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Start a PL/SQL "programming competition"?
I am an active participant of the PL SQL Challenge . Basically I am a SQL Server developer but also shares a lot of interest in Oracle which I started not very long. PL SQL Challenge forum is a great place to learn and hone our skills. At least it is helping me.
I would like to make one suggestion. Along with the current challenge idea, if you can organize PL SQL programming competition then it will be more attractive. I basically set up questions in the TSQL beginners challenge(Current one is #12) with collaboration with Mr. Jacob Sebestain and I am also an active participant of TSQL Challenge (Current on is #34).
He and I agreed: I would post this on the blog and invite comment, so please comment!
Here is my initial feedback: I have definitely thought about this in the past (either me posting a challenge such as "Write a function that parses a delimited string." or posting a problem a developer has, and seeking a solution). I have two concerns:
1. If it's a competition, how do you score and rank people? It's one thing to answer a multiple choice quiz. It's quite another to verify that a program is correct or well-written etc.
2. How can this be done without consuming an enormous amount of someone's time? Believe me, the Challenge is already chewing up large chunks of my life. :-)
The nice thing about this could be a "crowd-development" dynamic, posting a solution, having it critiqued and improved, get general agreement on optimal solution, then make available as reusable code for everyone.
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I like the idea but I agree with the time issue. As for scoring/ranking, you just have to be very specific as to what you're looking for - like what you've done with the challenge. The problem is that it couldn't be automated so any remaining chucks of life you have left would disappear.ReplyDelete
If this ever does go forward, I suggest the winning code be added to https://www.samplecode.oracle.com/
We can have a challeneg evaluation team who will do the soltuion evalutions. The time frame for each challenge may be set to say 7 days or 14 days (as what tsql challenge forum does) and after that new challenge will come up and the cycle will go on.ReplyDelete
My feeling is that, while it is easy to spare a few minutes for a challenge question, the chunks of time to respond to a challenge may be beyond a lot of people.ReplyDelete
Also, I looked at putting some code on samplecode.oracle.com once and got the response "Please do not host utilities or other executables here; intended for sample
code only".
So you can include code that demonstrate techniques, but not code that does anything useful.


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Ready to move to Pakistan....?
17 comments:
- Raghav said...
While there is no second thought to the point made I also wonder if we are already "don't even utter anything related to Hindu or Hinduism... even if you think so you are right winged and are damned".
Quote: "During these mellow evenings, nobody bothered or cared about the origin of that divine music. Nobody asked for the religious identity of those throats." - so it is... Ultimatums and threats will wear away as long as there are a good deal of 'Nobody-s'
- April 30, 2014 at 6:27 PM
- Latha said...
Lol. Ya. Pak will give you the freedom to practise your religion, have Ganesh processions & allow Visarjans in their seas. (If your daughters follow you - I doubt very much), they will be 'taken care of' very well. Your temples will be safe. Have a nice journey. Say 'hi' to Hafiz sayeed & 'D' company if you happen to meet them. Bon Voyage.
- April 30, 2014 at 6:54 PM
- NAT said...
We are forgetting that Pakistan is our half brother.
There is no difference between us.
Go there and get the same treatment.
They cannot live with their own people.
Neither can we live with our own.
Once the minorities are taken care off, they will go after the poor, as it is they cannot visit Temples and draw water to take a sip.
Then there will be the North and the South and the East and the West.
We must ask ourselves why we cannot live in peace and have a good way (quality) of life.
We worry about what happened 100 years ago and cannot have peace. Why???? because we rob/live of the poor.
So this is a BIG CURSE.
- May 1, 2014 at 3:45 PM
You hit the nail on the head again, Shobhaa! Great!
Actually, India can solve all the Paki problems and our financial mess in a jiffy.
Here are links of what I wrote.
Copies of these were even sent to Modi. And surely someone ensured that Modi did not read them or he himself nixed them.
Either way, Modi will prove as bad as the rest of the jokers who ruled India thus far.
Now that is why I said Ms Sanyal, the banker could be able to do a thing or two - after realising how badly she fared in the recently concluded elections.
She may have got a sizeable number of votes ... but would also realise the real bhaav of aataa and daal in politics ... from that experience. God bless you. Hari
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- Sam W said...
Sorry we are not talking about people, We are talking of people who are in power and ruling(barbarian type of ruling).
I can't blame some religion for kidnaping a boy after asking his name, beating and shave off his beard because he is of other religion. This is individuals not country and not religion. hmmm this is small picture vs Big picture a leader giving communal speech.
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All those using such a hate for not voting in a particular way needs serious treatment. Voting as per his will is a fundamental right of every citizen and those people going to extreme hate are not above the constitution. Hats off to Miss Shobha De for bringing in this issue. As far as discussion on a neighbouring country goes, it is a separate topic and needs separate article to discuss. I read their newpaper dawn every day and can confidently say that their side still is in serious lack with plurality. So, lets not compare each other and accept separate pathways.
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Miss Tuxford's "Cookery for the Middle Classes" was – despite its rather exclusive title – a big hit. Originally published in 1902, my copy is the 11th edition dating from 1930. That's quite a lifespan for one cook book.
The subtitles of this book highlight how far food and food preparation has come in a short period of time. The full title is "Cookery for the Middle Classes (including a few vegetarian dishes) and Useful hints on Gas Stove Cooking Including the New Automatic Control". This book is set in the time when having a temperature control on your oven was cutting edge innovation. There is a section at the back of the book instructing you how to set the oven properly depending on what you're cooking. Sponge cakes need to be baked at 5E, if you're interested.
One wonders what Miss Tuxford would've done had any of the lower classes dared bake from this book? It seems a crazy thing to limit your market in such a way especially when Miss Tuxford had an entrepreneurial streak. At the back of the book she has a page of items for sale included food essences such as vanilla, and also "useful and inexpensive utensils", my favourite of which is the "Straining grid for use in deep fat frying or boiling fish and cauliflowers whole (designed by myself)". A whole boiled cauliflower. Imagine it. Are you imagining it? Well, you don't have to – here is the least appetising illustration of a cauliflower ever (with a strange looking thumb thrown in for free) :
And a close up:
I chose the Empress Cakes recipe as they were probably a well-known recipe at the time the book was originally published. Queen Victoria died in 1901, only a year before publication. No doubt these little cakes were named in honour of her, as one of her titles was Empress of India.
Lining the pan with nuts wasn't as fiddly as I thought it might be. The recipe gave no indication as to the amount of nuts to use so I guessed (my guess is in the recipe below) – feel free to use less if this looks too nutty:
The cocoa is delicate; I wouldn't call these a chocolate sponge, more sponge with a hint of cocoa. The idea of lining the pans with nuts so that they bake into the sponge works surprisingly well and creates a nice look. However, I wasn't sure which way to serve them – nuts up or nuts down? On this blog post you'll see a mix of both!
As you'll notice my cakes came out a touch on the large side – that's the problem with old recipes; they don't tell you what size pans to use or guidelines. I know I should've trimmed the mushroom top off to make them look daintier but, let's be honest, the mushroomy top is often the best bit of a cake!
They were also delicious warm with custard – a cake or a pud; what's not to love? One thing I would say, they definitely dried out a couple of days after baking (tasted lovely though) – still fine to serve as pud with custard, but if you had them with a cup of tea if would be a good idea to add a dollop of cream.
Although Miss Tuxford wrote the preface well over 80 years ago it shows how nothing really every changes. Except for the old fashioned phrasing, this could've been written today:
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½ lb / 227g unsalted butter, plus extra to grease the pans
½ lb / 227g caster sugar
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
4 eggs
¾ lb / 340g plain flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon baking powder
Milk, if needed
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Preheat the oven to 150°C/ fan oven 130°C/300°F/ Gas mark 2, or as the recipe calls it – "slow".
Generously grease a cupcake pan – if you have a deeper, more 'muffin-y' pan that will be better. Take a second pan and grease half the holes – the mix will make 18 cakes. I made 12 from mine and they were too big!
Sprinkle the chopped almonds into the pans ensuring that they stick to the bottom and sides. This can be a bit fiddly but is worth the effort.
Place the butter, sugar and cocoa in a bowl and beat together until light and whipped.
Add two of the eggs and beat well.
Add half the flour and stir in.
Add the remaining two eggs and beat well.
Add the remaining flour, along with the vanilla and baking powder and stir well.
If the mix is dry i.e. not a dropping consistency, add a little milk – do this with caution so you don't add too much.
Carefully spoon into your almond-lined cake pans and level the surface. Fill them more than you would a cupcake case because the low baking temperature means they won't rise as much. I filled mine to the top because the recipe gave no guidance – I think the ideal would have been somewhere between 1/2 - ¾ full.
Bake for approximately 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cakes comes out clean. Mine took much longer – just over 30 minutes, so don't worry if yours take longer too!
Leave to cool – in the tins – until cool enough to handle and safely remove. Leave to cool completely on a wire rack.
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My first encounter with a pit bull was a creamy female stray named Lady. My mother used to drive a school bus for a little school in the country and her route started at 5am. One morning, we had been on the route for about 15 min (first stop was about 30 min from the school) when she asked me if there was a dog in the back of the bus. Since we had approached the bus together, i knew the door had been closed and locked. However, when i looked behind me, there was a square creamy head peeking up from the back seat. As i looked, i heard my mom informing me that it looked like a pit bull and to approach with caution because it might be scared. *note that my mother didn't jump to pit bulls being dangerous, but encouraged her 12 yr old daughter to approach it.* I calmly walked to the back of the bus and sat down in a seat one row up and across the aisle to talk to the dog. She immediately came over and put her head in my lap. I coaxed her up to the front of the bus where she rode till we got back to school. We took her home where she lived for several years. She was a great dog and so friendly with all our animals.
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i'm a photographer, thinking about specializing in pet photography.
my username on almost everything is morganmariah or morganmariah09, so if you want to check out my tumblr, facebook, flickr, try one of those. i think FB has the 09 at the end.
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i like to read fantasy and young adult fiction (i might be 22, but i have the imagination of a 10 yr old)
i have a corn snake too, but Pyro lives with my mom, who uses her as a breeder.
i will now attempt to add pictures of my clan (i couldn't figure it out, so here are some links to pictures instead):
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(she jumped in the tub while it was draining and stayed there till every drop had been chased and batted down the drain)
If anyone wants to know anything else about me or my clan, let me know
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Scott Kovac, Nuclear Watch NM Program director commented, "By getting these performance evaluations released publically, Nuclear Watch expects that outraged taxpayers will demand more NNSA oversight and an end to the federal government paying the usual nuclear weapons contractors millions without enforcing performance accountability. Nuke Watch is going back to Congress to demand that it require measurable performance benchmarks before enriching the nuclear weapons contractors. In these tough economic times Americans should expect nothing less."
Los Alamos National Security met two of the three criteria but earned less than 80 percent overall at-risk fees in its performance evaluation.
The NMSSUP project was intended as an upgrade to the existing fences, cameras, sensors, and other detection and denial systems around facilities at TA-55, which houses the Plutonium Facility. The project was suspended Oct. 23.
Originally, the system was targeted to cost $213 million, but cost overruns increased the project to $254 million, according to a memo written by McMillan to employees on Dec. 21. That total was later revised down to $240 million after LANS agreed to make a $10 million payment to the government in non-reimbursable, non-taxpayer funds to settle project costs.
In a letter from NNSA, Miller "has nevertheless expressed a desire to award LANS the award in recognition of LANS' acceptance of full responsibility and accountability for problems that have arisen under the Nuclear Materials Safeguards and Security Upgrades Phase II Project and for moving aggressively to correct the issues."
Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Groups made the following points.
• The fact that the contract provision was overridden by Miller is itself evidence that LANS is not being asked to accept full responsibility. $10 million is very far from "full responsibility and accountability" for a problem whose estimated cost was $41 million.
• How can LANS accept "full responsibility and accountability" for something, the cost of which is not yet known?
• Which LANS managers have been disciplined for this significant error, and how?
• In the PER, NNSA ties the NMSSUP issue to the CMRR-NF issue — delivery of large construction projects.
• Apparently a LANS performance level which would have ended the contract a year early, were it not for that "one-time waiver," did not get in the way of a new $22.8 billion contract for another Bechtel-led consortium, this one to manage NNSA's work at Pantex, Y-12, and quite likely SRS. Neither did Bechtel's poor performance at the Hanford Vitrification Plant. With the new contract, Bechtel will be leading the management teams at 5 out of 8 NNSA sites. That might be "too big to fail." Maybe this memo is telling us that LANS is too big to fail right now.
NNSA spokesperson Josh McConaha said, "we'll let the text of the document stand as explanation."
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Ben Rich described Johnson's ability to predict a temperature, weight, or pressure instantly and accurately, unlike others, who could only arrive at the numbers by long calculations. Johnson kept a bunch of quarters on his desk—they stood in for the proverbial chip on his shoulder—to pay off on a standing bet that if any of his engineers disagreed with him, Johnson would be right. Few quarters left his desk.
Johnson was not always right, but it did not always pay to prove him wrong. On the maiden flight of the U-2, Johnson instructed pilot Tony LeVier to land the tandem-wheel airplane on its front gear. LeVier tried several times, and each time the airplane bounced and started to porpoise. Finally, when the light was failing and rain was moving in, he did it the way many pilots familiar with tailwheel airplanes would: He landed nose-high, the tailwheel touching first. It worked. At the first-flight celebration that evening, Johnson, who was a big man and strong, challenged LeVier to arm wrestle. Johnson won easily, then banged LeVier's hand against the table so hard that the pilot showed up for work the next day with his hand bandaged. A tipsy accident, perhaps, or perhaps just Kelly Johnson being sure he had the last word.
For the U-2, because of the extreme secrecy surrounding it, the Skunk Works expanded to become a production facility as well, and thereafter it sometimes handled the overflow from Lockheed's "white world" projects. Today, it is difficult to tell the extent of Johnson's participation in Lockheed's many aircraft. Lists of "his" airplanes often include the Constellation, on which he collaborated with Hall Hibbard, and the YC-130 Hercules, which he did not design and in fact disliked. "After Kelly started the Skunk Works," says John Benson, "he didn't do the designs himself, he just had considerable input as to the aircraft's design features. So he got the credit."
Johnson's crown jewel, the Blackbird, was, like any big airplane, a team effort. In his book, Rich describes the frenetic push to come up with the final proposal, and, as if to correct the notion that everything sprang fully formed from Kelly Johnson's head, he names a dozen engineers and the designs for which they were responsible. Regardless of how much came from others, however, the Blackbird is always said to have been "designed by Kelly Johnson."
Johnson was married three times. His first wife, Althea Young, was an assistant treasurer in the accounting department at Lockheed—she handed out the paychecks—when he went to work there. They were married in 1937; she died in 1969. The next year, Johnson, by his own account a "worry-wart" who had suffered from ulcers all his life, had part of his stomach removed, leaving angina and heart attacks as his main health problems. In 1971 he married his secretary Maryellen Meade; a diabetic, she died in 1980 after a long illness. Within weeks, Johnson, after consulting Ben Rich about the propriety of doing so, married Maryellen's friend, Nancy Horrigan.
Johnson had a busy life outside Lockheed. He and Althea built a house in Encino, in the San Fernando Valley, 10 miles west of Lockheed's facilities. They kept horses, and eventually acquired a working ranch, Star Lane, in the Santa Ynez Valley, north of Santa Barbara. Johnson maintained his own farm machinery in a 4,800-square-foot shop that he had built, and whose huge size and strong construction were a source of pride for him.
Johnson never had children. Ben Rich, however, was something like a son to him. Rich's son, Michael, remembers Johnson as an amiable friend of the family: "He came with us to Dodger and Little League games. I didn't have the feeling that I was with a famous person. Later my dad told me: There were not many titans like this."
By 1972, when Lockheed's proposal for a lightweight fighter—essentially a rework of the F-104—was rejected in favor of General Dynamics' F-16, the days were over when Kelly Johnson could pitch a vaguely defined airplane to a general and have a letter of intent handed to him. His powers as a salesman, which had served him so well at the Pentagon and the CIA, were of little use in a world where, as Ben Rich wrote, "ideas were…a one-way street, initiated by Air Force planners with doctorates in flight sciences."
Johnson retired in 1975, but remained a consultant and personal advisor to Ben Rich for years. He disliked Rich's first big success, the F-117 stealth fighter, as did most of Kelly's old guard. Kelly, says Steve Justice, "didn't like ugly."
In 1983, "60 Minutes" ran a segment on Johnson. He was 73 then, a grandfatherly figure, his old fierce energy tempered or concealed. He answered Morley Safer's naïve questions decisively, and volunteered the opinion that the most important airplanes of all were cropdusters—a type he had never designed—because they made it possible to feed the world. Uninformed viewers could not have guessed what a colossus this amiable codger had once been.


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The police arrived and when he was questioned the officer suddenly stepped back away from the gentleman and bowed to him and waved him on. His car was not as bad as mine, he could still roll, with his rear fender rubbing his tire. He stopped, walked to that tire and grabbed that fender and pulled it away from his wheel and drove on.
The officer then came to me and said no fault handed me a short report for my insurance and drove away. The car still drove so I continued towards the base to report to work. I then scrapped the car after a check was issued from the insurance company which I did not expect since the officer stated No fault. I was told later as I took the check that he was a very important man with missing parts of his fingers...
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Does Peripheral Neuropathy Get Better
newgfcali replied to newgfcali's topic in Related Disorders & Celiac ResearchIt's been nearly two years since I posted this question, and I'm here to say "YES"! As everyone predicted, the neuropathy started to get better after about 6 months or so. I still have residual numbness here and there, mostly toes and tips of fingers and strangely the outside of my knees (go figure), but the stabbing pains in my feet have stopped and I can feel most of my feet and legs now. I live a VERY strict gluten-free life now and am so thankful for everyone's help here on the forums figuring this out.
Has Anyone Here Been Diagnosed With Microscopic Colitis?
newgfcali replied to Bis-quit's topic in Related Disorders & Celiac ResearchYep, I have gluten intolerance and had it under control with diet for many months. Then I started having symptoms again and my gastro found that I also had microscopic colitis. Went on a regimen of Asacol for one month and that cleared it up. No recurrences since then, and it's been nearly a year. However, mc means no more NSAID's or aspirin products EVER again. So if you're in pain, Tylenol is your only option.
Asacol Interfere With Gluten Test?
newgfcali posted a topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & SymptomsOK, so here's the deal. About 8 months ago I found an association between peripheral neuropathy, the bane of my existence, and gluten sensitivity. I cut out gluten for 4 months, then found Enterolabs. Did the test and, even though I'd been gluten-free for 4 months at the time, it came back positive for gluten sensitivity with a double DQ1. The tTG and malabsorbtion were negative. While I was off gluten my D mostly resolved, although the neuropathy didn't improve perceptively. Fast forward 2 months. D returned big time. Felt horrible again. Threw up my hands in disgust and saw GI doctor. He ran battery of tests including colonoscopy with biopsy for microscopic colitis. Yep - it's positive. So he put me on Asacol. But here's the tricky part. He doesn't believe the positive lab from Enterolab and wants me to do a gluten challenge and take anti-gliadin IGG and IGA blood test. The challenge is ongoing with the Asacol now. My question: will the Asacol mess up the gluten test? Has anyone had any experience with this? I don't want to be wasting my time on the challenge if it's going to be compromised by the drug. The good news is the Asacol seems to be getting the D under control again. Yay!
Treating Vitamin D Deficiency
newgfcali replied to quincy's topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseTrillum - I had mine checked and it was 18. My doc put me on 50,000 IU once a week for 8 weeks, then 2000 iu/day for a few months, which is what I'm doing right now. Haven't rechecked levels yet. 50,000 three times a week sounds extraordinarily high...
Shocking Places You've Found Gluten!
newgfcali replied to GFLindsey's topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseWiki had this rather interesting list, the amount of gluten (in parts per million) left at various stages of processing: Wheat Flour (80,000ppm) > Wheat Starch (200ppm) > Dextrin > Maltodextrin > Glucose Syrup (<5ppm) > Dextrose > Caramel Color So since wheat glucose syrup is less than 5 ppm, it's considered "gluten-free", even in Australia, a country that requires a product to be less than 5ppm to be labeled "gluten-free". OK. I panicked. Any time I see that word "wheat" in a list of ingredients, I run the other way (unless the word "buck" is in front of it). But now I know that wheat glucose syrup, dextrose and caramel color are all ok. Fresh breath can be mine again!
Tiredness Poll
newgfcali replied to Leper Messiah's topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseYou're too funny! Yep, huge snoozer here, too. For me it only lasts a couple of days, but it's a MAJOR nap attack. I think one time I slept about 20 hours out of 24.
Shocking Places You've Found Gluten!
newgfcali replied to GFLindsey's topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseI don't have one in front of me, but I read the ingredients on a roll of the regular mints and "wheat" was staring me in the face. Here's a list of ingredients I found online for "Mint Mentos": sugar, wheat glucose syrup, hydrogenated coconut oil, rice starch, gum arabic, sucrose esters of fatty acides, gellan gum, natural flavors
Serious Assistance Needed!
newgfcali replied to kaki_clam's topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseJust carrying it one step further (although I think we've pretty much beat this one to death), what if you did go ahead with the complaint? Then follows the ugly meetings, hearings, or however your company would proceed. Bad feelings ensue all around, your boss and your company resent being pulled into a nasty fight, you resent their attitude, etc. etc. etc. After the dust settles, what have you won? Maybe they'll provide lunch for you, maybe they stop providing lunch for everyone. Regardless of the outcome, there's ill will on both sides, and really nobody wins. You may win the battle, but at what cost? Some gluten-free food for thought.
Shocking Places You've Found Gluten!
newgfcali replied to GFLindsey's topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseWould you believe MENTOS? Yipes. Just when you thought it was safe to freshen your breath... wham-o!
"gluten Free" Items That "got You"
newgfcali replied to NorthernElf's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & MedicationsNor_TX~ Not to tell you what to do, but to suggest something here... In looking at this list, the only thing that's a "whole food" is the shrimp. Many of us have found that it's better to eat completely whole, unprocessed foods at first until we get things under control. For this meal, it could have been shrimp, some steamed veggies, and plain white or brown rice. I know it's sounds REALLY boring, but by depending on Lays, Glutino, Hormel and Blue Diamond to be completely contaminate-free in all of their processing is kinda like playing Russian roulette with your health. Better at this point to keep it simple, clean, and totally gluten-free. You won't have to eat like this forever -- just until you feel better for say... a week or two. Then add one thing at a time, testing each food item individually to see whether you can tolerate it. If you still feel good after 4-5 days of the new item, then add another. It's called an elimination diet, and it does work.
Completely Disappointed
newgfcali replied to newgfcali's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking TipsIsn't it amazing that we can go from talking about pineapple upside down cake to heavy metal toxicity? I love this forum. I learn so much!
Completely Disappointed
newgfcali replied to newgfcali's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking TipsA quote from the Quest Diagnostics website: "Peripheral neuropathy may also be caused by several heavy metals. Lead toxicity is associated with motor neuropathy, whereas arsenic and mercury cause sensory neuropathy. The 24-hour urine heavy metal test is the most useful test for diagnosis of heavy metal toxicity." Since MS can present with both motor and sensory dysfunction, the combination of lead and mercury would give you both symptoms. How did you get so much heavy metal in your system? Are you getting treated to remove the toxins from your body?
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newgfcali replied to newgfcali's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking TipsWiki has some very detailed info on each of these conditions: Peripheral neuropathy Ataxia There is good evidence linking gluten sensitivity/Celiac with both neuropathy and ataxia. Dr. Marios Hadjivassiliou has written a bunch of papers on the subject: Links to papers by Dr. H
Completely Disappointed
newgfcali replied to newgfcali's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking TipsThat's the first I've heard of anyone developing PN after going gluten free. I'm very glad to hear you no longer have any of these issues.
Completely Disappointed
newgfcali replied to newgfcali's topic in Gluten-Free Recipes & Cooking TipsThe combo of vision, migraine and weakness does sound like it could be MS, but these symptoms can also be attributed to many other things. Sound like your neuro is determined to get to the bottom of it, which is good. I'm going on 6 months gluten-free also. I stopped gluten when I found a link between it and neuropathy. A few months into being gluten-free I did the enterolab tests and found that I was sensitive to gluten, yeast, soy and casein, which are now all gone from my diet. As far as my GI problems go, they are mostly improving, although I go up and down with random glutenings (at least I think that's why I'm getting sick). But the nerve problems continue, and have actually gotten worse, which is why I have my first appointment with a neurologist coming up. I'm hoping he can give me a definitive answer as to what's causing it. I actually found one that specializes in peripheral neuropathy, so here's hoping. Good luck with your tests next week. I hope they find an answer.


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As you stroll along the Riverwalk in Fort Lauderdale, there is no shortage of things to do and see. With everything from kayaks to yachts floating by, to boutique shops of every sort and enough restaurants to more than make up for any calories burned while walking, sometimes you just need to stop and relax for a moment.
This little spot, right on the canal, makes for a great place to catch your breath and watch the world go by.
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.


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"All FB friends please pray that my nephew's car starts in the morning. He has a very important job interview."
Doesn't that sort of crap get annoying? I wonder if there have been any studies on the effectiveness of facebook prayer? I'm pretty sure it does absolutely nothing.
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Haven't there been studies that prayer is effective, provided the person knows they are being prayed about?
So, if the person being prayed over is also on Facebook and sees the request...
Like Caroline said, I think the effect was the opposite. Those who were prayed for and knew it did slightly worse, at least in one study.
That was for recovering from an illness, though. Praying isn't going to help your car start whether you know people are praying for it or not. You might as well ask people to "use the force" to make the car start. :D
Speaking of prayer, why don't Christians ever pray for Satan? Wouldn't he be the most in need of their prayers?
Like Mike Huckabee said in his "sorry-I'm-not-running-for-President" speech the other day: It surpasses all human understanding. (Which is how I defined Donald Trump's popularity as a presidential candidate, btw).
That's how faith works: Don't even TRY to understand anything...leave it in god's hands. God's shapeless, invisible, non-existent hands....that's comforting, isn't it? Sounds very arbitrary to me... unsettling, too.
Richard Dawkins has a great section in "The God Delusion" entitled "The Great Prayer Experiment"...it focuses specifically on the hospital setting. I think somebody else hinted at this experiment earlier in this discussion. But I imagine the effectiveness of Facebook prayer could be tested in a similar fashion! Researchers found that patients who knew they were being prayed for actually suffered more complications because they suffered from a kind of "performance anxiety": "Wow, all these people are praying for me so I'd better get well....how serious is this illness if I need all these people praying for me? Suddenly I'm feeling WORSE." It put more stress on the patients who KNEW there were people praying for them than the patients who DIDN'T KNOW! I find that ironic, don't you?
I believe there was also a study in which people were being prayed for but did not know whether they were in the prayer group or the control group, and the study showed no effect whatsoever. Sorry I'm no good at remembering names of authors or publications, but I kinda laughed at that one, because it was a foregone conclusions, was it not?
And I sort of resent my taxpayer dollars being spent on such fluff, because this study will not change the minds of the true-believers, anyway!
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Whanganui was one of the first cities to be founded in New Zealand. Whanganui, meaning 'big bay' or 'big harbour', comes from the great river that flows through it.
Home to approximately 43,000 people, Whanganui (sometimes spelled Wanganui) New Zealand is one of New Zealand's oldest settler towns. It is picturesque and has much to show off to the visitor. It's just a couple of hours' drive from Wellington, Mount Ruapehu and Mount Tongariro, or a quick flight from Auckland. A designated motorhome friendly city, Whanganui encourages self-drive travellers year-round.
Prominent heritage buildings in the city include the Whanganui Opera House and the Sarjeant Art Gallery. Whanganui is home to New Zealand's largest arts community with more fine arts, mixed media and glass artists than anywhere else in the country, and boasts the country's only Glass School.
Visit the regional museum and see the magnificent collection of Lindauer portraits and Maori treasures. And have a look at one of the more unusual attractions, the earthbound elevator that rises to the top of Durie Hill.
Notable events hosted here include the lively motorcycle Cemetery Circuit Street Races, the Vintage Weekend every year in mid January, and the Mountains to Sea Multisport, a 270km undertaking across untouched native forest trails and other spectacular scenery galore. The Mountains to Sea Cycle Trail is the longest and most diverse in the country.
But the real heart of this place, both physically and spiritually, is the Whanganui River - the longest navigable river in the country and once known as the Rhine of New Zealand. ?In early times the river was an important transport route for Maori and European settlers.
Today, the Whanganui National Park is a place of river adventures where you can zip up the river by jetboat or cruise it by paddle steamer. For a kayaking experience, try the Whanganui Journey which starts in Taumaranui and ends in Pipiriki, taking you through stunning bush-clad hill country and long narrow gorges. From Pipiriki you can hop a jetboat tour to the Bridge to Nowhere - built in 1936 for early pioneering farmers and abandoned in 1942.
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The markets continue to climb the wall of worry, meaning that all those bears and shorts and money managers who are underexposed to stocks, keep providing fuel for this rally when they are capitulate into buying. To learn more such "short-squeezes" and how to profit on them, I invite you to check out my new book, Everything You Need to Know About Investing, where I explain how it all works in easy-to-understand language.
Look at this wild six month chart of the Nasdaq /quotes/zigman/123127 COMP :
Do you notice how it topped there at April Fool's Day? The headlines were full of reports of a strong earnings season to come. And the markets topped out instead. Here's what you guys were reading from me though:
Welcome to the new stock market bubble11:13 a.m. March 29, 2012 | By Cody Willard
Do you notice how it bottomed in a panicky crash back there on June 4? Wanna guess what the headlines were focused on at that point? Panic over the EU debt crisis, of course. Here's what we were doing:
12:34 p.m. June 4, 2012 | By Cody Willard
Fast-forward back to today and Apple's trying to break out to new all-time highs and Google's making a run for its all-time high too. The financials like Goldman and Citigroup act they want to try to trade higher too.
And while I don't think the markets are necessarily topping out again right now, I'm continuing to trim down the long exposure as the markets hit multi-month highs. I'm taking some nice profits with some gentle trimming of my long exposure by having bought the panics and trimmed into the big rallies.
Where have you heard that advice before?
Cody Willard writes Revolution Investing for MarketWatch and posts the trades from his personal account at TradingWithCody.com. At time of publication, Cody was net long Apple and Google. Follow Cody on twitter at twitter.com/codywillard. Cody's new book, Everything You Need to Know About Investing, is available in digital and in paperback.


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If you had returned from a five-year stint on a desert island just in time to catch last week's Thursday night debut of TNA Impact on Spike TV, you would have seen a few familiar faces.
Certainly, Jeff Jarrett, Christian Cage and Team 3-D would all have been instantly recognizable. There would have been no mistaking Scott Steiner, still as insanely pumped up as ever. If you were a fan of ECW back in the day, you would have known the ex-Rookie Monster, Rhino, for sure. Still, the build up throughout the entire program was for the most well known wrestler on the show, the one who hadn't been on national TV the whole time you were on the island: the man called Sting.
It's amazing to me to think that it has, indeed, been five years since Steve Borden took on Ric Flair "for old times' sake" on the final edition of WCW Monday Nitro. As the Nitro reporter for this site at the time, two thoughts came to mind. The first was hoping I wasn't out of a job. The second, and more significant, was wondering whether or not that was the last time we'd see both men on the air. While the Nature Boy quickly put those kind of thoughts to rest for himself, it wasn't until this January when TNA announced they had signed him to a one-year deal that we knew the Stinger would be doing the same.
For TNA, the signing made perfect sense. The promotion has had a pretty decent track record of importing talent -- like the aforementioned Cage, currently the TNA champion -- to supplement home grown-stars like A.J. Styles, but none have the reputation and track record of Sting. You could argue that, with the exception of The Rock, there isn't a more recognizable performer TNA could have brought into the fold.
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marriage for the man himself. Sting admitted during interviews a few months ago that he had spoken to Vince McMahon about finally joining the WWE, but the schedule was just too grueling for a man on the far side of age 45. He also had his doubts about reconciling his religious beliefs with the WWE's sometimes questionable storylines, and he probably feels justified in the wake of the current inclusion of God as Shawn Michaels' tag team partner at Backlash. As Borden himself explained, the focus in TNA is on the in-ring action, and that's just the way he wants it.
With that in mind, the early returns are good. Sting's match with "Showtime" Eric Young wasn't the in-ring highlight of the night by any means -- that was the X-Division title match between Samoa Joe and Christopher Daniels -- but even looking maybe a half-step slow, he didn't look out of place in the promotion's six-sided ring. The fans popped for his trademark spots and he even hurled himself over the top rope to the floor with a plancha. All around it was solid if not spectacular.
The same could be said for his microphone work. Sting has never been on the level of a Flair or Michaels when it came to cutting promos, and his taunts at the end of the show (calling Jarrett and his teammates children that needed to run home to their moms) seemed, like his "Crow" gimmick, just a tad dated. But just like in the past, he made up in enthusiasm what he lacked in content. By the end of the show, when Sting's partners for the upcoming Lockdown pay-per-view were revealed, I was more interested in seeing the show than I was at the beginning of the night. The poll on the TNA website suggested that a number of fans felt the same way, and the promotion can't ask for anything more than that.
Another theme that came up during his January press conference was that Sting felt he had nothing left to prove
in the ring, and that is 100 percent true. Unlike more traditional athletes, there's little risk of a wrestler tarnishing his legacy by performing when he's past his prime, so Sting really has little to lose by making one final run in 2006, if that is indeed what he's planning. It would be somewhat fitting, given his long history with the NWA and WCW, if he got one final run with the NWA world title, but he certainly doesn't need it.
It's always difficult to define that quality that separates the top stars of professional wrestling from their brethren, that "it" factor that they need to set themselves apart. Whatever it is, Sting has always had it, and that fact alone should make his TNA run a win-win situation.
Other quick thoughts for this week:
- Every time I take a shot at the WWE brand split in this space, like I did at the very end of my last column, it always stirs up e-mail
from dissenting readers. The split itself wouldn't be so bad if Smackdown wasn't clearly getting the short end of the creative stick. It always seems like there are only a few wrestlers on the show at any given time capable of holding down spots at the top of the card, a situation made worse at the current time by Batista's injury and Randy Orton's suspension. Noteworthy storylines and debuts almost always take place on Raw, while the Friday night show gets things like a towering, unknown giant showing up to take on The Undertaker. Ugh. If it appeared an equal effort was going into both shows, my opinion would be somewhat different.
- Tim Baines' column for the Ottawa Sun mentions that the 2007 Survivor Series is set for Montreal, ten years after the infamous Bret Hart incident that has been brought up ad nauseum ever since. Maybe fans in Montreal disagree -- and let me know if you do -- but I think I speak for a large portion of fans elsewhere when I say, "can't... take... any... more." Yes, it's an important, if unpleasant piece of wrestling history, and maybe the best example ever of how backstage politics can turn ugly. But the WWE needs to focus on the future, not continue to live in the past, and you can just imagine what they might have planned for next year.
Nick Tylwalk has been a SLAM! Wrestling contributor since 1998, and his column, Walkin' That Aisle with Nick Tylwalk, appears most Mondays. Comments, compliments and complaints can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Actors: Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth, Tuppence Middleton, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Christina Cole, Nicholas A. Newman, Ramon Tikaram, Ariyon Bakare, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Frog Stone, David Ajala, Doona Bae
Jupiter Jones was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people's houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine Wise, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along - her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.


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London, 11 June 2013 – The World Energy Council (WEC) has appointed Dr Nicolás M. Depetris Chauvin as its new Regional Manager for the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region. Dr Depetris Chauvin will be supporting the WEC in strengthening its network in the LAC region. He has been tasked to promote the participation of […]
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It's a disaster experts know is coming, and it could dwarf the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
A magnitude 8.0 quake would hit Southern California with a force up to 32 times greater than the 1989 Loma Prieta tremblor in the Bay Area. Vital energy, gas and water conduits stretched across the San Andreas fault would be destroyed, leaving millions without critical, life-sustaining supplies for weeks. Many hospitals that haven't been retrofitted to survive a mega-scale quake, would be severely damaged and unable to handle mass casualties. Thousands would die and tens of thousands would be left homeless as the infrastructure of Los Angeles buckled.
State seismic experts say the dire predictions that a large-scale earthquake will rock California are very real and in need of immediate attention.
"We're talking about a 1906 event on the San Andreas fault on the order of a 7.9, 8.0 magnitude earthquake," California senior geologist Bill Bryant said.
Studies show the entire state faces a cataclysmic earthquake danger in the coming decades. Researchers at the Southern California Earthquake Center said there is an 80 to 90 percent chance that a 7.0 or greater magnitude quake will strike Southern California before 2024. Meanwhile, projections show a 62 percent probability that at least one earthquake of magnitude 6.7 or higher will strike the Bay Area before 2032.
An ominous Federal Emergency Management Agency training session held in August 2001 underscores the renewed interest in California's earthquake preparedness. At the meeting, officials said the three most likely disaster scenarios to occur in the United States were a terrorist attack in New York City, a massive hurricane hitting New Orleans and a violent earthquake crippling California. Within four years, two of the three predictions had come true.
California Office of Emergency Services spokesperson Sheryl Tankersley said only 30 percent of Californians have assembled an emergency survival kit, a vital step toward preparing for an earthquake disaster.
"It's extremely important for every individual, every man, woman, and child in the state of California, to have at least a three day supply of whatever they may need to survive," Tankersley said.
The OES recommends that survival kit items include food, one gallon of water per person per day, medication and first aid kits, as well as portable radios, flashlights and spare batteries.
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I used toasted pecan in the cookies and a variety of jams, strawberry, apricot and berry in the centers.
You could easily fill the centers with nutella, ganache, or dulce de leche, but I loved the glistening shiny centers that the jam created. They looked like big jeweled buttons.
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Recount Update: 17th SD -- Juneau County unofficial numbers in
Updated at 10:12 a.m. with Juneau County's certification.
Late Thursday, Juneau County completed its recount in Senate District 17 and submitted numbers to the G.A.B.;
however, the Board of Canvassers still needs to meet later today to sign and certify the results. We will update once the recount results are official. Juneau County has now certified its results.
This morning, G.A.B. staff updated the recount spreadsheet to reflect Juneau County's
still-unofficial results:
- Pat Bomhack -- 3,837
- Ernie Wittwer -- 3,804
- Write-In -- 1
The final numbers show a 33-vote edge for Bomhack. He gained 5 votes in Grant, 3 in Richland, 1 in Sauk and lost 12 in Green. Wittwer gained 1 vote in Lafayette, lost 1 vote each in Sauk and Iowa and lost 42 in Green.
At 5 p.m. today, Judge Gerald Nichol of the G.A.B. will certify the canvass statements for the recount in SD 17 and in AD 87 (which was completed earlier this week).
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Annual to subshrubs, fleshy
Leaves generally simple, generally basal and cauline, alternate or opposite, generally reduced upward
Inflorescence: generally cyme, generally bracted
Flower: sepals generally 35, generally ± free; petals generally 35, ± free or fused; stamens = to >> sepals, free or epipetalous; pistils generally 35, simple (sometimes fused at base), ovary 1-chambered, placenta 1, parietal, ovules 1many, style 1
Fruit: follicles generally 35
Seeds 1many, small
Genera in family: ± 30 genera, ± 1500 species: ± worldwide, especially dry temp; many cultivated for ornamental. Family description and generic key by Melinda F. Denton and Reid Moran.
Perennial, fleshy, glabrous
Stem generally caudex or corm-like, generally vertical, branched or not, generally covered with dried leaves or leaf bases
Leaves in basal rosettes, evergreen vernal and ephemeral
Inflorescence: cyme, axillary, 1-sided; bracts leaf-like, alternate
Flower: sepals 5, fused below; petals 5, fused at base, erect to spreading above; stamens 10, epipetalous; pistils 5, ± fused below
Fruit: follicles 5, erect to spreading, many-seeded
Seed < 1 mm, narrowly ovoid, brown, striate
Species in genus: ± 45 species: sw North America
Etymology: (W.R. Dudley, western US botanist, 18491911)
Reference: [Moran in Jacobsen 1960 Handb Succ Plant:344359]
Unopened follicles generally most reliable for posture (erect, spreading, etc.).
Stem corm-like
Leaf 16 cm, ± oblanceolate to spoon-shaped, base 14 mm wide; tip acute to rounded
Inflorescence: 1° branches 23, simple or forked 1 X ; peduncle 222 cm, 0.52 mm wide; terminal branches 16 cm, 310-flowered; pedicel < 1 mm
Flower: sepals 1.54 mm, deltate-ovate; petals spreading from base, 510 mm, elliptic, acute, white, keel often red-lined
Fruit: follicles spreading
Ecology: Open, coastal
Elevation: < 450 m.
Bioregional distribution: s Central Coast, South Coast, n Channel Islands
Distribution outside California: n Baja California
Stem: caudex 1.53.5 cm, 16 mm wide, oblong
Leaves 515 per rosette, 0.71.5 cm, 27 mm wide, 24 mm thick, spoon-shaped
Inflorescence: bract deltate-ovate to subcircular
Chromosomes: n=17
Ecology: Bare sandstone terraces
Elevation: < 250 m.
Bioregional distribution: s South Coast (San Diego Co.)
Synonyms: D. brevifolia (Moran) Moran
Horticultural information: In cultivation.


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When developing a Unified Communications (UC) strategy, there comes a point when you have to make decisions about what applications to keep on premise and what applications can and should be hosted, or 'in the cloud.' But what factors are involved in making those choices? And how do the various vendors, like Microsoft, Cisco, Google and others, approach UC delivery?
Thursday, June 24 at 1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 Pacific, we'll be joined by UC experts Damon Martin and Rodney Horton of SKT for a webinar titled, "Hosted or On-premise? Developing a UC Strategy that Fits Your Needs." SKT and InterCall are both a part of West Corporation.
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1. The truth about mad scientists
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4. Literal periodic table
5. Red alert! Red alert!
6. I can tell.
7. So long as they're not facing Magneto, am I right?
8. Winning due to a technicality
9. It must be Friday.
10. That's sodium, by the way. Just think about it.
11. Sound proof, if I ever saw it.
12. Teacher: "That's not what I meant!"
13. Sucking the fun out of fun.
14. Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar...
15. Sodium is always so antisocial.
16. Did they form a covalent bond?
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The National Transportation Safety Board [NTSB] has recommended that the American states prohibit any and all non-emergency use of smartphones in automobiles. That's right, they want you to keep your hands and eyes off your iPhone and on the wheel and road. While that might make some superficial sense, it also ignores how multifaceted modern smartphones truly are -- for example, running a GPS turn-by-turn sat nav app, or playing music, the same functionality built into a lot of modern vehicles.
The safety recommendation specifically calls for the 50 states and the District of Columbia to ban the nonemergency use of portable electronic devices (other than those designed to support the driving task) for all drivers. The safety recommendation also urges use of the NHTSA model of high-visibility enforcement to support these bans and implementation of targeted communication campaigns to inform motorists of the new law and heightened enforcement.
The trouble is, smartphones can run software designed to support driving tasks, but they can also run highly distracting software like SMS/IM or Angry Birds.
And, of course, it does nothing to deal with other driver distractions like food, makeup, reading papers while driving, etc. etc. (Sadly it's very touch to draft a "don't be dumb and drive law", so they fall for easy-to-identify blanket bans.)
We're co-opting our sibling site, Android Central's poll on this one, so add your vote above and sound off on what you think below!
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Naughty Nutritionist Inc. Our brand/product name is naughtybits
We are launching a healthy snack equivalent to Red Bull. Our product/brand is called NaughtyBits and they are algae tabs.
We currently sell our products online through our website http://www.naughtynutritionist.net. But this year we are launching nationwide in retailers throughout the USA.
Our brand identity and packaging are hip, cool, fun, playful and sassy, but also elegant, sophisticated, and high end (its an expensive item)
Our customer is 75% female, healthy, fun, urban, educated, fashionable, age 20-40 .They work, workout, shop, spend lots of money, likes to be thin, pretty, fashionable and have fun..
We need a media kit holder front and back. Its a standard folder and dimensions are attached. BE CREATIVE
OUR AUDIENCE for this media kit are senior editors at top fashion & lifestyle magazines (vogue etc) as well as TV producers at shows like Oprah, We need to grab their attention with a sophisticated, high design folder but something that uses a BIG, BOLD, BLOCK font
(FRONT SIDE: Show JUST our brand name naughtybits in a large BOLD font, our website and our saying "be naughty to be healthy!"
BACK SIDE: use word maps, CROPPED words, interesting graphics. Be sure to list the names of our three products: ENERGY, VITALITY and RECOVERY. If possible, please use a HUGE, CAPITAL LETTER for the start of each of these three words - so they are interesting graphically. creative
Also on the back be sure to show the words "one calorie, one ingredient" ....endless health benefits in an interesting way
BACKGROUND COLOR: either black or white
OTHER COLORS TO USE for graphic elements: black, white, grey, pink. PLEAS ONLY USE SMALL TOUCHES OF PINK
FONTSIZE: our brand name needs to be SO LARGE it spans the ENTIRE FRONT top to bottom or side to side of the front
FONT COLORS; black, white, grey and a bit of PINK
PLACEMENT OF BRAND NAME "naughtybits" should be in tall, bold letters, maybe a mix of colors, sizes, different types, opaque - whatever is dramatic.The word "bits" could be a different color or different size or different font than the word "naughty" Maybe do something playful with the letter i in the word bits?
OVERALL LOOK; Edgy, clean, sophisticated. bold, fresh. Please refer to the attachments for more art direction and concentrate on using CLEVER graphics and INTERESTING use of word maps, different sizes of fonts to communicate our message. See the attached powerpoint for more art direction. ON THE BACK COVER YOU MIGHT WANT TO USE THE IMAGE NOTED BELOW THAT SAYS "YOU ROCK" and underneath it add ...with NaughtyBits!
Wiinner will need to send us designs as its own complete file and also with each design element on the folder as its own jpeg in case we need to lay out the design on our own since we are using vistaprint to print them
BE SURE that the primary colors are Black, white and grey and ONLY A TOUCH of pink. Focus on LARGE, INTERESTING FONT choices and word placements...not images. DO NOT use a womans image as a letter and inserted INTO our brand name.Our brand name should only have letters in it..not images thanks :)