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MMA Fight Pit, an MMA event based in one of the sport's major power centers, is starting off with a bang when it holds its first event.
"Genesis," the promotion's first offering, takes place Aug. 13 at The Pit in Albuquerque, N.M., and features a bevy of UFC and WEC vets including Houston Alexander (12-6) and Razak Al-Hassan (11-3), among others.
The promotion has also secured pay-per-view deals in the U.S. and Canada. Providers In-Demand, AVAIL-TVN, Dish Network, DirecTV, Bell Express VU, and Viewer's Choice Canada will broadcast the event, which will make it available in 90 million homes.
Also scheduled for the event are former UFC lightweight champ Jens Pulver (24-15-1), who meets WEC veteran Coty Wheeler (14-3); "The Ultimate Fighter 8" bad boy Junie Browning (4-4), who meets Lenny Lovato (8-1); and "The Ultimate Fighter 11" bad boy Jamie Yager (3-2), who fights Willie Parks (4-0).
Alexander has quietly amassed a three-fight win streak in regional competition that includes a second-round TKO of UFC and PRIDE vet Rameau Thierry Sokodjou.
In a previous interview with MMAjunkie.com, the father of six said he is turning a corner in his training and fighting. After a roller coaster stint in the UFC, which saw him rocket to stardom with knockout wins over Keith Jardine and Alessio Sakara and plummet with losses to Thiago Silva and Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson, Alexander said he's a different person from his octagon days.
"There will be days when I look at my old fights; I'm not even the same fighter I was when I was in the UFC," Alexander told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) earlier this year. "I'm a completely different fighter. I know I'm a lot better fighter than any of those losses I've had."
Al-Hassan, meanwhile, is attempting to get back on the winning track after a four-fight win streak in regional competition was snapped this past November.
The matchup, though, sets the stage for fireworks. Both Alexander and Al-Hassan love to stand and strike.
MMA Fight Pit executives believe a star-filled card is the way to stand out from the rest of the regional crowd.
"Having a larger venue allowed us to pursue national level talent, which gives local fighters an opportunity to escalate their careers and allows local fans to see a show unlike anything they've seen before," stated MMA Fight Pit co-founder Torry Crooks in a press release.
The full fight card includes:
- Houston Alexander vs. Razak Al-Hassan
- Jens Pulver vs. Coty Wheeler
- Junie Browning vs. Lenny Lovato
- Jamie Yager vs. Willie Parks
- Tyler East vs. Chris Guillen
- Angelica Chavez vs. Diana Rael
- Conrad Padilla vs. Guy Youell
- Josh Montoya vs. Jason Sampson
- Sean Spencer vs. TBD
- Rocky Ramirez vs. Mark Lujan
For additional coverage of "MMA Fight Pit: Genesis," stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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i just love babies. i love the way they squeak and snuggie themselves right into you when you hold them. and...i love the way they smell. they smell like warmth and love :)
i was able to cuddle this precious baby one afternoon and very much enjoyed my "baby fix."
makes you wonder what she is dreaming about, doesnt it?
{thanks to my mom for making the hat. love you}
Saturday, March 26, 2011
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i just love babies. i love the way they squeak and snuggie themselves right into you when you hold them. and...i love the way they smell. they smell like warmth and love :)
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
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my little missy had the most HORRIFIC morning this morning {remember what i said about mornings at my house?} well, today we witnessed a meltdown of monumental proportions where only the cockroaches should survive.
sometimes mornings, wardrobe choices and being 6 is more than one small body can manage.
to remind me of what my child looks like when she isnt screaming, doesnt have steam coming out of her ears and daggers shooting at me out of her eyes i am posting this picture. :)
she was Selina Gomez for the day. she dressed herself, blasted the music and sang along like a pro.
have a better day, peach. i love you!
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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mornings are absolute chaos in my house. wake up at 6:30am to get out of the house by 7:40am? almost an impossibility. someone is usually dragging a backpack while hopping on one foot trying to put a shoe on, toast crammed in the mouth {breakfast} as we all rush the door at the same time. one of the kids is either crying, fighting or whining. there is always an "uh oh! i forgot...." and i look like a traffic cop waving my arms wildly directing the mob to the car as i bellow, "keep it movin'! let's go, let's go, let's go!"
my children will most certainly grow into old age and all laugh about how they always heard me claim, "hurry up! we are running late!" we are almost never late. lateness is a pet peeve of mine but we certainly cut it close on school mornings.
i could get up earlier, of course, but experience tells me that my children just move slower, i am more sleep deprived and the end result is the same. i have packed lunches the night before, set backpacks by the door before i go to bed, and made all kinds of attempts to get as much done the night before to ease the morning rush. it doesnt help. we are who we are. there are just some things i have learned to accept about my life, embrace them really, and mornings are one of those things. :)
so, after yet another crazy morning, i find myself at my computer sipping my coffee and thinking that i havent blogged in some time. there are no sessions scheduled today. no headshots, newborns, families. there are no orthodontist appointments or doctor appointments. i do not have to be at any of my children's schools for any reason till this afternoon and no one is home sick {i am knocking on the closest thing to wood}. today seems like a good day to blog. i look at the last blog entry and see that the date was november?
wait, what month is this?
i am the poster-child for multi-tasking. change a diaper while cooking dinner and washing the dog? no problem! throw blogging in there and i aparently start smoking from the ears from system overload.
i am not going to word vomit a bunch of reasons as to why i have "gone ghost" {we moved, kiddo #2 had tonsils removed, kiddo #2 was readmitted to the hospital for complications, kiddo #3 came down with the flu, we had a very busy herd of birdz fall/ christmas season, on top of all the nuts and bolts of raising 3 busy bees} but will instead accept the fact that life sometimes gets in the way and embrace the trade-off. my trade off as of the first of the year was to sacrifice a bit of today's to do list so that i can start on tomorrow's.
i dont "do" new year's resolutions. well, i dont usually hold to them anyway. :) this year, however, {and this may seem gushy} i felt that between the jobs and the responsibilities, the schedules and appointments, the day-to-day stuff of a family and business that i was missing the point. taking my kids to the park was always on the agenda...tomorrow. stopping to appreciate the small things required, you know, stopping and there was always too much to do today so appreciating life was on the agenda for...tomorrow. when we did do things, i watched. i took pictures while my kids played. while i was behind the camera, they were 'doing' and i was 'watching.'
so starting in january i took it upon myself to start doing what was on my list for tomorrow.
we fall down in the grass, close our eyes and no one talks. then we listen. what do we hear? at first, only the obvious but after a few minutes i we slow down and hear the small things. once my son declared that the "wind is kissing my skin." we stay on the grass for only a few minutes but it is long enough. we came to a screeching halt and appreciated where we were. we appreciated each other. then we jump back up and start the busy that is our life.
i have stopped carrying my camera everywhere i go when i am with my kids. i miss the pictures that i know i would have captured, but now i am rolling around in the dirt with my little chickens instead of watching them do it without me. i am baking more. i have pulled out the crochet hook, made some things...just for fun! sewing is next. i have made contact with friends, had more playdates and sleepovers, i am coaching my teenager 5 days a week on the track so that she now out paces me by almost 5 minutes every mile. i stop and talk...to everyone. :) i am also very proud to announce that i am the indisputable queen of Wii Just Dance II. really. i am untouchable. it is a gift :) who knew?
my kids think i am hopelessly weird because i hug them all the time and kiss their faces and have water fights in the house. i dance in the isles at the grocery store and engage in random moments of "stop and appreciate." i think 'weird' is just their code word for 'cool and supremely awesome.'
so while this new path i am on definitely takes time away from my list of things to do today, i am hoping that you understand and agree when looking at my sporatic blogging past that it is all a trade-off. that as i sacrifice some of my time from today's to-do list, i dive into my list of things to do tomorrow. and...life is good.
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Just outside Monterey, that feeling sets in. Maybe it's the converging smells of sea and pine, or coming around a curve and seeing that long ribbon of spectacular coast, but there is something infallibly soothing and exhilarating about driving along California's Monterey Coast.
What a perfect place to spend a long weekend. Or a week. You can play golf at Pebble Beach, spend a day at the Monterey Aquarium, browse the galleries and shops in Carmel, or meander along the famous 26-mile coastal drive, with its lovely homes, pounding surf and natural rock sculpture.
Whether you're in the mood for activity or decompression, the Highlands Inn makes an ideal headquarters for a stay on the Monterey Coast. The inn is located right on the coast, situated on a majestic bluff a few miles north of the funky heart of Big Sur and a few miles south of all the bustle and relentless chic of the village of Carmel. At the inn you can eat a fabulous meal, walk the grounds, smell the clean salt air, look out upon an endless vista of sea and rocky coast and know, down to your marrow, that this is how a true holiday ought to be.
To the gourmet world, the Highlands Inn is something of a mecca. Its restaurant, Pacific's Edge, is world renowned for its elegant and creative cuisine, which uses fresh local ingredients, and for its award-winning wine list and incomparable view of the Pacific. Every February the inn gathers together great chefs from around the world and hosts an orgy of gastronomy and fine wine. Twice a day, the chefs bring forth sumptuous meals, and in between stuffings there are master cooking classes, wine tastings, mushroom hunts and tours of local vineyards. They call it "The Masters of Food & Wine," but some local wags refer to it as "Bacchus & Gorge."
Now the Highlands Inn has added a new luxury indulgence to its conception of The Good Life: cigars. The central attraction for the cigar smoker is the Fireside Lounge, probably one of the most congenial spots you'll ever find to enjoy a fine cigar. It is a large, airy room, with a beamed ceiling, a view of the ocean, a big fireplace at either end and usually a high-quality photo exhibit on the surrounding walls. Ansel Adams, who lived a half mile away, frequently enjoyed the inn, and a show of his legendary work was featured early this fall.
The humidor is also first-rate. Matthew Siegel, manager of the Pacific's Edge restaurant, makes sure the humidor is well stocked. His usual selection includes H. Upmann robustos, Macanudo 1988, Partagas No. 10, Puros Indios Presidente and a range of Davidoffs: the Ambassadrice, Special "R," Grand Cru No. 1, No. 2000 and the Aniversario No. 2.
"Business is booming," Siegel says. "We had our best July and August on record." He said the Fireside Lounge has become very popular among cigar smokers, especially on Friday and Saturday nights, when the lounge features jazz pianist Marty Headman and his combo.
The restaurant is quite an experience. The entire structure is cantilevered out over the bluff, so the view of the coastline and ocean is awe-inspiring. (Get there before 6 p.m.; the window tables are first-come, first-served, and cannot be reserved.)
The food is truly exceptional. Many fine restaurants in northern California now offer, as a starter, a grilled portobello mushroom. Pacific's Edge offers a portobello mushroom soup, blended with goat cheese and white truffle oil. Inventive and perfect. I had a lovely grilled sea bass, very fresh and served on a bed of leeks. Another favorite: roast leg of venison, prepared in a red wine sauce with chanterelle and morel mushrooms. Executive chef Cal Stamenov and wine director Mark Jensen offer a fixed price four-course gourmet menu, at $53 per person or $80 with four different wines; the menu changes every fortnight.
Accomodations are pricey, but many of the inn's rooms boast ocean views, spas, living rooms and small kitchens. All the rooms are stylish, spacious and comfortable. Besides, you're on vacation; splurge.
Paul Chutkow, a freelance writer based in northern California, is the author of Depardieu, a biography of French actor Gerard Depardieu.
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Bill Belichick asks a legitimate question: Why can't we challenge everything?
Bill Belichick (right) would like the NFL's officials to get a bit more help. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
There's no question that the 2013 season marked a new low for officiating in general among refs who weren't lockout replacements. Call after call was botched during the season (especially by the often hilarious Jeff Triplette), and though different solutions have been proposed, there's not much in the pipeline that would provide real change. The league has passed a new proposal that would allow a command center in New York City to help officials with replay calls as they're being reviewed, and there's a thought that personal fouls should be reviewed, but the league's continued insistence that judgment calls such as pass interference and fumble recoveries on the field of play can't be reviewed continues to be a source of consternation. As it should be.
Throughout the years that instant replay has been in place, it's been proposed informally at times that all calls should be reviewed on a no-matter-what basis. Former VIP of officiating Mike Pereira, now a rules analyst for FOX Sports, long opposed the idea, perhaps because he didn't want the judgment calls of his officials put under a microscope. Pereira changed his tune a bit when he moved to his new role, saying during an obviously blown fumble call in the most recent NFC Championship Game that he had heard there would be some changes in the offseason. On the play in question it was clear that 49ers linebacker NaVorro Bowman had recovered a fumble from Seahawks receiver Jermaine Kearse, but the call went the other way.
But the NFL's desire for incremental change stops short of an ideal solution for many, and at the current owners meetings in Orlando, Patriots head coach Bill Belichick has put forth the proposal that all penalties should be subject to challenge. Sadly, that proposal -- as well as another that would make personal fouls reviewable -- was struck down.
"I'm not proposing more challenges," he said. "All I'm saying is, as a coach, if you want to challenge a play, I think you should be able to challenge it. And why does it have to be limited to, I don't know, there's four or five pages in the rules book of plays that can be challenged, and now this year there are more proposals to amend that probably because of one or two plays that happened in the league last year.
"I think eventually, each year, there's gonna be some other circumstance, situation that comes up and we're gonna want to add that. I mean it's four to five pages of plays that challenge procedure. Every year it gets amended and it's hard to keep it straight. I can't get it right. We have a coach that's responsible for that on gameday to know exactly … I don't know how the fans could possibly get it right if the coaches can't get it right. For the officials themselves, it's challenging. I think it simplifies it. And I understand it's a judgment call. So, if I throw a challenge on an offensive holding play and they look at it, and they don't think it's holding, I lose the challenge. But if it's an egregious play, I don't see why it should not be allowed to be challenged when it affects the outcome of the game. I think we can find multiple, multiple examples of plays for example where the offense isn't set, that if the officials could look at it, it's very clear that they're not set, that would nullify what subsequently happened.
"If we fundamentally want to try to get the games right and the plays right, then I don't see why they should be excluded. Even though they're judgment calls, but if you're willing to use a timeout on that, I think you should be able to do that. It's not going to slow the game down. It's no different than if you challenged another play. So, I'm not looking for more challenges or anything else, just if you think it was a call that was missed, that you should have the opportunity to have the officials review it. That's all. I don't know if anybody agrees with that or not, but that's the proposal."
Belichick also pointed to the seemingly needless complexity of certain review proposals, which may be one reason for relative delays in replay improvements.
"There is a proposal in there from the competition committee that is like a page and a half long about amending a fumble recovery in the field of play and all that. I mean, it's hard to understand all the circumstances that have to be in place on each challenge process. It's extensive."
As it turns out (and as you might expect) others to agree. Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll was asked about Belichick's proposal by Jim Miller and Pat Kirwan on Tuesday.
"It's interesting that some of the restrictions on what you can challenge go a long way back," Carroll said of the proposal put forth by the man who replaced him in Foxboro. "We could revisit those. Bill makes the point that if it's an egregious error, let's do something about it. Just because it's on that list of crazy things that nobody can remember and you can't challenge, nobody can do it. It could factor into the results of the games being correct, and you don't get any more challenges. It's not like you can challenge 20 things per game. People may think that it could change the way the rhythm of the game goes, but it won't. I don't like replay anyway -- I never have. But if it's restricted as it is, I think there's a really valid point there."
Ravens head coach John Harbaugh also agreed when he spoke to the media at the AFC coaches' breakfast.
"It's our feeling that the technology has caught up with the game in a lot of ways," Harbaugh said. "And sometimes, we lag behind in technology a little bit. But we should come to change totally, and we should do it for the right reasons. It's about time we recognized that when the fans have a better view of the game than the referee does, you give the referee the same view as the fans. They have great ways of doing it, and I tend to agree with coach Belichick in that everything should be reviewed. Work back from what shouldn't be reviewed, not from what should. All we do every year is to add things for review. A play happens like the San Francisco play, and we say, 'Oh, that's a loophole -- that should be reviewed. That's the tail wagging the dog. Everything that can be reviewed should be reviewed, and what that does not include, we should decide how to do it, and whether it goes back to the NFL office. That sounds like a great plan ...
"But make sure the outcome is right, so that when the game is said and done, we're not blaming the officials for the outcome of the game one way or the other. We should be patting the coaches and players on the back. That's where the outcome of the game should be. We have the technology to do that. Don't put the referee in the position where the fans have a better view of the play than he does. That makes no sense."
Currently, the NFL's review system covers scoring plays, pass completions and interceptions, whether a runner or receiver is out of bounds, the recovery of a loose ball out of bounds, a quarterback pass/fumble, an illegal forward pass, forward or backward pass, a runner ruled down by contact, forward progress for a first down, the touching of a kick, football placement and spots, and whether a legal number of players is on the field at any given time.


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(The Root) — Gwen Ifill was sorely missed during the first of the presidential debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Had she or Candy Crowley or even Diane Sawyer moderated Wednesday night's debate, my guess is that one issue that was completely AWOL would have been called into duty: women's rights.
Don't get me wrong — it wasn't Jim Lehrer's job to bring up what some may label a special interest issue, but a female moderator probably would have.
And a less reserved Barack Obama should have.
There were many other political paths the president could have pursued during Wednesday's debate. He could have discussed the unemployment crisis in the inner cities. Or union rights. Or tax returns. He should have brought up the secretly recorded "47 percent" videotape with Romney writing off nearly half of the American voting public. He should have brought up Romney's tax returns. And he should have brought up Bain Capital.
Obama didn't. The president left all those talking points in Chicago in the Prudential Building, where all his campaign strategies are cooked up with those issues as the main ingredients. He didn't even knock down or assertively point out any of Romney's misspeaks — such as the charge that Obama has cut $716 billion from Medicare — or redirections — such as Romney now suddenly bragging about his health care bill in Massachusetts.
So while Romney got a pass, the president got a butt whipping. Unless you are an Obama hater, it was not a sight to behold. It was like watching a real-life mugging in slow motion. And in the process of pummeling the president, Romney gave GOP down-ticket candidates new hope as well.
It wasn't supposed to go that way. All things were unequal until Wednesday's debate, when Romney was finally able make it about the economy — and to do it his way.
Just hours before the debate, Romney's favorable and unfavorable ratings were upside down. According to a Pew poll, 45 percent disliked him and 40 percent thought he was all right, while Republican pols and pundits were busy bad-mouthing him. President Obama, on the other hand, enjoyed a 55 percent favorability rating, with only 42 percent declaring him not their favorite.
And the videotape that surfaced in which Romney wrote off 47 percent of Americans as Obama-loving, government-dependent slackers was hogging the media airways and not helping the Republican's standings. An NBC poll had 55 percent turned off to the quarter-billionaire candidate.
The president was also trending upward in his most vulnerable area — 57 percent of Americans said they believed the economy was getting better.
The downer in Denver changed all that. Romney waged a full-frontal attack on the president with zingers and what comedian Stephen Colbert describes as "truthiness."
Romney's performance was studied and confident. You could see it in his body language. You could see it in his face. You could hear it in his voice.
Obama's was not. The president appeared to be wishing he were out celebrating his 20th-wedding anniversary with Michelle rather than wasting time with Mitt. Obama gave a weak and meek defense of the Dodd-Frank Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. He fumbled as he feebly called out Romney on his claim that he wasn't going to raise taxes on the middle class. He let Romney get away with other flip-flops and distortions. He could have taken the discussion over to contraception and abortion, concerns of particular concern to the women in his base. He didn't.
He failed to speak directly to the one voting bloc that can single-handedly assure his re-election: white women.
With 94 percent of African Americans in the president's camp and less than 1 percent for Mitt, and with Hispanics favoring Obama 70 percent to 20 percent for Romney, the Republican's path to victory is short and narrow.
White men, the majority of whom have been voting in favor of Republicans since the Nixon era, weren't loving Romney but have been hating Obama.
And thanks to the Republican Party's ongoing war on women, there has been a steady erosion of support. Romney has pledged to get rid of Planned Parenthood. The Republican-led House in Virginia passed a bill to invade women's vaginas. The Republican push for a constitutional amendment in Mississippi would have made an egg a person as soon as it is fertilized.
Then there is Republican senatorial candidate Todd Akins' "legitimate rape" position and the Republican House hearing during which Sandra Fluke wasn't allowed to speak, followed up with Rush Limbaugh, the Republican's mouthpiece, calling the law-school student a slut.
The list goes on and on. There have been 916 anti-women bills introduced by Republicans since March. Republicans have been on the wrong side of women's issues, including the right to choose, access to health care, equal pay and domestic violence.
The president could have taken these issues to Romney during the debate. He should have mentioned his signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Violence Against Women Act. He could have reminded the 50 million or so viewers that his two Supreme Court appointments were both women.
Obama allowed himself to get caught flat-footed and passionless. But have no fear: The president is competitive by nature. To paraphrase that clichéd sports defense for the losing team: "Wait till the next debate."
Round 2 is scheduled for Oct. 16. It's a town hall setting, and yes, Candy Crowley is moderating.
Cyber columnist Monroe Anderson is a veteran Chicago journalist who has written signed op-ed-page columns for both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times and executive-produced and hosted his own local CBS TV show. He was also the editor of Savoy Magazine. Follow him on Twitter.
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Interesting AP report of today's meeting between Obama and il Papa:
President Barack Obama and the Vatican gave distinctly different accounts of the president's audience with Pope Francis, with Obama stressing their common ground over issues of poverty and inequality and Vatican officials emphasizing sharp differences over abortion and birth control.
Obama described himself as "incredibly moved" by his nearly hour-long session with the popular pontiff. He said the two spent the most time discussing the plight of the poor and the marginalized as well as regions of conflict and the elusive nature of peace around the world.
The Vatican, in statement shortly after the conclusion of the meeting, said discussions centered on questions of "particular relevance for the church in that country, such as the exercise of the rights to religious freedom, life and conscientious objection" — issues that have fueled divisions between Obama and Catholics in the U.S.
But Obama said those discussions took place with the Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, not with Francis. Issues like contraception and religious freedom, Obama said, "really was not a topic of conversation" with the pope.
"I was grateful to have the opportunity to speak with him about the responsibilities that we all share to care for the least of these, the poor, the excluded," Obama said during a news conference with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in Rome. "And I was extremely moved by his insights about the importance of us all having a moral perspective on world problems and not simply thinking in terms of our own narrow self-interests."
The marked difference in emphasis introduced a perplexing element to the long-anticipated meeting, which the White House has looked forward to as way to validate Obama's economic policies. But in a report on Vatican Radio the day before the meeting, the Vatican signaled that the divisive issues would indeed be on the agenda.
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Nikos Mamidakis, with origins from Chania, Crete, after finishing his studies in Italy, travelled in several places around the world. All the experience he obtained as a child, childhood memories as well as the studying of local products, made him take the decision to offer to the world flavours and homemade recipes that were transferred for many generations till today. In that way, Arodama Company was founded. The name was taken after a legend describing that when the Titans were born, Goddess of Life in an attempt to protect her daughter, Earth, she gave her the tree of Life. That tree gave life to Earth and when a Goddess was born, one twig "Arodamos" was planted onto that tree. Gods used to taste the "ambrosia" of that tree and become immortal. God Ifaistos asked from Goddess Athena to create founts in the area where the tree was, so Hercules could rest after his Labours. Arodama Company started exporting food products and beverages in spring 2014. It has 12 unique products with exceptional tasting characteristics, using pure raw materials, from traditional recipes.
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For visitors, a tour around the villages of Chania is a once-in-a-lifetime experience: the prefecture is literally dotted with countless, traditional housing clusters which, untouched and unchanged by Time, retain most of the characteristics of yore, showcasing strongly those cultural elements that make Crete a land like no other. Cretan hospitality, Crete's distinctive and vibrant cuisine, and traditions handed down from generation to generation, all promise an unforgettable experience. Chania's history is a long and significant one, with a great number of archaeological monuments and extant structures corroborating to Chania's absorbing and varied past. Chania enjoyed great economic power during the period of the Minoan civilization, followed by the Roman, Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman occupation.The city of Chania is the capital of Greece and has preserved its centuries-old historical legacy almost intact. Many have been the scientists, philosophers, poets, and artists who, drawn by the city's magical ambiance at one time or another, turned it into a cultural hub.
Just like the rest of Crete, Chania is inextricably linked to the celebrated Mediterranean Diet. It is a blessed, practically autonomous, land with a vast diversity in its flora and fauna. It is that very diversity which, extending its bounty to Chania, has turned into the very model of the Cretan diet. Wholesome products of the finest quality create the base of the area's traditional cuisine where the flavors of the local dishes' ingredients are not compromised by the excessive use of spices and condiments. The key elements of the Cretan diet are extra virgin olive oil, wild greens, vegetables, legumes, fish, meat, wine, and tsikoudia. To that, a bewildering variety of artisanal cheeses such as Cretan graviera yellow cheese, anthotyro soft white cheese, and mizithra are added. Yogurt and honey come to complete this health-oriented fare which, delicious and wholesome, calls out for visitors to sample it again and again


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This 119-room luxury hotel, located in vibrant downtown Vancouver, BC, occupies the first 15 floors of a 61-storey landmark building, the tallest in the city.Guests at Shangri-La Hotel Vancouver will find luxurious guestrooms and suites decorated in a contemporary Asian style, with many rooms featuring private balconies and stunning views of the city. Visitors can enjoy personalized spa treatments at CHI, The Spa at Shangri-La, or experience Vancouver fine dining with regionally inspired dishes at MARKET by Jean-Georges.For guests with business in mind, Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver offers flexible meeting rooms and professional planning services. These distinctive spaces can also serve as unique venues for weddings and special events in downtown Vancouver.Whether in the city for business or for pleasure, this luxury hotel offers amenities and accommodations in Vancouver that bring to life the unique Asian hospitality, serenity, and caring service that Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts represents. 查看更多
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Kathy Mykleby
WISN '12 News at 6:00 & 10:00' News Anchor/Reporter
Kathy Mykleby currently serves as co-anchor of the weekday 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts.
She has been a mainstay in Milwaukee broadcast journalism, having served as a news reporter since 1980. Her news reports have taken her around the world, covering the return of Iran hostage Kevin Hermening, the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, the massive food drops in Somalia and American efforts to rebuild hospitals in Afghanistan.
In her 30 years of covering news and politics at WISN 12, she has interviewed almost every presidential candidate. Kathy has hosted several of WISN 12's other news-related programs, including "On Assignment" and "Season to Celebrate." She also spent a week in Dallas providing live coverage of the Green Bay Packers leading up to their win in Super Bowl XLV.
Kathy began her news career in 1976, working for KRNA-FM in Iowa City, Iowa, and WKY radio in Oklahoma City. Prior to coming to WISN 12 News, she worked briefly as a news anchor at WVTV-TV in Milwaukee.
In 2011, Kathy co-anchored the newscast that earned the WISN 12 news team an Edward R. Murrow Award for "Best Large Market Newscast." Over the years, Kathy has been the recipient of almost every local and regional award in broadcast journalism, including the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, the Milwaukee Press Club, the Associated Press (AP) and the United Press International (UPI). In 2009, she was inducted into Milwaukee's Silver Circle by the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She also served as 2010/2011 president of the Milwaukee Press Club.
Her human-interest series, "Tuesday's Child," won first place in a national competition by Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America. One of Kathy's proudest achievements is helping to develop the College of Communications Studies program at the University of Iowa, currently ranked one of the top schools in the nation. Her community work has included the Children's Miracle Network Telethon and the Briggs & Stratton Run/Walk.
Kathy received her degree in communications studies from the University of Iowa. A Midwest native, she grew up just south of the border in Glenview, Ill. She is married to a local dentist.
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In Seating Arrangments, Winn Van Meter and his family descend upon the family's summer retreat house on the New England island of Waskeke. His pregnant daughter Daphne is about to tie the knot. Biddy, her mother, is deeply involved in final wedding preparations, and Winn finds himself strongly drawn to one of the bridesmaids, Agatha. Meanwhile, Daphne's sister, Livia, who just terminated her own pregnancy, is trying hard to get over a big breakup with Teddy Finn. And to her father's horror, Livia plans to become a marine biologist rather than a lawyer.
This lovely, slyly humorous novel is brimming with very believable and flawed characters; it captures the insanity, tension, and chaos of a modern wedding.
Winn, an upper-crust, stoic accountant likes things just so. Imagine his consternation when he arrives a day late for the weekend party to find his spiritual retreat taken over by women: his wife and two daughters, three other bridesmaids, and the alcoholic Aunt Celeste, who sees right through Winn's holier than thou exterior to his traitorous heart. During one pre-wedding party with the new in-laws, she follows him up to the widow's walk and warns him, not to ruin Biddy's weekend.
But lust is far stronger than familiar ties or advice. And speaking of advice, Livia receives it constantly from the bridesmaid, from her many times married aunt, and from her father. She's determined to forget Teddy by having a romance with someone new—no matter, that the only available men (so far) are the three brothers of the groom. Don't mess around with your future brother-in-law, the wise bridesmaid Dominique warns her.
Many flashback scenes focus primarily on Winn's life, his strange father who only talked to him in fancy clubs; visits to his mother, who was an invalid all her life; a vivid break-up scene with the woman he almost married after her father denigrated the uncle Winn was named after. The latter occurred during a bizarre billiards game where sinking the eight ball was never the game.
In another flashback, he interrupts his wife during her bath (she's an Aquarius and loves water) with a yellow legal pad—he hopes to write down the pros and cons, especially cons of having a second child.
Shipstead is an astute observer of human foibles. Her dialogue is amazingly fresh and on-target. This wonderful novel will make you forget all your chores and encourage you to find a patch of grass or a hammock, where you can pretend to hear the crashing Atlantic waves and watch renegade lobsters crawl across the sand.
For another island wedding novel, try Richard Russo's That Old Cape Magic.


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You hear this all the time from financial advisors: Get diversification in your portfolio, pronto!
If you're even slightly activist in your investment life, though, diversification can feel like wimping out. Where's the conviction? Why pay attention at all if you own everything at once?
The truth is, you shouldn't be paying attention. At least not at the granular level. Your "money life" does matter — the taxes you pay, saving enough, being smart about spending — but people too often equate that with trying to "figure out" the stock market.
You can't. Extremely well-paid money managers fail at this all the time. They spend 14 hour days seeking out hidden pockets of value and mispriced assets, and they still get it wrong, over and over.
It's a bothersome thought, not being able to "win" at so important a contest. Kind of like standing at the starting line with Olympic athletes, then not even hearing the starting gun go off. It's dispiriting.
So, seeking some kind of protection, we try to diversify, as our advisors tell us to. Here are some of the ways people attempt to do it, and why each is a mistake:
1) "Subtract your age from 100." An oldie but a goodie. So, if you're 40, that's 60% in stocks, 40% bonds. Some calculations use 120, but no matter.
How it works: The idea is to force you to buy at least some fixed income, rather than let it all ride on stocks. Which makes sense in a way, but it's a crude tool.
Here's the problem: Most people take "stocks" to mean their own company's shares in a 401(k), a smattering of mutual funds that might be carrying cash at any moment, and a few common stocks they like for some personal reason. Concentration risks abound. Secondly, you need alternative assets to counterbalance the stocks and bonds mix. That means gold, commodities, real estate and foreign shares.
2) "Diversify in volatile markets." Brilliant. Now, exactly when will the markets be volatile?
How it works: People have precious little interest in diversification when a bull market in stocks is on. In fact, they do the opposite, buying hand-over-fist into whatever is leading the charge.
Here's the problem: There's nothing wrong with making hay while the sun shines, but the chances you'll get out before it turns south are virtually nil. If you have a reasonable mix of asset classes in the form of inexpensive exchange-traded funds (ETFs), you will participate in the runs higher. And if you rebalance periodically, you actually get to keep those gains, rather than watch them go "poof" later.
3) "I can handle a decline." If you're young enough, a fall in the stock market can feel like no big deal. If you're older, it requires an iron will. Retirement money takes years to amass. Watching it rise and fall is hard to do.
How it works: Supposedly, investors are in for the long term. We like to think we're smart enough to recognize temporary setbacks for what they are: Opportunities to buy cheaply.
Here's the problem: Really? Think back to March 2009, when the Dow bottomed. Did you know enough at that moment to invest? Were you out of the market before the collapse first set in?
Be honest. Had you even noticed the declines before opening your quarterly 401(k) statement?
"Fake" diversification is a huge risk to your safe retirement. Probably a bigger risk than one or two ill-timed stock picks.
The way to know the difference is to find out your real rate of return over five or more years. Don't use some big stock index as a proxy. Dig into your statements and look at the dollars in and figure it out, after fees. Your brokerage should offer you a calculation on this, or ask your advisor to do it.
You will find that your return probably rose and fell with the market itself. A truly diversified portfolio would be less volatile in the short run and, thanks to rebalancing, would perform very well in the long.
The reason why is simple: Rebalancing sells off winners in a timely fashion and buys the "losers" while they're cheap. Buy low and sell high.
The way to get that performance is real diversification. It's the only truly free lunch out there.


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Thu 8pm, Wood Green Football
When and Where
Thursday, September 10, 2020Repeats Weekly on Thursdays
ONLINE £4.00 /per person
- Mixed ability friendly game, everyone is welcome. If you see a spot, join the game!
- Meet 10 minutes before kick-off, at Pitch 1. The entrance is on White Hart Ln, N22 5QW, enter and tell the receptionist you are playing with Footy Addicts. Go through the reception and turn left, follow the foot-path around and you will see the 5aside pitches directly in front of you. Head to pitch number 1, where the host will be waiting.
- 3G artificial grass top quality surface
- You can wear boots, No metal studs
- Changing rooms & Showers available
Getting there
- Tube Closest tube station is Wood Green (12mins walk) on the Piccadilly line.
- Bus The W3 bus stops directly outside the venue coming from Wood Green in one direction and White Hart Lane from the other.
- Car Use post code: N22 5QW - Parking cost is 60p for 1 hour and £1.10 for 2 hrs.
Game Play Rules
- Goalkeepers: everybody is playing goalie. We rotate on goal every 6-7 minutes
- 1 hour booking
- You cannot score in the area
- Any kind of aggressive behaviour will NOT be tolerated
- Make sure you are in a mood to have fun & on time
Footy Addicts' Code of Conduct must be respected at all times.
Everyone must play fair, respect their team-mates and opponents.
Pay via Credit/Debit card or PayPal account in order to secure your spot in the game.
You will automatically receive refund only if you honour the game's refund policy
If for any reason you cannot make it to the game you need to modify your RSVP as soon as possible, in order to free your spot. In case you are in the attendance list and you do no turn up for the game, you will be marked as a No-Show.
Late comers will also be marked as No-Show
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Wave goodbye to plastic sandwich bags and cling film with the rectangular bento lunch box by Ekobo. Made from bamboo fibre, the innovative container is ideal for meals or sandwiches on the go. The coral lunch box has a removable divider so you can create two interior compartments to separate food or have one large space. The top of the container doubles up as a plate. The bento box is held firmly shut with a silicone band. Part of the Biobu by Ekobo collection.
Ekobo specialise in the design and manufacture of contemporary homeware made from ecologically-sensitive materials and renewable resources. This colourful collection of eco-friendly tableware and kitchen accessories is made using FSC-certified recycled bamboo fibre and is free from BPA, PVC and phthalates.
Material: Recycled bamboo fibre, combined with a 100% food-grade melamine binderDimensions: H19cm x W14cm x D6.5cmCare Instructions: Top-rack dishwasher safe (excluding silicone band), not suitable for microwave


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Nicasio's start bumped to Sunday
DENVER -- By calling up Tyler Chatwood to pitch Saturday, the Rockies will give right-hander Juan Nicasio an extra day's rest. Nicasio, who has struggled on and off this season, will start Sunday in the finale of the four-game set with the Giants.
Nicasio (3-1, 5.13 ERA) threw six innings in his last start -- the longest he's lasted since his first start of the season. However, he gave up five early runs in a 5-1 loss to the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Nicasio is a power pitcher who is searching for the sharpness that could make him highly effective.
Rockies manager Walt Weiss said the club sees the potential during bullpen sessions.
"Juan is clear as far as the things he needs to work on," Weiss said. "He throws great bullpens. It's a matter of taking that into the game."


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Psapp have been perfecting their art of highs and lows and all the fun in between for six years now. After a few low-key releases they unleashed their debut Tiger My Friend on cult label Arable before graduating to Domino to release their second long player, The Only Thing I Ever Wanted. This was the album that caused all the fun and games – its blend of homemade electronics, meticulously scored elastic bands and heartfelt pop struck a chord with all who heard it because it was life changing in the most marvellous and thrilling way. But when your musical dreams are being fulfilled, when you tour the world, when you can give up your job and hear your music trickling out of cinemas or the telly it can be pretty strange.
This all happened to Psapp.
With everything the pair turn their hand to, they never quite know when to stop. So when joyous hysteria and an unending party resulted in equally huge comedowns they were left exhausted, confused and a little broken by it all. Slowly though, Galia and Carim returned to what they knew was true and magic, and away from the dizziness of life they retreated to their studio to start making sense of all that had happened. The result is their most starkly beautiful album to date -The Camel's Back.
In it you will find an array of monsters, ants and heartbreak, philosophy and folly all wrapped up in glorious production, odd noises and a heightened sense of purpose. There is a real sense of triumph over adversity and whisper it… maturity… about proceedings. Album opener "I Want That" showcases this development, bursting with enthusiasm and brassy squawks while "The Monster Song" is a hugely catchy pop number, life affirming and vast - if Psapp was a Sunday afternoon film this would be the moment when the sun came out and everyone danced in glorious Technicolor. But try listening to "Screws" or title track "The Camel's Back" without getting swept up in an intimacy that is almost claustrophobic in its honesty. The band has a song called "Somewhere There Is A Record Of Our Actions." This sentiment may be true, but it is doubtful that all of them would be as beautiful and insightful as the one left by Psapp.
PSAPP "FACT" SHEET (One is a fib)
• Psapp is Galia Durant and Carim Clasmann.
• Psapp is pronounced "Psapp."
• Psapp have released three albums, Tiger My Friend, The Only Thing I Ever Wanted and now The Camel's Back.
• Carim is a self-confessed studio geek and has worked in Can's Inner Space studio and with Einsturzende Neubauten and Die Toten Hosen. He also has the best pair of ears in London which means people like Voice Of The Seven Woods go to him to master their album.
• Galia is very crafty, and this is why she runs Craft Night where people can go and make things, listen to brilliant bands and enjoy her Dad rapping.
• Psapp have exhibited their illustrations in both Paris and London and do all their own artwork - they've even designed a t-shirt for Airside but still have trouble drawing a decent camel.
• Carim cannot play the recorder, but he is pretty good on the Oud.
• Psapp own a unicorn called Roderick, it likes cheese.
• Psapp have released music on Leaf, Tomlab, Melodic, Arable, Gronland, Wiaiwya, Rallye and Domino.
• Psapp have posed topless in Paris.
• Psapp have fallen apart and put themselves together again several times.
• Psapp have supported Deerhoof in London and toured North America with Jose Gonzales and Juana Molina. They have also played at Pukkelpop, The Big Chill, The Electric Picnic, Summer Sundae and lots of other places big and small, from Brixton Academy to a disused wood factory in Germany.
• Psapp contributed to David Shrigley's Worried Noodles compilation and played live at its launch.
• The video for the single "Hi" was nominated for an MTV Woody.
• Psapp have been awarded three BMI awards for their theme music for "Grey's Anatomy." They keep them in the toilet.
• Galia can be very silly and Carim can be very wise, but sometimes it's the other way round.
• Psapp have, amongst others, remixed Astrud Gilberto and Pram.
• Psapp's instrument collection now fills two rooms and includes water pipes, a family of Casios and Bontempi organs, several egg slicers and is home to Brunhilde the famous mechanical chicken.


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Audio Conferencing for the Skype Generation
Conferencing innovator Vapps offers hi-def sound, 'conference room' paradigm, native Skype connections.
Skype users know that the popular application includes multi-party conferencing capability. But Ben Lilienthal, co-founder and CEO of Hoboken, NJ-based Vapps, Inc. views that as little more than "three-way calling."
If you want real audio conferencing using Skype as an endpoint, Vapps' HiDef Conferencing service can provide itcomplete with the 'in-the-room' audio quality that Skype users are so hooked onfor up to 500 "simultaneous talkers," as Lilienthal put it in a recent conversation.
Indeed, when Skype itself needs to stage a massive company-wide conference (sometimes involving several hundred participants, scattered all over the globe), it uses a HiDef Conferencing 'virtual meeting room.
Part of the reason Skype chose Vapps' solution was that they needed to have call statistics and call controls (which HiDef provides via Web portal) for these events. They also needed to accommodate callers that were using conventional phones, as well as Skype endpointswhich, of course, HiDef Conferencing does.
"Conference calling is a $4 billion-per-year industry," Lilienthal told VoIPplanet.com, and almost all of it happens on phones. We're very much in the conference calling business, but we're also into enabling Skype users to make better conference calls for a fixed cost. As a percentage of revenue, [Skype use] is not a big number right now, but in terms of the future opportunity; we think the sky's the limit."
Note that he said "fixed cost." This is another emerging concept in the conferencing business.
Lilienthal explained: "If you go to [one of the big providers] and want to purchase conference calling services, they sell it to you by the minutesay, for example, 10 cents a minute. So if you have five people on a call for an hour, that's 300 minutes. You'll get a bill for $30 for that call. What we do is say, okay, here's your conference room, and it's X dollars a month."
('X,' by the way, ranges from $25 per month for a 10-party 'room' to $200 per month for a 500-party roomwith unlimited access.)
This drastically changes the way businesses use conferencing, according to Lilienthal. "There are people that will start a conference at 8:30 AM and keep it open all day.with all the endpoints being on Skype. Since we charge a subscription fee instead of per-minute, that opens up a whole new collaboration opportunity for folks.
"Primarily it's a service used primarily by small businessesto collaborate more often, and in higher clarity," Lilienthal concluded.
As an example of a typical customer, Lilienthal offered fellow Hoboken-based SMB, Silverpoint Inc. A provider of Web design and development services for schools, Silverpoint has offices in Baltimore, New York, and San Francisco, which, in turn employ web-design consultants, who need to coordinate daily on their various projects. Moreover, Silverpoint was already using Skype for its internal calling and IM, so a service that accommodated both Skype callers and conventional phone users was a great fit.
"We were spending almost $500 a month on conferencing alone, and our costs were steadily increasing," said Silverpoint CFO Andrew McKenzie. "Now, we're spending a flat $200 a month. And while the cost savings are great, the ability to connect to the conference line in one click with Skypewithout tying up the phone lines, so we can interface with customersis equally valuable," McKenzie said.
Lilienthal pointed out to VoIPplanet, that now Vapps has the HiDef application up and running, they're beginning to add on finishing touches"general usability stuff," as he put it. "My analogy is, we've built the engine and we've built the car. Now we're putting in the leather interior and that sort of thing."
One such touch is the recently released Outlook plug-in that directly links Outlook's meeting planning functionality to Vapps' HiDefConferencing. The plug-in creates a 'Schedule HiDef Conference' button that opens a regular Outlook meeting invite, where users can see availability information for in-company contacts, set the conference time, and send e-mail invitations with the meeting details automatically entered.
Moreover, "we're doing things like adding 800 service," Lilienthal said; "we've added it in Australia, we'll be adding it in Israel."
As to future growth, "What we've found is that mainly, the service is spreading through word of mouth," Lilienthal said. "I wouldn't say 'viral adoption'; just word of mouth."
We plan to stick around and see how things develop.


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Tigers look to get Dirks going at the plate
NEW YORK -- The Tigers began a string of four consecutive games against left-handed starting pitchers on Sunday, when they faced Andy Pettitte. That means Matt Tuiasosopo will have regular playing time for the coming days in left field.
Just as important for manager Jim Leyland, it means his other left fielder, Andy Dirks, will have some time for extra hitting work.
"We've got to get Dirks going a little bit," Leyland said.
Dirks' 0-for-5 afternoon Saturday left him at 7-for-35 with two doubles and two RBIs since July 23, and dropped his average to .245 for the season. His average has bobbed around that point for most of the year, well off his .322 average from a year ago.
One reason behind it might be reflected in the strikeout rate, up to 18.3 percent this year after sticking around 15 percent his first two seasons. His rate of swings and misses is up to 18 percent of pitches compared to 12 percent last year. His rate of called strikes has actually dropped, as has his rate of foul balls and pitches put in play.
"He's struggled most of the year," Leyland said. "I think he really hasn't stayed in the strike zone well enough, for one thing. But we know he's a good hitter. We know what he did last year. You might get expectations a little higher than they should be, but he's a better hitter than what's going on right now, we know that."


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Blood pressure is the force of blood as it moves from the heart through the blood vessels. You can take your own blood pressure reading using a digital monitor. Take readings as often as your doctor instructs. Take each reading at the same time of day.
Wait at least a half-hour after smoking, eating, or exercising.
Sit comfortably at a table. Place the monitor near you.
Rest for a few minutes before you begin.
Place your arm on the table, palm up. Your arm should be at the level of your heart. Wrap the cuff around your upper arm, just above your elbow. It's best done on bare skin, not over clothing.
Make sure your cuff fits. If it doesn't wrap around your upper arm, order a larger cuff.
Pump the cuff until the scale reads 160. If you have a self-inflating cuff, push the button that starts the pump.
The cuff will tighten, then loosen.
The numbers will change. When they stop changing, your blood pressure reading will appear.
If you get a reading that is too high or too low for you, relax for a few minutes. Then do the test again.
Write down your blood pressure numbers. Note the date and time. Keep your results in one place, such as a notebook.
Remove the cuff from your arm. Turn off the machine.


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Wrinkles & Bone Density
Wrinkles can be a natural part of the aging process, and many people will go to great lengths to avoid or cover them, but they could be about more than just one's appearance. In fact, did you know that if you are a woman in your 40s or 50s with significant skin wrinkling, then you could have lower bone density? That's what a new study says.
Of course, more research needs to be done, but this new study that was presented in early June at the Endocrine Society in Boston says that skin wrinkling, including laugh lines, crow's feet and other telltale wrinkles could signal lower bone density and increased fracture risk.
Study researcher, Dr. Lubna Pal, a reproductive endocrinologist at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, says, "This information may allow for the possibility of identifying postmenopausal women at fracture risk at a glance, without dependence on costly tests. Dr. Pal and other colleagues studied 114 women in their late 40s to early 50s who became postmenopausal within the past three years and were not participating in any hormone therapy drugs. If any woman had undergone any cosmetic surgery, then she was excluded from the study.
The researchers scored each woman according to the number of sites with wrinkles and the depth of wrinkles on her face and neck. Also, using a durometer, the scientists measured the women's skin firmness, while also measuring their bone densities by using an X-ray analysis.
The result? The scientists found that women with worse skin wrinkling had lower bone density than women with smoother skin—faces and necks—with firmer skin in those areas associated with greater bone density. Interestingly, this relationship between wrinkles and bone density was consistent in all of the bones the scientists tested, including the hip, lumbar spine and heel. These results were also independent of age, percentage of body fat and other factors known to influence bone density, said Pal.
It's no wonder there is this correlation, though. Skin and bones have "building blocks" in common—a group of proteins called collagens. As a person ages, changes in those collagen levels can lead to sagging skin, skin wrinkling as well as bone deterioration, says Pal.
Pal concludes, "Ultimately, we want to know if intensity of skin wrinkles can allow identification of women who are more likely to fracture a bone, especially the femoral neck (the uppermost part of the thighbone that, when fractured, often results in surgery) or the hip, an often fatal injury in older people," she said. If this is the case, then including the study of skin wrinkles with other clinical risk factors may allow doctors to identify those at risk even without more costly technology."
So, if you're a woman in her 40s to 50s, you may want to take a good look in the mirror. What you see on your skin could tell you about your bone health.
This information is intended for educational and informational purposes only. It should not be used in place of an individual consultation or examination or replace the advice of your health care professional and should not be relied upon to determine diagnosis or course of treatment.


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January: Create the Life You Want
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May: Finding Wholeness & Healing
June: Yogic Numerology & the Ten Bodies of Light
September: Get Grounded, Calm, and Strong
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January: 3HO's 50th Anniversary
February: Opening the Heart to Greater Love
April: The Spiritual Warrior—Courage, Integrity and Grace
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June: Karma vs Dharma—Choose Your Path
July: Transform Your Anger to Your Purpose
August: What to do When You are in Crisis - A Personal SOS Guide
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November: Surround Yourself with Protection
December: Access Your Inner Guidance
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April: Sadhana Makes You Crystal Clear
May: Tantric Numerology & the Ten Bodies
June: Prana—The Sacred Breath of Life
July: Sending Love, Light, and Healing Across Time and Space
September: Bring Peace into Your Heart, Your Home, Our World
October: Staying Calm in Chaotic Times
December: The Healing Power of Deep Relaxation
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February: Unity—Finding Oneness
March: Woman—Creative, Sacred, Invincible
August: From Vision to Manifestation
September: Changing Habits by Rewiring the Brain
October: The Power of Sound to Transform & Heal
November: The Challenges of the Aquarian Age
December: Generous Heart, Generous Spirit
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January #1: Japji—The Song of the Soul
January #2: Coping with Stress and Sudden Shock
February: Loving Relationships (with Venus Kriyas)
March: Deep Cleansing for Body and Mind
April: Shaping Our Future - Our Children, Ourselves, Our Society
May: The 4th Sutra - Understand through Compassion or You Will Misunderstand the Times
June: The Power of Living in Community
August: Finding the Teacher Within
October: Trauma & Addiction Recovery
December: The Miracle of Peace
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February: Love and Family
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April: The 3rd Sutra of the Aquarian Age—When the Time is on You, Start, and the Pressure will be Off
May: The Summer Solstice Experience
June: Celebrate the Summer Season
July: The 3HO Yogic Lifestyle
August: Acceptance & Tolerance
September: Peace and Prayer
October: The Ten Bodies
November: Healing Body, Mind, and Soul
December: The Key to Prosperity
2014 Newsletter Themes:
January: The Aquarian Teacher
February: Selfless Love
March: The Sensory Human
April: Cleansing & the Yogic Diet
June: Summer Solstice and the 2nd Sutra—There is a Way through Every Block
July: Living in Community
August: Spiritual Activism
September: Let There Be Peace
October: The Aquarian Man
November: There is a Way through Every Block
December: Attitude of Gratitude
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January: Healthy, Happy, and Holy
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March: Radiant Beauty
April: The Capacity to Heal
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June: Join Us at Summer Solstice!
July: Sadhana
August: The Three Minds
September: Conscious Communication
October: Open the Doors to Prosperity
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December: Gratitude
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- Yogic Living: Boost Your Immune System
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A software system with an Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is built around the idea that events are the most significant elements in the system and that they are produced somewhere in the system and consumed somewhere else in the system. The business value is that you can easily extend such a system with new things that are ready to produce or consume events that already are in place in the system. Of course, you can add new events as you go.
Yes, this is absolutely great. If you build something new there is no reason why you shouldn't use this kind of architecture. However, focusing on the events is not the only thing you should do.
Instead, you should just build an architecture in which you have components or services and some kinds of "channels" between some of these components. Over a channel an event can flow from one component -- the producer -- to another one -- the consumer. These components are loosely coupled and can exist in a distributed world. Some of these events are such that you broadcast them to anybody that has subscribed to them.
Thus don't constrain your architecture to just be event-driven. There is really no money to save by doing just that. Let it be components with channels. The channels I am talking about were already adopted in the telecom standard SDL back in 1982. In EDA, it is basically a mechanism for brokering events. In the OMG standard CORBA from the early 1990s, it was called the "Event Service". What a coincidence! Actually one way of thinking about EDA conceptually is really that it is all that CORBA was meant to be, but in the Web/Internet world.
The most interesting components are services. You get service-oriented architecture (SOA) at the same time, and more.
However, those of you who think this is fundamentally new have really not done your homework. It is probably true that the three letter combination EDA is new as it was for SOA. We have also got some new great platforms that make it easier to implement these ideas.
Over the years I have seen trends in the component world that put more focus on the components than the channels (and thus the events) between them. Other times it has been the other way around. However, there is absolutely no reason to choose. You should allow for both. But what we don't need are more buzzwords. They don't help us at all.
To summarize, you should go for a component architecture without any compromises. This is what made the Ericsson AXE system such an incredible success story more than 30 years ago. And thanks to its architecture, it is still probably the best selling product of its kind in the world. However, Ericsson had to build its own infrastructure managing components with channels since such solutions didn't exist at the time.
Of course, this is still new to people who have not previously developed a component architecture. Thus those people have to come up to speed and that means training and mentoring. And to start with, you need some good technical practices. It is as easy as that!


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Justice Dept documents describe another gun probe
In a probe of arms trafficking during the George W. Bush administration, a federal prosecutor said it was wrong that law enforcement agents had allowed hundreds of guns to go into Mexico and into the hands of drug dealers, according to documents the Justice Department turned over to Congress on Thursday.
The emailed comment by an assistant U.S. attorney in Arizona to a law enforcement colleague in December 2008 focused on the tactic used in Operation Wide Receiver, an investigation that began in early 2006. The newly disclosed internal Justice Department documents show Wide Receiver had many of the same problems that turned up more recently in a separate, later probe called Operation Fast and Furious, which is the focus of an inquiry by congressional Republicans.
The concerns about the earlier Wide Receiver probe that were expressed in the internal Justice Department documents deal with the law enforcement tactic of standing aside rather than arresting "straw" buyers of illicitly purchased weapons in the hopes that agents can follow the guns and straw buyers to major arms traffickers.
The tactic, known as, "letting guns walk," long has been prohibited by Justice Department policy. But federal agents under both the Bush and Obama administrations, nevertheless, turned to the tactic as a response to long-running criticism that traditional department policies have left arms-trafficking kingpins virtually untouched by prosecutors.
In the more recent Fast and Furious investigation, focused on sales at Phoenix-area gun shops, federal agents lost track of nearly 1,400 of the more than 2,000 weapons they were trying to track. Some of those turned up later at crime scenes in Mexico and the United States.
The Wide Receiver investigation that began in early 2006 proceeded and used the gun-walking tactic despite the concerns expressed by some of the law enforcement personnel involved in it.
"I am no longer comfortable allowing additional firearms to `walk,' without a more defined purpose," a supervisor for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Arizona wrote in a June 2007 email to a federal law enforcement official in Texas about Operation Wide Receiver.
"I think it is wrong for us to allow 100s of guns to go into Mexico to drug people knowing that is where they are going," Assistant U.S. Attorney Serra Tsethlikai wrote in a Dec. 19, 2008, email to another assistant U.S. attorney.
Early in the investigation, prosecutors had enough to charge suspects who had been converting firearms into machine guns, but law enforcement officials decided to wait, according to emails by personnel at ATF.
"We believe at this point there is more value in the surveillance, identification of locations, persons, vehicles," an ATF supervisor wrote in a June 15, 2006, email. An ATF briefing paper on Wide Receiver in August 2006 said the weapons involved in the investigation probably had ended up as "illegally trafficked firearms to Mexico."
Investigative activity went on for another year, then languished at the Justice Department until the Obama administration took office.
In an August 2009 email, an ATF agent said that a federal prosecutor had a "moral dilemma" about Wide Receiver because the government had allowed the targets of the investigation "to traffic 300+ firearms to Mexico."
Under President Barack Obama, the Justice Department pursued the Wide Receiver case and six defendants have pleaded guilty, two others who were charged are fugitives and a third fugitive in the case was recently arrested.
There was extensive discussion in the internal documents about the desire to coordinate the Wide Receiver investigation with Mexican authorities - but little in the documents to indicate that coordination actually took place.
Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the Republican who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that is investigating Operation Fast and Furious, has said coordination with the Mexican government on Wide Receiver was "just the opposite" of the manner in which Fast and Furious was conducted, with Mexican authorities in the loop on Wide Receiver but out of the information loop on Fast and Furious.
"It is deeply discouraging that top Justice officials knew such details about problems in Operation Wide Receiver yet were still so quick to dismiss warnings from whistle-blowers" in Operation Fast and Furious, Issa said of the newly released documents.
Another Arizona-based gun-running probe, the Hernandez investigation, was undertaken during the Bush administration after Wide Receiver. Those agents made contact with Mexican authorities and arranged for them to take over surveillance of a vehicle driven by suspected straw purchasers after it crossed into Mexico with weapons purchased in this country, but the Mexican agents claimed they never spotted the vehicle.
Subsequently, ATF officials asked Bush administration attorney general Michael Mukasey to lean on his Mexican counterpart to supply better vetted, incorruptible agents for such operations. Mukasey has declined to say whether he had any success or even whether he tried to do that.
The Hernandez case was run by ATF's Phoenix office, which also later handled Fast and Furious.


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Beloved Comic Book Titles Coming to Cartoon Network
Firebreather, The Vanishers and Mice Templar Amplify the Network's Slate of Original Movies
Cartoon Network has kicked off development on three much-loved comic book titles: Firebreather, The Vanishers and Mice Templar. Image Comic's Firebreather, created by Phil Hester, and Mice Templar, by Mike Avon Oeming and Bryan Glass, will be developed as animated original movies. IDW Publishing's The Vanishers, created by Chuck Dixon, will be produced as a live-action original movie.
"We're thrilled to expand our movie slate with both cinematic quality CG and live action," said Ramsey Naito, vice president of long-form at Cartoon Network. "As we bring these and other titles into development, we'll be seeking out projects that combine distinct voices with striking, contemporary visual worlds."
Firebreather tells the story of awkward teenager Duncan Rosenblatt, a typical high school kid in most respects, but atypical in one very big way: his dad is a fire-breathing dragon, and Duncan's destiny is to protect the earth. Duncan must go to school, try to fit in, and in his off time, fulfill his destiny. Created and co-executive-produced by Phil Hester (The Wretch), Firebreather is executive-produced by Julia Pistor (Lemony Snicket) and co-executive-produced by Andy Kuhn (Freedom Ring), and Jim Kreig (Ben 10: Alien Force) joins as writer.
Mice Templar is an epic based on Mike Avon Oeming's (Powers) and Bryan Glass' (Magician Apprentice) comic book series about a young mouse named Karic and the prophecy that leads him to reunite the long disbanded order of the Mice Templar. Karic, chosen to be a warrior, bravely rescues his village and carries on the tradition of this mighty band of mice-knights.
The Vanishers is Chuck Dixon's (Batman comics) action-packed tale of fifth graders Andy and Arvis and their adventures through time. The duo sets out on their trans-dimensional mission to collect precious information from Arvis' time-traveling family. It turns out the Arvises are on the run from a group of treacherous villains who are armed with deadly robots and are intent on taking control of time itself in an effort to enslave humanity. The Vanishers is executive-produced by Circle of Confusion's Rick Jacobs (The Suffering), David Alpert (Them) and Ted Adams, president of IDW Publishing.
Cartoon Network (CartoonNetwork.com), currently seen in more than 91 million U.S. homes and 160 countries around the world, is Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.'s ad-supported cable service offering the best in original, acquired and classic animated entertainment for kids and families. From 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday (ET, PT), Cartoon Network shares its channel space with Adult Swim, a late-night destination showcasing original and acquired animation for young adults 18-34.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news, entertainment, animation and young adult media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.


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