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Anyone Can Win Vicious Part 4: Demonic Library
People often see vicious dungeons as above and beyond. Yes, they are much tougher, but with the right strategy and planning anyone can win a vicious dungeon. The object of my mini-series of annotated playthroughs is to prove to you that you can beat vicious, no matter who you are. I plan to prove this by going through and beating every vicious dungeon with a human fighter. The reason is with a fighter, you have to have a good strategy and know little tricks to make dungeons easier, as they themselves have very little leverage. I do not recommend you do this. One last important note: to beat most vicious, you will need top notch preparations. Make sure you have upgraded all of your buildings as high as you can.
In the fourth part of this collection we will look at Demonic Library. There are six different bosses at least one status affect that will hurt you and they all deal considerable damage. On top of that they give each other death protection and there's a fairly dangerous monster set. Still, no matter how daunting, every dungeon is beatable. We'll start off by looking at my preparations.
Tri-Sword: This is a wonderful all-round preparation, second only to the Dragon Shield.
Black Market: This is more of a personal preference. Still, it helps because I'll be prepping elites.
Tiki Tooki: This is basically the center of strategy. You'll see why later.
Magnet: Fireball: This is essential for classes that need leverage early, and the fighter needs as fast as he can get it.
Perseverance Badge: A great prep that gives more damage and takes up little room.
Elite Items: I'm really hoping for Elven Boots, because a lot of the bosses do magic damage and the extra mana helps with the low hp bosses.
Potion Kit: Health and Mana Potions are always useful. Whupaz is essential for every vicious dungeon. Reflex is always helpful. Strength combos with the tri-sword to help get me off my feet.
Transmutation Seal: I have no need for the other seals, and it's always nice to nab the secret subdungeon.
Let the run begin!
Due to the high-damage demonlord bosses, this troll heart will be useful. The other shop has the elven boots, which I'll buy once I can afford it.
I can't find a good level three target, but this secret subdungeon is Good Glenrick. It is a level six monster with 10 hp and 6 damage. It's the ultimate early level catapult. Oh yeah, I converted WONFYT.
Level one to level four! I'm about to kill this level 6 imp with ENDISWAL and a strength potion, and then the level five imp with my DP. I can easily replenish that with CYDSTEPP.
This may seem a bit early, but I'm going to start worshipping Tiki Tooki. I'll start cleaning up popcorn till I can afford the poison boon, then 20 more. Also, I remembered to convert BYCEPS. The subdungeon just has some gold and a sign.
I'll desecrate Binlor, convert to Dracul, convert CYDSTEPP and pick up GETINDARE. I may lose my 15% magic resistance, but the benefits that I will reap instead are enormous in comparison.
This fight was probably a waste of resources, but it demonstrates the power of poison. I just attack, regen, and repeat.
I'd like to demonstrate the power of GETINDARE. This Succubus is two levels higher than me. I set up a dodge by casting GETINDARE repeatedly while taking death protection off weak doom armors. That way I can clean up doom armors for popcorn later.
To kill the succubus I just dodge, fireball and first strike.
I grabbed a stack of lifesteal.
I'll I have to do to get high level kills is use poison. It's an incredible power-leveling tool.
Since this guy is the hardest of the five demonlords, I'll take him out first. The reason for this is that when you kill a demonlord it gives another demonlord a death protection. If you save the worst for last, it will have two or three death protections. Since I can't use fireball, I'll cast GETINDARE before every attack. Hopefully I'll get lucky enough to get a dodge in the middle of the fight. Also, while I normally couldn't survive a hit from him, GETINDARE combined with my lifesteal reduces his damage by seven.
I attacked this doom armor to see if I can get a dodge, which I did. Now I'll attack the demonlord, poisoning him, regenerate to full stats and finish him off. That gave Perivolcan Ze a death protection.
Here's my next target. I had a dodge, so I figured I'd attack Mesostel Pa. I dodge, attack, throw down a mana potion, and win with first strike. That gave Perivolcan Ze another death protection
I have a dodge and I'm about to level up, fully healing me, so I'll start hitting him. That way I get an extra hit. To take out his death protections I fireball the first one, discharge the burning dealing one damage and taking out a second death protection and then GETINDARE for the kill. That gave Aphelion a death protection.
I'll take out this guy next. I just fireball twice, attack, regenerate, and repeat. That gave Aphelion another death protection.
This guy weakened me a bit so I'll buy a fortitude tonic, but I forget it until later.
I started fighting Aphelion. He has magic attack, poisonous, first strike and two death protections. I can't regen fight this guy, because Aphelion poisons me too. I dodged, fireballed, dodged again, burnt out a death protection, used burning to take out his other death protection. Now I'll kill this djinn to level up. Then I fireball him so I kill him without poisoning me. Then I buy a fortitude tonic and cure my weakening.
Now that I've killed the five demonlords they have reawakened THE AVATAR. I cleaned up the map so I am about to level up mid-fight with against The Avatar. Then I convert my troll heart to buy a fine sword. Lastly, I pick up another level of lifesteal to health with the boss.
Red text?! He seems angry. Better kill him.
Here's his stats. He's not actually that strong, but most people have their resources too depleted because of the demonlords. He also spawns level ten monsters with random stats and abilities whenever you hit him. I just whupaz, reflex, use poison, use a mid-fight level up and...
I crush him. Not even a potion or a bloodswell or a bloodpool. He's really not that hard.
Here's my final screen. That's just incase you want to fill in the blanks of what I killed when and so forth. Just to drive home the point of how beatable vicious is, I made quite a few mistakes as a human fighter and I still won with tons of resources to spare.
Key points: Level up ASAP. Tiki Tooki and poison ASAP for leveling and convert out (preferably to Dracul or Glowing Guardian). Take out the tough demonlords first through poison and dodges.
One last note: If this is your first try in Demonic Library, try an easier class like the Warlord, Rogue or Thief. The fighter is not actually a good pick for this dungeon.
Goodbye, good luck, and happy monster killing!


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Elaine Purkey says it all really…
Month: June 2012
An Indestructible Union (Part 7)
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to blog about it does it make a sound? A working website is now the most important piece of infrastructure a union has. As I've stated earlier the heart of the union is the conversations that occur between members – this is what brings workers to stand together. The website has an important role to play in bringing workers together across geographically disparate areas who might otherwise be critically linked by employer, industry or supply-chain connections. There has been some background debate over the last few years whether the rise of the online world and social media has made organising easier or harder. For the purposes of this post, that debate is besides the point. It would be like arguing whether the printing press had damaged the aesthetics of book publishing, the world has moved on and the point now for those of us who are primarily interested in changing it is to adjust to a new reality. Continue reading "An Indestructible Union (Part 7)"

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GULF OF MEXICO — Shrimpers have filed petitions with the federal government seeking relief from subsidized shrimp imports. The move came several weeks after Gulf of Mexico shrimpers hailed a House bill that included a provision to increase U.S. Customs and Border Protection's powers to combat illegal imports.
The Coalition of Gulf Shrimp Industries filed the petitions, which seek "countervailing duties" — duties imposed to offset subsidies by foreign governments — on shrimp from China, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. The coalition states that the duties are needed "to offset the unfair trade advantage currently held by these countries."
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Quite the variety of photos in this next set:
Things to love about this photo: the car; the boy's hat; the dog (or is that a sheep?).
Yeah, these kids are barely tolerating having their photo taken.
The above is a dramatic shot, isn't it? Anyone recognize it? If you've been to Gettysburg and seen Devil's Rock (or Devil's Den Rock), then you've seen it before.
Love the knickers in the next photo:
This is a different vehicle than what is shown in the background of the first photo above. Perhaps they are posing in front of a new car?
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Yeah, but if the run I had is possible with no familiarity with the class/god interactions then it's hard to imagine this not getting absurd.
If the top end can stomp too easily, and is not too unlikely to happen (I imagine there are hidden synergies in a lot of the seemingly bad gods/items setups), then that is what will define the class for vicious dungeon runs.
If there's one thing I've learnt about this game it's that it's always possible to do something crazier/more powerful and if something feels like it can be broken in some way, then it can be and there are still 100 new ways to break it that you didn't even think of yet.
I think this class will teach a lot of people (including me) how useful killing popcorn at early levels can be and that this is not always a cardinal sin. With the use of them for level spiking gone, the main benefits of popcorn left are curse reduction/life-steal/activating burning/piety farming and with this class you actively want to do the last one of these as early as possible.
The massive downside to early munching is that you can go over a level threshold too early, making the exp you get from killing higher lvl monsters decrease drastically - but really, with the right strategy this isn't that much of a problem and it's possible to gain a few exp without it ever breaking a level threshold.
I think the class will also teach people even more about the power of the gods. Being able to farm piety and then spend it on a different deity so easily leads to so many powerful combinations.


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In light of the passing asteroid and the (unrelated, apparently) meteorite that hit Russia last night, we'd point out that in the extremely unlikely event of a meteorite or old satellite crashing into your home, your insurance would likely cover the damage to you, your car, business or -- hopefully not -- yourself.
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Our in-house consumer hotline folks add that if a meteor struck near a home, with no direct hit, but that the impact and shock wave caused damage, that damage too would likely be covered in a standard policy.
Again, the odds of getting hit by something like this are very, very low, although not zero. An Alabama woman was struck by a meteorite in 1954, and in 1992, a car in New York state was hit.
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He's back: Greenleaf attacker strikes again
He'll be back. That was the prediction of Charlottesville police two years ago when Robert Terrell Haskins received what they believed was a slap on the wrist– six months in jail– for what they charged was an attempted rape of a young mother in Greenleaf Park.
He is back. Haskins, 23, was arrested December 1 and charged with assault and battery, breaking and entering, and grand larceny in a case reminiscent of his past assaults on women.
His latest alleged victim is a 30-year-old woman who'd recently moved to Little High Street and who said Haskins had followed her a few times, says Captain Chip Harding.
On November 26, according to police, Haskins asked the woman if he could use her bathroom. He started "acting strange and making comments," says Harding, and she asked him to leave.
"He grabbed her by the belt, pulled her forward and kissed her," he adds. "He put his hand over her mouth and said, 'Don't scream.'"
Haskins left the woman's house– and several minutes later, allegedly tried to come in the basement sliding doors. "She screamed, 'You need to leave,'" says Harding.
The woman did not report the incident until a few days later, when she noticed several items missing from her house, including a purse and laptop.
"She starts describing this bizarre behavior, and she knows his name is Robert," says Harding. The investigating officer was aware of Haskins' criminal history and that "Haskins hangs in this part of town."
Police were stunned in 2003 when a judge released Haskins after he knocked down a woman who was in Greenleaf Park with her 16-month-old baby on December 30, 2002. The brazen daylight attack sent chills through a community facing a serial rapist on the loose.
Haskins was arrested in March 2003 when the Greenleaf Park victim saw him walk by as she was having lunch at Christian's Pizza on the Downtown Mall. He was charged with attempted rape, a felony that carries up to 10 years in jail. Substitute Judge Joseph Spinella found him guilty of misdemeanor sexual battery and released him with credit for the six months he had spent in jail.
Although DNA proved Haskins was not the serial rapist, he gave police a statement introduced in court saying that he "intended to rape this woman but didn't, only because she fought him off so strongly," an incredulous Captain Harding told The Hook after the six-month verdict. Harding is not surprised that Haskins was arrested again.
"I just hope we have a successful prosecution and don't have a substitute judge like we did in the Greenleaf case," he says. "It's a shame the judge doesn't live in this community and doesn't have to answer questions from citizens on this. I will make an attempt to forward published articles on Mr. Haskins to him to keep him abreast of how his ruling affected the community."
Spinella, 80, is retired and lives in Richmond. He does not remember the Haskins case, nor does he typically comment on specific cases. "I decide the case on the evidence that comes before me," he says. "Apparently there was something with the evidence presented."
Following the Greenleaf attack, Haskins was arrested in two cases involving joggers on Locust Avenue, and police believe he's the same man who followed a woman on Jefferson Street and made sexually suggestive remarks.
Haskins was barely out of jail for the Greenleaf case when he was arrested again October 9, 2003, for chasing a female jogger on Locust. He was charged with obstruction of justice, found guilty, and given a 30-day suspended sentence.
And he picked up another two months in jail when he was convicted of misdemeanor sexual battery for grabbing the buttocks of a juvenile jogger on Locust Avenue on February 18, 2003.
In court records from the Greenleaf trial, Haskins told an investigator he'd attended Grafton in Winchester, a school that prepares students with autism, mental retardation, and behavioral, learning, and emotional disorders to live independently. He also said that he had seizures, and when he failed to take his medication– as he did the day of the Greenleaf attack– "I do wild stuff."
Two years ago, Harding said Haskins' behavior "paints a picture of a compulsion he's unable to control, but he knows it's wrong." The officer declared Haskins "an obvious threat to the women in this community."
The Little High resident identified Haskins from a police lineup. Haskins admitted he had entered her house several times, says Harding, and he is being held without bond at Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Jail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for December 22. If convicted of all charges, Haskins is looking at over 40 years in jail.
"I'm shocked that he's repeated his behavior and that he's out in the community," says the mother of one of his victims, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "He can't keep doing this. He really needs to get help."
Robert Terrell Haskins in front of the camera for his December 1 arrest. He was also arrested for assaulting women in March and October 2003.


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CarraraDevelopers necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 194 diseños de 44 diseñadores freelance.
REO Repair Doctors, LLC
We are a general contracting company with over 10 years of service in the Phoenix, AZ metro area. We repair foreclosed, bank owned homes and want to attract more REO listing agents and bank asset managers as clients. We are fully licensed, bonded and insured and want to promote a professional image.
Words that describe us: responsive, reliable, efficient, clean, curtious, honest, relational.
PRIMARY: REO listing agents - realtors listing bank owned properties. We want to attract the "movers and shakers" in the business - realtors with 100+ bank listings and good relationships with the banks, by providing top quality service they can depend on. Reputation is huge!
SECONDARY: Bank asset managers, home owners.
Design something simple and clean that can be used to brand our website, letterhead, invoices, emails, etc. The name is catchy and leaves a lot open for ideas. We want something professional but not stale. Have fun with it and make it something that is memorable and easily identifiable.
Logo is only for the words REO Repair Doctors, not for the letters "LLC". "REO" to be in uppercase characters.
You are free to choose the colors and forms of the logo.
Logo must be professional and 100% original.
Good Luck!
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JobsOhio turns over financial records to auditor
Agency questions auditor's right to records
Ohio's private nonprofit job creation agency turned over its financial records Tuesday in response to an order by the state auditor, but it continued to insist the records are not public.
JobsOhio spokeswoman Laura Jones said the records were hand-delivered ahead of a noon deadline. The agency complied despite maintaining that Republican Auditor Dave Yost doesn't have legal authority to audit the private side of the fledgling agency's books.
"The Auditor's assertion that he can audit any private company, nonprofit, or charity that receives public funds will scare off new job creators and cripple economic development in our state," Chief Investment Officer John Minor said in a statement. "The General Assembly recognized the need for a private-sector approach to economic development when it created JobsOhio, but if there's still any confusion then we believe it should be resolved immediately."
Yost says Ohio law gives him the right to review private financial records with ties to public funds. He subpoenaed the documents last week after JobsOhio failed to produce the records on its own.
JobsOhio was created in 2011 by Gov. John Kasich to "move at the speed of business." It received $1 million in taxpayer dollars as start-up money and has gone to market with a $1.5 billion bond sale backed by rights to Ohio's liquor business.
Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols blasted Yost for hobbling the pace of the office's work.
"The auditor's attempt to re-write the law to make JobsOhio a slow, bureaucratic public body again will kill JobsOhio and its job creation efforts," he said in a statement. "And if companies that accept economic development incentives fear that government auditors will seize and disclose their confidential business records, then that will kill job growth in the state of Ohio."
Minor announced Tuesday that JobsOhio would be refunding the $1 million in start-up funds it received now that it's gotten proceeds from the bond offering.
The executive director of a liberal policy group that's challenging the constitutionality of JobsOhio's funding structure in court alleged that the refund was intended as an end-run around public access to JobsOhio's records by making its books fully private.
"They're using proceeds of public money to pay back public money that the governor himself said should be audited and subject to audit," ProgressOhio Executive Director Brian Rothenberg said. "This is a real-world example of why JobsOhio is unconstitutional because the mix of public and private money is way too cozy and reeks of partisanship."
Nichols said the administration continues to support public review of JobsOhio's public funds and the release of its private-funds audit report, but it fears businesses being lured to Ohio could be deterred by broad public access to the books.
He said "the General Assembly must act quickly to prevent a chilling effect on job creation caused by a mistaken, overly-intrusive interpretation of the Auditor's duties."


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Sleepiness may affect surgeons' ability to deal with the unexpected
Sleep-deprived surgeons can perform a previously learned task or learn a new task as well as surgeons who are rested, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. However, in sleep-deprived surgeons, the brain must work harder, which could lead to problems during unexpected events.
The researchers reached these conclusions using simulations to study the effects of sleepiness on surgeons.
"Particularly in surgery, simulation has become the introduction to many procedures for new residents," said Jonathan Tomasko, M.D., a research fellow involved in surgical resident training. "Coupled with an 80-hour work week restriction, simulation is becoming increasingly important to ensure an adequate level of skill prior to operation on a patient."
While published research using simulation to determine the effects of sleep deprivation on surgical skill exists, the results do not agree with each other.
"Interestingly, these reports conflict with the results of sleep disruption on non-medical simulated tasks," Tomasko said. "The ability to fly a plane, operate a locomotive and drive an automobile have all been shown in studies to be significantly affected by sleep disruptions. Two such studies showed impairment in simulated performance equivalent to moderate blood alcohol levels."
Researchers in this study, published in American Journal of Surgery, tested two groups of medical students -- one sleep deprived and the other rested -- over two days. All study participants were shown how to use a virtual reality simulator on the first three levels of difficulty. They practiced for no more than 45 minutes a day. Researchers instructed study participants to get a full night's rest and then tested the subjects on the first three levels of the simulator.
The researchers introduced an unexpected task in the test to increase the brain's workload. Students were asked to count the flashes of a yellow disc on the screen while performing the task and then report the number of flashes at the end of the round.
Participants returned for a second day of testing either fully rested -- no less than six hours sleep -- or sleep deprived -- less than two hours of sleep. A majority of participants scheduled their testing on a pre-arranged, 24-hour call shift during their surgery rotation to better approximate the effects of performing surgery at night while sleepy.
Participants retook the test on the second day to assess the effects of sleep deprivation on performing an already learned skill. In addition, the researchers instructed the participants on a different simulator and then tested them to assess the effects of sleepiness on learning a new surgical skill.
Researchers used a metric called the NASA Task Load Index to assess workload on the brain of the subjects. This is a tool used in NASA applications and in simulation to determine how difficult a task is.
"We demonstrated no difference in ability to perform a previously learned simulated surgical task or to learn a new simulated surgical task while moderately sleep deprived," Tomasko said. "However, in order to achieve the same level of performance, sleep-deprived subjects demonstrated increased cognitive workload compared to their rested counterparts."
When asked to count the yellow flashes, both sleepy and rested participants did so correctly while increasing their score on the surgery skill test the second day.
Other studies have shown that stress on brain workload could have negative effects on patient care, especially during unexpected events during surgery. Future studies should focus on new work-hour restrictions as set forth by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Tomasko said.
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Memoryhouse's Debut Album Available Now
It's official, Memoryhouse's debut record, The Slideshow Effect, is now available on the literal, and less tangible, digital shelves. The fine folks at the Sub Pop Megamart (That's us! We're the fine folks I'm talking about.) have a small handful of the limited edition, Memoryhouse photo books we were offering to people who preoredered The Slideshow Effect, and we'll be sending those out with orders while they last. Just a friendly reminder from us to you, re: Memoryhouse.


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As 2015 India's top budget film, the historical Indian epic blockbuster Baahubali – The Beginning had grossed more than $90 million worldwide. And without much surprise, the new released Baahubali 2: The Conclusion broke the record again by earning $120 million during the first week, making it the highest grossing Indian film all around the world ever.
Here comes the thunderous applause to Makuta VFX who produced it and Fox Renderfarm who rendered it.
Baahubali's CGI visual effects was collaborated with a local company named Makuta VFX. Fox Renderfarm was tasked with the responsibility of rendering the movie. Almost the entire movie was super imposed with elaborated CGI special effects of lavish landscapes and magnificent war scenes from the movie.
In this interview, Fox Renderfarm asked some questions about the productions of Baahubali, such as the biggest issues during it, the challenges encountered during the rendering phase and how Fox Renderfarm helped in the customized rendering process. Please check the whole interview regarding the production of Baahubali between Fox Renderfarm and Makuta VFX.
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After posting about NuFormer 3D Video Mapping Interactivity Test we were given a heads up on the world's first ever user generated 3D projection mapping event by Wrigley's 5 Gum. The event was showcased in South Africa, both in Johannesburg and Cape Town. This world first experience allowed internet users to create their own projections with the chance of seeing them in real life. It was based on the 5 Experience campaign for 5 Gum and incentivised by the prize of winning tickets to see french electronic DJ, Etienne De Crecy live.
Around 840 projections were created for the event. The complete projection lasted little more than an hour. Audience members were seminal to the performance, as they were able to manipulate the live projection from their iPads. All guests were supplied with 5 Gum samples throughout the evening as well!
This event was the work of Tribal DDB South Africa . It really demonstrates where the future of projection mapping is heading. Incorporating an interactive element to live projection mapping offers an exciting engagement opportunity to the users experience. We can't wait to see more campaigns like this!
Thanks for the heads up Don't Party.


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They can help you whether you wish to take your family snorkelling, a couples special dive or snorkel charter, advance your dive training and more. They offer two distinctively different vessels and activities to choose from with different price ranges to suit all budgets.
Due to current health advice on social distancing, please contact the business for the most up to date information regarding opening times and services.
Relax, enjoy and perhaps challenge yourself on board MV Reef Goddess. A vessel designed specifically for snorkel and dive day visits to the Great Barrier Reef. You are sure to enjoy a remarkable day exploring this extraordinary underwater world.
Try Scuba Diving for the first time at the Great Barrier Reef on board "Reef Goddess". No need for certification, you will receive all training on board then choose from one or two dives in two different sites. If you are certified you have the option of one or two dives in two different locations.
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bboymsjee necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 29 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
CageBoss, Inc
We are developing a Facebook application game for MMA and UFC fans. We need graphics and icons to depict fighting moves and other virtual goods within the game.
MMA, UFC, and martial arts fans. Typically male 18-35. Target demo is typically also interested in poker and other professional sports.
This contest requires the submission of 10 icons total:
5 virtual goods
5 graphics that depict fighting moves (like punch, jab, uppercut)
All graphics should be 80x80 pixels
IMPORTANT: The winner of this contest will be hired to complete 200 more icons for the rest of the game! Also, we are in a hurry to get these graphics done so if we see something we like we will end the contest early and award the prize.
All virtual goods icons should have a similar theme or style. Similarly, the fighting moves graphics should also have a similar theme or style, but not necessarily the same style as the virtual goods. Also attaching a screenshot of the game for reference.
For the moves, I was thinking of a traffic sign theme (see attachment). Would be better for them to be square, not diamond.
-Picture 5 and Picture 6 are sample icons from the popular Facebook game Mafia Wars as a reference.
-traffic_sign_icons.jpg shows some traffic sign icons for a potential theme for the moves.
-game_screenshot.jpg. So you can see what the game looks like.
Virtual Goods:
1) Athletic Tape
2) Boxing Gloves
3) Jump Rope
4) Stop Watch
5) Yoga Mat
Fighting Moves Graphics
1) Jab
2) Uppercut
3) Superman Punch
4) Arm Bar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armlock)
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|Early printed books, 17th and 18th century books, large collections in various subjects - law, medieval studies, classical studies, philosophy, history, travel and exloration, area studies - and some large general collections.


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incdesigner necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 165 diseños de 54 diseñadores freelance.
In the process of creating a large tutorial web site that will specialize in tutorials for photoshop, photography and wordpress themes.
Web / Graphics Designers, Bloggers and Internet Marketers
I would like to have a logo created for RoyalTutorial.com.
This logo design will also be used as a watermark in all tutorial images. Even when the logo is downsized, the url should still be readable, or a smaller watermark version should be supplied.
Other top sites in the tutorial space are tutorial9.net, webdesignerdepot.com, webdesigndev.com and sixrevisions.com.
The logo for RoyalTutorial.com is the first step in the branding process and should be something unique and fun, while a little professional. A wordpress theme will later be created off this design.
As for concept, I'm very open on this one and looking for something creative. The concept theme is "Royal", so feel free to use royal colors (purple/yellow), or come up with your own scheme. Also the use of a "crown" may look nice.
Please do not submit any simple text / clip art designs. I'm looking for something advanced and creative.
The use of original art and "cartoon-like" work is also allowed.
The final image should be available in all format and sizes.
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Immigration reform would reduce the United States' deficit by approximately $200 billion and increase real GDP by 3.3% in the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office's recently released score of the Senate's immigration reform bill, S. 744.
In a June 18 White House blog post, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget; Alan Krueger, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors; and Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council, analyzed the CBO's report on the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (S. 744).
The administration's three economic gurus note that the CBO and Joint Committee on Taxation report says the Senate's bill would increase real GDP by 3.3% in 2023, and 5.4% in 2033, a real increase of roughly $700 billion in 2023 and $1.4 trillion in 2033, "due to higher labor force participation, increased capital investment, and increased productivity resulting from technological advancements, such as new innovations and improvements in the production process.'"
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Thursday on the Senate floor that the legislation was near a "bipartisan" agreement, "barring something unexpected."
While some drafting of the legislative language has yet to be completed, Schumer said, lawmakers "are on the verge of a huge breakthrough on border security. With this agreement, we believe we have the makings of a strong, bipartisan final vote in favor of this immigration reform bill."
CBO estimates that "Fixing our broken immigration system," will reduce federal deficits by about $200 billion over the next 10 years, and about $700 billion in the second decade, the White House analysts note.
"The CBO analysis made clear that the additional taxes paid by new and legalizing immigrants would not only offset any new spending, but would be substantial enough to reduce the deficit over the 20-year window," the three economic analysts said. "A significant portion of the new taxes would be paid by previously undocumented immigrants. While many of these workers already pay federal taxes, millions more will pay payroll taxes once they are able to obtain legal status and work above board."
Specifically, CBO and Joint Committee on Taxation estimate in their report that enacting S. 744 would have the following budgetary effects:
- Increase federal direct spending by $262 billion over the 2014–2023 period. Most of those outlays would be for increases in refundable tax credits stemming from the larger U.S. population under the bill and in spending on health care programs—particularly for the Medicaid program and for subsidies provided through insurance exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
- Increase federal revenues by $459 billion over the 2014–2023 period. That increase would stem largely from additional collections of income and payroll taxes, reflecting both an increase in the size of the U.S. labor force and changes in the legal status of some current workers.
- Decrease federal budget deficits through the changes in direct spending and revenues just discussed by $197 billion over the 2014–2023 period. Because enacting the bill would affect direct spending and revenues, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. Those procedures consider only the on-budget effects of legislation and not the off-budget effects, such as the effects on Social Security taxes and spending.
As to the legislation's effect on Social Security, Burwell, Krueger and Sperling cite comments made by the Social Security chief actuary in early May that the bill "will strengthen the solvency of the Social Security Trust Fund in the short run and the long run by reforming the legal immigration system and increasing by millions the number of currently undocumented workers who will be paying payroll taxes."
The Chief Actuary said that, "Overall, we anticipate that the net effect of this bill on the long-range OASDI [Social Security] actuarial balance will be positive."
Because most immigrants are young, Burwell, Krueger and Sperling write in their blog, "additional immigration helps balance out the increase in retirees per worker that will occur as the Baby Boom generation retires." The recently-issued 2013 Social Security Trustees Report shows "that an increase of about 25% in annual net immigration flows would reduce the 75-year Social Security imbalance by 7%."
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South Korea Election — South Korean millionaire Ahn Cheol-soo, who founded the country's largest antivirus software, is campaigning as an independent candidate in the presidential election in December, reports Bloomberg. Ahn is running against the ruling party candidate Park Geun-hye and the main opposition's Moon Jae-in to govern the Northeast Asian country for a single five-year term. Ahn, a physician turned software creator, "must confront questions about his lack of governing experience to win voters dissatisfied with growing income disparity and rising youth unemployment," wrote Bloomberg.
Uruguay's Drug War — Uruguay's ruling coalition, reports the Christian Science Monitor, has introduced a radical idea to stem drug-related violence: a state monopoly over the production and distribution of marijuana. The bill, proposed by the center-left Broad Front, would make the South American country the first national government to sell marijuana directly to the public. "The government says the measure is necessary to combat rising drug-related crime, decrease health risks for users, and counter ineffective U.S. policies on drugs," but interest groups say the bill is totalitarian, wrote CSM.
Extraction Industries — VOA News notes that Europe is trying to shed light on corruption in extraction industries in developing countries. A European Parliamentary committee has okayed proposed legislation that would require European companies to publish payments they make to governments in exchange for natural resources. Watchdog group Global Witness said many developing countries are victims of "the resource course" — even though they have abundant supplies of "oil, gas, timber or minerals, citizens in those countries often fail to see any benefits when those resources are extracted and sold," wrote VOA.
U.S.-China Relations – Dozens of angry protesters surrounded the car of U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke in Beijing on Tuesday, CNN reports. Some protesters threw objects at the vehicle before a security detail intervened. The United States "expressed concern to China about the unusual disturbance," a move that follows ramped up security initiatives at U.S. embassies after the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya. This incident took place as anti-Japanese protests erupted throughout several Chinese cities over a territorial dispute and as U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visited the country to discuss cyber terrorism, according to the AP.
Iran Aids Syria – Iran has been shipping large quantities of weapons and military personnel across Iraqi airspace to Syria, Reuters reports. A Western intelligence report suggests that Iran has been coming to the aid of President Bashar Assad's regime in Syria in order to quell an 18-month uprising against the government. U.S. Senator John Kerry has threatened to halt aid to Baghdad if they do not restrict Iran's use of Iraq's airspace; although Iraq claims it doesn't allow the transport of any weapons through the country.


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No poet—and Bono, the 42-year-old lead singer of the Irish rock band U2, considers himself a poet—enjoys having his verse scrutinized. And no musician likes to have to explain what a song means.
Nevertheless, for more than 20 years Bono's fans have been attempting to gauge his spiritual well-being by what he sings, what he says in interviews, talk shows, and awards programs, and what he does or doesn't do in public.
For many Christians of a certain generation, combing through the lyrics of U2 songs (nearly all of them written by Bono) in search of biblical images or references to Jesus Christ and his teachings is almost a sport. Consider it a cross between exegesis and Where's Waldo?
He doesn't attend church regularly. He prays frequently. He likes to say grace before meals. He tries to have a "Sabbath hour" as often as he can. His favorite Bible is Eugene Peterson's paraphrase, The Message. He hangs out with Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones, but on a recent visit to Nashville he spent the morning palling around with Michael W. Smith and Amy Grant.
Bono knows the subject of his personal faith is of great interest to others, although he's certain that interest is misplaced. The inquiries don't seem to bother him—Bono seems comfortable with who he is. He just celebrated his 20th wedding anniversary with his high-school sweetheart, Alison Stewart, his band had one of its most successful years artistically and professionally, and he has found his calling, on and off stage. Rarely has Bono talked explicitly about his faith and beliefs. But as he has begun to recruit churches this past year in the fight against AIDS in Africa, that seems to be changing.
'Hi. I'm Bono.'
Born Paul David Hewson in Dublin, Ireland, to a Roman Catholic ...1
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Welcome to The Elder Scrolls Online v3.3.5 and the Dragon Bones DLC Game Pack! As with previous updates, the base game patch will be available to everyone who owns The Elder Scrolls Online and the DLC Game Pack will automatically download with it, allowing you instant access to the new content when you purchase it or activate an ESO Plus membership. Anyone who owns ESO and has an active ESO Plus membership will also automatically have access to the Dragon Bones DLC Game Pack. If your ESO Plus membership ends or lapses, you will no longer have access to the DLC Game Pack content and areas, but you will still have any items you earned while you had access.
In this update, you'll be able to explore and conquer two all-new 4 player dungeons – Fang Lair and Scalecaller Peak. These dungeons offer new item sets, Monster Masks, achievements and unique rewards! We've also added two new Battlegrounds maps – Mor Khazgur and Deeping Drome – which are available to anyone who owns The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind.
In the base game patch, we've added several new features including the highly-anticipated Outfit System, which gives you the freedom to customize the visual appearance of your gear, and Home Storage Furnishings! We've also added two new systems to aid players as they adventure throughout Tamriel: a Level Up Advisor and Skills Advisor. And as always, we've made several adjustments and improvements to combat abilities, including an overhaul to our Synergy system, and several bug fixes.
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"We would welcome her back if she has respect and knows what she wants."
Damn it! Show some respect!
"We would welcome her back if she has respect and knows what she wants."
Has there been mention of whether or not the food sucked?
Dragon House manager Kent Cao said his restaurant offers all you can eat buffet, not all you can waste. Dershem's family took food, didn't finish it and then piled on the same food again, he said.
"Shes done that too many times," Cao said.
They deserved worse than they got!
That was for you, wickedpinto.
I support the restaurant owner. It's all you can eat. You are invited to take what you can eat. If you take things you don't eat, it's the same as stealing. She had no permission to take things to throw in the trash. What if Cao's competitors paid for a meal and then loadedup plate after plate just to toss in the trash? She's lucky she wasn't arrested.
A more subtle question is whether, if you take more than you can eat, you've got to leave it to be thrown out, or whether it's acceptable to take it with you. It would seem that taking things with you is an even worse violation.
Bow down to the buffet, beyotch! Respect!
Just kidding.
I totally side with the restaurant owner too. It sounds like this woman was making a habit of being purposefully wasteful - or at least letting her kids do that. And the fact that she went to the media after being asked to leave a restaurant backs up the implication that she's probably pretty obnoxious.
Ann Althouse said: "[They're] lucky [they] w[ere]n't arrested."
[My, that was awkward.]
Why is this news?
"They told us we are not welcome there anymore," said Dershem, a repeat customer at the Dragon House buffet. "We waste too much food. But the buffet is all you can eat. And you know kids. They won't always eat everything and they want something else."
Isn't the whole point of a buffet that you only take what you want?
It's news because a woman didn't know how to say "I'm terribly sorry."
It's news because a woman didn't know how to say "I'm terribly sorry."
Bingo. Whatever happened to shame? What a wonderful example she's setting for her children, too. I wonder if they were or were not well-behaved in the restaurant.
Well if she's made habit of it, heck yeah. My kids get "eyes bigger than their stomach" at the buffet sometimes but sounds like this was a lot more than that.
Its like my parents always said:
"There are people starving in Chinese Buffets, eat your food."
Obviously the food didn't suck (at least for her), she was a repeat customer.
But: Oh! Oh! Oh! my brilliant idea: flat fee for all you can eat, make it low, then an additional fee, charged by weight or volume, for food left on the plate.
Would people go for it? No.
But it rocks anyway.
Just about every Chinese buffet table I've encountered has a "take all you want, but eat all you take" sign. I never thought it made anything but sense.
As usual, we're seeing the issue of private behavior being made public. These kids don't see mealtime as a time to eat a meal--they see it as a continuation of their 24-hour playtime. Food is not to be enjoyed as food; it's props for play.
Or maybe they're just like this guy: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39090
Why is this news, downtownlad? Huh? Huh? Why is this news?
Because some people are bad faith jerks who need to get smacked back into place. That's why!
And the same goes for anybody else who's thinking of taking unfair advantage and ruining it for everybody else!
You want a piece of me?! You want a piece of me?!
Woah. Too much Monosodium Glutamate.
Sanjay: I've been to a Korean buffet in Chicago that did exactly that; the food you left was weighed, and you were charged, say, $0.99/lb for what you didn't eat.
It made me choose very carefully - not because the price was so high, but because I thought it would be embarrassing to be assessed for the food I didn't eat.
And note that the woman went all out to give this poor businessman bad press.
4 words: "Shakey's Weigh a Lunch". Put the pizza, chicken, mojo potatos, and salad (that icky green rabbit food) on the scale. It was either a challenge to get the most or peer pressure to stay under $4.00.
Alas -- Shakey's has reverted to a bastardized (or is that rat bastardized??) Chuck E. Cheese (assuming Chuck has known parentage).
I'm with the restaurant owner -- you eat what you take unless it is bad qualityor you're trying something new and don't know you hate it.
The woman must not be a member of a protected group or her lawyer would've dropped the trump card.
Part of being a parent is eating what your children don't finish.
I draw the line when it already been chewed and rejected
Come to think of it, it's rather strange that the only food item sold by weight at my alma mater's dining hall was salad. You'd think they'd charge by weight for all the unhealthy stuff instead.
I read the whole story and didn't see where she does this all the time...
Where I live, when you go into an Asian community to eat, you take your chances. I was once loudly scolded for sending back a "mild" chicken bowl, asking meekly if they perhaps mixed up my order, loaded down with a pile of hot peppers, with someone else's. In a Dim sum restaurant, we were ignored completely for 10 minutes and finally got up and left. A former student opened a restaurant and advertised it as, basically, welcoming "outsiders." Don't know the outcome of that one, but I hope for the best.
There's a buffet place in our town where you can get take-out. Take-out = all you can fit into one styrofoam container with the lid closed.
I am in awe of the amount of food some people are able to squeeze into those things. The lids will be open with a pile of food some 8 to 10 inches high. Then when it's checkout time, the food is smashed and compacted to get the lid down. Amazing.
My kids love the Chinese buffet, but we're very careful about what we give them, especially if they are being adventurous and trying something new - -just a tiny tasting spoonful, then if they like it, they can have more. That's one of the charms of these places, it's easy to try new things.
I love the response: It's all you can eat, not all you can waste. What a great comeback!
I hate to say that I had thought that Wendy had lacked the sorts of social skills and manner that I was taught by my middle cass mother.
Then I googled her. Is it possible that Wendy is a Doctor?
DRILL SGT: I don't know if she's a doctor, but even scarier -- when you google her for Des Moines -- her complete home address pops up.
Yet another reason to mind my own business. If I get kicked out by the buffet Nazis I'll pay my respects and eat what I take.
Only if she shares her apt with Mc Guire, Daniel J MD
He is the next doctor listing below her. I assume it's an office complex.
and the next 4-6 doctors all list the same addy.
Ah... I didn't pursue it further than the residential listing (I guess I didn;t "pursue" anything, but you know what I mean....
Lack of respect for the blessing of food and oblivious to the fact that there is famine and real starvation in this world.
If the child is known to not always finish what is asked for, then give 1/2 of an egg roll and let them ask for more. And what happened to the concept of the doggy bag?
Doggy bag at an all-you-can-place?
If the food is already on one's plate and cannot be eaten, then wrap it up in a napkin and take it home.
Yes, I suppose that could lead to people taking advantage by knowingly loading up with food that they cannot finish. Then perhaps charge them for take-out.......
I like the earlier post on a 'weighing the waste' charge.
Bearbee: Put the two together and get: weigh the doggy bag. That would be fair.
It always amazes me that denizens of the buffet have difficulty understanding that you shouldn't put several pounds of food on your first plate.
Trying to explain that concept to a 300 lb. behemoth breathing down your neck as you put one spring roll on your plate and a lttle salad is problematic.
I am totally with the restaurant owner. Whether at a chinese buffet, or any other buffet for that matter, gluttony is not appreciated or tolerated.
That is the difference between eating and dining.
"That is the difference between eating and dining."
I thought it was the difference between dining and stuffing your face like a starving hyena that just came across a fresh wildebeast carcass. No, the hyena would probably have better manners than some of the buffet-dwellers I've seen.
Anyway, I'm 100% behind the restaurant manager on this one. I suspect poor or non-existant child management skills on the part of this 'customer'.
At last! I'm in the majority! What a strange and novel feeling ....
Congratulations and enjoy it while it lasts. For me it comes about once a decade.
So following this logic, if I don't clean my plate at any restaurant I am subject to banning?
I seem to be in the minority here, but unless this woman was piling up pounds of food, I think the manager was wrong.
And as to being arrested -- unless this was some roving gang of food non-eaters trying to put the poor guy out of business, I don's see a charge.
The food police aren't just in the government it seems.
This story reminds me of a joke told by a Norwegian to a mixed group as we were sailing down the Rhine:
At a smorgasboard there were signs in Swedish, English, and German. In Swedish and English the sign read "go up to the table and take as much as you like". In German the sign read "go up to the table and take exactly six items."
Made-to-order restaurants aren't all that different. They are throwing lots of food out. Health Department says you can only keep chicken under the warmer for 10 minutes, then it must be discarded.....In California (You should see our landfills!)
There's a lot less waste at buffets.
The restaurant is being unreasonable. That's just part of the cost of doing business. Every restaurant that has a salad bar goes through the same problem. And, organic/fresh produce can cost just as much as red meat.
Lobster tail/claws: Look at all the waste that goes on with that. How much meat is there on a lobster bone?
Ann, if this restaurant was serving all-you-can-eat whole lobster, and customers were coming in and loading up the back of a brinks truck.....then I could see your point. But they aren't serving lobster, filet mignon, or crab legs (probably). It's an Asian place. Rice is cheap cheap cheap. I don't think it's possible to waste rice. There's no shortage and they get it wholesale. Sushi is made from the cheapest (Yuck) cuts of fish.
It's not like their serving cavier and Porterhouse, all-you-can-eat. It's basic rice and pasta, maybe a little chuck & chicken thrown in for good measure.
Breach of contract. Customer pays the bill before hand......reasonable expectation that the skies the limit. All-you-can-eat = all-bets-our-off !!!!
If a 400 lb person walks into Hometown Buffet.......my sympathies aren't going to lie with Hometown!
Peace, Maxine
Maxine, I'm sure you know that lobsters don't have bones.
And you're confusing "all you can eat" with "all you can take and then throw away." If the family had actually eaten all the food they had piled on their plates, the management wouldn't have had a problem with them. They weren't throwing away rice, they were throwing away egg rolls and crab rangoon, and who knows what else. And the Chinese buffets around here do have crab legs, and mussels, and one or two shrimp dishes, none of which is as cheap as dark meat chicken or chewy beef.
TWM: There's a difference in paying for a set plate and paying for a buffet. When you buy the set plate, of course you get to bring home leftovers, you've paid for that one plate of food, it's yours. At the buffet, the obvious unspoken agreement is that you take all you can (or want to) eat, while you're at the restaurant. The buffet price does not cover take-out leftovers.
This food is so bad, and the portions are so small!
By Maxine's logic I'm within my rights to completely empty an all-you-can-eat buffet straight into the trash.
OH, Honestly......You really think this place is serving lobster claws (which have not meat on 'em anyway/ all waste), crab legs, and New York filet ?????
They get everything double wholesale, and it's the absolute cheapest cuts of whatever. Asian cuisine is hardly 5-star Escoffier (spelling nightmare).
Buffets are known as loss-leaders. The only people that can afford to run a buffet are casinos with a bottomless supply of cash-flow coming in....and even THEY ended up with all their food thrown in the trash!
Anyone who runs a buffet (without the benefit, or cashflow, of a casino) knows what he/she is getting into.
Hometown and Souplantation are big corporate susbidiaries, and have the support and backing.
It's these little Mom and Pop places with the worst of standards, and cheapest of quality....and then they are gonna try to nickle-n-dime the customer.
I don't think so. These poor little Boat People that come and innocently open a buffet---they are being taken advantage of by greedy, grubby Americans who waste food.
Not buyin' it.
Peace, Maxine
It's not real crab. I guarantee you the crab they serve is synthetic/imitation.
All-you-CARE-to-eat, Hahaha. Funny how they are not replacing the word "can" with "care". Like they are pleading with the customer.
These places are for grazing. Dabbling. Sample.
I like the way food looks piled high on a plate.
Or, wretched excess--according to Mom-n-Pop.
Don't open a buffet if you don't like it. But don't gyp me once I pays my way....up front.
Life is unfair.
Read the health reports of some of these places.
Then, tell me how sorry you feel for 'em.
Peace, Maxine
"You are invited to take what you can eat"----Ann Althouse
There's no invitation, once money changes hands. Once money changes hands, it becomes a contract.
What would be interesting is if the bill is paid at the end of the meal. If they put parameters mid-meal, and the customer refuses to pay......
someone's goin' to jail....or washing dishes.
Anyone ever been to a restaurant and "forgotten your wallet" ???
Peace, Maxine
Maxine: It may be a contract, but that doesn't entitle the customer to take more than what she bought. She bought all she can eat, then proceeded to take many things that she didn't eat. Thus, she took things she did not pay for.
Well, maybe.
But I still don't like these Mom & Pop immigrants who come over here hanging shingles.....
....and ordering me around.
I like to decorate my plate. If I want spare on a plate----I already get enough of that at home. When I go out, I'm into abundance, hearty riches. If I bother to get myself together, to go out.....I like to see plates and plates of stacked food.
(Of course you don't eat all of it!) You nibble....especially if there's a man sitting across from you. You daintily graze. These restraunt owners don't understand the semiotics of food consumption in terms of male/female dating.
The woman picks at the food. The man can eat heartily. But in either case, you've still got abundance on the table!
When I'm at a restaurant I like the "look" of food, lotsa food everywhere. Yet, I don't necessarily feel the need to gobble it all down.
Of course, being Jewish, every scrap will be loaded into doggy bag and be taken home, naturally.
The customer is always right. It doesn't feel like they are practicing very good hospitality if they are nickle-n-diming their customers. What does good hospitality mean to you?
Peace, Maxine
It is not limited to this mother and an eggroll-
Half of US food goes to waste
These poor little Boat People that come and innocently open a buffet---they are being taken advantage of by greedy, grubby Americans who waste food.
Not buyin' it.
Is it just possible these boat people have experienced and understand true hunger and are repelled by the sight of wasted food?
I know people who lived through the 1930's depression who are meticulous in conserving food, water, electricity.
With increasing prices in commodities and raw materials and with a potential shortage of clean water, will we be forced to relearn the lessons of personal conservation?
I know people who lived through the 1930's depression who are meticulous in conserving food, water, electricity.
My parents, and to some extent, through their influence, me and all my siblings.
Maxine, I have to believe you're playing Devil's Advocate on this issue. I'm fully on board with the sampling/nibbling/try everything concept of buffets -- but that means taking small portions of each item. If you like to see a full plate, my suggestion is to use the small plates instead of the larger ones!
But I still don't like these Mom & Pop immigrants who come over here hanging shingles.....
....and ordering me around.
What an odd comment.
No I'm not playing devil's advocate. Because there are other busybody restauranteurs who try to boss customers around. There was that one Las Vegas restaurant that wouldn't let you order dessert. You couldn't order just a salad, either. You either had to order a meal/entree, and then dessert....or nothing at all!
When I go out, I'm going out to unwind, and I don't want anybody telling me how to graze, or what I can and can't eat.
The customer is always right, and it they're not, maybe it's time to get out of the hospitality business.
Peace, Maxine
"Because there are other busybody restauranteurs who try to boss customers around."
Yes, but...that isn't what we're talking about, here.
I understand where you're coming from: The whole "The Customer Is Always Right" thing. But that is not a valid statement. The service provider is not a mindless robot or a slave. You and the provider have a mutual goal: For you to eat food. The provider is the one who defines the parameters under which this eating takes place. The customer does not have a say in that. Now, the customer can make requests, and reasonable requests usually get a reasonable response--but that is not a requirement. The provider is well within both rights and etiquette to refuse any requests.
Something else I should point out: According to the article, it isn't as though this woman entered the restaurant by herself for the first time, filled up her plate, and was immediately chased out of the place. This was the result of multiple occasions of a whole family's plates left piled with food. This isn't just someone kvetching about a diner refusing to eat pizza crusts.
(And what is up with that, anyway? Is it some outgrowth of society's generalized germ phobia? "I can't eat that part, I touched it with my fingers!")
Freeman has an eye for the odd comment; it struck me that way too.
I don't know what it's like in the midwest, but there is a long and shameful tradition of behaving very badly in Chinese Restaurants here in New England. I think Jean Shephard's somewhat charming scene of mispronounced Xmas carol lyrics in a Christmas Story might refer to it in the midwest obliquely, too.
The best restaurant I've ever eaten in, anywhere on this earth, is a Vietnamese/Italian restaurant in Hartford, CT. The cooks are vietnamese, the menu is straight Italian. I presented the owner, Nga (pronounced Wah) with a paper chef hat we had signed by a bunch of third string celebrities once. He seemed very touched, and went out back and got pictures of his wedding. His wife was stunning, and wore a magnificent red dress (apparently the traditional color) His english was good but not sophisticated, but he said he wouldn't just show them to anyone, but he thought it unusual to be treated with any sort of man to man kindness by the average customer.
My default prejudged position is that the patron was an ***hole. All evidence must be presented to counter this to convince me otherwise.
Nga's got more money than any three commenters on this page now.
Speaking of unreasonable customers, there is an excellent blog called Waiter Rant (www.waiterrant.net)
Another thought: I am not necessarily saying that the Soup Nazi ought to be the default paradigm for restaurant operation. I'm just trying to say that you're on [I]someone else's property[/I] when you're in a restaurant--they've invited you [I]into their space[/I].
Yeah Bissage, you are kinda right. I made the first comment, cuz it was the first comment and I thought I would be a smart ass.
Everyone who was raised in an environment where an "all you can eat buffet" was something of an "out to dinner treat" knows BASIC all you can eat buffet ettiquette. If it is a new place, you take one of everything you MIGHT like. you take a bite of everything, if everything sucks, you throw it away, and give another try, only the second time, you take NOTHING that you took before, you have to hunt and peck for the right "all you can eat" combo.
Throwing away food at an all you can eat buffet is not a bad thing, but throwing away more than ONE of a certain kind of thing is, and every ONE of those things had better have at least one bite taken from it.
As a child food was too precious to waste so casually as this customer did, and it almost looks like a logistical sabotage of a competitor, since, everyone who hasn't had good chinese food always RACES too the egg rolls, and this broad threw away 4 rolls, of prolly the most popular food.
I see that, I was just trying to be a semi-humorous jerk.
"What an odd comment."
My thoughts were more along the lines of, "Gee, what a nasty comment."
Maxine Weiss: "But I still don't like these Mom & Pop immigrants who come over here hanging shingles..... ....and ordering me around."
Got a problem with immigrants? (Put another way: Would you have felt better if the Mom and Pop were U.S.-born citizens? And how do you know for a fact Kent Cao isn't?)
Late to the comment section ...
Maxine, if you think Asian cuisine is cheap, you should visit Taipei or Hong Kong. It's only cheap in America because most Americans refuse to eat anything but the most grotesque Americanized takeout. And tuna belly (o-toro) and masunosuke salmon are possibly the most expensive meats, pound for pound, in the world. Chinese food runs from dirt cheap to ridiculously expensive, just like every other cuisine in the world.
This restaurant guy is trying to run a business - he has a right to set rules and kick people off his private property as he chooses. If his rules are too draconian, his business will suffer. This is an inherently self-regulating situation. Any waste is added cost which is then passed to the customer. Personally, I wouldn't want to subsidize someone else's wastefulness - and I think most of his customers would feel the same way.
I have fallen from Grace. I waste food. I am imperfect. I make unfair assumptions about people with the name "Kent Cao". I am flawed.
The readers of Althouse are held to a higher standard than that which I've expressed.
The disappointment and shock, that readers of Althouse could possible have such human failings.
Peace, Maxine
Maxine, we're all flawed. Most of us don't make a point of, well, bragging about it.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hospitals, doctors and other Medicare providers are on the hook for a 2 percent cut under looming government spending reductions. But they're not raising a ruckus. Why?
The pain could be a lot worse if President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans actually did reach a sweeping agreement to reduce federal deficits.
Automatic cuts taking effect Friday -- the "sequester" in Washington-speak -- would reduce Medicare spending by about $100 billion over a decade. But Obama had put on the table $400 billion in health care cuts, mainly from Medicare. And Republicans wanted more.
"What people were really worried about was the prospect of a huge deficit bill that could target Medicare for $400 billion or $500 billion," said John Rother, president of the National Coalition on Health Care, an umbrella group that includes service providers.
"The health care industry fears the alternative more than they fear a predictable reduction in rates," said Dan Mendelson, president of Avalere Health, a market analysis firm. "They just do not want to roll the dice. That is why you do not hear as much of an outcry on Medicare."
The budget machinations come at a time when the threat that the government will be overwhelmed by surging health costs seems less immediate. Taking care of aging baby boomers is still a huge challenge, but health care inflation has slowed dramatically in the last few years, leading government number crunchers to scale back their estimates of future costs.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has reduced its 10-year projections of Medicare spending by $137 billion, a liability wiped off the ledger without the need to cut reimbursements to hospitals and doctors, or to raise premiums for Medicare's 50 million beneficiaries.
The health care portion of the automatic spending cuts was designed to try to avoid pain for individuals and families. Medicaid, the health care program for the poor, was exempted, as were the biggest subsidies under Obama's health care law, which starting next year will help uninsured people pay premiums.
The Medicare cut was intended to fall on providers: hospitals, doctors, health plans, drug companies and others. Once the sequester takes effect, Medicare will reimburse them at 98 cents on the dollar.
Seniors' benefits and premiums weren't touched. However, if the cuts go into effect and remain in place, beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans could see higher premiums over time, if private insurers decide to pass on the 2 percent cut.
Hospitals account for the lion's share of Medicare spending and will have to absorb most of the automatic cuts -- about 40 percent of the total. They're followed by Medicare Advantage plans and doctors.
The American Hospital Association and other industry groups say some jobs will be lost if the automatic cuts are allowed to go through.
The Henry Ford Health System in Detroit started planning last year for a $20-million hit from the sequester. CEO Nancy Schlichting says they were able to minimize layoffs by leaving vacant positions unfilled and streamlining operations to reduce costs. The system, a network of hospitals and clinics that employs 24,000 people, also runs a health insurance plan.
It could have been worse, says Schlichting. Cuts considered during the last federal budget showdown late last year were definitely bigger than the sequester.
Those included changes to billing codes, reductions in special payments to teaching hospitals, and cuts in aid to hospitals that treat many uninsured and low-income patients. When they didn't happen, the Henry Ford system was left facing the more predictable 2-percent reduction.
"We don't take any of the cuts lightly," said Schlichting. "I don't think we're protected at this point, even with the sequester."