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I got the urge to make cinnamon rolls last Saturday and I couldn't stop thinking about them all day. After my 13 mile training run, I certainly felt like I could splurge on cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Sunday.
I think my favorite part about deciding to make something is the search for the perfect recipe. I probably spent an hour browsing cinnamon roll recipes online. I finally decided on a recipe from The Way the Cookie Crumbles. This is one of the blogs I follow regularly and I love her scientific approach. I knew if Bridget had been trying to perfect her cinnamon roll recipe for years, it must be good.
The dough came together really quickly and was so easy to work with. I put it all together and left it to rise while we went out for sushi. After dinner, Brandon and I had fun rolling them out and putting them together. We couldn't wait for breakfast the next morning!
Once assembled, we left them to rise overnight in the refrigerator. It was so nice to get up Sunday morning and have breakfast already taken care of. All I had to do was make the glaze.
Next time, I will probably add a little more salt to the dough. For whatever reason, I like well-salted baked goods – especially anything bread-like. I would also add more butter in the cinnamon filling. And last, I think I'd do more of a cream cheese glaze. I added more than the recipe called for but I still would have liked more. It's all up to your taste!
All in all, the texture of the roll was amazing. This is a really easy dough to work with and a great treat for a weekend morning.
Cinnamon Rolls
(Recipe from The Way the Cookie Crumbles)
½ cup whole milk
7 tbsp unsalted butter (I used salted and left out the 1 1/2 tsp salt, next time I will still add the salt)
½ cup warm water (about 110-115 degrees)
1 envelope (2¼ teaspoons yeast)
¼ cup (1¾ ounce) sugar
1 large egg, plus 2 large egg yolks
1 ½ tsp salt
4-4 ½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting the work surface
¾ cup packed (5¼ ounces) light brown sugar
2 tbsp ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp salt
1 tbsp melted butter (next time I will add a little more butter – maybe 2 or 3 tbsp, to taste)
1 cup confectioners sugar, sifted to remove lumps
2-4 ounces cream cheese, softened (to taste)
½ tsp vanilla extract
1-2 tbsp milk, until you reach your desired consistency
Heat the milk and butter in the microwave until the butter melts. Remove from microwave and set aside until the mixture is lukewarm (about 100 degrees).
In the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle, mix together the water, yeast, sugar, egg, and yolks at low speed until well mixed. Add the salt, warm milk mixture, and 2 cups of the flour and mix at medium speed until thoroughly blended, about 1 minute. Switch to the dough hook, add another 2 cups of the flour, and knead at medium speed (adding up to ¼ cup more flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, if necessary) until the dough is smooth and freely clears the sides of the bowl, about 10 minutes. Shape the dough into a round, place it in a very lightly oiled large bowl, and cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Leave in a warm, draft-free spot until doubled in bulk, 1½ to 2 hours. (Especially in the winter, I like to let my dough rise in the oven. I find that the kitchen is a little too cool. I turn the oven to warm for a few seconds, switch it off and then put the bowl of dough in.)
After the dough has doubled in bulk, press it down and turn it out onto a lightly floured work surface. Using a rolling pin, shape the dough into a 16 by 12-inch rectangle, with a long side facing you. Mix together the filling ingredients in a small bowl and sprinkle the filling evenly over the dough, leaving a ½-inch border at the far edges. Roll the dough, beginning with the long edge closest to you and using both hands to pinch the dough with your fingertips as you roll. Moisten the top border with water and seal the roll. Lightly dust the roll with flour and press on it ends if necessary to make a uniform 16-inch cylinder. Using a sharp, serrated knife, cut the roll in 12 equal pieces and place the rolls cut-side up into a greased 13 x 9 baking dish. Cover with plastic wrap and place in a warm, draft-free spot until doubled in bulk, 1½ to 2 hours. (This is where you have the option of letting them rise overnight in the refrigerator.)
When the rolls are almost fully risen, adjust an oven rack to the middle position and heat the oven to 350 degrees. (If you left them in the fridge overnight, let them come to room temprature before baking.) Bake the rolls until golden brown and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center of one reads 185 to 188 degrees, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, stir the glaze ingredients together until smooth. Glaze the rolls and serve.


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MIT Endicott House began the celebration of its 50th year in the MIT family with the publication of a book about the original families who lived on the estate and the unveiling of a plan to restore parts of the estate's landscaping, which was designed by Frederick Law Olmstead.
Endicott House is now an MIT conference center at 80 Haven St. in Dedham, Mass., with 37 guest rooms. The book about its origins, "A Home on Haven Street" by Christopher and Joseph Nahil, traces the history of the families who lived at the site, beginning with Civil War hero Gen. Steven Minot Weld, who built the original house, named Rockweld. Weld envisioned the 26-acre estate as a private arboretum. H. Wendell Endicott, who built the current house as a French-style manor in the 1930s, continued Weld's tradition of showcasing the landscaped grounds.
Much as they did a century ago, the grounds feature formal gardens, natural gardens, a glacial bowl, carriage paths and one of the first rock gardens in the nation, all set to a dramatic vista of the Charles River watershed. The restoration plan drafted by landscape architects Richard Burck Associates calls for replanting and refurbishing the gardens and paths to bring them back to their original beauty.
Members of the Weld and Endicott families attended an evening gala on Jan. 17, the first of many events planned by General Manager Michael Fitzgerald to mark the anniversary of MIT's ownership of the manor house. Fitzgerald said he was particularly pleased to have the families gathered together for the first time to share their memories of the property.
The book recounts in narrative and photographs the history of the property, including remembrances by Endicott House board member Brad Endicott and his sister, Priscilla, who grew up together on the estate. Rose Weld Baldwin and Kay Weld Bacon, granddaughters of General Weld, also provided their voices and photos for the book.
"A Home on Haven Street" is available for purchase from MIT Endicott House for $24.95. For more information, visit www.mitendicotthouse.org.
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on January 25, 2006 (download PDF).

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WASHINGTON – Consumers are giving a modest lift to the economy.
They spent more on trucks, electronics and building supplies in October to boost retail sales for the fifth straight month.
The gains provide an encouraging start for the October-December quarter. They come just as separate reports show that wholesale prices are flattening and U.S. shoppers are spending more at Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer.
Still, consumers might not be able to sustain their spending growth if unemployment remains high and pay raises scant. And Europe may be on the brink of a recession that could further slow U.S. growth next year.
"The consumer has to come through this holiday season if we are going to get back to more decent growth rates, and the early readings are those households have hit the stores quite strongly," said Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors.
Retail sales rose 0.5 percent from September to October, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. Healthy auto sales helped. Even without autos, sales rose by the most since March.
And excluding autos and sales at gasoline stations, sales rose 0.7 percent, also the biggest increase since March.
Sales of electronics, appliances, hardware and building supplies all benefited from the pickup in spending. Sales also rose at grocery stores, bars and restaurants and health care stores.
A rebound in consumer spending was the key reason why the economy grew at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the July-September quarter. It was the best quarterly performance in a year.
Economists said the October retail sales data suggest that the economy is growing at roughly the same pace in the final three months of the year. Consumer spending fuels about 70 percent of economic activity.
Stronger growth has helped calm fears that the U.S. economy might be at risk of another recession.
Still, economists worry that the spending can't continue at the same pace. Over the summer, consumers spent more while earning less. Many had to dip into their savings to make up the difference.
"Overall, the economy appears to be growing at a decent clip," said Paul Dales, a senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics.
Still, Dales added, "Consumption cannot grow at a faster rate than incomes indefinitely."
Many fear Europe's debt crisis is on the verge of triggering a recession in the region. The eurozone economy grew just 0.2 percent in the July-September quarter, according to the European Union statistics office. It was the second straight quarter of paltry growth.
Most economists say it won't improve in the months ahead. Consumers and governments in Europe are expected to spend less because of the debt crisis.
Tuesday's figures did not include some countries, notably Greece and Italy – two countries that threaten to take down the rest of the region because of their debt crises. Their preliminary figures are due later this month.
One positive sign for the U.S. economy: Inflation pressures are starting to ease, largely because energy costs have declined.
U.S. companies paid less for wholesale goods last month for the first time since June. And excluding volatile food and energy costs, so-called "core" wholesale prices were unchanged.
Lower prices mean consumers will have more buying power, potentially boosting consumer spending. The jump in gas and food prices earlier this year limited the ability of consumers to buy other goods. That slowed the economy.
Auto sales have also rebounded since the Japan earthquake and tsunami. The 0.4 percent rise in October followed a 4.2 percent surge in September.
Purchases of SUVs and trucks offset a loss in momentum for car sales. The natural disasters had disrupted distribution of parts to U.S. factories and made it harder to obtain some popular models.
In the Miami area, auto sales were decent in October and picked up in the first half of November, said Ed Williamson, part owner of two Buick-Cadillac-GMC dealerships.
People are particular about prices and want incentives, such as low-cost leases, Williamson said. Still, he's optimistic that the slow auto sales recovery in South Florida will continue into next year.
"I think things started to get better down here in the summer," Williamson said. "We've just seen pretty good showroom traffic all along. But at the moment we're seeing the most showroom traffic that we've seen all year in the first two weeks of November."
Department stores and specialty clothing shops didn't fare as well in October.
Megan Dunn, a grad student from Philadelphia, said she's limited herself to buying clothes on clearance. But she still goes out for dinner sometimes because she enjoys the time with friends and doesn't mind spending on small treats.
"Eating out is always going to be expensive," Dunn said. "But it's a social experience."
General merchandise stores, which include Wal-Mart and Target, reported flat sales in October after a modest 0.6 percent increase in September.
But Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, reported its first quarterly revenue gain in more than two years at its branded U.S. stores. The retail giant says it did so by focusing on low pricing and by stocking popular brands and products.
The gain is a good sign for the retail industry and the U.S. economy as a whole. Wal-Mart's core low-income shoppers have been particularly hard hit by unemployment, which has been near 9 percent for more than two years.


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If you are reading this from anywhere in California, stop, look in the mirror and say, "I'm a champion."
It's an indisputable claim, because experts say Californians are the worldwide leaders at capturing water.
Our state has its own man-made circulation system — concrete canals and pipes that bring water from faraway mountains to farms and population centers. We're the only place in the world with anything like it.
But, like a lot of champions, we might be getting complacent, cruising to victories over a bunch of easy-to-beat weather patterns.
Because as scientists slowly piece together clues unlocking the region's ancient climate history, they are learning that California's past is marked by stifling, soul-crushing droughts that lasted 30 years or longer and brought complex societies to their knees.
We may already be in what climatologists call a megadrought.
On average, Los Angeles gets about 15 inches of rain each year, according to the Western Regional Climate Center.
In 2011, we got 12 inches.
In 2012, we got 8.
In 2013, we got 2.
And halfway into the current rainy season, we've had less than 1 inch.
The weather has been so dry that state officials announced this month that they won't send any water into the canals of the State Water Project unless rain comes soon.
No one can say for sure if we are in a megadrought. We only know that, at this rate, we'll eventually run out of water.
"You crawl into these things, and you crawl out of them," said Bill Patzert, a mathematician and oceanographer at Jet Propulsion Laboratories who is considered the foremost expert on the interaction between the ocean and weather patterns. "But I can guarantee that we're eventually going to find ourselves in a bad one."
And this is probably not due to human-created climate change, Patzert said. It's just garden variety variation in a climate that is much more erratic than most of us realize, he said.
Just how bad can it get?
By aging old tree stumps in Lake Tahoe, climate researcher Susan Lindstrom found a dry period that lasted an estimated 1,300 years until it finally started getting wetter around 4000 B.C.
And, more recently, an extended dry period that began about 1,050 years ago likely helped cause the absolute collapse of intricate Southwest American-Indian societies.
What's more, a flood in 1605 was so severe it turned the Central Valley into a lake.
The last 150 years of weather represent some of the most peaceful, reliable periods of rainfall in the region's history, concluded paleoclimatologists B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud-Roam, in their recent book "The West Without Water."
Put succinctly, Ingram and Malamud-Roam concluded that we have drastically underestimated the severity of the West's weather.
Using their own research and cross-referencing with other scientists and scientific disciplines, they say California's water supply can turn seemingly on a dime, and then stay changed for long stretches of time.
Those turns are primarily determined by the Pacific Ocean.
Patzert has been trying for years to sound the alarm about the volatility of the West's weather. From time to time, the ocean gets a little colder and then stays that way for decades.
Scientists call it the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. And when the ocean is cold, the jet stream change tends to move north, making for a much drier California.
Any surfer can remember the 1997-1998 rainy season, a time when a warm PDO crossed with warm temporary El Niño conditions. Our part of the Pacific got warm, and huge storms produced some truly legendary swells.
That season, Los Angeles got 16 inches more rain than normal.
"I'm a surfer," Patzert said. "Believe me, that was an extraordinarily warm period."
Around 2000, the PDO flipped, and the weather has since been significantly drier, Patzert said.
In essence, our state depends on five or six big storms, and if we miss a few, things get bad fast, Patzert said.
This year is the absolute nadir. The jet stream has taken a route that completely pushes the weather around California while freezing the East Coast.
For residents of the Central Valley and Sacramento areas, the dry, brown peaks circling the valley are downright foreboding.
"This year, it really feels scary," said Sue McClurg, a spokeswoman for the Water Education Foundation, which is based in Sacramento. "Unless we have an incredible February or a miracle March, this looks bad."
Most of the state's water eventually runs out of the mountains and passes through McClurg's region before it's pumped into the canals of the State Water Project. That water eventually ends up going to farmers or to population centers in the Bay Area and Southern California.
Other communities, especially in the Imperial Valley and San Diego areas, get water from the Colorado River.
Los Angeles gets much of its water from the Owens Valley in the eastern Sierra Nevada.
The fourth source of water is groundwater supplies, which are usually replenished by melted snow from local mountains, which is the case in the San Gabriel Valley and much of the Inland Empire.
With no Sierra Nevada water available, it looks like most communities are going to have to survive the year with supplies from reservoirs and aquifers.
"People are getting really nervous up here," McClurg said.
Unpredictable supply
To one economist, the takeaway from all of this is easy — the water supply is unpredictable, and therefore water prices will rise.
Economist David Zetland has dedicated much of his career — and a lot of his free time — to studying the way California pays for water. He runs a blog, aguanomics.com, and he argues that the price of water should be related to its availability.
"The water we use now is subsidized," he said. "It's subsidized by the future, by the ecosystem, and by other things."
He's writing a book on the subject, "Living With Water Scarcity," which is scheduled to be published this year.
California will have to use less water, and the easiest way to cause that is to raise the price, which would immediately cut usage and force society to become more efficient, Zetland argues.
When more precipitation comes and builds up a healthy snowpack, the price should go back down, he said.
Instead, water agencies will propose what Zetland considers to be inefficient solutions, such as desalination plants and hiring public employees to police water use.
"Every big city in Australia has a desalination plant, and all of them are sitting there, unused," he said.
Zetland and Patzert both agree that Californians could easily cut water use.
"We could reduce our water use by 30 percent without breaking a sweat," Patzert said. "We've got communities up here near Pasadena that look like a rain forest. There's a lot of fat to cut."
Experts guess that our local water districts this summer will likely carry out some emergency measures, such as limiting outdoor watering and banning the washing of cars. That's what happened from 1987 to 1992, during the longest sustained drought in modern California history.
At some point, farmers will end up selling their water because it will net them a higher profit than selling crops, Zetland said.
Food prices could increase, or California could end up exporting much less produce to other parts of the country and world.
All experts agree on one thing: We will probably never run out of drinking water. Farms, factories and ecosystems will all be allowed to fail. But the taps in our homes won't be allowed to run dry.
The effects of a long drought will likely be much more subtle than a Mad Max-esque apocalypse.
Human response
The same group of scientists who dug up information about ancient droughts often work in concert with anthropologists and archaeologists who have also studied how people responded to extremely dry periods.
Researchers think regimes fell as warfare and starvation emaciated ancient cities. Skeletons in the Southwestern United States from periods of drought are marked with higher incidences of injuries from arrow tips and spears, according to anthropologist Pat Lambert of Utah State University.
"Droughts create two things," said Douglas Kennett, an archaeologist who has studied how California's early people responded to climate changes. "An increase in interpersonal violence and an increase in social hierarchy."
Those who can innovate and respond to the change gain an advantage, which can cause a culture to stratify along economic lines, he said.
For instance, groups that made beads used for currency seemed to fare better than other cultures. So did groups near the coast, who depended on ocean fish for food.
Some societies formed more permanent settlements along the most reliable springs and streams.
"Certain communities dominate others," Kennett said.
Other cultures simply disappeared.
So Californians will, with absolute certainty, eventually be forced to make a choice about water.
Zetland said California needs to make sure it can respond to droughts in a way that keeps our state efficient and competitive.
About 20 percent of the state's energy is used to pump water.
If a drought causes a knee-jerk response that couples increased utility prices with increased taxes, businesses will leave to greener pastures in states or countries where water and power are cheap and plentiful, Zetland said.
And California, a champion of water use, will be dethroned.
"Detroit's hope is California's incompetence," he said.


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Yoga is a pathway to happiness. As more and more people have begun to practice yoga postures, some once or twice a week, others everyday, they find that yoga gives them more than a physical workout. It also offers a sense of peace, inner strength, and resilience. It encourages us to live in harmony with nature and to choose actions that are healthy not only for ourselves, but also for others and the planet as well. Yoga helps us cleanse ourselves physically as well as psychologically and find our inner smile.
But what happens when the peace you experience on your yoga mat is disrupted by life's ins and outs, its ups and downs? How do you take your yoga off the mat and make it a way of life? One way is to practice accepting reality as it is, not as you want it to be.
Have you ever caught yourself wishing that a situation would be different than it is? How many times do you pretend everything is great, hoping the problem will just disappear? Sometimes reality makes us feel uncomfortable or frustrated. Life doesn't always go according to our plan. When we get bad news or fall on hard times, we naturally wish the situation were different. Our unwillingness to face the situation head on, not the situation itself, is what causes us to suffer.
Yoga teaches us that ignorance, in Sanskrit it is called avidya, is not bliss, that knowledge is power. When we avoid reality, it is impossible to deal with the situation. That's when we feel helpless and start to worry. We can make the situation worse than it actually is. Think about the times you have avoided phone calls that you thought might bring bad news, and then worried all night. Or the times you've avoided opening mail you didn't want to read and then tortured yourself all day with what it might contain. Or about the time you avoided seeking medical advice for fear of what might be wrong and suffered needlessly not knowing the truth.
Have you ever bent the truth to avoid a confrontation or tortured yourself with thoughts of what might have been to avoid feeling regret? "If only I had turned left instead of right." "If only I had taken the job I turned down instead of the one I took." "If only I hadn't spent all the money." "If only I hadn't gone on an eating binge, a drinking binge or shopping binge." "If only I hadn't gotten married, had gotten married, had children, didn't have children."
If only I could change reality.
The "If Onlies" are a form of denial and defense against feeling helpless. You are capable of looking at every situation realistically, from the most trivial to the most serious. As unpleasant as certain realities can sometimes be, avoiding, denying or ignoring reality is an energy drain, a waste of time and in some cases, as we see in the Calvin and Hobbs cartoon above, dangerous. Avoiding reality is the cause of our suffering not the reality itself.
To strengthen your resolve to face reality head on, even if you do feel helpless to change the situation, before you begin each day recite the Serenity Prayer: "Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." And then remind yourself, whether you like the reality of your situation or not, – Reality Is Manageable. Knowing this can help you solve whatever problem you face, find your inner smile, and your place of bliss.


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No tripod nor monopod allowed inside the ancient ruins I was pleasantly surprised by my freehand approarch - this panorama still comes out satisfactorily.
The massive pyramid on the right is the Temples of Inscriptions where the remains of the Mayan King Pakal (799AD-?) was once housed - now his body with its much-ornated scrophagus the lid iconography of which depicting what one would interpret as a kind of outer-space travel is now housed in the more modern museum near the entrance.
The unmistakable Tower (Torre) jutting out from the walled building on an elevated platform on the left is where the Palace group is - a maze of interconnecting corridors and rooms that probably serves both administraive and residential purposes.


text: This surprisingly pleasant looking crib is actually a robot, designed to keep babies quiet and happy all night long. Once inside and locked up, the baby is under the robot's care. When the robot senses crying, it rocks gently back and forth. This should allow parents the time to catch some sleep. As pointed out in the article, the $5000 price tag is a bit steep. Especially considering the fact that you can get a much less technologically advanced equivalent for relatively cheap. How many of you hackers have babies? What hacks did you do to get your babies to sleep?


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Indieverse Interview A little over a week ago I sat down with Rubén Lozano and Indieverse to talk about how I got into game development, my lack of process, and my favorite food.
Automatic Conditional Retina Images
Shared this on Twitter over a year ago (!), forgot about it, then needed it recently and had no idea where I had posted it.
JavaScript + mod_rewrite = @2x. For posterity.
Fix Mavericks' Power Button In Mavericks, it seems like merely brushing the power button is enough to put a MacBook to sleep. This fix restores the pre-Mavericks behavior, presenting the Sleep/Restart/Shut Down dialog instead. And here's how to get it to run on startup.
The Designologue Archive Version 4.0 will probably never materialize. I'm okay with that now. But there was no sense in letting all the work I did on it go to waste. So tonight I ripped out all the participation functionality and launched it as a more modern archive. Here's every image I ever designologued.
Is it getting hot in here? Google shutters Reader, the internet warms up to Fever.
iOS Sticky :hover Fix Tweeted this a while back but every once in a while someone asks for this link so, for posterity!
Retro Game Crunch: Primer Less than a week to go on the Kickstarter! One of the things we've been doing to draw attention to the dev journal aspect of the project is this Primer series. So far I've covered tools, getting started with Flixel, loading Tiled levels, basic player controls and camera, collectibles, and threats.
Interview on The Industry Conor O'Driscoll wants to know where I've been, where I am, and where I'm going. So we talk apps, games, and collaboration. And bed head.
Jimjam Jimjam Panic My submission to the Sworcery AV Jam answering soundtrack composer Jim Guthrie's call. Lots of beautiful work in there.
Flag-free US Keyboard Layout
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Kuznetsova, McHale win openers at Indian Wells
Indian Wells, CA – Two-time runner-up Svetlana Kuznetsova was an easy first-round winner Wednesday at the $5.186 million BNP Paribas Open.
The former top-five Russian star leveled Czech Andrea Hlavackova 6-3, 6-1 in 71 minutes on the hardcourts at Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
The two-time Grand Slam singles champion and former top-five star Kuznetsova, the back-to-back Indian Wells runner-up in 2007 and 2008, will face 2010 champion Jelena Jankovic in the round of 64.
American Christina McHale beat Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria by a 6-3, 6-4 margin. McHale went 0-3 in January's swing Down Under, but has gone 5-3 since.
An all-American affair Wednesday saw Mallory Burdette stifle 38-year-old Jill Craybas 6-3, 6-1.
In other action involving Americans, Spaniard Silvia Soler-Espinosa overcame Vania King 6-7 (7-9), 6-2, 6-1, Romanian Simona Halep humbled Lauren Davis 6-2, 6-0, Spaniard Lourdes Dominguez Lino outlasted Grace Min 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 and American Maria Sanchez defeated Russian Olga Puchkova, last week's runner- up in Brazil, by a 6-3, 6-3 margin.
Additional Day-1 wins came for Swede Johanna Larsson, South African Chanelle Scheepers, Russian Ksenia Pervak, Spaniards Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino and Anabel Medina Garrigues, Belarusian Olga Govortsova, Italian Francesca Schiavone, Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko and Shahar Peer of Israel.
Victoria Azarenka beat former champion and fellow former world No. 1 Maria Sharapova in last year's final in the California desert. The two women are this week's top seeds, as current No. 1 Serena Williams is not playing at this lucrative 12-day event.
Other former Indian Wells champs in the field are former world No. 1s Caroline Wozniacki, Ana Ivanovic and Jankovic, and two-time titlist Daniela Hantuchova.
All 32 seeds received byes into the second round.
This Premier Mandatory WTA event will pay its' newest champion $1 million.


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SAN FRANCISCO — Days before world leaders descend on San Francisco for a highly-anticipated climate action summit, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets calling on those leaders to take action to solve the global climate crisis.
Joining cities around the world in the "Rise for Climate" movement, more than 1,000 people gathered early Saturday at Embarcadero Plaza to demand urgent action to reduce the world's reliance on fossil fuels and increase green energy. By the time they marched down Market Street toward Civic Center — banging drums, playing instruments, waving colorful signs and burning incense and sage — the crowd was 30,000-strong. It was likely the largest climate rally on the West Coast, according to organizers.
"We're sending a message to the elected officials and corporate executives gathering for the summit next week that we need equitable, community-led solutions, not profit-driven approaches like cap-and-trade that allow big polluters to buy and sell our right to clean air and a stable climate," said Miya Yoshitani, executive director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network.
Climate change has become a contentious topic in recent years under a president that has denied its existence. Many environmental activists, politicians and leaders have doubled down to spread awareness on the issue, even as the Trump administration looks to thwart conservation efforts.
President Trump didn't publicly comment on the rallies Saturday. But his efforts to roll back environmental regulations and expand offshore oil drilling off the California coast gave extra urgency to Saturday's event and at least one sign depicted a globe topped by a rendering of the president's long, wispy hair: "You can't comb over climate change."
Berkeley resident Aya de Leon said she marched to send a message to elected officials and to people feeling hopeless about whether anything can be done to stop the global warming that is causing extreme storms, droughts and sea level rise around the world.
"Any time people come together like this, it reminds us how powerful we really are," de Leon said.
The San Francisco rally — organized by 350 Bay Area — came just days before thousands of world leaders, environmentalists, celebrities, activists and researchers arrive in San Francisco for a global climate summit Sept. 12-14 spearheaded by the United Nations and Gov. Jerry Brown.
The summit aims to inspire cities, states, provinces, countries and corporations to increase their commitments to reduce the use of fossil fuels, increase renewable energy and take other steps to slow climate change.
On Saturday, Native American and indigenous groups from around the globe — determined to preserve their land and the world's natural resources — proudly stood at the front of the line on the march to Civic Center, where there was music, art, and a resource fair.
Among the speakers was Mirian Cisneros, president of the Kichwa People of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Cisneros was brought to the event by Amazon Watch, an environmental nonprofit.
"I come from the living forest," Cisneros said through an interpreter. "I also come from a people that have fought for years and years against the threat of oil drilling. I am here in this large march with brothers and sisters from the whole planet because we understand that we have to leave fossil fuels in the ground in the Amazon rainforest and everywhere."
Desiree Adams, of Antioch, who is Navajo, said it's sacred that we "acknowledge that we are still a part of this land."
"There are very few of us who will show up and let people know we're still here," she said.
Similar events took place across the U.S. and beyond Saturday, from Brazil to Nigeria, Turkey and India.
Next week's three-day climate action summit is expected to host more than 4,000 delegates from six continents.


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The couple announced the move on social media
Vanessa Bryant filed for divorce in December
They have two daughters together
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant and his wife, Vanessa, say they are calling off their divorce.
And they announced it on social media.
On Friday, Vanessa Bryant's Instagram page had a message reading: "We are pleased to announce that we have reconciled. Our divorce action will be dismissed. We are looking forward to our future together."
Kobe Bryant posted a message on his Facebook page the same day.
"I am happy to say that Vanessa and I are moving on with our lives together as a family," he posted. "When the show ends and the music stops, the journey is made beautiful by having that someone to share it with. Thank you all for your support and prayers."
Vanessa Bryant filed for divorce in December 2011, citing irreconcilable differences.
The divorce filing came nearly 10 years after she famously stuck by him after he admitted to having sex with a woman at a Colorado hotel.
Their marriage was thrust into the spotlight when the desk clerk at a Vail-area resort hotel told police that Kobe Bryant had sexually assaulted her in 2003.
The Eagle County District Attorney filed charges against Bryant shortly after the accusation. At the time, Vanessa Bryant sat by her husband's side as he publicly apologized to her while admitting that he'd had consensual sex with the 19-year-old.
Turning to his wife, Bryant said, "You're a piece of my heart. You're the air I breathe. And you're the strongest person I know. And I'm so sorry for having to put you through this, for having to put our family through this."
Criminal charges against Bryant were later dismissed. He settled a federal lawsuit with his accuser in 2005.
The couple have two daughters together.


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GUANGZHOU, China — The U.S. Embassy in China sent its second alert in two weeks Friday to its citizens over unexplained health issues that have prompted the evacuation of a number of U.S. government employees working at a consulate in a southern city.
The alert urged Americans to seek medical help in the event they suffered any "unusual, unexplained physical symptoms or events, auditory or sensory phenomena, or other health concerns."
The alert comes as a U.S. medical team is screening more Americans who work at the Guangzhou consulate. A previous case in Guangzhou, disclosed last month, prompted the tests.
The incidents have raised fears the unexplained issues that started in Cuba in 2016 have expanded to other countries. China says it has uncovered no information that could point to a cause.
The most recent evacuations followed medical testing that revealed they might have been affected. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said "a number of individuals" had been brought to the U.S. but didn't say how many were affected or evacuated.
Friday's alert called for people to be attentive of symptoms including "dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, fatigue, cognitive issues, visual problems, ear complaints and hearing loss, and difficulty sleeping." It urged them "not to attempt to locate the source of any unidentified auditory sensation. Instead, move to a different location."
The U.S. government has deemed the Cuba incidents "specific attacks" on American workers but hasn't publicly identified a cause or culprit. Most of the incidents were accompanied by bizarre, unexplained sounds that initially led U.S. investigators to suspect a sonic attack.
Asked about the latest incidents, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Thursday that the U.S. had not formally raised the matter with Beijing.
"If the U.S. makes formal contact with us, China will continue necessary investigations in an earnest and responsible manner and maintain close communication and cooperation with the U.S.," Hua said at a regularly scheduled news conference.
China earlier said it had looked into the case announced last month but came up with no clues about the cause of the symptoms.
A U.S. official, who wasn't authorized to discuss the situation publicly and requested anonymity, said the evacuated American government workers were being brought from China for testing to the University of Pennsylvania. That's where doctors have been treating and studying patients previously evacuated from the U.S. Embassy in Havana.
The preliminary findings of the medical reports on the 24 personnel affected in Cuba showed they had sensory and memory problems similar to the brain dysfunction seen with concussions. The Penn team said the patients from Cuba experienced persistent disability though rehabilitation therapy customized for them seemed to help.
Canada in April also ordered families of diplomatic staff in Cuba to return home after mysterious health symptoms were detected in 10 Canadians stationed on the island. Canada said the 10 continued to show unexplained brain symptoms and that "medical information raised concerns for a new type of a possible acquired brain injury."
In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month about the first case in China, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said China had "said all the right things and have demonstrated their willingness to help us identify the vector which led to this medical incident." The China incidents affect one of the most important of the seven U.S. diplomatic outposts in the country. The Guangzhou consulate opened months after the establishment of diplomatic relations between Beijing and Washington in 1979 and moved to its new purpose-built facility in 2013.
It serves four southern provinces with a combined population of more than 204 million and processes more than 1 million visa applications of all types annually. It is also the only U.S. diplomatic installation in China authorized to process immigrant visas and handle adoptions. People working in The Canton Place complex, a few kilometers (miles) from the consulate, said Thursday they were just hearing about the incidents, reflecting a lack of coverage in China's entirely state-controlled media.
Aled Williams, a British teacher at a kindergarten said Thursday that the reports sounded "sci-fi-ish."
"Hard to get my head around how it works," he said. "Better watch myself."
Linda Chen, who runs a coffee shop in the area, said she was mystified as to why only certain people seemed to have been affected in an area known for its comfort and safety.
"For me I feel it's very strange. But I don't feel that there's something to be very afraid of because it's probably a very special case," Chen said.


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The IRS issued proposed regulations governing the availability of net operating loss (NOL) deductions that are attributable to corporate equity reduction transactions (CERTs) under Secs. 172(b)(1)(E) and (h) (REG-140668-07). The CERT rules were enacted in response to the use of NOL carrybacks to finance leveraged buyout transactions and are intended to limit corporations' ability to obtain tax refunds that result from interest deductions from financing used to facilitate those transactions. The proposed regulations explain the application of the CERT rules generally and to consolidated groups specifically and provide three new elections that current and former members of consolidated groups can make.
A CERT is either a major stock acquisition or an excess distribution. A major stock acquisition is a corporation's acquisition, under the corporation's plan or any group operating in concert with the corporation's plan, of 50% or more of a corporation's stock (by vote or value). An excess distribution is the excess, if any, of the aggregate distributions (including redemptions) the corporation made during the tax year with respect to its stock over the greater of (1) 150% of the average of those distributions during the three tax years immediately preceding the tax year, or (2) 10% of the corporation's stock value at the beginning of the tax year.
Once a major stock acquisition or excess distribution occurs, the CERT rules limit the carryback of the portion of an NOL that is a corporate equity reduction interest loss of an applicable corporation in any loss limitation year (the year in which the CERT occurs and the two succeeding tax years). An applicable corporation is a C corporation that acquires stock or whose stock is acquired in a major stock acquisition; a C corporation making distributions with respect to, or redeeming its stock in connection with, an excess distribution; or a C corporation that is a successor to one of these corporations. The corporate equity reduction interest loss is the excess of the total NOL for the loss limitation year over the NOL for the loss limitation year computed without regard to the allocable interest deductions.
The proposed regulations under Secs. 172(b) and (h) explain whether a CERT has occurred, how to compute a corporate equity reduction interest loss, and how to treat successor corporations. They also contain detailed rules for applying these regulations in the consolidated group context: (1) treating the group as one taxpayer; (2) determining the group's three-year average for a loss limitation year; (3) applying the CERT rules when a corporation joins or leaves a consolidated group; (4) apportioning a corporate equity reduction interest loss to members of a group in separate return years; and (5) applying the rules to life insurance and non-life insurance groups. The proposed regulations also provide rules that would amend the loss carryback waivers available to deconsolidating group members.
The new rules will apply to CERTs occurring after the regulations are published as final in the Federal Register, except for CERTs occurring under a written agreement binding before that date. There are separate effective dates for the amendments to Regs. Secs. 1.1502-21(b)(2) and (3) and for Regs. Sec. 1.1502-72(e) (preamble to REG-140668-07).


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Donora-Monessen Bridge being renamed for Stan Musial
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is set to rename a southwestern Pennsylvania bridge after native son Stan "The Man" Musial, the baseball Hall of Famer who played for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Officials do not expect the 91-year-old Musial to attend the ceremony in his hometown of Donora on Friday at 2 p.m.
The General Assembly in November approved renaming the bridge that carries state Route 1077 over the Monongahela River between Monessen and Donora.
Musial starred at Donora High School before a 22-year career in which he collected 475 home runs and 3,630 hits for the Cardinals.
He was the National League's Most Valuable player three times and appeared in 24 All-Star Games, because his career included the 1959 through 1962 seasons, which each had two All-Star Games.


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I just finished watching Anthony Powell's "Antarctica: A Year on the Ice" and having spent over a year on the Ice now (minus 3 weeks for a round trip home) it puts many things in perspective. It's nearly the end of October, and my brain does finally feel like it's returned to a nearly normal operation. I still either "Ummm," blank out, or stutter much more than I normally do, but I feel the winter hibernation has nearly shaken off.
Watching Anthony's movie, listening to people who I know personally, be interviewed and portray in the length of a feature what it's like to be on the Ice for a full year evokes all the highs & lows of my last year. Around WinFly I lost the motivation, subject matter, time, and even the brain power to articulate what's going on in a written way. This is a minor step towards that return, provoked by this documentary that is so much of what has become a part of my life.
It's not just McMurdo that is a part of my life, but timelapses, photography, video, facilitating creativity, and engaging in pushing my own boundaries. Many many things in his film resonated with me, obviously because I harmonize with his sort of a life–both as he was an IT person in McMurdo as I am, as well as being a tech/photo geek–which has made it strange to anticipate it and live it's premier here on the Ice after a year here.
I just lived the scenes he portrayed. I saw the nacreous clouds which entirely blew my mind. I know what it's like to miss the dark, but not the day. I still am impervious to cold in a way that I've never been (as many of you will attest to I hate the cold, but after a winter here I sort of enjoy it now). I empathize when Keri talks about not thinking about things back home you want such as a Chipotle Burrito, or a swim, etc. you just put it out of your mind and adapt to the now (or you go crazy with obsession). I know what it's like to want to both hug the new people, and cringe at the noise they make in the galley making me want to run and hide in my room.
He's done a wonderful job of portraying the life I have just lived over the last year and I'm entirely jealous he's been able to portray it so well. I have a large library of film, photos, and timelapses that I wanted to build into my own memory database, which seems like I'm going to have to repurpose. My jealousy battles with my happiness he's done so well, winning awards and create a successful movie. He's giving us a tool (better than Hertzog's Encounters at the End of the World) to say, this is our life.
There is much he's left out. Some I'm sure was left on the cutting room floor, some he couldn't describe as the NSF would get mad, and others was just artistic license. Of course how would anyone put the 8500 hours of life in a year into a feature length production. Some missed notions, for good or ill left to be further explored in future productions. He only alluded to the ground hog nature of this place. How people really do not have a successful winter. What policy makers have done to this place over 50 years. The struggle of logistics that 10 million pounds (plus several more millions by plane) requires. He alluded to the struggles of relationships both on and off the ice, but this could be a film unto itself. Etc, etc. etc.
I haven't spent 5-15 years on the Ice like many of those in the film. In fact this is technically only my 4th season on the Ice, 3 summers and a winter, with my first summer season 7 years before the next three. If all goes as planned though, I'll have been on the Ice for about 17 months (minus those 3 weeks mentioned earlier). Which is probably the last time you'll hear about someone having done that. (I've been grandfathered in under new rules.) It's a strange and unique accomplishment. I'll definitely be back for another winter in a few years, and for more time on the Ice between here and there, assuming the ghost of uncertainty that looms over the Ice doesn't snatch it away from me. (Such as the idiots in congress.)
I wonder what toll this will take on me, my relationships with family & friends, and how this will change me. Before I moved rooms a few weeks ago, I spent double the time in my assigned room than I had in some apartment leases. My tunnel vision has McMurdo feeling more like home than the foggy memory of my childhood home. Yet, as people like to keep reminding me, I can't live here. No one ever does by law & policy, and nor would I want to. It's a surreal profound existence that is always an amazing physical/personal journey, but with no sense of permanency. How do you portray that to a population that is–generally speaking–pretty settled?
It's some thing for me and for us to ponder in the future along with the possible visions of humanity. I hope to share in furthering the research and culture that the Ice has created, engaging in it's evolution and keeping it useful to humanity's knowledge base. For now, I put one foot in front of the other hoping to keep my body & mind in good shape to finish my work in good order and stay happy & sane. Till next time.
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We have a unique function space available for groups between 10 and 30 or you can even book out the whole restaurant for groups up to 80 people. Whether it's a catch-up, Birthday, Confirmation Dinner, Anniversary or Wedding, we have a beautiful space to suit all occasions.
Function Menus
Laura will work closely with you to design a menu and package specifically for your event. Our tapas menu translates seamlessly into bite sized morsels of deliciousness, perfect for a cocktail party or to begin a sit down dinner. And our Paella's and Lamb shoulder are always a crowd pleaser!
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Impress your guests with desserts to dream about! We can create dessert tables, dessert platters or dessert towers for any type of function. Let us arrange everything so you don't have to worry about a thing!
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Our High Tea is also a popular option for a celebation. We also run our High Tea with Bottomless Prosecco on the first Saturday of each month or if you have a group of 15 or more we will open especially for your event and you will have the whole restaurant to yourselves!
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Why not do something different and plan a cooking class for your next event. You will have a fun experience with your mates, create some delicious food and then have a feast together. You can add drinks to the package as well. Or if you prefer to just focus on the drinks then try a Cocktail Class! Learn to create your favourite cocktails and we'll pair them with our delicious tapas dishes to create a night to remember!
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What's Good about Being Gay?: Perspectives from Youth. J LGBT Youth. 9(1):22-41.. 2012.
Structural Determinants of Antiretroviral Therapy Use, HIV Care Attendance, and Viral Suppression among Adolescents and Young Adults Living with HIV.. PLoS One. 11(4):e0151106.. 2016.
Sexual risk behavior and risk reduction beliefs among HIV-positive young men who have sex with men.. AIDS Behav. 17(4):1515-23.. 2013.
The role of multiple identities in adherence to medical appointments among gay/bisexual male adolescents living with HIV.. AIDS Behav. 17(1):213-23.. 2013.
Resilience processes demonstrated by young gay and bisexual men living with HIV: implications for intervention.. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 28(12):666-76.. 2014.
Prevalence and correlates of substance use among youth living with HIV in clinical settings.. Drug Alcohol Depend. 169:11-18.. 2016.
Neighborhood-level and individual-level correlates of cannabis use among young persons living with HIV/AIDS.. Drug Alcohol Depend. 151:173-80.. 2015.
The Internet's Multiple Roles in Facilitating the Sexual Orientation Identity Development of Gay and Bisexual Male Adolescents.. Am J Mens Health. 10(5):359-76.. 2016.
Interaction Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage and Individual Social Support on Frequency of Alcohol Use in Youth Living with HIV.. Am J Community Psychol. 61(3-4):276-284.. 2018.
HEAVY MARIJUANA USE AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MALE EMERGING ADULTS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS.. J HIV AIDS Soc Serv. 12(1):26-48.. 2013.
FUTURE LIFE GOALS OF HIV-POSITIVE GAY AND BISEXUAL MALE EMERGING ADULTS.. J Adolesc Res. 27(4):449-470.. 2012.
Drugs, Sex, and Condoms: Identification and Interpretation of Race-Specific Cultural Messages Influencing Black Gay and Bisexual Young Men Living with HIV.. Am J Community Psychol. 58(3-4):463-476.. 2016.
Alcohol use predicts sexual risk behavior with HIV-negative or partners of unknown status among young HIV-positive men who have sex with men.. AIDS Care. 25(5):559-65.. 2013.
Age-concordant and age-discordant sexual behavior among gay and bisexual male adolescents.. Arch Sex Behav. 41(2):441-8.. 2012.


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HTC will be glad to see the back of 2012, a year which has been very difficult for the once all-powerful Android smartphone manufacturer, as it saw its market share pummeled into almost nothing by Samsung and Apple. Worse still, it reported its lowest earnings in six years and its share price dropped by 80 percent against its 2010 high point.
The release of the J Butterfly and the Droid DNA showed HTC still has the strength to put out an exciting and technically impressive device though, and CEO Peter Chou seems to have identified the source of its problem prior to this point. He told the Wall Street Journal, "We haven't done enough on the marketing front," which is an area where he says the company's competitors, "were too strong and very resourceful, pouring lots of money into marketing."
He's positive about the future, continuing with, "The worst for HTC has probably passed. 2013 will not be too bad." It's an interesting choice of words, as usually when "things aren't too bad," it means it's still nasty, just not as awful as it could be. As we've already seen, 2012 was really bad, so presumably anything aside from a complete shutdown could be viewed positively.
Marketing 2.0 and Microsoft's backing
So what does HTC have planned for 2013? Peter Chou wouldn't talk about them in the WSJ interview, but we're already aware of its so-called Marketing 2.0 plan, which will be implemented by newly appointed Chief Marketing Officer Benjamin Ho. Details haven't been made public yet, but it could mean the end of HTC's Quietly Brilliant campaign, as it has realized it needs to be much more vocal about its brilliance if it wants to survive.
But for a marketing campaign to be successful, it first needs some products to talk about. We're expecting the mysterious M7 to make an appearance soon, whether it's at CES or MWC, plus a collection of codenames have been leaked recently, suggesting more than a few new devices – including some tablets – are on their way. HTC has been seen chatting with Microsoft too, and in addition to further collaboration regarding Windows Phone 8, we could finally see the company produce some Windows RT tablets, despite early relationship problems.
Peter Chou said that one thing 2012 taught him is the need to, "Act fast and be responsive to market changes," so we look forward to seeing what the newly invigorated and pro-active HTC has in store for the coming 12-months.
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