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Investors traded up shares of D.R. Horton 10% on Tuesday after the country's largest home builder reported quarterly results that beat analysts' expectations and said early 2014 sales have been surprisingly strong.
The Fort Worth, Texas-based builder reported that fiscal first-quarter profit hit $123.2 million, or 36 cents per share, up from $66.3 million, or 20 cents a share, during the year-earlier period. Analysts had expected the company to report per-share income of 31 cents for the quarter that ended Dec. 31, according to FactSet.
D.R. Horton also said revenue ramped up, reaching $1.64 billion in the first quarter — above analysts' expectations of $1.49 billion — and up from $1.23 billion in the year-earlier period. The number of homes closed rose 19% to 6,188. And January sales have been better than expected, an early sign of strong demand, executives said.
Of note, the company was able to crank up sales prices 10% over the past year to hit an average of $275,600, "reflecting pricing power across most of our markets and increased demand from move-up buyers," Chairman Donald Horton said in a statement. Looking forward, executives said they expect to continue to have pricing power, but that growth may slow in 2014.
Such a price slowdown would mirror trends that economists expect to see for the housing market as a whole in 2014. After all, if prices continue racing higher, prospective buyers will be unable to purchase a home. Factors such as rising mortgage rates and a slowly increasing inventory of homes for sale are also expected to curb price growth.
A healing economy with growing jobs is unleashing chunks of pent-up demand, enabling home builders in general to raise prices. For 2013, the median price for a new single-family home hit $265,800, up 8.4% from the prior year, the strongest annual growth since 2005.
The supply of homes still has substantial room to grow. Earlier this week the government reported that the supply of new homes on the U.S. market was five months at December\'s sales pace, down from an average 6.8 months' supply over the five years leading up to a 2009 inventory peak.
Although there's concern about the impact that rising mortgage rates will have on home sales, rates still remain relatively low, and economists expect sales to continue to rise this year.
–Ruth Mantell
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It's nice to try new things, but Christmas is often a time to revisit old favourites and follow tradition. This post will round up all the items I made this year that have featured on my site before, and will include links to the recipes. My new bakes will appear in later posts over the holiday period.
Christmas cake
My Christmas cake (recipe here) was a totally homemade affair this year with rich fruitcake, almond paste and fondant icing.
The reindeer decorations were made from leftover almond paste.
Medley of mince pies
The recipes for all these mince pastries can be found here.
These are the most traditional of the three variations with simple pastry decorations:
Here we have a shortcrust pastry roll, cut into slices and baked:
Finally, a frangipane topped mince pie:
Gingerbread men
A cup of tea at Christmas just doesn't taste right unless it's accompanied by a gingerbread man. I made these really hot this year – they definitely blew away any Christmas cobwebs! You can find the recipe here.
Almond cake
This was the first cake to ever feature on my blog – check out the recipe here; it remains one of my favourites. It's a delicious light almond Madeira that keeps for days in an airtight container, and just seems to get tastier!
Chocolate dipped strawberries
A little bit of decadence for after dinner. They couldn't be simpler – strawberries dipped into melted chocolate and then left to set. Even if you don't have room for pudding I bet you can manage a couple of these!
I love the way that the chocolate takes the shape of the paper case when it sets:
These were my "tried and tested" items. I'll post again soon with my debut items .
Finally, I hope you'll permit me to boast a little. The CCBF (Caked Crusader's Boyfriend) bought me the most gorgeous copper mould for Christmas - forget Santa, it's the CCBF I clearly need to keep sweet! We'd seen it on a day trip out in the summer and I'd fallen in love with it but I couldn't justify buying it even though it was possibly the most beautiful piece of kitchenalia I'd ever set eyes on. What made this such a special gift - apart from being gorgeous, have I mentioned it's gorgeous? - was that the CCBF had to drive to the specific shop over an hour a way to purchase it. Sometimes you're given something and you just know you'll own it and treasure it for ever - this is such an item. Thank you CCBF!
Hope you're all having a lovely Christmas!

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MPC talks about the team delivering 280 shots for the Wrath of the Titans movie. The main areas of work included; the opening Dream Sequence, the Chimera attack, the final battle with Kronos, the Makhai warriors and Pegasus, as well as the Gods dying and dissolving, full CG temples, set extensions and a number of stunning digital matte paintings throughout.
Anders Langlands, MPC's CG Supervisor says the team had been working since around October 2010 on the many aspects of Wrath, with Nick Davis, who'd worked on the Clash of the Titans. He talked to his crew about Kronos, the fearsome King of the Titans and Father of Zeus, Hades and Poseidon, straight up. For the initial conception stage of creating Kronos, the brief at first was quite open, allowing the great art department at MPC, headed up by Virginie Bourdin to go back and explore Kronos within Greek mythology. The brief was essentially a 'walking volcano', a constantly shifting mass of lava and smoke, with very little form to it, showing it to be a bit more abstract. But Nick Davis and director Jonathan Liebesman needed him to be relatable to his son Zeus and Hades. He ended up solidifying into a more recognisable character, pushing the sculpt in ZBrush to decide what he would look like in 3D. There were many iterations and versions of his appearance until a concept was settled on and the modeling department settled down to make the guy. "We tried to keep that idea that there was a constantly moving molten lava layer shifting underneath his skin," explains Langlands. "Then on top of that would be these black plates of rocks like tectonic plates shifting around on the earth."
In order to get the look for that, the MPC crew covered one of their texture artists in clay, and let it dry. "We actually blasted him with hair dryers for an hour," quips Anders. "The texture artist in question was photographed in great detail to study how the clay cracked and moved on his body. So we could actually use real reference of how the clay cracked and behaved at different angles as it became displaced."
The crew took B&W crack maps and started directing those onto the surface in ZBrush to see where the stretch and deforming areas were going to be, and that study became the final model for displacement.
The teaser for the appearance of the Kronos was the Dream Sequence early on in the film where at the end, the gigantic wave of hot lava is thrust toward the camera. "We wanted to introduce Kronos as being the bad guy, but not show too much and give it all away," explains Langlands.
There are layers and layers of smoke and dust while Kronos is shown dealing with the crowds of soldiers. Beautiful matte paintings are (somewhere) in the background as well as dry ice drifts comped into the shots as well to create the quite ethereal sense to the dream sequence. "The rule is when you are trying to create something to appear that big, you tend to end up layering up so much stuff. The story is that he is devastating the human army just by lifting his hand up, and everything around this is simulated," he said. "All of this generated a massive amount of geometry as you can imagine, which took an eon to render, but it looks fantastic!"
Through exploring Kronos through a series of images, various avenues were investigated, from a more elemental creature through to a more human-like giant. Ultimately it was decided that Kronos should have a more human form to help reiterate the connection between him and his sons rather just being seen as a monstrous titan. The Concept art team then expanded on some of their original ideas of using volcanic rock as a base, as it relates to how something could develop and grow over time, and Kronos evolved from there.
Once the direction had been decided, a texture reference was then created and used as a base for the 3D modelling and texturing pipeline, which could then be used as a point of reference for rest of the team. A variety of clay mixtures were created and painted onto the face and body of an actor which were then used as a reference point by MPC's modeling team to understand how magma and volcanic rock might move and fall around a moving object. The textures were also used for creating believable crack and displacement maps.
"Framestore had done a lot of concepts for the Chimera, and we'd had an early look at what the creature would be like," explains Langlands. "A mix of a lion and a goat with a snake for a tail, massive wings and breathing fire all over the place, and we had to take that indoors to turn it into a living, breathing creature." Modeling the hair was the most astonishing groom ever done on a mystical creature at MPC. Referencing oxen, bison, even donkeys, all to get the different furs into the model look development. "David Mayhew, head of our grooming department, did an amazing job," adds Langlands.
It was apparent that the Chimera creature would be too large and agile for a man in a suit to enact; so the decision was taken to develop it in CG, requiring a number of shots to be pre-vised giving the crew a geographical layout for the sequence. This informed the production designer's decision to create arenas where battles could take place with the actors, stuntmen and props going head to head in precisely mapped out spaces. The Chimera itself was largely designed in pre production with concepts then passed to MPC who recreated the designs as a CG model. The specific challenge for MPC's rigging and animation teams was how to make a beast with two heads move in a realistic fashion. MPC VFX Supervisor Gary Brozenich explains. "The trickiest issues involved where to place the split in the neck, how far back on his spine would feel natural and how to proportion the rest of the anatomy to compensate for this. We also had to gracefully handle the interpenetration issues arising from two heavily mobile portions occupying the same anatomical space. Thankfully, both issues were dealt with very effectively and very early on with range of motion studies." MPC's animation team looked carefully at the animation of the Chimera, referencing material of lions hunting and attacking. The Chimera's breath vapor and fire so the FX team used a mixture of elements created using Maya and Flowline combined with actual flame thrower materials hot on set.
The Makhai are two-headed, double-torso'd, sword-wielding killing machines. MPC's concept art department designed these vicious demons, working with an initial brief from Overall VFX Supervisor Nick Davis. The creatures were to emerge from volcanic rock surrounding Kronos, but were not be too strong or large to fight humans on the battlefield. Director Jonathan Liebesman vision of the Makhai involved multiple arms and two distinct torso's and heads; MPC needed to understand how a character like this could fight, but more specifically how it would emerge, run and navigate through complex terrain while swinging swords. To visualise this, MPC's concept, rigging and modeling teams collaborated to create motion studies which informed the final design. Having two body elements meant that the Rigging team had to be cognizant of not only the anatomical structure but also effect the split would have on this structure. Many iterations and clever solutions were undertaken to create the Makhai as seen on screen. "These were fun to work with," says Anders. "We were working with Nick and Jonathan to get what they wanted."
The original idea was that this was going to be an aracnid kind of thing. It looks like a couple of mocaps strapped together but Jonathan wanted something more human so it could fight the solders in a more believable way. "They were two tortured souls of dead warriors, joined in hell and reborn to fight," he quips. The concept team had a fight on their hands too, working out how these guys get stuck together and be able to fight all the time. The natural spinning and fighting were devised by tying two stunt guys together, but we found in the end the traditional way of using digital doubles so there were CG soldiers.
MPC has their own crowd simulation software to create the crowds of soldiers, invented for the work done in 'Troy' almost ten years ago. Named ALICE which stands for Artificial LIfe Crowd Engine. This in-house crowd software has been used in over 30 films.
The final battle required the development of a huge 3D environment, which was a combination of plates from two primary locations Tiede National Park in Tenerife and a very different battlefield location in south Wales. The initial eruption and Kronos' path of destruction necessitated several weeks of specific aerial photography over various volcanoes and lava created terrain in Tenerife. The plan was to shoot all of it so the Editor, Director, Supervisor and all of the artists had an inherently realistic core to spring from that could be re-projected and altered significantly in post as required.


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Dear Stapleton community and all of Colorado,
Thank you for the overwhelming support over the last few weeks. I am grateful to report I am home from the hospital to continue healing with the help of my family. I never imagined being the victim of a hit and run accident or losing our first child in such a way. Sometimes you wonder what it would be like to experience such an event, and I think both Pete and I feel our greatest emotion is gratitude. It is amazing to go through a tragedy like we have and come out feeling loved, blessed, and even lucky.
We cannot speak highly enough of Denver Health and the doctors, nurses and support staff who worked so hard to save my life. Denver Health is not just the reason I am alive, but they are the reason I have been able to heal quickly and start an emotional recovery. It is an insane feeling to know you literally owe your life to others. I also would not be here without the donated blood products from over 30 individuals – people I will never be able to directly thank. I know many of you have donated blood since my accident. Thank you.
I also want to thank everyone who prayed for our family and my healing. I believe in the power of prayer. I believe all the prayers and healing thoughts are why I have recovered quicker than expected. Thank you to all the churches and organizations who put us on their prayer lists. Thank you to all the prayer circles. Thank you for all the individual prayers. They are powerful and they helped. You have all helped us so much.
Pete and I have been so touched by the love from friends and strangers alike. From neighbors in the Stapleton community, to people throughout Colorado – we feel like everyone rallied around us. We have had horrible moments this last month. We will forever grieve the loss of our beautiful son, who was so wanted and so loved. We know our physical and emotional healing will be treacherous at times, but want to emphasize that overall, we feel supported, loved, lucky, and blessed. Thank you for everything each of you has done to help us feel this way. We are proud to be members of Stapleton. We are proud to be citizens of Denver. The community here jump-started our recovery and makes us believe in the good of humanity. We appreciate all the love and support and hope that we can return the favor in due time.
Forever grateful,
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EDEN winner 2010
Lake Tisza
Lake Tisza, one of the most popular touristic destinations in Hungary is merely 40 years old. Due to the excellent natural endowments of this 127 km2 lake, an unparalleled mosaic waterworld developed over the second largest single water surface in Hungary. Tisza, a deep, rapid-flowing cold-water river flows through the lake and fills and flushes the shallow, quickly warming subsidiary reservoirs of the lake. Its numerous islands and backwaters create a diversified waterworld in the middle of the Great Plains. Lake Tisza awaits anglers in every season of the year. Its abundance of peculiar species of internationally known fish is a paradise for birds as well. Being a part of the Hortobágy Nature Park, the Bird Sanctuary constitutes a piece of World Heritage and is a popular destination for people roaming by boats, kayaks eco-tourists and photographers. An internationally renowned harbor for small boats and a team of trained tour guides are available.
Planked esplanades and an adventure park created on the islands and educational paths built in the flood-plain forest of the peninsula offer entertainment and relaxation. The Lake Tisza Eco-Center, a visitors' center and theme park which includes also Europe's largest freshwater aquarium shall be opened in 2012. Lake Tisza covers an area comparable to that of a county and offers ideal conditions for the lovers of water sports. The excellent quality of the water makes the six beaches a favorite resort for families arriving with children.
Lake Tisza
Since 2007, Lake Tisza can be ridden around by bicycle. The merely 1-meter elevation difference along the 70 km long asphalt-coated dyke invites thousands of cyclists every year. Tours along the EuroVelo-11 route can suitably be combined with crossing the Tisza River by ferries, enabling the participants to cover routes of length varying between 110 and 140 km. Due to the total length of the available bicycle routes (1200 km), Lake Tisza is considered the hub of flat-country bicycling in Europe. The Network of Lake Tisza Routes operates as a franchise enterprise and works as the professional organizer of tours around Lake Tisza. The Network's centers organizing pedestrian, water, bicycle and equestrian tours offer services and equipment of guaranteed quality, e.g. 600 rentable bicycles, child-friendly equipment, tour guides and package tours.
Best destination in Hungary in "Aquatic tourism ", 2010
Lake Tisza is recognized as a resort region and a self-sufficient tourism center. It has been developed into a wonderful destination for water excursions and eco-tourism, offering colorful programs and adventures to everyone.
Finalists in 2010
Multi-purpose Rural Development Society of Bereg, the Tourism Society of Orfű, Society for Tourism in Szigetköz, Multi-purpose Rural Development Society of Lake Velence and its vicinity


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After the Philadelphia Eagles pulled off a draft-night trade to select Vanderbilt wide receiver Jordan Matthews in the second round, high-fives were exchanged in the team's war room.
Coach Chip Kelly immediately projected Matthews as the primarily slot receiver, alongside Jeremy Maclin and Riley Cooper.
After a few weeks of offseason practices, it appears the Eagles got a steal when the rest of the league allowed the SEC's all-time leader in receptions and receiving yards to fall into Kelly's lap:
In limited media access to OTAs so far, Jordan Matthews has looked like the best WR on the team, in my opinion, and it hasn't been close.â Jimmy Kempski (@JimmyKempski)
June 10, 2014
That's just the latest in a string of Matthews praise since OTAs opened.
Should we be surprised that a rookie is already outplaying established veterans in non-contact drills?
The Eagles' clear-cut No. 1 receiver from 2013 is now toiling in the nation's capital. Maclin is returning from ACL surgery; Cooper has just one quality season under his belt.
A maniacal worker and film junkie like cousin Jerry Rice, Matthews boasts the size (6-foot-3, 212 pounds), production, standout measurables (4.46 forty, 10-foot broad jump) and intelligence (29 Wonderlic score) to make an instant impact in Philadelphia.
He now has our attention on the way-too-early Offensive Rookie of the Year watch.
The end to the latest Around The League Podcast is full of shock and awe.


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RUSSELL CROWE (Marshall Eamons) is an Academy Award winner
who is regarded as one of the finest actors of our time. Crowe's many acting
honors include three consecutive Best Actor Oscar nominations: for his work in
the acclaimed 1999 drama The Insider; the 2000 Best Picture winner, Gladiator,
for which he took home the Oscar; and 2001's Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind.
In addition to the Academy Award, Crowe's performance as Maximus, the Roman
general-turned-gladiator in Ridley Scott's Gladiator, earned him Best Actor
honors from several critics' organizations, including the Broadcast Film Critics
and London Film Critics Circle. He also received Golden Globe, BAFTA Award and
Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
The year prior, Crowe had gained his first Oscar nomination for his portrayal of
tobacco company whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand in Michael Mann's fact-based drama
The Insider. He was also named Best Actor by the Los Angeles Film Critics
Association, Broadcast Film Critics Association, National Society of Film
Critics and National Board of Review, and garnered Golden Globe, BAFTA Award and
SAG Award nominations.
Crowe's masterful portrayal of Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash, Jr. in
Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind brought him his third Oscar nomination, as well as
his third consecutive Critics' Choice Award from the Broadcast Film Critics
Association. He also won Golden Globe, BAFTA and SAG Awards, and several other
critics groups' Best Actor Awards. Reuniting with Howard in 2005, Crowe earned
Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations, and won an Australian Film Institute
(AFI) Award, for his portrayal of Jim Braddock in Cinderella Man.
In 2015, Crowe made his directorial debut on the sweeping epic The Water
Diviner, in which he also starred. The film won three Australian Academy of
Cinema and Television Arts Awards, including Best Picture. Additional credits
include Jackson Healy in The Nice Guys. Noah in Darren Aronofsky's epic biblical
drama Noah; Jake Davis in Gabriele Muccino's Fathers & Daughter's; Pearly Soames
in Akiva Goldsman's Winter's Tale; Jor-El, Superman's father, in Zack Snyder's
Man of Steel; Inspector Javert in Tom Hooper's acclaimed screen adaptation of
the musical Les Miserables; and Mayor Hostetler in Allen Hughes' Broken City. He
was last seen in Universal's
modern-day reboot, The Mummy alongside Tom Cruise and will next be seen in Joel
Edgerton's Boy Erased with Nicole Kidman and Lucas Hedges.
Born in New Zealand, Crowe was raised in Australia, where he was first
honored for his work on the big screen and began gaining international
attention. He was recognized for three consecutive years by the AFI, starting in
1990, when he was nominated for Best Actor for The Crossing. In 1991, he won the
AFI's Best Supporting Actor Award for Proof. The following year, he received
Best Actor Awards from the AFI and the Australian Film Critics for his
performance in Romper Stomper. Additionally, the 1993 Seattle International Film
Festival named him Best Actor for his work in both Romper Stomper and Hammers
Over the Anvil.
Crowe made his American film debut in 1995 in Sam Raimi's Western The Quick
and the Dead. He went on to earn acclaim for his role in Curtis Hanson's crime
drama L.A. Confidential. His early film credits also include Mystery, Alaska,
Heaven's Burning, Virtuosity, The Sum of Us, For the Moment, Love in Limbo, The
Silver Brumby, The Efficiency Expert and Prisoners of the Sun.
He has since starred in a long and diverse list of films, including the
Ridley Scott-directed projects A Good Year, American Gangster, Body of Lies and
Robin Hood. Among his other credits are Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The
Far Side of the World, for which Crowe earned a Golden Globe nomination; Taylor
Hackford's Proof of Life; 3:10 to Yuma, with Christian Bale; Kevin Macdonald's
State of Play, with Ben Affleck; Paul Haggis' The Next Three Days; and RZA's The
Man with the Iron Fists.
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Wing Python IDE Quick Start Guide
This is a minimalist guide for getting started quickly with Wing's Python IDE features. For a more in-depth introduction, try the Tutorial.
Install Python and Wing
If you don't already have them on your system, install Python and Wing. For detailed instructions, see Installing Wing.
Start Wing
Wing can be started from a menu, desktop, or tray icon or using the command line executable. For detailed instructions, see Running the IDE.
If you don't have a license, you can obtain a 30-day trial the first time you start Wing.
Set up a Project
After Wing is running, create a new project from the Project menu. Then configure your project with the following steps:
- Use Add Existing Directory in the Project menu to your sources to the project. It's best to constrain this to the directories you are actively working with and let Wing find the libraries you use through the PYTHONPATH.
- Use Project Properties in the Project menu to set Python Executable to the python.exe or other interpreter executable you want to use with your project. This is typically the full path that is in sys.executable in the desired Python installation.
- If your code alters sys.path or loads modules in a non-standard way then you may need to set Python Path so that Wing can find your modules for auto-completion, refactoring, debugging, testing, other features.
- You may want to right-click on your main entry point in the Project tool and select Set As Main Debug File so that debugging always starts there.
- Use Save Project As in the Project menu to save your project to disk.
Note: Wing may consume significant CPU time when it first analyzes your code base. Progress is indicated in the lower left of the IDE window. Once this is done, the results are cached across sessions and Wing should run with a snappy and responsive interface.
See Project-Wide Properties and Per-File Properties for a description of all available properties. See Source Code Analysis for background on how Wing's source analysis system works.
Wing 101 does not have projects. Configuring the Python environment is instead done with Configure Python in the Edit menu.
Configuring the UI
You are now ready to start working with code, but may want to make a few configuration changes first:
Key Bindings - Wing can emulate VI/Vim, Visual Studio, Emacs, Eclipse, and Brief editors, selected with the User Interface > Keyboard > Personality preference.
Tab Key - The default tab key action depends on file type, context, and whether or not there is a selection. This can be changed from the User Interface > Keyboard > Tab Key Action preference.
There are many other options in Preferences.
Navigating Code
Wing provides many ways to get around your code quickly:
Goto-definition is available from the toolbar, Source menu, and by right-clicking on symbols in the editor or shells. Use the browser-like forward/back history buttons at the top left of the editor to return from visiting a point of definition.
Source Index menus at the top of the editor provide quick access to other parts of a source file.
Find Symbol in the Source menu in Wing Pro and Wing Personal jumps to a symbol defined in the current file by typing a fragment of its name. Find Symbol in Project in Wing Pro works the same way but searches all files in the project.
Open From Project in the File menu in Wing Pro and Wing Personal is a similar interface for quickly opening project files.
Find Points of Use in Wing Pro, when you right-click on a symbol shows where that symbol is being used. Wing distinguishes between separate but like-named symbols.
Source Browser in the tools menu in Wing Pro and Wing Personal provides module or class oriented display of the structure of your code. Show both the Source Browser and Source Assistant for detailed information about selected symbols.
Mini-search (Wing Pro and Wing Personal) is a powerful keyboard-driven search and replace facility. The key bindings listed in the Mini-search area of the Edit menu will display the search entry area at the bottom of the screen.
Search in the Tools menu provides incremental text, wildcard, and regular expression search and replace in selections and the current file.
Search in Files in the Tools menu in Wing Pro and Wing Personal provides wildcard and regular expression search and replace in filtered sets of files, directories, named file sets, and within the project.
Toolbar search is another quick way to search the current file.
Editing Code
Wing's editor focuses on fast error-free Python coding:
Auto-completion in Wing's editor speeds up typing and reduces coding errors. The auto-completer uses Tab by default for completion, but this can be changed in the Editor > Auto-Completion > Completion Keys preference. This feature is disabled by default in Wing 101.
Call Tips and Documentation shown in the Source Assistant (Wing Pro and Wing Personal only) update as you move through your code or work in the shells.
Auto-indent while typing in Wing Pro and Wing Personal matches the file's existing indentation. When multiple lines are pasted, they are re-indented according to context (a single Undo reverts any unwanted indentation change). Wing also provides an Indentation tool for converting a file's indentation style.
Auto-Editing in Wing Pro implements a range of operations such as auto-entering closing parentheses, brackets, braces, and quotes. Among other things, Wing also auto-enters invocation arguments, manages new blocks with the : key, and corrects out-of-order typing.
Auto-editing operations can be enabled and disabled in the Editor > Auto-Editing preferences group. The default set includes those operations that don't affect finger memory. The others are well worth learning.
For details, see Auto-Editing.
Refactoring in Wing Pro supports automated renaming and moving of symbols, extracting functions or methods, and introducing variables more quickly than by manually editing code.
Multiple Selections can be made with the Editor > Multiple Selections menu or the multiple selections toolbar item, and by pressing Ctrl (or Command on the Mac) while making a selection with the mouse. Once multiple selections have been made, edits made will be applied to all the selections at once.
Snippets in Wing Pro are included in Wing's auto-completer as a quick way to enter commonly repeated coding motifs for coding standards, documentation, testing, and so forth. Data entry for snippet arguments is inline in the editor. Use the Tab key to move between the fields. Edit or add snippets in the Snippets tool.
Turbo Completion in Wing Pro is an optional auto-completion mode made possible by Wing's powerful source analysis engine. When the Editor > Auto-Editing > Python Turbo Mode preference is enabled, Wing turns every non-symbol key into a completion key in contexts where a new symbol name is not being typed. The modifier keys can be used alone to escape from the completer in the rare cases when Wing fails to provide the desired completion.
Code Selection from the Edit > Select menu makes selecting whole statements, blocks, or scopes a snap, before copying, editing, or searching through them.
Debugging Code
Wing's debugger is a powerful tool for finding and fixing bugs, understanding unfamiliar code, and writing new code interactively. You can launch code from the Debug menu or toolbar, or from the Python Shell (click on the bug icon in the top right of the shell to enable debugging there).
Breakpoints can be set by clicking on the breakpoint margin of the editor and debugging is started from the toolbar or Debug menu. The Stack Data tool is used to inspect or change program data. Debug process I/O is shown in the Debug I/O tool, or optionally in an external console.
Interactive Debugging is supported by Wing Pro's Debug Probe, which provides an interactive Python prompt that executes code in the current debug stack frame. When the debugger is paused Wing also uses the live runtime state to fuel the auto-completer in the editor, Source Assistant, goto-definition, and other tools.
Conditional Breakpoints can be used in Wing Pro to isolate and understand complex bugs by stopping before they occur. Using a conditional breakpoint to isolate a broken case and the Debug Probe to design a fix is far more accurate and productive than relaunching code repeatedly.
Move Program Counter is also supported in Wing Pro, in the innermost stack frame by right clicking in the editor and selecting Move Program Counter Here.
Watching Values in Wing Pro by right-clicking on the editor or any of the data views tracks values over time by symbolic name or object reference in the Watch tool. Expressions can be also be watched.
Launch Configurations in the Project menu in Wing Pro and Wing Personal can be used with Named Entry Points in the Debug menu define different runtime environments for debugging, executing, and unit testing your code.
Other Features
Wing contains many other features, including:
Python Shell -- Wing's Python Shell lets you try out code in a sandbox process kept isolated from Wing and your debug process. Code run here can optionally be debugged. To enable this, click the bug icon in the top right of the Python Shell. In Wing Pro and Wing Personal, shell provides auto-completion, goto-definition, and is integrated with the Source Assistant.
Unit Testing in Wing Pro's Testing tool works with unittest, doctest, pytest, nose, and Django unit tests. You can run tests suites, view the results, and debug tests.
Version Control in Wing Pro supports Mercurial, Git, Subversion, Perforce, Bazaar, and CVS version control systems. Wing should auto-detect which systems are used in your project and show the appropriate additional menubar menus and tools in the Tools menu. Right-click on the editor, Project tool, or items in the version control tool to compare that file or directory to the repository with Compare to Repository. Wing will display both versions with differences highlighted and the added toolbar tools can be used to move through and merge differences. This capability is also available for comparing two files or directories, and a modified buffer to its disk file, by clicking on the Difference/Merge icon in the toolbar.
Remote Development is very easy to do in Wing Pro by setting up SSH access to a remote host, and then configuring Wing to access that host from the Remote Hosts item in the Project menu, setting the Python Executable in Project Properties to that remote host, and adding remote files and directories to your project. Wing can edit, debug, test, search, inspect, and manage files, run the Python Shell, and execute OS Commands on the remote host in the same way as it does when working locally.
Running Command Lines in Wing Pro and Wing Personal's OS Commands tool makes it possible to set up and easily execute external tools. This can also be used to set up a build command that will be executed automatically before each debug sessions.
User Interface Customization in Preferences gives you control of the overall layout and color of the IDE, among many other options. Right click on the tabs for layout options, or drag tool and editor tabs to move them or create new splits. Right click on the toolbar to configure which tools are visible or to add your own. Wing also supports defining sharable color palettes and syntax colors.
Perspectives in Wing Pro and Wing Personal let you save named tool panel configurations.
Many Other Features such as bookmarks, line editing, code folding, macros are also available. You can also extend Wing by writing Python scripts.
Related Documents
For more information see:
- Wing Tutorial, a detailed guided tour for Wing.
- How-Tos for Django, Flask, matplotlib, PyQt, wxPython, Plone, Autodesk Maya, NUKE/NUKEX, PyGame, and many others
- Wing Reference Manual, which describes Wing in detail.


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"The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become, in the course of time, as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time." — Rudolf Diesel, 1912
With gasoline prices topping $2 per gallon, and diesel fuel even higher, those long-ago words from the inventor of the diesel engine are taking on new relevance in the agricultural community.
Although Diesel's initial engine was powered by a coal dust mixture, its abrasiveness led him in 1894 to the use of peanut oil, which proved a far better fuel.
"Peanut oil, cottonseed oil, and other vegetable oils can be used in diesel engines," says Herb Willcutt, Extension agricultural engineer with the Mississippi State University Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. "But their price is at a premium to soybean oil, which makes soy oil more feasible for biodiesel."
Willcutt has recently conducted a series of meetings, supported with farmer checkoff funds through the Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board, to explain the benefits of soydiesel and to create greater awareness of the alternative fuel in the agricultural community. A number of fuel distributors have participated in the meetings.
"We're trying to improve customer awareness of biodiesel," said Solon Scott, Scott Petroleum, Itta Bena, Miss., at a meeting at Cleveland, Miss. "There is a lot of interest from area farmers, wanting to know if we're going to handle it."
He is making biodiesel available to area farmers this season.
"It's something new for us, but we see it as an opportunity to further capitalize on one of the crops we grow in Mississippi. We feel, over time, it can help to keep soybean prices up. We want to do our part to help our state's agricultural economy be as healthy as possible.
"This is the first year for us to have biodiesel available for our customers," Scott said. "We're recommending initially that customers use a 2 percent blend to see how it works, then increase the percentage as they gain experience with it. We're looking at a B20 blend to see what kind of usage potential there may be in our area."
(Biodiesel products carry "B" ratings; for example, B100 is 100 percent biodiesel. Most biodiesel, however, is blended with petroleum diesel in varying amounts. B2, a common grade, is 2 percent biodiesel, 98 percent petroleum diesel.)
B100, pure biodiesel, could be burned in diesel engines, Willcutt noted, but it would not be cost effective.
"B2, the most widely used blend, now is about 2 cents per gallon more than regular diesel. Many producers feel it's worth an extra 2 cents to 3 cents a gallon to help the soybean industry and to get a cleaner burning fuel and longer engine life."
The price of biodiesel "goes up and down as prices fluctuate for the petroleum diesel used in the blend," said Solon Scott. "I'd like to see a soydiesel manufacturing plant in the state. It would reduce transportation costs and would put our farmers more in control of their destiny, rather than having to bring it in from someplace else."
At present, Willcutt said, the bulk of the biodiesel being sold in the state is coming through the TransMontaigne terminal on the Mississippi River at Greenville, Miss.
"They're storing biodiesel for Peter Cremer North America, a biodiesel manufacturer headquartered at Cincinnati, Ohio, and they have about 1.7 million gallons of B100 on site."
A number of other Greenville-area producers purchase B2 biodiesel from Farmers, Inc., at Greenville. Other distributors include Gresham Petroleum, Bostick Bros. Petroleum, and Sayle Oil.
Currently, Willcutt said, there is no confirmed production of soydiesel in the state, although there are plants refining bio-based oils and fats for biodiesel blends. "A plant at Nettleton, Miss., Biodiesel of Mississippi Inc., is reported to have soydiesel processing capability.
"Another plant, at Meridian, Miss., Biodiesel Fuels of Mississippi, collects used cooking oil from fast food stores and restaurants and refines it for biodiesel. We're told that they are planning to process soy oil in conjunction with their plant in Texas.
"Southern Biofuels LLC, at Madison, Miss., is refining chicken fat from poultry operations — about one-tenth pound of fat is produced per pound of chicken.
"There are a lot of rumors about plans for other plants, but we aren't aware of anything specific.
Farmers and ranchers are the second largest users of diesel fuel in the United States. It is estimated that if every farmer and rancher used the minimum grade B2 biodiesel, more than 60 million bushels of soybeans could be utilized each year.


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Quail Run Behavioral Health is currently seeking RN's to join our team. We have PRN day and night shift positions available in our adolescent, Adult, and geriatric care units. We would love to talk with you today! You may complete an on line application through this site or for fast track and immediate consideration please fax your resume to our Human Resources department at 602-888-2670 or email email@example.com
JOB DESCRIPTION: The Staff Nurse and the Charge Nurse provide safe and effective nursing care in the assigned area(s) in a manner consistent with the philosophy and objectives of the Hospital and within the framework of established policies and procedures of the Department of Nursing Services. As a key team member in the clinical area, the Staff Nurse and Charge Nurse promote a climate of effective performance and learning through role modeling, willingness to learn and teach, and availability to patients and staff.
1. Completes an assessment for each patient by performing a thorough mental, physical, nutritional and functional assessment on admission, and as needed, based upon patient's condition.
2. Assesses patient's psychosocial status, and patient/family learning needs and discharge criteria.
3. Assesses for pain, utilizes pain scale; documents accordingly.
4. Utilizes appropriate observation level for patient: q15 minute checks, visual observation, and/or 1:1 or elopement precautions.
5. Completes plan of care; formulates a nursing diagnosis based upon assessment findings. Reviews plan of care daily and modifies as patient's condition changes.
6. Organizes and directs care of patients, setting priorities and assigning most skilled staff to care for most acutely ill patients.
7. Provides/coordinates education of patients based on assessment of learning needs and readiness.
8. Provides care for patient's with: Depression/Suicidal impulses, Mania, Delusions/Hallucinations, Paranoia, Anxiety, Aggressive/Assaultive Behavior, Chemical Dependency Issues/Detox, Personality Disorders, i.e. Borderline/Sociopathic, Eating Disorders, Dissociate Identity Disorder/PTSD, Dementia/Alzheimer's, and medical problems such as hypertension, headache, diabetes, URI, UTI, heart disease, thyroid disorders, and acute or chronic infection.
9. Intervenes in managing complex patient care situations utilizing departmental policies and procedures that promote most facilitative alternatives. Prioritizes interventions in rapidly changing patient situations.
10. Assesses patient's response to interventions; communicates these findings to other team members.
11. Sets priorities appropriately utilizing data from Nursing Assessment. Adapts procedures to individual patient needs while maintaining the integrity of the principles involved.
12. Documents education about medications, disease symptom identification, social skills, stress management, and impulse control regulation.


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Topic: RPG-Celebrity Deathmatch Free-for-all-o-rama
Okay, this RP is in the vein of the TV series Celebrity Deathmatch, where celebrities fight to the death. Basically, pick a celebrity and they will fight other celebrities. Normally this would be in a 1 on 1 fashion, but i've modified it to fit the needs of the boards. Basically, Here are the rules:
Step 1: Pick a celebrity (I'm afriad Mr.T is off-limit's due to his invulnerability. Morgan Freeman & Jim Carey are off limits because they played God, and Christopher Reeve played Superman)
Step 2: list some movies or TV shows he or she starred in. These will be used by you during battle as creative attacks. (Ex. Toby Maguire played Spider-man. He may use webs like Spider-man if he wishes.)
Rule 1:You can't be all powerful or anything.
Rule 2:Be consistent. If you lose an arm, don't all of a sudden hav eit back, unless you have a plausible explantation.
Rule 3. Your character can have 1 co-star, or someone they call in for back up at any time. You don't have to have a co-star, though. And don't start the battle with your co-star already by your side. Wait til your in peril for them to come in.
Rule 4. You can't kill someone right off the bat, but you can injure them. And if you sustain alot of injuries, you'll bleed to death or die. You can kill another person if they've been beaten soundly enoguh or sustained enough injuries, or if the death is plausible. (Ex., Larry King may degenerate from old age at a random point in the fight.)
Rule 5. Let's wait till their's about 4 or more of us in the RP before it get's going, 'K?
P.S.- My guy is Bruce Campbell.
Known for:
Bubba Ho-tep (as Elvis Presley)(allows him killer danc eskills and a guitar)
The Evil Dead series(as Ash Williams)(alots him a chainsaw and shotgun)
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (as Van Helsing)(alots him Vampire-killing equipment)
Spider-Man (as Wrestling Announcer)(alots him a microphone)
Spider-Man 2 (as Annoying Usher)(doesn't really give him anything)
Spider-Man 3 (as French Waiter Guy)
The Recent Old Spice commercials(alots him Old Spices)
Man with the Screaming Brain (as William Cole)(alots him a screaming brain)
His co-star is Tobey Maguire, ala Spider-Man.
Have Fun.


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CAMRA Young Members
CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, is extremely proud of its hugely diverse membership. Over 190,000 individuals of all ages, backgrounds and both sexes enjoy their CAMRA membership. 11% of the total national membership is aged between 18-30 years old; these are CAMRA's Young Member's (YM).
These pages are here to help you find out more about CAMRA's Young Members. You'll find out about how to get involved, how you can get in touch with other Young Members, how to join Google and Facebook Groups, what Young Members social events are taking place and how University Real Ale Societies can affiliate to CAMRA.
Note: every young member (aged 18-30) is automatically part of CAMRAs Young Members Group (YMG).
If you'd like more information about any of the issues covered in the Young Members Section, just contact the Young Members Group (YMG) at email@example.com.
A little bit about us
Within the Young Members Group (YMG) is every young CAMRA member. The group campaigns on issues affecting Young CAMRA Members and encourages the drinking of Real Ale among young people who may not be CAMRA members.
Young Member's are encouraged to join in with numerous social activities, as well as becoming involved in CAMRA at a local, regional and national level. You have the opportunity to shape the future of a growing part of the campaign.


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Overview of Online Colleges in Minnesota
The progression of online education in Minnesota can be traced back to 2004, when the Minnesota Online Quality Initiative and the Distance Minnesota consortium were formed. In 2012, Minnesota's governor signed an advisement "strongly encouraging" all high school students to complete at least one online class before graduating. Currently, there are more than 90 schools with online degree programs in Minnesota.
Minnesota has been one of a handful of states to see tuition increases at public four-year colleges over the past five years. Minnesota's tuition spikes have been particularly steep, jumping 32.6% between 2006 and 2011. Unfortunately, the state appropriation budget for higher education shrunk by nearly 10% over the same time period In an effort to increase educational access in the state the federal College Access Challenge Grant awarded Minnesota $1.56 million in 2012.
A complete directory of Minnesota's distance learning programs is below. For more information on the educational environment and performance of Minnesota schools, select the state facts and higher education tabs below.


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Jai Rodriguez :: Life after 'Queer Eye'
Some times a good thing can be hard to shake. And, why would you want to?
Well, if you are an actor, being on a successful show playing a particular role can lead to typecasting and role steering for the rest of your career. Just ask Jai Rodriguez of the groundbreaking Emmy-winning BRAVO reality-TV show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."
Rodriguez's 5 season stint on "Queer Eye" (where his role as Culture Vulture allowed him to comment on trends and ideas) led the public to forget about his beginnings as a musical theater performer - instead, associating him exclusively with reality show personalities.
"When you think about it, post 'Queer Eye' was when reality-TV first burst (heavily) on to the scene, and I was suddenly thrown in with a group of people I didn't fit in with," says Rodriguez.
Before 2003's "Queer Eye," Jai Rodriguez was already a notable actor and singer in musical theater circles, well on his way to becoming the next big thing on Broadway with singing roles in the Toronto cast of "RENT" (Angel) and the off-Broadway musical "Zanna, Don't" (Zanna). He also had an acting role in "Spinning into Butter" at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan. And while on a "Queer Eye" hiatus, Rodriguez stepped into the role of Carmen Ghia for 3 months in Broadway's "The Producers." Most people had almost forgotten that Jai could sing or even act, solely based on his hosting gig on "Queer Eye." "There was a period of time where I took "Queer Eye" off my resume so people wouldn't be steered by that," says Rodriguez, in an attempt to reclaim acting and singing beginnings.
Claiming to have the hustle of a true New Yorker, Jai has spent the last 5 years after "Queer Eye" creating many opportunities for himself, and has managed to build quite a resume of guest star appearances on television shows like "Nip/Tuck," "Detroit 1-8-7," "Harry's Law," "Bones" and others. This led to his role as a regular cast member on the Reba McEntire sitcom "Malibu Canyon" on ABC, becoming the first male reality-TV cast member to be cast as a regular on a major TV network series.
Speaking of the people who have now forgotten his tenure on "Queer Eye," Rodriguez says "I think I have successfully crossed over enough, and enough time has passed that people no longer look at the small line on my resume that says 'Queer Eye.'" It has only been recently, with the 10-year anniversary celebratory appearances with fellow "Queer Eye" cast mates Carson Kressley, Ted Allen, Kyan Douglas and Thom Filicia, that the public has been reminded of Rodriguez's beginnings on cable television.
Beyond being a fine actor with great comedic timing, what surprises people the most is how great a singer Jai Rodriguez is. Beyond his appearance on the musical stage in primary singing roles, Jai also released an album in 2007, and hasn't ruled out expanding his career to singing/song writing. It is his singing that has definitely allowed him to give back to the organizations and causes he believes in, by performing in fundraising benefits across the country.
Before returning to San Francisco to appear in another annual Help Is On The Way concert benefit for the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation on December 9th, I had a chance to put my queer eye inquisition to work on Jai, and uncovered how he struggled to find his way in Season One of "Queer Eye,". We discussed how the Emmy-winning reality-TV show was the sore eye on his resume, how he has been able to survive as a Latin gay actor in Hollywood, how his approach to auditions has become his life lesson, and how life after "Queer Eye" keeps getting brighter and brighter.
Getting 'Queer Eye'
BeBe: When most people hear your name, I'm sure they automatically think of you and 'Queer Eye'. But you had the beginnings of a thriving stage career prior to that show. What was the catalyst that made you interrupt your theater career to audition for a reality TV show?
Jai Rodriguez: Well, I never would have thought that a TV show like 'Queer Eye' would have been the one to make me famous. I would have thought something like '(American) Idol' would have been the one because I was a performer, and like, well-known in that arena. But, 'Queer Eye' happened in conjunction with my stage work. Ten years ago Bravo was a very small cable network. They didn't have much programming, but they were owned by NBC, who of course had money, and they took a chance with 'Queer Eye.' It really helped them get an audience. Then bringing on 'Project Runway' helped them keep an audience. But, I didn't leave my job. I left 'RENT' for a 6-month hiatus to do an off-Broadway musical called 'Zanna, Don't.' I would do that at night while shooting 'Queer Eye' during the day because during Season One, we didn't make a whole lot of money. I needed to have both jobs.
My intention was literally to do the musical and 'Queer Eye.' (I thought that) 'Queer Eye' would run its little course on a little network where no one would see it, and then back to 'RENT.' But what happened instead was by doing both the musical and 'Queer Eye,' I got so tired that I decided to leave 'Zanna, Don't.' Two weeks later 'Queer Eye' debuted to phenomenal ratings, and suddenly, my life changed. I gave my notice to 'RENT' that I wouldn't be coming back from my 6-month leave. It was a crazy, outrageous thing that happened. By no stretch of the imagination did I ever think that 'Queer Eye' was going to amount to anything, especially with the word 'queer' in the title. I was hoping no one would watch it because I didn't want to be outed in the theatrical community. I thought that would really hurt my career back then.
A commitment
BeBe: Well, not so much of a 'coming out.' but more of a 'now everybody knows.'
Jai Rodriguez: It was like a commitment. I was like all right now, everyone knows that I'm gay. They were going to get to know me for a field (reality TV host) I'm not super passionate about. When we started 'Queer Eye' they were set on me being the Puerto Rican Emily Post for the modern gay man. But, I didn't have that skill set. They hired me strictly because I was a performer and charismatic with high energy. But, what I was doing in Season One wasn't organically close to who I was. As the season progressed, I sort of found my way and started doing things where I felt I could contribute what I knew how to do, strictly with my background. Being 23 years old shooting that show, it was tricky because a lot of that stuff was a very adult matter. Now that I'm 34, the age of the other guys when we started, I get their perspective. Ten years ago, I didn't have enough life experience.
BeBe: You hit upon what the times were like ten years ago being a gay actor and thinking that being open about that, at the time, would have hurt your career. Well, you are out and the show has been over since 2007. Have opportunities in any realm of entertainment been negatively affected for you because you are openly gay?
Jai Rodriguez: Thank God, I have done so much television in non-reality (TV genre). I guest starred on everything from 'Nip/Tuck' to 'Harry's Law' (NBC) where I played a transgendered woman, to 'Bones' (FOX), where I played a murderer, to being the first male who garnered fame on a reality show to become a series regular on a network TV show. I was on 'Malibu Country' (ABC) all year (2012-2013 season) with Reba McEntire and Lily Tomlin. So, I think I have successfully crossed over enough, and enough time has passed that people no longer look at the small line on my resume that says 'Queer Eye.' They're more interested in the high number of guest star roles or season regular roles that I've had.
It's funny because when I auditioned for 'Malibu Country,' they saw that I had an Emmy on my resume and asked what I had won it for, and I said 'Queer Eye'. They said 'what did you do on that?' I said 'I was one of the 5 guys.' But, there was a period of time where I took 'Queer Eye' off my resume so people wouldn't be steered by that. So, I loved it when I got the job based on my audition. When you think about it, post-'Queer Eye' was when Reality-TV first burst (heavily) on to the scene, and I was suddenly thrown in with a group of people I didn't fit in with. People from 'The Bachelor,' people from 'The A-List: New York,' we were all considered the same thing, yet I was an Emmy-winning host for a show that was highly produced, and we were really, really working. It wasn't like a docu-reality TV show.
Crossing over
BeBe: It isn't surprising to me to hear of your ability to cross over, so to speak, into other TV genres because you are one of those thespians who has been able to work in many different disciplines. You have done dramatic and musical stage work. You've done a lot of television which you mentioned. You've done film ('The New Guy' (2002), 'The Producers' (2005), 'Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!' (2009)). And, you've recorded an album (on Airgo Records) back in 2007. I'm sure that all has been a benefit for you because it kept you employed (we laugh). But, if you had to choose one of those disciplines to spend the rest of your career in, what one would it be?
Jai Rodriguez: I think it would be a hybrid. I would like to do a show like a musical and like a stage show ala Kathy Griffin with Bruno Mars elements so I could still perform and still be theatrical on a stage. I love an audience. The great thing about being on a sitcom is you get instant applause or gasps. When you do single camera stuff and there's no audience, you have to wait months before you know what anyone thought about the work. So, I'd like a sitcom or a John Leguizamo-meets Kathy Griffin-meets Bruno Mars touring concert type thing. It is interesting because I never thought I would be doing so many different things. I always thought I was going to be a Broadway performer until the day I died. I didn't have TV aspirations.
I certainly had no aspirations to live in L.A. I'm a die-hard New Yorker. So, it's interesting because now I live in L.A. and when I go to New York, I feel like a tourist. Back in the day, you had to be able to sing, dance and act. That was the way it was. Now people are like 'I'm just an actor', and I'm like 'good luck with that.' I don't know how they will make it work with just one thing. I've been blessed and fortunate and done the hustle. I don't sit back and wait for the phone to ring. I'll create work where there isn't work. That for me has gotten me by all these years so I haven't had to have a sideline job. I have that New York hustle in me.
Many people ask me if it feels limiting being Latino and an out gay man in Hollywood? I say it's really about creating your own vehicles and walking into auditions completely prepared and like you already own the part. Originally my role on 'Malibu Country' was written urban black. A girlfriend of mine once told me that when you walk into an audition where you make such a strong choice, you either get the call you booked the job on your way walking to your car, or you're being escorted off the property. In a city like L.A., where there are hundreds of thousands of actors, fate does not get you the job. You have to walk in and be the shit from day one. I think that's just a life lesson.
A new album?
BeBe: You released your debut album some 6 years ago. Have you considered revisiting studio recording again?
Jai Rodriguez: I've thought about just releasing a single and seeing how it goes, but it is a competitive market and you have to be super passionate in devoting the time for promotion and proper exposure. It's really going to depend on what happens with the Spring (2014) season of television with all the pilots and stuff.
BeBe: Are you working on anything new that you can tell us about?
Jai Rodriguez: Well, I'm auditioning for a pilot that won't start until February, but I'm really excited that I have a TV movie coming up on NBC called 'Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Music Tale.' It's a one-hour holiday movie where Kelly plays herself and I play her long suffering assistant. It's basically a hyper-reality thing where she plays a diva version of herself. The undertone is sort of the Scrooge holiday story ('A Christmas Carol') where she learns the meaning of Christmas. It's me and her, William Shatner, Whoopie Goldberg, Ken Jeong ('The Hangover,' 'The Office'), Blake Shelton, Reba McEntire and Trisha Yearwood. I keep calling this my audition for NBC comedy. I really got lucky with this because Reba is Kelly's mother-in-law, and they share the same manager (Narvel Blackstock), who's Reba's husband. When Kelly was reading the script, she was wondering whom she would get to play her assistant, and she thought maybe she could get the guy who played Reba's assistant on her sitcom, 'Malibu Country.' Kelly thought I was funny. So, they called me and said that Kelly specifically wanted me to play this part in her movie. It was really very flattering.
Jai Rodriguez joins Debby Boone, Bruce Vilanch, Tim Hockenberry, 'X-Factor's' Jason Brock and more in a performance at the Help Is On The Way For The Holidays XII Concert & Benefit Gala 2013 benefiting the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation (REAF) on Monday, Dec. 9 at the Marines' Memorial Theater in San Francisco. For tickets and information visit visit this website.
Jai also co-stars with Kelly Clarkson, Reba McEntire, Whoopie Goldberg and Trisha Yearwood in "Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Music Tale" on NBC on Dec. 11.
As an actress, BeBe was introduced to film with a lead role in the independent film "Under One Sun" with her character dealing with religious, racial and gender issues. Additionally, she appeared in the campy musical "Devious, Inc" (Australian Film Festival, San Francisco Short Film Fest) also adding additional vocals to the musical soundtrack. Both of these performances led to her selection for a lead role in Aisha Media's next short film series, "Con-tin.u.um" to be released in 2012.


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IUCN-Med has created and published its "Top 50 Mediterranean Island Plants" layer on Google Earth. This layer is based on "The Top 50 Mediterranean Island Plants" publication presenting a selection of 50 of the most threatened plant species growing on Mediterranean islands.
The aim of this Google layer is to draw the attention of conservationists and politicians to the geographical distribution of these species in the Mediterranean and to the vulnerability of island flora in the region, and as a call for urgent conservation measures. Through the user-friendliness of this tool, the wide public will also be able to have easy access to this information and to learn more, through the available images and links, about the presence and the status of these plants in order to help protect them from extinction.
To see this layer on Google Earth, you will need to have it installed in your computer and then click on this link below: https://www.iucn.org/downloads/iucn___the_top_50_mediterranean_island_plants.kml


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Saturday, November 8, 2008
America the Melting Pot
With the success of Renaissance Radio, I've decided to start doing some video as well. As a test for fun to start out, I recited this humorous spoken word poem I wrote back in college. I hope you all enjoy and I'll be posting some more serious video lectures on the conspiracy soon.
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ahhhhh, the bennoch road
- November 9, 2008 at 12:40 AM
- Leon Basin said...
hahaha, you guy........ haha
- November 9, 2008 at 3:14 AM
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Freedom Rider to Highlight MLK Celebration• January 12, 2012 Share:
The Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies and Wabash College will celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Thursday with one of the civil rights' movement's Freedom Riders.
Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr. has been a key leader as a civil rights activist since the early 1960s. Dr. Lafayette will be on campus for several public presentations.
Lafayette played a key role in the 60s voting rights campaign, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and is most closely associated as a leader of the iconic Freedom Rides of that tumultuous decade.
His actions led to jail time following riots, fire bombings, and protest marches. He earned his doctorate at Harvard University and led the University of Rhode Island's Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies program. He current teaches at Emory University.
Dr. Lafayette will be on campus Thursday to speak at a noon luncheon at the MXI on the Freedom Rides and the organization of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. From 4:15-5:15 in Center 216, Lafayette will have an open lecture/discussion on the topic of student activism and conflict transformation that is open to the public. He is also expected to visit classrooms.
The men of the MXI will host Dr. Lafayette for a dinner Thursday night.


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The indoor season begins as always with the Tennessee State University Ed Temple Classic on Jan. 10th. The Bison's and Lady Bison's then return to the Niswonger Invite at ETSU in Johnson City to compete on the same track where the Atlantic Sun Conference Indoor Championships will be held.
A limited roster will travel out to Seattle, Wash., to compete in the University of Washington Invite on one of the best indoor tracks in the nation Jan. 29-30.
The entire squads return to action at TSU on Feb. 6. for the TSU Invite. The next stop is a trip to Indiana University for the Hoosier Hills Invite for the second year.
The Indoor season technically concludes with the Atlantic Sun Conference Championships held at ETSU on Feb. 26-27. Any National qualifiers would continue on to the University of Arkansas for the NCAA I National Indoor Track & Field Championships March 12-13.
"Our indoor schedule fits our goals again this year" said Bill Taylor, head coach for both the Bisons and Lady Bisons. "We emphasize the outdoor season and strive to peak there. However, we need to have indoor opportunities, especially for our non-distance athletes. We have attended all of these meets over the past two years with the exception of Washington, and they are perfect meets for what we desire to accomplish. "
Each of the meets offers different incentives for the teams.
"Going to ETSU gives us a nice prep for our Conference meet," said Taylor. "TSU's meets are very solid and are great local opportunities, and the team loved going to Indiana last year. They have a terrific 200m banked track and a nice environment.
"The addition of Washington as a meet we take a small number of athletes to is a really great opportunity. It is one of the fastest indoor tracks in the nation and attracts incredible competition, particularly in the distance events. For me it is especially exciting to take a few athletes back there since I am from Seattle."
The outdoor season begins immediately after the Indoor A-Sun Championships with a trip to Jacksonville, Fla., for the North Florida Spring Break Invite, held on the track that will host the Atlantic Sun Conference outdoor championships.
Two relatively close meets, at Birmingham Southern and at the Austin Peay Spring Fling, bookend Lipscomb's spring break and provide good early outdoor season opportunities to get into competition mode. Some of the team will return to Austin Peay two weeks later for the Austin Peay Invite.
A bit of the Southeastern Conference flavors the schedule as well, beginning with the Alabama Relays on March 27-28. Lipscomb will also visit Florida on April 3-4, Tennessee or Vanderbilt on April 16-17, and Tennessee on May 8.
"In addition to those big meet opportunities, there are several elite level opportunities available to those that qualify," said Taylor. "A few athletes will attend the Potts Invite at Colorado, while the Mt. Sac Relays, the Drake Relays and the Payton Jordan Invite at Stanford are three of the highest quality and most prestigious track and field meets in the nation."
Rounding out the schedule are meets at Tennessee State University for the Boston Moon Invite on April 10 and the Western Kentucky Invite on April 24.
The Atlantic Sun Championship meet will be held in Jacksonville, Fla., at the University of North Florida May 14-15. Those that qualify will compete at the NCAA I East Preliminary Round of the NCAA National Championships in Greensboro, N.C., two weeks later. That meet will determine who qualifies for the NCAA I Outdoor National Championships in Eugene, Ore., June 9-12.
"It's a great outdoor schedule," said Taylor. "We strive to give all of our track and field athletes the opportunities they need to succeed. So we have multiple levels of competition, ranging from meets that everyone can participate in and mid-level competitions, to opportunities to go against the best in the nation.
"I also like the geography of our schedule this year. We have more relatively local opportunities than we have had since I've been at Lipscomb. That's nice for us in terms of travel and for our fans."
Taylor is also pleased that his teams will be participating in some of the more prestigious meets.
"At the same time, we again have some select meets in very cool locations," said Taylor. "North Florida's track is very fast, so it's a nice start to the outdoor season. I'm looking forward to visiting Boulder, Colo. The Florida Relays will be warm and competitive. Drake is one of the oldest and most prestigious meets in the nation with an incredible atmosphere. And a trip to Southern California is always fun if we qualify athletes for Mt. Sac or Stanford.
"It's going to be a great season. We have the largest group of track and field athletes that Lipscomb has seen in many years. The men's team has especially grown in size and event representation. "
Taylor is expecting improved performances in all areas.
"Our distance runners just finished Cross Country and are already excited to get the track season here," said Taylor. "We should also be strong in the sprints and jumps and we are getting better in the throws.
"We have been striving to add balance to our team and succeed in all the events. We've taken a big step forward this year in that regard. It's a very exciting young team with a bright future. "
Written by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations


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Hulu The Best Concert Movies Streaming on Hulu
Get ready to wave your lighters, because these are the best concert movies on Hulu and Hulu Plus.Whatever your musical tastes, you're bound to find something to rock your world on this list of concert movies streaming on Hulu.
If you're a Directioner, then you'll love One Direction: Where We Are – The Concert Film. If you're a little bit older, you might want to revel in some classic rock. This Hulu concert movies list includes unique films starring Neil Young, Stevie Nicks, Jefferson Starship, The Who, and two separate films starring the Rolling Stones, Rolling Stones: Sweet Summer Sun and Gimme Shelter.
If you're interested in musicians in between there's also Bjork, ACDC, and Les Paul. So, whatever you're into you can bet you'll find it here on this list of concert movies on Hulu. Vote up your favorites and downvote the Hulu concert documentaries that aren't worthy of their subjects.


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September 2005 Readers' RigsPosted in Features on September 1, 2005
Want to see your vehicle in Readers' Rigs? Of course you do. So go ahead and send a description of everything you have done to your rig, and include a good photo of it. No, you don't need no stinking application. Just go ahead and send it to:
Readers' Rigs
Four Wheeler
6420 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048-5515
Or, e-mail your description and high-resolution digital photos to us via email@example.com.
Civilian Princess
This 1977 Volvo 303 is owned by Cole Wilson of Yakima, Washington. Cole runs a stock 3.0L straight-six engine, which may not seem like much of a powerplant, but what this ex-military hauler lacks in power, it makes up for with axles. The stock portal axles offer a whopping 21 inches of ground clearance at each pumpkin. Each are equipped with vacuum-operated lockers that keep the 305/75/16 Trelleborg tires turning. Now re-appointed for fun trips, this seven-passenger Swedish expedition vehicle can be seen on trails all over the Pacific Northwest. With a top speed of 70 mph, Cole assures us he isn't in a hurry when driving the Princess.
Big Blue
A.J. Condon of Manchester, Maryland, sent in this photo of his 1984 CJ-7. It has an AMC 360 V-8 mated to a Dodge NV4500 transmission and NP205 transfer case. Dual front steering Rockwells outfitted with full hydraulic steering turn 44-inch TSL Swampers on 15x12 Stazworks double bead-locked wheels. The rig rides on Jeep J-20 rear leaf springs. A Warn 8,000-pound winch is on standby for extraction duties.
Air Time
Bill Riservato sent us this shot of his 1993 Bronco on the Moab Rim Trail. It's powered by a 5.8L engine equipped with a Jacobs ignition system, Gibson headers, and a K&N filter. It has a 4-inch Rancho lift, 4.10:1 gears with a Detroit Locker in the back and a limited-slip up front. Thirty three-inch tires and lots of skidplates keep this Temecula, California, resident wheeling trails all over the West.
New York Taco
Joseph Piombo of Long Island, New York, sent us this shot of his 1999 Toyota Tacoma V-6. Modifications include a 6-inch Fabtech lift, a 3-inch Performance Accessories body lift, a set of 35x12.50 BFG MT KOs mounted on 15x8 black steel U.S. Wheels. Other features include onboard air, stainless steel brake lines, ceramic brake pads and drilled/slotted rotors, and a pair of custom rock sliders.


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Lebenskuenstler needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 22 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
iPad Drawing Book For Children
I'm an indie iPad developer.
I am currently building a drawing book for children on the iPad.
The children can choose an outline from a book and are able to colorize those outlines.
What I need are the designs for a few controls.
- a book control, for the start screen (2 states, closed and open)
- a color picker (preferred water colors, like you use in school)
- a painting frame (stack of papers, background that looks like old crunched paper, a kind of notebook with stripped papers or something else, this is up to you)
- a small dialog (for details see, iPadDraw.ai)
The whole application is in landscape mode with 1024x768 pixels.
The background (theme) is made in another contest here at 99.
A plus would be Illustrator images, so that it is possible for me to scale the images without losing details.
The users will be children.


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A Phage Named Hopey
A small group of students have discovered newfound bacteriophages on campus
A small group of students including; Anthony Preston, Allison Langone (Honors Student), Gwendolyn Vasquez, Miranda Gagnon (Honors Student), Michael DiVito, Joshua Gallant, Daniel Gomez, Julie Joyce, Emilee MacLean, and Nicholas Flaherty (TA), Lead by Dr. Leblanc-Straceski in the HHMI SEA PHAGES course have successfully discovered a newfound bacteriophage (virus). The phage has been named after President Hopey. These newfound phages along with three others were harvested from a muddy tire track sample found on campus. This new bacteriophage's DNA was isolated, purified, and sent off to the University of Pittsburg for full genome sequencing. This project is being continued throughout this semester , and will be presented by student delegates in June at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia.
The HHMI SEA PHAGES course was designed to give undergraduate students in-class research experience. The course was sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and held in the Center for Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences. Students in the course have learned many Biotechnical research techniques that are will be applicable in their future careers as scientists.
View the following link for more information on the Hopey Virus.
Additionally three other bacteriophages have been attributed to this group of Merrimack students:


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Though Mt. Sugarloaf is in South Deerfield, the land in the foreground of this picture is in Hatfield, Massachusetts. The foliage covering the ground is broad-leaf tobacco, a bumper crop raised on many farms in Hatfield and neighboring Hadley. Irish, German and French Canadian immigrants, drawn to work building the railroads in the state set up as farmers in Hatfield, as did later arrivals from Poland, Austria and Czechoslovakia. Initially they raised wheat but by 1905 Hatfield farmers were the leading tobacco and onion producers in the state.
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Today's Echo Park Community Parade ended with the arrival of Santa on the back of a bright red pick up truck. But way before Santa pulled down Sunset Boulevard, there was plenty to see, including a procession of kids decked out in holiday costumes and performing in drill and dance teams.
A fleet of rumbling low-riders and classic cars, including some vintage Beetles, also had people snapping photos and cheering. Santa also had to compete with many dogs for attention, including some that arrived in their own red coats and antlers.


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Made with fluffy eggs, and hearty bacon and swiss, this rich quiche will please your entire family.
If you can't stand clean up, this recipe's for you. You'll only need one pot to create this delicious shrimp pasta.
We love homemade desserts, but they usually take so much time. This dessert only uses a few ingredients and is super easy to make.
Chef and owner Ruben Rodriguez of NYC's Nai Tapas is adding flair to Spanish cuisine. Watch how he uses molecular gastronomy techniques to modernize traditional dishes.
We tried 19 different pizzas, and some were much better than others.
The founder of Beyond Sushi in New York City gives pointers for making delicious and healthy plant-based sushi rolls.
"Nonna" Dora Marzovilla, who makes nearly 20 pounds of pasta daily at her son's restaurant in NYC, on why she still loves coming to work every day at the age of 83.
Watch how NYC's Philippe Chow takes baked Alaska to the next level by covering it with cotton candy and flambéing it tableside.
At NYC's aptly named Unagi, freshwater eel is the only item on the menu. We sat down with the owner to talk about why and how the eatery grills up this traditional Japanese dish.
Steamy Hallows is a new NYC cafe inspired by Harry Potter and Halloween, complete with butterbeer, love potions and mandrakes.
The chocolate cherry ice cream bomb at NYC's Blackbarn has layers upon layers of sweet, delicious flavors. Watch how this amazing dessert is made!
At NYC's Frankie Goes to Bollywood they serve up tasty "frankies," which are classic Indian dishes wrapped in gluten-free flatbread.
NYC's TabeTomo is challenging customers to finish 8 pounds of tsukemen ramen, aka "dipping ramen," in under 30 minutes!
NYC's Brother Jimmy's BBQ takes the cheeseburger to a whole new level by drenching it in homemade beer cheese sauce.
The UK-based chain Wagamama is known for its chicken katsu curry. A special, hotter version of this popular dish is now offered for a limited time at their brand new location in NYC.