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If you were served a plate of kale or collard greens, would your first reaction be "Yum" or "Yuk"? Dark green leafy vegetables contain perhaps the most concentrated source of nutrients of any food, yet most of us do not even eat the USDA's recommended 3 cups of greens each week.
Ultimate Greens™ makes it easy to meet your body's daily need for greens – even if you don't like to eat dark green leafy vegetables.
I have to confess, I fall into the "Yuk" camp when it comes to most greens. Although I do enjoy some salad greens like spinach and romaine lettuce, I don't eat anywhere near the amount my body requires. And since I have a number of health issues, including fibromyalgia, ME/CFS and type 2 diabetes, it's obvious I need the nutrients greens provide.
That is why I was thrilled to discover Ultimate Greens! All I have to do is mix a scoop of the Ultimate Greens powder into my favorite beverage once a day and I easily get far more nutritive value than I could ever get simply by eating more greens.
Ultimate Greens is a complete source of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fiber.
Benefits of Ultimate Greens
A powerhouse of nutrition is packed into one small scoop of Ultimate Greens. It is a nutrient-rich super green foods formula which contains a complex variety of plant enzymes, herbs, algae, and grasses. Ultimate Greens:
• Promotes enhanced immune function.
• Optimizes pH balance.
• Supports proper digestion.
• Aids the body in detoxification.
Prebiotics and Probiotics
Simply put, our gastrointestinal tract contains both "good" bacteria and "bad" bacteria, ideally in about a 50/50 ratio. When everything is working properly, the good bacteria are able to keep the bad bacteria at bay and all is well. But if the bad bacteria begin to take over, we can develop an array of digestive problems including Candida albicans overgrowth and irritable bowel syndrome – both of which commonly occur with fibromyalgia and ME/CFS.
Probiotics are the good bacteria found in the intestines. They can be replenished by eating certain fermented foods like yogurt and sauerkraut or by taking supplements.
Prebiotics are indigestible carbohydrates called oligosaccharides, which feed and encourage the growth of probiotic bacteria.
Ultimate Greens contains both prebiotics and probiotics. It has 6 billion probiotic cultures that support the growth of healthy intestinal flora (good bacteria), which in turn promotes healthy digestion and detoxification.
pH Balance
Every solution, including body fluids, is either acidic or alkaline. The term "pH balance" refers to the body's need to maintain an appropriate balance of both acid and alkaline. For optimum health, our pH should be slightly alkaline.
When our pH is acidic, we become more susceptible to fatigue and illness because:
• Our body's ability to absorb nutrients is decreased.
• Our body's ability to repair damaged cells is decreased.
• Our body's ability to detoxify heavy metals is reduced.
• Cellular energy production is reduced.
• Tumors are able to thrive in an acidic environment.
The acidity or alkalinity of the body's pH is largely determined by diet, although emotional stress, toxic stress and immune reactions can also play a part.
When it comes to food, the terms acid and alkaline do not refer to the pH of the food itself, but rather to the pH of the residue or ash left in the body after the food is digested.
If a food is referred to as an alkaline food, it means that the food produces an alkaline ash when it is digested. Likewise, an acid food is one that produces an acid ash after digestion.
A diet aimed at maintaining health should consist of about 60% alkaline foods and 40% acid foods. However, if you are trying to restore health, your diet should consist of an 80/20 alkaline to acid ratio.
Unfortunately, the average American diet today is the exact opposite – 20% alkaline and 80% acid. Because our diets are filled with so many highly processed, nutrient-depleted, and unhelpful, hard to digest foods, our bodies' pH tends to be very acidic.
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Alkaline-producing foods are mostly vegetables, fruits, herbs and spices. Everything else – including meats, fish, poultry, beans, dairy products, grains, pasta, oils and most condiments – can be found in the list of acid-producing foods.
Given those lists, it would be extremely difficult for most of us to eat a diet made up of mostly alkaline foods. This is where Ultimate Greens can come to the rescue.
Ultimate Greens is loaded with organically grown super green foods like barley grass leaf, wheat grass and alfalfa juice, which work synergistically to neutralize acid and balance the body's pH.
Oxidative stress and free radicals have been linked to cellular damage, which can lead to many different diseases including cancer and heart disease. Antioxidants are nutrients that can prevent or slow the damage of oxidative stress and help protect your cells against the effects of free radicals.
Ultimate Greens contains green tea and grape seed extracts, both of which are packed full of antioxidants known as polyphenols. Recent research has shown polyphenols to have even more antioxidant power than the important vitamins A, C and E.
In addition to the detoxification benefits provided by probiotics, Ultimate Greens contains two powerful detoxifying nutrients – chlorella and milk thistle.
• Chlorella is often used in detox regimens to help rid the body of pesticides and heavy metals like mercury, cadmium and lead that can accumulate in our bodies and result in serious health problems.
• Milk thistle is known to be an effective liver detoxifier. One of the liver's many jobs is to clean alcohol, drugs, poisons, pollutants and other toxins from the blood. When the liver is overwhelmed by too many toxins, it becomes less effective at doing all of its jobs. Milk thistle can help protect the liver from damage, improve its ability to function properly and even enhance its ability to regenerate.
Tasty Suggestions for Mixing Ultimate Greens
Given the name Ultimate Greens, quite frankly I was afraid it would taste like ground-up greens. I certainly wasn't expecting to like it. So I was happily surprised to discover that Ultimate Greens has a very pleasant, mildly tropical flavor that I can enjoy drinking every day.
It is particularly good when mixed with cold beverages like ice water or fruit juices such as grape, apple, guava, pomegranate, etc. And unlike James Bond's martinis, Ultimate Greens mixtures can be either shaken or stirred because it mixes well, even in cold drinks.
Following are some additional taste-tempting ideas from other Ultimate Greens users:
• Ultimate Greens adds a nice flavor to iced tea. Since it is naturally sweetened, it's not necessary to add any additional sweeteners to your tea (unless you like it extra-sweet).
• Try adding Ultimate Greens to vegetable juice combos.
• Ultimate Greens also mixes well with protein powder drinks or 'diet shakes'.
• Smoothies made by mixing Ultimate Greens, fruit and ice in a blender are very tasty.
• For kids who won't eat their greens, try mixing some Ultimate Greens in pudding or making popsicles by freezing a mixture of fruit juice and Ultimate Greens.
• Try mixing a little Ultimate Greens into your favorite jam for a little extra nutrition.
• Make Ultimate Greens ice cubes to use with other beverages to boost the nutrition in any cold drink.
Mixing Ultimate Greens with citrus or tomato juices is not recommended because they interfere with its pH-balancing effect.
I should forewarn you that Ultimate Greens is, as you might expect, very green. And the color tends to dominate whatever it is mixed with. If 'eye appeal' is very important to you or you are trying to disguise Ultimate Greens for kids, it might be best to mix it with other dark-colored ingredients such as grape juice or chocolate pudding or chocolate milk.
Need-to-Know Information
Dosage: As a dietary supplement, drink a scoop (10 grams) of Ultimate Greens mixed with water or your favorite non-citrus juice or other beverage each day. (Scoop is included.)
Storage: Ultimate Greens should be stored in the refrigerator after opening to maintain optimum freshness.
Contains No: Egg, dairy, yeast, artificial sweeteners, flavors or colors.
In Summary
One small scoop of Ultimate Greens™ provides a rich and complete source of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fiber that can promote enhanced immune function, optimize pH balance and aid in digestion and detoxification.
* Supplement research writer Karen Lee Richards is the Lead Expert specializing in Fibromyalgia and ME/CFS, for HealthCentral's ChronicPainConnection. Karen is co-founder of the National Fibromyalgia Association (NFA) and was Executive Editor of Fibromyalgia AWARE magazine for four years.
Note: This information has not been evaluated by the FDA. It is general and is not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat or cure any illness, condition or disease. It is very important that you make no change in your healthcare plan or health support regimen without researching and discussing it in collaboration with your professional healthcare team.

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text: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 Help PTA Education Evolve: Join New APTA Task Force Here is your chance to roll up your sleeves and contribute to the future of PTA education. The Educational Programs for the PTA Task Force is ready to enlist volunteers with knowledge and experience in education, the scope of work of the physical therapist assistant (PTA), and data review and synthesis. This new task force continues the work of the PTA Education Feasibility Study Work Group, specifically in the area of data collection and collation. Interested members should respond to the call by completing a volunteer interest profile found on the Volunteer Interest Pool webpage. Once your profile is complete, click on the Apply for Current Opportunities button and select Educational Programs for the PTA Task Force. The deadline to apply for a position on this task force is October 9. Comments I'm a PTA who has been in practice for 5 years. I an vice president and Co-owner of Advance Physical Therapy in Burien Washington. Let me know how I can help. Posted by Joshua Anderson PTA, CKTP, Cert. ASTYM on 9/25/2013 5:25 PM I would love to be a part of keeping PTA programs exactly as they are. If this another attempt to put students In Further loan debt like DPT and MSPT programs did, I will do everything I can to combat it. Making students go to school longer and rack up greater debt has done nothing to improve care. It only further enriches bloated university budgets to the detriment of the American public. Posted by Sean on 9/26/2013 3:05 AM Wow. Though I was frustrated when halfway through prerequisites on my way to applying to PT school, I didn't take it quite as hard as Sean above. I went for the Master's Degree, and am happy about it. Yes, I am still paying my loans off 13 years later, but you learn to deal... I still believe in improving education for both PTs and PTAs. The important part is you get into it for the right reasons. Posted by Jacquie on 10/16/2013 2:50 PM


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zenoglobal needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 221 designs submitted by 73 freelance designers.
Zeno is a revolutionary new out-of-home medium that displays moving ads for moving people. Zenos are horizontal, backlit signs that move with the viewer. Zeno is looking for an exciting and memorable new logo that conveys the "spirit of the experience".
Moving Ads for Moving People (also taking suggestions)
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Open, but should be simple, contemporary and somewhat iconic.
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The experience of walking by a Zeno ad is best described as interactive in that the viewer controls, with their motion, the speed and direction the movie is played at. Visit our website (http://www.zenoglobal.com) to see and learn more about Zeno. Beyond saying Zeno is fun and is a cool new medium, we do not like restricting designers and believe in allowing for possibilities outside our current perception. In our view Apple Computers and Nike are international brands that excel at presenting a casual sophistication appropriate for a new world company. We are offering $500 prize for the design that best presents us as such. Entries should include business card and letterhead. (not mandatory)
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Whalebone walking stick, owned by Charles Darwin, England, 1839-1881
Charles Darwin owned this walking stick. It is made of whalebone, a hard-wearing material suited to walking sticks. The ivory hand grip or the pommel at the top of the stick is a skull. The skull has two glass green eyes. Darwin called his stick his 'morituri', a type of 'memento mori'. These objects remind their owners of the short time people live on earth. Charles Darwin (1809-82) is famous for his theory of evolution outlined in The Origin of Species, first published in 1859. Darwin's walking stick was collected by Henry Wellcome as a relic of someone Wellcome considered a 'great man.'
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Certified Public Accountants
Special- Purpose Reports on
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1. This Statement provides guidance on the independent auditor's
use of a special- purpose report on certain aspects of internal accounting
control of an organization that provides certain services to a client
whose financial statements he has been engaged to examine. ( Such
services are explained in paragraph 3 and the Appendix, " Examples of
Service Organizations.") Also, this Statement provides guidance for
independent accountants who issue such reports. 1
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• Client organization. The entity whose financial statements are
being examined.
• User auditor. The auditor who reports on the financial statements
of the client organization.
• Service organization. The entity ( or a segment of that entity) that
provides services to the client organization.
• Service auditor. The auditor who reports on certain aspects of the
system of internal accounting control of the service organization.
1This Statement amends SAS No. 30, paragraphs 2 and 60, by adding the following
footnote: " For additional guidance on reporting to another independent accountant
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Whether you wish to be buried or cremated, Dokken-Nelson is committed to making the advance funeral planning process as easy as possible. A pre-need conference eliminates much of the emotional stress of making decisions after a loved one's passing.
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Then we notice that we have no hot water. Checked the switch/fuse box and the hot water switch is on. I guess we will need to get a plumber in this morning but would welcome any comments or advice on all this.
is it likely that we will need a new element in our cylinder (in fact, can that even be done?) or a whole new cylinder? Could something failing in the cylinder have caused a spike that tripped all the clocks, or could a system spike have caused the problem with our hot water cylinder?
Don't know much about all this and keen to hear thoughts or ideas. Thanks.


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A bombshell decision to cut transport funding for the disabled of Ireland, under two separate programs, will effectively institutionalize hundreds of people with multiple sclerosis.
In an amateurish political move the likes of which I haven't seen since my days of high school student council, the government announced the sudden end to a needs-tested grant for mobility and transport. I'll explain my assessment of the decision as "amateurish" in a moment, but first the damage.
The Mobility Allowance is a small stipend (just over 200 Euro per month) given to people who are unable to work or walk (wheelchair-bound) or, due to their severe limitations, unable to use public transport in order for them to use private transport companies to get them to medical appointments, shopping, church and the like. About 4700 Irish rely on this Allowance which is to be cut immediately, leaving these people stuck without a way to get out of their homes.
Second, the Motorized Transport Grant assists (again, means-tested) people with severe disabilities who still may be able to work a grant to help purchase specialized vehicles or to modify cars/vans so they are able to continue working and stay independent. An estimated 300 people with disabilities receive this grant. This program will pay for 4 more months but, like the Mobility Allowance program, will cease accepting new applicants straight away.
Both of these programs are flawed as one is age-limited and the other has excessively strict definition of disability. The Ombudsman's office had raised concern with these flaws four years ago and expressed concern and puzzlement with the government's un-telegraphed decision.
Rather than taking that advisement to heart and finding ways to make these programs fit into current equality laws, however, the government caused great stir and ruckus within the spectrum of disability communities by simply announcing the end of grant applications and funding.
The Disabilities Federation of Ireland said that the cuts would amount to up to a 20 percent cut for people who are already receiving means-tested disability assistance.
Ava Battles, Chief Executive of MS Ireland, released a statement saying that hundreds of people with multiple sclerosis will be directly affected by this immediate cut. Her statement continued… "The payments enable people with disabilities to take a more active role in their family life, work life and local community. Taking away people's right to social participation diminishes their quality of life and ability to contribute to society. For the few hundred people with MS we estimate are in receipt of these payments, we know many will suffer if an alternative, appropriate scheme is not introduced soon."
And to that point – the armature nature of the government's politics: As evidenced just recently, and time and again, they make what appears to be a political blunder only to back-track or "fix" the issue within a few weeks. In-between time, however, they will force through something which needs the political cover of the artificial fires they have set for diversion.
Politics with funding for the disabled… SHAME!
People with disabilities in general and, I believe, people living with MS specifically should be appalled. First we should be disgusted that this very limited aid to those who are already on the most limited of incomes is being cut at all. That these program cuts are being used as some kind of political cover… That should simply appall everyone.
If the cabinet knew about the problem with legality and has promised to "ring fence" the funds to distribute after they have figured out how to fix the flaws, why didn't they address the problem before simply cutting the allowances and grants? Surely the uproar from the community will echo back-bench disapproval calling these latest cuts to disabled benefits "a very severe attack on people with disabilities and at the very least an incoherent approach…"
I suppose that it's not the wisest thing I've ever done – calling out the government on this issue while my passport request for a visa to stay in the country sits on Immigration's desk. This decision, however, couldn't go without rebuke… from all of us, Irish or not.
We'll see if they let us stay.
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
You can also follow me via our Life With MS Facebook page, on Twitter, and in our group on MS Connection.org. Also, check out our bi-monthly MS blog for the United Kingdom, look for our very special new monthly blog for the National MS Society, and don't forget to check out TrevisLGleason.com.


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This week we're surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco. The Adobe Primetime team is there in full force discussing the future of digital TV and how we're working with partners and customers to advance the industry.
Earlier today, our own Tamara Gaffney, who runs the Adobe Digital Index team, presented the latest trends and insights from our Q1 U.S. Digital Video Benchmark Report, showing that online TV consumption is up 246% YoY (see separate post). Our VP of Video Solutions, Jeremy Helfand, then spoke on a panel with other industry executives from BSkyB, CTAM, Disney/ABC Television Group, NBC Universal, Nielsen and nScreenMedia about the current state and future of TV Everywhere. Kelash Kumar, group product manager for Adobe Primetime, will end the day speaking on a panel with other industry luminaries about how "server-to-screen" strategies can prepare content owners for the future of video distribution. It's rewarding seeing so much momentum in the industry and connecting with so many of our customers and partners.
Topping off a great first day at the TVOT Show, we were honored that Adobe Primetime was presented with the "Most Significant Impact Award" as part of the 11th Annual Awards for Leadership in Interactive and Multiplatform Television, which recognize both corporate and individual achievement in the multiplatform interactive TV space. The "Most Significant Impact Award" recognizes the company and product that had the most significant impact on the overall industry over the past year.
Adobe Primetime has experienced strong momentum since debuting at The 2013 NAB Show, and we're continuing to innovate on our multiscreen TV platform with feedback from throughout the industry. This award further validates our efforts to create amazing TV experience everywhere, and we appreciate the recognition from the award committee and our colleagues. We would also like to congratulate our fellow award nominees and recipients for their commitment to making the vision for the future of TV a reality.
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One of my mother's nicknames for me is 'pouty lips' because they are quite full and I sulk a lot.
I never though of this as an asset until everyone starting pumping up their lips left, right and centre. Most of the pumpee's I've seen look very duck like. I concur that god gave you what he gave you for a reason.
Anyway, as full as my lips may be, they are terribly dry most of the time. I've tried a few lip primers in my time – waste of time, but was intrigued enough to waste some more money of this Coffret D'or Lip Base Essence:
The exchange rate is SO bad at the moment.
Coffret D'or isn't really ding it for me. They have some nice things but its not a brand I run to.
They say;
Treatment Lip Base prevents dry and rough lips, and adds a long-lasting gloss that seems to come from deep within the lips.
Adds a subtle pink hue to lips and improves lipstick adhesion and color lasting properties.
Can be used as a base under lipstick or as a gloss over lipstick.
It feels to me like a clear, pink gloss. Soft, shiny, fairly light. Still though it is glossy and it doesn't sink in that quickly. In an ideal world, I want a lip base thats moisturizing and helps lip colour last.
This feels glossy. It will not make your lipstick stick for longer (it didn't with mine) and it sheered the colour out.
Under another gloss it just adds…more gloss.
It's not a bad product and my lips did feel soft afterwards. I'm just not buying it as a real lip base, more of a lip gloss with treatment properties?
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Austin: Excellent Smoky Burgers at Lamberts Downtown Barbecue
Lamberts Downtown Barbecue
401 West 2nd Street, Austin TX 78701 (map); 415-787-3354; lambertsaustin.com
Cooking Method: Grilled over wood fire
Short Order: A patty made of house ground steak trimmings smoked over oak makes this a smoky, juicy, and delicious burger
Want Fries with That? Comes with your choice of several sides or during happy hour waffle cut fries
Price: The Burger, $12; or half off during happy hour
Notes: Open Mon. to Fri., 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. for lunch; 5:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. for dinner; Sat. and Sun. brunch, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.; bar menu, 11 a.m. - late, 7 days a week
During my frequent visits home to Austin, a predominantly Tex-Mex and barbecue town, I rarely desire ordering anything other than brisket or enchiladas with a side of queso. That said, I'm also a believer that there are few places where it's inappropriate to order burger, one of those places being a barbecue joint, especially if said barbecue joint is in Texas.
Let me assure you that if you visit Lamberts, right in the heart of downtown Austin, you shouldn't be afraid to order the burger. With all the other delicious options on their menu, it would be easy to write off their burger. But let it be known, this is one of the best burgers I've had in Austin and easily the best I've eaten at a barbecue joint.
The wood grilled cheeseburger ($12, or half off during happy hour) features a seven-ounce patty ground in-house from the restaurant's Niman Ranch filet mignon and ribeye trimmings. Because of this, the loosely packed blend varies in beef/fat ratio but is usually around 70/30, making for a super juicy burger. The burger comes with cheddar, butter lettuce, tomato, red onion, mayo, and Dijon mustard on a toasted sesame bun. Options for sides are abundant and include potato salad, baked mac and cheese, or smoked bacon collard greens. I opted for the herbed waffle fries.
While waiting for my burger, the smoky smells in the room were making me regret that I didn't order a plate of smoked meat or a three-way combo, but the regret didn't last long. The burger arrived with a beautiful dark crust from being cooked on an oak-burning grill, and it had a strong smoky flavor throughout while still retaining a pink center. The meat had a deep beefy flavor that comes from the ground up steak, and it would've been great even if it hadn't been wood grilled.
The fresh, well proportioned toppings accented the burger rather than overwhelmed. The crisp butter lettuce was mild while the red onion, Dijon, and cheddar combined excellently with the juicy, smoky patty. The bun, which I suspect they toasted on the same grill, was smoky and soft as well as perfectly sized for the patty.
The herbed waffle-cut fries were good but not great. They're the standard pre-frozen variety that, after being fried, are tossed in smoked paprika, tarragon, salt, pepper, parsley, and chives. The fries had a great crispy crust on the outside, tender center, and came well salted, but with only a few small green specks they could have used more herbs to live up to their name.
Next time I'll try the mac and cheese, or if I am really hungry, order some thing off of the bar menu such as the Boudin balls, housemade charcuterie, or Frito pie.
Though I think Lambert's is a little pricey and fancy for a barbecue place in Texas, the burger and Frito pie are amazing, and the fact that you can get both items half off during happy hour, seven days a week, makes this a not to be missed destination from 5 to 7 p.m.
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Basic music theory
Techniques for playing cabaret and classical tambourine, tar (wooden frame drum), and mazhar (giant tambourine)
Several variations for a number of Arabic rhythms
Companion CD sets sold separately.
Mary Ellen Donald has been involved in Middle Eastern music as a dance student and a musician since the late 1960's. She is known by many as the "Guru of finger cymbal playing." Mary Ellen studied dance with Jamila Salimpour, drum and tambourine with Vince Delgado, Tony Lammam, and various Arab drummers. She has written, produced and published several books and tapes on Middle Eastern music. Since the 1970's she has performed in numerous concerts, on albums including Magda Helmy, Gallal Kutub, Yusel Mostafa, and Light Rain, and on the soundtrack ABC-TV series, the Young Indiana Jones. Mary Ellen continues to be in high demand as a musician, teacher, and organizer of events. Her youthful vitality and highly developed sensitivity to music may be partially attributed to her being legally blind. Excerpt from The Caravan, Vol. 13, #6, May/June 1997


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This interview of Clarice Lispector from February 1977 is the only footage we have of her.
She had arrived at the studios of TV Cultura in São Paolo to participate in a program about film, when the director of the station took the opportunity to ask her for a personal interview. To the astonishment of all present, she accepted. The result is this haunting film of the great writer at the end of her life, looking back on her novels and offering a glimpse at the inner life that produced such astounding works.


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NEW YORK — After a loss Wednesday, the Atlanta Hawks had the Knicks right where they needed them for the rematch: in Madison Square Garden.
The Hawks sent the Knicks to a fifth straight home loss and in search of answers with a 110-90 victory Saturday. Knicks coach Mike Woodson said he might look at lineup changes, but his team's problems go well beyond who starts.
"We're not getting it done from an effort standpoint. It's like we're not even trying right now," Carmelo Anthony said.
Jeff Teague scored 16 points to lead eight Hawks in double figures. Paul Millsap, back in the starting lineup, had 14 points and 13 rebounds as Atlanta shot 56 percent and won for the fourth time in five games.
"Obviously a good effort on our entire group's part," coach Mike Budenholzer said. "I think it was great to see the bench give us what they gave us tonight. I think defensively that was the closest to a complete game we've had."
The Hawks avenged their most recent loss, a 95-91 Knicks victory in Atlanta. This was at MSG, where the Knicks have not won since beating Milwaukee on Oct. 30 in their season opener, and where the fans are getting restless.
There were noticeable groans and boos in the arena, along with a few "Fire Woodson!" chants as the Knicks fell to 3-6.
"Games are starting to slip away, and especially at home," Woodson said. "I mean, if this was happening on the road, I wouldn't be that concerned, but I'm very concerned about how we're playing here at home. We're not playing well and that shouldn't be."
Anthony had 23 points and 12 rebounds for New York. Andrea Bargnani added 16 points and nine boards.
J.R. Smith shot 3 for 18 to fall to 8 for 43 at MSG this season after he was suspended the first five games for violating the NBA's anti-drug policy. He was yanked with a little under 4 minutes left after missing all six attempts in the second half.
"I'm playing (bad)," Smith said. "I played terrible. I've been terrible since I got back. I'm unhappy about it."
So is Woodson, who will have to decide if last season's Sixth Man of the Year should return to a reserve role.
"I'm not just blaming it on J.R," Woodson said. "Offensively, you're going to miss shots. There's nights where you just can't throw it in the ocean. But that has no excuse why you don't give effort defensively."
The Knicks fell to 0-4 in their orange uniforms, which made for an ugly match on the court with the Hawks wearing red. And they had a four-game winning streak against Atlanta snapped.
Up 11 after three quarters, the Hawks let the Knicks get within five, then put it away with a 12-2 burst that included a four-point play by Kyle Korver, who extended his streak with a 3-pointer to 83 games, pulling within six of Dana Barros' NBA record.
Korver scored 15 for the Hawks, who followed a 113-103 home victory over Philadelphia on Friday with another powerful performance.
Already without Tyson Chandler because of a broken leg, the Knicks were also missing Metta World Peace on Saturday because of a sore left knee.
They are still holding down Amare Stoudemire's minutes as he works his way back from a third knee surgery in the last year, and said the limited time on the court isn't working for him or his teammates. He talked with Woodson earlier Saturday and said he hoped his minutes could double, though the only thing Woodson committed to while talking to reporters was getting Stoudemire more repetitions in practice.
The Knicks led 26-24 after one before Mike Scott, Gustavo Ayon and Shelvin Mack led a bench unit on a 17-3 burst to open the second that gave Atlanta a 41-29 advantage. The Hawks led 54-47 at halftime.
Mack had 12 points and 12 assists.
"Man, those guys stepped up real big for us tonight," Millsap said. "They did a great job coming off and sparking that energy for us. They came in, executed well, played great defense. Goose (Ayon) was on the glass. Going forward, that's what we're going to need. We're going to need a bench to compete in this league."
Knicks drop fifth straight at home
NEW YORK — After a loss Wednesday, the Atlanta Hawks had the Knicks right where they needed them for the rematch: in Madison Square Garden.


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Ryan Sosin is the first operations assistant in the history of Harvard water polo (Justine Agaloos).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Ryan Sosin was recently added to the Harvard water polo staff as the first operations assistant in program history.
Sosin comes to Harvard after serving as the Interim Director of Communications for the Collegiate Water Polo Association in 2012.
Prior to his time with the CWPA, he worked at Michigan as an Assistant Director of Athletic Media Relations, serving as the primary contact for women's water polo, women's soccer, men's and women's swimming and baseball. In his four-year tenure with the Wolverines, the water polo team won the CWPA Eastern Championships three times, and the men's swimming and diving team won the Big Ten Championship in 2010-11. Sosin was also a four-time CWPA Western Division Sports Information Director of the Year, and he helped Michigan host the 2011 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- Following controversy over whether the Topeka Zoo elephants should be moved to a sanctuary, one of the two elephants has broken part of her tusk.
Zoo Director Brendan Wiley released a statement Friday morning, saying Tembo, the 42-year-old African elephant, was playing with a log in her exhibit when she broke about 10 inches off her left tusk Thursday around 5:00 p.m.
Wiley says the log is a tree trunk that is four feet in diameter, and is one of Tembo's toys.
"We're not sure what she was trying to do with the log," Wiley said. "She is an elephant. She tends to think she can do what she wants with it."
The zoo press release explained the ivory that makes up an elephants tusk is very dense, hard and sometimes brittle. "Their prominent structure often makes them predisposed to injury."
Wiley also says the break was to the tip of Tembo's tusk and did not hurt her, as tusks don't hold nerve endings. He likened it to a human breaking a fingernail. "Cracks, breaks and splinters are commonly seen in the tusks (of) both wild and zoo elephants," the statement says.
In 1990, Tembo broke her right tusk. The break left a crack going into the gum line and a decision was made at that time to remove the entire tusk. Wiley says this situation is not like that one.
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Google has acquired Incentive Targeting, a five-year-old grocery promo-offer company. And yes, this one's been confirmed. Said a Google spokeswoman, "We look forward to working with Incentive Targeting in our ongoing efforts to help consumers save time and money and enable retailers to deliver relevant discounts to the right customers."


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Vermont adjusts to new way of dying
- New law took effect May 20
- No doctors have reported writing such a prescription yet
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BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Dr. Diana Barnard recalls a patient of hers, a woman who was dying from a progressive disease. What the woman really wanted was to live and see her young children grow up, but given the reality of her illness, she hoped to die at home.
Instead, she spent her final months in a long-term-care facility.
"It was so distressing to her. She would have traded for a peaceful death in her own home with her children around her," said Barnard, an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and an attending physician on Fletcher Allen's palliative care service.
A new Vermont law that took effect May 20 might have allowed such a patient to have her wish. Any day now, a terminally ill patient in a similar situation in Vermont could ask a doctor to prescribe a lethal dose of medication to hasten his or her own death.
No doctors have reported writing such a prescription yet, according to the state Health Department, but health professionals across Vermont are preparing for how they will respond when a patient asks. Gearing up for that moment is proving to be a challenge.
Doctors, nurses, hospital officials and others are sorting through a mountain of questions as the new law presents a fundamental change in the way they do business. Among the challenges are last-minute legislative changes that took Vermont's law into uncharted territory.
"There's a lot of unanswered questions," said Dr. Stephen Leffler, chief medical officer at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington. He has pored through the law, read up on similar measures in Oregon and Washington and turned to doctors there for advice. "We feel it's important to do this in a thoughtful, comprehensive way to make sure we meet the intent of the law."
The law took effect immediately when Gov. Peter Shumlin signed it in May, so most of those questions have yet to be answered. Health care providers are trying to come up with policies. Doctors are debating whether this is a welcome option or runs counter to their medical training. The Health Department still is writing guidelines, though it recently completed forms for patients and physicians to use.
Leffler estimated he's spent about a quarter of his time on the topic in recent weeks: "It's been a topic at the water cooler, at the bagel bar. And I've been making the rounds to the offices most likely to be involved in this and hearing a lot of questions and opinions."
The Fletcher Allen medical staff will vote, perhaps in October, about whether the state's largest hospital should allow patients to ingest a lethal dose in the facility. That decision, Leffler said, is relatively simple as hospitalized patients are less likely to meet the qualifications that include being able to self-administer the drug. The vast majority of users in Oregon and Washington have taken the medication at home.
The real issue, Leffler said, is preparing doctors for how to respond to patients who want the prescription to end their lives at home. Doctors may choose to participate or may opt out, but either way, they will need to know how to go about it, Leffler said. He said doctors are telling him, "If we're going to do this, we want very, very clear guidelines, which we don't have yet."
Dick Walters of Shelburne, president of the organization Patient Choices Vermont, which sought the law for a decade, said he understands that providers want to be thorough and careful as they become used to the new law. "They're doing their due diligence," Walters said. "As this becomes more familiar, it's going to be much easier for them."
Walters said he expects the national group Compassion & Choices will soon have staffing in Vermont to provide help for patients and physicians navigate the process and weigh all their options. The group has experience nationally and will be well-versed in Vermont's law, he said.
For now, though, the law ushers in a huge change for a wide range of medical professionals. It will affect doctors who might be doing the prescribing, pharmacists who might be asked to fill a prescription, hospice nurses who might be there when patients take the medication, and paramedics who might be called if something goes wrong, to name a few.
Leffler, who works as an emergency room doctor along with his administrative duties, is among those troubled by the practice — even as he is preparing to help others enact it.
"It goes against the Hippocratic oath that says we're here to help people," he said. "We sustain people's lives. This is actually giving a medication for the express purpose of causing death."
Dr. Harry Chen, Vermont's health commissioner and a former emergency room doctor in Rutland, has a different viewpoint.
"Understanding that this is a terminal patient who is going to die, this is as much as anything helping them to decide under what circumstances they want to die," Chen said. "Having seen a lot of people die, some of them peacefully, some of them not at all peacefully, I can understand why some people would want this. I support that."
Backers of the new law say it will foster more extensive conversations between patients and doctors about what patients want at the end of life and about what they fear.
"I really believe it's a tremendous opportunity to talk about something that we have trouble talking about, which is dying," said Barnard, a doctor who pushed for the law in Vermont. "A law like this will really empower patients to say, 'This is what I want.'"
Vermont's law
The gist of Vermont's law is similar to Oregon's and Washington's. Among the requirements, patients must:
• Have the ability to self-administer the medication.
• Be capable of making sound decisions and at least 18 years old
• Have a doctor's diagnosis of a terminal illness with less than six months to live.
• Make multiple requests, with specified waiting periods in between, and be given the chance to rescind the request at any time.
Physicians and those in attendance at the death are granted immunity from criminal prosecution if they follow the rules.
Walters said he's received inquiries from potential patients about how the law works, but he knows of none who have made the full request for medication. He said he's referred those inquiries to the Compassion & Choices national help line and to the Vermont Ethics Network, a nonprofit group that focuses on end-of-life care.
Cindy Bruzzese, executive director of the Vermont Ethics Network, has amassed information about the new law and posted it on the group's website. She discovered a heap of complexities.
Because Vermont's Patient Bill of Rights requires doctors to tell patients about all legal options available, physicians will have to tell terminally ill patients that this law is available even if the doctor chooses not to participate in writing prescriptions, Bruzzese said. Doctors will have to find tactful ways to do that, she added.
The silver lining, she said, is the new law should increase conversations between patients and doctors.
"My hope is we end up doing a better job of advanced planning. I hope we'll see referrals to hospice sooner," she said.
Decisions to be made
The law permits health-care facilities to opt out of allowing patients to take the lethal dose of medication on-site. Fletcher Allen, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and Grace Cottage are among the hospitals that have opted out temporarily while studying the matter.
Leffler, at Fletcher Allen, said he is more concerned about helping the hospital's doctors navigate the new law for patients looking to hasten their deaths at home. He expects primary-care physicians and cancer doctors to be among those with patients who might request the medicine.
"The provider can say, 'I'm not going to do that, but I'm going to refer you to someone who does,' or the provider can say, 'I'm going to help you do this.' If the provider chooses that, we have to have some programs in place to help them," Leffler said.
The most important advice he's gleaned from Oregon, he said, is that it's a good idea to have a social worker assigned to patients who are using the new law.
"There's a lot of steps that have to be followed to make sure you've done this correctly," Leffler said. "It's going to take someone who's an expert in the law."
Nothing in the law dictates what the medication should be that doctors prescribe, and Leffler said doctors will need to settle on that. In Oregon and Washington, secobarbital or pentobarbital are used.
Decisions also face other types of health-care providers in Vermont, including hospice providers for whom the law runs counter to their current way of doing business.
"There's a lot about the law that is gray and unknown," said Angel Means, director of the End of Life Division of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chittenden/Grand Isle Counties, which runs the Vermont Respite House and provides in-home hospice services.
The agency recently decided against allowing patients who are staying in the Respite House to use the new law on-site, Means said, because it would affect everyone in the house.
Means said she worries that the new law will confuse people who already sometimes mistakenly believe hospice is just there to administer morphine to terminal patients.
"This kind of law doesn't help with that," Means said. "Our treatment process is very life-affirming, doing nothing to hasten death, focusing very much on quality of life and extending that good quality of life as long as possible."
Pharmacists also will have to decide whether they will provide the medication. "This does leave a moral dilemma," said James Marmar, executive director of the Vermont Pharmacists Association. He said he's known pharmacists who won't stock condoms or morning-after pills, and this could fall along those lines.
As manager of the Woodstock Pharmacy, Marmar said if a patient had a doctor's prescription for the medication, "I would feel obligated to provide it. It's been working in Oregon, and they haven't repealed the law."


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Baboon, Kenya (USNM 162899)
Old World monkeys are primates and are more closely related to humans and apes than any other living nonhuman primate group. The Smithsonian Institution's Division of Mammals (http://vertebrates.si.edu/mammals/) houses many Old World monkeys in its scientific collections.
This specimen, USNM 162899 (http://collections.mnh.si.edu/search/mammals/?irn=7257408), is a male olive baboon (Papio anubis) from Kenya. This individual was collect in 1909 by L. A. Loring near Lake Naivasha.
This is a CT scan of the mandible of USNM 162899. These three-dimensional scans are made publicly available through the generous support of the Smithsonian 2.0 Fund, provided from the annual gifts of the Smithsonian National Board to the Secretary to use at his discretion (http://smithsonian20.si.edu/fund.html), and the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
The main goal of this joint initiative between the Human Origins Program and the Division of Mammals is to make the NMNH's scientific collections of our closest living nonhuman primate relatives available in 3D for education and research.


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I am still thinking about Riyaad Minty's reminder about people. One that I would like to share with you here with his permission
All this talk on the role of social media in times of crisis really gets to
me. We're not living in 2008 anymore folks. Yes, governments and people use twitter and facebook [and others. Thanks for pointing it out… again. Every news story is about PEOPLE. Real people. Who are impacted by something that most of us can never really understand. We sit and go through a ton of unedited footage of the
direct impact a bomb blast has on community, on a family. It's shocking. It's horrific. It's real. Stop talking about the technology. Talk about the people and the issues – this applies to every story, from war to protests to natural disasters. And I say this as someone who runs the Social Media for one of the largest news organisations in the world.
It is particularly apt for technologists and a very important thing to remember when we talk about the systems that we make. It is just as important to focus on the people behind the stories, the report behind the red dot. A reminder to empathize, and whenever possible to assist in the alleviation of suffering. As humans we seriously need to be reminded what it means to have your life suddenly turned upside down. Whatever form that might be. Be it from poverty, war or natural disaster. We've seen so many affected, from Haiti, Cuba, North Eastern America, to Palestine and Israel and in my current location – Kenya. We need to zoom in, care and assist someone. Start somewhere…and as Jen Pahlka of CodeforAmerica recently told me. Lets work on the hard stuff.
I am getting increasingly interested in Complex systems science, not just to understand our complex world, but also to learn what can be done in terms of collaborative problem solving. The pre-eminent organization NECSI that studies this makes a point that I think bears repeating, and points as to why we should exceedingly care about individuals when systems start breaking.
"Losing pieces indiscriminately from a highly complex system is very dangerous," said Dr. Bar-Yam. "One of the most profound results of complex systems research is that when systems are highly complex, individuals matter." According to Bar-Yam, understanding the weaknesses of civilization is critical to our ongoing existence. "Complexity leads to higher vulnerability in some ways," he said. "This is not widely understood."
Other resources:
Book: Zero Degrees of Empathy by Simon Baron Cohen
Map: War on Gaza by AlJazeera
Follow Red Cross Kenya in covering the grenade attacks in Kenya, Javin Ochieng too


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Little Company of Mary Celebrated The Life and Death of Venerable Mary Potter and The More Than 200,000 Births in the Original Patient Tower
On May 14, 2013, the Greater Little Company of Mary gathered in the Hospital's Chapel to commemorate the life and decreed of their founder, Venerable Mary Potter, and the birth of more than 200,000 babies born in the original patient tower.
The celebration mass was presided by Rev. Benedykt Pazon from St. Bernadette Church located on 9343 S Francisco Avenue in Evergreen Park, IL. Rev. Pazon began the mass with the centenary anniversary celebration of the death of the founder of the Little Company of Mary Sisters, Venerable Mary Potter.
Mary Potter was born in London in 1847. Mary's compassion for the sick and dying and her vision would change the lives of tens of thousands of people around the world. Her life was marked by frequent illnesses, providing her first hand insight into the loneliness and abandonment world that many of the sick and dying feel. She overcame countless obstacles as she responded to the Holy Spirit and founded a religious congregation devoted to praying for the sick and dying which became known in 1877 as the Little Company of Mary Sisters.
Since Mary's passing in Rome in 1913, her legacy and wholehearted commitment to God were recognized by Pope John Paul II, when Mary Potter was proclaimed "Venerable" on February 8, 1988. This proclamation demonstrated the Church's validation of Mary Potter's saintly life and acceptance of her extensive spiritual writings.
The spiritual heritage of Mary Potter is carried on throughout the world. Today, the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary continue to provide compassionate care for the sick and dying in 11 countries. Their healing touch can be felt in England, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Albania, Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Italy, Tonga, and the United States.
Mary Potter's vision in America became a reality on January 9, 1930 in Evergreen Park, IL, when the Sisters of Little Company of Mary opened a four-story, 150 bed hospital and began caring for the community. Over the next 83 years, the Sisters continued their mission in Evergreen Park caring for the sick and dying by combining state-of-the-art technology, physicians, nurses, staff, and spirituality.
Since opening in 1930 more than 200,000 babies have entered the world- earning the nickname, "The Baby Hospital." In October 2012, Little Company of Mary made history by opening a state-of-the-art West Pavilion tower to replace the original patient tower built in 1930. The West Pavilion is a 300,000-square-foot, eight-story, 118-private rooms and baths. The West Pavilion is the new home to the Family Birth Center.
"The Sisters of Little Company of Mary built the original tower in 1930 during the great depression-truly a walk of faith, said Mary Jo Quick, R.N., B.S., M.H.A., Vice President, Mission & Spirituality. "Today, Mary's legacy and vision lives on through the us-the Greater Little Company of Mary."
For more information on Little Company of Mary's campus transformation project, please visit our website at LCMH.org. To view the short documentary on the life of Venerable Mary Potter, visit Little Company of Mary's youtube channel at www.youtube.com/littlecompanyofmary
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|2007 Monthly Tourism Statistics
Below is Table C from the monthly "Summary of International Travel to the U.S." report. Each month, OTTI updates Table C with the latest international arrival figures. Historically, the arrival figures are usually available in four or five months after the end of the reported month, (i.e. January arrivals are reported in April or May), dependent upon receipt of the raw data from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The quarterly table is updated four times a year. To help the industry understand the changes occurring in the market, we also provide a Quarterly Analysis Update. To learn more about this program, go to the Visitor Arrivals Program (I-94 Form) web site page.
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Stocks closed mixed as technology companies pulled the Nasdaq and Dow higher, although investors didn't have enough conviction in the future of the economy to break out of a tight trading range.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 22.10 points, or 0.2 percent, to 10,594.83. Hewlett-Packard, Cisco and Intel rose. Alcoa and Bank of America fell.
The S&P 500slipped 0.41 points, or 0.04 percent, to 1,124.66, while the Nasdaqrose 1.93 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,303.25.
The CBOE Volatility Index, widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, rose above 22.
Most key S&P 500 sectors remained lower, led by utilities, energy, and industrials. The technology and materials sectors rose.
The major indexes extended September's rally in the previous sessionand remained on track to stay in positive territory for the third straight week.
The market more or less treaded water amid light volume again today as investors failed to disrupt a trading range that has held the S&P below 1,230 and above 1,040 since mid-May.
One reason is Thursday's mixed economic data weren't providing enough information on the future direction of the economy, said Nate Peterson, senior derivatives analyst at Charles Schwab.
"I don't feel it's enough information to drive buyers or sellers," Peterson said.
Shares of economic bellwether FedEx fell after the transportation company reported its quarterly profit doubled, although it was just shy of expectations. The company also said it plans to cut 1,700 jobs to trim costs. Shares of rival UPS also slipped.
Pier 1 Imports soared after the home decor retailer reported better-than-expected results, citing strong sales, costs controls, and fewer promotions.
Tech giants Oracle and Research In Motion are scheduled to report earningsafter the bell tonight. Analysts expect Oracle to turn in a profit of 37 cent a share on sales of $7.27 billion and RIM to report earnings of $1.35 a share on revenue of $4.47 billion, according to a consensus from Thomson Reuters.
Entertainment stocks slipped lower after Credit Suisse cut the sector to "underweight" from "market weight." Specifically, the brokerage cut price targets for News Corp. shares to $16 a share from $17, Time Warner's and Viacom's both to $35 a share from $37, and Walt Disney's to $39 a share from $41.
Paper and forest products stocks were under pressure after BMO Capital Markets downgraded the sector to "market perform" from "outperform," citing the weak housing market and the chance of a double-dip recession. Clearwater Paper , KapStone Paper and Packaging , and Universal Forest Products all fell.
Gamestop jumped after the video game retailer announced it would buy back $300 million in stock and would retire $200 million debt.
Amazon.com shares were higher after brokerage Benchmark raised its price target on the online retailer to $165 from $148.
And, Netflix fell even after Credit Suisse raised its rating on the movie rental firm to "neutral" from "underperform" because of the company's shift to streaming videos.
The U.S. Justice Deparment is investigating whether Google's purchase of airline ticketing firm ITA Software will hurt rivals in the travel business who need airline data. Shares of Expedia and Orbitz were higher.
In the energy sector, Williams sank after the company's pipeline unit slashed its earnings outlook for the next few years because of low commodity prices. Rivals TransCanada and Atlas Pipeline also declined.
Quicksilver, Cabot Oil & Gas plummeted after Lazard Capital downgraded the firms to "sell" from "hold." Denbury Resources fell after the brokerage downgraded the energy company to "hold" from "buy." Meanwhile, oil prices fell below $75 a barrel.
Ford Motor jumped after Barclays Capital upgraded the automaker to "overweight" from "equal weight" and raised the price target to $16 from $15, citing increased earnings power based on good products and pricing, and reduced costs.
The new CEO of GM, Daniel Akerson, told reporters it may take a couple of years before taxpayers get all their money backfrom the automaker. Akerson said GM's goal is to repay the money, but the initial public offering expected later this yearwon't be enough.
Meanwhile, Barclays cut its forecast for the auto sales industry to 12 million units from 13.5 million units in 2011.
Siemens advanced after Goldman Sachs added the German engineering conglomerate to its "conviction buy" list.


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Power rankings. You hate them. They're so arbitrary and pointless, especially when they include all 32 NFL teams. All you want to know after a good week of NFL action is who the bestest team in the NFL right now, and which one is the absolute barrel-scraping worst. That's why we have TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE NFL, where we go to great lengths to tell you who's the top dog in football right now, this very minute. LET'S GO!
THE TOP: Green Bay Packers
Let's assume that the Packers make it all the way to the Super Bowl. Because they will. They're going to the Super Bowl and they're going to win it and it will be oddly anticlimactic. ANYWAY, assuming that's the case, I have done a thorough and scientific-ey study of which AFC team would fare the best against the inevitable champs. Never mind that New Orleans has a far better chance than any AFC team to beat the Packers. We'll just ignore that ugly truth for now and focus in on A) Which team has the best chance of beating Green Bay and B) Which team would be the most fun to watch play Green Bay. Now, here are teams with the best shot to beat the Packers:
1. Steelers
2. Patriots
3. Ravens
4. Texans
5. Broncos
6. Jets
7. Titans/Raiders/Chargers/Bengals/etc.
Even though the Ravens have beaten the Stealers twice in the AFC North, I don't think they have the offensive firepower needed to keep up with the Packers, who could hang 30+ on any of the defenses listed above. Provided Big Ben's brain continues to tell him his ankle doesn't hurt, Pittsburgh has the ability to harass Aaron Rodgers and make enough big plays in the passing game to keep up.T he Texans and Broncos both have enough defense to cause trouble for the Packers, but not enough offense to seize the opportunity (yes, yes, Tim Tebow is magic and all that). Now, if we go strictly by desired matchup, here are your rankings:
1. Patriots
2. Broncos
3. Steelers
4. Jets
5. Ravens
6. Texans
7. Scrap heap
The Pats have an awful defense, but tell me you wouldn't enjoy the inevitable 45-40 score that would result from those two teams meeting. Plus the Packers would have a shot at 19-0 against the same team that blew its chance at it four years ago. I'm hooked.
Then you have Tebow doing all his Tebow stuff in hopes of conquering the mighty Goliath, with Goliath then winning by 50 points. AWESOME.
I have no real interest in seeing a rematch of last year's Super Bowl, but I'm sure Steelers fans feel differently.
THE BOTTOM: Indianapolis Colts
Say this for Jim Caldwell: He outlasted three other head coaches for no good reason! Playing dead pays off handsomely.


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It began with a spark
Our story springs to life on the edge of the Black Forest. This was an area of poor farmers barely scratching out a living, generation after generation. To tackle this, the aristocratic ruler of the region, Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden, diversified. He established a smelting plant in Rotenfels and a hammer mill and nail forge in Gaggenau in 1683.
Inspiration and commitment
Gaggenau metalworks had, by this point, progressed to make farm machinery. Decades passed and the place and its people began to make a name for themselves. Its ironworks grew in number and scale. The days of making nails were over. New products for a new industrial class were being mass-produced and the foundation of the German Engineering legend was being laid.
The cornerstone of our experience
As a specialist in enamel, Gaggenau produced hardwearing advertising signs for brands such as Odol, Maggi and Stollwerck. This informed the recipe for the company's robust oven enamel, which in turn formed the basis for the success of its coal and gas-fired stoves. That same lineage of enamel can be seen today in the form of our iconic blue oven interiors.
Moving with the times
The product range adapted into the new century. Gaggenau assumed a pioneering role with a range of innovative products, including coal and gas-fired stoves, as well as bicycles. By 1908, Gaggenau had sold a total of 250,000 "Badenia" bicycles. This success taught the collective of workers and managers the importance of ergonomics, build quality and distinctive design.
Dawn of the labour-saving kitchen
When Dr. Otto von Blanquet took over, the company shifted its focus solely towards to coal and gas-fired stoves. In the late 1940's Gaggenau began to produce innovative, economical gas and coal ovens. Electric ovens were also manufactured for the first time, with 180 employees eventually involved in producing the famous "Favorit" and "Futura" models.
The advent of built-in appliances
When Georg von Blanquet followed in his father's footsteps, he paved the way for the fitted kitchen revolution. In 1956 the first built-in, eye-level oven, separate cooktop and ventilation appliances were all brought to market, by us.
His appetite for change was matched only by his demand for quality. New functions had to prove useful to chefs, be sturdy enough for the working kitchen and look beautiful.
The Bauhaus influence
The Gaggenau logo that still lives on today was developed at the end of the 60s. As with our appliances, it is influenced by the style of the Bauhaus art school, a centre of classical modernism. The simple and pure objectivity of Bauhaus were considered a design revolution and 'Form follows function' remains a core Gaggenau belief.
The forerunner of the Vario
Gaggenau presented the first 28 cm wide Vario cooktops with top-mounted control knobs - a forerunner of the now classic advanced Vario cooktops series. This series provides a wide variety of specialised appliances that combine to provide a bespoke cooking experience.
The 90 cm handcrafted icon is born
The first 90 cm wide oven to reach the European market was inevitably going to impress, with a generous net volume of 87 litres and space for up to four roasts at a time. The EB 300 soon achieved cult status.
Inspiration from America
Inspired by generously-dimensioned freestanding American fridge-freezer combinations, the side-by-side IK 300 launched featuring separate access to fridge and freezer compartments. In addition to five climate zones and manual humidity control, the appliance boasted a clear ice dispenser.
Bringing steam into the home
Gaggenau - Pioneer of healthy eating: The ED 220 steam oven was the first of its kind to be commercially produced for the private home. Since then steam ovens have become the standard for the private chef who demands the best.
Launch of the Gaggenau magazine
Our award-winning magazine highlights intriguing artisans and cultures from around the globe. Designed to interest, inspire and enlighten, it has recently been revamped. See the latest copy here.
A celebration of wine culture
The Gaggenau Sommelier Awards are held every two years and preceded by regional heats. Uncovering the rising stars in the industry, the finals have grown into a grand affair that have so far been held in Alsace and Vienna.
Introducing steam clean
Gaggenau introduced the latest innovation: an automatic cleaning system for the combi-steam oven that can be easily operated at the push of a button.
An icon reborn
An aspiration of the private chef, and the professional chef at home, the EB 300 has been a Gaggenau icon for over 30 years. This oven is a 90 cm testament to the Gaggenau difference, its heritage and traditional avant-garde. Wildly individual, distinctive and iconic, it is the heart of the kitchen. This is a predominantly hand built oven, in a world of the machine-made appliances.
A moment in N.Y.
We reimagined gastronomic luxury with a unique epicurean sensorial event in New York that evoked our Black Forest beginnings. Over four nights a select few were treated to an inspiring and inventive culinary moment.
Our restaurant 1683 and bistro 1683 will continue to appear and evolve over time.
Fast forward
No one knows what the next 20, 50 or 335 years will bring. What will cuisine look like? What will luxury look like?
Perhaps ownership of beautiful pieces, though pleasing, will be less precious than sharing a mindset – the Gaggenau mindset: if the kitchen is the heart of the home, Gaggenau is its soul.