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The political stakes will be high Wednesday morning when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about her role in the events leading up to the September attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, that resulted in the killing of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
The stakes will also be high for a Republican member of the committee, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, whom some pundits see as a possible presidential candidate in 2016. It will be a rare instance when one potential White House hopeful gets an opportunity to interrogate a potential rival from the opposing party. Clinton herself is thought to be a strong contender for the Democratic nomination, should she chose to throw her hat into the ring.
Gary Cameron / Reuters
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the State Department in Washington January 18, 2013.
Rubio said Tuesday that he hoped Clinton's testimony would shed light on "the decision-making process in terms of the amount of security that was at the consulate. She has a unique insight that no one else in the State Department can offer, so we look forward to hearing about that."
Last month, a report issued by the Accountability Review Board (appointed by Clinton to investigate the attack) blamed State Department officials for "systemic failures and leadership and management deficiencies" that led to protection for the Benghazi facility that was "grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place."
Rubio said Tuesday that one aspect of the report that bothered him was "how much blame was put on lower-level officials in the State Department when in fact this (Benghazi) is a high-profile assignment, a high-profile installation, where we should have been aware of some of the security risks that existed."
In an interview last October, Clinton said, "I take responsibility. I'm in charge of the State Department, 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts. The president and the vice president certainly wouldn't be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals."
'Political charade'
The furor over the Benghazi attack has already helped derail one possible nominee to replace Clinton at the State Department, United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, whom Republicans assailed for using administration talking points that portrayed the incident as a spontaneous response to an inflammatory anti-Islamic video.
Asked whether there was any way that Wednesday's hearing could not become a political event or spectacle, Rubio responded, "Everyone here takes their job seriously. We understand that everyone involved cared for and highly valued the people whose lives were lost. But mistakes were made and it's important to understand why they were made and how they were made so that they're never made again."
Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., talks about Wednesday's Benghazi hearings and previews Sen. John Kerry's upcoming confirmation hearing.
A newly elected Democratic member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, said Tuesday, "My perspective is looking forward. I want to understand how we can better secure (U.S. diplomatic) complexes across the globe and how we can make the case here in Washington that we need the money to do it. There were resource pressures on the State Department to make decisions on security and we need to be able to have the ammunition to make the case here to increase their budget."
Murphy said he did not see the question of whether Clinton was personally responsible for lapses in security at the Benghazi facility as the central issue in the hearing. "The decisions that were made (regarding security in Benghazi) clearly didn't reach Secretary Clinton's desk and I want her thoughts on how we make sure this doesn't happen again," the Connecticut Democrat said.
Murphy, who served three terms in the House before winning a Senate seat, criticized Republicans on the House Oversight Committee for politicizing the Benghazi attack and for running a Benghazi hearing last year that he called "a debacle, a political charade. I'm hopeful that tomorrow's hearing won't be the same."
Stockpiled weapons?
One senator not on the Foreign Affairs Committee but who has led the call for the Obama administration to be more forthcoming about the attack, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., said she hoped to find out from Clinton's testimony what Clinton was told about security threats to the U.S. facility and what she was told about prior attacks on the facility. She asked, "Does she believe in the characterization that the security was substantial and significant? That was the characterization that Ambassador Rice gave to the nation. And what conversations did she have with the president about securing the consulate?"
Ayotte made the connection Tuesday between the turmoil in Libya – in which jihadists seized weapons stockpiles that had been amassed by the regime of toppled dictator Moammar Gadhafi – and the danger of a similar outcome in Syria, where the security of the Assad regime's chemical weapons stockpiles is doubt.
Ayotte, a member of a bipartisan Senate delegation that just returned from the Middle East, said, "We have seen the lesson learned, for example, in Libya."
She said on the Senate delegation's trip, "We heard in Egypt about weapons from Libya being shipped to the Sinai from Libya. There are reports that there may be connections between weapons from Libya and the (hostage taking) incident in Algeria (in which 37 were killed). We heard from leaders in the Middle East that these weapons are going throughout the Middle East from Libya. We've heard concerns about weapons (from Libya) getting the wrong hands…. When you don't secure weapons and they get in the wrong hands, you put tools in the hands of terrorists."
A theme from Rubio and other Republicans has been the Obama administration got engaged "too late" and "not decisively enough" in Libya, allowing chaos to prevail in some parts of the country. "The reason why there are all these multiple militias in Libya is because this was a protracted conflict that created the opportunity and the space for these militias to form – similar to what we're seeing now in Syria," Rubio said after a Dec. 20 Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
Republicans press for answers from Clinton on Benghazi
Clinton: 'We did everything we could to keep our people safe'
Rice: 'I relied solely and squarely' on intel given to me for Benghazi comments


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For an advanced people, we sure have a lot of problems with our pants. You wouldn't think pants would be that big of a challenge. You put your right leg in, you put your left leg in, and you shake it all about — no wait, that's the Hokey Pokey.
Pants: You put one leg in, you put the other leg in, zip, snap, you're done. Yet we struggle.
In January, a small eclectic band of subway riders indulged themselves in No Pants Subway Day. They rode the subway without pants.
Is it wrong to hope they got frostbite? For years we have endured the mystery of young men whose pants kept sliding down their backsides. Fortunately, that trend has faded and you don't see as much of those fellas anymore. Literally.
Now the prevailing confusion is over which pants do you wear to sleep in and which pants do you wear in public.
The first time I saw pajama pants in public was at a hotel with a breakfast bar. Three kids shuffled into the dining room wearing pajamas. A small odiferous cloud trailed behind them. I wondered what their mother was thinking. Seconds later she appeared wearing pajama pants, too. A medium odiferous cloud trailed behind her.
One of the boys went over to the waffle maker, started a waffle, stood there while it cooked, picked a sleeper from his eye, and then vigorously scratched his backside. Just like that, the dining area cleared. They had the waffle maker and entire breakfast bar to themselves.
Today you can go to the grocery, the mall or a fast food place and see people in pajama pants. It used to be you never saw anyone in their pj's unless you were 8 years old and at a slumber party.
It is more likely to be females than males wearing pj's in public, but every once in awhile you see a grown man wearing his jammie pants, too.
"Love your SpongeBob 'jamma pants, sir!"
I understand there may be unseen circumstances that compel people to wear their jammies out of the house. Some may have sleep disorders and need to lie down with little notice. Others may be lacking opposable thumbs that enable them to maneuver zippers and snaps.
Still, pajama pants draw attention. The implication is that you have slept in them, perhaps even night after night. Which means you just rolled out of bed, didn't bathe, shower, shampoo, or use deodorant and now here you are at Dunkin' Donuts. All I'm saying is this: That's a pretty thin piece of cotton between you, me, and everything God gave you.
Of course, when it's all said and done, there's a silver lining to every cloud. Or in this case, flannel. At least people in pajama pants are wearing pants. Thank you.

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'Tis the season for … fuzzy slippers and pajamas, sparkling lights, crackling fires, shiny ornaments, Christmas carols, sweet things to eat, cheesy Hallmark movies, creamy eggnog, days off work, snowmen, lots of red and green, naps on the couch under a blanket, family …
All of these things are things I love about this time of year, making me forget how I so dislike being cold and driving on snow. And in spite of the cold temperatures and slippery, icy roads, everything looks so beautiful and bright and colorful.
I recently shared my recipe for my homemade eggnog, a Pumpkin Pie Eggnog with Bourbon that we sipped warm one evening. Eggnog has been on my mind ever since, and I've been thinking of all the recipes I could use it in – pancakes or waffles, cinnamon rolls, cakes…
And so, I couldn't resist making Eggnog cupcakes – as there was a Christmas potluck at work, I had a reasonable excuse to make something festive.
The cake is a buttery yellow cake full of eggnog, spiked with a little bourbon, and a hint of cinnamon and nutmeg, topped with a fluffy eggnog buttercream. The cupcakes were beautiful with their simple swirl of frosting, and needed no garnish other than a dusting of freshly grated nutmeg, like freshly fallen snow…
Eggnog Cupcakes
- 1 yellow cake mix
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup eggnog
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 tablespoons bourbon or dark rum (or 2-3 teaspoon rum extract)
- ¼ teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 ½ cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3 – 3 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons meringue powder
- 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- 3 tablespoons eggnog
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons bourbon or dark rum (or 1-2 teaspoons rum extract)
- Nutmeg, for garnish
Preheat the oven to 350; line cupcake pans with 24 paper liners.
Combine all of the cake ingredients in the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment; increase speed to medium and beat for 3 minutes until well combined. Divide between the paper liners, filling them 2/3 full.
Bake until golden and a toothpick comes out clean; these seemed to bake unusually fast, and I thought that even 15 minutes was a little too much – start checking them at about 12 minutes.
Cool completely on wire racks.
To make the frosting, beat the butter in the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment for 2 minutes. In a separate bowl, combine the powdered sugar, meringue powder, nutmeg and cinnamon. Add slowly to the butter, mixing on low to combine. Add the eggnog, vanilla and bourbon, then increase speed to medium high and whip for 4-5 minutes, scraping the bowl down a few times, until light and fluffy.
Spread or pipe onto cooled cupcakes (I used the Wilton #2D tip). Garnish with freshly grated nutmeg.
Yields 24 cupcakes.
Recipe from Curly Girl Kitchen


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Earth Pack
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Mass Effect 3: Earth is new multiplayer DLC that will be available for free on July 17th on Xbox Live, Origin and PlayStation Network in North America. Europe will have the same dates for Origin and Xbox Live, but will be able to download the content on PSN a day later, on July 18th. [1]
New Maps
With the fate of the galaxy at stake, Earth's military efforts have concentrated on three strategic locations. Defend Firebase Rio, home to the N7 training facility, along with Firebase Vancouver and Firebase London in the last stand for mankind.
New Characters
- N7 Demolisher Engineer
- N7 Destroyer Soldier
- N7 Fury Adept
- N7 Sentinel Paladin
- N7 Shadow Infiltrator
- N7 Slayer Vanguard
New Weapons
- N7 Piranha Shotgun
- N7 Typhoon Assault Rifle
- Acolyte Pistol
New Upgrades
Outfit your weapons with 12 new modifications and fortify your gear with 11 unique upgrades to defeat even the toughest foes.
New Modes and Difficulty
- The brand-new Platinum difficulty is even harder than the previously-available Gold, Silver and Bronze.
- Randomly occurring during waves 3, 6 and 10, a new in-mission objective will challenge teams to keep a targeted agent alive by protecting and escorting them to a designated extraction zone on each map.


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Whitney M. Young, Jr.: The powerbroker of the Civil Rights Movement
By Lee A. Daniels
He was one of the great civil rights leaders of his time—so influential that he graced the cover of an issue of Time Magazine. He was on easy social terms with some of America's leading corporate titans and a president of the United States.
He was the last person to speak at the landmark 1963 March on Washington before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He was responsible for the employment of tens of thousands of Black Americans during the 1960s – and, it can be said, for the employment of millions in the decades afterward. More than any other individual, he opened the upper reaches of corporate America to Black men and women. His ideas for improving the lot of Black Americans – expanding their educational and employment opportunity, and fortifying their physical and social well-being – influenced President Lyndon B. John-son's crafting of his Great Society legislation.
He helped steer Black America through the social and political cauldron of the late 1960s and negotiated, in effect, a peace treaty with the Nixon administration for Black America that produced more federal funding for programs intended to bolster Black Americans than ever before.
And, his tragic death cut short a life much too soon.
His name was Whitney M. Young, Jr., the powerbroker of the Civil Rights Movement.
That word is the foundation of the title of a documentary on Young's life and work being shown this week on Public Broadcasting Service stations. "The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights" captures the importance of a man who was at the center of the enormous effort in the 1960s to transform the United States from a de facto apartheid state to a true democracy, but who, since his death in 1971 while swimming at an ocean beach in Nigeria, seemed to rapidly disappear from the public consciousness. The documentary, produced by Young's niece, Bonnie Boswell, is the first substantial treatment of him since a biography by scholar Dennis Dickerson (who is included in the documentary) 15 years ago.
The superb effort is both long overdue and right on time. For, even as it strips away more of the gauze that still seems to obscure how difficult the achievement of basic civil rights for Blacks in the 1960s was and how frighteningly turbulent the late 1960s were, "The Powerbroker" implicitly establishes the direct link between the work Young did and sought to do then and the complex place in American society Black Americans occupy now.
For one thing, Young's advocacy in 1963 and 1964 – before Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – of a comprehensive $145-billion social and economic plan for Black Americans, which he called a "domestic Marshall Plan," underscores that he and the rest of the civil rights leadership fully understood the importance of putting African Americans on a solid economic foundation for their, and the nation's, benefit.
Listen to Young's explanation of the need for it, and then recall President Obama's discussion of some of America's social needs in his State of the Union speech.
For another, look here at how easily and confidently Young mixes with some of the leading figures of American business. One can almost feel his own ease and comfort and supreme confidence in his ability to put these men at ease with him.
These glimpses of Young at work with corporate titans may seem business-as-usual today, when Black men and women, and other people of color, occupy the top offices of Fortune 500 companies, law firms, and powerful commercial and investment banks. But, until Whitney Young, White Americans had never seen a Black person like him: a Black person who was a civil rights leader but who moved with ease among them and spoke their business-oriented, bottom-line-results lingo as if he were one of them.
That's because Whitney Young was one of them — just as he was a Black and a civil rights leader. Both as a matter of his civil rights work and as a matter of his personal operating style, Young expanded the vision, the model of how a Black American could navigate one's way into the mainstream of American society. Look at Young and think of such leading Black American business figures as Kenneth I. Chenault, head of American Express, or Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., the investment banker and super lawyer, or Richard D. Parsons, former chairman of Time Warner and Citigroup. Think, too, of the operating style of such Black politicians as Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, and yes, President Obama.
This was the point one businessman interviewed in the documentary meant when he said that Young forged a "road map" for Blacks into corporate America – where immense economic and political power resides – where there had been none before.
He's absolutely correct. But I would broaden the point a bit to say that Whitney Young, the powerbroker, did so as part of expanding the road map he was helping Black Americans build for their entire future as Americans.


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Nutrigest™ is a unique herbal formulation with Seaweed, Spirulina and Ginger blended to help you get the most out of your Wholistic blends. Seaweed and Spirulina are incredibly nutrient dense and Ginger is wonderfully warming, helping to assist assimilation. The combination of these three ingredients helps to boost the body's absorption capacity.
The seaweed is sourced from northern artic waters and is considered to be one of the most nutritious vegetables on the planet as it uptakes a diverse range of minerals from the sea. Spirulina is a form of blue-green algae that is one of the earliest photosynthesizing species. It is dense with protein, B vitamins and beta-carotene and we get ours from an organic sun-soaked farm in India. Ginger is indigenous to southern Asia and is famous for its hot and spicy taste that awakens digestion.
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Visitors to Poldhu Beach might be shocked to discover that much of the sand has disappeared following the storms and high seas at the beginning of January, unveiling a very stony beach and lots of beach litter. Thanks to Friends of Poldhu, the litter has all been removed, but it will take months, if not years, for the sand to re-appear. Fortunately, the sand hasn't gone too far, as any local surfers will be aware, there is now a rather useful sandbar just offshore, creating a tidy right hand break.
When I first came to the Lizard 20 years ago, it was common for local farmers to quite legally remove sand from the beach. This ancient right 'for the betterment of the land' probably started with a farmhand with a shovel and horse and cart. By the 1990s, there were regularly fleets of trucks on the foreshore being loaded up by JCB, an unsustainable practice which was fortunately stamped out in 2007.
Whilst the beach itself has lost much of its sand, the dunes behind the beach have remained remarkably unscathed. The dunes at Poldhu are designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (sssi). They are an amazing ecosystem, not just rich in wildlife but they also provide an incredibly useful natural defence mechanism against the ravages of storms and high winds.
The highly specialised marram grass, tolerant of salt, wind and drought, binds the dunes together with a network of tough exploratory roots, allowing the further colonisation of other specialist species until the dunes become more stable. Windblown sand, which would otherwise be lost from the beach, is trapped amongst the vegetation, and the dunes continue to grow. Rare and unusual plants such as sea knot grass and sea holly grow amongst the grasses.
The rare 'sea knot grass' (Polygonium maritium) growing amongst the dunes
Over 25 years later, the dunes are healthy, thriving and full of wildlife. What the recent storms have proven is that they also provide a remarkable natural sea defence, protecting the road, bridge and car park from the ravages of winter storms.- Justin


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Minority and Non-Traditional Law Students / Re: The LGBTQ Thread« on: December 05, 2008, 08:07:55 AM »
Come to Penn
I have heard that Penn loves the gays!
Is that true?
Yes, very much so. Penn is extremely inclusive and supportive. Aside from having a significant number of out/self-identified LGBT students, I think what's even more impressive is the number of straight allies who are actively involved with Lambda and sincerely concerned with LGBT issues. It's really great.
We also have an awesome, out dean of students.


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Don't bank on any of these guys being full strength but perhaps they can at least get some reps in. There's no way that Mendy or Harrison especially will be out there the entire game without being spelled by their respective backups.
Polamalu, his injury probably worries me more than any because those calf injuries are tough. If you overdue it too quickly you can pull it to the point where you are out for a month or more. If you tear it then you're really in trouble.
For the first time since training camp began, the Pittsburgh Steelers' injury list doesn't contain any Pro Bowl players.
Coach Mike Tomlin listed only right tackle Marcus Gilbert (groin) during his news conference Tuesday, omitting linebacker James Harrison (knee), safety Troy Polamalu (calf) and running back Rashard Mendenhall (knee). Neither Harrison nor Mendenhall has played since last season.
While Tomlin didn't say all three would play Sunday against the Eagles – they still must get though a week of practice – he did sound optimistic that the Steelers would be virtually intact for the first time since the middle of last season. They played much of the second half of last season without injured outside linebackers Harrison (eye) and LaMarr Woodley (hamstring).
Harrison had knee surgery in mid-August, and has gone though only three full practices since camp began July 25. He went through a full practice last Tuesday, but the knee acted up and he couldn't go on Wednesday. Harrison returned to practice Monday, and Tomlin said his five-time Pro Bowl linebacker has had some "intense workouts." Polamalu injured his right calf in the opener against Denver and hasn't played since. He was bothered with the same injury late last season. He said Monday that the calf felt better.
Mendenhall, a two-time 1,000-yard rusher, tore an ACL in the final regular season game in January and missed training camp. He has practiced regularly since the season started, but the Steelers have been careful not to rush him back.
Offensive coordinator Todd Haley said recently that Mendenhall wouldn't be overworked once he returns, even though the Steelers running game is ranked 31st in the league.
Pittsburgh began camp with six players on the physically unable to perform list and, until now, have had multiple names on the injury list every week.
Read more: http://triblive.com/sports/steelers/...#ixzz28ANH4oYa


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Cement contractor Halliburton is objecting to a proposed $7.8 billion settlement between BP and a plaintiffs group representing more than 100,000 victims of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Halliburton said in a filing in federal court in New Orleans late Tuesday the settlement improperly seeks to assign certain claims that BP has made against Halliburton to the Plaintiffs Steering Committee.
The Houston-based company says allowing the settlement to be approved under those conditions would affect its ability to independently settle with the PSC or individual plaintiffs. Halliburton also asserts it can't be made to contribute to payments BP makes to the plaintiffs without a legal obligation to do so.
Preliminary approval of the momentous settlement is expected to be considered by a federal judge on Wednesday.


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ESA extends its TIGER project
ESA kicked off the second phase of its TIGER initiative at the Fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul, Turkey. The initiative was extended at the request of African water authorities at the First African Water Week in Tunis last year.
ESA, representing the Committee of Earth Observation Satellites, launched the TIGER initiative in 2002 to help African countries overcome water-related problems and to bridge Africa's water information gap using Earth Observation (EO) technology.
Charles Ngangoué President of the Technical Advisory Committee of the African Ministers' Council on Water said: "Today, it is clear that water governance falls within the big challenges that the African water sector must alleviate.
"Without trustworthy water information, good governance is impossible. This is why, in addition to the positive results already obtained during the first phase, we are committing ourselves to the second phase."
Water governance falls within the big challenges that the African water sector must alleviate
Under TIGER I, ESA provided more than 8500 satellite-based products free of charge to African researchers working on water-related research activities and management projects.
Nearly 100 researchers and water operators from more than 40 African countries received personalised training on the use of EO data through activities organised by the TIGER Capacity Building Facility, funded by ESA and hosted by the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation in the Netherlands.
ESA, in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency, also carried out 16 development projects in collaboration with more than 30 African water authorities.
EO techniques and methods were adapted to specific user needs and the local conditions. Projects focused on different aspects of water management including catchments characterisation, water quality, groundwater exploration, soil moisture and irrigated agriculture monitoring.
One of the projects, carried out by the Centre Royal de Teledetecion Spatial of Morocco (CRTS) in collaboration with the Souss-Massa basin authorities, used data acquired by multiple satellites at different times to develop an integrated water information system covering a wide range of water-related information layers, such as surface water bodies, irrigation areas, deforestation, urbanisation and agriculture. These layers helped to characterise the full basin over time and identify the main factors that increase the demand for water.
In addition, by combining Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) satellite data together with additional information to derive geological features, soil moisture information and digital terrain models, CRTS was able to provide the water authority with valuable information to perform water extraction surveys more effectively, with significantly less time and money.
TIGER II aims to build upon this success to support African efforts to develop sustainable observation systems by using EO technology to learn more about the water cycle and to improve water-monitoring resources that will help to establish sound scientific bases for developing effective adaptation or mitigation measures against the impacts of climate change.
To this end TIGER II, which will take place from 2009 to 2011, includes a research component that supports African scientists furthering their scientific skills and the technical capacity to address the issue of the water resources in Africa. A dedicated Announcement of Opportunity has recently been opened. The deadline for submissions is 23 May.


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A Graphical Approach to Precalculus with Limits: A Unit Circle Approach illustrates how the graph of a function can be used to support the solutions of equations and inequalities involving the function. Beginning with linear functions in Chapter 1, the text uses a four-part process to analyze each type of function, starting first with the graph of the function, then the equation, the associated inequality of that equation, and ending with applications. The text covers all of the topics typically caught in a college algebra course, but with an organization that fosters students' understanding of the interrelationships among graphs, equations, and inequalities.
With the Fifth Edition, the text continues to evolve as it addresses the changing needs of today's students. Included are additional components to build skills, address critical thinking, solve applications, and apply technology to support traditional algebraic solutions, while maintaining its unique table of contents and functions-based approach. A Graphical Approach to Precalculus with Limits: A Unit Circle Approach continues to incorporate an open design, with helpful features and careful explanations of topics.
Chapter 1 Linear Functions, Equations, and Inequalities
1.1 Real Numbers and the Rectangular Coordinate System
1.2 Introduction to Relations and Functions
Reviewing Basic Concepts
1.3 Linear Functions
1.4 Equations of Lines and Linear Models
Reviewing Basic Concepts
1.5 Linear Equations and Inequalities
1.6 Applications of Linear Functions
Reviewing Basic Concepts
Review Exercises
Chapter 2 Analysis of Graphs of Functions
2.1 Graphs of Basic Functions and Relations; Symmetry
2.2 Vertical and Horizontal Shifts of Graphs
2.3 Stretching, Shrinking, and Reflecting Graphs
Reviewing Basic Concepts
2.4 Absolute Value Functions
2.5 Piecewise-Defined Functions
2.6 Operations and Composition
Reviewing Basic Concepts
Review Exercises
Chapter 3 Polynomial Functions
3.1 Complex Numbers
3.2 Quadratic Functions and Graphs
3.3 Quadratic Equations and Inequalities
Reviewing Basic Concepts
3.4 Further Applications of Quadratic Functions and Models
3.5 Higher-Degree Polynomial Functions and Graphs
Reviewing Basic Concepts
3.6 Topics in the Theory of Polynomial Functions (I)
3.7 Topics in the Theory of Polynomial Functions (II)
3.8 Polynomial Equations and Inequalities; Further Applications and Models
Reviewing Basic Concepts
Review Exercises
Chapter 4 Rational, Power, and Root Functions
4.1 Rational Functions and Graphs
4.2 More on Rational Functions and Graphs
4.3 Rational Equations, Inequalities, Models, and Applications
Reviewing Basic Concepts
4.4 Functions Defined by Powers and Roots
4.5 Equations, Inequalities, and Applications Involving Root Functions
Reviewing Basic Concepts
Review Exercises
Chapter 5 Inverse, Exponential, and Logarithmic Functions
5.1 Inverse Functions
5.2 Exponential Functions
5.3 Logarithms and Their Properties
Reviewing Basic Concepts
5.4 Logarithmic Functions
5.5 Exponential and Logarithmic Equations and Inequalities
Reviewing Basic Concepts
5.6 Further Applications and Modeling with Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
Review Exercises
Chapter 6 Analytic Geometry
6.1 Circles and Parabolas
6.2 Ellipses and Hyperbolas
Reviewing Basic Concepts
6.3 Summary of Conic Sections
6.4 Parametric Equations
Reviewing Basic Concepts
Review Exercises
Chapter 7 Systems of Equations and Inequalities; Matrices
7.1 Systems of Equations
7.2 Solution of Linear Systems in Three Variables
7.3 Solution of Linear Systems by Row Transformations
Reviewing Basic Concepts
7.4 Matrix Properties and Operations
7.5 Determinants and Cramer's Rule
7.6 Solution of Linear Systems by Matrix Inverses
Reviewing Basic Concepts
7.7 Systems of Inequalities and Linear Programming
7.8 Partial Fractions
Reviewing Basic Concepts
Review Exercises
Chapter 8 The Unit Circle and the Functions of Trigonometry
8.1 Angles, Arcs, and Their Measures
8.2 The Unit Circle and Its Functions
Reviewing Basic Concepts
8.3 Graphs of the Sine and Cosine Functions
Periodic Functions
8.4 Graphs of the Other Circular Functions
8.5 Functions of Angles and Fundamental Identities
8.6 Evaluating Trigonometric Functions
Definitions of the Trigonometric Functions
8.7 Applications of Right Triangles
8.8 Harmonic Motion
Reviewing Basic Concepts
Review Exercises
Chapter 9 Trigonometric Identities and Equations
9.1 Trigonometric Identities
9.2 Sum and Difference Identities
Reviewing Basic Concepts
9.3 Further Identities
9.4 The Inverse Circular Functions
Reviewing Basic Concepts
9.5 Trigonometric Equations and Inequalities (I)
9.6 Trigonometric Equations and Inequalities (II)
Review Exercises
Chapter 10 Applications of Trigonometry and Vectors
10.1 The Law of Sines
10.2 The Law of Cosines and Area Formulas
10.3 Vectors and Their Applications
Reviewing Basic Concepts
10.4 Trigonometric (Polar) Form of Complex Numbers
10.5 Powers and Roots of Complex Numbers
Reviewing Basic Concepts
10.6 Polar Equations and Graphs
10.7 More Parametric Equations
Reviewing Basic Concepts
Review Exercises
Chapter 11 Further Topics in Algebra
11.1 Sequences and Series
11.2 Arithmetic Sequences and Series
11.3 Geometric Sequences and Series
11.4 The Binomial Theorem
11.5 Mathematical Induction
11.6 Counting Theory
11.7 Probability
Chapter 12 Limits, Derivatives, and Definite Integrals
12.1 An Introduction to Limits
12.2 Techniques for Calculating Limits
12.3 One-Sided Limits; Limits Involving Infinity
12.4 Tangent Lines and Derivatives
12.5 Area and the Definite Integral
Chapter R Reference: Basic Algebraic Concepts
R.1 Review of Exponents and Polynomials
R.2 Review of Factoring
R.3 Review of Rational Expressions
R.4 Review of Negative and Rational Exponents
R.5 Review of Radicals
Chapter R Test
Appendix Geometry Formulas
Answers to Selected Exercises
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Wordpress Goes Legal: Sues Over Two Egregiously Bogus DMCA Notices That Were Designed To Censor
from the kudos deptWe've talked in the past about the unfortunate situation in which there is almost no real punishment for bogus DMCA notices. Section 512(f) of the DMCA is supposed to provide a way to get attorneys' fees, costs and damages for bogus DMCA takedowns. In practice, however, 512(f) has been almost totally neutered by the courts (not that it was ever strong to begin with). Lately, however, there have been a series of interesting 512(f) cases, in which people, including copyright expert Larry Lessig, have been dealing with clear attempts to censor protected speech.
Today, there's a very interesting new entrant, fighting two separate cases to go after the senders of totally bogus DMCA notices that were solely designed to censor. Automattic, the company that runs the super popular blog hosting platform WordPress.com, has filed two separate lawsuits against egregious cases of DMCA abuse. These are actually two cases that we've written about as examples of using the DMCA to try to censor criticism. The first involved an attempt to remove a series of articles on the excellent RetractionWatch site, run by Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, that were critical of researcher Anil Potti. As we noted at the time, this appeared to be an egregious use of the DMCA to censor content that someone didn't like. The second is the more recent example of the group Straight Pride UK giving an interview to student journalist Oliver Hotham, then deciding that they didn't like the fact that they sounded like idiots in the interview, and tried to use the DMCA to take down the article which included the quotes they had willingly given to Hotham.
Automattic has teamed up with Ivan and Adam in one case, and Oliver in the other, to seek damages under 512(f). While the initial cases themselves are interesting, it's doubly interesting to see Automattic itself get involved. Traditionally, the focus for 512(f) claims had been directly on the site owners, not the service providers. But Automattic's General Counsel Paul Siemniski explains that the company feels that it needs to step up and protect freedom of expression and fight back against DMCA abuse:
Until there are some teeth to the copyright laws, it's up to us - websites and users, together - to stand up to DMCA fraud and protect freedom of expression. Through these suits, we'd like to remind our users that we're doing all we can to combat DMCA abuse on WordPress.com….and most importantly, remind copyright abusers to think twice before submitting fraudulent takedown notices. We'll be watching, and are ready to fight back.Kudos to Automattic for this move. It's a step beyond what pretty much every other service provider who receives bogus DMCA notices has done. Automattic notes that a large part of the problem is that these situations aren't anomalies. They happen all the time -- and are frequently for improper reasons, such as for censorship and attempting to unmask anonymous bloggers.
We'll also be actively involved, on behalf of our users, in trying to change the law - both through court cases and in Congress - to make sure that everyone has the right to share their voice on the Internet without threat of censorship.
We receive hundreds of DMCA notices and try our best to review, identify and push back on those we see as abusive. Our users have the right to challenge a DMCA complaint too, but doing so requires them to identify themselves and fill out a legally required form saying that they submit to being sued for copyright infringement in a place that may be far away. If they don't, their content is taken down and could stay down forever. This tradeoff doesn't work for the many anonymous bloggers that we host on WordPress.com, who speak out on sensitive issues like corporate or government corruption.Given the history of 512(f) cases for "knowingly materially misrepresenting" a case of copyright infringement, these cases may be an unfortunately uphill battle. But, they could serve a few very important purposes. First, it will hopefully make people think twice about sending a bogus DMCA notice over a Wordpress.com site, knowing that they may face a lawsuit. Second, at the very least, getting more cases on the books showing how toothless the law currently is to fight DMCA abuse hopefully will lead to the law being fixed, such that abusing the DMCA to stifle speech will have real penalties under the law.
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I just registered but already faced the first problem. My email address got blocked in the registration process (...@web.de), that's why I changed it to web.com in the registration, which is obviously not my address because the provider does not exist (i think that, at least). I saw no possibility to explain my problem in the forum without this "trick"; now I wonder if it can be changed to web.de, since I verified that I'm no spambot.
Why is web.de blocked anyways? It's one of the biggest free providers in Germany!
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[First published May 29, 2005] War remains ugly, a bloody evil, but one often necessitated for the democracies by the worse evil of not going to war. We should never forget, however, what war is like, and how even with the best of intentions, human lives can be squandered by the tens of thousands.
So it was in the Battle of the Somme in World War I, a battle that changed the public's view of war. Up to that time war had been seen by too many as a glorious crusade against evildoers, replete with medals, parades, cheers, and handsome uniforms. And after World War I, when the horror and cost in lives of the Battle of the Somme became known, war was believed the worst of all evils. It spawned a general pacifism — a deep hostility to war, armaments, nationalism, and patriotism. Less than two-decades later, this fed the French and British appeasement of Hitler, and American isolationism, when confronting him might have avoided World War II. The general public learned the wrong lesson from the Battle of the Somme, and other such bloody battles in that war, and this lesson remains still deeply imbedded in our culture and helps fuel the antiwar movement.
Read the following docudrama and feel what war can really mean for the individual soldier, regardless of which side they are on.
Half squatting, Jimmy leaned against the side of the muddy trench, the toes of his boots invisible in the muck at the bottom. Jimmy was a short, skinny fellow, with a frame on which not even his military training could put muscle. His baggy uniform now rippled like a sail in a crosswind. His helmet hid his short brown hair, except when his shaking tipped it forward over his eyes and a few strands escaped.
Jimmy had grown up in Bristol, England. Before joining the army, he had spent most of his evenings drinking with his buddies at the local pub, or going to the new silent movies with them. That was his entertainment. Even at eighteen years of age, Jimmy had never gone out on a date and was shy of girls. His friends constantly ribbed him about being too embarrassed to participate when they'd dragged him off to a French bordello.
Once Jimmy had thought of going to college, and teachers had told him that he had the intelligence for it, but his father had never paid the family bills and later, he disappeared altogether, leaving Jimmy to support his mother and two sisters. He could read up and learn on his own, Jimmy told himself, and he did enjoy the rough and tumble of a warehouseman's job.
Jimmy was part of the Army's plan to create new volunteer divisions to fight alongside the regulars. The Army kept together as units all those volunteering from a particular company, town, or city neighborhood. This meant that Jimmy knew most of the soldiers around him, who in civilian life had drunk with him, sold him goods, or delivered ice or milk to his small home. Many had been his good friends. All but a few were now dead, as were his two best friends and his cousin. Jimmy had cried for hours after he had helped drag the upper half of his cousin's body to the rear—all that remained of someone Jimmy had grown up with, played with, eaten many meals with, and, as boys do, argued with. Half his body gone!
As Jimmy waited for the scheduled cessation of seven days of shelling on the German trenches, he thought about dying. Despite his captain's assurance that this next attack would be an easy victory, that Jimmy could walk over to the German lines and simply shove all the dead Germans out of the way, he knew he would die, as his friends had died. So he trembled as he awaited the silence that would follow the end of the shelling, and the captain's whistle that would send him climbing out of the trench, to his death. He only hoped it would be quick and painless.
George Finch, crouched next to him in the trench, poked him in the side and leaned over to shout in his ear, "Jimmy, could you do me a favor?"
"What?" Jimmy yelled back.
"If I'm killed, will you give this to my mother?" George held out a small piece of dirty packaging from their rations. He had scrawled a few words on it with a blunt pencil. "You can read it," George said.
It was easy to read in the dawning light, and said simply, "My Dearest Mom—I love you. Sonny."
George lived several houses down from Jimmy on Bloy Street; Jimmy knew George's mother. "Come on," Jimmy said, "you won't die."
Jimmy shrugged and tucked the wrapper into his pocket. "Okay."
At least this will make him feel better, Jimmy thought, although I'm the one that's going to die.
Minutes later, there it was: The awful silence as the shelling stopped. Immediately, the officers came down the trench, getting them ready to move out. Jimmy heard the shrill whistle and then the yelling, and he scrambled out of the trench with all the others up and down the line and advanced on the Germans.
Jimmy's jitters vanished. He focused everything on the trenches in the distance and unconsciously switched to automatic motion. Carrying sixty pounds of ammunition, food, water, and gear, he doglegged along the paths through their own barbed wire, moving at a slow walk through the mud.
"Please, God," Jimmy kept murmuring, "no pain. Please, God, make it sudden."


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"The Experimental Wild Card Player"
As mentioned earlier in the week, I'm researching the 1961 spring training in Riverside of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Rangers, the Angels' Triple-A affiliate that year.
The Dallas Morning News has all its archives on-line. For $29.95, you can read and download up to 200 articles over a 30-day period. So that's this weekend's project.
I came across an article in the March 25, 1961 edition about a game between the Rangers and the Hawaii Islanders, who were based in Ontario. Buried in the article is this paragraph:
The Islanders insist upon using the experimental wild card player, but [Rangers Manager Walker] Cooper refuses to go along as far as the Rangers are concerned. No ruling has yet been made, but the Coast League favors the plan where in a batter, who never appears otherwise in the game, is designated as a permanent pinchhitter for the pitcher. The pitcher never bats, but may continue to pitch until replaced.
Wow. The DH was around in 1961.
The box score lists the DH's name with alphabetic footnotes detailing each at-bat, e.g. "a Singled for Schmidt in 3rd."
I loathe the DH. "Wild Card player" is easier to say, at least.


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Tom Brady soon will match Mike Brady, as the father of three children. Like the real TV architect (not the fake one known as Art Vandelay), Tom Brady's first two are sons. However, Brady and his wife, Gisele Bundchen, don't know whether Brady's third child will be a boy or a girl.
According to Tom Curran of CSNNE.com, the third Brady baby is due any day now. The fact that the Pats host the Texans in six days could make things interesting.
And here's the part where I bite my tongue (or at least bind my fingers) on the potential intersection between the breaking of the water and the kicking of the football to start the game.


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As most of the Spring 2005 seminar had graduated,those remaining students attended the banquet. From Left: Ashli Smith, Lindsey Ahaus, Mary BethLehman, Brian Gorrell, Krista Quesenberry, Joe Trimmer andMarcus Jackman
Marcus Jackman, center, from Indiana Public Radio, served as consultant to the seminar.
At the Society of Professional Journalists reception in the Indianapolis Marriott, five remaining students from Lauren Onkey's spring 2005 seminar, Consuming a Nation, gathered around the banquet table for dinner before their awards were announced.
The students snagged a first place award for Best Radio Documentary or Series, Consuming a Nation; first place for Best Radio Feature, The Changing Face of Ireland; and Second Place for Best Radio Feature, Plastic Pubs.


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Sociology is a liberal arts program that focuses on how human society functions with attention given to the role of major institutions of society (such as family, government and education), and of formal and informal groups and their impact on individuals.
Students who complete this program gain expertise in human behavior and culture, and learn how to conduct research on social issues. The program teaches students to analyze issues that are particularly relevant to today's world, such as diversity, poverty, and power, and prepares them to play an active role in an increasingly complex society.
Beyond the introductory Sociology course, students must complete the following six courses (18 credits):
Finally, students select four additional Sociology courses (12 credits) at the 200 level or above.
Students must maintain a cumulative average of C or better.
Sociology prepares students for graduate work in sociology or social work for students who wish to become professors, researchers or applied sociologists. The program also provides a strong foundation for a wide array of careers, including careers in business, social services, government, law, medicine, journalism, and public administration.


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America is in decline; fewer people are working; more are in poverty; economic growth is stagnant at best; more Americans than ever believe that our best days are behind us. But one thing in America is booming: welfare. Especially federal welfare.
Historically, the federal government has had little role to play with regard to welfare programs, which have been seen as a state and local responsibility. That changed with the Aid to Families With Dependent Children program, which incentivized and federalized unwed motherhood. The results were so disastrous that in 1995, AFDC was repealed as part of a sweeping welfare reform, the greatest achievement of the Republican Congress of that era.
Since 1995, did Americans ever vote to ramp up the federal role in welfare? Not that I remember. Yet a study by the Congressional Research Service dated October 16 shows that currently, an astonishing one trillion dollars per year is being spent on federal welfare programs. How can this be? Well, there are currently at least 83 federal programs that are "explicitly intended for people with low or limited income," not including veterans' programs. They fall into the categories of Health, Cash Aid, Food Assistance, Education, Housing & Development, Social Services, Employment & Training, and Energy Assistance. Spending on federal welfare programs has exploded in recent years, increasing by 33% since 2008. In FY 2011, the federal government spent $746 billion on these programs–about one-fifth of all federal spending–while the states chipped in another $283 billion. That doesn't count, of course, what state and local governments spent on their own welfare programs.
Federal welfare spending has now come to dwarf everything else the federal government does, as this chart from the Senate Budget Committee shows; click to enlarge:
So welfare spending, something that is not traditionally a federal responsibility, threatens to overwhelm everything else the federal government does. Like, say, national defense. Mitt Romney is well aware of the need to get federal spending under control; he won't have to look far to find candidates for major cuts in federal programs.


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How would an interest rate rise impact my investments and should I do anything to protect them?
How would an interest rate rise impact my investments and should I do anything to protect them?
UK rate rise on the horizon
The Bank of England is edging toward an increase in bank interest rates.
After more than six years of rock bottom rates, the latest minutes from the Bank of England's rate setting monetary policy committee indicated that higher rates are likely, probably early next year.
This followed a warning earlier in the summer from the Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, when he said that the cost of borrowing money may have to move higher sooner than expected.
For savers this will come as a relief as it holds out the prospect of finally being able to get a better return on cash.
Not only have interest rates been low, but they have been below inflation for the past six years so that savings have been effectively rusting away in terms of what they will buy in the future.
So should savers start to move back into cash in anticipation of better returns?
Periods of rising interest rates are often associated with volatile stock and bond markets and the case for becoming more defensive is given added impetus when we look across the Atlantic and see that central bankers in the US are also preparing to raise rates.
It is often said that the US Federal Reserve sets the global cost of money so any tightening there will echo around the world.
However, before we sell up and return to cash we need to recognise that rising rates in the UK and US would be a sign of economic progress.
The UK grew at a healthy 0.7% in the second quarter of this year, the ninth consecutive quarterly gain since the economy turned at the beginning of 2013.
Unemployment is returning to its pre-crisis rate and output is now some 5.5% above the level when the financial crisis struck.
From this perspective action by the Bank of England will be confirmation that the economy is getting back to normal and no longer needs to set interest rates at their lowest levels for more than 300 years.
The story is the same in the US: a rate hike by the Fed will be a step on the path toward recovery after the financial crisis: emergency level interest rates are no longer needed.
Is a rate rise good or bad for investors?
When we look at the performance of markets during interest rate hiking cycles it is important to make this distinction between times where rates are rising in response to stronger growth, or when the central bank is responding to an economic problem such as overheating or a currency crisis.
Not surprisingly, markets do better in the former as investors look ahead to better growth rather than an impending recession.
The Bank of England has no reason to squeeze the economy as inflation is well behaved and meanwhile the pound is firm on the foreign exchanges.
Consequently, we would remain positive on markets as interest rates are gradually pushed up.
Are we being too complacent?
After so long without a rate rise there are fears, voiced by some at the Bank of England, that the economy will simply keel over at the first hint of higher borrowing costs.
There are even worries that we might enter another 'Great depression'.
However, the tightening of lending criteria by the banks during the crisis means that the economy should be more resilient to rate hikes in the future, not least because UK households are less extended and more able to meet their mortgage commitments.
This argues for a slow and gradual tightening, rather than no tightening at all.
So against this backdrop what should investors bear in mind?
If rates rise in the way we expect then there is no need to rush into cash.
On our forecasts UK bank rate will not reach 2% until 2017.
Equities should continue to make progress and government bond yields are likely to move modestly higher.
However, there will be volatility. Rising rates will expose weaknesses in the world economy so investors should be wary of riskier areas like emerging markets and low grade credits.
There is also the possibility that the pound continues to rise, particularly against the rest of Europe where interest rates are not likely to rise for sometime.
So it's important to think carefully about exposure to the euro and to consider hedging (offsetting the risk of adverse price movements) it if possible.
This article first appeared on www.thisismoney.co.uk
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17 Day Diet: Weight Loss Plan from Dr. Michael Moreno's Book
Excerpt from Dr. Michael Moreno's plan for weight loss in four cycles.
April 7, 2011 -- The 17 day diet, the weight loss plan that has taken the web by storm, is the brainchild of Dr. Michael Moreno.
Moreno, the author of the book, "The 17 Day Diet," says people who follow his plan will achieve results that will last for a lifetime.
The plan has four cycles. Each cycle consists of 17 days where dieters vary the carbs, proteins, fruits and other kinds of foods they eat in order to stimulate their metabolism and promote weight loss.
Each cycle unfolds in 17 days because that's right before the time when the body starts to recognize the diet as a habit and metabolism starts to slow as a result, Moreno says.
Check out an excerpt of the book below.
Just Give Me 17 Days
I can personally sum up the 17 Day Diet in two words: fast results.
Depending on your weight when you start out and your metabolism, you might expect to lose up to 10 to 12 pounds the first 17 days. Of course, the further you are from your ideal weight, the more you'll lose initially.
Let's not kid each other: When you start a diet, you want to see results right away, in how you look and in how you feel. That's because our society is geared toward to the immediate; we want things and we want them now. The same is true of weight loss. We get impatient when the pounds don't come off fast enough to meet our expectations. It seems much easier to give up than to go on.
This diet is designed to produce quick results, not because it starves you down to size but because its carefully designed balance of food and exercise adjusts your body metabolically so that you burn fat, day in and day out.
Also important: The weight-reduction portion of this diet is limited to just 17 days at a time so that you aren't demoralized by the thought of endless months of dieting.
Nor are you apt to plateau like you often do on other diets. The 17 Day Diet keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this "body confusion." With each 17 Day Cycle, you're changing your calorie count and the foods you eat. By varying these things, you prevent your body from adapting. The scale is less likely to get stuck. The added bonus: You'll never get bored. And it's fun watching those pounds melt off. So confusion is good!
At the end of 17 days, you'll go on to a second 17-day Cycle, then a third, and finally enter the weight-stabilization Cycle of the diet in which you get to eat a greater variety of foods, including your favorite foods within reason. (I don't want you to get too chummy with the all-you-can-eat buffets again.)
I already know what you're thinking: Is it possible to shed pounds swiftly yet safely? If done right, without sacrificing good nutrition, the answer is yes.
Despite what many nutritionists have preached for years, rapid weight-loss diets can be healthy if done correctly and can work wonders on reducing pounds and inches in just days. Brand-new research suggests that the faster you take weight off, the longer you keep it off. Now that's a reason for dieters everywhere to rejoice. Plus, if you're too embarrassed by a recent weight spike or have just gained an embarrassing eight pounds after a holiday weekend or an ice cream binge, this diet can get you back on track fast.
The 17 Day Diet thus gives your body the perfect jump-start, the kind of quick drop in weight that gives you a powerful mental boost. My whole focus is to get you thin as soon as I can. When I do, just think: You'll no longer have to move around hauling the equivalent of two 40-pound bags of cement on your body. The button of your jeans will no longer pop out and ping off the wall. You'll no longer have to wear plus-sized clothing with those expandable waistlines. This diet will make you slim, healthy, and curvy, and I won't make you slurp your way to a thinner you, or follow some hardcore exercise regime used by the Navy Seals.
But you do have to accept that this won't be a pleasure diet. You've got to stop eating unhealthy crap. You've got to eat vegetables, fruit and lean meat. I'm not going to ask you to probe your inner eater and uncover hidden emotional reasons for why you're fat. But I am going to ask you to keep your portions down, cut your intake of fatty, sugary, salty foods, and move your butt. You won't be faint with hunger or found in the kitchen at midnight, feeding on Froot Loops and tubes of cookie dough. You can do this, because anyone can do anything for 17 days.
MISTER M.D., CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME But won't a lot of the weight I lose be water weight?
Yes! And that's awesome, because water is weight too. Never dismiss those extra pounds as only "water weight"; this is a self-defeating attitude. Cosmetically, water weight can hide fat loss and be particularly frustrating. Health-wise, fluid retention can put a strain on your heart. When your body holds water, this means there's more water in your blood. Your heart has to work harder to pump all that extra volume. Once all that excess fluid has disappeared, so will your bloat and puffiness. You'll start looking visibly thinner in three or four days. And chances are, you'll feel much lighter and be more motivated to watch what you eat.
The beauty of this program is that you won't get discouraged or bored by the prospect of staying on a diet for what seems like forever. It can yield results that will stand the test of time just as well as those long-term diets that emphasize depressingly slow incremental drops in weight. You'll love the fact that in 7, 10 or 17 days, you'll be slimmer. And chances are, you'll feel a lot lighter and have an absurd amount of energy.
The 17 Day Diet is doable and easy—unlike so many other diets, which are slightly less complicated than the checklist for a shuttle launch.
SCIENCE SAYS: Slow Isn't Necessarily Better
Conventional wisdom says that rapid weight loss leads to rapid weight regain. A new generation of science, however, shows that slow isn't necessarily better.
Shape Up the Fast Way. A 2010 study from the University of Florida suggests that the key to long-term weight loss and maintenance is to lose weight quickly, not gradually. Among 262 obese middle-aged women, fast weight losers were those who shed more than 2 pounds a week. Compared to more gradual losers, fast weight losers lost more weight overall, maintained their weight loss longer and were less likely to put weight back on. The findings were published in the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Trim Belly Fat. We pack on two forms of belly fat. One type collects around internal organs (also known as visceral fat). This type of fat raises blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and increases the risk of diabetes, Alzheimer's and even some cancers. Visceral fat is far more sinister than fat elsewhere in the body.
The other type sits just under the skin and is known as subcutaneous abdominal fat. It causes a hard-to-get-rid-of belly pouch. In a Finnish study published in the International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders, a rapid weight loss diet followed for 6 weeks trimmed visceral abdominal fat by 25 percent and abdominal subcutaneous fat by 16 percent.
So can you just give me 17 days?
If you can, congratulations! You won't be disappointed.
What Lies Ahead?
So what is this 17 Day Diet? I'll go into depth in the next few chapters, but as a very quick summary, the 17 Day Diet is a fun, fantastic way of eating designed to take off weight quickly. It's based on some very simple principles, one of which is eating foods that favor fat-burning and are friendly to your digestive system. I want to emphasize that excess weight is always a sign of nutritional and metabolic imbalance. Contrary to popular assumption, it's not strictly a question of how much exercise you do or how much food you eat. Rather, it's also a question of what types of foods are eaten, and how they are digested, assimilated and metabolized. If any of these components of good nutrition are compromised, then the body will not be adequately nourished at the cellular level, metabolic function will be impaired and toxins will accumulate. Thus, to lose weight fast we need to optimize digestion and metabolism. That's what the 17 Day Diet does. Trust me, you'll love the rapid loss of a few pounds so much that you'll decide to keep on going. After the first 17 days, there's another 17 days, and another—3 total Cycles and a maintenance Cycle in which you get to eat whatever the heck you want, mainly on weekends. Here's an overview:
17 Day Diet: Quick and Easy Overview
Cycle 1: Accelerate (17 days) Purpose : To promote rapid weight loss by improving digestive health. It helps clear sugar from the blood to boost fat-burning and discourage fat storage.
Cycle 2: Activate (17 days) Purpose : To reset your metabolism through a strategy that involves increasing and decreasing your caloric consumption to stimulate fat-burning and to help prevent plateaus.
Cycle 3: Achieve (17 days) Purpose : To develop good eating habits through the re-introduction of additional foods and move you closer to your goal weight. Cycle 4: Arrive (ongoing)
Purpose : To keep you at your goal weight through a program of eating that lets you enjoy your favorite foods on weekends, while eating healthfully during the week.
Once we're through with all the basics, I'm going to talk to you about how to follow the diet. I can't wait to show you all of its wonderful components and start you on your way to looking fit and fabulous. Take it one step at a time so that you don't get overwhelmed.
Your Appointment with Me
I might as well take a moment here to introduce myself. I'm a family practice doctor. Under America's health insurance system, most people go first to a doctor like me for all complaints, from infections to chronic illnesses. I love the diversity of family practice. One moment, I'm treating an 18-year-old guy with the flu; the next, a 90-year-old woman with joint pain.
I became a doctor for the reasons most people do—because I wanted to save lives, pure and simple. In my heart of hearts, I believe a doctor is so much more than a person who dispenses medication or marks off symptoms like a checklist at a sushi bar. He or she should treat the whole person. I make it a point to get to know each patient as a person before I put a stethoscope to his or her chest.
I run my office a little differently than most places. Nowadays, you spend more time waiting in the examining room than you did in the waiting room. In fact, you spend more time in the examining room than the person who decorated it. It's almost like going to a restaurant and being told that, even though you have a reservation, you have to sit at the bar for a while. The only difference is that in the doctor's office, no one offers you a cocktail, and you have to wear a boxy blue paper exam gown that opens in the front.
The next time you have to wait in the examining room, do some fun things to pass the time. Glue the tongue depressors together into coasters and sell them to other patients. Or peel off all the wallpaper without disturbing any of the diplomas.
I do things differently in my office. My patients don't wait forever. My patients oftentimes don't even sit on the examining table when I talk to them. I sit on the examining table and they get the comfortable chair. The butcher paper upholstering the examining table is wonderful to draw on. Sometimes I hop off the table and start drawing pictures of organs to explain things to patients.
I'm responsible for 2,000 patients, though not all in one day. Many of them are women, and 80 percent of my new patients are overweight. Most know it. One of the things I've always found interesting is that my patients often come in with a complaint of back pain, or knee pain or just plain old fatigue. Before I can get a word out, they say, "I know it's because I'm fat." Patients are smart.
Ever since I became a doctor, I've always been concerned with prevention. Prevention is the doorway to longevity. I hate shoving medications at problems that can be fixed with simple changes in lifestyle. A good example is a patient I'll call Sharon, age 60. Sharon has type 2 diabetes. When I first started seeing her, she was taking oral diabetes medication. Once she changed to a healthier diet and started walking regularly with a friend, she was able to get off all her meds. What a triumph that was!
Then about a year ago, Sharon came in for her regular appointment. We reviewed the results of her latest blood work. Her sugars were through the roof. Her A1C test, which reflects a patient's blood sugar over the past 90 days, was suddenly out of range.
What on earth had happened?
As we talked, Sharon told me that she no longer had a walking partner so she quit exercising altogether.
"I'll walk with you!" I volunteered. I couldn't bear to see her health slip. And so I became her walking partner. Before long, others joined us. Our walking group became affectionately known as Walk with Your Doc and has swelled to sometimes more than 50 people of all ages. We walk every Tuesday and Thursday morning without fail. I love it, because I thrive on helping people live full, healthy, active lives.
Of course, a huge part of prevention is weight management. You see, the death toll racked up by heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, and all the other fat-related diseases is scary. Studies even associate obesity with poor immune function. That makes overweight people more susceptible to infections and cancer. Obesity will kill far more Americans each year than any terrorist would dare dream of taking out.
Everybody knows this. I'm just bringing it up again to remind you that tubs of ice cream and bags full of chips are not worth shortening your life over.
MISTER M.D., CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME Do I have to exercise while on the 17 Day Diet?
Yes, but I won't be asking you to sweat to golden oldies, pump it up or feel the burn. In other words—no overexercising. Since you'll be scaling back on calories, you should do less exercising, or else you'll get too run down and sore, especially during the first two Cycles. I will ask you, however, to do just 17 minutes a day of easy exercising like walking.
The 17 Day Diet has a companion exercise DVD called the 17 Minute Workout that you can purchase from our website, www.the17daydiet.com. It's cardio-based and geared toward pure fat-burning. So put down this book. Do this workout, or go outside and walk around your neighborhood for 17 minutes. Then come back and pick up where you left off.
We're already in so much trouble with trans fats, cheap sugars, excess sodium, and unpronounceable additives jazzing up junk food—stuff that causes your arteries to clog up like rusty pipes. With everything plaguing the American diet, I had to concentrate on creating a program that would be safe, effective and produce quick but lasting results. People had to get the weight off, then learn how to keep it off. I didn't want to tell my patients to go on this diet or that diet because many diets out there are nutritionally unbalanced, hard to follow, or just don't work fast enough to keep you motivated.
Thus, the 17 Day Diet evolved. It uses the latest medical knowledge on nutrition, foods and what the body needs for successful weight loss and good health.
Let me add here: You should check with your own physician before starting this program. Your doctor knows what's best for you. Based on my experience with my own patients, most people who have gotten out of shape over the years can follow the 17 Day Diet and do very well on it, though results can vary.
There Is More to Love about the 17 Day Diet ...
Whether you've got 10 pounds to lose or a hundred, being overweight is one of life's lesser joys. It affects every aspect of your life, maybe some things you never thought about. When you lose weight, practically everything in your life will change for the better. Let's talk about this now.
Get a Healthy Bod
You're going to be focused on losing pounds and inches. Some days, you might get a little discouraged if the scale doesn't move down fast enough, even though this diet does help prevent plateaus. But there's absolutely nothing to be discouraged about. There are other wonderful things happening inside your body that won't be reflected on the scale, like your blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol decreasing.
Okay, I realize that right now you might not care about these things. You just want to slip into that sexy black number hanging in your closet ... you know, the one that used to fit years ago.
But it's important to understand that your weight and health are not separate issues. Being overweight is a symptom of being unhealthy. Focus on your weight and your health will improve—instantly. Consider what the results of various research studies say about the rather immediate effects of healthy nutrition on the body:
After 15 minutes: After the first morning of eating a healthy breakfast , your stomach's satiety signals have registered in your brain, and you feel full. The body's internal chemistry is at its most active first thing in the morning, so your breakfast is then used to the maximum. If you eliminated processed foods (white bread, sugary cereals) for whole grains and lean proteins like egg whites, along with fresh fruit, you should feel energetic and mentally alert after just one meal.
After 3 hours: Your artery linings are able to expand sufficiently to increase blood flow to the body's tissues and organs.
After 6 hours: The HDL (happy cholesterol) in your blood perks up and starts scouring LDL (lousy cholesterol) from the blood. You can think of LDLs as delivery trucks, depositing cholesterol in blood vessels, and HDLs as garbage trucks, taking them back to the liver where they're broken down.
After 12 hours: Your body finally has an opportunity to burn the fat it has stored for energy because you've eliminated sugar. When you're eating a lot of sugar, your body is so busy processing the sugar that it doesn't have time to do its other job, which is to help the body burn fat. So guess what? The fat ends up hanging around.
After 16 hours: You get a restful night's sleep.
After 24 hours: You're 1 to 2 pounds lighter, because your body has begun to flush excess water and toxins from your system.
After 3 days: Once your body senses it's losing weight, its blood-related numbers (cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar) start traveling in a healthy direction.
After 1 week: Your cholesterol levels can drop significantly. Blood levels of important disease-fighting antioxidants like vitamin C and vitamin E are higher. Your bowels are in better working order, and you should be at least 5 pounds lighter.
After 2 weeks: You'll experience healthy drops in blood pressure if you've been diagnosed with hypertension. Expect to have lost up to 10 pounds by now.
After 1 month: Nobody has to filter out chunks of fast food from your blood anymore. By now, blood levels of LDL cholesterol can fall by nearly 30 percent—a drop similar to that seen with some cholesterol-lowering drugs.
After 6 weeks: You've lost so much weight you can't buy new, smaller clothes fast enough. Yes, you should have lost quite a bit of weight (20 pounds is not unusual), and your blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels will be substantially improved.
After 12 weeks: Many significant health numbers—cholesterol, triglycerides (fat in the blood), blood pressure, glucose and insulin—should begin to, if not completely, normalize.
After 6 months: You'll feel healthier because your body will be retaining more vitamins and minerals. Because you reduced your sugar intake significantly over this period, insulin production will have normalized. So your risk of developing type 2 diabetes is reduced, as this can be linked to a larger intake of sugar. Your energy levels have improved dramatically because your body has gone through a detoxing process. You've probably reached your goal. The hardest work is over, and now it's time to learn how to eat to maintain your newly slender silhouette.
Pretty amazing what a good diet can do, right? Don't you want all of this? Be brutally honest here: if you really want something you'll find a way to get it. So if you find yourself saying, "I didn't have time to prepare healthy food," let me ask you this: would you have found time if your life depended on it? Well, it does.
GET SKINNY SHORTCUT Posture Stand up straight. Not only does slouching make your belly protrude, but it gives your core muscles an undeserved break. Standing erect, with the stomach held in, encourages the abs to work and can make you look slimmer naturally—and in an instant.
Get Sexy
When you're fit and in shape, you're much more datable. In one survey of 554 undergrads, researchers found that overweight women were less likely to date than their peers. What's more, you're marriage material if you're thin. Research shows that overweight women are significantly less likely to marry than are women of average weight, particularly if they were overweight as young adults.
Losing weight can do wonders for your sex life, too. Duke University researchers did a study of 187 extremely obese adults, who were asked about their sex lives before and after they lost weight. It turned out the proportion of women who did not feel sexually attractive fell from 68 percent before they began a weight loss program to 26 percent a year later.
There were similar decreases in the percentages of women who didn't want to be seen naked, had little sexual drive, avoided sexual encounters, had difficulty with sexual performance or didn't enjoy sex. Among men, sex improved in most of the categories, but the improvements were less dramatic, probably because there are a lot more appearance-related pressures on women.
The romantic world revolves around physical appearances. If you want a love life with great sex, lose the weight.
Get Richer
Get in shape and you can improve your financial shape too. It's considerably more expensive to be unfit than it is to be fit, mainly because you're sicker more often and you pay higher medical bills. People who are overweight, and particularly those who are obese, are significantly more likely to have expensive-to-treat diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
And while I'm at it, did you know your employment prospects will improve after you lose weight? It's true! People with weight problems sometimes don't get hired. In the job market, appearance counts for a lot. Employers think fat people are lazy, incompetent, slow-moving and might have poor attendance. Studies have shown that fat people are paid less than employees of average weight.
I hate fat discrimination. It's wrong. But this is the world we live in. It's not going to change anytime soon, so get over it. Lose weight and you won't have to deal with it.
Thin people look better, and, like it or not, get paid more. If you're trim and healthy, you don't have an absentee problem. You might even be more productive on the job. All of this helps your earning potential. So if you want to live well and make your mortgage or rent payment, get those pounds off.
If my message seems too in-your-face, I apologize for the delivery—but not for the content. I'm speaking out because I care. I just want you to get healthy and enjoy your life to the fullest.
17 Day Diet: Lean 17: Are You Ready to Be a Total Hottie?
Take this quiz to see if you are ready to go on the 17 Day Diet. A successful and healthy weight loss requires the right frame of mind. Circle the answer that best describes your level of commitment.
1. When I think about starting the 17 Day Diet, I feel excited. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
2. I feel that weight loss and fitness are very important. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
3. I am determined to eat more healthfully. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
4. I want to look better and feel sexier. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
5. I am willing to follow the food plans in this book. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
6. I will eat more fruits and vegetables. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
7. I will give up soft drinks, candy and other sweets while following this diet. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
8. I will scale back on my alcohol intake. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
9. I will prepare more meals at home and eat out less frequently. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
10. I will increase my water intake. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
11. I am willing to cut back on starchy foods like white bread, pasta and sugary breakfast cereals. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
12. I feel confident that I can stick to this plan for at least 17 days. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
13. I will eat at least 3 meals and 1 snack a day. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
14. I will not make excuses to sabotage myself. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
15. I can commit to exercising at least 17 minutes a day. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
16. I want to change my eating and health habits for life. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
17. I understand how diet, obesity and chronic illnesses are linked. A. Yes B. Somewhat C. Unsure D. Not at all
Scoring: Give yourself a 3 for each A answer; a 2 for each B answer; a 1 for each C answer; and 0 for each D answer. Add up your score.
0 to 17 points: Immediately re-evaluate your commitment to improving your health. If you don't act decisively now, serious health problems are on the horizon.
18 to 26 points: Go back over your answers and see what you need to shore up. You may be taking some unnecessary risks with your health and should make an extra effort to change.
27 to 42 points: Re-examine your desire to go on the 17 Day Diet. What improvements can you make to boost your score? You need just a little bit more determination and commitment to be thinner and healthier.
43 to 51 points: You're ready to start the 17 Day Diet and enjoy success—congratulations! You must believe you can do this. It doesn't matter how often you have failed in the past; your past does not equal your future. What matters now is focusing on what you want, identifying what you need to get it and taking action. Your health and happiness are important, so stand strong.
17 Day Diet: '6 Reasons Not to Freak Out about Being Fat'
One of my patients joked recently about the pluses of her plus size: "I can shoplift in my cleavage. And I don't have to ask my boyfriend, 'Do I look fat in this?' I do." That conversation got me thinking about some of the health advantages to being overweight. Although I don't recommend staying fat, there are some pluses to being a plus size. Here are six ways in which some padding can tip the scales in your favor.
Stronger Bones A little meat on your frame can ward off osteoporosis, a condition of fragile bones that's less likely to occur in overweight women. Weight-bearing bones stay stronger.
Healthier Hearts and Lower Risk of Diabetes Women with larger thighs have a lower risk of heart disease and early death, says a study in the British Medical Journal. Those with stick-thin legs face the greatest chance of developing heart disease. Why? Added lower-body muscle mass can promote a better metabolism. Also, a 2008 study published in Cell Metabolism found that the fat that accumulates around the thighs and hips, called subcutaneous fat, actually lowers risk of diabetes. Pear shapes, be proud.
Glowing Skin Recent twin studies have found that the sister with more weight was judged to have a more youthful look. A gaunt face can definitely add some years, so carrying an extra few pounds can help create a more youthful appearance. It may also help to fill out a few of those more significant wrinkles that scream out "aging!"
Bigger Boobs The more you weigh, the bigger they get. Breasts are made up of mostly fat, and any excess pounds practically go straight to your chest. Unfortunately, when you lose weight, boob flab is one of the first things to go.
Increased Fertility Are you thinking of starting—or growing—your family? Underweight women were 72 percent more likely to miscarry, reports a London study. More specifically, leaner women when they conceived had a much higher percentage of miscarrying within three months of pregnancy. However, those few extra pounds on overweight women actually proved to have the opposite effect on their pregnancy.
Faster Metabolism It's not the skinny folks who have a fast metabolism; it's the overweight people! It takes more energy to operate anything bigger, so bigger people use more energy to do the same things that smaller people do. But metabolism isn't the only thing that determines weight; it's also how much you eat and exercise that matters.
Best Reason of All People who are really out of shape, who start exercising, get fitter faster! The fact is your body wants to be in shape. It wants to be healthy. It wants to look good. It wants to be hot! So, the more out of shape you are, the faster your body will respond to your weight loss efforts.
© 2010 17 Day Diet, Inc.


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We already knew that LG was working on the successor of its original phablet, the LG Optimus Vu. Today, the Korean mobile phone maker finally announced its second phone/tablet hybrid device, the LG Optimus Vu II. It comes with the same 5 inch display with 4:3 aspect ratio, however the processor, RAM and battery have been upgraded in this device.
LG Optimus Vu II is the company's second device to feature the unique QSlide Function which shows two different screens simultaneously on one display. Basically it means that you can view once apps on the first half and a second app on the another half of the screen. It also packs a stylus dubbed as "Rubberdium Pen 2.0" that offers a finer point for more precise input.
LG Optimus Vu II features a 5 inch IPS display, sporting a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels, 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) Operating System, 8 megapixel rear-facing camera, 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera for video calls and so on.
It also comes with a 3.5 mm headset jack, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, MHL, NFC, USB 2.0, DLNA, Wi-Fi direct, GPS with A-GPS, LTE connectivity, Google Play Store, 2 GB RAM, 400 hours of stand-by time, 500 minutes of talk-time and a 2150 mAh battery. This handset measures 132.2 x 85.6 x 9.4 mm and weighs 159 grams.
LG Optimus Vu II will be available in Black, White and Pink colors. This handset comes with a price tag of 966,900 won (approx. $865) in Korea. LG Optimus Vu II is expected to be available in major European and Asian markets in the coming weeks.


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Volunteerism is on the rise! Daphna Smolka is working with us on a P/P friendly cookbook that will be also be a P/P Community effort. Tina Lehne is spearheading the Awareness Ambassador effort and preparing the program's requirements and materials. Marketing guru Edie DeVine is helping with our public messaging and press releases. Dr. Maulik Dhandha is working on a paper reporting on the diagnostic delays of P/P we hope to publish in an academic journal.
And speaking of journals, members of our Medical Advisory Board joined 30 other physicians in finalizing an MMP consensus statement providing clearer definitions and outcome measures for accurate and reproducible definitions for disease extent, activity, outcome measures, end points and therapeutic response. Thank you Prof. Dedee Murrell and Dr. Victoria Werth for leading this effort.
This issue of the Quarterly is another great one! PV patient Martha Cusick was so happy with the help she received from her Peer Health Coach, she set a goal to fundraise for research and awareness (p. 4). And what do you do when you need a cancer treatment, but getting it will cause a severe flare? Read Joan Blender Ominsky's story on page 15.
The Awareness Campaign has a new look, more help, and a catchy slogan. Kate Frantz keeps you up to date starting on page 6. Clinical psychologist and PV patient Terry Wolinsky McDonald explains the Nuts & Bolts of Depression (p. 7). The discovery of VH1-46 is the topic of two articles (pp. 8 and 9). Two P/P experts discuss the importance of measuring patient quality of life (p. 11). And we have another delicious Vicky Starr recipe on page 19!
Lastly, I hope to see you in New York for our 2015 Patient Conference. The Committee is busy finalizing the date (end of April) and venue (near Central Park). Keep an eye on your mailbox and inbox for more information in the coming months! I promise this event will be BIG!


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