipline and his blend of sprint and stamina helped the team to a crushing world record for the distance in China.
"It's tough making the transition but my physiological make-up lends itself to it. As a kilometre rider my strength was the last lap. The big issue for me is pacing, because you need to ride at a consistent pace and I tend to go too hard, which has an impact on the guys behind me."
"I was certain that my full international career was over, and I had no regrets. My wife and I have a young son, there were other things I was doing, I felt I had moved on. But I began training with the team pursuiters as the pursuit was a discipline I was going to do with the Paralympians and people began saying I had a potential future there. It kept niggling, niggling at me. I spoke to my wife and she said I should go for it. It will be tough, but London is a once in a lifetime opportunity. "