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Star Wars: The Old Republic
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September 18, 2009 | By
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BioWare Austin technical director Bill Dalton delivered a look at how interdependencies can lead to problems in development on games -- with the studio's
Star Wars: The Old Republic
MMO as a perfectly complex test case.
When it comes to game development, says Dalton, "For any game these days, we have very large teams. For MMOs, in particular, we have a lot of stuff going on. Everything everybody does is challenging. Producing the art, source code... So what do we do? I think it helps to understand what the different customers you have, as a technical worker on the game, are."
Different disciplines do not perceive the game in remotely the same way, says Dalton, and it's important to think about how they do. "The writer looks at the game as a setting. The game is essentially a story vehicle; the writers are writing the story. The first people involved with hatching our game are the writers and the concept artists. The point is -- they don't really care if the server's up or down."
Varying Views
Says Dalton, "Animators look at the world as a cast of bodies. They don't really care which planet this thing is on or anything else -- what they care about is that the physics of this thing flipping around on the screen looks good," while "world builders need something that allows them to experiment, explore, and test what they have, and iterate very rapidly. Environmental artists see half-baked clay. The environmental artists say 'How can I make this beautiful?'"
Different programmers view the game in different ways, too: "The engine programmer sees what we do as endless challenges. In the end, they have very difficult numbers to meet," while "the gameplay programmer sees puzzles. They're listening to what the designers want."
"It pays to sit back and think about these things," says Dalton. "Later on as you start to grow your teams and you form the groups to handle these things that you need to think about pipelines and how to serve them best."
It's tempting to try and jump up and respond to problems immediately, but it is not the best solution, says Dalton. "You have to look at the dependencies. When you have a crisis on the team, you have to measure your response to it."
"As soon as you hear someone on your team saying 'I can't do my job,' it's scary. But sometimes the answer is 'I'm really sorry -- we'll get to that as quickly as we can.' While think it's valuable to always prioritize stability in your game, the individual pipelines have to be given individual thought when you're responding to a crisis or feature request."
Problems and Communication
When it comes informing the team about problems, says Dalton, "There is nothing you can do to communicate too much. In a situation where things are in crisis and something is broken, and you've told individual people as they come up, it's not a bad idea to overcommunicate and tell the whole team what's going on.
The worst thing is that someone who's going fine just deletes the email. I do this form of communication very frequently. I always get feedback from people I don't expect, just saying 'thank you.'"
Other forms of communication, such as team surveys, one-on-one meetings (as, says Dalton, "a lot of people aren't comfortable talking in large groups and will tell you things they wouldn't otherwise say") are vital. "Don't let people float through the [SCRUM] stand up saying 'no, I'm good, I'm good.' Find out where they are and what's blocking them."
Since teams are made of people, Dalton believes effective management is absolutely crucial. "You can't tolerate petty politics. When you have bad behavior on your teams, you need to call it out and you need to stop it. One of the ways that you can foster a professional and open environment is to be transparent."
Process changes as projects change, says Dalton. "Things that are important early on in the project may not be important later on."
A Case Study From
The Old Republic
"It's great in the early days to run wild and free. You need to avoid getting panic-stricken over the fact that you're not generating game content," he says. However, "At some point, you really do need to say 'This is it, this is how the game's going to get delivered and we can't be messing around with that stuff anymore'."
Dalton showed some case studies from the development of
The Old Republic
to explain his problem-solving methodology. The game is being developed using the Hero Engine, an MMO engine which allows for real-time simultaneous editing by all disciplines -- great for visualizing changes, but put under strain by the size of the team working on
. Dalton was careful to note that his team stopped taking code drops from the engine providers some time ago and that the engine's capabilities may be profoundly different today.
At BioWare, writing is the foundation for their games. Problem: the communal editing server didn't work at first, and the writers had to be peeled off and given stand-alone tools -- creating unexpected complexities.
The server ground to a halt again later due to a problem with the sound design section. Instead of a complicated solution, "We asked what it would take to limit the size of the sound banks," says Dalton. The response? "'50 megs? Okay!'" It was a painless solution -- or as Dalton put it, "They don't all have to be mountain-movers."
The game also implements Morpheme for animation. Says Dalton, "The problem here is that they're changing the animations live, and if they break things, it triggers a lot of fallout. So you'll have scripts that are now starting to fail, and you'll have NPCs that won't appear in the world. This was a nasty one because people weren't even aware why it was breaking."
The engineers briefly considered making the animators work on a different shift when others weren't using the editor. The solution reached, however, was simply changing process: the animators have to email the entire team when they're about to make changes. "It was causing so much havoc across the team but with these steps it's a non-event now," says Dalton.
At about 80 people editing simultaneously, the engine's editing environment started to show serious strain. "None of [the problems] are huge but they're all sand in the gears, slowing everybody down," says Dalton.
This change was major: the team had to branch the engine for different disciplines. "This was a massive undertaking, a huge change. What it enabled the team to do was spread out a little bit. We got pushed into a do-or-die situation with this one."
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When asked if the communal editing environment was worth the complexity it brought to the development process, Dalton found it hard to answer. "I think that there's no single answer for that. I think it's not worth it at the team size we have now. I think it was absolutely worth it when we licensed the product and started work, because that's what you wanted in the early days."
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People assume that they know why things are breaking. I think that's a director role -- you have to make the calls on those things and say 'What are we going to do about it?'"
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COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER France (Reuters) - The leaders of Russia and Ukraine held their first talks on Friday since Moscow annexed Crimea, airing ways to end their four-month conflict in a brief encounter during commemorations in France of the World War Two D-Day landings.
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel brought together Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko for a 15-minute meeting before they joined other dignitaries for lunch.
Putin went on to have an equally short meeting with Barack Obama in which, according to a White House official, the U.S. President urged him to recognize Poroshenko as Ukraine's leader and to cut off arms supplies to pro-Russian separatists.
French officials have been plotting for weeks to use the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings - a key event helping to end World War Two - to try to break the ice in the most serious European security crisis since the end of the Cold War.
Hollande's office said Putin and Poroshenko shook hands and agreed that detailed talks on a ceasefire between Kiev government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine would begin within a few days.
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When Ballard High School graduate, Julia Granstrom, walked into a crowded café by the University of Washington (UW) to write a commercial for classmate Bill Doerrfeld's startup, she didn't expect to join the team. Doerrfeld had mentioned building an app to address the lack of cleanliness and lack of communication around his house. He had noticed the rise of passive-aggressive tension as his roommates poked and prodded at each other to finish one chore or another.
Granstrom was the creative addition to an eclectic group of five UW students graduating from the University of Washington within the next year. The team represents a diverse range of interests and specialties from computer programming to producing music to sailing. This range allows the team to navigate and understand the complexity of different living arrangements, especially in Seattle. Ironically, a sense of striking out on their own is what brings the team together.
"A lot of graduates are going into non-profits and bigger corporations, but I want to bet on myself and the start-up atmosphere is fun and collaborative," Granstrom said. "The best part is knowing that whatever I do really does make a difference, especially because I'm not the only person who is handling roommate problems."
Harmoney is a smartphone app that helps manage a household. The app includes a rotating chore schedule, a mobile-to-mobile banking system, a calendar and a message board. The chore schedule notifies housemates when it's their turn to clean up or take out the trash while the mobile-to-mobile banking system allows for smooth online transactions for anything from utilities to groceries. The message board and calendar facilitates communication and event planning among all the housemates, creating a social atmosphere and online presence.
Two weeks ago, the team launched a Kickstarter campaign and is one of the most popular Technology campaigns in Seattle. A few months ago, Vineet was instrumental in developing a marketing strategy that garnered over 700 surveys and 100 in-person interviews for free. Using this data, the Harmoney team created an app for roommates, by roommates. As their slogan says, Harmoney makes your house a home. Regarding the team, this is just the beginning for this bright group of up-and-coming entrepreneurs.
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I get a lot of email from people who have questions about veganism, and one of the most common things they ask is how they can make the transition from an omnivorous diet to a vegan one. I do my best to answer but, to be honest, it's been a long time since I became vegan and even longer since I became vegetarian, and my memory is just not that good. I remember intending to transition slowly into vegetarianism but then becoming inspired and just throwing away all of the meat in my kitchen. I had one vegetarian cookbook and no internet, so it's amazing to me now that I managed to keep my resolve to stop eating meat. The details of how I did that are lost somewhere in the haze of the last 20 years, so I'm not much help to those of you who need specifics.
But I've just discovered that Erik Marcus, author of Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating, has a series of short audio podcasts that do a great job of explaining how to make the transition to veganism "as easily, healthfully, and gracefully as possible." Aimed at people following Oprah's 21-Day Vegan Cleanse, the 21 podcasts provide information about getting adequate nutrition, setting up your kitchen, and avoiding animal ingredients, as well as offer plenty of answers to the common question, "What do I eat?" As Erik says, it's not about discipline and cutting things out: "Rather than cut out foods, crowd them out. Your main job will be to try as many vegan foods as possible….The more foods you try, the more sensational options you'll discover."
Though Oprah's cleanse is over, I know that there are a lot of people reading this blog who are in the transitional stages of becoming vegetarian or vegan, and I think you'll get a lot out of this podcast series. Each podcast is about 8 to 12 minutes long, the perfect length to listen to as you check your email in the morning.
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I wanted to let you all know that I've finally succeeded in putting my Vegetarian Blog Search Engine on its own web page: vegblogsearch.com. This is the same search engine I've linked to for years on my Blogs I Like page, but now it's on its own, easy-to-find domain. Putting it together has been a labor of love for me because I think vegetarian blogs are a valuable source of recipes and information, and finding that information should be as easy as possible. I added each of the over 400 blogs by hand, carefully checking that they are really vegetarian or vegan, and still I continue to find new vegetarian blogs every day. (If you search for your blog's title and it doesn't appear, email me and I'll add you.)
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2015 North American International Auto Show that took place in Detroit in the USA from 11th to the 24th January revealed a new generation Honda vehicles .
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According to last information this model could be on sale during the beginning of 2016.
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During the Festival of Speed in Goodwood Honda captured the imagination of all speeds addicts with increased amount of gasoline in the blood because it was on this occasion announced the concept of single-seater that could be classed as racing car legal for street use.
The design concept is largely reminiscent of the cars from the lower series, especially cars from Formula 3 championship.
Project 2 & 4 can be placed in the category of cars similar structure to Caterham Super 7 KTM X-BOW, Caparo T1, the BAC Mono, and even Lamborghini Egoist and Tramontana XTR could be incorporated in this outfit unusual for street racers.
Yet judging by the teaser image Reviews New Concept Honda 2 & 4 Project is most similar to Ariel Atom models, although it is the best example to compare with Formula Ford road car concept.
2015 Honda Civic Type R
Last year Honda has presented its concept model Civic Type R and this summer is on its way to come with a wonderful sport design.
At the beginning what more can we say about this model ?
Honda Civic Type R is the fastest and most powerful hatchback with front-wheel drive in its class.
The Honda has received quite striking appearance and set air intakes at the front of the car, deep sides and large rear wing.
Offer includes only one engine and 2.0-liter turbo diesel with 306 hp while the gearbox is six manual.
The new Honda RC213V-S
That long-awaited moment has come : Honda RC213V presented-S road model inspired by the competition MotoGP machine.
And although it looks as very nice motorcycle, the specifications are not special.
"Nothing special" in this case is a relative term, since it is certainly not an underpowered, but it should be mentioned that was speculated of the possible 200 hp and market racing with BMW S1000RR and 1199/1299 Panigale.
This race we wouldn't see for sure.
The company stated that they are able to produce a copy by day, but stressed that it will only be for personal order.
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For now, to the customers is usually unavailable even the standard version of the new NSX, and it should be recalled that a few months ago chief engineer Ted Claus talked about the posibility of Type R version of the new NSX.
However, the Australian Motoring now is writing that NSX Type R should appear in 2018, and with a combined capacity of at least 447 kW / 608hp.
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At this year's Detroit Motor Show Honda presented a new generation NSX models.
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In any case, Honda's stinted on the technical data and the "lack" is now in a way corrected.
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This is the precursor to The Black Swan and is, I think, a stronger book.
In a reassuring twist, Forbes, that Tea Party precursor, called on the government to regulate production, and quick!
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb "This is the precursor to The Black Swan and is, I think, a stronger book."
What could audiences possibly gain from watching Hollywood personnel go through the motions of adhering to an Asian precursor?
It is an enormous and pressing problem, as state-sponsored incitement to genocide is almost always the precursor to genocide.
A beam fell from the roof to the floor, precursor of the rest.
Jaime looked upon him as a precursor who cleared away his doubts.
A lively caricature, the precursor of Dickens' "American Notes."
A formidable Moorish weapon, the precursor of the boarding-pike.
It was the precursor of free trade—the stepping-stone to commercial liberty in these regions.
precursor pre·cur·sor (prĭ-kûr'sər, prē'kûr'sər)
One that precedes and indicates something to come.
One that precedes another; a forerunner or predecessor.
A biochemical substance, such as an intermediate compound in a chain of enzymatic reactions, that gives rise to a more stable or definitive product.


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April 30, 2009
This weekend, the University of Tennessee Women's Athletic Department will host "Pat Summitt's Day of 1,000 Stories" at the Tennessee Theatre in downtown Knoxville on Sunday, May 3. Scores of former Lady Vol basketball players and staffers will be in town for the event. Included in the gathering throng traveling back to Rocky Top is "Spinderella" -- Michelle Marciniak. After her MVP performance in leading the Lady Vols to the 1996 NCAA Final Four Championship, Marciniak enjoyed a professional career in the ABL and WNBA from 1996-2002. After retiring from playing, Marciniak was an assistant women's basketball coach at the University of South Carolina, 2003-08, working with head coach Susan Walvius. Over the past 18 months, Marciniak and Walvius founded a new company, SHEEX, LLC, which launched on April 1, 2009. Before coming to Knoxville, Marciniak's hometown newspaper, Morning Call, caught up with her:
Michelle Marciniak a Driving Force in the Business World
Allentown, Pa. -- Michelle Marciniak drew a few giggles when she talked about ''high-performance bedding'' and ''performance wear for the bedroom'' at Saucon Valley Country Club on Wednesday.
Don't worry. It's not what you're thinking.
The former Central Catholic High School and University of Tennessee basketball star was talking about her new line of bed sheets which uses the finest in athletic performance fabrics.
''The reason you made the transition from cotton to performance fabrics in active wear is the same reason you'll make the transition from cotton to performance wear in the bedroom,'' she said as eyebrows arched around the room.
''I know it's a little different than basketball.''
That's for sure.
But when Marciniak talked about SHEEX, LLC, the bed linen company based in Chapin, S.C., that she founded with former South Carolina women's basketball coach Susan Walvius, the same passion that made her one of the best basketball players ever to come out of the Lehigh Valley resurfaced.
Her SHEEX products, designed with athletes in mind, will be on display at the U.S. Women's Open at Saucon Valley from July 6-12, and Marciniak will be featured in the Celebration of Women in Sport event during championship week.
During Wednesday's press preview, Marciniak revealed she's pumped up about the U.S. Open, pumped up about the Celebration of Women in Sport and really pumped up about her bed sheets.
That's because the once fiery athlete has found a new arena for competition.
Marciniak, once dubbed the ''Ponytailed Princess of Hoop'' by Sports Illustrated, is now 35. Her playing days are over and her No. 23 jersey hanging in the rafters at Rockne Hall has collected a lot of dust since she graduated in 1991 after scoring a still-staggering 3,025 points.
And while Pat Summitt considered her a coach on the floor during the Lady Vols' 1995-96 national title run, Marciniak's coaching days are over, too.
Her last stop was as an assistant coach at South Carolina, where she worked for five years.
Marciniak once had visions of becoming a NCAA Division I head coach.
Those views changed when she learned that the players didn't possess the same commitment to the game she had since learning to dribble for Jo Kraft and Mimi Griffin's St. Thomas More youth teams.
''It was a great experience for me to coach; I wouldn't trade it for the world,'' she said. ''But I'm better suited to the business world because I can drive myself as hard as I want to and not have to worry about driving somebody else.''
No one has ever had to push Marciniak, but she found out how rare she was when she became a coach.
She said she would try to teach them, motivate them, ''but they might have a headache that day, or they may just have broken up with their boyfriend or had to go home for a family emergency. There are things that are totally out of your control as a coach that you took care of yourself as a player.''
So, coaching wasn't necessarily the antidote for her desire to compete and challenge herself.
She says she found what she was looking for in the business world, without totally leaving sports behind.
''This has connected me back to almost everyone I've ever met through sports,'' she said.
Among those people is Griffin, the former ESPN basketball commentator who is now executive director of the U.S. Women's Open.
''Mimi has given such an opportunity for my young company to allow us to be in the merchandise tent at such a huge event,'' Marciniak said. ''It's going to give us such exposure and launch our product. Mimi's a basketball contact, but she's much more than that to me. She's a mentor, a coach, a friend.''
Marciniak, who had a six-year pro career, believes that women's basketball -- the college and pro versions -- could use someone as innovative as Griffin.
''With the WNBA or college ball, you have to grow your brand,'' she said. ''I've learned that even with my young company. You have to make it new and exciting and you can't rely on what you did yesterday.
''The challenge for the WNBA and the college game is to keep re-inventing itself and come up with new ways to bring new people to the sport. You need to stay creative. They could use a mover and a shaker like Mimi.''
And clearly they could still use someone with Marciniak's competitive spirit.
Basketball's loss is bedding's gain.


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has-prereqs - Check whether your Perl installation has prerequisites in dist.ini
This document describes version 0.09 of has-prereqs (from Perl distribution App-HasPrereqs), released on 2016-01-18.
% has-prereqs [options]
* marks required options.
Set path to configuration file.
Can be specified multiple times.
Set configuration profile to use.
Do not use any configuration file.
Do not read environment for default options.
Choose output format, e.g. json, text.
Default value:
Set output format to json.
When outputing as JSON, strip result envelope.
Default value:
By default, when outputing as JSON, the full enveloped result is returned, e.g.:
The reason is so you can get the status (1st element), status message (2nd element) as well as result metadata/extra result (4th element) instead of just the result (3rd element). However, sometimes you want just the result, e.g. when you want to pipe the result for more post-processing. In this case you can use `--naked-res` so you just get:
Display help message and exit.
Add directory to @INC (JSON-encoded).
Add directory to @INC.
Can be specified multiple times.
Display program's version and exit.
This script has shell tab completion capability with support for several shells.
To activate bash completion for this script, put:
complete -C has-prereqs has-prereqs
in your bash startup (e.g.
~/.bashrc). Your next shell session will then recognize tab completion for the command. Or, you can also directly execute the line above in your shell to activate immediately.
It is recommended, however, that you install shcompgen which allows you to activate completion scripts for several kinds of scripts on multiple shells. Some CPAN distributions (those that are built with Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GenShellCompletion) will even automatically enable shell completion for their included scripts (using
shcompgen) at installation time, so you can immadiately have tab completion.
To activate tcsh completion for this script, put:
complete has-prereqs 'p/*/`has-prereqs`/'
in your tcsh startup (e.g.
~/.tcshrc). Your next shell session will then recognize tab completion for the command. Or, you can also directly execute the line above in your shell to activate immediately.
It is also recommended to install
shcompgen (see above).
For fish and zsh, install
shcompgen as described above.
This script can read configuration file, which by default is searched at
~/has-prereqs.conf or
/etc/has-prereqs.conf (can be changed by specifying
--config-path). All found files will be read and merged.
To disable searching for configuration files, pass
Configuration file is in the format of IOD, which is basically INI with some extra features.
You can put multiple profiles in a single file by using section names like
[profile=SOMENAME]. Those sections will only be read if you specify the matching
--config-profile SOMENAME.
List of available configuration parameters:
format (see --format) library (see --library) naked_res (see --naked-res)
Specify additional command-line options
Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-HasPrereqs.
Source repository is at https://github.com/sharyanto/perl-App-HasPrereqs.
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-HasPrereqs
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.
perlancar <firstname.lastname@example.com>
This software is copyright (c) 2016 by firstname.lastname@example.com.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.


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Back to idiotism and a few other changes…
by Alina Mierlus
This blog has been quiet for a while now. I do hope to start writing soon (although I think I'll do most of my next writing in Catalan – and the focus will not be only in technology).
A few people asked me what I'm doing now, since I'm not so active in projects I used to contribute (e.g. Mozilla) or doing things I used to do locally (e.g. participating in tech. events and open source groups).
Well, part of the answer is that during the last year I tried to find some time for myself. I started to feel kind of overwhelmed by the amount and quality of the information around me (yes, yes, I mean that kind of BuzzMachine that most of Open Source/Tech. "community" seems to be nowadays).
And what is it better than becoming an idiot? Experimenting that state of being useless to the world, of being less intelligent than most of the "smart citizens", and start questioning again why and how things happen.
Professor Han, a contemporary essayist and cultural theorist from Germany, puts it very well:
It's a function of philosophy to represent the role of the idiot. From the beginning, the philosophy goes along with the idiotism. Any philosopher that generates a new language, a new style, a new thinking, needs to be an idiot before.
The history of philosophy is a history of idiotisms.
Socrates, who only knows that he doesn't know anything, is an idiot. An idiot is also Descartes, because he doubts of everything. Cogito ergo sum is an idiotism.
An internal contraction of thinking makes possible a new beginning. Descartes thinks about the thinking. The thinking recovers its virginal state when it connects with itself. Deluze opposes to the Cartesian idiot an another idiot [...]
Today, it looks like the somewhat marginalised, the crazy and the idiot basically disappeared from society. The whole network connectedness and the digital communications increase considerably the coercion over conformity. The violence of consensus repress the idiotisms.
(from the book "Psychopolitik: Neoliberalismus und die neuen Machttechniken")
Yes, part of my time right now is devoted to studying philosophy at the University (offline and back to the system!). And I really like it very much. Only because you are there with a group of people who disagrees with you, who appreciates your critique, your skepticism and negativity… makes me feel much more being part of a community.
However, I'm not out of the technology world, as the other part of my time is devoted to work, which means applications development, deployments and even trainings.
But indeed, I'm feeling that I have to step back from the BuzzMachine that OpenSource/OpenWeb/OpenWathever has became. I've also developed more of a critical view on what is "connectedness or a connected society", including the "sharing economy" – a deviation of open source concept (which on its turn is a mutation of Free Software social movement).


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When the vehicle is parked with the steering wheel turned, the calibration of the ECU for the Variable Gear Ratio Steering can cause the steering wheel to "become off-centered" if the car is immediately restarted.
Lexus will be notifying owners in early June, at which time they can take their cars to the dealer to have the ECU recalibrated free of charge. Scroll down for the press release.
On May 16, 2012, Lexus filed a Defect Information Report (DIR) with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicating it will conduct a voluntary safety recall of approximately 650 – early 2013 model year GS 350 F Sport Rear Wheel Drive (RWD) vehicles to update the Variable Gear Ratio Steering (VGRS) electronic control unit (ECU) calibration.
On certain early 2013 model year GS 350 F-Sport RWD vehicles, the ECU for the VGRS system could cause the steering wheel to become off-centered when restarting the vehicle immediately after the vehicle is parked with the steering wheel turned. Dealers will update the VGRS ECU calibration to address the condition.
Owners of the involved vehicles will receive a safety recall notification by first-class mail beginning in early June 2012.
Any authorized Lexus dealer will perform this update at no charge to the vehicle owner. The repair is expected to take approximately 30 minutes depending on the dealer's schedule.
No other Toyota or Lexus models are covered by this safety recall.


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Organised bohemia is how fashion designer Matthew Williamson laughingly refers to his interiors style, as he points to the hallway painted in a sea of neon pink.
"This place has great scale and bones, which I found immediately attractive when I first saw the apartment three-and-a-half years ago," he says. "It might look like it has all been thrown together, but actually, everything is in its place."
Williamson admits his taste is "very highbrow/lowbrow — I do like a bargain!" he says. At his north-west London home, he thinks nothing of teaming a simple table with a lavish-looking velvet buttoned sofa, or a Venetian mirror and intricate Turkish wall sconces with geometric flooring.
And there's always a touch of his own handicraft, from the découpage of Fornasetti-inspired butterflies disguising a boiler cupboard in the bathroom to some dip-dye fringing, left over from a dress in one of his collections, used to edge a lamp shade bought from John Lewis.
"My background is from making ends meet," he says of his humble Mancunian roots. The Williamson family may have had little, but "my mum always looked richer than she was — in a high street shirt, but with her nails always beautifully painted," says Williamson, proudly. "She was like a peacock in a sea of grey."
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The collision of rainbow colours and exotic motifs, from pineapples to flamingos, is a Williamson hallmark. It's a look he first rocked 20 years ago when Kate Moss and Jade Jagger volunteered to model his debut collection in exchange for some of the clothes.
Whether lavishly embroidered on to a dress worn by bestie Sienna Miller on the red carpet, or in a repeat pattern for a wallpaper design for his collaboration with Osborne & Little, it's also in evidence in his Butterfly Home collection for Debenhams and a forthcoming capsule furniture range for Duresta.
Calming contrasts
Yet the overall result, despite the infusion of electric hues and tropical flourishes against a backdrop of pale greys and blues, is "really calming," says Williamson. "I'm by no means an architect, but I think I have a good eye for interiors."
In terms of building work, he did very little to the flat, which was structurally sound, with original parquet flooring and much of the cornicing intact. But he did remove an en suite to make the master bedroom larger. It meant having a smaller, galley-size bathroom next door, but it was worth the compromise, he insists.
He also sacrificed space from the kitchen to create a guest bedroom and shower room. "Everyone thought I was mad," he says. "It was a huge kitchen but it felt a bit superfluous and underused, so I marked out the divisions with masking tape along the floors and walls to show exactly how it would work, the builder came in and did it… and now everyone thinks it's genius."
Williamson is as confident working with neon and Perspex as he is with marble and stone. His passion for far-flung places such as India, Costa Rica and Mexico took seed many years ago.
"The idea of travel provided a sense of escape from the surroundings of a grey, industrial city with not much light and shade," he says. He recalls as a child painting his bedroom in lilac with silver radiators. "Colour can be empowering and powerful, really changing your mood."
Filled with treasures from trips around the world, nothing in his home, except perhaps the Seventies chandelier in the living room, cost a fortune. "I picked up the candelabras on the fireplace from Sunbury Antiques Market for a bargain price, but I like to think they came from an old Italian church," he says.
His home is like a "living and growing mood board", where he is drawn to pieces instinctively. "I don't know if they're right or wrong — they just have to make my heart race," he says. Our pulses are starting to go crazy, too…
For more information about Matthew Williamson's work, including his range for Osborne & Little, and to shop online, visit matthewwilliamson.com.
The owner: fashion designer Matthew Williamson and his dog, Mr Plum. The property: a ground-floor flat in a mid-19th century, Italianate-style semi in north-west London. There's a living/ dining room, kitchen, two bedrooms, a bathroom and shower room.
"I can't live without my slippers, my watch from my best friend, a gold pendant from my mum and dad — and my dog Mr Plum.
"A mix of characters at a dinner party is always the most fun. Recently, I sat at a birthday dinner with a gardener, a singer, an events producer and a writer.
"I love Deia in Majorca for its undeveloped natural beauty.
"Most surreal moment in life? Sitting in the back of Madonna's car with her driving to the cinema after we'd had dinner together at Le Caprice.
"For inspiration, I love a lost weekend in Florence or Venice, or a trip to the V&A Museum."
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Emma Roberts: West Hollywood Hipster!
Catching up with a friend, Emma Roberts showed up at the Alfred Kitchen & Coffee restaurant in West Hollywood on Thursday afternoon (March 13).
The "We're the Millers" starlet opted for a nerd chic getup including hipster glasses with a grey and white pea coat, blue jeans and white ankle boots.
On the career front, Emma is gearing up for a new flick called "For the Dogs" also starring Sam Worthington.
Per the synopsis, "While on vacation overseas, college freshman Ella Hatto's innocent world is torn apart when she learns her entire family has been murdered. Saved from the same fate by a reformed hitman, Stephen Lucas, Ella enlists his services to help track down those responsible."


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College Football 2013: 5 Things We Learned in Week 3
There was only one really marquee game this week, but it definitely lived up to the hype. Here is a quick rundown on what we learned in Week 3.
There was only one really marquee game this week, but it definitely lived up to the hype. Here is a quick rundown on what we learned in Week 3.
Because, really, who hasn't had the occasional otter in their car?
Tom Brady threw for 185 yards and a touchdown, and the New England Patriots outlasted the New York Jets, 13-10, in rain-soaked Foxborough, Mass. on Thursday night.
Where were you when the world stopped turning? Me. In Nashville, doing a TV commercial. You? We all remember. And, today, we again remember the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In New York City, victims' relatives will read the names of their loved ones whose lives were taken. At the Pentagon, at Shanksville, Pa., more memorials will be held. And, of course, memorial services will be held all across the country, many involving a reading of the victims' names.
The Houston Texans and Philadelphia Eagles recorded victories on the first Monday night of the 2013 NFL season. Here's a recap of the games:
The 2013 NFL season got off to an incredible start in Week 1 with some amazing individual performances, a few upsets and several fantastic finishes. Here's what we learned from Sunday's games:
While there weren't many big-name matchups this week, it was still an entertaining week of college football. Here are some things we learned in Week 2 on the gridiron.
Carl Edwards outran Paul Menard off a late restart and held on to win the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International Raceway in Virginia on Saturday night.
Former Indianapolis Colt Peyton Manning tied an NFL record last night. Whew, the man threw -- count 'em - throwing seven touchdown passes! The Denver Broncos topped the Baltimore Ravens 49-27 in the of the 2013 NFL season opener in Denver last night. Did you have them in our Lucy Bella's Pizzaria Pro Football Pick 'em contest? Here's more on the game from Joe Student at Townsquare Media.
Convicted Cleveland kidnapper and rapist Ariel Castro was found dead late Tuesday in his prison cell in Ohio. The New York Daily News reports the 52-year-old hung himself.
On September 1, the record for the largest alligator ever caught in Mississippi was 697.5 pounds. That record was broken not once but twice on Sunday, the first day of the state's alligator-hunting season.


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English language arts curriculum, instruction and assessment develop the critical thinking skills necessary for students to effectively consume and produce the written and spoken word. A successful language arts program thrives on the complete and constant integration of reading, writing, listening, and speaking within meaningful contexts. Therefore, students will acquire and continue to develop lifelong literacy skills crucial for personal success in a rapidly changing world.
The English language arts curriculum of Coppell ISD reflects the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and has been developed around the following guiding principles:


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Conventional cams work well in cracks and open breaks, but pockets and constricted placements can cause problems. So what can you do if the cam is too wide to fit? The answer is obvious really: reduce the number of cam lobes.
3CUs have three cam lobes instead of four. This means the head of the cam is significantly narrower and will fit in much tighter placements.
We've built these neat little units to exactly the same specification as the 4CUs but limited the size range to six options running from 0 up to 1.75.


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Feb. 16, 2013
Dayton, Ohio - Simone Law scored 18 of her game-high 24 points in the first half and Taylor Johnson scored 18 of her 23 in the second half as Loyola knocked off Wright State, 79-70, this evening at the Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio. The Ramblers improve to 10-13 (5-5 Horizon) with their third consecutive win. Wright State drops to 10-14, 4-7 with the loss.
Loyola got off to a sluggish start as Wright State rattled off the first nine points of the game. The Ramblers had just one basket over th first 5:37 before finding their groove. Law had eight points and Monica Albano added six as Loyola held the Raiders scoreless for nearly five minutes, ripping off 14 unanswered points to take a 15-11 advantage nine minutes into the game. An Ayrealle Beavers three-pointer later bumped the lead to seven (26-19) but the home team was able to hang in there and Wright State scored the final five points of the half to even the proceedings at 35 heading to halftime. Law was terrific in the opening 20 minutes, knocking down 6-of-10 from the floor and all six of her free throws for her 18 points.
After Law scored again on Loyola's first possession of the second half, Wright State rode six points from Kim Demmings to take a 44-39 lead less than four minutes into the half. The Ramblers faced a three-point deficit before Johnson got going, scoring six straight points as part of a 10-0 run that gave LU a 53-46 lead at the 9:08 mark. Wright State managed to get within a point before Albano hit a key three-pointer to bump the lead back to four and the Ramblers cashed in on a Raider technical foul, knocking down both free throws and scoring on the ensuing possession to build the lead to eight. After a stop, Albano knocked in another trifecta to get the lead to double figures and the lead grew to 13 (69-56) at the 4:00 mark. Wright State managed to get as close as eight but Beavers drilled her second three-ball of the night to get the lead back to 11 with 80 seconds left and the Ramblers cruised from there.
Law added 10 rebounds to her 24 points for her seventh double-double of the season while Johnson ended the day with 23 points and five assists and helped the LU defense hold Demmings, the Horizon League Preseason Player of the Year, to 19 points on 7-of-25 shooting. Albano was also solid, moving into eighth on Loyola's all-time scoring list with her 14-point effort.
Loyola returns home for a pair of key Horizon League games next week starting with a Thursday night tilt against Detroit. Tip from Gentile Arena is slated for 7 p.m.


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Good advise for unarmed citizens
1/28/2009 - Judge Says Citizens Need To Buy Guns To Protect Themselves - Breaking News - Chattanoogan.com
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Good advise for unarmed citizens
1/28/2009 - Judge Says Citizens Need To Buy Guns To Protect Themselves - Breaking News - Chattanoogan.com
Is it my imagination, or are there more and more people in LE, legal system and even the media :scruntiny: that support the self-defense concept ???
I have to agree. The stats we came up with on another post show that as a group, CCL holders commit less crime than police officers.
There should be a law that law abiding citizens with no felony convictions should own a gun," the judge said
It looks like that judge means business. Its always good to hear a public figure say something like that.Quote:
I know many fine police officers. But we can't depend on the police to protect us any more."
While I agree that every citizen should have a weapon, the question is how many are willing to pull the trigger on another human.
Remember, most people find it hard to kill another human.
Remember, most people find it hard to kill another human
and rightfully so...
This same judge stated the following abvout his town in 2007...
Judge's Warning To Chattanooga: Gangs Growing, Getting Meaner
March 14,2007
Seth Seymour
A Hamilton County judge issued a stern and alarming warning Wednesday to the city of Chattanooga as men suspected in a gang shooting appear in his courtroom. General Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon says the Scenic City's gang problems are getting worse, and there's no sign of improvement. In front of the suspects and their lawyers, he gave a very scary prediction: "Our city will have more gang members than law enforcement officers," Moon said. Judge Moon says no matter how much city officials deny increasing gang activity, the proof comes from his courtroom. "It appears this court is presiding over a homicide a week in the East Lake area," he said. It's a somber statistic he warned about two years ago.
"I indicated if something was not done, the blood in the streets and pockets of crime would continue, and they have in significant numbers." It was April 2005 during a similar trial when Judge Moon drew heat for the following idea: "It's past time for the African American community and its leaders and public officials to organize a stop the violence summit."
According to Moon Wednesday, "I was criticized for that suggestion, and the only thing I've seen since then are pep rallies and grandstanding all of which subside at sundown."
"I think Judge Moon is partially right," said community activist Sherman Matthews, "but you just can't have law enforcement."
Because police, Matthews says, cannot alone change the thought pattern of the people causing trouble.
"They're devaluing life," he said. "Therefore, we have to say they have no hope. They see no way out. They don't see a way to have a family, to have a decent job."
And he says that leads to more crime, something Judge Moon fears for Chattanooga.
"I'm concerned about this city," Moon said.
Source - Top Stories: Judge's Warning To Chattanooga: Gangs Growing, Getting Meaner, moon, judge, city - www.newschannel9.com
- Janq
25 years murder-free in 'Gun Town USA'
25 years murder-free
in 'Gun Town USA'
Crime rate plummeted after law
required firearms for residents
As the nation debates whether more guns or fewer can prevent tragedies like the Virginia Tech Massacre, a notable anniversary passed last month in a Georgia town that witnessed a dramatic plunge in crime and violence after mandating residents to own firearms.
In March 1982, 25 years ago, the small town of Kennesaw responding to a handgun ban in Morton Grove, Ill. unanimously passed an ordinance requiring each head of household to own and maintain a gun. Since then, despite dire predictions of "Wild West" showdowns and increased violence and accidents, not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting as a victim, attacker or defender.
The crime rate initially plummeted for several years after the passage of the ordinance, with the 2005 per capita crime rate actually significantly lower than it was in 1981, the year before passage of the law.
Prior to enactment of the law, Kennesaw had a population of just 5,242 but a crime rate significantly higher (4,332 per 100,000) than the national average (3,899 per 100,000). The latest statistics available for the year 2005 show the rate at 2,027 per 100,000. Meanwhile, the population has skyrocketed to 28,189.
By comparison, the population of Morton Grove, the first city in Illinois to adopt a gun ban for anyone other than police officers, has actually dropped slightly and stands at 22,202, according to 2005 statistics. More significantly, perhaps, the city's crime rate increased by 15.7 percent immediately after the gun ban, even though the overall crime rate in Cook County rose only 3 percent. Today, by comparison, the township's crime rate stands at 2,268 per 100,000.
This was not what some predicted.
In a column titled "Gun Town USA," Art Buchwald suggested Kennesaw would soon become a place where routine disagreements between neighbors would be settled in shootouts. The Washington Post mocked Kennesaw as "the brave little city soon to be pistol-packing capital of the world." Phil Donahue invited the mayor on his show.
Reuters, the European news service, today revisited the Kennesaw controversy following the Virginia Tech Massacre.
Police Lt. Craig Graydon said: "When the Kennesaw law was passed in 1982 there was a substantial drop in crime and we have maintained a really low crime rate since then. We are sure it is one of the lowest (crime) towns in the metro area." Kennesaw is just north of Atlanta.
The Reuters story went on to report: "Since the Virginia Tech shootings, some conservative U.S. talk show hosts have rejected attempts to link the massacre to the availability of guns, arguing that had students been allowed to carry weapons on campus someone might have been able to shoot the killer."
Virginia Tech, like many of the nation's schools and college campuses, is a so-called "gun-free zone," which Second Amendment supporters say invites gun violence especially from disturbed individuals seeking to kill as many victims as possible.
Cho Seung-Hui murdered 32 and wounded another 15 before turning his gun on himself.


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4 Whole Grains You Should Be Eating
The health and nutrition benefits of wild rice, cornmeal, quinoa and amaranth.
Despite the fact that they're gluten free, packed with fiber and rich in essential nutrients, certain whole grains such as quinoa, wild rice, cornmeal and amaranth remain underrated. Read on to see why you should make these native grains staples in your pantry as well as stars of your dinner table.
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This version is from the band The Bouncing Souls
Order KEYone: UK: Carphone Warehouse
It is thought that Olay was a Spanish sporting chant used to express approval. Such as when a bull would run by the "torero". It is not clear where modern chant evolved from, although most assume it came from a latin american country. The two most probable are Brazil or Mexico. Brazil is said to invented the actual Ole, Ole, Ole chant. While Mexico, is said to have invented the chant that is used to express approval when one team has a dominating lead (3-0, 4-0, 4-1, etc.) and plays keep away with the opposing team.


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Could an Atomic Bomb Be Developed?
Early in 1939, Leo Szilard learned from Isidor I. Rabi that Enrico Fermi had discussed the possibility of a chain reaction in his public presentation at a recent conference on theoretical physics. When pressed, Fermi suggested that only a 10% chance existed for a successful chain reaction from uranium.
To further complicate the landscape, disagreements arose over whether a chain reaction was possible with natural uranium (U-238) or whether enriched uranium was necessary (U-235). If U-235 was required, this brought up a myriad of other problems and uncertainties about methods of separation. Also, whether fast or slow neutrons were a factor was also thrown into the mix.
Another looming controversy concerned the issue of secrecy. Szilard, Edward Teller and others felt that any further dissemination of information should be curtailed lest Nazi Germany gain insights into American scientific breakthroughs. Fermi was dead-set against secrecy. Niels Bohr insisted that "secrecy must never be introduced into physics."
Whatever course was chosen, it was becoming obvious that little could or would be done without direct government support. The nay-sayers among the scientific community were being heard. With the enormous "stakes" in the balance, it was not surprising that a little subterfuge was called for.
Race for the Bomb
The "Hungarian Conspiracy" decided to take action. Leo Szilard, Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner, perhaps more than anyone, understood the enormous threat that Nazi Germany posed for the world if they should happen to be the first to develop a nuclear weapon. Their first concern was ensuring that when the time came, the United States would have access to a supply of uranium. At first they thought of contacting the Belgian government directly about uranium supplies in the Belgian Congo, afraid that it might fall into German hands. Szilard remembered that Einstein had a personal relationship with the Queen of Belgium and might be willing to intercede. They made their way to Long Island, NY to meet with the "Master" himself.
Although Einstein eventually followed through, he opted for a more indirect approach via a letter to the Belgian ambassador. Accordingly, a draft letter was prepared. At the same time, Wigner convinced the others that a direct approach should be made to the United States Government. In July of 1939, Gustav Stolper contacted Szilard to inform him that he had communicated their concerns to Alexander Sachs, a noted economist and personal friend of Roosevelt.
Szilard later confirmed that, "Sachs took the position, and completely convinced me, that these matters first and foremost concerned the White House, and that the best thing to do, from the practical point of view, was to inform Roosevelt. He said that if we gave him a statement he would make sure that it reached Roosevelt in person."
Drawing on the first Einstein draft, Szilard prepared a second draft letter to Roosevelt. On Sunday, July 30, 1939, Edward Teller drove Szilard out to Long Island to again meet with Einstein. After discussions surrounding Sachs' suitability as the best "middle man" for the job, they got down to discussing a "final" draft. Einstein opted for a longer version which incorporated his shorter statement with additional paragraphs contributed by Szilard in his consultations with Sachs. To read the letter, click here.
FDR Takes Action
In mid-August, Szilard sent the final version of Einstein's letter to Sachs. He also included his own memorandum exploring the pros and cons of fission. By the first week of September, Szilard had heard nothing from Sachs. In late September, Szilard and Wigner made a call on Sachs and discovered he had still not presented Einstein's letter to the President. On October 2, Szilard informed Einstein that his letter still had not made its way to Roosevelt "probably due to him being so overburdened." Szilard, Wigner and Teller began to believe that they had made a wrong decision concerning Sachs and perhaps they should move to "Plan B", whatever that might be.
Sachs was finally able to get an "audience" with FDR, and on October 11, 1939, met with the president. As so often happens with the "best laid plans", Sachs felt disconcerted about his planned verbal "reading aloud" of Einstein's letter and opted instead for a 800-word summary that he had drafted himself. In the first comprehensive conversation with a world leader about making an atomic bomb, Sachs began by highlighting the potential peaceful uses of nuclear energy, including nuclear power plants and for medicine. Only then did he speak of "bombs of unenvisaged potency and scope." The following dialogue spelled out the beginning of the American effort:
"Alex," said Roosevelt, "what you are after is to see that the Nazis don't blow us up."
"Precisely," Sachs said.
Roosevelt called in his aide, General Edwin ("Pa") M. Watson: "Pa! This requires action!"


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Chicken noodle soup is actually thought of as something that people tend to make on either a cold winter night or to help soothe symptoms of the common cold or a flue bug. Studies done by scientists at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha showed that chicken noodle soup may have an anti-inflammatory effect that could relieve symptoms of certain illnesses temporarily. This study was done in the year 2000. There were other studies done to see if chicken noodle soup really does help relieve symptoms of the common cold. The studies have concluded that this really is not known for certain whether or not chicken noodle soup acts as an anti-inflammatory effect to relieve certain symptoms.
Some of the ingredients in chicken noodle soup are proven to have positive health benefits to them.
Carrots for instance, is an excellent source of antioxidants. Carrots are one of the most popular ingredients found in chicken noodle soup. Antioxidants help protect us against cardiovascular disease, certain types of cancers and helps promote good vision. Carrots are high in carotenoids which may help reduce the chance or risk of heart disease. Studies show that people who eat at least one serving of carrots each day, lower the risk of heart disease by 60%. Studies also show that eating at least one serving of carrots each day, can lower the risk of certain cancers such as breast, bladder, cervix, colon, prostate as well as certain other types of cancers. Carrots are low in calories but high in certain vitamins such as Vitamin A. Carrots are also a good source of Vitamin K, Vitamin C, dietary fiber, potassium as well as other nutrients.
Onions are another popular ingredient added to chicken noodle soup. The healthiest portion of an onion is the outer layer of an onion. When peeling an onion, be sure to peel as little as possible to get the healthiest part of an onion. Onions are a good source of antioxidants. Onions are high in sulfur containing compounds. The sulfur compounds found in onions have cardiovascular benefits. The sulfur compounds in onions may help blood platelet cells from clotting or clumping. These sulfur compounds found in onions help lower blood levels of both the cholesterol and triglycerides. Eating onions along with other vegetables can help lower the risk of heart attacks. Onions can also help increase bone density as well as act as an anti-inflammatory. Onions can also lower the risk of certain different types of cancers.
Celery is a popular ingredient that is added to most chicken noodle soup recipes. Celery has several healthy nutrients in them including Vitamin K, Vitamin C, potassium, dietary fiber and other nutrients. Celery is low in calories and is an excellent source of your diet intake. Celery can help lower cholesterol and the risk of certain types of cancer. Celery can help lower or reduce cold symptoms. The Vitamin C in celery helps reduce the cold symptoms in people that are suffering from colds.
It wouldn't be chicken noodle soup without the most important ingredient. The chicken in chicken noodle soup has important health benefits in it. Chicken is an excellent source of protein. Boneless, skinless chicken has less saturated fat than chicken with skin on it. Therefore the chicken in chicken noodle soup is even healthier for us than eating a chicken leg since the skin is removed from the chicken when making chicken noodle soup. The protein in the chicken is healthy for us and helps reduce the chance of bone loss. Chicken also has important nutrients in it that helps reduce the chance of certain cancers. Niacin is an important healthy vitamin that help us in so many different ways. Niacin is helpful in both reducing the risk of cancer as well as helps protect us from Alzheimer's disease.
These four ingredients are the healthiest ingredients in chicken noodle soup. To make a healthy pot of chicken noodle soup it is important to slowly bring the soup to a boil and then simmer the soup in a covered pot on a low setting.
To make a pot of chicken noodle soup, start off boiling a large pot of chicken broth. While you are waiting for the chicken broth to start boiling, clean the chicken thoroughly under cold water and season the chicken. After the chicken broth has come to a boil, add the chicken and boil either a whole chicken or chicken pieces for a half hour. Carefully, remove the chicken from the chicken broth and let it cool down so it is easier to cut the chicken up. Chop up an onion, carrots and celery and add these three ingredients to the pot and simmer on a low heat setting. Take off the skin if you are using a whole chicken or chicken pieces with skin and pull the chicken from the bone. Cut the chicken into bite size pieces and add to it to the pot. Boil a bag of Reames Frozen Egg Noodles in a separate pan of water for 20-30 minutes. Rinse the egg noodles under cold water to remove the starch from them. Add the cooked egg noodles to the pot of chicken soup and continue simmering the soup on a low setting. You may add salt, pepper and basil. Simmer the soup on a low setting for at least one hour. You can simmer the chicken noodle soup longer if you want to get more of the chicken flavor in it.
Tip: If you have boiled a whole chicken or chicken pieces with the skin on, you can lower the fat by chilling the soup after you have cooked it and then skim off the top layer of fat. Chicken noodle soup is a low fat food with very healthy ingredients added to it such as carrots, onions, celery and chicken.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_soup
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Now I know why chicken soup is so nutritional and healthy. Great recipe too.
Great information on chicken soup health benefits. There is even an added benefit of an included recipe.
Good information on the benefits of this soup.
I love homemade chicken noodle soup. I cook up a huge pot of it at least once a week to have with a dinner meal and then use the left over as part of my lunches. Sorry, no votes left today. Liked. Tweeted.
I love chicken soup but we put rice rather than noodles in it. Each to their own :D A fantastic, informative article :D
Great article on chicken soup, thanks.
Great article on chicken soup, thank you! Hmmm this makes me hungry!
Great article, sounds like a great soup, except for the celery, which i am not a fan of :)
Sweet! Such an old healing agent, but works.
Well explained. Good work here. This really helps a lot. I also shared and linked back to this article on http://myrecipecookbook.blogspot.com/
Nicely done! Yum...It's amazing how something so delicious can be good for you as well. Thanks for the recipe. Voted up!
Thanks for the really great share.
Yummy... can you send the soup to my email please? :) Thanks for sharing
I am returning with a vote up for this great article and wonderful recipe. Don't know how I overlooked this good one!
Good recipe and great info. I'm out of votes, but I'm adding this totoday's issue of The Factoidz Herald: http://paper.li/sheilaholloway/1326053027


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86509 26-MAR 12:21 Telecom (6809)
From: DBREEDING To: RANDYKWILSON
Randy, I think that you are the agent for supercomm, so I'll address this
to you. I just grabbed it a week or so ago, and in working with it, I
found something that seems to be a problem in at least my setup.
My setup is a Disto SC-2 w/4in1, Disto Clock Edition 9, sacia w/the
supercomm patches (only, not the ones Paul uploaded), and VRN suite of
When I close a capture buffer (that is SHIFT-Downarrow) after the prompt
"…Close it
and supercomm locks up. This is with the modem in command mode.. I also
tried this with the standard Disto clock and ACIAPAK with the same results.
One other thing… with IT.XTP set with bit 6 (forced DTR) set, as supplied,
if I exited my telecom program (OSTerm also), and turned my modem off, it
would crash my system. (I know this is not a fault of supercomm, but thought
I might add it).
Anyway, I thought I'd throw this up at ya and see what you might come up with.
The above situation might not be the way things would need to be done (close
buffer with modem in cmd mode), but at any rate it does represent a
possiblity for error and should be looked into. Of course the situation
might be caused by the way my port handles RTS/CTS etc, but I would think
that this port should be supported.
BTW, here's my current xmode:
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A Boone County jury found ex-cop Jeffrey Moreland, 54, Harrisonville, guilty in the Nov. 5, 2008 slaying of a 30-year-old mother in his community.
Moreland sat with little emotion when the jury handed in their first-degree murder verdict for causing the death of Cara Jo Roberts within the walls of Judge Michael Wagner's Cass County courtroom on Sept. 12 after a three-day trial.
Thirty witnesses took to the stand for the prosecution, which was led by Assistant Cass County Prosecutors Jamie Hunt and Monica Penrose.
Moreland, who was represented by Public Defender Jeff Martin, had no defense. Nor did he elect to take the stand.
Following a formal sentencing scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 28, the former Grandview police officer is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Moreland, who medically retired from law enforcement in 2005 due to the onset of Parkinson's Disease after a 20-plus career, was also found guilty of armed criminal action, in which the jury asked for a 50-year sentence.
In the five years since Roberts was killed, family and friends have held onto a hope that someday her murderer would be brought to justice.
After prosecutors and the defense rested their cases early in the afternoon Sept. 12, the jury reached a verdict after deliberating for about an hour and a half.
Roberts' husband, Jeff Roberts, was one of the early witnesses who shared testimony in the trial.
He shared details of his relationship with Cara Roberts, and that of his son, Carter, who was 2 years old at the time of the murder.
Jeff Roberts told the jury that he found his wife curled up in a fetal position in a bathtub inside their Harrisonville home, 808 N. Patton, at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 5. Nobody had heard from her for hours before he found her.
Cara Roberts was working on putting together a "big boy bed" she and her husband had bought for Carter.
Friends and family members suggested Cara Roberts may have been slightly frustrated in putting together the bed that brisk, November day because it wasn't going together very well, but she her usual "happy-go-lucky" personality was the same as any other day.
Moreland then came into the Roberts' home at some point that afternoon and killed the lone occupant. According to prosecutors, Moreland raped Cara Roberts during his break-in. Evidence also suggests Cara Roberts was bound with zip ties by Moreland.
At the scene, crime scene investigators found two engaged zip ties in the home that had been cut.
One was inside the bathroom that the victim was in, and the other was a few feet away in a hallway, suggesting Moreland had bound his victim before she got into the bathtub.
DNA specialist Andrew Atkinson, with the Kansas City Police Department, said the interior loops of the zip ties contained DNA consistent with Cara Roberts.
"We know that she didn't go into that bathroom voluntarily," Hunt said.
Investigators also found a partial roll of duct tape at the foot of Roberts' bed containing fingerprints that placed Moreland at the scene.
"He left behind his DNA on those items, the tape, and in her body," Penrose said.
After the rape, investigators believed Moreland then took his victim to the bathroom, ordered her into the bathtub and then shot her in the back of her head.
The bullet went through her brain and through facial bones, and out through her left cheek. Fragments of the bullet also left an injury to her left leg, slightly above her knee, according to the Jackson County Medical Examiners Office.
DNA from an "unknown man" and fingerprint evidence would later place Moreland in the Roberts' home on Nov. 5, 2008, but the defense argued that there was no proof Moreland had shot the victim.
"Yes, there was sex, and yes, she's dead, but there's no evidence of who killed her," Martin argued.
Investigators found a casing and fragments of a 9-millimeter bullet underneath Roberts body in the bathtub, but the handgun used to murder the victim has never been found.
A former coworker of Moreland's testified, however, that the defendant owned two 9-millimeter handguns, one of which was uncovered at the suspect fathers' home in Iowa, following Roberts' murder.
Matt Bohannon, a friend and neighbor of the Roberts, was one of the first people who had heard from Jeff Roberts following his discovery of the body.
Roberts reportedly told Bohannon by phone, "She's dead, she's dead."
"He was crying and was hysterical," Bohannon told the jury.
Despite investigating more than 180 leads , the investigation went cold in the year following Cara Roberts' death.
But to the family's surprise, by the end of May 2011, Moreland became a suspect in the case after the daughter of another homicide victim recognized a sketch of Moreland as a man she once dated.
In October 2010, Moreland allegedly strangled and stabbed 75-year-old Nina Whitney 22 times in her south Kansas City home.
The DNA from both crime scenes matched.
On June 16, 2011, Kansas City Police Detective Leland Blank and another detective visited with Moreland through a screen door at his Harrisonville residence to request a DNA sample.
Moreland spoke with the detectives, but said that he was too busy to help.
"He said he had to take his cat to the vet," Blank said.
Following the officers request, Moreland then told his daughter's fiance, Thorrin Hacker, that he needed him to donate a DNA sample because a woman was bringing a paternity action against him.
Hacker, 22, testified in court that he met up with Moreland at a Phillips 66 gas station, and against his will, produced a cheek swab using a household Q-Tip and a blood sample using a diabetes-testing needle for the defendant.
Later in the day, Moreland then knowingly gave Hacker's DNA samples, claiming that they were his own, to a Grandview police officer to hand off to the Kansas City Police Department.
A DNA analyst would later confirm in court that the DNA sample Moreland submitted to the Grandview police matched Hacker's DNA.
Within a matter of days, Moreland then allegedly raped another Harrisonville woman, then fled to Iowa where he attempted suicide. Following a brief hospitalization in Iowa, Moreland was arrested and extradited to Cass County, where he was charged.
In the prosecution's closing arguments on Sept. 12, Hunt insisted Moreland had premeditated his victim's death.
"When Jeffrey Moreland arrived at Cara Roberts' house, he knew that she was never coming out," he said.
Moreland is expected to remain in the Cass County Jail until his formal sentencing next month, however, any other agency with charges, including Jackson County, where he faces murder charges in Whitney's death, could writ him out.
Cass County Prosecutor Teresa Hensley made a statement following the reading of the verdict.
"This case has weighed on the entire community," she said. "The victim's family and friends have dealt with incomprehensible loss and tragedy. Through this, they have exhibited unbelievable courage in their search for justice."