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Hey Saskatoon, have you already lost your New Years ambition to get to the gym? It's really easy to get excited about starting that training program when you're just starting a new gym membership, or rejuvenating the one you have been ignoring since the summer. Here are a few tips that can help you keep on track, permanently:
1. Have a plan! If you can plan ahead, your ability to stay the course will be that much better and you'll be able to avoid external stresses and time constraints.
2. Be disciplined! Make sure you do everything from eating, planning, training and resting with consistency. Once you find your groove, anything that deviates from the routine will be your motivation to get back on track.
3. Stay positive! All the negative influences over a few days seem to accumulate and cause your drive to workout to completely crumble. Leave it all behind you. Dwelling on the negative things in life, even on the way to the gym, will make you feel like turning around and going straight home. After that, you'll wind up feeling guilty that you missed your workout, and the negativity continues.
4. Define your goal! To simply go to the gym is not a goal. Too often you might find yourself going through the motions and not facing the challenge each day. Choose where you want to be and what you want to achieve. Otherwise you'll never realize that you've succeeded
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Do you ever notice how some years just fly by? So quickly in fact that you would swear that, despite the cold weather, it was still only August or September. Well that was 2017 in a Nutshell for us; honestly where did it go? We want to take a moment to share a few highlight of what we got up to over the past year.
Back to the beginning, we'll set the scene for you. January 2017 started with rising and falling temperatures, which as we know in Saskatoon, causes water mains to rupture. As you likely know, Fitness Focus is located in an older neighborhood, and along with that comes an old infrastructure. Our busiest time of the year, and we get stuck with no running water. After almost five days fighting well below zero temperatures, the city was able to repair the main and we were back in business.
In March we added some new equipment to the weight room. Some much needed functional training equipment really brought things together. A dead lift platform was brought in in the power lifting area; the hard, elevated surface has been put to good use, so much that we've considered adding a second platform. In addition to the platform we added some new bumper plates which allow for easier loading and smoother lifts.
Another goody in the strength department was a Sissy Squat Bench. Don't let the name fool you; the Sissy Squat movement is as challenging as exercises get. If you have yet to try it or want a demonstration, you can ask any of the Personal Trainers; they're always happy to share their knowledge.
We pride ourselves on our Personal Training department, as a leading gym in Saskatoon with Personal Training it's important that the Training Team is always expanding, growing and doing new things. We welcomed Denise Kominetsky and Curtis Korchinski to the Personal Training Team. They are both nationally certified, extremely knowledgeable, respectful and positive additions to the team.
Also happening in the Personal Training department was a pilot project aptly called the One Year Life Changing Transformation. Over a dozen nominees were narrowed down to five, after which the five remaining were interviewed by Two Trainers, Fitness Focus Managers, Herc's Nutrition Owner, and Owner of The District Kitchen & Bar to determine who was most deserving of this life changing opportunity.
The goal of this project was to offer one person the opportunity to lose a substantial amount of weight and learn how to change their lifestyle and management their health and body weight on their own thereafter. Our Candidate has so far made great progress, we hope she can reach her goals,learn more about herself and fitness, and inspire people around her to do the same.
What do we have planned for 2018? Just as we treat our health and fitness, we're planning for nothing but progress in the coming year. We have some new plans Group Fitness and the Childcare Room, and we're looking forward to running a new member survey to find out from you, exactly how we've been doing and what you want to see moving into the future.
Thank you all for your support over the past year.
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Its understandable if you have been just too busy for the gym during the summer; it happens to everybody! But we hope you're still staying active, either playing with your kids, joining a sports team or a rec league, or pick up a new hobby. But if you feel like you need a challenge or something to work towards now that you've spent much of your summer focussed on relaxation, try a marathon. Marathons are a great way to amp up your training and give yourself a physical and mental challenge after a few summer months of taking it easy. It's also a great way to connect with some friends if you decide to do it together. It's nice just to be social and get out to meet some new people or bump into an old friend you haven't seen in a while; and if nothing else help out a good cause. Here are a few marathons and runs coming up in the next few months that you might want to consider.
Breck Scaffold Run for Mandi Schwartz
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FINALLY! As requested, we have received the new Fitness Focus Gym Bags and they are now available!
Dark Green Large Size Bag with front and side pockets and extendable main compartment.
NEW - Beige Medium Size Bag with front and side pockets plus two top pouches. ... New style shirts coming soon
Big Thank You to Distinctive Designs in Saskatoon
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Members' workout requirements are always changing, which means we need to add new equipment to the gym. A must-have was a third Squat Rack, the Atlantis Half Rack. More people are starting to incorporate functional (and fundamental) exercises like deadlifts, lunges and squats into their training which necessitated us to add another Squat Rack into the weight room. In the past people would stay clear of exercises like squats because were under the impression they were only beneficial in a competition setting with the sole purpose of lifting a maximum amount of weight. Now people are starting to realize that squats are the perfect exercise for both shaping the legs and glutes while complimenting a variety of other body parts. It's great to see people are now challenging themselves with these types of exercises.
The leg platform is a very diverse piece of equipment. It looks very simple as it's just an adjustable step; but it would take more than your 2 hands to count the amount of exercises you can do with it. Step ups, lunges, reverse lunges, box jumps, box squats, stiff-leg deadlifts, incline push-ups, and the list goes on. Get creative with the leg platform, it's durable and build for a serious workout.
Most machines work front-to-back. The Helix turns tradition on its side— literally. With lateral (or side-to-side) movement, you use more muscles, which means you burn more fat than during a traditional workout– in the same amount of time. Plus Helix's patented motion tones your butt, core and inner/outer thighs better than old-fashioned cardio machines.
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A lack of exercise could be killing twice as many people as obesity in Europe, a 12-year study of more than 300,000 people suggests.
University of Cambridge researchers said about 676,000 deaths each year were down to inactivity, compared with 337,000 from carrying too much weight.
They concluded that getting everyone to do at least 20 minutes of brisk walking a day would have substantial benefits.
Experts said exercise was beneficial for people of any weight.
Obesity and inactivity often go hand in hand.
However, it is known that thin people have a higher risk of health problems if they are inactive. And obese people who exercise are in better health than those that do not.
The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, attempted to tease out the relative dangers of inactivity and obesity.
Obese versus Inactive
Researchers followed 334,161 Europeans for 12 years. They assessed exercise levels and waistlines and recorded every death.
"The greatest risk [of an early death] was in those classed inactive, and that was consistent in normal weight, overweight and obese people," one of the researchers, Prof Ulf Ekelund told BBC News.
He said eliminating inactivity in Europe would cut mortality rates by nearly 7.5%, or 676,000 deaths, but eliminating obesity would cut rates by just 3.6%.
Prof Ekelund added: "But I don't think it's a case of one or the other. We should also strive to reduce obesity, but I do think physical activity needs to be recognised as a very important public health strategy."
However, he says all it would need to transform health, is brisk walking.
"I think people need to consider their 24-hour day.
"Twenty minutes of physical activity, equivalent to a brisk walk, should be possible for most people to include on their way to or from work, or on lunch breaks, or in the evening instead of watching TV."
The diseases caused by inactivity and obesity were largely the same, such as cardiovascular disease. However, type 2 diabetes was more common with obesity.
Tackle both
Commenting on the findings, Barbara Dinsdale, from the charity Heart Research UK, said: "This study once again reinforces the importance of being physically active, even when carrying excess weight.
"Changing your lifestyle is all good news for heart health, but physical activity is always easier to achieve and maintain without carrying the extra 'body baggage' of too much weight."
Prof John Ashton, president of the Faculty of Public Health, said changes were needed to make exercise easier.
"We need substantial investment in cycling infrastructure to make our streets safer.
"If more people cycled or walked to work or school, it would make a big difference in raising levels of physical activity."
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Ever thought about getting a trainer to because you are a bit lost in the gym? Or maybe you've changed your fitness goals and need a bit of direction. Whatever the case, here are some great fundamental reasons that a personal training might be right for you.
1. A Trainer Provides Expertise through Experience
A good trainer will watch you during your exercises to make sure that you are doing the exercises correct; but an experienced personal trainer can give you great tips and add subtle changes to your workout that make a big difference to your results. For example, when targeting a specific muscle, a simple twist of the wrist at the top of certain exercises can develop that muscle in ways it otherwise wouldn't.
2. A Trainer Provides Accountability
There are other ways to get accountability, like a training partner or a spouse who keeps on you to get to the gym; but a good personal trainer knows that they succeed when you succeed. They have built a program specifically for you, so your victory also becomes their victory; they want to see you succeed. Whether you have one-on-one sessions with them or do monthly follow-ups, since no one likes failing you want to show them you've made progress.
3. A Trainer Gives You Direction
Goal setting is the key to the success of any journey, and sometimes we become conflicted about just where it is we want to go with our personal health and fitness journey. A person may have the urge to get stronger but not necessarily bigger, or increase their endurance but don't want to sacrifice any muscle. We don't always know how to start identifying attainable goals, especially when it comes to subject as complicated and diverse as health and fitness. A good personal trainer can help you identify you significant strengths and weaknesses, then help you set attainable goals and objectives that will lead to your eventual success.
4. A Trainer Increases Your Intensity
Having a personal trainer will empower you to raise the intensity of your workout, this equates to better results. A training partner can increase your intensity too, because you're both there for mutual benefit but it's the job of the personal trainer to be there, keep your cadence and tempo right where it needs to be.
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Common Misconceptions about the weight room
So many people that are both new to the weight room or long time users become deterred from the gym because they haven't achieved the results they had expected from their weight routine. There are many common misconceptions about lifting weights that cause people to start on the wrong track and are then left feeling discouraged.
Lifting weights will make you big and bulky; false. The primary benefit of lifting weights is increased lean muscles, but increased lean muscles doesn't mean enormous muscles. For men it is a lot easier to get big muscles, but still takes years of heavy training. In the case of women, they just are not genetically programmed to build thick and bulky muscles. Other benefits of weight lifting include increasing metabolism and lower body fat, a greater resistance to injury and improved overall health. So don't ignore the weight room, embrace weight training and use it to build the body you want.
Doing Ab exercises everyday will result in a flat stomach and well-defined 6-pack Abs; false. Abdominal (Ab) exercises are resistance training and like weight training, are used to develop the targeted muscles. We need to remember that muscles and body fat are two completely different things, so once we develop our Abdominal muscles it does not change the fact that there still might be some fat lying on top of them. Spending a majority of a workout everyday training Abs will become very repetitive and boring; dedicating some time twice a week Ab exercises is lots.
It is possible to spot reduce fat from one area of the body; false. Repeating an exercise over and over will do nothing more than condition that particular muscles to perform that exercise. To reduce body fat, we need to adjust what we eat so that the calories we ingest are slightly lower than the calories we burn, signalling the body to start burning fat for energy. On the extreme end of this, when we begin to starve ourselves our body goes into survival mode and will begin to store fat in the body for future requirements. We have no control over what area the body fat will accumulate; it is all genetically predetermined. For some people it is in the stomach, for others it's the hips or butt. Just as we have no control over where it will end up, we have no control over where it will come off.
The key to success in health and fitness is the understanding that it takes patience in the process and the willingness to always learn, to change old habits and adapt.
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Now is your chance to jumpstart your training. It's the New Year and a great time to take your training in a different direction; 15 minutes free with a Personal Trainer is an excellent opportunity to get answers to those questions you have about your training. Maybe there are areas of your workout that are missing something or maybe there's a part of your routine you could work on. Have questions about diet and nutrition? Ask a Trainer about ways to improve your diet and weight management. If you have been planning on meeting with a Personal Trainer, why not setup a 15 minutes meeting to get the ball rolling?
Contact Fitness Focus at (306) 244-6413 or by email to email@example.com to reserve your spot today. Free training sessions will take place Friday, January 24th at Fitness Focus. If you Prefer Specifically a Male or Female Trainers Please Let us Know.
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The bottom line of a Workplace Wellness Program is to promote healthier employees. Healthy employees can be an employer's best asset as they tend to be happier and more productive in the workplace. These programs are becoming more widespread throughout Canada and the U.S. and range from simply offering information and fitness education to workers, to subsidized healthy lunches. Many even go as far to provide an onsite company gym or subsidize the employees gym membership at a local facility. Here is why a workplace wellness programs should matter to you:The benefits for employers result from the welfare of their employees. Healthy employees provide the company with a strategic edge, and by investing money in a program that will bring them lowered expenses in return keeps them ahead of the competition. Employers can expect to see its workers performing more efficiently, with lower absenteeism and lower health care costs. Other indirect benefits for a company providing these programs include job satisfaction, as well as raising retention rates and incentives for hiring. The welfare of employees has a direct impact on the success of the company.Workplace wellness programs can help you get healthier, even if that simply means learning how to reduce stress and muscle strain when you are on the job. Depending on what your company offers, it might also help to lose weight, lower your cholesterol and blood pressure, sleep better, and save money on prescriptions. You may even find your life taking a new direction, such as the desire to become more involved in recreational sports teams or other forms of competition like marathons or bodybuilding competitions. Sometimes, all you need is a little motivation to get the ball rolling and a workplace wellness plan might be it.Another great benefit of wellness programs is a built sense of camaraderie with your co-workers. You'll have a chance to experience activities with them that aren't related to work, whether in a walking club or sports team, by having lunch together, or by going to the gym. Social support is a very important part of weight loss and getting fit. By interacting with co-workers, you'll have others to give you encouragement when you need it, as well as to hold you accountable to your goals. Plus, you'll be motivated by seeing other's positive results. By using a wellness program, you'll be an important part of the team.
If you work for a large company, chances are there is already a Health and Fitness Program in place. You can find out if there is one offered from your Human Resource Department. Many smaller companies do offer these programs as well; discuss with other employees and your employer whether it is something that your workplace should offer.
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I'm so glad you enjoyed your vacation despite a few problems. Not sure that swimming with sharks would relax me, but whatever works for ya! LOL! It must have felt great to get all that sleep.
Hope your flight home to TX went well. I've thinking of you and keeping you all in my prayers!


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|The Hole
Actors: Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Laurence Fox, Keira Knightley
Director: Nick Hamm
Genres: Indie & Art House, Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense
R 2004 1hr 42min
This suspenseful psychological thriller features hot young stars Thora Birch (GHOST WORLD, AMERICAN BEAUTY), Desmond Harrington (GHOST SHIP), and a hip, edgy cast! When Liz Dunn (Birch) and three of her prep school friend... more »
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This is a classic thriller movie, but also has obsession, and betreyall that keeps you guessing till the end, and it has Keira Knightly before she was so well known.
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bonsai chicken | United States | 12/11/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)
"As THE HOLE opens, a dirty, dissheveled girl stumbles into town, looking with every step as if she won't make it much further. By the time she finally reaches a phone and dials emergency, she is so traumatized that all she can do is scream.
What we know is this: over holiday, four prep school students decided to have a very private party in an abandoned underground shelter out in the woods. They were down there for eighteen days. But what really happened to them will be revealed gradually over the course of the film as Liz (Thora Birch), the girl from the opening scenes, plays cat and mouse with a psychiatrist (Embeth Davidtz) who is trying to get her to tell her story.
This is a twisty thriller with great acting on all parts. Thora Birch's fake English accent grated on me at first, probably just because I know she's not English, but as the film progressed I didn't notice it so much. It also becomes clear that she was the right choice for this particular role.
The DVD includes director's commentary, in which he talks about sets, censorship, the psychological motivations of the main character, and uses the word "oblique" a lot. It was not exactly lively, but it was moderately interesting. There are also some deleted scenes and an alternate ending. The corpselike image of Keira Knightly on the cover of this release is misleading, as she's hardly the star, though her fans will definitely want to check the film out. (I have seen much more appropriate in-store copies that have Keira and Thora sharing cover space.)"
Four teenagers locked in an abandoned bomb shelter...
Lawrance M. Bernabo | The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota | 10/21/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Four English prep school students decide to skip a weekend field trip and hide out in an abandoned bomb shelter where they can hang out and party all night long. Sure, this sounds sort of stupid, but these teenagers see it as the best private party of their life, "absolutely extra curricular" as one of them puts it. However, when the weekend is over and the door is supposed to open it does not, and the four find out that they are locked in. Who locked them in? Will they be discovered? Can they find another way out? What will happen when they run out of food and water? How long before they start to turn on each other?
Since the film opens with one of the four stumbling into the deserted school we know that they were down in that hole for eighteen days. However, the expectation that this 2001 film will take us back through those 18 days from start to finish quickly turns out to be a false one. "The Hole" is more of a mystery than a survival drama. The teenager who stumbled into the school, Liz Dunn (Thora Birch), is seeing a psychologist, Dr. Philippa Horwood (Embeth Davidtz), who is trying to find out what happened. Liz tells the story of what happened, but Horwood knows that it is not the truth and that the girl has sanitized it as a way of preserving her sanity. We know the story is not the truth because when the group descends into the bomb shelter director Nick Hamm keeps focusing on a part of the chain ladder that is obviously dangerously week. It plays not part in Liz's story, so we will just have to keep revisiting the story until it does.
In addition to Liz the others in the hole are Mike Steel (Desmond Harrington), the spoiled son of an American rock star whom Liz has a crush on, Frankie Smith (Keira Knightley), Liz's best friend, and Geoff Bingham (Laurence Fox), who really more of Frankie's potential boy toy than actual boyfriend. The quartet are brought to the bomb shelter by Martyn Taylor (Daniel Brocklebank), the male friend of Liz's who wants to be more than a friend. He is the obvious suspect for why the four kids are locked in the hole, especially for DCS Tom Howard (Steven Waddington), but obvious means little in this film.
While the mystery of "what really happened" gets in the way from time to time because since we know Liz's first story is not the truth we have to question everything that comes after that point, there are some horrific moments in this film having to do with being locked in a hole to die. In that regard "The Hole" has a couple of gruesome moments that are going to stick with you, having more of a visceral effect than the blood and gore associated with all the slick money-making Hollywood horror movies (I also have to comment that all the adolescent males who check out this film because they heard Keira Knightley does nudity are going to be disappointed twice, the first time because of brevity and the second because of context). There are also moments of how horrible human beings can be, such as when Liz talks while Frankie is puking her guts out.
"The Hole" makes excellent use of the simple but ominous music by Clint Mansell even before the company credit fades to black and the opening credits are revealed by the trembling, searching beam of a flashlight. I think this film certainly gets you hooked, and how much you like it in the end will depend entirely on your satisfaction with the explanation for why this happened. For me it was just a bit too cute and undercut the horror show aspects, taking us back to an area that has been overdone in such films. But it certainly does have its moments, all of them being in the hole and not back in the real world, and avoids the rampant stupidity that afflicts so many movies in this genre. The result is not great, but it is well above average and for anybody looking for something new to watch to creep them out on Halloween night this year, "The Hole" should not disappoint."
Great But Not for Everyone
Only-A-Child | 06/24/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Caution: Spoilers Ahead!!
I have to credit IMDB for my discovery of this fascinating film, as the number of comments posted about "The Saw" proclaiming it a poor imitation of "The Hole" convinced me to purchase the DVD. Not a particularly hard sell because Thora Birch is rapidly climbing to the top of my most talented actress list; so watch out Mia Kirshner and Sarah Polley.
What I especially like now about this former child actress is her ability to de-tune her sexiness. This allows her to believably-physically play the "plain Jane" to beauties like Scarlett Johansson and Kiera Knightley, while on another level actually being sexier. The appeal of this is that it allows you to imagine that you are the only one in the audience picking up on that other level, thereby making it seem like a exclusive connection.
As has already been much discussed, the trailer for "The Hole" is completely wrong for the movie, making it seem like a slasher film when it a subtle psychological thriller of obsession and misdirection. It illustrates what obsession can produce when taken a step too far. Probably the most chilling scene is the nightclub rest room parody where Liz (Birch) is gleefully prattling on about her seduction of Mike to her girlfriend Frankie (Knightley), utterly oblivious and unconcerned that Frankie is deathly ill.
Another great scene is the one used by the director to set up Liz's friend Martin for the blame, Liz is speaking to Martin about what it is like to love someone but not have them know you exist. Martin says everything with his face as he lets you know that this just how he feels about Liz.
Director Nick Hamm has pieced together a textbook example of misdirection and the ability of filmmakers to show you only what they want you to see. All the flashbacks (and there are a lot) are POV situations with varying degrees of truth. In this regard Hamm is quite respectful of the audience, manipulating the viewer up to a point but then allowing them free rein to invest each development with their own interpretation. Some have found the ending too predictable because it does not have a twist. But twists have become so obligatory that no twist is a twist. Having Liz win in the end and then going out on her eye contact is simply perfect. Not only does this parallel her claim to have finally picked the lock and escaped, it gives the kind off kilter resolution that the film needs for structural unity. If Peyton had won in "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle", that film would have been a classic instead of just another example of a thriller than ultimately falls short.
"The Hole" is really more character study than thriller, and the character of Liz with her obsession and evolving motivations is as compelling as Hitchcock's "Marnie". Liz does not plan the deaths of her schoolmates, she is just desperately going after something and things happen. She gets herself trapped in the situation and just goes with it because after a point she has no way out. The two scenes where Mike cruelly rejects her are riveting as Birch artfully starts to show us that Liz is wrapped a little too tight-something no one expected until that point. After that her character's issues are slowly revealed layer by layer.
It is interesting that even after those rejections, if Mike had just agreed to go with her for pizza, she would not have locked the exit. Ironically, a bit later his tender support of her causes her to postpone unlocking the exit. This kind of on-the-fence waiting to topple structure makes this a cerebral film viewing exercise.
While not normal, Liz is believable. Mike's death disturbs her but on reflection she realizes that it is actually for the best. She was able to get him to fall in love with her but is realistic enough even in her madness to realize that they had no future together. She is pretty much insane after leaving the hole but as she recovers her memory the instinct for self-preservation kicks in.
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child."


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1998: Real World Governance
direct: threat of violence, fines (lack of revenue), and imprisonment from centralized authority.
indirect: direct mechanisms require third parties to create incentives or disincentives against the governed.
couple a related issue to a contentious issue. (Clipper 3 coupled digital signatures (and their legitimacy) to key escrow policies, or linking strong confidentiality to export controls.)
regulate those that are easy to go after. (CDA focussed on large ISPs, and telco common carriers, rather than those creating the content.)
regulate those that have deep pockets, often used with
. (Some have pushed to criminals the contributory infringement of copyright.)
use the bully pulpit to abash, or threaten further regulatory action. (US privacy policy has to date been predicated on the fact that if the "industry" doesn't self regulate, the government will get involved.)
selectively place and remove liability to channel policy towards a goal without overtly setting the direction. ("Mandatory self regulation" and safe harbor provisions are frequently proposed solutions to Internet content issues.)
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A lot of people have been speculating that gold has had such a good run in the last few years that it is about topped out.
The counter-argument is that with the Federal Reserve running the printing press at full speed and Europe heading into a deep recession, global currencies could be in trouble. And if currencies are in trouble, gold is historically a good bet.
Now we have the news that the mining group Anglo American has sold its remaining 11.3 percent stake in South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti for around $1.3 billion to Paulson & Co, the hedge fund run by John Paulson. You know, the guy who shorted subprime and made an unearthly fortune.
Here's the official statement from Anglo American (via FT Alphaville):
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These Topshop pants are my first high-waisted purchase this season. I loved them for their neutral color and polished details. These pants are perfect for elevating my work look. To get the most slimming effect possible, I wore the pants with my nude leg-elongating pumps (high heels are perfect for this look) and a simple tieneck blouse. The look is very feminine and elegant, and I like it.
Having said that, liking it doesn't make me feel super comfortable wearing it. I find myself thinking about sucking in my stomach, and that is not the way to live. So for now, to embrace this style, I have to work on embracing my body even, whether or not I work out. Challenge is on!
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Amelia Ashamandi. Lamia. Shopkeeper in De Lassan, a moderately sized town outside of the capital city of Resshad, the seat of Ni'Varia's empire in her homeland. The lamia quite enjoyed life under the succubus' rule, despite the odd ruling here or the really high taxes… well… everywhere. But there was little need for any such things, as long as she was able to procure the reagents for her creations, being a resident expert in magical artifice. Being that she was living on the land of a magical tyrant, she would often see adventuring parties traveling through her town for some end or another. More often than not, she sees them off with a smile, and a few untaxed platinum richer.
However, that was all brought to an abrupt end when one group of adventurers ended up seeking shelter within her atelier for a night, paying her decent coin. She woke up to find her shop in ruins and her tenants swamped in the bodies of Ni'Varia's men. With little else to do at this point, considering that she was now just as much a criminal by association, she joined the party, and offered them her services at a discount as they marched on the capital and attempted to strike down Ni'Varia on her throne. The succubus and her guard proved to be a difficult fight, one that ended with both sides lying strewn about the floor, paralyzed, unconscious, dying, or dead, with the succubus and the lamia tied in a magical duel as each tried to pile on more power than the other to end the battle for good. Both had large reserves to draw from; Amelia having the stamina inherent in her race, while the succubus had her demonic reserves, almost equally as inexhaustible.
Once the both of the combatants were at their limit, an unexpected side effect occurred, caused by the strange mix of demonic magic and the lamia's strange brand of motion alteration. The two together somehow created a rift, pulling all present through it into parts unknown. If the lamia awakens, she will vow to find the party she had joined, having grown attached to them during her time with them, find the succubus, and make things right.
Amelia is a breed of lamia often round in the desert or other warm, sandy or rocky areas. Her voice carries a slight accent to it and her skin is slightly tanned from her time out in the sun. She shows a fondness for jewelry and accessories, and has found a liking for modern fashion, despite her inability to wear anything below the waist other than skirts, with a bit of practice. In fact, if one were to avoid seeing her copious snake tail, she could pass as a human around her twenties, albeit one with pointy ears.


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An alarming trend of doubling Crayola colored pencils as face makeup could leave beauty mavens with irritation and infection. Popularized by DIY beauty bloggers and vloggers like Rachel Levin (Rclbeauty101), the trend has some experts concerned for consumers confusing pencils' non-toxic labels for being ok to use on the face. Despite the claims of beauty bloggers, Crayola has issued a release warning would-be DIY beauty consumers that using colored pencils on eyes and lips could prove to be dangerous.
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Warming up colored pencils to line eyes, color in cheeks or even use on lips has become increasingly popular for makeup lovers looking to save cash on beauty trends. Some inventive beauty bloggers have even gone so far as to mix Crayola pencils with natural oils to make the rainbow of colors more usable.
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Although Crayola provides a rainbow of color combinations, using pencils on eyes and lips could also cause allergic reactions, rashes, bumps on eyelids, bacterial infections or severe infections that could spread to the cornea. We all want to save a buck to look good, but using Crayola products on your face does not make you the sharpest pencil in the box.
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Nowa wersja frontendu EmuLoader - nakładki, uznawanej za jedną z najwygodniejszych tego typu rozwiązań, pozwalającą ułatwić nam obsługę emulatorów Arcade - MAME, Demul, SuperModel i innych.
version 8.7.3 change log - April 30, 2019
- Parent .ico file not showing up in clone sets if clonename.ico doesn't exist ("MAMu_ icons" feature)
- Buttons "OK" / "Cancel" were invisible when viewing the simpler "arcade system select" dialog
- Wrong read/write of game info "playtime" / "last played" / "times played" if your have multiple games in the same system with same zipped filename but of different media types
- example: 2 files named "Elevator Action (1995) (Nidecom).zip", both MSX1 games, one is cartridge media type and the other is floppy disk
- wrong game info written in played games files after exiting a console/computer game
- wrong game info read from played games files when loading games lists at startup
- the media type was missing when searching for the game entry
- bugs related to files located in "console_computerplayed_games" folder
- arcade systems and MAME software lists do not suffer from this bug
- Wrong "extra game info" data parsing for "Games Editor" (main menu "Console/Computer")
- Night mode was not toggled on/off correctly with the checkbox in messages dialog
- PaneEx "inner border color" was not set correctly in procedure uCommon.SetPanelNightColors() causing it to be the same as outer border color
- MAME arcade input files were not handled correctly in "Run Game (Extra Parameters)" screen
- files "arcade_name.inp" in the "inp" root folder were not added to the files list, only "inpgamename*.inp" files
- for arcade games only, excluding MAME softlist games
- MAME save state files were not handled correctly in "Run Game (Extra Parameters)" screen
- files from "stamachine_namesoftwarenamegamename" folder were completely ignored
- for MAME software list games only, excluding arcade games
- The image layout currently in use could be disabled in "Layout Settings" screen, causing corruption in layouts .ini file read/write routine
- Extra title/machine type text color of selected systems were hard to read in night mode; light gray color replaced by dark gray
- Selection bar was not red color for CHDs with bad checksum ("Arcade Audit Results" screen)
- "CPU Filter" edit box was not correctly painted in night mode
- Search games floating panel was not showing up at startup
- Improvements to "version info" detection in "Arcade Emulators Setup" screen and at frontend startup
- Changes and tweaks to AlterMAME feature
- RAM variables were not initialized at startup, it could cause the frontend to crash
- added a second AlterMAME slot so you can use two alternate emulators to run MAME games ("Arcade Emulators Setup" screen)
- new "Autorun Game With AlterMAME 2" checkbox ("Arcade Emulators Setup" screen and games popup menu)
- if game cannot be run with "AlterMAME 1", it will try again with "AlterMAME 2"
- new "Run Game With AlterMAME 2" option in games popup menu to run games directly with AlterMAME 2
- added proper detection for "FinalBurn Alpha" and "Raine" emulators in "Arcade Emulators Setup" screen and when running games
- FBA website: https://www.fbalpha.com
- Raine website: http://raine.1emulation.com
- for Raine emulator, the "-nogui" parameter is added automatically to the execution command line and there's no way to toggle it off
- better handling of CreateProcessW() exit codes "0, 1, 2, 5" after exiting emulators
- Tweaks and fixes to texts in "run game confirmation" and "execution error" dialogs
- Renamed file "image_category_overlay.ico" to "image_category_overlay_light.ico" ("resourcesmain_iconsoverlay" folder)
- Image category/layout icons updated to support overlay icons ("resourcesmain_icons" folder)
- Icon files "option_check.ico" and "option_radiogroup_on.ico" replaced by better versions, suitable for light and dark backgrounds ("resourcesmain_icons" folder)
- Changes and fixes to menu/popupmenu drawing colors
- fixed a couple painting bugs in the selection bar outer border
- fixed unreadable shortcut text color in selected items
- added "help text" and "selected help text" in the colors array, changed them to "gray" to fix unreadable texts
- added inner frame color to the selected items, slightly darker than menu background color
- Replaced TEdit standard component by my custom "TEditEx" component, to be used in "night mode"
- new properties: "Color Frame", "Color Frame Focused", "Color Frame Disabled", "Round Frame"
- property "Use Custom Border" for an easy on/off toggle when changing between light/dark backgrounds; this property if OFF by default
- allow custom frame colors instead of the fixed Windows themed frame
- remove the fixed white inner frame when setting edit box background color to anything other than white
- Improvements to my custom "TShadowLabel" component for dark backgrounds compatibility
- added new "Disabled Font Color" and "Disabled Font Shadow Color" properties so you can change font colors when the component is in "not enabled" state
- added new "Use Disabled Font Color" property for an easy on/off toggle when changing between light/dark backgrounds; this property is OFF by default
- Modified image category/layout .ico files, removed monitor frames / texts to use with overlay .ico files ("resourcesmain_icons" folder)
- Moved "Tool Bar Overlay Icons Folder" setting to "Night Mode" page since this feature is not for the light mode (preferences screen)
- All code related to "AlterMAME Default Emulator Settings" and "AlterMAME custom ini settings" completely removed from the source code
- New night mode .ico overlay files for image categories/layouts ("resourcesmain_iconsoverlayimg_dark" folder)
- Support custom game icons for MAME software list games; "MAMu_ Icons" feature
- file "softwarenamegamename.ico" in arcade "icons.zip" is no longer supported
- zipped icons for each software list must be in: "user_mame_icons_pathsoftwarenameicons.zip" filename or
- "user_mame_icons_pathsoftwarename.zip" filename (alternate .zip name, exclusive Emu Loader feature!)
- unzipped icons must be in:
- "user_mame_icons_pathsoftwarenamegamename.ico" or
- "user_mame_icons_pathiconssoftwarenamegamename.ico"
- minor tweaks to improve RAM usage and .zip files handling
- don't know what this is ? see this thread in MAMEWorld's "News" forum:
- http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=380709&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1&new=1549010727
- New setting "Show MAME Machines Status Bar" so you can hide the status bar of the machines list panel (setting is in machines list popup menu)
- Night mode colors for several dialogs and screens; colors are fixed and cannot be customizable
- Custom frame color settings for the edit box in search bar (preferences screen, "Night Mode" page, "Search Games Panel Colors" group box)
- New handheld system to the "Console/Computer" list: "Nintendo Switch"
- only Yuzu emulator is supported: https://yuzu-emu.org
- you must use "yuzu-cmd.exe" file
- Tool bar menus, filter dialogs and popup menus in dark colors for the night mode
- you can disable the dark menu with "Show Dark Menu in Night Mode" setting in main menu if you prefer light colors
- colors cannot be customized
- tweaks to selection bar, made it a bit darker
- fixed function uMain.AddDefaultIcons(), it was not reloading overlay icons properly when switching between light/night modes and when changing "ToolBar Overlay Icons Folder" setting in preferences screen
- New setting "Use Italic Font Style in System Title Bars" so you can disable italic fonts in system title bars (enabled by default)
- Added support for "VisualBoyAdvance-M" emulator and updated "console_computeremulator_parameters[default].ini" file
→ [FRONTEND] EmuLoader 8.7.2
version 8.7.2 change log - December 07, 2018
- Commented ROM / DISK entries were added as game files when creating MAME software games lists (softwarename.xml files)
- ROM or DISK entries ending with "-->" tag will not be added ("rocnrope" from "msx1_cart.xml" is one of the affected games)
- you must create MAME software list games again to fix this bug (main menu "Arcade", "Create MAME Software Games List")
- PDF game manual updates
- support for MAME software lists
- scan support for a sub-folder "manuals" added at the end of your selected PDF folder
- File "console_computermame_systems_softwarelist.ini" updated to MAME .204
- Some code cleanup, mostly commented out and deprecated
- "Search game" bar in "View Missing ROMs/CHDs" screen (audit results)
- the frontend searches the entered string in game title and then game name if title is not a match
- it works like the incremental search in the main games list, partial strings supported
- you can press ENTER key in the edit box instead of clicking the "search" button
- if there's no match, the edit box blinks red
→ [FRONTEND] EmuLoader 8.7.1
version 8.7.1 change log - December 02, 2018
- Minor adjustment in the audit system; some clone games fell thru the cracks
- ROMs info in Game Details screen was not correct for some ROMs
version 8.7 change log - December 02, 2018
- Audit system hotfix, round 2
- clone games you don't have wrongly tagged as "missing ROMs/CHDs"
- games with CHDs and no game ROMs were deleted from "arcadegamesmame.miss", not listing them in "View Missing ROMs/CHDs" screen (scan results)
- some good games were not removed from "arcadegamesmame.miss", listing them in "View Missing ROMs/CHDs" screen (scan results)
- wrong "gamename.zip found" info shown in "View Missing ROMs/CHDs" screen for sets with no game ROMs (scan results)
- Audit system adapted to scan clone sets the right way (and fixing some master games in the process)
- from now on, if one clone game ROM is found, merged into parent set and "clonegamename.zip" is not found, it will be tagged as "missing ROMs/CHDs"
- if no game ROMs/CHDs are found, but bios/device ROMs are present, the set is still tagged as "missing" (bios/device ROMs are not game ROMs)
- if you have all clone ROMs merged into parent set but have parent ROMs missing, the clone set is still tagged as "merged" (crazy mode ON)...
version 8.6.9 change log - November 30, 2018
- Audit system was tagging clone games you don't have as "missing ROMs/CHDs", if you have the parent set
- Merged tag is now properly displayed in "View Missing ROMs/CHDs" screen
→ [FRONTEND] EmuLoader 8.6.8
version 8.6.8 change log - November 29, 2018
- Setting "Add Leading Zero to Version Info Column" was always running after close preferences screen, even if you don't change it
- Fixes and tweaks to MAME/HBMAME audit system; you must re-create MAME/HBMAME games lists to apply, no way around it
- merged tag was not set in several clones
- added two new fields in the game info to improve clone sets audit; generated in RAM while loading ROMs database "mame.elrom":
- - "Set with all game ROMs "nodump" state: just for the game ROMs (exclude bios/device ROMs and parent ROMs)
- - "Set with all parent game ROMs "nodump" state: check if parent set have only "nodump" ROMs (excludes bios/device ROMs and clone ROMs)
- several MAME sets that have game ROMs were tagged as "set with no game ROMs"
- - filter "Games With No Main Set" was showing games that shouldn't be there
- - games audit system was also affected, specially if clone sets were merged into their parent
- - most affected: games in "Konami System 573" and several other MAME machines with similar ROMs/CHDs configuration
- several MAME clone sets were not audited correctly because all game ROMs from parent set are tagged as "nodump" and the frontend could not finding "parentsetname.zip" file (not required by MAME when all ROMs are tagged as "nodump")
- sets were all game ROMs have "nodump" tags but also have CHD files were not audited correctly, showing up as "missing"
- Sega Chihiro games are now properly audited; SHA-1 checksum for "seganetw" device set wasn't handled correctly due missing to "CRC32 collision" tags
- Games popup menus "Select Set" were not working properly for bios/device sets
- Changed
- Tweaks to "Game Details" screen
- "Game Files" section now shows a green text if clone game is merged into parent set
- sets with all game ROMs tagged as "nodump" now show in green with a "(nodump)" text
- the ROMs list panel now shows "have/miss" proper info and icon even on "missing" games
- other minor tweaks
- Games list font settings do not change anymore when using "available/missing filter" in tool bar buttons
- Added "Arcade Italia" URL links to the "Internet Game Info" feature (Preferences screen, "General" tab)
- Support for MAME PDF manuals (.pdf files)
- select a folder in MAME Settings screen, "Folders" tab or in Preferences screen, "MAME Game Docs" tab
- no zipped files support, .pdf files must be unzipped
- relative path support (relative to MAME base directory)
- default folder is "manuals"
- parent set manual can be opened with clone games
- files are opened with the Windows associated application for .pdf files (external utility)
- setting saved in "arcadesysimagefolders_arcade.ini" file, "manuals_directory" entry in [MAME] section, but it's not part of the image categories
- access in games popup menu and in images tool bar buttons
- Support for "scores3.htm" so you can view MARP info again in "MAME Game Docs" feature
- you must download "http://replay.marpirc.net/txt/scores3.htm" link from internet and put file into MAME's "dats" folder or the folder you selected for data files
- the frontend will try to read the file and show the scores info
- file "marp.dat" is still supported, but cannot be used not together with "scores3.htm"... pick one
→ [FRONTEND] EmuLoader 8.6.6
version 8.6.6 change log - August 31, 2018
- Wrong "Panels Colors" settings at startup, "Title Font/Shadow", "Title 2 Font/Shadow", "Text Font/Shadow" ("Night Mode" page, Preferences screen)
- Wrong "Search Games Panel Colors" settings at startup, "Filter Font/Shadow" ("Night Mode" page, Preferences screen)
- Modified the scope of "Ignore Exit Code 1: Invalid Function" setting to support all console/computer emulators
- "KEGA Fusion" is no longer the only emulator returning exit code of "one" on exit this error might be related to a missing and/or incompatible plugin or badly configured emulator
- even when nothing is wrong, the emulator might give you "code 1" as an exit code :( NOTE: this exit code is caused by the emulators, not the frontend
- Updates to "Cleanse" feature in "Favorites Manager" screen
- a list of all entries to be removed from the favorite profile is shown for review
- you can remove entries from that list so they are not deleted from the profile .ini
- there's no way to show titles, only game names and/or filenames and the system they belong to
- Requested setting "Add Leading Zero to Version Info Column (MAME)" so you can have "0.200" text in the version info column instead of ".200"
- Multiple paths support for MAME preview images
- MAME and HBMAME only
- all image categories are supported: snaps, titles, covers, flyers, etc...
- you can have define as many image directories you want
- MAME softlist .zip files don't have to be in the same place as the arcade .zip files anymore, you can have "snap.zip" in one folder and "snap_sl.zip" in another
- Support for MAME .201
- vgmplay software list is now correctly detected and sets are correctly loaded by the frontend
- new filter to hide vgmplay softlist entries from the games list: "Hide Video Game Music Files" ("Arcade Misc Filter" tool bar button)
→ [FRONTEND] EmuLoader 8.6.5
version 8.6.5 change log - August 04, 2018
- "Machines List Filter" implementation is complete
- - if you hide the parent set, all clone will hide as well
- - forgot to link the code for checkbox "Show Parent Sets Only" in "Customize Machines List" screen
- - window width increases if screen width is 1280 pixels or higher so all columns are visible without showing a horizontal scrollbar
- - proper colors in night mode
- Machines list wrong font colors in "MAME Machines Filter Panel"
- Icon alpha blending bug in "Machine Types And Systems Filters" screen when items are unchecked (tool bar button filter)
- Renamed "MachinesList_SidePanel" section to "MAMEMachinesFilterPanel", for consistency
- Renamed "Game Font Settings" to "Customize Game Fonts" in games popup menu and main menu "Games List"
- Colors array vars of games selection bar are no more; colors are taken from ColorBoxes in Preferences screen
- Games list selection bar colors customization (Preferences screen)
- - customize background color, frame color and font color
- - there are two bar settings for MAME and arcade, one for available games (default blue color) and one for games with missing ROMs/CHDs (default red color)
- - re-added "Gradient Bar" setting
- - two separate sets, one for light mode in "Games List" page and another for the night mode in "Night Mode" page
- - light mode settings are saved in "EmuLoader.ini"
- - night mode settings are saved in "nightmode.ini"
- - affected features so far: main games list, MAME Machines Filter Panel, "Customize Game Fonts" screen, "Customize Thumbnails" screen
- NOTE: frame cannot be removed but it can be masked with "alpha blending" and frame colors like black or white
Night mode custom user colors support in a couple more screens (no more forced blue frames)
New "Slot Machines" catver.ini filter added to "Arcade Miscellaneous Filters" screen
version 8.6.4 change log - August 01, 2018
- Oh darn... I forgot to delete some beep/ding sound commands when initializing game zipped images lists
- Re-added support to generate zipped snapshot thumbs in thumbnails view
- - the code was removed by mistake more than a year ago when EmuCon was merged with Emu Loader, and nobody noticed, not even me
- - all arcade systems are supported, "snap.zip" file; MAME also support "softwarename.zip" and "snap_sl.zip"
- - Console/computer systems from EmuCon were Ok
- Games list was not focused after a manual switch between light and night mode (main menu)
- Minor optimizations to save some RAM when handling game image folders and improve game images preview search
- Changes to "Image Category Settings" screen
- - button "Default" folder was doing nothing
- - category folders are now read directly from config files and not from RAM vars, which might contain different data
- - relative paths in console/computer systems (from EmuCon) are now relative to the frontend root path since you can have multiple emulators per system
- - minor code tweaks
- New "Machines List Filter" filter for "MAME Machines Filter Panel" (machines list popup menu)
- - you can customize what machines appear in the list
- - it works like the "Customize MAME Software List" feature
- - excluded machines list is saved in "arcademame_machines_exclude.txt" file
- - machines are only hidden from the list, not disabled
- - it's only for the machines filter panel, not for the main games list
- Support for "all-in-one" zipped image files (MAME software lists only)
- - you can have snaps for all MAME softlist games combined into one humongous file instead of separate "softwarename.zip" files
- - filename is the same as MAME's image .zip filenames, plus a "_sl" suffix
- - filename format: "snap_sl.zip", "titles_sl.zip", "covers_sl.zip", etc (all categories are supported)
- - files must be located in the same place as their "arcade/machine" files (snap.zip, titles.zip, etc)
- - you can use "softwarename.zip" files together with these new files
- - they will be scanned after "softwarename.zip"
- - easy to use, just drop files in them proper folders and start the frontend
- Mulitple image paths detection (MAME only)
- - only the first path will be used, ignoring everything else after the ; char (snaps, titles, cabinets, covers, etc)
- - removal of surrouning quotes, just to be safe (first and last char on the string)
- NOTE: there is no multi directories scan to show game preview images!
Added "videosnaps_sl" sub-folder scanning for video preview, MAME software lists
→ [FRONTEND] EmuLoader 8.6.3
version 8.6.3 change log - July 19, 2018
- Heavy tool bar flickering when resizing main screen / images panel
- caused by the tool bar's "repaint" internal event (not accessible by the user)
- tool bar "DoubleBuffer" property is now always enabled
- Frontend crash when clicking "All Visible" button in "Customize Tool Bar" (games filters tool bar)
- Image category icon in images tool bar was showing the night mode overlay while in light mode
- Frontend crash when detecting "Atari 800" cartridge type from an unzipped game Unicode filename
- "Search Games" panel is back in the games filters tool bar
- floating panel is still available as an option (access in "Settings" button)
- games list attached panel is gone
- new "Use Small 16x16 Icons" option, access in "Settings" button (default 24x24 icons)
- new "Show Filter Labels in Small Tool Bar" option to show labels, "small tool bar" mode only
- the "Search" tool bar button is visible only for the floating panel
- the floating panel "enabled" state is no longer restored at startup
- "Games List Status Bar" colors limited to the light mode (Preferences screen, "Games List" page)
- Setting "Panel Outer Frame Color (7 Pixels)" renamed to "Image 7 Pixels Border Color" to avoid confusion with night mode (Preferences screen, "Games List" page)
- Behavior of panel frames have changed, two options to choose from:
- "Outer Frame": enable this to use a single frame
- "Inner Frame": enable this to use a double frame; "outer frame" must also be enabled
- disabling both settings or just "outer frame" removes the panel border completely
- tool bars updated to support the new setings
- Message box now show top bar color and labels colors according to game's set status
- green bar for available games
- red bar for available games with missing ROMs/CHDs
- gray bar for missing games
- New "Show Game Documents 7 Pixels Border" checkbox and "Border Color" settings, to align the panel with images panel (Preference screen, "Game Docs" page)
- Night mode improvements ("Night Mode" page in Preferences screen)
- "Search Games" panel colors customization expanded to include the edit box
- customize games list frame color and visibility
- tick the new "Use Windows Themed Border" to disable games custom frame color; it shows a single border
- the frame in games filters tool bar is now drawn outside the client area, and it can be set to disabled, single or double frame
- customize images panel frame colors and visibility
- images tool bar height aligned with games filters "small tool bar", frame is now drawn outside the client area
- "Customize Games List Status Bar Colors" settings for the night mode (colors box in "Games List" page is now only for the light mode)
- New "Panels Colors" general settings for the night mode, so you can change frame colors, background color, font color and shadow font color
- "Apply Filters" message box
- "Initialize Zipped Images Contents" message box
- Game Details
- Select a Machine to Run Game
- Load Multi-Slot MAME Games
- Load Console/Computer Multi Floppy Disk Games
- Search Games floating panel
- Rename/Delete Game Images
- Customize MAME Software List
- NOTE 1: not all texts can have custom colors (font color and shadow font color)
- NOTE 2: background color is it's not widely applied; only for a few panels
- New setting "Tool Bar Overlay Icons Folder" (preferences screen, "Games List" page)
- you don't have to overwrite frontend's overlay icons anymore, just create a sub-folder with your custom icons and select it in the drop-down box
- sub-folder must be inside "frontend_dirresourcesmain_iconsoverlay" base folder
- for both light mode and night mode
- use ANSI directory names only, no Unicode support
- you only need to add icons that are different than the ones from the base folder
- if an icon doesn't exist in the sub-folder, the overlay icon from the base folder will be used
- overlay icons are used in games filters tool bar and images tool bar (so far...)
- folder name is used as the icons set title
- added a "Dark Grey" icons set for the night mode; thanks to "Fabian" for creating the icons
→ [FRONTEND] EmuLoader 8.6.2
version 8.6.2 change log - July 06, 2018
- Forgot to include the updated file "arcadefiltersmame_filters.ini" for "Arcade Games Filters" tool bar button
- some filters were renamed
- one filter slip in two for easier games filtering
- the frontend was crashing without this updated file
- Color tweaks to night mode
- Tweaks to "Delete/Rename Game Image File" screen
- "Search Games" panel expanded, 3 view modes:
- floating panel: default behavior, located just below the search button in filters tool bar
- panel attached to the bottom of the games list: slim panel with 40 pixels height
- panel attached to the top of the games list: slim panel with 40 pixels height
- to switch between modes, click the new "tool bar" button next to the close button
- you can customize "Night Mode" colors of the attached panel, "Night Mode" page in preferences screen
- floating panel still have fixed colors - in light mode, colors are fixed
- "Search Games" panel "enabled" state is now restored on a frontend restart
- Minor source code cleanup
→ [FRONTEND] EmuLoader 8.6.1
Kronos 32 Bits windows version: Fork from FCare 2,7,8,A,
version 8.6.1 change log - July 02, 2018
- Non-game files were added to a MAME software list games
- some games have "rom" entries (battery backup, NVRAM, etc) but are not game files and should not be added ("hashnes.xml", "hashmsx_cart.xml", others)
- you must re-create all your MAME software list games lists again, either delete all files in "frontend_dirarcademame_softwarelist_games" folder (easier) or select "Enable: Overwrite Mode" when choosing the arcade scan mode
- FATALITY! When validating multiple selected games, bios/device sets were not validated at all (works fine with scall all games, scan single game)
- FINISH HIM! Games of "SEGA Model 2 Emulator" were not validated correctly, "model2.zip" board ROMs completely ignored
- When running single MAME arcade games, frontend was trying to detect the "machine title", intended for multi-slot machines ("uMain.GetTitleMachineToUse" function)
- Timer freeze when applying games filters on grouped view mode
- Button "Default Grid Size" and "Show Game Title" were not repainting thumb preview images (Thumbnail Settings)
- Font style was set to game filename instead of game title in "Delete Multiple Selected Games Files" screen
- Some messages were not showing up in splash screen when creating games lists, specially for "SEGA Model 2"
- CRC-32 / SHA-1 checksums of unzipped game files failed to be generated
- some games could not be added to the games list (console/computer systems only)
- most noticeable in "Game Details" screen
- mostly for Unicode filenames
- console/computer games only (ported from EmuCon)
- some internal functions updated to support "WideString" parameters and slightly modified to fix this bug
- Frontend crash when trying to open a .zip / .7z Unicode filename in "Game Details" screen (console/computer games from EmuCon) ... this bug is almost 2 years old!
- Megatons of drawing bugs thru the entire project
- Changes and improvements to games tool bar:
- resized large icons from 44x40 to 48x48
- resized small icons from 28x22 to 30x24
- added 68x68 icons size support, useful for 2K (2560x1440) and 4K (3840x2160) screen resolutions
- added a white background in the lower text so it's visible in night mode
- several icons were completely remade
- split the icon outer frame from current icons into separate overlay icons, located in a new "resourcesmain_iconsoverlay" folder
- - overlay icons are painted on top of the icon, alpha blend support
- - overlay icons can be customized to your liking without altering the filter icons
- replaced the "Search" tool bar by a simple button; edit box and buttons are now placed in a new floating panel below the main tool bar
- - you can move the panel around by dragging it with the title bar
- finally removed the dreadful "TCoolBar" control; tool bar background colors can now be customized (night mode only)
- Renamed settings entries in "EmuLoader.ini", you need to customize buttons again in "Customize Tool Bar"
- Improvements to "Arcade Games Filters" screen (tool bar button)
- if filter icon not found, the "no icon" was not set correctly
- added support for 68x68 and 30x24 icon sizes, found in "resourcesmain_iconarcade_filters" folder
- choose an icon size to browse the filters list: "Extra Large (68x68)", "Large (48x48)", "Small (30x24)"
- additional tweaks
- Moved "Tool Bar Buttons" menu options from "View" to "Games List" main menu, renamed "Small Tool Bar" to "Icon Size" and expanded to:
- Extra Large (68x68)
- Large (48x48)
- Small (30x24)
- Changes to "Customize Tool Bar"
- replaced "Small Tool Bar" checkbox by a "Set Icon Size" buttons group: "Very Large (68x68)", "Large (48x48)", "Small (30x24)"
- removed "Search Games Bar" checkbox since it's now listed with the other buttons
- renamed "Hide Tool Bar" to "Show Tool Bar", so it's the same title as the checkbox option in main menu
- additional tweaks
- Moved "Show Games Status Bar" setting from "View" to "Games List" main menu, where is belongs
- Changes to Preferences screen
- size increased to 850x600 to give its contents more breathing room
- moved "Internet Game Info" panel from "Images" to "General" page
- renamed TSlitter component names of games list and images to avoid overlap settings; you must customize splitters again as "EmuLoader.ini" entries were also renamed
- additional interface tweaks (still needs work)
- Changes and fixes to "Supermodel 3 Emulator" features
- entries in file "frontend_dirarcadeemulator_inisupermodel_iniSupermodel.ini" have changed to avoid settings overlap
- NOTE 1: you must re-configure AND save the emulator default settings to update the .ini file
- NOTE 2: settings key names are the same as emulator's "Supermodel.ini" file, but not all of them
- game custom setting files changed as well (change/save emulator default settings first!)
- NOTE: you must re-configure AND save the game custom settings again to update the .ini file
- additional interface updates
- FATALITY! game custom settings were not added properly to command line when running games (nobody noticed this ?!)
- - custom settings and emulator default settings were added twice to command line
- - new behavior: emulator settings is now loaded first, followed by game custom settings file (just like MAME)
- - if game setting is the same as emulator setting, it's no longer added in "ganename.ini" file (just like MAME)
- when running emulator in full screen, if the custom resolution is not valid, current desktop resolution will be used automatically
- if game filename is not found, emulator will not run; it was causing the "Error: Invalid Function 1" message on emulator exit
- Replaced the "Main CPU MAME Filter" bar by a floating panel
- it was wasting too much space above the main games list
- the "enabled" filter state is now restored on a frontend restart ("Arcade Misc" filters tool bar button)
- panel position is always at the top left corner of the games list
- you can move the panel around by dragging it with the title bar
- limited the games search pattern to MAME / HBMAME as it's useless for other systems
- added support for night mode
- Several tweaks to "Delete Multiple Selected Games" screen; also added "night mode" support
- Changes and fixes to "Arcade Scan Games Results" screen ("View Missing ROMs/CHDs" in games popup menu)
- added a Device column to easily identify game sets with device ROMs
- added a file size column (you must create all arcade games lists to see this info)
- MAME CHD file sizes are detected "on the fly" while scan results list is being generated
- missing files texts are now painted in a dark gray color (light mode) and silver color (night mode)
- status columns text is painted in red color; much easier to spot missing files
- device ROMs were not properly tagged as device ROMs; weird bug as it was working fine for games with multiple device sets
- parent ROMs/CHDs were not properly tagged as parent files, making it not show "Parent" text in status column
- moved controls from bottom bar to top bar, reducing waste of space
- increased selected system icon size and font size of emulator/games list version texts to keep in sync with other screens
- window now have a fixed width size of 1015 pixels
- when viewing a single game, the window height will be shortened to avoid waste of space
- removed the redundant Close button since you can close it with the caption bar "close" button (or ESC key)
- "filename.zip found" and "filename.zip not found" texts are now in "green" and "red" color for easier reading
- status texts are now properly separated by comma; it gives a whole new meaning to the texts being shown
- support for night mode; visibility on this mode is much nicer and detailed than light mode Tweaks to "Game Details" screen (access in games popup menu or "Shift+I" shortcut)
- missing files texts are now painted in a dark grey color (light mode) and silver color (night mode)
- file size column added to game files list
- MAME CHD file sizes are detected "on the fly" while files list is being generated
- if a CHD filename text is larger than the label dimensions, the hint text will be enabled, hover mouse on it to see it
- Since MAME can load Unicode filenames directly from command line, Emu Loader will no longer convert them to DOS 8.3 format (run custom EmuCon console/computer games with MAME)
- Tool bar colors settings for night mode in the new "Night Mode" page, Preferences screen
- for games tool bar filters, images tool bar and other "captionless" tool bars in the future
- support custom gradient background; gradient can be disabled to use a single color
- frame color is customizable; it can also be disabled
- tool bars with button caption enabled cannot be customized (TToolBar component limitation)
- Added a "Splitter" setting for "Game Documents" panel so you can customize it (Preferences screen, "Game Docs" page)
- Added a "Splitter Style" setting for image splitters, default to "Single Color" (Preferences screen, "Images" page)
- Support for Supermodel 3 Emulator SVN 735 ("Supermodel 3 Emulator Default Settings" screen)
- - new settings: "scroll fog shaders", "tile map shaders", "stretch"
- - added a "Use Custom [1-1000]" checkbox so you can enable/disable custom "PowerPC Bus Frequency (PPC)" frequency at will
- Added save states support for "Supermodel 3 Emulator"
- select a save state file before loading the game
- valid filenames are "gamename.st?" (state slots go from 0 to 9)
- save state folder is fixed by the Supermodel emulator and cannot be changed ("emudirSaves")
- ROM/CHD size info added to arcade and MAME software list sets
- games validation system do not use it, it's for information only
- ROM size info can be viewed in "Game Details" and "Games Scan Results" screens (games popup menu)
- you need to create new games lists for all arcade systems and MAME software lists to see this info, but frontend works fine without it
- games of Supermodel 3 emulator doesn't have ROM size info in "emudirConfiggames.xml"
- games of console/computer systems already have file size info (systems ported from EmuCon Frontend)
→ [FRONTEND] EmuLoader 8.6
version 8.6 change log - May 30, 2018
- Several drawing bugs in games lists, top bars and icons
- Top bar lower gradient color was silver instead of white in "Delete/Rename Game Snapshot"
- Empty space in multi-floppy games list panel if games of different systems are selected in main games list ("Load Multi Floppy Disks Game" screen)
- Set default font was not working in "Game Font Settings" (games popup menu)
- Arcade game font was not set correctly on several screens if game status is tagged "found with missing ROMs" and game driver is tagged "preliminary"
- Main games list not focused after exiting "Favorites Manager"
- Main games list not focused after exiting "Last Played Games (MRU)"
- Minimum required resolution bumped to 1024x768 / 1280x720; plus, dialogs and screens will no longer auto-resize to fit in lower resolutions
- Changes and fixes to Mustangpeak's "EasyListView" component (EasyListView.pas)
- it was drawing "State Images" in normal mode when TEasyItem is ghosted and/or not enabled; TEasyViewItem.PaintImage() function
- icon top border was not properly set if cell size if larger than icon size; "large icons view" only
- - to fix this I added a new "IconViewAdjustIconTopBorder" property in "TEasyPaintInfoBasic" class, used in TEasyViewIconItem.ItemRectArray() procedure
- Improvements to my "TPanelEx" component
- added a "Inner Border Color" property for a cool neon effect, and a property to enable/disable it
- added a "Enable Custom Border" property to create a dual color border in the "non-client area"
- border colors are customizable
- no more drawing borders over the client area, covering 2 pixels at all sides of the panel!
- it cannot be used with "Border Style" and/or "Bevel Kind" properties
- "Frames" property is still available but it paints in the client area
- fixed paint flickering when enable/disable frames and/or borders
- code clean up ("Border Style" and "Bevel" properties will eventually be removed from the component)
- Improved my custom TGroupBox component, added "Dual Color" border style for a cool neon effect (see "Delete Games Files" screen in night mode)
- Interface changes to "Console/Computer Emulators Setup" and "Console/Computer Games Folders Settings"
- default system icons size is now 68x68 (resolution 1280x800 and higher)
- 48x48 icons are used for 1280x720 / 1024x768 resolutions
- left some room in systems panel for the future (just in case)
- additional tweaks
- Minor tweaks to "Game Details" screen
- Interface changes to several screens
- 48x48 game icon replaced by 68x68 size (top bar)
- 16x16 system / media type icon replaced by 24x24 size (top bar)
- increased game title font size from 8 to 10 (top bar)
- increased game name+extra info font size from 7 to 8 for easier reading (top bar)
- removed ListView border (Windows theme forced painting), replaced by a custom panel with dual colors so night mode can be applied
- additional tweaks
- Full screen mode is gone. It's an ugly hack, it causes the dreadful "out of focus" bug at startup and it doesn't work correctly under Windows 10
- Updates to "Night Mode"
- Setting "Enable Night Mode" added to main menu for easy access; you can still change it in the message box
- added support for several screens
- added support for images tool bar buttons
- added support for images panel border color
- coded some functions to change colors with ease: panels, labels, check boxes, radio groups, group boxes, forms
- the following controls are incompatible with dark themes, due to Windows theme forced painting or zero customization properties:
- edit box, combo box, button, main menu, popup menu, tool bar button text
- additional tweaks to avoid flickering, highly noticeable in night mode
- New "Board Game" catver.ini filter added to "Arcade Miscellaneous Filter" (below "Mechanical" filter)
- New screen with 128x128 monster icons for "Arcade Files Versions" if screen resolution is 1024x768 and up (main menu "View")
- Interface changes to "Arcade Emulators Setup" and "View Arcade ROMs Folders" screens
- added monster 128x128 icons to systems list
- use checkbox "Large Icons" in bottom bar to enable the big system icons (disabled by default)
- additional tweaks
Tagi: Mame, Frontend, Emuloader
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Ximena looks sensational as she poses on the hammock wearing a very unique blue t-back strap outfit with tiny bikini top.
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steve858 December 6, 2016 1:37 pm
Another amazing set by Ximena!! Can hardly wait for the next set. She just keeps getting better and better. A true GEM!!
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No bonus should be below the standard of this beautiful photo shoot. Perfect! (and its not a bonus)
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- "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" (performed by Julie Adams & The Mountain Stage Band)
Two veterans of American folk music, David Bromberg and Jorma Kaukonen, join forces for this Mountain Stage appearance. The two men are joined here on mandolin by Barry Mitterhoff.
The set opens with Kaukonen singing Richard M. Jones' classic tune "Trouble in Mind," followed by Willie McTell's "Love Changing Blues," with vocal duties by Bromberg. Davis' "Bright Side" and a Bromberg original, "Helpless Blues," close out their segment.
"These are my neighbors, you know," Kaukonen says of the Morgantown, W.Va., audience, gathered for the opening of Mountain Stage's 27th season. Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch is located in nearby Pomeroy, Ohio. "I live right across that river over there."
Julie Adams and the Mountain Stage band follow with a rendition of Duke Ellington's "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good."
This Mountain Stage performance originally aired April 8, 2010.