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Looking your best on your wedding is a given — but feeling your best? It's a must. That's why were loving CEDAR Juice, the cold pressed juice cleanse that will help you look + feel amazing for your big day. Not only do CEDAR Juices taste amazing, but they are the perfect kickstart to a whole new healthy living routine!
With CEDAR Juice, not only will you feel rejuvenated on the inside, but you'll be glowing on the outside — all in time for your big day! Here are just a few of the amazing benefits you're in for:
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It is hard for the 99 percent of Americans who have 60 percent of the wealth to empathize with the thoughts and complaints of the other 1 percent who have 40 percent of the wealth.
Joey Green wrote a satiric book about the complaints of the rich and famous. It pokes fun at the absurd drawbacks of being wealthy and the living in luxury problems.
Some examples in Green's book are:
- not having room for all the owner's cars in his 24-car garage
- not knowing which team to root for in games between the Houston Astros and the Baltimore Orioles because you own both teams
- being expected to stay awake in all opera performances when you have opera season box seats
- getting no respect for privacy from the paparazzi
- having assistants bring you coffee that is too hot
- having to do your yoga at sunrise.
The book's title is Champagne and Caviar Again?: Complaints of the Rich and Famous, co-authored with Debbie Green and Alan Corcoran, all living in southern California. It is available as a used paperback for $2.54 on Amazon.
There is also a Twitter account called @CelebsComplain_ where celebrities' whining complaints are retweeted. Read some examples on the College Candy website.
Tom Perkins, an 82-year-old whose net worth is 8 billion dollars, wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal in January 2014 complaining Occupy Wall Street's war against America's wealthiest one percent was like the Nazis' anti-Semites Holocaust. In February 2014, he said people should be allowed to cast a number of votes in elections proportional to the amount of taxes they pay and asked his peers to support him in this.
Perhaps the Supreme Court listened to Perkins' call when they ruled on April 2, 2014 that individuals can give as much money as they want to federal election candidates across the nation, not exceeding the $5,200 cap per candidate. Apparently the previous $123,200 cap per election cycle was not enough for the wealthy.
If the wealthy cannot buy votes to get their way, they can always buy lobbyists. Wall Street spent 600 million dollars in lobbies in an effort to stop congressional-approved regulations that would impose stricter controls on them in an effort to avoid another financial meltdown like that in 2008.
The number of wealthy is growing. According to the 2014 Wealth Report by Knight Frank property management firm, in the last ten years the super-rich swelled by 59 percent; billionaires by 80 percent. The number of billionaires is now at 1,682; those with assets over 30 million is about 167,000.
United States immigrant visas were granted to 7,641 investors in 2012, 80 percent of which were Chinese investors. China is expected to have 322 billionaires by 2030, more than the countries of Britain, Russia, France and Switzerland combined.
Watch the video about Martha Stewart's complaints on twitter against Apple because she was still waiting for an Apple serviceman to come to her house to pick up and fix her iPad, the glass edges of which she had accidentally cracked that day, and mentions Steve Jobs gave it to her. Read the complete tweets on buzzfeed with some responses.
There is the old saying about not judging a person until you have walked a mile in his shoes. The knowledge that those shoes he is wearing are $30,000 House of Testori shoes makes it more difficult to take complaints about his tough life seriously.

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Comverse at Management World Americas 2012: Catapult to a Connected Customer Experience
Comverse Customer Case Study and Innovations Underscore New Opportunities in the Connected World
WAKEFIELD, Mass., Nov. 29, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At Management World Americas 2012, Comverse® (Nasdaq:CNSI), the global leader in business enablement through BSS, mobile Internet, value-added and managed services, spotlights a customer success story showing how Comverse is helping communication service providers (CSPs) to revolutionize the Connected Customer Experience to attain new levels of success in the converged digital age.
Our increasingly digital reality presents new opportunities for CSPs, spanning M2M, social media, enterprise cloud offerings, advanced network services and beyond. With a broad range of services over their networks, BSS is the heart of CSP strategies, providing unified real-time cross-channel visibility, data and tools enabling far-reaching strategies and immediate responses with effective actions – promoting a consistent connected customer experience.
In a featured presentation entitled Revolutionizing the Connected Customer Experience, Larry Baziw, Director of Next Generation Products & Service Strategy for Rogers Communications, relates how Comverse solutions help Rogers to revolutionize the customer experience. Enhancing data mining to identify new areas of potential, enabling users to communicate as they desire over all relevant devices, and aligning assets and processes to develop products faster all contribute to a better experience.
At the event, Comverse experts will highlight how Comverse's single-system, converged BSS – the flagship Comverse ONE® Billing & Active Customer Management solution – can catapult CSPs to success in the connected world by unifying critical business functions from CRM to policy and billing, sharing real-time customer/product data across these functions. This enables personalized marketing, consistent multi-channel (including social media) and subscriber- and network-aware charging and traffic management.
Spotlight on Innovation
Comverse experts will also highlight two trailblazing innovations:
Comverse Share: A powerful service-oriented solution adding a social layer to CSP services and business processes
- Comverse Policy Studio: Award-winning industry-first marketing-dedicated policy creation environment
Both new solutions, especially in connection with Comverse ONE, serve to accelerate CSP innovation and smart monetization in the connected world.
"By reducing integration points, achieving data consistency and automating end-to-end processes, Comverse ONE – tightly integrated with Mobile Internet and our entire comprehensive portfolio – enables CSPs around the globe to adopt new business models, provide a superior individualized customer experience across every touchpoint/ customer channel, and offer innovative pricing and promotions across any service (network, cloud, M2M)," said Gabriel Matsliach, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer at Comverse. "Keeping pace with rapidly evolving technology and consumer devices, Comverse solutions open new business models and monetization opportunities in the digital landscape."
Meet with Comverse at Management World Americas in Orlando, December 4-6 and learn more about how to Catapult to a Connected Customer Experience in the Digital Age.
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GrapeFest begins this coming Thursday — 9/15 thru 9/18 — and we are looking forward to having so many of our campers return and attend the largest wine festival in the Southwest.
Grapevine will be celebrating the 25th Silver Anniversary of the fall event, and you will have a great weekend of fun on downtown historical Main Street.
The Vineyards Campground also has a special drawing for each individual RV site and each cabin in the Front Office when you check-in. The silver coin is our 'Thank You" gift for choosing to camp with us during GrapeFest weekend! And, three of the coins have special tags, so there are more surprises in store for you if you draw one of these specially-marked coins.
First Place will receive a beautiful Vineyards Campground Gift silver basket, filled with two complimentary admission tickets to GrapeFest, free wine tasting coupons at Cross Timbers Winery, an award-winning bottle of wine, two Vineyards signature wine glasses, and a keepsake commemorative GrapeFest poster. Second Place in the drawing also receives two complimentary GrapeFest admission tickets, and two beautiful
Vineyards signature wine glasses. Third Place winners will also receive two complimentary passes to GrapeFest.
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Welcome To Four Fold!
Character, Consistency, and Commitment when joined with a "Divine Calling" yields a Ministry seldom paralleled by the masses of today's standards. From Scotts Hill, TN comes a musical ministry experience known as "Four Fold" that strives to maintain this standard of excellence deemed worthy of the Savior they sing about.
In June of 1985 six high school friends came together to form what seemed to be "special music" for a local revival service. A service indeed, because that night God ignited a revival fire that still burns more than twenty years later.
From then until 1996 these guys traveled at local churches, high schools and other venues while along the way making people notice that they had something to offer. In July of that year others picked up on that by awarding them the winners of Frank Arnold's Songfest Talent Search held in Jackson, TN. The next year they began working with award winning producer Kevin McManus and Nashville Teleproductions Co.
In 1997 they embarked on a new journey that allowed them to take their ministry of music all across the nation as well as some foreign countries. Having been blessed with great charting songs such as "Shoutin' Singin' Happy!" , "When He Set me Free" , "Jesus Will Be There" , and the heart challenging ballad "Firmly Committed" they have a message to share of how God transforms our lives in new and astounding ways if we only give Him full control.
Currently Four Fold travels as a four part all male Quartet Southern Gospel full time music ministry. They perform with live instruments as well as accompaniment tracks in a high energy spirit filled atmosphere. They are represented by the Riversong Records division of Heartland Entertainment Co. and Rivergate Talent Agency both of Nashville, TN.


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Pepsi products are on sale at Target stores this week. While items like this aren't necessities or essentials, even penny-pinching families like to enjoy a treat once in a while. Twelve-packs of Pepsi are on sale for $3, which is, on its own, a good price. However, you can then go to Target's website to make the deal even better.
Once you are at Target's website, scroll to the very bottom of the page and select "Grocery Coupons" from the list with the header "Target Stores." Then, click through the coupons the site presents you until you find the Pepsi coupon. Print it out and bring it to the store and you'll get another dollar off your purchase, making the 12-pack only $2!
You should definitely keep that printable coupon page in mind for future trips to Target, as the page is often updated with new, useful coupons. Also, Target's corporate coupon policy allows you to use one Target store coupon and one manufacturer coupon per item, which can make for great deals in the future.
Tip: Look for "Pepsi Throwback" when you're making your purchase. It's a limited-edition version of Pepsi that uses real sugar instead of corn syrup as a sweetener. My family is a huge fan!


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Tonight's Food Network episode of "Rewrapped" gave three chefs a chance to recreate a staple of food shelves everywhere, Is there anyone out there who has never savored this treat? As Joey Fatone hosts the show, he introduces the chefs on this episode titled, "Who You Callin' a Cupcake?"
The chefs competing tonight are; Keisha Jenkins-Duffy blogger of TheBrooklynBaker.com, Ron Bzdewka, the owner of House of Cupcakes in Princeton, N.J. and Arlen Gargagliano, chef and owner of Mambo 64 in Tuckahoe, N.Y.
When Hostess halted production of their iconic chocolate cupcakes with the seven squiggles on top, they sold for as much as $350 a box on Ebay. Now back on the shelves, these treats are again gracing the homes of those who have loved them for their entire lives.
The judges are; head judge and snack food king Marc Summers, dessert and confection expert Jackie Sorkin and the manager of consumer affairs for Hostess, Nichole Lipari.
For the first round, the chefs had to recreate from scratch, this food that kids and adults have loved forever. The judges will give points based on taste and appearance. For the second round, they must innovate, using the cupcakes as an ingredient making a completely original dish.
For round one, they had thirty minutes. They immediately ran for the cupboard for the ingredients. Arlen had many problems with the mixer and her cupcakes were last in the oven, Keisha and Ron had an easier time, but Ron's were beautifully recreated. Keisha scored 19, Ron's looked like the original but the taste was more gourmet and he scored 26. Arlen's was nearly a disaster by the looks, but Marc said the taste was great, she scored 19.
The innovate challenge was based on taste, appearance and creativity using the cupcakes in 30 minutes. Keisha made a Hostess Cupcake Pop, Ron made a breakfast items he called a Chocolate Cookie Waffle with Tequila infused Hostess Cupcake Filling. Arlen made Hostess Cupcake Chicken Mole and Cupcake Cream Coquito.
As the recipes were progressing, Keisha looked over at Arlen's station and saw the chicken and wondered if she went creative enough, while Ron was having a difficult time with the waffle iron. When time was up, they faced the judges.
The judges gave Arlen a score of 28; Keisha received a score of 26, and Ron received 19 and with the combined score of 47, Arlen won a year's supply of Hostess Cupcakes and the title of Rewrapped Champion on this episode of "Rewrapped."
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A hernia occurs when a section of intestine protrudes through a weakness in the abdominal wall. A soft bulge is seen underneath the skin where the hernia has occurred. An inguinal hernia occurs in the groin area, when the section of intestine pushes through a weak spot in the inguinal canal - a triangle-shaped opening between layers of abdominal muscle near the groin.
As a male fetus grows and matures during pregnancy, the testicles develop in the abdomen and then move down into the scrotum through the area called the inguinal canal. Shortly after the male is born, the inguinal canal closes, preventing the testicles from moving back into the abdomen. If this area does not close off completely, a loop of intestine can move into the inguinal canal through the weakened area of the lower abdominal wall, causing a hernia. Although females do not have testicles, they have an inguinal canal, so they can develop hernias in this area, as well.
Obesity, pregnancy, heavy lifting, and straining to pass stool can all be causes of inguinal hernias.
The following are the most common symptoms of an inguinal hernia. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
The symptoms of an inguinal hernia may resemble other medical conditions or problems. Always consult your physician for a diagnosis.
In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for an inguinal hernia may include the following:
Specific treatment for an inguinal hernia will be determined by your physician based on:
The main treatment for an inguinal hernia is a surgical procedure known as herniorrhaphy. In this procedure, the opening in the muscle wall is repaired. Sometimes, in a procedure known as hernioplasty, the weak area is reinforced with steel mesh or wire.
If the protruding intestine becomes twisted or traps stool, a bowel resection may need to be performed. In this procedure, part of the intestine, or bowel, is removed.
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Potato Head Folk's Naughty Fries, Baby Huey (left) and Rambo (right) | Photo: Priyanka Chand Agarwal
3.5 out of 5 stars
What to eat: Baby Huey, Naughty Fries, Pot Heads
What to drink: Jerk cocktails
All of Potato Head Folk is finally open for business. The takeaway counter, street-level burger bar and the dine-in floor of Three Buns restaurant on the first level opened on 6 June, followed by the reservations-only watering hole Studio 1939 on level two, and The Rooftop bar on... the rooftop.
The four-storey drink-and-dine venue is the first international venture for the group behind famed Potato Head Beach Club in Bali, and the original Potato Head in Jakarta. Its reputation for being a hip and trendy spot precedes it, and by setting up shop on buzzy Keong Saik Street in Singapore -- in one of Chinatown's more iconic art deco buildings, supposedly bought for a few million dollars -- it seems only natural that Potato Head Folk has opened to long queues, overbooked tables and high expectations.
The Rambo | Photo: Priyanka Chand Agarwal
We wish it had succeeded in the "relaxed restaurant" and "neighbourhood bar" vibe it tries to give along with its casual menu and friendly service. However, the pre-opening hype and social media frenzy it generated has made it more of a place to see and be seen than to kick back and relax.
Three visits, a couple of burgers, and a few drinks later, here are what we think works (and what don't) at Potato Head's four floors:
The dessert pots are called Pot Heads ($6 each) | Photo: Priyanka Chand Agawarl
Be in the mood for burgers
Burgers are the only options for mains here, luckily there is a range to suit all.
Expect to pay $18 to $28 for all-natural patties in homemade buns that are adequately doused with house-made full-bodied, spiced sauces. Expensive? Yes, for a wax-paper-wrapped burger with no sides. Good? Quite.
The burger recipes are laid out by chef Adam Penney (of famed London burger bar Patty & Buns. If you are eating on street level (where the kitchen is), you may spot him grilling burgers while grooving to hip-hop music. Tuck into the Baby Huey ($20), which is 150g of beef patty (left a tad underdone to soak up the sauces) and topped with cheese, lettuce, tart pickled onions and slathered with homemade sauces, including the Notorious T.O.M sauce (a made in-house sweet, spiced and smokey tomato sauce). The mayonnaise used is flavoured with mustard seeds that lend a delightful bitter finish. While Baby Huey comes enveloped in a soft, white bun that yields on first bite, the Rambo ($25) is 150g of lamb patty that sits strong in a wholemeal bun. Accented with feta cheese, a hint of green chilli, aubergine pickles and a full-flavoured cumin aioli. There is also a double-prime patty (100g each), double-cheese and triple onion hulk called the Four Floors ($28), as well as a vegetarian burger ($18) with seasonal vegetables, cheese fritters and coleslaw.
Sides are not included, but do spring for the Naughty Fries ($9); like chilli fries but not as sauce-drenched, these are unevenly hand-cut, skin-on potatoes doused (not too liberally) with a tart bearnaise sauce, beef chilli, parmesan, sesame, fried brown onions and cilantro. It is the sauce again that makes this an extremely moreish bowl.
Desserts should not be missed. Recipes taken over from Pots & Co (a range of desserts in ceramic pots from the UK that chef Penney helped conceptualise), they were easily the best part of our meal. The simple dessert pots ($6 each, available in rich chocolate or zesty lemon) were creamy, like a cross between a dense mousse and a custard-like panna cotta, quite the contrast to the hefty burgers.
The Zombie (in the bottle) and the Mexican Mule | Photo: Priyanka Chand Agarwal
Stick to the simpler drinks
Burgers aside, another draw is the range of liquid concoctions. Three Buns and The Rooftop serve cocktails with a decidedly tropical twist, mixed with house-made fruit syrups, reductions and preservative-free Jerk Sodas (on their own, $7 each)
We were warned that the Zombie ($18), a bottle cocktail with a blend of four rums, and spirits like absinthe and falernum, is a potent mix, but ours was weak and overly sweet. A friendly server informed us that there is 30ml of alcohol in all of the cocktails, drowned, it seems, by the heady concoction of trying-too-hard homemade syrups and an overkill blend of juices.
The Jerk Cocktails fare much better with their simplicity: the Mexican Mule, Cimarron Blanco Tequila with lime and ginger beer, pairs well with the hearty burgers and holds its own to deliver the requisite booze buzz ($15).
Unlike Bali where there is ample space to spread out and lounge, if the cosy third-level bar Studio 1939, is what you're here for, a reservation is a must.
Paying homage to the "founded" date etched onto the building's facade, the intimate space is decked out with retro, framed posters offset by dark walls and wood flooring. The parlour-like bar serves cocktails crafted by mixologist Dre Masso (consultant for the Potato Head group who made his fame in London's cocktail scene) and his team.
Whether you sit at the marble-top curved bar or sink into one of the upholstered cane armchairs, the dim lighting sets the mood for appreciating classic cocktails like a Negroni ($23). 1939's version uses two kinds of Vermouth - Antica Formula and Dollin Rosso with the addition of Aperol, resulting in a crowded drink while we prefer our classics simple and gutsy. To sample Masso's signature infusions, we ordered the Calcutta Sunrise ($24), consisting of hibiscus-infused Absolut vodka, crushed and strained raspberries, with lemon and madagascar vanilla. While the raspberries all but drowned out the delicate hibiscus, we caught hints of vanilla in this refreshing, but hardly potent cocktail – a pervasive character in the bar menus.
Go to the roof for the view
One floor up, the rooftop is a delight, with its bare decor of planters, fairy lights and 180-degree view of the neighbouring buildings in Chinatown. The menu features more tropical cocktails with the addition of craft beers, house pour and premium spirits. The Zombie makes an appearance again, this time at $25 with seven kinds of rum (four more than Three Buns' version), fewer fruit juices and a limit of only two per person.
The complex's walls, corners, stairwells and nooks provide many surprises and are photo worthy | Photo: Priyanka Chand Agarwal
Art deco structure with hipster-approved, quirky interiors
This review would be incomplete without a nod to the interiors designed by Australian artist, David Bromley. While the building's triangular facade is impressive from the outside, the folk behind Potato Head Folk have taken pains to impress from the inside out. Whimsical wall murals, quirky sculptures, ceiling-hung streamers and deliberately mismatched furniture lend the complex's walls, corners, stairwells and nooks many surprises. The statue of a lion-masked boy here, and a framed set of vintage cutlery there, you will spot something new (and Instagrammable) everytime you visit.
Potato Head Folk
Tue - Sun: 11:00 - 00:00
Closed: Mon
+65 63271939
Priyanka has has worked in PR and marketing for start-ups, upstarts and East India's largest media group, before trading in the corporate ladder for writing about food and other delicious things in Singapore. Her writings have also appeared in the online pages of Appetite Asia, LivingESP and InSing.com. When not at work, she can be found furiously stirring a pot of curry in her kitchen or Instagram-ing at the hottest new restaurant.


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Wendy Bloom is a litigation partner with experience in a wide variety of litigation matters in state and federal courts and in arbitrations and mediations. She applies her litigation and negotiation skills to many substantive areas including antitrust, class actions, employment law, environmental, commercial disputes, intellectual property, multidistrict litigation, non-competition law, and securities. She represents clients in diverse industries including accounting, airlines, agricultural, energy, financial services, pharmaceutical, and real estate.
Representative Matters
Antitrust & Competition: Lead lawyer for BP America in various federal and state investigations into gasoline refining, marketing, and pricing practices. Counsel for Amoco Corporation in obtaining antitrust regulatory approval of the BP Amoco merger. Successfully defended BP p.l.c. in FTC's federal court challenge to BP's acquisition of Atlantic Richfield Company. Member of winning trial teams for Abbott Laboratories in a restraint of trade case brought by a competitor in California federal court and in a consumer class action in Kansas state court alleging price fixing and deceptive marketing practices, both relating to marketing infant formula. Counsel for Monsanto in a breach of contract case after its acquisition of a cotton seed company was not consummated due to a failure to obtain antitrust regulatory approval.
Class Action: Lead lawyer for Amoco Oil Company at class certification hearing in which Florida state court dismissed class allegations in suit alleging violation of state statutes governing petroleum product marketing and unfair trade practices. Lead lawyer for Clark Enterprises, a real estate and construction conglomerate, at class certification hearing in which Illinois federal court dismissed class claims in fraud and breach of fiduciary duty suit. Counsel for BP and its predecessors in nationwide class action involving crude oil royalty payments brought by U.S. Department of Justice and various state agencies. Prevailed on summary judgment for Amoco in class action suit alleging violation of California's unfair practices statute.
Employment Law: Counsel for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in purported class action alleging Title VII gender discrimination claims. Counsel for Morgan Stanley in an EEOC suit and in several individual suits all asserting Title VII gender discrimination claims. Successfully resolved several threatened discrimination class actions for clients.
Litigation: Trial lawyer for JMB Realty Corporation in successful arbitration to terminate premier hotelier from a long-term management contract. Represented Clark Realty Capital, L.L.C. and Boston Financial, Inc. in litigation involving the sale of a Chicago high rise. Counsel to financial services industry client in a dispute over misappropriation of proprietary computer software. Secured dismissal under forum non conveniens principles in a wrongful death action filed by parents alleging e. coli poisoning of their child at a McDonald's restaurant in Europe. Obtained TROs and preliminary injunctions for Razor USA, distributor of "Razor" scooters, in patent and trademark infringement actions to bar the sale of infringing scooters. Represented BP America in a threatened action challenging assignment of retail station leases operated by dealers to a jobber. Represented Citcorp North America Inc. in a landlord dispute over building naming rights. Counsel to clients in disputes involving non-compete agreements.
Securities & Shareholder Litigation: Represented Motorola in securities fraud lawsuit and succeeded in precluding the proportional trading model of plaintiffs' damages expert - a precedent insurers estimated would save the insurance industry millions of dollars in settlements of unrelated cases. Successfully resolved a case in Louisiana federal court for H.I.G. Capital Management, Inc. involving valuation of stock appreciation rights. Prevailed on summary judgment for The Vickers Trust in a dispute involving interpretation of a stock option and registration rights agreement filed in federal court in Kansas.
Toxic Torts/Environmental: Represent BP America in over seventy suits by municipal water authorities against the oil industry alleging groundwater contamination from MTBE in gasoline. Counsel for Hughes Aircraft Company in Arizona state court for hundreds of claims alleging injuries from groundwater contamination. Counsel for Amoco in insurance coverage action against its insurers for RCRA/CERCLA clean-up costs at 26 sites.
Other Distinctions
Recognized in The Legal 500 U.S. (2013)
President, Harvard Law Society of Illinois (2005-06)
Co-Chair, Kirkland & Ellis Summer Associate Program (2005, 2006)
Admitted to practice before the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and admitted pro hac vice in other federal appellate and district courts.


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Arms seperated from body!!
Well, as some of you know, I have been having trouble getting my model in-game. well, now I have it in-game, but each arm is about 2 meters from the body. Anyone know how to fix this?
Yes, you have to build the character in the proper way, your pivot points are all messed up on those meshes.
When your character is completed, it should be ONE solid mesh, no detached body parts, at that stage, you go to the hierarchy tab to the right (the icon is a box with 3 smaller boxes attached to it).
Select affect pivot only, then you click center to object (in the alignment tab). Once you align the pivot point, you need to add the reset xform modifier, (go to utilities (hammer tab) click reset xform, then reset selected, if you did some weird manipulations your mesh will get distorted and get the normals flipped. Once you have applied the modifier, you go to the stack and COLLAPSE it (dont delete the modifier!).
After doing a quick test, i can see that all your meshes suffer from this.
At least you got it to compile which is good!
yep, I just noticed that they all are like that in this model too. I tried playing an animation, and "blob" doesn't even come close to describing it.
I'm just gonna start from scratch, as obviously, both these models were not made correctly, so wish me good luck.
Bah you'll be fine ;).
I'm not so sure. I tried the reset xform, but now everything (especially the head) is really messed up, the head was practically turned sideways then half-way inside out.
EDIT: woops, I hit collapse all *bangs head on wall*, anyways, I reset it fine, but I gotta re-cap, re-weight, reset the hierarchy, and export it again though.
UPDATE: I only have some weighting left, and then i'm gonna compile it.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Alright, the arms are now attached, but are rotated up at a 45 degree angle. Psyk, would you mind taking a look at it? Also, here's a screen shot of how it looks now:
FINAL UPDATE: The model is actually in-game now with 0 deformation, so this topic can be closed.
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WASHINGTON D.C. - In an effort to better document LGBT history in America, Several transgender artifacts of historical significance were added to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History during a ceremony held on Tuesday.
Among the items that were accepted into the Museums permanent archives was the original transgender pride flag which was designed 15 years ago by transgender activist and Navy veteran, Monica Helms. The flag was first shown at a pride parade in Phoenix Arizona in 2000. Helms personally appeared at Tuesday's ceremony to presented the original flag to the Museum, which have also added artifacts from Helms' military career as well.
In addition to Helm's flag and Military artifacts, the Museum also added the tennis racket used by Renee Richards in both the 1963 All-Navy Championship and the 1964 New York State Men's Championship. Richard's won a landmark New York Supreme Court decision for transgender rights after she was denied entry to the U.S. Open in 1975 due to being transgender. These items will be added to the Museum's permanent archives along with several other objects that represent cultural milestones in LGBT history, including artifacts from the famous 1969 Stonewall Riots.
Mara Keisling, Director for the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), was in attendance at today's ceremony. As reported by the NCTE, Keisling gave the following statement in regards to Helms' original transgender pride flag...
"The cuts of blue, pink, and white fabric that Monica first bound together 15 years ago now form a symbol of the trans community. They have fused forever into a flag that's been carried into places previously unwelcome to us, charting community and fellowship in the face of violence and mistreatment. Finally today, that same fabric is being recognized as part of the red, white, and blue fabric that make up the richness of America. I'm deeply honored that today, the transgender pride flag, our flag, is being accepted as an American historical treasure that honors transgender people. Today's ceremony is part of the forward cultural change that says—in the eyes of America—transgender people are here, have been here, and will always be here." - Mara Keisling, NCTE Executive Director
As also originally reported by the NCTE, Helms had the following response in regards the museum's inclusion of her flag and military artifacts...
"[S]ince the Smithsonian will be displaying items from my military career, they are also acknowledging that we have contributed to the security of our country since the Revolutionary War. We only hope that the Department of Defense and President Obama hears this message and allows transgender and gender non-conforming people the right to serve openly in the military, like our gay, lesbian and bisexual brothers and sisters are doing today." - Monica Helms
The Smithsonian museum is located in Washington D.C. on the National Mall near the Washington Monument at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue.
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She doesn't do nudity, but she's filmed some wildly sexy scenes. She gained international fame as a teen (in Flashdance) but never became a tabloid fixture. Meryl Gordon spends a revealing day with a stunning star who's always had her feet planted firmly on the ground.
On a scorching hot day in Chicago, Jennifer Beals is standing on a bridge that overlooks a river and a dusty boatyard, preparing to film a scene for her new series, Ride-Along. In her role as Teresa Colvin, the city's tough-minded police superintendent, she is wearing heavy cop regalia (black leather boots, pants-and-vest uniform, maroon shirt), and her long curly hair is tamed in an ornate bun under a police cap. She's about to witness a car being dredged up from the river below with a dead body inside.
This tough cop is a 180-degree career turn from her last major role: the lipstick-lesbian museum curator Bette Porter, whom she played on The L Word for six years. For the new show, premiering on Fox in early 2011, Beals has uprooted her life, moving with her husband, Canadian entrepreneur Ken Dixon, and their five-year-old daughter from Vancouver to her hometown of Chicago, a place filled with echoes from her past. "Oh my God, my younger self is around all the time," she says. "I'll get a memory of a certain place. I may not remember precisely what happened at that location, but I'll have a feeling about it."
Ride-Along creator Shawn Ryan (The Shield) views Beals's local-girl status in Chicago as a plus. "Jennifer is steeped in the city and the culture," he says. But there's one native advantage that Beals is comically lacking. "In the fourth grade, I decided that I would never sound like I was from Chicago, so I erased my accent," she says. "For this show, I need to relearn it."
With the heat index expected to reach 105 degrees, newscasters are urging people to stay inside, but Beals and the rest of the cast and crew are spending five hours under the sun's brutal rays, without air-conditioned trailers or even bathrooms nearby. Knocking back Gatorade and joking with crew members ("Are you looking for an even hotter place to stand?"), Beals exudes good cheer. "I love the heat, I really do," she insists. She knows that this is an impromptu character test, since the top-billed actors set the tone of a production. "How do you treat people around you as you are experiencing discomfort?" she says later. "Do you take it out on them or try to help them through it?" She chooses to be as upbeat as possible, cavorting in the actors' "cooling tent," a flimsy three-sided canvas area with two hoses ineffectively shooting out chilled air. "Jennifer and Jason [Clarke, who plays a detective] are dancing in front of the hoses, trying to cool off, while running their lines," says the episode's director, Lesli Linka Glatter, who's also co–executive producer on the series. "She's been outside on the three hottest days shooting in these disgusting places. She's been extraordinary." As Beals is summoned to the set again, a makeup artist rushes over to mop off the sweat, then powder her forehead.
Unlike so many other actresses, she has a face that moves freely, and when I mention this later, she says with a laugh, "Yeah, everything's moving—frankly, downward." But she does not see Botox or plastic surgery in her future: "That's not what I wish for myself."
famous as a teenager can bring blessings and burdens, and Beals has experienced both. In 1983, Flashdance turned her into an international star and style icon overnight (that ripped sweatshirt! that sexy poster!) in her first year at Yale. A serious student who modeled as a teen to earn college tuition, she was startled by the media attention. "What's surreal is that you experience yourself in the abstract," she recalls. "People on the street think they know you, but they know this person that they visited with on the screen for an hour and a half." She was never tempted to go the Hollywood wild-child route that has derailed such promising talents as Lindsay Lohan. "To get sucked into that, you have to believe the glamour is real," she says. "If you have your eye on a different prize, you don't get sucked in. I was so excited to go to college."
Fellow Yale alum Jodie Foster, a friend who was a few years ahead of her, recalls that Beals downplayed her newfound fame. "She was a girl who played basketball and wore sweats and Converse sneakers," Foster says. "She took photographs. I never believed she was going to be an actress; it didn't seem to fit her personality. She's not somebody who needs to dance on a table with a lampshade on her head to get attention." That said, Beals is not shy about expressing her feelings. "What's funny about her is that she can have a temper," Foster says, laughing. "She can get into fights with cabdrivers. There's a real fire in her."
An entire generation fell in love with the fire Beals brought to her first major screen character, Flashdance's gorgeous dancer-welder Alex, then watched her move to indie films (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Roger Dodger), TV series (The L Word, Lie to Me) and the occasional big-budget epic (The Book of Eli). "She has a profound, intuitive intelligence," says Allen Hughes, codirector of The Book of Eli, in which Beals played a blind survivor in a postapocalyptic world. "She did this audition; it was so uncanny and different. It challenged me to look beyond my preconceived notion of what the part should be." For Ride-Along, Ryan needed an actress to portray "a new breed of police leader," he says, one who could navigate the "male bastion" of the Chicago police force. "As soon as I heard Jennifer saying the words, I knew she was right for it." He also applauds the fact that Beals "isn't completely tied up with the business and stardom. She's a consummate pro on the set, but that doesn't interfere with her being a wife and mother."
Beals and Dixon have been married for 12 years (her first marriage, to director Alexandre Rockwell, lasted 10 years). "We met through a mutual friend," she says of Dixon, "and when I saw him ice-skate—yeah, he's Canadian—that sealed the deal." She flashes a mischievous grin. "It was an ease, a body ease in the world."
Outspoken and self-confident, Beals deals with public scrutiny by teasingly playing around with how much she will conceal. On The L Word, which featured a weekly cornucopia of breasts, "Jennifer didn't do nudity," says Ilene Chaiken, the series' creator. "But she did some of the most compelling and sexy scenes, because she made them so real." Says Beals, who declined to screen-test for Flashdance until the director said he'd use a body double for the sex scenes: "Usually you don't need to do [nudity]. I don't think it was necessary to the stories I was part of." Similarly, in conversation with me she ducks some questions, such as those about her family ("Their lives are their own," she says), yet offers up revealing anecdotes about her own experiences.
For Beals, an acting job isn't just a gig; it's an opportunity to shape attitudes and break stereotypes. Which is why she remains upset over the controversial final season of The L Word, when this show about female love turned into a backstabbing murder mystery. "Do you know the lobster theory?" Beals says when asked about the series' ending. "When you cook a pot of lobsters and they're all male, you need to put the top on, because if one male gets out, he'll try to help all the others get out." She pauses, then adds, "But if you're cooking a pot of female lobsters, you don't have to put the top back on, because if one female starts trying to get out, the others will try to drag her back into the pot. Isn't that awful?" She hated the way the plot forced the women to turn on one another. "My point is, we're not lobsters," she said. "It would have been nice to end it differently."
Chaiken defends the plot ("I always did my best to tell the best stories, the right stories," she says) and adds that she appreciated Beals's passion for her character. "Jennifer can be very exacting. She's constantly attuned to whether the words and the ideas are worthy of the character, worthy of her. It's a lovely thing and a very challenging thing." Beals was the first actress cast for the show, and her presence gave the series a huge boost, Chaiken says. "Showtime wasn't sure I would get any big names. It really meant a lot to me to get someone who had a presence, a following. Jennifer set the bar, and she had no qualms about playing a lesbian."
Beals used her star clout to help shape her character's story line, requesting that she be explicitly biracial. "It became one of the most important aspects of the character," Chaiken says. This is drama by way of autobiography: Beals is the daughter of an Irish-American schoolteacher and an African-American grocery-store owner who died when she was only nine. "We think it was a stroke," she says. She lobbied to make her Ride-Along character biracial as well. "I think it's interesting to explore, and it's not explored very often."
At the time we spoke, she didn't know whether she would get her wish, but two weeks later Ryan tells me he has agreed. "I thought it was a perfectly legitimate question, since we planned to do a story line where you met her family," he says. "Jennifer is biracial, she grew up that way, we're playing it that way. Chicago is an interesting, complicated town in terms of race relations. It affects the character."
Beals, who also played a biracial woman passing for white in the 1995 drama Devil in a Blue Dress, says she hasn't experienced overt prejudice, but she admits that as a child she grappled with "feeling different." She credits her mother with helping her create a positive identity by reading her stories from Greek mythology, in which "being different meant that you had some kind of gift. So it wasn't a detriment.
"I've never lived my life to please someone else, trying to fit in," she adds, "because that's just a huge waste of time and causes all sorts of unnecessary anguish."
It's 7 pm, and the production has moved a few miles away to a modern municipal building masquerading as police headquarters. Sitting in "video village," an area tucked into a ground floor alcove filled with TV monitors and director's chairs stenciled with the cast's names, Beals jokes with the dialogue coach about the Chicago attitude—smiling on the outside, scheming on the inside—she wants to convey in the next scene. She's been snacking all day ("I don't want to lose too much weight with this heat"), and now she wanders off in search of a plate of cottage cheese. Moments later, a five-foot-long metal pole comes flying off the balcony, landing with a clang on Beals's chair.
Everyone in the vicinity is shaken up, yet Beals, informed of her close call, is remarkably unfazed. She's had near misses before. "I was supposed to be at the World Trade Center on 9/11," she says, prompting Glatter to reply, "I've got chills going up my spine." Beals and Dixon were visiting New York and had planned to eat breakfast at Windows on the World, at the top of the north tower, then watch the opening bell ring at the stock exchange. When she woke at 7:30, she noticed that her usually fastidious husband had left his clothes on the floor. Beals recalls that she heard a voice in her head say, He's worked so hard, let him sleep. "Luckily," she adds with understatement, "I listened."
By the time filming wraps, it's 10:30. She's exhausted but still game to meet me for a late dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel. She has changed into straight-leg jeans and a soft gray Marc Jacobs knit top ("I stole it from Pam Grier during The L Word"), and she's slipped her gold-and-platinum wedding band back on. We talk about the pleasures of her top-cop role in Ride-Along, which gives the actress, who has competed in triathlons, a chance to get physical, brandishing a gun and subduing suspects. "Teresa will throw down," Beals says cheerfully. "I got to really clock someone the other day. I get to express rage, which women are often reluctant to do." Comparing Teresa with The L Word's Bette, Beals adds, "They're both incredibly strong; they're both righteous. Teresa is like Bette on steroids. She's even more driven, not as tenderhearted."
To prepare for the role, she did a real-life ride-along with Chicago detectives, responding to a call that a man had been shot. "He was bleeding profusely and about to pass out," she says. "I got to see how a crime scene is set up, who puts up the tape barriers, the detectives following the trail of blood. I helped find the shell casings." That search sparked a flashback. "I remember on New Year's Eve, my dad and the people in the neighborhood on the South Side used to fire their guns," she says. "In the morning, the kids would go out and find the shell casings."
I ask if her father kept a gun at home to protect the family, and Beals laughs. "Yes. Are you an American? Is it a foreign idea to keep a gun?" she says. "I grew up in an apartment building, and everyone we knew had a gun. My mother taught on the South Side, where kids would bring guns to school on a relatively regular basis. One of the first lessons she would teach the kids was how to dial 911."
Her dad is long gone, but she feels that his spirit is still with her. Small wonder it's so emotionally powerful for her to be back in Chicago, a place she hasn't lived in for nearly three decades but where she is confronted daily with her past. "The thing about death," she says, grappling for the right words, "in some ways they are there; you just don't see them necessarily. I don't believe it just ends when somebody dies."
Beals grew up in a nonreligious household; her mother is a lapsed Catholic who wouldn't let her daughter attend church or synagogue. "I really wanted to know who God was," the actress says. "So I would read the Bible at night to myself. It horrified her that I was collecting different Bibles; I'd find them at the flea markets, and I loved the ones with family photos." She even wrote away for catechism instruction. Beals's friends describe her as spiritual—a woman who meditates, gives crystals as gifts and is interested in alternative medicine. "She knows everything about Tibetan herbs," says Foster. Adds the actress Elizabeth Berkley, a pal for a decade: "She's a seeker in a beautiful way."
As much as she enjoys acting, Beals also likes looking through the other side of the lens. A talented photographer, she often takes her Leica to work and recently published a book of candid, luminous shots of the cast of The L Word, with proceeds going to charities including the Matthew Shepard Foundation. "She has such an eye," Foster says. "The first photographs I ever bought, when I turned 21, were Jennifer's. She wanted to give them to me, but I wanted to be the first to pay for them." On 9/11, Beals tells me, she took her camera downtown to make her own record of that fateful day.
The waiter removes our plates. Beals orders cheesecake and then cancels: "I don't want to desert you, pardon the pun, but am I going to regret this in two hours? I'll stay with my green tea." It's now after 12:30 am, and she's ready to go home, aware that she'll be awakened early by her daughter. I ask whether there's anything else we should know about her: Does she tap-dance at 3 am, collect stamps, have unusual hobbies? Beals gives a surprisingly serious response, circling back to her ongoing search for meaning.
"The impulse to want to know who God is, is kind of still there," she says. But she stresses that she has made some discoveries in her quest. "Whether it's that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you're not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh—they are all pathways to what I think God must be." She pauses, then says with a smile, "That original journey has not ended."
Meryl Gordon profiled Laura Linney for the September issue of More.
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UIC Softball Wins Two; Miller Records No-Hitter
April 3, 2013
CHICAGO – Hurler Devin Miller tossed a no-hitter in the nightcap, helping the UIC softball team record a pair of Horizon League wins over Green Bay, 6-1 and 9-1 Wednesday at Flames Field.
"I am extremely proud of our team today," head UIC softball coach Michelle Venturella said. "The offense did a great job of giving our defense opportunities and room for our pitchers. Devin [Miller] was solid on the mound, and I am really proud of her performance. They are a good hitting team and I think we will see more of that tomorrow, but I think Devin kept them at bay, which was great. Our defense gave them a couple of opportunities and we have to be sure that doesn't happen. Overall, we are very happy to get a couple of wins over a good team."
Miller collected a no-hitter, while the Flames collected 12 hits in the contest. Junior Natalie Hernandez went 3-for-3 at the plate with two runs and one RBI. Senior Melissa Preish and junior Jacki Fletcher also had two hits on the day, while Fletcher chipped in with two RBI. Senior Coryn Schmit and sophomore Erica Hampton also recorded two RBI.
UIC opened with four runs in the bottom of the first inning. Senior Kara Komp led off the frame and was hit by a pitch, before Hernandez and Preish laid down back-to-back bunts. Schmit then singled to centerfield to score Komp and Preish. Freshman Laura Swan singled up the middle for an RBI to score Preish. Hampton then hit a sacrifice fly ball to right field to score Schmit and record the final run of the inning to lead the Phoenix 4-0.
UIC then added five more runs in the second inning. Komp again led off the inning, where she singled and advanced to second base on an error by the second baseman. Hernandez doubled to score Komp, before Preish singled to move Hernandez to third. A single by junior Jenna Marsalli scored Hernandez. Marsalli and Preish then committed a double steal Swan walked to load the bases. Fletcher singled to left field to post two RBI. Hampton posted the final RBI of the inning and the game with a single to centerfield to score Swan.
The Flames handled the Phoenix in five innings with a 9-1 decision.
UIC out-hit the Phoenix nine to four in the second game of the day. Komp, Hernandez and senior Teresa Aguilar each earned two apiece. Schmit collected two RBI.
Komp led off the opening frame with a walk, before Hernandez reached on a bunt and Komp reached third base. Hernandez stole second and Komp scored on an error by the shortstop. Hernandez then moved to third, before scoring on a wild pitch to gain a 2-0 edge on Green Bay.
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JONNY PORTMAN has waved goodbye to his stable star Annecdote after the filly was sold to continue her racing career in the US.
Annecdote provided Portman with two landmark successes last season as she gave the Lambourn trainer his first Royal Ascot win with victory in the Listed Sandringham Handicap and a maiden Group success when landing the Oak Tree Stakes at Glorious Goodwood.
"What she did for us was fantastic and she's a horse to die for," said Portman, who operates a team of over 50 horses at Whitcoombe House Stables.
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"We had hope to keep her a little longer but there were a lot of agents keen on her as she looks like she has a good profile for racing in America, where the prize-money is so good for fillies."
Annecdote will transfer to trainer Christophe Clement, who like Portman is a former assistant to Luca Cumani, for an undisclosed sum described as "not a fortune" by Portman.
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Oboist Geoffrey Johnson, the newest member of the DSO, is also the winner of the Orchestra's 2009-10 African-American Fellowship. As a DSO Fellow, Geoffrey will perform with the DSO for period of one to two years. Previously, Geoffrey was an oboe fellow with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, where he played as a member of the oboe section during the 2007-08 season. He also won a two-year fellowship with the Music Masters Orchestra (MMCK), in Tokyo, Japan and most recently he was a member of the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado.
A native of Houston, Texas and the youngest of four siblings, Geoffrey has been the recipient of many awards, including winner of the Houston Young Artists Concerto Competition. Geoffrey has performed with the New World Symphony, the Sarasota Symphony, the Erie Philharmonic, the Honolulu Symphony, the Waco Symphony and the Pittsburgh Opera, and regularly solos with the baroque orchestra Seraphic Fire in Miami.
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I am most familiar with Glocks, and carry a 21 (C-Tac IWB at 9:00).
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Hi there. I've just started educating myself about Sansa players and Rockbox. Very happy with all of it. I successfully installed Rockbox 3.5 on my Sansa e250 v. 1 player (zowee, what an exciting happening -- thanks, Rockbox developers!). I've hit a snag with my e280R player. I followed the instructions for manually installing on a Rhapsody player and got through this part, no problemo:
Step 1 - Original Sansa bootloader patching
Windows patcher
Download e200rpatcher.exe
Download e200-manufac-driver.zip and extract it somewhere on your computer
Attach your e200R to your computer in manufacturer mode (turn on the hold switch, hold select and plug in USB while continuing to hold select for about 10s)
When Windows asks for the driver, point it to the folder you extracted the driver zip file to
If Windows does not ask for a driver, it means that it has installed one automatically and you must follow these steps before continuing: (For Windows XP, other versions may vary slightly)
Right-click on My Computer, select Properties, go to the Hardware tab, and enter Device Manager.
Under Universal Serial Bus controllers, right-click USB Mass Storage Device (or something similar) and select Update Driver.
Select "No, not this time", then "Install from a list or specific location", and then "Search for the best driver in these locations" and click the "Include this location in the search" box. Now use the Browse button select the location of the drivers and click OK.
Run the e200rpatcher.exe file and follow the prompts. Your Sansa should have some text on the screen. If the last line says "(something) aborted" then head to the forums and look for threads relating to your problem.
If it says "Firmware Unlocked, Proceed to Step 2" then it was successful and you can continue.
Got the "firmware unlocked" message, and moved on.
Rockbox Installation from Windows
Make a folder named sansa on your desktop
Download the following file and place it inside the new sansa directory: rhapsody-184.108.40.206.zip
Unzip this file to receive pp5022.mi4
Rename the resulting file to OF.mi4 (Oh, not Zero - as in Original Firmware)
Right-click to download the following file and place it inside the sansa folder: pp5022.mi4
Boot up your device and connect the USB cable (make sure you have set the USB Mode to MSC/Rhapsody)
Copy pp5022.mi4 to the root of your device
Copy OF.mi4 to the system folder within your device (make sure you have set Windows to "Show hidden files" and don't "Hide protected operating system files")
Still good. Then I tried the next step, downloading a release or current build, manually, for the e200R series and I couldn't find one on rockbox.org. I found a link for the e200R but it led nowhere. Rooted around on the site and couldn't find one anywhere else.
So I'm wondering: are they working on this build and should I just hang out and wait? or can I use any e200 build, now that the firmware's been unlocked? If I can use any e200 build, do I need to take any more steps to thoroughly convert my e200R player to the e200 vanilla version before loading rockbox?
Trying to avoid bricking the player. I backed out of the process, took OF.mi4 and pp5022.mi4 back off the player and it's currently working fine with Sansa OF.
I'm patient and good with instructions but have average computer skills.
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I looked and see what you mean, I posed the question in irc rockbox, if they reply I'll pass on the info. I edited below, but I have not done the R series ever, only the e200 and clip, just a disclaimer.
[18:24] <saratoga> WalkGood: i don't think theres a separate e200R build, so that link probably just linked to the main e200 build
[18:24] <WalkGood> ic
[18:24] <saratoga> IIRC the R needed a different bootloader, but the rockbox build is identical either way
[18:24] <WalkGood> thanks, forum question
Edit 2: if you are going from this page, step number 9 does state "Download a recent Sansa e200 build of Rockbox ..." thus indicating or confirming what saratoga said above.
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I'll wait before moving on with the install. in case you get a follow-up reply -- but so far, it looks like the standard e200 build will work, which is great news. It was the listed e200R version with an expired link that made me think twice. Thank you so much for looking into it! The Rhapsody players can be a little intimidating for the n00b.
Looking at the Windows and Linux install directions, both say to use the normal e200 build. Where did you find a link to the e200R build?
The "Download Rockbox 3.5" page > manual build option (below the download button) leads you to a page of builds, and that page includes the e200r. Here's the page: http://www.rockbox.org/download/byhand.cgi
From the Windows installation page for e200R, you're linked at step 9 (Download a Sansa e200 build (v1 only) of Rockbox from here and unzip it to the root of your device) to a page of builds that does NOT include the e200R. My first instinct was to trust that link and just select a non-Rhapsody build but...I thought I'd run it by someone.
I'm thinking of going ahead with the install, using the e200 build (not v.2).
I also saw it http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml and linked from the "Archived Builds."
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Off I go! Both abi and rb sites have been wonderfully helpful and user-friendly. Thanks for taking the time to help me so specifically.
Successful install of Rockbox r25404-100330 on e280R. Thanks again.
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When promoter Frank Roszak sent me email that JP Soars is coming to Darwin'sin Marietta Saturday, August 2, I had to admit I had never heard of him. But then he also sent me the new CD, Full Moon Night in Memphis, and now I am a fan. I'm really looking forward to seeing him on Saturday!
The title and title tune, "Full Moon Night in Memphis," refer to the night in 2009 when JP Soars and the Red Hots won the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. Before that Soars had toured with Florida metal bands and played Gypsy jazz. His diverse background influences his blues styles to give him a unique sound that, coupled with his rough-edged, growling vocals, immediately catch the attention of the listener.
Soars is a Florida musician and that locale also informs Full Moon Night in Memphis, with references to gators and swamps in songs like "Way Back Home" and "The Back Room." Other songs reflect the universal plight of the musician, such as :"Back to Broke," "The Road Has Got Me Down," and "Missin' Your Kissin;".
I love a song that makes me laugh out loud, and Soars provides that with "Reefer Man." Then there's the delightful Latin-flavored instrumental, "Little Mamacita."
Of the 14 excellent tracks on the CD, 12 of them were written by Soars, "Reefer Man" and T-Bone Walker's "Mean Old World" are the only non-original numbers. Brandon Santini helps out on harmonica on a couple of numbers, and Teresa James provides background vocals on "The Road Has Got Me Down." All of the musicians featured on the CD create a very satisfying sound, and Soars himself plays electric and acoustic guitar, dobro, lap steel, bass, and the 2-string cigar box guitars he makes himself.
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Judy Everhart Goins, 64, of Devonshire Drive, died Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at Alston Brook Nursing Center after a period of declining health.
The funeral will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Davidson Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. Dewey Everhart Sr. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Memorial Park.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Goins was born Sept. 7, 1948, in Davidson County to Paul Everhart and Inez "Bob" Jones Everhart. She was a buyer for National Wholesale and a member of First Wesleyan Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her loving husband, Vennie Arnold Goins, who died Jan. 13, and a brother, Eddie Everhart.
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Holy Grail Pub, Plano, TX
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Plano, TX 75024
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Phone: (972) 377-6633
Price for meal: $17 including drinks, tax, and tips
Date of review: Dec 12th, 2011
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This is a pub located in Plano, Texas. I am doing pubs these days to try out their burgers.
On their website they promise that their burgers are handmade with sirloin and with some added pork fat and cooked to order. Sounds pretty cool to me.
I have heard many say that they cook to order and then they don't so I was curious if they actually were able to do it here.
I ordered their Holy Grail burger that is a "Mix of fresh sirloin hand-ground on site, seasoned with spices and a touch of pork fat, grilled to order on a soft Ciabata bun topped with your choice of any of the artisanal cheeses from our cheese board selection". They say artisanal cheese… they must mean artisan cheese. Never mind it all sounds good to me. The cheese from their cheese board was Salemville Blue, Compte Gryuere, Sweet Cream Brie, Paprika Crusted Smoked Cheddar, Herbed Chevre Goat Cheese, Bruder Baslil, Red Dragon and finally a Cahill Porter Cheeder. All original cheeses from France, Germany, Ireland and of course Wisconsin, USA. Very impressive!
I added the French Gryuere cheese for my burger. I also order my burger cooked medium rare. Finally I ordered a side of fries with my burger.
The wait was 10 minutes or so and the burger looks mighty good when it arrived.
The burger was cooked medium rare. Finally a place that can figure this out. Very good. The meat was pretty land. There were no spices in the meat and I think they under seasoned the patty. The meat was very good, but the seasoning was just not up to par. That was a petty, because this could have been a top rated burger otherwise. The cheese was of course (and as expected) very delicious.Real cheese is just better than processed cheese. The gruyere was cooked perfectly and had a wonderful taste. The patty was as mentioned good but under seasoned. The ciabata was soft enough to handle the burger. A very good burger, but with the potential to go almost all the way to a top rated burger.
The fries were hand cut but very greasy. They had a good taste to them and the bite was also good, but they were just too greasy.
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Before I begin talking about this product, I must say, Jelly Pong Pong has one of the cutest packaging I have ever seen. I am easily drawn to pretty packaging and it's hard for me to resist buying a product solely for this reason. Anyway, on JPP's website I found this product comes in five varieties for different skin issues and effects. Does it really work? Let's find out!
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JPP Teint Sublime is a makeup base meant to be worn alone or under foundation (if you want to). It's supposed to correct and even out complexion. Start by applying dots on face and blending out. A little goes a long way. Give it a minute to adjust to your skin.
This product gave me an instant brightness without turning my face grey or unusual. You can either apply to your whole face or apply to areas where you'd need it most. The area around my mouth is naturally a bit dull looking so I like to apply it there and add a foundation on top. When I want to get away with less makeup, I apply this to my whole face and top off with a compact powder. Since it brightens skin, you can use this as a highlighter too.
It gives a matte finish and I really like how my skin feels soft and velvety. If you have dryness issues, moisturize before application. It's enriched with UV protection which is a plus. The product comes in an 8ml tube which I feel is not enough for the price you're paying but it's quite handy anyway. Teint sublime comes in other shades as well. You can check it out here.
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A home was badly damaged after flames sparked Tuesday afternoon.
It happened around noon at a home off of Fairchance road in Morgantown. Emergency officials on scene told 5 News that no one was home at the time of the fire and no one was injured.
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