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Category: | Game - Bug | Severity: | Minor | Date Posted: | 9/16/11 1:01pm |
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Same issue as #178. Unable to delete betanoob quest items. Get the message "This item can't be dropped or deleted." I've tried deleting, dropping, storing, selling, and using solvent.
- I have escalated this to Zajako for immediate action. Thanks!
Posted at 9/19/11 12:06am - After restart this will be fixed. You'll be able to delete the items at that point.
Posted by GameMaster at 9/19/11 3:51pm - Fixed, thanks!
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Stephen B. Herndon, 37, and Scott Ellis, 44, both of Holden, each face up to five years in prison.
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Baroness David: My Lords, before the Minister sits down, perhaps I may ask whether any kind of complaints procedure will be available for parents if they cannot get their complaints acknowledged or anything done about them.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: Yes, my Lords. I believe that that is covered by wider work within the whole social care field. We are strongly committed to having a robust complaints procedure.
On Question, amendment agreed to.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath moved Amendments Nos. 27 and 28:
On Question, amendments agreed to.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath moved Amendments Nos. 30 to 32:
Baroness Barker moved Amendment No. 33:
The noble Baroness said: My Lords, the purpose behind this amendment is to return to the question that we raised in relation to Amendment No. 14; that is, to establish that clinical governance is observed in the independent healthcare sector. We talked earlier about the fact that the lines between residential and social care are becoming increasingly blurred. We have spoken previously on these Benches about the growing incidence of clinical care that occurs in non-clinical settings. We return to that matter here.
There is one particular reason why I rise to move the amendment at this stage. Increasing numbers of elderly people who are mentally frail are living either at home or in residential homes. Increasingly, they require clinical care which is not given in a clinical setting. The purpose of this amendment, which is promoted by the BMA, is to ensure that a responsibility exists for maintaining standards of clinical governance in those settings.
One effect of Modernising Social Services is that a great many more independent care providers supply services to people who are highly dependent and who need clinical services to be delivered to them in those settings rather than in hospitals. Therefore, we are making yet another attempt to ensure that equality of clinical governance exists in the different settings in which people receive care. Having given a favourable response to Amendment No. 14, I hope that the Minister will be able to do so on this occasion. I beg to move.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: My Lords, there is no doubt that this is an important matter. I believe that if one evaluated the current regulatory system, one would come to the conclusion that one of its main weaknesses is that the Registered Homes Act 1984 concentrated too much on facilities and equipment and never really got to grips with issues relating to healthcare quality. I believe that officers who attempted to inspect and operate the regulatory system did their best to ensure that they covered clinical areas. However, it was never satisfactory because of the way that that Act was written.
I believe that Clause 21(3)(k) is very important in that respect. It provides for regulations to be made requiring independent healthcare providers to have arrangements in place to ensure that the services they provide are of appropriate quality and meet appropriate standards. In developing those regulations and standards, regard will be had to various quality assurance programmes and initiatives which are in place or are planned. Those include the implementation of clinical governance in the NHS, the Supporting Doctors, Protecting Patients White Paper, the GMC's work on revalidation of doctors, and the work of NICE and of CHI.
Much of that work is to be developed over the next 12 months through consultation. However, we envisage that the type of clinical accountability system that healthcare providers must have in place will need to comply with quality assurance requirements, which include arrangements for the audit and review of clinical practice, the identification and management of clinical risk, and the keeping of clinical records. It is our intention that those measures will help to ensure that appropriate safeguards and quality of care are provided for patients.
I turn to Amendment No. 33, which proposes that regulations are made to put in place clinical governance through the regulatory system. I have no arguments at all with the sentiment of that. Indeed, as I have said before, and as one sees if one looks at the
The regulations and standards that I have mentioned will set out clear requirements for private and voluntary healthcare providers to have in place systems for ensuring full accountability for clinical services and qualities. That is very important. We shall require the registered persons to have satisfactory procedures in place for auditing the quality of healthcare delivered in their hospital or clinic and for spotting potential problems and dealing with them appropriately. I believe that a past problem has been that a person who runs a private hospital has, in effect, been able to say, "You can't talk to me about the quality of care. Your contract was with the consultant. All I do is rent out the facilities". Clearly, that is unacceptable. I can assure noble Lords that we shall require full and proper accountability for the services provided.
My own thought regarding the noble Baroness's amendment is that it is unnecessary because essentially it is a reworking of the current Clause 21(3)(k). The reason why we have not used the term "clinical governance", as the noble Baroness has done, is simply that we did not want to create unhelpful confusion regarding the clinical governance system in the NHS. However, I hope that the noble Baroness will be assured that we want to ensure, as much as she does, that clinical standards are of the highest order.
Lord Jenkin of Roding: My Lords, before the Minister sits down, perhaps I may ask him a question. He said something that I found very strange: that one of the weaknesses of the Registered Homes Act was that it concentrated on physical facilities and not on the quality of care. Does he recognise that precisely the same criticism can be addressed at the consultation paper Fit for the Future? under the heading "Modernising social services", and does he recollect that I pointed out in Committee that exactly the same fault existed there? That was drawn to my attention by the Registered Nursing Home Association, which rather liked what I said.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: Yes, my Lords, I certainly recollect that. I believe that at the time I said that we had taken very careful note of the comments that came back to us in relation to the consultation. As we come to prepare further drafts of the regulations and the national minimum standards, we shall be very careful to take on board those points. I believe that it is important that, while some of the debate about Fit for the Future? concerned room sizes--room sizes are one factor in all this--it is clearly important that the overall outcome relates to the quality of care.
Lord Jenkin of Roding: My Lords, the Registered Nursing Home Association wrote:
("( ) Regulations under paragraph (d) of subsection (1) may, in particular, make provision--
(a) as to the promotion and protection of the health of persons such as are mentioned in that paragraph;
(b) as to the control and restraint of adults accommodated in, or provided with services by, an establishment;
(c) as to the control, restraint and discipline of children accommodated in, or provided with services by, an establishment.
( ) Regulations under paragraph (e) of subsection (1) may, in particular, make provision--
(a) as to the promotion and protection of the health of children such as are mentioned in that paragraph;
(b) as to the control, restraint and discipline of such children.").
Page 11, line 35, leave out ("also").
Page 12, line 21, leave out ("or independent clinic") and insert (", independent clinic or independent medical agency").
Page 12, line 23, leave out ("the establishment") and insert ("or for the purposes of the establishment or (as the case may be) for the purposes of the agency").
On Question, amendments agreed to.
Page 12, line 24, at end insert--
("(l) make provision requiring the person who carries on, or manages, an independent hospital or independent clinic to ensure procedures, agreed with the medical practitioners working in that establishment, are in place to implement clinical governance in respect of that establishment").
"Our Vice President, Derek Whittaker, was a member of the Steering Group set up by the CPA. With some 20 years involvement as an owner of a nursing home he had a lot of
28 Mar 2000 : Column 710experience to offer as a practitioner, but repeatedly found himself frustrated by the failure of the group to be prepared to listen to any alternative view".
He had been constantly trying to say that it was the quality of care that mattered, not the number of plugs in the wall, and he was not listened to.
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Album: The Leprechaun
(Lil' Flip talkin)
ay this is for everybody
that wanna get in the rap game
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that think you just get in the rap game
and blow up over night
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(Verse Two: Flip)
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it didn't take long for me to put another hit out there
now I'm in the studio tryna make dollar bills
some people owe me fa sho since they live down the street,
rollers actin like they broke (man show us some love)
I'm tired of hearin that shit all the time
me and Hump puttin it down nigga I ain't lyin
I got record labels mad cause I ain't sign
some niggas stealin my rhymes but I'm still gon' shine
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I'm a stay independent y'all choose the fame
ain't nothin changed still workin the clock
95 made outta wood and a sun roof on top
and when we sittin on ya block y'all beez in shock
cause Houston got Lil' Flip like caddie have crop
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cause we run this rap game believe it or not
(Lil' Flip talkin)
now you got two choices
you can be a rapper or you can be a C-E-O
either you can be with the devil
or you can be with god
which one you wanna be with
(Verse Four: Flip)
and if you ain't gettin sued then you might be suin
and if your fans ain't clappin they might be booin
and if you ain't gettin paid then you might not get paid
I'm sorry sometimes thats how the game gets played
and if you ain't on tour you might not have one
its 90% business the other half fun
some niggas get raped for everything they earn
its just like sex with no protection you get burned
its the biz
(I'm Sucka Free)
its the biz
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its the biz
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contracts and get the green)
I heard...you got jacked for your ride
its the biz
I heard...a nigga usin your lines
its the biz
I heard...a nigga bought you a car
its the biz
he said that he gon' make you a star
and you ain't seen no money so far
thats the biz and now you know
knowin is half the battle thats the biz
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But they are both real. This palm-shaded cement fortress against nature, with its sprinkler-drenched lawns, country clubs and celebrity mansions (Bob Hope's is sprawling on the crest of the hill) does exist. And the Huffington run, excoriated by the eastern press, is no mirage either. Mr Huffington might even win, in which case it will be the White House that gets the shivers.
Huffington, who is 47 years old, is a mega-rich Texan (worth about dollars 70m, they say) who came out of nowhere in 1992 to win a race for Congress in Santa Barbara. He had only been in Washington eight months, when - apparently after meditating in a monastery in Greece, his wife's native country - he announced his next move: to challenge California's Democrat incumbent in the Senate, Dianne Feinstein, in this year's mid-term elections.
At the start of this year, he was 30 points behind her in the polls. Now, with just over two weeks to election day, he is still behind - but only just. The latest polls give Feinstein a fragile edge, somewhere between at best nine points and as little as three separating them.
He has closed the gap first by spending money. By 8 November, it is likely that he will have splashed out an unprecedented dollars 25m ( pounds 15.5m) on the campaign - a third of his fortune - mostly to pay for pricy airtime for his television spots. But the complaint of his critics that he is buying a Senate berth misses the more important point: Huffington is tapping into the intense voter alienation across America by pledging to be a senator who sits on his hands. He is the anti-Washington, anti-status quo candidate par excellence. As he told Time magazine recently: 'I want a government that does nothing.'
Talk to Californians and you quickly feel the mood. 'Get the government - those snoopy, busybody bureaucrats - out of my face,' demands Hugh Glenn, a gentle-mannered computer consultant in Palm Springs and eager Huffington supporter. Or, from Elan Segura, a Cherokee bartender on Santa Monica's Ocean Avenue: 'There is too much government. That's all the Democrats do - more committees, more regulations. We don't need it.'
And to many, Feinstein represents the worst of the busybodies. 'Send Feinstein to Moscow where she belongs,' says Jim Seabourne, who owns an orchard outside San Bernardino, the easternmost satellite of Los Angeles on the desert's edge. 'This is not the Socialist Republic of the United States.'
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But it seems that any kind of Washington record today is poison. 'She has done everything right and in doing so she has been tarred as part of the Washington politics-as-usual problem,' says Bebitch Jeffe.
Huffington, by contrast, has assiduously avoided accumulating a record. As a congressman for the past two years, he has proposed no bills, nor even amendments to bills, and spoken on the House floor for a total of eight minutes (only one minute on legislative business). His attendance record on committees is miserable.
He even looks a nonentity. He is tall and spindly, and his charisma goes no further than his unusually mobile eyebrows. His talent as a public speaker is roughly nil. The East Coast scribblers call him an empty suit. Barney Klinger, a prominent West Coast Republican fund-raiser and Huffington detractor, has said that 'when you look into his eyes you see the back of his head'.
But the empty-vessel image, surely, is the whole idea. The disgruntled among the voters can project on to him all of their wrath and their prejudice without distraction.
And strenuous efforts have been made to protect the Huffington purity by his handlers - a coterie of former Bush and Reagan advisers who together make up one of the highest- grade and most expensive campaign teams ever assembled outside of a presidential race.
Few interviews have been granted, even to the foremost reporters and columnists, and the candidate's rare public appearances have been strictly contained and scripted. The 'bus tour' he and Arianna took through the desert suburbs last week consisted mostly of visits to Republican Party county headquarters. Confrontation with reporters or opponents is zealously avoided.
With his wife, however, the press has found ground for sport. The Cambridge-educated daughter of a Greek publisher, Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, 44, does have a documented past - and a colourful one. Tall and statuesque, she was a butterfly on the London social scene in the Seventies before departing to New York in 1980. Her pursuit of social position on both sides of the water - as well as her authorship of racy biographies of Maria Callas and Picasso - has led to her famous tag 'the most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus'.
Most intriguing have been revelations of ties to a New Age cult called the Movement for Spiritual Inner Awareness, headed by a self-proclaimed American messiah, John-Roger. Arianna, it transpires, was baptised into the following by John-Roger in the waters of the River Jordan and was reportedly ordained as an MSIA minister in 1978. She has disavowed any current links with John- Roger and declared herself at once a born-again Christian and member of the Greek Orthodox Church.
The reason any of this matters is the growing conviction that Arianna is more than a traditional wife-of-the-candidate: rather, she is the inspiration - and the ambition - driving him. As Bebitch Jeffe puts it, Arianna is 'the brains and the balls of the campaign'. Frequently, she has stood in as the candidate's surrogate on public occasions - even debating with opponents in the primaries season - while many of her own beliefs in the force of personal altruism and of inner human goodness, detailed in her latest book, The Fourth Instinct: the Call of the Soul, have found their way into her husband's short manifesto. Thus his clarion call to dismantle the welfare state administered from Washington and resort instead to private enterprise and individual volunteerism.
Since the recent flurry of press assaults, Mrs Huffington has been reined in a little. But there is no hiding her engagement. On this day, she is at Michael's side as he takes a rare press conference outside his campaign bus in San Bernardino. She gives as good a performance of the Pat Nixon-Nancy Reagan loving-gaze act as you will ever witness from a candidate's wife. But there is one additional detail: as she watches Michael, her lips sometimes move in sync with the words being spoken by her husband. The ventriloquist has still not completely set free the dummy.
An hour later, Arianna is deputising once again for Michael at a Federated Republican Women's luncheon at the sumptuous Palm Springs restaurant, Melvyns. She entrances her coiffed and pearled audience with bite-sized servings of her philosophy. While the valet boys ready the Bentleys and Lincolns on the drive outside, the ladies murmur 'beautiful, beautiful', as Arianna tells them of how she chanced to meet her husband in 1985 and how coincidences are the 'little miracles that God delivers to us anonymously'.
For the undecided voters, the recent magazine attacks may make a difference, but for the hard-core anti-Washington zealots they almost certainly will not. A Huffington win, meanwhile, though probably still a long shot, would be devastating to Bill Clinton. It would dynamite his all-important base in California and take the Republicans a seat closer to a majority in the Senate.
Victory now would take the Huffingtons one step closer to what is widely believed to be their ultimate ambition: occupancy of the White House itself.
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We are currently looking for an entire itinerary to go to London, Brussels, and Paris. We have 2 adults, a 13 year old and a 10 year old coming on the trip with us. Some of the things are that we would love to explore the cities and countrysides of each country. We will be flying out from and into Phoenix Sky Harbor and spend a maximum of 2 weeks. we would not have to connect in LHR when going back to US, we are open to any and all attractions, and try to recognize kid/teen friendly hotels that still are nice.
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traveller - I am not sure what your question is...?
Its not really possible to come up with an itinerary for you not knowing you or your interests or why you selected those locations (why Brussels?).
Most of us here are happy to answer questions and help out with logistics, but after you have a basic plan. I'd recommend reviewing guide books for the places you've selected (or click Destinations above) and do some research about what you want to see, do the ground work and then come back with some focused questions so we can help! -
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5-6 days in London, including some day trips like to Stonehenge or Oxford or Cambridge and then hop Eurostar Chunnel trains to Paris - 4 days there and hop Thalys train to Amsterdam for final days and fly back to the desert from there.
advance bookings on Eurostar and Thalys trains will save mega mucks over just turning up - nice sites to learn about those trains and European trains in general - www.seat61.com; www.budgeteuropetravel.com and www.ricksteves.com. For Chunnel trains - www.eurostar.com and Thalys trains - www.thalys.com. You can take Thalys only to Brussels into not wanting to go to Amsterdam but IMO Amsterdam is one of Europe's most scenic cities and Brussels one of its least scenic - many people love Bruges, Belgium however and you can also get their by Thalys trains via a change in Brussels. -
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<< We are currently looking for an entire itinerary >>
The problem with having someone else do your itinerary is that you will end up doing what someone else likes to do. If you do no research you won't know what these cities have to offer and will probably miss out on things you would want to do.
For instance, in Paris my itinerary for you would not include the Eiffel tower, Versailles, Louvre, or Arch of Triumph as those are things I would not want to do.
You should pick up some guide books and do some basic research and then come back with questions.
<< try to recognize kid/teen friendly hotels that still are nice >>
I'm not sure what type of hotel you're looking for. I've never stayed any place that I would consider not friendly to children. Please specify what this means to you. -
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www.accorhotels.com has many hotels in Paris that can accommodate four in a room and are modern and good priced. Look for weekend specials. IBIS, Novotel are more upscale ones; ETAP a bit down.
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Assuming the two weeks includes the overnight flight - that's 13 nights in Europe.
I will lay the whole thing out for you.
Flights look something like this:
Phoenix (PHX) to London (LHR) - Sun, Jul 1
Continental Phoenix (PHX) to Newark (EWR) - Sun, Jul 1
Continental 1265 Dep: 10:25AM Arr: 6:05PM 4h 40m Boeing 737 Economy (T)
Layover in EWR 1h 30m
Continental Newark (EWR) to London (LHR) - Sun, Jul 1
Continental 28 Dep: 7:35PM Arr: 7:40AM 7h 5m Boeing 777 Economy (T)
Mon, Jul 2
Paris (CDG) to Phoenix (PHX) - Sat, Jul 14
Lufthansa Paris (CDG) to Houston (IAH) - Sat, Jul 14
Lufthansa 7985 Dep: 9:25AM Arr: 1:15PM 10h 50m Boeing 767 Economy (T)
OPERATED BY CONTINENTAL Layover in IAH 1h 5m
Continental Houston (IAH) to Phoenix (PHX) - Sat, Jul 14
Continental 1607 Dep: 2:20PM Arr: 2:59PM 2h 39m Boeing 737 Economy (T)
Cost per passenger (including taxes & fees) $1,389.90
Total cost for 4 passengers $5,559.60
Back to the trip.
Arrive in London - stay here 5 nights. 2BR - 1BA apartment in youth friendly area. http://www.vrbo.com/338617
A few things you'll be able to see in your short 5 days there:
a 10 y/o would love this - http://www.fodors.com/world/europe/england/london/review-136242.html
That is just the tip of the tip - there are hundreds of other sites well worth a visit. Get a book from your library.
Check out of apt - take a train to Bruges for 3 nights. Stay here - http://www.vrbo.com/252617
Bruges is a very small city which also makes it cheaper to stay there. It's actually kind of sleepy at night and is just gorgeous. Plan on some self-guided walks - you can see the whole place on foot. Here's are four self guided walks. Click on each one and print out the walk and the associated map for each of the four. http://www.brugge.be/internet/en/toerisme/sightseeing/wandelroutes/index.htm
Take one day for a day trip to Brussels or Gent. Either are a short train ride away.
Then take a train to Paris for your last five nights. Stay here: http://www.vacationinparis.com/apts/id_48.htm
Here are a few top of the top sites to see. http://www.fodors.com/world/europe/france/paris/sights-nam_fodors_choice.html
Also spend sometime just walking here are three that will each take a good part of a day (about twice what they say it will take):
and it's map http://www.frommers.com/images/destinations/maps/jpg-2006/470671mp0801montmartre.jpg
http://www.frommers.com/destinations/paris/0062020034.html and its map http://www.frommers.com/images/destinations/maps/jpg-2006/470671mp0802latinqtr.jpg
http://www.frommers.com/destinations/paris/0062020035.html and its map http://www.frommers.com/images/destinations/maps/jpg-2006/470671mp0803marais.jpg
Fly home from Paris - see above.
BTW - You COULD get hotels for the four of you instead of apartments but you'll pay twice as much for half the space. -
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I owuld start with the Destinations guide to be found here, for each city.
As mentioned above, what my trip ot Paris would be may not match yours. the more you give us, the better the itinerary.
As a quick swag...
London Walks and Paris Walks
Fat Bike and Segway tours in Paris.
Skip Buckingham changing of Guards, add Horses Guard
Tower of London, first thing in morning. Take free guided tour
Westminster Abbey - take verger tour
St Martin in the Fields has brass rubbings you can do in crypt plus good for lunch
Paris- Vedettes du Pont Neuf Sein cruise
Looking for an 'entire' itinerary...what does that mean? -
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entire itinerary is one laid out day by day - say 5 days London; 4 days Paris, 3 days in Belgium or Amsterdam.
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This works better if you do a bit of reading/research and come back w/ at least a framework for your own itinerary. Then we can help you refine it/'fix' problems/make suggestions.
But us creating your itinerary from scratch - not such a great idea.
When thinking about where you want to visit/for how many days, consider that your first day will likely be a wash out w/ jetlag, logistics, acclimating. Your last day is entirely eaten up w/ packing, transferring to the airport, advance check in, etc. And each time you relocate, you lose about 1/2 a day.
Now - get to work on a plan -
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travelerdylan - you may want to find a more friendly site than Fodors - another first-time Fodor poster driven away by rude Fodorgarchs!
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PalenQ - who exactly was rude on this thread? Th OP gave no info about interests or budgets etc. A request for more info and suggestions to research interests is not rude, unless phrased so - and I dont think anyone on this thread did that.
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I didn't offer any advice because it was asking just too much, but I thought Bardo1 did a great job on a starter intinerary, PalenQ offered good advice on trains and Amsterdam, Michel_ made some intersting suggestions for Paris, and others asked good questions.
It is absolutely true that what interests one family may be totally boring (or even abborrent) to another. I, for one, could not be dragged to Disney World Paris unless the entire rest of my trip was being paid for and I could do what I liked the other days - and that would not include spending time with anyone who wanted to visit Disney when all of Paris was there to explore. My idea of a great trip to London includes going to the theater at least once a day (either matinee or evening show) every single day I am there. Sometimes, I want to spend hours in museums and other times, be outdoors in nice weather.
So, Travelerdylan123, don't give up on Fodors, but do give fodorites some information about your family and what they enjoy doing and their interests. If they know what you want to do, there will be somebody on this forum who has done it and knows the best way to do it, and they are very willing to help you achieve whatever it is you wish to achieve on your trip - even how to get to Disney World Paris (although not from me, of course, LOL). -
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I am very sorry about the misconception, let me tell you some more details. Please disregard the entire itinerary comment. My budget we would like to keep it at about 12,000 us dollars for the entire trip. Some of our interests are seeing the major attractions of that city. We definitely do not want to do any childish things. In England we would like to explore London, the major things of that city, can we rent a car that drives on the left side? In France I would also like to explore the city and the countryside so we would also need to rent a car. In Belgium we would like to explore the city. Some of our major interests are major touristy attractions like historical homes or buildings, museums, good restaurants, basically the most famous things that these cities are known for. We would also like to explore the countrysides of each country if possible. We do not want to do childish things because our kids surprisingly like to do these things so give us any ideas. The dates we would like are May 25-June 8, 2013. What I meant to say was ideas for a trip and flights that arrive to London in the morning non-stop is preferred, go to Brussels by train, then take a train to France. Leave from France and try to get to Phoenix in the AM. How should I split up days between the three cities we would like to visit? can I avoid making a stop in London on our way home, we would like to get to the US first? If you could answer all of these questions that would be swell
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Just a fast note: It sounds like you mean only London (DON"T rent a car), Brussels and Paris plus maybe something outside Paris. This is doable in 2 weeks and you would not want/need a car anywhere. Fly into London, London for 5 or 6 days, train to Brussels for 2 days, train to Paris for 5 or 6 days, fly home from Paris.
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Also take into account the queens jubilee is the first weekend in June and the mon and tues following so things may be more crowded/expensive in London so take that into consideration. I agree with janIsj about how to allocate time!
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Would like to suggest that Amsterdam might be more interesting to kids (and you) than Brussels. It has great museums and, of course, the Anne Frank House. If either of your kids have read the Diary of Anne Frank, they would find it very moving to see where she lived, adults also. Great place to take boat ride on one of the canals.
Brugge is also very pretty and you could all rent bikes, climb windmills, take a boat on the canal, etc. You could bike along a canal to a nice place for lunch and back. Either of these places would be an interesting change from cities.
Another option would be a trip to Bath from London. Do it as an overnight though, because wandering the streets in the evening there is nice. The buildings are beautiful and the Roman Baths would be an amazing experience to introduce your kids to the incredible influence of the Roman Empire. It is also a unique variation from London and Paris. There is also the Jane Austin connection.
You will not need a car in Paris, London or any of these places. Not necessary, expensive and a pain. -
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Bruges in Belgium and then train to Amsterdam would be a great option - Brussels has its pluses but the other two are exceptionally pretty towns and also have a lot to do.
Take a TGV train from Paris to Lille and then switch to a local train to Bruges - about 2.5 hours same as going via Thalys thru Brussels but typically a lot cheaper as Thalys trains though they have some deep discounted tickets typically charge a lot more than the route via Lille I believe and you can also go to www.voyages-sncf.com to nab advance discounts on TGVs to Lille-Flandres - the train to Bruges is a flat fare ticket pretty much whether you buy it in advance or not - no seat reservations possible in B elgium on these trains so with a ticket just hop on the next of the hourly or so Lille-Bruges rail links (some involving a simple change of trains in Kortrijk) - from Bruges take local train to Antwerp Central and then connect with IC trains to Amsterdam - again pretty much flat fare trains and you can then again avoid the Thalys trains and their Byzantine fare structure that may cost you a lot more - though they do save about an hour or so Antwerp to Amsterdam. -
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I would fly with BA direct to London and again fly home with them too so you do your transfer in Europe and only have to get home again once you arrive in the US - with kids it is probably easier than doing two longish flights. We flew BA to Phoenix and found it quite acceptable - the food in fact actually was very good and tasted of what it was supposed to be!
Don't forget that you arrive in Europe a day later.
Can I too suggest that Amsterdam may be a more attractive option than Brussels for you, unless you have a specific reason for visiting Brussels that is. Fly from there back to LHR and on home. -
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Jami: unless they have a typo in the title, they're talking about 2013, not 2012 so HRM's jubilee is a nonfactor.
To the OP: you probably cannot leave from Paris to the US and have the flight arrive in the AM - likely no flights to Phoenix that do this (would have to leave early in the morning from Paris).
You should never rent a car in London - waste of time and money. The public transport is good, the streets are congested and the city is basically not navigable by car from a tourist perspective (there is NO grid-like layout in London). You basically cannot rent a car in the UK where the steering wheel is on the left (which is how I interpret your question because in the UK all the cars DRIVE on the left). Don't rent a car in Paris either - same problems with city layout (although Paris does have a bit more logic in many of its street configurations than London), congestion and same benefit of good public transport that covers the city well.
No clue why you want to go to Brussels. Even The Amazing Race (which elided some of Belgium's uglier historical moments) couldn't make it look interesting. Better off doing just London and Paris for a week each - it's easier to rent apartments and easier to adjust with fewer places when you're traveling with progeny. If you go to Paris, you can day trip to Versailles or take an overnight trip to Normandy too.
As for routing the trips - try out Orbitz or kayak to see what options you have. Look at http://airlineroutemaps.com/ to see if anyone flies to Phoenix direct from Europe. Avoid connecting in Heathrow - royal pain. -
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Big Russ - we connected in Heathrow when we flew to Phoenix and had no trouble at all - and that was while T5 was having it's teething problems. Provided you are using the same airline I can't see it is any worse than connecting though any other major airport.
As I said with kids it is probably easier/better to do the transfer in Europe so you have one long flight to London and on the way home a short flight and a long flight, than have to go through a longish fight then immigration and customs and still have to face another longish flight home. -
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I am a little confused - you say in your opening paragraph...<< We have 2 adults, a 13 year old and a 10 year old coming on the trip with us.>> Later on you say 'our kids'.
Does this mean there are 6 of you, or are you the 2 adults with 2 youngsters?
This will make a big difference as to the advice you get on getting around (car rental v public transport), hotels (1, 2 or 3 rooms?), overall costs etc. -
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I travel to Phoenix on business and I have been to all three cities you mentioned. I am curious how you came to the conclusion of needing to drive at some or all of your destinations.
Unlike the western US, these cities have excellent public transit systems used by wider spectrum of the society than in the western states. Additionally they all have nightmarish surface traffic and parking issues.
The public transits into country sides are also much better than in the western USA. Trips to more remote areas do require a car, but the amount of time you have does not seem to allow visit to such locations. -
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Hello everybody!!!,
I would like to thank you who posted for all your help, reccomendations, accommodation, and activities to do in Europe. I would like to especially thank PalenQ and bardo1 for your help. We are currently planning with all of your ideas in mind.
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I agree...skip Brussels for Amsterdam! One of my favorite quaint cities of europe!
Recommend skipping Anne Franks and going to the Corrie Ten Boom Museum in Haarlem instead. It's just a 15 minute train ride from the airport west of Amsterdam. The TenBoom family hid jews in their home and today it is a museum far more interesting than the Frank museum....well worth your visit! -
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Veggicon: Welcome to Fodors. Just a hint when topping a thread it is a good idea to look at the dates -- the thread is more than a year old and even though the trip is coming up, the OP hasn't posted on Fodors in months.
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Recommend skipping Anne Franks and going to the Corrie Ten Boom Museum in Haarlem instead. It's just a 15 minute train ride from the airport west of Amsterdam. The TenBoom family hid jews in their home and today it is a museum far more interesting than the Frank museum....well worth your visit!>
Tis may be true - not sure - never heard of Corrie Ten Boom museum even though I've stayed many times in Haarlem. But why skip Anne Frank - it would be like skipping one of the most major sights Amsterdam has - why not do both?
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I will be on Geraldo Rivera's radio show at 11:30 this morning to discuss the Boston jihad bombers' final message. UPDATE: Geraldo's producer cancelled.
The Obamster is obsessed with the destruction of America as we know it, that's what 'fundamental transformation' means.
Can you think of one thing the Moonbat Messiah has done that benefits America or its allies?
I can't.
Endangering national security and higher unemployment? Another giant middle finger to the American people by the Obama administration. "Supporters say the high rate makes sense given the motivated pool of youngsters, known as 'Dreamers' because of the Dream Act legislation that would give them f...
Might be a good idea to publish a list of these dhimmi kapos and we all start telling them how we really feel.
I understand there were a number of Rabbis who opposed the letter -- where are they? And where is their public disavowal? SPEAK. The should be ashamed that they are being lauded by vicious Muslim Brotherhood groups like Hamas-CAIR. Excellent letter of rebuke, from one who knows, sent to each...
"Trainers who equate the desire for Sharia law with criminal activity violate basic tenets of the First Amendment."
Fundamental transformation.
Replacing the constitution (which is, according to the Moonbat Messiah "fundamentally flawed") with the sharia. This is not a conspiracy theory, this is a conspiracy. In fact its high treason and no less than a coup d'etat.
You have been hijacked, America!
I have warned of this for years and suffered the slings and arrows of a relentless smear campaign. This is unconscionable: giving preference to anti-American Muslims over law-abiding American citizens. Stealth coup while America fitfully sleeps. Where is the vocal leadership on the right? We nee...
Mosques that promote jihad and the misogynistic sharia must be shuttered.
That means all of them.
Mosques that promote jihad and the misogynistic sharia must be shuttered. They are hotbeds of subversive, treasonous military activity. The Islamic Society recommended men beat their wives, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev did. What else did they recommend to Tamerlan? Founded by Abdulrahman Alamoudi, wh...
Who has pictures with Naik & Suwaidan & Zaid Shakir?
There pictures would really help us drive the message home.
What are these nutbags thinking?
Another weak and ridiculous Rabbi leading his flock straight onto the trains. Scaramouche has a great post exposing another one of the craven quislings our people must suffer. "Rabbi" Baruch Fryman-Kohl stood with Zaid Shakir, who said, "The legal and political system of America is sinful and...
There are too many of them.
There needs to be a shakedown.
Another weak and ridiculous Rabbi leading his flock straight onto the trains. Scaramouche has a great post exposing another one of the craven quislings our people must suffer. "Rabbi" Baruch Fryman-Kohl stood with Zaid Shakir, who said, "The legal and political system of America is sinful and...
Actually, he is dying to come out. I really think he has an incredible urge to tell us that he is, in fact a muselman. I wouldn't even be surprised if he would ask America to convert to Islam.
Obama met with his favorite "most trusted ally" today, Prime Minister Erdogan, the Turkish leader who rolled back a near-century of modernization in Turkey to install the barbaric sharia and hurl Turkey backwards in time. Obama asked Erdogan for advise on how to raise his daughters, again. D...
He is a Christian. Rinse and repeat: Obama is a Christian....!
Or could it be....?
Obama met with his favorite "most trusted ally" today, Prime Minister Erdogan, the Turkish leader who rolled back a near-century of modernization in Turkey to install the barbaric sharia and hurl Turkey backwards in time. Obama asked Erdogan for advise on how to raise his daughters, again. D...
These are all isolated incidents by a tiny minority of extremists, misunderstanders of Islam. Can't tar all Muslims with one broad brush, can't be stereotyping a whole religion; not all Muslims this and not all Muslims that.
Sick of it when it comes from those who have a religious mandate to murder us.
But more sickening when the excuses come from our own.
What follows is one of scores of letters sent to the Toronto Board of dhimmi Jews: To: Toronto Board of Rabbis 4600 Bathurst Street Toronto, Ontario M2R 3V3 (416) 849-1004 Hillel said: If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Ethics o...
They sure know how to hate.
Islamic supremacists and their leftist lapdogs aren't happy with it. Some of the ads have writing on them (see above top left corner) or below -- they have been ripped down from several stations and defaced in others: Ads destroyed at City Hall Our 60-day fundraising campaign wa...
Philip Mudd is the former Deputy Director of National Security, FBI and the former Deputy Director of Counterterrorist Center for the CIA.
In that case he cannot be that ignorant. I dare say he is paid off.
Mudd is in the bag. Lets start digging: has he been to Dubai lately? Is he married to a Fakestinian like Grover Norquist? Has he been to the hajj in the last couple of years?
The creep is not kosher.
Philip Mudd is the former Deputy Director of National Security, FBI and the former Deputy Director of Counterterrorist Center for the CIA. Is it any wonder that we are in the trouble we are in? Expect more bodies blown to bits in American streets with jackasses like the appropriately named Mudd....
21000 jihadist attacks since 9/11 sounds almost like minimising it.
The reality is that these attacks overwhelmingly caused casualties in the dozens, and sometimes in the hundreds.
We should always say 21000 jihadist attacks that caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents.
Here's news interview I did with Israel National News (don't miss the end of interview) -- Interview taped by Eliran Aharon, Arutz Sheva TV, New York "Geller: Norway Weeks Away from being Judenrein" Israel National News Muslims in Europe are continuing Hitler's work, and it is coming to Americ...
John Brennan was also impressed by "the majesty of the hajj..."
He can't be a Muslim because he hasn't blown anything up yet.
We can add another euphemism for jihad: "motive under investigation," which always means JIHAD (thanks to Armaros) "Muslim Screams Allahu Ackbar Stabs Cop... Motive Undetermined" Blazing Cat Fur, May 7, 2013
Obviously, Rabbi Mendel Kaplan was not meant to be a hero.
But this might be a major breakthrough for freedom of speech and for the counter jihad, as more and more Americans (and I include Canadians of course) wake up to what's at stake here.
We can't have third world Koranimals pervert our values and our societies and turn our countries into the failed states they left behind.
Good write-up on the Canada police thugs who are enforcing the sharia on quiet, peaceful Rabbis. Canada Forces Chabad to Ban Radical Muslim Critic Pamela Geller The Jewish Press Pamela Geller warns of 'Islamization' of North America. Leftists pressured a Great Neck synagogue to ban her. Now Can...
That's us. They really want to kill us.
Fresh on the heels of the violent protests of hundreds of thousands of Muslims calling for the death of bloggers in Bangladesh: Bangladesh: Thousands of Muslims stone police, torch shops and cars as they demonstrate for Sharia blasphemy law (thanks to Robert Spencer) Tiny Minority of Extrem...
Veerapan deserves the sack. Out with the trash!
Morality police thugs May 2, 2013 Ezra Levant looks at the morality police who are rounding up woman who dare to show an inch of ankle in Iran and Saudi Arabia and asks why police in Canada are enforcing "morality" here.
They have already been mirandized by the same judge.
ARRESTED: Boston Jihad Bomber's Co-conspirator's License Plate: 'Terrorista#1 ... was arrested. The "terrorista" license plate speaks to the media sanction of jihad and the norming of the holy war being waged on us and all freedom loving people. It's time the media, academia and leftist elite...
They know very well what he is, and he knows it too.
The impostor got away with just about everything so far, and so he makes a mockery of everything. (Btw: the PuffHo omitted it also)
Apparently the Associated Press thought that people might not get the joke. Joke, what joke? AP scrubbers and sanitizers must get time and half -- they are always working overtime. AP omits "Muslim" from Obama White House Correspondents Dinner joke Jihadwatch Why? Did they think it had too mu...
Beats me how this guy could get into the synagogue.
All synagogues in EUrabia are guarded and under 24/7 police protection.
Authorities search for motive. Such asshattery is without peer. Islamic Jew-hatred -- it's in the quran. France: Muslim screaming "Allahu akbar" slashes rabbi's throat; authorities searching for motive Jihadwatch Here's your motive, geniuses: Muhammad said that "the last hour would not come unl...
Those 'petrodollars' sure have a way of coming 'round to bite us in the ass.... don't they?
The above photo above shows our 9/11 "Stop the Ground Zero Mosque" rally hosted by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. Sharif El-Gamal, the defeated developer of the Ground Zero mosque, has purchased both buildings next to proposed Ground Zero mosque building that we defeated back in 2010. Where...
One gets the impression that just about all of these TV-presenters are dumb, dense and in the tank for Islam.
The day that a news channel describes the work that I do with any accuracy is the day I will throw a freedom gala in New York. I oppose jihad (holy war) and the brutal and oppressive sharia. Never, in the hundreds of news reports over the years and to this very day, has my work ever been descr...
The Koran is not even worth to be a doorstopper.
Good to know that the people, the majority of the people, are not collectively insane and brainwashed.
Good to know that the people support Pamela.
Wish I was there with you, Pamela!
In shocking violation of his spiritual obligations as a cleric, Reform "Rabbi" Michael White defames and slanders my work and me. He has obviously never read my work -- my columns or my books. He falsely accuses me of hate speech and has the chutzpah to invoke Jewish teachings. Rabbi Michael Wh...
"Part of what makes her problematic is that there are real legitimate concerns about radical interpretations of Islam"-- wow, you don't say, Neuer.
If only Neuer wasn't so ignorant and got his head around the fact that Islam doesn't allow 'interpretations', but needs to be taken straight up, undiluted.
Anyway, well countered, Pamela. Nothing more to add.
Habeeb Ahmed, chairman of the Islamic Center of Long Island in Westbury, said of Rep. Peter King's hearings that they were "branding the whole community as if we are all suspects." Really, why? Is Habeeb suggesting that Muslims support jihad and the sharia, the most oppressive and brutal ideolog...
The establishment Jews will give him another peace prize, or something....
Above: Obama's splendiforous Iftar gala Who cares about 6,000 years of history, anyway? White House Scraps Jewish Heritage Month Reception by Keith Koffler, White House Dossier, on April 5, 2013 The White House is picking winners and losers as it cuts back because of the sequester, and a ...


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Juggernaught222: Wow. I swear I have that on a floppy somewhere...
Edit: now I feel old XD Only 18 lol.
lightnica: If you still have a working floppy drive, you might want to start going through those floppies. Edit: now I feel old XD Only 18 lol.
Skreczi: There are countles StarTrek clones on the internet. If this is one of them then it will take ages to get this one correctly. Give us more hints or answer and another riddle please :)
lightnica: Actually I'm pretty sure this game isn't on the internet. I did find a scanned version of a printed catalog that mentions it. I'm debating if I should post it or not. I seem to have stumbled upon the perfect game for this contest. I'm hesitant to give it up so easily.


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When you create a virtual disk on top of a Windows storage pool, Windows allows you to incorporate some fault tolerance into that virtual disk. Assuming that a sufficient number of physical disks exist within the storage pool, the new virtual disk can be mirrored (or even three-way mirrored) or it can be set up as a fault-tolerant stripe set. Even so, the virtual disk level is not the only place where you can implement fault tolerance. Windows Server 2012 also allows you to designate disks within your storage pool as hot spares. That way, if you experience a physical disk failure then a hot spare can be provisioned and can take the place of the failed disk.
When you create a storage pool, Windows asks you which physical disks you wish to include in the storage pool. As you select those disks, you are given the chance to decide how the disk will be used. That's great if you are building a storage pool from scratch, but what if you want to add a hot spare to an existing storage pool?
In these types of situations, you have two main options. The easiest option involves adding a new disk to the storage pool and provisioning that disk as a hot spare. Storage pools are designed to be extremely flexible, and Microsoft allows you to add additional disks to the storage pool at any time as a way of increasing capacity. When you add a disk you can control how that disk will be used, just as you are able to when you initially create the storage pool.
The problem with using this approach is that servers can only accommodate a finite number of physical disks. So what do you do if you want to add a hot spare, but all of the disks in your server are already spoken for?
In these types of situations, your ability to act comes down to storage pool usage. If the disks within the storage pool are not being fully utilized then you may be able to remove a physical disk from the storage pool, and then add that disk back into the pool as a hot spare. Although this approach may sound tedious, it is actually rather easy to do.
If you need to remove a disk from your storage pool to convert it to a hot spare, begin the process by opening Server Manager and clicking File and Storage Services , followed by Storage Pools. Next, select the storage pool that you want to modify. When you do, the Physical Disks pane will display all of the physical disks that currently exist within the storage pool. Right click on the physical disk that you want to convert to a hot spare, and choose the Remove Disk command, shown in Figure 1.
At this point, you will see the rather ominous warning shown in Figure 2. This warning message indicates that it will take time to restructure the storage pool and that the pool's ability to absorb failures will be diminished until the operation completes. What this warning message does not tell you is that if you have any simple virtual disks that use the storage pool, then you cannot remove the physical disk from the storage pool until the virtual disk has been deleted. A simple virtual disk is a striped virtual disk that does not use parity for redundancy.
Once you have removed the physical disk from the storage pool, you will have to refresh Server Manager before you will be able to continue. After doing so, right click on the storage pool and choose the Add Physical Disk command from the shortcut menu, as shown in Figure 3. This command will be grayed out if you have forgotten to refresh the console.
Windows will now display the Add Physical Disk dialog box. Select the checkbox corresponding to the disk and then select the Hot Spare option from the Allocation drop down list, as shown in Figure 4. Click OK, and the hot spare will be added to the storage pool, as shown in Figure 5.
As you can see, it is easy to convert a storage pool disk into a hot spare. Even so, it is a good idea to back up your server before attempting this procedure because the conversion process reduces the server's resilience against data loss for a period of time.
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#8298 closed bug (invalid)
jQuery version 1.5 - ajax -
This is the src url from where it loads the script code after I insert the previous content to the page:
Does anybody knows why this happening?
It happens only with jQuery 1.5. It doesn't happen with jQuery 1.4.4.
Code Example:
$.ajax({ url: content.html, type: 'GET', data: someDataObject, success: function(data) { // some code here }, error: function(data) { // some code here } });
Change History (1)
comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by jitter
- Component changed from unfiled to manipulation
- Description modified (diff)
- Priority changed from undecided to low
- Resolution set to invalid
- Status changed from new to closed
Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the jQuery project by writing a bug report. The next time also please include the actual report and a test case on http://jsfiddle.net instead of only linking to an external site.
After checking your report and your code samples I come to the conclusion that this isn't a bug. I also made this test case
jQuery 1.4+ (until 1.5) had a bug which caused the cache option not to default to false for script requests. This bug (see #7578) has been fixed in 1.5 .
Now what you might know or not know is, that jQuery does special-handle script tags when doing DOM manipulations. It filters them out and requests them via ajax. This explains why even a "normal" inline script tag suddenly is requested with additional url parameters.
There are ways to work around this if it has unwanted side effects for you.
- use $.ajaxSetup({ cache: true }) when appropriate
- use a prefilter for script requests and e.g. check for urls where you don't want the random parameter to be added and set cache: true in the prefilter for those
- in e.g. the success call back handle the script tags yourself by doing something along these lines
var elems = $(htmlwithscripttags); elems.filter("script") //now do whatever with the scripts elems.filter(":not(script)").appendTo("body"); //e.g.


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Fleshlight Featured on VICE
We've always been a big fan of VICE, with everything from documentaries to fashion and music, you're bound to get your kicks.
The article features Fleshlight founder Steve Shubin explaining the origin of Fleshlight and the impact on society he hopes his products will have on male sexuality around the world. Not to mention the other more unlikely benefits our material has brought others.
The Man Behind the World's Most Famous Fake Vagina
By Jack Davies
The signature Stoya Fleshlight at the company's warehouse
Steve Shubin wants us to talk more about touching ourselves. The inventor of the world's most successful sex toy, the Fleshlight, a polymer vagina housed inside something that looks a bit like a fat torch, said that it's a man's duty to masturbate frequently. As such, he's baffled as to why dildos have become an acceptable brunch conversation topic while male sex toys remain taboo. But Steve hasn't always been so concerned with the ins and outs of sensual self-flagellation. One of jerking-off's wealthiest advocates was raised in a blue-collar house with 13 siblings. Football took him to college, which he followed with a brief stint in the Army before seven years with the Los Angeles SWAT team. "Police work's a great career, but it doesn't pay much; you can't look forward to buying anything significant, and I've always wanted to do that," he told me. "I'm one of 14 kids and I grew up having nothing. I was obsessed with having everything." So, aged 32, Steve left the force to open his own small business. It wasn't until he was in his 40s that his tennis-pro wife's pregnancy pushed him toward the industry he now dominates. "The doctor said that, because we were 40 years old, we had to be very careful and should probably not have intercourse for the duration of the pregnancy," he explained. "And we were at the beginning of the pregnancy. So, for me, that was a problem. Tell me I can't get laid for nine months; that's a problem for me." While out to dinner to celebrate the pregnancy, Steve turned to his wife Kathy and asked, "Tell me, would you think I was a total pervert if I told you that, in your sexual absence, I would use something to replace you sexually? Would you think I'd be a total creep?"Steve Shubin, founder of Fleshlight
Initially, they both laughed at the image of a six-foot-three, 14-stone tree trunk of a man getting intimate with a blow-up doll. But, on the drive home, they expanded on the idea. "We kind of thought, 'Well, wait a minute. What if we had a problem that doesn't go away? Whether it's a physical handicap or a psychological handicap—things that would never afford me a normal sex life,'" Steve recounted. "And we started thinking this way because there was a much bigger opportunity than my current, very narrow, issue." With a primary investment of $50,000, they quickly founded the company that would eventually become Fleshlight. Kathy's one requirement was that whatever they produced had to be tasteful ("Something artistic that wasn't some disgusting-looking, adultish garbage product"). A little research showed that there was nothing on the market resembling competition. By 1995, they had come up with something worth patenting. The first patent application was for sexually useable body portions, referred to, romantically, as "mannequins with sexual application." The original patented mannequins, according to Steve, were "perfectly anatomically sculpted, with probably a better body than you could get if you lived in a gym". Fleshlight is a family business, and Steve's teenage sons were drafted in for the initial brainstorming session. The Shubins gathered around the dinner table for a week, cutting out their favorite body parts from skin mags, until they came up with the prototype. Bent over doggy style—cutting out extraneous filler, like torsos and faces—the mannequins covered everything between the knees and ribs. The "orifice" was removable for easy cleaning and was manufactured out of a patented mix of thermo-plastics and oils designed to recreate the sensation of human skin.A cross-section of the Fleshlight Vstroker
In his own words, Shubin was a "mad scientist" in his pursuit of the ultimate synthetic fuck buddy, "Because – as a man, you know this: if something doesn't feel real, we're not going to be excited about the physical contact with it. So that was a first priority." Two years and more than a quarter of a million dollars into the project, not a single mannequin had been sold. It was around this time that an old friend and successful businessman, Bob, came to visit Steve and Kathy's office in California. He was impressed with what he saw. As Steve dropped him off at the airport, Bob asked if Steve could send one of the vagina inserts to his house. Shubin offered to ship him an entire body, but Bob was reluctant: "Oh, no, no, no. Please don't do that. I've got children," he said. "I could never bring something like that into my house." "Driving back from the airport, I thought, My gosh, if I can't give a product away to a friend, how can I ever expect to sell one of these?" Steve recalled. It was then he realized that perhaps size was a much larger issue than he'd first assumed. Between the airport and his office, he began to redesign the product in his mind. "I knew that it would have to be portable; it had to be small; it had to be able to fit easily into the hand so that it could facilitate the use of the product. I thought, Guys are into tools. And what I had settled on was a flashlight, so I decided to call it Fleshlight. "As soon as I got back to my office I had my guys working on that different concept," Steve told me. "I immediately contacted my attorney and began working on the copyright stuff and the protections on the name. I bought the URL immediately and started the business end of it right away as we were developing the product." Now that he had a viable product, the next challenge was figuring out how to get it into consumers' homes. It was 1997 and the internet was still in its relative infancy. "It wasn't secure; nobody trusted it. We were intrigued by it, but never would anybody use their credit card to make a purchase on it," Steve said.The Fleshlight warehouse
Regardless of the challenges, Steve was sure that the Fleshlight would be "a rockstar instant success", and the production line was knocking out 1,200 units a day to cope with the expected demand. The Shubins were $2 million into the Fleshlight before a single unit had been shipped. Four years later and lot of lessons learned, their original investment had been recouped. Fleshlight went on to become a multi-million dollar company and the best-selling sex toy on the market. However, there are still obstacles to overcome: society isn't willing to normalize the Fleshlight in the same way it has the dildo. Steve said that, 15 years ago, shows like Sex and the City and Oprah opened a conversation about vibrators that has failed to materialize around male masturbation. Perhaps the problem is that, for all our liberal pretences, talking about touching yourself is still taboo. We may have moved on from the 1940s, when sexologist Alfred Kinsey discovered that 40 percent of young Americans believed that masturbation caused insanity, but you're not gonna see Phillip Schofield and Richard Bacon discussing the relative merits of various fake vaginas on This Morning any time soon. When Fleshlight approached Maxim in search of a mainstream publication to carry their ads, they were told their money was no good: no one wants their brand to be associated with jerking off. However, Shubin reckons this was a gender-based issue; that women are never too thrilled to hear that, partnered or otherwise, men enjoy and need to masturbate. Meaning one of the reasons Maxim refused to carry Fleshlight's ads, according to Steve, was out of the fear that any hint of male masturbation may upset female readers. He continued, reasoning that men just need more orgasms than women, and suggested women can sometimes view a man's right hand as competition. "If you tell your wife, 'Oh, by the way, sweetheart, we were together eight times last month, but I actually had 30 orgasms,' women feel cheated," he said. "They feel like you don't love them. They feel like they're losing you." The first time Steve brought a Fleshlight prototype home, he said that his sex life improved vastly. "What's going on?" he asked Kathy. "You're just hitting this new wave of sexuality. I mean, you're killing me." To which she replied, "I just don't want you to have enough energy to use that Fleshlight."A Fleshlight shower mount, so you can use your vagina-in-a-can in the shower
Shubin's solution is education of both sexes. Men need to be taught to be unashamed of their need to "maintain their biology, their civility" through masturbation. Women need to understand that "sexual gratification for men is not an emotional thing; it has nothing to do with love and it has nothing to do with the wife. It is immediate and spontaneous, and once I'm done with whatever I'm doing, I don't think about it any more, because I'm gone that quickly." However, education isn't just important to boost sales; Shubin's on a mission to help men behave better in a society that he says is incompatible with their biology, "The domestication of man, while it's been great for civility, has not been kind to the biological need to function as a man," he said. "Society doesn't allow us to do what we might have done a million years ago. We cannot chase and take the sexual things that we may have done hundreds of thousands of years ago, and that's an awesome thing. But we still need to function as biological men." He continued: "But the responsibility to do that is not on women. They're not on this planet to satisfy our sexual needs; responsible men do this themselves. And I know that if I don't manage my sexuality, I would find myself becoming angry with my wife because she wasn't as sexually active as I needed her to be. And I had to grow up and learn to function. She is not my escort; she is not my sexual tool. My sexual relation with my wife is based on two people being intimate and developing a life together. Any sexual needs I have beyond that are my responsibility to maintain." And this re-education isn't only targeting personal relationships; Shubin has much grander plans, hoping to introduce Fleshlight to the Indian market. "In India right now, we know they have a big problem with sexuality and male performance and the abuse of women," he said. "And I certainly hope it's a very small percentage of people, but there is an education process that needs to happen there, and they have a desperate need for an alternative product and the psychology that would allow them to use a sexual product." The Asian market has proven particularly hard for Fleshlight to crack. "They don't like you to ship anything into their countries with the likeness of a human orifice," Steve explained. So, to get around that minor hiccup, the company has started creating products that don't have a likeness to any piece of human anatomy. They're marketed as marital aids and shipped as "biological maintenance," which is the other half of Steve's crusade. The trouble with penises, Steve explained, is that, unlike most muscles, they're not attached to a bone, meaning they receive little casual exercise. As a result, "If you're not filling it up with blood and stretching it out and using it, it will atrophy," he cautioned. "They do shrink." Of course, a clogged prostate—and the risk of cancer that comes with it—is the other danger for men who refuse to regularly clean their pipes. Asia may not have been kind to Fleshlight financially—on top of the import restrictions, there is the Japanese patenting process that pushed their vagina-in-a-can design into the public domain—but that hasn't deterred them. Somewhat surprisingly, they're using the vast financial and technical resources at their disposal to help the continent's elephant population, which is plagued by land mines left over from decades of tension and conflict in countries like Thailand and Burma.The front entrance to the Fleshlight offices
"It's very common to find elephants that have a portion of their leg blown off," Steve told me. "And the need for prosthetics is what we're working on right now. We have an R&D lab in New Mexico that's managed by one of my sons, and professional sculptors are working on the mechanics of giving the elephants new legs as we speak." Other philanthropic ventures have included providing prosthetic breasts for mastectomy patients and modernizing the antiquated methods currently used for extracting semen from stud racehorses. While this is all highly commendable, it doesn't mean the company hasn't come in for criticism in the past. And Shubin understands that you don't get to be a multi-million dollar sex-toy manufacturer without making a few enemies along the way. For example, it doesn't take much googling before you start coming across disgruntled ex-employees complaining of capricious or flat-out incompetent management. "Utter and total lack of management with more between their ears than pocket lint" is one example I put to Steve. His response, "If anyone was let go, I can promise you this: they were not good at their jobs—they sucked." Some criticism has been less vicious. Professionally, Shubin has always been careful not to court conversations with religion, and the only one he's consciously been party to resembled a piece of performance art more than a legitimate dispute. In the company's early days, an employee noticed someone burying something in the ground in front of the office. As he got closer he realized the stranger was planting a row of tiny crosses. When he asked the stranger what he was doing, the reply was simply, "We're bringing Christ to you." With that, the stranger fled. The company knew exactly which church the man had come from, but chose not to make a big deal of it. Shubin explained, "We weren't offended. We didn't argue with them, and it's really never been a problem because I never broach the subjects of sexuality and religion." He may be on a crusade to bring masturbation to the mainstream, but he's not interested in getting into a knife fight with the church. For now, Steve and his family are going to keep encouraging us all to talk about our physical relationships with ourselves. They've already invested in a web TV sitcom, The Fleshlife, and the heart of the company's manifesto now revolves around the duty to normalize male masturbation. But they're aware it will take more than just a sex toy manufacturer talking about it to change the public's attitude. "It's something that we don't talk about," Steve started, "but it's a needed discussion, because people need to understand that, in order for us to be civil, we need to maintain our bodies." @jackoozell


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The toll from the High Park fire west of Fort Collins Saturday was 112 residences and 54,230 acres of timber with only 20 percent containment.
"I knew this was a big, big fire," Larimer County sheriff's executive officer Nick Christensen told The Denver Post. "I was hopeful it was going to be a lower number. But it's not, and it is going to grow."
Firefighters said more homes and communications sites remained threatened. A fire weather watch was in effect for the Fort Collins area with low humidity, unseasonable warm temperatures and, most ominously, winds increasing through the weekend with gusts up to 50 miles per hour possible.
A fire weather warning was in effect for all of Utah Saturday. Firefighters told the Salt Lake Tribune they had the upper hand on fires that had been burning in the state and were hopeful the large number of personnel already in the field would keep a lid on any new fires.
Crews also had their hands full with the Poco fire in Arizona. The blaze had consumed 1,500 acres and was 15 percent contained in the heavy timber of the Tonto National Forest.
There were several road closures in the mountainous area but no structures were threatened and reinforcements were arriving on the fire lines. "Resources are readily available because we aren't competing for resources with many other fires in the Southwest," incident commander Dave Ramirez told The Arizona Republic.
In New Mexico, the huge Whitewater-Baldy fire topped 290,000 acres but was 63 percent contained with isolated torching of trees reported, the National Interagency Fire Center said.