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This is a really good book, especially for anyone who feels frustrated or overwhelmed in their attempts to be healthy. I say "be healthy" rather than "lose weight" because, while Reno does focus on weight-loss, the eating practices she describes would really benefit anyone.
This book has several things going for it. There's plenty of information about health and nutrition. There's also some recipes to get you going. After all, don't let the word "diet" in the title fool you. Reno does not believe in starving yourself into thinness. She actually encourages you to eat, and to eat frequently, so long as you're eating the right things.
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This book is packed with practical advice. I had been reading about this in Oxygen Magazine for a while and decided to buy it. Reno makes you feel that you CAN do this. We shall see how I do.
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Slave Zero
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"Slave Zero is a very unique mech game"
Genre: Mech / Action / Adventure
Game Play: 8/10
In Slave Zero you control a massive mech that can use many different weapons, you can use missiles, "laser beams," super powerfull exploding energy bombs, and many other weapons. The goal of Slave Zero is to make it to the end of each level and destroy anything that gets in your way. To clear a level you must many avoid and destroy many obstacles such as enemys, narrow walk-ways hanging over massive pits, and of course bosses. The bosses are challenging yet they don't take forever to kill, there difficult but not so difficult that you want to give up or throw your controller out a window. The areas mostly take place in a massive city with buildings miles high. But sadly the levels are kinda small and the game doesn't take too long to beat. Luckily if you get tired of destroying enemys you can attack cars and people! In some levels there are roads with cars driving on them, there small because your so big, but if you get in the way of a car it will try to stop or turn. When a car stops you can see a super small person get out the car and start walking away. When the little person runs you can step on em! Slave Zero is very fun game, it can become repetitive but the levels are mostly unique to each other.
Graphics: 8/10
The areas in Slave Zero are kinda small but very cool (at least most of them are). Most of the areas take place in a massive city, some levels take place in the streets, some on the roof tops, and a couple take place underground. The areas aren't to detailed but they are clear. The enemys look ok but they can become very annoying if you don't know the best way to fight them. Sadly the enemys lack any skill at all, you can be behind a box and they will still shoot at you! Plus the bosses are extremely easy to beat once you learn there weakness and attack patterns, this takes away from the fun of fighting enemys and bosses. The game is sorta clear. Overall Slave Zero has slightly above average graphics.
Sound: 8/10
The sound effects in Slave Zero are well done, when you walk you can hear a loud crashing noise. This loud crashing noise makes for a great feel of scale. When you fire missiles the "whoosh" noise that is heard can become annoying if your losing because it always sound the same. The explosions sound great! The "explosion sound" your most powerful weapon makes sounds very realistic and powerful. The explosions your enemys make when they are destroyed also sounds powerful. The music in Slave Zero is ok but it can become very repetitive. The boss fight music doesn't fit either. The overall sound is well done, like the graphics it to is slightly above average.
Replay Value: 7/10
Slave Zero will keep you entertained for a month or two, depending on how much you play. The game is very fun the first time through the game, fighting enemys is very fun so even if your having a hard time with a boss you'll have fun fighting the boss anyway, this means you won't give up too easy. The later levels can become very frustrating so people with a short temper might stop playing before they even beat the game. After you beat the game there isn't much reason to play again, that is unless you really liked the game or enjoy attacking the tiny people and cars. Slave Zero has average replay value, you'll probably beat the game once and then stop playing.
Overview: 8/10
Slave Zero is a very fun game. There are lots of weapons to destroy your enemys with, this means you'll have lots of fun blowing up enemys and other stuff. The game is difficult but most players will be able to clear the game, the later levels can become very frustrating. But it's nothing the average gamer can't handle. The game stays fun for the first time you play through but there isn't any reason to play again once you clear the game. The levels are kinda small, and they almost all take place in the city. The game is clear and you mech looks "evil". The overall graphics in Slave Zero is slightly above average. The sound effects are well done, the explosions sound powerful. The music isn't all that great and it become repetitive often. Overall Slave Zero is a great game, I give it an eight out of ten!
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Last Thursday, as part of a nearly 5 hour meeting, the North Branch school board and large audience heard an update by high school assistant principal Glen Stevens on the D3 initiative, which allows and encourages students to utilize their personal digital devices to enhance their learning in school.
High school student Heather Rubischko gave a testimony as to how it works for her, noting that if she doesn't understand a classroom discussion, she can look it up and be able to participate better.
Using these digital devices, she said, better prepares the students for life after school, no matter what job they go into. Even the games – word games, she assured the board members – are used to pull the students together.
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All in all, she noted, D3 has gone really well, and she said she uses it for all her classes.
Stevens noted that the addition of 60 Kindles in January has also been very good for the district, and that special needs students are using them and loving them.
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Ursula Scheele reminded all that while it is "all about the students" it is also about the teachers and the need for a decent work environment. Marilyn Fagerness noted the many new things that have been initiated in the district with less staff and resources, but added that there is a need to support the adults in order to move forward and support the children.
Former school board member Donna Setter thanked the board for holding the line, saying she knows the board appreciates the dedication and hard work of the teachers, but she also knows the resources are not there to give increases. Until the state decides to fund schools more equitably or the district residents agree to a levy, the line must be held, she said.
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• Awarded the sale of a little over $15 million in general obligation refunding bonds. While the refunding of district bonds will save the district over $2 million for the duration of the bonds, the action won't free up money to reinstate any cuts made to address the coming year's budget, noted finance director Randi Johnson.
• Being satisfied, to an extent, on the wording of the district tobacco use policy, the board, upon the fourth reading of such, approved policy 419 Tobacco-Free Environment. The issue for some board members concerned banning smoking in a personal vehicle when used for work purposes. The ban will exist if a student is riding in the vehicle.
• Received a visit from Rep. Bob Barrett who spoke of his proposed legislation meant to provide more funds for lower funded schools, although the likelihood of passage this year is dim. Supt. Henton thanked him on behalf of the entire community for his efforts, and board member Kirby Ekstrom thanked Barrett for being available to the local Legislative Action Group.
• After considerable discussion, approved the school calendar for 2012-13, with school beginning on Sept. 4 and graduation being June 5. Snow days are not built in but are noted as they will be rescheduled, if needed. The spring vacation is still included, although that was questioned by board member Jay Falk. When he was told it was not the time to discuss specifics of the calendar, he asked when that time would be. Newer members of the board would like more advance time to discuss subjects.
• The board took action to terminate a number of employees due to the budget cuts: Gretchen Christensen, Kristie Hauger, Kyle Kahl, Renee Luther, Stephanie Meyers, Shelley Stuen, Alison Trampe, Mary Jo Hess, Sara Lebens, Ramona McAllister, Stacy Turner, and Amber Gerdes.
• A lengthy discussion of the district's attendance policy led to frustrations all around. With as much contention as has been occurring around policy approvals, Supt. Henton suggested that perhaps there be a school board policy committee created to review the policies before they come to the board. This year, newer board members have had a number of concerns about policies infringing on citizens rights. Henton reminds them continually that the policies are written by an attorney and that same attorney is consulted with each of the board member's concerns.
— Interested citizens are invited to the Legislative Action Committee, April 24, 7 p.m., at Sunrise River Elementary School Media Center. Area superintendents are encouraging parents to get involved, believing they can make a difference.


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As the chief cook and bottle-washer at thejazzbreakfast has been on his summer hols, we have been a little tardy on the subject of Wayne Shorter's 80th birthday. I know we claim to be hiply behind the beat but this is ridiculous!
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I thoroughly enjoyed this interview Chris Barton did with Wayne for the LA Times. It is full of those "Mr Gone" answers; often oblique – as oblique as his playing – and just as profound. As he says in the interview: "The instrument doesn't play you anymore, you play the instrument."
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Inside Nethra's NI-20x0 video and image processor for handsets and digital cameras
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Mobile handsets have evolved from the bulky luggable for voice only communications to the most recent ultra slim and ultra compact devices capable of MP3 playback, still and video image capture, high speed data transmission (rivaling DSL services) and GPS capabilities with television services already on the way. Integration of so many functions into a small form factor is driven by the evolving lifestyle of consumers in today's society. This presents design challenges for the system designer. Trends are similar in all other markets that have to integrate imaging and video applications. All consumer devices (digital still cameras, video cameras, MP3 devices) supporting video and imaging functions are getting smaller by the day and similar trends are happening in other non-consumer markets where video and image processing is required.
System designers need real-time video and image processing in a small form factor while consuming low power. This challenges IC designers to develop solutions that meet these extreme system design requirements, as each of these requirements tends to drive the solution in the opposite direction. For example, a high performance IC design will drive the cost and power to a high number. Solutions developed for these markets tend to be balanced towards one of the parameters more than the other.
System Block Diagram of a Camera Application
To determine the design challenges let's begin by looking at the system design requirements. The typical digital image/video capture system will have optics, image sensor (CCD or CMOS), analog front end, timing generation, "raw" image processing (taking raw image sensor with Bayer formatted color filters and processing all the way to YUV or YCbCr formats), and still or video compression engine (if required). CPU may be implemented at a system level to give the system designer some flexibility of system level software to get a better control of how the camera operates. In addition system level control functions are required via the support of PWMs, GPIOs, I2C and/or SPI interfaces to control other system level mechanics.
Nethra's NI-20x0 simplifies this system level design by integrating most of these system level functions into a SOC in an 8 mm x 8mm package. The device includes the following functionality on the same die:
___o Debugging via JTAG or debug UART
This high level of integration in a small form factor has been implemented without sacrificing performance requirements.
Figure 1. NI-20x0 detailed block diagram showing various functional blocks.
Color Processing
One of the biggest concerns of video/imaging system designers is the quality of algorithms they want to implement. This is one of the single biggest reasons for adopting DSP or FPGA-based architectures for camera designs. High volume image processing applications are driven toward mainstream DSPs from Texas Instruments, and for niche applications designers tend to use FPGAs in their designs.
Nethra's color processing algorithms are implemented using ASIC design methodology. All the memory required during the color processing is implemented as pipeline memory and the color processing algorithm hardware is tightly coupled to this memory. This design implementation permits the operation of the pixel processing at 54 million pixels per second.
The device family is capable of taking the raw image sensor data (ADC output from the CMOS image sensor or the Analog Front End in case of CCD image sensors); perform the entire image processing steps (listed below) and send CCIR-656 data out of the chip.
The products support following image processing algorithms:
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The color processing algorithms have the potential to produce print-quality still images or crisp, vivid video depending on the system requirements. Histogram and statistics data are collected from image frames using multiple zones while the image data is flowing through the pipeline. This data is analyzed and used for implementing the camera system algorithms (AE, AF and AWB) to control sensors, motors, mechanics of the camera system, and image pipeline parameters.
Adaptive Light Processing
All imaging devices face the problem of having to handle image scenes that tend to have extreme lighting conditions at the same time (high intensity in one region of the image and low intensity in another region). Any auto exposure algorithm will try to adapt to one area or the other depending on the implementation (area vs. spot metered). NI-20x0 family of image processors supports compensation for such extreme lighting exposures in the same scene by implementing an adaptive lighting algorithm.
Adaptive light processing is implemented to support two modes of operation " backlit and normal lit scenes. Histogram and statistics engine are used to determine the profile of the image scene. This information determines the necessary adjustments to be made in the Luma and/or chroma so that the resulting image achieves a desired profile. The adaptive light logic then programs the optimum image adaptive adjustments to the hardware, which will perform the computation at very high speed. The following image shows the advantage of such an algorithm in capturing images in extreme lighting conditions:
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The Nutrition Services Department at Redmond Regional Medical Center provides meal service for patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. Our patients are served a variety of therapeutic diets that meet their medical needs.
The cafeteria is located on the main level of the hospital.
Monday through Friday
Breakfast: 6:30am to 9:30am
Lunch: 11:00am to 3:00pm
Dinner: 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Breakfast: 6:30am to 9:30am
Lunch: 11:00am to 3:00pm
Dinner: 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Registered Dietitians are available to provide medical nutrition therapy to help prevent or treat a wide variety of conditions. The registered dietitian follows Joint Commission National guidelines for screening and meeting the needs of inpatients. Nutrition care is provided using the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Standards of Practice, TJC guidelines, and the Nutrition Care Manual from Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Outpatient nutrition counseling can also be provided with a medical doctor's referral.


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Chris Phillips, Chief sports reporter / / League Two Table & Results
BILEL Mohsni was full of smiles after finally being credited with a hat-trick for Southend United against Barnet on Friday night, 15 months after he first felt he should have been given the match ball.
Mohsni hit home three first half goals as Blues brushed aside the struggling Bees 3-0 at Roots Hall.
And the Frenchman insisted nobody was going to deny him his latest moment of glory.
"I'm very happy to have got a hat-trick because last year I got one against Macclesfield and then they gave one of the goals to someone else," said Mohsni, 24.
"I still say that it was a hat-trick for me but nobody ever agrees with me. But this time it's definitely mine and I have the match ball so nobody can change it this time."
Mohsni's latest fine finishes in front of goal kept Southend fifth in the League Two table and they also guaranteed Paul Sturrock's side at least a place in the end of season play-offs.
"It is very good to have made sure we are in the top seven and for me it is very good to score three goals as well," said Mohsni.
"I could have scored a couple more because I missed two good chances in the first half too, but I'm happy with three and also happy that we won the game because it was very important for us to do that."
Mohsni now wants to continue the run of good results to ensure Blues enjoy a successful end to the season, either through gaining automatic promotion or by winning the play-offs at Wembley.
"We have two league games left and we want to win them both," said Mohsni. "We still have a slight chance of finishing in the top three but if we miss out on that then we want to finish as high as we can to make sure we get the second leg of the play-offs at home.
"There's still plenty to be playing for and hopefully I can keep on scoring to help us get more good results."


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25 beauty hacks for lazy-broke girls
There are plenty of beauty tips that we care not to listen to. Who actually throws out their mascara after six months? Do you really need to buy enough makeup brushes to rival an artist's palette? And will smooshing strawberries all over your teeth really give you a smile to rival Catherine Zeta Jones's? We ain't got time for that.
As a refreshing counter to articles like this, these beauty tips won't get in the way of you being your cheap and lazy self. And yes, they go well beyond dabbing toothpaste onto your pimples.
1. To avoid lipstick on your teeth like your fourth-grade teacher used to sport, stick your finger in your mouth and pull it out. This way your finger will take the excess product, not your teeth.
2. Concoct your own pout-plumping lip venom (and save yourself $30) by adding a drop of cinnamon or peppermint oil to your lip colour.
3. Vaseline costs you pocket change and has to be the most hard-working beauty product out there. (Yes, even harder working than paw paw ointment, if you can believe it.) Apply to lashes before bed to make them grow longer and thicker over time, use it to tame unruly eyebrows, apply to pulse points before spritzing your perfume to make the scent last longer, combine with sea salt to make a scrub and mix with lipstick to make a subtle cream blush.
4. Creepy, yes, but this is what contouring is actually supposed to look like before you blend. Kim K knows what we're talking 'bout.
Image via warosu.org.
5. Want glide-on, easy-to-apply gel eyeliner? Grab any kohl pencil eyeliner and heat it under a flame for one second before letting it cool for 15 seconds to liquefy and intensify the pigment.
6. Don't have a curler? Give yourself groovy, long-lasting waves by flat-ironing your braids with your hair staightener. Avoid making the braids too tight lest you like the crimped look.
7. Don't listen to Sally Hansen when she says you need to buy cuticle cream. Eye cream applied to your nail beds serves the same purpose.
8. Get your eyeshadow to pop by covering your eyelid in white eyeshadow first. The same applies to your nails - use a white base coat instead of a clear one for brighter-looking polish. A no-brainer, really.
9. While towels cause static and friction, drying your hair with a cotton T-shirt eliminates the frizz factor completely.
10. Adore glitter nail polish but can't stand the pain of taking it off? Apply a base coat of craft glue for an easily peelable manicure.
11. Don't have a steady hand? A dusting of baby powder between coats of mascara creates the fullness of falsies minus the hassle.
12. There's nothing worse than blotches of dry shampoo that could be mistaken for dandruff. Always apply it the night before, not the morning of, to prevent product build-up. (You can even make your own using cornstarch and cocoa powder.)
13. The secret to perfect winged eyeliner isn't sticky tape, but a teaspoon:
14. Want the perfect French tips? Create an even line along your fingernails by using a rubber band to delineate the section you are painting.
15. Want to give your lipstick long-wearing powers? After applying, hold a tissue over your lips and lightly dust with translucent powder to set the colour.
16. Stop! You're doing your eyebrows all wrong! According to this video, they ought to be shaped according to how wide or slim you want your nose to appear.
17. We've heard of heating our eyelash curler under our hairdryer to solidify the curl, but did you know that sticking your curler in your bra or between your thighs for a few minutes has the same warming effect? And there's no risk of singeing yourself.
18. Avoid mascara ruining your eyeshadow by using a business card as a shield.
19. Give yourself an easy ombre job at home by pulling hair back into a high ponytail.
20. Got a spot of foundation on your white shirt? A touch of shaving cream on a damp cloth should clear it right up.
21. You can reduce hair static and flyaways by slicking it with a dryer sheet.
22. There's no tougher wait than the time it takes your conditioner to work or your manicure to dry. Cut that drying time in half by dunking your nails in a bowl of cold water for two minutes shortly after painting.
23. Had a messy experience with leaky products in your suitcase? Hasn't everyone? Just unscrew the caps, place a layer of cling film over the top and screw them back to prevent any liquid from ruining your trip.
24. Get fuller-looking, popsicle-stained lips by stamping a touch of pale, frosted eyeshadow over your lip colour.
25. The ultimate lazy-broke girl trick? Wear minimal makeup a la Rachel McAdam's stripped down #NoMakeup cover for Allure this month:
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