Ann Romney 'thrilled to death' by horse's test

LONDON (AP) ? Ann Romney, the wife of the U.S. Republican presidential candidate, says she was "thrilled do death" by the performance her horse Rafalca turned in at the Olympics dressage competition.

Romney, who is part-owner of Rafalca, tells The Associated Press: "She was consistent and elegant. She did not disappoint. She thrilled me to death."

The 15-year-old, German-bred mare has been the source of political jokes and Democratic ads questioning how the Republican presidential candidate can presume to know the problems of ordinary Americans when he inhabits the rarefied world of dressage.

Ann Romney watched Rafalca and rider Jan Ebeling bring in a score of 70.213 Thursday.

She rides as part of her therapy for multiple sclerosis.

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LONDON (AP) ? The U.S. presidential campaign and the equestrian sport of dressage crossed paths at Greenwich Park on Thursday with the start of competition and the Olympic debut of a horse named Rafalca.

The 15-year-old, German-bred mare is part-owned by Mitt Romney's wife, and has been the source of political jokes and Democratic ads questioning how the Republican presidential candidate can presume to know the problems of ordinary Americans when he inhabits the rarefied world of dressage.

Ann Romney was in the VIP section of the Greenwich Park stadium for Rafalca's Grand Prix dressage test Thursday, watching literally from the edge of her seat as the mare completed the 7-minute test. At the end, she gave horse and rider Jan Ebeling a standing ovation and a wave. Their score of 70.213 put them in provisional fourth place, though the bulk of riders still had yet to compete.

The stadium was nearly full.

"She felt really strong and is peaking at the right time," Ebeling said afterward. "She was amped up, a little stronger than usual. She had more oomph. The trick is to manage that."

He said he hadn't spoken to Mrs. Romney before the competition ? he never does ? but said her final words of advice were to "Do what you know (how) to do, and do what you do best."

"It was a good score. Overall it was great," he said.

Mitt Romney unleashed a torrent of criticism in the British media recently when, shortly after arriving for the Olympics' opening ceremony, he said the problems facing Olympic organizers were "disconcerting." It was the first of several gaffes that followed during campaign-style visits to Israel and Poland that were supposed to show off his foreign policy chops.

Rafalca's turn in the equestrian arena turned an Olympic spotlight on another issue facing Romney: his vast personal wealth during tough economic times in the United States. He is worth as much as $250 million.

His wife's financial interest in Rafalca, a bay Oldenburg, has fed criticism that Romney is out of touch with the concerns of more modest-income voters. A topflight dressage horse can cost more than six figures. Upkeep runs a few thousand dollars a month and transport and competition fees cost tens of thousands. The Romneys own several horses; Ann Romney rides as part of her therapy for multiple sclerosis.

A campaign spokeswoman said Mrs. Romney's schedule in London was too busy for her to comment.

The sport, better known in Europe than the U.S., is the equine equivalent of ballet. A rider, clad in top hat and tails, takes the horse through a series of steps that look like the horse is dancing: twirling pirouettes, prancing trots and the crowd-pleasing "flying change," which looks like the horse is skipping.

The Romneys' interest in dressage ? financial and otherwise ? has furthered the impression that the sport is a pastime of the monied 1 percent. It has inspired several episodes of political satirist Stephen Colbert's "The Colbert Report," with one aired this week in which Colbert ? dressed like Roy Rogers ? takes a dressage lesson from Michael Barisone, the U.S. dressage team's reserve rider in the 2008 Olympics.

"Dressage is the new American pastime!" Colbert declared.

In his first riff on the sport, Colbert produced a red foam finger in a bid to show more blue-collar support for its competitors. The U.S. Equestrian Federation seized on the moment and created a few hundred "Dressage is No. 1" red foam fingers for use at the Olympic trials that secured the Romney mare a spot in London. Ann Romney waved one herself, though there was no evidence of the red foam finger on Thursday.

She has shown similar good humor in laughing off a Democratic National Committee web ad, since pulled, that mockingly used footage of one of her show horses.

Out at Greenwich Park, such jokes were far from the minds of the U.S. dressage team, which has a shot at the bronze team medal. Germany and Britain are favored for the top medals.

"All of our horses are peaking at the right time," said U.S. team member Tina Konyot, who was riding Calecto V. "The other competitors are watching us."

Rafalca's rider, Ebeling, welcomed the attention, negative or not, that the Romneys' stake in the horse has given the sport, saying it's a chance to show that dressage isn't about millionaires but hard work.

"I think the biggest misconception is always that people think that you just sit on a horse and they just kind of trot around in circles," he said. "That really is not the case."

A typical dressage horse requires up to a decade of training to compete at Olympic levels. Horse and rider work very much as a team, with the rider giving the horse invisible cues through subtle leg, hand and seat shifts. The horse is judged from 0-10 on executing a standard test of 33 movements that include:

?PASSAGE: a prancing, high-striding step

?PIAFFE: a passage done in place

?HALF-PASS: where the horse moves forward and sideways at the same time by crossing over its legs

?PIROUETTE: where the horse completes a full circle in place while cantering

?FLYING CHANGE: where the horse changes the sequence of its steps

And while horse owners may need deep pockets to maintain their dancing breeds, the riders very often come from more modest means. Konyot, for example, grew up in a family of circus performers: Her father trained circus horses and her mother was a tightrope walker. Ebeling himself emigrated from Germany in 1984 hoping to find greater financial and professional opportunities in the U.S. than he could at home.

That said, the sport does have an aristocratic background. Dating from ancient Greece, dressage was revived in European royal courts during the Renaissance as an art form. The creation of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna in 1729 eventually brought its renown outside Europe.

The school's famous Lipizzaner stallions are still performing classical dressage in exhibition tours today. In the 19th century, dressage became essential to the training of cavalry officers who then started competing as another part of their training ? competition that evolved into an Olympic sport in 1912.

The seven highest scoring teams from Thursday's Grand Prix advance to a second, harder test called the Grand Prix Special on Aug. 7. The 18 highest-scoring individual riders then perform a freestyle set to music to determine individual medal scores. That competition is Aug. 9.

Ebeling, who became a U.S. citizen in 1998, said the Romneys have been great supporters of the sport and have helped boost its visibility.

"I really welcome the attention," he said. "It's given us a fantastic opportunity to have our sport ? have visibility in our sport ? and show what we're really about, show that it is an Olympic discipline and show people how much we work to get there."

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Associated Press writer Margaret Freeman contributed.

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Aerial photos reveal dynamic Greenland ice sheet: Ice sheet has recently retreated then restabilized

ScienceDaily (Aug. 2, 2012) ? Despite the current and rapid melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, it remains far from certain just when we will have reached a point when scientists will be able to predict its disappearance. Recent research conducted by the University of Copenhagen in conjunction with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the Danish National Survey and Cadastre (KMS) in collaboration with an international team of scientists reports that this is not the first time in recent history that the ice sheet has been in retreat and then stabilised again.

The researchers' results have just been published in Science.

Describing the findings, University of Copenhagen Associate Professor Kurt H. Kj?r at Professor Eske Willerslevs Centre for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum of Denmark asserts:

"That air temperatures have increased and melting has intensified is relatively well-understood. On the other hand, the UN's climate panel, the IPCC, has for many years called for greater knowledge in relation to the other major effect on the Greenland Ice Sheet -- the 'thinning of the ice sheet' which is the effect of the largest glaciers in Greenland flowing faster into the ocean than previously measured. Over the past three years a number of scientific articles have addressed the issue and pointed to a sea-level rise of one metre or more. These reports presuppose that the melting will accelerate to the same degree as during the past decade. This is a question to which we have been able to provide a qualified answer. It turns out that the ice sheet, in relation to this point, behaves more dynamically and is able to more quickly stabilise itself in comparison to what many other models and computer calculations otherwise predict."

Denmark under water

No less than 240 billion tons of fresh water escape their solid state within the Greenland Ice Sheet and runoff or discharge as icebergs into the world's oceans each year. This amount corresponds to a 5.6 meter annual rise in water level if distributed over the surface area of Denmark, an area of approximately 43,000 km².

Current melting attributable to global warming is so great that some experts warn that we are headed towards an irreversible "tipping point" -- a point at which the global climate is permanently transformed, a point at which low-lying cities and coastal zones around the world will be seriously threatened in 100 years time.

As recently as one year ago this scenario was presented in Copenhagen at a scientific conference organised by the Arctic Council, the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University, a conference involving over 400 climate researchers from 20 countries.

A problem to be taken more than seriously

Among the somber tones and gloomier outlooks, the recent research findings out of the University of Copenhagen and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in conjunction with an international team of researchers, show that the Greenland Ice Sheet is more robust than researchers have otherwise been able to predict using models and computer-based calculations.

The new research findings were obtained by combining contemporary satellite data with old aerial photographs of the ice sheet in northwestern Greenland, one of two hotspots for ice sheet thinning and heavy glacial melt runoff.

Senior researcher Shfaqat Abbas Khan of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) says of the research results: "We've used a combination of old aerial photographs from the 80's to construct a digital elevation map and recent satellite data. In this way we've been able to gain an overview of the thinning of the ice sheet over the last 30 years in northwestern Greenland. We are the first who have been able to show that the Greenland Ice Sheet was on as a dramatic diet at the end of the 80's as it is today. On the positive side our results show that despite a significant thinning in peripheral regions from 1985-1992; the thinning slowed and then died out."

Old photos

Associate Professor Kurt H. Kj?r of the University of Copenhagen had the idea to create new and comparable elevation models of the ice sheet along a 700 km long stretch of the northwestern Greenland coast using the old photos. This provided researchers with a relatively simple way of revealing more of the ice sheet's secrets in comparison to other new methods.

Kurt H. Kj?r says: "Our results show that the thinning of the ice sheet at the end of the 80's and beginning of the 90's eased over a 4-8 year period, after which a period of stability occurred until 2003. Our conclusion is therefore, that if we judged against longer periods of time, the current thinning of the ice sheet is likely to ease within an 8-year period."

"These variations in the amount of thinning that we are able to document since the 80's make it difficult to predict how much the world's oceans will rise over a longer period of time -- a century for instance -- as a result of Greenland glacial melt-water runoff. However, it is certain that many of the present calculations and computer models of ice sheet conditions that built upon a short range of years since 2000 must be reassessed. It is too early to proclaim the 'ice sheet's future doom' and subsequent contribution to serious water problems for the world. In this context it should be mentioned that the Greenland bedrock rises as the ice sheet in the peripheral regions and especially near the coast is in retreat and becoming thinner. This highlights the enormous forces that are at play in Greenland and of how difficult it is to predict what it means for Greenland as well as the rest of the world," says Associate Professor Kurt H. Kj?r of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen.

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Customer experience has gone from going to a local store and having everyone know you by first name to a world where millions of customers come in contact with brands using several different forms of communication. In turn, businesses have had to create new customer experience (CX) strategies in order to evolve with customer communication preferences.

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It?s important to make employees available to support all these channels of communication as well as keep the customer service experience consistent. If a business is going to offer a form of communication, they need to ensure that company support is on the other end to respond to a customer in a timely manner. With the phone being the number one customer service choice (68%), it?s crucial that companies provide full internal support for this form of communication.

The best way to ensure this support is to find out the forms of communication a business is using and evaluate the amount of support dedicated to each channel of communication. Keeping customers at arms length can be frustrating for them and could cost you not only their business, but their dissatisfaction can quickly spread through online communities and cost you future business. This is why every company needs a game plan.

Businesses need to think about their multichannel strategies and plan how they can deliver the same information to their customer service agents in order to provide the necessary support. This kind of thinking will lead to ensuring timely, consistent service to customers no matter the platform they are communicating on and end in customer satisfaction.

How important do you think it is for companies to have a consistent multichannel CX strategy in place? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

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I didn?t intend for this to be the pie I made to celebrate having to put my cat to sleep, but that?s the way it turned out.

Z had been back and forth to the vet for about a week, and the ultimate diagnosis was a cyst inside his intestine which would most likely have just grown back had I spent the several thousand dollars on surgery to have it removed. ?His disposition in that week had altered itself from playful and relaxed to sullen and despondent. He wasn?t eating or drinking, and he couldn?t use his box. ?It was clear he could not find a comfortable position for himself to rest.

I started this pie in the late afternoon, while wallowing in denial over what would have to be done. ?Michael arrived later in the evening and talked me back into reality. ?Without being able to use his box, there wasn?t a lot of time for Z. ?None of us were benefitting from delay. ?So after a few more crying sessions, I finally caved and said to Michael between sniffles, ?Ok? let me just get this pie out of the oven, and while it?s cooling we?ll take Z in, and then when we get back we can eat it.?

I understand dividing my attentions between a dying cat and a three berry pie with brown sugar topping might seem a bit coarse. ?But once I had accepted what needed to be done for Z, it was no longer tough for me. ?We had shared fourteen years of companionship and he?d been content and healthy through all of it. Below is the last picture we took of him. ?The heart sleeve on his paw is covering up the IV that was delivering the dose that would move him on. ?He was at ease all the way through the end, purring and nuzzling me. ?I could not have asked for a better end for him.

It?s been over a month now, and I?m starting to hear the call of kittens at the Saturday afternoon pet adoption fairs outside the Petco on Sunset. ?But I?ll hold off a while longer.

And we did go back home that night and eat the pie. ?We topped it with ice cream. We each had two giant slices. ?At his peak, Z weighed approximately 19 pounds, so I?m sure he would have wanted nothing else for us.

Three Berry Pie with Brown Sugar Topping
Adapted from Food Network Magazine ?July August 2012, page 82

For the Dough:

• 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
• 1 Tbsp granulated sugar
• 2 teaspoons white vinegar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 10 Tbsp cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
• 2-4 Tbsps ice water

For the Filling:

• 2 cups blueberries
• 2 cups strawberries, husked and quartered (or halved)
• 2 cups blackberries
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar, divided
• 2 wide strips lemon zest
• 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
• 3 Tbsps flour
• 1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
• 1/8 tsp salt

For the Topping:

• 3/4?cup coarsely chopped almonds, walnuts or hazelnuts, toasted
• 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1/2 cup flour
• 4 Tbsps unsalted butter, melted
• pinch of salt

Additional:

• pie weights or dried beans to serve as pie weights

Make the dough: ? Pulse the whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, granulated sugar, vinegar, salt, and about 1/3 the butter in a food processor until the butter is incorporated. ?Add the remaining butter and pulse until it is in pea-size pieces.

Add 2 tablespoons ice water and pulse until the dough just comes together. ?Pinch a small piece of dough. ?If it doesn?t hold together, add up to 2 more tablespoons of ice water, pulsing 1 tablespoon at a time.

Turn the dough out onto a large piece of plastic wrap and press into a ball. ?Pat into a 1/2 inch disk and wrap tightly. ?Refrigerate until firm, at least one hour.

Once firm, roll the dough into a 12-inch round on a lightly floured surface or between 2 pieces of lightly floured parchment paper?(if the dough becomes soft, refrigerate again until firm). ?Center the dough in a 9-inch pie plate. ?Fold the overhang under itself and crimp the edges. ?Refrigerate 3o minutes.

Preheat oven to 350? F.

Lightly pierce the bottom and sides of the crust with a fork, then line with parchment paper or foil and fill with pie weights or dried beans. ?Bake 20 minutes, then remove the parchment and weights and continue baking until lightly golden, about 10 more minutes. ?Transfer to a rack and let cook completely.

Meanwhile, make the filling: Bring 1 cup of blueberries, 1 cup of strawberries and 1 cup of blackberries along with 1/2 cup granulated sugar and the lemon zest to a simmer in a saucepan over medium heat, crushing the berries slightly with a wooden spoon. Cook, stirring occasionally, until reduced by half, about 20 minutes. Discard the lemon zest. Transfer the berry mixture to a bowl, stir in the remaining 3 cups of berries and 1/4 cup granulated sugar, the lemon juice, the flour, nutmeg and salt. Let cool completely.

For the Topping: ?Combine the nuts, brown sugar, flour, butter and salt. ?Squeeze the mixture into clumps with your hands and scatter on a baking sheet. ?Freeze for 30 minutes.

Increase the oven temperature to 375? F. ?Pour the cooled berry filling into the crust and top with the frozen crumb topping. ?Transfer to a baking sheet and bake until the filling is bubbly and the topping is golden brown, 45 to 55 minutes. ?(If the topping browns too quickly, cover it with foil).

Transfer the pie to a rack and cool overnight, or at least 4 hours, so the filling sets ?(We didn?t do that. ?We?re not sadists. ?We let it cool an hour. ?It was fine).

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Self-immolations speak of Israel's bankruptcy

"...Israel's economy isn't experiencing delightful days. The mass protests in Tel Aviv and other cities relate the bitter story of Israel's failed economy. Perhaps it might be better for the Israeli leaders to deal with their people's problems and think of solutions to get out of the current crisis rather than pulling out all the stops to suppress a defenseless, besieged people in Gaza, kill the innocent Palestinian children and women and design malicious ploys to attack Syria and Iran."

In the past weeks, the streets of Tel Aviv have been witness to desperate people setting themselves on fire in protest at the growing social and economic inequalities and the rising cost of living in Israel.

Almost one year after 400,000 Israelis filled Tel Aviv?s Rothschild Boulevard in protest at the increasing economic difficulties, a wave of civil unrest and upsurges is again encompassing the state. The latest victim of the protests was the 57-year-old Moshe Silman, a disabled war veteran who sustained severe injuries after setting himself ablaze at a bus stop near Tel Aviv on July 14.

The death of Silman ignited widespread anger and frustration among the Israelis who have poured into the streets of Tel Aviv en masse since early July to call on the government to meet their socioeconomic demands in the light of the unprecedented recession and economic crisis in Europe.

New York Times wrote that many people have compared Silman to the Tunisian fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi whose committing suicide on January 4, 2011 became the preface to the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring which totally transformed the political equations in the Middle East. However, the chained self-immolations in the past weeks in Israel are not exceptional. Although few may remember the tragic event, back in July 2004, an Israeli citizen named Mordehai Cohen set himself on fire in protest at the rejection of work license.

Moshe Silman was formerly a businessman, working in a messenger service; however, as the media reported, his business plummeted following the Second Intifada and his being unable to pay back the debt of the National Insurance Institute caused his homelessness. Irritated and hopeless, he set himself on fire, and a few days after the doctors said that 92 percent of his body had burnt, he passed away.

Before committing suicide, Silman wrote a letter, part of which reads, "I have no money for medicine or rent. I can?t make the money after I have paid my millions in taxes I did the army, and until age 46 I did reserve duty. I refuse to be homeless; this is why I am protesting."

The other case of self-immolation in Israel took place when the 40-year-old Akiva Mafa'i who was identified as a 25 percent Israel Defense Force (IDF) veteran fired himself in an excruciating manner. The Defense Ministry denied that his self-immolation had any connection with his status as a military veteran, but his brother thinks differently. He says that IDF behaves toward the war veterans apathetically and indifferently, paying no attention to the fact that they have sacrificed themselves to "contribute to the state."

Israel's economic woes and popular protests at the deteriorating social, political and economic situation of the regime is nothing new. Financial hardships and increasing gap between the rich and poor in Israel have ignited widespread protests since last year. It can be said that Israel's reliance on the United States and EU's ailing economy has dragged it into the current crisis. EU considers Israel a "privileged partner." EU is Israel's first trade partner and in 2011, the bilateral trade between the two sides amounted to approximately ? 29.4 billion.

But the economic indicators don't carry promising news for Israel. As of December 31, 2010, Israel's external debt revolved around USD 89 billion which roughly constituted 43% of Israel's total GDP.

According to New Israel Fund, 20 percent of the Israeli citizens and one in three children live below the poverty line.

On July 24, the Israeli media published a report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded an increase in the taxes and a considerable cut in the budget so as to prevent Israel's economy from sliding into a more debilitating crisis.

Israel is sinking in poverty and foreign debt while its hawkish leaders spend lavishly on military equipments and buying state-of-the-art weaponry from different countries.

According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPR), Israel is the 18^th country of the world in terms of military expenditure. This is while it receives an annual USD 3.09 billion from the United States in military assistance. And just recently, it was reported that the U.S. President Barack Obama has signed into law a U.S. Congress bill that allows the government to gives Israel another USD 70 million in military assistance.

All in all, Israel's economy isn't experiencing delightful days. The mass protests in Tel Aviv and other cities relate the bitter story of Israel's failed economy. Perhaps it might be better for the Israeli leaders to deal with their people's problems and think of solutions to get out of the current crisis rather than pulling out all the stops to suppress a defenseless, besieged people in Gaza, kill the innocent Palestinian children and women and design malicious ploys to attack Syria and Iran.?

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Techniques For Preparing Sailing Family Vacations | Travel & Leisure

There are a number of various kinds of sailing vacations that you can enjoy. Planning for a sailing vacation however, can be a little bit overwhelming and this post will discuss a few tips and guidelines in order to make the planning procedure a little bit easier.

Plan a trip with other holiday makers that have exactly the same objective that you do If you are a new comer to sailing vacations or if you are on a limited budget then it would be a good idea to plan to enjoy the sailing vacation along with other holiday makers who are also looking to enjoy the exact same kind of experience that you are. You?ll be able to learn from fellow guests as well as the crew on board the vessel.

Deciding whether or not to charter a vessel One of the most attractive choices when it comes to sailing vacations would be to charter a vessel and be able to sail the vessel out on the water your self. There?s quite a lot of fun as well as adventure to be had when choosing this option. Having the ability to charter a vessel and also enjoy the waters with a few friends and family or simply on your own is a truly unforgettable experience. However, it is very important to take factors such as your level of experience, skill as well as confidence into account prior to renting a boat.

Booking the luxury boat as well as crew This really is one of the most costly sailing holiday options. Yachts are very large and have all of the crew, supplies as well as amenities you have to enjoy expended sailing vacations at sea. You can enjoy private cruises through the Carribbean for instance.

Book a spot on a cruise ship This choice is a great option for those who are looking to enjoy a sailing vacation without needing to do much of the planning themselves or even incur high costs. Cruises ships are the perfect option for single travellers, friends, couples as well as families. Be sure to check to see what?s included in the cost of the booing and what is not included in the cost of the booking.

Enjoying an educational sailing vacation Sailing vacations are a fantastic choice for those holiday makers looking to enjoy a sailing vacation in addition to learning how to sail. These educational vacations will make sure that guests are able to charter their own sailing vacation once they complete the curriculum planned.

A big part of preparing successful sailing vacations is deciding on the best kind of sailing vacation for you. You should spend some time thinking about what type of experience you are planning to have as well as exactly what level of sailing capabilities and skills you have prior to you making any final decision. It would also be smart to shop around and look for deals as well as packages that offer you good value for your money. Nevertheless, it is best to remember that the quality of the experience should never be sacrificed in order to save a some money.

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OnLive Coming To Ouya Android Console - games - Furious Angels

Earlier this month, we discussed a Kickstarter project for Ouya, and Android-based gaming console in development by a company of the same name. Their fundraising campaign was wildly successful, and now they've partnered with cloud gaming provider OnLive for the console's launch. (Which is somewhat unexpected, because OnLive already sells its own pseudo-console.) In the same post, the Ouya creators showed their most recent design for the console's controllers.

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Press Release Central Florida's Premier Workshop Experience

Developing the Business Professional Workshop: Central Florida?s Premier Workshop Experience?

Orlando, FL ? July 27, 2012 ? Professional speaker and business owner, Dr. Loretta Faith Harris, launched the first installment of, ?Developing the Business Professional? workshop series on July 21, 2012. DBP is a premier workshop that is taking Central Florida by force! This workshop provides foundational training, tools, and resources to enhance the business professionals? speaking, writing, and presentation skills, which will lead to an overall successful professional branding experience. Registration includes lunch and a Business Professional Workshop Kit filled with valuable research from experts in the field, presentation handouts, professional articles, writing frames, business templates, tips, and resources.

?As a professional speaker with over 15 years experience, a successful business owner for over six years, and a member of almost a dozen professional organizations, I noticed a trend. There is a great need for ongoing professional development in the areas of speaking, writing, and presentation skills for professionals,? says Dr. Harris.

Dr. Harris is the visionary and workshop facilitator for, ?Developing the Business Professional? workshop series. DBP is hosted at Nova Southeastern University in Orlando, Florida the third Saturday of every month. Joining Dr. Harris is a team of experts with decades of experience in their respected field: Sunnie Jackson serves as a Business Fashion Consultant, Yolanda ?YoTrip? Triplett a Professional Blogger, and Marty L. Ward a Business Consultant.

Attendees rated their individual DBP workshop experience and 100% would recommend DBP workshop to others! Overall, 95% were glad they experienced DBP and 83% found new insight and were inspired to act!

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Misconceptions about eating disorders | Diet-Fitness-Health-Healthy ...

I think the comparison between purging and self harming is accurate, personally? I find it extremely difficult to purge, so I end up self harming in response to the binge ? but if I could purge I would, its just that self harming at least fulfils the punishment side of things. As you have experience both purging and self harm do you think they do the same thing for you? How are they different?

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Daniel P. Berrang? ? Blog Archive ? A review of the 1st London ...

Last night I attended the 1st London OpenStack Meetup, accompanied by fellow Red Hatters, Richard Morrell & Steve Hardy. The event was held in the ?Bluefin? building on the south bank of the Thames. Not co-incidentally, since they were organizing this event, this is the same building that Canonical recently moved into. From the meeting space, we were treated to fabulous views across London via the open air roof terrace, and were kept fed & watered with pizza & drinks. Perfect for the hot weather London is currently enjoying.

As well as being an opportunity to meet & greet other people involved/interested in OpenStack, there were 3 talks scheduled.? The presentation room had capacity for approx 100, and the attendees pretty much filled it ? probably 85-90 people attending at a guess.? There was a brief introduction / welcome from Mark Baker, then it was straight into the talks, nominally scheduled for 20 minutes a piece.

• Dave Walker, from Canonical, gave an overall introduction to the OpenStack project, its goals, some background history, all its different components and thoughts for the future. This was at a good high level, to avoid scaring off the less technically minded people in the audience.
• I was up next, to give a pretty technically focused presentation. The first half described libvirt, and what benefits it provides, over controlling KVM directly. The second half then looked at what libvirt does in the context of Nova, the improvements done for Folsom, and some personal ideas for things to do in Grizzly. If you enjoy looking at lists of bullet points, without any description, the PDF/ODP slides are available.
• Phil Day, from HP, finished up with an overview of their experiences deploying OpenStack at a large scale & some of scalability problems they?ve hit. It was a mixture of good & bad news, along with useful tips for those deploying. As can be reasonably be expected at this stage in OpenStack?s lifetime, it sounds like there is scope for doing more work to improve ease of maintenance & deployment out of the box.

With the main talks out of the way, there was just time before the food & drinks, to have a 5 minute lightening talk by Steve Hardy on the subject of Heat API. This was a new project to me, and most people in the room. The gist of it, is that it provides an alternative to AWS CloudFormation, using a compatible template syntax & API, to enable easier migration off Amazon, to an OpenStack based cloud. The developers of Heat API are hoping to become an OpenStack Incubator project in the future, and have structured their code to fit in with all normal OpenStack coding practices.

The talks were all professionally video recorded by the technicians in the conference room we used, so I presume they will be published online somewhere in the not too distant future. Richard Morrell also took an audio recording of my talk, to be made available in podcast format soon.

Right at the start of the evening Mark Baker suggested we (the OpenStack London community) should aim to hold a second meetup in the September timeframe, even daring to go monthly after that. There was a call for other companies in the community willing/able to help out with the organization/funding for future meetups? ? basically finding a suitable meeting space for ~ 100 people, and providing food + drink. Of course future events will also rely on people volunteering to talk/present on interesting subjects related to OpenStack, to keep the potential audience entertained & informed. Given the success & enjoyment of the 1st meeting, I look forward to many interesting London OpenStack events in the future. Thanks to all the people involved in organizing this 1st event, to the other speakers for their time, and of course the audience for coming along to listen to us all!

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Napa Valley Land and Vineyards For Sale 7/26/2012 ? Northern ...

Napa Valley is the hub of fine living in Northern California ? wineries, tasting rooms, restaurants, shops and art galleries.? But most of the usable land in Napa Valley is zoned for agriculture ? to grow grapes, olives, mustard, culinary herbs, and other agricultural products.? The unique climate and mix of soils make this area one of the most prized agricultural regions in the world.

Here are listings of Napa Valley agricultural land and vineyards for sale as of July 26, 2012.? Drop me a line for more information and to schedule a site visit. (john@jsrealproperty.com )? You can view the MLS listing for these properties, click on Wine Country MLS Search and enter the address and property type.? There are also more properties for sale that are not in the MLS, drop me a line for additional properties in your area of interest.

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American Canyon	$1,295,000	684 Jameson Canyon Rd	153
Angwin	$150,000	White Cottage Rd N	0.89
Angwin	$3,750,000	Brookside Dr	12.94
Calistoga	$239,000	957 Petrified Forest Rd	2.71
Calistoga	$895,000	Silverado Trl	4.07
Calistoga	$1,595,000	8460 Franz Valley School Rd #A	13.4
Calistoga	$3,500,000	Bennett Ln	21.97
Calistoga	$11,000,000	3250 Bennett Ln	87.83
Napa	$345,000	Rimrock Rd	60.69
Napa	$499,000	4920 Dry Creek Rd	64.07
Napa	$1,545,000	3550 Mount Veeder Rd	38.43
Napa	$1,650,000	Anderson Rd	12.28
Napa	$1,850,000	30 Hunter Ranch Rd	10
Napa	$2,550,000	Berry Ln	15.34
Napa	$2,600,000	Skellinger Ln	5.7
Napa	$4,500,000	East Side Rd	4400
Napa	$6,350,000	10-20 Chateau Ln	23
Napa	$10,000,000	S Kelly Rd	254
Napa	$15,500,000	3565 Soda Canyon Rd	180.24
Pope Valley	$50,000	Harness Dr	0.47
Pope Valley	$275,000	8757 Butts Canyon Rd	173.53
St. Helena	$3,250,000	Pope St	14.32

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Reid pushes for DHS to give Internet a cybersecurity pat down

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has urged his colleagues to vote this week?for a cybersecurity bill that would require power companies and utilities to comply with federal cybersecurity regulations.

Reid has prioritized the bill ? called the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 ? ?ahead of passing the defense budget, resulting in criticism from congressional Republicans.

A source with knowledge of the process said that Reid could bring the bill to the Senate floor for a vote on Thursday.

There is incredible debate over whether government regulation of security standards is the right way to keep the nation?s critical networks safe from attack.

Many lawmakers and?President Barack Obama?fear?looming disaster and mass destruction should a computer virus cripple the networks of the nation?s power and utilities companies.

Supporters of federal regulation say the bill is needed because not every company vulnerable to an attack is taking the threat seriously. Many companies that operate critical infrastructure networks are not investing in network security, they argue, due to the lack of federal regulations, and others would wait until after they?ve been attacked.

Investment in security would increase network operators? costs, which is the reason why companies decline to upgrade security.

The bill does not require specific ?commercial? cybersecurity technologies, but gives federal agencies responsible for regulating critical infrastructure the power to ?adopt the cybersecurity practices as mandatory requirements.?

If an agency responsible for regulating critical infrastructure chooses not to make the cybersecurity practices mandatory, within one year the agency must report to Congress why it did not make the practices mandatory.

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain attacked?Reid during a speech on the Senate floor Monday for wanting to rush a bill that he called ?flawed,? and for placing the bill ahead of the defense budget, which he said also contained cybersecurity provisions.

While a new version of the bill released last Thursday is being branded as a compromise with Republicans by its sponsors, Republican opposition to the bill has been fierce, signaling that the new version is anything but a compromise in the eyes of its opponents.

Reid and bill sponsor Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said they have less support than initially expected.

Reid defended his decision on Tuesday, but that same day The Heritage Foundation?s lobbying arm ?? Heritage Action ?threatened lawmakers that a vote in favor of the cybersecurity bill would count negatively on its yearly legislative scorecard.

?The federal government does not have a good track record of properly regulating industries without harm,? said?Heritage Action in a blog post Tuesday.

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1000s of Chareidim Working Illegally - Yeshiva World News

According to a Channel 10 report, thousands of chareidim who have declared studying torah fulltime are in essence working illegally.

The report states that the chareidim who study fulltime maintain they are doing their part towards defending the country by learning torah, but in many cases, they are working illegally and simply avoiding military service.

Channel 10?s Dov Gilhar set up a sting operation, establishing a fictitious company called Ohel Avraham, advertising marketing positions in Bnei Brak. A man who left the chareidi fold was brought in to head the fake company, and he explained to avreichim who came in seeking work they need official papers since the job is ?on the books?. The cameras rolled behind the scenes, and one avreich is seen interviewing, explaining he cannot provide papers due to the army and that his last job was under the table.

He explained he received cash, and if reported, he would have issues with the IDF as well as tax authorities, not to mention losing lucrative state aid.

The report states that an avreich receives 800 NIS monthly, 1,040 NIS monthly in supplementary income and his kollel stipend. In addition, the state give tax breaks and discounts for kindergarten and other services.

Channel 10 concludes that many avreichim who learn have sufficient spare time to do other things, including a job. They quote an avreich for example who says he can work from 18:00 to midnight, while others explained they can work daytime hours as well.

Nine of the ten persons videoed displayed a proficient knowledge of duping the system, how to bypass the restriction of working and paying taxes.

This has been the reason many opposed the Tal Law, which provides an exemption from military service but also locks avreichim in, condemning them to a life of poverty because they are prohibited to work.

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Recovering From Plastic Surgery the Right Way | General health

Health and Fitness | General health | * Written by Ace Abbey | Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:08 | Word Count: 535

As with any other surgical procedure, plastic surgery requires a significant recovery time with many specific guidelines for the patient to follow. You'll want to plan to take time off of work, schedule friends and family to provide meals or do housework, and plan on nothing more than resting during the days immediately following your procedure. Once your doctor says it is okay, you can slowly ease back into your daily routine.

Here are some common tips to follow during your recovery:

Plan to regularly apply ice to your surgical site. Your doctor will let you know how often to put an ice pack on the site and how long to leave it there. You'll want to have plenty of ice in your freezer or several store-bought ice packs waiting in the freezer.

Adjust your schedule to accommodate plenty of recovery time. Your surgeon can advise you on how much time you should take off work. It's best to take as much time as possible up front since you can always come back early if you recover faster than you originally thought! In addition to taking time off work, you'll want to adjust family and social engagements in order to accommodate the rest you'll need.

You should arrange to have a friend or family member stay with you during the first 48 to 72 hours following surgery. Even though you may feel up to performing your normal activities, it's best to take it easy and let someone else handle the housework for a few days as your body recovers.

While you sleep or rest, you should keep your head and neck elevated to avoid unnecessary swelling. Keep your head and shoulders propped up on pillows as you sleep or recline both during the day and at night.

Plastic surgery places extra strain on your body, so you'll want to take it easy on activity and diet. Your body often loses fluid during surgery and recovery, so rehydrate it often by drinking plenty of water. You'll also want to plan on light meals during the first couple days of recovery. Choose foods that are easy for you to swallow and for your body to digest.

Avoid going out into the sun. If you must go out, use a sunblock with plenty of UV protection.

Don't take aspirin or any other anti-inflammatory medication until your doctor says it's okay. Your surgeon will provide you with prescription pain relievers and other medications that are designed to work well together. Some over-the-counter medications may interfere with these prescriptions and cause problems that can make your recovery time longer. Before your plastic surgery, your doctor will also evaluate current prescription medications you may be taking for other medical conditions. He'll let you know which ones are safe to continue during recovery.

Expect to look worse immediately after your plastic surgery! You're body's recovering from being cut and adjusted, so your face will swell and bruise as it recovers. Don't allow yourself to get discouraged. Once these natural physical reactions subside, you'll be able to enjoy your new and beautiful face!

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