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The 10 Healthiest Party Foods: A Holiday Party Guide
Mike Dieter
It's one of the simplest party foods to make: Top a small slice of Italian bread with a gorgeous mixture of tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, and basil and voila — you've got bruschetta. And though that piece of bread doesn't yield much nutritional value, the marriage of tomatoes and olive oil scores top marks for disease prevention. Tomatoes contain lycopene, a powerful antioxidant found to ward off cancer and heart disease. You've no doubt heard about the healthy fats found in olive oil — well, in addition, that oil actually helps your body absorb some of the nutrients in the tomatoes, says Melinda Johnson, RD, National Spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association.
Mike Dieter
Smoked Salmon on Toasts
In a word: omega-3s. These essential fatty acids are found only in a few foods, and salmon is one of the richest sources out there. Omega-3s help keep blood pressure down, maintain healthy cholesterol levels, stave off heart disease, and if that's not enough, they give your skin that healthy, dewy glow. The American Heart Association recommends eating an omega-3 source twice a week, so helping yourself to this delicious party snack means one more thing you can cross off of your "to do" list.
Chris Gallo
If you've got your choice of several dip options, this one should win every time. Gracias, Mexico, for contributing this incredibly tasty finger food to cocktail parties the world over, saving health-minded party goers mucho calories. Salsa's main ingredients — tomatoes, peppers, and lime — are all jam-packed with vitamins A and C, loaded with fiber, and super low-calorie.
Avocado plays the starring role in guacamole, which is why it's loaded with heart-healthy fats and valuable nutrients such as beta-sitosterol, a natural plant sterol which can decrease your levels of bad cholesterol. However, this dish is sometimes made with cream cheese, the saturated fat content of which can outweigh the unsaturated fats in the avocado. Johnson's advice: If you are unsure of the guac's contents, stick to just a few small spoonfuls to satisfy the craving and move on.
Scott Little
Shrimp Cocktail
Jumbo on protein and skimpy on fat and calories, this little crustacean may just be the best party appetizer there is. With just a few shrimp on your plate, you are less likely to gorge on the fattier options presenting themselves to you, because protein keeps you satisfied for longer. Shrimp also contains the mineral zinc, a rarity in finger food, which helps promote a strong immune system. As for the cocktail sauce, don't overdo it. Bottled sauces often contain unhealthy amounts of sugar. Try dipping them in salsa instead.
Tina Rupp
Vegetables and Dip
Here's an ultra-safe strategy for party munching: load up three-quarters of your plate with the veggies from the crudite platter. You'll be so busy chowing down on carotenoids, which are strong sources of vitamin A, that you'll forget how healthy you're being. And here's the bonus: You don't have to totally forgo that creamy ranch dip. Studies show that adding a little bit of fat to your veggies helps the body absorb the nutrients in the healthy selections you've made. "Don't stay away from the dip entirely, just don't douse your vegetables with it," says Johnson.
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Chicken Kabobs
Play the following party game: pick up sticks. Of chicken, that is. The meat contained in this Asian-inspired appetizer is usually skinless and grilled, and therefore contains few calories or fat. Plus, the most popular seasoning is a teriyaki glaze, which flavors the meat with less than a teaspoon of sugar. Just one ounce of chicken from this app will give you almost 9 grams of protein, keeping you satisfied enough not to reach for those tempting pigs-in-a-blanket.
Melissa Punch
"This is a low-fat item that, because of the white rice, will keep you satisfied," says Johnson. The pieces with salmon or tuna inside deliver those coveted omega-3s, but even the fishless variety contains a healthy slice of cucumber or other veggie. The seaweed that hugs the rice, called nori, also packs a nutritious punch, as it contains minerals from the sea. Just make sure the sushi at the party is the freshest possible — take a pass if it's been sitting out since you walked in. Also steer clear if the pieces are fried (tempura) or contain cream cheese.
Fruit and Cheese
Women require 1000mg of calcium a day, which is all the more reason to hang out by the cheese platter. One or two good-size cheddar cheese chunks will give you roughly 120mg, but they do add up in the fat and calorie department, so don't go nuts. Hard cheeses like cheddar yield more calcium — and more calories — than soft cheeses like brie or goat. For fruit, load up on strawberries, pineapples, or kiwis for an extra wallop of vitamin C and an immunity boost.
Red Wine
If the guy at the bar is monopolizing the conversation with his extensive knowledge of pinots, cabernets, and merlots, here's a little fact to throw in: Red wine is chock-full of polyphenol, a compound found in the skin of red grapes that aids circulation, lowers blood pressure, and promotes overall heart health. Sweeter wines will have a few more calories than the dry varietals, as will those with higher alcohol content (around 14 to 15 percent). Cut your calories in half by ordering a spritzer — half wine, half seltzer.
Kim Cornelison
Mixed Nuts
Unless the mix is honey-roasted (and therefore coated in sugar), you can consider the nut bowl fair game. Indulging in a few small scoops of plain nuts can give you a nice dose of vitamins, fiber, and protein to keep you full. If you spy some sunflower or pumpkin seeds in there, even better — they're high in vitamin E, which works wonders for circulation, skin, and even PMS.
Originally published on FitnessMagazine.com, November 2008.


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I know, I haven't posted a new recipe in ages. I've been in something of a dinner rut, I guess. My kids are so picky that it's just easier to make their favorites again and again. But, BUT, last night I made a third attempt to imitate the wild rice soup my Minnesotan friend is always wistfully raving about, and I think I nailed it. I looked at a few different recipes on line, but they all included one or more ingredients my picky friend dislikes, and I tend to use recipes more as inspiration anyway. It's hard to emulate something you've never actually eaten, but she seemed happy, and all the adults plus half the children loved it, so I'm declaring it a success. The secret turned out to be a roux.
1/4 cup butter
1/2 onion, minced fine
about 1/2 cup ham, chopped fairly small
aprox 1/4 cup flour
1 box (or equivalent) chicken broth
2 boxes seasoned wild rice
1/2 cup heavy cream or half and half
First, go ahead and cook both boxes of rice together as the package directs. I thought this seemed dumb at first, but it will save time and keep your broth proportions right. Meanwhile, in bottom of a Dutch oven, melt butter. Add onion and cook a few minutes, until soft. Add ham and sautee a couple more minutes. Sprinkle flour over a little at a time and stir as it soaks up the butter. Continue cooking and stirring over medium heat for a couple minutes, but don't brown the roux. Now add the chicken broth a little at a time, stirring constantly. This will first form a thick paste with the roux, which will get thinner as you add more broth. Once all the broth is in there, let it cook, stirring occasionally. You don't really want a rolling boil, more of a bubbling simmer. When the rice seems about done, dump it all into the broth mixture and stir to incorporate. Turn heat to low and stir in cream, heating just another minute or two without boiling. Voila! Serve with warm garlic breadsticks for dipping.
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Our speech-language pathologists hold a master's degree with extensive study in speech-language, swallowing development and disorders; a New York State license to practice; and a Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. A major focus of speech-language pathologists' work is appropriate diagnoses of the communication problem and formulation of a treatment program in concert with the patient and their family.
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Suunto strengthens its mobile expertise by opening a new Competence Center in Tampere.
In recent years, mobile applications' role as part of Suunto's product and service offering has grown rapidly as the use of such applications has increased. Suunto starts iOS and Android talent recruitment for the new center immediately.
"Mobile applications and solutions are an important part of Suunto's future customer experience, and opening the new unit contributes to this development," says Mikko Moilanen, Suunto's President. "The Suunto Movescount App for iPhone and Android is already a part of the Ambit3 product family, and the overall role of applications as a part of our products and services will certainly grow in the future."
For Suunto customers, the reform will mean faster developing mobile applications and services that will further improve the user experience. New digital services, including mobile applications, will be designed and developed in collaboration with Amer Sports other digital services and applications.
Sami Männistö started as Head of the Mobile Competence Center on August 10, strengthening the team with his long experience in international software development and mobile and web service start-ups.
"We will immediately start recruiting both Android and iOS experts to the new unit, and during this autumn the aim is to increase the size of the unit to about ten persons," says Sami Männistö about the recruitment needs. "Tampere is an excellent location for us. Suunto's parent company, Amer Sports, recently acquired the sports service company Sports Tracker, and a part of the Sports Tracker team is already located here. In addition, there's good talent in the Tampere area considering the recruitment needs of the unit".
The Mobile Competence Center is located in the Technopolis center in Hervanta, Tampere.
Further information about the open positions in Tampere, please see the Careers page.


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text: Smell and Taste Disorders If you are experiencing a problem with the ability to smell or taste, you are not alone. Over 200,000 people visit a physician for this type of problem and there are many who never seek medical attention. Many people complain of a decrease in both smell and taste, however in most cases the problem is related to a smell loss only. Strictly speaking, taste specifically refers to the ability of the tongue to detect sweet, salt, bitter, and sour. However, flavor combines taste with texture, color, temperature, and especially smell to provide us the experience we normally enjoy when eating. So, our ability to tell the difference between chocolate and strawberry ice cream is difficult with a loss of smell, but the sweet taste remains. Smell Disorders Our sense of smell begins when an odor enters the nose and reaches the special smell (olfactory) nerves in the roof of the nasal cavity. The nerves then send signals to the brain where we recognize a smell. These nerves can be damaged, but luckily as in all animals, these nerves can be replaced with new ones. When there is an interruption in the ability of an odorant to travel from the outside to inside the nose and from the inside of the nose to the smell nerves of the nasal cavity and from the smell nerves to the brain, a smell disorder occurs. We call a decreased sense of smell hyposmia, and a total loss of smell anosmia. Phantosmia is the term given when someone thinks they can smell something when no one else in the room smells the same thing. This can occasionally indicate an infection. Disorders of the sense of smell can occur for many different reasons. Medications, metabolic disorders, and nutritional deficiencies are some examples. However, the three most common reasons for smell disorders include head injury, upper respiratory tract infection, and nasal obstruction due to sinus disease and polyps. Head injury may result in an immediate smell loss. Some people in this group will regain their sense of smell, but some have a permanent loss. A smell loss after a cold is also immediate with persistence of the smell loss after resolution of the other infection symptoms. Again, a proportion of these people will regain the ability to smell, but others will have a permanent loss. Smell loss due to nasal obstruction usually in the form of nasal and sinus polyps usually occurs gradually and will come and go, often in relation to an increase in sinusitis symptoms. Taste Disorders We experience taste when a substance contacts one of four taste receptor cells for sweet, salt, bitter, or sour. The receptor cells are located in taste buds spread over the surface of the tongue and throat. Three different nerves allow us to taste, therefore it is very difficult to lose all sense of taste through a nerve injury. In addition, like the smell nerves, the taste receptor cells are replaceable and if damaged they can grow back. A decrease in ability to taste is called hypogeusia, and a total loss of taste is termed ageusia. Taste disorders like smell disorders can occur for many different reasons. Total loss of taste often indicates a disorder throughout the body such as due to toxicity, medications, or nutrition disorders. Decreased or abnormal taste can also occur from poor dentition or from cancer of the mouth. Besides a detailed history and head and neck exam, evaluation by an otolaryngologist for smell and taste disorders may include smell and taste testing. Testing of smell function often includes taking a "scratch and sniff" odor identification test matching a smell with a list of odors. Taste function can be tested by applying four different solutions (sweet, salt, bitter, and sour) to four different regions of the tongue. Additional evaluation may include a CT scan and/or an MRI of the brain and sinuses. With a loss of smell, there is a decreased ability to smell smoke, natural gas, and spoiled food. It's important for a person with these disorders to have proper smoke detectors. (What You Need to Know About Natural Gas Detectors). Switching from natural gas to electrical appliances adds even more safety and natural gas detectors are also available to warn of any leaks. In general, disorders of smell and taste may indicate a significant medical condition and therefore requires detailed head and neck evaluation from an otolaryngologist. For additional information about these disorders, in a question and answer format, visit our Taste Disorders or Smell Disorders page. To make an appointment with a smell and taste specialist at Mass. Eye and Ear, call 617-573-3209 Contact Us Today! 617-523-7900


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(This post inspired by Petteri Räty (betelgeuse)'s similar post
For this year's Gentoo GSoC projects, I'm a mentor on two of our suggested ideas (but also interested in totally new ideas that fit my fields):
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- Do you actually understand the project idea?
- This is actually a gap that I didn't expect to exist, but I have seen in previous years. This is mainly a difference of expectations between the proposal and what the potential student sees as what the idea really entails.
Using Upstart as an example, it supports an existing init.d compatibility mode, but we're not interested in that. Instead we want our init.d scripts to be treated just like upstart jobs (located in /etc/init/). The init.5 manpage shipped with upstart gives a good start...
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We do, however, strongly encourage those professionals who are currently registered as non-practising but do intend to practise at some stage in the future to keep their CPD up-to-date. This will ensure that their knowledge and skills are up-to-date when returning to practise; it will also be advantageous to keep their skills and knowledge up-to-date if they are seeking employment.
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If you carry out work on a daily basis which is not connected in any way to land, property, construction or one of the Professional Groups then yes.
Surveying related work is a very broad category – it is anything that is associated with land, property or construction, or any activity which falls under the remit of any of the professional groups.
Fees received as an RICS Assessor or as an examiner/lecturer for a surveying related qualification do not count, unless the amount (before tax) will be more than 10 times the annual renewal rate.
It is the nature of the work that you are undertaking and the role that you are employed in, not if you are using the designation.
If the company of whom you are a director is a surveying related company then you as a director would be responsible for the work that the company carries out.
A concession in this category is available for professionals who are no longer working for remuneration and do not expect to return to work in the future for remuneration. For this purpose, the re-imbursement of expenses and the receipt of dividends from a company are not "remuneration", but payments to Executive Directors of companies are considered remuneration.
However, payments received for services as a Non-Executive Director are allowed, provided the professional received no other remuneration and does not expect to return to work in the future for remuneration.
In either of these cases the retired concession would apply and this reduces the annual fee by 90%.
No because you are earning a living from working in the property sector which is deemed as surveying related work.
No because you are involved with property management and the lettings market, therefore it is in the property sector and surveying related. Concessions would be allowed if the property portfolio is pension related.
You can, however you must apply for this before the deadline of 31 December, prior to the fees becoming due. When you return to work you must inform us immediately and then pay the full annual fees that are due for that year.
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The 10th annual car show and race this fall in Savannah and on Hilton Head Island will be a chance for ordinary folks to drool over expensive automobiles and even to take a ride with famous race car drivers.
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The next weekend, three events are slated for Hilton Head Island - the Concours d'Elegance, car club jamboree and motoring midway.
The Concours d'Elegance is "like a dog show for cars, showcasing the automobile as art," said Lindsey Harrell, vice president of operations for the non-profit event. A total of 160 vintage cars and motorcycles will be shown.
People who attended last year don't have to worry about seeing the same thing this year. Owners of cars in the show must wait three years before entering the same cars in the show again, Harrell said.
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"We'll do what we can to cross-promote them," said Joe Marinelli, president of Visit Savannah. "In certain ways, the markets (car buffs and marathon runners) couldn't be more different."
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I'm seated cross-legged on a narrow terrace thousands of feet above the raging Apurimac River, the jagged silhouettes of the Peruvian Andes before me, the glowing stones of a 15th-century Incan wall warming my back.
And all I can think about is how insanely lucky I am to have this place all to myself.
Thirty miles away as the crow flies, thousands of sweaty, camera-toting tourists are jockeying for position in various lines at Machu Picchu: one to purchase a few squares of toilet paper; one to climb the sacred Huayna Picchu Mountain; another to board one of the smoke-belching people-movers that deliver roughly 3,000 pilgrims daily to the world-famous archeological site.
And all I can think about is how insanely lucky I am to have this place all to myself.
Thirty miles away as the crow flies, thousands of sweaty, camera-toting tourists are jockeying for position in various lines at Machu Picchu: one to purchase a few squares of toilet paper; one to climb the sacred Huayna Picchu Mountain; another to board one of the smoke-belching people-movers that deliver roughly 3,000 pilgrims daily to the world-famous archeological site.
Little do they know, another formidable lost city called Choquequirao -- aka "Machu Picchu's sacred sister" -- slowly is being liberated from the jungle by archeologists who, in many ways, find it just as compelling as its better-known sibling. Perched high atop a 10,000-foot ridge, a joint-crushing two-day hike from the nearest town, it draws less than 1 percent of the 1 million people who visit Machu Picchu annually.
"So far, Choquequirao's saving factor has been the fact that it is so difficult to get to," says Colorado Springs archeologist and explorer Gary Zeigler, who first hacked his way into the long-forgotten site via machete in 1992 and has since been working with Peruvian colleagues on its study and restoration.
It was 1909 when a young Yale historian and explorer named Hiram Bingham first stumbled upon Choquequirao while searching for the last bastion of the lost Inca civilization. He stayed a few days and moved on, seemingly unimpressed by its architecture. On July 24, 1911, he discovered Machu Picchu.
While the building materials between the two differ significantly (Machu Picchu's buildings are made with impressive granite boulders pieced together like giant puzzle pieces, while Choquequirao's are constructed more crudely with brittle metamorphic rock and mortar), the two sites have turned out to be intriguingly similar.
Both are believed to have been built by Inca rulers in the late 15th century (Pachacuti built Machu Picchu; his son Topa Inca likely built Choquequirao, according to Zeigler). Both feature breathtaking ceremonial gathering places, royal estates and lush green agricultural terraces. Both are purposefully positioned on narrow ridges, surrounded by steep cliffs giving way to sacred rivers, and circled by towering peaks worshipped as deities known as "Apus" by the native Quechua people.
At both places, something magical happens on the solstice, when certain strategically placed buildings light up as the first rays of sunlight appear from behind the mountaintops.
"The geocosmic setting is what makes it so special," says Zeigler, whom I interviewed upon my return. "Only Choquequirao and Machu Picchu seem to have this. There is nothing built by circumstance or chance there. Every building lines up with some grand ceremonial design."
An inauspicious start
This blend of solitude, natural beauty, and mystery tantalized me. So I convinced my closest girlfriend to tag along, hired a guide from a Peruvian outfit called Apus Peru, and made arrangements to hike the two days to Choquequirao and then another six to Machu Picchu.
Days after we booked our flight, we got bad news. The large suspension bridge, built by the Peruvian government in 1994 to carry tourists across the treacherous Apurimac, had been washed out by a landslide. Most tour companies canceled their trips to Choquequirao. Ours sent us a note asking how we would feel about crossing in a make-shift three-person cable-car called an Oroya.
"We make no statement or claim about the safety of crossing a fast flowing river on a recently built Oroya," the note warned.
I swallowed my fear of heights and e-mailed back. We were still in.
On the eve of our departure, four others decided to join us -- a fit thirtysomething Atlanta couple who had been traveling the globe for eight months and a twentysomething couple from the Swedish military.
We left Cusco at dawn, and after a nauseating three-hour drive on the winding roads to Cachora, we loaded our duffel bags onto our mule, slung our day packs on, and set out on foot, the ice-capped Vilcabamba Range ahead making the Colorado Rockies look like foothills.
Over the course of the next eight days, we would hoof it more than 75 miles, up and down thousands of feet via rocky, slippery switchbacks, and across one frigid 16,000-foot pass. We would visit not one but three long-forgotten Inca ruins along the way, including the hilltop citadel of Llactapata, which Bingham also discovered and Zeigler rediscovered in 2003. We would also make one stop at an emergency room in the remote Andean town of Santa Teresa (when my friend Kim succumbed to a severe case of digestive distress).
But before we got started on this grand adventure, we had to stop for a drink.
On the outskirts of Cachora, our Quechua guide, Domingo Atao, motioned us into an adobe hut marked by a red flag which, he joked, meant "liquor store." Here, a warm, round-faced woman offered us each a cup of chicha -- a corn liquor omnipresent in the ceremonies of Quechuas (modern-day descendants of the Incas). Atao took a sip and poured the rest on the dirt floor -- an offering to Pachamama, or Mother Earth. Now we could go, he explained.
Magic at Choquequirao
Two days later, with the 20-mile trek and the terrifying Oroya river crossing behind us, our weary band of travelers stands dumbstruck, overlooking the 6-square-kilometer Choquequirao complex from a high lookout a mile from our campground.
Days from any road or hotel, it looks much like it must have looked to the ancient Incas who came here to work, worship and perhaps escape the Spanish conquest that pillaged Cusco and other Inca outposts in the early 1500s. It appears they never found this place.
"To this day, we cannot find any historical reference to it," says Zeigler, noting that many other sites were written about in chronicles by Spanish historians. "That's what makes it such an enigma."
After settling into our three red tents in the spectacular, empty campground, we wash up, have our afternoon snack of popcorn and coca tea and go exploring. We walk in silence along vast terraces where crops once grew, through double-jam doorways signifying the entrance to something sacred, into towering triangle -- shaped residences where emperors slept and temples where high priests prayed.
We are the only ones here.
"In five years, it will be very crowded here," predicts Atao, noting that there is talk of constructing a high cable car across the massive Apurimac valley, cutting out a full day of hiking for curious tourists.
"Am I witnessing the end of an era?" I think to myself, feeling guilty knowing that I will write about this when I get home.
As the sun falls lower in the sky, we come across an employee from the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, clipping away the jungle vines that each day strive to reclaim the ruins.
We scramble down a treacherous hill, arriving at a long wall adorned with white rocks in the shape of llamas -- also revered in the animistic Inca faith. Then we make our way to a massive staircase, believed to be situated to light up the moment the sun peaks over the mountains on the December solstice, according to CU Professor Emeritus Kim Malville, an archeo-astronomer who is writing a book with Zeigler about the site.
"When you're there, you can really imagine people gathering there, chanting and greeting the sun as it rises," he would comment to me later upon my return to Boulder. I couldn't have said it better.
As I wander the complex, long shadows forming around the ancient stone buildings, I can easily picture many of the things that went on here centuries ago, because there are no crowds around to distract me.
I let my group head back to camp ahead of me, take a seat on a grassy terrace, and lean up against a sun-drenched rock wall built 520 years before my birth.
Yes, six days later I'd be joining the masses at Machu Picchu. But I would always have this moment.


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Same deal. The venue owner or promoter is responsible for licensing the music. Most places that have live music regularly buy an annual license from each of the agencies... that'll cover anything anybody plays.bford wrote:How does it work when you go to a concert and the band plays a cover tune I think half of the big name shows I've seen, at some point the band will play a cover tune. Does that band being covered get comped? Does that fall into what Nick covered, er, talked about.
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I've heard many people complain about the difficulty of making dialogs through triggers, so I decided to share my technique in this quick tutorial. What we are going to do, is to create an advanced custom action, which we will use to set up our dialogs. You will need a moderate skill level, and have worked with dialogs before.
That said, let's get started.
Part I
Step One
First of all, create a new Action Definition (Ctrl+Alt+R). This is going to be the function which creates and sets up our dialog.
We will need the following parameters:
These parameters are used to specify how the dialog should look like. It's like an advanced version of the built-in Create Dialog action.
Create the following actions within the Action Definition, and link them to the previously created parameters.
We can now use our custom action to easily set up an advanced dialog.
Step Two
Create a new Trigger (Ctrl+T) . This trigger will be the one initializing our custom dialog. Create an Event (Ctrl+E), and set it to whatever you want to trigger the dialog creation. I'll be using the Game - Map Initialization event. Now, create a new Action (Ctrl+R), and select our Action Definition from the list. You'll see all of our parameters in the advanced trigger field. You can now customize the dialog to your liking, or choose the settings I used in the picture below.
We will need to refer to the dialog at a later time, so we need to create a new Variable (Ctrl+B). Set the type of the variable to Dialog. Go back to the initialization trigger, and create a Set Variable action, and then set the new dialog variable to (Last Created Dialog).
Conclusion of Part I
We've now created a functioning, and good looking custom dialog. It may seem to have taken way more time than creating a dialog with the built-in actions, but it's a great technique to create multiple dialogs, and it saves you a whole lot of lines.
Part II
Step Three
We're now going to create the buttons for our custom dialog. We want to make the buttons look clean and professional, and take distance to the standard Blizzard buttons.
The first thing we want to do, is to create a Record (Ctrl+U) named Advanced Create Dialog Button. This record will be used to refer to our buttons later on. Add the variables seen below.
Next, create a new Variable (Ctrl+B), and give it the same name as the previously created Record. Set the Type field to - Preset, and the Record field to our Record. I will stick to 4 buttons for this tutorial, but you can change the array to whatever you need.
It is now time to create our Action Definition (Ctrl+Alt+R) to set up the buttons. Again, name it Advanced Create Dialog Button. Add the below parameters to the Action Definition. Notice, that I have added a new Parameter, Index. This parameter is used to save the button to a specific index of our Record, and is needed in order to refer to the buttons later on.
Go ahead and create the Actions for our Action Definition as seen below. You may change the Desaturated Color field to whatever color you want to be shown, when the button is hovered.
Step Four
Now that we have set it all up, we're going to put our work to use. Go to the Initialization trigger we created in Part I, and add two Local Variables (Ctrl+B). The first one will be used to add vertical offset between our 4 buttons. The second variable will be used for a For Each Integer function. Add the following Actions to the trigger. The array of the For Each Integer function is the amount of buttons created. You may set the Image File field to whatever image you want to have displayed. I've used Assets\Textures\ui_frame_big_innerline_protoss.dds for this tutorial.
At last, create two Triggers (Ctrl+T). Set them up like the images below. These are used to enable/disable the color shown when the button is hovered. Be sure to have the array of the For Each Integer function the same size as the rest of your button arrays.
Conclusion of Part II
We've created a pretty, fully functioning custom dialog and button. If you have followed the tutorial step by step, you should now have a result like in the image below.
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State-county investment in court system provides high rate of return for Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin - February 6, 2013
The financial partnership between Wisconsin counties and the state court system provides a justice system with a high rate of return on investment for the people of Wisconsin, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson told members of the Wisconsin Counties Association today.
Abrahamson spoke at the association's 2013 Legislative Exchange in Madison, where county officials gathered to discuss the important issues facing counties around the state.
The state invests less than one penny of every state tax dollar to support the judicial branch of government, including trial courts in all 72 counties and two levels of appellate courts, Abrahamson said.
"Courts play a crucial role in the quality of life in all Wisconsin communities. The courts help ensure that the law is not just words written on paper but that the law has meaning. The investment that the counties and the state make in the judicial system directly contributes to the economic health of our communities," Abrahamson said. Courts also resolve criminal cases and help settle disputes that have not been resolved amicably, including family disputes, she added.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court's 2013-15 state budget request would help ensure a continued return on investment for the people of Wisconsin by boosting financial assistance to the counties and increasing compensation to attract and retain quality judges and staff.
"The court system, like everyone else, made sacrifices during difficult times. The time for deferred maintenance, however, is coming to an end. We need to tune up the system with more state funding," Abrahamson said.
Abrahamson highlighted the innovation of the Treatment Alternatives and Diversion (TAD) program, which enables counties to establish and operate programs based on effective alternatives to incarceration for criminal offenders who abuse alcohol or illegal substances.
A recent study (external link) sponsored by the Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance, the state Department of Corrections and the state Department of Health Services found that every $1 invested in TAD yields benefits of $1.93 to the criminal justice system.
Abrahamson also highlighted:
- Technological innovations by Consolidated Court Automation Programs, such as the expansion of electronic filing and availability of online forms for litigants, attorneys and jurors.
- Evidenced-based practices, which enhance public safety and reduce recidivism.
- Problem-solving treatment court programs – one of the evidence-based practices being used by the courts that address addictive behaviors that are often at the root of criminal activity.
In addition to encouraging further investment in the court system, Abrahamson urged the state to help address the growing numbers of self-represented litigants. Increasingly, people are representing themselves without counsel in family law cases and small claims court, as well as in other civil cases because they cannot afford an attorney.
"The result is that individuals in our communities, without legal assistance, struggle to stay in their homes, to keep their children, to get government benefits, or to protect themselves from abusers," Abrahamson said.
"The justice system defines who we are as a people and what we value as a state. We must move forward to fulfill our aspiration of equal justice for all under the law. The executive, legislative and judicial branches at the state and county levels must be creative to ensure access to justice for indigent and low income persons. Rationing justice does not serve our communities or the court system well," Abrahamson said.
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