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The Jackets have some good defensive defensemen, but have not had a D post a 40-point season in almost 10 years. The addition of Wisniewski should fix that. Despite the astronomical cap hit, Wiz is a very good puck moving defenseman who excels on the PP. Prospects John Moore and David Savard will be competing for the #7 spot, which should negate the loss of some depth players.
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Like on defense, the Columbus Blue Jackets are filling a major void up front with the addition of Jeff Carter as their #1 center. Not only that, they have gone from being a team that is weak at the center ice position, to one that has Carter, Vermette, Brassard and now top prospect Ryan Johansen who by all accounts is NHL ready.
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I have an animation built up of individual sprites, like how the Unity 2D demo "hero" is constructed.
One of the individual sprites in the animation I do not wish to flip when the character changes directions. I would like to flip the character but, right after flip the individual sprite back so that it doesn't flip. Since it is a symbol on the characters chest I don't want it show backwards.
How do I gain access to that individual sprite and reset its flip?
I know how to flip the character. I'm trying to gain access to one of the children in the animation.
asked Nov 26, 2013 at 04:34 PM
Actually, I think I'm close to answering my own question. I'm finding the child transform that I wish. I detach from the parent and let the flip on the rest of the children happen, and then reattach the detached child back.
However, when I attach back the child is flipped. If I don't attach back the child isn't flipped but is abandoned.
Any ideas?
Or is there some kind of layering I should be doing?
Nov 26, 2013 at 05:04 PM RodH
Nope didn't work. I tried detaching the child transform, then do flip (change the scale on localscale), and then re-attach the child. It didn't work.
If you have the Unity demo. Try not flipping the Bazooka since what I'm trying to do is something similar to that. I even tried my idea in the demo and nope, didn't work. Here's what I tried...
void Flip () { // Switch the way the player is labelled as facing. facingRight = !facingRight;
Nov 26, 2013 at 07:03 PM RodH
why you detach bazooka before flipping?
Nov 27, 2013 at 08:47 AM yatagarasu
I'm not detaching the bazooka. I was using that as an example to explain my predicament.
I have an animation that is built up like the one in the 2d unity demo. My character has a symbols that I didn't want flipped.
Nov 27, 2013 at 02:47 PM RodH
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You should parent both character and symbol from one GameObject to keep them linked and flip only character.
Or flip character and flip symbol, so symbol would be double flipped.
How you flipping the character, by applying negative scale?
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Stop, look, buy: traffic lights on food
We all know what to do at a traffic light: green means go; red means stop; amber means caution. It's a system understood by all. So, what better symbols than 'traffic lights' to warn us about high levels salt, sugar or fat, in processed food, or to reassure us that levels are low and that our shopping choices are contributing to a healthy diet. The inclusion of traffic lights on packaging was one of 61 recommendations put forward by former Health Minister Dr Neal Blewett in his comprehensive review of labelling laws, but it was one of the recommendations rejected by the federal government. That decision has sparked a backlash from health advocates, who say current labelling does not do enough to highlight foods which should be avoided, while grocery manufacturers argue traffic-light labels are simplistic and too blunt an instrument in the fight against obesity.
Peter Mares: We all know what to do at a traffic light: green means go; red means stop; amber means proceed with caution. It's a system understood by all. So, what better symbols than 'traffic lights' to warn us about high levels of salt, sugar or fat in processed food, or to reassure us that levels are low and that our shopping choices are contributing to a healthy diet?
The inclusion of traffic lights on packaging was one of 61 recommendations put forward by former Health Minister Dr Neal Blewett in his comprehensive review of labelling laws, but it's a recommendation that's been rejected by the federal government.
Catherine King is the Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing. She joins us from Ballarat in Victoria.
Catherine King, why not bring in an easy to understand labelling system that makes it simple for us to choose healthier foods?
Catherine King: Well, the first thing I just want to clarify is in fact the Blewett food labelling review didn't recommend mandating a traffic light system on all food products in Australia. This seems to be a bit of a misconception and I think some people have sort of tried to extend what he was trying to suggest.
He in fact actually said that there could be a voluntary scheme of traffic light labelling and then mandate it when you're making higher level health claims. So if you're making a claim on a food such as that it will cure osteoporosis, you might want to have traffic lights mandated for those sorts of claims. So I think it's important to realise what he was actually recommending.
Peter Mares: Well, that makes it even more extraordinary, doesn't it, that you've backed away from that proposal?
Catherine King: Which we haven't backed away from. What we've said is we've looked across the evidence, we've looked at obviously there's a voluntary scheme in the UK, there's a couple of other European countries that have got voluntary schemes in place as well, and they have a range of different colour-coded schemes, some of which would look like a traditional traffic light, some that look like pie charts.
What we've looked at is what is the evidence across all of the front-of-pack labelling systems that are currently available internationally and there just isn't any evidence to suggest in terms of purchasing behaviour, and at the end of the day what consumers do at the supermarket and then what they consume, that that actually changes that behaviour.
So we've looked across that. It would be a fairly big change for industry and we've decided that we think that we need to get public health and industry together to try and look at improving either the daily intake guide, which is the thumbnails which are widely seen across the food sector at the moment, or look at another system.
Peter Mares: You commissioned this labelling review, or the government commissioned...
Catherine King: I didn't commission it, all of the health ministers across the country commissioned that as part of the Food Regulatory Ministerial Council...
Peter Mares: OK, the state and federal health ministers commissioned this review, they asked Dr Blewett, a former health minister, to look at the evidence, he looked at the evidence, he made the recommendation, and now you say there's no evidence.
Catherine King: Well, he certainly made a recommendation based on the submissions that he had, but we've looked across internationally and the country, I've even visited and the UK and the European Union myself to look at what's happening over there and had a chat to them, and on the basis of what we've decided—and this is one position in terms of the Food Regulatory Ministerial Council, we've got one vote on that council—we don't wish to pursue traffic light labelling at this point. That's the decision the commonwealth has made as one of the votes at that table, but we do want industry and public health people to work together to look at a form of interpretive front of pack labelling.
Now, some of the interesting work, and probably the most comprehensive work, that's been done on front of pack labelling systems has just been released out of the Institute of Medicine in the US. It's recommended a more widely recognised energy density system that looks at the type of food you consume. There are some perverse outcomes that happen when you use traffic light labelling; so, for example, a bottle of milk, or a carton of milk, would get more reds than a bottle of Coke, and cheese is also something that comes up fairly high, obviously, in terms of its fat content as well. But we don't want to be telling people not to consume cheese. We might want to think about how much cheese they consume. So there's some perverse outcomes.
So we're interested in looking at a system that's far more along the lines of the energy density of the food, because we know that that has the highest impact on...
Peter Mares: I've got to say that... I mean, we're looking at things that are easy for consumers to understand, that can actually... you can glance at and it changes your purchasing decisions. And I've got to say energy density doesn't sound that easy to understand to me.
Catherine King: Yeah. No, no. And that's why they've recommended—which again we're not wedded to this as a system at all, but it's an interesting one to look at, there's a couple of others around at the moment—it uses the energy rating system that we currently are familiar with on our whitegoods, it uses that star system, and so the better you food is the more stars it gets. Pretty simple.
Peter Mares: OK that does sound much more simple. Now, you did say you're only one vote—the commonwealth is only one vote—at the ministerial meeting which happens next Friday. Do you think you might get rolled?
Catherine King: Oh, well, that's always a possibility. There's lots more states and territories than there is one commonwealth. So that may well be the case.
Peter Mares: And have you been lobbied hard by the food industry on this issue?
Catherine King: What I quite deliberately did is I released the Blewett Report literally within days of having received it, back in January. And I've spent the last year with a very open door policy. Anybody who wanted to come and talk to me or any other ministers—now obviously there are other portfolio ministers that have an interest in this, whether they represent farmers or other primary producers, manufacturers, other parts of the food sector—they've all had people coming through their door.
So I've met with public health people, I've met with nutritionists, I've met with academics who've been working on things like the glycaemic index, the National Heart Foundation, and of course I've met with industry as well. So I've been doing that literally for the course of the last year. The Department of Health has also run some consultative forums around the country as well. So we've been lobbied from everybody and I'd have to say there isn't actually a consensus on this and you'll hear from, I think, your two next guests, there's very divergent views on this.
Peter Mares: There certainly are.
Catherine King: Yeah and National Farmers' Federation and the Dieticians' Association both have said it's good that we're not... well, certainly the Farmers' Federation has said it's good we're not doing traffic lights. They were concerned about what it might mean for primary producers in the country. Dieticians are very happy that the door's still open for an interpretative form of front of pack labelling. So there's a mixture of views still out there and you'll hear some of those I think with your two next guests.
Peter Mares: Catherine King, thank you.
Catherine King: My pleasure.
Peter Mares: Catherine King is Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing. This The National Interest on ABC Radio National and indeed listening in to that conversation is Jane Martin, the senior policy adviser with the Obesity Policy Coalition; it's a group of Victorian health organisations. And she joins me in the studio.
Jane Martin, welcome.
Jane Martin: Thank you.
Peter Mares: Also joining us from the ALP national conference, where she's been busy representing her industry, is Kate Carnell. Kate Carnell is chief executive of the Australian Food and Grocery Council.
Kate Carnell, welcome to you.
Kate Carnell: Hi.
Peter Mares: Jane Martin, do I really need a traffic light system on my food to stop me eating a pack of salty, fatty chips or a sugary chocolate bar when in fact I know I should eat an apple or a carrot instead?
Jane Martin: Well, we believe that traffic lights are the best option for helping people make healthier food choices. And we're not alone. All major public health organisations, the expert panel who reviewed all the evidence and took hundreds of submissions...
Peter Mares: Well, we've just heard from the secretary for health that there is no evidence.
Jane Martin: Well, it's pretty good evidence in our view and we also know that consumers are in favour—87 per cent of consumers would like the government to require industry to put traffic lights on the front of food and 88 per cent of people have said that they would use them. And we know that it's an effective tool. Research has shown that it's very good for people of lower socio-economic status with low literacy and numeracy, because it hasn't got lots of numbers and it does send signals to people to make better choices around what they're eating.
Peter Mares: But there already is information on food that tells you how much sugar there is and how much saturated fat and gives you the daily intake guide. So the information is there. If you want to use it you can get it.
Jane Martin: Well, it's very complex and it's very difficult for people to understand and we need to empower people and give them the tools to make these healthier choices when people's diets are very poor, we have an overweight and obesity epidemic and associated chronic disease. So how do we support people to make healthier choices? And traffic lights have been shown to do that very effectively. And they tell you about the things that the industry doesn't necessarily want you to know about, that their marketing, you know, hides. And they're very big on talking about the positive elements of food, not quite so good on empowering people to understand the true nutritional value of the food.
Peter Mares: Kate Carnell, I presume that you would say the members of your organisation, the Food and Grocery Council, do want people to make healthy choices.
Kate Carnell: Look, we do, and that's the reason that there's the thumbnails on the front of the pack that's done voluntarily.
Peter Mares: The thumbnails are the daily intake guide that no one can understand... the things that no one can understand.
Kate Carnell: Well, it's interesting that when you actually go to the community and ask them—not us, a third party—to determine whether they can understand them, they do. And interestingly, in the EU, they looked at a very similar approach and asked 17,000 people whether they understood a system very similar to daily intake—called percentage DI—and people understood it, understood it really well.
Peter Mares: I've got to say though that if I know I've had such and such a percentage of my daily intake with my breakfast cereal and then I have to try and remember what that was at lunchtime or in the afternoon, I mean, I certainly don't find it simple as I would find a red light warning me, 'Well, this is high in fat,' or a green light telling me it's low in sugar.
Kate Carnell: I'm interested in your comment there. So if you had a breakfast cereal that had a red light on salt and an amber light on saturated fat, and a green light on fat, and a red light on sugar, what would that actually tell you about what you should put into the rest of your diet?
Peter Mares: It would tell me to make my own muesli.
Kate Carnell: Well, except that your own muesli would potentially be very high in sugar, because you would have put a lot of dried fruit in it, and it would be very high in fat, because you would have put a whole lot of nuts and fruit into it, and you might have actually put a bit of honey into it, so you might have some sugar. You see what I mean? There's nothing that's actually really simple here, because you do get scenarios where... say, lots of mueslis have lots of red traffic lights because they use a lot of dried fruit...
Peter Mares: Jane Martin, from what Kate Carnell is saying the traffic light system is just far too simplistic, it won't work, and it won't really help us to make healthy decisions.
Jane Martin: Well, I think what needs to happen with the traffic lights scheme is adjustments, so that foods which are naturally occurring, such as fruits and nuts and things like that, are given a better deal.
Peter Mares: Even if they're high in sugar and oils?
Jane Martin: Well, something like milk, for example, in the UK the category is actually more generous. So if you compare something like Kate compares soft drink and milk, in fact soft drink, the categories are more generous and a lot of... sorry, milk the categories are more generous. So milk would come out with a better profile, nutrient profile, than something like soft drink. And it's about supporting people to make choices within a category.
So if... the muesli example, you could choose a muesli with lower salt. Let's say you've got hypertension and you've been told by your doctor to reduce your salt. How do you do it? And that way you could compare, at a glance, when you're shopping, when you've got your kids in the trolley, which is, you know, a challenging thing for people, and people with poor eyesight who can't understand the nutrition information panel and can't understand the daily intake guide, which we know people have a lot of difficulty with, not everybody carries a calculator and makes all those... works it all out as they go through their day.
And this is what we need to do, is empower people, support people. This is the information that they can use in a way that helps them make better choices. And this is what we need to do.
Peter Mares: So Kate Carnell, what are food manufacturers doing to help us make healthier choices?
Kate Carnell: Can I just come back, just for a moment, to what Jane was just saying, and I think that shows how complicated it is. If we're trying to encourage people to reduce their body weight, if we're trying to address the obesity epidemic, then what we've got to do is get people to reduce their kilojoules, reduce the amount of energy that they eat, certainly reduce the amount of salt and saturated fat.
The great dilemma with traffic lights is it's so simplistic, once something is red it's red. So you end up with a scenario that sultanas have a red traffic light for sugar, as do lollies. Now lollies have double the sugar of sultanas, but red is red. So how do you tell the difference...
Peter Mares: It sounds to me like then we should give up in the idea of labelling all together and what we should do is mandate that food manufacturers put less sugar and less salt and less fat in their foods, things like breakfast cereals, which are full of salt and sugar and fat.
Kate Carnell: Well, I think that maybe you should stand for parliament and tell people that you're going to change the way their food tastes and see if you get elected.
Jane Martin: I think what would happen, if you put traffic lights on food, the other side of that is it does encourage industry to reformulate their products so that it delivers a healthier profile around those key nutrients that people want to know about, which is fat, saturate...
Kate Carnell: Except, except Jane knows that's not possible...
Jane Martin: If you could just let me finish... which are fats, saturated fat, salt and sugar, that's what people have told us they want to know about. They're not so interested in the energy density. Let's give them what they want to know and let's see what happens. We know it's effective; it's worked well in the UK.
Peter Mares: Kate Carnell, couldn't it be a positive... I think Sanitarium have adopted it voluntarily, or have adopted, made, their own scheme, so couldn't it be a positive marketing thing for food producers?
Kate Carnell: Sorry, Sanitarium haven't. Sanitarium's put out a discussion paper...
Peter Mares: OK, I beg your pardon.
Kate Carnell: ...and so they haven't put that on their labels at all. What they've suggested is that we need to have more discussions about front of pack labelling and that's exactly the position that the federal government has taken, what Catherine King has talked about.
We actually support Catherine King's approach. We accept that there's no magic bullet here, that the Institute of Medicine research, after two years and significant time, is very interesting. We're not suggesting that daily intake is the magic bullet here. We're very happy to sit down with Jane, with the public health associations, with the government, and let's just have a look at what research is saying, let's have a look at the Institute of Medicine, and let's see if we can come up with a better approach that gives the community something they want.
Peter Mares: Jane Martin, do you concede that perhaps there could be a better approach than traffic lights and we haven't come up with it yet?
Jane Martin: Well, I mean, we've seen the evidence, there's been hundreds of submissions, the industry is the loudest voice opposing this and I think you need to ask the question why. And that's because it would tell consumers about the sorts of things that industry doesn't want them to know about and that they engineer preferences through marketing. We would like industry to respond to the needs of consumers and give them the information that they need when they're making decisions when they're shopping.
Kate Carnell: That's why we're really happy to sit down with everyone and look at it. The reason industry doesn't like traffic lights, it's very true that people respond to traffic lights the same way as they respond to traffic lights on the road and that is red being 'Stop. Don't eat it,' green means 'Eat as much as you like,' because that's how you respond to traffic lights on the road.
That's not the case. You know, red on dairy products doesn't mean 'Don't eat it.' Red on... you could even have it with a red on an avocado if you had traffic lights on fruit. Red on nuts and fruit doesn't mean, 'Don't eat it,' and green doesn't mean, 'Eat as much as you like.'
Peter Mares: Jane Martin, do people really respond that way to the traffic lights?
Jane Martin: Well, I think people understand that traffic lights, a green means it's low in a particular nutrient, amber means medium, and red means high. They don't see it as stop or go. That's not how it's interpreted by the public.
Peter Mares: Well, it's a debate that's going to go on. I'm sorry, we have to leave it there. Kate Carnell and Jane Martin, thanks for joining us in The National Interest.
Kate Carnell: Thank you very much.
Jane Martin: Thank you.
- Jane Martin
- Senior Policy Adviser, Obesity Policy Coalition
- Catherine King
- Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing
- Kate Carnell
- Chief Executive, Australia Food and Grocery Council
- Presenter
- Peter Mares
- Producer
- James Panichi
Comments (25)
Anna :
02 Dec 2011 6:54:36pm
I am not sure who was commenting, but did I really hear that we are better off buying our muesli from the supermarket than making our own????
Mulga Mumblebrain :
03 Dec 2011 9:48:49am
Of course Anna-Big Business is our friend. Self-sufficiency is for losers, 'watermelons' and other Communist riff-raff. It will be outlawed, shortly, and, the Market willing, we will all be the better for it (although some, following the ineluctable universal laws of the Holy Market will, naturally, be better off then others, very much better).
Stephen Coates :
05 Dec 2011 11:25:04am
As much as it might offend your ideology, Mulga, she's probably correct. Purchased muesli, whether bought from a large supermarket, a corner shop or a "health" food shop, complete with unfinished timber and walls painted green, will have been prepared in a commercial kitchen with precisely controlled ingredient quantities. Home made muesli probably has more fat and sugar per serve.
I used to make my own muesli, not for ideological or supposed health reasons, but after I noticed that those I could buy tended to have more inexpensive but unappealing paw paw than the more expensive but much more appealing apricot pieces. However, my muesli probably had more fats and sugars and I probably used more energy per serve making it than would be used in an efficient commercial kitchen making it.
Mulga Mumblebrain :
05 Dec 2011 8:00:19pm
Buying muesli from a shop, processed by some multi-national conglomerate, perhaps in Burkina Fasso, where the ingredients and labour are cheap (hence ensuring higher profits) then shipped halfway around the world creating a gigantic carbon footprint, is the consumer's right. To calculate whether it is cheaper, more nutritious or better from a greenhouse emissions point of view would take some effort, if you are even that way inclined. But please don't expect me to believe that business agit-prop apparatchiki do anything but attempt to induce people, by any means available, to buy their owners' products in order to increase their profits. Any pretense of 'public interest' from that direction is simply cant and humbug.
Stephen Coates :
09 Dec 2011 2:10:56pm
Last time I checked, most mueslis were made in Australia and I don't think that Burkina Faso has the infrastructure to prepare muesli to transport to Australia.
It's almost less energy efficient for me to bake one tray of muesli that for a commercial kitchen to bake several boxes worth just as I probably use twice as much pesticide and fertilizers for the garden crops I grow compared to a farmer is because of the economies of scale.
Of course muesli manufacturers make a profit - Adam Smith made the observation two centuries ago that the reason a the baker made a profit baking the sort of bread people wanted to buy. The alternative, still being tried in North Korea, doesn't warrant consideration.
Anna :
02 Dec 2011 6:56:32pm
What we should be talking about is nutrition as a school subject so that we are not faced with this population who has no idea what they are consuming.
Mulga Mumblebrain :
03 Dec 2011 9:52:16am
Anna, I was perusing some nutritional work carried out by an eight year old recently. No need to worry! The aforementioned youngster had a firm grip on the essential truth that dairy products, nutritious cheese, milk, yoghurt etc, was the very foundation of good health. Thank God for the dairy industry and their sense of social responsibility.
Shane Guevara. :
07 Dec 2011 10:34:17am
Yeah, when they advertise "low fat" product like yoghurt or flavoured milk, you'll usually find it's topped of with sugar, which causes more obesity than "fat"'
Dairy products are hardly a "foundation" of good health ever since milk was pasteurised and many people are lacto-intolerant.
Nice try, though.
Nathan from BrisVegas :
02 Dec 2011 6:58:25pm
How many years do Kate Carnell and Dick Wells before her intend to stall this important reform?
What about plain packaging for ALL consumer products, just like cigarettes, to help sort out the BS inherent in marketing edible food-like substances?
carla :
02 Dec 2011 10:21:15pm
I'll second that.
Sandy :
02 Dec 2011 7:58:49pm
It is a sad state of affairs when we look to authorities to guide our eating habits. Whatever happened to personal responsibility. There is more than enough education available through legitimate means and the tabloid media indicating what makes for healthy eating.
I think the biggest question, is if it's packaged, why are you eating it? What is the natural and/or raw alternative? It is not hard to eat healthy if you choose to eat foods that nature provides with minimal to no processing.
This is the message that needs to be promoted, not some spoon-fed colour coding!
Shane Guevara. :
07 Dec 2011 10:30:40am
" through legitimate means and the tabloid media indicating what makes for healthy eating."
The tabloid media is a vehicle for advertising and advertising is opposite of truth and education. It sends confusing and mixed messages.
This of course is defended by their lobbyis, Kate Carnell as "freedom of speech" - for starters, advertising aint free and it does not come with any requirement of social responsibility.
Liz :
02 Dec 2011 9:41:09pm
Unfortunately I switched on too late to hear much of the discussion, but I have heard Kate Carnell's amazing politicking many times before. I for one wish to see and know every bit of information about a product I intend to eat.Many of our foods are manipulated to such a degree you'd be silly to feed them to your animals. Genetically altered, trans fats, humungous sugar,salt,artificial colours,flavours,preservatives,some of which are used in non food industries. The traffic light system would be a start. Why not.
Mulga Mumblebrain :
03 Dec 2011 9:54:12am
Because it would interfere with the food businesses' ability to sell junk to the less well educated and the poor, who are their preferred marks.
Bernie :
03 Dec 2011 12:01:36pm
The system is broken and long overdue for fixing. No new system will be perfect, nor will it please all the people all the time. But traffic lights would be a good start.
Surely it's time FSANZ went to the knackers yard? It's always been stacked with stooges, on loan from big processed food mobs. Now that health consequences, particularly obesity and diabetes, are so expensive and disgraceful, isn't it time, for something so important, to be worth a Ministry of Food?
Self regulation, of anything, as so strongly promoted by Murdoch press, Press Council and ACMA, is nonsense. Media deregulation is causing big shifts to right wing politics, so that Australia can aspire to being as low tax, small government and less regulated just like USA. Yuck.
Traffic light food labels would at least be visible. FSANZ currently regulates minimum size of numbers on back of pack labels, but nobody regulates a way to make them big enough to read.
John O'Hara :
03 Dec 2011 11:46:43pm
One can only imagine the job spec for the Chief Executive, Australia Food and Grocery Council:
Position: Spinmeister (for the status quo).
. Prior experience in public obfuscation desirable (politics would be a useful background).
. Tory outlook preferred.
. Recognition of the sanctity of the market essential.
. Preachy disposition advantageous.
Alexander Cranford :
04 Dec 2011 12:22:24pm
Your guests sounded a pretty confused, it being quite obvious that they have been duped by all the food myths propagated by vested interests.Let us get some things straight. Low fat diets are not healthy, nor a diet low saturated fat healthy but what is unhealthy is trans fat found in margarine and hydrogenated vegetable oil. Low fat diets have been shown to be associated with depression. At a time of rising suicide rates it would hardly seem like a good idea. The idea of saturated fat being responsible for rise in the 20th century is twisted logic for as the per capita of traditional animal fats - that are high in saturated fat - decreased from the 1930's onwards,the rate heart increased. Intellectual honesty counts for nothing when it comes to corporate spin.
I did not hear Jame Martin make any mention of high fructose corn syrup. This would have to be one of the most insidious products ever to enter the human diet.Look it up on The Health Report.According to Dr Mercola more people are now dying from obesity than are dying from smoking in the USA.
Italo Giardina :
04 Dec 2011 2:21:37pm
The binary system advocated to label food has one major drawback in that there is an embedded assumption that most readers of a colour signal would change their behaviour. As traffic users need to assess the conditions with other signals. So if the traffic light system is extended to food labelling it should include various other signals so to give a more nuanced approach to a complex set of determiners. Also images that hold colour content that correlate to economic activities can make any colour seem 'go' to just think of that very popular beverage .
Sue :
04 Dec 2011 4:08:42pm
If you are buying and eating packaged foods then it probably makes no difference whether or not it displays a 'traffic light'.
When companies reduce sugar, salt, fat, etc., they have to replace those ingredients with various additives and chemicals in order for the food to be palatable. Fat provides flavour and fills you up so that you eat less but feel more satisfied.
Buying fresh foods and making your own meals, cakes, biscuits,etc., will always be a healthier alternative.
Michael :
05 Dec 2011 2:30:11am
Thanks for this segment. It convinced me that traffic lights for anything other than traffic are a really dumb idea.
The only thing that your guests agreed about was that, were they to be introduced, traffic lights on food packages would teach kids that green doesn't really mean go and worse, stop doesn't really mean stop. Imagine the chaos when they take that message out onto the streets.
What are the anti-obesity coalitionists trying to achieve? Thin human road kill?
Stephen Coates :
05 Dec 2011 11:16:34am
The problem with the traffic light system is that it would lull consumers into perceiving foods to be "good", "bad" and in between with no consideration of quantity. This is an extension of the ridiculous notion of so-called junk foods. There is no such thing as a junk food whereas we have a major problem with junk diets. Jamie Oliver said as much when he held up and praised a plate of french fries, but stated that a lunch comprised of french fries and little else, day after day, was rubbish.
Mulga Mumblebrain :
06 Dec 2011 9:47:57am
Junk foods do exist-the Right denying their existence is just their perennial tactic of reflexively refuting research and experience if it threatens profit maximisation. On a par with anthropogenic climate destabilisation denial. For one example, high fructose corn syrup, added to junk food in massive amounts, to sweeten it, is nutritionally disastrous in any quantity, but in the large amounts ingested by the US populace, particularly the huge and burgeoning underclass, it causes all manner of metabolic derangement, and to deny that is akin to denying the rising of the sun.
Stephen Coates :
09 Dec 2011 2:19:24pm
No food is a junk food if consumed in appropriate quantities. Look at the ingredients in the food you buy, all grown, harvested or whatever buy individuals up to companies making a profit. Even the individual farmer in Burkino Faso wants to earn a profit above what he paid for his inputs. But this discussion is not about the merits or evils of corporations making a profit, it's about food labelling and I'm arguing that the binary division of foods into "good" (eat as much as you want), "bad" (avoid) and "in between" (eat a little if any) is overly simplistic and diverts attention away from the broader issue of a person's overall diet.
Ian :
05 Dec 2011 11:45:06am
I cant see anything wrong with a traffic light labelling system for fats, salt & sugar.
I think Australians are smart enough to know what they should be looking out for - some people will need to lower sugar intake and not worry so much about salt, and they know that fruits have natural sugar in them.
Government should not capitulate to the food industry to help them hide the true content of their processed foods.
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"Since late January, people have become competitive and enthusiastic about buying houses in this suburb," says a McGrath Inner West agent, Michael Glynn.
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"Lanaya, the Templar Assassin, came to her calling by a path of curious inquiry. Possessed of a scientific bent, she spent her early years engaged in meticulous study of nature's laws–peering into grimoires of magic and alchemy, recreating experiments from charred fragments of the Violet Archives, and memorizing observations of the Keen recordkeepers. Already quiet and secretive by nature, the difficulty of acquiring these objects further reinforced her skills of stealth. Had she been less retiring, she might have become notorious among the guilds as a thief-scholar. Instead her investigations led her into far more obscure corners. As she devoted her furtive talents to unlocking the secrets of the universe, she instead unlocked a secret door that exists in nature itself: the entryway to the most Hidden Temple. The intelligences that waited beyond that portal, proved to be expecting her, and whatever mysteries they revealed in the moment of their discovery was nothing compared to the answers they held out to Lanaya should she continue in their service. She swore to protect the mysteries, but more to the point, in service to the Hidden Temple she satisfies her endless craving for understanding. In the eyes of each foe she expunges, a bit more of the mystery is revealed."
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As well as the dashboard updates we also have a number of in game UI updates.
Unpausing will now display a large countdown in the centre of the screen and will also play a sound:
You can now use the custom announcer packs when spectating:
The "Inspect Hero" feature now displays that player's current Battle Point rate:
Heroes` ultimates that are unaffected by the Aghanim's Scepter upgrade now show this in the ability panel:
When spectating a game, the Neutrals will now have a yellow healthbar:
Unnatural mana gain or loss (such as Arcane Boots) now show an overhead message:
Backpack Icon Updates
We've a few updates to the announcer backpack icons.
Hero Model Updates
We've a number of models that have been broken down into multiple parts in order to get them ready for cosmetic items.
Brewmaster's Model Updates
Brewmaster's model, although newer than the rest has now already been broken down.
Parts: Back, Barrel, Bracer, Shoulder, Weapon.
Brewmaster's Base Model:
Pugna's Model Updates
Pugna's model has now been broken down to allow cosmetic items to be made for him.
Parts: Belt, Bracers, Cape, Head (Horns), Shoulder, Weapon.
Pugna's Base Model:
Riki's Model Updates
Riki's model has also been broken down to allow for cosmetic items.
Parts: Gloves, Head (Horns), Shoulder, Tail, Weapon.
Riki's Base Model:
Hero Animation Updates
Yet again we've more custom stolen spell animations for Rubick.
Rubick's Animations
Once again Rubick has had his animations updated.
Enigma's Black Hole animation:
New animations:
Enigma's Black Hole.
Pugna's Life Drain.
Back End Changes
Updated Strings
Linda K. Morris has been credited for doing Templar Assassin's voice work:
"DOTA_ActorCredits" "Linda K. Morris - Announcer, Luna, Queen of Pain, Templar Assassin"
Strings for the workshop publish tool, suggest that a more robust item testing tool may be arriving in the near future:
"DOTA_Workshop_ItemTitle" "SUBMISSION TITLE:"
"DOTA_Workshop_TestTitle" "TEST YOUR MODEL"
"DOTA_Workshop_SubmitTitle" "SUBMIT TO THE WORKSHOP"
"DOTA_Workshop_File_Geometry" "Geometry (.smd, .dmx, .fbx files)"
"DOTA_Workshop_File_Texture" "Texture (.tga files)"
"DOTA_Workshop_HeroSelect" "Select Hero"
"DOTA_Workshop_NoHeroSelected" "No hero selected"
"DOTA_Workshop_SlotSelect" "Select slot"
"DOTA_Workshop_SubmissionTypeTitle" "What are you publishing?"
"DOTA_Workshop_SubmissionType_Wearable" "WEARABLE ITEM"
"DOTA_Workshop_SubmissionType_Wearable_Desc" "Model geometry that attaches to a specific hero's base model."
"DOTA_Workshop_SubmissionType_Courier" "COURIER"
"DOTA_Workshop_SubmissionType_Courier_Desc" "A self-contained model with the animations required to operate in-game as a team's courier."
"DOTA_Workshop_SubmissionType_Other" "OTHER"
"DOTA_Workshop_SubmissionType_Other_Desc" "A submission that doesn't fit in any of the other submission types."
"DOTA_ItemTest_Required" "Required"
"DOTA_ItemTest_Required_Texture" "Required (Textures will be resized to: %s1)"
"DOTA_ItemTest_Required_Geometry" "Required (Max Polygon count: %s1)"
"DOTA_ItemTest_NotRequired_Geometry" "(Max Polygon count: %s1)"
"DOTA_ItemTest_NotRequired_Texture" "(Textures will be resized to: %s1)"
"DOTA_ItemTest_ItemName" "OUTPUT FILENAME:"
"DOTA_ItemTest_ItemName_Desc" "This is the output filename for your item. It isn't seen by players, and must be less than 50 characters long."
"DOTA_ItemTest_LOD0Title" "OPTIONAL PORTRAIT GEOMETRY"
"DOTA_ItemTest_LOD0Desc" "This is the .DMX, .SMD, or .FBX file that contains the higher resolution geometry for your item. It will be used only in portrait views. If your item isn't highly visible in the hero's portrait, leave this blank and we'll use the in-game geometry instead."
"DOTA_ItemTest_LOD1Title" "IN-GAME GEOMETRY"
"DOTA_ItemTest_LOD1Desc" "This is the .DMX, .SMD, or .FBX file that contains the geometry for your item. It will be used in-game."
"DOTA_ItemTest_Texture_Title" "Texture Files"
"DOTA_ItemTest_Texture_Desc" "This is the set of four .TGA files that combine to texture this geometry file. Browse and select any one of the _color, _normal, _mask1, or _mask2 .TGA files, and we'll look for the rest in the same directory."
"DOTA_ItemTest_Texturing" "Texturing Help"
"DOTA_ItemTest_Modelling" "Modelling Help"
"DOTA_ItemTest_ImportError" "Texture File Error!"
"DOTA_ItemTest_Error_TextureNameA" "Cannot recognise the chosen .TGA file name. Textures must end with one of the following suffixes: _color, _normal, _mask1, _mask2"
"DOTA_ItemTest_Error_TextureNameB" "Cannot find a matching .TGA file with the following suffix:n %s1"
"DOTA_ItemTest_Import" "IMPORT"
The International Ticket's confirmation string has been updated to allow the users to request an email with their ticket information:
"DOTA_InternationalTicketButton_Desc" "You are confirmed for The International.nYou can request you ticket information be sent to the email account associated with your Steam account by clicking below."
"DOTA_InternationalTicketButton1" "Request Email"
"DOTA_InternationalTicketButton2" "Done"
New Strange Modifiers:
"KillEaterEventType_Bounty_TrackedKills" "Tracked Kills"
"KillEaterEventType_Bounty_TrackedInvisKills" "Tracked Invisible Kills"
"KillEaterEventType_Bounty_InvisJinadaHits" "Invisible Jinada Strikes"
"KillEaterEventType_Bounty_TrackGold" "Tracked Bonus Gold"
"KillEaterEventType_Tide_GoodRavages" "Quad Ravages"
"KillEaterEventType_Windrunner_DoubleShackles" "Double Shackles"
"KillEaterEventType_Windrunner_GoodPowershots" "Multi-Hero Powershots"
"KillEaterEventType_Invoker_SunstrikeKills" "Sunstrike Kills"
"KillEaterEventType_Axe_CullingBladeKills" "Culling Blade Fatalities"
"KillEaterEventType_Axe_BerserkerCallAverage" "Average Heroes Caught Per Call"
"KillEaterEventType_Couriers_Purchased" "Couriers Purchased"
"KillEaterEventType_Wards_Purchased" "Wards Purchased"
"KillEaterEventType_Tide_EnemiesGushed" "Enemies Gushed"
New Strange Ranks:
"BountyHunterRank0" "Scrounger's"
"BountyHunterRank1" "Scavenger's"
"BountyHunterRank2" "Shadower's"
"BountyHunterRank3" "Trapper's"
"BountyHunterRank4" "Hawker's"
"BountyHunterRank5" "Ferreter's"
"BountyHunterRank6" "Tracker's"
"BountyHunterRank7" "Stalker's"
"BountyHunterRank8" "Hunter's"
"BountyHunterRank9" "Hitman's"
"BountyHunterRank10" "Marauder's"
"BountyHunterRank11" "Liquidator's"
"BountyHunterRank12" "Mercenary's"
"BountyHunterRank13" "Cutthroat's"
"BountyHunterRank14" "Murderer's"
"BountyHunterRank15" "Exterminator's"
"GoldRank0" "Destitute"
"GoldRank1" "Deprived"
"GoldRank2" "Meager"
"GoldRank3" "Lacking"
"GoldRank4" "Poor"
"GoldRank5" "Favored"
"GoldRank6" "Flourishing"
"GoldRank7" "Thriving"
"GoldRank8" "Prosperous"
"GoldRank9" "Booming"
"GoldRank10" "Bounteous"
"GoldRank11" "Lucrative"
"GoldRank12" "Abundant"
"GoldRank13" "Flush"
"GoldRank14" "Gilded"
"GoldRank15" "Bountiful"
"GoldRank16" "Affluent"
"GoldRank17" "Wealthy"
"GoldRank18" "Opulent"
"GoldRank19" "Palatial"
"GoldRank20" "Triumphant"
// Didn't end up using these, but they seem useful, so leaving them in for a later rank set.
"ThiefRank0" "Pilfering"
"ThiefRank1" "Pinching"
"ThiefRank2" "Rifling"
"ThiefRank3" "Pickpocketing"
"ThiefRank4" "Swindling"
"ThiefRank5" "Poaching"
"ThiefRank6" "Divesting"
"ThiefRank7" "Fleecing"
"ThiefRank8" "Looting"
"ThiefRank9" "Thieving"
"ThiefRank10" "Robbing"
"ThiefRank11" "Plundering"
"ThiefRank12" "Raiding"
"ThiefRank13" "Ransacking"
"ThiefRank14" "Pillaging"
"ThiefRank15" "Marauding"
//Axe Ranks..
"AxeRank0" "Peon's"
"AxeRank1" "Flunky's"
"AxeRank2" "Grunt's"
"AxeRank3" "Guard's"
"AxeRank4" "Recruit's"
"AxeRank5" "Fighter's"
"AxeRank6" "Warrior's"
"AxeRank7" "Veteran's"
"AxeRank8" "Guerilla's"
"AxeRank9" "Enforcer's"
"AxeRank10" "Mercenary's"
"AxeRank11" "Warmonger's"
"AxeRank12" "Eliminator's"
"AxeRank13" "Executioner's"
Unreleased Hero Icons
Naga Siren now has a minimap icon:
Unreleased Custom Announcers
There are a number of updates to the unreleased custom announcers.
Axe Announcer
There is now an icon for an Axe announcer and mega kill packs, suggesting that he will most likely be one of the next hero announcers after Storm Spirit.
Storm Spirit Announcer
The Storm Spirit announcer now has artwork and all of the audio files in the client files.
You can listen to the pack here: http://www.dota2wiki.com/wiki/Storm_Spirit_Announcer_Pack
There are also mega kill lines.
The Pirate Cap'n Announcer
The first announcer from the workshop has also made it's way in game, both the artwork and audio files are in the client files.
You can listen to the pack here: http://www.dota2wiki.com/wiki/Pirate_Captain_Announcer_Pack
There are also mega kill lines (no artwork yet).
Unreleased Cosmetic Items
Disclaimer: These items are still work in progress and might never be in the game, no freaking out allowed, thanks.
In Game Taunts
The "In the bag" taunt now has a name/description and artwork.
"item_name": "Taunt: It's in the Bag"
"item_description": "Express your confidence to the enemy team. Surely nothing could possibly go wrong…

This taunt can be equipped as an action item and used with any hero."
Item Sets
"DOTA_Set_Juggernaut_Brave" "The Dauntless"
"DOTA_Set_Axe_Blood_Mist" "Blood Mist Armor"
"DOTA_Set_Dragon_Knight_Davion" "Armor of Sir Davion"
"DOTA_Set_Omniknight_Purist_Champion" "Armor of the Purist Champion"
"DOTA_Set_Invoker_Magnus" "The Magus Magnus"
"DOTA_Set_Witchdoctor_Tale_Teller" "The Traveling Tale-Teller"
"DOTA_Set_Bounty_Hunter_Hardened" "Hardened Hunter's Gear"
"DOTA_Set_Morphling_Radiant_Crystal" "Radiant Crystal Bindings"
Axe's Items
Axelmet (Ignore the hammer):
Blood Mist Set:
Bounty Hunter's Items
Harden Hunter's Set:
Dragon Knight's Items
Armor of Sir Davion Set:
Drow Ranger's Items
Ice Bow:
Faceless Void's Items
Bindings of the Rift and Green Blessed Mace:
Invoker's Items
Magnus Set:
Juggernaut's Items
Dauntless Set:
Mask of Intimidation:
Morphling's Items
Radiant Crystal Bindings Set:
Omniknight's Items
Armor of the Purist Champion Set:
Phantom Assassin's Items
Double Axe:
Phantom Lancer's Items
Sven's Items
Classic Weapon:
Foreign Weapon:
Tidehunter's Items
Witch Doctor's Items
Tale Tellers Set:
Unreleased Strange Modifiers
There are a number of new strange modifiers in this patch.
Invisible Jinada Strikes
Adding this Strange Modifier to a strange item of your choice will allow it to also count the number of times you break invisibility with a Jinada strike on an enemy hero while wearing it as Bounty Hunter.
Tracked Invisible Kills
Adding this Strange Modifier to a strange item of your choice will allow it to also count the number of dying invisible enemies you were Tracking while wearing it as Bounty Hunter.
Tracked Kills
Adding this Strange Modifier to a strange item of your choice will allow it to also count the number of dying enemies you were Tracking while wearing it as Bounty Hunter.
Tracked Bonus Gold
Adding this Strange Modifier to a strange item of your choice will allow it to also count the total bonus gold you've earned from Tracked kills while wearing it as Bounty Hunter.
Sunstrike Kills
Adding this Strange Modifier to a strange item of your choice will allow it to also count the number of your hero kills you achieve with Sunstrike while wearing it as Invoker.
Double Shackles
Adding this Strange Modifier to a strange item of your choice will allow it to also count the number of your Shackleshots that bind two enemy Heroes while wearing it as Windrunner.
Multi-Hero Powershots
Adding this Strange Modifier to a strange item of your choice will allow it to also count the number of your Powershots that hit at least two enemy Heroes while wearing it as Windrunner.
Enemies Gushed
Adding this Strange Modifier to a strange item of your choice will allow it to also count the number of enemies you've Gushed as Tidehunter.
Quad Ravages
(No Artwork yet)
Adding this Strange Modifier to a strange item of your choice will allow it to also count the number of your Ravages that hit at least four enemy Heroes while wearing it as Tidehunter.
Couriers Purchased
Adding this Strange Modifier to a strange item of your choice will allow it to also count the number of Couriers purchased.
Wards Purchased
Adding this Strange Modifier to a strange item of your choice will allow it to also count the number of Wards purchased.
Other Modifiers
Axe has some specific modifiers that aren't in the item schema yet:
"KillEaterEventType_Axe_CullingBladeKills" "Culling Blade Fatalities"
"KillEaterEventType_Axe_BerserkerCallAverage" "Average Heroes Caught Per Call"
Unreleased Treasure Chests
There are a number of new treasure chests in this patch, including a special summer version which requires it's own type of key.
Sithil's Summer Stash aka Summer Sale 2012 Chest
So the reason the Steam Summer sale has yet to arrive is because of Dota 2 (Just kidding). There's now a "Summer Sale 2012″ chest in the files, which includes it's own special type of key.
The Chest description:
"item_name": "Sithil's Summer Stash"
"item_description": "That disreputable scoundrel Sithil has lost a chest of plundered loot! You will need Sithil's Summer Key to open the chest. You can pick one up at the DOTA 2 Store. Beware! At the end of July 2012 this chest will crumble into useless dust. This chest contains one of several mysterious new items."
The Key description:
"item_name": "Sithil's Summer Key"
"item_description": "Used to open Sithil's Smmer Stash. Double click or right-click the key in your backpack and select the chest you want to open.\r\nAfter the end of July 2012 this will become a normal key."
The Summer Sale 2012 Chest:
The Summer Sale 2012 Key (Poor Turtle):
Loot list:
"Ice Crystal Bow" "1"
"Wheel of Fortitude" "1"
"Timebreaker" "1"
"Deathwielder" "1"
"Hammer of Holy Words" "1"
"Ancient Mask of Intimidation" "1"
"Demon Claive" "1"
"Hammer Time" "1"
"Elemental Ice Infusion" "1"
List of potential unusual couriers
"Fearless Badger" "1"
"Stumpy - Nature's Attendant" "1"
"Trusty Mountain Yak" "1"
"Enduring War Dog" "1"
"Mighty Boar" "1"
"Morok's Mechanical Mediary" "1"
"Skip the Delivery Frog" "1"
"Speed Demon" "1"
"Tickled Tegu" "1"
The Defense 2 Chest
There is also a chest for the early Defense 2 Dota TV ticket holders.
The Defense 2 Chest:
The Defense 2 Key:
"item_name": "The Defense 2 Key",
"item_description": "Used to open The Defense 2 Chest. Double click or right-click the key in your backpack and select the chest you want to open."
An unusual version of The Defense Courier will be part of that chest:
"Defense Season 2 War Dog" "1"
Loot list (Basically made up of other chest's loot lists):
"juggernaut_kill_eater_b" "1"
"furion_kill_eater_b" "1"
"axe_kill_eater_a" "1"
"bountyhunter_kill_eater_a" "1"
"witch_doctor_kill_eater_a" "1"
"tidehunter_kill_eater_a" "1"
"the_defense_2_unusual_courier" "1"
Loot it uses:
"Four-Fangs the Swordbreaker" "1"
"100-Proof Jug" "1"
"Relic Blade of the Kuur-Ishiminari" "1"
"Prey-Tracker's Aspect Mask" "1"
"Stoic Mask of the High Plains" "1"
"Diadem of the Goddess Enthroned" "1"
"Beard of Cycles" "1"
"Flared Wooden Crest" "1"
"Luxuriant Chin-Foliage" "1"
"Cape of Verdant Dreaming" "1"
"Berserker's Pauldron" "1"
"Berserker's Helm" "1"
"Berserker's Belt" "1"
"Demon Blood Helm" "1"
"Demon Blood Armor" "1"
"Demon Blood Guard" "1"
"Shuriken of the Hidden Hunter" "1"
"Harvester of the Hidden Hunter" "1"
"Creeper's Cruel Shuriken" "1"
"Pangolin Shoulder Armor" "1"
"Pangolin Carapace" "1"
"Pangolin Scarf" "1"
"Demon Skull Staff" "1"
"Wooden Fetish Mask" "1"
"Dreaded Dreads" "1"
"Vile Carnival Hat" "1"
"Horn Mask" "1"
"Grandfather's Ribs" "1"
"Femur Thrasher" "1"
"Excavator's Treasure" "1"
"Swamp Fins" "1"
"Octopus Hat" "1"
"Pirate Slayer's Black Flag" "1"
"Pirate Slayer's Tricorn" "1"
"Defense Season 2 War Dog" "1"
Bounty Hunter's Chest
"item_name": "Treasure of the Pangolin Guildmasters"
"item_description": "You will need a Treasure Key to open this chest. You can pick one up at the DOTA 2 Store. Each chest series comes with a different selection of possible loot."
Invoker's Chest
Tidehunter's Chest
No larger version of the artwork yet.
"item_name": "Treasure of the High Tide"
"item_description": "You will need a Treasure Key to open this chest. You can pick one up at the DOTA 2 Store. Each chest series comes with a different selection of possible loot."
Windrunner's Chest
Witch Doctor's Chest
No larger version of the artwork yet.
"item_name": "Treasure of the Ancestor Spirits"
"item_description": "You will need a Treasure Key to open this chest. You can pick one up at the DOTA 2 Store. Each chest series comes with a different selection of possible loot."
Unreleased Tournament Tickets
The Star Series Season II LAN Final now has an in game Dota TV ticket, already on sale now.
"item_type_name" "#DOTA_WearableType_LeagueViewPass"
"item_name": "Star Series Season II Lan Final"
"item_description": "Star Series is one of the most prestigious Dota 2 leagues held by StarLadder, and powered by Intel and Asus. The keystone of Star Series is the LAN final, which is held in Kiev CyberSport Arena, Ukraine. Watch six of the best teams compete for the Grand Prize of $15,000 and the title Star Series Champion."
Unreleased Custom Couriers
We've more updates to the unreleased custom couriers.
Turtle Rider
The Turtle Rider courier now has a couple of animations.
Idle Animation:
Running Animation:
Tickled Tegu
The flying version of the Ticked Tegu courier has been updated with fresh animations, the courier now appears finished and has a backpack icon.
"item_name": "Tickled Tegu"
"item_description": "A friendly Tegu from the dragon infested Cathauran Wastes. He smiles as if he knows something you do not."
Backpack Icon:
Flying Courier:
Defense Season 2 War Dog
Subscribers to the Defense Season 2 in game pass will have the chance of receiving an Unusual courier from the Defense chests:
"item_name": "The Defense Season 2 War Dog"
"item_description": "A special reward for subscribers to The Defense Season 2 tournament."
Model Viewer Shot:
Materials Update
Naga Siren's Materials
Visage's Materials
Particles Update
Keeper of the Light's Particles
Naga Siren's Particles
Visage's Particles
Predictions For the Next Hero
The hero that I predict will be released next is Naga Siren , progress has been made on her over a steady period and with the most recent materials update it's looking like she's almost ready for release.
The progress on Visage has been pretty strong as well, although I still think he's a little while away.
Nobody really likes Meepo so we don't need to worry about him.
Source Filmmaker
I have also just put a tutorial up for Valve's newly released Source Filmmaker, it's an amazingly powerful tool and I highly recommend you give it a try, who knows you might be the next Spielberg.


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For the last few years many different fashion startups have caught the attention of venture capital firms which has helped them to grow in to the success they are today. With Firms such as Nasty Gal, ShoeDazzle, Gilt Groupe, Moda Operandi are just a few that have made it big with the help of some generous investments. These large funding recipients have proven that if you have a unique idea that has potential that it can be turned into something great. However, is it possible that some of these fashion startup ideas are getting more attention than they should?
Brandon Fail, designer and founder of the popular social shopping mall known as "The Shoplift" recently wrote a blog post about various fashion ideas that caused him to be a bit skeptical. Some of the startups that tend to make him frown upon include those that make claims to an algorithm which can determine a customer's preferences based on Twitter or Facebook data. In reality no one really gives away enough information on these social media sites to actually allow a company to pin point what our true taste in accessories, clothes and other products is.
He also frowns upon fashion startups that say they can determine what a customer will by based on the clothing that they are wearing in a photo that is found on social media sites. In addition he also finds that fashion startups that make claims that they can correct the fit problem that is apparent in online shopping. Fail goes on to say that the real problem is the sizing inconsistency in various brands and styles. To shorten the list of problems it revolves around the silly single numbers in the women clothing system, subjectivity to taste or what looks good on different people, body shapes the changes to their bodies after pregnancy or weight gains. The inconsistency found in the system and ill-fitting expectations cause sizes to be wrong.
While he chose not to mention examples of who he had in mind there are plenty out there that are easy to spot. For example one of the more recent recipients that received funding was Fits.me which received nearly $7.2 million in Series A funding which will be used to increase the virtual fitting room in Europe and a United States push in the future.
Regardless of whether his opinions are right or wrong on the fit issues there is one thing that is fact and that is that fashion startups are literally raking in the millions. One example is Gilt which has brought in nearly $221M, Nasty Gal for $49M and many others that have brought in comparable investments. You will need to draw your own conclusion on which startups should get the attention of the bigger investors and which ones should be shunned but one thing is for sure and that is that fashion startups are in no danger of being put on the back burner or not receiving funding from those that see them as a wise investment.


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