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The Dick Dale Phenomenon. His style is something different and unique. Since his first appearances in Balboa, Ca. at the famed Rendezvous Ballroom, he has set and broken attendance records everywhere he's performed. His appearances at the Rendezvous Ballroom broke every existing record for the Ballroom by drawing capacity crowds of over four thousand screaming dancing fans every weekend each night down on the Balboa peninsula.
Dick Dale invented surf music in the 1950's. Not the '60's as is commonly believed. He was given the title "King of the Surf Guitar" by his fellow surfers with whom he surfed with from sun-up to sun-down. He met Leo Fender the guitar and amplifier Guru and Leo asked Dale to play his newly creation, the Fender Stratocaster Electric Guitar. The minute Dale picked up the guitar, Leo Fender broke into uncontrolled laughter and disbelief, he was watching Dale play a right handed guitar upside down and backwards, Dale was playing a right handed guitar left handed and changing the chords in his head then transposing the chords to his hands to create a sound never heard before.
Leo Fender gave the Fender Stratocaster along with a Fender Amp to Dale and told him to beat it to death and tell him what he thought of it. Dale took the guitar and started to beat it to death, and he blew up Leo Fender's amp and blew out the speaker. Dale proceeded to blow up forty nine amps and speakers; they would actually catch on fire. Leo would say, 'Dick, why do you have to play so loud?' Dale would explain that he wanted to create the sound of Gene Krupa the famous jazz drummer that created the sounds of the native dancers in the jungles along with the roar of mother nature's creature's and the roar of the ocean.
Leo Fender kept giving Dale amps and Dale kept blowing them up! Till one night Leo and his right hand man Freddy T. went down to the Rendezvous Ballroom on the Balboa Peninsula in Balboa, California and stood in the middle of Four Thousand screaming dancing Dick Dale fans and said to Freddy, I now know what Dick Dale is trying to tell me. Back to the drawing board. A special 85 watt output transformer was made that peaked 100 watts when dale would pump up the volume of his amp, this transformer would create the sounds along with Dale's style of playing, the kind of sounds that Dale dreamed of. BUT! they now needed a speaker that would handle the power and not burn up from the volume that would come from Dale's guitar.
Leo, Freddy and Dale went to the James B. Lansing speaker company, and they explained that they wanted a fifteen inch speaker built to their specifications. That speaker would soon be known as the 15'' JBL -D130 speaker. It made the complete package for Dale to play through and was named the Single Showman Amp. When Dale plugged his Fender Stratocaster guitar into the new Showman Amp and speaker cabinet, Dale became the first creature on earth to jump from the volume scale of a modest quiet guitar player on a scale of 4 to blasting up through the volume scale to TEN! That is when Dale became the "Father of Heavy Metal" as quoted from Guitar Player Magazine. Dale broke through the electronic barrier limitations of that era!
Dale still wanted to go further, and as the crowds increased, Dale's volume increased, but he still wanted a bigger punch with thickness in the sound so that it would pulsate into the audience and leave them breathless. The JBL-D130 was doing its job until Dale froze it in the frame that held the speaker, the speaker cone would twist from the heavy playing from Dale and it would soon twist and stop to fluctuate back n forth.
Leo, Freddy and Dale went back to the JBL speaker company and told them to rubberize the front ridge of the speaker allowing it to push forward and backward from the signal of Dale's guitar without cocking and twisting. The new updated version was called the JBL D-130F; the F stood for Fender.
Leo, Freddy and Dale designed a speaker cabinet and in which they installed 2 -15''-JBL-D130F's. This caused Leo Fender to have to create a new and more powerful output transformer, they would call it the Dick Dale Transformer and it was made by the Triad Company.
This became the 100 watt output transformer that would actually peak 180 watts. Nothing like this had ever been done before in the world of guitars and amplifiers. This became known as the Dual-Showman Piggy Back Amp. This is why Dick Dale is called the Father of all the power Players in the world!
Being completely self taught, Dick Dale played left handed upside down which was a result of holding the guitar left-handed. The strings became upside-down, chords are designed for right handed players making it very difficult for a left handed player unless he were to change the strings for a left handed guitar, something that Dale never did. Dale is also a master at the Acoustic, Electronic, Bass and Spanish Guitars'. As well as the Ukulele, Banjo, Drums, Piano, Organ, Electronic Keyboard, Harpsichord, Trumpet, Trombone, Saxophone, Harmonica, Xylophone and, believe it or not... the Accordion!
Dale was also responsible for another creation to the world of guitar players, "The Fender Tank Reverb". As Dale sang in his shows, he found that he did not have a vibrato in his voice, and he did not like the straight flat dry sound. to sustain his vocal notes, he turned to an old Hammond organ and found a reverb unit and showed it to Leo Fender and together they came up with the "Fender Tank Reverb". Dale then plugged a Shure Dynamic Bird cage Microphone into it and as Dale sang, his voice took on a very rich, sexy and full sound. Later, Dale then plugged his Fender Stratocaster guitar into the Reverb Tank to sustain his guitar notes which became Dale's trademark sound.) (NOTE) Dale had already been titled "King of the Surf Guitar" by his surfer friends before his creation of the Fender Reverb, Dale's first album called "Surfer's Choice" was the first Surfing album to be commercially sold with a picture of Dale surfing by the pier in San Clemente, Ca. with a surfing title on it. This album alone sold over eighty-eight thousand albums in the late 50's and today in the 90's it would be like 4 million. There was not one song on that album that had a Reverb for effects, everything was played with nothing but Dale's sheer force and power. A bit of trivia, Dale's recording of "Miserlou" became the title song for Quentin Tarantino's Blockbuster movie "Pulp Fiction".
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To read the full detailed article see: 4 Steps for Effective Guitar Mixing
The world may not revolve around guitar music anymore, but there is still a lot of it out there. Whether you're working on face melting hardcore or a gentle country ballad, the presentation of the guitar content in the mix has a lot to do with the overall stylistic impression of the song.
Here are a few tried and true techniques for working with guitar tracks:
Hear the Arrangement
Some guitar tracks are played and recorded to stand out as focal points in the mix. Other guitar parts are intended to work as tonal layers of another instrument. Before you dive into the mix (or even the tracking session), take a moment to consider why each guitar track exists.
You're probably going to come up with one of three answers:
- It's a musical focal point, a source of interest and energy in the song.
- It's a rhythmic element that adds tonal complexity to a percussive instrument.
- It's not musically functional at all (and should be muted).
With your answer in mind, you'll have a great benchmark for evaluating the guitar parts within the mix, as opposed to evaluating them as individual elements.
Now let's take a closer look…
Refine the Tone of Your Guitar Content 'In Place'
With the musically essential choice about function established by rough balance and reinforced by smart panning, it makes sense to address how the harmonic content of the guitar tracks can be optimized.
There's no point in pretending to relate EQ specifics (or even most generalities), but if the guitar tracks you're working with haven't already fallen victim to knob twisting, there are some themes that might help organize your decision-making.
The fundamental frequencies of the guitar lay largely between 160Hz -1300Hz. In reality, your typical rock or country rhythm track is probably played in the 160Hz-700Hz range.
This frequency band will provide 'fullness', 'warmth', or even 'muddiness' when accentuated. The same range can be attenuated to get thinner, less supported tones. Try starting in the 350Hz-500Hz range with your center frequency.
Boosting a wide peak approximately two octaves above the fundamental frequency center can very easily, naturally brighten picked performances on metal-stringed instruments. This is the frequency range in which these instruments are naturally bright, so it pays to play along.
Below about 80Hz even the most theoretical harmonic contribution to your guitar sound has been exhausted. Don't hesitate to high-pass filter guitar tracks to prevent non-programmatic low frequency content from messing with your gain staging and dynamics control.
Working From a Musically Relevant Basis
Notice we haven't touched a single multi-band compressor or 8-bit distortion-cruncher-thing. Tricks aren't tricks unless the tracks are working in the arrangement (i.e. for the song). Starting with these types of basic considerations can take decent tracks most of the way to musical effectiveness, and take excellent tracks all the way.

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Among the minimum surfaces which can be represented by liquid films is a surface of revolution across which is a transverse plane circular film. It can be constructed by placing one on the other two equal rings, dipping them into soap solution, and then drawing them apart always parallel to each other and perpendicular to an axis through their centers. A longitudinal section of the surface shows on each side of this axis a system of three curves meeting in a point, two of the curves extending respectively to the two rings, and the third extending to the axis. The experiment suggest the following mathematical problem:
Given two points A0 and A1 in the xy-plane and on the same side of the x-axis. Join the points by a curve confined to the positive side of the x-axis, and from an arbitrary point P2 of this curve draw a curve to the x-axis. To find among all such systems of curves that one which when revolved about the x-axis shall determine a surface of revolution of minimum area. All curves which we consider will be of class D1.
Footnote: A curve is of class D1 if it is continuous and consists of a finite number of arcs each of which has a continuously turning tangent.
The object of the present paper is to give a solution of this problem. The discussion is divided into three parts A, B, C, dealing, respectively, with the necessary conditions for the solution, the sufficient conditions, and the character of the field of extremals. The principal results obtained are as follows:


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Seeking treatments for autism
Study emphasizes the urgent need for validated and effective treatments
Video with Robin Hansen
For the families of children with autism spectrum disorder there is one daunting reality — early educational intervention may help many reach their full potential. However, there still are no Food and Drug Administration-approved medical treatments for the core symptoms of a lifelong condition whose incidence has reached 1 in 88.
To help their children, many families turn to unconventional approaches, such as mind-body medicine (e.g. meditation or prayer), homeopathic remedies, probiotics, alternative diets or more invasive therapies such as vitamin B-12 injections, intravenous immunoglobulin or chelation therapy — some of which carry significant risks. Together, such treatments are called complementary or alternative treatments (CAM).
Those are the findings of a study published recently in the Journal of Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics led by Robin Hansen, clinical director of the UC Davis MIND Institute.
"In our Northern California study population, it does not appear that families use complementary and alternative treatments due to the lack of availability of conventional services, as has been suggested by other research," said Hansen, who also is chief of the Division of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics in the UC Davis School of Medicine.
"These findings emphasize the enormous and urgent need for effective treatments and for rigorous research that can identify them and verify their effectiveness and safety. Of course it is reasonable for parents to keep searching for ways to help their children, when there are few effective treatments and none that can help every child."
— Irva Hertz-Picciotto
"Rather, they use the treatments in addition to conventional approaches."
Autism's core features include a lack of social relatedness, repetitive thoughts and behaviors and, often, intellectual disability. Many children also suffer from a wide array of associated symptoms that may not be directly associated with their diagnoses. These can make their daily lives and those of their families stressful. Such symptoms include irritability, hyperactivity, gastrointestinal problems and sleep disorders.
CHARGE Study
The MIND Institute study included nearly 600 diverse children between 2 and 5 years with autism and developmental delay who were enrolled in the Childhood Autism Risk from Genetics and the Environment (CHARGE) study. Of the participants, 453 were diagnosed with autism and 125 were diagnosed with developmental delay.
CAM use was more common among children with autism than children diagnosed with other types of developmental delay, 40 percent versus 30 percent respectively. Nearly 7 percent of children with autism were on the gluten-free/casein-free (GFCF) diet, particularly children with frequent gastrointestinal problems.
"We were pleased to find that most families utilizing CAM therapies were choosing ones that were low risk," said Kathleen Angkustsiri, assistant professor of developmental and behavioral pediatrics and a study co-author.
A small but statistically significant number of families — about 9 percent — were found to use alternative treatments classified by the study as potentially unsafe, invasive or unproven, such as antifungal medications, chelation therapy and vitamin B-12 injections.
"Our study suggests that pediatricians and other providers need to ask about CAM use in the context of providing care for children with autism and other developmental disorders, and take a more active role in helping families make decisions about treatment options based on available information related to potential benefits and risks," said Roger Scott Akins, lead study author and a former postdoctoral fellow at the MIND Institute, who now is chairman of the Division of Neurodevelopmental Pediatrics at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Va.
Irva Hertz-Picciotto, professor of public health sciences and principal investigator for the CHARGE study, said the research supports the emergent need for identifying validated treatments for neurodevelopmental conditions.
"These findings emphasize the enormous and urgent need for effective treatments and for rigorous research that can identify them and verify their effectiveness and safety," Hertz-Picciotto said. "Of course it is reasonable for parents to keep searching for ways to help their children, when there are few effective treatments and none that can help every child."


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Cherry tomato & caper spaghetti
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Vegetarian
- Healthy
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal463
- fat13g
- saturates2g
- carbs78g
- sugars6g
- fibre4g
- protein13g
- salt0.34g
- 200g spaghetti
- 2 tbsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 1 garlic clove, sliced
- 1 red or green chilli, deseeded and finely chopped, or half tsp chilli powder
Part of the capsicum family, chillies come in scores of varieties and colours (from green…
- 200g pack cherry tomatoes, halved
- 2 tsp capers, roughly chopped
Capers are the small flower buds of the Capparis shrub that grows in the Mediterranean. As they…
- grated parmesan, to serve (optional)
Parmesan is a straw-coloured hard cheese with a natural yellow rind and rich, fruity flavour. It…
Boil the spaghetti. Meanwhile, heat the oil in a small non-stick pan, add the garlic and fry, stirring all the time, until golden. Add the chilli, tomatoes and capers and fry for a further 3-4 mins until the tomatoes start to break down.
Add 2 tbsp of the pasta cooking water to the tomatoes, then drain the pasta and return to the pan. Pour in the tomato sauce and toss everything together well. Serve as it is or sprinkled with freshly grated Parmesan.
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Advance Praise for Cézanne
"Impressive . . . Danchev has researched every facet and nuance of Paul Cézanne's life. [He] rightly subscribes to the theory that understanding the man is important to understanding his work."
—Kirkus Reviews
"A major work of scholarship. With great sensitivity and genuine brio, Danchev paints a compelling portrait of the artist, who managed to overcome the demons that haunted him to transform himself into what many consider the greatest painter of his age. This is the best account to date of Cézanne's astonishing career—a book that will survive the test of time."
—John Golding, author of Visions of the Modern
Praise for Georges Braque
"A vivid and cogent portrayal of a grave and moral man."
—Julian Barnes, The Guardian, "Books of the Year"
"In this first biography of Braque, Danchev has produced an extraordinary book which, though very different in style from John Richardson's Picasso or Hilary Spurling's Matisse, matches theirs in interest. Its brisk account is written with compelling urgency."
—Frances Spalding, The Independent
"The fun-filled partnership between Braque and Picasso is brought to glorious life in this new biography."
—Peter Conrad, The Observer
"A pleasure to read: persuasive, rewarding, controversial, and, above all, witty."
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Great take on sanity rally
We wanted to take this opportunity, somewhat belatedly, to respond to your writer's report on the "Rally to Restore Sanity" (by Wesley Ratko, on Nov. 4). Although it was an excellent summary of the salient portions of the rally, we wish to add our personal thoughts.
As octogenarians, we thought our rally-going days had passed us by! When we first heard that an old acquaintance, Jon Stewart, was behind the effort, we knew we had to be there. Our daughter, Sara, flew up from Atlanta, daughter-in-law Nancy and her lovely daughter, Anna Rose (a sophomore at Springside) took the train from Glenside.
Your reporter cites an estimate of crowd size around 200,000; we are fairly certain (at least we want to believe) that the estimate of 1/3 of a million was far more realistic. It was the most orderly and well-mannered group of people one could find anywhere. There were a few signs of a scatological nature, but, for the most part, the tone and rhetoric were subdued. There were also lots of witty signs and plenty of music and speeches.
We recalled attending peace rallies in the Sheep Meadow and concerts by the Rolling Stones. The Rally for Sanity fits in very well with the peace rallies – a reverent tone, coupled with a respect to recognize and appreciate individual differences among various viewpoints in the population at large.
After this exhilarating weekend, among many like-minded individuals, we trudged home from St. Martin's train station to our home in Chestnut Hill – just ahead of two neighbors from our street. We did not know they had been at the rally beforehand, and they probably did not know our intentions. All in all, it was a fitting end to an historic event.
Alex and Sara Bedrosian
Chestnut Hill
Literate thief
Someone stole my latest issue of The Local out of my car this afternoon (last Friday) along with a library book, a good dog story. I parked in the Seventh Day Adventist Church lot and went into the historical society for a one-hour meeting. I came home and realized both were gone. I guess the thief wasn't illiterate. The car was unlocked (my fault) because I didn't think there was anything of value in it. Guess I was wrong.
Barbara Sherf
Re: ''Code revisions may restrict CHCA's role in zoning issues," Nov. 10:
We welcome the Local's coverage of zoning code reform and appreciate the fact that the Chestnut Hill Community Association has long recognized that zoning plays an important role in the growth and success of a community.
Philadelphia's zoning code is in the process of its first overhaul in nearly 50 years, so it is understandable that certain concerns have been raised about the impact of change to the zoning code. We are confident, however, that change is for the good.
The Zoning Code Commission has worked hard for the last three years to rewrite the zoning code in a way that is fair, sensible and predictable for residents and developers alike. The commission has made an unprecedented effort to inform the community and stakeholders about zoning and to gather public input and recommendations.
The commission has conducted two public hearings, sponsore- d 37 community-based me- etings across the city that attracted more than 1, 500 community representatives, supported three workshops with 199 participants, interviewed 125 professional code users, surveyed 2,000 citizens, and sponsored a series of open houses about the new code. Further, City Council will host its own set of hearings on the proposed legislation to gather more input from citizens and stakeholders.
We all can take pride in the new zoning code, which will promote investment in our city, encourage sustainable growth, preserve our cherished historical and natural resources, and support the continued engagement of our citizens in planning for our future.
Stella M. Tsai, Esq.
Chair, Civic Engagement
Committee, Philadelphia Zoning Code Commission
Chestnut Hill resident
Deer are not robots
Regarding the letter by Bill Richardson about deer killing (Nov. 11 issue), can the pro-killing forces at least agree that non-lethal means would be preferable if and when they become available? That would be a start.
None of this talk about "sustainability" addresses the issues of human violence and the disruption of deer families. It's as if the creatures were mere automatons. For us protesters, it's not about the plants. It's about the higher forms of life. Let's try to make some progress together.
Jim Harris
Hunters need to clean up their act
City officials want park users to be safe. And so, various advisories have been posted in Wissahickon Valley Park regarding personal safety and the protection of one's possessions. One area never addressed at a public safety meeting convened by park officials was archery deer hunting.
The Final Deer Report following an evaluation of the deer begun in 1994 suggested that Friends of the Wissahickon work to facilitate archery hunting around the park. The archery season began on Sept. 18 and continues through January, 2011. Park users need to be aware of its presence on private properties adjacent to the park. Arrows have been found near park trails, stuck in trees and even in deer during this time.
Deer hunters have been told that in order to improve upon their image, they need to "clean up their act." This purely recreational pursuit continues to thrive on the questionable premise that forest regeneration will be enabled. Deer ecology is very complex and poorly understood. And as always, the devil is in the details.
It came out at a symposium held in Morristown, N.J. that even if every deer were killed, it would not bring back the native species of plants. An American Forests study revealed that deer can actually help suppress the spread of some introduced plant species. And one landowner fenced the deer out only to have the aggressive pin cherry completely take over. Previously, deer browsing had helped control it. A Connecticut study showed that 25 different desirable plant species were germinated from deer pellets.
Killing deer serves to shatter the deer's familial units, thereby causing instability, aberrant behavior, greater vulnerability, altered reproductive patterns, weakened gene pool and so on, not to mention being vicious, indefensible and ineffective.
Allen T. Rutberg, Ph.D., Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and very knowledgeable in urban deer ecology and management, reminds us that "just because deer are being killed doesn't mean that deer are being controlled."
Bridget Irons
Chestnut Hill
'A great article'
Many, many thanks to Lou Mancinelli for doing such a great article ("Acclaimed artist learned sustainability from nomads," Nov. 11)! It is very impressive how well he captured my thoughts, experiences, and message. He did in the story what I strive to do in my artworks – to have a positive inspiration for people.
Stefania Luciani Binnick
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I too thought I was going mad, with palpitations, the dizziness, whooshing, itchiness, you name it I got it.
What I have found though is that cutting down on the caffeine and chocolate will really help with the palpitations. From a heartbeat of 130 one time in A&E mine is now down to 70-80.
The dizziness I have also found to be associated with low blood sugar, so try and eat regularly and stay off the sugar if you can, it all helps.
I really feel I am not going insane now or have some incurable disease - that's until another symptom crops up that I've never had before of course!
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Hello MarkB,
thankl you very much. I answer only today because not only the answerfunktion of the pocomail forung didn't work, but also the home page entrance was broken. Had to alarm Slaven first.
It's almost working... with my test contacts, the first address gets 1 attachment, the next two, then three, then four. Since I have to send about 200 invitations...
Could you have another look at it. I send you here the full new script, resp the old one with your adaptions:
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{### send_to_all_address_book
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{ all recipients listed in the chosen address book
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{ Incoming or Outgoing mail
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External $userdata1 "Address book name to send mail to (don't enter file extension):" "Zürichtest"
External $userdata2 "Enter subject of the message:" "Einladung"
External $userdata3 "What account would you like to send it from? %accounts%" "ABC"
External $userfile1 "Message Body..." nichtimmerleicht.pdf
Set $attachment "C:\Users\abca\AppData\Roaming\Pocomail\Templates\\nichtimmerleicht.pdf"
FileExists &flag $attachment
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MessageBox $t
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Set $path $addresspath
AddStrings $path $userdata1
AddStrings $path ".ini"
OpenBody $addresses $path
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OpenBody $template $userfile1
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John Pearse Strings
If you're a fan of British folk music, then you've probably heard of John Pearse. But if you haven't, here's a primer. John was only 19 when he released his first instructional material: a booklet and accompanying album called "Teach Yourself Folk Guitar." Starting in 1965, Pearse taught a generation of musicians the basics of guitar through his BBC series "Hold Down a Chord." After that, he spent a decade as one of the most sought-after session guitarists in the U.K. and Germany, before moving to the United States in 1978 to design products for the C.F. Martin Company.
It was with all that experience under his belt that John Pearse eventually branched out to make and market his very own family of strings, which started a tradition that carries on today. You'll find an impressive selection of bronze strings here to make your acoustic guitar really shine, not to mention several weights of banjo and mandolin strings as well. Looking for something made especially for your resonator guitar? Give the John Pearse 3000 Resophonic Strings a try. These nickel-wound strings are renowned in bluegrass circles for their great sound.
Genres like folk and bluegrass are all about the simple things: memorable melodies, a passion for music and the desire to tell stories through song. The best part about these musical styles is that they're open to anybody, and whether you're a beginner joining the community for the first time or an experienced player looking for strings inspired by one of folk's greatest artists, John Pearse strings will surely impress you with their character and sound.


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Forums Érotique Voyage & Fun Voyage & Vacances
In the holy week and over the Easter holidays (from 26th of March to the 6th of April 2018) we have arranged again an exclusive all-inclusive-arrangement with many culinary specialties and erotic highlights for our international guests.
30.03. Holy Friday: Selected Fish- and Seafood-Buffet
31.03. Holy Saturday: "Hot-Bunny-Party"
01.04. Easter Sunday: Erotic Candlelight Dinner in selected lingerie
02.04. Easter Monday: " Aphrodisiac Buffet" from naked skin
The Easter-Special includes:
- Overnight stay in double bedroom with shower/WC and bathrobes
- Breakfast buffet
- Dinner (3-plates-menu)
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The minimum stay is 3 nights.
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Alien life is not fiction, why are you being so close minded and ignorant? You can't be blind so much that you think we are the only life in this universe? There's life out there, you know. And this not speculation, this is FACT. We can't be the only ones. There's thousands of galaxies or even more out there, so the alien life may not be in the galaxies near us, but maybe in 100 away, or so. In future, when we get the things we need to space travel millions of light years in less than a week, we will know. But for now I will believe because I refuse to accept the ignorance of only life in the universe is here, since that's just idiotic, it's fact there is alien life out there, so if you refuse to accept this, you will be labelled as close-minded and ignorant.
Just because we don't have evidence yet, doesn't mean they don't exist, that's like saying to the aliens out there saying the same thing about us, they like "We don't have evidence if life exists out there, so therefore don't exist." - So alien life does exist because they can say we don't exist, LOL. - So yeah, aliens are real because we are 'aliens' to them, so yeah.
Evidence only solidifies stuff, things don't need evidence to exist because in the past, we didn't have evidence of some stuff and when we did, we found out they did exist or this was real and all, so stop being ignorant. BTW you can't say aliens are fake stuff, cause we're aliens to the others out there and vice versa.


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Taylor Swift and Zac Efron recently appeared on 'The Ellen Degeneres Show' to promote their new Dr. Seuss movie 'The Lorax,' and when Degeneres wasn't asking them about their film project, she was grilling them about relationship rumors. Degeneres asked Swift and Efron what they did for Valentine's Day, but apparently there are no actual romantic sparks flying between the singer and actor.
Swift explained that she had quite the low-key, anti-love Valentine's Day celebration with her girlfriends. "I actually had a pathetic single girls party," Swift told Degeneres. "I'm not saying that like being single is pathetic — we've talked about it and I think it's awesome. But I had all my single girlfriends over and we ate junk food and just ate whatever we wanted and danced and we made these little profile cards about why we're single."
While Swift, 22, celebrated her single status on Feb. 14, Efron, 24, actually wooed an anonymous young lady ("a friend" as he put it) with a home-cooked meal. He also responded to Swift's Valentine's Day single girls party with a laugh, saying, "That's so different from what single guys do."
Later on, Degeneres gifted 'The Lorax' co-stars with helpful T-shirts adorned with specific relationship statuses for every situation, including one that read "We're just friends," and another that read, "We only hooked up once." Despite the fact that they Efron and Swift would most likely rock the "We're just friends" shirts, they have been getting personal on a musical level. Swift has actually been teaching Efron how to play guitar, and they performed a snippet of Foster the People's 'Pumped Up Kicks' on the show. Check out the clip below!
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If I had to pick one man and one woman, I think you have to go with Serena on the women's side. She already has acting experience and an extensive IMDB page. Judging from her last USO performance, she can definitely emote. She would have been perfect delivering a profanity-laced diatribe in last year's Reasons to be Pretty.
For the men, I'd pick Novak Djokovic. His on-court imitations of other tennis players like Roddick, Federer and especially Maria Sharapova suggest real underlying acting talent. He's a ham. He likes being in front of people. Too bad these days he's complaining of nausea and dizziness on the big (tennis) stage. I think he's a bit of a drama queen. We've never seen those on Broadway before! He'd be perfect.
TSF: OK got it. Enough with the drama queens though, who on the ATP tour would make the best chorus boy? Why?
BK: I'm going to say two people — the Bryan brothers, Mike and Bob. They're twins so they almost count as one. They already sing (in a band), and they are clean-scrubbed, extremely boring white boys who look exactly alike — and they play pro doubles, which is like the tennis equivalent of off-off-Broadway. They are used to being in the background rather than in the lead.
TSF: Speaking of the lead, if Roger Federer, a quintessential leading man, could belt one show tune about his career, which would he choose and why?
BK: Uh, hello! Everything's Coming Up Roses from Gypsy. Federer has 16 freaking Slam titles. This song holds true even before he won the French last year — he was the crazy maniacal Mama Rose trying to pretend he was happy and that Nadal wasn't in fact his eternal nemesis thwarting his goal to win all four majors and sail into tennis immortality.
TSF: Quite rosy, indeed. OK, let's switch gears a little bit. Which current Broadway star would have the best chance of becoming a tennis star?
BK: I would say any of the Billy Elliotts. Everyone else is too old to have a chance. Well, then again you have Kimiko Date Krumm on the women's tour, who retired last millennium and is now back in the top 100. She's like 83 years old now. Didn't she play against Margaret Court? Maybe there's hope yet to see Angela Lansbury at Wimbledon.
TSF: Well, Angela does have "Duece" under her belt. Even if it didn't get rave reivew. What show currently on Broadway mirrors the tennis tours the most?
BK: God of Carnage. No one can survive the brutality of the year-long pro tennis circuit. They're all walking wounded. Between that and the vicious gossip (not to mention Andre Agassi's tell-all book), everyone is getting ripped a new one.


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and i want to thanks to peoples here that let me asking in this forum. because i can learn fast through asking, not from reading. but i try.
ok..now, i want to ask about sorting letter with number together.
what i know is just sorting number and letter in different method
public class Dblsrt { public static void main(String[] args) { //... 1. for letter Integer[] names = {"Z", "A", "D"}; Arrays.sort(names); System.out.println(Arrays.toString(names)); //... 2.for words. double[] lengths = {0,123.99}; Arrays.sort(lengths); System.out.println(Arrays.toString(lengths)); } }for that code above, the input will be show like this: [A, D,Z] [0, 99, 123]
but, what i want to learn is how to sorting data like: Alison, with value: 0 (Alison, 0). <--i dont know how to call this situation.
in other words, the output will be sorted from higher number, not from small number and not from letter. for example output:
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I'm morbidly fascinated with it..
I mean... how long is it going to get?
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The beard...
Jim Carrey discussion on non-movie related topics or topics which doesn't fit anywhere else...
The beard...
I'm morbidly fascinated with it..
I mean... how long is it going to get?
Re: The beard...
Back in the day when i was a kid
They had a doll called
Tressie. U could pull the hair out
Of the top of its head
Then she'd have long hair
If a Aleister Arcane doll was
Created would it have
Hair on its chin then with
The touch if a button
The beard grows longer
Similar to Rip Van Winkle
Re: The beard...
Haha maybe he's inspired by Michael Stipe and David Letterman
Re: The beard...
Saturday, May 20, 2017--7:58 am CST
Morning JCO:
I hate to say this, but I want to. I really don't like the beard. It makes him look older
than 55. I wish he would shave it off or at least trim it. To me, the beard is too long. I love the long hair, but I really don't care about the beard. I know Jim can do what he wants, to do, but I'm not too crazy about beards on men. That's just me.
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Re: The beard...
If I saw him on the street, I'd look for the paper cup to put the money in.
And if I saw him and Letterman together, I'd think they were ZZ Top.
Re: The beard...
Experimenting with looks is fun. I am pretty sure the hair is for Arcane, as I said in that topic. But the beard probably has no movie related purpose. I doesn't suit him that well, because of the shape it's in right now, but he looks great with it in 'True Crimes'. Let's see how long this can become.
Re: The beard...
I don't mind Jim's beard, I wonder if he's growing it out for a future part in an upcoming movie if I would see him on the street I'd compliment him and say "hey Jim cool beard!", or maybe he just wants to have a different look for a while but beard or no beard he looks awesome plus he must take very good care of it.
Re: The beard...
I agree about its shape right now, but that's his choice, what else can we say? Of course one day he'll get bored with it or change his looks for a role. Let's enjoy it till that day comes
Re: The beard...
I wonder if he will grow it
So long that.....
He can braid it.
Then when he unbraids
The beard will be wavy;)
Re: The beard...
Then again he may even be able to
Braid it now
I wonder
Re: The beard...
I wonder if his
Beard helps him float better
(more surface coverage)
Or is it heavier and makes him sink
I wonder;)
Re: The beard...
I have to say Jayne, you produce the weirdest posts on this forum.
Re: The beard...
Well. Sometimes
I hope for a little laugh
Other times
Often curious
Just to chsnge things
Up to see who will read it
Just so things dont get too boring
Re: The beard...
Or maybe
Its my
Peter Pan(Jane) Brain
And i want to stay
Immature forever
Re: The beard...
I'm sure there's a family of Possums living in that beard now.........
lol......grow up for the serious stuff but keep a hold of your inner child for the fun stuff......then you can have the best of both world......
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LANSING, Mich.--By order of Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, U.S. flags on all campuses of Western Michigan University and throughout Michigan will be lowered Tuesday in remembrance of those who lost their lives in the attack on Pearl Harbor 69 years ago, Dec. 7, 1941.
The surprise Sunday morning attack on Hawaii claimed the lives of 2,334 U.S. servicemen and servicewomen and wounded another 1,143. The following day, Dec. 8, before a joint session of Congress, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked for a formal declaration of war against Japan.
"Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan," said Roosevelt.
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Up, down and all around you, it's like no camera you've ever seen. With Android 4.2, snap pictures in every direction that come together into incredible, immersive photo spheres that put you right inside the scene. View your photo spheres right on your phone, share them on Google+ with your friends and family, or even add them to Google Maps for the world to see.
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After all, the outcome of the battle between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and his Democratic challenger, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, will be seen as a harbinger of the result in November's presidential race. So shouldn't Mr. Obama have wanted to defend his turf in person?
Not necessarily. Here's why:
• The Wisconsin recall is in fact not a true microcosm of the November election. It is a special election, driven by local factors and personalities. The spark was Governor Walker's move to cut collective bargaining rights for most public workers, but it has morphed into a rematch of the 2010 gubernatorial race.
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The counterargument is that Obama could come in and help energize the Democratic base – useful both for the recall election and for November. Certainly, the Republicans are thrilled that the recall has provided a rallying point to get organized for the presidential contest. If Walker wins, that will give Wisconsin Republicans a burst of energy and optimism that Mitt Romney can win their state's electoral votes for the first time since President Reagan won Wisconsin in 1984.
Wisconsin isn't a must-win for Mr. Romney, but if Obama starts to lose altitude there, it's a sign that he's in trouble broadly across the map of battleground states. He won Wisconsin in 2008 by 14 percentage points.
Some on-scene observers say Obama's involvement would have been a no-lose prospect. Democratic pollster Paul Maslin, who is based in Wisconsin's capital, Madison, notes to The Washington Post that Obama and Walker are both campaigning on signs of improvement in the economy.
"In that context, sure he should have come, and yes he will be blamed. But it won't matter all that much in the end," Mr. Maslin told the Post. "Everybody is overplaying the national implications of this."
In other words, the argument goes, Obama might as well have dipped into Wisconsin for an appearance or two. After all, he was in nearby Chicago and Minneapolis for fundraisers just last week. There are fully five months until the November election, and what happens in Wisconsin on June 5 won't make or break the presidential race either way. And besides, a presidential visit would certainly have bucked up organized labor, a critical piece of Obama's base and ground forces.
But the president has proved to be a cautious political player, in some respects, and made a calculation that he should sit this one out.
Top Obama strategist David Axelrod argues that the president is "well-represented" in Wisconsin. Speaking with reporters on Sunday, Mr. Axelrod noted that former President Clinton and Democratic chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz were in Wisconsin. And the Democrats have "an army of lawyers there ready to protect the vote on Tuesday," he told reporters.
In addition, Obama's team has opened at least a dozen offices around the state, according to news reports.


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Sacramento, Calif. alt-rockers Cake topped the charts for the first time with the release of their sixth album, "Showroom of Compassion," Billboard.com reported.
The only problem: Cake sold just 44,000 copies of the album, which makes "Showroom" the weakest-selling no. 1 since SoundScan began tracking data in 1991.
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Overall sales of albums for the week ended Jan. 16 totaled 4.9 million units, down 15 percent compared to the same week a year ago, Billboard reported. Album sales have tanked 11 percent to date in 2012.
Until now, Cake had never cracked the top 10 on Billboard's charts despite penning radio hits "The Distance" and "Never There," MTV News reported.
Taylor Swift had set the record for lowest album sales in the top spot last week. The country darling's "Speak Now" had sold 52,000 to lead the competition in its 11th week on the market, according to Billboard.
"Speak Now" landed at no. 3 this week, below indie rockers Cage the Elephant's latest, "Thank You Happy Birthday."
Rounding out the top 10 were: Bruno Mars' "Doo-Wops & Hooligans"; Nicki Minaj's "Pink Friday"; the "Country Strong" soundtrack; Steel Magnolia (self titled); Rihanna's "Loud"; Mumford & Sons' "Sigh No More"; and Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy."


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Prop 25 -- the November 2010 statewide ballot initiative that eliminated the requirement of a 2/3 vote on budget bills and replaced it with a majority vote provision -- was supposed to make budgeting easier and faster. In practice, however, it is making Gov. Jerry Brown's efforts to fashion a budget that much harder.
Why? Because Prop 25 eliminated only one of the many supermajorities and other budget requirements in California. Most important, a 2/3 vote for raising revenues -- either through taxes or fees -- is in place.
In times like these, when revenues are hard to come by, a Democratic governor like Brown is going to need new revenues to get a budget passed. So he has to win at least some votes from minority Republicans, who have more than one-third of the seats and thus power to block things. Brown 's budget proposal includes provisions that would extend temporary tax increases for five years; Brown wants to put those on the ballot via a ballot measure, and placing measures on the ballot -- at least as Brown has constructed this one -- would also require a two-thirds vote, and thus some Republicans.
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To understand how this all works in practice, put yourself in the mind of a Republican legislator. Under the old system, it was hard politically to justify to conservatives the act of giving your vote for a budget. But not impossibly hard. The budget was an annual process. A Republican legislator would exact a price in concessions for the vote and move on--in the knowledge that he or she would have the opportunity to have leverage again the following year in the next budget negotiations.
Eliminating the 2/3 vote for the budget, however, ended the guarantee of annual leverage in the budget process. Republicans only have leverage when revenue is needed. Which makes each moment they have leverage more important, more politically fraught. It also raises the price that Republicans must extract.
When Republicans hear that Brown is asking for tax extensions that run for five years, Republicans are thinking: wow, I need to get everything I can now because the governor is telling me I may not be relevant again for another five years. Since Assembly terms are limited to six years and state senate terms to eight years, many Republicans will be gone in five years.
This dynamic tells us two things. Brown will have to pay a very high price to get Republicans to go along with his plan. If he won't pay a high price, he probably will have to shorten the number of the years of the tax extensions he wants -- from five to one or two.
In either case -- with shorter extensions or a higher price to Republicans -- Prop 25 will have contributed to making budget balancing harder, and the long-term budget deficit worse.


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Officials Look Back On I-95 Crash Response
East Lyme — The fatal crash involving a tanker truck and five other vehicles Friday morning on Interstate 95 represented one of the largest incidents, in terms of emergency response, in the region's history.
By the time the last responders left, at 2:30 Saturday morning, 169 people representing 23 agencies had been on the scene.
They included everyone from first responders to agencies like the state Departments of Transportation and Environmental Protection, the Coast Guard, tow-truck drivers, the medical examiner's office, and Pfizer Inc., which had foam trucks available.
Early Tuesday night, during a debriefing on the response at the Flanders fire house, representatives from the various organizations complimented one another on the coordination at the crash, which they said is often difficult to achieve.
"It was an unprecedented operation," said Nick DeLia, co-chairman of the region's Incident Management Team, which facilitates among departments during large responses.
Responders use an "after-action review" like the one Tuesday to gauge what they did well and where they can improve. About 50 responders representing a wide variety of agencies attended.
DeLia said most of the departments that responded on Friday know each other because of twice-monthly regional meetings to prepare for emergency events. That familiarity, he said, breeds a trust that is crucial.
"Very little good came out of 9/11, but one of the things is that we're all on the same team," he said. "We all have to work together to protect the public. So a lot of the turf wars from many, many years ago are gone. There were no turf wars here. The state police were standing right next to the Department of Transportation, next to (Flanders Fire) Chief (Kyle) Foley, next to the DEP — and it was, 'What do we have to do to get this scene taken care of?' "
The accident occurred at about 10:19 a.m., in the southbound lane just before Exit 75, when a tanker truck traveling north lost control and careened into southbound traffic, striking a tractor-trailer and four cars. Three people were killed.
Flanders Deputy Fire Chief Jim Levandoski moderated the debriefing, which included video and photos of the accident scene and a PowerPoint presentation about the response.
Levandoski said he would like a better accounting of everyone who responds during the next incident, an item DeLia said his group can help with.
A representative of the DEP commended local fire departments for working quickly to contain the diesel fuel spilled by the tanker. Responders sprayed foam, spread sand and dug a trench in an effort to contain the fuel before it flowed into catch basins leading into the Niantic River and out into Long Island Sound.
Levandoski said the department collected about 80 percent of the spill, far more than its usual recovery, which he said is about 50 percent.
The group did not come up with an overall solution to the gridlock experienced around the region when traffic was diverted to local roads.
Waterford police Chief Murray Pendleton said the traffic in his town was "close to bedlam in some cases" and reiterated a call to use more signs next time. He recommended being "more creative" in separating trucks and cars, as well as using Routes 1 and 85 and other roads.
Tami Hodges of the state's Public Safety Employee Assistance Program also spoke to the group. She, too, credited the agencies with working well together and said she didn't have to quell any turf wars or other issues on scene. She advised them on some of the signs of post-traumatic stress disorder and left information about issues they might experience as well as EAP organization.
"This is definitely one of those incidents we'll never forget," Hodges said. "This is one that's going to stay very, very present in your memory banks, but it should turn into a memory and a life experience. It shouldn't be as fresh for you two months from now as it was the day after the incident." Article UID=2b276741-dc21-45ef-af75-ababadb4fe22
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Jane sent an e-mail about a word cloud generator that can take something like a web page or a block of text as input and automatically generate a beautiful word cloud. I'm currently working with Laura on the SUMO development roadmap for 2009, based on the Vision for SUMO blog series I posted back in September. Here's an artistic view of the work in progress:
Expect to read more about our plans for 2009 shortly on the SUMO Blog.


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When Barack Obama expressed understanding of the views of hunters by saying he goes skeet shooting at Camp David "all the time," conservatives expressed skepticism and demanded to see a picture. The White House released the above picture taken by Obama's official photographer Pete Souza on August. 4, 2012.
David Plouffe tweeted: "Attn skeet birthers. Make our day – let the photoshop conspiracies begin!"
If many conservatives continued to deny that Obama was born in the United States after his birth certificate was released, why should they believe this? One picture doesn't prove that Obama does this all the time. After all, he has been known to eat and sleep, among other activities keeping him from skeet shooting 24/7. Do we really know that this was taken at Camp David and not in Kenya, where he was born?


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Highlights: Visit Niagara Falls (Maid of the Mist, Niagara Falls Illumination), New York (Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, Wall Street), Boston (Boston Harbor Cruise, Harvard University, MIT, Quincy Market), Corning (Corning Museum of Glass). Inclusions: 4 nights hotel accommodation, All domestic ground transportation via air-conditioned vehicle
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Admission (Optional): Adult $19.50; Child (Under 12 yrs) Free; Senior (Over 65 yrs) $19.50|Opening Hours: Sep 4 - May 27 9:00am - 5:00pm, May 28 - Sep 3 9:00am - 8:00pm, Seasonal Hours Vary, Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 24, 25, January 1.
Due to the US Federal government regulation on driving hours and sunset time, Niagara falls night view should be limited and not guaranteed.
Opening Hours: Daily 8:00pm, Varies Seasonally
Admission (Optional): Adult $25; Child (3-12 yrs) $20; Senior (Over 65 yrs) $25|Opening Hours: Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25, January 1.
Admission (Optional): Adult $12; Child (3-11 yrs) $8; Senior (Over 62 yrs) $12|Opening Hours: Daily 10:00am - 4:30pm, Time vary seasonally, Closed January 1.|Duration: Approx. 45 Minutes
Admission (Optional): Adult $66; Child (3-12 yrs) $56; Senior (Over 65 yrs) $56|Opening Hours: Daily 8:00am - 5:00pm, Times Vary, Closed January 1.|Duration: Approx. 45 Minutes
Admission (Optional): Adult $18.25; Child (6-12 yrs) $10.65; Senior (Over 65 yrs) $18.25|Opening Hours: May 1 - Nov 4|Duration: Approx. 20 Minutes
Admission (Optional): Adult $35; Child (3-12 yrs) $30; Senior (Over 65 yrs) $35|Duration: Approx. 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Opening Hours: Sat - Sun Mar 1 - May 31 11:30am, Sat - Sun Nov 1 - Nov 30 11:30am, Mon - Fri Jun 1 - Aug 31 11:30am, Mon - Fri Jun 1 - Aug 31 1:30pm, Fri & Sat 11:30AM, 12:30PM, 1:30PM, Sep 1 - Oct 31, Sat & Sun 11:30AM, 1:30PM
Admission (Optional): Adult $22; Child (3-12 yrs) $17; Senior (Over 65 yrs) $22|Opening Hours: No service on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day|Duration: Approx. 50 Minutes
Opening Hours: Mon - Fri 9:00am - 4:30pm, Time are subject to change without notice. All visitors must exit the building by 5:30pm, Sat - Sun 10:00am - 4:30pm, Close on: Parliament time, New Year's Day/Good Friday/Memorial Day/Independence Day/Eid al-Fitr/Labour Day/Eid al-Adha/Thanksgiving Day/Christmas Day (observed)
Admission (Optional): Adult $33; Child (5-12 yrs) $24; Senior (Over 65 yrs) $31|Opening Hours: Mon - Fri 10:00am - 5:00pm, Holiday hours apply. Time subject to change. Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25., Sat - Sun Apr 1 - Oct 31 10:00am - 6:00pm, Last admission to the submarine Growler is one hour before the Museum closes., Sat - Sun Nov 1 - Mar 31 10:00am - 5:00pm|Duration: Approx. 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Admission (Optional): Adult $35; Child (3-11 yrs) $17; Senior (Over 65 yrs) $24|Duration: Approx. 1 Hour 30 Minutes
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Admission (Optional): Adult $33; Child (3-12 yrs) $25; Senior (Over 65 yrs) $33|Opening Hours: Mon - Wed Jan 2 - Mar 8 9:00am - 11:00pm, Last admission 10;00PM.Time are subject to change without notice., Thu - Sun Jan 2 - Mar 8 9:00am - 1:00am, Last admission 12.00 midnight.Time are subject to change without notice.
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Argentinean DwtS – The Finals. Who won? (Spoiler)
If you haven't heard yet, the Argentina version of Dancing With The Stars has a winner. Carlos is back to give us a complete update which you can read below. THANKS CARLOS!! YOU ROCK!!!! 😉
Argentinean DwtS – The Finals. Who won? (Spoiler)
Guys, It's with great pleasure that I write you to once again to say that Noelia and her partner Hernan Piquín won Bailando 2011! I haven't watched all their final performances yet, but I've read some reviews and with "a little help from my friends", I'm going to tell you how it went. Are you ready? Let's go!
Well, let me start saying that this week was a little insane. There were 3 nights of dancing. Four couples danced for the two spots in the final. As I've mentioned on a previous post, Bailando debuted May, 17th, with 30 couples. Six of them gave up and were replaced.
On Monday, Dec. 19th, Noelia and Piquin danced the semifinal against Patrícia "Coki" Ramírez and Juan Leandro Nimo. The rhythms: Cumbia, Adagio Latino, Cha cha cha and Árabe.
The other semifinal was on Tuesday, Dec. 20th, with Paula Chaves and Paulo Juin against Héctor "Tito" Speranza and Nadia Hair. Rhythms: Cuarteto, Adagio de Novela, Disco and Axé. Winners: Tito and Nadia.
The final aired this past Thursday (December, 22th). The couples had to dance four times on the same day: Reggaeton, Adagio, Pop Latino and Electro Dance.
Note: both in the semifinals and finals, the couples just repeat the routines they had danced on earlier weeks.
The finals (and the semifinals) went like this: the five judges picked the best couple on each rhythm. The rhythm winner couple gets one point. The audience winner of the night earns 4 points, and then elimination takes place.
Noelia and Piquín won Reggaeton, Adagio and Electro Dance. Tito won Pop Latino. It gives you 3 X 1. Our dear Dwarf lady earned more 4 points from the 52.59% from audience vote against 47.41% Tito earned. Noelia was named the winner! =] Roughly 1,100,000 people voted via internet and text messages.
Do you remember when I mentioned that the original name of Bailando is "Bailando por un Sueño" and it means Dancing for a Dream? Well, Noelia was the dreamer of the couple and her dream was to buy a van to help the Escuela Especial de Pampa Del Infierno transport the children with special needs. If Tito had won, he'd have liked to build a sports court to the Club 2 de Abril de Misiones, who helps kids that live on the streets. Fortunately, a Volkswagen executive helped Noelia and the Governor of Misiones helped Tito. In the end Showmatch gave an extra $100,000 pesos (roughly 25,000 USD) to help Noelia's charity.
More random notes: Noelia is a singer and entertainer. She had this dream to be on Bailando since a long time and she cried a lot when they announced that she'd be in during a popular TV Show. She never get the bottom 4 and never ever used the fact she is a dwarf to get votes. She was the second best avarage, losing just to Cinthia Fernandes who left the competition two dances/nights (not weeks) before the semifinal. Hernán Piquín is one of the greatest ballet dancers of Argentina. As the winners, they are automatically invited to be on next season of Bailando to defend their title. A lot of "stars"/couples always returns to Bailando; some of them had been on the show like twice before… In Bailando we don't have clearly the figure of the "star" and the "pro", but the "dreamer" and the pro or something equivalent. The pro doesn't choreograph the dance: each couple has its own choreographer (you may see them when the two finalists receive their trophies). Tito was one of the bodyguards of TV personality (or something like that) Ricardo Fort, grandson of the founder of Feltfort Chocolate Company. How did he get to Bailando? I HAVE NO IDEA!!!! (So we blame Bristol Palin… LOL) Well, I haven't seen many of his dances, but the news mentioned Tito was the most improved guy on competition and has a great personality.
Thanks again to my friend Renata and all the brazilian DwtS fans crew. =]
Enjoy some pictures below (Look at those legs!)!
More pics at Teleshow, FotosBailando,and Clarin, and Terra (complete season).


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Air pollution in Singapore Thursday reached levels dangerous for human health due to smoke from fires set in nearby Indonesia to clear land for crop planting.
The pollution index in the city-state reached a maximum of 371 points, 71 points above the level considered "dangerous", and there has been an increase in the number of patients suffering from respiratory problems in local hospitals, media reported.
Singapore's Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, asked his countrymen to remain indoors and to try to go outside as little as possible after the worst air pollution since 1997 was reported, at which time the pollution index topped out at 266.
At an index level of 200 and above, the air is considered to be "very unhealthy", according to the scale used to measure pollution.
A murky haze is presently floating between Singapore's skyscrapers and its bay, but the first clouds of smoke began to arrive last week from fires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, given that this is the season when farmers begin clearing land so that they may plant their crops.
"The workers must wear protective masks if they perform work outdoors and if they show symptoms of feeling bad, they have the right to leave work and rest in an enclosed space," said Singapore's National Congress of Unions in a statement.
The pollution has also affected visibility in the Straits of Malacca, where boats have had to limit their operations at night, and even in Malaysia, where 211 schools were closed in the southern part of the country due to a pollution level of 383 points.
Indonesia has blamed the fires on foreign investors who own plantations in Sumatra and urged Singaporeans not to react like "children, with so much excitement" to the smoke.


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Outdoor Adventures serves the USD community members with opportunities to experience outdoor activities that aim to promote personal growth, leadership development, relationship building and environmental responsibility.
With a focus on outdoor recreation, environmental education, leadership development and team building, we offer a variety of outings locally, regionally and internationally. Pre-Orientation Adventure, overnight trips, outdoor recreation classes and day trips around San Diego are a few examples. We also operate a resource center and rental shop that provides outdoor recreation equipment and trip planning resources for individuals and groups that choose to venture on their own excursions.
Outdoor Adventures is also a hub for people interested in living an active, outdoor lifestyle that strives to create a balance between humanity and the natural world. There are many ways to get involved and a it's a great community to connect with. So join us for your next adventure as we discover San Diego and beyond.
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I've just installed Barca on another machine and all is good except for the New Mail mailbox not working. i.e. it doesn't show anything, even with several unread and recent (within 10 minutes) messages in the In box.
Of course, this particular user is one who never empties his In box (500+ messages in there) and so the New Mail box would be very useful to him.
Everything is configured the same as my Barca install (in which New mail works well) with the exception of the username and password for the account.
I've tried pretty much everything I can think of such as:
I've emptied the Inbox to just a few new messages.
I've checked the New Mail dat file and both look the same as mine.
Checked the ini files and all appear good.
Have even deleted system.pocosys.mbx and system.pocosys folder. Barca recreates these succesfully when next started and everything except the New Mail works fine.
Numerous reboots of windows.
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The article also reminded me of some clever (and gross!) Disgust tests the BBC posted on their website quite a while ago. Students could use these tests to gather data about differences in rates of disgusts between different groups, and/or track their own emotional/physiological reactions during the tests
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