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October 10, 2012 5:58 AM
Just a suggestion... On the recipe-building feature, it would be nice to be able to adjust the portion of ingredients. Right now, if I add 1 cup of something and later decide to reduce it to 3/4 cup, I have to search for the ingredient again and then delete the old portion. It would be really convenient to be able to click on it and adjust the portion (just like we can on our daily food journal).
Joined Jan 2013
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April 17, 2013 11:03 PM
I totally agree! It's completely normal to tweak recipes according to what's on hand and it would be great if MFP let us tweak as easily as well!
I'd also love if the recipe builder had a tab to frequent/recent ingredients to make it quicker to use. I use this feature most days but I often use the same ingredients in different recipes and this would make it so much more convenient!
Overall though, I think the recipe builder is awesome =)
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April 18, 2013 2:18 AM
Totally agree, I've built heaps (169 at last count) of recipe's and it would be a valuable time saving feature to implement both the suggestion's made above, I love my recipe builder, just tweaking it that little bit and i'll love it even more :)
Edited by Alkirra On April 18, 2013 2:20 AM
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April 18, 2013 2:24 AM
and also to have sort options like alphabetically and/or date order in the recipe builder part too, Its so annoying when I start to make something that I've already created!
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April 18, 2013 3:03 AM
I would like a "Save As" option - so if I create a recipe, and then decide to tweak & change things, I can "Save As" and keep original and new recipe.
Edited by ChristineS_51 On April 18, 2013 3:03 AM
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April 18, 2013 3:09 AM
+ 1 for Christine's suggestion too!
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April 18, 2013 6:32 AM
Yes to all of the above!
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April 18, 2013 7:08 AM
Just a suggestion... On the recipe-building feature, it would be nice to be able to adjust the portion of ingredients. Right now, if I add 1 cup of something and later decide to reduce it to 3/4 cup, I have to search for the ingredient again and then delete the old portion. It would be really convenient to be able to click on it and adjust the portion (just like we can on our daily food journal).
Interestingly enough you can adjust portions of ingredients on the mobile app, which is why it's odd that you can do the same on the mainsite.
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April 18, 2013 7:15 AM
Love these ideas, they would all make using the recipe builder much easier!!! I'm sure some people don't use it because it's so time consuming.
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April 18, 2013 7:21 AM
This and the first suggestion are both excellent ideas on how to improve the recipe builder.
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April 18, 2013 7:27 AM
I would love it if there was a way to link URL recipes from websites like AllRecipes, MyRecipes, etc and have the calories added up. Even being able to copy and paste an entire recipe at once, rather than looking up individual ingredients would be helpful. I have started using Pepperplate to gather and organize all the recipes I've found online from sponsored sites, and then Pinterest for the recipes I see on blogs, etc. Being able to link these or easily import them into MFP would be fantastic. Maybe there is already a way to do this and I'm just not aware?
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April 18, 2013 7:42 AM
I agree wholeheartedly with this. I am constantly tweaking recipes based on the amount of stuff I have at home. It seems like it wouldn't be that hard to make the ingredients in the recipes adjustable, since you can adjust portions of items already added to your diary.
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April 18, 2013 7:45 AM
My sister successfully got me to join MFP. I'm finding the recipe builder to be a bit of a chore... like I can't seem to enter 1/3 cup of Apple Sauce... Lose It is more flexible in this but once you build it you can't get back into it to see the ingredients and amounts. It would be a shame if I have to build my recipes somewhere else and then just log the info here. :-(
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April 18, 2013 8:30 AM
Edited by jsd_135 On April 18, 2013 8:33 AM
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April 18, 2013 11:44 AM
I agree with all the other posts and would like to add a couple of wish list items,
I know that this site is basically for calorie and exercise tracking, but I love the idea of having my recipes here also, it would be really great if you could add a section on each recipe for cooking or preparation instructions, also maybe space for a pic of the dish. It would also be very useful to be able to click on an ingredient and be able to view the nutritional information, without having to go back to the database and look it up again. One last wish item, I know it would probably be a pile of coding, but if you could add all the standard and metric measurement to each ingredient with a standard\metric toggle, it would make adding items so much easier and faster, instead of pulling up a conversion chart for every other item. Keep up the great work! I recommend MFP to everyone.
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April 18, 2013 11:47 AM
Yes! I tend to avoid the recipe builder for this reason, but I used it a couple of night ago and was reminded again of how annoying it is that you can't.
Please change this MFP!
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April 18, 2013 12:24 PM
I don't know about on any other platform, but you can change ingredient quantities in recipes on the iPhone app.
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April 18, 2013 12:31 PM
+ 1 for Christine's suggestion too!
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Provo • It wasn't exactly a New Year's resolution, seeing as how they were pretty good at stopping teams in spurts in 2012, but the BYU Cougars perhaps found the way they are going to win West Coast Conference basketball games in 2013.
"Defense," point guard Matt Carlino said, about a dozen times.
Finding their 3-point shooting touch, finally, didn't hurt, either.
Unleashing their most ferocious and stifling defense yet, and hitting a season-high 10 3-pointers, the Cougars got their revenge in front of 18,160 people on Thursday night in the WCC opener, crushing Loyola Marymount 92-51 at the Marriott Center.
Some 349 days ago, LMU whipped the Cougars here 82-68 to pretty much kill BYU's hopes of contending for a WCC title in its first season in the league. The Lions (7-7) brought back many of the same players who administered that shellacking, but this time the Cougars didn't go 2 for 25 from 3-point range, and kept supreme point guard Anthony Ireland from getting anywhere near 27 points.
The WCC's leading scorer had just nine on 4-of-13 shooting, got in some foul trouble, and was a nonfactor.
"Yeah, you think about [revenge], but it is a new year and you don't get to beat that team from last year ever again, even though they have the same name across their chest. But yeah, it is definitely sweet revenge," Carlino said.
He dished it out well, too, leading all scorers with 21 points while registering a game-high five assists.
"Matt hitting some baskets early was big," BYU coach Dave Rose said. "I just thought he played well."
Actually, all the Cougars had OK or above-average games, even football-star-turned-hoopster Bronson Kaufusi, who entered the contest in garbage time and made a layup to earn a cheer from the crowd that almost matched the one Josh Sharp got for another eye-popping dunk.
The Cougars shot 50 percent from the field and were 10 for 23 from 3-point range in sending LMU back to Los Angeles with a 41-point loss and delivering a message to the rest of the league that they might be a title contender after all, after a shaky nonconference run included four losses.
"We kind of changed some things up as far as with just some positions, and added a few things we thought would be good for league," Rose said. "It got our guys into a mindset of what's next, and how important league play is, and the urgency you need to play with. I thought our guys responded to that."
Tyler Haws followed Saturday's 42-point effort with 20 points and nine rebounds, while Brandon Davies, with a slightly sprained ankle, got better as the game progressed and finished with 12 points and nine rebounds in 30 minutes. Rose said Davies wasn't 100 percent.
The start wasn't what Rose wanted, as LMU jumped out to an 11-5 lead behind Ashley Hamilton's 11 points and a flurry of offensive rebounds. But a 21-2 BYU run ended the suspense, got the big crowd breathing easier, and boosted the Cougars' confidence.
"When you hold a team to ... how many points did they end up with? I mean, you are going to win a lot of games when teams only score 51 points," Carlino said. "Defensively, I thought we played really well."
LMU's 20 points in the first half was the lowest output in a half against the Cougars this season, and the Lions shot just 23.5 percent in the first half and 38.7 percent in the second half.
"Our defense was actually pretty similar [to what BYU has been doing]," Rose said. "I thought that our zone caused them to maybe overpass a little bit. And then they had a hard time early making shots. They had quite a few open shots that they missed, and those long rebounds for us kinda led to some good looks on offense, got us going."
And got the Cougars a little bit of revenge.
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Storylines BYU 92, Loyola Marymount 51
R The Cougars make 10 3-pointers and hold the Lions to 30.8 percent shooting in the easy win.
• Matt Carlino scores a game-high 21 points, and the Cougars shoot 50 percent from the field.

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Garrosh is much better now than in WotLK. Still a bit disdainful of anyone fighting on the lines, like he was back in the Tundra, but hey, you can't change that much in 3 years...
Now, all I hope is that we get some quests Alliance-side that can make us realize that Varian isn't as bad as most think he is, like Garrosh is getting.
I found it absolutely fascinating he referenced Saurfang in his speech, let alone the fact he showed remorse and anger at the fact that innocent civilians were being killed.
I think this is further proof that Thrall knew exactly what he was doing when he put Garrosh in charge.
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The speech with Saurfang at Borean Tundra is extremely important. That was the first time, Garrosh humbled himself when talkingand actually showed concerned about things like consequences.
It's strange though, because it came before all the major interactions with him. So how does it change him now?
Maybe when Saurfang was mourning his son, he changed. Or just the mantle of Warchief actually made him rethink things a bit.
I'd buy it, but I'd like to see some more fleshing out of where it's coming from.


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Greater Manchester Police have issued information ("Operation Frosty") to raise awareness of car theft while people are de-frosting their car in cold weather.
Please don't get caught out running to defrost – while you watch television, have a shower, sit inside! If you do this and your car gets stolen, your insurance then becomes invalid.
Cars have been stolen in Prestwich in this way – so please take care.
The Police suggest:
Get up 10 minutes early and scrape your car or put de-icer on to help.
Put an old sheet over the windscreen and tuck it in between the doors.
Sit in your car with doors locked, with the heaters on and wait for your car to defrost.
Don't get caught out this winter with the ice bandits ready to pounce. Just be sensible.


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I totally agree to go against your 2nd method. Passing, and discussing, while it may save trauma over a mis-loot, it is incredibly time-consuming and usually results in more squabbles than it's worth. I've done both methods and by far prefer the former than the latter.
If an enchanter voices early that they'll DE, they can easily set up a system where they roll greed on everything, if someone wants it they can roll need, and if not pass--works well for shards in formed groups.
And to be quite honest, if someone "ninja-loots" or screws up a roll in a PuG it's not the end of the world, and honestly is to be expected. Guild and friend runs are the only ways to really guarantee that such things are less likely to happen--especially when you can set up your own loot rules.
In the end, the everyone auto Need/Greed on BoPs is the easiest and fastest way to deal with PuG loot. I do agree with your note on BoE's however, so that's a plus :).


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Barkley L. Hendricks' Heart Hands Eyes Mind is on view at Jack Shainman Gallery February 28- April 6, 2013 (opening reception is from 6-8pm on 3/28). The exhibit will include the paintings Hendricks has become most known for (his portraits), as well as landscape paintings and photographs (most of which have never been exhibited before). Hendrick's paintings are a direct engagement with art history, the tradition of portraiture and a confrontation of institutional portrayal of the black subject. Hendricks has always worked between the realms of photography and painting, having studied with Walker Evans at Yale. He was introduced early on to portraiture through the perspective of the camera's lens. More HERE.
PS. One of my favorite pieces by Hendricks is Lawdy Mama (Featured Above). Listen to Thelma Golden, Director & Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem as she gives a brief history of the painting (Lawdy Mama is part of the museum's collection).


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Diego is an agricultural engineer and worked for several years in food security, rural development and healthy eating practices in Bogotá's surroudings including Sumapáz. He also worked with a friend who is a cook, an experience that led him to study culinary arts as a way of coming full circle in the process he had been working on for so long and that is now so popular around the world - the farm to table movement. The connection that can be made between people when cooking is a strong and important one, and Diego is well aware of this.
Having plenty of knowledge about farming around Bogotá and Colombian cuisine in general, Diego decided to embark on his greatest culinary adventure - getting to know Latin American cuisine by bike and directly from the people that cook it while sharing some of Colombia's cuisine and healthy cooking with them.
I think this is such an important project because, at least from my point of view, Latin American cuisine in general has so much more potential than people think, especially Colombian food which is often criticized by visitors. By venturing out across borders and discovering the cuisine of others you can learn a lot about your own cuisine and promote it in other countries.
Diego's adventure started a bit over ten months ago and you can follow him on his web page where he writes about his experiences with a few recipes he's picked up along the way - www.latinoamericasana.com. Fortunately there are more and more people like Diego who are genuinely interested in Colombian gastronomy. These kinds of people have the power to educate and promote our national gastronomy to the world - in this case, one pedal at a time. Good luck, Diego!
Hi Diana, what a cool project! I'm surprised to hear you say that Colombian food is often criticized by visitors, in what way do they normally criticize it? I ask because if anything, I've only ever seen the opposite reaction...(I will say that I occasionally make fun of the whole caleño ACPM thing, but only because I have friends who literally will not touch green vegetables...)
For those who don't know, ACPM stands for Rice, Meat, Potato and Plantain in spanish - the staples of many diets in Colombia. I love that and it is very true for a lot of people. I have heard people, even Lonely Planet, complain about Colombian food being too bland and boring. I guess if you compare it to Mexican cuisine it is bland but overall I think the food is really good here - it's humble, yes, and unpretentious but it's good. Some people have complained to me about it being unhealthy and that everything is fried. I guess it depends where you go, like anywhere else in the world. I have a friend from the US who did nothing but complain about the food here and one year later, she stops on the street to buy aromática and arepa con queso....now she admits that the food here IS good
That being said - I'm the first to admit that there is A LOT of room for improvement in Colombian cuisine. We have a long way to go but the foundations are strong...
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The invention relates to a biodegradable chewing gum comprising one or more conventional chewing gum components and as gum base at least one biodegradable polymer selected from the group of polyesters and polycarbonates.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The invention relates to a new chewing gum formulation which has improved properties with regard to degradability. It is known that chewing gum can give rise to a certain extent of environmental pollution inasmuch as it is very difficult to remove, if it can be removed at all, after use. It has already been proposed to replace a number of components of the chewing gum by components that are either taken up by the user during chewing or have a less poor biodegradability than the components conventionally used. EP-A 566,174, for example, discloses the use of a conventional elastomer in combination with a wholly or partly hardened oil. It is true that in the use of this formulation the poorly degradable paraffin can be replaced by another component, but the problems involved in the use of conventional, often synthetic elastomers remain. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is based on the surprising insight that it is possible to replace the conventional, non-degradable elastomers that are used in the gum base of chewing gum by biodegradable polymers. In combination with other biodegradable additives, a chewing gum is thus obtained whose organic components are biodegradable after use. Accordingly, the invention primarily relates to a biodegradable chewing gum comprising as gum base at least one biodegradable polymer selected from the group of polyesters and polycarbonates. More particularly, the invention relates to a biodegradable, i.e. degradable in the environment, chewing gum comprising one or more conventional chewing gum components and, included in the gum base, at least one polymer having a glass transition temperature of 37.degree. C. at a maximum, which polymer contains chemically unstable bonds in the polymer chain. Such chemically unstable bonds are preferably broken down under the influence of light or hydrolytically into components that are preferably water-soluble and non-toxic DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the biodegradable chewing gum comprises one or more conventional chewing gum components and as gum base at least one polyester having a glass transition temperature of 37.degree. C. at a maximum. Such a polyester is more particularly based on the polymerisation product of one or more cyclic esters, such as lactide, glycolide, trimethylene carbonate, .delta.-valerolactone, .beta.-propiolactone and .epsilon.-caprolactone. Such polyesters can for instance be used in the form of block copolymers or as mixtures of two or more homo- and/or copolymers. It is preferred to use a gum base which is based on a copolymer or a block or graft copolymer of a lactide and one or more other cyclic esters, such as glycolide, trimethylene carbonate, .delta.-valerolactone, .beta.-propiolactone and .epsilon.-caprolactone, or a mixture of two or more polymers, with at least one of the polymers containing lactide. In this preferred embodiment, it is preferred to use systems which contain at least 50% by weight of lactide units, more particularly at least 80%, based on the total of the polymers. The preparation of such polymers for use as gum base can be effected in conventional manner, for instance by ring-opening polymerisation in the presence of suitable catalysts. These catalysts can be based on compounds of transition metals, which are preferred to have the GRAS status (generally recognised as safe). Surprisingly, it has been found that with such biodegradable polymers a chewing gum can be obtained which has a structure and chewing characteristics comparable to those of chewing gum based on conventional, non-degradable elastomers. It has moreover been found that the adhesion of such a chewing gum to other materials, and more particularly to stone and smooth surfaces, is comparatively slight. This means that such a chewing gum can be removed from stones and the like with much less effort. Optionally, the chewing gum according to the invention contains, in addition to the biodegradable elastomer component already described, one or more other biodegradable gum base components, together forming a water-insoluble, chewable gum base. Further, the chewing gum generally contains a water-soluble part and a water-insoluble flavour component. These last two components are generally taken up in the mouth during chewing, with the water-insoluble flavour component diffusing from the gum base along with the water-soluble component. The suitable supplementary gum base components are, for instance, the components described in the above-mentioned European patent application 566,174, such as a fully hardened stearine fraction. The gum base can moreover contain yet other, biodegradable components, such as emulsifiers and gum base solvents. Suitable as emulsifiers are, for instance, lecithin and fatty acid monoglycerides, diglycerides and triglycerides.
The gum base may further include fillers, such as calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, talc, tricalcium phosphate and the like, as well as mixtures thereof. The amount of filler is generally 10 to 15% of the gum base. If desired, the gum base can also contain antioxidants, which must naturally be food-approved. Suitable antioxidants include butylhydroxide anisol and butylhydroxide toluene. Suitable amounts of antioxidant are between 0.01 and 0.1% by weight, based on the gum base. The water-soluble component of the chewing gum, which is preferably 5 to 95% of the chewing gum and more particularly 10 to 50% by weight, comprises, for instance, plasticizer, sweeteners and combinations thereof. The plasticizers, or softeners, are added to the chewing gum in order to improve the chewability and mouthfeel of the gum. Plasticizers or softeners generally account for 0.5 to 15% by weight of the chewing gum. Examples are glycerin, lecithin and combinations thereof. The water-soluble component also contains, for instance, sorbitol, hydrogenated starch hydrolysates, cane sugar syrup and combinations thereof, as well as saccharide containing components conventionally used in chewing gum, inter alia sucrose, dextrose, maltose, dextrin, dried invert sugar, fructose, levulose, galactose, and the like, alone or in combination. Sugar-free sweeteners comprise components that contain sweetening characteristics but are free of the known sugars, and comprise, for instance, sugar alcohols, such as sorbitol, mannitol, xylitol, hydrogenated starch hydrolysates, maltitol, as well as the known sweeteners aspartame, sucrose, acesulfame and saccharide, either alone or in combination. The chewing gum can further contain an amount of flavouring agent, which is preferably between 0.1% and 10% by weight of the chewing gum. Suitable flavouring agents are generally the known food approved flavours, such as oils of plants and fruits, such as citrus oil, fruit extracts, peppermint oil, clove oil, aniseed oil and the like. It is also possible to add artificial flavour. Additional ingredients, such as colouring agents and medicinal components, as well as mouth conditioners, can also be added to the chewing gum. Generally, the chewing gum according to the invention is manufactured by successively adding the various chewing gum ingredients to a suitable mixer. After the ingredients have been thoroughly mixed, the mixture is discharged from the mixer and brought into the desired form, for instance by rolling and slicing, extruding or pelleting. In general, the ingredients are first mixed by melting the gum base which is added to a rotating mixer. The base can also be melted in the mixer itself. Colouring agents are preferably added at this time. A plasticizer is then brought into the mixer together with the sweetener and a part of the filler. The optional further required components can be added next. After mixing has been completed, the chewing gum is taken from the mixer and brought into the desired form. The invention will now be elucidated in and by the following examples. EXAMPLE 1 An amorphous, non-crystallizable copolymer of 80 mol. % L-lactide and 20 mol. % D-lactide was prepared by ring-opening polymerisation in the melt, in the presence of 0.1% by weight tin octoate as catalyst. To this polymer was added an amount of 20% by weight of .epsilon.-caprolactone, whereafter, under nitrogen and with continuous mechanical stirring, the mixture was heated to 150.degree. C. To the homogeneous mixture, again 0.1% by weight tin octoate as catalyst was added, whereafter the polymerisation was completed. The obtained polymer had a glass transition temperature (DSC, heating rate 10.degree. C./min) of 15.degree.. During chewing the polymeric material provided a chew feel strongly resembling that of conventional chewing gum. The degradation products of this copolymer are L-lactic acid, D-lactic acid and .omega.-hydroxyhexanoic acid, all non-toxic and water-soluble compounds. On the basis of this polymer, a chewing gum was prepared using conventional additions and methods. EXAMPLE 2 On the basis of the copolymer of Example 1 as gum base, a number of types of chewing gum having the following compositions are prepared. 64% by weight sugars and sweeteners (sorbitol, xylitol and saccharine), 1% by weight aroma and 35% by weight gum base, and emulsifier. 40% by weight sugar, 2% by weight aroma and 58% by weight gum base, and emulsifier. 35% by weight sugar, 3% by weight aroma and 62% by weight gum base, and emulsifier. EXAMPLE 3 An amorphous, non-crystallizable copolymer of 25 mol. % L-lactide, 25 mol. % D-lactide and 50 mol. % .epsilon.-caprolactone was prepared by ring-opening polymerisation in the melt, in the presence of 0.1% by weight tin octoate as catalyst. The obtained polymer has a glass transition temperature (DSC, heating rate 10.degree. C./min) of -10.degree. C. To the polymer formed, under nitrogen, 40% by weight of sorbitol and an effective amount of emulsifier were added and mechanically mixed. During chewing the polymeric material provided a chew feel strongly resembling that of a conventional chewing gum. EXAMPLE 4 Example 3 was repeated, except that instead of sorbitol 20% by weight of glycerol was added.


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Rockford Police make two arrests in the incident at the Reingold Computer Exchange, 1224 Broadway, on Thursday. After review by the Winnebago County State's Attorney, 28 year-old Jerome Pruitt and 31 year-old Victor D. Petty are charged with Armed Robbery. Pruitt is given a $500,000 bond, Petty's is pending.
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Craig Cocke, owner of Lo-Cost Pharmacy, said there are some definite advantages to Zohydro.
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This drug would benefit a patient with extremely severe pain caused by terminal illness, but unfortunately, Cocke said there is high potential for abuse.
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There was speculation that Paramount and Skydance may try to work in the sequel before production begins on Mission: Impossible 5, which is set for release on December 25, 2015. Although Paramount denied that claim, they did confirm that this sequel is on the fast track.
Never Look Back, which was published this fall, follows the title character returning to his old military base in Virginia, where he is set to take the new female commanding officer out to dinner. When Reacher arrives there, she has been arrested, with Jack also facing charges of assaulting a man and fathering a child with another woman. While Jack can't remember either of these events happening, he becomes determined to get to the bottom of both cases.
The studio is currently seeking writers for the project. Christopher McQuarrie wrote and directed Jack Reacher, but he is currently busy prepping for production on Mission: Impossible 5, which starts shooting this summer. However, both Tom Cruise and Paramount are hoping that Christopher McQuarrie will return to direct the sequel after Mission: Impossible 5 wraps. Jack Reacher earned over $218 worldwide from just a $57 production budget.
Tom Cruise may also try to squeeze in Go Like Hell before Mission: Impossible 5 and the Jack Reacher sequel. Joseph Kosinski is directing, with the actor playing Ford Mustang designer Carroll Shelby in this drama about Ford's rivalry with Ferarri in the 1960s at the annual LeMans race.
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- 1st - rated the best research university in London, and third best in the UK overall, by the UK government's latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
- 4th in the world (QS World University Rankings 2013/14).
- UCL has the best academic to student ratio in the UK – 1:10.1 compared to the national average of 1:17.8.
- 28 Nobel Prize winners who are, or were, students or academics UCL.
- UCL staff and students come from a total of 153 countries.
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But Dawn, wasn't the talk on the official forums a month or so ago that the devs *are* indeed looking at some major changes to healing...again...in MoP? I'm talking about the idea they are throwing around of having the mana bar go static and int would increase the power of the heals (spirit supposedly would be--as it was promised--the major regen stat).
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Here are the list of excuses I've been telling myself for why I've put on weight the last couple months.
1. It's just water retention
2. I'll normalize soon (ummmmm....it has been 2 months now)
3. It's the medications I'm on (maybe this is true, but it's irrelevant)
4. It's natural for my "happy weight" to be a few pounds heavier as I get older
5. I don't need to watch what I eat, I'm a runner
6. Nobody notices an extra few pounds
7. I'll start tomorrow. It's soon enough.
8. I don't need to track my nutrition, I've been Sparking for over four years, I know how to do this
9. Everybody deserves a treat sometimes (sometimes maybe, but 3 times a day, maybe not)
When the truth is:
1. I've been eating too much
2. I've been drinking too much
3. I haven't been making healthy food choices
4. I haven't been exercising enough
5. I've been in denial and continue my denial cycle by not tracking my nutrition
Therefore, I need to track my nutrition, start making healthier food choices, not eat too much junk food everyday, and get off my butt and exercise consistently like I used to.
I want to live in Mexico permanently some day. Or at least as permanently as life can guarantee anything. In order to do that I need to be sitting on a big pile of money. Also, I would like to be more fluent in Spanish. I took years of Spanish in high school and college but have only really used it to order more strawberry margaritas the last three years when I've visited Puerto Vallarta.
I work at a university and get free tuition each semester up to a certain amount. They have a Conversational Spanish class on Wednesday evenings and the instructor said my skill level sounded like a good match for the course. All things considered, I'm fairly decent at reading and writing it, but I really need to practice speaking the language. So I'm going to take the class! I'm excited.
Another thing to help me with my dream is to get a career where I can telecommute from Mexico and get paid in dollars. I'm exploring either being a CFP or a CPA. I was going to take an Intermediate Accounting class next semester to help me with that, but with my travel schedule, I'll be missing 5 classes, which is nearly 2 weeks worth of lectures. So, given that I'm on a 15-20 year plan here, I figure I can start the accounting process next year.
The other big key is to have enough money to make this work. The new money thing I'm going to try out this week is to start using dried beans for my cooking instead of canned beans. I use a lot of black beans but canned beans apparently cost about 2.5 times more. I know I'm not going to get to Mexico with just the money I save on dried beans, but it keeps me in a frugal mindset and makes me feel like I'm actually doing something in the short-term for my long-term goal.
Oh, and between visiting New Orleans, my last trip to Mexico in March, and stubbing my toe so hard I couldn't run for two weeks, I've put on five pounds. Working on taking all that off too. Ugh.
My husband and I want to permanently move to Mexico sometime in the next 15-20 years. It's a lofty, but doable, goal. In order to make this happen we need to save a huge pile of money. Conveniently, the SparkSavings website rolled out at about the same time we decided living in Mexico didn't just have to a pipe dream. This is an in-progress plan. My husband just defended his doctoral thesis earlier this month and is still finishing up paperwork, so I feel lucky when I get to see him, let alone sit down and plan our financial future together.
If you haven't been to SparkSavings yet, you should come visit. It's at www.sparksavings.com
But I figure I can make steps. Some of them feel like ridiculously small steps, but as I know from losing weight with SparkPeople, those small steps add up to giant leaps. I've been thinking about what I need to do short-term, medium-term and long-term to get where I want to go (ummmmm...Mexico). More ideas to follow.
1. Using coupons
2. Tracking all expenditures on SparkSavings
3. Line drying most the laundry (as opposed to using the dryer)
4. Investigated my public library! I checked out books on careers, financial planning and on Mexico. Usually I would impulse-buy on Amazon.
5. Increased my monthly savings and set up automatic deductions from my checking account
6. Started a No-Spend Thread on SparkSavings to help with accountability. Come check us out! www.sparksavings.com/sparksavings/messageboard.asp?imboard=169&imparent=19060330
1. I plan on asking for a raise at work. It's a reasonable request, but the whole idea of it makes me really nervous. But I'll plan and prepare (I've checked out some books at my public library!) and the worst they'll say to me is no, not right now.
2. Perhaps starting a financial planning/money SparkTeam. There are some SparkTeams right now that I'm a part of that deal with money, but I have a few different ideas.
3. Save $500 from using coupons. Anytime I use a coupon I transfer that amount to savings. It's pretty challenging for me to save $500 using coupons for less than $1, so this is definitely not a short-term goal. It seems like so little at the time (Really? 50 cents off cat litter? Is that even worth clipping?), but $500 can pay for at least 3 medical appointments in Mexico. So that makes it worth it.
1. Investigating careers that I can telecommute with from Mexico. It doesn't need to be full-time, but I do need it to pay in dollars. I'm looking at what it would take to be a CPA (certified public accountant - I could do taxes from Mexico) or a CFP (certified financial planner) - also something that could be done with a telephone and an internet connection.
2. Pre-paying our mortgage. We each make an extra payment every year. It will save us TONS in interest for as long as we own this home.
Anyway, that's not all I'm doing, but that's the start of it. If anyone has some other great ideas, let me know!
Lately I have renewed enthusiasm for saving money and financial well being. My husband and I want to move to Mexico in the next 15-20 years. By that time I would be in my mid-to-late 40s or early 50s, which is still years from "real" retirement. While it is considerably cheaper to live in Mexico than it is in the USA, especially anywhere in Alaska, the job market is very different. I have to prepare as if I will have no income there. Minimum wage (if you can get a job) is about 150 pesos (around $15) per day. With enough creativity and fortitude, I'm sure I could get a job of some sort, but basically I need to have enough savings to cover my regular expenses for at least 15 years. It's a lofty, but doable, ambition at this point in time. If we have kids or a job or health setback, all bets are off, but right now we're planning optimistically.
I've been really excited about SparkSavings and can't wait to see that website grow and develop like SparkPeople has over the last few years. I'm thinking about starting about a Financial Challenge team. There are a few financial teams, so I have to think about what would draw people to mine and what would make mine different.
I'm also exploring options for a career modification. Right now I'm a fiscal officer. I have bachelor's in business management and a master's in economics. However, I'm not certified to do anything - like be a CPA (certified public accountant) or CFP (certified financial planner). I'm very interested in going the CFP route. I have some feelers out to my university (I'm staff at my alma matter) about taking some accounting classes and then sitting for the CPA and/or CFP exams.
The CPA thing has interested me for a little bit, but the CFP has REALLY interested me for a long time. If I had college to do over again I would start there and plan on being a CFP (or an actuary actually) from the beginning. The one drawback to being a CFP is that many of the positions are comission based. I'm not interested in selling a questionable product, or having to bully people looking for financial advice into buying a product that might not be right for them just so I can pay my own bills. There are positions that require a fiduciary obligation to your clients out there and I want one of those. But those are a lot harder to come by. So we'll see where it goes. First, I have to hear back from the accounting department at the university.
The BIG upside with either of those certifications is that with good internet access (large parts of Mexico have great internet access) it's something I could do part-time in a different country and earn dollars. So maybe that's what I'll do once I get to Mexico. Right now I'm just exploring the options, saving my money (next blog will be about where I still SPEND money on things I don't necessarily NEED), and starting to create a plan.
I'm very "into" saving money right now. I've always enjoyed personal finance and putting together spreadsheets, but since my husband and I now have a shared financial dream I have become re-energized to save money. Especially convenient given that SparkSavings (www.sparksavings.com) just launched!
Anyway, a lot of personal finance advice gets regurgitated over and over. If you've been looking into it for the last couple of years you probably see a lot of the same stuff over and over again. This article offered up some advice I don't hear much about (like move to a foreign country) in a different way.


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There's too many things to list at the moment, so I'll just talk broadly. My favourite aspect of WoW is the little details they put in game. For example, the bloodstains on the lordaeron throneroom floor, where the king's crown rolled in the war3 cinematic. I imagine a lot of people haven't noticed it, but the fact that it's there is pretty awesome.
WoW, while not having the same level of graphics as other games, has much more character than a lot of the graphically superior games on the market.
I don't consider other games with higher polygon counts to be "graphically superior."
The fact of the matter is that WoW environments seem to have been created by real artists, almost painting a picture, while other "photorealistic" games seem to be devised by photographers — these games will fade into obsoleteness as the realism is pumped up another level, yet WoW will live on virtually forever like the painting that it is.


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South Whidbey golfers beat Sequim
The South Whidbey boys golf team traveled to Dungeness Golf Course Tuesday, but didn't come home crabby after beating Sequim 415 to 422.
"The boys played this par-72 course in cool and windy conditions, and showed a lot of style against a very good team," said Falcon coach Steve Jones.
Shane Thompson led the Falcons with 78, Harrison Price had 79, Josh Yingling, 84, Connor Mock, 86, and Jesse Portillo, 88.
"Our first home match of the season is 2:30 p.m. Monday April 26 at Useless Bay Golf Course," Jones said. "This is a tournament match with all schools in our league visiting. I should note South Whidbey is currently in second place in league standings."
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