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The metabolic advantage is a never ending discussion in the blogosphere. Recently, a more "scientific" debate has started on Peter's blog. While some prefer to argue using scientific references and basic biochemistry concepts, others use their own experience mixed with their opinions. This happens in both who defend insulin's central role in weight loss/gain and in those who state that its calories in-calories out all the way. This last group of people, when trying to dismiss the carbohydrate drives insulin drives fat storage hypothesis, use an old study as their bible. It is not surprising that the one who "popularized" this study was Carb Sane, with her famous post Nutrient fates after absorption. I wrote a quick answer some months ago, which was posted but strangely has disappeared.
The study which basically dismisses the carbohydrate-insulin obesity hypothesis is one by Eric Jequier, called "Nutrient effects: post-absorptive interactions". I will only focus on the "Metabolic Fate of Dietary Carbohydrate" part.
The author states:
"Although the glycogen stores are normally maintained within a relatively narrow range, the capacity for storing large amounts of dietary CHO by conversion to glycogen is relatively large (Acheson et al. 1982, 1984, 1985, 1988). Fig. 1 shows that a large load of CHO (500 g dextrin-maltose given as three meals over 5 h) to healthy subjects induces a marked stimulation of CHO oxidation over the 14 h after the first meal (240 g oxidized, 260 g stored; Acheson et al. 1985). Net lipogenesis occurred at a low rate from 5 to 10 h after the first meal, but this lipid accumulation was offset by a greater rate of lipid oxidation over the next 4 h. The fat balance calculated over 14 h was negative, indicating that the large load of CHO did not induce a gain in fat."Lets review the studies used to support his statements.
1. Glycogen synthesis versus lipogenesis after a 500 gram carbohydrate meal in man
Subjects participating in the study were 6 healthy male volunteers. They tested the metabolic effect of consuming 480g of carbohydrates from bread, jam and fruit juice, with little butter added. The results were as expected, no net lipogenesis occured, just an increase in muscle glycogen capacity. Ok, one big high carbohydrate/low fat meal in healthy subjects does not induce fat gain in the short term (10h), rather increases energy expenditure, glucose storage and oxidation. Nothing new.
2. Glycogen storage capacity and de novo lipogenesis during massive carbohydrate overfeeding in man.
Lets look at the subjects and methods used in the study:
"Three healthy young men, one of whom was a competition swimmer at university level, (21-22 y, 62-72 kg, 174-180 cm, and 11-14% body fat) with no family history of diabetes or obesity and who were not taking any medication, participated in this study."
"The experiment lasted 14 consecutive days. During the first 3 d the subjects consumed a restricted diet, high in fat and low in carbohydrate, and followed an exercise program. Halfway through this period the subjects were admitted into a respiration chamber in which respiratory exchange measurements were to be continued for 10 d. After 36 h in the chamber the diet was changed to a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet that was ingested for the following 7 d. During the last 2 d while still in the chamber, the subjects received limited amounts of a high protein diet (protein-sparing modified-fast [PSMF], 'ı2.5 MJ or 600 kcal) essentially devoid of carbohydrate. The subjects then left the respiration chamber but continued to consume the high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet in restricted amounts for a further 2 d."
"CHO oxidation and conversion to fat was significantly less in the high-fat diet group (222 +/- 5 g) than in the mixed (300 +/- 13 g) or high-CHO diet (331 +/- 7 g) groups, resulting in a greater glycogen storage in the high-fat (278 +/- 6 g) than in the other two groups (197 +/- 11 and 170 +/- 2 g). Net lipogenesis occurred sooner and lasted longer in the high-CHO group, amounting to 0.8 +/- 0.5, 3.4 +/- 0.6, and 9 +/- 1 g of lipid synthesized in the high-fat, mixed, and high-CHO groups, respectively. The thermic effect of the CHO load was 5.2 +/- 0.5% on the high-fat, 6.5 +/- 0.4% on the mixed diet, and 8.6 +/- 0.4% on the high-CHO diet."
Jéquier E (1995). Nutrient effects: post-absorptive interactions. The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 54 (1), 253-65 PMID: 7568258


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So the Democratic Party has come to this: "All we're interested in [in a presidential nominee] is someone who won't hurt us," said Alabama Democratic Chairman William Blount at the Democratic National Committee's annual spring meeting. This is a showplace for potential presidential candidates. Or should be. Four party leaders mentioned as presidential prospects -- Sens. Lloyd Bentsen, Albert Gore, Bob Kerrey and George Mitchell -- turned down the chance to speak at the meeting.
Mr. Blount's concern is that President Bush might defeat a weak candidate so badly as to hurt the ticket all the way down the line. The prospect of wholesale Democratic losses in congressional elections is being talked up by some political analysts. For one thing, there may be as many as 100 open seats next year in the House, due to redistricting and retirements. The Democratic Senate class of 1986 comes up for its first test.
And the people are telling pollsters they like Republicans. This is new. According to the Times-Mirror Poll, as of this month, Americans identify themselves as Republicans/Democrats/Independents this way: 36 percent/29 percent/31 percent. Last fall, the Times-Mirror Poll had it 29/33/32.


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We spend quite a bit of time outside in the summer, so it makes sense that our backyards should make a statement.
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October's round of MVPs nominations has been annouced, and for three years in a row, I've been renewed as a Visual C# MVP !
Thanks again, Microsoft and the MVP leads team for this award !
A while ago, the Montréal's STM transit system announced that they were now supported by Google Transit.
While it is possible to trace proper routes, Google's having the same problem as I do, which is that the STM is updating schedules per trimester. And since it's the STM that is providing the data and that it's not been updated since the 1st of January 2009, schedules have been incorrect ever since.
To be perfectly fair, I did not update the schedules in my application since that time too by lack of time to create a proper update procedure, but I'm not paid for that either...
Now that I've given it some thoughts, I'm now streamlining the schedule updates stops after stops as long as they are out of date. Previously, I updated the database all at once, but this does not scale... Now the updates are progressive, which is far more manageable for me.
Anyway, now there may be a simple message saying that the displayed schedule is outdated, which is better than trusting the time and blaming the STM for no reason :)
Yesterday, Monday 3rd, was the day of Speaker Idol Montreal.
like to thank every attendee for being here and listening all of these
great presentations ! Ten minutes is a format that's a bit rough
though, one's got to learn every word to be said to make a good point
during that kind of presentation length. (And don't rely on the computer
that's available there... You might end up not being able to use the
keyboard :) )
Anyway, if you were interested by the subject of my
presentation, you may find a more thorough explanation on this blog
post about DataBinding in WPF. By the way, you may also be interested in this post about DataBinding Application Settings.
See you next time in the .NET Montreal User Group !
Cet article est disponible en français ici.
So far, the response has been great for my little utility, even though I'm not making an active advertising.
Using some Microsoft terminology, I'm dogfooding my own application and I found a few points that could be enhanced a bit :
Now, I think I'll try to make sure that Google search will find the site in both French and English languages because right now, I'm having the same problems I did have with my Remote Control software pages. Google's crawling without specifying a language, so for this site, English is going to come out, since it is the default language. Maybe I'll add a "/fr" and "/en" virtual base for each of them.
I'm always interested in any suggestions or bug reports !
Well, how original is that. Snow in Montréal. The last time there was that much snow in here at this time of the year was many years ago, and this time 40 centimeters fell from the sky in 24 hours. For what I can see here and there, some are happy about that, some a bit less. Schools are closed, traffic quite a bit jammed and offices part empty.
Anyway, as long as you're on foot and have waterproof winter boots, that's good... and for now that suits me. I just wish I won't be needing a car in a too near future ! Is that really a car under this ?! :)
I just had to slide down to the street. The ambience outside was particularly interesting, and that was a pretty good moment to take some shots !
There I am ! I'm now in Montréal, enjoying my strike-free environment ! Weather's still good with a pleasant temperature, at the end of the "été des indiens".
After visiting a bunch of canadian administrations, I'm now enjoying some peaceful time with my wife, visiting some places and friends we've seen the last time we went there. People here are so much cooler than in Paris... No one rushing even at peak hours in the subway, people waiting in line to take the bus... I like that ! I'm told that compared to Québec city, Montreal life is stressing. I wonder how's life in Québec ! Point of view and stuff...
Relocating is not an easy thing to do, with so many things to think at once, like selling stuff, terminating contracts and stuff. Well, this is done now :) If you ever need to ship some personal effects from france, I can tell you that "Bagages du Monde" is doing great.
My new job at Averna is starting in a few days, I'll be telling you a bit more by then ! (as well as show some pictures !)
Well, that was as not easy as it would have seemed, but it's done ! I'm moving to Canada !
I'll be in Montréal by the end of the year, still working with .NET technologies, but with the canadian spirit that I think I'll enjoy to learn and live with !
There's a lot of french people over there, like SharkOne (maybe still there at that time ?), or Sanx, and some other Epitech students I've graded a few years ago... This'll be great !
And no worries about Bluetooth Remote Control, I'll continue working on it :)
My name is Jerome Laban, I am a Software Architect, C# MVP and .NET enthustiast from Montréal, QC. You will find my blog on this site, where I'm adding my thoughts on current events, or the things I'm working on, such as the Remote Control for Windows Phone.
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Dan Patrick based his primary campaign around getting tough on border security and immigration. He even had his signs depict a fence with a padlock on it with the words "Secure Our Border" emblazoned across the top, and referred to an "illegal invasion."
But, since his primary victory Dan Patrick has been noticeably less visible, and even though he sits on the Senate Finance Committee he was not engaged during the border debate that took place at the hearing.
It's not the first time Patrick hasn't jumped at the opportunity to debate. On the day of the hearing Patrick tweeted page, "Barack Obama is threatening to give amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Sign and RT to stand against amnesty!" The petition he linked to reads, "President Obama is threatening to give amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants with an executive order."
Ironically, as I wrote earlier today Rick Perry used his own executive order of sorts to send troops to the border without legislative approval even though Senator Wendy Davis requested he call a special session.
Leading up to the Senate Finance Hearing Patrick released a series of tweets admonishing the federal government and the Obama Administration for not "securing the border" and supposedly calling for "amnesty."
Amnesty is not the answer to our border security issues. Until DC realizes this, TX will take the lead securing the border #txlege #dpltg
— Dan Patrick (@DanPatrick) August 11, 2014
I introduced multiple bills to make local governments enforce our immigration laws; we must prohibit sanctuary cities #txlege #dpltg
— Dan Patrick (@DanPatrick) August 11, 2014
Barack Obama is threatening to give amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Sign and RT to stand against amnesty! https://t.co/c9OBKtB2e2
— Dan Patrick (@DanPatrick) August 12, 2014
Anyone following his social media channels can see his focus on passing legislation and "stand[ing]against amnesty," but where was he during the hearing? His colleagues on both sides of the aisle asked pointed questions about strategy and funding mechanisms during testimony by the Director of the Legislative Budget Board and the Governor's Deputy Chief of Staff, but not Patrick.
Given some of Patrick's outlandish claims about the immigrants coming over one — particularly a signer of his strongly worded petition — could not be blamed for a assuming that he would at least have some questions for Major General Nichols, the Adjutant General of Texas National Guard who also testified.
Perhaps he knows when his claims are met with professional scrutiny they may not live up to the hype. Earlier this year the San Antonio Express news responded to his claim of the "illegal invasion" and found, "the data show there's not a massive influx of people of undocumented immigrants crossing the border." Also contrary to the data Patrick claimed that children crossing the border were carrying diseases such as "tuberculosis, malaria, polio and leprosy."
The Burnt Orange Report recently reported on Patricks disappearing trick after the Primary, "While Leticia Van de Putte was visiting border patrol officers in the Valley, Dan Patrick was nowhere to be seen. Perhaps that is part of the reason that Van de Putte out-raised her opponent since the runoff – despite not having a runoff of her own."
Patrick so far has only accepted one of five debates offered by Senator Van de Putte for what is arguably the state's most powerful elected position.
The Lone Star Project offered some suggestions on where Dan Patrick has been and why he's been silent lately:
Dan Patrick knows he is out of step with fair-minded, mainstream Texans. He knows that his ugly, divisive rhetoric alienates voters.So how did he cope with the criticism? Patrick turned tail and ran, hiding out for more than a month.
Where has Dan Patrick been for the past month? Is he ready now to publicly disavow his hateful statements and those of his key backers?
Did Dan Patrick take a break from his campaign to rethink this hateful rhetoric? Or did he just become overwhelmed by the pressure and criticism and need to escape?
Regardless, Texans deserve more from Dan Patrick.
The truth is Dan Patrick may be able to escape from his own committee discussion on border security but he won't be able to escape voters — not in the most interesting race for Lt. Governor in the country.
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While visiting in Champaign I looked through pal Dave T's DVD collection. He had a bunch of things I haven't seen and want to, and it was hard for me to make a decision. I finally settled on Edge of Tomorrow, which was probably the safest option.
I'd skipped this movie in theaters because honestly, I didn't hear much about it. All I knew was that it had Tom Cruise in it, and I'm not much of a Tom Cruise fan. But afterwards I heard it was actually pretty good, and Cruise's usual take on a role, especially and action role, worked in the movie's favor here, since he was supposed to be smarmy and also improbably skilled.
The central conceit is pretty good. Aliens have invaded, and they're really doing a number on us. After a particularly amazing victory made possible by Emily Blunt's character, we stage a giant attack on the aliens that turns out to be a trap, and a slaughter. During the battle Tom Cruise's character dies taking out one of the aliens…and then wakes up again, thrown back to a day earlier in time, with all of his memories intact.
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It reaches a pretty satisfying conclusion, and then it's clear that someone at the studio felt the ending needed to be happier, so it then goes on for a couple more minutes with a coda that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever within the rules of the movie. It's jarring and dumb and best mentally deleted when reflecting on the movie as a whole.
It's almost as dumb as the movies's title. Edge of Tomorrow is a stupid name, but the name that they're using now, Live. Die. Repeat. isn't much better. (Both are worse than the name of the book it's based on, All You Need Is Kill, but that's really dumb as well.) It's a wonder they dropped the ball three times on naming this thing when Groundhog Troopers is right there, not being used. (As an aside, the world in which this takes place is one very similar to our own, except there never was a Groundhog Day movie, because it's what first springs to mind to any viewer but no one here mentions it at all.)
Despite the dumb name and tacked-on post-ending, Edge of Tomorrow is a fun movie that isn't a ponderous, joyless grind, nor an insultingly stupid time-waster. I'm glad I picked it.


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E/AndroidRuntime( 374): at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractDOMParser.startDocument(Unknown Source)
E/AndroidRuntime( 374): at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startDocument(Unknown Source)
Is this avoidable? Might be. Googling led me some discussions about replacing org.w3c and related other packages. If I can include Xerces' xml-apis.jar (this defines org.w3c/org.w3c.xxx, javax.xml.xxx, org.xml.xxx) in my Android app and override some of core packages, Nokogiri will start working exactly the same as a web app on Rails. But, it should not be a good workaround. Surgery on SDK might incur other applications that use replaced packages.
Probably, the best answer will create a subset of Nokogiri for Android. I'm not sure such limited version of Nokogiri still attracts users. But, I think it's better than nothing.
Thoughts on Ruboto and Android
Although my small Nokogiri app didn't work, I'm going to write about what I learned and did. This might help some poeple who want to make Ruby gems to work.
- JDK should be 1.6.0_24 on OS X
- Android API level should be 11
- Jar archives should be moved to project's libs directory
Also, I commented line 18-24 out from nokogiri.rb (https://github.com/yokolet/cranberry/blob/master/assets/vendor/gems/1.8/gems/nokogiri-1.5.0.beta.4-java/lib/nokogiri.rb) so that Nokogiri doesn't try to load those jars again.
- Configuration and setup are key to load gems
When I clicked on "Cranberry" Ruboto icon right after "rake install" said "Success," all Nokogiri files were copied to /data/data/.... directory. To cut down the time for copying, I deleted Nokogiri's test and ext directories, which are unnecessary to run Nokogiri.
- Needs threads to become a nifty app
W/System.err( 343): org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException: Native Exception: 'class android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException'; Message: null; StackTrace: android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException
W/System.err( 343): at android.os.StrictMode$AndroidBlockGuardPolicy.onNetwork(StrictMode.java:1077)
W/System.err( 343): at java.net.InetAddress.lookupHostByName(InetAddress.java:481)
This is why config.rb uses threads to require rubygems.
- No need to reinstall app when scripts are updated
- ... but, it doesn't work. What's going on ???
I'd like to add "uninstall" the app to the troubleshooting. You can uninstall the app on emulator as well as adb uninstall command. On the emulator, do the long-click on the icon you want to uninstall. Then, trash bin and the word "uninstall" appears. Dragging the icon on trash bin will delete the app. Or adb uninstall [package name of app] will delete the app. For example, my app's package name is com.servletgarden.ruboto.cranberry, so "adb uninstall com.servletgarden.ruboto.cranberry" deleted my app from emulator. In case you forget the package name, look at the path to XXXActivity.java file. That path corresponds to package layer.
How I made this app
In the end, I'm going to add how I made this app and how to start it. This app won't work, but for myself, to try this app in future again, I'll leave this memo.
1. install ruboto-core gem
$ ruby -v (double check I'm on JRuby)
$ gem install ruboto-core
2. set path to android tools
$ cd path/to/android-sdk-mac_x86
$ PATH=`pwd`/tools:`pwd`/platform-tools:$PATH
3. create emulator image
$ android -s create avd -f -n cranberry-11 -t android-11This possibly creates it. Actually, I created my virtual image using Eclipse's ADT. It's way easy. Prior to using android command, I installed platforms. I also used Eclipse's ADT for that.
4. create ruboto app
ruboto gen app --package com.servletgarden.ruboto.cranberry --target android-11This generated cranberry directory and whole stuff under that.
5. add emulator task to Rakefile
$ cd cranberrySince my virutal image name is cranberry-11 (step 3) "-avd cranberry-11" is there. If the app is small, you don't need -partition-size option.
$ [edit Rakefile]
(line 42-45 of https://github.com/yokolet/cranberry/blob/master/Rakefile)
6. install nokogiri gem
$ mkdir -p assets/vendor/gems/1.8
$ gem install --install-dir assets/vendor/gems/1.8 nokogiri -v 1.5.0.beta.4
$ rm -rf assets/vendor/gems/1.8/cache
$ rm -rf assets/vendor/gems/1.8/doc
$ pushd assets/vendor/gems/1.8/gems/nokogiri-1.5.0.beta.4-java
$ rm -rf ext test
$ popd
7. add config.rb file, one line in assets/scripts/cranberry_activity.rb and edit Script.java
line 186-188 of https://github.com/yokolet/cranberry/blob/master/src/org/ruboto/Script.java
8. start emulator
$ rake emulatorThe emulator took many minutes to boot up on my MacBook. Occasionally, it showed up without dark blue hexagons. In such case, emulator didn't work correctly. I tried a couple of times "adb kill-server" and "adb start-server." When that attempt didn't work, I shut the emulator down and did "adb kill-server," then restarted the emulator.
9. start log monitor
$ adb logcat
This prints out verbose infos, errors, and others. It is a bit noisy, but a great help to figure out what's going on.
10. install app
$ rake installBe patient.
10. click Cranberry ruboto icon
Be patient again. JRuby needs long time to activate.
Ruboto default app, Figure 4 of https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ruby/ will show up.
11. edit ruby files and do "rake update_scripts"
Then, back to Apps view and clock ruboto icon. Updated version should work, or troubleshooting time starts.


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Iggy Azalea cancelled tour due to 'creative change of heart'
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- 2 June 2015
Iggy Azalea cancelled her 'Great Escape tour because of a "creative change of heart"
Iggy Azalea cancelled her 'Great Escape tour because of a "creative change of heart".
The 24-year-old rapper axed the string of shows over the weekend, having previously postponed the tour, and has revealed a number of factors contributed to the decision including the fact she wants to get started on something "totally anew".
She said: "I've had a different creative change of heart. I want to start totally anew, and if I stayed on my tour, that would mean I wouldn't even be able to start working on that until after Christmas."
The 'Fancy' hitmaker - who released her debut record 'The New Classic' last year - explained her hectic schedule was another reason behind the choice, insisting she is in desperate need of a break having had very little free time for the past two years.
She continued: "On top of that, mentally, to be honest with you, I just feel I deserve a break. I've been going non-stop for the past two years, nearly every single day. I'm not in a bad place. I think sometimes when you say you need a mental break, people are like, 'A mental break? Be sure you don't have a breakdown because you're sad.' No, not necessarily. It's very emotionally draining to be on all the time and going all the time, planning all the time. It's a lot, and it's tough. I need a break from everything to just enjoy what I worked so hard for, and I don't really feel like I've had a chance to do that."
Eventually, Iggy said she made the difficult decision because there were "so many things" stopping her from doing it, including the fact she struggled to find any opening acts to support her on the tour.
She told Seventeen magazine: "It just seemed like it was so many things pointing me in the direction of not doing [the tour], that I finally thought, when enough things come your way, you can't ignore the signs. It's not easy to decide that the best thing to do is cancel a tour, but that's the best thing for me. I don't want to disappoint fans. I feel really bad. It was a tough decision to make, but it was the best thing."


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It's a clever and innovative approach to generating service innovation and potentially Service Design for Orange in the UK. I thought readers of this blog might find using methods such as co-creation and collaboration to grow new streams of revenue of some interest. It is relatively unique and reminds me of trying to find the next "Orange Wednesday" http://web.orange.co.uk/p/film/orange_wednesdays
Orange UK are looking for start-up businesses that they can partner with to provide more compelling online and on-phone services that increase their audience Open innovation project.
The project (OSCR) is an open innovation project that is being run as a collaboration between:
- NESTA (The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts)
- Orange UK and
- in partnership with live|work www.livework.co.uk ( a leading UK Service Design firm) and Wireless Innovation ( Satellite and Wireless solutions)
The project is based on the underlying concept of "shared risk and shared reward" and aims to demonstrate how Corporates can work with partners outside of their organisations on a mutually beneficial basis. As this is a call for innovations in services (which are difficult to patent), Orange are aiming for an ongoing business relationship with Orange that can embrace a range of different business models, including licensing, joint ventures or other forms of partnership.
Responses to the brief will then be submitted to the "Trusted Agent Team" (NESTA, live|work and Wireless Innovation) who will select the most promising to enter the "airlock". It is important to note that Orange will not see any ideas at the selection stage and will not see any ideas until they leave the "airlock" (Trusted Agents will act on Orange's behalf). Companies selected to enter the "airlock" will receive funding and support from the Trusted Agent Team to develop, protect and present their idea. After leaving the "airlock", they will pitch their ideas to Orange who will then have 90 days to decide which ideas to pursue further. After this "right of first refusal", those ideas that Orange rejects remain the intellectual property of the originator.
OSCR will launch on October 22nd, when companies interested in submitting ideas can meet with representatives from Orange to further understand their requirements. For more information on the project, please visit www.oscrproject.com
Enjoy! If you would like any information on leveraging Customer Experience to improve your engagement and profitability of your customers please feel free to contact me directly at email@example.com or go to www.protopartners.com.au


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Mitch Kupchak responds to Kobe, says he will continue pursuing trades
Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak heard Kobe Bryant loud and clear and has a message in response: Sorry, but Pau Gasol is still on the trading block.
"As a former player, I understand how the days leading up to the trade deadline can be nerve-wracking for an NBA player. Nonetheless, as General Manager of the Lakers, I have a responsibility to ownership, our fans and the players on this team to actively pursue opportunities to improve the team for this season and seasons to come," Kupchak said in a statement. "To say publicly that we would not do this would serve no purpose and put us at a competitive disadvantage. Taking such a course of action at this time would be a disservice to ownership, the team and our many fans."
Considering the Lakers were planning to trade Pau Gasol prior to the season, it's no surprise to hear that they're still pursuing a deal. They didn't enter the season with the roster they wanted and their 18-13 record likely has Kupchak convinced he needs to make some tweaks. As much as it sucks for Pau, he'll have to continue being a professional and show up ready to play as well as possible each game.


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- FOTD with Laura Mercier Artist Palette for Eyes - "Berry Pie"
Posted by : SealedwithaSwatch Thursday, November 14, 2013
I have been so busy moving that I have really only been wearing minimal makeup. I was getting pretty bored of it when the Laura Mercier Artist Palette for Eyes came to my rescue in the mail yesterday. I've been wanting this palette since the other version came out last year. I figured the Sephora VIB Sale would be the perfect time of year to finally buy it.
To test out the palette, I decided to put together a look yesterday using the top row (mostly purples). The colors were really appropriate for Fall, which made me really happy! Here's what I ended up coming up with!
LM Artist Palette (entire top row)
MUFE Aqua Brow
Inglot Gel Liner
Bare Minerals Lash Domination mascara
UD Face Primer (the b6? one)
UD All Nighter
Mac Pro Longwear Foundation NC 15
MUFE Full cover concealer
Mac Blotting Powder
Too Faced Chocolate Soleil
Sleek blush by 3 - Sweet Cheeks (middle color)
Mac Mineralized Skin Finish in Soft and Gentle
Revlon Matte Balm stain in Shameless
As always, let me know what you think of this look and stay tuned for a full review on the Laura Mercier Artist Palette for Eyes!
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There's no doubt about it. Regardless of how cliche it sounds being a wedding photographer is one of the best jobs in the world. I could name 100s of reason, but here one. Travelling to new places. Few weeks ago I had an honour to be a speaker at Camp Archipelago, a fantastic event in the middle of Atlantic Ocean. I met amazing people, had a lot of fun, and yes, I was blown away by the beauty of the place. I didn't plan to take any photos, but went I found this dramatic landscape that you can see below I just could not resist. Ola and Michal were crazy enough to get up at 6am to join me on a short 15 minutes session. We were lucky with the light and they did fantastic. Once again it shows that all you need to take good photos are two things – great people and a bit of effort.
Azores were on my list of places to see for years, yet due to the tight schedule of the workshop I feel I didn't see enough of it at all. If you're looking for a fairly unknown, but beautiful location to elope I could not recommend it enough. The same goes with mainland, if you're getting married in this beautiful corner of Europe and are looking for Portugal wedding photographer, I can' wait to go back there 🙂
Nice,very nice SHOOTS !!!!1
Znajoma parka, widziałem ich świetna sesję, i tu teraz kolejna :)
Świetne zdjęcia, piękne miejsce, jeszcze lepsze światło. Kawał dobrej roboty i wspaniała PAMIĄTKA DLA PARY.
Wow! Jak zwykle pięknie, ale ostatnie zdjęcie urzekło mnie szczególnie, jest tak proste i tak śliczne.
The colours, the tones, the emotion... LOVE!
Amazing, as always!


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- Owen Perkins
- Pitching notably Atlanta's, ruled the day through most of the game.
The schedule read "All-Star Break." For all but a handful of players, the three days in July are a chance to spend time with family, kick back, and do nothing. For some players, being in the All-Star Game can be pretty near the same thing.
Todd Helton didn't set the game on fire with his appearance in the All-Star Game on Tuesday. Not the way he has set the league on fire this season, chasing .400, hitting with power, and developing into a rock-solid leader as the Rockies anchor at first base. But the baseball world took notice of Todd Helton, the first homegrown Rockie to make a significant impact upon arriving in the Major Leagues.
Helton was the Rockies first round draft pick in 1995, and by early in the '96 season he was calling Colorado Springs home, playing first base for the Sky Sox in the considerable shadow of the popular and productive Andres Galarraga with the parent club in Denver.
"I'm excited to be on the All-Star Team with him," Helton told the Indy during the pregame workout in Atlanta, reflecting on the impact Galarraga had on him as a developing player in the Rockies system. "The biggest thing he helped me [with] was at Spring Training. Most of it was with defense. Just sitting there watching him take ground balls, you can learn more than anyone can ever tell you."
But the Big Cat was just as well known for his positive character, and Helton never lost sight of that aspect of his mentor. "Those are the people that you want your kids to be like. He's what you want big-league players to be like."
It was Helton's quick development with the Sky Sox that led the Rockies to feel comfortable letting Galarraga slip away from them to the Braves three years ago, a move Galarraga credits with saving his career. The Rockies would only agree to a two-year contract with Big Cat, while the Braves offered him three. The second year of that contract was a year lost to a battle with cancer, and Galarraga told reporters he didn't think anybody would give a contract to someone coming off a year of chemo and radiation treatment. But his comeback has been the great story of the 2000 season, hovering in the vicinity of .300 and 20 HRs at the break.
There was never bad blood between Helton and Galarraga. "I'm really happy for him," Galarraga told the Indy. "He surprised me the way he hits for power. We had a great relationship. We're friends."
It seemed inevitable and ironic that Helton would, at some point, enter the All-Star Game to relieve Galarraga. "It's my first time here, whatever they tell me to do I'll do," Helton said, trying unsuccessfully to keep a giddy beam from escaping as the excitement grew before the game. "I'll play shortstop if I have to."
What he was asked to do was nearly as unusual. After Big Cat's fourth-inning single, Helton was brought in as a pinch runner.
"I've gotten pinch ran for lots of times," Helton joked in the clubhouse after the National League's 6-3 defeat, "but that was the first time I've been someone who pinch ran."
Helton's versatility and productivity caught the eye of no less than Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, who sang Helton's praises before the game, putting him in elite company.
"Maybe the pitching isn't quite as good," Jackson remarked of the state of the sport on the field before the All-Star Game, "but the players, like the Gary Sheffields and the McGwires and Sammy Sosas, the Todd Helton's that come along, those players are as good as any player of any era."
Other Rockies on the field in Atlanta included third baseman Jeff Cirillo and last minute replacement Jeffrey Hammonds, who took the injured Barry Bonds' spot on the roster.
Though Hammonds was used only briefly as a pinchhitter, Cirillo played four innings at third, with Helton tending the other corner for four innings. "It was fun, I had a good time," said Cirillo, downplaying the defeat. "It's not that the game is secondary, but just being here is the main thing. Just being honored and getting to dress with the greatest players in the world."
Cirillo made a dazzling defensive play, falling back on the warning track by the third base seats to reach for and catch a foul ball. The highlight for him, however, was the emotional introduction of the players, when position players gathered together with their peers at their respective place on the field, accompanied by their families in a rare treat that emphasized that the All-Star Game did not have to mean sacrificing quality time with loved ones. "Taking my kids onto the field, that was great," Cirillo said.
The Rockies looked good in Atlanta, where the only team with more representation was the Braves. They were nothing flashy. Just solid. The new look. But the development of prospects into superstar MVP candidates does not end with Helton, nor with the team's strong showing under the national spotlight Tuesday.
Earlier in the week, Sky Sox catcher Ben Petrick was the starting catcher in the Futures Game, the opening event in the All-Star break, a game matching the best American prospects from the minor leagues systems against the best prospects in the minors who come from other parts of the world. USA won a close game 3-2, and Petrick's second inning sacrifice fly knocked in a crucial run for his team. The Rockies other roster member, pitcher Tsao Chin-Hui who plays for the Ashville, North Carolina farm team, did not get in the game.
The Sky Sox were further represented in Wednesday's Triple A All-Star Game played in Rochester, New York. Though the game had not yet been played at press time, Colorado Springs was represented by Giovanni Carrara on the mound and by Phil Hiatt and Scott McClain in the field.
Other highlights of the break included Atlanta favorite Chipper Jones going 3 for 3 with a home run in the losing effort and Sammy Sosa's 26 phenomenal towering home runs in Monday's home run derby. Pitching, notably Atlanta's, ruled the day through most of the game. Through the first inning and a half, three pitchers threw 34 pitches, an astounding 29 of which were strikes.
The rash of injuries that felled seven of the scheduled starters took some of the luster from the game, but the competitive zeal and the quest for excellence was there. National League Manager Cox told the Indy that "the players really want to win. If you sat on either bench, you could tell. They're highly competitive and nobody want to be embarrassed, and they're going to go hard and they did."
All-Star MVP Derek Jeter echoed those sentiments. "It was a great atmosphere. Even when guys came out of the game, they seemed to stick around. The All-Star Game is something you never take for granted, because you never know when you're going to get an opportunity to come back. I think everyone was just enjoying the moment and getting a chance to talk to the other players."


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thank you all for your comments yesterday -- from deep thoughts on the dangers of distraction in our society [more on that later] to car-detailing tips. josh ended up taking the car to a detailer, but instead of offering to do the job, they basically talked him through doing it himself. and therefore, the entire interior of the car has now been partially disassembled by someone much more used to removing gall bladders than car seats. but he assures me this will all turn out okay. and i have to say, it does seem to have dried off pretty nicely.
on distraction: read at your own risk
yesterday, reader jane left a comment warning of the potential dire consequences of distraction -- you can read this terrifying article about parents who accidentally left children in hot cars to perish here. reading it chilled me to the bone and sent me into tears in front of my laptop, in part because it was just disturbing to read, and also because i thought about how the swiss cheese effect had impacted me over the past month and yet how much WORSE the outcomes could have been [i could have hurt someone in the car accident, for example].
one interesting [and potentially useful] piece of the article discussed the factors that have led to outcomes much more catastrophic than what my experiences have been. here's an excerpt:
Diamond [molecular physiologist and memory expert] says that in situations involving familiar, routine motor skills, the human animal presses the basal ganglia into service as a sort of auxiliary autopilot. When our prefrontal cortex and hippocampus are planning our day on the way to work, the ignorant but efficient basal ganglia is operating the car; that's why you'll sometimes find yourself having driven from point A to point B without a clear recollection of the route you took, the turns you made or the scenery you saw.✔ stress
Ordinarily, says Diamond, this delegation of duty "works beautifully, like a symphony. But sometimes, it turns into the '1812 Overture.' The cannons take over and overwhelm."
By experimentally exposing rats to the presence of cats, and then recording electrochemical changes in the rodents' brains, Diamond has found that stress -- either sudden or chronic -- can weaken the brain's higher-functioning centers, making them more susceptible to bullying from the basal ganglia. He's seen the same sort of thing play out in cases he's followed involving infant deaths in cars.
"The quality of prior parental care seems to be irrelevant," he said. "The important factors that keep showing up involve a combination of stress, emotion, lack of sleep and change in routine, where the basal ganglia is trying to do what it's supposed to do, and the conscious mind is too weakened to resist. What happens is that the memory circuits in a vulnerable hippocampus literally get overwritten, like with a computer program. Unless the memory circuit is rebooted -- such as if the child cries, or, you know, if the wife mentions the child in the back -- it can entirely disappear."
✔ emotion
✔ lack of sleep
✔ change in routine
[in my case, the answers to these questions are: yes, yes, somewhat yes, and HELL YES]
the solution?
not necessarily so simple. but, i'll keep working on it.
in less macabre news . . .
my long-awaited cookbook came:
the beautiful illustrations and simple-yet-delicious-sounding recipes took me away from the cares of the day for a few moments last night. i am so excited and do plan to go through all of the recipes in this cookbook. unlike the martha project, i am not going to exclude all other recipe sources while i go through this book -- i think that could potentially get a little bit monotonous, and while this book is entirely vegetarian, we are not.
and i need to leave room in my cooking agenda to incorporate cooking light gems like this one:
ripe tomatoes. basil from our 'garden' [fine, it's a plant from whole foods sitting on our windowsill in a pot, all right?]. succulent shrimp and crusty bread. almost enough to make me forget about . . . well, what i forgot. almost.


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* Southern movement reinvigorated by fall of strongman Saleh
* U.S. sees Iran's hand in south Yemen separatism
* Southerners: unity a failure, we can handle al Qaeda ourselves
* But personality, policy disputes may limit breakaway bid By Andrew Hammond
ADEN, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Yemeni separatist leaders, exploiting a weakening of central authority and freer political atmosphere since a national uprising last year, have returned from exile to rally support for reviving the state of South Yemen.
Secessionists in the south, Houthi Islamist tribal rebels in the north and al Qaeda militants all benefited from the popular upheaval in the Arabian Peninsula country that ousted veteran strongman president Ali Abdullah Saleh in February.
But there is now serious international concern that al Qaeda's strongest regional wing will use the disorder in Yemen to entrench itself in some areas especially t h e south, m enacing top oil exporter Saudi Arabia next door and Western interests in the Middle East, notably oil shipping through nearby sea lanes.
Southern separatist leaders say al Qaeda would lose traction and be neutralised more easily in an independent south where resentment would no longer fester over what they call a corrupt, repressive and tribally defined system run from the north.
Some senior separatists have returned to south Yemen of late to drum up grassroots backing via street rallies, tours of southern provinces and the creation of umbrella groups.
The cause appears to captured hearts and minds in Aden. Once the capital of South Yemen, the ancient seaport at the foot of desert mountain outcrops is covered in pro-independence graffiti and flags of the old southern state hang from many lampposts.
Meanwhile, the U.S.-backed Yemeni government based in Sanaa, in the north, is planning a national dialogue starting in November on reforming the political system and thrashing out issues such as balance of power and division of resources.
Western nations suspect that some southern leaders, whose movement is known as al-Hirak, are less interested in the dialogue and more in breaking away, possibly with the backing of Iran, arch-foe of the Saudis and Americans.
But personality and policy disputes abound within the southern movement and these may limit any breakaway bid. Separatist leaders have not said if they will join the dialogue.
"The Hirak has a crisis of leadership and unity of its ranks," said Yemeni political commentator Madyan al-Maqbas.
"One trend wants a federal state, which it could get, but another wants independence, and others among them want independence but without Iranian or U.S. interference."
Western diplomats in the Yemeni capital Sanaa say Iran and its Lebanese militant ally Hezbollah have forged links with southern secessionists as part of a broader struggle for regional predominance with Saudi Arabia.
Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi said last month that Sanaa had broken up six Iranian cells in Yemen this year, prompting Tehran to summon Yemen's charge d'affaires in protest.
Western and Gulf Arab states sponsoring the post-uprising transition in Yemen are considering sanctions on figures seen as hindering a June U.N. Security Council resolution backing the reform process, diplomats and officials say.
One figure drawing attention is Ali Salem al-Beidh, the Beirut-based south Yemeni leader who failed in a 1994 civil war to reverse a 1990 deal merging the former South Yemen with the north. Beidh now runs a pro-independence satellite TV station.
"We know that Iran is interested in promoting some of the more extreme elements of the secessionist movement, providing funding to Beidh," a senior Western diplomat in Sanaa said.
"Beidh is in Beirut with the intention of destabilising the situation in the south, trying to block implementation of the national dialogue and creating an anti-Yemen programme in southern Yemen."
Beidh sent a representative to the former southern capital Aden in August, a former ambassador of united Yemen who was briefly arrested on arrival.
"Threats like this will cause injustice to southerners and frankly will not be effective," said Beidh's envoy Ahmed al-Hasani, referring to possible sanctions. "We have no money or millions that we fear for in foreign banks."
Beidh supporters organised some protests in Aden which Hasani says the authorities have suppressed. Aden authorities, led by a governor from the Sanaa-based Islamist Islah party, deny that, saying protests are allowed in designated areas.
South Yemen emerged as an independent state, separate from North Yemen, when Britain withdrew in 1967 from areas it controlled along the Arabian Peninsula's southern coastline.
Conflict between the political systems of the tribal North and Marxist South led to war in 1979. But when its major patron the Soviet Union fell apart, the South merged in 1990 with the militarily stronger Yemeni Arab Republic based in Sanaa.
Now Hirak politicians say unity with Sanaa was a historic mistake that led to appropriation of public land by Saleh and his cronies, dismantling of southern institutions including the army, and dismissal of tens of thousands of administrators.
They say Saleh ruined what was a well-functioning state, proud of its efforts in education and empowering women.
Northern politicians say they recognise the grievances but they should be addressed within a united post-Saleh Yemen. Some have threatened force to stop any future separatist moves.
Hasani said he had little faith in the national dialogue planned by Hadi. "We think the solution is negotiations between the occupied south and the Sanaa regime under international and regional supervision, with one aim - independence," he said.
"Our struggle is peaceful. But it remains the right of our people to defend itself by all means available ... (Beidh) is the legitimate president of the south."
Mohammed Ali Ahmed, a former South Yemen interior minister, has also been touring southern provinces since his March return from a decade in Britain in an effort to unify diaspora and internal Hirak ranks under a new "National Coalition".
But Ahmed said he found sentiment on the ground was more radical than southern leaders exiled abroad - who had agreed to push Sanaa for a federal southern entity - anticipated.
"I found people believing in return of the southern state and an immediate breaking of contact with north," he said. "I tried to convince people but found no way. What people found acceptable was freedom, self-determination and return of state."
While the south is more sparsely populated than the north, politicians say it boasts mineral, oil and gas and tourist potential for a flourishing economy.
The Yemeni Socialist Party, which once ruled South Yemen, formally favours a federal system that recognises all of the old southern state as one region. Some socialist and Hirak figures are mooting the idea of a southern referendum after five years.
One card southern leaders say they could play to their advantage with international powers is al Qaeda, which has spread in the south despite a socialist legacy of secular politics. They say Aden could curb al Qaeda better than Sanaa.
"We hope they understand that an independent state will be a factor for security, stability and peace in this part of the world," Hasani said. "The south is ready to set up a modern state and rebalance the region in a way that ensures stability."
(Additional reporting by Dhuyazen Mukhashaf; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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JTB and IST establish collaborative marketing partnership
In a bid to boost arrivals the Jamaica Tourist Board has entered an agreement with Independent Software Technology, USA, Inc., a New Jersey-based interactive marketing firm, to develop and implement a direct-marketing campaign.Within the time frame of the two-year endorsement, IST is expected to deliver over one million unique visits to the Web site www.visitjamaica.com, with the ultimate goal of generating actual visits to this leading Caribbean destination.
IST is pioneering a collaborative form of interactive direct marketing,
which aims to incorporate all the stakeholders in a tourist destination,
sports franchise, or entertainment entity. Through a combination of pocket-and regular-sized optical disks and direct distribution networks, the target audience is immersed within a multimedia experience that showcases the diverse attractions and culture of the island. IST's value proposition to its' featured partner offers a tailored marketing message directed at the partners' specific audience.
In addition to the featured entity, IST's interactive direct-marketing
campaigns are designed to identify appropriate third-party marketing
partners and incorporate their marketing message on to the optical disc and Web pages that form the basis of the campaign.
David L. Shields, deputy director of tourism - marketing, for the JTB,
expressed enthusiasm. "We are very excited to be a part of this pioneering interactive approach to direct marketing," Shields commented. "Jamaica is a multi-faceted destination with a big story to tell, and this campaign is designed to augment the flow of traffic to our Web site, where we can best convey the enormous diversity of the island's attractions."
IST president and CEO Sheldon Channer announced that a percentage of the revenues will be donated to an educational program in Jamaica. "We are thrilled to provide Jamaica with this new and exciting form of direct marketing," Channer commented, "and have made a decision to reinvest five percent of the gross revenues
received from the project towards education on the island."
The strategy and content of the optical discs and Web pages will be directed by Ruder Finn Interactive, a division of Ruder Finn, Inc., which is the public relations firm representing the JTB in North and Latin America.
B. Bonin Bough, vice president for strategy at Ruder Finn Interactive, said: "We're extremely pleased with the program brought forward by IST. It is well designed to meet the JTB's needs, and we hope to see a significant conversion rate of virtual visits to actual tourist bookings for Jamaica."


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More than 80 officers from HMRC searched three private and 12 business addresses in Bath, Bournemouth, Bristol, Berkshire, Exeter, Stroud, Swindon and Yate on Wednesday 4 October.
Colin Spinks, Assistant Director, Fraud Investigation Service, HMRC, said:
"Tax fraud is often thought victimless but it isn't; the public lose out on vital funds for essential services. We will continue to work with our partners to tackle this crime and ask anyone with information about this kind of activity to contact our HMRC Fraud Hotline on 0800 788 887."
Computers and business records were seized during the operation. Those arrested were interviewed by HMRC and have been released under investigation. Investigations are continuing.


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Summer is coming to a close and while I love the beach, swimming, and the all around debauchery that comes with the summer territory, Fall is fast approaching and I can not wait.
Because Fall is the greatest season ever, and it isn't just because the colors look amazing with my ginger hair.
1. The trees really are beautiful.
I know the leaves are dying and all, but the bright colors just look incredible. Plus the crunchy sound when you step on them is my favorite.
2. Two words: Sweater Weather.
Gone are the sweaty days and shorts with crop tops. The sun is shiny and the air is brisk but not yet cold enough to confine you to a huge, bulky jacket. Big sweaters, button up sweaters, your Dads old sweaters, it all works and it all looks great.
3. Warm days but cooler nights.
Speaking of the weather, fall is perfect because the days are still warm enough to play outside, take a walk or go to a drive-in but when night comes it is perfect sleeping temperature.
4. No one yells at you when you just want to curl up and chill at home.
Sometimes you just want to have a relaxing night at home reading or watching TV by yourself. Fall is the perfect time for that because everyone is back at school, back at work, or feeling just as cuddly. Its a guilt free day indoors.
5. Speaking about #4, there is way less pressure to go crazy and have "epic" nights.
Everyone feels like if they don't have an even crazier summer then last summer it was a fail. That means going out a lot, sleeping less, and beach weekend trips as much as possible. There is so much pressure to go crazy that it can get a bit old sometimes. A calm, relaxing weekend with friends is exactly what cozy fall calls for.
6. Your electric bill isn't nearly as high because of AC.
So not all of you have AC (I only just got it last month), but even if you don't have it, the cooler nights will be a relief for you as well! But for those with AC, good luck with your electric bill come September. It will suck.
7. Apple picking, apple cider, APPLE CIDER DOUGHNUTS.
The apple cider doughnuts dipped in apple cider is pretty much the most amazing thing ever. And you can apple pick in sweaters, hell yeah.
8. Halloween is the greatest holiday because haunted houses, hay rides and the 13 mights of halloween are the shit.
Halloween season is the best! Dressing up, bobbing for apples, watching scary movies and pretty much everything else that happens around October is the best. You can't help but feel like a kid again, no matter what age you are.


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"Leipzig in Autumn" is the most comprehensive documentary of the events surrounding the historical 1989 Monday demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany.
After weeks of ever-increasing street protests, the filmmakers finally received permission from the state-owned studio to document these historic events on October 16, 1989, and filmed until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The film includes interviews with demonstrators, members of the citizens' rights movement, police forces, church representatives, and bystanders in East Germany's peaceful revolution.


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West Valley Medical Center pediatrics
West Valley Medical Center's pediatricians have the expertise and advanced technology you want for your child's care. Our goal in pediatrics is to provide excellent quality of care to infants, children and adolescents in a warm, friendly, compassionate environment. The pediatricians, doctors and nursing staff who work with children are trained to care for children's physical and emotional needs.
From broken bones to behavioral health, you can count on our pediatric specialists to take good care of your child.
Family-focused pediatric care
As part of our commitment to providing family-focused pediatric care, our pediatricians, nurses and other staff take the time to provide you with information regarding your child's medical care and encourage your participation in healthcare decisions. Before your child is released from the hospital, we will work with you to make sure you know how to continue treatment at home.
Our pediatric specialists also partner with your child's primary doctor to ensure they are aware of your child's treatment.


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Google's China Problem (and China's Google Problem) - New York Times
Google's China Problem (and China's Google Problem) - New York Times
A good article and the most complete one I've ever read about Google in China. As a future googler, I totally understand the company's policy to satisfy the government's sensorship requirement. But I can't agree with the comments in this article that Chinese people, especially young people, don't care about politics. On the contrary, politics do matter in our life. We don't want anybody to sabotage the economic development in China, but we do appreciate it if we can hear different opinions.
I don't like the name "Guge" (the Chinese name for Google), by the way.


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Charles Diez Gets 120 Days for Shooting Cyclist in the Head — Streetsblog
Sponsor a 9/11 cobblestone! — 9/11 Memorial
Ben Davis on the "sense of coagulating ignorance surrounding the art world" — Artnet
Lacayo kills his blog. Silly, why not just reduce the frequency? — Time
The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody — YouTube
The next time someone argues that transit is overly subsidized and roads "pay for themselves," show them this — Streetsblog
FDIC fund falls into red — Reuters
Wondering what Google will look like after News Corp pulls out? — Gawker
Cartoonist, who calls herself an "information radical," documents how she made $55,000 giving away her work — WSJ
Classic book review — Amazon
A safety improvement for cars can be dangerous for cyclists — Streetsblog
Anthony d'Offay was behind winning $4-mil bid for Bruce Nauman neon "Violins, Violence, Silence" — Lindsay Pollock
Brownstein on healthcare has been declared "mandatory reading" by Obama — Atlantic, Politico
Is it plausible that the grandfather of cool, corporate Helvetica was a kind of ironic, high-lowbrow Cubist straddle? — Crooked Timber


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Chesterfield Royal Hospital Shop
Welcome to the Chesterfield Royal Hospital's online shop, our direct link between you and our inpatients. Just browse through these pages and anything you buy will be sent directly to your friend or relative who is currently a patient on one of our wards. All you have to do is buy an item, tell us who it is for, where they are and we will deliver it directly to their bed.
At the moment this is a trial period so only selected items are available but we are looking at extending our range of online products, however we need your help. If there is anything you would like to send to a patient on one of our wards but you can't currently see it then email your suggestion to firstname.lastname@example.com so that we can get an idea of the type of products people would be interested in sending to patients.
Opening times:
Mon-Friday 8.00am -8.00pm
Saturday 9.00am- 6.00 pm
Sunday 9.00am- 6.00pm
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WEST DEPTFORD TWP. — Officials celebrated the 30th anniversary of New Jersey's Farmland Preservation Program Tuesday at the Urban Farm, one of the few remaining large, active farm parcels in the township.
The 106-acre farm, which has been owned by the Urban family since 1938, is set to pass to new owners — brothers Fred and Rosario "Hoss" Grasso — next week. The sale, which keeps the property running as a farm for the foreseeable future, is, by both families' accounts, thanks in most part to the state's preservation program.
"The program is a great thing — there would be no way we'd be able to afford the price of the farm without it," said Fred Grasso, who together with his brother owns Grasso Farms, which sits on 100 acres in Mullica Hill.
"It'd be something close to triple what the final cost to us will be," added Hoss Grasso.
"We'd have to sell for $30 per tomato to make everything back if we had to pay the full price," his brother replied.
The state and Gloucester County farmland preservation programs together paid $1,010,800 in order to buy the development rights to the Urban farm in October 2012, just one month before owner George "Dutch" Urban died at the age of 89 after struggling with illness.
His brother, co-owner Robert Urban, had passed in 2007.
Dutch Urban's second cousin, Brenda Caltabian, who is now the executor of the family's estate in West Deptford, had urged the lifelong farmer to agree to preserve the land with the state, in order to protect it from future development.
"He was sick in September, and we were renting out the field to other farmers on the agreement that he would take over again if he took a turn for the better," said Caltabian. "I was telling him that he should preserve the farm, so it could stay a farm in the future.
"We eventually signed the paperwork on Halloween."
The sale of development rights to the farmland preservation programs meant that the land could then be used only for agriculture, thereby lowering its potential re-sale value and making it more affordable for other area farmers — in this case, the Grassos — to purchase.
With her family about to sell the farm, Caltabian on Tuesday described mixed emotions.
"It's been in the family for a long time — it's sad," she said. "But Dutch wanted it to be a farm. This was his life."
According to New Jersey Agriculture Secretary Doug Fisher, approximately 204,000 acres of farmland has been preserved statewide, since the program began 30 years ago.
"We want to preserve 550,000 acres when all is said and done," he added. "We look at this not only as a celebration of 30 years of the program, but also a celebration of the right to farm."
Those 204,000 preserved acres represent approximately 25 percent of all the farmland in New Jersey — about 2,000 farms — placing the state first in the country in percentage of land set aside for agriculture, according to Thomas Gilbert, chairman of the NJ Keep it Green Coalition.
"A lot of that land is in South Jersey and the northwestern part of the state," he said, adding these are places where communities are facing greater pressure to develop more land.
Nearly all those in attendance at the Urban Farm Tuesday called for a "sustainable source of funding" for the farmland preservation program, stating the only recent funding has come from a $400 million bond referendum — also to be shared among open space and historic preservation projects throughout New Jersey — approved in 2009.
Senate President Stephen Sweeney, who also spoke at the farm Tuesday, said the Senate has twice approved legislation proposing a voter referendum to dedicate $200 million in sales tax revenues every year to farmland preservation.
Said Gilbert: "It's time for the Assembly to act."


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WIOA Resource Center
The WIOA Center provides state workforce agencies and partners a place to share challenges, solutions, and information for effective implementation of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Please help your peers by sharing <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> your best practices and other WIOA transition and implementation resources. The WIOA Center is searchable by WIOA subject area, and also includes information on WIOA partner programs.
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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J., April 23 (UPI) -- A sixth-grade boy has been suspended from school for allegedly threatening a peanut-allergic teacher with a package of peanut butter cookies.
Officials at South Orange Middle School said the 12-year-old boy was barred from school for more than two weeks after he allegedly waved a package of Nutter Butter cookies, which contain peanut butter, in the classroom of social studies teacher Carolina Pew.
Pew made it clear early in the school year that she is severely allergic to peanuts and the legumes were banned from her classroom.
School officials said nine students in the class said the boy -- after the teacher left the room momentarily -- said the teacher better not mess with him because he had a "deadly weapon." The students told Pew of the alleged incident when she returned and the boy was sent to the principal's office.
The boy's father claims the threat was made up by students who have an ax to grind with the suspended boy, the Newark Star-Ledger reported. The father said the boy was just reading the package ingredients and not waving the cookies around.
A school district official told the newspaper the boy will likely be transferred out of Pew's class.


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DMTI Spatial releases new whitepaper: Building Capacity for Location Intelligence in the Enterprise
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Press release from the issuing companyMarkham, ON Canada - October 23, 2007. DMTI Spatial (DMTI), a leading provider of location intelligence for the enterprise, has released a white paper entitled "Transforming Location Intelligence into Profits - A Hierarchy of Benefits for the Enterprise," as a free download at:http://www.dmtispatial.com/hub/. This easy to read paper presents three clear uses of location-enabled information integrated into enterprise workflows and describes the resulting Location Intelligence. The benefits derived from location intelligence become clear and compelling when considering their impact across an enterprise.
"Location intelligence is the capacity to use the principles of location. It is measured by the degree in which information is enriched by the perspective of location and how successfully this information is integrated into a process of decision making" said John Sorrell, Director of Marketing at DMTI Spatial. "Our approach is not techno-centric, but rather we focus on the two things that really matter: our client's business processes and the quality of data required to drive profitable business outcomes."
"Location is a latent asset in all organizations that is now coming of age. More and more, location intelligence is being linked to strategic thinking and an enabler of operational success within the enterprise. As a means of generating revenues and controlling expenditures, location intelligence can directly impact profitability" said Alex MacKay, CEO of DMTI Spatial. "Our experience has shown that as information derived from location becomes more pervasive and "sticky" in an organization, financial measures like return on investment (ROI) respond positively."
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