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Glamorous Gastronomy: Nadine Spencer Relishes in the Decadent World of Gourmet Food
MEET Nadine Spencer: Nadine Spencer, founder of The Indulgent Foodie, offers specialty food and lifestyle products to a broad range of clients, including chefs, food critics and every day diners, and will be writing about food on her official blog. Gourmet food products distributed by Indulgent Foodie span from rich desserts, fruit baskets, champagne and corporate gift baskets. An expert marketer with a gift for articulating key cultural trends that translate into business opportunities, Nadine has an extensive track record in brand rebuilding. Her charitable work reflects her personal mission to empower impoverished and disenfranchised women to work their way to prosperity through entrepreneurship and the free market.
MN: It's expected that as much as $632 billion dollars in sales will be generated by the restaurant industry in 2012, according to the National Restaurant Association. Is the food industry experiencing a resurgence, and if so, how are you taking advantage of the resurgence?
NS: We are adding new items geared to the discerning consumer, with a focus on the upscale, luxurious, and artisan. This industry will continue to have strong growth, and we want to gain a sizable portion of the market.
MN: How did you develop your love affair with food?
NS: I have loved entertaining for as long as I can remember. I hosted my first dinner at the age of 16. My mom bought me a gorgeous set of china with silver scalloped edges. I had friends from high school over for a three-course dinner with a fantastic table setting! Entertaining is a great way to bond with people!
MN: Who are some of the chefs you've worked with over the years, people who helped you hone your skills?
NS: I think any person who is truly comfortable expressing their passion for life can cook. It's such a personal thing, and yet also very public. When I cook, I don't follow any particular recipe. Instead, I cook from the heart—what I feel at the moment. The great chefs I've worked with tend to embody this same sentiment, cooking what resonates with them and creating from their souls. Art Smith is a chef who just cooks from his soul, and his dishes are simply incredible.
MN: What inspired you to launch The Indulgent Foodie?
NS: We launched The Indulgent Foodie in 2004. I believe entrepreneurs should diversify, and this was a way to earn passive income. Also, there were many online shops at the time, but none that truly embodied the full indulgent food and food lifestyle experience. I wanted to communicate an acceptance for having the best of the best and not having to apologize for it. I wanted to provide a space for great, decadent food — the ultimate indulgence, with no apologies.
MN: What resources did you use to finance your business?
NS: Finding quality resources for female entrepreneurs is often quite a challenge. I bootstrapped and learned a lot. I wanted the first website to be spectacular and fabulous. Unfortunately, the cost of a website like that was way out of our budget. So I learned to write code and designed the first website myself. It's amazing what one can do when the desire is there. Money is the catalyst, but it's not all.
MN: How many orders does The Indulgent Foodie ship each year?
NS: We now partner with large retailers, providing their Foodie gifts exclusively. We've had steady growth since the inception of our business, and have now grown our sales to 600 percent over when we initially started.


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Courage—especially social courage—and adventure or thrill-seeking are not the same thing.
Courage is a quality most needed by members of the white racial movement. Conviction and the strength and spirit to stand up to totalitarian authorities and the crowd (often a lynch mob) are more important by far than conventionally "brave" danger-seeking traits.
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Lawrence County 2016 EQIP Program
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The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Lawrence County, Alabama, will hold a sign-up for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for the 2016 Fiscal Year. This sign-up will be held on a continuous basis. Any eligible land user who has a resource concern or problem on pastureland, cropland, hayland, or forest land may apply for assistance through this program.
Applications may be made at:
Lawrence County USDA Service Center
13075 Highway 157, Suite 4
Moulton, Alabama 35650
Hours: Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
Phone: 256-974-1174, extension 3
Fax: 256-974-4404
Contact: District Conservationist
The USDA work group has prioritized the resource concerns in Lawrence County as:
The fiscal year 2016 Alabama NRCS state approved EQIP Practice and Payment Schedule for Practices and Restrictions and Payment Rates will be used for planned conservation practices to address the priority resource concerns.
Limited Resource Farmers, New and Beginning Farmers, and Socially Disadvantaged Farmers will be paid at an increased payment rate.
All applications will be ranked using the national NRCS Ranking Tool and approvals will be given to those applications that will provide the greatest environmental benefits, i.e. those receiving the most environmental points. The highest ranking application in each resource concern will be approved until all funds have been obligated.
Eligible practices and restrictions will be the same as the statewide list with the exception of ponds. Ponds will be ineligible for funding.
Contracts will be developed for approved applications in order of descending environmental points, until all funds are obligated. The first batching period for ranking and application prioritization will be October 16, 2015. Additional batching periods will be held if subsequent allocations are received.
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THQ's uDraw GameTablet has already been available on the Nintendo Wii for a while (since March, to be precise) but now it's coming for PS3 and Xbox 360, and features a few new bells and whistles, to boot.
For starters, it's dubbed "high definition" by the games firm as, for the first time, you'll be able to paint and see your creations in HD - the Wii is only an SD console. Plus, the new uDraw has tilt controls added, and pinch and zoom functionality like on an iPad, Android tablet or Apple Magic Trackpad.
But maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves here; what exactly is the uDraw, and what does it offer that you don't already have on your games console?
Well, Pocket-lint was invited to have a play around with one (the PS3 version - although, bar a couple of cosmetic differences, we've been reliably informed that the Xbox 360 one is identical), and in the most basic of terms, it's a wireless graphics tablet for your games machine, allowing you to draw with a stylus and see the results on your telly.
Basic stuff, you probably think and, essentially, you'd be right. The target audience or, at least, the people that will get the most enjoyment out of the uDraw are kiddies. But that doesn't mean that it's exclusive.
While there are obvious applications for younger members of the family, such as the colouring in sections of included paint software uDraw Studio: Instant Artist, there are also games available; some on the free software, and some to buy as add-ons.
For example, uDraw Pictionary: Ultimate Edition is a fun-packed version of the drawing game that even comes with different game formats, and subject packs that are for the old'uns (featuring complicated, rather than rude words).
There will be others on their way too, with the older Wii version already boasting a healthy library of available titles.
Back to the tablet itself though; it's sturdy, the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions both feature control buttons and a direction pad (the Wii version requires you to insert a Wii Remote) so you don't have to fiddle around with a normal controller in menu systems or the console's own user interface.
The stylus/pen is chunky and looks like it could take a bashing, plus it has 256 points of pressure sensitivity so, software willing, can draw precise pictures.
And there's even a uDraw website (www.worldofudraw.com) that you can save and send your pictures to, then seed them out to social networking sites.
The uDraw GameTablet with uDraw Studio: Instant Artist will be out on 18 November for PS3 and Xbox 360, priced around £70.
Available separately, uDraw Pictionary: Ultimate Edition will be on sale from 18 November, for around £30.
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Interacting with and responding to texts is an important foundation to build in the primary grades and is a great way to encourage the language development of English-language learners (ELLs). Invite students to explore five different ways to respond to text as they listen to two traditional fairy tales and their Wild West versions. Students engage with the text by talking back to characters in Cinderella, dramatizing events in Bubba the Cowboy Prince, inserting themselves into the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and critiquing and controlling story elements in Little Red Cowboy Hat. After comparing and contrasting Little Red Riding Hood and Little Red Cowboy Hat, students plan and create an original fractured tale.
Sipe, L.R. (2002). Talking back and taking over: Young children's expressive engagement during storybook read-alouds. The Reading Teacher, 55(5), 476483.
- Engagement in storybook read-alouds should not be limited to the traditional "narrative elements" (i.e., plot, setting, characters, or theme). Rather, they need to include expressive and performative engagements as well.
- The five types of expressive and performative engagements are dramatizing, talking back, critiquing/controlling, inserting, and taking over.
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The International Monetary Fund announced Friday that it is recognizing Somalia's new government after a 22-year break in relations with the once-chaotic country, part of a general push by the United States, United Nations and the West toward encouraging rehabilitation there.
The U.S. formally recognized the African nation's new government in January - the first time the U.S. had recognized a Somali government since 1991, when warlords overthrew longtime dictator Siad Barre and then turned on one another.
The U.N. Security Council in March voted unanimously to partially suspend an arms embargo on Somalia for 12 months for military equipment intended solely to develop the country's security forces and provide security for the Somali people.
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama cleared the way for the U.S. to arm and train Somali forces.
The International Monetary Fund on Friday announced it was recognizing the Somali government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who took office last September.
The move will allow the IMF to offer Somalia technical assistance and policy advice. But the IMF said Somalia will not be able to borrow IMF funds until it repays some $352 million in arrears that it owes the agency.
A relative peace has returned to Somalia's war-battered capital of Mogadishu since African Union forces ousted al-Shabab - a militant group loosely associated with al-Qaida - from the city over 18 months ago. But al-Shabab rebels are not yet defeated, and the U.S. remains concerned about the threat the group could pose to the region's stability.
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Wigan Athletic FA Cup Winners 2013 - but how did they fare previously in the World's most famous domestic cup competition?
A growing archive of Wigan Athletic's games over the years including goalscorers and attendances where known.
Do you think that you know your football? Pit your wits against fellow fans in the Cockney Latic Prediction League.


text: One of the most noteworthy iPhone-related events last Christmas was the Appvent Calendar – an initiative started by several developers where a game was made free for a day. I have admired their devotion and grabbed a few titles myself. Apparently, this has been quite profitable for the developers involved as well – only a month had passed before the 3 original founders of the Appvent Calendar teamed up with Openfeint and started the FreeAppADay.com website that followed a similar path. But it seems they are not the only to do so.


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Regular exercise cuts risk of dementia in elderly
Washington, November 2 : Older people can reduce their chances of getting dementia if they remain physically active, researchers say.
In a new study, non-disabled people who regularly engaged in physical activity reduced their risk of vascular-related dementia by 40 percent and cognitive impairment of any etiology by 60 percent.
The protective effect of regular physical activity remained regardless of age, education, changes in the brain's white matter and even previous history of stroke or diabetes, researchers said.
The findings are based on a prospective multinational European study that included yearly comprehensive cognitive assessments for three years.
"We strongly suggest physical activity of moderate intensity at least 30 minutes three times a week to prevent cognitive impairment," said Ana Verdelho, M. D., lead author of the study and a neuroscience researcher at the University of Lisbon, Santa Maria Hospital in Portugal.
"This is particularly important for people with vascular risk factors such as hypertension, stroke or diabetes."
The analysis included 639 people in their 60s and 70s; 55 percent were women and almost 64 percent said they were active at least 30 minutes a day three times a week. The activity included gym classes, walking and biking.
Researchers performed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests at the beginning and end of the study to gauge white matter changes in the brain, an indicator of possible cognitive decline.
"Damage of the cerebral white matter is implicated in cognitive problems including depression, walking difficulties and urinary complaints," Verdelho said. "White matter changes are very common in older people and mainly associated with vascular risk factors like hypertension and stroke."
Throughout the study, researchers asked participants in phone interviews and clinical visits about depression, quality of life and performing everyday activities.
At the end of the follow-up, 90 patients had dementia, including 54 with vascular dementia in which impaired blood flow to the brain causes cognitive decline, and 34 patients met criteria for Alzheimer's disease. Another 147 patients developed cognitive impairment, but not dementia.
The study has been published in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. (ANI)


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Although its not quite jumper weather at the moment I did pull this jumper out of my wardrobe to give it a go in an outfit. The back cut out is a surprising addition to the outfit as it's quite unexpected. I really like how it looks and it's a little bit sexy in quite a reserved kinda way. I paired it with a polka dot skirt from River Island, which again I adore. It's actually part of a two piece that I bought a while ago to wear to a festival but I've been wearing it as separates quite a bit. I haven't worn all white in ages but I think its one of my favourite types of outfit. I think white can look so sleek, chic and awesome!
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The European Tour supports the proposed ban on the anchored putting stroke.
The European Tour says in a statement Monday that it backs the Royal & Ancient and U.S. Golf Association on the rule change.
Tour chief executive George O'Grady says "virtually all of our Tournament Committee and player representatives support the proposed rule even though they are aware, and have taken into account, the fact that some members and especially our senior members use the anchored method."
The R&A and USGA announced the proposed rule on Nov. 28. They allowed a 90-day comment period that ended last Thursday.
The PGA Tour and PGA of America have announced their opposition to banning the anchored stroke, the common method for using belly putters and long putters that are pressed against the chest.


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Guildford, U.K., 14 April 2010 - With more and more customers choosing to view and buy online, BOC is encouraging businesses to register on its new safety products website and enjoy the benefits already available through its retail and telephone sales services – and more.
The new website allows customers to order the full range of BOC safety and workplace gear online. In order to help make the browsing and purchasing experience as simple and satisfying as possible, the site can track a customer's purchases and store 'favourites' for future visits. It will also indicate related products which can be bought at the same time.
The site will also feature special 'online-only' promotions on a regular basis.
During April and May, there will also be a number of incentives to register with the site. Anyone registering before 16 May – whether or not they buy anything – will be automatically entered into a prize draw for an new Apple iPad.
All orders place in April will be eligible for double Nectar points – BOC is the only safety products and industrial gases company to be affiliated to Nectar.
And all orders of more than GBP 50 (excluding VAT) placed during April are entitled to free delivery within the UK and Ireland.
Emma Byron, Senior Marketing Manager for BOC Safety Products, commented: "An increasing number of our customers have been asking for an online purchasing facility. So we are adding this to our existing service so that people can order whichever way suits them best – online, by email, by phone or by fax."
About BOC
BOC is a member of The Linde Group. An industrial, medical and special gases provider, the company supplies compressed and bulk gases, chemicals and equipment. For more than a century the company's gases and expertise have contributed to advances in many areas of everyday life, and industries including steelmaking, refining, chemical processing, environmental protection, wastewater treatment, welding and cutting, food processing and distribution, glass production, electronics and health care.
For more information see BOC online at http://www.BOConline.co.uk
About The Linde Group
The Linde Group is a world leading gases and engineering company with almost 48,000 employees working in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2009 financial year it achieved sales of EUR 11.2 billion. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards sustainable earnings-based growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment – in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. Linde is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
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SBA Loans Put Wind in Popeye's Sails
When Mr. Ed Rice was approached to comment on his business success, he humbly replied, "what success" and mused further, "It's hard work and ever-present", intimating that success in entrepreneurship comes from the complete dedication of oneself to the enterprise in question. You better believe that Ed Rice is committed to his Popeye's stores. No matter what time one visits the operations for a Cajun Cuisine Catch-up, he or she will most likely encounter Ed Rice involved in any one of the myriad management details, or even pitching in to serve the customers or to staff the cash register.
A demanding but fair manager, Ed has made it his policy to staff his enterprise with the best and most well rounded students from the neighboring high schools. His interview process involves a review of the individual job seeker's report card with special stress placed on attendance record, comments from teachers, and grades. Mr. Rice feels that, if the student is a responsible team player and is respectful at school, he will undoubtedly treat Ed's customers in a manner worthy of their patronage.
Ed Rice is a true inner city entrepreneur. At age 19, having just graduated from Fremont High School, he started his own real estate office, and successfully ran it for 10 years. In 1985 Ed opened his first Popeye's franchise, the 103rd Street store, using a 7(a) SBA guaranteed loan underwritten by American Pacific State Bank, an institution which was subsequently merged into City National Bank. As one would expect from a borrower as responsible as Mr. Rice, the loan was repaid in advance of when required. The 18 jobs created are a living tribute to Mr. Rice's business acumen and vision.
Unfortunately, Ed's Watts restaurant was damaged during the 1992 civil unrest; however, the structure was reconditioned via an SBA disaster loan used in conjunction with his business insurance. An interesting anecdote relating to this establishment centers on the fact that Popeye's was the food of choice of the National Guard in 1992. In fact, Mr. Rice cooked for and fed those guardsmen assigned to keep peace in Watts right out of the 103rd Street store.
SBA Los Angeles District Director, Alberto Alvarado offered praise stating, "Ed Rice epitomizes the meaning of the word entrepreneur. Ed assumed tremendous risk, expecting the concomitant return on his investment in his first venture. His dedication and tenacity earned him the appropriate rewards."
Employing the ingenuity referenced by Director Alvarado, and by using personal capital and CRA funds, Mr. Rice followed the traditional path taken by most entrepreneurs. He parlayed some of what he earned and everything he learned from his first success and opened another Popeye's in the Crenshaw District. This second franchise, at 3268 West Slauson Avenue, is operated in the same fashion as the original site. The 14 employees, whose jobs were created through Ed Rice's enterprising spirit, remain focused on excellent customer service, an integral part of the core competencies of Ed Rice's company.
Ever the entrepreneur, Mr. Rice is in the planning stages to open another Popeye's. Feasibility studies and site consideration are currently in process. Expectations are for the third operation to create 20 new jobs in the Central Los Angeles community. Ed Rice may, again, call upon SBA financing to help provide clear sailing for this new Popeye's franchise.
The Watts Popeye's can be contacted by calling (323) 566-9402. The Crenshaw District location can be reached at (323) 569-0071.
For additional information on SBA Loan Programs and Services please call the Los Angeles District Office at (818) 552- 3210 or visit the SBA's user friendly web site at www.sba.gov.


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Obamacare repeal is dead again, at least for now.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) officially came out against the Graham-Cassidy health care reform bill on Monday afternoon, leaving the bill short of the votes Republicans would need to pass it. Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and John McCain (R-AZ) have also said they would vote against the bill, and if they hold to those positions, Republicans, who hold a 52-48 edge in the Senate, would not be able to muster the 50 votes they need.
Further complicating the whip count, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Sunday that he and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) did not support the bill, though Cruz was trying "to get to yes." Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has not yet said how she would vote, but she opposed previous repeal bills.
Collins issued her statement shortly after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office issued a broad preliminary analysis of the legislation that found that it would cut $1 trillion in federal Medicaid spending through 2026 and leave "millions" more Americans without comprehensive insurance coverage.
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Senator Collins opposes Graham-Cassidy health care bills https://t.co/nW6MFUvYVg pic.twitter.com/0DSxDJNMPp— Sen. Susan Collins (@SenatorCollins) September 25, 2017


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What is Eclipse?
Eclipse is an awesome IDE for creating apps, in various languages. It has a GTK+ UI that is much more accesible to regular programmers from a Windows environment than the tools traditionally used by FOSS hackers.
It is currently best for developing apps in Java, but support for C, C++, C# and Python is rapidly catching up.
It was originally a (very) large body of code that IBM open-sourced. There is now a large community of companies and developers using and extending Eclipse.
It has its own Open Source license (the Eclipse Public Library, or EPL).
It is shipped in FedoraCore (>= 4). Plug-ins will be added to Fedora as time permits or as people do the necessary work. ;)
Fedora Eclipse
Fedora Eclipse is a community project encompassing everything Eclipse-related in Fedora. We ship the Eclipse SDK, CDT, as well as the PyDev, ChangeLog, and Bugzilla plugins. We are working on making plugin packagin easier, and also on packaging more plugins.
Would you like to help?
Visit our current website . Talk to us on IRC or the fedora-devel-java mailing list. Package a plug-in for Fedora!
Plug-ins We Ship
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Autotools (part of CDT SRPM)
CMakeed -- Editor for CMake files
EclEmma -- Code coverage tool to help you enhance your unit tests.
EGit -- git support
EMF -- Eclipse Modeling Framework
EPIC -- Perl tooling
GEF -- Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (not the Visual Editor )
MoreUnit -- Helper for writing more and better unit tests.
Mylyn -- a task-focused UI for Eclipse with bugzilla and trac integration.
Photran -- Fortran support for Eclipse
PHPEclipse -- PHP tooling
QuickREx -- Regular expression tester
RPM Specfile Generator -- This plugin makes packaging other plugins really easy.
Eclipse SETools -- SELinux policy analysis tools
Shelled -- Editor for shell scripts
SLIDE -- SLIDE is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) developers and integrators
Subclipse -- support for working with Subversion repositories
Coming soon in rawhide:
Plug-ins We'd Like To Ship
- all of it needs DTP and WTP
- could ship a stripped-down version in the meantime
- Package of lpgjavaruntime
- Fix build with lucene 2 and submit it upstream
- Fix build with java 6 - Preferably there will be stubs for all methods that appear in java 6 interfaces.
review request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484676package built with just a few features
- probably needs some non-Eclipse deps
- Valgrind
- needs BIRT
- see Features/EclipseProfilingTools
- OProfile
- could go in now
- see Features/EclipseProfilingTools
Most of the Fedora "free java" people hang out on #fedora-java on freenode . There are also people on #classpath also on Freenode. Community around Eclipse Linux tools is emerging now and developers are hanging on #eclipse-linux on freenode.
It has automated tests . You can also run individual plug-in tests .
- Introduction to Eclipse on Fedora
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Every year during the Club Industry conference, I venture outside the convention center and into the Windy City for some entertainment and culture. One of my stops is nearly always a visit to the Museum of Contemporary Art, which always gets my creative juices flowing. This year was no exception.
While viewing a remarkable exhibit on alternatives in living on the planet, a multi-room display that prompts "what if" thinking, I found myself suddenly postulating a bunch of questions about our business. Those questions and some comments (not answers) are offered below. But first, here is some background explanation.
For some time, I have been asking myself: Why can we only draw and keep 14 percent of the total population inside our doors? Given that we have greater exercise technology, more advanced trainers and instructors, greater awareness of the benefits of fitness, and government and societal support for exercise, why do we labor at keeping people engaged in physical pursuits?
Some obvious answers have been offered over the years: people have become too dependent on machines and technology; trainers and instructors have gravitated towards individual enterprises for the most part; while fitness benefits are on the rise, the eating of fats and sugars is on a faster incline; and the industry has paid too much attention to the sale of new memberships and not enough on retention.
All of the above are true. But so what? Our industry is making little difference except with those who are already active and thus "in the choir" or with those who want to give fitness a try but invariably exit after a two- to three-year period. Consider these questions: What if our present clubs are the end of the first generation of fitness facilities? What if what we offer in our facilities no longer meets the needs or wants of the majority of consumers? What if our fitness-delivery systems are in opposition to the needs systems of the average consumer? What if our methodology of physical training does not even come close to what we should be doing with members?
If our facilities no longer meet the needs of the majority, then what will the club of the future look like? We have spent gazillions of dollars on design and ambience, yet it hasn't had more than a temporary effect. Are we trying to contain fitness within our four walls and thus missing another market? It seems that with a lowered first-time-in joining rate and the lowest response-to-advertising percentage of the entire decade that facilities are creating a prohibition to participation.
If our clubs are, in fact, the culmination of a natural first generation of facilities, then will future facilities be smaller? Larger? Totally different? Will they have less equipment? More equipment? Will they be more program-driven? Less confrontational? I suspect that a major change in facilities is right around the corner, but I do not know what that change will look like.
Since our industry has been mired in a 14 percent-of-available-customers muck for nearly two years, evidence seems to show that what we present to the greater public is not what that public wants en masse.
Our fitness delivery systems are pretty much predicated on "get the members in, give them a quick sort-of assessment, introduce them to equipment a couple of times and get them the hell out of our way." Consumers are now extremely aware that, for the most part, health clubs have a production-line delivery system of fitness that neither accomplishes the immediate task at hand nor promotes longevity of membership. One could say with some authority that the majority of new members are being set up for failure in most of today's health clubs.
Are our training methods based too much on the physical and not enough on the mental, spiritual and educational needs of customers? Judging by the low number of times per year the average member attends, it appears that we are concentrating on the wrong hot buttons to keep people involved.
Surveys tell us that the bulk of Americans want to exercise and even believe they should exercise. Yet, less than 14 in 100 do exercise (at least inside our clubs), and the obesity epidemic is testament to our failure as an industry.
I am hopeful that many of you will ask of yourselves and your clubs the questions I offered. If you do, I assert that some space for change will open — space that has not been evident up to this point.
Michael Scott Scudder owns and operates MSS FitBiz Connection, an online-based club consulting and training service. Scudder can be reached at 505-690-5974 or [email protected].


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I, like many, have been following the Oscar Pistorius saga on Twitter. The plethora of tweets on one topic is something that I have not seen before. Almost everyone seems to have an opinion, a view on what happened and how it went down, and some, maybe even most, have a verdict.
Yesterday Pistorius was granted bail and the backlash was extreme. It seems many who are following the story with keen interest have a limited understanding of the judicial system yet think that they are now legal experts. These same people are reacting to bail being granted like he was found not guilty.
Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat is a Latin term that translates as: "The burden of proof lies with who declares, not who denies." This is commonly referred to as "innocent till proven guilty".
These are words that most should be familiar with and have likely heard at one point or another. The reality is that these aren't just words bandied about. They are engrained in Roman law, civil law, Islamic (sharia) law and common law. This notion is even found in our very own South African Constitution in the Bill of Rights — "every accused person has a right to a fair trial, which includes the right to be presumed innocent, to remain silent, and not to testify during the proceedings".
Even the UN has this incorporated into The Declaration of Human Rights where Article 11 reads as follows:
(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
With this case receiving a lot of international coverage and views coming in from celebrities from all over the world via Twitter, opinions are certainly flying around. Piers Morgan is having his say, Trevor Noah has made a few jokes, and even John Cleese broke his twitter silence to make an Oscar joke.
Then you have footballers, like Joey Barton, adding their two cents and last but not least Perez Hilton, the most foreknown paparazzi celebrity gossip blogger has even given his opinion on the matter.
For the most part, these celebrities are using the case as a medium to draw attention to themselves and garner more followers. In some cases it is even aligned with their jobs. But I feel that we owe it to ourselves as South Africans to rise above the temptation to rant by making presumptions over social media and give the man a fair chance to stand trial.
I am not condoning his actions in the least. His actions as documented in his affidavit seem like he had intent to kill, whether it be Reeva or an intruder. As for whether it was accidental or not, this remains to be adjudged in a court of law from June 4.
I am not against some of the views and opinions about the case. I'm even okay with some of the banter with trending topics like #ThingsFoundInOscarsHouse and #SinceNairsReadingStarted but it is not up to us pass the verdict. The burden of proof is on the prosecution. They have to collect and present enough compelling evidence to convince the court, which is obliged to consider only actual evidence and testimony that is legally admissible as well as lawfully obtained, that the Oscar is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.


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The latest update is Vluzacn's ZHLT v33 released on 2014/2/2.
v33 Details: http://forums.svencoop.com/showthrea...122#post498122
v33 Download: http://forums.svencoop.com/attachmen...chmentid=15666
Details of previous updates:
v31: http://forums.svencoop.com/showthrea...258#post496258
v30: http://forums.svencoop.com/showthrea...683#post488683
v29: http://forums.svencoop.com/showthrea...056#post486056
v28: http://forums.svencoop.com/showthrea...993#post485993
v26: http://forums.svencoop.com/showthrea...657#post482657
v25: http://forums.svencoop.com/showthrea...471#post476471
v23: http://forums.svencoop.com/showthrea...614#post463614
v20: http://forums.svencoop.com/showthrea...329#post461329
v17: http://forums.svencoop.com/showthrea...742#post452742
v16: on this page
v13: on this page
I am here to ask for advice for my custom version of zhlt, since I have noticed that there are also people working on zhlt here.
Note: my English is poor.
It is based on hlcsg, hlbsp in v3.4 and hlvis, hlrad in merl's version, and I carefully added in 'transparency.cpp' of v3.4 hlrad.
You can search for 'vluzacn' to find out all my changes in code.
1. opaque entities
Faster code in 'TestSegmentAgainstOpaqueList': by grouping opaque faces according to their model number.
No bugs in all procedures (direct, bounce), all kinds of light (point, sun, sky) and all vismatrix settings.
In hlcsg, added a flag to automatically copy all brushes of an opaque entity to world and retexture with 'SKIP', so it can chop solid faces.
Disabled reducing of facelight in semiopaque entities.
Fixed wrong opacity when light goes through edge of adjacent semiopaque face.
2. bounce light
Fixed bad assumption that 50% of light of a face must be send out to other faces, witch result in incorrect lighting when sky is used. Then 'SwapTransfers' procedure was removed.
Added a option to adjuct the precentage of light bounced, instead of the constant 50%.
Compress transfer data to cut down memory usage.
3. dynamic light
In gamma correction, consider dynamic light and static together (because in game, they are added without gamma).
Added support for multiple light_environments.
Coring preforms pre style instead of per light, and also performs in bounced light.
4. tricks for entities
Use 'zhlt_transform' key to scale(use its origin as center) or move an entity. Use '-scale #' option in hlcsg to scale the whole map.
Use 'zhlt_usemodel' key to delete model of this entity and copy 'model' value from another entity specified by the value of 'zhlt_usemodel'.
Text string in entity 'game_text' converts to UTF8 format.
You can alter the brightness of the sample under a mdl(such as 'cycler' entity) to fix incorrect brightness of mdl. Add key 'zhlt_copylight' to mdl entity, then lighting information will be copied from the sample under the target entity of 'zhlt_copylight' to the sample under the mdl.
5. compiling
Popup a console window if the compiler is not running in console.
Options can be setted in 'settings.txt'.
6. other features
Allow faces to be outside +/-4096 to build a larger map. Note, origin of visible objects (such as player, brush entity) should never be outside +/-4096.
Use textures such as 'nullnoclip' for advanced cliphull edit of brush.
Strip lightmap data of an entity if key 'zhlt_striprad' is setted.
Fixed sample position bug when a face is blocked but not chopped.
There are also many features that I intend to include in the future, such as special shadow for '{' texture, different bounce scale for different texture color, 'light_texture' entity, etc.
Please download from the link at the top. Don't download this older version: vluzacn.zip


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Benjamin Wheeler moved to Newtown in April
Benjamin's family moved to Newtown last April.
Neighbors Peter and Jackie Bearce visited the Wheeler home Sunday to deliver their condolences, a batch of cookies and a bouquet of flowers but didn't see their neighbors, Francine and David. Jackie said she saw Benjamin, 6, every morning as he waited for the bus with his mother.
The dark-haired boy would also follow his father around the yard as he performed chores, handing him tools or picking up sticks from the ground, said Peter Bearce. Benjamin's mother and father are both entertainers. Francine sings in a children's music group, while David is a writer and performer on stage.
On Francine's band's Facebook page, the following message was posted Sunday: "With heavy hearts, we inform you of our saddest news: Francine Wheeler, a founding member of The Dream Jam Band, has lost her precious 6-year old son, Ben, to the tragedy in Newtown Connecticut. Our prayers and love go out to Francine, David and Ben's big brother, Nate."


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ACA enrollments pick up steam but don't include many young people
(CNN) — The Affordable Care Act might be off to a slow start but it's starting to pick up steam, at least in states that are not using the beleaguered HealthCare.gov website.
For the past month, CNN has conducted a state-by-state survey to determine enrollment in the new insurance plans. As of Tuesday afternoon, at least 133,257 people had chosen new insurance plans in the 14 states with their own signup apparatuses. Nearly half of them were enrolled in the past two weeks.
One of the biggest jumps is in California. Through November 2, 35,364 Californians had selected private plans through the new insurance marketplace. Less than two weeks later, the number was up to 59,000. The state with the second-highest enrollment is New York, where at least 24,509 have selected a plan. The next highest enrollments are in Washington state, Kentucky and Connecticut.
Enrollment is harder to pin down in the 36 states using HealthCare.gov, although it's running well behind the states with their own programs. As of November 2, just 26,794 people had enrolled in the HealthCare.gov states. CNN's current tally for this group is 43,743 enrollees, but that's based on just a handful of states that have provided updates.
In addition, 58,857 newly eligible people have enrolled in state Medicaid programs, with another 275,131 people signed up to start Medicaid coverage on January 1, 2014.
Young, healthy needed
Aside from raw enrollment numbers, the data are being scrutinized for any hints about the makeup of the newly insured.
In its projections, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that 7 million people would enroll in private insurance plans through the marketplaces in 2014, and that 2.7 million — about 38% of the total — would be between the ages of 18 and 34.
"There's general agreement that we need younger and healthier people to offset the costs of sicker people coming into the system," says Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, an industry group. "That's what will add more stability."
If the concentration of older and sicker enrollees in the new plans is too high, insurers could be forced to raise their rates, which would further discourage young and healthy people from signing up. Taken to an extreme, this vicious cycle could — in theory — lead to what Obamacare critics call a "death spiral" and the collapse of the law.
Industry spokesman: Too early to draw conclusions
So, how's it going?
It's a limited picture. HHS hasn't released demographic data for people signing up through HealthCare.gov, and only three states provided their own data to CNN. In those states, the number of under-35 enrollees is less than CBO projected: in Kentucky, 19% of enrollees are age 18-34. In Connecticut and Washington state, the figures are 22% and 23%, respectively.
But Zirkelbach says it's way too early to draw conclusions. "There's lots of evidence to suggest that people needing serious medical care are most likely to purchase insurance initially. Those who don't have urgent medical needs are more likely to purchase insurance later."
What's more, age is only a piece of the puzzle. Since those applying for insurance no longer disclose anything about their health, Zirkelbach says insurers won't have a good sense of their medical needs — and what it will cost to cover them — until well into 2014.
Obamacare architect: No risk of a 'death spiral'
The law's supporters say the dire scenarios are farfetched.
"There is essentially no risk of a 'death spiral,'" says MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, who helped design the ACA as well as the Massachusetts law on which it was modeled. "There are substantial risk mitigation mechanisms as well as subsidies that will attract in healthy enrollees." Most important, say Gruber and Zirkelbach, is a section of the ACA under which the federal government will pick up a substantial portion of the losses for the next three years, if the program goes sour for insurers.
There's no precedent for a program of this size and scale, and Gruber warns that that the early data are ripe for overinterpretation. While fewer young and healthy customers would mean higher premiums, "it's hard to say how big a difference 28% vs. 38% makes — we just don't know."
The trends are likely to come into sharper focus in the next several weeks. Most experts expect the pace of enrollment to accelerate, as the HealthCare.gov website starts to function better and potential customers have more of a chance to explore their options.
So far, by CNN's count nearly 900,000 people have completed applications for new insurance but have not yet selected a plan.


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The story begins March 8, 1961 in Scarborough, Ontario. Murphy was regularly shuffled back and forth between playing forward and defense on his minor league teams. One season, when the only spot available on the team with which Murphy wanted to play was defense, he shrugged, accepted the role and played on the blueline from that day forward. It turned out to be an outstanding decision.
Murphy joined the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League in 1978-79, and contributed six goals and 21 assists to an offense that not only took the Petes to the Memorial Cup, but collected the junior championship crown. The next season, with Larry finding his niche as a junior, he scored 21 goals and added 68 assists for 89 points. Peterborough advanced to the Memorial Cup finals for a second straight season, and Larry earned a berth on the OMJHL's First All-Star Team. Later, he was named to Team Canada's Under-Twenty World Championship squad.
Following his outstanding junior career, Larry Murphy was the fourth overall selection in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft, going to the Los Angeles Kings with that franchise's first pick. Jumping straight from junior to the National Hockey League as a nineteen year old, Murphy proved that his skills were legitimate. In 1980-81, his freshman season, Murphy recorded 16 goals and 60 assists for 76 points. The assists and point totals set records for a rookie defenseman. Larry finished as the runner-up for the league's Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's Rookie of the Year in 1979-80, which was collected by 25 year old Peter Stastny of the Quebec Nordiques. Murphy's point total was fourth on the Kings that season, behind only the Kings' vaunted Triple Crown Line of Marcel Dionne, Dave Taylor and Charlie Simmer.
In his second NHL season, Larry cracked the twenty-goal mark for the first of five times through his NHL career, finishing with 22. That total was fifth on the Kings in 19810-82, while his 66 points placed him fourth on the franchise's list that season.
Early in his fourth season with L.A., Larry was traded to the Washington Capitals. On October 18, 1983, the Kings sent Murphy to the Nation's Capital in exchange for Ken Houston and Brian Engblom. It turned out to be one of the most lopsided trades of all-time. While Houston and Engblom scored a combined 93 points over the remainder of their careers, Larry Murphy added another 1,009 points before retiring in 2001.
Larry Murphy continued his offensive exploits with Washington, earning his first selection to the NHL's All-Star Team in 1987. Murphy was selected to the league's Second Team after compiling 23 goals (a career best) and 81 points, the second highest total of his career.
On March 7, 1989, just before the playoff run, Larry was part of a blockbuster trade that saw him and Mike Gartner go to the Minnesota North Stars, while Dino Ciccarelli and Bob Rouse packed for Washington. Then, on December 11, 1990, Murphy again changed teams, going to Pittsburgh with Peter Taglianetti while Chris Dahlquist and Jim Johnson became North Stars. As a Penguin, Murphy's offense bloomed once again, and in his first season in black and gold, Larry and his Pittsburgh teammates collected the Stanley Cup; the first in franchise history. In 1991-92, Larry scored 21 goals and 77 points and helped the Penguins win a second straight Stanley Cup championship. During his stint with Pittsburgh, Larry was named to the NHL's Second Team All-Star in 1993, enjoying a career year with 85 points, compiled from his 22 goals and 63 assists. Murphy was named to the Second All-Star Team again in 1995 while playing with the Penguins.
During the summer of 1995, Larry Murphy was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in return for Dmitri Mironov and a second round draft selection. He spent nearly two tumultuous years in Toronto before the Detroit Red Wings secured the talented defenseman for their run for the Stanley Cup late into the 1996-97 season. The deal reinvigorated Murphy, and he played a significant role in the Red Wings' Stanley Cup victory that spring. Paralleling the feat accomplished by the Murphy-led Pittsburgh Penguins earlier in the decade, Larry was again part of back-to-back championships when the Red Wings claimed their second consecutive Cup in 1998. The forty-year-old Murphy retired in 2001 after a stellar 21-season career which included five 20-goal seasons, eleven 60-point seasons plus two Canada Cup championships (1987 and 1991).
Murphy left the game ranked second all-time in NHL games played and third all-time in assists and points by a defenseman. His astonishing totals include 287 goals and 929 assists for 1,216 points through 1,615 regular season contests. In 215 playoff games, Larry added 37 goals and 115 assists for 152 points.
In a November 2004 issue of The Hockey News, Hall of Fame coach Scotty Bowman stated, "Murphy was a smart, studious player. It was his understanding of what he could do that made him special." Bowman continued, "He formed a great partnership in Pittsburgh with Ulf Samuelsson and Detroit with (Niklas) Lidstrom."
Steady, reliable and tremendously gifted offensively, Larry Murphy was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2004, his first year of eligibility.
Following his retirement from playing, Murphy stayed in the game as a broadcaster, adding his unique experience to games broadcast by Fox Detroit and the NHL Network.
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So ... after months was testing diferent things to find out how the fck they disconnect us from game!
one day random something "happened" to me and my game minimise! when i reopened it the enemie had dc!
Dint took it serious coz some times they have lag issues!
anyway this thing has happen to me 4-5 more times and my enemie got dc! then i figured out whats wrong!
So ... some1 from staff members PM me i wanna tell u whats the bug! ofc cant name it coz every1 ll start use it!
P.S. never used it, just happen to me random tbh! am 40 years old and i love fairplay, thats why i share it ofc!
name in game Konstantinos for those who has meet me! cheers!


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For this first post in my new topic theme of On The Street Where They Lived, I am focusing on the family of my great uncle Frederick Read who was born in 1866 at Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire and died in 1908 at Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire.
I have mentioned great uncle Frederick before in the Tombstone Tuesday section. He was a champion duck breeder and was the originator of the famous Aylesbury Duck. (I have a pet duck, Demelza – her hubby Donny died last year), I wonder if great uncle Frederick is where I get my love of ducks from!!?
Great uncle Frederick married Annie Sophia Ridgway ( and it's through her family that I have found a connection with the footballer David Beckham – but that's another story)!! Frederick and Annie (1868 – 1955) married 22nd February 1888 at Weston Turville, where Annie was from and went on to have ten children.
Here is a photo of Annie outside their house at 73 Weston Road, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire.
I know the house had the name of Roseheath, because that is the information supplied to me when I was also given a copy of this next photograph which is of the same house. I don't know the dates of either photographs but I am thinking that this second photo is a number of years earlier!
I'm not sure who the gentleman in the photograph is, but it is more than likely one of my Read ancestors. I think he looks a little like George Read (1864 – 1949) who would be great uncle Frederick's brother.
This next photo shows great uncle Frederick's wife Annie with their children, after he had died.
This photo was taken about 1918. I'm sorry that, as yet, I haven't found a photograph of great uncle Frederick with his family. But, it is good to see this – I just so love to see ancestor photos!!
Here is Frederick and Annie.


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What are some DIMENSION OBJECTS you would like to see in the game to place in your Dimension?
well for me I would like: (no order)
*Character Statues
- Statues that display character in the action of combat but made of stone with plaque on it describing the hero.
- Statues for alts as well.
-Statues of action of combat with spell animations part of the statue as well.
-place different house models in the dimension with indoor rooms etc.
-vary in size, from small single room, to large mansions with upstairs and main floor.
-minecraft style blocks come to mind here.
-Different textures as well.
*Training Dummies
-Healing dummy
-DPS dummy
-Tanking dummy that can hit you but stop at 1% HP. with adjusted damage levels.
*Pet Zoo
-display companions in a area they can wander around and even interact with each other.
*Storage Box
-can store crafting mats, but cant craft from the storage box so people still would need to go to major cities to move things to bank to craft from.
-holds costumes and fluff items.
*Wardrobe Display
-similar to statues, but display armor and weapon of choice on it. doesnt have action poses like the hero statues.
*Arena Pits
-Special arena pit that allow players to pick the allied teams and fight each other in them to win points. -Arena Master, the dimension owner inputs the rules of the arena before the match, and the game handles the rest.
-rules like, if FFA, or if is 1v1 or 5vs5 etc, and how many rounds of fighting, and how many teams fighting, like 1v1v1 or 3v3v3 etc.
-Arena Master can place traps on their Arena design.
*Monster Interactions
-Monsters like Dragons, and huge monsters can show up at random times , like a huge dragon flys over your dimension sky. or a huge scary giant walks by.
*Mini Game Stations
-Plants vs Zombies Rift style.
-Tower Defense Rift style.
-Kart Racing/battle Rift style.
-Pet battles Rift style.
-battle chest Rift style.
-RTS Rift style.
-MOBA Rift style.
-FPS shooter Rift style.
-allow players to paint and draw art paintings.


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Cortland wrote:And I'm still drawing a comic called Out at Five, which gets updated on occasion. And I'm still a Cornstalker. Dammit.
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VileTerror wrote:Quite right, Cope.
Although, congratulations on the weight loss, 'princess.
Tim wrote:... and for the last few years I've been in Portland, Oregon, taking a stab at the life of an indie game developer.
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A firmware upgrade for ScopeMeter test tool 120 Series is available, which gives you the following additional functions:
- The new firmware provides probe settings 20:1 and 200:1 for the DP120 differential probe. The 1000:1 probe setting has been canceled.
- In the previous firmware the print function only supports A4 paper format
- Probe settings 1000:1, 10 mV/mA, and 0.1 mV/A have been added.
- When a temperature or diode measurement is trendplotted, and the Fluke123 is switched off and on again, the vertical scaling information is shown.
- The trigger icon in VIDEO mode is automatically set to negative edge ( ) at VIDEO POLARITY POSITIVE, and to positive edge ( ) at VIDEO POLARITY NEGATIVE. This reflects the actual trigger edge.
- The following bug has been solved:
Set Input B OFF, select TRENDPLOT, press HOLD, press V Hz A (INPUT B MEASUREMENTS menu), press right arrow key (MEASURE on B), press F4 (ENTER), press F4 (YES, restart TRENDPLOT); TRENDPLOT is restarted now, but the display still shows HOLD in V01.03 and lower.
Upgrading Version V1.00, V1.02, V1.03 or V1.04 to Version V1.08
Instruments with firmware version V1.0x are field upgradable free of charge.
Please contact the Fluke service department for firmware updates on this product.
FlashTool Software requirements:
- Fluke 123 Series ScopeMeter, with firmware version V1.00, V1.02, V1.03 or V1.04 (See Firmware Level Check below);
- A PC, running Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, NT 4.0, XP or Vista, with a free RS-232 or USB port to perform the software installation;
- PM9080 or OC4USB (RevII) optically isolated serial interface cable (as included with the ScopeMeter 123/S model and with the SCC-120 kit) for data interconnection between the PC and the instrument
Firmware Level Check
Press USER OPTIONS and F3 [VERSION & CAL …] on your ScopeMeter to check its firmware version.


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Over the next week, New Orleans' annual fall comedy fest, Hell Yes Fest (Nov. 12th-18th), will fill seven venues with comedy lovers and performers of all types. From sketch and improv to stand-up, films and full productions, dozens of performers will put on shows that have a little something for everyone.
Hell Yes Fest is an annual comedy festival held in November in NOLA and each April in Austin, TX. While those in the comedy scene have long said that the city has not been a center or accessible city for good comedy, the scene is coming back with a vengeance to prove the quality and quantity of comedians located in and around the area. (plus some of the fest's special visiting acts).
Different shows for Hell Yes Fest take place at a handful of venues throughout the city. Opening night, headlining weekend shows and closing night will all take place at One Eyed Jacks, and Hell Yes Film Fest's opening night is at Prytania Theater. All sketch comedy shows and podcast recordings are hosted at The New Movement, and all improv comedy shows take place at The Shadowbox. Special production shows take place at Café Istanbul. Most stand-up comedy shows are held at Hi-Ho Lounge except for one stand-up showcase which will be held at House of Blues.
The Hell Yes Film Fest is the cinematic portion of the comedy festival. Screenings for the spotlight feature The Bounceback and NOLA Webseries Sunken City will be held at Prytania Theater on Wednesday, Nov. 13th. The Standup/Short Film Mashup, featuring such short films as Red Light, Model Wife and How It's Made, will take place at Hi-Ho Lounge on Thursday, Nov. 14th. On Friday, Nov. 15th, you can see the film Summer League at Café Istanbul.
Headliners include Todd Barry, Sara Schaefer, Eric Andre Show, Sean Patton, Mark Normand, the Lucas Brothers, Nick Rutherford, Jade Catta-Preta, Stupid Time Machine, Terrified! and more. An honorable mention, local female duo, rude., features natives Colleen Allerton and Lauren LaBorde, creators of the viral video "My Purse, My Choice," which enjoyed more than 400,000 views and was featured on MSNBC, The Today Show, CNN, The New York Times and social media pages the city and country over.
If you're looking for something fresh and fun to do over the next week, head over to any one of these venues to enjoy new acts each night, all promising a wealth of comedy gold.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 114 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
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My name is Jonathon Lee and I am starting my own law practice. I am entering into a world where "big law" reigns supreme and need to capture my audience with a professional logo that lets others know I am a serious player and can bring a fight to the table for my clients.
My most concerning audience is other law firms. When you receive stationary from a law firm, most often you don't know anything about them. That first impression can help to legitimize you and your practice. I need you to help me reach that goal. My secondary audience would be my clients. I want them to see a logo and feel that they are being represented by a true professional.
I am looking for a logo that can be used as letter head and on business cards and/or other appropriate items. I was thinking about something with interlocking L's, but by no means am I attached to that concept. The scales of justice and/or lady justice are often used in law firm logos. I am not concerned with having such an image attached to my own logo but would not look down at any submissions that utilize such an image. My biggest concern is looking competent, professional, capable, and experienced. I have seen law firm logos that are done poorly and you don't take that particular person/firm/client seriously. I like the colors gold and blue but am not sure that they go together, maybe one or the other. Having said that though, I am not opposed to other colors that invoke a sense of power and/or professionalism. I am depending on you to be my creative muse, my creative side is lacking. One note, my practice will be in the middle of appalachia, so, it might be appropriate to use some type of mountain image with the logo to symbolize not only my heritage and practice area, but also a sense of power and strength. Help me out, I have seen the work on this site and have been impressed....I am counting on you! Thanks for your help and good luck!


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Welcome to Health & Wellness Herbal Products Website!
Our mission is to introduce you to some of the best healing herbal products which may be easily acquired and the effective way of using them to build a healthier life.
Today, more and more people are disillusioned with modern medicine and turning to natural healing as a viable means of curing all kinds of ailments, chronic illnesses, injuries and maintaining good health. Herbs and various herbal products are but one of many natural cures people are turning to when their bodies are in distress.
Because for generations humans have used herbs to treat illnesses and symptoms, detoxify the body and bolster immunity and herbs have proved to be effective as an alternative to prescription drugs that so often cause the damaging side effects.
Even medical doctors do not so easily dismiss the natural herbal remedies as old wives tales these days; in fact many have supplemented their orthodox medical training by taking courses in philosophy and natural healing techniques, thus becoming licensed holistic M.D.s. Others have become N.Ds (doctors of naturopathic medicine) and they are licensed to practice in a number of US states.
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2 large eggplant, sliced into 1/4 inch thick rounds
1/4 cup crumbled cheese (I used feta but Parmesan would work beautifully as well)
2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Sprinkle salt on eggplant and allow the eggplant to weep for about 30 minutes.
Preheat your oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
Pat the eggplant dry with a dish cloth and then place on a half sheet pan. Drizzle the rounds with the olive oil.
Bake for about 30-40 minutes, flipping after about 20 minutes.
When the eggplant starts to brown, remove from the oven and sprinkle with the cheese. Return the eggplant to the oven and bake for another 5-10 minutes until crisp.


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Alive and well: Hip-hop contest brings 'em out
His clothes looked brand new: white sneakers with baby blue highlights, crisp blue jeans, and a wrinkle-free blue t-shirt proclaiming, "Hip-Hop Is Dead." He smiled as he and his group pranced around the stage (and the entire room) rapping about everything and nothing. Even though the name of the outfit was Solo4, there were actually five of them. Only two rapped, but they all seemed to be taking their great big rap joke very seriously. They had practiced hard for this event and didn't want to miss any steps.
In the first real-deal urban music industry showcase to touch down in Charlottesville, Git It Ryte Records and Strong Quality Music held auditions for a talent search competition in New Haven, Connecticut. Because reps of major music labels will attend the Connecticut competition, the opportunity to tryout brought hopeful rappers from all over Virginia, D.C., and Maryland.
About 20 artists showed up for the event. Local hip-hop landmark J-Gifted and C-ville newcomers VA DreamTeam performed sets. Newport News sent South City. Notable in a large contingent of MCs from Buckingham County was a young frail cat by the name of Danjerous.
For the most part, these were some hardcore rappers, with the gangster mentality in the forefront. (On the other side were anti-gangster cats who talked trash about the gangster types.) Either way, the topics were stern and serious. These days, passion for hip-hop seems to be washed with anguish, desperation, or disdain.
Solo4 came all the way from Maryland. The looks on the faces of the other acts waiting to get on stage telegraphed that even if hip-hop wasn't dead, there were going to be about five dead corny rappers from Maryland if that group didn't finish their set quick. But the truth is, hip-hop is far from dead. It has evolved into something serious, a life-or-death art form, a way of life far beyond the laugh-it-up golden age of MC's like the Fat Boys and The Pharcyde.
At the end of the night, Solo4 didn't make the cut, and I wasn't surprised. The way the rap music industry is these days, there just isn't any room for tongue-n-cheek silly rappers.
The night went smoothly, and the top five performers earned the right to perform for label bosses in Connecticut: J-Gifted, Phy-sick, Ananomys, South City, and R&B crooner Jodie.
All in all, I was most impressed by the guest performer, R.E.U.B from D.C., who has a killer style and delivery. He proved to be the best balance of all the rap styles present. Too bad he wasn't eligible to compete. Cats like him are proof that hip-hop is far from dead and folks who think it is are really the ones trying to kill it.


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Paint Afternoon @ Antolin Cellars
August 18, 2018 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
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An event every week that begins at 12:30 pm on Saturday, repeating until December 28, 2019
A great experience for fun, relaxation, Nite out with friends, camaraderie, education.
Includes paint, instruction, use of tools, and your own painting on canvas to take home
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David Coker's '31 Model A Tudor Sedan - More Than Just A Pretty Face
The Newstalgia '31 sedan
If you sell wheels, the best place to show them off is on a hot rod you really like. David Coker sells wheels. The hot rod he really liked was a chopped and channeled '31 sedan owned by Richard Rawlings and Aaron Kaufman at Gas Monkey Garage. Unfortunately, before David could make an offer on the Model A, somebody else bought it. So he made an alternative offer: build another '31 sedan, as tough and functional as the first, but with a few differences in the details. In 74 days, a non-identical twin was finished and on the road.
The biggest difference in this version is the engine. David wanted a new mill with old looks and current technology. Scoggin-Dickey Parts Center came through with a 400hp ZZ4 small-block, which was put together to resemble an old survivor. The triple deuces on the Offenhauser manifold are fed by a new RetroTek Speed EFI system. The aluminum heads are capped with Technostalgia faux Oldsmobile valve covers. The handmade exhaust system is removable to run open headers. A 700-R4 AOD trans and 9-inch rear complete the drivetrain.
Kaufman designed and built the suspension, starting with a race car-solid 2x4 tubular frame, Z'd 6 inches in the front and 12 in back to drop the car to ground level, with ride height controlled by custom airbags. The frontend rides on a Super Bell dropped I-beam, with stock wishbones, split by Aaron. A four-link with trailing arms, gas shocks, and Panhard bar were added in the rear.
The '31 Tudor body was from a complete, untouched, Colorado car. The Z'd frame kept the channel to a shallow 3 3/4 inches, with a 4-inch chop to retain headroom, while giving the impression of severe cutting. Attaching the lower seat cushions directly to the floor, and dropping the floor several inches between the seat and pedals, provides even more interior space without goofing up the ergonomics.
On the outside, the patina was left untouched, but trimmed with graphics on the doors and a bunch of beautiful 'striping by Dallas rod builder Brian Bass. Late-'20s Rolls Royce headlights and the Essex-esque grille shell were found at a swap meet. The original Model A taillight was centered in the rear.
David is the owner of Newstalgia Wheel and wasn't about to mount steelies on his company car. These 15x10 and 15x6 cast-aluminum Radir Tri Rib IIIs (in P285/70R15 and P205/75R15 BFG Silvertown whitewalls) prove his point that traditional rods don't have to have steel wheels.
The interior was built around David's height and posture. Johnny Saunders at Exclusive Auto Interiors in Dallas covered the inside in grass weave carpeting, and upholstered the seat cushions in high-grade leather with a hand-sewn baseball cross stitch, which extends to the removable top. Air from a Ford Mustang and a stereo system hide underneath the '38 Ford dash, which was extended toward the driver and retains the '38 banjo wheel and original gauges.
David's waist-high pavement-scraper will be drawing attention as the Newstalgia display at rod events all season, and on the streets of Dallas on the days in between.


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cwinter1 had een nieuw logo ontwerp nodig en lanceerde daarom een wedstrijd op 99designs.
2 winnaars werden geselecteerd uit 85 ontwerpen ingezonden door27 freelance designers.
I am looking for a logo for my company, Winterhalter Music, a music studio which offers private instruction and group classes.
Desired Color Scheme:
black and white of the piano keys and maybe one or two other colors for contrast(maybe for company name)
Desired Style:
Simple and classy. Easy to read and easily identifiable as a music company. Not too busy with too many different musical symbols.
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.PSD and font files
Winterhalter Music is the name of my newly formed private music studio company. Winterhalter Music offers private music lessons for students from about four years old to adult. We also offer children's group classes which introduce our students to the various musical instruments and instrument families. I am looking for a professional logo to use for my studio website. I would like the logo to incorporate a piano or the keyboard of a piano in some way, as the majority of our students are learning to play the piano. Music notes, rhythms, or other musical symbols may be used as well.
I've decided to add in a second prize. First prize will be for the winning logo which I will use for my website and other promotional material. Second prize will be for a business card design which uses the logo.
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On Indonesian Moluccas many people are still living without access to clean water. Every day they use many hours on procuring water from streams or from boats bringing drinking water to the islands.
Thanks to a combined effort by the locally based Fastro Toma, the Dutch foundation TitanÉ and Grundfos about a 100 Villages project, those conditions will be changed for 100 villages on the islands. The standard of living will improve considerably for the inhabitants of the villages.
Solar panels and Grundfos pumps will ensure a long-lasting and autonomous supply of clean drinking water in tanks of up to 8000 litres. They will be installed at convenient places in the villages on bases with integrated taps. The first installations were completed in 2004 and none of the pumps in these installations have needed maintenance so far. After five years they are still operating without faults.
Some villages already have wells which only need to be equipped with an SQ pump and so they can be completed quickly. In other villages water has to be located and only after this is done they can start drilling. The first installations were established on the capital island of Ambon and the islands close to it. Some of the 100 villages are located much farther away in the group of islands. Here Fastro Toma expect to use more time on the installtion due to the long distances.
To date projects have been completed in seven villages. This means that more than 8000 people have obtained considerably better living conditions. The project aims to complete installations in all of the 100 villages by 2015.


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Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Hakka Hakki - Episode 209 | 12th August 2019 Ft. Daman Rupakheti, Ram Thapa | Comedy Serial Hakka Hakki Nepali Comedy Serial Directed By Daman Rupakheti is now part of Highlights Nepal Pvt. Ltd.
Artists : Daman Rupakheti, Raju Bhuju, Ram Thapa, Umesh Kumar KC, Prakash Neupane, Shiva Sharma, Janak Prasad Bartaula, Simran Paudel, Sujit Thapa, Parwan Rai, Dharanidhar Neupane, Maniraj Kafley , Rajan Chaulagai, R. K. Manandhar , Raj Kumar Kunwar , Santosh Sapkota , Sushant Giri, Shekhar Khanal, Laxman Basnet, Parban Rai, Bhimsen Adhikari Child Artist : Kristel Gurung Copyright Holder & Digital Partner : Highlights Nepal Pvt. Ltd. Writer/Director: Daman Rupakheti Chief Assistant Director : Sujit Thapa Assistant Director : Umesh Kumar K C Media Partner : Surya Chand Editor : Sarita Gautam Title Song : Shailendra Shimkhada , Shankar Adhikari Title Vocal : Daman, Rita K.C , Maniraj Kafle Music : Tanka Budhathoki Camerman : Sagar khadka Production: Bhimsen Adhikari Unit Management : Pradip Silwal CInematography : Devanand Silpakar Make up: Naresh Raj Kharel Lighting : Dipak Rayamajhi Producer : Ram Thapa
Guide of the month: January 2018
Traveling gives us the opportunity to disconnect from our regular life. You get to forget your problems/issues for a few weeks, it can also help you figure things out that you would not have understood without the distance traveling can give you. We all have crazy schedules, work and a family to take care of, going away alone or with some friends can give you distance and perhaps even make you realize how important these people are for you. Like the saying says: we never know what we have until we lose it.
Another great benefit is the relaxation you get to do. It's nice to live life to its fullest and enjoy a stress free time with yourself. Going on vacation lets us recharge our "batteries" by disconnecting us from our regular life. When we come back we feel invigorated and we are happy to be back in our day to day routine. It's a very good stress remover that has a lot more to give than most people are willing to accept.
Traveling increases our knowledge and widens our perspective. To view new customs, different ways of living is fantastic for the mind. It gives us a new perspective about life and especially our life, it can help us change some of our habits or even create new ones. When I travel I usually make it a point to try new food, some cultures don't have fries in their diet and they are all skinny, others use spices to give taste and not oils or fats. Discovering different values and ways to get by in life is really interesting. You also need to visit exotic new places and discover what this wonderful world has to offer.


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Screening of 'The Waiting Room' helps Touro's student-run clinic
By Rich Freedman
A hospital's emergency room is not for the timid, the squeamish, or the faint of heart.
It is a point of constant patient-doctor-staff interaction and survival in what's often a precarious circumstance.
Peter Nicks saw the potential of filming those intimate moments of humanity with the documentary, "The Waiting Room," a bird's eye look into a fractured health care system.
More than 100 screenings of the 81-minute film later, Nicks remains ensconced in showcasing the behind-the-scenes look at Highlands Hospital in Oakland.
Nicks takes the documentary to Vallejo on Feb. 21, with a benefit screening at the Empress Theatre in downtown Vallejo. Sponsored by NorthBay Healthcare and Sutter Solano, proceeds benefit the student-run clinic from Touro University that offers free services Thursdays at the Norman C. King Community Center.
Under the banner "24 hours. 241 patients. One stretched ER," Nicks focuses on five patients at a facility that sees mostly uninsured patients.
Making various "Top 10 films to see" from the 2012 offerings has been gratifying to Nicks, an Emmy-winning former ABC News New York producer.
It's all about the audience's reaction, he said by phone recently.
"It's almost like a stunned silence" when the film concludes, Nicks said. "Then cheers. That is the feeling. People are shaken a little bit. It's quite profound to see the emotional impact."
Nicks said he's seen the film at least 200 times and can still get different nuances from it.
"It's definitely the kind of film you can see multiple times," he said. "There's so much going on. It's so layered. I can still not get bored and still feel it, which is pretty amazing."
Documentaries are often about tugging on a viewer's emotions and Nicks said he's achieved that with "The Waiting Room."
"I thought we had a film that would move people that was outside the mold of modern documentaries," he said. "I'm grateful the audience response has been constantly strong."
Emergency room waiting rooms "are such a universal experience," Nicks said. "Whether you're liberal or conservative, people often feel at the mercy of the system. We're all vulnerable."
Insured or not, procedures covered or not. It's often unbearable for many, Nicks said.
"The feeling of being part of a commercial enterprise," he added. "If you have insurance, you don't know what you're getting that you pay for. If you're uninsured, you get what they give you and hope you get treated with dignity."
Nicks discovered that "the system may be broken, but the people are not. I found resilience among the patient population and the height of empathy and skill among the caregivers."
Not unlike most films, "The Waiting Room" was difficult to edit, Nicks said.
"It was challenging. There was so much stuff. We filmed all over the hospital and it took six months just to sort it out and put the focus on the waiting room," Nicks said, adding that it took time for the film to "get legs."
"We didn't get into any big film festivals. It was rejected by 22 festivals," Nicks said, managing to laugh.
Sundance, the zenith of film fests, declined entry to "The Waiting Room."
"I thought we had a really good film and thought we'd get into Sundance," Nicks said. "They seemed to like the film. I was disappointed. There was some doubt."
Slowly, however, audience support and critical acclaim provided some buzz.
"You have to keep pushing," Nicks said. "I believed in the film and felt it would get noticed."
Showing both the patient anxiety and health care personnel frustration provided a balanced message.
"Doctors keep showing up, doing the best they can within a broken system," Nicks said, finding that physicians often feel as if they're "shoveling sand against the tide."
Nicks couldn't help but become emotionally involved with some of the people in the film.
"Seeing someone young being told a loved one passed away is incredibly difficult," Nicks said.
Highlands handles a significant number of victims of violence, which was also difficult to witness, the director said.
"The shootings are unbelievable and unreal," Nicks said.
"The Waiting Room" confronts several issues, he noted, from healthcare to the economy, to community violence and immigration.
"I could probably spend the rest of my life making films just at Highlands," said Nicks . "I think there's another film there that's as powerful or more powerful than 'The Waiting Room.' I feel like we only scratched the surface."
If you go ...
What: "The Waiting Room," a documentary screening, with director Peter Nicks
Why: Benefits student-run clinic at Touro University
When: Feb. 21, 7 p.m.
Where: Empress Theatre, 330 Virginia St., Vallejo
Tickets: $15 screening only; $50 for champagne reception and screening
Info: empresstheatre.org; (707) 638-5285
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