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Herbalife Closes Acquisition of U.S. Manufacturing Facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Herbalife Closes Acquisition of U.S. Manufacturing Facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF), a global nutrition company, announced today that its agreement to purchase a manufacturing facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was completed on December 31, 2012.
The purchase of this facility further expands Herbalife's global manufacturing capacity and is in line with the company's stated strategy to increase self-manufacturing for its top products.
Over the next two years, Herbalife expects to invest in excess of $100 million on machinery & technology, as well as a complete retro-fitting of the existing facility to ensure it is in full compliance with U.S. Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) for dietary supplements and food products.
Herbalife expects to begin production in this facility as early as June 2014 and estimates that approximately 500 new jobs will be created by the time it reaches full operations.
About Herbalife Ltd.
Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) is a global nutrition company that sells weight-management, nutrition, and personal care products intended to support a healthy lifestyle. Herbalife products are sold in more than 80 countries to and through a network of independent distributors. The company supports the Herbalife Family Foundation and its Casa Herbalife program to help bring good nutrition to children.

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No. Based on clinical practice and comments received from the American College of Gastroenterology, American Gastroenterological Association, American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and the Society for Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates, polyp removal is an integral part of a colonoscopy. Accordingly, the plan or issuer may not impose cost-sharing with respect to a polyp removal during a colonoscopy performed as a screening procedure. On the other hand, a plan or issuer may impose cost-sharing for a treatment that is not a recommended preventive service, even if the treatment results from a recommended preventive service.
In addition, the federal guidelines help people with a family history that put them in a high risk group for certain diseases. They will now be able to get more frequent preventive care without additional costs.
Q7: Some USPSTF recommendations apply to certain populations identified as high-risk. Some individuals, for example, are at increased risk for certain diseases because they have a family or personal history of the disease. It is not clear, however, how a plan or issuer would identify individuals who belong to a high-risk population. How can a plan or issuer determine when a service should or should not be covered without cost-sharing?
Identification of "high-risk" individuals is determined by clinical expertise. Decisions regarding whether an individual is part of a high-risk population, and should therefore receive a specific preventive item or service identified for those at high-risk, should be made by the attending provider. Therefore, if the attending provider determines that a patient belongs to a high-risk population and a USPSTF recommendation applies to that high-risk population, that service is required to be covered in accordance with the requirements of the interim final regulations (that is, without cost-sharing, subject to reasonable medical management).If you're having problems with your health insurer over these sorts of issues and you live in Washington state, feel free to contact our consumer hotline at 1-800-562-6900 or email us.


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Exquisitely detailed, intimate, psychologically and emotionally intense, Sally Mann: Proud Flesh engages territory most often inhabited by male artists portraying their wives and female lovers as Mann turns the camera to her husband of 39 years, Larry. Beautiful, textured, and provocative, these unprecedented nude studies neither objectify nor celebrate; rather, they go far under the skin to suggest a relationship between man and woman that is profoundly trusting: sensual, sexual, sometimes painful, often indescribably tender, and always unblinkingly honest.
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Police: Mom helped girl beat student at school
Grandmother says victim bullied suspect previously
Prosecutors say two women bypassed security at Withrow High School to help a teenage girl beat up another student. Now all three are facing charges.
According to police reports, Precious Allen, 31, and Dawn Brunner, 28, accompanied Allen's daughter, a 14-year-old student, into school on Thursday afternoon.
Police said the trio went to a classroom, where Allen and the teen began assaulting a student in front of other students.
Allen held the student down, while the teen hit the student in the face with a lock several times, police said.
Allen and the teen are charged with felonious assault and aggravated trespassing, while Brunner is charged with criminal trespass. The teen faces an additional charge of assault of a teacher and/or bus driver.
The teen's grandmother said her granddaughter had been bullied by the assault victim previously, and that Allen had gone to the school to take the teen out of class.
The grandmother said that at some point previously, the victim had assaulted Allen.
She also said that Thursday's incident started when the victim lunged at the 14-year-old's mother.
CPS spokeswoman Janet Walsh said that Allen and Brunner had come to the school, met the teen and left, then returned and tried to come in through a back door.
Walsh said security turned the women away and told them to use the front door.
But when the women reached the front door, a student was leaving, so the women were able to get in without being buzzed in. They then went to the classroom where the assault occurred, Walsh said.
School security and a Cincinnati police resource officer dealt with the attack.
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I'm using Wordpress to support two websites. One is a personal opinions blog and the other supports and publicizes the activities of a non-profit advocacy group. I'm retired and building and operating these sites is largely a hobby for me. I'm definitely not out to make any real money out of these sites. Both sites are largely aimed at Californians; and not expected to be of any interest to people outside the U.S.
Given that background I'm really curious about the motives of visitors from outside the USA who try to register as a subscriber at either of my sites. Many of these attempts are clearly from would-be spammers who obviously have no interest in my content. Those are fairly easy to identify with anti-spammer tools I have installed.
But I realize not all foreign would-be subscribers have evil intentions. I, for example, am interested in motorcycles which can be driven by a person in a wheelchair (I'm an electric wheelchair pilot). One of the more interesting ones I've found is made in the UK. So I'm interested in keeping up on its development. And it just might be that someone in China is interested in a native's views on California politics.
For now I have disabled the ability of site visitors to subscribe to my sites. What I would like to find is a plugin which would present a person trying to subscribe with a questionnaire about why they want to. Based on my satisfaction with the answers received I could then decide whether or not I welcomed my new subscriber or kindly declined their subscription. I haven't been able to find such a plugin. Does anybody have any suggestions or ideas?


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Elle Decoration Country is a bi-annual bookazine which runs to 260 pages. It is printed on matt paper with a copper foil-finished cover.
The title is edited by Elle Decoration editor-in-chief Michelle Ogundehin and produced by the same editorial and design team behind Elle Decoration UK, which itself is a brand extension of Elle.
Hearst describes the title as containing some of the world's most "spectacular" countryside homes.
Hearst claims that Decoration Country is a first in the market, dedicated not only to homes, but also to the "exploration of the romantic, personal joy of country life and style".
The bookazine retails exclusively at WHSmith for £9.99 and can also be downloaded as a digital edition for the same price on Apple Newsstand at www.elledecoration.co.uk/country.
According to Elle, the bookazine features "rich colours and textures", double page photographs, minimal words and a seven-page directory of country-relevant retailers. The first issue also contains a visual 'cribsheet' of essential components to help urban dwellers achieve their own Elle Decoration Country worthy home.
Elle Decoration editor-in-chief, Michelle Ogundehin, said: "The countryside connotes calm, fresh air, good living and relaxation. There you imagine you will be restored to your best self. And, with increasing numbers of people moving out of our towns and cities, we wanted to celebrate this idyllic vision of country life by showcasing some of the most beautiful rural abodes in the world. We hope our readers will enjoy Elle Decoration Country as much as we loved producing it."
Meribeth Parker, group publishing director of Elle Decoration, said: "We are committed to growing our portfolio and Elle Decoration Country is a natural extension for this popular brand. The bookazine provides a glorious and sumptuous showcase for our advertisers and we are delighted that so many great world-class brands have supported the first issue."
According to Hearst, Elle Decoration Country is among a number of newly launched print titles by the publisher. In the past year, Hearst has launched more than 35 bookazines and special branded spin-offs including Good Ideas by Good Housekeeping, Cosmo Beauty and Eat This Not That by Men's Health.
Hearst also intends to launch Esquire's Big Black Book in March 2013.
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by Len Lear
A food writer, Sherry Hughes, for a newspaper called The Sentinel in the town of Keene, New Hampshire, told me in an email last week that in the fall she visited her sister, Donna, in South Jersey. She subsequently wrote an article last Oct. 19 stating that the best meal of her life had previously been in Cape Breton Island. However, that "has now been eclipsed."
Sherry and her sister celebrated a belated birthday at Sampan, which has been at 124 S. 13th St. (in the area now called Midtown Village) since December, 2009, and that the dinner they enjoyed there "now goes in the books as my best meal ever … I thoroughly enjoyed everything I ate. It was divine. And I don't use the word 'divine' a lot."
I can't say I was surprised. We first met Sampan's owner/chef, Michael Schulson, now 37, about 10 years ago, after Stephen Starr brought him from Long Island to Philly to helm Pod, his then-new Asian fusion restaurant at 36th and Sansom Streets. After sampling his menu and chatting with him, I wrote that the handsome Schulson would "become a media superstar in the years to come," and I hate to brag (not bloody likely), but subsequent events have proved my prediction to be prescient.
In the past decade Schulson , who had cooked at the Tokyo Four Seasons Hotel in Japan and who speaks conversational Japanese, has starred on three TV cooking shows — Style Network's "Pantry Raid," TLC's "Ultimate Cake-Off" and Discovery Channel's "Go Ahead, Make My Dinner." He has also been a guest on countless other TV shows, and he has been featured in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal; he created a line of frozen appetizers for www.AppetizersToGo.com; and he has been the executive chef at Buddakan in New York and Izakaya in the Borgata Hotel-Casino in Atlantic City.
Sampan, the restaurant named for the modest Chinese riverboat that was the primary means of Asian water travel for centuries, is much more upscale than the humble boat. Its modernistic décor includes an open kitchen and two dining rooms with color-shifting wall panels, distressed metals, reclaimed timber and a rustic aesthetic. Foodwise, you really can't go wrong with anything on the pan-Asian menu. I would strongly recommend the $40 prix fixe dinner, which includes seven small plates of your choosing. A Schulson signature dish, crispy rock shrimp with pickled radish and chili aioli, is so good it makes the naughty parts tingle; in some restaurants you wonder if they grilled the meat or just gave it the third degree, but at Sampan the Korean barbecued short ribs with kim che and ginger are as fine-tuned as a Lang Lang performance of a Beethoven piano concerto. The panoply of scissor-sharp flavors and textures adds up to a circus in your mouth. And a cocktail, Satsuma Martini (satsuma is a Japanese citrus fruit), was one of the best we ever had, well worth the $11 price tag.
If I were forced to mention any negatives about Sampan, I'd have to say that the quantity of wine in the wines-by-the-glass is certainly inadequate; the courses come out at lightning speed, one right after the other, and it is one of the loudest, noisiest restaurants we have ever been in. We were there on a Thursday, and we were first seated next to a table of six women whose voices could have melted iron. We asked to be moved into the other dining room, which was filled with large parties of 20- and 30-somethings, some of whom must have felt they were at an Eagles game. Just a few yards from us, two men with cannons for mouths at a table of eight were screaming so loudly, they could have peeled paint off the wall. People like this are not ready to go out in public unsupervised.
To be fair, however, I must add that there are probably very few diners like us in this city who are bothered by mega-decibel noise in restaurants or anywhere else. Young people grow up these days bombarded by so much noise that to them supersonic sounds are normal. No one in the dining room but us seemed to be disturbed in the least by the relentless ear-shattering din, and of all the comments about Sampan I've read on a few blogs, no one else has mentioned it. So unless you're an old fogey like us, I wouldn't give it a second thought.
Our waiter, Frank, was most knowledgeable and efficient. I would strongly recommend parking at the multi-story parking garage on the southeast corner of 12th and Sansom Streets, exactly one block from the restaurant. And ask for a parking voucher at Sampan, and you will pay only $5 at the garage, less than you would put into a kiosk on the street for three hours. For more information, call 215-732-3501 or visit www.sampanphilly.com.


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The site aims to connect citizens willing to offer resources and services after a disaster occurs.
Disasters are scary — there's no question about it. But as much as they cause fear, they also bring people together, connecting communities in ways that few other incidents can. Focusing on those connections, rather than the catastrophe, is the theory behind the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management's (SFDEM) new project SF72.org, created to enhance the city's disaster preparedness.
The site, set to launch this fall, aims to connect citizens willing to offer resources and services — from food, water and an extra generator to mechanical services and a place to stay — 72 hours after a disaster occurs.
"We wanted to create a message of preparedness that focused on creating communities that made people the star of the show rather than the catastrophe," said Francis Zamora, public information officer for SFDEM.
The site will feature four categories: a place for people to connect and share resources and services; instructions on how to prepare for a disaster, including videos on putting together a kit and making potable water, plus testimonials from those who have survived disasters; a "make" section for users to invent their own ways to help; and an emergency mode, which will switch on when disaster strikes and share live information with the public, plus check for missing persons.
Created in collaboration with design firm IDEO, the goal is to make the site approachable and uncomplicated to help people shift from thinking that they should be doing more to prepare to actually taking action.
"We want to get people into the sharing mode ahead of time," Zamora said.
SFDEM research shows that communities with natural social networks are more resilient than others, as citizen-to-citizen resource sharing proved necessary during hurricanes Katrina and Sandy.
Encouraging communities to connect through a social network is part of the department's larger plan to enhance San Francisco's preparedness, said Zamora.
For those who aren't connected online, the department is planning to have leaders from churches and other city organizations log-on to the site and relay the updated information to their social networks in person.
SFDEM is also looking into having people sign-in through Facebook or Google, limiting the amount of log-on information needed.
SF72.org will be completely open source, so any city around the country could potentially make the concept its own. There's been regional interest and New York has already contacted the department to learn more about it, Zamora said.
The department recently completed a beta test for an app that allowed people to connect with others in the same neighborhood for sharing resources. But nothing is set in stone.
"We want it to be device and mobile friendly, but there may not be an app; it might just be a website," Zamora said. SF72 could evolve after the launch, he said, if, for example, a coder has a people finder that works really well.
Zamora said the department is also exploring trusted networks for sharing resources to address privacy concerns about publicly announcing that someone owns a generator.
The first phase of work, which was grant funded and included research, design of mock ups and brand and focus groups, cost $399,000. The second phase, which will begin this month, cost $850,000 to complete the website, along with a ShareSF app prototype, according to Zamora.
The department is currently looking for partnerships with foundations and the private sector to complete the rest of the project.
Learn more about the reasoning behind creating SF72 in the following video courtesy of the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management.
Photo courtesy of Shutterstock. This story was originally published by Emergency Management magazine.


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President Barack Obama and Jon Favreau, head speechwriter, edit a speech on health care in the Oval Office, Sept. 9, 2009, in preparation for the president's address to a joint session of Congress. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza – via Flickr)
Presidential communications are seamless, hermetic; they betray no sign they were ever anything other than fully polished.
But now and then, we get a glimpse like this, and we get a hint of the furious activity going on just below the surface: the endless cycles of revision and comment that ultimately turn out the glowing words scrolling up a teleprompter screen. In this case, it looks like a long night is in the cards for Jon Favreau.
Maybe it won't be that bad. There have been times when I would have killed to have a client whose handwriting was as meticulous as Obama's looks in this photo. If his directions are as clear as his penmanship, Mr. Favreau's an even luckier man than I'd thought.
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Revisiting Dual-Core CPU Performance
It's been a few months since we last reviewed a new processor, but with July's release of Intel's Core 2 desktop processors, there has been massive price cuts and reshuffling to Intel's older Pentium D 900 series dual-core CPU offerings as well as AMD's Athlon 64 X2 lineup. To better understand how they rank today along with the Core 2 series, we rounded up almost all available dual-core processors comprising of no less than 16 processors from the mainstream to the enthusiast class to form this article. Although dual-core processors for consumers only debuted just over a year ago, by this year in 2006, dual-core processors have become the de facto standard for most mainstream computers and upwards, leaving the single-core processor offerings truly for the low-end and budget needs. That's how fast processors have evolved with up to twice the performance envelope of single-core variants and being produced in massive volumes to sustain the reasonable price points that they now offer.
Many have barely embraced dual-core computing but already next month, Intel is launching quad-core processors and we've even been given privilege to have first-hand experience on its performance during the recently held Intel Developer Forum Fall 2006. While we already have been having them in our lab for a while now, we'll share with you more about that at a more appropriate time frame when it is officially made available. For now, what we can say is that the entry of quad-core processors would only affect the buying decisions of enthusiasts willing to fork out US$1,000 as it will only be offered in one speed grade till much later in 2007 when mainstream variants of it are expected. Therefore, you can expect much of what's offered today (processor variety and price) to remain quite similar for some time to come even after the availability of quad-core processors (unless of course there are further price revisions from both Intel and AMD to heat up the already intense competition).
Below, we share with you the variety of dual-core processors compared in this article, key specs and any updates since our last coverage of them.
Intel Core 2 Extreme / Duo Series
The darling of Intel and the comeback processor that lived up to the hype, we've shared much about their new Core 2 desktop processors in our previous articles. Since they are still relatively new, nothing much has changed about them and we'll leave you with the following table that sums them up in brief. From the price points, you can tell that these processors are aimed at mainstream performance computers and higher. Many enthusiasts and ourselves have been singing praises of how easily the low-end Core 2 Duo E6300 model can overclock to hit levels exceeding the Extreme model, but the interesting bit would be how the E6300 stacks up at stock performance levels to the existing processor mix from AMD and Intel. So for the rest of you not into overclocking, keep your eye out on it in our performance graphs. Of the Core 2 processor models available, there's just one that we were unfortunately not able to get our hands on and this is the E6400 model. Once we get hold of one, we'll be sure to update this article.
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Mexican Products can be found at N Wyoming St 265. The following is offered: Grocery Stores. The entry is present with us since Sep 8, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 12, 2013. In Hazleton there are 16 other Grocery Stores. An overview can be found here.
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It's National Family History Week in Australia (until August 10). So I'm going to leave the Irish history theme for now and pick up some of Nicholas Delaney's story in New South Wales.
Starting with his arrival.
Human cargo
On October 30, 1810, the convict ship Atlas II docked at Sydney Cove after a five month sea voyage. He and the 207 others transported as human cargo were unusually lucky. Not for them the high death toll resulting from poor food, filthy conditions, untreated illness, lack of air and exercise and a voyage spent below decks in chains.
Only four died during the journey, thanks partly to Atlas II being a new ship as well as to the work of surgeon Thomas Davie, the attitude of the captain, Thomas Musgrave, and probably to sheer luck in that no fatally contagious diseases raged through the ship.
By contrast Atlas I, which sailed some months before, lost 65 convicts out of 176.
And when Musgrave's ship was sighted, bets were laid that only half the convicts would have survived. But, to the onlookers' amazement, a long stream of men appeared blinking in the strong light, while the ship's captain shook hands with every one of them.
Musgrave, that enlightened man, who had not insisted that his 'cargo' remain in chains once he had set sail, treated them as fellow humans even to the last.*
Political prisoners
Out of the 208 convicts aboard Atlas II, 190 were Irish political prisoners, according to Captain Musgrave. The other men tried alongside Nicholas – Edward Neil, James Dempsey, Patrick Stafford and John Kavanagh – were there. So were other south Wicklow men convicted on Biddy Dolan's evidence, including John Nowlan, Richard Carr and Patrick Murray. These Wicklow men, the 'Forgotten Prisoners', seem to have stayed in touch once they reached Australia.
Nicholas was about to start a new life working for Major George Johnston, commander of the New South Wales Corps – the infamous Rum Corps. Interestingly, it was Johnson who was credited with putting down the 'other' Battle of Vinegar Hill, at Castle Hill, near Parramatta, in March, 1804.
Later Johnston was himself involved in civil unrest – as a leader of the Rum Rebellion against Governor William Bligh. Piling irony upon irony, Bligh was already well known for another uprising against his authority – the Mutiny on the Bounty.
* There is much more about Nicholas's transportation and Atlas II on the A Rebel Hand website.
Some useful links
A search on the net brings up a lot about convicts transported to Australia. Two resources I found useful are Peter Mayberry's Irish convicts pages and Lesley Uebel's claim a convict pages (not just Irish). The National Museum of Australia has some information and there are some great descriptions of transportation to Australia, plus information about free settlers, here (scroll down, it's quite long).


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Bermuda-based insurer Catlin CGL.L, operator of Lloyd's biggest syndicate, is set to absorb about $200 million in claims from Sandy, it said on Tuesday. Rivals Hiscox (HSX.L) and Novae NVA.L put their exposure at 90 million pounds ($145.79 million) and between $25 million and $30 million respectively.
Sandy, a 1,000-mile wide storm that killed 132 as it swept through the north-eastern United States on October 29, is expected to cost insurers up to $25 billion, making it the second-costliest storm after hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Insurers and analysts have said the size of the affected region, which includes New York and other densely populated and industrialized areas, makes the final damage bill difficult to calculate.
"This estimate is subject to a considerable degree of uncertainty due to the size of the storm system, and the wide variety of damage it caused," Catlin said.
Sandy came at the end of a relatively uneventful year for natural catastrophes, in contrast with 2011, the insurance industry's second-costliest on record after earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand generated a claims bill of over $100 billion.
The comparative absence of big disaster claims during the first nine months of 2012 means the insurance industry is still expected to turn a profit for the year as a whole.
"We expect Sandy will have turned what would have been a very benign catastrophe year and a very strong earnings year back into a relatively average one," Joy Ferneyhough, an analyst at Espirito Santo bank in London, wrote in a note.
Catlin shares were down 3 percent by 4:45 a.m. ET against a 0.3 percent rise in the mid-cap FTSE 250 .FTMC share index, partly surrendering a 21 percent gain since the start of the year. Hiscox and Novae were 0.8 percent lower and 1.9 percent higher respectively.
Top U.S. insurers AIG (AIG.N) and Allstate (ALL.N) have estimated their Sandy losses at $1.3 billion and $1 billion respectively, while Swiss Re SRENH.VX, the world's No.2 reinsurer, has said it expects to pay out $900 million.
The Lloyd's of London market, a collection of about 80 competing insurance syndicates that sell protection against natural catastrophe and other risks worldwide, has not yet said how much Sandy will cost it collectively.
Lloyd's which traces its origins back 324 years to a London coffee house where merchants met to insure ships, has historically borne about 10 percent of the claims burden from major natural disasters, analysts say.
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Paula Abdul on DWTS Season 10 – Addendum
I've seen a number of different possible scenarios for Paula on Season 10, in addition to the possibility of her competing. The way that TMZ worded their article, I assumed they wanted her as a contestant. However, I've seen some assume she would be on as a Judge. I've also, since Sam quit, seen quite a few people state that it seems obvious that Paula would take Sam's place – including Annie Barrett from Entertainment Weekly (via Twitter).
What is the likelihood of either scenario?? Well, considering that Paula was supposedly offered 1 million dollars, I have to believe that it's either for competing or judging and that if it's judging it's one season only. Paula made many times that on American Idol, so she doesn't need the work, plus that number seems too low!! Additionally, I have to think that hosting with Tom Bergeron would be a step down, in her mind, from judging on American Idol (and possibly, now, X-Factor). Also, since one million dollars is far above what I've heard the most popular celebs have made on that show, I'm starting to lean towards her being the fourth judge. Since the British version of DWTS has four judges on a regular basis, this isn't out of the question. She would definitely add a different judging element to the show and, frankly, she's every bit as qualified as Carrie Ann and Bruno, maybe more so. That's why I'm so opposed to her being a contestant. I think I actually wouldn't mind seeing her on as a fourth judge. AND, a fourth judge would mean less filler on a two hour performance show when only 12 couples are dancing.
So…contestant, judge or host? Your vote? Mine is for judge, definitely not for either contestant or host. Tom is awesome enough – add in Drew or maybe Brooke Burke. Heck, even Melissa Rycroft!


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Solid macroeconomic fundamentals and sound policy frameworks also indicate that Colombia is quite well positioned to deal with the challenge of continuously low commodity prices. The depreciation of the Colombian peso in response to tumbling commodity prices since 2014 has helped to absorb any potential economic shocks. Managed currency floating is supported by a limited dollarization of the economy and modest external debt (34% of GDP in 2015). The peso is expected to gradually weaken further in coming years.
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Identify "good" breakouts and "false" breakouts. Good breakouts result in nice profits, but false breakouts turn back to losses. The next paragraph will reveal the secret why false breakouts more often occur and who is responsible for this phenomenon.
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? Have you ever tried it? Have you tried to trade the breakouts? Forget it. Let's explain the insider's secret why most traders lose money trying to catch the breakouts. Let's discover the myth.
I.4. Julie comes with a genial solution: Enter the breakout before the crowd!
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Chapter II: Entry
II.1. Chart set-up
Prepare your chart.
II.2. Entry rule
Enter the market only when your system tells you. Emotionless trading.
II.3 Practical implementation
Recognize a valid entry step by step.
Chapter III: Exit
III.1. Chart set-up
Prepare your chart.
III.2. Exit rule
Remember: Exit is much more important than entry! Knowing when it is time to exit the market is a very important task. Some traders get out too early of a winning trade because they do not follow a given system. Some traders enter the market blindly and then they nervously watch the chart and ask themselves: "Should I close the position now... or NOW?!". Their emotions control their trading and they consistently lose money. Remember, it is a discipline that separates winners from losers.
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Your collection pales in comparison to mine. Would pale even further had I not sold my n64 and snes...I have a recept that's about a meter long from when I sold my n64 (not even exagerating) up in a safe place in the loft. I also have the complete collection of original mario kart 64 plushies, however they've been played with D=(also, anyone else got a game gear and the attachment that lets you play sega megadrive games?)
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That quote is actualy very witty, Celdur. I suggest you use that in your signature.
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…except for whole Karl Rove fiasco – you reap what you sow. Sorry to start with this, but I can't help myself… From wikipedia:
The source of the term is a quotation in an October 17, 2004, The New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush (later attributed to Karl Rove[1]):
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." … "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
Okay Karl – we'll study this past week and watch the conclusions drawn from Karl's new role in history as someone who reaps the 'reality' he has sown, with all his lies, deceit and projection – especially accusing the Democratic party of 'voter suppression'.
As a Science and 'Mystically' based Progressive Liberal, I'm much more relieved than anything. A Romney Presidency was a much more a grim prospect, IMHO… the continued serfdom of the American worker.
But for all my Red State friends, of which there are many – and as anti-evangelic as I am —( I mean that not as 'Anti-Christian' but 'Anti-I have to convince you I am right about something to the point of annoyance') — I'd like you to explore for yourself, at least, turning off the Faux News and listening to the Liberal Progressive side for a while. I implore you to do this for many obvious reasons, but the main one is this statement: You have been in a 'Propaganda Bubble', and purposely lied to, for YEARS.
For as much as Bill Maher is a pompous jackass in real life, this is a point he has been hammering for the past 2-3 years. This 'Being in the Republican Bubble' election results and the Fox News crowd, who have been in this bubble's reaction proves that he has been right on the money.
So please back away from the Conservative Buffet and at least broaden your perspective.
To prove this point: David Frum is not my favorite person, but he's out today with a book published and ready to go called 'Why Romney Lost'. On Morning Joe lon Thursday, November 8th, this former NeoCon of the Bush administration admitted what I just stated in the paragraph above. Watch it here:


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Maha Mrityunjay Mantra
Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra, the powerful mantra of Lord Shiva is a call for enlightenment. Chanting of this mantra purifies the karmas of the soul at a deep level. The Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra (Mantra of Great Victory Over Death) is one of the most ancient mantras well known in the Vedic canon.
The Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra is a life-giving mantra (sanjivini mantra). It is a mantra that is said to rejuvenate, bestow health, wealth, long life, peace, prosperity and contentment. It wards off death and accidents of all descriptions. Besides, it has a great curative power. It is also known as Moksha mantra.
"om tryambhakam yajamahe, sugandhim pushtivardhanam,
urvarukamiva bandhanan, mrityor mukshiya maamritat."
Rigveda Verse: mandala-7 sukt-59 mantra-12 | Rishi: Vashistha | Mantra Devata: Rudra
"O praise to the Three-Eyed One, who increases prosperity, who has a sweet fragrance, who frees the world from all disease and death – liberate me, as the cucumber is easily severed from the vine. O Shiva, grant me immortality!"
Penance for the Mantra
The Mahamrityunjaya mantra was taught by Lord Shiva to Sukracharya, the preceptor of the demons after he succeeded in the impossible test of hanging upside down from a tree for twenty years (Vimsottari dasa period) with smoke blowing into him from a fire lit beneath. Even Brihaspati was shocked at the prospect of such a terrible penance and calmly settled to observe Sukracharya accept the challenge of Indra and succeed.
After the penance Lord Shiva taught the Mahamrityunjaya mantra to Sukracharya, who under very compelling circumstances had to teach this to the son of Brihaspati and that is how the devas also got the mantra. This mantra was given (sruti) to Vasistha Maharishi for the welfare of this world. The mantra and explanation given by Sukracharya to Rishi Dadhicha when the latter's body was cut and thrown by Raja Kshuva is recorded in the Shiva Purana.
What is the meaning of Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra?
Om is the absolute reality. It is said to be "Adi Anad", without beginning or the end and embracing all that exists. Om is beyond any limit, transcendental, and indestructible. OM represents the wholeness of the universe and the eternal vibratory sound of brahman (the universal soul) that permeates it. Indeed, Om is called shabdabrahman, the sound-form of brahman. Om is a mystical or sacred syllable. The syllable is taken to consist of three phonemes, a, u and m, variously symbolizing the Three Vedas or the Hindu Trimurti or three stages in life (birth, life and death ). A-U-M represents the divine energy (Shakti) united in its three elementary aspects: Bhrahma Shakti (creation), Vishnu Shakti (preservation) and Shiva Shakti (liberation).
In upanishads and sutra:
Om consists of the three sounds a (a-kara), u (u-kara), m (ma-kara). A-kara means form or shape like earth, trees, or any other object. U-kara means formless or shapeless like water, air or fire. Ma-kara means neither shape nor shapeless (but still exists) like the dark matter in the Universe. When we combine all three syllables we get AUM which is a combination of A-kara, U-kara, and Ma-kara.
According to the Mandukya Upanishad
Om is both atman and brahman: it is the past, the present and the future, as well as all that transcends time.
In Purana
Aum or Om is the mystic name for the Hindu Trimurti, and represents the union of the three gods, viz. a for Brahma, u for Vishnu and m for Mahadev which is another name of Shiva. The three sounds also symbolize the three Vedas (Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda).
Om is the mantra of assent. It means yes and affirms and energizes whatever we say after it. That is why all mantras begin with OM. OM is also the mantra of ascent and causes our energy to rise upward into the infinite. By reciting Om, a person gains access to the powers of the universe; and meditation on Om is said to lead to enlightenment and immortality. OM is expansive and increases the fire, air and ether elements, particularly ether. It also gives strength, protection and grace.
Tryambak = trya + amba = three amba
'Three Amba' are the three Shaktis (the power) signifyin
''will power' (iccha shakti)
power of work' (kriya shakti)
power of wisdom (gyana shakti).
These three shaktis are the creators of this whole world, and the one who has these three is called tryambak.
Tryambak also refers to the three eyes of shiva as 'Trya' means 'Three' and 'Ambakam' means eyes. Three eyes of shiva also refer to fire, sun and moon. Maharshi Kapil defines these eyes as sattva, raja and tamo guna. So we can say that the one who is beyond all gunas is tryambak.
According to Astrologers, past, present and future are the eyes of the mahakaal tryambak. Thus it can be said that the one who exists in past, future and present, and is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent is tryambak.
In vedanta – chitta, ego and buddhi are the three eyes of Shiva. Yogis define 'A', 'U' and 'M' as eyes of shiva. Tryambak is the father of the three worlds – bhu, bhuva and svarga lokas (planes of existence). He is the lord of the three heavens created by the dominance of the three Gunas – Rajas, Satva and Tamas.
By chanting the Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra we surrender to Lord Trayambak establishing a connection with Him. Here the root yaja means to sacrifice for the communion with divinity and yajamahe means 'performing yagya'. Yagya is the tradition that follows from the Vedas. It is the act of offering oblations to propitiate a deity. Thus Yajamahe refers to the desire to make a connection with the lord who is the origin of light, nectar and life by sacrificing and offerings (havan samagri).
'Sugandhim' refers to the fragrance of the flower that spreads in all directions. Similarly, He – The Supreme God is present in all the bhutas (modes of existence), in the three Gunas (nature of creation as being Satva, Rajas or Tamas), in the ten indriyas (five gyana-indriyas or senses and five karma-indriyas or organs of action), in all the devas (33 devas are the source of all illumination and enlightenment) and the ganas (hosts of demi-gods), He exists and pervades as the illumine atma (soul) and is their essence. He is spreading His fragrance all around and making us as fragrant as He is. Fragrance refers to the joy within Him. we all are bathing in His Fragrance, the real joy. Our self is true and pure as He is. No one can deteorite the true self.
Pushti + vardhnam = pushtivardhanam
Tantric refers pushti as Shakti, In puranic language pushti is maya-( ). Philosphers (tatva chintak) refers it as 'Nature'. Thus, here pushti indicates the shakti- the power – the nature and the one who expands/ enhances the pushti is called pustivardhanam. The one who transforms subtle forms into gross forms and expands the nature into many new forms by his creation is God. God is the sustainer of all beings who has created the entire creation starting from mahatatva (primordial state of matter/energy) to the individual parts. He is the sustainer of the world, the father of all.
Urvarukamiv Bandhnan
We bound by many diseases (approx 100 are in vedas) influenced (negative) by three doshas (imbalance of five elements earth, space, air, water and fire), fear of death, eight type of Agyana (ignorance) and the cycle of birth and death. We are living in the falsehood and are unable to perceive the all pervading God. We are bound by shadripu, the six demons of attachment, lust, greed, ego, anger and jealousy.
Mrityormukshiya Ma Amritat
O God I wish to be free from the all negativities and to be in real joy. Please take me out of all weakness and the never ending cycle of birth and death. Free me from the fear of diseases and death for the sake of immortality (Moksha, Nirvana or final emancipation from re-birth).
ma amritat means 'please give me some Amritam (life rejuvinating nectar). It means that we are praying for some 'Amrit' to get out of the death inflicting diseases as well as the cycle of re-birth. and to be one with the supreme being, Shiva in the same way as the cucumber fruit (urvaru) gets separated from its stalk.
Be like Cucumber
The cucumber is a fruit that grows on a vine, and if you've ever grown them, you will know that they, like other similar fruits and gourds, will not fall away from the vine on their own. They will stay on the vine until they rot. Similarly, without the moment of liberation, we too will remain attached to our ego, to this illusory world, until our bodies rot away and the seeds of our karma are planted again, to be born again into the cycle of rebirth. With this mantra we ask Lord Shiva to release us from this cycle, while still in this life. Removing the cucumber when it is ripe is very easy – you can simply pluck it from the vine – in a similar way, with sadhana (focused practice with a goal in mind), we too may easily cross from unknowing into knowing. So we ask Lord Shiva to help us, to liberate us as easily as we harvest the simple gourd.
Things become easier when done in a group or team. Team always has more power than a single person.
"om tryambhakam yajamahe, sugandhim pushtivardhanam, urvarukamiva bandhanan, mrityor mukshiya maamritat."
It is said that power of mantra grows exponentially if chanted in groups. The vibrations created by this collective chanting is very much powerful to help a person to establish a connection with the supreme being. And makes easier for the devotee to move within, creating a unique environment full of divine vibrations of Maha Mrityunjay Mantra.
Mahamrityunjay Mantras come in various forms such as beej, general mantra, poorna mantra etc. I hereby present 'Gayatri Mahamrityunjay' Mantra also called poorna or long form sung by Avadhoot Baba Shivanandji.
"Om Bhu Bhuvah Swaha, Om Hroom Joom Saha,
Om Triyambhakam yajamahey
sughandim pushti vardanam
Urvarukamiva bandhanat
Mrityor muksheeya mamritat
Om Swaha Bhuvah, Bhu Om Saha
Joom Hoom Om"
Get ready to get connected to the Infinite when you hear him sing. Please note, this is a very powerful recitation by a Holy Siddha and thus has the power to raise your conciousness if you are meditating with it regularly leading to powerful healing and positive energy generation in you. Since it is in Gayatri Mantra form, its potential is Infinite.


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- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon coarsely ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme OR 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 4 (6-oz) beef tenderloin steaks (1 ½-inch thick)
- Combine all ingredients (except beef) in blender; process until well blended. Combine beef with half the sauce; let stand 30 minutes to 4 hours. Remove beef from marinade, discarding marinade. Cook beef in grill pan or on grill, basting with remaining sauce.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Natural resources officials are calling for only pet turtles to be used in derbies that are an Independence Day tradition in some Maryland communities.
The Department of Natural Resources says mixing pet and wild turtles can pose health risks to the reptiles and the human participants when wild turtles are used.
Officials say some turtles raced in derbies are collected from the wild and, if diseased, can infect pet turtles or other wild turtles when they are released.
It is illegal in Maryland to release into the wild reptiles or amphibians that have been held in captivity without DNR authorization.
Also, the officials note that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently investigating several outbreaks of Salmonella infections in humans associated with exposure to small pet turtles.
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Staten Island is one-fifth of New York City, and while it might not be the first borough to pop into mind when The Big Apple is mentioned, it is a vital and iconic part of the NYC identity. Our hearts have been with our fellow S.I. dwellers and we've been eagerly watching the feeds, hoping for some sort of relief from the destruction left in Sandy's wake.
As reports have staggered in, we're still trying to parse information. What is needed? How many people are in trouble? Do they need volunteers? Is power back? We turned to Refinery29 pal, Engadget editor, and Staten Island resident Terrence O'Brien — after firing off a handful of frantic, worried texts and emails — to tell us the story of both he and his fiancée. To help explain what's happening on the ground in Staten Island, Terrence tells his Sandy story and shares, in pictures, what he (and his friends) have seen.
When Sandy made landfall, I was 3,000 miles away — about as far away from my home, friends, and family on Staten Island as I could get without crossing an ocean. I'd be lying if I said I was seriously concerned about the storm before I boarded my flight to Seattle Saturday evening. Most residents figured there would be some downed trees and flooding, people might lose power, and a few flights (including my own returning one) might be canceled. The dire predictions of the 24-hour news stations, with their over-the-top graphics and dramatic musical scores, weren't taken to heart. And who can blame us, when news breaks out the same tricks for everything from elections to reduced bus service? Even as I stayed in touch with those back home during the storm, it seemed few realized the true extent of the destruction. So, on late Monday, as the first images started to roll in to the national news networks, the hurricane hybrid's ability for destruction became clear. Subway lines didn't just flood, they overflowed; tunnels under the Hudson and East Rivers were every bit as watery as the estuaries they once carried cars under; lastly, ocean-front properties were now part of the sea.
Most of the initial coverage focused on downtown Manhattan and the Jersey Shore for a myriad of reasons, of course. My hometown, outside of mentions of its isolation thanks to closed bridges and discontinued ferry service, was absent from the picture. With most back on Staten Island suffering through a widespread blackout, there seemed to be little realization of the extent of the destruction in the borough itself. By Monday night, I was starting to panic. The destruction wrought on northern Jersey and Long Island was well-reported and, being nestled in between those hard hit areas, I could only assume the worst for my home. The first reports started trickling in early Tuesday as friends on the north shore were smart enough to charge their phones, and those lucky enough to have reception, started updating Facebook. Most were simple text statuses to let the world know they were okay. A few ventured out to survey the surrounding areas and posted photos to Instagram of flooded waterfront roads, downed awnings, and boats washed up on shore — including a large tanker. The initial impression was that this was certainly a powerful natural disaster, but that Staten Island had escaped relatively unscathed. As the day progressed, that changed...
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by Marianne Fluehr
Shhhh! Can you hear that? You may think it is the sound of March winds blowing, but no, it is the Delaware Valley's collective sigh of relief that this winter soon will be just a bad memory, and any day now the crocuses and daffodils, meadowlarks and orioles will be busy about town. Back in the dark despair of the winter's deep freeze I wondered what friends and family, co-workers, and even strangers did to keep from going stir crazy. And so, as I stood with the masses in check-out lines at grocery stores, I queried folks. I people-watched and emailed friends and family, and this is what we did (in no particular order.)
Baked cookies. Skated on the pond. Made snow angels and built snow forts with kids. Slipped on the ice and broke wrist. Renewed an old friendship. Had game nights with the family. Snuggled in front of the fireplace. Had a run-in with neighbor over parking spot. Had tea with neighbor. Made a new friend. Twittered, Face-booked and surfed the web way too much. Vowed to curtail online activity. Watched the weather channel. Got hooked on a new TV series. Watched the weather again and again. Threatened to get rid of TV. Cried when school announced another snow day. Cried for joy when it was only a two-hour delay.
Walked to the local tavern. A lot. Tried new wines. Cleaned the basement. Rearranged furniture. Painted the bedroom; purple. Cleaned out closets. Cleaned out drawers, cupboards and cabinets. Every single one. Converted garage to man-cave. Went sledding. Went skiing. Had snow ball fights. Played board games. Played cards. Experimented with new recipes. Got grumpy: picked fights: made up. Started a wine tasting group. Made love. Made babies. Shoveled driveway, shoveled neighbor's. Gained weight. Went to a Valentine's party, cried from laughing so hard. Took snow days off from work. Stayed in bed all day; alone. Chaperoned a marathon school fundraiser. Went golfing — indoors. Took an evening class. Waited in long lines at Jack Frost. Helped an elderly neighbor with shoveling and grocery shopping. Snow-tubed down the Art Museum steps. Watched eagle soaring over the river.
Went to Florida. Had fun in Florida. Tried to fly home. Got delayed, got rerouted, got really frustrated. Felt incredibly lucky despite the hassle. Went to Florida. Froze butt off in Florida. Ate Girl Scout cookies. Ate too many Girl Scout cookies. Quilted, knitted, and crocheted. Threw back out while shoveling. Job searched. Joined a gym. Power-walked the mall. Cross-country skied the neighborhood. Jogged on Kelly Drive. Fell in love with the beauty of the Schuylkill in winter. Learned to fence. Learned to Zumba dance. Learned to belly dance. Took yoga classes. Bought Pilates tapes. Lost weight. Adopted a pet. Volunteered at a soup kitchen. Walked Forbidden Drive after fresh snowfalls. Stayed inside too much, went a bit mad, but saved a lot of money.
Dreamed of the Philadelphia Flower Show. Dreamed of warm days, canoeing on the Delaware, and trips to the shore. Read a lot. Cursed the gods. Felt sorry for self. Felt sorry for everyone else, too. Took up oil painting. Sun-bathed in parka. Snapped snowtographs and sent them to the news channels. Fired up kiln again after five years. Made pine cone bird feeders and did some serious squirrel watching. Planned a garden. Planted seedlings. Kept a journal. Wrote silly columns for local publications. Somehow survived. Thanked the heavens for how blessed we are. Decided to keep list for next year. Just in case.
Marianne Fluehr is a freelance writer and photographer who lives with her family in Wyndmoor and manages to cram a lifetime into one winter. She is a guest columnist for the Bucks County Herald and also does freelance marketing and business writing. In 2009 her photography was exhibited at the Tinicum Arts Festival, The Stover Mill Gallery in Erwinna, PA, and the Schuylkill River Heritage Area Juried Art Show.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Relay For Life of Penn State 2014 will held starting at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at Medlar Field to benefit the American Cancer Society.
Relay For Life is an event in which teams camp out overnight and take turns walking or running around a track or path. Events are as long as 24 hours and each team is asked to have at least one participant on the track at all times. There is a survivor lap with cancer survivors celebrating their victory over cancer, a luminaria ceremony where participants remember those we have lost to cancer and a fight back ceremony to inspire participants to take action. Last year, the Relay For Life of Penn State raised a record total of $137,602.59. This year, the theme is "In Relay We Trust, United We Fight."
Students can sign up for teams at http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=entry&fr_id=56846. Each participant will pay a $10 registration fee and the more participants are registered in the team, the better chance the team has in winning relay-themed prizes.
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Another blow to humanity by The Terrorist Forces of Israel , reminding world of their Stern gang past of their armed groups. Today Israel has attacked Freedom Flotilla , a humanitarian aid ship, in the international waters. 20 innocent lives were taken by Israel in this terrorist strike and several innocent people including human rights workers, aid workers, journalists and members of international civil society got injured.
Many people on board are missing and no information is available regarding their safety and location. A well-known Pakistani TV anchor Talat Hussain, Aaj TV producer and a representative of a Pakistani NGO are also among the missing. Journalists and civil society have shown strong protests all over the world. USA, the prime supporter of Israel's terrorist activities is still not showing responsiblity as a so-called advocate of freedom and justice. Lets see how so-called civilized world controls and answer this act of barbaric terrorism shown by an illegitimate state.
AFP: Unconfirmed media reports from Hamas's Al Aqsa television said up to 20 passengers had been killed, of whom nine were Turkish nationals.