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By Dave Jacobs, Llenrock Group Oh the irony of it all. Consumer spending is way down, and so the retail sector has been hit hard. Unemployment is at 9.5% and climbing by the day on its way to 10%, and so the office sector is hurting. People are traveling less, and have less discretionary income, so the hotel sector has been battered. Portfolios of industrial property that would have traded sub-7 CAPs 18 months ago are now trading at double digit CAP rates. Even multi-family, a sector success by way of comparison, has felt the impact of tenants looking to double up, rent growth beginning to flatten, and has yet to see, in some markets, a wave of supply from condo projects-gone-bust mess with occupancy rates. Another BLACKSWAN niche that may prove resilient Data Centers. That's right, the same sector that fueled the mini recession earlier this decade and is lovingly referred to as the dot-bomb era is currently partying like its 1999. How is that possible, you ask? Several factors are at play.


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I know the National Review didn't *actually* call for conservative manga the other day — their writer was simply using a word without knowing its meaning — but if I was going to name an example of the type, I'd go for this very loud saga of a politician-punching comedian who defies American military hegemony to inspire the sheep of Japan to rediscover their burning souls in the war against terrorism. Check it out at your local bookstore, provided they haven't restocked since 2004!
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How about the crabbing? Gonna let my wife and son troll around and pull traps while I crab. Are they in the bay this early or are the only near the power plant in the IR right now.
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The seven children were found living in the squalor of a urine-soaked hotel room, all of them clad in filthy and soiled clothing while sharing food off the floor with animals.
Now their parents are facing seven felony counts of neglect of a dependent. They've also been ordered – should they be released – to stay away from their children.
This isn't the first time Marian R. Clark and Robert L. Boyko have been accused of not properly caring for their children. How often the 41-year-old Clark and the 42-year-old Boyko have dealt with Indiana Department of Child Services officials is not clear.
How they ended up at a dingy and cramped hotel room despite owning a home in Monroeville is not clear either.
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What's also clear is that the discovery what police officers described as "deplorable" and "putrid" living conditions might cost them custody of their children entirely.
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INDEPENDENT SALES REPRESENTATIVE AGREEMENT This Independent Sales Representative Agreement (hereinafter "the Agreement" is entered into and effective as of [insert date] by and between by and between the following parties: [Insert Name of Company] (hereinafter "Company") with a principal business address of _________________________; and [Insert Name of Sales Representative] (hereinafter "Representative") with a principal business address of _______________________ _______ ____,collectively referred to as the "Parties". RECITALS A. Whereas, Company is engaged in the business of [describe the business i.e. marketing/production/manufacturing, etc.] (hereinafter referred to as the "Product") in the United States. B. Whereas, Company desires to obtain the services of Representative to promote and solicit sales of the product, and Representative hereby desires to provide such services to the Company in accordance with the terms, conditions and covenants set forth in this Agreement. Now therefore, in consideration of the mutual covenants and undertakings as set forth herein and for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Company and Representative agree as follows: I. ENGAGEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE Subject to the terms and conditions contained herein, the Company hereby appoints Representative, and Representative hereby accepts such appointment, as its [non-exclusive / exclusive] independent sales representatives to promote and solicit orders for the product. II. SERVICES The Representative shall perform services, as described in Exhibit "A" (herein referred to as "Services") III. TERM AND TERMINATION 3.1 This Agreement shall commence on the Effective Date and continue for a period of one (1) year and shall automatically extend for successive one (1) year periods, unless either party gives written notice of non renewal to the other. 3.2 This Agreement may be terminated for convenience, by either party at any time, upon _____________ (___) day's written notice to the other party. If this Agreement is terminated for convenience, Company shall pay the Representative any unpaid commission due under this Agreement. 3.3 Company may terminate this Agreement for cause immediately upon notice to the Representative, without any liability to Representative or any third party: A. If the Representative fails to perform or materially breaches any provision of this Agreement, and such failure continues uncured for a period of thirty (30) days after the date of notice to Representative from Company identifying the breach; B. 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IV. TERRITORY 4.1 Representative shall have the exclusive right to solicit orders for the Product in the geographic territory as mentioned in Exhibit "A" (hereinafter called "the Territory"). Representative shall not solicit orders for Company Products in any other geographic territory outside the Territory. The Company shall have the right, at any time, in its sole discretion, to modify or limit the scope of the Territory. 4.2 Representative acknowledges and agrees that it neither has, nor will acquire, any vested or proprietary right or interest with respect to the Territory, any Company customers in the Territory, or any Company customer lists. Representative further acknowledges and agrees that any goodwill accruing in the Territory during the term of this Agreement with respect to the Company or Company Products shall be considered the property of the Company rather than Representative. V. 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Injustice: Gods Among Us – The Super Ultra Mega Origin Story
Josh Knowles | On 16, Apr 2013
Last year I walked into the LA Convention Center with eyes as big as saucers. It was my first E3 and I had just picked up my media badge when I saw it, a large banner that read "INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US". Further down the walkway, I saw Superman and Batman, Harley Quinn and Wonder Woman and finally Green Lantern and Solomon Grundy all battling it out. "Oh, wow. A real super hero fighting game!", I thought.
Then I saw the NetherRealm logo, I immediately went from awestruck to equal parts intrigued and mortified: let me tell you why.
You see, I fell for this trick before. A few years prior, Midway (the team that is now NetherRealm Studios) released Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. I had been so excited to actually play a fighting game where I could pit some of my childhood's favorite characters against each other for my amusement purposes. While the game did very well, the super heroes all seemed to be caricatures and parodies of themselves, while the Mortal Kombat fighters were, well, themselves.
The story of the game was cheesy and I found the online multiplayer mostly disappointing. I still scoff at the game when I see it at my local supermarket's discount bin. However, just as NetherRealm Studios has improved upon it's own image, DC has re-branded and improved itself as well. These two had obviously decided to take this idea to round 2.
While on E3′s show floor, I encountered NetherRealm's large black private showing room, I presented my press pass and told them of the interest I had in the game. They told me to come back the next day and they could fit me in. At the show I learned a little bit more about the game.
NetherRealm Studios wanted this to be a serious endeavor, no Kombatants running around, a believable story and solid, enjoyable online multiplayer.
They noted that the new Mortal Kombat was a step in the right direction but Injustice: Gods Among Us was going to leap the highest skyscraper. It looked great, I saw Batman thrash The Flash all around the Batcave, on multiple levels. I was really starting to look forward to this one.
The great thing about coming right out of the gate with a successful remake of the game that put you on the map is that fans are willing to listen. Like I said before, NetherRealm just couldn't seem to get the online multiplayer right. Adam Urbano knew this and in an interview with Now Gamer he admitted that the team spent two years working on perfecting the netcode for Injustice. He also talked about how they focused on making Injustice feel real and gritty, instead of the cartoon-like MK vs DCU.
We were all listening now.
It became apparent that Injustice: Gods Among Us wasn't just going to be another game. It was going to be an event, spanning multiple forms of entertainment. DC launched it's prequel comic run, titled the same as the game, in January. The story details how heroes and villains come to team up and fight each other. How Batman and Superman developed a rift that will change the entire alternate universe. It's pretty cool, some of the dialogue is amazing! It doesn't stop there though, DC Collectibles also launched a line of action figures that feature the heroes and villains in their special gear. That seems like a pretty good run, right? Well, they decided to also launch a 10-week long campaign called Injustice Battle Arena, a bracket-based tournament to decide who is the strongest super powered and gadget using fighters of the bunch. As of right now, 2 are left standing, Superman and (prep time) Batman.
Let's be honest, Batman has this one in his Kryptonite lined bag.
DC and NetherRealm also teamed up to bring an Apple-exclusive card game to the iPhone and iPad. This game allows you to actually see some of the alternate outfits that characters will have and also get a taste of what we can expect at launch.
While all this is cool, you want to know what has made me giddy as a 90′s era Superboy? This game has a story that will be delivered via the same method as Mortal Kombat 9. There are no main characters, you play through the roster of characters and unravel the tangled story, like the layers of an onion. This gives you a chance to see Superman's views of a superpower ruled Earth and why he deems it necessary or why Batman just can't let that happen. You get to see why The Flash has messed up big time, or why Aquaman was even considered a viable hero for the game.
Finally, the game will explain the burning question that everyone has, why can people fight and beat up Superman and the rest of the ultra-powerful super powered characters. I, for one, love a great story in a game. I thought Mortal Kombat 9 got it right, I can't wait to see how the Injustice: Gods Among Us story unfolds.
Now at this point, I thought that the game seemed very solid. Great premise, a lot of thought had definitely been put into it. This was all before I found out about S.T.A.R. Labs mode. You see, the game comes with 240 character specific challenges that are nods to major events in DC history or just tied into Injustice. While this gives you access to the casts' super powers and gadgets, it isn't even the tip of the iceberg. We knew that there was going to be DLC, I even talked about 10 characters that I wanted to see in the game. Themed DLC is going to allow you access to even more S.T.A.R. Labs challenges, all based off of popular story arcs like Red Son or Blackest Night. I wouldn't be surprised to see some nods to the (teen) Titans, Death of Superman and Infinite Crisis arcs. Even with just the costumes alone, I know we are seeing New 52, Flashpoint and Justice League content at launch. Yes it's a pretty big deal.
So, as I decide on which version to grab at launch, I am left with one final choice. The Collector's Edition with the awesome statue of Wonder Woman and Batman fighting, issues of the comic, new costumes and an animated movie, or the plain vanilla version with a disk and flimsy manual insert (yes, NO ONLINE PASSES HERE!). I think I am going to take this one all the way and add an awesome 13 inch figurine to my collection of crazy useless videogame stuff.
Seriously, it would be an Injustice if you were to pass this game up.
If you are going to pick up the game this week, head to your local Toys "R" Us and get a Free Game Guide (Prima) and Batman Action Figure [a combined $44.98 value] with the purchase of Injustice: Gods Among Us for $59.99 (Xbox 360 & PS3)
You can also purchase Injustice: Gods Among Us on www.toysrus.com!


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In Print: ASUM elects new president, TAPP and ASUM makes plans to merge
By Elizabeth Loutfi | April 23, 2014
Trey Sprick, one of the founding members of Tigers Against Partisan Politics, will lead the Associated Students of the University of Missouri next year.
TAPP event promotes student engagement in politics
By Covey Eonyak Son | Oct. 18, 2013
TAPP wants to ensure students are politically engaged during nonelection season.
TAPP event discusses politics in journalism
By Jordan Bruening | Sept. 4, 2013
The event featured a panel of three journalists.
TAPP executives plan new year of educating students on politics
By Jack Flemming | June 4, 2013
TAPP received the Chancellor's Excellence Award for Best New Organization.
Four student organizations win Chancellor's Excellence Awards
By Joseph Fafinski | April 26, 2013
Dance Marathon, TAPP, Mizzou Unity Coalition and Camp Kesem win top awards.
In Print: TAPP, Sustain Mizzou co-host environmental discussion
By Joyce Peng | April 19, 2013
A goal of the event was to broaden what sustainability means.
In Print: Immigration, gun control among key issues for student political group
By Katherine Knott | Feb. 12, 2013
TAPP seeks to provide a nonpartisan forum for students.
In Print: TAPP, ASUM, MSA host presidential debate watch parties
By Andrew Graham | Oct. 16, 2012
The organizations bring in faculty to provide non-partisan commentary.
'TAPP into Democracy' event series a big hit
By Jack Howard | Sept. 20, 2012
A political science professor encourages students to watch SNL.
In Print: Tigers Against Partisan Politics opens the year with healthcare discussion
By Andrew Graham | Sept. 7, 2012
Three faculty members discussed the Affordable Care Act.
In Print: ASUM, TAPP work together to educate, register voters
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Hands On Career Fair At Hartnell College - Pathways to Success
March 25th, 2003
Area high school students are invited to come to Hartnell College on April 11, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the non-traditional hands-on career fair. "We are expecting over 1,100 students this year and we have more than 50 presenters from business, industry and our community," said School to College Coordinator at Hartnell Denise Cook.
All of the presenters volunteer their time to give these high school students a chance to become aware of the career options available to them. Cook said, "We encourage the student to wear casual clothes and comfortable shoes because they will be going from booth-to-booth and visiting designated classrooms at Hartnell College. There will be volunteer staff to help them and we encourage them to ask lots of questions."
The students will see many of the career choices available to them and what training is required. "All this presented in a fun, interesting and a reality check of what the field is really like, " Cook explained.
The Seaside Fire Department will demonstrate the Jaws of Life, ROP Floriculture will assist students in making corsages and the Twin Lakes Massage School will give massages. Hartnell College Electronics, Agriculture, Welding and Dance Company will be represented and the college's Music Department will assist students in recording digital music. Rock climbing and self defense will also be there.
"The trade and apprenticeship professions will be represented," Cook said. "The National Association of Women in Construction, The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Sheet Metal and Cement Masons will be on hand and The Carpenters Training Committee will have a nail driving contest. And that's just a sample, there are many more!"
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A new website, "ColleensWorld.com," features dozens of online posts made by State Senate candidate Colleen Lachowicz, which include several references to her "love" and "enjoyment" of "stabbing" "poisoning" and "killing things" in the online fantasy game Word of Warcraft.
The site also quotes Lachowicz as saying in an online post, "The insanity has gone on long enough. Individuals like me and others can not respond like a funded and organized government effort. Now if you'll excuse me, I may have to go and hunt down Grover Norquist and drown HIM in my bath tub."
Grover Norquist, a national leader in the conservative movement, is well known for having said he wants a government small enough that we "can drown it in a bathtub." Norquist is also responsible for the "Taxpayer Protection Pledge", which he asks candidates to sign, sealing their promise to never raises taxes.
There are dozens of additional online posts from Lachowicz on the site that feature violent dialogue, curse words and crude comments made by Lachowicz.
"Oh…and I can kill stuff without going to jail," Lachowicz says in one post. "There are some days when this is more necessary than others," she continued.
Other Lachowicz posts feature some extremely strong language. "That is the joy of the VM [Vagina Monologues] traditional or trans! Yelling "C- – -" onstage always cracks me up" Lachowicz said.
In another post she recalls a dream she had "from election season last year" when she "sat at my childhood dining room table and I reamed [sic] him a new a- -hole about Sarah Palin."
Lachowicz is the Democrat candidate for Maine's State Senate district 25, where she is running against incumbent Republican Senator Thomas Martin, who has served one term as Senator. District 25 consists of the Kennebec County communities of Albion, Benton, Clinton, Unity, Waterville and Winslow and the Somerset County communities of Detroit and Pittsfield.
The website, Colleensworld.com, which is "paid for and authorized by the Maine Republican Party" says that Lachowicz, "is a gamer in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (WoW), which takes place in the make-believe land Azeroth."
The site notes that the she and the members of her "Wreck List Guild"—Colleen/Santiaga's WoW online alliance—post comments to each other on liberal online forums including the Daily Kos, where they discuss politics, military policies, and WoW battle tactics.
In one online post, Lachowicz says about her guild, "We're progressive…in fact we joke about being a socialist guild."
Lachowicz regularly posts about political ideology. One of her more frequent crude remarks is regularly referring to "teabaggers" in her posts. In one post, she also questions Governor Paul LePage's childhood story of being on the streets at age 11.
This isn't the first time a Maine Democrat has come under fire for violent posts made online. In April of this year, TheMaineWire reported that the chair of Maine's "Moderate Caucus," democrat representative Chuck Kruger had tweeted that former Vice President Dick Cheney, "deserves same final end he gave Saddam," adding that he, "Hope(s) there are cell cams."
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She sounds like most Dems I know
I am pretty sure has responded to the ad and does not deny it, nice try though.
Gerry, are there any games where gays, Jews, welfare cheats, and vote fraudsters can be hunted down and tortured? …would you ask her why virtual reality hatred is a better substitute for the real thing? ….or are they really the same?
Sounds like you're defending virtual reality killing and endorse gaming as a path to political office? Have you endorsed her campaign yet? Are you still having V.M's with your t.g. friends?
And you know that because?
You should talk about journalistic standards.
We all understand that the MaineWire doesn't abide by any sort journalistic standards, but even a ten year old would suspect that someone created a fake Twitter account for Lachowicz and posted this crap.


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Our column in Thursdays Bee updates whats happening with the lawsuit against CalPERS and now its individual board members over the organizations administration of long-term care policies sold from 1995 to 2004.
Weve received several calls for more information about the litigation, including questions from policyholders who want to be included in the lawsuit. Since the lawsuit is aiming for class-action status, plaintiffs attorney Stuart Talley told us, theres nothing that policyholders need to do to join. If the case proceeds, policyholders will be contacted at the appropriate time.
Click here to open a website that set up by the law firms that filed the lawsuit. The site includes a Q&A page that addresses all of the questions weve been hearing from readers. Weve also embedded the court documents that informed Thursdays column. Mobile platform users can read them by touching this link to read CalPERSs argument to throw out the case and this link to view the amended lawsuit that CalPERS will rebut next week.
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This Thursday through Sunday, you don't want to find yourself sitting in the front row of the Miami Improv. Canadian comedian Ian Bagg will be at the mike, and his whole bit revolves around calling audience members assholes. "Man, there are a lot of old people in here. Did a cruise ship crash?" His jabs at waxed chests, sparkly T-shirts, and awkward body language will inspire nervous laughter in those not yet singled out. But still, he's Canadian, so he has the birthright to be truly funny, like when he repeatedly asks the women in the audience: "How heavy was the heaviest child to fall from your loins?" And to the woman whose baby weighed more than ten pounds, he shouts back, "You're the winner. Go to the parking lot and pick any car you want."
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One of the important and unique distinctions between credit unions and other financial institutions is the fact that the members of both the Board of Directors and Supervisory Committee are volunteers, democratically elected by fellow members, and receive no salary or compensation for the time and efforts they contribute to the good of the entire membership.
Good news! Volunteerism is alive and thriving here at METRO. Nowhere was the spirit of volunteerism more apparent than at our recent 79th Annual Meeting of the Membership, held on May 27, 2014. While we have said goodbye to two of our members of the Board of Directors earlier in May – Mike Rich and Dominick Boccia (see related tributehere) - METRO welcomed two new long-time members to our Board of Directors: Miguel Rosario and Stephanie Rose - who were elected to the Board of Directors at the Annual Meeting. Miguel was a former member of the Supervisory Committee.
Two new members were elected to the Supervisory Committee at the Annual Meeting – June Dudas and Donna Hayward, also long-time members of this Credit Union.
On behalf of the current Board of Directors, Supervisory Committee and staff, I want to personally recognize and thank all of our volunteers who step up to the plate and selflessly devote countless hours for the good of the entire membership. It is my honor, and that of the staff, to work with such dedicated individuals who put the concerns of the members before their own priorities.
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Each year, British heavy metal legends Saxon honor a fine tradition of paying homage to England's patron Saint George by putting on a spectacular annual show on St. George's Day (April 23rd). The band's new live album, "St. George's Day Sacrifice – Live in Manchester", was recorded at last year's performance on that special day, specifically at The Ritz in Manchester, England during the band's "Sacrifice World Tour". The album, mixed and mastered by Andy Sneap and produced by Saxon vocalist Biff Byford, hits stores in the U.S. on April 29, 2014 via UDR Music.
This two CD set (also available in digital format) finds a blistering performance covering a collection of Saxon's finest work from 1979 up to 2013. A very special rendition of "Broken Heroes" goes straight to the heart and is dedicated to The British Armed Forces. This is Saxon at their best – a real treasure rejoicing every fan.
Saxon's most recent studio album, "Unplugged and Strung Up", debuted at #52 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, as well as #89 on the Top Rock chart in its first week of release! "Unplugged and Strung Up" is an amazing full-length release of fresh twists on classic tracks. Featuring staple Saxon stormers such as "Motorcycle Man", "Strong Arm of the Law" and "Dallas 1pm", it is a quintessential part of any collection. Recorded, mixed and mastered with Andy Sneap in Derbyshire, UK last year, Biff and co. re-evaluated, re-worked and re-energized the towering likes of "The Eagle Has Landed" and "Crusader" by introducing orchestral dynamics to offer added dimension. "Frozen Rainbow" from the band's 1979 debut, gets a stunning acoustic reprisal which transports it into a power ballad to be proud of, whilst "Red Star Falling" soars and sweeps the emotions with its orchestrally-arranged dovetail.
Saxon has always been one of metal's most impressive live acts and this new double CD showcases years of hard hewn performances spread over 21 tracks. "St. George's Day Sacrifice – Live in Manchester" tracklisting:
CD 1 – running time 61:05 minutes
01 Sacrifice
02 Wheels Of Terror
03 Power And The Glory
04 Made In Belfast
05 Rock'n Roll Gypsy
06 And The Bands Played On
07 I've Got To Rock (To Stay Alive)
08 Night Of The Wolf
09 Conquistador
10 Broken Heroes
11 Guardians of The Tomb
CD 2 – running time 59:08 minutes
01 Never Surrender
02 Ride Like The Wind
03 Crusader
04 Stand Up And Fight
05 Dallas I PM
06 747 (Strangers In The Night)
07 Wheels Of Steel
08 Strong Arm Of The Law
09 Denim And Leather
10 Princess of The Night
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Top down minis with quiffs huh ? That might take a while...
Dont know if you missed this post while you were away Torstan but if you think my 3D modeling skillz are right leet then I had better fess up.
I have been in close combat with it again tonight and I am beginning to see that there is a principle at work with blender. In general software there is some pretty standard UI principles and one of them is "There is more than one way to do it" thing. What I think is missing from that short sentence should read "There is more than one equally easy way to do it". Thats something I think completely lost of the UI dev of blender.
The UI is at the same time both brilliant and really really sucky. There are things so bad with it that you want to stop right now and put it in the bin and other times you think wow thats actually really clever.
If you look at the #1 top post pic 2 that is the cube in normal camera view. Look at render pic 4. Notice that the light is from a different direction. Now in LW the preview makes a half hearted attempt to get that about right and leaves it for the renderer to get it exact. So you move a light around and the screen does not update with good shading. Bad.
Also something must have possessed the chap who thought that having all the items like buttons on would be good gray and all the off buttons are light. Its like waiting at the curb for the walk sign to go out and then its safe. Or being in an elevator with all the floors lit up except the one your on. You cast your eye over these buttons and you have to double check your thoughts EVERY time just to make sure its really on or off.
Heres another. If you make an object show its points then they start highlighted if the object was highlighted. If you then use a selection then nothing happens. Its as though you didnt select them. Its not obvious that they are already selected. In LW they deselect / toggle. When you save a file you double click on the file to overwrite and nothing happens. When you hit the save button then still nothing happens. The save dialog does not go away, no wait cursor, so confirmation. Only when you click it again does it save it because its changed the focus with that last click but no screen update to tell you thats what happened and no press the button AND change focus at the same time like in normal windows.
Another dialog crazy thing is by default all the dialogs are in a bar on the bottom. Each sub panel has a close arrow which shrinks them in the X direction so that only a thin character width bar is present. But then instead of writing the name of the dialog vertically down the bar you just get the first character which is no use to anybody. Really dumb.
And yet, the dialog docking on the panels is superb. You can drag a dialog over the top of another and it automatically makes it into a property sheet with two pages. Also you can dock these dialog panels anywhere and it really looks as though they should be in a vertical drop so when closed the thin bar is now horizontal with the name across it. Great ! So why boot the app in the default mode which is where its so bad ?
You can hide these dialog panels but to bring them back is neigh on impossible without google. The one thing you can say is that everybody and their dog has seen these issues so theres plenty of blogs with the exact issue you have to get the answer. You have to put your cursor just over the scroll window slider and right click to get a menu to put them back up again. Why not have that menu for clicking anywhere inside a blank dialog space then ?
Its almost like this program was designed to keep noobs out. Once you know its fine but you cant know without asking. Oh and dont try the help that gives you an index of A-Z of what the keys do. I know what the key does because I can press it. What I need is a specific function and want to know what key does it. Its like having a one way foreign language dictionary. Its no good telling me what the foreign word is if you need to look it up in the index to get to it.
I could go on...
So what can I say that I have learned today ? Well you can use the Alt key and LMB to move the view so I think that cuts down on using the middle mouse so much. The gesture for scale is a kind of S shape so that is good too. No more Mr Spock neck pinches required any more.
If you press B then you get the start of a selection box which is pretty useful. You can also use ctrl + LMB to trace out a bounding lasso too. Also pretty useful.
I have been playing with the layers too. Luckily these are just like LW and I thought that these were one of the best bits of that app so I am well pleased here. You get a number of boxes which represent layers and you can select any box and it goes gray to show that its active (Real Dumb that) but you can shift and select as many of these boxes as you like and they become the active layers. You can move an object from one layer to another by highlighting it and pressing M for move and you get a neat little set of boxes come up - just pick one. Good.
In edit mode you can create new vertices by just using ctrl and LMB and it puts them down - it seems to know whether you are dragging out a lasso by the timing. You can select two points and press F to make an edge and three points to make a face.
You can add two objects in like a cube and a sphere and select both and press W and get the boolean menu and once finished it seems to work just fine. Though the new boolean object is separate from the original objects and the original objects are still there so to see an intersection for example, you need to get rid of the original objects or move them to a new layer. I tried it once tho and it crashed the app and it just bailed out and died leaving no trace. When I restarted it has an option to recover last session but it didnt give me the point where I was at. Very scary ! I didn't like that at all. My LW does not crash if you dont push it to its limits. A small cube and sphere should not crash the app. We will see how bad this actually is. I bet they didnt check for a div by zero and didn't catch the exception though it never told me anything.
So to round up. The UI still sucks but theres more than one way to do things except that everyone who must use this darn thing must be using the way that does not appear to be the default way your expected to do it as a nooby. Only then does it make itself humble to your requests. You get the inkling that if you use it the way the pro's and the developers use it then it could be alright. Nothing is going to make me think that dark gray is on tho. Does this app have UI skins ?


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UNDATED (WHTC) - The regular season of high school football along the Lakeshore concludes this evening, with two teams already assured of state tournament play, but still vying for conference crowns on our stations. Zeeland West hosts Byron Center for the OK Green title on 1450 WHTC and http://whtc.com/listen-live at 6:40 PM. Saugatuck visits Gobles for the SAC North championship on 92.7 The Van and http://927thevan.com/listen-live, also at 6:40 PM. Two other teams need victories on the road to lock up playoff berths, as West Ottawa travels to Hudsonville, and Zeeland East is at Kenowa Hills. The other three contests have Holland at Hamilton, Holland Christian at Unity Christian, and Fennville entertaining Bloomingdale.
Martin St. Louis' goal at the 1:16 mark of overtime lifted Tampa Bay past the visiting Blackhawks last night, 6-5. Chicago welcomes Minnesota to the United Center tomorrow evening.
The Red Wings are home to the New York Rangers tomorrow night. Action on 1450 WHTC from Hockeytown begins at 6:40 PM.
The Grand Rapids Griffins entertains the Charlotte Checkers in American Hockey League action at Van Andel Arena this evening.
College football tomorrow night features Hope home to Kalamazoo. Hear the game from Ray & Sue Smith Stadium on 92.7 The Van and http://927thevan.com/listen-live, starting at 6:40 PM. Grand Valley State is on the road at Northwood tomorrow afternoon.
There's a NFL doubleheader on 1450 WHTC this Sunday, beginning at 12 Noon with the Lions home to Dallas at Ford Field, followed at 7:30 PM with Green Bay traveling to Minnesota.


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Newcomb The town's favorite president will be celebrated as the town's annual Teddy Roosevelt Weekend returns Sept. 9 through 11.
This will mark the event's 10th year, and it's been a good tool for introducing people to the town, said Paul Hai of the Adirondack Ecological Center, who is a member of the event committee.
For the past two years, and again this year, the weekend will host Teddy Roosevelt.
"We've dug him up, pumped him full of Red Bull, and he's here," said Hai.
In an effort to get Roosevelt in a different setting, Hai asked him to talk at the Interpretive Center about life as a sportsman.
As vice-president, Roosevelt was hiking Mount Marcy when he received news that President William McKinley was ailing after being shot the week prior. He then embarked on his famous night-time ride to the nearest train station, in North Creek.
The local connection to the illustrious president is memorialized with a busy weekend of activities around Newcomb. Breakfast, dinners and lunches to benefit the local school, a golf tournament and tours of local landmarks, like the ghost town of Adirondac and Great Camp Santanoni will keep the town buzzing all weekend long. A detailed schedule of events can be found under the Events heading on www.newcombny.com.
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Stephen Halbrook on His New Book Gun Control in the Third Reich
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Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appeared on NRA News Television with host Cam Edwards. Halbrook talks about his new book and the years of research he conducted, showing how the Nazi party used gun registrations to disarm Jewish citizens and other Enemies of the State.
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Stephen Halbrook testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to Attorney General nominee Eric Holder.
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By HealthMeUp | October 5, 2012, 10:33 am IST Health & Fitness
Yoga helps you meditate: Meditation is one limb of the yoga philosophy. Let's not forget that yoga started with the prospect of helping yogis concentrate on meditation. A great parallel can be found here - yogis needed to stretch out their limbs so that they could stay seated in meditation for long periods of time. Today, we stay seated at our work desks - pretty much the same way. Why not learn from these wise men and ensure that we don't hurt our backs etc with constant sitting by practising yoga, either to meditate or stay fit despite long work hours.


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And Anthony Romero played a huge role in that.
Keyed by a career-high 24 points from Romero, a season-best 12 3-pointers, a 45-17 rebounding advantage and 55.6 percent shooting from the floor, the Lancers rolled past Holy Names for a convincing 87-56 wire-to-wire victory in the Van Dyne Gym.
"Anthony has been playing really well lately," said Collins. "I haven't wanted to mess with our lineup, but he was playing so well I had to start him in the second half, and I think for at least tonight, it was the right decision."
Behind Romero's sharp-shooting, the Lancers outscored the Hawks 47-28 in the second half, including 44-20 over the final 17 minutes.
The win snaps a mild two-game losing skid as the Lancers improve to 10-6 overall, 4-4 PacWest.
The Hawks fall to 4-14, 1-9.
Romero hit three 3-pointers in each half and had 11 of his points in the first half to help the Lancers build a 12-point halftime advantage. The Lancers never trailed and led by as many as 34 in the final minutes. Romero finished 8 for 11 from the floor for his first double-digit scoring game since scoring 13 against Dakota Wesleyan Dec. 29, 2012.
"I got into a rhythm early and my teammates just kept finding me when I was open," said Romero, who scored in double figures in each of the first three games. "This is big for us, especially momentum wise. Coach wanted us to do a better job sharing the ball, and I thought we did that really well."
Anthony Cosentino finished with 14 points and five rebounds. Kyle Wong chipped in with 10 points and four assists. Andrew Fisk, Ivan Patterson and Kevin Crabb all had eight points. Crabb had a game-high nine rebounds.
The Lancers had more offensive rebounds (18) than the Hawks had total rebounds (17). Every Lancer grabbed at least one rebound.
After falling behind by 14 in the first half, Holy Names got within 43-36 early in the second, but a lay-up by Luke Evans, followed by a Romero 3-pointer, a Cosentino lay-up and a Wong 3-pointer, all in 60 seconds, pushed the lead from 48-38 to 58-38 in a flash, putting the game out of reach.
"I thought our defense changed the game, because it led to nice plays in the open court, especially in the second half," said Collins. "We turned our defense into offense."
The Hawks got no closer than 18 the rest of the night.
The Lancers led 13-10 and used an 18-8 run, keyed by four 3-pointers, two from Romero and one each from Cosentino and Wong, to open a 31-18 lead with 6:31 to play. Romero's third triple gave the Lancers a 38-24 lead and they carried a 40-28 lead into the locker room.
CBU shot 35 for 63 from the floor and was a season-best 12 for 22 from beyond the arc. The Hawks shot just 38.9 percent (21 for 54) from the floor. CBU held a 42-20 advantage in the paint and 19-9 margin in second-chance points.
"They were scrambling all night trying to figure out how to attack our defense and they never could figure it out," said Collins. "I was real proud of our effort tonight."


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Ever since the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, the principal gateway to the Indian Subcontinent has been Mumbai (Bombay), the city Aldous Huxley famously described as "the most appalling of either hemisphere". Travellers tend to regard time spent here as a rite of passage to be survived rather than savoured. But as the powerhouse of Indian business, industry and trade, and the source of its most seductive media images, the Maharashtran capital can be a compelling place to kill time. Whether or not you find the experience enjoyable, however, will depend largely on how well you handle the heat, humidity, traffic fumes and relentless crowds of India's most dynamic, Westernized city.
First impressions of Mumbai tend to be dominated by its chronic shortage of space. Crammed onto a narrow spit of land that curls from the swamp-ridden coast into the Arabian Sea, the city is technically an island, connected to the mainland by bridges and narrow causeways. In less than five hundred years, it has metamorphosed from an aboriginal fishing settlement into a megalopolis of more than sixteen million people – India's largest city and one of the biggest urban sprawls on the planet. Being swept along broad boulevards by endless streams of commuters, or jostled by coolies and hand-cart pullers in the teeming bazaars, you'll continually feel as if Mumbai is about to burst at the seams.
The roots of the population problem and attendant poverty lie, paradoxically, in the city's enduring ability to create wealth. Mumbai alone generates one third of India's tax income, its port handles half the country's foreign trade, and its movie industry is the most prolific in the world. Symbols of prosperity are everywhere: from the phalanx of office blocks clustered on Nariman Point, Maharashtra's Manhattan, to the expensively dressed teenagers posing in Colaba's trendiest nightspots.
The flip side to the success story is the city's much-chronicled poverty. Each day, an estimated five hundred economic refugees pour into Mumbai from the Maharashtran hinterland. Some find jobs and secure accommodation; many more end up living on the already overcrowded streets, or amid the squalor of some of Asia's largest slums, reduced to rag-picking and begging from cars at traffic lights.
However, while it would definitely be misleading to downplay its difficulties, Mumbai is far from the ordeal some travellers make it out to be. Once you've overcome the major hurdle of finding somewhere to stay, you may begin to enjoy its frenzied pace and crowded, cosmopolitan feel.
Nowhere reinforces your sense of having arrived in Mumbai quite as emphatically as the Gateway of India, the city's defining landmark. Only a five-minute walk north, the Prince of Wales Museum should be next on your list of sightseeing priorities, as much for its flamboyantly eclectic architecture as for the art treasures inside. The museum provides a foretaste of what lies in store just up the road, where the cream of Bartle Frere's Bombay – the University and High Court – line up with the open maidans on one side, and the boulevards of Fort on the other. But for the fullest sense of why the city's founding fathers declared it Urbs Prima in Indis, you should press further north still to visit the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), the high-water mark of India's Raj architecture.
Beyond CST lie the crowded bazaars and Muslim neighbourhoods of central Mumbai, at their liveliest and most colourful around Crawford Market and Mohammed Ali Road. Possibilities for an escape from the crowds include an evening stroll along Marine Drive, bounding the western edge of downtown, or a boat trip out to Elephanta, a rock-cut cave on an island in Mumbai harbour containing a wealth of ancient art.Read More
Brief history
Brief history
Mumbai originally consisted of seven islands, inhabited by small Koli fishing communities. In 1534, Sultan Bahadur of Ahmedabad ceded the land to the Portuguese, who subsequently handed it on to the English in 1661 as part of the Portuguese Infanta Catherine of Braganza's dowry during her marriage to Charles II. Bombay's safe harbour and strategic commercial position attracted the interest of the East India Company, based at Surat to the north, and in 1668 a deal was struck whereby they leased Bombay from Charles for a pittance.
Life for the English was not easy, however: "fluxes" (dysentery), "Chinese death" (cholera) and other diseases culled many of the first settlers, prompting the colony's chaplain to declare that "two monsoons are the age of a man". Nevertheless, the city established itself as the capital of the flourishing East India Company, attracting a diverse mix of settlers including Goans, Gujarati traders, Muslim weavers and the business-minded Zoroastrian Parsis. The export crisis in America following the Civil War fuelled the great Bombay cotton boom and established the city as a major industrial and commercial centre, while the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 and the construction of enormous docks further improved Bombay's access to European markets ushering in an age of mercantile self-confidence embodied by the grandiloquent colonial-Gothic buildings constructed during the governership of Sir Bartle Frere (1862–67).
As the most prosperous city in the nation, Bombay was at the forefront of the Independence struggle; Mahatma Gandhi used a house here, now a museum, to co-ordinate the struggle through three decades. Fittingly, the first British colony took pleasure in waving the final goodbye to the Raj, when the last contingent of British troops passed through the Gateway of India in February 1948. Since Independence, Mumbai has prospered as India's commercial capital and the population has grown tenfold, to more than sixteen million, although the modern city has also been plagued by a deadly mixture of communal infighting and terrorist attacks.
Tensions due to the increasing numbers of immigrants from other parts of the country, and the resultant overcrowding, has fuelled the rise of the extreme right-wing Maharashtrian party, the Shiv Sena, founded in 1966 by Bal Thackery, whose death and cremation in 2012 brought the state to a standstill. Thousands of Muslim Mumbaikars were murdered by Hindu mobs following the destruction of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992–93, while in March 1993, ten massive retaliatory bomb blasts killed 260 people. The involvement of Muslim godfather Dawood Ibrahim and the Pakistani secret service was suspected, and both Ibrahim and the Pakistanis have been linked with subsequent atrocities. These include the bomb blasts in August 2003, which killed 107 tourists next to the Gateway of India; the subsequent explosions in July 2006, when co-ordinated bomb blasts simultaneously blew apart seven packed commuter trains across the city; and, most dramatically, the horrific attacks of November 26, 2008, when a group of rampaging gunmen ran amok across the city, killing 166 people.
Despite these setbacks, Mumbai has prospered like nowhere else in India as a result of the country's ongoing economic liberalization. Following decades of stagnation, the textiles industry has been supplanted by rapidly growing IT, finance, healthcare and back-office support sectors. Whole suburbs have sprung up to accommodate the affluent new middle-class workforce, with shiny shopping malls and car showrooms to relieve them of their income. Even so, corruption in politics and business has drained away investment from socially deprived areas. Luxury apartments in Bandra may change hands for half a million dollars or more, but an estimated seven to eight million people (just under fifty percent of Mumbai's population) live in slums with no toilets, on just six percent of the land.
Mumbai or Bombay?
Mumbai or Bombay?
In 1996 Bombay was renamed Mumbai, as part of a wider policy instigated by the right-wing Maharashtrian nationalist Shiv Sena Municipality to replace names of any places, roads and features in the city that had connotations of the Raj. The Shiv Sena asserted that the British term "Bombay" derived from the Marathi title of a local deity, the mouthless "Maha-amba-aiee", Mumba Devi for short. In fact, historians are unanimously agreed that the Portuguese, who dubbed the harbour "Bom Bahia" ("Good Bay") when they first came across it, were responsible for christening the site and that the later British moniker had nothing to do with the aboriginal Hindu earth goddess.
The name change was widely unpopular when it was first imposed, especially among the upper and middle classes, and non-Maharashtran immigrant communities, who doggedly stuck to Bombay. A couple of decades on, however, "Mumbai" seems to have definitively taken root with the dotcom generation and even outgrown the narrow agenda of its nationalist originators – just as "Bombay" outlived the Raj.
Bollywood revolution
Bollywood revolution
Film is massive in India. The country produces around 1200 movies annually, half of them in the studios of north Mumbai. Known as "Bollywood", the home of the All-India cinema industry has experienced a sea change over the past decade, as its output has started to reach mass audiences of expat Indians in Europe and North America. The resulting global revenues have financed much higher production standards and a completely new approach to plot, acting styles and scripts – rendering redundant the old cinematic stereotypes of the so-called "masala format", which dominated Indian film for decades. Big song-and-dance numbers still very much have their place in the modern Bollywood blockbuster, as does melodrama. But the overall tone these days tends to be much more sophisticated, with glamorous foreign locations, more plausible story lines, cutting-edge camera work and even state-of-the-art CGI deployed to wow cinemagoers at home and abroad.
Whereas in the past, hit movies tended to incorporate a bit of everything – romance, laughs, fight scenes, chases, lurid baddies, a set of instantly recognizable stock characters and convoluted plots that emphasized traditional values – now the industry is making big bucks from more nuanced genre flicks. The four highest grossing movies of the past decade were a feel-good comedy (3 Idiots; 2009), a dark psychological thriller (Ghajini; 2008); an action movie (Don 2; 2011) and a sci-fi superhero blockbuster (Ra I; 2011) – all radical departures from the Bollywood mainstream.
Some elements, however, remain consistent. Not even the most serious Indian movie can do without at least two or three "item numbers" – the set-piece song-and-dance sequences that give all hit films their essential anthems. And the cult of the Bollywood star shows no sign of abating. A-listers in the industry enjoy almost god-like status (only the country's top cricketers come close to matching their exalted mass appeal). Images of the current heartthrobs appear everywhere, from newspapers to cheesy TV ads.
At the top of the heap stands the veteran, white-bearded eminence grise of Bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan, whose record-breaking career as a screen hero saw a startling revival in the 2000s after he came out of de facto retirement to host India's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, called KBC (Kaun Banega Crorepati). Only a notch behind him comes rival Shah Rukh Khan, the smouldering lead of countless romantic blockbusters and the man the Los Angeles Times dubbed "the world's biggest movie star" in 2011. In box office terms, however, neither the Big B nor SRK can these days claim the appeal of Aamir Khan, the actor-director-producer behind hits such as Lagaan and 3 Idiots – the latter the highest grossing Indian movie of all time. Other leading men of the moment include John Abraham, Hrithik Roshan and Bollywood bad boy, Salman Khan.
Not surprisingly in such an image-obsessed industry, female leads tend to have a shorter shelf life than their male counterparts, although contemporary starlets such as Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif and Kareena Kapoor are tackling increasingly demanding roles in an attempt to prove themselves as serious actresses.
Even so, their off-screen antics and romantic dalliances continue to capture more attention than their acting skills, as do any public appearance of India's biggest celebrity couple, star actor Abhishek Bachchan (son of Amitabh) and his wife Aishwarya Rai. A former Miss World whose extreme beauty and svelte figure are often credited as spearheading the crossover of Bollywood into Western cinemas, Aishwarya has maintained her great popularity despite having had her first child in 2011. The career trajectory of Bollywood actresses has tended to be downwards after marriage (the assumption being that Indian audiences aren't prepared to accept a married woman, or even worse, a mother, as a romantic heroine). But with two other Bollywood queens – Madhuri Dixit Nene and Karisma Kapoor –making comebacks after starting a family, the times may well be changing.
Mumbai's size and inconvenient shape create all kind of hassles for its working population. One thing the daily tidal wave of commuters does not have to worry about, however, is where to find an inexpensive and wholesome home-cooked lunch. In a city with a wallah for everything, it will find them. The members of the Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Charity Trust (NMTSCT), known colloquially, and with no little affection, as "dabawallahs", see to that. Every day, around 5000 dabawallahs deliver freshly cooked meals to 200,000 suburban kitchens to offices in the downtown area. Each is prepared early in the morning by a wife or mother while her husband or son is enduring the crush on the train. She arranges the rice, dhal, subzi, curd and parathas into cylindrical aluminium trays, stacks them on top of one another and clips them together with a neat little handle.
This tiffin box is the linchpin of the whole operation. When the runner calls to collect it in the morning, he uses a special colour code on the lid to tell him where the lunch has to go. At the end of his round, all the boxes are carried to the nearest railway station and handed over to other dabawallahs for the trip into town. Between leaving the cook and reaching its final destination, the tiffin box will pass through at least half a dozen different pairs of hands, carried on heads, shoulder-poles, bicycle handlebars and in the brightly decorated handcarts that glide with such insouciance through the midday traffic.
To catch them in action, head for CST (VT) or Churchgate stations around late morning, when the tiffin boxes arrive in the city centre to a chorus of "lafka! lafka" – "hurry! hurry!" – as the dabawallahs rush to make their lunch-hour deadlines. Nearly all come from the same small village near Pune and are related to one another.
Famous foreigners who have taken more than a passing interest in the dabawallah phenomenon include Sir Richard Branson (the Virgin tycoon spent a day accompanying a tiffin carrier on his round), Prince Charles (who invited some to his wedding with Camilla Parker-Bowles) and Bill Clinton, who took a tiffin lunch during a state visit.
Dharavi: the £700 million slum
Dharavi: the £700 million slum
Sprawling over 550 acres, Dharavi's maze of dilapidated shacks and narrow, stinking alleyways is home to more than a million people. An average of 15,000 of them share a single toilet. Infectious diseases such as dysentery, malaria and hepatitis are rife; and there aren't any hospitals.
Despite the poverty, Dharavi has been described by the UK's Observer newspaper as "one of the most inspiring economic models in Asia": hidden amid the warren of ramshackle huts and squalid open sewers are an estimated fifteen thousand single-room factories, employing around a quarter of a million people and turning over a staggering £700 million (US$1 billion) annually. The majority of small businesses in Dharavi are based on waste recycling of one kind or another. Slum residents young and old scavenge materials from across the city and haul them back in huge bundles to be reprocessed. Aluminium cans are smelted down, soap scraps salvaged from schools and hotels are reduced in huge vats, leather reworked, disused oil drums restored and discarded plastic reshaped and remoulded. An estimated ten thousand workers are employed in the plastics sector alone. Ranging from Rs3000–15,000 per month, wages are well above the national average, and though Dharavi may not have any health centres, it does hold a couple of banks, and even ATMs.
As India's most iconic slum, Dharavi has also found an unlikely niche in the history of Indian and international cinema. The district provided many of the settings for Danny Boyle's multiple-Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, as well as several of its leading child actors.
Despite its burgeoning international fame, Dharavi's future remains uncertain. The entire district is living in the shadow of a proposed US$40 billion redevelopment project which aims to bulldoze the entire slum. In return for agreeing to eviction, residents will be entitled to apartment space in new multistorey tower blocks. Schools, roads, hospitals and other amenities have also been promised. Opposition to the scheme among Dharavites has been all but unanimous, however, with slum dwellers insisting any future development should focus not on erecting a swanky new suburb but on improving existing conditions.
Finding accommodation at the right price when you arrive in Mumbai can be a real problem. Budget travellers, in particular, can expect a hard time finding decent but affordable accommodation. The best low-cost places tend to fill up days or weeks in advance, so you should book well ahead to avoid a stressful, sweaty room hunt. Tariffs in mid-range and upmarket places are also especially high for India. State-imposed luxury tax (currently ten percent), and service charges levied by the hotel itself further bump up bills; both these add-ons are included in the prices quoted in the following reviews. A short ride from the railway stations Colaba makes a handy base, and is where the majority of foreign visitors head first. The streets around the Gateway of India are chock-full of accommodation, and the area also offers more in the way of food and entertainment than neighbouring districts. At the western edge of the downtown area, swanky Marine Drive (officially Netaji Subhash Chandra Marg) is lined with four- and five-star hotels taking advantage of the panoramic views over Back Bay and the easy access to the city's commercial heart.Book a hostel in Mumbai
Mumbai is crammed with interesting places to eat, from glamorous rooftop lounge bars to hole-in-the-wall kebab shops. The cafés, bars and restaurants of Colaba encompass just about the full gamut of possibilities, while a short walk or taxi ride north, Kala Ghoda and Fort are home to some of the best cafés and restaurants in the city, including its last traditional Parsi diners, whose menus (and sometimes decor as well) have changed little in generations.
The city is renowned for distinctive street foods – especially bhel puri, a quintessentially Mumbai masala mixture of puffed rice, deep-fried vermicelli, potato, crunchy puri pieces, chilli paste, tamarind water, chopped onions and coriander. More hygienic, but no less ubiquitous, is pao bhaji, a round Portuguese-style bread roll served on a tin plate with griddle-fried, spicy vegetable stew, and kanji vada, savoury doughnuts soaked in fermented mustard and chilli sauce. And if all that doesn't appeal, a pit-stop at one of the city's hundreds of juice bars probably will. There's no better way to beat the sticky heat than with a glass of cool milk shaken with fresh pineapple, mango, banana, chikoo (small brown fruit that tastes like a sweet pear) or custard apple. Just make sure they hold on the ice – which may be made with untreated water.
Mumbaikars have an unusually easy-going attitude to alcohol; popping into a bar for a beer is very much accepted (for men at least), even at lunchtime. Colaba Causeway is the focus of the travellers' and local students' social scene but to sample the cutting edge of the city's nightlife, you'll have to venture to the suburbs, where the trendiest places have turned the city's Draconian licensing laws to their advantage by serving gourmet food to complement the range of imported beers, wines and cocktails.
Despite a 1.30am curfew (only clubs within hotels are allowed to carry on later), Mumbai's clubbing scene remains the most full-on in India. Tiny, skin-tight outfits that show off razor-sharp abs and pumped-up pecs are very much the order of the day for boys, and spray-on mini-dresses and kitten heels are de rigueur for the girls. Dancefloors get as rammed as a suburban commuter train and the cover charges can be astronomical on weekends. Door policies and dress codes tend to be strict ("no ballcaps, no shorts, no sandals"), and, in theory, most clubs have a "couples-only" policy. In practice, if you're in a mixed group and don't appear sleazy you shouldn't have any problems.
Mumbai is a great place to shop and prices compare well with other Indian cities. Locally produced textiles and export-surplus clothing are among the best buys, as are handicrafts from far-flung corners of the country. In the larger shops, rates are fixed and credit cards are often accepted; elsewhere, particularly when dealing with street vendors, it pays to haggle. Uptown, the central bazaars are better for spectating than serious shopping.


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Mary-Kate And Ashley Olsen Wore Chanel As Michelle Tanner! How 'Full House' Fittings Inspired The Row Line's Tailored Designs (PHOTOS)
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have solidified their reputation as fashion icons, and now the twins have revealed how their early days as Michelle Tanner on Full House shaped their minds for design.
The Olsen twins got their big break on the fan-favorite sitcom Full House, and although Mary-Kate and Ashley were only 9 months old when they landed the shared part, they were quickly immersed into the world of high fashion. Their television character was known for her playful and girlish style, and now the Olsens say that their overalls and floral dresses were actually designed by fashion greats.
"[On Full House] we'd be in six-hour fittings three times a week, because we had to wear 12 different outfits," Ashley told Net-A-Porter. She said that designers like Chanel and Marc Jacobs were commissioned to design for the twins' character, Michelle, and cut to fit their bite-sized bodies. "We were designing clothes for ourselves, as we were so petite."
Mary-Kate said it was this experience that led them to hone in on the tailoring of high-fashion designs, and that philosophy has transcended into their hugely successful line, The Row. "I think that is when we became obsessed with fit," Mary-Kate explained. "And now the obsession has become a profession." In fact, the Olsens are so heavily focused on tailoring that they've made it the focal point of the brand.
"We saw a space in the market," Ashley said. "We knew there wasn't another brand offering basics in a luxurious and contemporary way. If I wear certain designer brands, or too much of something, I look crazy, and I need something to break it up. If you are wearing a Chanel jacket and you need an anonymous piece that will show just how special that jacket is, I hope that is what The Row gives you," the older Olsen said.
Anonymity has become increasingly important to the 27-year-old twins as they put their acting careers on hold to focus on fashion. A readily welcomed byproduct of their latest gig, however, is earning recognition as bona fide New Yorkers despite their California upbringing. "There is a threshold in New York, and once you pass that and are considered a New Yorker, they leave you alone," Ashley explained, referring to the paparazzi.
"We're at the office every day, then home or out for dinner, so there aren't the opportunities for them to take pictures," Ashley added. "For the most part you try and avoid it."