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|The siren song of the supermarket is hard to resist — sinful bakery treats, luscious take-away fare and intriguing new foods are all placed strategically in your path at eye level to tempt to you to buy, buy, buy. To avoid making imprudent purchases — which are typically bad for both your wallet and your waistline — create a shopping list before heading out to the store and stick to it, suggests consumer savings expert Andrea Woroch. Your body and bank account will thank you.
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|There are multiple half-used jars of mayo (not to mention jams, salad dressing, mustards, etc.) in my mom's fridge. Why? She never takes inventory to see what she has, what's expired or what she needs, so she keeps buying doubles and triples of things. Smart shoppers keep their fridge, freezer and pantry organized, so that they always know what they have on hand for potential meals, and can fill out their cabinets with recipe-ready spices, condiments and staples purchased on sale.
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|For quick supermarket trips, opt for the hand-held basket, says Woroch, since large carts encourage us to fill them to the brim with things we want but don't really need. Ungainly baskets on the other hand, keep us in line since there's only so much available space. "The heavier the basket becomes, the faster you will realize you are adding unnecessary items," she says, making it easier to resist that second box of cookies. Plus, you'll be less tempted to meander through the aisles, losing willpower as you go. "The longer we stay in a store the more money we spend," says Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert, a leading food industry analyst, writer and trend-watcher. So anything that gets you in and out is a good thing.
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|Supermarkets have lots of wily ways to get you spend — including tempting "multiple buy" offers. "Many grocery stores will offer 10 for $10 specials, for example, but that doesn't mean you have to buy ALL ten items to get the discount," says Jackie Warrick, senior savings adviser at CouponCabin.com. "Just buy the one or two items you specifically need, and you'll still get the savings benefits." That said, sometimes there is a higher single item price or a "must buy x number" provision (usually somewhere small so you miss it) so it pays (literally) to be vigilant. Other forms of supermarket trickery include placing the most expensive items at eye level, and stocking end caps with "sales" that aren't. Sneaky stuff.
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|There's gold in them there coupons. "Using them takes discipline, but once you get a system down, you can really save," says Nisa Burns, is the author of "Kitchenability 101: The College Student's Guide to Easy, Healthy, and Delicious Food." Mostly found in the Sunday paper, it's often worth it to pick an extra copy or two, just for the coups. (You can also hover near the recycling bin of your favorite coffeehouse.) If you often buy a lot of the same item, check out eBay to see if someone is selling a coupon lot for that item. You can also print out internet coupons from sites like redplum.com and couponsource.com, though not every retailer accepts them (always ask). And check out mobile apps from CouponSherpa.com and CouponCabin.com, which let you save on the go.
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Since long before boxed hair dyes were in existence, people have been using henna to dye hair, skin, fingernails, fabrics, and other materials. The dye preparation is referred to as henna, sharing its name with the flowering plant from which the dye is derived. The temporary skin art that is created using the dye is also called henna. The henna plant is native to regions of Africa and southern Asia. As a plant, henna typically grows into a small tree with many branches. The small shrub produces brown fruit and small flowers. The color traditionally associated with henna is derived from the leaves. It should be noted that henna leaves in their natural, whole form will not dye or stain clothing or skin.
Henna has been used to create body and nail art and to color hair and materials since the Bronze Age. In many areas around the world, henna is an integral part of cultural traditions and celebrations. In many cultures and societies, it is still common to see brides and wedding guests tattooed with henna.
When creating a skin dye, henna is worked into a thick paste using fresh leaves or dried henna powder. The ground henna is mixed with a mildly acidic liquid such as strong tea or lemon juice to create a thick and workable paste. Plain water can also be used, though results will not be as successful. For best results, the henna mixture should be left for 6 to 24 hours before being applied to the body. This allows the lawsone, which is responsible for staining the skin, to be fully released from the leaves or powder. Once it is applied to the skin, the henna paste must be allowed to dry and set on the skin for several hours. The longevity of henna designs vary depending on skin type, quality of the ingredients used in the paste and the length of time that the paste is allowed to set on the skin. Designs can remain on the skin for a few days to a month.
Henna paste can be applied to the skin using various methods and tools to create the desired design. Henna stains appear as an orange color shortly after application. Over the days following application, henna stains will grow into a darker hue which will slowly fade over time. Hands and feet can hold henna stains the longest due to the thickness of the skin in these areas.
As a hair dye, henna has a long history dating back 6,000 years. Cultures in India, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe can all trace the use of henna hair dye for many centuries. Today, it is possible to purchase commercially packaged henna hair dye in countries all over the world. Color results can vary greatly when using henna dye so instructions should be followed carefully. Resulting hair color can range from auburn shade to a deep burgundy or even black hue. The results of using henna hair dye are impacted by the freshness and origin of the henna, the person's natural hair color, the length of time the henna is left to set on hair, and proper application and processing.
Commercial henna dyes commonly contain perfumes or herbs to improve the dye's fragrance. Hair care professionals recommend applying henna dye to hair that is clean and dry. For best results, hair should be covered while the color sets. A shower cap or disposable plastic can be used for this. The aim is to lock in moisture and heat. Henna dye takes longer to process than popular boxed dyes and should be left on hair follicles for several hours. The paste can then be rinsed out of hair to complete the coloring process.
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Sold all those wolf tickets about whipping ass and then became a track star in the ring! Usain Bolt doesn't have a thing on Paulette!
Sold all those wolf tickets about whipping ass and then became a track star in the ring! Usain Bolt doesn't have a thing on Paulette!
Ok, Paulie is REALLY tripping! Broner has no class? That may be true but what about the lack of class that Paulette showed throughout this thing? IMO, he was just as classless.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/adrien-...044900532.htmlMalignaggi, now a former two-division world champ, came out active and much more aggressive than usual, throwing a large amount of punches that mostly missed and/or struck Broner on the forearms and shoulders.
By the middle rounds, though, it became clear that there was only one fighter in the ring throwing real, scoring punches--- and that was the former lightweight champ from Cincinnati, Broner.
When Broner landed punches, they moved Malignaggi. When Malignaggi landed shots, Broner didn't budge -- although Malignaggi did last the distance against a fighter who has one of the highest knockout percentages among active titleholders.
According to CompuBox, Broner, who earned a career-high $1.5 million, landed 246 of 524 punches (47 percent), while Malignaggi, whose $1.125 million purse was also a career high, landed 214 of 843 (25 percent). Malignaggi was busy but largely ineffective, while Broner's blows were clean and doing more damage.
-- Statistical support from ShowtimeHTML Code:Malignaggi-Broner punch stats Malignaggi Broner Landed 214 246 Thrown 843 524 Pct 25% 47%
"Adrien fought one of the best boxers," Schaefer said. "If Paulie would have some power in his punches, it might have become a difficult fight for Adrien. But at the same time, Adrien was in control and he did what he had to do."
By the eighth round, Broner was in total control. Malignaggi, whose hometown crowd chanted, "Paulie! Paulie! Paulie!" during the fight, was still firing and moving well, but he simply couldn't hurt Broner, who seemed to rattle Malignaggi with everything he landed.
Broner closed the ninth round with a strong right hand that had Malignaggi making faces at him, a likely sign he had in fact been hurt by the shot.
"He hit all arms," Broner said. "He couldn't hit me. He went straight to survival mode. He kept running, and I cut him off.
"He fought exactly how I thought he would fight. I did this for my fans. He couldn't hit me. He was shadowboxing."
There is a LOT more to this Jessica story than what is being reported......
looks like your boy myweather is getting in the ring with my boy from mexico in september...i know thats one i will be paying for...that mexican has serious power...won't be able to just outpoint him and not taste leather...mayweathers gonna pay for this win if he gets it...i love it
alvarez is a red headed monster...
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the thing about Alvarez though is there is little head movement...


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Trade Down in Coffee? No Chance!
Last month, when I was standing at our booth at FMI, the rep from the plastic bag company to our left walked over to our espresso bar, put milk and sugar in her cup of Project Direct™ direct trade Peru San Ignacio, looked at me and proclaimed, without prompting, "Coffee's coffee, right?"
Just like with plastic bags, the answer is a defiant: "No!" But when I hear this commodity/cup'o'joe/coffee's-coffee approach to the beverage I love so much, it's cause for pause.
The stats: Specialty coffee grew 12% last year in grocery. Big winners: Dunkin, Peet's, and private brands. Traditional coffee grew 2%, largely from the influx of in-home brewers who left cafés and diners across the country (Nielsen).
So how do we explain the growth in specialty coffee and the flat trajectory of traditional? On the surface, it does not make sense:
- The most active coffee drinking segment, Baby Boomers, is also the largest population segment, and grew up with traditional coffee
- The Great Recession, one would think, should be driving people to "trade down" to less expensive options for their caffeine
- Folger's and Maxwell House are still the biggest brands in retail coffee, with the highest ACV
- The most active drinkers of specialty coffee (18-45) are those that have a higher tendency to drink coffee out of home
So, to explain the growth of specialty coffee in a down economy, we have to look at the culture of the coffee drinker in 2010, and the relationship he/she has with the beloved beverage. The nuts and bolts rational grocery shopping stuff like nutrition, moderation, convenience and functional benefits – all that stuff gets thrown out the window in coffee. The only rational purchase trigger in coffee is price. So then we move to the more whimsical "brand connectivity" stuff like freshness, brand appeal, status, and personal identity. That's where specialty coffee trumps traditional coffee. In fact, it's not even close. Turn on the TV and you'll still see the occasional ad for traditional coffee, but they target yester-year, forgotten eras, multi-generational family gatherings, and then a bunch of rational stuff like price and convenience. I'm sorry, but that does not work in today's coffee era. Coffee is the poster child for "affordable indulgence:" You can get a week to two weeks of deeply satisfying caffeine experiences for $7.99. The consumer has moved past the rational and is on to the emotional. That's why once you go specialty, you NEVER go back to traditional. You'll trade down to the in-home brew, but not to drinking brown water.
What's more, there is no such thing as a 23 year old at-home traditional coffee drinker. Gen Ys , and Gen Xs for that matter, grew up in the Starbucks era. Cue McDonald's gazillion investment in a "Cup of Joseph."
So…. how is a private brand going to beat a national brand in a battle for emotional mindshare? It's doable. It takes a multiple touch point approach to communications pre, in and post-store, and a legitimately high quality product.
But there's a shortcut! And it has to do with going past functional benefits and emotional triggers and onto something much simpler: appealing to the extremely bored shopper with INNOVATION.
Innovation in specialty coffee can mean auction winning coffees, direct trade coffees, micro-lot coffees, in-home brewing solutions, club memberships, tasting tours around the world, custom blends, sustainable packaging, re-usable packaging, off-the-wall branding, and so much more. And for the shopper pushing her cart down the aisle for the 52nd time in 52 weeks, breaking the boredom is how to fast track conversion on the shelf – particularly for private brands.
So, plastic bag vendor, coffee is not coffee. Not anymore. Look at the scan data, and take a closer look at why people buy coffee. Coffee isn't just coffee. Its increasingly irrational, and there's no going back!


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Lube your chain then clean it immediately with a rag to get a lot of grime out.
Lube your chain the night before and let it dry, then run it through a rag in the morning.
It is also sold in a liquid form that you can drip on your chain and refill when empty. I prefer it over the aerosol, hence 4 stars.
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Post subject: Anyone else pissed off with ACIII's glitches?
I've been playing ACIII since launch and have so far loved it but the past few times I played it I have noticed more and more glitches creeping in. Some aren't a big deal like mouths not moving with speech but others are pretty major:
1. The final liberation missions don't always trigger after the small missions are completed. Sometimes the icon vanishes and sometimes the character ignores you meaning recruitment of your contact isn't possible.
2. The lock picking animation is sometimes too high for the chest leading to the picks twisting thin air.
3. One of the traitors I was requested to follow caught on to me and triggered a fist fight. I couldn't fight back so I ran back to the mission start hoping to lose him and trigger the mission again. I started it over and the aggressive little fucker caught up with me AS A COPY OF HIM SPAWNED AND STARTED WALKING. I had to exit the Animus to sort it out.
4. The glitch that persuaded me to make this topic: Lock picking sometimes resets even if you were successful meaning you have to pick the lock again. I'm currently on my 7th attempt at picking the same goddamn lock and I've been successful each time only to have it reset.
5. Not really a glitch but the Homestead missions are only available for a finite time and once a particular (and undefined) main mission is complete you can never attempt that Homestead mission. One of my friends has missed out on at least two extra characters on the Homestead because of this ridiculous oversight.
It's a great game but these glitches and stupid design decisions almost ruin it for me and considering how long this game has had to be polished and perfected AND how many games the studio could refer to for guidance it's inexcusable.
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I honestly don't agree with the GR review grade because of them. Plenty other games get minuses because of these things, and Ass. Creed Tres should be no different.
I've only watched my brother play the game, but he's ran into some of those. My favorite was seeing a comrade of his do an aerial assassination on a poor, defenseless dog, instead of the guard right next to him.
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Im angry Im still waiting for the pc version. I guess this means the pc version could have glitches fixed by then because of the consoles but meh.
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I've since discovered how to get around the Liberation mission glitch: it's not a glitch per se, more a horrible design oversight. The viewpoints don't unveil the whole map even when they have all been found and synchronised so the small Liberation missions before you meet your contact don't all show up meaning the contact doesn't give you your final mission to liberate the area either. To find the missing missions you have to search the shrouded areas. Simple but time consuming.
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I started it over and the aggressive little fucker caught up with me AS A COPY OF HIM SPAWNED AND STARTED WALKING.
Have you ever been so mad you split yourself in 2 just so 1 of you could kick someones ass while you go on about your day?
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Im angry Im still waiting for the pc version. I guess this means the pc version could have glitches fixed by then because of the consoles but meh.
No, no it won't. This is Ubisoft, remember? It'll have even more glitches.
Honestly, too many games these days are coming out glitchy as hell. I'm aware that games are big and complex in this HD era and that delaying the game costs a ton of money, but surely developers can use those weeks/months between sending the final version of the game for printing to the release date working on a day-1 patch, after having a bunch of testers with constant feedback in the months leading up to printing.
Hell, what about all those people who don't have good or reliable internet? There's still fairly large populations of Australia who are stuck with dial-up (unless you want to pay upward of $100/mnth), can you imagine a 30mb patch on a 56k?
Imagine how people with that sort of internet feel when they get something like New Vegas for the PS3?
It's gotten to the point where it's ridiculous. Apart from my 2 latest purchases (horizon and halo 4), i generally wait a month or 2 after a release for the price drop and a patch or 2 to come out these days, and that just seems like the best way to do it.
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Technically it did have a day 1 patch. Its just not the bugs your experiencing. Spoil alert to those who haven't played.
Bug Fix
- Animus Synching tutorial, fixed an issue where the player could think he's stuck in an infinite loading when getting to Boston after the end credits
- Fixed a bug where counter-killing with the bow does not always work
- NPCs spawned too far away could end up being of the wrong type
- Camera could remain stuck after the player being respawned
- Player could remain stuck after diving from a waterfall
- Player could remain stuck if he exits a slopped hay stack at a certain angle
- player would always get immediately detected when performing an unarmed stealth assassination in another guard's back
- Under rare circumstances, the crowd would stop spawning
- Fixed an animation glitch when interrupting the reception from high profile jump
- Fixed various occurrences of missing sounds
- In some cases, the Animus Database sound ambiance was not stopped when exiting
- Various stats and leaderboards were not showing up properly
- Online shop could sometimes appear empty if fetching the data from Xbox Live is taking too long
- Mission "RETURN TO ABSTERGO" - fixed a bug where the player would lose control over Desmond during a fight if he lures and kills some guards in the wrong area
- Mission "A DEADLY PERFORMANCE" - Mission would not continue if the player decides to climb the wall instead of using the ladder
- Mission "JOHNSON'S ERRAND" - fixed a bug where the game would remain stuck if the player runs during the black screen that occurs after exiting the tavern
- Mission "THE SURGEON" - Charles Lee could fall in the water and die while following the player, causing the mission to fail, if the player decides to take a certain path that involves jumping over the water
- Mission "THE SURGEON" - fixed a bug where we would show the desync effect if the player throws one of the target in the water, even though the mission is not really failed
- Mission "WELCOME TO BOSTON" - The courier side-quest next to the general store would not start properly
- Mission "EXECUTION IS EVERYTHING", fixed a bug where the mission would not continue if the NPCs you are eavesdropping react to a dead body
- Mission "THE BRADDOCK EXPEDITION" - Mission would not continue if the player kills all enemies in the camp, killing the required target last, without triggering open conflict
- Mission "FEATHERS AND TREES" - NPC's would not detect beams properly, preventing them from performing the trunk around move
- Mission "FEATHERS AND TREES" - Mission would not continue if the player doesn't follow the expected path
- Mission "HUNTING LESSONS" - Mission giver could not be there if the player goes away and comes back
- Mission "SOMETHING TO REMEMBER", fixed a bug where the screen could become all white or black for the remainder of the mission if the player set his brightness option to anything else than the default value
- Mission "ON JOHNSON'S TRAIL", fixed a bug that could cause the optional objective "Use powder kegs to destroy smuggled cargo" to not be saved properly if the player reloads during the mission
- Mission "THE TEA PARTY'' - Optional objective "Dump crates of tea in the water" could not be completed if the player threw all crates before having killed all guards
- Mission "THE MIDNIGHT RIDE" - Mission could not be completed if the player interacts with the delivery quest giver along the way
- Mission "BRIDEWELL PRISON", Player could remain stuck prison cells
- Mission "PUBLIC EXECUTION" - Crowd NPCs could be spawned in or walk through a cart during a cinematic
- Mission "SOMETHING ON THE SIDE" - Optional objective "Perform a successful static eavesdrop" could not be completed.
- Mission "MISSING SUPPLIES" - Optional objective "Do not hide in the hay cart while following the convoy" not being saved properly if the game is reloaded during second part of the mission
Crash Fix
- Possible crash that could happen if the player blends in a crowd group where some NPCs haven't spawned yet, and while blended performs a kill.
- Possible crash that could happen if the player triggered a loading while being in a covert escort formation with his brotherhood trainees
- Possble crash that could happen when calling a brotherhood trainee with the snipe ability
Naval Mission
- "OAK ISLAND" - Player could pass through the ground when diving into the cave
- "OAK ISLAND" - Wolves could stop attacking the player and remain stuck
- Possible crash if the player spams the swivel guns with the semi-automatic cheat enabled
- Mission "HAPPY EXPECTATIONS" - Game could remain stuck on a white screen when starting the mission
- On the Homestead, fixed a bug where the player could remain stuck if he performs a corner pose on the left side of Norris' cave's entrance
Side Quest
- Brawler Challenges 3 - Task "Own every weapon available in the stores" would not complete when the player expects it to.
- Fort Monmouth and Fort Division - Quest objectives would fail too early without the fort resetting properly
- New York delivery mission - Game asked for a different item (deer heart) than what was showed to the player (venison)
- New York Liberation Missions - Possible that the game would wrongly display that 2 of the districts were completely liberated when it's not the case yet
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I certainly didn't have the trouble you're going on about. If I had suffered that many bugs I probably wouldn't have scored it so highly. Are you on Xbox?
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Yeah, X360, Dan. I've spent the last few days playing the hell out of Halo but I picked AC back up today and haven't encountered any glitches but I've already done all the liberation missions (using the method I mentioned above), and I haven't picked any locks so it's probably just that I haven't been in a position to see a glitch.
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I know lead development was on PS3 so that could be a contributing factor (I'm on PS3). Still pretty shitty. Launch model 360 or slim? That might be another factor. My 360 has had hard times with bugs since the slim came out and no one else has really had similar problems.
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I'm on a glossy 250GB Slim so new style but not a brand new model number. The fact that production was on PS3 could definitely be a major factor though.
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danielrbischoff wrote:
I know lead development was on PS3 so that could be a contributing factor (I'm on PS3). Still pretty shitty. Launch model 360 or slim? That might be another factor. My 360 has had hard times with bugs since the slim came out and no one else has really had similar problems.
Theoretically the drop in die size shouldn't change performance that badly, but i have noticed my fat tends to run up to 5FPS slower than my friends slim at certain points. Easily noticeable in 30FPS games like Halo.
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Not to mention the shitty firearm controls...
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I hate using guns or the bow and arrow. It feels terrible.
Sorry to spoil but her... potential spoilers below:
There's a mission where Connor gets arrested and put in a prison. You get released from your cell to be bought in like, the courtyard with all the other prisoners. While I was following the guard leading me out of my cell, a nearby other guard pushed me, then followed me with a bloody yellow triangle above his head, which turned red, and triggered combat.
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What did you say about his mother, Craig? You know they're sensitive about that!
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Connor can be a bit of a wanker sometimes, saying offensive things about the guard's mothers...
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 8:15 am
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So far on the pc when i shoot someone the bodies stretch out and fly around. horse carriages disappear sometimes even allowing me to run through them. And last shadows casting double shadow and strobing(I think its a SLI issue.)
Maybe nvidia will release another set of drivers soon
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"I do like metaphorical heroin and my heroin dealer. EA"
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So far when on the PC i've noticed Ubisoft live up to their reputation.
My heavily overclocked HD6870 that let's me run BF3 maxxed with AA on @ 1080p.
1280x720, lowest possible settings, crippling lag issues.
Fucking excellent.
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So far the only issues I've run into have been a set of graphical issues particularly related to 200 series Nvidia cards. Shiny RGB hair under certain light in cut scenes. Very bizarre. Otherwise, not any real noticeable glitches. Maybe just a few things not showing up on the mini map.
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daylight savings time was introduced under a democratic congress. pretty clear that this is part of the liberal global warming farce, if we are extending daylight hours, of course temperatures will rise, THERES MORE DAYLIGHT!
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Yeah its not a issue I have but on my tech forums people are livid that no fix has been announced for it.
For a moment I thought I was having a acid flashback.
*unstretched -daniel
Get 1080p screens people and put your browsers at full screen
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Ever notice that Frank Gehry never seems to talk about walls? His view of a building is of light and shadow and volume. I'm an engineer. My view of a building is slabs and ductwork and convection. It's the same building, but we see it differently.
The future of software is in this multi-platform, multi- client, wildly distributed network called "The Internet". I'm such a visionary, I know. It bears consideration that network clients will see artifacts in as varied a manner as people see buildings.
It's difficult enough to build software with a single manifestation of an artifact (an email message, for example). Supporting multiple, and ideally unlimited, manifestations is immensely more complex. Once again, software needs to be done differently.
So how does nature do it? Our minds hold intangible models that form the basis of our cognition. These models are fully encapsulated, accessed only over a physical carrier such as air, or paper, or electrons. The conversion of our mental models is not perfect, as the exaltation of "great artists" and "great communicators" exemplifies. The conveyances are the common primitives defined by the rules of physics.
How is software limited by the conveyances of the web? Significantly. Bits are a very primitive building block -- akin to atoms or bricks? Bits must be molded with great craftsmanship to carry a message.
What makes XML a better conveyer of information than bits? The ability of software to "sense" it. Viola.
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Princeton's Theater and Dance Program will present Pig Iron Theatre Company's new work, "Hell Meets Henry Halfway," at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 23-25, in the Matthews Acting Studio at 185 Nassau St.
The show is a collaboration with playwright Adriano Shaplin and is loosely based on Polish author Witold Gombrowicz's gothic adventure, "Possessed." Premiered at the recent Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, the piece was commissioned by the Gombrowicz Centennial in Lublin, Poland.
After its performances in Princeton, the production will travel to the Kaunas Dance Festival in Lithuania, the Gombrowicz Centennial in Lublin, the Teatr Rometosci in Warsaw and the Ohio Theater in New York as part of the Polish Cultural Institute's Gombrowicz Festival, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Poland's notoriously absurdist novelist and playwright.
Founded in Philadelphia in 1995 as an interdisciplinary ensemble, Pig Iron Theatre Company is dedicated to the creation of new and exuberant performance works that defy easy categorization. The group has regularly visited Princeton's campus to present shows and lead classes.
Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 for students and seniors and are available through University Ticketing at (609) 258-1742.
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Family: Parulidae, Wood Warblers view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Has mostly blue-gray upperparts including nape and rear of crown; grades to black on forecrown. Has dark wings overall and two striking white wing bars. Face is mostly black, with white lower "eyelid" and patch on side of neck; supercilium is either pure white (western subspecies) or mostly white, but tinged yellow in front of eye (eastern subspecies). Throat and chest are yellow and underparts are otherwise white with blue-gray streaks on flanks. ADULT FEMALE Similar to male but with grayer forecrown and less striking stripes on flanks. IMMATURE Similar to adult female but with grubby wash on flanks.
Dimensions Length: 5" (13 cm)
Habitat Common summer visitor (mainly Apr-Aug) to southeastern pine and broadleaved woodlands, usually near water; winters from southern U.S. to Central America.
Observation Tips Easy to see.
Range California, Florida, Mid-Atlantic, Texas, Rocky Mountains, Eastern Canada, Plains, New England, Southeast, Great Lakes
Voice Song is descending series of shrill whistles tsi, tsi, tsi, tsi, tsu-tsu-tsu; call is a sharp t'swit.
Discussion Smart-looking, long-billed warbler. Combination of bright yellow throat and mostly black face with pale supercilium, white lower "eyelid," and white patch on side of neck, are diagnostic. Forages in a deliberate manner for insects, carefully scrutinizing leaves, needles, and crevices as it goes. Sexes are similar, but separable.


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We've all been busted and the turkeys disappear. How many times have you just stayed in the area and called them back for a kill? Did you call them back or just sit quiet?
How far do they really go? We all say they ran to the next county but is that reality?
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Monday, November 13, 2006
The Cost of Free Car Parking
Personally, I feel there's already a huge disincentive to use public transport. Car parking costs 80p an hour for short stay, or £3 for all day in a long stay car park. Bus travel from the edge of town to the town centre costs around £1.20 each way.
Even as a relatively car-light family, we used the car to get to the train station on Saturday. It cost us £3 to park for the whole day. Getting the bus would have cost us almost £5 for the two paying adults. If our children were a little older it would have cost us £7.20.
We're a family who will happily walk places, rather than using our car. (I cycle to work and my wife walks with my daughter to her nursery - the 1-year-old get pushed the 1.7 miles, while the three-year-old walks.) However, given the choice between paying almost double to take the bus, we choose to avoid the wait in the cold and the unpredictable bus service.
How likely is it that a car-committed family will choose to take the bus, walk or cycle into town to do their shopping, given the increased financial cost of doing so?
The argument given for keeping car parking costs low is that we have to compete with other shopping centres, but if a family are getting into their car to get to the Town Centre anyway, why not just pop along the A66 to Teesside Park or Middlebrough instead?
Encouraging non-car access to the Town Centre is surely the best way to ensure its long-term survival, rather than going further down the path of car-dependance.
What is the cost of free car parking?
Update: In my hasty look this morning, I couldn't find the story on the Northern Echo website, but in Nick Wallis' post about the Conservative parking proposals in Darlington, he links to The Northern Echo story Political gulf widens over town car parking policies.
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- richardgrassick said...
Quite right Mike. You've done the sums, and they speak for themselves. The pro-car people are so one-track in their thinking (duh, we need cars to go to the shops, duh duh; duh, we need people coming in cars to keep our businesses going) that I almost forgot I part-own a business in a Pedestrianised Heart in Newcastle - and we as a partnership wholeheartedly support getting cars out of town centre. We just never thought to stoop so low as to equate financial self interest/greed with environmental policy. Why do we accept such primitive attitudes?
- 7:16 pm, November 13, 2006
- Beatrix said...
Yes Mike and Richard, it is crazy to make parking so cheap, whilst bussing is more expensive. Shopkeepers in town should keep in mind that the attraction of the center does not come from cars but from interesting shops. You don't go into town to look at cars but to buy stuff you need. And good transport does not have to be cars.
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Many analyses of Gen Y seem to merely entrap themselves in the dichotomy between labelling young people as "lazy" or claiming that young people have an opportunity to reshape the world in which they live. As young people, we can either decide to conform to or alter the content of our society, or we can go a step further and assume the courage to discuss ways in which the form of our society may be what is holding us back.


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IDF has launched a global guideline to improve management of older people with type 2 diabetes. According to the guideline, care for many older people with diabetes is currently sub-optimal and fragmented leaving a large proportion of older people with unmet clinical and social needs. The guideline will support clinicians to make age and function-appropriate care decisions and set the standard of care governments and service providers should aim for.
IDF estimates that up to 19% of people between 60 and 79 years have diabetes. In numbers this represents 134 million people. By 2035 that number if projected to increase beyond 252 million people. IDF also estimates that up to half of all people with type 2 diabetes are undiagnosed, leading to the development of disabling complications before diagnosis.
IDF's Managing Older People with Type 2 Diabetes Global Guideline [2] is structured into chapters dealing with issues such as cardiovascular risk, education, renal impairment and diabetic foot disease. It also includes less commonly addressed areas such as sexual health and a chapter on end of life care. T
According to Professor Trisha Dunning, Vice-President of IDF and co-author of the guideline, "Managing diabetes is challenging, especially in older people who often have mental, physical and sensory changes that increases their vulnerability, shortens life expectancy and reduces dignity, comfort and quality of life".
When combined with the natural ageing process and other age-related conditions, diabetes contributes to poorer outcomes in older people with diabetes compared to those without the disease. Peripheral neuropathy, which is common in older people with diabetes, increases the risk of falls and factures, as do hypo- and hyperglycaemic events.
People with diabetes are 1.5 times more likely to develop dementia than people who do not have diabetes. They are also at increased risk of falling and sustaining injuries such as fractures, be in pain, have renal and liver damage that complicates prescribing and managing medicines and increases the risk of adverse events associated with medicines including interactions. Thus determining functional status and considering life expectancy is essential to planning quality care.
According to Professor Alan Sinclair, Professor of Medicine at the University of Bedfordshire and co-author of the guideline, "Research also shows many health professionals lack knowledge about how to provide education and care for older people. It is essential that government health policies, including strategic plans, address the specific needs of older people and include strategies to build health professionals' knowledge and competence to care for older people with diabetes".
The guideline was launched at the World Diabetes Congress in Melbourne, running from December 2-6 in Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre.


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Wang, a native of Nanjiing, China, received formal training in Chinese landscape painting in from Taiwan Normal University and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Combining the contrasts of Eastern and Western cultures in her paintings, Wang's works can be found in such corporate and public collections as IBM, Chase Manhattan Bank of New York, St. Johns' University, as well as private collections throughout the United States, People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Australia and Bermuda.
Wang has exhibited her paintings in the East and West Gallery in Victoria, Australia; the Chung-shan Gallery in Beijing, China; and the Pennsylvania State University in Scranton, PA. She has taught at the Nanjing Teacher's College, Taiwan Normal University and while a Binghamton resident, taught workshops at the University and in the Binghamton community. Wang currently resides in Torrance, California.
The Binghamton University Art Museum is open year round, Tuesday to Sunday, from 1-4 p.m. with extended hours on Thursday until 7 p.m. It is closed Monday and holidays. Admission is free.
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Yamaha CS-80
A very old and very huge (over 200 lbs.) classic synthesizer. Considered Japans first great synthesizer. It had some pretty amazing features for its time such as eight voice polyphony, patch memory storage and polyphonic aftertouch. It can generate great analog strings, brass, drones and pads with that instantly recognizable classic polysynth sound. No synth sounds greater. Some examples of its extremely fat sound can be heard in "Blade Runner" and "Mutiny on the Bounty" by Vangelis as well as "Dune" by Toto. The thing that really made this synth sound so powerful was its "natural" detuning....thus its brass and string sounds were unparalleled not only for authenticity, but for pure width! Unfortunately for the CS-80, it was released the same year as the more programmable and cheaper Prophet 5.
With two analog oscillators per voice, the CS-80 has the potential for some really thick sounds! A great VCF (filter) with independent hi pass and low pass resonant filters, a powerful ring modulator and plenty of modulation controls further enhance the CS-80's sonic potential. There are 22 preset sounds (6 user) selected from bright and ugly colored buttons above the keyboard. The keyboard is weighted and has a full 61 keys with performance controllers for vibrato, pitch, brightness and volume. Surprisingly there's also a long ribbon controller for the pitch-bending, located above the keyboard. There is no MIDI or cv/gate control. The only way to MIDI it is via a rather complex retrofit receive-only kit from Kenton.
It has been used by Vangelis, Chicago, Jethro Tull, Kraftwerk, Ultravox, Bon Jovi, Simple Minds, Paul McCartney, Michael McDonald, Brian Eno, Toto, Eddie Jobson, Doug Johnson (Loverboy), The Crystal Method, Jean Michel Jarre, Geoffrey Downes (Yes, Asia), Rick Wakeman, Stevie Wonder, Phish, Daft Punk, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and Tony Banks of Genesis.
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Silver, of course, engaged in high-profile aggregation of public opinion polls and declared President Obama the heavy favorite in a race his critics insisted was too close to call.
Election night brought vindication for the blogger — he called all 50 states correctly — and embarrassment for his prime antagonists. But it turns out there's an intelligent critique to be made of Silver and other aggregators like Simon Jackman of the Huffington Post.
Michael Dimock, a pollster and associate director for research at the Pew Center for the People & the Press, sketched the outlines of that critique during an appearance at Brown University's Taubman Center for Public Policy & American Institutions this week.
I caught up with him by phone the next day and asked him to flesh it out. The interview is edited and condensed.
WHAT IS THE APPEAL OF SILVER'S FIVETHIRTYEIGHT BLOG? Well, whenever there's a lot of data out there, anything that can help simplify it is appealing. It's why we like to rank college football teams.
I'm very sympathetic to the frustration a lot of people feel when it seems that polls might conflict, where they hear one poll saying Obama's up by four and another poll saying it's even. I understand the frustration people have there and I think the aggregators kind of smooth it out for people.
SO WHAT ARE YOUR CONCERNS WITH AGGREGATION? From a pollster's perspective, the frustration is that it gives a false sense of precision. The aggregations tend to move up by decimal points or down by decimal points on a daily basis and there's a tendency to want to read a message [in] those kinds of movements that's probably inappropriate, given that polls have margins of error and really aren't designed to deliver that kind of accuracy.
The second and larger frustration is that they focus all of the attention on the horse race of the poll and not the broader substance of the poll that is designed to explain why the candidates are doing better or worse, to explain what the voters' priorities are and how those priorities are linked to their choices, to uncover the voters' concerns and worries, to study whether this is an easy choice for people or a difficult choice for people.
Because aggregation is a simplification of polls, it ends up distilling all the focus to who's ahead and who's behind. And when you talk to people about what frustrates them about polls, their criticism is that that's all polls do — "oh, they're just telling us who's ahead and who's behind" — but we're not, it's actually the aggregators that are doing that with our polls.
AS YOU SAY, POLLS CAN POINT TO SOME OF THE "WHYS." YESTERDAY, YOU POSED A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS THEY MIGHT HAVE ANSWERED DURING THE CAMPAIGN: WHY IS OBAMA'S SUPPORT HOLDING UP IN A POOR ECONOMY? WHY IS MITT ROMNEY HAVING TROUBLE REPAIRING THE GOP BRAND? SO, WERE THERE SOME IMPORTANT "WHYS" THE POLLS UNCOVERED THAT WERE OBSCURED BY AGGREGATION? I think to some extent, yeah. And most of them were related to the economic issues that were at the forefront of the election. When you go through some of the particular economic policy debates, the public very much sided with Obama. They wanted to see taxes go up for higher-income Americans, they were insistent that taxes be at least a part of the conversation when we talk about deficit reduction.
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Did a nice-looking but nasty Lisp hack today.
Did a nice-looking but nasty Lisp hack today.
Just noticed that the ICFP 2002 programming contest now has a website up. It starts on August 30, so it's probably not too soon to make sure your favourite language is installed on the contest machine.
luke@cockatoo:~$ ps aux | grep xterm luke 18794 0.0 0.2 1336 428 pts/6 R 01:19 0:00 grep xterm luke@cockatoo:~$
By switching from xterms to eterms, my dear laptop is now populately solely by Emacs windows - a tremendous personal achievement! It results directly from the breakage of the "mouse button" on my Thinkpad a few months ago, which taught me that a mouse is a lousy substitute for some Emacs and Sawfish hacking :-)
(I still use a mouse for Netscape on my desktop machine at work, w3m not being so universal. One step at a time..)
I got a couple of nice replies to my recent TCP ravings, one from Grit and even a (delightfully titled!) followup article from the author of the original piece. It's an interesting topic.
Actually it's two topics, I think. One is how well TCP works, particularly in some specific situations like "well provisioned" high-speed LANs. The other is about the merits transport-layer framing, in other words having TCP (or a similar protocol) track discrete "frames" rather than just a continuous stream of bytes.
For the framing issue, I think there must be some specific examples where it's useful that haven't been mentioned. Grit: why do you want the correspondence between write()s and TCP segments? What am I missing?
Here's my reply to the "TCP Apologists Considered Annoying" article (anyone's welcome to respond to this):
By pay-as-you-use, I mean that most congestion-control features are only actually used when you encounter congestion. Or more accurately, when you encounter packet loss, severe packet reordering, or large "spikes" in delay, which TCP interprets as signs of congestion.
On a fast and reliable "specially provisioned" network, I'm assuming these things are extremely rare. That being the case, I don't see why TCP congestion control should cause any problems.
It would be more interesting to know what mistakes are showing up in packet traces, and whether they're caused by TCP implementation bugs or by network quirks that the protocol intrinsically doesn't handle well. I'd want to determine this before concluding that TCP's congestion control is expensive, and certainly before turning it off or designing alternatives.
This is just a disagreement over names. I was refering to boxes that both switch ethernet packets and work with the higher level protocols, for instance to use HTTP cookies for session persistence in load balancing. Vendors and industry press call them "layer 7 switches". I did originally put the name in quotes, after all :-)
That hits the nail on the head. The reason that TCP proxies can do so much transparently is that TCP and SOCK_STREAM leave so much freedom to the transport, compared with e.g. a datagram protocol where application level frames must correspond to IP packets. With streams, write() isn't defining a frame, it's just writing the next sequence of bytes in the stream, so there is no frame information to be preserved.
Apparently I am missing the advantages, but then they haven't been stated specifically. I can't tell what's being proposed from the text above, and TCP streams already have most of the listed advantages.
Streams give tremendous flexibility to the transport layer: its only restriction is to ultimately deliver the bytes in order. Any way it wants to chop them up into network-layer packets for better flow-control, retransmission, transfer efficiency, or to fit the receiver's buffer is no problem. It can even split an application-level frame header into pieces if that will be more efficent - it's just stream data like any other. Intermediate proxies are able to re-package the data when they need to, e.g. because their MTU is different on either side or because they want to modify the data. Even the sender and receiver can repackage the data, e.g. with nagle's algorithm or to compress the send/receive queue.
It's also easy to put application frames on top of streams. Writing and reading a 2- or 4- byte in-band length header is cheap and simple, and so are other framing formats like HTTP 1.1 chunked encoding. Taking care of byte ordering is trivial, and often necessary for other things than framing anyway.
In summary, streams support simple and cheap application-level framing with great flexibility to the lower layers, in addition to unframed byte streams. So what significant problem would transport-level framing for a TCP-like protocol be solving, and what specific scheme might it use to do so?
This is a really important point. It's one thing to respect layering, but to completely ignore the existence of lower layers could lead to very inefficient code. It pays to understand what's likely to happen under the hood and give the right "hints", in much the same way it's useful to understand what compilers are going to generate from your programs.
So for instance, if a program is doing a bunch of separate write() calls, this might cause the data to go out in separate IP packets and ethernet frames, when it could have all fit into one. Thoughful use of writev(3) and TCP_CORK could help out for things like this. It sounds like Jeff from Platypus has a lot of experience in this area -- I don't.
The TCP Considered Annoying article (recently posted on raph's diary) is really interesting, but I don't think its title or conclusions are really justified. The specific criticisms are mostly for missing datagram-related feeping creatures rather than for TCP doing a bad job of its intended purpose: providing reliable streams over general internetworks. Particularly, I don't think it was established that "[of TCP's features] some almost always good, some of less certain value, and at least one outright bad", or that the desired extra features are worth adding to TCP.
I realise the author is a smart and informed guy, and that the article wasn't intended as "scientific writing", but I'd like to criticise none the less. This is partly to defend TCP's good name, partly to start a conversation by putting my head on the block, and partly to show off that I've read a book about networks ;-)
First off, there's not much against TCP as a reliable stream protocol for the internet. For people doing stream-based internet programs, TCP's doing a good job for them and they have no need to be "annoyed" with it or to invent their own hopefully-extra-efficient protocols based on UDP. The article doesn't suggest this, but I think it's a fairly common notion (y'know, for when it needs to be really efficient..)
For a specially provisioned network that won't lose packets or become congested, TCP's still going to do a pretty good job. You might like to disable nagle's algorithm to reduce latency, and perhaps tune your buffer sizes, but that's straight forward enough. The congestion-control features are mostly pay-as-you-use, the only thing that should affect you on such a network is slow-start. For initiating new connections to do batch transfers, TCP will give you some overhead - I estimate less than 2ms of total idle time on my local fast ethernet. So setting up new connections has some expense, but if you have a lot of data to transfer and you reuse the connections, this should disappear.
For the complaint that TCP hides packet boundaries, and that lower-layer IP packet shapes could be used instead of in-band length headers, I think a whole can of worms would be opened because this breaks the layering of the protocol stack. Specifically, convenient and useful things that (transparent) proxy servers and "Layer-7" switches can do today could break such a TCP by "reshaping" the packets (which can be useful, and is safe for a stream protocol). What about a content-transforming proxy server, or a generic TCP proxy with different path MTUs on either side? And what if the packets are larger than the MTU - use IP fragmentation? Programs like that would be more awkward to write and prone to subtle errors.
That added complexity doesn't seem worthwhile just to avoid writing some tiny in-band length headers, and would only partially satisfy people who want reliable datagrams, anyway.
Or maybe the real reason to be annoyed with TCP is the "worse is better" sense: it's so good for 90% of the cases that not enough people throw their weight behind things like reliable datagram protocols or SCTP.
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Which raises the awkward thought: I don't print/read/edit my programs that way. As an experiment I've been going through the loop a few times with some of my source code, and I think it makes a really solid improvement. I guess this is old news to good programmers, but I'm not usually in the habbit of sitting down and reading my own programs start-to-end.
If I were a real man I'd ask some colleagues to point out my worst code, and print/read/edit that. But I'm not sure I'm that brave right now :-)
All that said, the manual is probably full of typos, and the programs full of bugs - but such is life!
Today I added some basic builtin help functions to Ermacs. As well the as Emacsey C-h k <key sequence> `describe-key', I have a C-h s <key sequence> `find-source', which takes takes you to the source code that's bound to that key. So if you press a key and it doesn't do what you want, you're only about 1sec away from the source code. I think this is a good feature for an under-development editor :-)
Emacs still has the upper hand though, since it takes a bit more than a keystroke to load new definitions into Ermacs, for now..
Welcome back to the "real world", purcell :-)
I joined in with Language of the Year, where a bunch of people get together with the goal of learning a new programming language (Haskell) during the year. So, today I wrote my first Haskell program. Now I'm hoping someone can show me some nice ways to improve it with fancy Haskell features.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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Video: The very first Best Motoring Hot Version
February 17, 2014 in video by banpei
Last week I discovered Ka Ko (via Rocketpencil) who posts Best Motoring videos on an almost daily basis! 🙂
One of the gems he posted last week is the very first edition of Best Motoring Hot Version:
As you can see there is a thrilling battle in this episode: the infamous Keiichi Tsuchiya battles with an (almost stock) Toyota Corolla Levin AE86 the (back then) brand new Toyota Corolla Levin GT Apex AE101 featuring the new 20 valve Silvertop 4AGE. The battle is very very close even though the AE101 has a lot more power under the bonnet!
What else can you expect from Best Motoring Hot Version Volume 1?
– Toyota Levin GT Apex AE101 vs Toyota Trueno GT-Z AE101 vs Honda Civic EF
– Toyota Levin GT Apex AE101 (superstrut) vs Toyota Levin GT Apex AE101 (non-superstrut)
– Toyota Levin GT Apex AE101 (superstrut) vs Toyota Levin AE86
– RX7 Drift vs Grip
– Group A Nissan Skyline GT-R cup with Keiichi Tsuchiya drifting his Taisan GT-R R32 on a wet Fuji Speedway!
So I collected all four videos and composed a playlist out of it:
Direct link to playlist: HotversionホットバージョンV0l.1創刊号①HV JAPANESECAR the first number


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I've had the pleasure of getting to know Michael Rosario for a couple of years now. Michael is a college baseball player who is an under the radar guy for this year's MLB Draft. He lived most of his life in the Dominican Republic, but resides in Miami, Florida. He is a 6'1, 210 pound third baseman. He just got done playing junior college ball (in a wood bat conference) where he had ...


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The American College of the Building Arts' annual Red Party is always extravagant, and this year's event was no exception. The Old City Jail was transformed into a scene from the Roaring '20s that would rival any of Jay Gatsby's lawn parties. The evening was filled with beautiful women in flashy cocktail dresses, dapper-looking gentlemen, Prohibition-era drinks, and grand décor.
Vintage cars adorned the street in the front of the building, which was lit up red and could be seen from blocks away. Chandeliers hung from nearly every tree, a dazzling image of Manhattan was projected onto the side of the jail, and live swing and jazz music filled the air. There was glitter, feathers, and fur everywhere.
Charleston mixologists created specialty cocktails made from Pama Liqueur, Larceny Bourbon, and Epic Vodka. Guests indulged in miniature tapas-style plates provided by Básico, Butcher & Bee, Fuel, Healthy Home Foods, L.I.M.E, Salthouse Catering, and HōM Burger Boutique. VIP tickets included gift bags, games of croquet, a garden party, access to a private speakeasy, and a sneak preview of silent auction items.
Slightly out-of-decade but incredibly convenient was the modern advantage of text-bidding in the silent auction. Text alerts allowed guests to bid on their favorite items while mingling. Nonetheless, partygoers had to be careful not to drink too much complimentary champagne provided by Wine Awesomeness, lest they miss a must-have auction item announced by the swift-tongued auctioneer (and local meteorologist), Tom Crawford.
Our favorite auction items were a 50th anniversary Rolling Stones electric guitar signed by every member of the group, a one-week stay at a home in the French hamlet of Poumeroux, the adoption of a furry friend from Pet Helpers, and a limited edition Le Creuset Mariner Star oven designed by students of ACBA.
The party-loving and charitable citizens of Charleston did it again—the sold-out event raised more than $185,000 for the American College of the Building Arts. The money will support the educated artisans and programs of the college, which is committed to preserving traditional building and artisan craft in today's society. Well done, old sports.


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With 20 days to go to World Diabetes Day on 14 November, here is a selection of the latest planned activities that we've received from around the world:
- In Auckland, New Zealand, the staff of the Auckland Diabetes Centre at Greenlane Hospital will literally be 'Walking the Talk' for National Diabetes Awareness Week and World Diabetes Day. On 14 November, Diabetes Centre staff (Nurses, Dieticians, Podiatrists, Optometrists, Doctors and Administrators) and friends will walk across the city from coast to coast to highlight the importance of exercise and activity as an essential component of living well with diabetes and the associated benefits to cardiac and mental health.
- In Corsica, France, Association les Diabétiques de Corse (Corsica Diabetes Association) will be organising a Diabetes Forum at the Falconaja Hospital in Bastia and the Salle des fêtes de Bastelicaccia in Ajaccio. The local population, people with diabetes and their friends and families will be able to interact with health professionals at a series of roundtables focusing on different topics.
- In Mexico City, Mexico, the Faculty of Higher Education of the Free National University (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) will hold a day of prevention, early detection and diabetes education to mark World Diabetes Day. Activities will include educational games, talks about diabetes and achieving good diabetes control and workshops on physical activity. Every action favourable to good diabetes control and prevention will be rewarded with teaching materials for people with diabetes and their families.
- In Reggio Emilia, Italy, a roundtable on diabetes and discrimination will be organised by the Association "Amici del Diabete" (Friends of Diabetes). Participants will include the Provincial President, three members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, the Director-General of the local healthy authority and a representative of the provincial school board.
- In Sierra Leone, Friends of Dabetes Sierra Leone will be travelling from London to Sierra Leone to mark World Diabetes Day. There they will be holding an outdoor tea party to educate the general public about diabetes, an awareness march through the capital Freetown, and a seminar for people with diabetes where health professionals will talk about type 2 diabetes and its complications, obesity and foot care.
- In Jamaica, the Pharmaceutical Society of Jamaica will be staging a 5K Walk/Run on 24 November to increase awareness of and support people living with diabetes. Blue balloons will be released at the start and at the end and participants will receive a blue t-shirt in support of World Diabetes Day. Information about diabetes and its complications and free blood glucose and Hba1C checks will also be provided. The event will be followed by live entertainment and awards.
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