Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, 10-Inch Tablet Confirmed in AnTuTu Benchmark

While still fighting with Apple over whether or not it should be allowed to sell the initial Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, Samsung is not only shipping the Galaxy Tab 2, but is also preparing the Galaxy Tab 3.

The company hasn't really said much about the slate. There has definitely been no announcement about it recently at any rate.

Nevertheless, the web has once again proven that information on unannounced devices can come from almost anywhere.

This time, we have the AnTuTu benchmark to thank, and the folks at Techkiddy tech blog for relaying that information.

A score of 13,377 was achieved by the 10-inch device thanks to its 1.7 GHz dual-core Samsung Exynos 4 processor (based on Cortex A15) and the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system.

The resolution of the screen is not specified, but the other similarities with the Nexus 10 tablet are enough of a reason to expect the same sort of high-resolution panel (2,160 x 1,600 pixels).

As for everything else, the hardware should not be too different from that of every other self-respecting 10-inch Android slate on the market.

USB connectivity is guaranteed, as is Wi-Fi support, Bluetooth, audio, maybe even 3G or LTE broadband (though likely optional).

A keyboard docking station may or may not sell along with the tablet as well. If not as a standard part of the package, there will be an optional accessory of the sort up for order independently at the very least.

As for storage and memory, 1-2 GB of RAM are probable, but the NAND Flash capacity can end up anywhere between 16 GB and 64 GB.

Sadly, no price or availability details have been provided, though MWC 2013, a trade show that will happen in February, may expose both. That means that the wait shouldn't extend much beyond the next few weeks.

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-3-10-Inch-Tablet-Confirmed-in-AnTuTu-Benchmark-325184.shtml

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Immediate, adjuvant ADT after surgery does not significantly affect ...

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Sitemaster

For many years, physicians at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, have been offering immediate, adjuvant androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) to some of their surgical patients with more advanced and high-risk forms of prostate cancer. The assumption had been that early use of ADT among such patients might have a significant survival benefit.

Linder et al. have now published a detailed, retrospective analysis of the outcomes of 1,247 men, all treated by radical prostatectomy for high-risk prostate cancer between 1988 and 2004. High-risk disease was defined by the criteria of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and therefore implied at least one of the following: clinical stage ? T3a or a Gleason score of ? 4 + 4 = 8 or a PSA level > 20 ng/ml. All patients were also categorized by comorbidity status through the use of the Charlson comorbidity index.

The investigators? intent was to evaluate whether the use of immediate, adjuvant ADT had any beneficial impact on overall or prostate cancer-specific survival when the patients were stratified by comorbidity status.

Here is what they found:

• 419/1,247 patients (33.6 percent) were treated with immediate, adjuvant ADT after surgery.
• 828/1,247 patients (66.4 percent) were not treated with immediate, adjuvant ADT after surgery.
• The average (median) age of the patients was 65 years.
• 816/1,247 patients (65.4 percent) had a Charlson comorbidity index of 0.
• 244/1,247 patients (19.6 percent) had a Charlson comorbidity index of 1.
• 142/1,247 patients (11.4 percent) had a Charlson comorbidity index of 2.
• The 10-year overall survival data for the patients, when stratified by Charlson comorbidity index, was as follows:
  • 75 percent for men with a Charlson score of 0 who received immediate, adjuvant ADT.
  • 82 percent for men with a Charlson score of 0 who did not receive immediate, adjuvant ADT.
  • 72 percent for men with a Charlson score of 1 who received immediate, adjuvant ADT.
  • 76 percent for men with a Charlson score of 1 who did not receive immediate, adjuvant ADT.
  • 70 percent for men with a Charlson score of ? 2 who received immediate, adjuvant ADT.
  • 68 percent for men with a Charlson score of ? 2 who did not receive immediate, adjuvant ADT.
  • None of these differences is statistically significant.
• 155/1,247 patients (1.4 percent) had cardiovascular disease.
• The 10-year overall survival for patients with cardiovascular disease was as follows:
  • 72 percent for men who received immediate, adjuvant ADT.
  • 76 percent for men who did not receive immediate, adjuvant ADT.
  • This difference, again, was not statistically significant
• On multivariate analysis, receipt of immediate, adjuvant hormonal therapy ADT post-prostatectomy was not associated with non-prostate cancer mortality (P?=?0.24).

The authors conclude that, in their long series of patients with high-risk disease, the use of immediate, adjuvant ADT? after radical prostatectomy does not increase the probability of death from something other than prostate cancer ? even when the patients have multiple comorbidities.

Now it has to be remembered that this was an open study of a series of patients, not a clinical trial, and that the analysis is retrospective as opposed to prospective, so one would be wise not to over-interpret the results presented above. On the other hand, there is little to no indication from this series of data that early use of ADT in high-risk men after radical prostatectomy even might be capable of inducing a meaningful survival benefit.

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How to Sell Your Home By Yourself: Advice for the FSBO

Dear For-Sale-By-Owner Seller on MLS:

I understand that you want to make as much money on your sale as possible and that it isn?t cheap to sell a house. But I fear you don?t know the whole story. Now I won?t pretend to be unbiased ? I?m a REALTOR after all and I make a living by selling houses like yours. But there are a few things you should know about being a For Sale By Owner (FSBO), and I?m betting the company you?re paying peanuts to simply put it on MLS isn?t telling you:

1. If you want to sell your home, you need to be prepared to show it. When I call you to make an appointment to bring my client on Wednesday, telling me that you ?you have hockey Wednesday night but might be home on the weekend so, check back with me on Saturday and I?ll see if I?m around? just doesn?t work. There are plenty of other houses and condos for my client to see, and neither of us is likely to schedule our lives around your unconfirmed schedule. Showing your home is time-consuming and you need to be flexible.?

2. Offering me a $1 commission to bring you a Buyer is not only insulting, it?s not likely going to work. Yes, I will show your home to my client even though your neighbour is offering me 2.5% and the $1 you think my time is worth won?t even cover my gas to drive to your home. But you should know that my Buyer is contractually bound to pay me 2.5% if you don?t, so the real price of your house is 2.5% higher then you have it listed for. Here?s the thing: my Buyer knows I?m worth more than $1 and they don?t want to pay you the same for your house as your neighbour?s house AND pay me 2.5%. I guess they don?t want you to pocket that 2.5% that your neighbour is paying his REALTOR. Buyers can do the math too.

3. I know you think you have nicest house ever and those renovations in 1993 were expensive but you?re probably priced wrong. Pricing a house isn?t easy and it is a moving target. How much I think your house is worth today is probably not the same as I?ll think it?s worth next month or maybe even next week. How much you should sell your home for will change depending on the house that sold last night, the new listings in your neighbourhood that came up for sale today and what?s happening in the overall market. Are you staying on top of the market that closely? And I hope you have good negotiating skills by the way, you?ll need them.?

4. It?s not true that houses sell themselves ? you need to actually market the property. Sure, some people are lucky and have the perfect house in the perfect condition on the best street in a top neighbourhood, and maybe their house will sell itself. But that isn?t most people and it?s probably not you. Even Apple invests in marketing and their products are pretty spectacular.?

5. ?I know you decided to hire a company to help give your home exposure on MLS, but the company that listed your home on MLS for $1,000 probably doesn?t have great success rates and you may just have wasted $1,000. According to this blog, only 52% and 43% of homes listed by the top two companies that provide this service sold in 2012. Those are pretty brutal stats for Toronto?s hot 2012 real estate market. I know those companies tell you that they want to save you money, but they just pocketed over $1,000,000 in fees for houses that didn?t sell. Ouch.

Don?t believe the stats? Consider that Colby Sambrotto, founder of ForSaleByOwner.com, couldn?t sell his own New York condo?so he turned to a realtor?and sold it for $150,000 more than the original list price, covering the commission several times over. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of his product (other than how good it was for making him money; the condo was worth $2.15M).

6. ?I hope you?re prepared for the legal landmines that come with the sale of your house. I know your lawyer can help you with the paperwork, but there?s a lot more to selling a house than just an agreement of purchase and sale. Specifically, I hope you know what you need to disclose to potential buyers so that you stay out of court, and that you?re ready for the ?stuff? that comes up before closing?and it always does. It?s never fun to deal with.

7. ?If you don?t think hiring a REALTOR is worth the money, maybe you?ve been speaking to the wrong REALTOR. Marketing, negotiation, staging, pricing and understanding real estate law are skills that vary significantly from agent to agent and do impact the price you get for your home. ?

Now please understand, Mr. or Mrs. FSBO, that I wish nothing but the best for you. Sometimes selling a home on your own works, sometimes it doesn?t. And if we happen to meet across the negotiating table, I?ll do my best to represent my client?good luck.

Source: http://www.getwhatyouwant.ca/2013/01/28/what-you-need-to-know-to-sell-your-house-yourseldear-for-sale-by-owner/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-you-need-to-know-to-sell-your-house-yourseldear-for-sale-by-owner

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Fossilized conduits suggest water flowed beneath Martian Surface

Public release date: 29-Jan-2013
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kevin_stacey@brown.edu
401-863-3766
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Networks of narrow ridges found in impact craters on Mars appear to be the fossilized remnants of underground cracks through which water once flowed, according to a new analysis by researchers from Brown University.

The study, in press in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, bolsters the idea that the subsurface environment on Mars once had an active hydrology and could be a good place to search for evidence of past life. The research was conducted by Lee Saper, a recent Brown graduate, with Jack Mustard, professor of geological sciences.

The ridges, many of them hundreds of meters in length and a few meters wide, had been noted in previous research, but how they had formed was not known. Saper and Mustard thought they might once have been faults and fractures that formed underground when impact events rattled the planet's crust. Water, if present in the subsurface, would have circulated through the cracks, slowly filling them in with mineral deposits, which would have been harder than the surrounding rocks. As those surrounding rocks eroded away over millions of years, the seams of mineral-hardened material would remain in place, forming the ridges seen today.

To test their hypothesis, Saper and Mustard mapped over 4,000 ridges in two crater-pocked regions on Mars, Nili Fossae and Nilosyrtis. Using high-resolution images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the researchers noted the orientations of the ridges and composition of the surrounding rocks.

The orientation data is consistent with the idea that the ridges started out as fractures formed by impact events. A competing hypothesis suggests that these structures may have been sheets of volcanic magma intruding into the surrounding rock, but that doesn't appear to be the case. At Nili Fossae, the orientations are similar to the alignments of large faults related to a mega-scale impact. At Nilosyrtis, where the impact events were smaller in scale, the ridge orientations are associated with each of the small craters in which they were found. "This suggests that fracture formation resulted from the energy of localized impact events and are not associated with regional-scale volcanism," Saper said.

Importantly, Saper and Mustard also found that the ridges exist exclusively in areas where the surrounding rock is rich in iron-magnesium clay, a mineral considered to be a telltale sign that water had once been present in the rocks.

"The association with these hydrated materials suggests there was a water source available," Saper said. "That water would have flowed along the path of least resistance, which in this case would have been these fracture conduits."

As that water flowed, dissolved minerals would have been slowly deposited in the conduits, in much the same way mineral deposits can build up and eventually clog drain pipes. That mineralized material would have been more resistant to erosion than the surrounding rock. And indeed, Saper and Mustard found that these ridges were only found in areas that were heavily eroded, consistent with the notion that these are ancient structures revealed as the weaker surrounding rocks were slowly peeled away by wind.

Taken together, the results suggest the ancient Martian subsurface had flowing water and may have been a habitable environment.

"This gives us a point of observation to say there was enough fracturing and fluid flow in the crust to sustain at least a regionally viable subsurface hydrology," Saper said. "The overarching theme of NASA's planetary exploration has been to follow the water. So if in fact these fractures that turned into these ridges were flowing with hydrothermal fluid, they could have been a viable biosphere."

Saper hopes that the Curiosity rover, currently making its way across its Gale Crater landing site, might be able to shed more light on these types of structures.

"In the site at Gale Crater, there are thought to be mineralized fractures that the rover will go up and touch," Saper said. "These are very small and may not be exactly the same kind of feature we studied, but we'll have the opportunity to crush them up and do chemical analysis on them. That could either bolster our hypothesis or tell us we need to explore other possibilities."

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The research was supported by a grant from NASA's Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium and through a NASA subcontract with the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins University.

Editors: Brown University has a fiber link television studio available for domestic and international live and taped interviews, and maintains an ISDN line for radio interviews. For more information, call (401) 863-2476.

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Contact: Kevin Stacey
kevin_stacey@brown.edu
401-863-3766
Brown University

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Networks of narrow ridges found in impact craters on Mars appear to be the fossilized remnants of underground cracks through which water once flowed, according to a new analysis by researchers from Brown University.

The study, in press in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, bolsters the idea that the subsurface environment on Mars once had an active hydrology and could be a good place to search for evidence of past life. The research was conducted by Lee Saper, a recent Brown graduate, with Jack Mustard, professor of geological sciences.

The ridges, many of them hundreds of meters in length and a few meters wide, had been noted in previous research, but how they had formed was not known. Saper and Mustard thought they might once have been faults and fractures that formed underground when impact events rattled the planet's crust. Water, if present in the subsurface, would have circulated through the cracks, slowly filling them in with mineral deposits, which would have been harder than the surrounding rocks. As those surrounding rocks eroded away over millions of years, the seams of mineral-hardened material would remain in place, forming the ridges seen today.

To test their hypothesis, Saper and Mustard mapped over 4,000 ridges in two crater-pocked regions on Mars, Nili Fossae and Nilosyrtis. Using high-resolution images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the researchers noted the orientations of the ridges and composition of the surrounding rocks.

The orientation data is consistent with the idea that the ridges started out as fractures formed by impact events. A competing hypothesis suggests that these structures may have been sheets of volcanic magma intruding into the surrounding rock, but that doesn't appear to be the case. At Nili Fossae, the orientations are similar to the alignments of large faults related to a mega-scale impact. At Nilosyrtis, where the impact events were smaller in scale, the ridge orientations are associated with each of the small craters in which they were found. "This suggests that fracture formation resulted from the energy of localized impact events and are not associated with regional-scale volcanism," Saper said.

Importantly, Saper and Mustard also found that the ridges exist exclusively in areas where the surrounding rock is rich in iron-magnesium clay, a mineral considered to be a telltale sign that water had once been present in the rocks.

"The association with these hydrated materials suggests there was a water source available," Saper said. "That water would have flowed along the path of least resistance, which in this case would have been these fracture conduits."

As that water flowed, dissolved minerals would have been slowly deposited in the conduits, in much the same way mineral deposits can build up and eventually clog drain pipes. That mineralized material would have been more resistant to erosion than the surrounding rock. And indeed, Saper and Mustard found that these ridges were only found in areas that were heavily eroded, consistent with the notion that these are ancient structures revealed as the weaker surrounding rocks were slowly peeled away by wind.

Taken together, the results suggest the ancient Martian subsurface had flowing water and may have been a habitable environment.

"This gives us a point of observation to say there was enough fracturing and fluid flow in the crust to sustain at least a regionally viable subsurface hydrology," Saper said. "The overarching theme of NASA's planetary exploration has been to follow the water. So if in fact these fractures that turned into these ridges were flowing with hydrothermal fluid, they could have been a viable biosphere."

Saper hopes that the Curiosity rover, currently making its way across its Gale Crater landing site, might be able to shed more light on these types of structures.

"In the site at Gale Crater, there are thought to be mineralized fractures that the rover will go up and touch," Saper said. "These are very small and may not be exactly the same kind of feature we studied, but we'll have the opportunity to crush them up and do chemical analysis on them. That could either bolster our hypothesis or tell us we need to explore other possibilities."

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The research was supported by a grant from NASA's Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium and through a NASA subcontract with the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins University.

Editors: Brown University has a fiber link television studio available for domestic and international live and taped interviews, and maintains an ISDN line for radio interviews. For more information, call (401) 863-2476.

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What's cooking with Pinterest? | Food & Drink | The Sun Herald

Unless you have a favorite site, searching blindly for recipes online can be frustrating.

I've found that one of the easiest ways to find recipes on the Web is to search on Pinterest. It's like an index for the largest cookbook ever.

According to business intelligence firm RJMetrics, 10.5 percent of all pinboards on Pinterest are categorized under Food, the website's fastest?growing category. It's also the category that gets the most repins, generating on average more than 50 percent repins than the second-most reshared category, Style and Fashion.

"Pinterest has proven to be a fun, useful, and, let's admit, addictive space for home cooks and foodies," said CookingLight.com editor Allison Long Lowery. Cooking Light is one of the most popular boards to re-pin.

"We're excited about the level of engagement it brings to our recipes. As people create beautiful boards of food photography, they are organizing their favorite recipes. We love the idea of people planning their healthy meals from favorite recipe pin boards. And don't believe what you've heard: We know decadent, not-so-healthy recipes find a home on Pinterest, but we see enormous interest for healthy recipes that feature seasonal ingredients.

"The growth of Pinterest is staggering. For Cooking Light in 2012, we saw nearly 750 per cent growth in traffic referrals from Pinterest to our site and the numbers continue to trend up," Lowery said.

Because Pinterest is such a popular place to search for recipes, we decided to look for healthy recipes and asked for help from some local pinners.

Hope Arnold of Georgetown, Ky., is on Pinterest almost daily, she said.

"Every night before I go to sleep I spend about 15 to 20 minutes on the iPad checking email and on Pinterest."

From what she finds there, Arnold prepares about one new recipe a month.

"I mostly pin things for parties and holiday-themed treats for school," she said. "I am more likely to pin a recipe and adapt it to something that I can pull out of the pantry. I am terrible about remembering ingredients at the market that are not on the usual weekly to-buy list."

Toa Green, chef/owner of Thai Orchid Cafe in Lexington, Ky., said she pins recipes "as a way to keep up with dishes I want to try and make. It's a fun way to get ideas for recipes or new dishes."

Carolyn Gilles of Lexington, chef/instructor at The Wholesome Chef, said she likes Pinterest for recipes because it's so visual.

"I like to get inspired by what a dish may look like, colors or even just presentation ideas," she said. "I don't follow anyone in particular, but I usually like to search by foods that are in season and find recipes based around locally available foods."

Here are some recipes to help you stay focused on your healthier eating regimen for the new year.

CRAB CAKES AND SPICY MUSTARD SAUCE

1/3 cup chopped red bell pepper

4 tablespoons canola mayonnaise, divided

1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

2 green onions, chopped

1 large egg, lightly beaten

1 large egg yolk, lightly beaten

1 1/3 cups panko (Japanese bread crumbs), divided

1 pound lump crab meat, drained and shell pieces removed

2 tablespoons olive oil, divided

2 tablespoons reduced-fat sour cream

2 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley

2 teaspoons Dijon mustard

1 teaspoon white wine vinegar

1/8 teaspoon ground red pepper

Combine bell pepper, 2 tablespoons mayonnaise, salt, pepper, onion, egg and egg yolk. Add 1/3 cup panko and crab; toss gently. Divide crab mixture into 8 equal portions; shape each into a 3/4-inch-thick patty. Place remaining panko in shallow dish. Gently dredge patties in panko.

Heat large skillet over medium-high heat. Add 1 tablespoon oil to pan. Add 4 crab cakes; cook 4 minutes on each side. Remove from pan; keep warm. Repeat procedure with remaining oil and crab cakes. Combine 2 tablespoons mayonnaise and remaining ingredients; serve with crab cakes.

From Cooking Light

GREENS, SPROUTS AND SWEET POTATO SALAD

1 pound sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 2- by 1/3-inch sticks

5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

Salt and pepper

2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

1 tablespoon gluten-free tamari

1 teaspoon honey

2 cups sprouts

1 romaine heart, coarsely chopped

4 small Japanese or Persian cucumbers, cut into 1/2-inch dice

2 cups packed mesclun

2 large scallions, finely chopped

8 green olives, pitted and chopped

1 avocado, diced

1 tablespoon sesame seeds, white or black

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Toss sweet potato sticks with 1 tablespoon olive oil, then spread in an even layer on baking sheet. Season with salt. Bake for 12 minutes, or until sweet potatoes are nice and tender.

In a small bowl, whisk together lemon juice, tamari, honey and remaining 1/4 cup olive oil. Season the dressing with salt.

In another small bowl, toss sprouts with 1 tablespoon of the dressing and let stand for 10 minutes to marinate, then toss a few times. In a large bowl, combine romaine, cucumbers, mesclun, scallions, olives and avocado. and toss to combine. Add remaining dressing and toss again. Transfer salad to a large serving bowl or platter, top with roasted sweet potatoes and marinated sprouts. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and serve immediately.

From Withstyleandgraceblog.com

CRANBERRY ORANGE BRUSSELS SPROUTS

1 large bag Brussels sprouts, trimmed and halved

1 pint fresh cranberries

Salt

3 tablespoons olive oil, divided

3/4 cup chopped walnuts, toasted

Zest of one orange

1 tablespoon orange juice

1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Rinse and drain cranberries, and add to a large mixing bowl with Brussels sprouts. Toss with 2 tablespoons olive oil and pinch of salt.

Spread evenly onto baking sheet and roast for about 40 minutes (?stirring once halfway through cooking).

While Brussels sprouts are cooking, toast walnuts. If you have whole walnuts, do a bit of rough chopping. Add nuts to a small baking dish. With about 5 to 10 minutes left on the Brussels sprouts' cook time, place nuts in oven. Watch carefully to make sure they don't burn. You just want them to darken a bit.

When everything is roasted and toasted, remove from oven and toss together in a large bowl. Using a microplane grater, zest one whole orange over top of the bowl. In a small dish, whisk together remaining olive oil, orange juice and balsamic vinegar. Pour over mixture, and toss with sea salt. Serve immediately or at room temperature.

From the Daily Garnish

Sort of a kale Caesar

2 large bunches kale

2 to 3 large cloves garlic

1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil

1/4 cup organic lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

Pinch crushed red pepper flakes

10 turns freshly ground black pepper

1?3 cup grated Parmesan cheese

1/4 cup whole wheat croutons

Clean kale by removing stems, washing the leaves and drying. Chop them into bite-size pieces and place in a very large bowl. Smash garlic and finely chop. Combine in large bowl with lemon juice, salt, red pepper and black pepper. Whisk to combine and continue whisking, slowly pouring in olive oil to emulsify.

Combine dressing with kale leaves, using your hands to gently massage into the leaves. Let stand 30 minutes. Smash the croutons. Toss dressed salad with crushed croutons and grated Parmesan until well coated. Top with shaved Parmesan, if desired.

From Everydaymaven

MEXICAN CHICKEN SOUP IN THE SLOW COOKER

1 large onion, chopped

4 cloves garlic, minced

2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts

2 cups chicken broth

1 tablespoon ground cumin

2 teaspoons dried oregano

2 teaspoons smoked paprika

1/2 teaspoon chili powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cans (15 ounces each) Great Northern beans, drained and rinsed

Cheddar cheese

Sour cream

Fresh cilantro

Scatter onion and garlic about the base of your slow cooker. Arrange chicken breasts evenly over the top. In a medium bowl, whisk chicken broth, cumin, oregano, smoked paprika, chili powder and salt. Pour over chicken. Cook on low about 6 hours.

Remove lid and shred chicken using two forks and pulling against the grain of the meat. Stir in beans, cover and continue cooking for 30 minutes to allow beans to warm.

Serve with shredded Cheddar cheese, sour cream, and fresh cilantro.

From Canyoustayfordinner.com

Source: http://www.sunherald.com/2013/01/28/4431830/whats-cooking-with-pinterest.html

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Weddings Startup Lover.ly Scores Content And Ad Deal With Real ...

Lover.ly,?a search engine for all things wedding, is today making a move that will broaden its reach considerably: The company is announcing a partnership with Real Simple to power the content for the site?s first-ever online weddings channel. Real Simple, which is best known for its magazine about home decor, beauty and fashion (it?s like an offline version of Pinterest), will now be helping to sell?Lover.ly?s?advertising inventory as a part of this deal.

For those unfamiliar, Lover.ly launched in fall 2011, as a centralized place for brides to discover and save wedding ideas and inspiration, and then?received $500,000 in seed funding last?February.?Similar to Pinterest, the site lets its users create boards (on Lover.ly, they?re called ?bundles?) to keep track of their favorites. But as founder and CEO Kellee Khalil explains it, Lover.ly is more of a search engine than it is a ?Pinterest for weddings,? so to speak.

Lover.ly?s content comes from 35 prominent wedding bloggers, a handful of wedding magazines like Bridal Guide, Southern Weddings, Smitten Magazine and others, plus?retailers, brands and vendors. By participating on Lover.ly, these sources can grow their traffic and/or sales, while bloggers can score brand partnerships and get help with advertising.

Khalil says Lover.ly?s content, which has grown to include over 700 brands, and its brand, is what appealed to Real Simple. The company came to her a few months ago to discuss a potential partnership after a Real Simple editor listened to her speak on a panel about wedding and technology, she says. ?Real Simple approached us and said your brand is very similarly aligned with ours ? we?re trying to help the modern women who?s overwhelmed, make her life easier, and bring simplicity,? Khalil explains.

The partnership is expected to be mutually beneficial to all parties involved ? Lover.ly and its content providers get wider exposure and traffic, and Real Simple gets the content it needs for the new vertical, plus relationships with key bloggers.

There?s also an advertising relationship going into effect as a part of the deal.?Currently, Lover.ly monetizes by display ads, as well as sponsored content and giveaways across its network. Meanwhile, with retailers and brand partners, it?s a cost-per-click system. With the exclusive partnership announced today, Real Simple will provide the startup with access to its sales team to help Lover.ly fill its ad inventory.

?We just soft-launched our network halfway through last year, so this is the first partnership of its kind,? says Khalil of the deal. ?Real Simple (Time, Inc.) is one of the biggest media companies in the world, and I think it?s really forward-thinking of them to?partner?with a startup that?s a year-and-half old,? she adds.

What?s Next: A Relaunch Of The Website And Mobile Apps

The deal with Real Simple isn?t Lover.ly?s only news, however. The startup is poised for a complete overhaul and relaunch of its website and brand, following nearly a year of tracking its user data and behavior.

?We?re launching a brand-new property from start to finish,? says Khalil. ?We had to look at our brand, what it stands for, and how it?s going to translate over time. We?re leaning towards becoming a lot more sophisticated, more modern and more tech-centric. And with that, we?re also going to be launching a mobile app,? she says. The new app will focus on a more passive browsing experience, and will add a feature that will allow brides to ?snap? inspiration while on the go in order to save things to their private boards. These launches are still a few weeks out.

Asked what it means to be more of a ?tech? company, Khalil explained that the technology they?re building in-house is something that can translate across different verticals. ?We actually don?t produce any content; our core?competency?is aggregating from bloggers, retailers, brands and also wedding professionals,? she says. The proprietary technology Lover.ly has developed is a tagging system that makes that content searchable. That means users can search by a range of things beyond keywords ? for example, by season, style, location, color palette, themes or trends. The site even features a unique color search interface that lets brides-to-be click on a color to search across the site by pinks or silvers, or whatever their wedding colors happen to be.

Today, Lover.ly?s search engine has indexed a couple hundred thousand wedding photos, while the site also offers close to 100,000 products. ?Think of us like what Kayak has done for travel?that?s essentially what we are [for weddings],? says Khalil. She says the new Lover.ly website will shift focus to the company?s search capabilities, making the search box more prominent, while also moving away from the more ?girly? feel the site has today.

Eventually, the company wants to apply its curated search functionality to other verticals, including perhaps home decor, party planning, shopping, or anything that?s design-focused. ?There?s definitely opportunity to go into other verticals, and that?s always in the back of our head when we?re thinking about what we?re doing,? Khalil says.

The company declined to provide user numbers, but reports recent growth and good engagement figures. Five percent of the audience returns 3-6 times per day, while 22 percent come anywhere from 15 to 100 times per month. Somewhat?surprisingly,?48 percent of the audience reports themselves as ?pre-engaged? ? meaning they?re women who are planning their wedding in advance of an actual proposal. Site visits are also up 75 percent month-over-month from last month, and Lover.ly has grown its social footprint to nearly 80,000 Facebook fans, 28,000+ Twitter followers, and 34,000 followers on Google+.

Competition in the weddings space is tough lately, given the number of startups angling for brides? attention, including, but not limited to,?RegistryLove,?Appy Couple,?Wedit,?WedPics,?Wedding?Party,?WeddingLovely,?Weduary?and others, not to mention Pinterest. But not all these are focused on search, of course ?- many are social apps or wedding website providers. Khalil says with Lover.ly, she wants to become the ?Google for weddings.? That could make other wedding startups potential partners, instead of competitors further down the road.

Lover.ly is a vertical search engine focused on all things bridal. We help brides and their friends find ideas, people to hire, and things to buy for their wedding.

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Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/28/weddings-startup-lover-ly-scores-content-and-ad-deal-with-realsimple-prepares-website-relaunch-and-new-mobile-apps/

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