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New building codes went into effect on July 1, 2008 that have completely revamped the inspection and testing procedures for elevators, escalators and other vertical transportation equipment in buildings. The new and more stringent elevator/escalator code brings with it more—and more costly—requirements for building owners and managers in the form of more frequently mandated contractor tests and the requirement of third-party witnessing.
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During 2008, the existing inspection and test procedures remain in effect. A Local Law 10/81 inspection is due to be filed for all elevators before September 30, 2008, and any two- or five-year tests due this year must be still be performed
Beginning January 1, 2009 however, the old system of annual Local Law 10/81 inspections and two-year tests will end. They are being replaced with a combined annual inspection and test for all elevators and escalators which must be performed (now known as a periodic inspection and Category One test) every year.
This inspection/test will now have to be performed by one company, and witnessed by another. The typical way this will work is that the building's usual maintenance contractor will perform the test, with a third-party private inspection agency hired by the owner to witness the test. The witnessing company cannot be affiliated with the maintenance contractor performing the test. When a five-year test is due on a roped elevator, a combined periodic inspection and Category Five test must be performed and witnessed by a third party. The Category Five test and periodic inspection in specific years when due, must be performed prior to the expiration date of the previously performed test. However, the Category One test and periodic inspection for all other years can be performed at any time during the calendar year.
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Customarily, elevator maintenance contracts cover two-year tests and five-year tests (which would be three total tests during each five-year period). This means that within a five-year period, there will now be two additional annual tests for roped elevators and three additional annual tests for hydraulic elevators to be performed by the maintenance contractor. Building owners/managers should expect the maintenance contractor to charge between $700 and $1,000 dollars per additional elevator annual test and twice that amount ($1,400 to $2,000 dollars) per elevator for the five-year test. The five-year test takes twice as long as the annual test as it requires a weight test procedure. Weights equal to the total weight capacity for which the elevator is rated must be placed in the cab, and the elevator must run at full speed to each floor.


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New York City's official reporting site for weather conditions is situated in Central Park, but LaGuardia and Kennedy Airports also collect data, as well as Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey (the airports are 7, 16 and 27 miles away from Central Park, respectively). Central Park is one of the few reporting sites in the US not located at an airport. Although the park is surrounded by the "heat island" of Manhattan, its temperatures are influenced by the grass and trees, which retain the humidity more than the concrete surroundings of airports. As a result, afternoon temperatures in the summertime don't rise as much as they do at the three airports, and nighttime temperatures don't fall as much during the winter or summer.
I've looked at five statistics, which cover temperatures and precipitation for the 2000-2018 period. Of the four weather stations, Central Park averages the most days with highs of 32° or colder and receives the most precipitation. Newark is tops in the number of 90-degree days, lows of 32° or colder and snowfall.
Central Park: Averages 15.8 days. The biggest difference between CPK and Newark was in 2006, when CPK had only eight days, 50% below average, while Newark had 27, an average number for that site.
Newark: The hottest site, with 27.6 days. It's the site that's reported the most in all but two years; in 2018 its 10-year streak of having the most was snapped.
LaGuardia: 22.1 days. It was the site with the most hot days in 2007 and in 2018.
Kennedy: 11.3 days. In 2018 CPK, NWK and LGA were well above their averages, but JFK had a below average number (eight).
Central Park: Averages 17.7 days. It had the most of the four stations in ten years, and four first-place ties.
Newark: 15.9 days. It reported the most in one year, and one first-place tie.
LaGuardia: 16.2 days. It eported the most in two years, and one first-place tie.
Kennedy: 16.1 days. It reported the most in two years, and two first-place ties)
Central Park: An average of 68.7 days. It's never led in this category.
Newark: 81.3 days. In addition to having the most days in the 90s, it also averages the most cold nights. It had the most in all but three years, one of them being 2018.
LaGuardia: 63.2 days. Like CPK, it's never led in this category.
Kennedy: 75.9 days. It had the most in three years, including 2018.
Central Park: The wettest site, with an average of 51.36". Six years reported 55"+ and two years had less than 40"; the wettest station every year but two.
Newark: 47.09". Five years had 50"+; reported the most in 2017.
LaGuardia: 46.64". Seven years had 50"+; it's never reported the most.
Kennedy: 44.48". Four years had 50"+, five years had less than 40"; it reported the most one time, during the dry year of 2012 (when all four stations had less than 40").
Central Park: 33.9". 50"+ fell in three of the years; it had the most snow in three years, including 2018.
Newark: 35.4". Four years had 50"+; the snowiest site, it had the most in half of the years of the period, and tied with CPK in 2010.
LaGuardia: 32.9". Two years had 50"+; it had the most in five of the years.
Kennedy: 29.6". One year had 50"+; it had the most snow of the four stations in 2016.

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This is the end of day two. As I feel it, it was even more gruelling, or simply I'm just more tired now. The point is, I made so many tests I can't even list them. I had a long list which I wanted to test, but during the different tests I came up with new ideas and of course I tried those too, so I've spent much more time with these experiments than what was planned.
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After your run, your legs are probably in need of a good stretch. But it's not all quads, hamstrings, and glutes. Don't forget these areas when stretching after your jog.
Hip flexors: Combat all that forward propelling (and desk sitting) with stretches that open up and loosen those all-important hip flexors. Tight hip flexors can lead to back pain and a limited range of motion, so make sure you incorporate some of these hip flexor stretches into your postrun routine.
IT band: Regular runners know that stretching your iliotibial (IT) band is very important, but if you've never had problems, it's easy to neglect the tendon that runs down the outer side of your leg. Prevent painful IT and knee problems before they happen by keeping your body loose with this standing IT band stretch.
Calves: Calves have the luxury of being among some of the most-used muscles in your body, but many people ignore them after a run, which can lead to an overly tight and inflexible pair. After you finish a run, find a curb or wall and do one of these seven calf stretches regularly.
Toe stretches: Your lower digits can use some attention too. Keep your toes happy and help prevent plantar fasciitis by doing a minute of toe scrunches after your run (or regularly throughout your day).
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In conjunction with Amy Bruce and the team at Grey Rose interiors, Rothwell and Thomas were commissioned to create a bespoke home bar and Lounge that gives the perfect ambience to entertain friends, family and guests. The hand made design uses traditional cornices, pelmets, pillars and deep skirting boards to stay sympathetic to the period of the property. These classical cabinetry details have been given a modern twist with the addition the inset mirrors and the LED lighting on the mirror backed shelves. The deep beveled edged mirrors on the bars fascia keep the furniture light and create reflection. The same detail is carried through into the Lounge with the addition of radiator covers with nickel plated grilles and inset mirrored pillars. Although the storage cupboards are practical and perfect for concealing the clients media equipment, they still stay faithful to the design aesthetic.


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Creating a limited liability company for your business instead of operating it as a sole proprietor affects your ability to deduct the salary you pay yourself on a federal tax return. As the single owner of the LLC, which the IRS refers to as a single-member LLC, you can choose to subject your business earnings to corporate or sole-proprietorship taxation. However, you can always deduct the salaries you pay to employees under both forms of taxation.
Sole Proprietor Designation
The IRS automatically designates a single-member LLC as a sole proprietorship for federal tax purposes. Sole proprietors are responsible for reporting all earnings and losses of the business on their personal tax returns. This requires you to separately report your LLC earnings and deductions on a Schedule C or C-EZ to calculate the LLC's taxable income. However, you then transfer this amount to your personal tax return and combine it with the other income and deductions that don't relate to your LLC. As a result, the IRS will not recognize any payments you take from LLC profits as a deductible salary.
Electing Corporate Tax
If you prefer to pay taxes for your LLC earnings as a corporation rather than sole proprietor, the IRS allows you to make an election on Form 8832. When you choose to pay tax as a corporation, you can draw a salary for the services you provide and report a deduction for it on the corporate tax return. The IRS recognizes a corporation as a separate taxpayer, so you don't report any earnings of the LLC on your personal return. Instead, you file the corporate return on Form 1120 or 1120A. However, you should realize that the burden of corporate double taxation can outweigh the benefits of taking a salary deduction. This is because your single-member LLC pays corporate tax on its earnings, but when you take a dividend payment from the after-tax earnings, you must pay a second tax on those payments on your personal tax return. In addition, you still need to report any salary you pay yourself on a personal tax return as well.
Employee Salaries
Regardless of whether you choose sole-proprietor or corporate taxation for your single-member LLC, you can always deduct the salaries you pay to employees. The only requirement is that the salaries must be in exchange for services that an employee performs for the LLC and that the amount be reasonable. There isn't a bright-line test for assessing whether an employee's salary is reasonable. However, some of the factors to consider are the number of hours the employee works, the level of skill the position requires and the amount of responsibility she has.
How to Deduct
To deduct the salary payments you make to employees when reporting as a sole proprietor, you simply report the annual total in the "expense" section of your Schedule C, which will reduce the amount of LLC earnings that are taxable. However, if you elect corporate taxation, you can deduct the total amount of salaries you pay to yourself and other employees on the "salaries and wages" line of Form 1120.
Read More: What Expenses Can I Deduct as a Member of an LLC?
Writer Bio
Jeff Franco's professional writing career began in 2010. With expertise in federal taxation, law and accounting, he has published articles in various online publications. Franco holds a Master of Business Administration in accounting and a Master of Science in taxation from Fordham University. He also holds a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School.


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Instagram Image Brings Artist Legal Déjà Vu
MANHATTAN (CN) – Millionaire appropriation artist Richard Prince finds himself in a familiar situation – fighting with his gallery against a copyright lawsuit over images of Rastafarian men – with a twist for the social media age.
In the latest case, Los Angeles-based photographer Donald Graham sued Prince over his series "New Portraits," based on blown-up and re-purposed Instagram posts that the influential Gagosian Gallery exhibited early last year.
Since his "Marlboro Man" series from the early 1980s, Prince has mined sexually charged images from various pop-cultural mediums for his own work.
The Instagram exhibit followed that trend in his career by adding his own comments to photographs posted on the image-sharing site, including pictures of goth pin-ups from the softcore porn site Suicide Girls and Graham's "Rastafarian Smoking A Joint," a close-up shot of a shirtless, Jamaican man toking marijuana.
The Suicide Girls retaliated by selling their own versions of Prince's canvases at a steep discount, lightly altering the exact composition of Prince's $90,000 canvases and hawking them for a $90 donation that they promised would go to charity instead of a "rich gallery," ArtNet reported.
Graham, on the other hand, is seeking another kind of revenge with a lawsuit that is bringing déjà vu to the legal community.
In almost every respect, Graham's intellectual property theft claims mirror those brought by Paris-based photographer Patrick Cariou almost a decade ago.
In late 2007, Prince and Gagosian exhibited a series of works based on Cariou's "Yes, Rasta," an out-of-print book documenting the photographer's decade-long trip to Jamaica's remote mountains and villages.
Prince superimposed gas masks, guitars and painted blotches over Cariou's Rastafarian subjects without permission, inspiring a lawsuit a year after his show opened.
In 2013, the New York-based Second Circuit issued a landmark ruling establishing new rules that relaxed the standards for an artist's work to qualify as transformative use.
Judge Barrington Parker, who wrote the opinion, found that all but five of the 30 works that Cariou challenged clearly qualified as fair use.
"Where Cariou's serene and deliberately composed portraits and landscape photographs depict the natural beauty of Rastafarians and their surrounding environs, Prince's crude and jarring works, on the other hand, are hectic and provocative," Parker wrote.
Cariou and Prince reached a confidential settlement over the remaining five photographs in dispute before the courts made any determination.
On Friday, Prince's lawyers called Graham's lawsuit little more than an attempt to "re-litigate" the Cariou case.
In a 30-page legal brief, Prince's lawyer Joshua Schiller put his client in the tradition of a "long line of artists – including Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Sherry Levine, and Jeff Koons – who have expressed themselves 'by reference to the works of others.'"
Schiller emphasized in a phone interview that he is no art historian himself, and he hesitated before offering his own interpretations of what viewers should get from his client's Instagram series.
"He's showing us looking at ourselves through social media," he said.
Speaking of his own reaction, Schiller said that Prince's images have "perverse" and "seductively sexual" undercurrents, but others can decide whether to interpret the works as commentary, satire or dramatization.
"That's what a work of art does, it speaks in different ways to different people," Schiller said, attributing the quotation to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
Graham's attorney, Christopher Davis of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In his lawsuit, however, Davis emphasized that his client's photographs were not easy to come by.
"Mr. Graham worked fervently to convince the Rastafarians that became the subjects of his photographs that his purposes were artistic and to overcome an inherent distrust due to his 'outsider' status," the 17-page complaint states.


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| 13.5°C Belfast
A woman cuddles her daughter as they attend a candlelit vigil in Roseburg, Oregon, on Thursday night.
The vigil was in tribute to those killed and injured when a man opened fire at the Umpqua Community College campus. Nine people died and seven were wounded. More than 2,000 members of the local community gathered in Stewart Park to pay their respects.
The hymn Amazing Grace was played over loudspeakers. The initials of the college - UCC - were spelt out by candles in the dark.
College president, Rita Calvin, appealed to any of the college's students in the crowd to deal with their anger at the shooting, so the community could come together in support of one another.
That evening, President Barack Obama gave a speech condemning the shooting - his 15th after such an event during his time as President. Obama was visibly angry as he called for tougher gun laws while speaking at the White House.
Chris Harper-Mercer (26) killed nine people when he opened fire. Seven others were injured, before Harper-Mercer was shot while exchanging gunfire with police. According to witnesses, Harper-Mercer entered a classroom and shot a professor dead at point-blank range. He then proceeded to ask students their religion before shooting those that answered Christian one by one. Some students only survived the ordeal by playing dead.
It's been revealed that Harper-Mercer wore body armour during the shooting and carried three handguns and a rifle.
Blog posts and internet comments made by the killer have shown his idolisation of the IRA and of the Nazis - going so far as to collect Nazi memorabilia online.
Harper-Mercer's own family, including his British father, Ian Mercer, who now lives in California, have expressed their shock at Thursday's events.
Mr Mercer made a statement on Thursday night describing the family's "devastation", but refused to answer questions from the media.
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Remotes Not Working? |Garage Door Repair | Springfield, MO
Most of everyone has experienced the panic when you pull into your driveway, hit the garage door remote and nothing happens. What makes things worse is that most people do not carry keys to the house anymore. When it comes to garage door repair, this can be a common issue, but we will walk you through some steps to diagnose and possibly repair this issue.
Your first step will be to replace the battery. Most remote batteries are easily accessible through a back "door" but some remotes like the ones manufactured by Chamberlain Liftmaster you will need to pry open. Once the battery is replaced test the remote, does it work? If not, lets proceed to the next step.
The next step will be re-programming the remote. To do this, you will look for the learn button on the opener which is generally found on the back of the motor head. Simply press this learn button and then press and hold the remote button. On Genie or Overhead Door openers you will need to press and hold the remote button 3 times after pressing the learn button. If the remote still is not working proceed to the next step.
Most openers will have an indicator light near the learn button, when you press the remote is this flashing? If it is flashing but it will not "learn" the remote, then you probably have a bad receiver. If the indicator light is not blinking then it could possibly be a bad remote or possibly a bad receiver.
If all your remotes and your wireless keypad stopped working, it is almost surely the receiver.


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'Arrested Development': Troy Miller Talks Production of Season 4 (Exclusive Video)
Troy Miller, who co-directed the fourth season of Arrested Development with series creator and showrunner Mitch Hurwitz, recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to talk about production (uniquely, he was also the Steadicam operator), the decision to make this season in 4K resolution and what might be ahead for the Bluth family.
"It was one of the best sets ever; it was improvisational filmmaking from top to bottom," said Miller, who also served as an executive producer. "Mitch would often rewrite as we go. … You'd decide live, shot to shot, how to best tell that joke or story point, which is really unusual."
Working with director of photography Peter Lyons Collister, Miller operated the Steadicam perched on a Handsfree Segway transport device that the operator steers with his or her legs. Miller says the rig is not uncommon to see on a feature set but isn't frequently used in television, particularly half-hour sitcoms. "This was [used for] Arrested Development to allow very fast dolly moves that kept the handheld look [of the series]. We often used a three-camera configuration where we were able to do our cross shooting and also add this new life.
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"It gave us very fast mobile camera movement … more of of a feature point of view, and it allowed parallel dolly and tracking shots without the [setup] time [typically] needed by the grip crew."
Importantly, it also contributed to the directing style. "It allows me to be very close to the actors," Miller said. "As a director-operator, I was able to speak to the actors as I was shooting. Mitch as co-director was able to walk alongside me and he would be able to see my monitor. So both Mitch and I would spend the majority of the time right next to the actors."
Miller's Steadicam work can be seen, for instance, in a scene during which Michael (Jason Bateman) and George Michael (Michael Cera) are walking on a university campus. "There's a long walk and talk, and they are walking toward the camera. That is normally done with a long dolly, but it is a reverse Segway," said Miller.
He also cited a scene during which Tobias (David Cross) starts a dance group and the Steadicam does a series of 360-degree shots around him.
The series was photographed with Red Epic cameras and also incorporated use of Red's smaller Scarlet camera with still lenses. "The Scarlet is not much bigger than a normal DSLR, so [for instance] we could mount that to the dash of a car for driving shots."
Miller related that Arrested Development was also shot, finished and mastered in 4K -- four times the resolution of high definition --which isn't often used in television series production at this stage. "The mandate from Netflix is to do what we though was best and make the show look as good as we wanted it to look. They were so supportive. There wasn't a [mandate] to go 2K or 4K, but for archival reasons, 4K has a greater afterlife," he said, adding that 4K also allowed them "to not only do blowups but have more contrast and color range than you normally have. It's a lot more work because you're increasing storage capacity, so it is exponentially that much more expensive and time consuming. But [the season] does have a great look, and I think a lot of that is attributed to 4K."
Saying that he believes the Arrested Development franchise will "keep living and growing," he related, "The future will lie with Mitch and what is in his head, and [Netflix chief content officer] Ted Sarandos, the greatest executive; he's got such great ideas. They will hatch something that is going to be exciting. Mostly obviously, what they have discussed is a feature or additional seasons. That is a logical direction."content before the displays.""]
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Why does Aquaman get no respect? Do you remember when DC Comics had their superheroes pick a political party? Why did Joss Whedon give Hawkeye a family in Avengers: Age of Ultron? How awesome is Wonder Woman footage set to the original 1975 show's theme song? Can Doctor Strange be the new Tony Stark in the Marvel cinematic universe? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits.
This Batman v Superman video paints the superhero battle in a different light by referencing cinematic influences.
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Here's the promo for "Changing," the sixth episode of the second season of Supergirl, coming next week.
Heroic Hollywood imagines five potential scenarios for Baron Mordo in a Doctor Strange sequel and beyond.
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Doctor Strange writer Jon Spaihts talks about whether Stephen Strange can be the next Tony Stark in the MCU.
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A drunken passenger on a HA flight allegedly molested a male passenger in an adjoining seat – right in front of the victim's wife – and then went on to expose himself.
The astonishingly brazen assault is alleged to have taken place on a flight from Hawaii to JFK. The New York Post ran the story with the memorable headline: "Drunk perv got trashed, then molested my husband mid-flight."
According to a federal court complaint, the suspect took an aisle seat on the HA flight and began drinking heavily. He then began touching the chest, groin and belt of the man sitting next to him in the middle seat. The victim's wife, who was sitting in the window seat, was horrified.
According to the federal court complaint, "the [victim] asked the defendant what he was doing," only for the suspect to then remove his own trousers and begin masturbating.
"The passenger and his wife both saw the defendant fully exposed, after which the passenger notified the flight crew," court papers state.
"Two members of the flight crew responded; observed the defendant fully exposed with his pants off and instructed him to put his clothing back on, which the defendant did," according to the complaint.
The suspect was arrested at the airport, faced court shortly afterwards and was released on USD 25,000 bail.
Because the incident occurred on a domestic flight on a U.S. airline, jurisdiction is clear and the case should be reasonably easy to deal with. Incidents of outrageous behaviour on international flights often pose jurisdictional challenges and airport police have been known to free perpetrators of gross or dangerous acts in flight.


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ROKON motorcycles are no strangers to winter landscapes; in fact you will be hard pressed to find ANY two-wheeled vehicle that is as capable in the snow as our legendary 2x2 motorbike.
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get home from watching football and in the house, I filled the food bowl and refreshed the water bowl. He drank some water and proceeded to perch on the remains of his pillow. he wanted his treat
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I thought you were going to say that he keeps running into walls.
See, this is how I know my dogs are truly dumb. I have highly polished wood floors. They're slick. My dogs get the zoomies and run around the house at top speed, but then lose traction and slide into the walls. They do this over and over. They're not smart. And at this point, they probably have brain damage from the number of times they've careened into the walls.
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Juan Pablo Candisano started Vinos y Placeres (Wines and Pleasures) in 2009 on the local Canal 7 TV channel in Mendoza, with a regular show exploring the wineries and wine regions of Argentina. Over ten years it has grown to be one of the most watched wine shows in Argentina and is broadcast not only around Argentina but also on other TV channels in Latin America, and is digitally streamed in 150 countries worldwide.
"We are really proud to be able to show the world the great potential and image of Argentine wine," says Juan Pablo on reflection. "Throughout the years we've been able to see and accompany the growth and potential of Mendoza's wine industry, its wineries, landscapes and stories, as well as the growth of the gastronomy, social events and everything related to this charming world of wine."
A typical program covers major social and tourism events that have happened in Mendoza that week and looks forward to events to come, as well as profiling wineries, winemakers, chefs, sommeliers and local personalities.
When Vinos y Placeres started in 2009, Mendoza's wine industry was quite different recalls Juan Pablo. "When we started our programme, the phenomenon of wine tourism was very incipient. Very few wineries had a restaurant, there weren't many services related to wine nor information. The Uco Valley practically belonged to another continent and no-one ever talked about the regions further away than that!"
Today Mendoza is, of course, one of the great wine capitals in the world with a developed and well-appreciated wine tourism route and industry. Mendoza receives over a million tourists a year, many of whom come to delight in visiting wineries throughout Mendoza's wine regions and enjoying the great pleasures of being in Argentine wine country.
The experience of these great wines and pleasures of Mendoza is something that Vinos y Placeres continues to share on the screens of wine lovers around the world.
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Pinch: Kapil Sharma Addresses Sunil Grover Controversy, Angry Tweet To PM Modi And More
The popular comedian was put under the spotlight by host Arbaaz Khan and he made some interesting revelations.
Arbaaz Khan has recently launched his chat show Pinch on ZEE5, and it has already seen the who's who of the industry including Kareena Kapoor Khan and Sonakshi Sinha. The chat show addresses the trolls that celebrities are subjected to on social media. While Bebo and Sona have given their take on the rising phenomenon, popular comedian Kapil Sharma was the latest celebrity to join the list and talk about the same. After a successful stint with his own chat show, the comedian went underground and reports surfaced that he was suffering from depression. But Kapil is back with a bang and looks much happier and calmer.
Watch the promo of the latest episode here.
The comedian recently got married to Ginni Chatrath in December last year, and is now seen with another season of his popular entertainment reality show. Kapil went through his share of lows and was embroiled in several controversies. In a conversation with host Arbaaz, the comedian addressed them one by one.
1. The Sunil Grover controversy
Kapil Sharma and his fellow comedian Sunil Grover were like two peas in a pod. The two were seen together on Kapil's show and things went downhill when Sunil quit the show. Although they did reconcile for a bit when the latter made a comeback on Kapil's show, there was a permanent crack in their friendship when reportedly, Kapil assaulted and abused Sunil.
The incident took place on a plane, where Kapil got drunk and got into a fight with a member from his team. He reportedly acted violent with Sunil when the latter tried to stop him (Kapil). The two cleared the air on social media where Kapil tweeted an apology to Sunil and the latter replied saying that he was deeply hurt.
Paji @WhoSunilGrover sry if I hurt u unintentionally.u knw vry well how much I luv u. M also upset .love n regards always:)
— Kapil Sharma (@KapilSharmaK9) March 20, 2017
From a friend, with love @KapilSharmaK9 pic.twitter.com/2c7uQ5jqH5
— Sunil Grover (@WhoSunilGrover) March 21, 2017
When asked to talk about the same, Kapil cleared the air and said that a lot of misunderstandings had been created between them. "A lot of people said that I hit Sunil with a shoe, when something like this never even happened. Neither I or Sunil have confirmed this incident," said Kapil. The comedian went on to say that he is fond of Sunil and that he wanted him to be a part of the new season of the show as well but the latter wasn't ready.
2. The angry tweet to PM Modi
Kapil left Twitter in a frenzy when in the wee hours of the morning, he tweeted to PM Narendra Modi, stating that he was asked to pay a bribe of Rs. 5 lakh to Brihanmumbai Muncipal Corporation.
I am paying 15 cr income tax from last 5 year n still i have to pay 5 lacs bribe to BMC office for making my office @narendramodi
— Kapil Sharma (@KapilSharmaK9) September 9, 2016
Yeh hain aapke achhe din ? @narendramodi
— Kapil Sharma (@KapilSharmaK9) September 9, 2016
Addressing the same, Kapil admitted that it was "his mistake" and that he didn't know how and where to channel his anger correctly. He went on to read out the trolls that he was subjected to for this tweet and took them in his stride.
3. Conversation leak with a journalist
The comedian courted another controversy when a conversation between him and a journalist went viral. This journalist had been writing several stories on the downfall of Kapil, which irked the comedian and he ended up calling the writer and hurling abuses at him.
The matter was taken to court and Kapil reveals that he reacted this way as the journalist was crossing a line. "I admit that the language I used was very foul. But there were a lot of journalists writing stuff about me and the reason I ended up fighting with this one is because he wrote around 160 articles on me in a span of six months. He wrote things like I used to come late on the sets, which wasn't the case. There was a lot of untrue stuff getting written about me so eventually it was the pent up anger that came out," says Kapil.
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With fall and winter coming on, some of you might read that headline and extrapolate it out in your head to . . . How to Survive Until Next Summer. There, there. Summer will come again. Or you can head off to somewhere south of the equator until it comes around again here on the Outer Banks. But for those of us who appreciate the seasons, who excitedly anticipate all the activities and events that take place here when it's not blazing hot, when these islands are a bit calmer, when many of us have more time to ourselves, we thought we'd bring you this feature on how to do some favorite cooler weather things. Read on, comrades in cool! And see if you can entice your endless summer pals to do some of these with you, ok?
Build a Bonfire
Nothing is more fall- and winter-like than a bonfire. No, really, think about it. Coats are cold weather-like, but you change them all the time. Bonfires stay the same. Snow is part of the chilly scene, but as we know, no two snowflakes are the same. But bonfires . . . even when they're in different places, built in various "this is the secret" styles, they're still the same ancient sun coming out through the substance of the wood, releasing warmth back into the world.
If you were to ask an Eagle Scout and backyard fire pit lover the best way to build a bonfire, you might get two diverging answers. There are the purists (that would be the Scout) who wouldn't think of using starter logs and who insist that the only honest way to a roaring blaze is to start with something particularly combustible such as balled up paper or seasoned leaves, then add twigs, then branches and then larger pieces of wood, carefully adding each element as the fire builds.
Then there are those who say, shoot, why not go modern and use those starter logs! Put them down on the grate first, add a few smaller branches that will light quickly and put three or four logs on top then apply the lighter. The starter logs will burn long enough to get the wood ignited in most cases. In either method, make sure you have sufficient air at the bottom – in other words, don't stack the wood so tight that there's no space between the logs for the flame to dance up. And, of course, make sure your wood is seasoned and dry. Sit back and appreciate the primal call of fire.
Find Sea Glass
We have a bit of a selfish dilemma on this one: If we tell you how to hunt this most treasured reimagined gift of the ocean, there will be more of us trying to claim the prizes on each beach walk. No matter. Do the right thing anyway. And, after all, there are fewer of us out looking for sea glass when it's colder outside, so there's more to be found! Why reimagined? Because glass goes into the water, gets nurtured until all its sharp edges are gone, then it's lovingly pushed back up onto land in its colorful smoothness for us humans to find. There's a lesson in that.
To find sea glass, you have to look but not look. You have to soften your gaze. You can't be pin-pointed and overzealous. You're looking for a hue. The colors of sea glass are sometimes not what you see first – unless it be the Queen of All Sea Glass, cobalt blue, or some other truly hard to find color. (My dear friend found an orange piece here! I've been a sea glass aficionado for 35 years, and she comes and in one beach stroll finds a piece of orange!) There's a different reflection that comes with sea glass than with shells – less shiny or maybe just more dense. Slow down, relax your shoulders, make your eyes kinder, hum. All these things will add to your success.
Make a Quintessential Outer Banks Cocktail
New York has Manhattans. Cape Cod has the Cape Codder (a.k.a. Sea Breeze). Alabama has the Alabama Slammer, and our 50th state has the Blue Hawaiian. Why the heck wouldn't the Outer Banks have a quintessential signature cocktail? Well, we actually do all those other drinks one up! We even have our own liquor made right here! Kill Devil Rum, made in Manteo, has been producing high-quality rum for several years now in interesting varieties – Silver, Pecan, Gold, a Shipwreck series and a Winter Solspice. On their website, they highlight many tasty-sounding drinks that local bars make with their liquid bounty, and we chose the most appropriate one for this fall/winter magazine.
In keeping with our oyster roast suggestion (flip over a page), we could have highlighted another popular local drink, the Oyster Shooter. But, there's not necessarily a lot to making that one – add a raw oyster to a shot glass, top with cocktail sauce, squeeze some lemon on top then add vodka. Slurp in one gulp.
Kill Devil Coquito
(Puerto Rican-style Eggnog)
Drive in the Sand
Ok, now that that's explained, here's a primer on how to go about driving on a surface that shifts, is uneven in depth and seems to take glee in watching you get stuck. Yes, even seasoned drivers will tell you that sand driving on the Outer Banks is tricky.
First, don't attempt this in your Maserati. Do you think I'm kidding? I'm not. I, myself, witnessed this bizarre manifestation of stupid just this summer! You're gonna want a 4WD vehicle. If you've got that covered, stop in the lead up to the ramp and let air out of your tires. Some locals say to take it to 20 psi, some say 12-15 is better (which also implies that you have a pressure gauge). Maybe start with 20, then if you get stuck, let more out.
Next, you have to have some driving hutzpah. Don't be timid, especially as you enter and exit the ramp. Locals also urge you to follow the tracks that are already there. That sand is already packed more than the surrounding sand, so you're less likely to bog down. Think: If the person in front of me made it through that path, it's probably a logical one for me to follow too. Then, if you do find yourself in that sinking (pun intended) realization that you're not making forward progress, stop! Don't spin and spin as you'll only dig your tires in deeper. Instead, pull those spare boards out of the back of your car or truck that you brought just for this possibility, place them under the tires then try again. Still stuck? Swallow your pride and ask for help from one of the monster trucks easily passing you by. Chances are they will have stopped to offer help anyway – those (often amazingly sweet) guys in those trucks have saved us on more than one occasion! Pay them with money, beer and tons of appreciation.
Catch, Clean and Cook a Fish
Surf anglers are most likely to catch puppy drum on a two-hook bottom rig with one or two chunks of fresh, natural bait and several ounces of weight. Use 1/0 to 5/0 hooks and make sure they're sharp. Fresh cut mullet and menhaden are proven baits, and fresh shrimp sometimes works. Puppy drum are available in the surf from Corolla to Ocracoke in the fall. The epicenter for big drum at this time of year is Cape Point. You can also find drum of all sizes around inlets and in the sounds using soft plastic baits teamed with lead head jigs or natural bait.
Most importantly, start with a very sharp fillet knife. If you value your appendages, don't even think about trying it with a dull knife.
The way you clean the fish depends on the way you're going to cook it. You can gut it and leave the head on if you're going to bake it. But if you're going to fillet it, basically skin the meat off the bone, here's what you need to do (YouTube it if you need a visual).
1 Start at the head. Find the soft fleshy point behind the gills. Holding the fish's head, slice down into this soft spot at a slight angle towards the tail.
2 Slide the blade through the body just above the spine.
3 Using a very slight sawing motion, slice back toward the tail until you've separated the meat from the rib cage. The knife needs to be turned so that it's lying flat to the backbone and just barely scraping the backbone.
4 When you've reached the tail leave just enough skin attached so that it's barely hanging on. Put the fillet back in place, flip the fish and do the same thing on the other side.
5 When you've cut both fillets, remove both of them from the tail at the same time.
6 To remove the skin from the fillets, pinch the skin at the tail and slide the knife between the skin and meat. Cut about 3 or 4 inches, and then cut a hole in the skin to put your finger through. Holding that skin like a handle, strip the skin off the meat.
Hatteras-Style Boiled Red Drum
This recipe is the real deal. The oldtimers made it with old drum, but you can't keep those anymore. You can make this with any keeper drum in the 18 to 27-inch range. You have to serve this with cornbread. It's a requirement.
- 2 red drum fillets, diced into 2-inch cubes
- A dozen or more red potatoes, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 pound of bacon (or streak o' lean), cut into¼-inch cubes
- ½ stick of butter
- sea salt and pepper
- In a large pot, boil 2 quarts of water and add the potatoes with salt and butter. Boil for 8 minutes or until soft. When they're done, remove the potatoes from the boiling water with a slotted spoon. You'll need the boiling water for the fish.
- In the meantime, fry the bacon in a large skillet until crispy. Drain bacon and reserve the grease for later use.
- Saute the onions in the same pan that you used for the bacon.
- Add the fish to the boiling water and cook for about six minutes, just until white and flaky. Try not to overcook. Drain.
- To serve, on each plate, lightly mash two to three potatoes with a fork. Add three to four cubes of fish and lightly mash into the potatoes. Top with a sprinkling of onions and bacon, then drizzle with a tablespoon of hot bacon grease. Add salt and pepper.
Build a Backyard Oyster Bar
This is a fun one! If you're an oyster purist and keep yourself to them only in the cold months, this is a seasonal activity that announces and celebrates plummeting temps! First, imagine the oyster roast nights in your head: You're dressed in jeans and sweaters, it's dark by 6 so the night starts earlier than summer fetes, you've built one of those aforementioned bonfires nearby, the sky is clear with the stars shining and the steamers are set up and ready. Ok, you're in the right mode to set the stage correctly.
If you're building oyster tables, make them taller than normal so guests aren't leaning over the whole night. Make them skinny too – we recommend 8 feet long and about 2 feet across. Consider cutting a hole in the middle to place your trash can under to catch the shells (then donate those shells to a local organization like The Nature Conservancy at Nags Head Woods). Rig some high poles on both ends that are sturdy enough to anchor a rope that you stretch from end to end onto which you attach strings of lights so you can see what you're eating without taking up table space with lanterns. Now . . . moment of happiness: Plug in those lights and step back and observe your handiwork. It's pretty, in and of itself, even before those steaming shells are dumped onto the table. It's generational Outer Banks right there in your backyard.
In case this is your first time, you'll want saltine crackers, oyster knives and cocktail sauce at your oyster bar too. Hopefully, in keeping with oyster season, it will be too cold to have melted butter on the table. Personally, we prefer to have torn up pieces of towels on the table also to place between hand and oyster. Oh, and beer. Lots of beer.
Make Three Exceptionally Delicious - and Maybe a Little Weird - Oyster Sauces
Sure, if you want to go old school and only have store-bought cocktail sauce (we think the Texas Pete sauce is the best one) at your oyster bar, no one will think lesser of you. Honest. But, just in case you want to add a little sumpin' sumpin' to your roast, here are three sauces you can consider.
Mignonette Sauce
It even sounds fancier being that it's a French word. But it's simple to make. Chop up a couple of shallots, add champagne vinegar and season with sea salt and ground pepper. Drizzle over oysters or put it in a squirt-top bottle and let folks add their own.
Pesto Sauce
You're either going to be a big fan of this one or not. I think it overpowers the oyster flavor, but you might think it's a perfect combo. Provide a bowl or two of pesto on the oyster bar for guests to scoop into as they prefer. Take a poll to be prepared for the next roast.
If you still have basil in your garden, gather up about two fist-sized bunches of leaves and stems. In a food processor, add the basil, pine nuts or walnuts and garlic (as much as makes you happy!) and blend that until it's chopped up looking. Next, add parmesan cheese and some salt and blend again for a smidge. Then, as the processor is running, start adding olive oil until you get the consistency you like.
Ginger and Soy Sauce
Well, oysters are seafood, after all, and don't you often associate soy sauce with the fruits of the sea? This one adds a twist on the kind of down-home, straight and simple experience we think of with backyard oyster roasts, but, hey, a little shake up isn't necessarily a bad thing.
In another of those squirt bottles (the dollar places have them), add in rice wine vinegar and sesame oil in equal parts. Add a couple spoonfuls of soy sauce and grated ginger. Shake, shake, shake – et voila! Wait, that's what you say for the Mignonette sauce.
Now then, aren't you excited about this upcoming fall and winter? Are you ready to build that oyster bar and get that bonfire blazing then invite your friends over for a glorious chilly evening? Sounds like a plan. Why not include that nice fellow who saved your car from high tide? Maybe he'll bring the Mignonette Sauce or, better yet, a bottle of that Kill Devil Pecan Honey rum!


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I'm about to show you the EXACT STEPS that I used to turn my relationship with food from binges, chocolate wrappers and guilt, to peaceful, calm and smoother than a strawberry sundae.
And how you can do it too!
I yo-yo dieted and hated my body for thirty years (yup, three-zero)
Each night before I went to bed I prayed to the god of skinny thighs... plueeease, let me wake up thin.
And then bright and early the next morning, I would shuffle to the bathroom scales for a fresh dose of self judgment (I guess you could call me a slow learner)
You spend all day thinking about the food you'd like to eat and how to avoid eating it.
You eat one cookie, decide you've "ruined everything" and binge on deep fried Pop Tarts and stale pizza from last night's binge.
You squirrel away food in secret and stuff your face when no one is around.
You hate your behaviour.
You beat yourself up for being weak.
But you don't know what to do about it.
Beneath each frenzied attempt at a new diet is One. Single. Belief. The belief that you don't have the power to solve this problem yourself. You've been lead to believe that your weight problem is crazy-pants complex and you're not smart enough to solve it yourself. So you struggle and you strive and you lose and gain the same 20 kilos year after year after year...
But before you drown your sorrows in a deep fried Snickers bar, stop! I have some fabulous, game changing news for you... You're NOT weak. You're NOT broken. You CAN overcome this. And what's more, I'm going to help you make it happen.
Slapping another band-aid on this problem & telling yourself it's solved will not work.
Healing it at the source is the only solution.
If you truly want to break free from a lifetime of emotional eating and diet drama, you will need help. Sure, you can try ONE.MORE.DIET. You can even have another go at those super delicious meal replacement shakes that have been collecting dust in your pantry since 1984. But the bottom line remains the same...
Look, we all know what we "should" be doing.
And as much as I would love to tell you that I'm sending you a batch of chocolate muffins that make you skinny, the cost of postage (and the fact that they're not real) prevents it.
If you want to lose weight, eat more fruit and veg, eat less refined foods, right? Let's face it… it's not rocket science. But why can't we do it? Because we're not using the right tools.
Ditch the Diet Online Bootcamp will provide you with a set of tools, systems and strategies to help you overcome the mental challenges behind emotional eating, such as "why is one piece of chocolate cake never enough…in fact…why is the entire chocolate cake never enough??!"
"Working on my emotional eating issues with the support of Kylie Pax showed me I had some unhealthy habits and Kylie has helped me understand what was holding me back AND how I can move forward! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!"
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"I lost 10kilos! I am gobsmacked at the changes. All my clothes are too big now!
Before Ditch the Diet, I didn't realise there was one other person who struggled like I did. Now I've lost 10 kilos. All my clothes are swimming on me and my "tight" jeans are being held up with a belt! I just can not believe the difference Ditch the Diet has made to my life and my relationship with food. Thank you so much, Kylie. Please know you have changed my life. Yep, it's a big call but it's true. You are truly a gift and I could never thank you enough for setting me free. I'm a better person today because I met you 6 weeks ago.
- Ashlea Elias, Australia
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My battle with my body and food is definitely no secret.
I talk about it in the media. I talk about it in interviews. I know what it's like to hurt over your relationship with food because I lived it for 30 years.
If you spend your days trying to get your eating "perfect" and when you don't (which is almost always), you binge and promise yourself you'll "start again tomorrow", or
You are constantly obsessing or stressing over food, your body and your weight, or
The thought of going on one more diet makes you want to poke your eyes out with pretzel sticks, this is for you.
Each week my magic unicorns will deliver brand spanking new content to your inbox.
You will receive access to a tasty selection of video, audio, printable content. All downloadable and all keep-able so you can listen on the run, watch on the fly or print and use wallpaper for your kitchen (see all the cool things I do for you?)
I'm all about maximising your learning experience, so it's super important to take advantage of the method that works best for you.
You want exclusive? You got it!
Joining Ditch the Diet means getting an "Access All Areas" pass to ALL my secret weight loss weapons!
You'll receive life time access to the exclusive Membership site where you'll find your Notes, Worksheets, MP3's and Videos. All the tools I personally used to overcome emotional eating for good!
PLUS you'll receive automatic updates, special offers and access to exclusive member content that isn't available to regular people.
Yup. This is where it gets real.
As someone who lived with emotional eating, bingeing and dieting for 30 years, I understand the importance of finding recipes that are nutritious, delicious and won't trigger an all-out binge session (know what I'm talkin' bout?)
I have personally selected some of my very favourite recipes that the whole family will enjoy. That's right. No more "diet food" for you and "real food" for them.
I have vegan, vegetarian, raw, gluten free, sugar free and paleo. Whatever your dietary requirements are, Ditch the Diet has got you covered.
When you join Ditch the Diet, you become part of the exclusive DTD Sisterhood. Within the private Facebook group you can connect with women just like you, who understand the drama of emotional eating because they've been there too.
Need more? I answer your most common questions in the Weekly Masterclasses! Finally you can get the personal support you need.
The Eating Code is a system I created from years of research, trial, error, donuts, tears and finally... SUCCESS!
This is a set of 5 Guidelines that helped me completely ELIMINATE emotional eating, binge eating, middnight booty calls with the refrigerator and LOSE OVER 20 KILOS.
The Eating Codes will give you the EXACT STEPS I used to break up with emotional eating and lose over 20 kilos so that you can do it too.
And the best part ? No more being told what to eat and when. This time YOU hold all the power!
No more guess work. No more vague tips. The Eating Code is the exact system I used to eliminate binge eating and take my weight loss from zero to super-sexy diva status.
I was the queen of excuses. I had and excuse for EVERYTHING. I would tell myself I could always eat now and start again tomorrow. And I did. For over 20 years.
I'll show you WHY you keep doing that and HOW to change those patterns, easily!
I'll help you create a new way of thinking so that becoming and staying healthy will no longer be something you are "doing", but just the natural outcome of the way you live your life.
Still hating on your body?
I share with you the 12 MOST IMPORTANT POINTS to know when it comes to overcoming negative body image.
You'll discover why it's important to face things head on (don't run screaming, I promise this works!)
And when it comes to stress eating, I will give you the golden keys I personally used to beat the binge so that you don't make pizza your new BFF every time life throws a little drama your way.
This is about the time when you would normally cave in. "It's too hard. I messed it up. I'll stuff my face today and start again tomorrow".
Sound familiar? I show you how to tear down the walls of resistance. But those walls won't come tumbling down by themselves. I give you an EXACT PLAN showing you how to take action in spite of doubt, fear or resistance.
This is where the TRUE transformation occurs.
After spending so many years eating my "diet food" (hello, soggy lettuce leaves and soup that tastes like old gym socks) these days, I'm a huge fan of variety...
Which is exactly why I'm giving you full access to over 100 recipes in one enormous, she-bang Ditch the Diet Recipe Library! Pretty cool, eh? Yeah, I thought you'd say that.
You'll have lifetime access to instantly downloadable healthy Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners as well as snacks, smoothies and juices (don't worry, there's still a few soups and salads in there too!)
I believe eating should NOT be about restriction, deprivation or replacing real food with pills, shakes or anything that tastes like cardboard.
Plueeaase! We've all done that enough times to make even the Cookie Monster barf. Eating is SUPPOSED to be fun, easy and guilt free (am I right?) All recipes in the Ditch the Diet program are made with fresh, wholefood ingredients guaranteed NOT to send you on a crazy pants sugar binge.
This food will make reaching your natural weight feel like a guilty pleasure.
I live by the K.I.S.S motto: Keep It Simple and Sexy. Why make things harder than they have to be? All the recipes in the Ditch the Diet Recipe Box are super simple and fast!
Why? Because despite my many talents, cooking is not one of them. I want food that's fast, fresh and easier than a Pop Tart to make.
You want to get delicious, healthy food, family friendly food on the table, fast? I've got you covered.
I have carefully selected a variety of recipes covering vegan, vegetarian, paleo, raw, gluten free and sugar free options. No exclusions here, baby! Ditch the Diet has aaaall your dietary needs covered like double chocolate coating on a Snickers bar.
Such a simple but effective program, it still amazes me! So simple in fact that it works well for meal times for my whole family, even with the fussiest of little eaters!
I know what to do now.
I have tried so many diets along the way, and nothing has come close to working with Kylie.
If you had given up hope like I had, then I highly recommend working with Kylie … I promise, you won't look back.
Tricia Leo
I have really stepped up eating nutritious food and working on my emotional eating issues with the support of Kylie Pax.
I had some unhealthy habits I wanted to change and Ditch the Diet Online Bootcamp has helped me understand what was holding me back and how I can move forward.
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I'm so thankful to Kylie for all she has done for me. I can feel myself changing from the inside and it's because of you, Kylie. No one has spoken to my heart the way you have.
I needed concrete direction. I needed someone who had been in the depths of despair and made her way out of it. Kylie my love, you are too good to be true! You are a wonder to behold. Your dedication is unbelievable!!!!Thank you thank you thank you for your time, encouragement, energy, unending love and wisdom. My life will never be the same.
Darlee Bratcher
VIP MEMBERSHIP (Value $900)
Once you become one of the "cool chicks" in the DTD Sisterhood, you instantly become a lifetime VIP Member! No annual fees, no lock-in contracts, just permanent access to the exclusive Membership Site, your training materials plus automatic instant updates!
You never have to stress about falling behind because Ditch the Diet is specifically designed so you can go at your own pace and access your materials from anywhere via your tablet or smart phone....sqweeee!
LIVE MASTERCLASSES (Total Value $1000)
Looking for personal support? You got it! You will receive instant access to a BONUS 6 weekly Masterclasses as part of your Bootcamp frivolities! Each week we deep dive into your struggles with food, weight loss and Ben & Jerry's ice cream as we tackle the challenges becoming the next level version of you, head on.
Each weekly Masterclass will be available in the membership site so you can watch and download the mp3 for an eternity of listening pleasure.
EXCLUSIVE Q&A LAB (Total Value $1000)
This is the pot of magical weight loss gold you've been looking for.
Almost thirty Q&A Videos with my exclusive insider tips covering exactly how to make this work with your life, your routine and your busy schedule. How to Beat the Binge, Cut the Cravings, Silence the Self Sabotage AND what, when and how much to eat.
It's all there. It's all yours. It's fully downloadable. And it's FREE when you join Ditch the Diet!
DITCH THE DIET RECIPE GUIDE (Total Value $60)
Yeah, baby! Every. Single. Recipe. from the Bootcamp has been dipped in coconut and rolled into one ginormous recipe book! No more pick 'n print. Now you can browse the Recipe Library and choose a recipe at your leisure or simply download the whole whopping great thing in the NEW Ditch the Diet Recipe Book!
Over 200 pages of DTD approved, binge proof, knock your socks off delicious recipes and they're all yours, FREEEEEE!!
FOOD FREEDOM SECRETS & DIAL DOWN THE SUGAR GUIDE (Total Value $44)
I'm throwing in almost 100 pages of my very best Five Minute Food Freedom Secrets plus my famous Dial Down the Sugar Guide. Have you ever wondered why you're so obsessed with food?
Five Minute Food Freedom Secrets and Dial Down the Sugar reveals how I moved out of the emotional eating nightmare and how you can do it too!
LOVE IT TO BITS GUARANTEE (Value $297)
It really doesn't get any better than this. I'm offering you my personal "love it to bits" money back guarantee! Try Ditch the Diet Bootcamp for two full weeks* and if you don't just love it so much you could kiss it, then send me an email and you will receive a full refund, no questions asked! Why would I do this? Because it took me years to put this program together for you and I KNOW it works. If it can help me, it can definitely help YOU!
*Terms & Conditions apply
Please Note: Side effects may include a smaller booty
Hey, cute head! Do you live in Australia? GST may be applied at checkout for you!
I'm the sassy diva you see swanning around the internet better known as Australia's Emotional Eating Coach. I'm also an ex fad dieter who quit binge eating and lost over 20 kilos (and all without brain surgery, hypnosis or that pin-pricking thing they do...)
Ditch the Diet Online Bootcamp is the solution for any woman who has ever tried to diet and failed, prayed to the god of Krispy Kremes, and then tried and failed AGAIN.
If you've ever promised yourself that this time will be different, Ditch the Diet is for you.
If you've ever started a new diet on Monday morning and then stuffed your face with cream puffs by Monday afternoon, Ditch the Diet is for you.
If you've ever been seduced by the latest fad diet with the promise of looking like a Victoria's Secret Angel by 5am tomorrow morning, then Ditch the Diet is for YOU!
Are you ready to quit fantasising about Snickers bars make you skinny and end the fight with food?
I did it and so can you.
Oodles of love,
Kylie x
The whole purpose of Ditch the Diet Bootcamp is to equip you to never need my help again.
I want this to be the LAST TIME you ever need to think about food as anything more than a healthy way to nourish your body. I want this to be the LAST TIME you yo-yo diet, binge or use food to sweeten your day after the mother-in-law compares your sense of style to a rabid squirrel. And I definitely want this to be the LAST TIME you ever count another calorie or weigh another flea-sized portion of food.
Sure, there will be many "last times" as you become a craving fighting ninja, but there will also be lots of first times...
Like the first time you realise you don't need to eat 85 chocolate bars after a fight with the partner. Or the first time you are able to buy a cake from the bakery, serve it to the family and not sneak back to the fridge all night for "just one more slice"
I want you to be incredibly, outrageously, insanely happy with your life.
So, if you think me + you equals a winning combo, then just hit the link below and let's get this ball rolling!
Please Note: Side effects may include a smaller booty
Hey, cute head! Do you live in Australia? GST may be applied at checkout for you!
Before DTD I was just about ready to check myself into rehab because I had driven myself crazy with diet "stuff". I was absolutely terrified of food. Like, cold sweat, anxiety and tears just thinking about what I could eat. The only foods I ate were protein shakes, spinach and chicken. I was scared to eat fruit, beans, any starches, fat, carrots, nuts and the list goes on and on. Of course in my off times I would eat ALL the frosting off entire cakes and tons of other crazy things. I exercised for 2+ hours a day. Ironically, I kept gaining more and MORE weight.
But since joining DTD, I eat fruit now! And beans, and nuts and carrots and avocado and anything I want because I'm not afraid any more! I can even have just one cookie now and not an entire plate! I got more out of this than I ever imagined.
Laura Iverson
This has blown me away! I loved every bit of the Bootcamp! It was inspirational, empowering and FUN!!!
It really felt as if I was having a heart to heart conversation with a good friend who knows me so well and is there for me!
I felt understood and supported.
Thank you for the insights you have given, for the support you give and for being there for all of us!I am so glad to have signed up and thank you from the bottom of my heart, Kylie
Thank you and keep on spreading your light!
Sevvi Dubai
DTD is not only helping me but my kids as well who will see me have a healthy relationship with food.
I have erased my Weight watchers app after two years but the biggest thing I've learned is that I can forgive myself and love myself unconditionally no matter how imperfect my day is or how much I struggle.
My weaknesses don't define me, my strengths do. Thank you for starting to give me back my self love.
Thank you for starting to give me back my self love.
Reem Khan
How does the program work?
We'll hook up each week for 6 weeks via your weekly modules and in the private Ditch the Diet Facebook group. This means I'll be sprinkling some pixie dust into your life each week as we share a virtual green smoothie and change your relationship with food, forever.
I don't want to join the Facebook support group. Can I still join?
Absolutely! The Facebook group is definitely very cool, not not an essential part of the program. All your content will be available via the private Membership Site so you can still access all your materials, weekly videos, mp3's, workbooks, recipes, bonus material aaaaand take part in the weekly live Masterclasses!
Do you have a payment plan?
Sure do! I'm a big believer in making things happen and I know you are too. I can already hear your squeals of delight, so go ahead and bust out your happy dance! Instalment payments are sexy!
Do you have a refund policy?
Absolutely! From the date the Bootcamp opens, the magical Ditch The Diet Fairy will grant you a FULL WEEK* to take the course and all it's materials for a test run. After that time, the Fairy can no longer grant refunds (I think her powers are revoked by Hobbits)
Is there anything I won't get in Ditch the Diet Bootcamp?
Yes! Another diet! Ditch the Diet Online Bootcamp is aimed at creating a permanent lifestyle shift. No tricks. No fads. And definitely no diets.
Ready to dive in?
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About Kylie
Kylie is Australia's Emotional Eating Coach and creator of Ditch the Diet. Her superpowers include overcoming thirty years of emotional eating, losing 20 kilos and being able to stand next to a chocolate cake without wanting to roll around in it, naked. Named "better than a diet pill" by thousands around the globe, Kylie inspires women to a greater life by ending the battle with their body and food, for life.


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MCOCA slapped against Sreesanth, others for obeying command of Dawood outfit
Delhi Police today invoked the stringent MCOCA against suspended cricketer S Sreesanth and 22 others in the IPL spot-fixing scandal for which the "command" originated from underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's outfit.india Updated: Jun 04, 2013, 22:54 IST
Delhi Police on Tuesday invoked the stringent MCOCA against suspended cricketer S Sreesanth and 22 others in the IPL spot-fixing scandal for which the "command" originated from underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's outfit.
Following this, a Delhi court remanded Sreesanth, another player Ajit Chandila and the others to further judicial custody till June 18.
"Since the accused persons were acting on command of people based abroad like Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and Chota Shakeel who have a continuous past record of organised crimes, provisions of Maharasthra Control of Organised Crime Act have been invoked against the accused," police told Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain.
The court, in its order, referred to the approval granted by Joint Commissioner of Police Special Cell for invoking section 3 and 4 of MCOCA and also a report citing reasons for the same.
"It has been stated that the approval for invoking MCOCA has been accorded by Jt CP special cell on the premise that the arrested persons/accused through extensive use of electronic and via media were in communication with each other and with their other associates, who are still absconding, including those associates who are based abroad.
"The illegal organised betting syndicate in India is being controlled by persons based abroad.
"The arrested accused persons have been found playing role of conspirators while others have been found acting as facilitators," the court quoted from the report.
"This organised crime syndicate besides controlling illegal betting was indulging in fixing performance of players and also the rates of betting," police told the court.
The 16 accused, who have filed bail pleas include Sreesanth. The police's move of invoking MCOCA was opposed by the counsel for the accused, saying police does not have approval for it.
Advocate DP Singh, appearing for bookie Chandresh Patel argued that the accused, who was said to be having links with D-company has been given bail in Mumbai and here MCOCA has been invoked.
"How can players be accused of being a part of an organised crime syndicate," he argued.
The other 24 accused includes Sreesanth, Rajasthan Royals player Ajit Chandila, former T20 player Amit Kumar Singh and former Ranji players Manoj Guddewar and Babu Rao Yadav.
Bookies Jiju Janardhan, Deepak Kumar, Manan Bhat, Chandresh Patel, Ramakant Aggarwal, Rakesh, Sunil Bhatia, Kiran Dole, Ashwani Aggarwal, Mohd Yahya, Ajay Goel, Love Garg, Amit Gupta, Bhupender Nagar, Sunil Saxena, Sayed Durez Ahmed, bouncer Vikash Chowdhury and businessmen Vinod Sharma and Nitin Jain are also accused in the case.
The police had earlier told the court that it was probing the angle of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in the case and had said that interception of various calls suggested that several big names may be involved in the episode as calls were made to Dawood.
The police had said there are some missing links and they are working on it.
"We are missing the link of the whole episode which will be proved very soon," the prosecutor had said, adding, "Some big names are also involved which I cannot disclose at this stage and they were in regular contact with D company."
Sreesanth, Chavan and Chandila, who all were playing for the T20 League's Rajasthan Royals franchise, were arrested in Mumbai by Delhi Police for their alleged involvement in spot-fixing in T20 League matches for payments of up to Rs. 60 lakhs just for giving away pre-determined number of runs in an over.
These three players, who have been suspended by the BCCI, and the others arrested have been booked under section 420 (cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC.
On May 21, the police had informed the court that section 409 of the IPC, which deals with criminal breach of trust and entails a maximum of life imprisonment along with fine, has been invoked against all the accused in the case.
The police had said they had added section 409 IPC as the agreement concerning T20 domestic league is a tripartite agreement between BCCI, Rajasthan Royals and the player and the agreement was an exclusive contract.
Regarding Sreesanth and other two cricketers, police had said that they had used various signs like putting towel in pocket for a fixed over and exercising before the over to give time to bettors to place their stakes.
What is MCOCA
Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) was formulated in 1999 to tackle organised crime which abetted narco-terrorism and raised huge amount of illegal money.
According to the provisions of the Act, confessions before senior police officers are admissible, not only against the accused giving the confession but also against the other accused in the same case.
There is no provision for granting anticipatory bail to the accused.


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text: Meredith McAndrew is the Manager of Program and Partnerships for the National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education. Meredith received her master's in Teaching Visual Arts from the University of the Arts, and her bachelor's in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Meredith is a passionate advocate for the arts in education and a strong believer in the importance of visual literacy. While working towards her master's, Meredith spent time observing and teaching in a wide range of Philadelphia-area K-12 schools, where she was able to see first hand the impact that school culture and systems of support have on both teacher retention and student well-being.


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Posted by Margaux Phares S.M., Science Writing, 2016
Topics: brain stimulation, electricity, neurology, neurotechnology, science, tDCS, transcranial direct current stimulation
Your Brain on 9 Volts – The Specter and Hype of Electrical Brain Stimulation
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