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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of the following companies were among those making notable moves in the U.S. stock market Tuesday.
Altria Group Inc. /zigman2/quotes/208895754/composite MO +1.49% shares were higher. It affirmed its expectations for 2008 per-share earnings from continuing operations growth of 9% to 11% from an adjusted base of $1.50. The New York holding company forecast a longer-term total annual shareholder return of more than 12% when combined with the dividend, per-share earnings growth of 8% to 10% and about $1 billion in annual cost savings.
Shares of Elbit Systems Ltd., /zigman2/quotes/204584989/composite ESLT -0.44% the Haifa, Israel, defense contractor, jumped 9.3%. It reported fourth-quarter net income rose 33% on 27% higher revenue. The order backlog at Dec. 31 was $4.62 billion, up 22% from $3.79 billion at the end of 2006. The quarter's results reflected $10 million of expense as Elbit wrote off investments in auction-rate securities, "which were rated AAA or AA when acquired," Elbit said.
Foot Locker Inc. /zigman2/quotes/204092533/composite FL +1.93% shares rose. It reported fourth-quarter profit of $87 million, or 56 cents a share, down from $95 million, or 61 cents. The year-earlier figure included an impairment charge of 10 cents a share. Revenue fell to $1.48 billion from $1.56 billion. Analysts had estimated earnings of 42 cents a share on revenue of $1.48 billion.
Google Inc. /zigman2/quotes/205453964/composite GOOG -0.37% shares rose 3.5%. It landed the approval of European regulators Tuesday, clearing the way for the company's acquisition of online advertising provider DoubleClick. See full story.
Shares of Global Sources Ltd., the New York provider of media and marketing services to facilitate trade with China and other countries, advanced 8.4%. It reported fourth-quarter net income fell 47% as revenue rose 16%. For the first quarter, GSOL estimates net of 15 cents to 16 cents a share, adjusted profit of 11 cents to 12 cents, and revenue up 13% to 15%, to $39.5 million to $40 million.
Hovnanian /zigman2/quotes/203952761/composite HOV -3.42% shares rose 7.7%. The home builder's chief executive, Ara Hovnanian, said he can't say the housing market has hit bottom yet and is ready for a recovery. Although builders continue to use incentives to attract buyers, in the past few weeks sales have been better than expected and he hopes for more interest-rate cuts from the Federal Reserve next week, he told CNBC.
Inter Parfums Inc. /zigman2/quotes/202027190/composite IPAR +2.28% shares soared 20%. Fourth-quarter profit was 41 cents a share, while analysts estimated 34 cents. Revenue rose to $119.4 million from $90.2 million. The company expects 2008 net income of $1.25 a share on sales of $442 million; analysts expect $1.48 a share on sales of $363.7 million.
Kroger Co. /zigman2/quotes/206215053/composite KR +0.60% rose. Fourth-quarter earnings fell to $322.9 million, or 48 cents a share, from the year-earlier $384.8 million, or 54 cents a share. On average, analysts polled by FactSet expected earnings of 47 cents a share. The Cincinnati supermarket chain said sales for the quarter ended Feb. 2 rose to $17.2 billion from $16.9 billion a year earlier. Sales in supermarkets open at least a year increased 8.2% including fuel and 5.3% without fuel. See full story.
Shares of LHC Group Inc., /zigman2/quotes/207684916/composite LHCG +1.64% the Lafayette, La., provider of post-acute health-care services, moved up. It adopted a so-called poison-pill measure designed to deter a hostile takeover. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Keith G. Myers said in a statement late on Monday that the plan was not adopted as a response to a specific takeover proposal.
Shares of Massbank, the Reading, Mass., banking company, were higher. It definitively agreed to be acquired for $40 a share, or $170 million, by Eastern Bank, the companies said late on Monday. Eastern Bank is the Boston mutual banking firm. Massbank shares closed at $38 on Monday, indicating that Eastern Bank is paying a 5.3% premium for the shares.
Shares of Stage Stores Inc., the Houston retailer, jumped 11%. It reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income fell 20% on 3.7% lower total sales and 3.1% lower comparable-store sales. For the fiscal first quarter, Stage Stores expects to earn 13 cents to 16 cents a share, compared with 20 cents a year earlier. Revenue should reach $360 million to $367 million from the year-ago $358.2 million.
Schering-Plough Corp. shares were higher. It filed a New Drug Application with the Food and Drug Administration for Zegerid as a branded over-the-counter treatment for frequent heartburn. The Kenilworth, N.J., health care company said the application was submitted under the terms of a license agreement with Santarus Inc., the San Diego specialty pharmaceutical company.
Thornburg Mortgage Inc. shares doubled. It on Tuesday filed an amended annual financial report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and boosted its total impairment charge for 2007 to $676.6 million. "The company recognized this additional impairment charge in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles because it may not have the ability to hold certain of its securitized [adjustable-rate mortgage] loans to maturity," the firm said in a press release detailing the filing.
Timberland Co. shares rose. It added 6 million shares to its share-buyback plan. The company had 1 million shares remaining on its buyback authorization.
Vodafone Group /zigman2/quotes/202862751/composite VOD -0.06% shares gained 3.1%. It on Tuesday after Goldman Sachs analysts said the stock may be oversold. Citigroup also reiterated a buy rating on the firm, saying it should benefit from cost changes, currency and India.


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Ensembl gene IDs begin with 'ENSG' for human, and a three-letter code is inserted for non-human species. (For example, ENSMUSG for a mouse gene). The 11-digit number following each ID is unique for that gene, and stable (unchanging) from release to release, unless the gene model drastically changes. Transcripts represent splice variants, and have IDs beginning with ENST (for human). Click on any ENST... ID for transcript-specific pages. ENSP IDs are assigned to proteins. OTT... IDs are manually curated transcripts by HAVANA also viewable in the Vega Browser.
Ensembl includes both automatically annotated transcripts (annotated on a genome-wide level) from the genebuild procedure and manually curated transcripts (annotated on a case-by-case basis) by HAVANA Annotators. All transcripts are based on mRNA and protein, which can be viewed by clicking on the 'Supporting evidence' link. Gene annotation, including Immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor segments, non-coding RNA (ncRNA) generated by RFAM, transient EST gene models and pseudogenes is described in articles listed here.
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Fear of intolerance 'stops children playing out'
Fear of upsetting the neighbours is preventing many parents letting their children play out, a survey suggests.
More than a quarter (28%) of 1,000 UK parents questioned feared being judged by neighbours if they let their children play unsupervised outdoors.
Almost a third (32%) believed allowing their children to play ball games or make noise outdoors would cause problems with other residents.
The poll was released to mark Playday 2013, an annual campaign for play.
One Poll surveyed 1,000 children between five and 16 years old and 1,000 parents with children the same age.
Of the five-11-year-olds, 53% said they would like to play outside more, while 40% said they could do so as much as they liked.
Of all the children, 13% said adults where they lived tended to disapprove of them playing outside, while 10% said adults thought they were up to no good when they were with friends.
Of the adults, 53% thought traffic was a barrier to children playing out where they lived, 40% cited "stranger danger" as a concern and 28% said intolerant neighbours were a problem.
A quarter of the adults felt a more friendly community and better relationships with neighbours would encourage young people to play outside more often.
A lack of dedicated community space was also cited as hampering children's opportunities to play, with 32% of the adults and a fifth of the children saying more spaces to play within their local community would get more children playing out.
The research suggests play has the power to bring communities together, with 40% of adults saying children playing out where they lived improved community spirit, and 45% saying it helped families get to know each other.
And 60% of parents said they would feel confident letting their children play in the street if others were playing out too.
Space and freedom
Cath Prisk, director of Play England, said: "It's up to all of us to turn around the creeping disappearance of children from our streets, parks and communities. We all have role - as families, neighbours, and friends.
"We can all do something to say we love kids playing outdoors, that we want to live in communities that actively welcome kids playing out.
"There always was and always will be some people who want to squash kids' fun - but there are far more that really want kids back outside playing, not stuck indoors, especially over the summer holidays."
Jacqueline O'Loughlin, chief executive of Play Board Northern Ireland, said: "Consensus is spreading - play, especially playing outdoors, makes sense. It makes sense for families, society and the economy. Play is fundamental to our children's enjoyment of their childhood, it can't be taken for granted.
"All of us, from parents to planners, from neighbours to policy makers have our part to play in allowing and supporting children's play as it is vital for our children's health, learning, development and happiness."
Mike Greenaway, director of Play Wales, said: "We need to recognise the importance of providing children with time, space and freedom to play in their own way.
"We need to support them and recognise that for their health, wellbeing and long-term development children need playful places and opportunities to play outside."
Marguerite Hunter Blair, chief executive of Play Scotland, said: "As well as a celebration of children's right to play, Playday is a campaign that highlights the importance of play in children's lives.
"We know that children across the UK would like to play outdoors more than they already do, with more opportunities for a wide range of play opportunities wanted."
Playday - held annually on the first Wednesday in August - is run by Play England, Play Board Northern Ireland, Play Wales and Play Scotland and aims to raise awareness of children's right to play and the importance of play for their health, wellbeing and happiness.


text: My Vista DVD has a crack in the SOURCES\$OEM$\$$\SETUP\SCRIPTS\ folder, named BIESTART.EXE. It installs a certificate and a Vista loader, I want to remove this from the DVD so I can 'do my own thing' regarding activation. If I just the delete the file or folder and remake the DVD then it won't install, gets so far then stops with an error about missing files. Does anyone know how to remove this pre-install type crack so I can remake the ISO without it and will install without error? I can extract the ISO and rebuild it etc, just stuck about to properly remove the crack. I've used V-Lite but still can't find how to remove BIESTRAT.EXE successfully.


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Spare a thought for the Prime Minister and the state premiers this Friday. While you are letting your hair down at the office Christmas party, or finalising plans for your summer holiday, our leaders will be locked in fierce debate on tax policy and federal-state relations at the final Council of Australian Governments meeting for 2015.
They come to the debate from very different starting points.
NSW Premier Mike Baird has proposed an increase in the GST from 10 to 15 per cent, with the revenue going to the states to help fund growing hospital costs. The Victorian and Queensland governments prefer an increase in the Medicare levy – effectively an increase in income taxes. South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill has been particularly bold, suggesting the Commonwealth keep the additional revenue from a 15 per cent GST and abolish all tied grants to the states in return for the states receiving a share of income tax revenues.
The Commonwealth has so far remained tight-lipped but has indicated it will advocate changes to the GST only with the support of the states.
Despite the apparent differences in priorities, there is a sensible deal to be done.
The premiers of NSW and South Australia are right to see GST as the best opportunity for tax reform. Raising more money through increasing the GST, or applying it to more things, is preferable to most other means of raising revenue, including higher income taxes. A broad-based consumption tax drags less on economic growth than most other taxes. And Australia raises less of its revenue through its GST than most OECD countries.
Broadening the GST base to include fresh food, health and education is generally favoured by economists because taxing some categories but not others distorts the decisions people make about what they buy. Removing current exclusions would also make GST simpler to administer and reduce compliance costs for business. But increasing the rate of the GST would be a satisfactory second best if the politics of taxing health, education and food prove too fraught.
Extending the GST to cover many of the categories now exempt could raise $17 billion per year. Increasing the rate to 15 per cent would generate about $27 billion.
But the devil of GST reform is in the detail, and particularly the question of how the extra revenue should be used.
Any credible package must compensate poorer households for the higher cost of living while maintaining incentives to work for low and middle-income workers – the people whose work decisions are most sensitive to tax rates.
And in the era of tight budgets, there will need to be a fiscal pay-off for both Commonwealth and state governments to get them to the negotiating table. The days when governments could afford to "buy" reform are long gone.
Our recent report for the Grattan Institute, A GST Reform Package, sets out a tax-reform proposal that strikes a balance between economic growth, budget repair and fairness.
Spending about 30 per cent of the additional revenue from a 15 per cent GST on increasing welfare payments would lift full-rate pensions and allowances such as Newstart by about 5 per cent. This would leave two-thirds of low-income households better off – a helpful buffer to ease concerns voiced by the welfare lobby that compensation might be eroded over time.
Committing a further 30 per cent of additional revenue to income tax cuts will allow the government to shave 1 to 2.5 percentage points off the bottom two tax rates, improving work incentives and helping households further up the income scale.
Together the proposed welfare increases and tax cuts would fully offset the increase in GST for most low and middle-income households – those earning up to $100,000 a year. Overall the tax and transfer system would become more progressive. But not everyone can be fully compensated. Promising "no losers" is a sure-fire way to erode any revenue benefits from the package.
A potential sticking point will be how the Commonwealth and states split the remaining 40 per cent of additional revenue. About $5 billion a year is probably the minimum price for state co-operation – this would grow over time with revenue collections and would be enough to make a meaningful dent in hospital spending growth. That would leave another $5 billion to reduce the Commonwealth's budget deficit, or to pay for other tax cuts that will promote economic growth.
The other sticking point will be how to rearrange payments from the Commonwealth to the states. Most states will want to keep all the GST revenue. If they agree to the Commonwealth keeping a share, history suggests the Commonwealth will unilaterally decide to take a bigger share at some point in the future.
To make the books balance, the Commonwealth would have to treat the additional GST money as a substitute for the grants now earmarked for hospitals or independent schools. Lobby groups are unlikely to be happy about states having more freedom to change priorities in these areas.
An extended tax debate might not be everyone's idea of a fun way to spend a sunny Friday in December, but it's vital that our leaders resolve the current impasse and find common ground.
We think there is a deal to be done that would support economic growth, make the tax and transfer system more progressive, help improve the budgets for Commonwealth and state governments, and even strengthen our federation.
And that might be the best Christmas tax-reform cheer we can hope for.
John Daley is chief executive and Danielle Wood is a Fellow at the Grattan Institute.


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The Long March 7 carrier rocket took off its maiden flight from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on 25th, June 2016, along with CHENZHU's isolator barrier product.
The Long March-7 is a medium-sized rocket that can carry up to 13.5 tonnes into low-Earth orbit.This launch is going to include the use of a new type of liquid fuel that is more environmental friendly and less expensive.
This an anther suceesfull CHENZHU's application of Satellite Launch Center in China, including the Jiuquan Launch Center in Gansu, the Taiyuan Launch Site in Shanxi and the Xichang Launch Center in Sichuan.


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Capturing Authentication Properties in Cognos 8
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If you've done much metadata modeling in IBM Cognos's Framework Manager, you're probably aware that you can use attributes of the user from the authentication source (Active Directory, LDAP, etc.) to enhance security, through the use of session parameters and macro functions. Most authentication sources contain a wealth of information about the user. Common attributes include default name, last name, surname, phone number, and email address, All of this can be accessed in Framework Manager, or even in a Report Studio report.
This is great if you need to know something about the current user, but what if you need to know details about all of your users? A couple of examples of where this would be useful are in audit reports (listing report usage), or for email bursting. These session parameters are of no use then, because they only exist while the user is logged in, and only for that session.
One option could be to extract the LDAP (export to a text file) and then transform and load it into your database. If you have a cooperative network security administrator, this may be the cleanest way to go. But if this is not practical (for whatever reason) then you could try capturing the data yourself as users log into Cognos 8.
The basic technique involves creating a database report that all of the users automatically run at login (I chose to use a "Warehouse Status Report"). Then using the Open Session Commands in the data source, running a stored procedure (passing in session parameters) that updates information about the user.
Add Custom Properties to Session Parameters
The default session parameters may work for you (if so, skip this section). But if not, Cognos 8 allows you to add custom properties and map them to your LDAP attributes. This is done in IBM Cognos Configuration on the application server.
- Start IBM Cognos Configuration.
- Navigate to Local Configuration -> Security -> Authentication -> (your authentication source).
- Scroll down to the bottom of the list and edit the Custom Properties.
- Add any custom properties you may need, including the name of the LDAP attribute that it maps to.
- Click OK to save the custom properties.
- Click the Save button to save your configuration changes.
- Stop, and then restart Cognos 8 to apply the changes.
Storing the User Information
The first thing you'll want to do is create a table that will hold your user information. I call my table User_Profiles. The example here is in Oracle 10g, but it should be easy to adopt this to your database.
CREATE TABLE USER_PROFILES( USER_NAME varchar2(256) PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, DEFAULT_NAME varchar2(256), GIVEN_NAME varchar2(256), SURNAME varchar2(256), DEPARTMENT_NAME varchar2(256), OFFICE_NAME varchar2(256), STATE_NAME varchar2(256), BUSINESS_PHONE varchar2(256), EMAIL varchar2(256), RUN_LOCALE varchar2(256), LAST_LOGIN_DATETIME date ); CREATE UNIQUE INDEX USER_PROFILES_PK ON USER_PROFILES(USER_NAME);
Then you will create a stored procedure that takes in all the session parameters and performs an insert into the table if the user does not exist, or an update if the user does exist (sometimes referred to as an "upsert"). I called mine UPSERT_USER_PROFILES.
PROCEDURE UPSERT_USER_PROFILES ( p_USER_NAME USER_PROFILES.USER_NAME%type, p_DEFAULT_NAME USER_PROFILES.DEFAULT_NAME%type, p_GIVEN_NAME USER_PROFILES.GIVEN_NAME%type, p_SURNAME USER_PROFILES.SURNAME%type, p_DEPARTMENT_NAME USER_PROFILES.DEPARTMENT_NAME%type, p_OFFICE_NAME USER_PROFILES.OFFICE_NAME%type, p_STATE_NAME USER_PROFILES.STATE_NAME%type, p_BUSINESS_PHONE USER_PROFILES.BUSINESS_PHONE%type, p_EMAIL USER_PROFILES.EMAIL%type, p_RUN_LOCALE USER_PROFILES.RUN_LOCALE%type, p_LAST_LOGIN_DATETIME USER_PROFILES.LAST_LOGIN_DATETIME%type ) AS BEGIN MERGE INTO USER_PROFILES USING DUAL ON (USER_NAME = p_USER_NAME) WHEN MATCHED THEN UPDATE SET DEFAULT_NAME = p_DEFAULT_NAME, GIVEN_NAME = p_GIVEN_NAME, SURNAME = p_SURNAME, DEPARTMENT_NAME = p_DEPARTMENT_NAME, OFFICE_NAME = p_OFFICE_NAME, STATE_NAME = p_STATE_NAME, BUSINESS_PHONE = p_BUSINESS_PHONE, EMAIL = p_EMAIL, RUN_LOCALE = p_RUN_LOCALE,j LAST_LOGIN_DATETIME = p_LAST_LOGIN_DATETIME WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT ( USER_NAME, DEFAULT_NAME, GIVEN_NAME, SURNAME, DEPARTMENT_NAME, OFFICE_NAME, STATE_NAME, BUSINESS_PHONE, EMAIL, RUN_LOCALE, LAST_LOGIN_DATETIME ) VALUES( p_USER_NAME, p_DEFAULT_NAME, p_GIVEN_NAME, p_SURNAME, p_DEPARTMENT_NAME, p_OFFICE_NAME, p_STATE_NAME, p_BUSINESS_PHONE, p_EMAIL, p_RUN_LOCALE, p_LAST_LOGIN_DATETIME ); COMMIT; END;
(Note, this stored procedure uses Oracle's relatively new MERGE statement, but there are a number of ways to perform an upsert)
Create a Data Source That Calls the Stored Procedure
Of course, you could use any data source for the report, but I chose to create a new data source just for the login report. The reason for this is, I didn't want to update the USER_PROFILE table every time I ran a report, just when they first logged into Cognos 8.
- Open up Cognos 8 and launch IBM Cognos Connection.
- Click on the Configuration tab.
- Create the data source that will connect to the database containing the data for your login report. This assumes that this is the same database that will hold your USER_PROFILES table and UPSERT_USER_PROFILES procedure.
(You're on your own here)
- After you've created the data source, edit the properties of the data source.
- Click on the Connection tab
- Edit the Open session commands (more on this below*)
- Add a command block that will call the stored procedure, passing in the session parameters
<commandBlock> <commands> <sqlCommand> <sql>BEGIN DW.UPSERT_DW_USER_PROFILES(#sq($account.personalInfo.userName)# , #sq($account.defaultName)#, #sq($account.personalInfo.givenName)#, #sq($account.personalInfo.surname)#, #sq($account.parameters.departmentName)#, #sq($account.parameters.officeName)#, #sq($account.parameters.stateName)#, #sq($account.personalInfo.businessPhone)#, #sq($account.personalInfo.email)#, #sq($runLocale)#, TO_DATE( substr( #sq($current_timestamp)#, 1, 19), 'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS' ) ); END; </sql> </sqlCommand> </commands> </commandBlock>
Why use the Open Session command as opposed to the Open Connection command? Cognos 8 shares connections among it's users. One user may create the connection, but there could be hundreds of reports using that connection before it times out through inactivity. So if you were to use the Open Connection command, only that first user who started the connection would be recorded.
Create the Package and the Login Report
If you've read this far, I assume you know how to create a package, add a query subject to it and develop a report in Report Studio or Query Studio. The important thing to remember her is that this report should be the only place where you use the data source we just created.
Create a Page
I'm also assuming you know how to create pages in Cognos 8. Put whatever you need into the page, but be sure to add a Cognos Viewer portlet to the page, and set the portlet's Entry to the Login report you created.
Make Sure They See the Login Report
There are a number of ways to make sure that your users see the login report (none of them perfect). But if this is a new Cognos 8 installation, it's easy to set the page to be the default tab. This way, each new user will see the page when they first log in.
- Open up Cognos 8 and launch IBM Cognos Connection.
- Click on the Security tab.
- Click on the Cognos namespace.
- Click the Edit Default User Profile button.
- Click the Portal Tabs tab.
- Add the page you created to the list of tabs.
- Click Modify the sequence, and move it to the top.
If this is an existing installation, then the above method will not work as it only applies to new users. Alternatives include:
- Sending a broadcast email to the users with a link to the page.
- Manually going through the authentication source namespace and changing each user.
- I have also heard of third-party metadata managers that can change user portal pages in bulk (sorry, but I have no experience with these).


text: Chantal Goya was born Chantal Deguerre in Saïgon (Vietnam). She came to Paris with her family when she was 4. She met the singer and composer Jean Jacques Debout when she was 18, married him and became a very famous singer for children, sold over 30 millions albums, all written by her husband. Read more on iMDB


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Thornybush Private Reserve sits adjacent to the Kruger National Park in the rolling lowveld savannah. Its near perfect year-round climate makes it an ideal lcation for a family safari, and its populations of the Big Five as well as a variety of other species means you can see all South Africa has to offer in one location. Get involved in the planning of your own Thornybush safari online. Mix and match lodges to create a safari that suits your style and budget.
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100 days from transplanting. The 'Scotch Bonnet' is powerfully hot, similar to the habanero but with a fruity or smoky flavor. Also called the Scotty Bon, or Bonny Pepper, it is named for its resemblance to a Scottish cap. If you like your peppers fiery hot, you will enjoy its citrus, apricot-like flavor that is sweetest when the fruit turns red. Try it in jerk dishes, mango salsa, blended with dark chocolate, or with fruit. 100,000-325,000 Scoville heat units (extremely hot).
This packet yields approximately 24 plants when started indoors.
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When to sow outside: 2 to 4 weeks after average last frost, when air temperature is at least 70°F, and soil temperature is at least 65°F.
When to start inside: RECOMMENDED. 8 to 10 weeks before average last frost. In USDA zones 9 and 10, can also sow in late summer for fall/winter crop.
Harvesting: Harvest when peppers are red. Red peppers are sweeter. When harvesting, take care to avoid touching the interior of any broken peppers, as the capsaicin is an extreme irritant, especially to the eyes. Wash hands thoroughly after harvesting, or wear gloves to harvest peppers
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Our office in Quezon City is an active member of International Web Masters Association and Internet Marketing Association, and has grown highly trained internet professionals, Web Masters, Web Developers, Graphic artist and Internet Marketer who are in touch with where the internet is today, not what it was last year. Between us we have almost 30 years of combined experience available to help catapult your E-Business to category leader status.
With a list of 1000+ happy clients and growing, Marketlink Web Solutions Inc. success can be attributed to the way we work with our clients. From Personalized On-site Consultations at our office which is easy to commute in and out, to meeting at your office after the project is completed to ensure your complete satisfaction with your new website.
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|Berlin Farms
|Fruit, Vegetables, Dairy + Eggs, Nursery + Flowers, Spreads, Specialty, Baked Goods, Pet Food, Fiber, Breeding Stock
|Pickup, Restaurants, Schools, Wholesale
|Berlin, MA
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|Wildwood Farm
|Vegetables, Honey + Maple, Dairy + Eggs, Meat, Wood, Nursery + Flowers, Grains + Feeds, Specialty, Breeding Stock
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|Sleepy Hollow Farm
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|Fruit, Vegetables, Herbs, Meat, Nursery + Flowers, Grains + Feeds, Beverages, Spreads, Specialty, Baked Goods, Breeding Stock, Family Fun
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As the crisp air of autumn overtook the landscape, it was time again for the Brothertown Annual Homecoming. The homecoming is a celebration of tribal and family identity, professed every year since before the start of the 20th century.
This year's theme of "Water Awareness" was by far the most important topic of recent gatherings. It included a sponsored Water Walk around Lake Winnebago a few weeks prior. With the knowledge that our certain demise is imminent if it isn't respected properly, this year's theme was a reverent appreciation of the bountiful gift we all have in the Great Lakes region. This also allowed for discussions on how to keep what we have as well as to help guide the goals that need to be achieved in the future.
To make sure the spirits were properly addressed, the combined color guards of the Brothertown veterans and the Mohican veterans assembled and carried the Eagle Staffs and flags of the two tribes and armed services. Under the always solid sounds of Gee Tae Sae, the Williams family drum and singers worked as a well-oiled machine, understanding protocols and requirements for honor songs and related duties. I would recommend them for weddings, funerals, or any other event where a well-run Big Drum is needed. Gordon Williams Sr. and his wife, Pattie, are truly some good-good people.
The day had a jam-packed agenda that included newly enrolled introduction, Water Walk Honorees, and social dance demonstrations by tribal member Roger Straw. As a craft activity throughout the year, the Brothertown members have assembled shakers. Women wear them upon their legs when participating in the social dances. This equipment and dance instruction was a gift from the Oklahoma Delaware when they attended the national gathering of Lenape, Delaware, Brothertown, and Mohican in 2015 on the Mohican Nation Reserve. Roger Straw sang and led the Duck Dance, he also undertook learning the Bean Dance, and hopes of the Raccoon and Hide or Skin dance are in the future.
Brothertown members worked hard to make this event a success and the true show of community was everyone eating and visiting. I was lucky to attend and see relatives and friends once again bonded to a common cause—the celebration of tribal identity.
With the colors properly retired and the traveling song done, the crowd began to slip out. After a day of friendship, camaraderie, and tribal pride, this gathering called the Brothertown Annual Homecoming wound down.
More importantly, we must understand our personal sovereignty over our own identities, we are Indian and so we must forward this pride to our children and grandchildren.
Larry P. Madden (Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Wisconsin) was born and raised in the Sturgeon Bay area. A recent graduate of CMN, he enjoys the Powwow trail and strives to maintain balance on the red road.


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Add All Your Friends To Facebook Group By Single Click2 min read
Today we will discuss about methods to add all member in Facebook group in a single click. Sometimes we have an account with 5000 or more friends.
Facebook groups are best place for any discussion with your unique choice friends or other members. No one from outside can interfere in group without admin permission means groups are totally different from pages. In pages every person is free to like page. Groups can be secret, closed or public. But the problem we face in groups is that, we have to add all member manually one by one, which is time consuming process. So its not an easy task to add too many friends and you face difficulty while adding them one by one. Don't worry we care about your precious time and effort so therefore here is simplest and easiest way which will help you to add all friends to Facebook group within a single click.
- How To Add All Friends To Facebook Group At Once.
- Steps To Add Friends Using Browser Script
- Steps To Add Friends In Group Using Chrome Extension.
How To Add All Friends To Facebook Group At Once.
So here we have a simple guide for you about How To Add All Friends To Facebook Group At Once in a single click. Make sure you follow these steps carefully. They are quite easy and very convenient to follow.
Steps To Add Friends Using Browser Script
- First of all Log in into that Facebook account whose friends you want to invite.
- Then open your particular Facebook Group in which you want to add friends.
- Now Click F12 button to open debugger and then select console box.
- Now copy script from below given button.
- Copy paste the whole provided code and then paste them into console box.
- Press enter and process will start for sending invitation.
Steps To Add Friends In Group Using Chrome Extension.
In case above script doesn't works for you then another easy way is by installing Google Chrome extension.
- First all download below given extension on chrome browser.
- After downloading and installation, open your Facebook group where you want to add friends.
- Then simply click on visible icon on top right corner of browser to perform this task.
- Without few min process of adding friends will begin.
Note:- Don't worry about anything this script is totally safe. It will not mess with your account, or compromise it's security. But due to Facebook policy, In case you have too many friends then you may get blocked for using groups or even your account may get locked. So be careful about Facebook rules for spamming and socializing.


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Written by: Spencer Greenhalgh
Primary Source: Spencer Greenhalgh
Two of my colleagues, Josh Rosenberg and Punya Mishra, have recently blogged about the value of theories and frameworks, both using the technology integration framework TPACK as an example. I highly recommend both of their posts, and I'd like to spend a little time building on the conversation that they've started. In the 2006 Mishra & Koehler article that I (and 2000+ citations) consider to be perhaps the foundational work on TPACK, Punya and Matt describe theories and frameworks as
conceptual lenses through which to view the world [which] help us in identifying objects worthy of attention in the phenomena that we are studying, highlighting relevant issues and ignoring irrelevant ones
Implicit in this description is an admission that different frameworks are going to provide different lenses that identify, highlight, and ignore different objects of attention. This is inevitably going to lead to some discrepancies.
Let me highlight with an imperfect analogy. I lived in Switzerland for just over a year and, as a result, have a Swiss driver's license and a fair amount of experience with driving in Switzerland. The Swiss have a pretty straightforward system of speed limits. For example, unless otherwise marked, you can assume that the autoroute has a speed limit of 120 kilometers per hour. This isn't a totally foreign concept for Americans: When Kathryn and I used to make the drive from Provo to Los Angeles, I could usually assume the speed limit was 75 miles per hour unless marked otherwise. These speeds are roughly equivalent, but if you do the math, they aren't equal: 120 kph equals 74.56 mph. Now, anyone with a passing familiarity with the metric system and a basic grasp of arithmetic would (rightly) tell you that this isn't a big deal.
However, this started to get weird the first time that I drove in Canada, a few years after my time in Switzerland. I was driving an American rental car (with a speedometer in mph) in Canada (with speed limits in kph), so my lenses were getting a little bit skewed. While there were some kph indicators on the inner ring of the speedometer, I still found that sticking to the letter of the law required me to hold my speedometer's needle at values that didn't line up with a number ending in 5 or 0. Maybe it's just a human bias for round numbers, but that bothered me more than it should have. Even though the two numbers are functionally equivalent and have the same goal in mind (ensuring safe speeds for certain environments), they're just off enough that a number in one lens doesn't make sense through the other.
So it is (or so I imagine) with competing frameworks. When we use TPACK as our lens through which to view the world, we're going to put things in "round numbers": terms that make sense in the terms of the TPACK framework. An alternative framework might notice many of the same things and even come to some similar conclusions, but the findings are going to be just different enough to be weird for someone used to the first framework. This isn't necessarily a problem — 75mph and 120kph (presumably) do equally good jobs of keeping people safe on the highway — but it's something to be aware of when looking through different lenses.
Mishra, P., & Koehler, M. (2006). Technological pedagogical content knowledge: A framework for teacher knowledge. Teachers College Record, 106, 1017-1054.
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If you're thinking that this may be the year to make the commitment to residential independence, it's time to stop thinking and start acting. You are not the only person who has a lease that is scheduled to renew in April or May, and you aren't the only one who is unhappy about the rent increase that will be coming along with a commitment to another year of temporary housing.
Just like the airport the evening before Thanksgiving, the market will soon be filled with folks just like you, all trying to find the best entry level home value. Like you, the others are also shopping on the internet, and like you, they have all found the one place that was deliberately under priced to attract all of you to the planned bidding war. No matter how many homes are listed for sale, there is only one best deal, and you will need to be either very fast or very flexible, or both plus a little lucky if you are going to buy that home.
As substantial as the competition for the best deal is right now, it will continue to increase until it's too late and you have to make Mr. Landlord's day and agree to the rent increase and another year in Renterville. To make residential independence a reality in 2011, you will need decent credit, good planning, and good execution of your plan. One way to begin your efforts is to call me to arrange a convenient time for a home buyers orientation and strategy session. It's free and it will probably be fun and informative -- part of that is up to you. Let's talk.


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Hungarian: from the old secular personal name Rados. Serbian and Croatian (Radoš): from the personal name Radoš, a derivative of Radoslav, composed of the Old Slavic elements rad 'merry', 'joyful' + slav 'glory'.
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Senate president Bukola Saraki has questioned the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) to declare Osun state governorship election inconclusive.
According to the People's Democratic Party(PDP) presidential aspirant, in his 'layman's opinion, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was wrong in declaring the Osun Gubernatorial election as inconclusive because the votes in certain polling units were cancelled.'
Saraki in a statement released on Sunday, explained that 'the decision of INEC to cancel the election in those areas after voting had taken place, means that INEC had already excluded the votes in these areas from the election process and therefore those units should have no place in the overall results.'
The Senate president said his opinion would have been different, if the election in the affected units did not take place at all, may be as a result of malfunctioning of the card readers or unavailability of the electoral materials.
Saraki stressed that, 'because the voting took place and was cancelled, only the courts can reverse the initial decision by INEC to cancel the votes in these areas.'
The Senate president, therefore called the PDP and its candidate to seek further legal interpretation on this decision by the electoral body. He also said he wondered if so, would have been the case, if it was APC that was leading.
One cannot but wonder whether if places were reversed, and the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), was the one leading in the election, if INEC would have taken the same decision that it has taken now, he said.
He also urged INEC to display courage, boldness, independence, neutrality and patriotism so as to send signals to the world at large that the Nigerian electoral system has come of age and that our democracy has matured.


text: Volume 1.33 | Nov 6 Intestinal Cell News 1.33 November 6, 2015 In this issue: Publications | Reviews | Industry News | Policy News | Events | Jobs TOP STORY Polycomb Complex PRC1 Preserves Intestinal Stem Cell Identity by Sustaining Wnt/β-Catenin Transcriptional Activity Researchers showed that polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) activity is required for the integrity of the intestinal epithelium, regulating stem cell self-renewal via a cell-autonomous mechanism that is independent from Cdkn2a expression. [Cell Stem Cell] Abstract | Graphical Abstract PUBLICATIONS (Ranked by impact factor of the journal) INTESTINAL CANCERS & DISEASES The MAP3K ZAK, a Novel Modulator of ERK-Dependent Migration, Is Upregulated in Colorectal Cancer Scientists showed that both isoforms of ZAK, ZAK-α and ZAK-β are key factors in cancer cell migration. [Oncogene] Abstract Inhibition of Caspases Primes Colon Cancer Cells for 5-Fluorouracil-Induced TNF-α-Dependent Necroptosis Driven by RIP1 Kinase and NF-κB Investigators explored the usage of pan-caspase inhibitors to sensitize resistant colorectal cancer cells for 5-fluorouracil. [Oncogene] Abstract Epithelial IL-1R2 Acts as a Homeostatic Regulator during Remission of Ulcerative Colitis Researchers aimed to identify the endogenous regulatory mechanisms that may promote disease remission. [Mucosal Immunol] Full Article N-Glycosylation Profiling of Colorectal Cancer Cell Lines Reveals Association of Fucosylation with Differentiation and CDX1/Villin mRNA Expression Investigators characterized the N-glycan profiles of 25 different colorectal cancer cell lines, derived from primary tumors and metastatic sites, in order to investigate their potential as glycobiological tumor model systems, and to reveal glycans associated with cell line phenotypes. [Mol Cell Proteomics] Abstract | Full Article H2S, a Novel Gasotransmitter, Involved in Gastric Accommodation Researchers investigated the role of H2S in gastric accommodation using CBS+/− mice, immunohistochemistry, immunoblot, methylene blue assay, intragastric pressure recording and electrical field stimulation. [Sci Rep] Full Article IL-10-Producing CD4+ T Cells Negatively Regulate Fucosylation of Epithelial Cells in the Gut Scientists showed that epithelial fucosylation in the ileum is negatively regulated by IL-10-producing CD4+ T cells. [Sci Rep] Full Article Isolation of Human Colon Stem Cells Using Surface Expression of PTK7 Investigators identified stem cell markers that would allow for purification of human colonic stem cells. [Stem Cell Reports] Full Article Unmethylated CpG Motifs in Toxoplasma gondii DNA Induce TLR9- and IFN-β-Dependent Expression of α-Defensin-5 in Intestinal Epithelial Cells The authors showed that α-defensin-5 is rapidly upregulated in intestinal epithelial cells following intracellular Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) activation by unmethylated CpG motifs in DNA from T. gondii. [Parasitology] Abstract INTESTINAL STEM CELL & ORGANOID RESEARCH Radiation-Induced Hyperproliferation of Intestinal Crypts Results in Elevated Genome Instability with Inactive p53-Related Genomic Surveillance The authors determined the genomic surveillance process during crypt hyperproliferation, and its consequential outcome after ionizing radiation. [Life Sci] Abstract REVIEWS Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Strategies for Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease The authors review nanomedicine treatments, such as the use of small interfering RNAs, antisense oligonucleotides, and anti-inflammatory molecules with delivery systems in experimental colitis models and clinical trials for inflammatory bowel disease based on a systematic search. [World J Gastroenterol] Full Article Visit our reviews page to see a complete list of reviews in the intestinal cell research field. INDUSTRY NEWS Mochida Files New Drug Application for MD-0901, a Once-Daily Treatment for Ulcerative Colitis, in Japan Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced that the company filed a new drug application for MD-0901, for the treatment of patients with ulcerative colitis with the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. [Mochida Pharmaceutical Col., Ltd.] Press Release Ironwood and Allergan Initiate Phase IIb Clinical Trial of Linaclotide Colonic Release in Adults with Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Constipation Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Allergan plc announced the initiation of a Phase IIb clinical trial evaluating two orally-administered colonic release formulations of linaclotide in adult patients with irritable bowel syndrome with constipation. [Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc.] Press Release German and US Partners Join Forces in Stem Cell Research to Accelerate Development of New Therapies Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute in California, USA, and two German institutes, the Center for Integrated Psychiatry Kiel and the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, announced a partnership to advance the quality control of human stem cells. [The Scripps Research Institute] Press Release From our sponsor: Learn about mucociliary differentiation of primary bronchial epithelial cells. Watch the video. POLICY NEWS Canada Creates Science-Minister Post Canada's new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, created the post of Minister of Science as one of his first acts. Kirsty Duncan, a medical geographer at the University of Toronto, will be the first to hold the job. [Nature News] Editorial National Institutes of Health (United States) Food and Drug Administration (United States) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (United States) European Medicines Agency (European Union) Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (United Kingdom) Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australia) EVENTS NEW German Cancer Congress 2016 February 24-27, 2016Berlin, Germany Visit our events page to see a complete list of events in the intestinal cell research community. 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Weekend spa break in London from £395 for suite, spa treatments & champagne.
Pioneering a new approach to wellbeing, the Akasha Holistic Wellbeing Centre is the perfect sanctuary to relax and revive. Guests are invited on a guided journey to promote health, happiness and personal balance.Book an Akasha Spa and Stay package at Café Royal hotel and enjoy:
- Overnight stay in a luxurious guestroom or suite
- Access to all facilities within Akasha Holistic Wellbeing Centre
- Two 50 minute Akasha spa treatments
- Freshly squeezed juices or glasses of Taittinger Champagne in Akasha
Facilities in Akasha Holistic Wellbeing Centre include:
- Lap pool
- Sauna, steam room and Jacuzzi
- Treatment rooms including private Hammam, Vichy Shower and Watsu pool
- Gym Classes
The Akasha Spa and Stay package is available from £395 per room per night and includes all taxes, based on double occupancy.
Offer is available subject to availability. Rates are based on double occupancy and are quoted inclusive of VAT at 20%. Offer subject 48 hour cancellation policy. All package elements are applicable per person and once per room, per stay. Stay restrictions may apply. Offer may not be used in conjunction with other offers or negotiated rates.


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Initializing Auto-Start WCF/Workflow Services
Posted by zamd on November 26, 2010
AppFabric AutoStart feature is built on top of IIS 7.5 AutoStart feature. IIS 7.5 provides an extensibility point where you can specify your custom initialization providers which will be executed as part of application start-up and gives you the ability to perform costly initialization. For example, pre-populating an AppFabric cache.
Windows Server AppFabric uses this extensibility point to implement the AutoStart feature for WCF & Workflow Services (XAMLX). As part of AppFabric installation, it registers a custom AutoStartProvider which is responsible for activating all the services configured for AutoStart. Here is a simple flow diagram…
Activation of WCF/Workflow Services results in calling the ServiceHostFactory associated with the service to return an instance of the ServiceHost which would ultimately host the service and make it available to the clients. This behaviour opens up an option where you could put your costly initialization inside the custom ServiceHostFactory directly rather than using the IIS 7.5 extensibility. CreateServiceHost method of your custom factory will be invoked as soon as AppFabric auto starts your service.
public class CustomXamlxHostFactory : WorkflowServiceHostFactory
protected override WorkflowServiceHost CreateWorkflowServiceHost(WorkflowService service, Uri[] baseAddresses)
var host = base.CreateWorkflowServiceHost(service, baseAddresses);
// Initialization logic: Populate AppFabric cache etc..
return host;
In .NET 4.0, a custom ServiceHostFactory can be easily associated with a service using the <serviceActivations> element in the web.config.
Check out my earlier post for additional details…


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Since moving back to the UK from Bangladesh lots of people have asked me what its like to live and travel in a developing country. So I thought I'd put together a handy little guide of tips and tricks I learnt during my time.
1.Have realistic expectations
Doing some research is a great way to set some realistic expectations and get excited for the country your visiting. For me hygiene is the biggest cause of concern, so before flying out to Bangladesh I made sure I prepared myself for having to use squat toilets that are often found outside.
2. Learn the Language
Don't assume people will speak English, especially if you are visiting rural areas in a developing country. I have never had an ear for languages but having daily language lessons really helped me get my head around bengali and got me out of some tough situations including getting detained by immigration! It is also a great way of making connections with locals.
3. Be Wary of Food
Trying new food is one of my favourite things to do when i'm travelling. BUT this is also one of the most common causes of illness when in a foreign country. Although its hard, avoiding street food can be a great help in avoiding food poisoning along with making sure you only eat food that has been peeled or cooked.
4.Be Money Conscious
When your in a developing country your money will often go further than at home. For example, in Bangladesh buying tea and cake for my whole team (10 people) came to $1.34. But when things are cheaper than at home don't let the locals hear your surprise/happiness at the price, this can often cause offence and the price to rise next time your at the market!
5.Prepare for the Worst
The likelihood of anything bad happening is so slim and shouldn't worry you, but do be prepared. From having a first aid kit with you to knowing the embassy number and having travel insurance. When it comes to reviewing your best travel options I have found reviews.com really helpful especially their travel insurance guides reviews.com/travel-insurance/ .


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Salvia hispanica
Salvia hispanica, commonly known as chia (/ˈtʃiːə/), is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to central and southern Mexico and Guatemala.[2] It is considered a pseudocereal, cultivated for its edible, hydrophilic chia seed, grown and commonly used as food in several countries of western South America, western Mexico, and the southwestern United States.[3]
|Salvia hispanica
|Scientific classification
S. hispanica
|Binomial name
|Salvia hispanica
The word "chia" is derived from the Nahuatl word chian, meaning oily.[1]
S. hispanica is one of two plants known as "chia", the other being Salvia columbariae,[3] which is sometimes called "golden chia".
Chia is an annual herb growing up to 1.75 metres (5 feet 9 inches) tall, with opposite leaves that are 4–8 cm (1 1⁄2–3 1⁄4 in) long and 3–5 cm (1 1⁄4–2 in) wide. Its flowers are purple or white and are produced in numerous clusters in a spike at the end of each stem.[4] Chia is hardy from USDA Zones 9–12. Many plants cultivated as S. hispanica are in fact Salvia lavandulifolia.[5]
|Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
|486 kcal (2,030 kJ)
42.12 g
|Dietary fiber
|34.4 g
30.74 g
|0.140 g
17.830 g
5.835 g
16.54 g
|Quantity %DV†
|Vitamin A equiv.
7%54 μg
|Thiamine (B1)
54%0.62 mg
|Riboflavin (B2)
14%0.17 mg
|Niacin (B3)
59%8.83 mg
|Folate (B9)
12%49 μg
|Vitamin C
2%1.6 mg
|Vitamin E
3%0.5 mg
|Quantity %DV†
63%631 mg
59%7.72 mg
94%335 mg
130%2.723 mg
123%860 mg
9%407 mg
1%16 mg
48%4.58 mg
|Other constituents
|5.80 g
|0 mg
|†Percentages are roughly approximated using US recommendations for adults.
Chia is grown commercially for its seed, a food rich in omega-3 fatty acids since the seeds yield 25–30% extractable oil, including α-linolenic acid. The composition of the fat of the oil may be 55% ω-3, 18% ω-6, 6% ω-9, and 10% saturated fat.[6]
Typically, chia seeds are small ovals with a diameter around 1 mm (1⁄32 in). They are mottle-colored, with brown, gray, black, and white. The seeds are hydrophilic, absorbing up to 12 times their weight in liquid when soaked. While soaking, the seeds develop a mucilaginous coating that gives chia-based beverages a distinctive gelatinous texture.
Chia is mostly identified as Salvia hispanica L. or Salvia columbariae Benth.[3] Today, chia is grown and consumed commercially in its native Mexico and Guatemala, as well as Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Northwest of Argentina, Parts of Australia, and the southwestern United States.[3][7] New patented varieties of chia have been bred in Kentucky for cultivation in northern latitudes of the United States.[8]
Nutrient content and food usesEdit
A 100-gram (3 1⁄2 oz) serving of chia seeds is a rich source (20% or more of the Daily Value, DV) of thiamine and niacin (54% and 59%, respectively), and a moderate source of riboflavin and folate (14% and 12% DV, respectively). The same amount of chia seeds contains high amounts (48–130% DV) of the dietary minerals calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus and zinc (table).
Chia seeds may be added to other foods as a topping or put into smoothies, breakfast cereals, energy bars, granola bars, yogurt, tortillas, and bread. In 2009, the European Union approved chia seeds as a novel food, allowing chia to be 5% of a bread product's total matter.[9]
They also may be made into a gelatin-like substance or consumed raw.[10][11][12] The gel from ground seeds may be used to replace the egg content in cakes while providing other nutrients, and is a common substitute in vegan baking.[13]
Preliminary health researchEdit
Although preliminary research indicates potential health benefits from consuming chia seeds, this work remains sparse and inconclusive.[14] In a 2015 systematic review, most of the studies did not demonstrate a statistically significant effect of chia seed consumption on cardiovascular risk factors in humans.[15]
Drug interactionsEdit
No evidence to date indicates consuming chia seeds has adverse effects on, or interacts with, prescription drugs.[14]
Mesoamerican usageEdit
S. hispanica is described and pictured in the Mendoza Codex and the Florentine Codex, Aztec codices created between 1540 and 1585. Both describe and picture S. hispanica and its use by the Aztecs. The Mendoza Codex indicates that the plant was widely cultivated and given as tribute in 21 of the 38 Aztec provincial states. Economic historians suggest that it was a staple food that was used as widely as maize.[16]
Aztec tribute records from the Mendoza Codex, Matrícula de Tributos, and the Matricula de Huexotzinco (1560), along with colonial cultivation reports and linguistic studies, detail the geographic location of the tributes and provide some geographic specificity to the main S. hispanica-growing regions. Most of the provinces grew the plant, except for areas of lowland coastal tropics and desert. The traditional area of cultivation was in a distinct area that covered parts of north-central Mexico, south to Nicaragua. A second and separate area of cultivation, apparently pre-Columbian, was in southern Honduras and Nicaragua.[17]
European usageEdit
Chia is legally considered a novel food in Europe as it does not have "a significant history of consumption within the European Union before 15 May 1997", according to the Advisory Committee of Novel Foods and Processes.[citation needed] In 2009, permission was given to include small amounts of chia in bread products and a consumption limit of 15 g (1⁄2 oz) a day of packaged chia seed was suggested.[18]
Climate and growing cycle lengthEdit
The length of the growing cycle for chia varies based on location and is influenced by elevation.[19] For production sites located in different ecosystems in Bolivia, Argentina, and Ecuador, growing cycles are between 100–150 days in duration.[20] Accordingly, commercial production fields are located in the range of 8–2,200 m (26–7,218 ft) altitude across a variety of ecosystems ranging from tropical coastal desert, to tropical rain forest, and inter-Andean dry valley.[20] In northwestern Argentina, a time span from planting to harvest of 120–180 days is reported for fields located at elevations of 900–1,500 m (3,000–4,900 ft).[21]
S. hispanica is a short-day flowering plant,[22] indicating its photoperiodic sensitivity and lack of photoperiodic variability in traditional cultivars, which has limited commercial use of chia seeds to tropical and subtropical latitudes until 2012.[23] Now, traditional domesticated lines of Salvia species grow naturally or can be cultivated in temperate zones at higher latitudes in the United States.[3][22] In Arizona and Kentucky, seed maturation of traditional chia cultivars is stopped by frost before or after flower set, preventing seed harvesting.[22] Advances in plant breeding during 2012, however, led to development of new early-flowering chia genotypes proving to have higher yields in Kentucky.[23]
Seed yield and compositionEdit
Seed yield varies depending on cultivars, mode of cultivation, and growing conditions by geographic region. For example, commercial fields in Argentina and Colombia vary in yield range from 450 to 1,250 kilograms per hectare (400 to 1,120 lb/acre).[21][24] A small-scale study with three cultivars grown in the inter-Andean valleys of Ecuador produced yields up to 2,300 kg/ha (2,100 lb/acre), indicating that the favorable growing environment and cultivar interacted to produce the high yields.[19] Genotype has a larger effect on yield than on protein content, oil content, fatty acid composition, or phenolic compounds, whereas high temperature reduces oil content and degree of unsaturation, and raises protein content.[citation needed]
Soil, seedbed requirements, and sowingEdit
The cultivation of S. hispanica requires light to medium clay or sandy soils.[25] The plant prefers well-drained, moderately fertile soils, but can cope with acid soils and moderate drought.[23][25] Sown chia seeds need moisture for seedling establishment, while the maturing chia plant does not tolerate wet soils during growth.[23]
Traditional cultivation techniques of S. hispanica include soil preparation by disruption and loosening followed by seed broadcasting.[26] In modern commercial production, a typical sowing rate of 6 kg/ha (5.4 lb/acre) and row spacing of 0.7–0.8 m (2 ft 3 1⁄2 in–2 ft 7 1⁄2 in) are usually applied.[21]
Fertilization and irrigationEdit
S. hispanica can be cultivated under low fertilizer input, using 100 kg/ha (89 lb/acre) nitrogen or in some cases, no fertilizer is used.[22][24]
Irrigation frequency in chia production fields may vary from none to eight irrigations per growing season, depending on climatic conditions and rainfall.[24]
Genetic diversity and breedingEdit
The wide range of wild and cultivated varieties of S. hispanica are based on seed size, shattering of seeds, and seed color.[27][28] Seed weight and color have high heritability, with a single recessive gene responsible for white color.[28]
Diseases and crop managementEdit
Currently, no major pests or diseases affect chia production.[25] Essential oils in chia leaves have repellant properties against insects, making it suitable for organic cultivation.[23] Virus infections, however, possibly transmitted by white flies, may occur.[29] Weeds may present a problem in the early development of the chia crop until its canopy closes, but because chia is sensitive to most commonly used herbicides, mechanical weed control is preferred.[23]
Decorative and novelty usesEdit
During the 1980s in the United States, the first substantial wave of chia seed sales was tied to Chia Pets. These "pets" come in the form of clay figures that serve as a base for a sticky paste of chia seeds; the figures then are watered and the seeds sprout into a form suggesting a fur covering for the figure. About 500,000 chia pets a year are sold in the US as novelties or house plants.[30]
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Courtney Cummz, call your lawyer.
Well, only if you're not the Courtney Cummz who stars in Young Cheerleader Swap 'n' Swallow 2.
If, however, you somehow got through high school as Courtney Cummz and have now discovered someone's using your name as a porno actress, you need to sue.
porn-star mix-up
That's what's happening to one of Ms. Cummz's Young Cheerleader costars, Syvette Wimberley.
Syvette is actually Lara Madden, from Kingwood. You think you're gonna get anywhere in porn with a name like "Lara Madden"? Guess again. So Madden picked a new name. Unfortunately for Syvette Wimberley, her former classmate in Kingwood, she picked...Syvette Wimberley.
Caj Boatright, the real Wimberley's attorney, says the whole ordeal has been "kind of a nightmare" for his client, who is not doing interviews. "Syvette wants this to pass as quickly as possible...her goal is to get her name away from the adult industry," he adds.
"[S]he wanted a name that sounded unique," says Madden's attorney, Kent Schaffer. It wasn't done out of spite, he insists: "If she were doing it to be malicious, she would've made sure that this girl knew she was using the name two years ago when it occurred."
The real Wimberley eventually found out when she started getting weird questions from friends. (How does that go? "Hey, Syvette I saw you in this great double-penetration scene last night! Well, I didn't make it through all of the scene, but what I saw was great!!")
And in case your porno mind is envisioning some sweet young lesbian love affair that caused Madden to adopt the name, forget it: "They were never good friends," Schaffer said. "They were acquaintances."
The Smoking Gun Web site was first to note Wimberley suing Madden; we blogged about it at our Houstoned blog and now it's gone worldwide. Which, ummm, really is serving to ensure that the 99 percent of people who never heard of either of the Syvette Wimberleys will now always associate the name with porn.
"Nobody comes out a winner in this deal," Schaffer says. Madden no longer does porn and Wimberley's lawsuit "has caused her a whole lot of embarrassment," Schaffer says. (As much as starring in Big Cocks 5?)
Yet, Boatright points out, "Movies are still being released or have been since she...allegedly left the business that she [was] in...And there's still obviously tons of content on the web that has that name on it...[the movies] are still very accessible to the public."
The really bad part about the suit is that Schaffer's one of the funnier lawyers in town, but he's playing all this absolutely straight, droning on about what a shame it is that all of Kingwood now knows Lara Madden did dirty movies.
How did the flashy Schaffer end up with a porno star as a client? He says merely that she was referred to him by a fellow attorney.
Lawyer Brian Wice, who teamed with Schaffer on the recent Montrose gang-fight-murder case, says he's not surprised by Schaffer's clientele.
"He obviously is attracted to difficult, high-maintenance women after all, he married three of them," Wice says.
Different Bang
Jim Henley, the legendary debate teacher at Lanier Middle School, wanted to go out with a bang by getting elected to Congress (see "Getting Schooled," November 2, 2006). That didn't happen, but he did manage to go out with a bang of a different type.
Once again he took an eclectic bunch of initially disinterested urban kids, put them up against elite prep schools and he whipped their butts.
Lanier won its fifth consecutive title at the National Junior Forensics League Tournament this month, topping teams from New York, Massachusetts and California.
As always, the adults who were spellbound Henley students years ago came back to help coach. "They volunteered many hours in preparing our team to dominate the debate events and break ahead of the prep schools in events such as poetry, prose and humorous interpretation," Henley says.
(What he doesn't mention, of course, is that it's his inspiration that creates the kind of students who come back to volunteer years after they've left middle school.)
Henley's retiring after 20 years. He'll spend some of his time in Mexico, where he plans to help small coffee-growers form a cooperative to export beans to America.
"I love coffee, and I'll be roasting the beans here in Houston," he says.
He may have some other plans in mind, too. "Everyday, someone encourages me to run for office again," he says.
Maybe this time he'll find a candidate willing to debate him. Then again, probably not.
Tunnel of Love
The Tunnel Mole at our Houstoned blog is the authority on Houston's subterranean pedestrian system, but she's been tied up.
So she hasn't noticed the tidal wave of grinning, eager white folks energetically handing out small pamphlets filled with lightbulb jokes.
Why lightbulb jokes? Because, as the pamphlets go on to say, "All kidding aside, there is a darkness in our lives...Jesus...[yadda, yadda, yadda]."
The folks from a church called The Apple of His Eye have been thrusting these things at passersby like they were Chinese menus in New York.
We couldn't reach the head of this effort, but the church's Web site offers updates on the project. They've given away 16,000 pamphlets. "We continue to encounter opposition from people that call themselves believers and from some of the authorities," the Web site says.
They seem to be a little obsessed with Jews. "There will be much follow-up many of the believers we are meeting have unbelieving Jewish friends," the site says.
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It's not that they hate the Jews, mind you. They even include a Jewish-mother lightbulb joke (Answer to "how many, etc": "None. I'll sit in the dark. I'll be fine. Don't worry about me!")
So hey, all you Christ-killers head down to the tunnels and make some new friends!! You guys love jokes, right?
Tales from the BBB
There are a million sad stories in the files of the Houston chapter of the Better Business Bureau. Well, maybe not a million, but there are quite a few. And some of them offer religious and moral parables for our time. Like the Houston company known as Gospel Music Store Online. Witness the struggle here.


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As the mid-term elections approach Democrats are pulling out all the stops to portray Republicans as the party of extremism.
CNN on Sunday facilitated the Democrat effort.
During a debate between Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, CNN's Candy Crowley allowed Wasserman Schultz to talk over Priebus.
She said the Tea Party and the Republican Party are extreme. Crowley and CNN helped push this message. "It seems that the Democrats overall message is yeah ISIS is scary, yeah Ebola's scary, but Republicans are a lot scarier." she said.
"Well, that's right," said Wasserman Schultz.
The Florida Democrat made the characterization after Priebus asked if Obama's policies would be on the ballot next month.
Democrats have distanced themselves from the Obama administration and its failed domestic and foreign policy decisions.
Obama loyalists, however, believe the president can energize young Democrats, women and minorities despite his dismal poll numbers.
Republicans need to pick up three seats in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Louisiana and North Carolina to take control of the Senate away from Democrats. Five of those states are in the Republican column with the election a week away.
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💥We just shipped another awesome update! This is a release candidate so please let us know if you run into any issues as soon as possible.
Testing this new release is a wonderful way to kick off the first weekend of March. Things are heating up outside and for 1Password X, wish is especially great for those of us freezing up here in the north. 🙂🔥
Version 1.5.3 is working its way through the Chrome Web Store now and you should have it within a few hours. Once you have your hands on the new version, please let us know how it goes.
Here's the full changelog:
[NEW] It is now possible to generate passwords with pronounceable syllables.
[NEW] You can now start creation of a new item directly from 1Password X.
[NEW] Added Japanese localization to 1Password X.
[IMPROVED] Revamped the Welcome page with links and a video tutorial.
[IMPROVED] Added a setting to allow 1Password X to stay unlocked when the device locks.
[IMPROVED] Added focus styling for the type button, slider, and switches in the strong password generator.
[IMPROVED] Made text padding a bit more visually appealing on rounded buttons.
[IMPROVED] Passwords are color-coded for easier reading.
[IMPROVED] Improved filling of sign in pages when using logins created with older versions of 1Password.
[IMPROVED] Continued to improve credit card and identity filling.
[IMPROVED] Greatly improved filling of generated passwords, especially on change password forms.
[FIXED] Password Generator: Made the password length text input the same width as switches to fix occasional text truncation
[FIXED] Password Generator: The right edge of focus rings is no longer being cut off.
[FIXED] Resolved an issue when filling identity items that did not contain a default phone number.
[FIXED] Can now fill time based one-time passwords (TOTP) on Trello.com.
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Great work on this. Any chance all those improvements come to the "classic" extensions?
@Manaburner: I think it may be a bit problematic to port a lot of this stuff there since it's completely separate and much older. There may be some features/enhancements we can do that for though. Was there something particular that you had your eye on? Otherwise, it's possible that someday we'll have a single extension that will work both ways.
@brenty I especially like the revamped password generator and the possibility, to generate digit-only passwords (aka PINs).
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- 2 cups water
- 2 cups plus 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon plus 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
- 4 cups pecan pieces
- 4 cups vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Combine the water, 2 cups of the sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon of the cayenne in a medium-size, heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon, until the mixture comes to a boil and becomes slightly thick, about 5 minutes.
Add the pecans and cook for 5 minutes, stirring often. Drain the pecans in a colander set over a bowl, shaking off the excess liquid.
Heat the oil to 360ºF in a deep frying pot or electric fryer. Add the pecans and fry until they are a deep mahogany color, 4 to 5 minutes, stirring often. Remove the pecans with a slotted spoon and drain on a platter lined with parchment paper. Stir the pecans so they won't stick together.
Combine the salt, the remaining 1/4 teaspoon cayenne, the cinnamon, and the remaining 2 teaspoons sugar in a bowl. Sprinkle the pecans with this mixture. Let cool. Serve in small nut cups or decorative bowls.
They can be stored in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
Recipe Details
- Source: Emeril's Creole Christmas Cookbook
- Dish Type: Misc
- Cooking Method: Deep Frying
- Effort Level: Simple
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If you have not seen Tanu Weds Manu Returns yet – you are probably living under a rock. The movie is hilarious and super fun to watch. Ofcourse, the movie has its flaws but it is not meant to be taken too seriously anyways. For me, it was a fun reprieve amidst a lot of serious work. After this movie, if someone is to ask me who is my favourite Bollywood actor – my answer would be Kangana Ranaut hands-down. The lady is brilliant. She took all the crap that was thrown her way – broken relationships, jibes by almost everyone at her funny english accent and some second fiddle roles in what I would call B grade movies and turned it all around to give all the leading ladies and men of Bollywood a run for their money.
Don't worry – this is not going to be a movie review blog post. Apart from her amazing acting skills, what I also loved about Kangana in the movie was her styling. The lady brought out the fun, quirky, loud, vibrant, boisterous and eclectic colours of India through her attire. While I thoroughly loved the character of Kusum, the styling of Tanu has left a huge impact on me. And hence I decided to dedicate not one but two posts on my adaptation of Tanu's style. Yes, I am that inspired!
For my first look – I have paired my hot pink palazzos with a blue razor top and denim jacket and a some gold accessories to go along! The result is a colour riot – but I think I have achieved the look that I wanted to create!
Photo Credits: Abhishek Garg
I am wearing:
Global Desi Pink Palazzos
UCB Blue Razor Top
Zara Denim Jacket
Mojris from Jaipur
Sling Bag c/o Baggit
Rayban Aviators
Do tell me what you think of this look and please stay tuned for the second look to the series. Also follow me on Instagram to get daily updates!


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Robert Dane Oliveri (born April 28, 1978) is a former American child actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Nick Szalinski in the 1989 Disney film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, for which he was nominated for a Young Artist Award and a Saturn Award. He reprised the role in the 1992 sequel, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid and the 3D short film, Honey, I Shrunk the Audience! He is also known for playing Kevin, Winona Ryder's little brother, in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands.WIKIPEDIA