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Moved to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Home_Router
update to preferred openrc style for /etc/conf.d/net settings #461850 by Tina
Fix bug #388953 - Refer to /usr/share/doc/openrc-*/net.example.bz2 instead of /etc/conf.d/net.example
#379883 - Removing link attribute from guide element as it is not used anymore. Next step will be to remove it from DTD
update home router guide for the new iptables syntax, patch from bug 285416
add note for people to try putting the mtu clamp into the mangle table if it doesnt work for them otherwise
Coding style again (did a bit too much before)
Coding style
no more rp-pppoe, use ppp instead
transition from rp-pppoe/adsl to ppp/pppoe for adsl/pppoe users
finish converting to netqmail
qmail --> netqmail migration, bug 165874
add samba port forwarding as suggested by Daniel Meissner
updated home-router-howto for bug 154473
s/ethereal/wireshark/ as reported by Philip Stone
fix a grammar bug pointed out by Michael L.
add a note that even 2.6 kernels move crap around
add a small section on ip_dynaddr for Kristian
add missing spaces
Adding info about auto MDI/MDI-X NICs
add a debug section about crossover cables
added one lacking <path>, removed some double spaces, no content change
Fixed link to rsync.xml
fix paths to dhcp server config files as pointed out by Harold Naparst via e-mail
some baselayout/dnsmasq tweaks from Davide Giannotti
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Removed some tabs (blame rane) **No Content Change**
Should have been bumped
update notes to baselayout-1.11.14+
add some notes on adding more LANs
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add info for kernel features that adsl/pppoe require as noted by Jonathan Schmieg
add example for Xbox Live from Chris Slycord
replace the dhcp section with the dhcp server from dnsmasq as suggested by many peeps, move the old dhcp section to the Fun section, touchup grammer in a few sections, and add an example iptables rule for edonkey
forgot to copy & paste default policy settings
add a section on troubleshooting dhcpd
replace eth0 with $LAN and eth1 with $WAN and rename Debugging section to Troubleshooting #102450 by Arnold Miller
add a quick & dirty howto for setting up a local rsync server
Fix pre captions
add a small debugging section with MTU info from Ryan Viljoen and Krzysztof Czainski
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fix network settings ifconfig_IFACE -> config_IFACE
fix typo (maintaing -> maintaining)
Fixed <pre> elements and applied coding style Note to translators: no content change outside of <pre> elements
add note about opening up the ntp port (thanks to Jesse Cantara for the e-mail)
add suggestion about external ssh access by Ola Lindberg
add note about needing Socket Filtering (by Alex Sweeney)
add missing dns style line for dhcp ... thanks to Jonas Wagner
LAN interface is eth0, not eth1 ... thanks to Ville Heikkil�
forgot to add ntpd to the default start
style change [NTP] -> (NTP)
add gamecube/ps2 port forwarding examples
save ip forwarding info via sysctl.conf
change the rules to describe qmail r13
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fix dnsmasq line
fix a typo in the symlink
add docs on how to setup your own private ntp server
make note about baselayout version required
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touch up the wikipedia links
add some more details about traffic shaping
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Michelle Meyers / CNET News.com:
iPhone not to blame for Duke outage — So much for the theory iPhone designers were North Carolina fans. Cisco and Duke University are now absolving the iPhone of any blame for wireless network outages at the school, as was earlier alleged, but they aren't saying exactly what caused the problems.
Discussion: Computerworld and Network World
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: Duke now says Cisco, not iPhone, caused Wi-Fi snafu
Update on Duke's wireless network and Apple's iPhones — Durham, NC — A note from Tracy Futhey, Duke's chief information officer, on Duke's wireless network and Apple's iPhones: — By now many of you have read news accounts around iPhones and Duke's wireless network.
Discussion: Ed Burnette's Dev Connection, eWEEK.com, Macworld, Slashdot and Wi-Fi Networking News
Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection: iPhone off the hook
Paula Musich / eWEEK.com: Duke Resolves iPhone, Wi-Fi Outage Problems
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld: Cisco access point at fault for Duke's wireless issues
Associated Press:
Duke: IPhone didn't cause power outages — Duke: IPhone didn't cause power outages — RALEIGH, N.C. - A problem with Duke University's wireless network caused outages at the school, officials said Friday, exonerating the initial suspect, Apple Inc.'s new iPhone.
Discussion: Engadget Mobile and Macworld
Darren Murph / Engadget Mobile: Duke exonerates iPhone from network outage charges
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld: iPhone may not be cause of Duke wireless woes
Network World:
UPDATE: Cisco confirms its network caused Duke's iPhone flooding
UPDATE: Cisco confirms its network caused Duke's iPhone flooding
Discussion: Apple 2.0, Blackfriars' Marketing and UNEASYsilence
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0: Duke Mystery Solved: Cisco, not iPhone, To Blame
Carl Howe / Blackfriars' Marketing: Harry Potter finally ties iPhone Buzz, iPhones available nearly everywhere
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why Feedburner is trouble — When Feedburner first came online I warned that there was danger in giving so much power to one company. They argued that they were just a little company, struggling to make a go of it, and no one should fear them. Some of them even took the predictable political tactic …
Discussion: Geek News Central
Todd Cochrane / Geek News Central: Dave Winer Weighs in on Feedburner!
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Africa, Offline: Waiting for the Web — ON a muggy day in Kigali in 2003, some of the highest-ranking officials in the Rwandan government, including President Paul Kagame, flanked an American businessman, Greg Wyler, as he boldly described how he could help turn their small country into a hub of Internet activity.
Discussion: White African and Slashdot
RSnake / ha.ckers.org web application security lab:
Res:// Protocol Local File Enumeration — Billy Rios has a nice writeup on how you can enumerate files using the Internet Explorer res:// protocol. To see the demo, click here using Internet Explorer. I've been toying with this for a while, and used it to detect if you were using IE7 …
Scott Hanselman / Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen:
Blue Badge — I'm going to work for Microsoft. There, I said it. I'm going to work for ScottGu's team in the Developer Division. — Someone once showed me a diagram that looked something like the one at right. Most of us spend our time over in the red circle doing stuff someone will pay us to do.
Discussion: Scobleizer
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer: It's a small world, congrats to Scott (both of them)
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
SimplyHired's Traffic Soars: But Is It Real? — For those of us who pay attention to these things, the recent rise in SimplyHired's traffic on Compete and Alexa was noteworthy. Since April, both services show a dramatic rise in traffic - see chart to right, click for larger view).
Discussion: CrunchBase and CenterNetworks
Randall Stross / New York Times:
When Mobile Phones Aren't Truly Mobile — WIRELESS carriers in the United States are spiritual descendants of dear Ma Bell: they view total control over customers as their inherited birthright. — The younger generation — Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and the namesake child AT&T …
Discussion: PalmAddicts
Sam Mcloughln / PalmAddicts: NYT article When Mobile Phones Aren't Truly Mobile
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Web Strategy Analysis: Homepage Breakdown of the top 10 Blogs — Share with others: Jim Turner submitted this to Digg — Analysis Purpose — To analyze the homepage web strategies of the top blogs in the world — Background — We're all fascinated and drawn to some of the world's top blogs …
Stephen Chau / Google LatLong:
Imaging America — I'm pleased to announce that we have acquired ImageAmerica, a company that builds high resolution cameras for the collection of aerial imagery. — Google Maps and Earth users are no strangers to ImageAmerica's work — the company provided high resolution black …
Discussion: CNET News.com, CenterNetworks, Google Blogoscoped, Search Engine Journal, TechCrunch and WinBeta
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com: Google acquires ImageAmerica to boost mapping
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks: If you aren't happy with just a street view, now Google has acquired …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Google Acquires ImageAmerica
Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal: Google Acquires ImageAmerica
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch: Google Acquires ImageAmerica
Arneh / WinBeta: Google Acquires ImageAmerica
Harriet Rubin / New York Times:
C.E.O. Libraries Reveal Keys to Success — Michael Moritz, the venture capitalist who built a personal $1.5 billion fortune discovering the likes of Google, YouTube, Yahoo and PayPal, and taking them public, may seem preternaturally in tune with new media. But it is the imprint of old media …
Discussion: rexblog.com, TeleRead, Ceosmack, Feld Thoughts and metacool
Rex Hammock / rexblog.com: CEO libraries reveal they don't read business books
David Rothman / TeleRead: A few words about CEOs and the promise of e-books
Mark Williamson / Ceosmack: Kept More Private Than Their Sex Lives, CEO Libraries Reveal Success.
Diego Rodriguez / metacool: Why we read — I once heard the great Sara Little Turnbull tell …
Pupils browse porn on donated laptops — ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the Internet, the official News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported Thursday. — NAN said its reporter …
Discussion: One Laptop Per Child News, Guardian Unlimited, Infothought, Profy.Com, Engadget, Slashdot and Gizmodo
Robert B. Kozma / One Laptop Per Child News: One Laptop Per Child and Premature Scaling
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: One Pornsite Per OLPC?
Seth Finkelstein / Infothought: Nigerian One-Laptop-Per-Child Porn-Browsing and Censorware
Paul Glazowski / Profy.Com: The OLPC Strays To The Sleazy Side Of The Web
Evan Blass / Engadget: Reuters shocked that OLPC testers using XO for XXX
CowboyNeal / Slashdot: OLPC Used to Browse Porn
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo: Booby Trap: Kids Use US-Donated Laptops To Surf The Porn, Of Course
Kim / ...on pampers, programming & pitching manure:
Casual Connect Day 2: Google - Adsense for Games — Terse notes I took, very quick cleanup done last night [my comments in braces] — Bernie Stolar [Yes, THAT Bernie, of Sony, Sega fame], Greg Schaffer - Team lead — Bernie comes out, talks 25 years history in the industry, blah blah.
Discussion: GigaOM and Clickable Culture
Wagner James Au / GigaOM: Google's got game, casual game that is
Eric / The MyBlogLog Blog:
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish — It's been a busy six months and MyBlogLog is integrating nicely into Yahoo. We're on better servers, we've grown the team and there are some exciting new features in the works. Dare I say that the future is so bright that we gotta wear shades?
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This is our most advanced smoke grenade yet; developed around a military grade ignition system, this new WIRE PULL smoke grenade is simple yet effective and produces a high volume of smoke for approximately 90 seconds.
This Smoke Grenade is ideal for paintball and airsoft game scenarios where cover is sparse & the opposition may have the upper hand. Deploy this smoke grenade and you can flip the tables creating cover and obscuring the opposition's visibility.
Once you have removed the protective cap, pull the ring sharply to the side of the unit and let the grenade go to work.
Available in our full range of 7 colours with new colours in development, Enola Gaye offer you the ultimate tools to launch your tactical assault.
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Just got the gecko girls here. They still had stuck shed on their feet. Took a while, but got most of it off. They're pretty stressed, so I'll get the last bits off tomorrow.
The fatter one's belly is very dark and green, almost certain she's impacted. Looks even darker than the photo in person... I'm afraid she may have MBD (metabolic bone disease). She's not very strong, kinda drags her weight, has a hard time supporting herself on her legs. Also her head looks slightly misshapen, and she's pretty small compared to the other and she's supposedly the older of the two.
Their vet visit is Monday, but I'll be keeping a very close watch on them until then, especially the fatter one here. I'll be giving her daily soaks until the vet can tell me what to do next.
I just fed them separately, and my heart is breaking. The fat one is pretty weak... She would watch as the crickets passed, but didn't lunge for them. Just kinda sat there with her mouth open and her legs outstretched. I ended up having to hand feed her directly with tongs because she couldn't catch them. ;~;
Luckily, the slimmer of the two seems in fine shape, able to lunge at her prey and moving around well. I think there's certainly hope for that one.
Pray for the fat little nugget. I hope she can be saved. ;^;


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Are you ready for this?
I'm an excited kind of gal myself. I don't recall a holiday that involved food or gifts where I didn't whine so bad that my parents caved and gave me a little treat before the big day. So that's what Momma Jen has for you: a little pre-MOFO celebration of sorts.
As you know this year's theme is True Grub: I Wanna Chew Good Things With You. I'm hopelessly in love with the premium cable show True Blood, adore Alan Ball, and am plowing my way through the actual books by Charlaine Harris. What's this show, you say? It's another television drama with vampires, except the cast is way hotter and there's tons of sex. And vampires. Did I mention there were vampires?
There's an entire thread dedicated to the show in the Living Room of The Post Punk Kitchen. Isa mentioned that someone should do a True Blood Blog. I took the muse and ran like Sam Merlotte himself when he's doing his post-shape shifter streaking thing.
Pray tell, what signature dish will don Miss Sookie's name? Did I get ballsy enough to make a Hunter's Pie? I dunno, but I did make a vegan goat tongue and giggled the whole time I made Alcide's Comeback Sauce.
And what noshling shall be named after King of the Bill? I don't want to give everything away, so you're going to have to tune in EVERY SINGLE DAY in OCTOBER for Vegan Mofo. Tell your friends about it too, so you can help me meet my 1 MILLION HIT GOAL by the end of the month. I'm giving the FoodBuzz money to two local charities.
And now, I'll leave you with a recipe I made about a month ago:
Lafayette's Red Velvet Brownie Bites
1/2 c EB OR 5 T of canola oil-(NOTE-I don't always have EB around the house. If you go this route, note they'll be a bit crunchier on the outside, but very soft n' chewy on the inside.)
1 1/2 c. beet sugar
1 t vanilla
2T flax seed meal+ 6T warm water, set aside
1 1/4 AP flour
1/4 t. salt
3T cocoa powder. The better the powder, the better the bite.
1 1/2 T red food coloring
1/2 c. melted chocolate chips
First things first, get some nice music going and put those chips on a double boiler. Take the vanilla, sugar, flax seed eggs, oil and mix. Mix in the food coloring. It will look very creepy.
Take your dry ingredients: flour, salt, and cocoa and sift. There's nothing worse than biting into something with cocoa lumps in it. Sift it! I'm watching you.
Preheat the oven for three fiddy, and get a mini cupcake pan out lined with papers. Mix the wet with the dry. Now add that melted chocolate. It will be super thick. Spray a measured tablespoon with canola oil and put measured T scoops in each mini muffin liner. Don't over fill! Set the timer for 10 minutes and check on them with a tooth pick. Set the timer for an additional 3-4 minutes, or until the toothpick comes out clean. Dollop the top with your favorite cream cheese icing. NOTE-don't freak out if they're a little hard on the outside, they're nice chewy, n' fudgy on the inside.
I have not tried this, but I double dog dare you to make the brownie bites Brujo Brownie Bites in honor of Lafayette's boyfriend, Jesus. To do this add 1/2 t cinnamon, 1/4 t cayenne pepper, and a pinch of clove powder. I know I'm doing this next time. I'm also going to play around and see if I can go old school and make red velvet without red food coloring.


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DirectShow media splitter and powerful audio and video decoders that are designed to allow playback for a wide range of multimedia formats.
- LAV Filters
- Version: 0.70.2
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LAV Filters Description
LAV Filters provides you with a comprehensive package comprising a multi-format media splitter, an audio decoder and a video decoding tool. Intuitively named LAV Splitter, LAV Audio and LAV Video, there components work together in order to allow the playback of any file format in a DirectShow compliant player.
Based on the FFmpeg multimedia package and its integrated libraries (namely libavcodec – audio/video codec library and libavformat), this utility aims to provide you with a simple way to overcome any compatibility issues that might occur.
LAV Splitter aims to provide you with a tool dedicated to demuxing multiple types of media files into their elementary streams and allowing the playback of Blu-Ray discs on your PC, while LAV Audio and LAV Video are powerful decoders with integrated support for multiple file formats, basically all the file types that are compatible with FFMpeg (AAC, AC3, E-AC3, DTS, MP1/2/3, TrueHD, FLV, Matroska/WebM, MOV, MPEG-TS/PS, MP4, AVI, OGG and many more).
After a brief installation process during which you are prompted to select the file formats that each component should be the source filter, each codec can be configured using the 'Properties' section. The configuration window for each item includes settings that are designated to advanced users.
LAV Splitter can demux sub-streams and comes with advanced subtitle handling options. It is capable of selecting streams based on the preferred quality, language and type (for instance, it can switch to streams dedicated to visually or hearing impaired persons).
The LAV video component supports multi-threading, hardware and software deinterlacing and come with hardware acceleration options, while the audio decoder supports bitstreaming through HDMI and S/PDIF to the receiver and features audio delaying options and automatic audio-video synchronization.
With support for multiple audio and video formats, containers and Blu-Ray playlists, LAV Filters offers users a reliable collection of DirectShow filters to allow video and audio playback.


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Its that time of year again!!! Hooray!!!!!
Does anyone have current pics that show the snow conditions (coverage, depth, surface condition) on the east face, near the final large switchbacks of the summer trail? The north face chutes + snow creek? West side / Marion Mountain? Jean Peak? Miller Peak? Wellmans Divide? Tahquitz area? Post em up! Let's keep this thread going through the snow season for the interested. NOAA predicts a little less than a foot of fresh this week.
I'll try to get out this Saturday 12/17 and get some but I'm not sure yet. Could be pretty thin still.


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Demo from tonight's certificate class for Digital Painting; which started today.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Digital Traditional Paintings
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Movie Frame Studies
Monday, June 20, 2011
Back to Class
New term started today. So many 1st term students around :P
Landscape demos for my 2nd term class, Production Painting:
Landscape demos for my 2nd term class, Production Painting:
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Back in Singapore
I was away in Shenzhen, China. The biggest game developer/publisher there, Tencent, invited me to host a private workshop for their artists. I had a great time and met some very cool people. One of my ACCD classmates from 15 years ago is now a big-time art director there :)
This was one of the demos from the two-day session.
This was one of the demos from the two-day session.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Duke Nukem Forever Concept Art
Hail to the King Baby! Finally after years in development, DNF has been released. I did these concepts way back in 2003-2004 with 3D Realms. Many of these designs actually still made it into the final release! :) And a big thanks to George Broussard at 3DR - fun times man!
WARNING: HUGE LOAD (give it time)
WARNING: HUGE LOAD (give it time)
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Over the years, wrestling fans have been subjected to some pretty lousy ideas. Characters, matches, or moments that have been so god-awful that you've sat there amazed that something that stupid could ever have been conceived of, much less executed on-screen. A new book, The WrestleCrap Book of Lists celebrates the worst of professional wrestling in the best possible way.
Co-author RD Reynolds (Randy Baer by day) is perhaps the foremost authority on the worst of professional wrestling, having founded WrestleCrap.com in 2001 (the other co-author Blade Braxton is a longtime contributor to the site). For anyone who is unfamiliar with the site, WrestleCrap is dedicated to documenting the very worst of professional wrestling. It's like an encyclopedia of wrestling blunders -- an ensucklopedia, if you will. Each inductee is "honoured" through a tongue-in-cheek description that is usually highlighted by pictures and the occasional sound or motion capture clips that reinforce how crappy the item actually was. What's really impressive is in the amount of material that the site has -- though maybe that's just sad commentary about how much crap the major companies have put forth in the past 25 years or so.
Lists, the third book in the WrestleCrap series, builds on the website's theme by adding a new twist. The book categorizes WrestleCrap entries into common themes -- i.e. the titular lists. Every list entry is given a detailed explanation, including the historical context, the participants involved, and most importantly, the crap factor -- what specifically about that item warrants entry into wrestling's hall of shame.
Reynolds and Braxton have a truly biting wit that makes the book really entertaining. It's not everyone that can come up with list ideas like the Six Best Mullets or Wrestling's Nine Worst Drag Queens, much less make them funny beyond just the heading. But Lists accomplishes just that.
And those are just two of the over 80 lists included in the book. A wide variety of topics are included, with nothing at all left sacred. There's nothing too campy or illogical or lame or just plain stupid to be used as comedic fodder by the authors -- everything is a target, the crappier the better. A lot of that comes from WWE's creative vaults, but WCW, ECW, TNA and other companies aren't spared either. All of their biggest follies are laid out for the world to see and to mock one more time.
Because how can you not mock things like Snitsky's foot fetish, or Ernest Miller's Cat-Bo martial arts technique, or TNA's King of the Mountain match, or Tony Schiavone? As long as it's all in good fun -- and Lists certainly keeps it in that vein -- then what's the harm? It's not like Reynolds and Braxton have a hidden agenda or want to suggest that all wrestling is crappy. On the contrary, they make it clear from the outset that they are huge wrestling fans who appreciate the product, warts and all. It's that fondness that allows them to laugh at its foibles, or in this case, list them, and still come back each and every week. It's that kind of fan that will really appreciate The WrestleCrap Book of Lists.
Bottom line: The WrestleCrap Book of Lists is a comprehensive, lighthearted look at the worst the business has to offer. At over 350 pages, including a 16-page colour centre spread, with laugh-out-loud spots on every page, it's definitely a worthwhile purchase. In other words: it's not crap.


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I was looking on the website for a downloadable picture for a presentation I'm doing. Are they still doing the 7 to 13 a day for better health? And if so, can I download it from somewhere?
The new Fruits & Veggies—More Matters® program has replaced the previous 5 to 9 A Day for Better Health Program. Although the current recommendations for fruit and vegetable intake for most adults are in the range of 7 to 13 servings a day, the program does not refer to specific numbers since recommendations are based on age, gender and activity level. Click here to see current recommendations. At this time, we do not have a downloadable picture of the logo.


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For years, Fremont East was a fun place to drink, especially if you were so committed to drinking (you know who you are) that you didn't want food to get in the way.
You could drink an Alaskan Amber Ale at the Griffin, shotgun a PBR to the sounds of electro-pop at Beauty Bar and sip a Brandy Alexander at Downtown Cocktail Room. But unless you were willing to wander into the maze of a Downtown casino or risk some fried mystery at the Fremont Street Experience, food options in the new entertainment district were hard to come by.
Now, however, a restaurant boomlet is coming Downtown. What had been slow and steady progress—go to Le Thai, if you can get a table!—is quickening, with a pile of new spots opening, in construction or stewing in someone's imagination. Seasonal comfort food, Latin-inspired small plates, Mexican with Michael Morton, a vegan fast food joint(!) and pizza pizza pizza are all on the way—to say nothing of the rumored and half-baked.
This development was inevitable—imbibers do like to eat, eventually, even if it's French fries piled high with a cheese-like substance. But the great food movement that has swept the rest of the city, bringing cuisine that is fresh, ethnic and innovative, has been delayed Downtown by the lack of restaurant infrastructure. The buildings on East Fremont didn't have kitchens, and restaurateurs were intimidated by the build-from-scratch challenge.
"I think it just proves that restaurants are that hard to do," says Dan Coughlin, chef and owner of Fremont hot spot Le Thai. A bar is ambiance, alcohol and security. Food requires kitchen equipment, quality ingredients (and their preservation) and a skilled staff just to get started. Once established, a restaurant can die of a bad review. No one ever panned a vodka tonic.
Moreover, just a few years ago, before the Ogden condo tower filled and Fremont began seeing more residents and daytime visitors, the customer base was iffy.
"Now people are willing to take the risk and take that leap a little bit," says Alex Epstein, executive vice president of the El Cortez. She says El Cortez brought the Vegas StrEATs monthly food truck festival to Jackie Gaughan Plaza to help improve the food scene, and she welcomes new restaurants, even though they're competition. "We'll want to keep up and innovate, and I don't think that makes us nervous. We're excited for that."
Coughlin echoes the welcome to newcomers: "The competition is going to be good because you have to be good or you get bounced. I like it."
But that's getting ahead of ourselves. Let's take a look at some of what's coming.
Natalie Young is a veteran Vegas chef, having run kitchens at MGM Grand, Hard Rock Hotel and P.J. Clarke's at the Forum Shops. Today, she's chef and co-owner of Eat, a breakfast joint planned to open in the fall in a space in the Park Avenue Apartments at 7th and Carson streets. May she cure countless hangovers.
And we almost lost her. Young said she was considering leaving Las Vegas when Downtown Cocktail Room owner Michael Cornthwaite convinced her to stay and introduced her to Tony Hsieh, the Zappos CEO who is investing millions in Downtown Las Vegas. Hsieh's Downtown Project partners are backing Eat, and Young doesn't buy the cynicism surrounding Downtown Project's small business plans. "I'm a cynical person, and it seems unbelievable, but it's real and they're all nice people. I did my due diligence."
Eat, which Young says will likely be the first Downtown Project-backed restaurant to open in the area, will be a 2,200-square-foot space focusing on fresh, simple food for breakfast and lunch. "I thought, 'What's my niche?' In a year and a half, Downtown will be saturated with options for dinner and nightlife. But I thought, 'Nobody wants to do breakfast; nobody wants to get up at 5 a.m.' I don't mind. I'm cool with that," she says.
Don't expect conventional fare, however: "If I wake up and I want a great plate of spaghetti and meatballs or green chili chicken enchiladas, I'll be able to do it that day as a special. I just want to cook simple food and be nice to people."
Pop Up Pizza (And a vegan joint to come)
Sam Cherry is the Downtown developer behind the Soho and Newport Lofts. He's also co-owner of The Lady Silvia bar and Resnick's Grocery, both on the ground floor of Soho, at Hoover and Las Vegas Boulevard. And Cherry is planning to open a vegan fast-food concept by the end of the year.
"I'm vegan, but the concept is really born out of a limited number of places to go." The office workers support a number of lunch-only places Downtown, but, Cherry says, "What do you do at night when everyone leaves? Since the high-rises have been built, between us and the Ogden, we now have a good base of people that will come out at night."
Cherry's latest project, though, is the months-old Pop Up Pizza, a joint venture with the owners of the Plaza, where New York-style pies and slices are served from a quick counter at the southern corner of the casino. "The word's gotten out," Cherry says of Pop Up Pizza (much like the similarly clandestine pizza joint inside Cosmopolitan). "We have people coming from Henderson and Summerlin to try this little pizzeria."
Cherry estimates that Downtown will see a bunch of new restaurants in the next year, and his company is also pursuing additional food and beverage opportunities.
Mingo Collaso is a partner in Mundo, the Latin restaurant at World Market Center. Before Mundo opened in 2010, it existed as La Madonna in the Spring Valley suburbs. But, Collaso says, "I've always lived Downtown and wanted to do a restaurant Downtown."
Mundo has been thriving since the March opening of the Smith Center for the Performing Arts, and now Collaso and his partners are expanding with a smaller restaurant called Mingo, a bar and kitchen set to open in August near the ArtSquare project at Charleston and Main. Expect a trendy menu of American (and likely Latin-influenced) small plates, quick and tasty bites perfect for sharing while cocktailing. And they're not stopping there: "We are looking at another spot Downtown, too. We want to do different concepts. I just want to stay Downtown."
Morton's Mexican concept
Michael Morton, creator of Vegas venues including N9NE Steakhouse, Nove Italiano, and Ghostbar and Rain nightclubs, recently announced a planned collaboration with Downtown developer Tamares Properties for a Mexican restaurant at 106 6th St., a space just off Fremont Street across from the El Cortez.
The news release had us thinking of the Milk Bar in A Clockwork Orange. "Everything about this venue will be richer than reality; more vibrant colors, the sexy rhythm of the music, intensely powerful aromas and flavors from the food, and tequila with almost palpable essence." Will the food be dosed with MDMA? Let's hope so.
The new restaurant is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2013.
Miki Agrawal is the owner of Slice, a pizzeria in the West Village in New York City. Slice boasts an interesting menu driven by seasonal, farm-fresh ingredients. Imagine a whole wheat crust with basil pesto, hormone-free chicken sausage, goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes. (If we like hormones, can we get it with hormones?) Agrawal met Hsieh last year at an entrepreneurs' conference, and Hsieh later approached her to open a Downtown Las Vegas version of Slice. "He was looking for new energy, new concepts and something healthier, so really it's a perfect fit," she says. There's no timetable yet, but the pizzeria is slated to open in the ground-level retail space at the Ogden.
Pork and Beans ... and tea?
Cornthwaite is a Downtown warrior, having opened Downtown Cocktail Room in 2007 and toughed it out through the hard years of the recession. He's close to Hsieh and Downtown Project and has lots of restaurant experience; he'll be doing a beer and sausage concept tentatively titled Pork and Beans at Fremont and 7th, where Downtown Project is planning an experimental development using shipping containers. Other food concepts in the works in the shipping containers: barbecue, tacos and a wine bar and charcuterie spot. Although the deals aren't inked, Downtown Project also expects to see a Rachel's Kitchen location and an upscale tea lounge, both in the Ogden. (Given that none of those are off the ground yet: Salt, grain of.)
Finally, proof of a burgeoning food scene is the never-ending rumors of who's coming next: Is Kerry Simon looking for a spot? Is the popular southwest neighborhood restaurant DW Bistro really expanding into Andre's former space just off 6th Street? How about Sambalatte, the Summerlin coffeehouse that has the best brew in the Valley? Or Bronze Market Cafe, a bakery and vegan-friendly eatery planning to open in early 2013 somewhere?
If it all happens, the Downtown food scene will be well on its way, and perhaps missing just one thing: a real grocery store.
Brock Radke contributed reporting.


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The Box needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 93 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
We need a logo for a new lacrosse store. The "feel" of this store would be described by these words Expertise- Professionalism-Integrity.
The Box Lacrosse Store
We are looking for a simple yet creative logo design that will be used for stationary, advertising material, the web, exterior sign and staff uniforms. We would like to see the colours black, deep burnt red and dark beige used. The words "The Box" can be emphasized compared to the words Lacrosse Store...as we are quite certain that the store will eventually be referred to as The Box. The box is related to the penalty box so we ask that you do not include crates or cardboard boxes on the logo.
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Just curious if there might be room for one more without creating a bye.If so, I'd love to sign on!Jeff
I just deleted my team, so you can have my spot.
..and I was considering taking it
Let's see if I can pull LT for a 3rd consecutive year.
Sorry I missed the draft last night guys - had baby stuff going on and I didn't make it here in time. I hope it didn't cause long waits for everyone - now I better go check out who I ended up with .
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by Hugh Gilmore
This is how it goes when a big personal library needs to be broken up because its builder has died and his widow needs to move to smaller quarters.
In the way these things so often happen, I was at my desk and received a phone call. Deb Stanitz from Elfant Wissahickon Realtors, who I'd never met before, was calling to tell me that she had a client trying to sell a house in Villanova. Her client was a widow of a year whose husband had been a distinguished scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He had thousands of books – would I be interested in seeing if I could help? Yes, of course, I said. We agreed to talk again later when the house was sold, or nearly sold.
I hung up feeling I might have just committed to a big time-wasting venture. But there was no way to know for sure unless I went and looked. My bookselling business is based on buying old, rare, and collectible books, but nowadays, with most of the big, old Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy, Germantown and Montgomery County estates broken up, I see very few old-fashioned libraries. The books I'm most interested in now come to me a few at a time, sometimes several dozen in a visit, but rarely as big, untouched libraries anymore. But we make do: buy what comes along and yearn for the good old days.
As for this library I'd just committed to seeing (and in my heart-of-hearts suspecting I'd probably buy), I was very curious to know what kinds of books were in it. That aspect of my business – never knowing what the books will be like, is rather exciting, not just like reading a mystery story, but being a character in one.
You might be surprised by all the ways there are of building a library of a thousand books or more. Booksellers always hope the books they're about to see are all on the same subject, or just a few subjects. That would mean that there were a lot of very specialized books in the collection.
Contrary to what you might think, for example, "Lockheed Aircraft: 1942-1945" would have been printed in smaller numbers, have more appeal to specialists and would probably sell faster, for a higher price, than "Airplanes of the World." The more general book is widely available and too broad in scope to serve as anything other than a coffee table book.
Few "libraries" are specialized in that manner, however. Most of them present themselves as "accumulations," rather than "collections." An accumulation is simply what results when a person buys books throughout his, or her, life, according to whatever seemed interesting or necessary at the time. In a mere 50 years or so, buying about 20 books a year, a 70-year-old person suddenly notices he's got 1,000 books to move to the retirement home. He then realizes his new, smaller digs don't have space for that many books.
Another kind of accumulation I often see gets created by a person who is not really a reader, but nevertheless has a great reverence for books. He or she becomes an adopter of lost books.
A few months ago I was invited to buy such a "library" from a house in West Philadelphia. Every available space of the house – closets, between chairs, behind the staircase, in the woodshed – was stuffed with books. They had no common theme, were all in bad condition and had all been picked from the trash.
"Oh, Dad just loved books," his daughter and widow agreed.
We went to the basement. Improvised holding tables had been set up everywhere, mostly by laying old doors on wooden sawhorses. Thick sheets of plastic, covered with dust fallen from the ceiling, or blown from the crumbling walls, covered row after row of what I assumed were books. I began lifting the sheets of plastic, trying not to disturb the dust, and trying to ignore the way that certain kinds of mold, once I breathe them, give me an instant headache and set my insides quivering in such a way I wonder if I'll make it to the bathroom if I develop a sudden need to "wash up" as the euphemism goes.
As though acting out a CSI-type script, I lifted the plastic, examined the bodies of knowledge beneath, and moved along. I saw perhaps five books down there that might be worth a few dollars in today's market – if they were not permeated by basement odor, which is hard to determine when you're still in the basement.
(Such books need to be removed to a clean, dry environment before you can notice if they smell bad. In some basements, everything smells bad and you want to warn people that they should install a dehumidifier because they're breathing bad stuff into their lungs all day. But there's no polite way to tell strangers how to manage their own homes, so I just smile and act respectful, and grateful for the opportunity, and move on.)
As for that handful of books that might be worth a few dollars, I usually don't offer to buy them. Taking the best five books out of 2,000 unsalable books does not do anyone a favor. And such situations are often sad. Dad had always said his book collection would be worth money to his widow. And it's not.
And often, after you explain that the books have admirable content, but not much financial value, the widow and the kids look at one other with a knowing, coded look that says, "Let's get this crook out of our house – who are we going to believe, Dad, or him?" Not a comfortable position.
Lest you think the principal problem at that house was the moldy condition, it wasn't. Even if those books had been dry and clean, they weren't worth anything in today's Internet-driven book market. Book-of-the-Month Club books, Reader's Digest condensed books, dieting books more than two years old, travel guides from three years ago, nearly any bestseller two years later, children's series books without dust jackets – all are unsalable in the book market.
That's not to say you might not see someone at a flea market, or an "antiques" shop, trying to sell them. Possibly even succeeding, but such sales fall outside the used book market as such.
The point of the illustrations I've offered is that there are many ways to build an accumulation of a thousand books or more.
The same argument is not so true of a "collection" of books. In building a collection, there is a usually a driving intellectual curiosity, a great amount of selection, and a willingness to go into the deepest reaches of a field. Whether the subject is copper mining, railroading, quilt making or Amazon exploration, the forces that drive it are the same: a love of learning, a need to be expansive and deep simultaneously, and a willingness to grow along with your subject.
So, back to that phone call from the real estate agent. What kind of collection might I be going to see next month? As I usually do, I Googled the name of the man whose collection I might be buying. Results weren't hard to find. But, boy, oh boy, I thought, I might be in over my head this time. I started hoping the follow-up phone call never came. I wasn't sure I could handle this job.
To be continued.
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Is it me, or do all these ultrabooks look the same?
Samsung joins Ultrabook race
CES 2012 Week Samsung took the wraps off its entry into the skinny laptop space last night, revealing the 13in and 14in models in its Series 5 Ultrabook 53OU range. Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook 53OU Both machines are based around Intel Core i5-2567M processors running at 1.6GHz and come with 4GB of 1333MHz DDR 3 memory. The …
Tuesday 10th January 2012 11:24 GMT GettinSadda
Tuesday 10th January 2012 11:26 GMT bluesxman
Tuesday 10th January 2012 11:39 GMT GettinSadda
I didn't specifically mean laptop, and the aspect ratio is not the issue - what I meant was this was the sort of resolution that people thought was adequate back in 1996. Now we use screens with considerably higher resolutions on our desktop machines, yet manufacturers think we can live with such poor screens on laptops. 4 or 5 years ago this would have been a low resolution, but now it is what we are getting on "top-end" machines!
Tuesday 10th January 2012 11:56 GMT Volker Hett
Tuesday 10th January 2012 12:50 GMT ForthIsNotDead
I couldn't agree more sir. Which is why I'm still running my 5 year old Toshiba Tecra M5 with XVGA (or whatever it's called) resolution... MUCH better than the rubbish on the market today.
The only machine I've found so far with a genuine hi-res screen was a Sony Viao (sp?) which cost a bazillion pounds.
I'll just run my Tosh 'till the wheels fall off...
Tuesday 10th January 2012 11:28 GMT Ken Hagan
That would be "ultra book" as in "way beyond the size of your average book".
Seriously, the whole point of a notebook, as distinct from a laptop, was that the former was smaller and therefore more portable. They'll be selling "kindles" with screens that aren't eInk next, or "personal computers" that are so encumbered with DRM that you have no say in their configuration, or "open" systems that are locked down so hard you can't even wipe them and start again with your own OS.
Icon: grumpy old man.
Tuesday 10th January 2012 12:04 GMT LomaxFC
Tuesday 10th January 2012 14:40 GMT Dave 126
Wouldn't want to go back to 1920 x 1080
I'm on a Dell laptop with 16:10 1920 x 1200 screen. I wouldn't want to go back to anything lower. It can't be compared to these machines though -it's 17+" and weighs enough to upset chiropractors.
Plenty of people take digs at Apple, but at least they have screens at 16:10, an aspect ratio that is hard to find amongst other manufacturer's offerings.
With many applications having Office-style horizontal tool-bars, 'ribbons' or 'command managers' - not to mention browsers- 16:9 makes no sense at all for most people; your actual working area begins to resemble a letterbox.
Tuesday 10th January 2012 14:45 GMT Anonymous Coward
The 13.3 inch one looks pretty good (assuming the body is aluminium and not fake grey plastic) and the CPU/RAM/SSD/graphics are all up to snuff, but what's with the crap 1366x768 screen resolution? And a dvd writer on the 14 inch model? Seriously? In a device-class who's raison d'etre is to be as lightweight, slim, and power efficient as possible? I can count on one hand the number of dvd's I've had to burn or read in the past 3 years, and that's on my desktop machine. When I'm out and about with a laptop? Pointless. Might as well chuck a 3.5 inch floppy in there too...
Wednesday 11th January 2012 10:08 GMT The New Turtle
Interesting range of comments. In '97 I built my first home PC and lashed out 400 quid on a (then larger than average) 17" monitor running 1024 X 768. However I'd agree that now 768 vertical isn't anything like enough - even this Macbook is doing 1280 X 800 and it's over 3 years old. 16X9 simply isn't appropriate for anything other than entertainment, and how many will be buying an ultrabook at a grand + just to watch movies on a small screen?
But maybe a part of the problem with these devices is that they're simply being mis-marketed. They don't look like ultrabooks, being neither astonishingly slim, nor elegant, and much more like ordinary slimline laptops. If they're priced accordingly then that won't be so bad.
Wednesday 11th January 2012 20:56 GMT Azzy
The 90's called - they want their optical drive back
Why are we talking about optical drives at the same time as new technology?
Nobody uses optical drives anymore. It's all USB keys, SD cards, external harddrives, and cloud or network storage. Seriously, I've only had to use ONE non-music CD in the past year (and the music CDs I was only putting in to rip, and only because I couldn't find a torrent to download (because that's faster than ripping the CD, and the band doesn't sell the music as a download)). That one CD was Office XP (I hate the ribbon, and OXP still does what I need it to) - and it installs just fine off a network drive anyway.
I've also burned a few DVDs as backup, which i'll likely never use, since i've got the data backed up on harddrives too...
Bottom line, while optical drives are something that everyone ought to have one of, it's not something that people need to carry around with them. It's something you use a couple times a month - a bargain basement, desktop size external drive, gathering dust on the shelf most of the time, will do just fine.
Are people afraid to buy a computer without an optical drive or something? You could seriously just tell people it had one, and most of them wouldn't notice. Or include an external one as an extra option.
Keep your optical drive, samsung, and give me a decent screen resolution. On windows 7, 768px vertical just isn't enough for... well.... anything other than watching movies or playing fullscreen games. Everything has horizontal bars going across the top and bottom of the window, windows has the task bar, everything has ribbons now, the explorer windows have the folder band (unless you hack it out)... and on top of all that, you have to fit the content you're working on! And all that content uses more vertical space than horizontal - look at El Reg, for example. Not much horizontal space used, but i've got 3 screens full of vertical scrolling to do. Same deal everywhere else - lots of vertical scrolling, and lots of wasted horizontal space (well, it's not totally wasted, because it goes towards fitting tabs on the browser and programs in the task bar, because you can't extend the task bar vertically, because vertical space is at such a premium!).
Samsung needs to remember what year it is.
Optical drives don't matter.
Screen resolution does.


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Q. How do I know if someone is my twin flame?
A. There is an inner knowing of who your twin flame is that once you tap into, there is absolutely no doubt. It is not something that you think about, but rather you feel it, and then it becomes a knowing. However, your soul has always known the essence/energy of your twin flame, and your consciousness becomes aware of it through feeling, then understanding. There is a perception within society that you have to get to know someone before you know that you love them and can commit to them. I am here to tell you in the matter of twin flames, this knowledge of who the person is (their deepest desires and how they are, how they feel, etc.) already exists within you. When you see the physical form in front of you, you recognize the soul dwelling within the body, and there is no doubt.
What are some experiences you will have regarding your twin flame? You will begin to have dreams and they may become very detailed, with an energy of someone that you love intensely, offering support, connection and communication. There is depth to the love that you feel for this other that your mind cannot logically explain though it can't be denied. You are a mirror for each other, what you feel is in alignment, what you are passionate about matches, how you treat others is the same. The energy around you is similar, you will have similar physical features, especially in the eyes. You will have shared many lifetimes together, therefore healing any fears that may have been taken in, together.
You will find that you can read each other's thoughts, finish each other's sentences, end up feeling what the other is feeling even when you aren't in physical contact, know what the other is thinking, be able to deeply read between the lines of the words expressed and communicated. There is this inner depth of emotion to join all of yourself with your twin, all of the aspects of who you are.
Many twins start to become aware of who this person is even before you know what they look like because the truth is that you exist within each other, you are a part of each other, as your twin holds the same vibration as you but balances you. The male and female aspects become one when joining together.
There is an inner knowing of who your twin flame is that once you tap into this, there is absolutely no doubt. Do you feel it right now? Do you remember the energy of the one that you know you are already connected to? Do you have this feeling that when you meet this person, you will just know? If so, where is that knowing coming from? It comes from within you…and yes, you DO already know…have faith in that, trust in it. You will know, and then watch how the feelings are right there along with the knowing.


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Its may only have been a practice match, but Watson has proven to be a serious competitor to the likes of Jennings and Rutter. Watson is IBM's Jeopardy-playing supercomputer. And Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter — both Jeopardy champions — served as human competition today during a preliminary Jeopardy match with the machine.
IBM took four years to develop the supercomputer so that it would be capable of mastering the subtleties of the language-based trivia that defines Jeopardy. To get Watson at the Jeopardy-smart level, engineers scanned over 200 million pages of information into its memory.
Watson, named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, is made up of 10 racks of IBM Power 750 servers and runs Linux as its operating system. It also has 15 terabytes of RAM, and 2,880 processor cores. That makes Watson able to scan the millions of pages of data stored in its memory in a quick three seconds. Oh, and it won't fit on a desktop — it's the size of 10 refrigerators.
Watson is considered to be the next big step forward in artificial intelligence that could soon be applied to areas outside of games. Watson's creators suggest the machine's abilities may be useful in the health care industry in the future. In 1997, IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated Gary Kasparov in a chess match that ignited the public's fascination in human-computer competition.
Despite some categories that seemingly only a human could comprehend ("Chicks Dig Me" for one), Watson triumphed in today's practice round, but not by enough to signal an imminent Watson is ready to lead machines in a world-takeover. Watson finished with a score of $4,400 and Jennings came in second place with $3,400 and Rutter was last with $1,200.
Today's practice round held in Yorkston Heights, New York set the stage for a series of Jeopardy matches with Watson to be held in February.
In this video, IBM explains why they chose Jeopardy to test its latest supercomputer.
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Music Course Descriptions
Numbering System
Course numbers are given in the following form: 55x-xxxxx. The first digit designates the School of Music; the second and third digits designate the course area.
The three digits after the hyphen designate the specific course. The first of these digits represents the year in school (1 through 4) during which a student normally takes this course. Ensembles may be repeated for credit. The third digit is odd or even depending on whether the course is normally offered during the first or second semester, respectively.
Level-5 courses
Courses at level 5 are graduate courses for which qualified seniors may enroll under certain circumstances. Seniors may take level-5 courses for either graduate or undergraduate credit provided they: (1) have completed 90 or more hours in an undergraduate degree program; (2) have a cumulative GPA of 3.00 or higher; and (3) secure the approval of the instructor, undergraduate adviser, graduate chair, dean of the school, and dean of graduate studies. Such courses taken for graduate credit cannot be applied toward an undergraduate degree; those taken for undergraduate credit cannot be applied toward a master's degree.
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Everyone loves pizza, mac and cheese and fried chicken. What no one loves is an ever-expanding waistline and clothes that start to get a little snug! Never fear, I'm here to help keep the foods you love without that whole waistline situation!
I've highlighted three of my recipes which are healthy swaps for your favorite foods that will save you fat, calories, sodium and carbohydrates, delivering the foods you love without the waistline you hate!
Substituting phyllo dough for the crust and replacing the cheese and pepperoni with delicious fresh roasted vegetables will save you over 1000 calories!
Nutritional information for one Medium Deep Dish Pepperoni Pizza from Pizza Hut:
- Calories: 2000
- Fat: 96 grams
- Sodium: 4,720 mg*
- Carbohydrates: 208 grams
Nutritional information for one Phyllo Dough Pizza with Roasted Vegetables:
- Calories: 829
- Fat: 44 grams (**42 of which come from olive oil)
- Sodium: 368 mg
- Carbohydrates: 97 grams
*The recommended daily intake of sodium for an adult on a 2,000 calorie diet is 2400 mg. Eat half a pizza, you're at your limit!
**Over 70% of the fat in olive oil is monounsaturated, which is known as "good fat" and actually helps lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease.
Mac and Cheese
Substituting spaghetti squash for macaroni noodles and a white cheese sauce for calorie heavy yellow cheeses, flour and butter that make up most macaroni and cheese sauces, will save you a whopping 39 grams of fat, as well as over 1000 calories!
Nutritional information for one Macaroni and Cheese Side Dish at The Cheesecake Factory:
- Calories: 1309
- Fat: 51 grams
- Sodium: 768 mg
- Carbohydrates: 92 grams
Nutritional information for one serving (1 cup) Spaghetti Squash with White Cheese Sauce:
- Calories: 275
- Fat: 12 grams
- Sodium: 335 mg
- Carbohydrates: 10 grams
Fried Chicken
Simply baking breaded chicken instead of frying it will give you the same flavor and texture with 75% less fat and one-third of the sodium!
Nutritional information for one serving (6 oz) KFC Popcorn Chicken:
- Calories: 560
- Fat: 37 grams
- Saturated Fat: 8 grams
- Sodium: 1480 mg
Nutritional information for one serving (6 oz) Baked Poppy Seed Popcorn Chicken:
- Calories: 469
- Fat: 9 grams
- Saturated Fat: 5 grams
- Sodium: 450 mg
Federal law passed in 2011 requires any restaurant chain with 20 or more locations to provide nutritional information on each item served, so before you cruise through that drive through or call in that pizza, do your research and make a healthier choice today!


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Almost any time I fly to Europe for a cruise, I do so with Lufthansa (lufthansa.com), aboard their non-stop flight from Vancouver to Frankfurt. It's comfortable and convenient, and I can connect to nearly any destination in Europe and beyond. When you travel a lot — or cruise a lot — that becomes remarkably important.
Not only is Lufthansa celebrating 30 years of service between Vancouver and Frankfurt, they have recently inaugurated daily non-stop service between YVR and Munich, Germany. It is the only new international route the airline is adding this year to their network of 282 destinations around the world.
"Our new Vancouver-Munich route offers an exciting new choice for British Columbian travellers, but it also provides European business and leisure travellers another travel option to the largest city in British Columbia," explained Juergen Siebenrock, Lufthansa's Vice President of the Americas.
"Given the strong performance of our Vancouver-Frankfurt route and the increasing demand by Western Canadians for a new direct passage to Germany, the new route makes a great addition to our services by adding more than 1,500 additional seats to Germany every week."
"We are extremely pleased that Lufthansa has decided to offer a new seasonal Vancouver-Munich route out of YVR," said Larry Berg, President and CEO of the Vancouver Airport Authority.
"We value our partnership with Lufthansa and their investment in the western Canadian market. This route will enhance our European summer services, create positive economic growth for the province and will also bolster trade and tourism in the European market."
Lufthansa's new Vancouver to Munich service will be operated with the airline's Airbus A330 aircraft. LH 477 will depart YVR's International Terminal at 18:45, and will arrive in Munich at 14:00 the following day. The return flight, LH 476, departs Munich daily at 15:30, arriving into Vancouver at 17:05.
Lufthansa's Airbus A330 aircraft can seat eight guests in First Class, 48 in Business Class, and 165 in Economy Class arranged in a comfortable 2x4x2 arrangement.
While these new flights make it easier for Western Canadians to fly into the heart of Bavaria, they also provide excellent connections further abroad with Lufthansa and other Star Alliance network carriers.
Lufthansa's new Vancouver to Munich service is seasonally-based, and will operate until Oct. 5. Service to Frankfurt continues year-round aboard the company's larger Airbus A340-600 aircraft.
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British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor is making quite a name for himself on both sides of the Atlantic. Coming up in Phillip Noyce's upcoming "Salt", the actor joins John Cusack in the disaster epic "2012" as a scientist working for the White House who discovers the perilous situation the earth finds itself in. He talked to Paul Fischer in this exclusive interview.
Question: When you read a script like this, how big of an imagination do you need to be able to see what else is going to be part of this movie, as well as your own character?
Ejiofor: I think a bigger imagination than mine. I can't even rationalize that side of the script, when I first read it. I couldn't rationalize it at all. And I felt like I just had to leave that up to the director. You know, I couldn't get my head around it. And I only can equate it to the kind of " Cleopatra Enters Rome" idea. You know, that it's a very small line in the script, but takes 3.5 months to shoot. And you just kind of – you've just got to read past it. And – you know, and so, " California destroyed." I mean, what is it – how do you envision it is an actor? And – you know, so you look to what the story is saying. And to what the – to what the characters are saying, and what the narrative is, and what's going on with them. What the relationships are. And – and that's where I find Roland to be fascinating. You know, that I think he is somebody who can combine these two very rich elements of cinema. He gives people an incredible cinematic experience and yet, is able to hold onto a narrative, really authoritatively and create really special characters. So I'm astounded by him, in many ways.
Question: I mean, your character is the rational, levelheaded guy. And he could have been very boring to play. But you gave him, obviously, a lot of color. How much of that was in the script, and how much of that was you trying to add as much as you could to the – to what was on the page?
Ejiofor: Well, I just think it depends on how a part catches you, you know? Because I suppose you read a character, and there's no loaded gun. You know, you can say, " This isn't really my" – you know. But if you read a character, and you are taken with the character, and you feel like there's a lot to explore, then that's part of you meeting that character, in whatever context, on whatever plane that that happens. So, yeah. I wouldn't run towards a character that I thought was sort of boring, or not interesting. But I could definitely see how a scientific character can – or, a science guy – can be perceived as somebody who's not got all the kind of sort of color of other parts. But I thought one of the fascinating things about this guy was that he is somebody who is a kind of impromptu, or sort of accidental insider. And that he's somebody who's – you know, on the outside. And only because he discovers what's happening is he then brought in to the inner sanctum of the kind of Hollywood – [LAUGHTER] Hollywood. The kind of Washington elites, within the White House. And so I thought that was an interesting way of taking at audience behind the curtain, and showing somebody going from a certain naivete to a very – to having to really impose their own stamp on what's happening. I liked that.
Question: Now, did you feel like you needed to do any research on either the 2012 mythology, or mythologizing, I suppose, of the year 2012, or the scientific aspects of your character? Which is really, in a way, kind of dealt with very early on in the film?
Ejiofor: Yeah. Both. I felt like to really – I mean, I knew a little bit about 2012. I knew enough to know when I got the script and it was called 2012, and it was directed by Roland Emmerich, I knew enough to know the general landscape that the film was going to be in. And that there was an apocalypse movie, really. And so I was – you know, I knew a little bit about the Mayan calendar. But it was important to me to find out a little bit more. You know, to just sort of understand what the context of the film was. And then the same, really, with the science stuff of it. I wanted to know about it, so I had to hit the books a little bit, to just work out what I was – what I was talking about. And – you know, that way, be able to express it in a way that, even if an audience doesn't get every nuance of it, will be able to get the overall idea. You know. " This is good, this is bad," that type of thing. And so – you know, it's important to me to know about that. So, I was – you know, I had a good time with that. And as you say, it was only really for the beginning part of the film. And then the rest of the movie is really about people trying to survive, and trying to – you know, do the best they can, under pretty difficult circumstances.
Question: This is probably one of the biggest films you've been involved with, I guess, on a large scale. When you're on a set like this, what goes through your mind? I mean, what are you thinking of? Or do you think about it at all? Do you work any differently, in such a massive, machine-like environment?
Ejiofor: No. I mean it's strange. I always think the same thing, when I'm working. You know. I always feel the same way. You never perceive it – you always just want to do the best work you can do. You want to – you know, you just want to give it your best shot, basically. I've never been on a film that's been a smaller budget, and thought, " Ah, not many people are going to see this, so I can just take it easy today," you know what I mean? So, I don't feel any inherent pressure because there may be more people seeing the movie, as a kind of fact of it, because it's a larger budget. I just feel like I feel whenever I do a project. That you always want to just give it your best go, and see what happens, you know? And – you know, the sets are bigger. But when the comes down to it, the camera can only catch so much. And so what you're actually contributing in any particular take is – you know, a narrow part of the whole thing. A narrow part of the whole set. Or just your face, or just an eye, you know? So, it's kind of – you know, you're still dealing with the same relationship, in terms of the camera, and in terms of the other actors, that you do on any picture.
Question: You mentioned that you find that you were able to visualize, when you're reading the script, what these things are going to look like. When you're working on a movie like this, and you have to react to visual – to non-existent visual sequences, do you have the same – did you find that also equally challenging?
Ejiofor: Yeah. I think it is quite tough to react to things when they're not there. But – you know, I think it's – especially for cinema – you know. Which is just slightly – in theatre, I think it's a tiny bit easier. And also, it's an inherent part of theatre. But cinema – you know, you do get spoiled, working in films, that everything is – you know, everything is right in front of you. You know. There's not the two twigs for the forest. And then it's – you know, and it's like bigger budgets you get to in films, the more it sort of goes back to a slightly more theatre-idea. But – yeah. No, you have to sort of activate that part of your imagination, that can really put your character in those situations, and try and keep them as real and as natural as possible, even though there's not the same sort of thing to react to. And then, you know, you can get – I think it's one of those things, where you can slightly get it wrong, a little bit. And then you kind of have to figure that out a little bit in post. But I think that's a great advantage, somehow, of the post-production – you know, ability of these films. Is that if you do react to something, and somehow it's wrong – you know, somehow it's too big for the small thing that's coming past you, or whatever – you know, they can make the other thing bigger. [LAUGHTER] You know, they can do a lot with it. They can sort of affect it. But, you know, Roland was incredibly good at really trying to explain, at every stage of it, exactly what we would be looking at, exactly what the environments were like, and so on. So. And also, it's a testament to his imaginative capability, that when we then saw it, not only did so much of it fit that we were reacting to, but it also was – had even more depth and scale and nuance than I had envisaged when he was explaining to me what it would look like.
Question: Now have you seen the final film?
Ejiofor: Yeah. I thought it was incredible. I mean, absolutely amazing. And a really staggering achievement, I think, in filmmaking. And I'm really excited for audiences to take a look.
Question: Now, most of your scenes are with Oliver Platt whom I've interviewed a number of times. Was there any improv at all there? Did you have a good chuckle in between?
Ejiofor: We definitely did. I mean, he's an incredibly funny guy, and we laughed all the way through, you know. And then we got – the cameras got turned, we've got fighting to do, shout at each other, or whatever. But, you know, we had a really good time. And, you know – the nature of these two characters was actually kind of – there was a fluidity to it, which Roland and Harold wanted to approach it. And they let us really figure out a lot of what we were – you know, working with. And so the four of us would get together several times and work out the scenes, and work out what we were saying to each other, and try and – you know, draw that kind of fine line balance between two very opposed, but two plausible points of view. That – there wasn't any definite kind of – I mean, my character takes the moral high ground, if you like. But there's no definite moral bias in the script. You know, both points of view could arguably be the moral point of view. So – it was kind of an interesting dynamic to run with somebody. And Oliver's a great actor, and he's a very intelligent guy, and a very smart guy, when it comes to scripts and characters and narrative and story, and the direction of a character. So, you know, it was really good to be able to play all those things off with people that I respected.
Question: Your career has taken off quite dramatically over the last couple of years, on both sides of the Atlantic. How surprised are you by that?
Ejiofor: Well, you know, it's great to work, you know? I always – you know, I've always enjoyed – I've always wanted to carry on working as an actor. I've been very, very fortunate in my working career, to work with great people. And I think for any actor who's working, and any actor who's getting to do stuff that they really enjoy, and stuff they really like – but, you know, there's an element of surprise. You know. It's a profession that seems to select people quite haphazardly. And – you know, it's great to be – you know, at the moment, a person who's in the mix.
Question: What are you doing next?
Ejiofor: Well, I'm finishing off doing "Salt", which is the film which we shot in New York, and we're just putting the kind of finishing little bits and pieces on.
Question: How is that looking?
Ejiofor: I think it's looking great. Yeah.
Question: You play?
Ejiofor: Counter-intelligence officer, CIA. Peabody and it's a great cast. Angelina Jolie, and Liev Schreiber, and Phillip directing. And it was really a great experience, and a great time, and – you know, I think it's going to be a really unique and interesting movie. It's – you know, it falls into the realms of the paranoid thriller. You know, which we don't see a lot of these days. And I think it takes a really skilled director to play that. There's so many different layers to it.
Question: And do you know what your next gig is?
Ejiofor: Well, there's a couple of things that I'm very excited by, that it's a little too early to talk about. But there's definitely great stuff that I'm looking forward to.
Question: What about returning to the theatre?
Ejiofor: I want to do that. I don't know – I don't know if I'm going to do that absolutely immediately. But you never know. It's quite possible. But – you know the theatre is just an intrinsic part of my working life, and I can't be far away for too long.
Question: Would you want to go and do something in the States, on stage?
Ejiofor: Yeah. I mean, it just depends on what it is. I don't really mind, you know. It doesn't – you know, it doesn't bother me either way. I'd love to do theatre anyway. And I would like to do theatre everywhere.
Question: Is there a character that you have a burning desire to play? Like, a classic character that you'd really like to play before time passes you by?
Ejiofor: No, I love doing classical theatre, but I also feel like I want to do a lot of modern stuff, as well, so that's kind of what I've been looking at, you know. And – some new writing, as well.


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Friday, 23 November 2018 from 09:00 to 16:00 (GMT)
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This course is suitable for beginners who needs to understand the way Excel works or those who have some self-taught knowledge but want to know how to use Excel more efficiently for day-to-day tasks.
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The following post was originally published on June 14, 2015. We are republishing after news that North Korea lost one of its submarines at sea.
The admirals of the Soviet Union declared North Korea's prize submarine to be obsolete back in 1961, and Western experts stubbornly point out its inability to sink enemy vessels.
But Kim Jong-un, the "Supreme Leader" of North Korea, offered navigation tips and issued stern battle orders during a proud tour of a Romeo class submarine of the People's Navy.
Designed in the 1950s, the vessel was in production for the Soviet Union for only 48 months until being succeeded by nuclear-powered submarines 53 years ago.
Every other navy in the world then gave up on the Romeo, with its noisy and easily detectable diesel engine — apart, that is, from North Korea's. The country has 20 Romeo class boats, comprising almost a third of its submarine fleet.
During his visit, Mr Kim mounted the vessel's conning tower and went on a short voyage, during which the official news agency reported that the multi-talented leader "taught" the submarine's captain a "good method of navigation".
Mr Kim also urged his commanders to think "only" of "battles" and "spur combat preparations".
Any captain of a Romeo class submarine might, however, view hostilities with trepidation.
The boats carry Yu-4 torpedoes, a Chinese-made weapon dating from the 1960s with a range of four miles.
The Los Angeles Class nuclear-powered attack submarines of the US Navy, meanwhile, carry Harpoon missiles that can sink a ship 150 miles away.
The North Korean vessel is a "basic" model with "virtually no anti-submarine performance", says IHS Jane's Fighting Ships.
This means the Romeo might try damaging a ship — provided it happens to be less than four miles away — but it would be helpless against an enemy submarine trying to send it to the bottom.
At least one North Korean submarine has gone to the bottom without any help from the country's enemies.
A Romeo class boat sank in an apparent accident in 1985.
Of North Korea's 20 submarines in this category, seven were supplied by China between 1973 and 1975 and the rest built in the country's own shipyards between 1976 and 1995.
More than three decades after the Soviet Union had stopped making the vessel — and after it had been phased out by the navies of Syria, Algeria and China — North Korea was still producing its own version of the Romeo.
Mr Kim's decision to pay a high profile visit seems at odds with the official doctrine of the so-called People's Navy, which stresses the importance of camouflage and concealment.
So seriously were these tasks taken that 2004 was officially declared the "Year of Camouflage".
On the 10th anniversary of that occasion, however, Mr Kim allowed photographs of the unlikely pride of his fleet to be released to the world.
Cdre Stephen Saunders, the editor of IHS Jane's Fighting Ships, summed up: "The fact that the Dear Successor is spending time on what, in any other navy, would be an obsolete submarine tells its own story."


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After a long, bloody war in the Sudan, the governments of the United States and Russia struck an uneasy cease-fire over the fate of Africa and its burgeoning industry. This peace would be short lived, for to the north a new conflict was brewing. Ukraine, a former satellite state of the Soviet Union, sought to gain back the power from which it once reveled in. As the snow fell in a heavy midwinter storm, Ukrainian troops moved towards the border of Belarus. Without warning, Ukrainian troops attacked with a speed and effectiveness not seen since the Blitzkrieg of WWII.
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M*Modal's Suite of Cloud-Based Solutions Delivers a Single Speech Platform to Create, Manage and Share High-Quality Patient Records in Electronic Health Record Systems
M*Modal's Suite of Cloud-Based Solutions Delivers a Single Speech Platform to Create, Manage and Share High-Quality Patient Records in Electronic Health Record Systems
FRANKLIN, TN--(Marketwire - Jan 29, 2013) - M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, today announced that the University of Virginia (UVA) Health System will deploy M*Modal Fluency Direct™ and M*Modal Catalyst for Quality™ to speech-enable its electronic health record (EHR) systems, bringing greater insight and analysis to patient records. Using M*Modal's cloud-based Natural Language Understanding™ speech engine, these solutions enable medical staff and informatics professionals to quickly and accurately capture clinical narratives for improved billing, productivity and patient care.
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M*Modal's solutions share a single, integrated speech engine, giving physicians and health care professionals a single user profile and consistent, high-quality documentation across all clinical systems. Both Fluency and Catalyst products provide comprehensive speech understanding from day one, based on a library of nearly 200,000 voice patterns in the M*Modal cloud. M*Modal's Natural Language Understanding draws from a decade of learning to recognize medical terminologies and specialties, as well as different accents, dialects and cadences, for "first time right" speech understanding.
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San Rafael, CA March 19, 2014 – Since 1980, Professional Sports Camps, partnered with US Sports Camps, has been running the Florida Coast Spring Training Baseball Tournament. Hundreds of collegiate and high school level teams, from the Northeast to the Midwest, head down to St. Lucie every summer to participate. The tournament is held in February, March, and April and is an opportunity unlike any other for teams to prepare for their upcoming season.
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About Professional Sports Camps and US Sports Camps
US Sports Camps (USSC), headquartered in San Rafael, California, is America's largest sports camp network and the licensed operator of Nike Sports Camps. The company has offered summer camps since 1975 with the same mission that defines it today: to shape a lifelong enjoyment of athletics through high quality sports education and skill enhancement.