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Justin Bieber Lookalike Dead: Tobias Strebel Dies At 35
A Justin Bieber lookalike by the name of Tobias Strebel has been found dead just months after spending a fortune on plastic surgery to look like his idol. The body of the Bieber supporter was discovered in a hotel room in California few days after he went missing.
A Justin Bieber lookalike has been found dead just days after his friends and family reported him missing.
Tobias Strebel, who also went by the name of Toby Sheldon, made headlines few months ago after revealing that he had spent over $100,000 to look like Justin Bieber.
On August 18, he was in the news again, but this time around for a more serious matter – he had vanished. On August 21, the body of the reality star was discovered in a Motel 6 in North Hills, California. He was 35 years old.
According to reports, drugs were found in the room, but it is not yet known how Mr. Strebel died. Bieber has not yet commented on the passing of Strebel. In 2014, the man appeared on E!'s plastic surgery reality show Botched, and on TLC's My Strange Addiction, where he revealed that he initially wanted to just copy Justin Bieber's bowl haircut because his hair was thinning.
Moreover, because he was hoping to become a singer and songwriter like Bieber, he became obsessed and had dozens of surgeries to look like the Canadian star. He said at the time:
"What brought me to Bieber was the whole package: the full cheeks, the full temples, the bright open eyes, the full luscious lips and spacial framing," he said on "Botched" in 2004. "[He's] just extraordinarily beautiful."
He later explained the look he went for by saying:
"I want to look like Justin Bieber used to look when he was really young, and I just always bring the picture from him from two years ago to my surgeons and say, "Okay, this is what I want to model myself after."
Botched star Dr. Paul Nassif, who spoke to Tobias Strebel while he was on the show, paid his condolences in a tweet that read:
"My deepest condolences go out to the family of Toby Sheldon. He was good person with a great heart."
Nassif was one of the first people to report that the Bieber lookalike was missing and was asking social media commenters to pray for his safe return.
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He look nothing like Justin what a waste of $100,000 dollars Any Rip Toby Sheldon


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The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that producer prices for finished goods dropped 0.8 percent in November, adding to the 0.2 percent decline seen in October. The principal driver of the lower figure in November was the 4.6 percent decline in energy costs. Specifically, the price of gasoline fell over 10 percent for the month, helping to ease pricing pressures for businesses.
In contrast, food costs were up 1.3 percent, rising for the sixth consecutive month. Higher beef prices (up 8.2 percent) were largely responsible for the increase in finished food goods prices.
The bottom line is that the year-to-date change in producer prices for finished goods has fallen to 1.4 percent, from 2.3 percent in October and higher figures earlier in the year. With lower energy costs especially, we have seen these year-over-year rates decline from 4.2 percent in January to as low as 0.5 percent in July. Meanwhile, core producer prices – which exclude food and energy – are currently up 2.2 percent over the past 12 months. This also reflects significant easing, as core rates began the year at a 3.1 percent pace.
Manufacturers have benefits from a slower pace of growth for raw material prices. Producer prices were down 1.2 percent for the manufacturing sector in November, and over the past year, these costs have risen just 1.0 percent. The largest decline in costs was seen in the petroleum and coal products sector, which was down 7.8 percent. In contrast, the paper manufacturing sector had the largest increase for the month, with input costs up 0.9 percent.
Overall, these figures show that producer prices have slowed considerably over the past few months. As noted in yesterday's Federal Open Market Committee statement, the Federal Reserve is currently less worried about inflationary pressures than about downward risks to economic growth and employment. That is why it continues to pursue extremely accommodative policies to attempt to stimulate growth. With prices in control for now, the Fed feels that it has the ability to focus on its employment targets, at least for now.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release consumer price index data tomorrow, which are largely expected to mirror those at the producer level.
Chad Moutray is chief economist, National Association of Manufacturers.
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Litigation, settlements and investigations pertaining to Bank of America Corporation's (BAC) past business conducts continue to make headlines. This time BofA makes news for the settlement associated with the sale of risky residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) by Countrywide Financial Corp. (acquired in 2008), for which the bank has been ordered to pay $1.27 billion.
The fine was levied by the U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan, after a jury held BofA accountable to pay penalty for selling defective loans to Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FMCC) from Aug 2007–May 2008 via Countrywide. The company was accused of selling loans underlying these RMBS without properly assessing the creditworthiness of borrowers.
The Federal prosecutors indicted Countrywide for creating the program 'high-speed swim lane' (:HSSL) or 'Hustle,' which rewarded employees for the quantity rather than quality of loans. These loans, worth nearly $2.96 billion, were then bundled and sold off to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
BofA, according to its spokesperson, is considering legal options and may appeal against the ruling.
Additionally, a former Countrywide executive, Rebecca Mairone was found guilty of civil fraud. Mairone has been ordered to pay $1 million for allegedly playing a lead role in the above-mentioned program.
Separately according to close sources, BofA's negotiations with the Justice Department (:DOJ) have eventually advanced, after the bank increased the settlement amount to nearly $14 billion, including $7 billion as cash penalty. Earlier in Jun 2014, the talks had reached an impasse over differences in the settlement sum.
On the other hand, the DOJ has already cleared similar charges with Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM). While Citigroup agreed to pay $7 billion, JPMorgan settled for $13 billion.
We believe that though BofA has been able to settle quite a few cases pertaining to Countrywide, it still faces a considerable number of litigation issues that could weigh on its financials going forward. The company continues to suffer from Countrywide's flawed business conduct in the pre-crisis period. Till date, BofA has incurred more than $40 billion in losses from bad loans, RMBS claims and lawsuits.
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Si necesitas reirte, necesitas Ixion SagaDesde un principio no me gustaba el diseño de personajes, odiaba a Kon, no me tragaba a la princesa, el musculoso estereotipado me parecia que no aportaba nada y el travesti de pelo verde no me agradaba, incluso la deje de ver en el tercer capitulo cuando apareció una mascota con bufanda y gafas..Read more
Después de ver un par de reviews positivas le di otra oportunidad y seguí viendo desde el ...
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful:Great, slow at firstGreat Show, I was put off at first but after accepting DT for what it was I grew to love it. If you know tropes and can catch all the references you will be in stitches until the end.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful:Please do another season!Very enjoyable anime. I hope they bring it back. Great humor and lots of fun. With so many of my favorite anime shows ending, I'm hoping they decide to bring most of them back. This one still has another season or two left in it.
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful:Why not a second season?!I lol till i could lol no more this was the most fun you could have watching anime!
I hope they do a second season I would love to see what they come up with next!
A second season would be so nice...with a bit of romance.
I'm gonna miss this show. I would love to see a second season even though it's unnecessary.
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful:I usually don't watch comedy animes but...Ixion Saga DT is funny. The writers (and subbers because there are a few lines of subs that aren't uttered by the voice actors) did one helluva good job. I don't tend to find sophomoric jokes funny and I am surprised more than anyone how much I enjoyed this anime. My thinking is mostly if I were suddenly thrown into the world of a video I were playing, I'd react just like Kon, our protagonist. ...Read more
0 out of 6 people found this review helpful:Ball Gags Galore. Not really much else.The only thing that promotes this series is comedy. This is a gag series. Overall, the plot makes no sense and the characters are cliche and flat. Usually, I do a longer review but, for this one I am just trying to make sure i get to minimum number of characters. This is a gag amine and nothing more.
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful:Ball jokes, an intriguing story, anda tranny. What more could you want?Well to start off, this is a very boring anime for about the first ten episodes or so, but then it really picks up. It has a very good plot to it, which I won't give away, but it makes you want to keep watching. The characters are a tad flat though, you can sorta guess what one will say, and how the next will respond. All in all, a very good anime that some will hate, and others will love. ...Read more
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Kon Hokaze is playing an MMORPG, he receives a request from a female character in the game. Next thing he knew, he finds himself transported into the world of Mira where he accidentally saves a young princess by landing on her attacker with his chair. KOn has no idea how to get home, so Kon tags along with the princess as her bodyguard protecting her from a military group that is opposed to ...
An awesome unique animeDon't you ever get tired of the same old thing well this anime combines a lot of generic themes and puts it in a unique amusing way. I would recommend this anime to anyone who has seen a fair share of anime.
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful:hella funny. (just need a few more character in the title lol)nuff said.
JUST KIDDING. Humor really its main point though. This anime definitely could be one of those really loooong anime if they could think up enough funny stuff. Its got this main plot in the background with a whole bunch of HELLA funny episodes jumbled up together. I've never watched an anime like this and actually liked it. It is definitely an anime to watch.


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Syrian Patriarch says US strike would be 'criminal'
August 28, 2013
Speaking from Damascus, the leader of the Melkite Catholic Church has told the AsiaNews service that an American-led assault on Syria would be "a criminal act, which will only reap more victims."
Patriarch Gregory III Laham said that the US and other Western nations have done nothing to stop an influx of "Islamic extremists from all over the world are pouring into Syria with the sole intent to kill." Today the country desperately needs stability, he said, and "an armed attack against the government really has no sense at all."
The Melkite Patriarch strongly supported the call by Pope Francis for peaceful dialogue and an end to the civil war in Syria. He said that he had sent the Pope's plea for peace to all the Melkite parishes in Syria.
Patriarch Gregory voiced his concern that if Islamic militants come to power, Syria's Christians will be under heavier pressure to leave the country. Without a Christian presence to ease conflicts between Muslims, he added, there would be no realistic hope for democracy in Syria.
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In Iraq II, there were no weapons of mass destruction, despite CIA "intelligence." In, what may turn out to be Syria I, there is enough doubt that suggests that the rebels might be the ones to have used nerve gas (and we know how these Islamic terrorists, er, freedom fighters wouldn't do that - if you do, I have a bridge in Brooklyn...). These are the same people who the CIA has been training for months in air defense weapons, etc. The common thread? CIA of Bay of Pigs and Air America fame.
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Aug. 29, 2013 12:44 AM ET USA
Just tonight I heard Sean Hannity say that Iraq was better off without Saddam Husseiin. Still in denial, Sean is ignoring what has happened to the Christians there. When the people of this nation are so thick headed that they cannot even learn from recent history, we are doomed.
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As a president once famously said of his desk in the Oval Office, "the buck stops here." The notion that Barack Obama would bend to "Neoconservative" pressure is absurd; this war, if it comes, will be his and his alone. One could argue that Neocons applauded G W Bush during the massive blunder of the war on Iraq, as I certainly do, but they are sidelined today. An attack on Syria will only demonstrate again that there is absolutely no serious difference between America's warmongers left or right
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Wow. Wow. Wow. When I challenged you yesterday to explain geoscience (or any science) research using only the 1000 most common English words, I had no idea how many amazing responses I was going to get to read. It is so COOL to read about all the fascinating research that we do, distilled down to a language that anyone (even my kindergartner) can understand. And while I've seen some grumbles about how limiting the lexicon can be (plant is not on the list!), I think by and large the explanations being produced do not suffer for lack of those words. In many ways, I think telling people that you study little green things that lived more than "10 hundred times 10 hundred years ago" gives a sense of the enormity of geologic time time in a palpalable way than saying that you study organisms that lived more than a million years ago.
Last night, Chris and I spent our evening compiling many of the amazing responses we saw in our blog comments, our Twitter feeds, and the Storify. Today we are proud to unveil a new tumblr that collects these responses into one place, where they can be easily found and enjoyed:
As of right now, there are 86 entries on the Tumblr, and more entries coming in through the submit form all the time. This has spread far beyond the geosciences, with recent submissions spanning invertebrate neuroethology to solar physics. Take some time to browse the entries, and then submit your own. Share it with your colleagues, students, or friends and encourage them to explain their research or course material. Read it to your kids as a bedtime story. Have fun! Learn something new about science!
Beyond the 10 hundred words of science challenge itself, I think this is a great vehicle for getting us to be thoughtful about the way we explain our work to each other and to non-scientists. It definitely takes more thought to distill a complex topic down to a jargon-free explanation of the core principles and why they are exciting. And sometimes it takes more words. But, in the end, if it helps people to understand what science is all about, then that effort and those carefully chosen words are totally worthwhile.
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A 25% increase in advertising revenue at mainland Chinese business magazine Caijing helped to fuel a big gain in first-half profit at SEEC Media Group amid cooling economic growth in the country.
Overall revenue at Hong Kong-listed SEEC Media increased by 12% in the first six months of 2012 from a year earlier to HK$231 million, helping net profit to rise by 35% to HK$19.1 million, or $2.5 million, the company said in an announcement on Friday. Besides Caijing, SEEC's other titles include "CapitalWeek," "China Auto Pictorial," "Autocar," and "Real Estate."
Turnover at "Grazia," SEEC's fashion magazine, rose by 45% (see related story here); Sports Illustrated generated the same increase in business amid interest in the Summer Olympics.
SEEC's shares have lost about 40% in the past year amid worries about slower growth in consumer spending in the country.
Overseas media companies including Forbes Media, Pearson and News Corp. also compete in the market for Chinese-language news and analysis, though face restrictions. The New York Times started a Chinese-language website earlier this year.
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NEW ALBANY, Ind. (WHAS11) -- Murphy the cat came to the New Albany Floyd County Animal Shelter 13 pounds overweight.
"That's about 130 percent overweight," said Marilee Snider, the Adoption Coordinator for the New Albany Animal and Control Shelter.
She's cute as can be, sure, but her obesity could've killed her.
"With her weight as severe as it was, she could've easily died within a year or two," said Snider.
But after two months of daily workouts, including kitty crunches and long walks, Murphy has already lost three pounds.
Murphy isn't just helping herself, but her fellow felines, too. Her weight loss inspired the New Albany Floyd County Animal Shelter to offer 'Chubby Cat' discounts, where every cat at the shelter will have $1 taken off the $20 adoption fee for every pound they weigh.
"If you get a four pound cat, that's four dollars off your adoption. If you get a ten pound cat, that's ten dollars off your adoption," Snider explained.
The shelter is overcrowded with cats and the mission is to find them homes so they can make room for more.
"It's a fantastic way just to help spread Murphy's message and to get some cats some great homes," said Snider.
So the bigger the cat, the bigger the discount. Murphy weighs in at a bold and beautiful 20 pounds and is free, along with a free bag of special food and a gift certificate to Feeder's Supply.
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Quality Horseracing On The Menu This Saturday In An Effort To Compete Against Wimbledon And World Cup
Sports fans are spoilt for choice this Saturday with a plethora of high quality action, including World Cup Quarter-Final matches and the Ladies Singles Final at Wimbledon, but horseracing is putting on a quality act of it's own.
Sandown takes centre stage with the highlight being the Group 1 Coral-Eclipse Stakes, due off at 3.10, in which Henry Cecil's Twice Over is a solid 2/1 favourite with most layers.
The card gets under way with the Coral Charge Stakes, a Group 3 event run over 5 furlongs.
Although only six go to post ( Wi Dud being a doubtful runner ) the sprint is wide open, but if Bould Mover reproduces his excellent fifth behind Equiano in Royal Ascot's King's Stand Stakes Coral's 3/1 looks value.
Two Listed races follow the days' highlight, in the shape of the Coral Distaff and Coral Marathon Stakes.
The Distaff, run over a mile for fillies, gives Lady Darshaan a chance after taking in both the English and Irish Guineas, but the promising Decorative can win this before going on to better things.
The Coral Marathon looks to concern the Luca Cumani trained Manighar and Opinion Poll, who missed the Ascot Gold Cup because of the fast ground.
2.35 Sees a wide open handicap in the Coral Challange Stakes, in which bookmakers make Acrostic, the mount of Kieren Fallon, the 7/1 market leader.
Not to be outdone, Haydock feature a card to rival that of the Esher track, with the Group 2 Lancashire Oaks looking a cracking betting heat.
Barshiba is the 9/2 favourite with William Hill, in an event where very few can be confidently discounted. Les Fazzani, ridden by man of the moment Paul Hanagan, will attempt to confirm recent course form with Polly's Mark.
The main betting race of the day is Haydock's historic Old Newton Cup, run at 3.25, and off bottom weight of 8s 2lb Hanoverian Baron is sure to be a warm order in the £90,000 contest.
An impressive winner at York in May, David Probert's mount was available at 8/1 earlier in the week, but the best price now available about Tony Newcombe's charge is 5/1.


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"I've manipulated almost everybody," Jordan Gann says as he gets 30 months.
By Colleen Jenkins, Times Staff Writer
Published March 8, 2008
TAMPA - Good looks, charm and wit helped Jordan Gann con unsuspecting people across the country, a judge said.
But those qualities won't keep him out of prison.
On Friday, Hillsborough Circuit Judge Robert Foster sentenced Gann, 27, to 30 months in prison on a grand theft charge. He will serve about two years due to jail credit, but then must complete six months of community control and 24 months of probation.
"You're a predator," the judge said. "You prey on the naive, the harmless and the trusting."
A year after getting out of prison for a similar scam in Bay County, Gann convinced a Largo biochemist that he was an obstetrician-gynecologist who had just bought a $2.3-million condo. He said he would give her $100,000 toward her student loans if she fronted $750 to open the account.
She met him at WestShore Plaza with the money. When she changed her mind, he grabbed the cash and ran.
The woman did not attend Friday's hearing because of the media attention, prosecutor Chinwe Fossett said. The judge ordered Gann to pay $750 restitution.
Alone, the theft might seem minor. But Fossett asked the judge to consider Gann's act in light of his criminal history.
"He did it the same way he's done it so many times before," she said.
He has a pending grand theft charge in Pinellas County.
Fossett also detailed previous scams in Utah, New Hampshire, Orlando, Sarasota and Pensacola. Gann posed as a wealthy physician, lawyer or real estate investor, often targeting single women and carrying documentation that bolstered his stories. Complicating matters for police was the issue of his identity; Gann used aliases, including the name of his identical twin brother, Simon Gann.
Gann admitted a number of the crimes. At the time of his arrest in October, he told news reporters that he didn't owe anyone an explanation.
On Friday, Assistant Public Defender Jason Isaac said his client had been diagnosed with depressive and personality disorders and has a drug problem.
Gann said he was not going to use his drug issues as a crutch.
"I'm not here to blow smoke," he said. "I've manipulated almost everybody I've come into contact with. I know it's unacceptable."
Meredith Gavin, an Albany, N.Y., woman who believes her son was fathered by one of the Gann twins, doubts that Jordan Gann is remorseful.
She has no plans to cut back her efforts to warn people about the brothers. In addition to her Web site, she is scheduled to discuss their actions for a taping Tuesday of the Montel Williams Show.
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Philippe Coutinho and Antonio Cassano lead the way as Inter welcome Partizan Belgrade in the Europa League at 18.00 BST.
The Nerazzurri have an excellent record against this club, winning three and drawing one, though those fixtures were back in 1963-64 and 1990-91.
However, Andrea Stramaccioni needs to end his San Siro curse in Europe after failing to win any of their three home games this season.
Esteban Cambiasso is again used at the centre of a three-man defence, resting Andrea Ranocchia, Walter Samuel, Diego Milito and Javier Zanetti.
Coutinho acts as support to strikers Marko Livaja and Cassano.
Partizan Belgrade rely on starlet Lazar Markovic and captain Sasha Ilic, but leave Aleksandar Lazevski, Sasa Markovic and the Scepovic brothers on the bench.
The Serbians are bottom of Group H with one point from two games and are yet to score a single goal.
Inter: Handanovic; Silvestre, Cambiasso, Juan; Jonathan, Mudingayi, Guarin, Alvaro Pereira; Coutinho; Cassano, Livaja
Inter bench: Belec, Zanetti, Ranocchia, Samuel, Gargano, Palacio, Milito
Partizan Belgrade: Petrovic; Miljkovic, Ivanov, Ostojic, Volkov; Smiljanic, Medo; L Markovic, S Ilic, Tomic; Mitrovic
Partizan bench: R Ilic, Sretenovic, Lazevski, S Markovic, Jojic, S Scepovic, M Scepovic
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1-10 Times Tables ChartsUse these printable 1-10 times tables charts to help your child to memorize their times tables.
Times Table Charts from 1-10
Children tend to focus on memorizing one times tables at a time. To help with the process of memorizing the times tables we have developed a range of colorful charts that you can use. The charts contain each of the multiples up to twelve.
How to use the Times Table Charts
There are range of different exercises that you can do using the times tables charts:
- Start with the easy tables first – the two, five and ten times tables are considered the easiest to learn. Once these are mastered move on to the other times tables.
- Focus on one factor at a time – Stick to one factor and 'play' with it until your child becomes familiar with it and its products. Remember – committing all the products to memory will take time, it won't happen in one sitting!
- Find the answer – call out random multiplication questions and have your child find the answer on the chart.
- Times Table Videos – there are many great videos online that you can use to help teach your child the times tables. See our times table video page for our recommendations >>.
- Hundreds Chart – use a hundreds chart to show your child how multiplication works. You can use a hundreds chart to demonstrate the multiplication patterns that each times table creates.
- Skip Counting – try teaching your child to skip count. Skip counting is when you count in increments other than one. For example skip counting by two goes like this: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Skip counting is a good math skill for kids to learn – it improves their ability to understand multiplication, plus it gives children the ability to count objects faster (counting objects by two is much faster than counting by one). See our skip counting worksheets.
- Race against the clock – with a stop watch time how long it takes to recite a times table off the chart or from memory. Record the times so that you can have your child try to beat their best time.
- Remember – it doesn't matter in what order the 2 numbers are that you are multiplying; the result will be the same. For example, 4 x 6 and 6 x 4 both equal 24. A lot of kids would know that 6 x 4 = 24, but if you asked them 4 x 6 they would scratch their heads.
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Introduction to Multiplication – Multiplication is adding a number to itself multiple times.
Times Tables Chart – try the 1-5 Times Tables Chart as aid for teaching the times tables. Move on to the 1-10 Times Tables Chart once the first chart is mastered.
Multiplication Flash Cards – Flash cards are a great tool for memorization. Use these printable multiplication flash cards to help your child with recalling their multiplication facts.
Multiplication Worksheets – use the Multiplication Worksheets to cover the all the times tables up to ten. Times Tables Videos – to make the recital of times tables more fun try the 1-5 Times Tables Video recommendations or visit our YouTube channel for a range of videos from 2 to 12 times tables.
Multiplication Facts Worksheets – Find a range of multiplication facts worksheets to help your child memorize their multiplication facts.
Skip Counting Worksheets – Access a range of worksheets to develop your child understanding skip counting.
Skip Counting Songs – Access a range of skip counting videos.
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If you ever wanted the theatre experience without the lineups, sticky floors and talking moviegoers, Sony's Personal 3D Viewer might be for you. With this futuristic looking headset you can experience your own private movie theatre and play your favourite videos games in HD and immersive 2D or 3D, all with built-in virtual 5.1-channel surround sound.
The package comes with a processor unit to plug into your Blu-ray player or Playstation 3 via HDMI for a 16:9 picture in 24p True Cinema at a resolution of 1280x720 for a serious in-your-face theatrical viewing experience. The head unit weighs 11.64 oz and doesn't seem like much, but with the way the head straps are designed, you'll be taking all this weight on your forehead, nose and back of your cranium. Black rubber light shields are provided to block out light around the top and bottom, which I found frustrating when they kept falling out. Volume and menu controls are just a touch away on the bottom left of the viewing device in addition to the clarity sliders for each eye to adjust to individually. If you wear glasses, you will want to sport your specs with the device, which I found didn't get in the way at all. The unit does take time to adjust and get to fit comfortably, but it's worth the effort.
The intended experience is to feel like you're viewing a 150-inch movie screen from 12 feet away. You can sit upright or unlike in a movie theatre, lay on your back or side and the screen will still look the same. Once calibrated and comfortably fitted, the viewing experience is completely immersive. I would argue, even more than sitting alone in an IMAX movie theatre. The expansive landscapes, vivid colours and special effects of Tron 3D and Prometheus were even more impressive than I remember experiencing in theatres. Since your vision is blocked out from the world and all the sound is focused through your headphones, any and all outside distractiona are eliminated, allowing you to fully get lost in a film. Also, don't plan on snacking on that popcorn during your feature either since the motion of the chewing can affect the viewing experience (besides, eating anything with earbuds or headphones in is not pleasant) and since you can't see anything outside of the viewer, you might have a hard time reaching for that Pepsi.
Surprisingly, after two hours of viewing, my eyes didn't feel tired and I only felt minor discomfort on my nose, forehead and back of my head where the straps and pads were in contact with my head. However, the unit did leave slight indents and red marks on my face. I think an adjustable strap running along the top of the head from the forehead to the back would help improve future generation 3D Viewers support the weight of the device more comfortably, but in the meantime Blazin3d has you covered.
Gaming is a shorter story. Racing cars, exploring fantasy worlds and blasting away aliens with your favourite video game is an equally immersive experience, but harder on the eyes. I found my eyes got sore playing video games from having to look around the screen more often to check on ammo quantities, health meters and scan terrain for dangerous foes. For short periods of time, it's a blast but anything over 75 minutes starts to feel overstimulating and overwhelming. So for all the hardcore marathon gamers out there, be sure to take breaks.
The HMZ-T2 has a 3.5mm audio jack and provides you with a comfortable set of earbuds, which for me fit perfectly, but if you have your own favourite set of Beats or Sennheisers you can definitely use those. I prefer the earbuds because with your head strapped with plenty of tech and weight already, the last thing you want to do is add more mass to your melon.
Currently listed on Sony.ca for $999.99, the cost may be the factor that scares most away but Sony's Personal Viewer is definitely the most personal viewing experience available to date. It's definitely not a toy to play with around groups of friends, but definitely an escape if you need to isolate yourself from a roommate or use an an alternative second television set. Whether you're a casual gamer, film fanatic or just a gadget junkie, Sony's HMZ-T2 Personal 3D viewer is definitely an impressive piece of tech anyone should at least try.


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Spider-Man Fan Profiled in Pensylvania Newspaper
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Microsoft SQL Server in a VMware Environment on Dell PowerEdge Blades and Dell EqualLogic Storage
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The goal of this white paper is to introduce the basic concepts behind running SQL Server in a virtualized environment. It includes discussions of the deployment process and sizing considerations for backend EqualLogic storage and servers in blade chassis. It also includes blade virtual machine (VM) creation and SQL Server sizing for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads in a virtualized environment with VMware.
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I interviewed Jeffrey Overstreet, author of Auralia's Colors last year. Now, with the release of Cyndere's Midnight, the second book in the Auralia Thread, I had him answer a few more questions.
The Keeper is seeming a bit more Yahweh-esque in Cyndere's Midnight. Without revealing too much by way of spoilers, how are you fighting against the "Christian fiction" pigeonhole?
Well, I object when reviewers start calling the Keeper "God", or Auralia "Jesus." It's true that every character in The Auralia Thread dreams of this benevolent presence in the woods. It's also true that there is some strange and fearsome creature out there at work in the Expanse. The characters are arguing about its existence, about its benevolence, and about whether this creature is, indeed, the Keeper that appears in their dreams. But there are still two books in the series, and when the third book arrives, I think some readers may be surprised to find that this story isn't the simple allegory that they're eager to make it. Having said that, if the stories remind people of the Almighty and his mysterious ways, I certainly don't mind.
Cyndere's Midnight has a lot more action than Auralia's Colors. What methods do you employ to keep track of all of the different storylines?
Oh, I wish I had a "method." It might make things easier. I do chart out a basic outline for the story, so I have some kind of framework. But then I just start writing very spontaneously.
For example, today, as I work on Cal-raven's Ladder, I'm going to write a chapter about Cal-raven's search for an ancient tower. I know that when he finds it, he also finds that it's guarded by one of the Seers, those creepy fellows from Bel Amica. And while he's there, he's going to encounter a worried little hunchback, the Seer's persecuted servant, who is going to help him out by answering a few important questions. But that's all I know at this point. The fun part of the process will be discovering exactly how they meet, what they say to each other, and where that leads.
With Cyndere's Midnight, I knew how the story would end. I was delighted to stumble onto scenes like "how the ale boy escaped from being locked in a stove," and "what Cyndere finds when she visits Auralia's caves." Sometimes the surprises end up prompting me to alter my outline.
I have a list of the central characters nearby, so I don't forget about anybody. But really, I find that the more structure I impose on the process, the more I squeeze the life out of the story. It's better for me if I consider one scene at a time, and treat my characters as if they were improvising. That way, I write with the energy and delight of discovery. My favorite books always have that sense that the writer is caught up in a vision and he cannot wait to share it with you.
You listed quite a few books as influences for Auralia's Colors. What were your inspirations for Cyndere's Midnight?
The book gave me a chance to write my own version of "Beauty and the Beast." So I was thinking a lot about storybook monsters like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Gollum, and big screen monsters like Alien and Hannibal Lecter. But at the same time, I hit the brakes whenever I felt the story going somewhere that was familiar to me. It's important to me to venture into territory I don't recognize and find a story I haven't read before.
I keep copies of Watership Down, The Book of Atrix Wolfe, and Mark Helprin's wonderful novel Winter's Tale nearby, because the language in those books are like fuel for the tank. My storytelling engines start revving when I read those books. I recently stumbled onto a poem by Mark Doty, "La Belle et La Bete," in which he celebrates Cocteau's classic film. When I'm invited to speak about Cyndere's Midnight, I begin by reading that poem. It captures the ideas that motivated me to tell this story.
What else are you reading these days?
I'm reading Moby Dick! Or, more accurately, I'm listening to this extraordinary audiobook version during my morning and evening commute to Seattle Pacific University. It's read by the late actor William Hootkins. He is a masterful reader, delivering distinct voices for every characters. His archive of voices and accents is astonishing, and it really brings Melville's prose to life. I'm on Disc 16 of 19, so I'm almost finished.
I'm also reading Kathleen Norris's new book Acedia and Me, I have the new Patricia McKillip book, The Bell at Sealy Head, on my nightstand. I need to read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke, as well — I started it six months ago and fell in love with her language, but I've been so busy that I need to go back and start over.
Because I defend genre like the beastmen defend the Core, I'm curious to hear your thoughts about why so-called literary authors like Michael Chabon and Philip Roth can get away with speculative fiction, and why the rest of it gets banished to a corner of the bookstore.
You tell me. I don't get it. It's true that a lot of contemporary fantasy merely rearranges conventions, and a lot of it is grossly indulgent in violence and sex. But there is quite a bit of fantasy that really qualifies as literature, with artful prose and deep currents of meaning running through it. I'd like to see books by Patricia McKillip and Robin McKinley and Guy Gavriel Kay in "Literature."
Still, I'm just trying to get Auralia's Colors out of the Christian Fiction section and into the general fantasy section. Cyndere's Midnight is no more religious than Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Stephanie Meyer doesn't have to worry about her books being shoved into "Mormon Fiction," does she? I don't see any reason to make a genre distinction between what I'm writing and what Neil Gaiman writes.
What can writers and readers do to make speculative fiction more mainstream?
Don't apologize for loving fantasy and fairy tales. Study them. Discuss them. Interpret them. Teach them in literature courses alongside the classics. There's this sense that fantasy and fairy tales are for geeks and readers who suffer some form of arrested development. But fairy tales and fantasy are a rich, meaningful storytelling tradition, and some of the most profound philosophers and theologians I've encountered were passionate about fantasy.


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awesome oilpieces ! 'would have loved to see the exhibition and the soccer match!!! X-D
yes, I meant the darkest range in the shadow area in relation to the parts of the shadows with reflected light. one can see it eighter way
awesome oilpieces ! 'would have loved to see the exhibition and the soccer match!!! X-D
yes, I meant the darkest range in the shadow area in relation to the parts of the shadows with reflected light. one can see it eighter way
Thank you oren, Hellcow and Denoir
two new speedpaints... Photoshop and Wacom tablet, between 1-2 hours each.
Unfinished digital painting - Anne Boleyn's Revenge
I'm not happy with it and thus not in the mood to finish it, but it's still OK as a "speedpaint".
Maybe I'll want to finish it later when I have more skill...
Aarrrrgh my room is almost 30°C hot... and my notebook's CPU is almost boiling. No good! I'll turn off the computer and do some traditional sketching now.
Your SB is just gorgeous to look through. I'm not an artist and I'm not sure if it's close but your art has that neoclassical feel about it, and it's just beautiful.
it's not the end that matters but the journey
Wow. Those cast study paintings and the figure drawings are jaw dropping magnificent. And the with classical studies the line sensitivity really reveals the form well. Keep at it Your doing a stellar job.
You can visit me at my new blog Musings & Quips of an Artist
I'm out to conquer the world equipped with a pencil, digital paint and a Sketchbook
and when I do achieve that goal...I'll conquer the moon too
"When you draw nervously you end up with a nervous drawing, so drawing strongly produces lines filled with vitality"- Nightow Yasuhiro
"Use the ability you already have, and use it, and use it, and make it develop itself."-Robert Henri
ilmenhin, thank you
sanakris, thanks a lot
Finished my 1st still life at Angel Academy, whee!
Tomorrow's the last day at school, then I'll go to Rome for 2 days, with my awesome boyfriend, omg omg *.*
And then back home to Germany for summer holidays!
And then to Norway for one and a half months, to study with Odd Nerdrum. I'm a bit anxious already...
sketches from head
nice works (in fact i mean greaaat)
your sketches from the head are also awesome.
i always wondered if angel student are given some some magics elixir or something ...
don't tell me they don't, cause i won't believe !!!
have nice trip
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that still life is just plain awesome, i really like your lines in your sketches.
great stuff keep it coming!
Most of the charcoal and some of the digital color studies are pretty decent but the 2nd cast oil painting is AWESOMENESS! Keep up the good work!
The still life looks amazing! How long do you need to finish one of these? Looks like a lot of work...
Nothing in this world that's worth having comes easy
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Love the drawings, great work
wow, I really enjoying your drawing and progression..
I like your sketch and colour! want to see more from you =)
zou, thank you hehe, I'm not sure about the magical elixir for angel students, but everyone here is really kicking everyone's butt and the teachers are pushing everyone to do better. It's a hardcore motivational environment, I guess.
Yor, thank you
Alien, thanks!
Nele, danke! (here's some coffee). The still life took a couple of days, which is like lightspeed, at least for angel academy standards XD
Alex and aldodark, thank you
I went to Rome on Monday and Tuesday together with my awesome boyfriend, and it totally rocked (even though we didn't get to see all the Caravaggio paintings there). Especially the ancient Roman ruins were mindblowing! I think I know now what "Stendhal Syndrome" is.
New digital painting, I'm titling it simply "Eighty Nine".
It's a self portrait in the year 2078-2079... actually I would have to turn 300 years old to paint all the pictures I want to paint, if I include my procastination issues into the calculation. But let's have realistic goals! XD Turning eighty-nine one day (and still being able to paint then) is good enough for me!
that old woman's right hand is backwards.
I'm happy at Angel Academy and would totally recommend the school, if the program suits you. Obviously that's impossible to judge 100% until you've actually participated in class, but from the students' work on the website angelartschool.com you can see most of what's done here. I'll be happy to answer more questions
LumoGraphite: No idea, maybe you're right
Ok, some sketchbook pages... partly drawn from my idol's works, partly from imagination. Like, pretty much always!
And also two figure paintings from Angel academy, drawn from the live model. Sorry, the photos are so crappy. I will take new ones in 3 months (currently I'm home in Germany for the summer holidays, and left my paintings in my room in Florence! blah blah...)
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Push to save Labor from its own heartland
THE federal seat of Newcastle has never voted anything but Labor. That is, 45 general elections across 105 years since Federation. In all that time only five MPs have held Newcastle. David Watkins won it for Labor in 1901 and stayed until he dropped dead in 1935. His son, David jnr, had it for the next 23 years. Charlie Jones, later a Whitlam government minister, was Newcastle's MP for 25 years, followed in 1983 by Allan Morris, brother of Peter, a Hawke government minister who held the adjoining Labor seat of Shortland from 1972 until he retired in 1998.
Allan Morris held Newcastle for 18 years. The year he quit, in 2001, was the federal election in which Newcastle elected its first woman MP. How Sharon Grierson beat out the men for such a prize Labor seat, I don't know. What I do know is she didn't get ALP rank-and-file preselection without the support of the Morris brothers. The state seat of Newcastle is similar but different.
Newcastle's state MP is Labor's Bryce Gaudry. He's held it since 1991. However, despite more than a century of voter loyalty for federal Labor, state Labor lost Newcastle in 1988. That was the year the Unsworth government lost office in a voter thrashing that cost it three of its eight seats in the Lower Hunter: Newcastle, Swansea and Cessnock. Independents - not the Coalition - won all three.
And that is the point of this story.
An independent, John Tate, is the Lord Mayor of Newcastle. He is very popular, it seems. Labor's right-wing head office in Sydney, in a repeat of the Frank Sartor crossover from the Sydney Town Hall three years ago, is supposed to be courting Tate furiously to run for Labor in the state election next March. Gaudry, a member of the Left faction, either would retire or be dumped, if Tate can be seduced.
ALP locals don't like what they think they see happening and are opposed to any move to have Tate steamrolled into the seat. Head office usually doesn't give a fig for whatever local branch members might think, more particularly in a seat where the Left has sway. Besides, the fear Newcastle could aid in doing to Morris Iemma's Government what its voters helped do to Barrie Unsworth's equally brain-dead mob 18 years ago is a great incentive to do "whatever it takes".
The state seat of Newcastle, with Gaudry as MP, has a margin of safety of 16 per cent. You'd think this enough to withstand any earthquake. Not so. In 1988, with a Labor government 12 years old - from which its popular premier, sniffing the wind, had quit two years earlier - the Labor alienation in the Lower Hunter industrial heartland was so vicious it produced swings against Unsworth's regime as high as 27 per cent.
State Labor again holds all eight seats in the Newcastle region, just as it has always held all four federal seats. Iemma's Government appointed Lord Mayor Tate chairman of its so-called Hunter Economic Development Corporation some time ago. It also made him a member of a taskforce set up by the Treasurer, Michael Costa, to consider Newcastle's "transport needs".
You'd have to think the courtship was a goer.
Newcastle locals are convinced. Thus delegates to this weekend's annual Labor state conference at the Sydney Town Hall are being asked to debate a Left motion opposing any machine move to impose a "non-Labor" candidate in Gaudry's seat. It's a hollow attempt, given the Right has a conference majority, but it could stir some heat.
Otherwise, the weekend's only interest will be in Morris Iemma's conference debut handling the state leader's speech, after 18 consecutive years of Bob Carr's smoke and mirrors; and Kim Beazley's eighth NSW conference speech, as federal leader, in 10 years.
No, they're not selling tickets.
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FRAMINGHAM (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) – A Framingham man is accused of biting his roommate's back and right ankle during a fight Tuesday night at their Framingham home.
Felix Martinez, 34, was charged with four counts of assault and battery and malicious destruction of property. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday in Framingham District Court.
Prosecutors did not ask for bail and Judge Robert Greco released Martinez. Greco has been ordered to not have contact with his roommates.
Police said Martinez also assaulted his three other roommates when they tried to intervene during the fight at the Greenview Street apartment. The roommates said Martinez was sitting on the couch drinking liquor when he suddenly got up and attacked one of the roommates for no apparent reason.
According to the police report, the biting victim suffered a two-inch gash in his back. He was taken to MetroWest Medical Center for treatment.
Martinez is due back in court on Feb. 15 for a pre-trial hearing.
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My mercenary fully buffed except for four leaf clover, and some other pieces. As for a bonus, there's an AFK Yokito in the picture too.
I am a little disappointed with my HP though. I want 100k +
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100% Falcon Kick
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I dont even know if these stats are good or not anymore. Hopefully they are good.
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They are good enough to run me through PW over and over...
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They look fantastic to me. Also, I got the WD and DT that i lost to the AH back :-) Wheee I am happy :-)
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Does your home reflect a healthy, slim and active life? Or are you trying to lose weight in a home filled with chaos and clutter? If you chose the latter, you're not alone. It's hard for many of us to make good food choices and find the time to exercise when we are constantly running behind and our lives feel out of control. But there are some quick home design ideas and simple organizational tips that can help you to feel more relaxed. In a home designed for health, diet-friendly decisions become a natural and easy choice.

So where's the best place to begin a healthy home design? Don't try to change everything at once. Scan this list and choose one or two things to try. Focus on a single room and build from there. I would also recommend that you read Slim by Design by Brian Wansink, Ph.D. Dr. Wansink is a professor and researcher who studies eating behavior at Cornell University. Many of the suggestions in this list are clever design hacks that are pulled from his book.

And lastly, start visiting your friends - but not any friends. Visit the friends who live the fit and active life you want to live. You'll see that, in many cases, they've designed their homes to support their healthy habits. You might see a pre-packed gym bag placed next to the garage door, a food scale placed neatly on the kitchen counter or a peaceful bedroom space without a TV. These home design ideas are not accidents, but rather carefully planned choices that help them stay healthy and strong.

You may already have a fruit bowl in your kitchen. But is the fruit growing mold? If so, your fruit bowl might be misplaced. If you're trying to lose weight or eat a healthier diet, where you put the fruit bowl makes a big difference.

In a recent research study about habit changes for weight loss, Dr. Wansink found that when some people made a commitment to snack only after eating a piece of fruit, many of them lost weight. So where should you put the fruit bowl? In front of the snack cabinet. That way, you'll see the fruit first when you are tempted to snack. Wanskink also suggests putting a fruit bowl near your car keys. If you grab a piece of fruit before you run out the door, you'll be less likely to hit the drive-thru lane when hunger sets in and you're on the road.

As part of your healthier, diet-friendly life at home, you'll need to set specific goals to eat better and get more exercise. But those goals won't do any good if you forget about them days after you set them.

So, write out your goals and post them in a place where you'll see them every day. That's usually in the kitchen. On that board, you'll also want to keep a healthy grocery list so that your refrigerator is always stocked with diet-friendly foods. And lastly, post your weekly workout schedule on this board as well. But keep the board tidy! Essential health notes won't do any good if they are buried under coupons and photos.

What does a healthy kitchen counter look like? It's full of open space that's ready for diet-friendly food preparation. There are no bags of chips, stacked cereal boxes or visibly baked goods. Handbags, toys, and other clutter are also not there.

According to Dr. Wansink, a Slim for Design kitchen counter may have a few neatly organized cooking utensils, a blender for making healthy fiber-rich smoothies, a fruit bowl in front of the snack cabinet and not a lot more. I would also recommend keeping a small digital kitchen scale on your counter to check serving sizes of your favorite foods. Leave the rest of your counter space empty so when you're ready to cook a healthy meal, you've got plenty of space to work.

Open shelves in your kitchen can provide a fresh and airy look. But those shelves can also be a diet disaster if they are filled with tempting foods. So use your open shelves for plates and glasses, not for food.

And if you can, buy brightly colored, smaller plates to display on those shelves. According to Dr. Wansink, we tend to eat less when we eat our meals off of smaller plates that don't match the color of our food.

Most of us don't snack because we're hungry. We snack because we're bored or because we see a tempting food that looks good to eat. So how do you snack less? Many experts recommend hiding the snacks away in a hard-to-reach cabinet.

Pick a top shelf in a cabinet that is hard to reach. Or use a low cabinet where you can store snack foods behind other large, heavy items. That way, you don't see the junky snack foods in the first place and if you do decide to indulge, you have to work a little harder to reach the food.

You love your cookie jar. I understand. I love mine, too. But if you're trying to lose weight, your cookie jar is too tempting to keep on the counter. That is unless you use it for something other than cookies. Try filling your cookie jar with one of these healthier items.

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Most cereal bowls and soup bowls are way bigger than they need to be. It's easy to overfill and overeat with bowls that are nearly bucket-sized. But portion control is easier with small, single-serving bowls.

Invest in a few smaller bowls - like the small porcelain rice bowls at Crate and Barrel or the budget-friendly DINERA bowls at Ikea. Use these small bowls for snacks and treats so you're not tempted to eat so much. Keep the bowls in the easy to reach open cabinet so they are easy to grab at snack or mealtime.

Single serving containers are essential for busy eaters who want to lose weight. If you keep your refrigerator stocked with neatly packaged portion-controlled snack packs, you'll always have a smart choice available to grab when it's time to eat.

So what do you put in the containers? Dr. Wansink suggests that you keep at least 6 single servings of protein in your refrigerator at all times. But why stop there? Use color-coded containers for single servings of fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products. You can even use smaller containers for dips and salad dressings to make sure that you always use the right amount of those higher calorie foods.

Smart dieters clean off the middle shelves of the refrigerator and fill them with neatly stacked single serving containers of fruits and veggies. I also like to keep a bowl of hard-boiled eggs on the middle shelf of my fridge. That way, I'm more likely to see and grab those healthier items when I open the refrigerator door.

So what do you do with the foods that used to be stored on the middle shelves? There are certain foods that you should just throw away - like sugary drinks. But if your family doesn't want to let those items go, Dr. Wansink suggest storing sodas in the vegetable crisper which is usually in a lower, hard-to-reach spot.

Once your refrigerator is organized and neatly packed with healthy foods, it will be easier to see when essential supplies for healthy living are getting low. Keep a list of foods that need to be restocked on a dry-erase board on the refrigerator door. A combination board like the one pictured can also serve as the memo board for your important weight loss goals. When it's time to go grocery shopping, snap a photo of the board with your smartphone and take it with you to the store.

If you use your microwave every day, you may want to re-think that habit. Dr. Wansink found that people who lived slimmer lives tended to use their microwave less. This makes sense. A healthy diet usually doesn't include a lot of microwavable, processed foods.

So what do you do with your microwave? I've seen some fit and healthy eaters remove the microwave completely. This leaves an open shelf for your portion controlled-bowls and plates. But if you can't remove the microwave, use it for storage. It can make a great space for all of the single serving containers that you'll use for snack packs.

One of my favorite kitchen hacks for weight loss is to add chopped mushrooms to ground meat dishes to boost flavor and reduce fat. But you can also add frozen peas, corn, green beans, or lima beans to casseroles, stews, and other dishes to bulk up your meal, add important nutrients and keep the calories in control.

To save time and money, I buy frozen veggies in bulk and then transfer them from those big unruly plastic bags into neatly stacked plastic tubs in the freezer. Add a scoop to each tub and you're ready to reduce calories every time you cook.

Did you know that kids pour themselves more cereal from a branded box with colorful characters and letters? According to Dr. Wansink, kids usually pour less cereal from a plain, unbranded box. And adults probably do the same thing. It makes sense. We eat the more of the foods that look enticing.

So how do you eat less of these diet-downer foods? Make them less enticing - and less visible. Put high-sugar cereals and high-calorie snack foods into resealable opaque plastic containers. That way your food stays fresh, but you won't see the junk foods right away when you graze through your cabinets looking for a snack.

Now that your snacks and cereals are neatly packed into tubs and bins, add a measuring scoop to each bin to make sure you serve yourself the right amount every time you eat. You can get measuring cups to throw into each bin or use plastic or stainless steel scoops. Just be sure that each scoop size matches the serving size of the food it's being used with. A single serving of most cereals, for example, is one cup. So add a one-cup scoop to the cereal bin. A single serving of dry steel cut oats is usually 1/4 cup. So add a 1/4 cup scoop to the oatmeal bin.

Now that you've tucked away the unhealthy snack foods in a hard-to-reach cabinet and your cereals and other processed foods are hidden in opaque tubs, what do you do with the healthy foods? Put them on display!

Put your whole grains, like quinoa, oatmeal, and brown rice, in clear glass or plastic containers and put them in the front of the cabinet you open most often. You're more likely to eat these healthy high fiber foods if you see them more often. Just make sure you add a measuring scoop to the jar so you always eat the right amount.

Healthy eaters spend a lot of time preparing fresh lean meats, cutting fresh veggies and chopping herbs. That sounds like a lot of work, but it's not if you have the right tools at your fingertips. I keep several cutting boards (both wood and plastic) neatly stacked upright on my counter so they are always handy and ready to use. You can even use a color coding system to distinguish boards used for meat from boards used for produce.

If you're short on counter space (remember to keep the counters tidy!) then use office tools to help. Use a magazine rack or slotted mail holder to keep your cutting boards organized. Magazine racks can be added the inside of a closet door and the mail keeper can be left right on the counter.

Do you watch television when you're in the kitchen? Don't! According to Dr. Wansink, "the more you hang out in your kitchen, the more you'll eat." So he suggests making your kitchen less "loungeable." The easiest way to do this is to remove the television.

So what will you do when you can't watch TV while you cook? You'll probably pay closer attention to the food that you're making and the food that you're eating. It's easier to nibble hundred of calories while you're cooking. Without the distraction of the television, you may be able to pay attention and eat less.

Another way to create a diet-friendly kitchen, says Wansink, is to remove the comfy high-backed chairs that often sit near the kitchen counter or island. People who have less comfy kitchens spend an average of 18 minutes less in the kitchen. And less time in the kitchen can mean less snacking and less mindless nibbling.

Think the kitchen is the only home design space that matters? No way! There are plenty of other spaces that can use a healthy redesign - like your bedroom closet.

If you're like me, you put your best clothes in the front of your closet. Maybe you even display your high heels on shelves and put your fanciest dresses in a place where you can see and admire them. And your workout clothes? Those are hidden away in a drawer, barely folded and completely disorganized.

That's a bad idea if you're trying to lose weight.You're most likely to wear the clothes that you see most often. And if you want to lose weight, you should wear the clothes that keep you active. So put your active clothing front and center in your closet.

The closet redesign will also help you to take advantage of the new athleisure fashion trend. Many men and women now blend active attire with work attire and even with travel attire so that they keep moving throughout the day to burn more fat and calories.

A 5-minute bedroom overhaul may help you sleep better. And a good night's rest may help you to make better food choices during the day according to several recent studies. So what needs to be changed in your bedroom? Try these quick fixes to promote better sleep:

Don't charge any electronics in the bedroom. Move chargers to the kitchen or another room in the house.

Minimize light from other sources, including the TV. Many good sleepers do so because they've moved the television out of the bedroom entirely.

Keep a lavender spray near your bed. Feng shui experts believe that the soothing properties of the essential oil may help you relax and sleep better at night.

Ask any fit, active exerciser, and they'll tell you that they do more laundry than their friends who don't work out. And many of them keep a smaller laundry basket just for workout wear. That way there's no need to sort your items when this basket fills up. And if it fills up often that means you're doing a good job of getting enough exercise each week! A separate basket just for workout wear will also help you to keep your sweaty, smelly clothing away from more delicate items.

If you're really serious about exercise, you pack your gym bag the night before your workout. But if you forget to bring your bag with you the next morning, then your efforts are wasted. So, create a dedicated spot by your door for your exercise essentials. Hang a hook, or create an elevated cubby near the garage door so the bag is always at eye level when you head for your car in the morning.


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Osso Buco (Italian Braised Veal Shanks)
Serves 4
If you like veal and have never tried Osso Buco, you really should. It takes some time to cook, but is well worth the wait. Part of the attraction of the dish is the marrow found in the bones. Although very rich, it is a special treat. Traditionally, Osso Buco is served with a gremolata, which is a combination of chopped parsley, garlic and lemon zest that is added to the dish at the very end. Sometimes, it is stirred into the sauce, other times spooned on top of the individual servings. I have included it in the recipe, but I do not always use it. Either way, you have an absolutely delicious main dish for a special occasion or entertaining. Serve with pasta or the tradition Risotto Milanese, which is in the similar and related recipes.
- 4 veal shanks, about 1 pound each
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 large carrot, peeled and chopped
- 1 stalk celery, chopped
- 1/2 green pepper, chopped
- 1/2 red pepper, chopped
- 4 large cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- 1 can (14.5 ounces) low-sodium chicken broth
Similar and Related Recipes
Braised Veal Shanks with Cream Sauce
Risotto Milanese (Risotto alla Milanesa)
Braised Lamb Shanks with Orzo and Vegetables
Chicken Cacciatore (Italian Hunter's Chicken)
Additional Lamb and Veal Recipes
Additional Italian Recipes
- 1 can (14.5 ounces) whole tomatoes, crushed with fingers, with juices
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 teaspoon dried marjoram
- 1-1/2 tablespoons parsley (omit if using gremolata)
- Salt and pepper to taste
Optional Gremolata
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- 2 tablespoons minced garlic
- 1 tablespoon grated lemon zest
Preheat oven to 350° F. Season the shanks with salt and pepper. Dust lightly with the flour. Heat an ovenproof sauté pan or dutch oven large enough to hold the shanks in one layer over medium-high heat. Add the olive oil and heat. Add the shanks and cook until lightly browned, about 3 minutes per side. Remove from the pan and reduce heat to medium. Place the onions, carrots, celery and peppers in the pan. Cook until slightly softened, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook one more minute. Pour in the wine and broth. Return heat to high and bring to a boil, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan. Add the lemon juice, tomatoes, bay leaf, thyme, marjoram, the 1-1/2 tablespoons of parsley and additional salt and pepper. Cook, uncovered, until reduced by about one-third. (There should be enough liquid to come about half way up the sides of the shanks.) Return the shanks and any accumulated juices to the pan. Cover tightly and place in oven. Cook until the meat is very tender and starting to fall off the bones, 1-1/2 to 2 hours. Remove the shanks from the pan. Cook the sauce over high heat until reduced as desired.
Meanwhile, mix together the gremolata ingredients. Add to the sauce and stir well to combine. Serve the shanks with pasta or rice, spooning some sauce over each.


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When Is a Suspension Not a Suspension?June 24, 2009
The answer is when Manny Ramirez is involved.
Last night, Mannywood made its first excursion into Albuquerque. He's not with the Dodgers Triple-A affiliate rehabbing from an injury or because his production has declined. Instead, he's making sure he's in game shape for when he returns from his 50 game suspension for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs.
I'm not going to pretend I'm one of these "crusaders" who just wants what's "best for the game," but let's be honest, this is a catastrophic oversight by Major League Baseball.
Under no other circumstances would anything like this be allowed. Let's take A.J Burnett, who was recently suspended six games for throwing at the Rangers Nelson Cruz. Let's say to make sure he didn't miss his usual spot in the rotation, the Yankees sent him down to pitch with AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Any chance MLB would let that fly?
Not in a million years, yet when it comes to the suspension policy for PEDs, players are allowed to play in minor league games. I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise.
The league allowed steroid use to go one for more than a decade, before even acknowledging its existence. Then, under pressure from fans, the media and finally Congress, MLB instituted testing. So it's shouldn't be a shock that they figured out a way to screw that up too.
This is not a money issue because Ramirez still isn't getting paid until July 3rd, when he's eligible to return. This is an integrity issue. MLB thought it could trumpet the Manny suspension as evidence that its testing policy works.
Unfortunately for them, it also brought to light a glaring loophole in the punishment for testing positive. I don't know about you, but where I come from, 50 games means 50 games. Paid, unpaid, major league, minor league, it shouldn't matter.
If Major League Baseball wants to show that it's not the same bumbling group that let steroids happen in the first place, then this loophole is something that needs to be closed immediately.


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With a different surgeon to last time, Giuseppe Rossi will undergo an operation on Friday in the US on his latest knee ligament injury.
The Italy striker has been ruled out of Euro 2012 this summer after re-injuring the same right knee ligaments [12] last week in training that he first damaged last October.
His agent described the injury as resulting from a 'banal incident' [13] and suggested that the quality of the surgery the first time around had not been up to scratch for the joint to have still been so weak.
Subsequently and as Mundo Deportivo report, Rossi has changed surgeons and for tomorrow's procedure, will find himself under the knife of famous knee surgeon Dr Richard Steadman. The striker is still set for a six-month recovery period.
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HAG provides it sponsorship, support and enrolment in the Movember charity.
Over the last few years I have personally experienced losses and much bad news relating to men's health issues and therefore it was decided that HAG would support an already "Growing" initiative to raise awareness of these very treatable diseases.
- What is Movember ? (the month formerly known as November) is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for prostate cancer and testicular cancer.
- At the start of Movember guys register with a clean shaven face. The Movember participants, known as Mo Bros, have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their Mo, raising money along the way to benefit men's health.
I am pleased to say that as a first attempt much of the male workforce got behind "Movember" and produced some pretty impressive results .The " Ginger grey Chopper Read" being judged as the most striking which had been meticulously manicured by Aaron Collins a senior surveyor with an obvious passion for male grooming.
Noticeable others include Tony "Super Mario" Fitch and Dan "Poirot" Rollinson but I would like to give special thanks to all who participated and helped raise money for a worthwhile cause.
Paul Dunne, Managing Director
Further details and support can be given direct at http://uk.movember.com


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