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Development sessions for staff begin Monday
March 1, 2013
The Loyola University New Orleans Office of Human Resources announces the launch of the Mission Partners program, an ongoing series of free sessions open to all employees and dedicated to staff development. Sessions will be held March 4, 6 and 7.
The goal of the Mission Partners program is to offer personal and professional growth to university staff, enhancing their work lives. These sessions will be offered each semester and will focus on professional and leadership development, operational excellence and mission formation.
Spring 2013 session schedule of events:
- March 4, "Builders of the Ignatian Vision: Gifted, Called and Missioned," 10 a.m.-noon
- March 4, "Effective Performance Management," 1-3 p.m.
- March 6, "The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People," 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
- March 7, "The Leader as Coach," 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
For more information, locations or to enroll in any of these sessions, contact Doris Newman in Human Resources at 504-864-7757.
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MILWAUKEE — One of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's former top aides has pleaded guilty to a count of felony misconduct in office in a deal with prosecutors.
Kelly Rindfleisch entered the plea Thursday in front of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge David Hansher.
Rindfleisch served as Walker's deputy chief of staff during the Republican's tenure as Milwaukee County executive in 2010. Prosecutors have accused her of working on Republican Brett Davis' lieutenant governor campaign on county time.
She faced four felony counts of misconduct in office. She reached a deal with Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf calling for her to plead to one count and Landgraf to drop the others. He also agreed to recommend she be sentenced to jail and probation rather than prison and promised not to seek restitution.

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2012: Came seventh overall in the 1000m (outdoor) at the New England Division III Championship (2:32.63) and received a silver medal in the mile (4:14.39) … came sixth in the 1500m (outdoor) at the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (4:01.07) … came fifth in the distance medley relay (10:02.41) at the NCAA Division III championship … Division III All-New England in the mile and the 1000m … All-America in the distance medley relay ... NEWMAC Academic-All Conference ... Division III All-New England in 1500m ... NEICAAA All-New England in 1500m ... broke the MIT record in the 3,000m when he went 8:20.69.
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COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M coach Mike Sherman occasionally will invoke the name of a high school in Texas or his old recruiting grounds of Louisiana, a gentle reminder that he hasn't forgotten the lifeblood of his program or the lifeblood of any other prominent college program in the nation.
Dropping high school names likely helps a little bit, too, on the recruiting front, because it creates a source of pride with said high school. Kind of like when Huey Lewis named all of those cities in "Heart of Rock and Roll" and folks in fair bergs like San Antonio and Baton Rouge got a big charge out of it.
This week, however, Sherman invoked a couple of area high schools for a different reason – one born out of …. not quite desperation, but whatever's right next to it following the Aggies' 30-29 loss to Oklahoma State in their Big 12 opener.
"We just have to win," Sherman said this week of A&M facing future Southeastern Conference foe Arkansas in Cowboys Stadium in Arlington starting 11 a.m. Saturday. "I don't care if we play at Bryan High or A&M Consolidated or on the practice field. It just happens to be in Dallas."
(I took special pride in the first reference, considering my bride, Crystal, is a one-time Vikings cheerleader. Go Vikes!).
"We just have to go win a football game," Sherman continued. "We will go up there and play a very good Arkansas team."
A year ago, the Aggies won their first three games before dropping their next three – a losing streak starting with a tight setback to Oklahoma State.
"Last week is done, we can't do anything about it," senior defensive end Tony Jerod-Eddie said of how the team intends to stop the losing before it grows into a streak this go-round. "We've got to rally the troops. We'll work on things we need to work on, and make sure things that happened last week, don't happen this week."
As he was reminded a couple of times this week in the weekly press conference, Sherman is 0-2 against Arkansas in the first two installments of the Southwest Classic. The Aggies are 0-6 against the SEC over the last 11 years, and four of those losses are on Sherman over the last three seasons (two to Arkansas, one to Georgia and one to LSU).
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After breakfast, Michael showed me around the camp—the staff quarters, the composting field, the solar panels—and at the elephant compound he introduced me to the mahouts. Big Joe, George, Itaki, Collet, Frank and Nathan, the one non-African, were leading the elephants from their stockade to an open area where each elephant, with an iron cuff shackling its foot, was chained to a large eye bolt. The clanking of the long heavy chains, the bang of the bolts, the shouted orders of the mahouts, as the elephants shuffled, was at odds with the idyllic place—a courtyard with a canopy of high foliage, the sunlight filtered through the dust kicked up by the elephants.
"She's a good girl," Nathan said, and he rested his head against the thick gray post of her leg. "Aren't you, Sukiri?"
"How old is she?"
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"What's her story?"
"Captured in Uganda when her family was culled. She was sent to a zoo in Toronto. That's where we got her from. She's about 50 years old—the matriarch of the herd."


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Salut everyone!
I recently switched to Firefox and downloaded a pile of cool Add-ons for it (Namely Youtube Enhancer, Ghostery, Firebug, gTranslate, App Button Color, Abduction, Flagfox and Stylish) (some of them are disabled).
But I'm finding that my browsing speeds are seriously reduced...
Is it the add-ons or just Firefox?
Any suggestions on what I should do?


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Thank you for the idea Yang Dayang.
Look forward to the brilliant opinions and ideas that I have seem go forth from the members of this forum.


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Wastelands Lyrics
Was this always meant to fall apart or stand the testing of time?
How much were we meant to bend before the break and die?
Days would pass on like a dream and months would follow suite
Years that rot and fade away, so worn like the passing of youth.
We are the lost, we are the lone
These waste lands we call home
The endless night to endless days
The silent cry a heart betrays!
Many will take up the fight, the strong and the weak alike
For some the journey kills the will, and others don't last the night
This pain we self inflict, for what would be the greater good
Is my vanity all this serves, and end, perhaps it should.
Vanity's all this serves for me
Bend and break but never broken clean
For this love is it worth it to suffer
For what is it worth in the end?
For love there is always suffering,
And not my place to say when it all ends
I never imagine the tolls this would take on me
Has it made me stronger or brought me closer to the edge.
Take it day by day, live it up for now or throw it all away
Don't look back or see what's left in the wake
All this seems like passing dreams
The brightest day, the silent scream that never fade at the break of the day.


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Fendt: Quality for increasing expectations
For more than 10 years, Fendt has been relying on gear cutting machines and automation solutions from Liebherr. With the aid of Liebherr machines, it was possible to optimise the production processes at Fendt. Continuation training from trained personnel round off the co-operative relationship.
Since 2003, Fendt and Liebherr-Verzahntechnik have been working successfully together. Liebherr machines form the foundation for competitive and flexible production while maintaining the high level of quality. Fendt is the high-tech premium brand of the AGCO Corporation, which is one of the world's biggest manufacturers of tractors and agricultural machines. The factory in Marktoberdorf im Allgäu (Germany) makes up to 28,000 gearboxes every year.
Included among the equipment employed at the site are about 20 gear milling and gear shaping machines and a series of PHS-type automation solutions.
Process optimisation as demands rise
The sheer diversity of products in Fendt tractors requires a great amount of logistical effort. Almost 80 different components run through the machines in the transmission production area. With requirements becoming increasingly individual, the aim is to optimise the production processes. According to Michael Wißmüller, area leader of gear wheel and shaft production at Fendt, the challenge is in keeping retooling times as short as possible despite small batch sizes. The Liebherr machines reliably cover the broad spectrum of parts from Fendt thanks to the high availability. Important here is a modern control system as well as the flexible material flow technology.
Trouble-free organisation thanks to technology from one single source
Aside from the engineering demands, organisation and engagement play a big role. The fewest possible interfaces and clear responsibilities ensure optimum production conditions. Bernhard Riedel, responsible for managing production planning in the gear wheel, shaft and housing production area, summarises: "For the respective processes, we need firm partners and machines with a very long life cycle. We need a supplier who is as reliable as his products. This is the foundation for competitive production of the components."
Trained personnel for safe processes
In addition, Liebherr offers regular training courses that provide an ideal supplement for the reliable technology and flexible organisation. For the automation systems, experienced programmers train future operators over a period of three weeks. For the gear cutting seminars, the Liebherr experts for grinding and cutting technology development and advice visit Fendt on-site. The aim of the seminars is to bring the high level of quality and the growing demands in harmony.


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BioPassword Internet Edition's dynamic keystroke technology offers an alternative to token- and fingerprint-based dual-factor authentication.
Fueled by increasingly sophisticated identity theft techniques and regulatory requirements, dual-factor authentication has grown in usage to overcome password weaknesses. Typically, dual-factor relies on tokens as biometric options--generally fingerprint readers--and are often considered too expensive and difficult to manage for all but the most security-sensitive organizations.
BioPassword Internet Edition introduces another, cheaper biometric technology: keystroke dynamics, which creates a unique user identifier based on individual typing patterns.
We found that the technology works as advertised once it's properly "trained" with sufficient typing samples to develop a reliable template.
Keystroke dynamics isn't exactly a household phrase, but the idea and technology of this science has its beginnings in World War II, when Morse code operators found they were able to identify senders by the way they typed out the message. Since then, keystroke dynamics has been heavily studied and refined.
We received the BioPassword software development kit (SDK), which is designed to be integrated with an organization's existing login infrastructure. The SDK ships with a sample application, which we used for our testing. The sample application runs on IIS 6 with a MS SQL Server 2000 back end. It uses SOAP to transmit information between the application and the BioPassword Web service back end, which runs on Windows 2003 Server with IIS.
One lab member created several users and trained the program by typing user names and passwords several times to create a base authentication template. Subsequent logins are recorded and used to strengthen the template. We gave our users several different strengths of passwords: a very weak dictionary-based password, a password with mixed case and punctuation, and a pass phrase that contained all lower-case characters. We started the test with only the minimum number of logins for the template (10). One person created the templates with his typing, and others attempted to compromise it by typing in the same credentials with their unique keystroke patterns.
Other lab personnel quickly compromised the account with the simplest user name and the weakest password, and for the account with the mixed case and punctuation. The pass phrase, which provided a larger combination of keystrokes, fared much better, withstanding all compromise attempts.
The performance of the passwords improved as we continued testing. After about 20 or so successful logins, the account with the dictionary-based password successfully resisted compromise.
The key behind BioPassword is its definable user threshold, which determines the acceptable score for authentication. The higher the threshold is set, the less likely the chance of compromise, but the greater the chance of error and the need to re-enter credentials.
A strong combination of user name, password and pass phrase repetition is required for optimal results. Therefore, users need to be educated on how they are being authenticated, and need to be prepared to re-enter their credentials if they pause in mid-password.
BioPassword may be a viable alternative to token-based authentication or costly biometrics for financial institutions that need to meet short-term FFIEC requirements for dual-factor authentication. However, it may not yet be attractive for servicing typical customers because of the education requirements and frustration of login failures due to any change in keystroke pattern.


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Network and Sharing Center
For the last option, the icon has changed and "Fix a network problem" is a safer "Troubleshoot problems." The new HomeGroup icon is all over the place and there's now a Windows Firewall link in the left pane.
For the advanced sharing settings, a lot has been reworded. Under Public folder sharing, "When public folder sharing is on, people in the network can access files in the Public folders." is now "When Public folder sharing is on, people on the network, including homegroup members, can access files in the Public folders." The three options to choose from have been cut down to two: "Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can open files" and "Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can open, change, and create files" has been merged into "Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can read and write files in the Public folders". The last option has been changed from "Turn off sharing (people logged on to this computer can still access this folder)" to "Turn off Public folder sharing (people logged on this computer can still access these folders)."
As mentioned in the HomeGroup section, Media sharing is now referred to as Media streaming. To reflect this, "When media sharing is on, people and devices on the network can access shared music, pictures, and videos on this computer. This computer can also find those types of shared files on the network." is now "When media streaming is on, people and devices on the network can access pictures, music, and videos on this computer. This computer can also find media on the network." Finally, the link has been renamed from "Change..." to "Choose media streaming options..."
There's a completely new section: "File sharing connections" that allows the user to change file encryption from just 128-bit. In the next section, Windows HomeGroup Connections has been renamed to either Windows or HomeGroup (whichever is more appropriate), but other than that the overall wording remains the same.
Notification Area Icons
Padding has been added on the left and right, as well as an extra discouraging sentence: "If you choose to hide icons and notifications, you won't be notified about changes or updates." Also notice the ugly icon that has appeared in the top left; maybe they'll spot that and get rid of it before the RTM.
On-Screen Keyboard
Again there's now the ability to start the On-Screen Keyboard when you turn on your computer, but there's also a checkbox for a numeric key pad, which shrinks all the other buttons and puts this bad boy on the right-hand side (the left is with the Numlock off and the right is with the numlock on, this feature did not exist in build 7000):
As you can see, the icon for Paint has also been changed, as has the "File" icon and every icon in that menu (New, Open, Save , Save as, Print, From scanner or camera, Send in e-mail, Set as desktop background, Properties, About Paint, and Exit). The tiny save icon at the bottom is present in build 7100 regardless of whether or not the file is saved (when it is, information to the right of the icon tells you the file size).
The following icons in the Home tab have been updated: Paste, Cut, Copy, Select, Crop, Resize, Rotate, Pencil, Fill With Color, Text, Eraser, Color picker, Magnifier, and Edit colors. Furthermore, Stroke and Fill have been renamed to Color 1 and Color 2, respectively. In the View tab, the icons Zoom in, Zoom out, 100%, Full Screen, and Thumbnail have been updated. Rulers and Gridlines have lost their icon and gained a checkbox, and the status bar (at the bottom) can now be removed as well.
Another thing changed in Paint is the Resize and Skew dialog box (it is slightly narrower and much taller). You can now resize by pixels, though unfortunately changing the canvas still has to be done manually.
Parental Controls
In build 7000, the guest account was always present in this window, but in build 7100 it only appears when it is on. The warning about needing additional controls has been removed from the top, and the text at the bottom has been reworded from "You can also enable additional controls like web filtering and activity reporting by selecting controls from the list below" to "If you want to use additional features like Web Filtering and Activity Reporting on this computer, you need to install additional controls." The Windows Help and Support link has also been changed from "How do I enable additional controls?" to "How do I install additional controls?"
Did you want more themes? Done. Windows 7 has now been moved under "Aero Themes" (which was renamed from "Windows Themes") and "Ease of Acess Themes" has been changed to "Basic and High Contrast Themes." Also, every single theme now has a name.
Did you want more account pictures? Done. There are now 24 more pictures to choose from.
Did you want more wallpapers? Done. There are now 14 more backgrounds.
Did you want more screensavers? Too bad. Say goodbye to Aurora, Windows Energy, and Windows Logo. The power settings link at the bottom has lost its "..." at the end.
Problem Steps Recorder
The actual program has a new icon, as do the Start Record, Stop Record, Add Comment, and Help buttons. The background is lighter, but other than that everything is pretty much the same.
Programs and Features
As in other parts of the operating system, the "Get new programs online at Windows Marketplace" link has been scrapped.


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Tarkington, Booth
Tarkington, Booth (Newton Booth Tarkington), 1869–1946, American author, b. Indianapolis. His most characteristic and popular works were his genial novels of life in small Middle Western towns, including The Gentleman from Indiana (1899), The Conquest of Canaan (1905), and the trilogy Growth (1927), made up of Turmoil (1915), The Magnificent Ambersons (1918; Pulitzer Prize), and The Midlander (1923). Alice Adams (1921; Pulitzer Prize), considered by some his best novel, tells of the frustrated ambitions of a romantic lower-middle-class girl. He wrote several amusing novels of boyhood and adolescence, the most notable being Penrod (1914) and Seventeen (1916). His plays include a dramatization of his own historical romance Monsieur Beaucaire (1901) and Clarence (1921).
See his reminiscences, The World Does Move (1928); biography by J. L. Woodress (1955, repr. 1969); study by K. J. Fennimore (1974).
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Hello all, (CCing the RDFa list for their interest, since some people may not be aware that there is interest in the XForms community in ensuring that XForms and RDFa play nicely together.) > Steven Pemberton: And there was the resource attribute; we wish we'd done > the thinking for RDFa. It's an attribute we introduced in XForms as a > consistency with the child element; it's functionality is the same as src, > if I'm not mistaken. We did do the thinking. :) When someone suggested @resource on submission we debated whether it would clash with RDFa, and I said it wouldn't at the semantic level. Shane said it would clash at the DTD/schema level, but said that he could probably work around that. > John Boyer: Same a @action > Steven Pemberton: So one option would be for us in XForms 1.1 to XHTML 2 to > say that you have to use action, not resource. > John Boyer: What is the meaning of the resource attribute from RDF? > Steven Pemberton: RDFa. It specifies the object of a relation. It's similar > to href but it's not the intention that it's clickable. It specifies a URI > that's part of a relationship. Right...although to clarify, we don't define *any* behaviour in RDFa. If a browser wanted to make it clickable that would be up to them, i.e., we don't say 'this attribute must never be clickable', because we have no right to. > Leigh Klotz: Didn't Mark say that resource was what the submission was about > anyway? Yes. See below. > Or are you saying that since @resource is what makes it "clickable" > it's not OK? > Steven Pemberton: I see. I thnk it's ok to use @resource then. > John Boyer: We also have it on the load action. It's not exactly UI > clickable but it's like submission; you click something that invokes it. For > instance you might say it's implicitly clicked. > Steven Pemberton: Since they both have the same datatype, the problems are > much less. Right. The key thing is that the semantic aspect of RDFa is meant to reflect real live data in a document, by which I mean that you should be able to reuse markup that you would ordinarily have put into your document anyway, in a semantic way. So with RDFa you can 'reuse' inline text: My great American novel you can 'reuse' a navigable link that you have made with another document: click here for the license and you can 'reuse' a link that you have made with an embedded document:  All we're doing with XForms is saying that you can 'reuse' @resource too. So if an author creates this: <xf:load resource="next-page.html" /> then they have in effect established a relationship between their form and another document. All RDFa brings to the table is that they can 'reuse' this resource referred to, and be more precise about what exactly the nature of the relationship is; so an author could add @rel, like this: <xf:load rel="next" resource="next-page.html" /> Now an RDFa parser would 'spot' this relationship, and correctly decode it. Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane firstname.lastname@example.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd. (company number 05972288, registered office: 2nd Floor, 69/85 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4RR)Received on Wednesday, 11 March 2009 21:15:14 UTC
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I picked up Rotworld a few months ago. It uses the "Action Table" system from the old Pacesetter games like Chill and Timemaster. In this system, there's an ability score (1 to 100) and a defense class (1-10), and the player rolls a percentile die to get a result, which is one of: S, L, M, H, C, modified by a possible K.
The way that these things go together does not seem to be predictable or systematic, nor do the meaning of S, L, M, H, or C. I like Rotworld as a set of ideas, but this system seems impossible for me to internalize. I am tempted to just use a different system for the setting.
Is there a trick to learning this system so that I won't be constantly looking at this table and the skill result tables? Is there a commonly-used simplification that can be memorized, if the action table can't? How does this system get used in actual play?


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Some of you may or may not remember that i a couple years ago i "traded" a friend my dog shadow for her henry paul because at the time Shadow was easy for her to manage where as henry was a ball of energy and she couldn't quite handle him with her illness (fibromyalgia).
Well a few months ago she was diagnosed with a rare for of cancer(which i cannot remember the name of at this time) and she can no longer care for Shadow. Shadow is an easy dog to care of but she's also stubborn and she keeps tripping over her because shadow won't move.
I would love nothing more than to take Shadow back and i would in a heartbeat if i was in the position to but i am currently still unemployed and living in my parents home and they will not let me take her back(well my mom would but my dad says NO).
So I'm hoping i can find her a good loving home to live out the rest of her years or a foster home with someone who is in rescue.
I also would be willing to put her into a foster home and take her back when i get back on my feet, only problem is I don't know how soon that will be. could be weeks from now or months.
she just turned 9 in December and she's a black lab/great Pyrenees mix. Unfortunately my friend has made her quite a bit overweight but when at her correct weight she weighs about 65lbs, I'm guessing right now she probably weighs around 80+.
she has no health problems, is good with children, cats and dogs. She has been known to be a fencer jumper in her younger days but I'm not sure if she still does that..I'll have to ask my friend, but she can only jump the smaller 4 ft fences, not the 6ft fences.
she's pretty much a couch potato who likes to go on short walks(1 mile at most)
shadow is currently located in stevens point,wi but I would be willing to transport her.
If anyone knows anyone that would be willing to take her please email me at foremant86 @ yahoo.com


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On March 17, the new Josephine Baker gift set went on sale at FAO Schwarz. Ordering was a breeze and my doll arrived two days later via UPS. The outer box went through the required box kicker-compressor at the UPS warehouse but the inner box containing the gift set was in perfect condition.
I love the window boxes of this line of dolls. This one was so well protected it had a separate sheet of vinyl outside and inside adhering to the window! Impressive.
Deboxing went well. There were no problems caused by packaging. The fashions were in great condition except for a few creases in the tuxedo which I improved with the careful use of my trusty Rowenta. I was not able to completely remove the creases in the lapels of the jacket.
Josephine comes dressed in her robe with nothing underneath. That was a little odd. Several people received dolls whose bare chest greeted them through the box window. I don't suppose FAO will be displaying one of those.
Using my wigged Via Venetto to model the gown and The Muse to model the tuxedo, I was able to have a photo session with all the fashions at one time. The gown and wrap are made well and fit well and that's it. Nothing outstanding or new there.
Dressing The Muse was an event in itself. The shirt goes on easily and has a crotch elastic to hold it down.
The vest fits oddly. On both of those items the hooks show and look bad. I taped the wrists and fingers of the doll prior to putting on the jacket. It is a tight, skimpy fit and the dolls arm movements are somewhat inhibited. The pants and shoes fit great and the hat just sits on her head. Strangely enough there are socks included. I didn't even bother. The bow tie has to be pulled over the doll's head. That was a mistake. The elastic is tight enough to ruin the hairstyle and/or eyelashes while being put on. I chose earrings from my stash to complete the look.
And now for the bad news.
This is Josephine right out of the box and no, she does not have a hair net on. She doesn't come with a hair net at all. Apparently it has become part of her hair. There are dried clumps of something, residue on her face and short strands of hair sticking out all over the place. In general this is disgusting. This was not supposed to happen any more.
After my first experience with banana dance Josephine (pictured below), I hesitated to purchase the others because I was so turned off.
As you can see from the photos, there is an indent on both sides of her mouth extending back to the jawline. In addition, so much hair glue was used that it is visible on the skin of the forehead and around the curls. It is on the eyelashes. What appears as dust on her eyelashes and in the eye area in general is actually production debris which apparently got stuck to the glue used on the hair.
I was asked by Mark Tewfik, the "Patient Care" rep at IT to return the doll because it had multiple problems and they wanted to show it to the factory.
The problems have not been solved. I wonder if they've been addressed. My 2008 convention Tatyana had the embedded hairnet syndrome. Paris J'Adore Tatyana had her side curls glued to her cheeks with a visible residue and the similarly styled hair on the Mood Veroniques was horrible.
We have had many Fashion Royalty dolls over the past few years who had forehead curls and fancy updos. This problem did not exist. Going backwards in time and to name just a few:
Agnes Von Weiss - The Royal Weiss; Vanessa Perrin - True Royalty; Véronique Perrin - Gliteratti; Vanessa Perrin- Intoxicating Mix; Véronique Perrin - Foreign Affair; Véronique Perrin - Rare Creature; Adèle Makeda - Lustrous Silhouette.
My recommendation:
If you like Josephine Baker and you manage to get a doll without the hair problems, then the gift set is a decent buy. The price is much better than any gift set sold in the last few years. I was able to get 20% off as a result of the Barbie celebration. Right now there is free shipping being offered.
Here is the blurb from the FAO site:
"For the second installment in their Hollywood Royalty line, Integrity Toys is proud to present Jason Wu's vision of true renaissance woman, human rights pioneer and stage artist extraordinaire, Josephine Baker. Ready to delight her adoring fans, Josephine Baker comes to you with everything she needs to make a lasting impression. This FAO Schwarz exclusive doll gift set includes a robe, gala gown, tuxedo, shoes and accessories. Limited edition of 300 sets."
Retail price $160.
Follow Up:
I have been told that I will get a free replacement head. It will be ordered from the factory in China and will take time to get here.


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Mr. Speaker, our government welcomes foreign investment that benefits Canada. It helps the Canadian economy grow and it creates jobs. At the same time, when undertakings are secured as part of a foreign investment, we expect compliance.
In 2009, our government went to court to ensure U.S. Steel would meet commitments it made under the Investment Canada Act when it purchased Stelco. In the time since, the government has worked hard to maintain jobs in a vibrant steel industry in Hamilton and Ontario.
Could the Minister of Industry give the House an update on this important issue?


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General Tire made a concerted effort to re-enter the off-road segment in the last decade. It offered new product aimed at truck and SUV owners who took their rigs off the highway, and General Tire expanded its presence in the market with sponsorships of major off-road events such as the reborn Mint 400 race and the NORRA Mexican 1000 rally, among others.
Generals A/T2 all-terrain was the tire that went head-to-head with other all-terrain mainstay tires in the market, but theres no doubt its biggest splash was with its Grabber tire that was designed for extreme off-roading and was often used on race vehicles in desert racing and short-course off-road events. The Grabber, highlighted by its eye-catching red sidewall lettering, really helped brand General Tire with off-road enthusiasts; only one company offered red sidewall letters, and Grabbers were almost like a badge on pre-runners and daily drivers, proclaiming: I off-road.
The Grabber served GT well in recent years, but now it will be slowly phased out of General Tires lineup to be replaced by the companys all-new Grabber X3. The new X3, which will serve as the companys newest mud-terrain offering, will be offered in more sizes for truck and SUV owners than the Grabber, giving General Tire an aggressive tire that offers more mass appeal.
We had a chance to drive on the new Grabber X3 tires at an event at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Pennsylvania a few weeks ago, where we were able to test the it in the three key areas mud, dirt, rock for which the X3 is named.
Before we hopped into the fleet of Jeep Wranglers on hand, all of which were fitted with 35 x 12.5R17 Grabber X3s, we were given some background and details of the new mud-terrain. General Tire says it spent more than three years developing the X3. The Grabber X3, following through on that theme of threes, is constructed with three-ply Duragen Technology that aids in chip, cut and puncture resistance. The mud-terrain X3 features a high-void tread pattern, which General Tire designed with evacuation channels to aid in mud and debris ejection and to avoid caking. It also features block chamfers and traction notches in the tread design to aid with grip, while stone bumpers are employed to prevent stone and rock retention and drilling (and the design alternates between raised lines and Grabber lettering). Alternating shoulder scoops help grip loose terrain, and the X3 features large, aggressive sidewall lugs for additional sidewall protection and grip, especially during aired-down operation.
General Tire will offer the Grabber X3 in a number of OEM replacement sizes and larger sizes for those looking to add more rubber to their ride. There will be 29 different sizes of the Grabber X3, which includes 13 flotation sizes ranging from 31 to 37 (fitting 15 to 20 rims), and another 16 LT metric sizes fitting 16 to 20 rims. Some sizes will be offered with the option of General Tires red lettering or a standard black lettering, which is why there are 42 part numbers for 29 sizes.
During our time in Pennsylvania, we had a chance to test out the Grabber X3 on wide variety of off-rad terrain. We hopped in Jeep Wrangler JKs and explored the local terrain, which consisted of wood-lined trails that had everything from rocks, mud, small mud-puddle water holes, and loose and hard-packed dirt. Along for the ride with us was Nena Barlow of Barlow Adventures and the Jeep Jamboree staff.
We fortunately didnt have to go very far to find trails, as the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort actually has a decent trail system on its heavily wooded property (you know, just a little ways from the golf course); if you ever visit, they have rentals too. We actually started out the drive in 2WD to see how well the Jeep Wrangler would crawl up the rutted-out dirt trails that had the occasional tree root exposed. The Grabber X3s offered confident grip climbing up the loose terrain, and when we did find a rock or tree root the high-void tread seemed to grab ahold of the object and not spin the tires one bit.
Before long, we found a muddy water hole and had the chance to dip the Grabber X3s into some really thick mud, and for the sake of not getting stuck we finally popped into 4 Low before diving in. We noticed very quickly into the ride how well the large voids of the X3s grabbed the soft terrain, and on the first few hill climbs just after coming out of the mud pit we were impressed that the X3s didnt have any mud clumps still left in the tread (our filthy Jeeps can attest to the mud ejection from the tires). The lack of mud retention allowed the tires to grip into the soft hills and pull us up the trail with ease. During the remainder of our trail ride, we came across plenty more slippery slopes, a few deep water holes (one of which came nearly up to the JKs hoodline), and plenty of muddy trails. In terms of the mud testing, from our two days of riding on the X3 we definitely felt it passed with flying colors.
Our trail ride provided plenty of variety though, as we later encountered more hard-packed dirt trails, cross-rut sections and tight wooded turns, a few of which required three-points maneuvers to complete. The wide and deep void pattern of the X3s we had no trouble at all with dry traction, and the alternating scoops and textured sidewall design allowed our aired-down tires (about 15 psi, which was appreciated and is appropriate for most trail rides) to really grab the edges of ruts and ridges to provide lateral traction to keep us on our intended path.
Saving the best for last, the biggest test remained for us at the end of the trail: The Rock Garden. A large collection of jagged granite rocks was our final obstacle, as wed have the chance to see how well the X3s conformed to the uneven edges. This section would also tell us just how well the sidewalls would hold up to the abuse. We were pleasantly surprised that it wasnt as challenging from the drivers seat as it appeared, and that is a direct compliment to the Grabber X3s. The Rock Garden had its share of challenging sections, where youd have to hug a larger rock on the driver or passenger side of the rig and slowly crawl the tires on the opposite side blindly over the exposed, jagged edges of a tire-shredding rock. The X3s held up to the abuse. After our drive through the section we were able to see first hand just how well the sidewall lugs conform and search for traction while also offering additional protection on the rocks.
We didnt get all that much time on the X3s on the pavement. Having tested the road-friendly Continental TerrainContact all-terrains earlier in the day, we could certainly note the X3s were considerably louder (which is no surprise with such a high-void tire). With so little time on the tires we couldnt report tread wear or chip resistance, so well follow up with that in a more detailed review in the future. Our first impression of the Grabber X3 is a positive one, though, and were happy to see that General Tire will offer it in a wide variety of sizes (37s and options for 15-inch wheels). Expect to see the X3s in dealerships in September.


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Beech makes a superb formal hedge when trimmed annually. The dry leaves are held on the plant over winter for extra interest.
Beautiful young leaves of Copper Beach are soft red turning to a rich, deep purple. Beech makes an ideal windbreak. Hedges within gardens create a softer, more wildlife friendly boundary and can provide a great seasonal display of flowers, berries and autumn colour.
Height: over 36ft/12m if unprunned.
Even a small hedge can create your own little wildlife habitat. They can be close clipped or left a bit wilder, a mix of native varieties will give different periods of interest and a good nesting and winter food source for birds.
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For a denser hedge plant a staggered double row with 38cm/15in between rows and 45cm/18ins between plants. All our hedging will be delivered as bare rooted bundles, with approximate height of up to 100cm/3.5ft depending on the variety.
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By Editorial Staff
Losing weight can seem pretty complicated sometimes, and justifiably so, particularly if you're the one trying to do it. Which diet should I follow? How many calories should I eat? How often should I exercise? What kinds of exercises should I do? The information out there these days is staggering and can prove overwhelming – exactly the opposite of what you need on your plate, so to speak, when you're already faced with an issue that has likely plagued you for years.
Fortunately, in wading through the reams of information, advice and suggestions, we can whittle down weight loss to a few simple principles. Follow these three strategies and weight loss won't be the mystery you thought it was; it will be an achievable goal well within your sights.
1. Load Up on F & V: Fruits (F) and vegetables (V) aren't just healthy options because of their micronutrient composition; they're vital to weight loss because of their low caloric footprint. Consider that a medium apple only has about 100 calories, while a cup of broccoli only contains about 30 calories. So eat F & V to your heart's content; after all, as Dr. G. Douglas Andersen says, "How many people do you know who are 20 pounds overweight because of those late-night binges of apples, oranges, strawberries or melons?"
2. Eat Less Fat: The body requires a certain amount of fat, but it's a fact that fat contains more calories than the other macronutrients – carbohydrates and protein. Every gram of fat consumed equals 9 calories; eat the same gram of carbohydrate or protein, and it's only 4 calories. Those calories can add up quickly and impact weight loss (or lack thereof) significantly (see why below).
3. Burn Baby, Burn: No matter the strategy employed, here's the most fundamental principle when it comes to weight loss: You need to expend more calories than you consume, pure and simple. While body metabolism can help burn calories while you're resting, one of the best ways to increase metabolism – and burn tons of calories – is with regular exercise. A pound of body fat is equivalent to about 3,500 calories; burn an extra 3,500 calories a week and you'll lose a pound of body fat. Do that consistently and enjoy the results!
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People "can be obese yet physically healthy and fit and at no greater risk of heart disease or cancer", according to BBC News.
This counterintuitive headline stems from a study that was assessing health outcomes for people who were obese but relatively fit, with only one or no risk factors for "metabolic syndrome". Metabolic syndrome is diagnosed when people have multiple risk factors, such as high blood pressure, that make them more prone to diabetes or cardiovascular disease (CVDs).
Researchers found that the "metabolic healthy" obese group were significantly less likely to develop a CVD or cancer, or die as a result, than people who were similarly obese but were judged to be "metabolic unhealthy". In fact the risks of CVDs and cancers in the "metabolic healthy but obese" group were broadly similar to people with a healthy weight.
However, the research should not be interpreted to mean that being obese is healthy. Waist circumference size is also a risk factor for CVDs, so ideally you should be aiming to have a circumference of less than 94cm (37in) if you're a man and less than 80cm (31.5in) if you're a woman.
The research actually tells us very little that is useful in how fitness levels can affect CVD and cancer risk and whether it is possible to be both "fat and fit".
The main implication of the research is that factors other than weight need to be taken in account when assessing these types of health risks.
Where did the story come from?
The study was carried out by researchers from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, the University of Granada, Spain and the University of South Carolina, USA. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation and the Coca-Cola Company (the funding from Coca-Cola was given as an unrestricted grant; in other words "no strings attached").
The study was published in the peer-reviewed European Heart Journal.
The media reflected the study findings accurately, but the newspaper headlines should not be interpreted to mean that being obese is healthy. A relevant health message that could have been added is that regular exercise can benefit you even if you remain overweight or obese despite your best efforts to lose weight.
What kind of research was this?
This was a cohort study aiming to look at the health of obese individuals who are metabolically healthy and without additional risk factors for CVDs. These were described by the researchers as people with "uncomplicated obesity".
The researchers said that there is uncertainty over the extent to which metabolic health in obese people can influence the risk of CVDs and overall mortality. This is what they aimed to examine.
They decided to examine two theories:
- Metabolically healthy but obese individuals have a higher fitness level than obese individuals with metabolic abnormalities.
- Metabolically healthy obese people have reduced risk of CVDs, cancer and mortality compared with obese individuals with metabolic abnormalities – the "theoretically unhealthiest group".
In this study, fitness (according to a treadmill test), obesity and metabolic risk factors all appear to have been measured at one point at the start of the study.
But it is difficult to tell how representative this one-off treadmill test is of the overall fitness level of an obese person, particularly as we don't know how long the person has been obese for.
Measurements on obesity and metabolic health appear to be more reliable than those on fitness.
What did the research involve?
This was an analysis of the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study (ACLS) which recruited predominantly white professional individuals between 1979 and 2003.
At the time of recruitment a number of assessements were carried out, including:
- asking participants to complete a health questionnaire, including medical history and lifestyle habits (such as smoking and alcohol)
- a physical examination (including measurement of BMI, body fat percentage and blood pressure) and blood tests taken for fasting blood sugar and lipids (triglycerides and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) "good" cholesterol)
They also performed an exercise treadmill test where they were asked to walk or jog slowly on a treadmill that increases its incline gradually. The test is then ended when the participants feel that they no longer have the stamina to continue (this type of test is known as the Balke treadmill protocol).
A person was defined as metabolically healthy if they met none or only one of the following criteria:
- high blood pressure (≥130/85 mmHg)
- high blood triglycerides (≥150 mg/dL)
- low HDL "good" cholesterol (<40 and 50 mg/dL in men and women, respectively)
- high fasting blood sugar level (≥100 mg/dL)
In addition, people with normal blood pressure or fasting blood sugar at the examination, but who reported a history of previously diagnosed high blood pressure or diabetes, were also classed as having these metabolic risk factors.
Participants were followed from recruitment to the end of 2003. Information on mortality came from the National Death Index. Data on non-fatal cardiovascular disease events came from the responses to health surveys in 1982, 1999 and 2004. There was said to be a 65% response rate across surveys.
Eligible participants had no history of cardiovascular disease or cancer at study start (baseline); had complete baseline data on body composition, metabolic risk factors and fitness and completed at least one year of follow-up for health and mortality outcomes.
What were the basic results?
A total 43,265 participants were included in the study (average age 44), a quarter of whom were women.
Of these:
- 5,649 were obese (13% of the cohort) according to the standard BMI definition (BMI ≥30 kg/m2)
- 12,829 (30%) were classed as obese when using body fat percentage criteria (≥25% for men or ≥30% women)
Measuring body fat as opposed to BMI is thought to be a more precise (if time-consuming) method of judging whether a person is overweight or obese.
Within the obese participants, 30% were "metabolically healthy" using BMI-based obesity criteria, and 46% were "metabolically healthy" using body fat percentage criteria.
The average follow-up period was said to be 14 years for mortality and eight years for non-fatal cardiovascular disease.
The main findings were:
- "Metabolically healthy" obese participants had a better baseline fitness level on the treadmill test compared with "metabolically abnormal" obese participants (adjusting for age, sex, examination year, smoking and alcohol consumption, and when using either BMI or body fat percentage to define obesity). The difference was the same for men and women.
- "Metabolically abnormal" obese participants had significantly increased risk of dying from any cause during follow-up compared with "metabolically healthy" obese participants (adjusting for confounders and using either BMI or body fat percentage to define obesity).
- When looking at cardiovascular disease outcomes, "metabolically abnormal" obese participants only had increased risk of a fatal or non-fatal cardiovascular disease event compared with "metabolically healthy" obese participants when using body fat percentage to define obesity. There was no difference in risk when using standard BMI definitions.
- "Metabolically healthy" obese participants had no difference in risk of dying from any cause, or of fatal or non-fatal cardiovascular disease events compared with "metabolically healthy" normal-weight or fat participants.
How did the researchers interpret the results?
The researchers concluded that metabolically healthy obese individuals have better fitness than their metabolically unhealthy obese counterparts. They also have a better prognosis in terms of mortality and disease risk.
This was an impressive study that benefited from a large sample size, its thorough assessments of medical health and fitness at the study's start and long duration of follow-up.
It found that metabolic health is a predicator of overall health and fitness in obese people. This does not mean that being obese is healthy.
The study did have a number of limitations:
- The one-off measure of fitness on the treadmill is hard to interpret as this was assessed at the same time as obesity and metabolic risk factors. We don't know how representative this is of the person's overall fitness in the longer term, which could have varied sharply over time. We also don't know how long the person has been obese for, which makes it difficult to say much about the fitness of people with obesity, with or without metabolic risk factors.
- There are possible issues with the follow-up for mortality and cardiovascular outcomes. The recruitment period was 1979 to 2003, and follow-up terminated in 2003. Although the researchers included only people who had been in the study for at least one year, the follow-up of outcomes may be quite short in some cases. Mortality was reliably monitored via the National Death Index, but non-fatal heart disease was reported only from health surveys in 1982, 1999 and 2004, to which there was only a 65% response rate. This means many cases may have been missed. This reduces the reliability of the measurement of the health outcomes described in the study, compared with an objective measure such as reviewing the medical records of participants.
- The researchers also acknowledged that the criteria they used to define "metabolically healthy" and "metabolically unhealthy" may differ from other definitions that could have been used. As they said, they did not include information on waist circumference and did not have information on insulin resistance.
- The study included predominantly white, middle-aged men, so it isn't representative of all population groups.
Overall, the research plausibly suggests that people who are obese but have no other cardiovascular risk factors may be at lower risk of future diseases compared with obese people who have additional cardiovascular risk factors.
However, the research should not be interpreted to mean that being obese is healthy.
A more valid interpretation of these findings, as the authors said, is that it suggests that accurate assessments of body fat percentage and fitness may contribute to the overall assessment of an obese individual.
Analysis by Bazian
Edited by NHS Website
Links to the headlines
People can be fat yet fit, research suggests
BBC News, 5 September 2012
Never mind the fat. It's being fit that matters
The Independent, 5 September 2012
People can be fat and fit as study finds obesity doesn't automatically lead to ill-health
Daily Mail, 5 September 2012
Links to the science
Ortega FB, Lee D, Katzmarzyk PT, et al.
The intriguing metabolically healthy but obese phenotype: cardiovascular prognosis and role of fitness
European Heart Journal. Published online September 4 2012