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If you've won a prize in a contest that you found here, please tell us about it by leaving a comment below! And if you haven't won anything recently, perhaps browsing through things that other people have won will be the boost that you need in order to keep entering.
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Brenda Smith says:
I was emailed back in the beginning of September that I won Free Hydro for 1 year from Grasshopper Solar but have not received my prize yet. I have been asked a few times for my phone number but still no call from them. I will keep you posted if I receive anything.
Brenda Smith says:
I received my cheque today for $3600 from Grasshopper Solar who ran the contest to win my hydro for one year. Thanks to the group at Grasshopper, especially Yvonne.
Mike says:
Nice win, Brenda – congrats!
Susan B says:
Wow!! Nice win Brenda! Congrats!
brenda smith says:
Thanks Mike and Susan.
Won a Pouch Couch the other day. Have to say they are very prompt, received it in less than a week! Now, what do I do with it?
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Ciel says:
Fun wins posted of late–thanks for the updates on contest outcomes!
DP Kinkead says:
Happily, I won the pasta maker from Best Health. That was a wonderful surprise!
Alex says:
It seems giftcards loves me lol 25$ Chapters/Indigo, perfect for Christmas shopping!
Joe says:
I won a Kitchen mixer with mittens for oven worth $480 from Canadian Turkey Farmers.
That was a pleasant surprise 🙂
Congratulations. I won a can of dog food, lol
Marlene says:
I won a basket of hair products from the Life is Gliss Contest about a month ago and I have not received it yet. Hopefully it arrives soon. This is my first win.
Mike says:
Congrats, Marlene! Sadly, waiting a long time for a prize to arrive seems to be quite common.
Sandy Turner says:
Has anyone received the $50.00 Mastercards won in the Loblaws Mastercard Maui Experience Contest?
anon says:
yes received both in mail
Ciel says:
Congratulations on your card wins!
anon says:
Thanks ciel 🙂
Actually my mom's win.
LL44 says:
Won two tickets last week to Niagara River Lions basketball game, and this week I won a Pita Pit party for my child's classroom.
Sheila says:
Never win anything!!!
Just got the notice I wont the Elan Skis prize!
Ciel says:
Just in time for all the snow this month-congrats!
Jack Edwards says:
Congrats Fay!
Joe says:
It can be tough to win a prize, and sometimes we might think that some of these contests might be a scam, it isn't, it's just that they receive a lots of entries.
To increase your luck, focus on Canadian contests only. The odds are much better.
Joe says:
Congrats Fay
I have been entering contests on this site for many years. I enter all that I am eligible for as often as eligible to. I keep track of wins and find that over the years both frequency of wins and total yearly monetary value is decreasing. Wonder if it is because more people are entering?
Jack Edwards says:
Yes, Fay it's the Facebook effect. With "snail mail" contests I won weekly-sometimes more than once a week. We can still win but the odds are now quite daunting. Good Luck!
AM says:
Just won a Canada 150 commemorative $10 silver coin from Basilla pasta.
AM says:
Oops also won a $100 Saks Fifth Avenue gift card too. So I can verify that many contests (at least these two I entered) are legit! Keep trying!
Ciel says:
Wow, two great contest wins-congrats, AM!
Joe says:
Fay, I also noticed that big prizes are not so often now. I only began entering in contests in 2016. I could easily have entered in contests way back in 2001, but I didn't bother, I thought it was too much trouble. Big mistake! Since 2016, I won a trip to Rome worth $13,000; I also won a Kitchen Aid Mixer last year worth $480, and the smallest prizes I've won is $20 Subway gift card, and a bag of Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee worth $59. I also hope to win the Princess Margaret Lottery and the Heart&Stroke Lottery lol
Caryn Weir says:
I won a contest with talent hounds near xmas. Received an email confirming my win and now waiting to receive it in the mail 🙂
Joe says:
Caryn, that's great! I hope they send mail soon. About contests, persistence pay off, I once had 5 numbers right on the 6/49 lol I almost thought that I won the jackpot.. but no. I play Lottario today. I know it's not a contest, I just wanted to say that 🙂
Erin says:
Won a $100 Sobeys card from PEI Potato Lovers – which is awesome because I am from PEI AND I love potatoes!! 🙂
Mike says:
Congrats Erin!
Shan says:
My sister and I enter so many contests and she has won a trip to Disneyworld, a power tool and just got a call today and we don't know what she entered yet for this one! Haha. I haven't won anything so far =)
Ciel says:
Thanks for sharing your sister's wins. It can be hard not to be the winner of contests. Hopefully you got to travel with your sister to Disneyland or at least a decent souvenir!
Leah says:
I've been entering online contest off and on since 2010, 2012,2015 and 2016.
Most were contests i found either on a product or magazines. I have won -3 trips. for 2, flight, hotel, event tickets, shows, including spending money (Las Vegas,Miami, Hawaii), autographed cooking books, designer plates, kitchen appliances, and my first flat screen tv (back in the day). ,patio set,. Then life got busy, and I stopped.
About 2 months ago I found this site!! I love it.
OMG, it makes entering contests so much easier.
so far I haven't won , but I know I will. Patience. 🙂
Trevor Ens says:
I just won a $2500 RESP for my kids! Whoot!
Mike says:
Congrats Trevor! That's a nice win.
Ciel says:
Congratulations! Hope you also get matching RESP contributions for the kids from the government for this year to $500 once you deposited your prize into the kids' RESP account.
Lorna Lane says:
Won tickets for 4 to the Purina Animal Hall of Fame induction in Toronto (had to pass as it was on a work day, mid day) & just won 2 passes to Cineplex Odeon screening to "Indian Horse"… only to discover it is not screening anywhere near where I live….sigh
Mitch says:
I won the Secondary Prize of DAZN's Quest for El Classico contest! A DAZN branded box, and an FC Barcelona jersey, hat, and scarf!
Kobayashi says:
Won a cooler from ruffles and budwiser 😀
Alex says:
Just won 1000$ in free groceries 😀
Anon says:
from which contest
Emily Mowbray says:
I just won Bryan Adams tickets through LiveNation! Taking my mom with me tomorrow night 🙂
congratulations Emily
Ciel says:
Congrats to recent winners! My contest luck remains dry for 2018 to date. Want cash or giftcards soon!
Muggs says:
Won movie passes for a movie that wasn't playing in any theaters in my city.
Ciel says:
Maybe you can give them to someone who has the movie in their city.
IT's the reason I don't try for preview movie passes in major cities-I don't live in a major city.
Patrice says:
If they are for a family movie – donate them to your local children's hospital. It's a nice break for families who are staying in the area and need a break.
SW says:
A few years ago, we won 6 nights at any Hilton hotel in the world plus a check and a gift card and 2 tickets on American Airlines! Last year, we won a Valerian prize pack from Landmark theaters which was some fun swag like a tshirt, funko figurines, and 10 free admissions to the movies. Recently, we won a silver coin from Jane's fish (we're still waiting on it).
Christy Turner says:
I won a mosquito deterrent system from Lowe's yesterday. Thanks so much!
Sweepstakes says:
Enter cash contests and you can win cash, trip and gift vouchers.
Maxine Perreault says:
I won a mini fridge and 3 cases of 28 black energy drinks
Ciel says:
Congratulations to the winners who posted in July, August and September!
Like the Valerian prize pack win from Landmark Cinema–I saw the movie in the theatre last year as well.
Caz says:
I won tickets to a Leafs game and $500 Visa gift card. This was from the Reese's contest – they asked for my top 5 games and gave me my top pick. GO BRUINS!!! I can't wait to go, hopefully part of the prize is a Leafs thrashing 😉
Congratulations. Great prize
Chris says:
This week I've won a Point 65 technical backpack ($380 U.S.) and a Wilson Sports U.S. Open weekly prize of $250 U.S. in gear or apparel from their catalogue. Also won a sweet Napoleon BBQ and Igloo cooler locally in September. Sweet!
Ciel says:
Some serious prize wins-congratulations!
Kelsey says:
I won a bag of dog food once a month for a year through pet value – and most recently a $100 pre paid vanilla visa card ! Thanks so much for this website its awesome
LL44 says:
I just won the Best Health skin & hair $200 prize pack (Reader's Digest) for Aug/Sept!
contester says:
I havent on anything from this website in a long long time. But i won 2 months free rent and The Brick 5g from my building
Tammy says:
I've been entering online contests since 2008. Some of the bigger wins have been $10,000 cash, tickets to every show at Hamilton Place for a year, and Tim Hortons coffee for a year. Lots of smaller stuff too. Some years are better than others. Pretty dry this year. Did just win a PS4 pro and Destiny 2 game from Rockstar energy drink. Just in time for Christmas!
Jack Edwards says:
Great motivating news Tammy!
Scarlet says:
Won a Bissell Bark Bath. Great little gadget, my dog is not a fan of vacuums so I am raffling it off for money to the food bank.
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Question: What states have free windshield replacement?
Answer: Only Florida, Kentucky, and South Carolina waive the car insurance deductible for windshield repair or replacement and thus are referred to as having free windshield replacement or as zero deductible states.
This isn't totally free windshield replacement, though, since you do have to pay to carry comprehensive insurance coverage as part of a personal auto insurance policy written in one of these states in order to make a claim for your windshield.
State laws differ on what glass claims come without a deductible. Florida only waives the deductible for windshields, but Kentucky and South Carolina cover all glass replacement without a deductible.
Previously, Massachusetts also made our list of zero deductible states, but no longer does.
Massachusetts insurers only used to offer a zero deductible for glass coverage under comprehensive coverage; however, in 2008, Massachusetts began to allow car insurance companies to set their own rates and offer different coverages.
Now many of the car insurance companies in Massachusetts include a glass deductible as part of their comprehensive coverage offerings as a way to offer lower rates.
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Really, I love the winter. I love snow, I love bundling up, (I don't love slipping on the ice and breaking my leg, but oh well), and I especially love complaining about winter. I don't think I could ever live somewhere that doesn't have distinct seasons. I love winter because it ends. And then we shed our layers and emerge, blinking, into the sunlight and delicate flowers of spring.
Over the weekend, I got to see my baby sister. Since she is at boarding school, she is eating boarding school food. She requested that I bake her something, and her #1 favorite is lemon bars. My mom had a Meyer lemon in the fridge, and when we went to Wholefoods to pick up some food for dinner we got a few more. I love Meyer lemons - they're a cross between a lemon and a sweet orange. I used my stand-by lemon bars recipe, but cut the sugar back a lot, because Meyer lemons are much sweeter than regular ones. I think I might even cut it back more next time. Eating these bars when it's so cold and snowy outside reminds me that spring will be here eventually.
Meyer Lemon Bars
From the Joy of Cooking, previously posted with regular lemons here
1 c flour mix
1/2 c almond flour (you can skip this, just use another 1/2 c flour mix)
1/4 c powdered sugar
pinch of salt
1/2 t xanthan gum
1 1/2 sticks butter, cold and cut into cubes
7 eggs
1 1/2 to 2 c sugar
zest of 1-2 Meyer lemons
juice of 4 Meyer lemons
another 1/2 c flour mix
Preheat oven to 325. Combine the flour mix, almond flour, powdered sugar, salt, and xanthan gum in a bowl. Whisk to combine, then add butter. Cut the butter into the flour into pieces about the size of peas (this can be done in the food processor), then mix in one egg to hold the dough together. Pat all the dough into a pan - the recipe says 13x9 but I have made this successfully in an 8x8, so use whatever pan you'd like. Bake 30 minutes, then take out and turn heat down to 300.
While the crust is baking, beat together the remaining 6 eggs, sugar, zest, and lemon juice. Sprinkle the flour on top, then whisk that in too. Pour carefully over the hot crust, then bake 25-30 minutes until set. Cool completely. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.
Optional - Did you make my lemon layer cake last week, and have some leftover lemon curd? Or do you have some in the fridge? Frost the bars with about 3/4 c of it!


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A SpaceX video shows the Grasshopper prototype rocket taking a 12-story leap toward full rocket reusability in a Dec. 17 test flight.
SpaceX's prototype Grasshopper rocket took one giant leap last week, rising to a 12-story height and settling back down safely on its landing legs at the company's Texas rocket test facility. Just for fun, the engineers let a dummy cowboy go along for the ride.
The Dec. 17 test flight at the pad in McGregor, Texas, was documented in a YouTube video released today — and discussed in a series of lighthearted tweets from SpaceX's billionaire founder, Elon Musk.
"To provide a little perspective on the size of Grasshopper, we added a 6-ft cowboy to the rocket. ... Then we took him for a ride," Musk wrote. So how did the cowboy fare? "No problemo," said Musk.
The 10-story-tall Grasshopper rocket is designed to take off and land vertically, as part of Musk's plan to develop a rocket capable of returning itself to a launch pad for rapid reusability. Today's vertical-takeoff launch systems generally rely upon expendable lower stages — although the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters could be recovered from the Atlantic Ocean and refurbished for reuse. If a rocket stage can return to its launch facility intact and ready to go again, that could significantly lower the cost of spaceflight. That's what Musk is shooting for.
SpaceX says the Grasshopper consists of a Falcon 9 rocket first stage, a Merlin 1D engine, four steel landing legs with hydraulic dampers, and a steel support structure. During the prototype's first flight test on Sept. 21, the Grasshopper rose 6 feet into the air. The second test, on Nov. 1, lasted 8 seconds and lifted the Grasshopper 17.7 feet (5.4 meters) off the pad. The company said last week's third test went for 29 seconds, during which the Grasshopper rose 131 feet (40 meters) into the air, hovered and landed safely back on the pad, using closed-loop thrust vector and throttle control.
A dummy cowboy is perched on SpaceX's Grasshopper rocket for a Dec. 17 test.
In addition to the Grasshopper, SpaceX is sending its Dragon capsules to resupply the International Space Station, working on a version of the Dragon that could carry astronauts into orbit sometime soon, and developing a Falcon Heavy rocket that could conceivably power flights to the moon. But Musk's long-range goal is even more ambitious: getting settlers to Mars. He has said Grasshopper-style rocket reusability is a key part of that long-term strategy.
"If it does works, it'll be pretty huge," he said last year during a speech at the National Press Club in Washington.
More on the commercial space race:
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You've probably noticed that whenever someone talks about gun control, the wingnuts shriek that Hitler confiscated the guns! I've long been skeptical of that claim, but I never bothered to check it out. Well, there's a historian named Bernard Harcourt who fact-checked the Hitler confiscated guns claim, and he says it's bogus.
As it turns out, the Weimar Republic, the German government that immediately preceded Hitler's, actually had tougher gun laws than the Nazi regime. After its defeat in World War I, and agreeing to the harsh surrender terms laid out in the Treaty of Versailles, the German legislature in 1919 passed a law that effectively banned all private firearm possession, leading the government to confiscate guns already in circulation. In 1928, the Reichstag relaxed the regulation a bit, but put in place a strict registration regime that required citizens to acquire separate permits to own guns, sell them or carry them.
The 1938 law signed by Hitler that LaPierre mentions in his book basically does the opposite of what he says it did. "The 1938 revisions completely deregulated the acquisition and transfer of rifles and shotguns, as well as ammunition," Harcourt wrote. Meanwhile, many more categories of people, including Nazi party members, were exempted from gun ownership regulations altogether, while the legal age of purchase was lowered from 20 to 18, and permit lengths were extended from one year to three years.
You mean, Wayne LaPierre lied? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you … For more, see ON GUN REGISTRATION, THE NRA, ADOLF HITLER, AND NAZI GUN LAWS: EXLPODING THE GUN CULTURE WARS by Bernard Harcourt.
It's true that Jews and other people identified by the Reich as "problems" were not allowed to own guns. But another historian, Omer Bartov, pooh-poohs the idea that if the Jews had been armed they could have avoided the Holocaust. "Just imagine the Jews of Germany exercising the right to bear arms and fighting the SA, SS and the Wehrmacht. The [Russian] Red Army lost 7 million men fighting the Wehrmacht, despite its tanks and planes and artillery. The Jews with pistols and shotguns would have done better?"
By the same token, today's "patriots" armed with assault weapons quickly could be rendered into a quivering pile of protoplasm by the U.S. military. One would have to be demented to think otherwise.
Bartov, of Brown University, continues,
"Their assertion that they need these guns to protect themselves from the government — as supposedly the Jews would have done against the Hitler regime — means not only that they are innocent of any knowledge and understanding of the past, but also that they are consciously or not imbued with the type of fascist or Bolshevik thinking that they can turn against a democratically elected government, indeed turn their guns on it, just because they don't like its policies, its ideology, or the color, race and origin of its leaders."
The fanciful notion that the Second Amendment arms citizens so they are perpetually prepared to overthrow the government (see example) is a gross distortion of history, of course. There is a credible argument to be made that the Second Amendment was written to make sure that the federal government could not deprive the states of their militias. And the reason the early Republic chose to maintain state militias was that some people of the time were nervous about maintaining a large standing regular army. But the Second Amendment obviously is concerned with arming a militia, and the first purpose of the militia was state and national defense.
The very first time state militias were called into federal service was to put down a tax rebellion in Pennsylvania, the Whiskey Rebellion. President George Washington actually put on a military uniform and rode at the head of the troops. If you listen to today's Gun Nuts, the second amendment was written so that the whiskey rebels could defend themselves against George Washington's militia. I don't think so.
The NRA wants to register crazy people instead of guns. Considering this guy, this guy, and these guys —
The U.S. Government effectively dissolved, in either the Civil War or 1933, when it went off the gold standard. And because of that, "you don't have to pay your taxes, pay off your house, you don't really owe anybody anything, and by the way if you file the right documents, you can get as much as $20 million from the federal government."
That's right, the government actually owes you money. See, when it went off the gold standard, in order to maintain this false sense of legitimacy, the illuminati turned us all into "straw men." Those capital letters on our birth certificates are our straw man names, and our Social Security numbers are just a way to keep track of us. The government then convinced some suckers in China and other countries to fork over their hard-earned Yuan for a stake in Americans' future earning potential, anywhere from $600,000 to $20 million, per person. The so-called U.S. Government has been cashing in on you since the day you were born, somehow. And all you have to do to collect is file the right paperwork—and in the meantime, refuse to acknowledge the straw man.
I seriously think that gun nut extremism is some kind of mental pathology. So maybe we should take them up on the crazy people registry thing.


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Ben Goldacre's writing might be well known to some of you. As the author of the popular Bad Science column in the Guardian, Goldacre regularly takes on the pseudoskeptics, cranks, denialists, and the rest of the anti-science brigade. One of his more high-profile bugbears has been the anti-vaccine movement, and that fight has landed him in legal trouble.
At issue is a post that appeared on Goldacre's site earlier in the week, which featured an audio capture of a phone-in show on a London radio station. Thanks to the radio station's lawyers, the clip has been taken down, although the magic of Google's cache means it's right here for your enjoyment. In the clip, Jeni Barnett, a radio host who will be familiar to fellow Londoners, took on vaccination programs, and managed to spin just about every line possible from the pseudoskeptic handbook over the course of the programme.
The ranting against the concept of herd immunity is breathtaking, as is the sheer ignorance on display from both the host and a number of her guests. There are some pure gems from the host and her callers, such as suggestions that vaccines put kids at risk of cancer and the revelation that "children get childhood diseases for a reason." The caller responsible for that particular gem is apparently a homeopath, which is striking, given that its practitioners often use vaccines to justify its contention that "like cures like."
Clearly, there is a degree of public interest in comment on some of the misinformation, which would seem to fall within the UK's fair use provisions. But the length of the excerpt might have run afoul of the "no more than is necessary is included," limits of fair use. Ben Goldacre apparently thought that the show in its entirety was necessary to convey the horror.
Google's cache isn't the only place you can catch the audio anymore. Goldacre has quite an Internet following, and they've apparently decided to fight the takedown by placing the audio on YouTube as well as a number of blogs.
It's hard to determine exactly what the radio station hopes to accomplish by suing in a case where reasonable claims can be made regarding fair use. Because he's widely read, Goldacre was providing the station and this show with a global spotlight, which had to have been appealing from the "no publicity is bad publicity" perspective.
Of course, the publicity involved highlighting the station's broadcast of irresponsible nonsense on a public health issue, so one suspects that there may be a degree of embarrassment involved, either on the part of the station or the show's host. It's also beginning to seem that the antivaccine movement is intrinsically aligned with the legal system. Andrew Wakefield's erroneous (and perhaps fraudulent) claims about the MMR vaccine stemmed from a class action suit looking to buy some science, and a US blogger was ensnared in another vaccine lawsuit for daring to write about the topic.
In some ways, the lawsuit may wind up being a public good. LBC's legal attempt to stop more people hearing the broadcast has almost certainly failed, now that Goldacre's cause has been taking up by the Internet community. If it results in a greater public awareness that the antivaccination movement belongs in Bad Science, that will have been a good thing.


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UPDATE: The DSLR Light-Jib is available now: www.abc-products.de
After i posted my Cinec Best Of i got a "few" questions regarding to the ABC DSLR LIGHT JIB. As it seems like a nice tool even for our work back here i did contact ABC due the fact there is almost no info out there yet. (as it was shown the first time ever at cinec 2010 anyway). So here are some facts i got to share with you.
– its made of carbon tubes so it should be lightweight (around 3,9 kilos / 8,6 lb)
– total max length of the jib arm is 1,52m (5 feet) that should be enough for some nice moves / shots
– max payload is 4.5kg /9,9 lb (so you could even use XH-A1 or HVX 200 kinda cams)
– the jib should be easy and quick to mount
– the jib head can set at "infinite" positions and locked
(will keep the angle during movement)
it can also set to tilt "automatically" during a move. (angle can be set)
– the jib has a horizontal and vertical brake as well as a bubble level
– very handy is a monitor bracket that can be mounted (a plug-in system) on the head (left or right) or the jib arm.
(we alway struggle on other system to get a LCD mounted)
– the jib can be mounted on every 75 and 100mm tripods (and very handy as well as 1/4″ or 3/8″ Cam-Stands via adapter)
– for "transportation" the jib can be "reduced" to a small packing size
– pricing is arround 1.190 EUR (without tripod or stand though)
– should be available December 2010
Overall it's a nice little jib for nice moves. I hope to get one in my hands to test it in real working conditions as soon as it comes out. My experience at the Cinec show with the jib was great. I was able to get the mounted 5DmkII in some nice angles / settings and managed to make some real nice smooth moves. It's very user-friendly, easy and "light" to operate. the head has adjustable angles and tilting. Yery nice is the monitor arm. I'm really looking forward to use it again sometime.
More info at the ABC Website shortly. (as i was told 😉 )
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Historical:Straight Line UI proposal
A New Tool For Straight Line Definition
Currently the only one way to specify lines in a panorama is to manually create pairs of control points. This approach has multiple disadvantages. This is not intuitive, and defining multiple lines can be tedious work. Also the lines are a part of output space and thus defining them in output space seems to be more appropriate.
This straight line tool could make it possible for the user to draw lines on buildings, fences, horizons, and other objects to quickly align sets of images without even adding single points manually. It would make the program more ergonomic for the user and greatly speed up the process of aligning images.
This may involve moving the straight line definition into the Fast Preview, but it could be implemented (probably with less work) in the control point tab, where adding lines would be another option alongside the current point adding.
The line can be drawn by having the user click two points on the line, with the line being shown as the user draws it to aid accuracy. Then using either the lens_calibrate tool or a new edge detection algorithm, Hugin will check (if the user wants) if there is a better fit for the line (inaccurate clicking could make the line less accurate). Control points would then be added either at regular intervals along the line (between the endpoints the user clicked), and then revised or thrown out if there is not a strong correlation between pairs of images.
The line being drawn by the user should either take into account lens data given (eg. fisheye lenses generally obliterate straight lines) or there should be an option to define the line using three points or as a Bezier curve or spline.
The user may specify the type of line – whether it's horizontal, vertical or just a straight line. It might be handy if there was an option to run optimizer as the lines are added so the user would have an immediate feedback how the lines change the panorama. Note that optimizer shouldn't be run by default, because optimization may take a lot of time, rendering proposed tool unusable.
One problem that needs to be resolved is how the line should be specified when multiple images overlap as noted by kfj in [1].
The idea is based on the idea from RawTherapee forum [2].
Before this works the fast preview needs some zooming function to set exactly the points. Also it is necessary to identify the image in which the line should be created in case the point is setting in an overlapping area or using the function for HDR panoramas. See other blueprint [3].
[1] http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/browse_thread/thread/dbb85dad10715586
[2] http://rawtherapee.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17063#17063
[3] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/hugin/+spec/extendedpreview


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The Hotel de la Opera is located in La Candelaria, next to the Cristobal Colon Theater, in front of Palacio San Carlos, currently headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, one block from Bolivar Square and a fifteen minutes walk to the funicular for Monserrate hill.
Thanks to its strategic location, our guests can easily visit the most characteristic places of the city, for example the Gold Museum, Botero Museum, Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica Primate of Colombia, etc. Also, many important government buildings are nearby.
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This probably won't make it to the main page, since they worship Mr. and Mrs. Beyonce, but did anyone see that in his new song Jay Z dredges up the whole misogynist Yoko broke up the Beatles nonsense?
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Atheist activism is hardly news these days. Folks are feeling increasingly convicted about taking their disbelief public, and more specifically, pointing out the damage done by religion.
But it seems the most recent publicity campaign by a group called American Atheists has gone a little too far, even for those not in the religious sphere.
Human rights groups howled when the following billboard appeared in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania:
Following a public uproar, the billboard promptly was replaced with one for the local symphony.
There are some more obvious concerns this kind of campaign raises, while others are more subtle. The point of the billboard is well taken, at least for me; the Bible has some messed up stories and rules in it. But cherry-picking isolated quotes like this from scripture is something that most in mainline Christianity consider a no-no. It's called proof-texting, and it's seen as tantamount to using the Bible as a weapon to further a personal agenda.
So in a way, the atheist group that did this is guilty of the very transgression for which they would criticize, say, a religious group for using the Bible to discriminate against the LGBTQ community or women. To me, this hollows out an otherwise reasonable point and an opportunity for discussion, and it also serves to discredit the organization that paid for the ad.
I've struggled much of my life with things like the treatment of slaves and women in scripture. And though I still see those kinds of rules or stories as patently wrong and dehumanizing, I have benefited from learning some historical and cultural context around the scriptures that helps me understand why they're there.
The early Rabbinical laws were primarily about creating a sense of order in society. And sometimes, the rules were meant to attenuate chaos or violence that tended to spiral out of control. For example, the "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" law sounds really harsh, and is still used by some to justify direct retribution. But that law is actually a response to the "avenge sevenfold" tradition of the culture which said, "You kill one of my sheep, I can kill seven of yours." To stem such escalation, this type of law was meant to mean ONLY eye for eye, tooth for tooth. No more of this avenged sevenfold stuff.
Think of it as a step toward something that Jesus ultimately fulfilled with his Great Commandment to hang all other laws on the principle of loving God and neighbor first. It's kind of like Clinton's old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy." It was less than perfect, and many of us who advocated for unrestricted equality despised it. I don't even think if you asked Bill Clinton himself, he'd say he loved the bill. But he saw it as a necessary step toward an ultimate goal, which recently was achieved in the American Military.
Now, if you looked back in a hundred years at "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and considered it in isolation, without that context, you could easily argue that Clinton was actually trying to oppress LGBTQ folks, rather than afford them a graduated measure of equality.
The same might be said about something like this "Slaves, obey your masters" rule. I don't know if the authors of this meant for it to actively oppress other human beings in the name of God. I suppose it's possible. But given the cultural norms of slavery at the time,. and given the value of greater order – more so than the value of any individual life – it's reasonable to assume that this rule was an attempt to stop some cycle of disorder and abuse.
Now, to call that a divinely ordained law? I'm with the atheists on that one. That's messed up.
The problem is in presenting this kind of Biblical reference this way, there's no opportunity for dialogue. And it appears there's no desire on part of the atheist group to engage in one. Again, in this way, the group reflects more of the characteristics of the fundamentalist Christians they object to so much by engaging in a one-sided shouting match, rather than actually putting in the work to talk to each other and work for common ground.
Finally, there's the matter of tokenism, which is really why the human rights groups got so bent about this campaign. Though the underlying implication from the atheist group is that religion does not value all human beings as they should (a valid and historically supportable position), they reduce the symbol of the slave to being a convenient vehicle for their personal agenda. For me, this places them in a similar boat, once again, as those they aim to criticize.
We can all do better than this. Really. Fundamentalism is ugly and dangerous, regardless of it's religious stripe, or even opposition to it. It places the our collective humanity second chair to ideology. And in this particular case, it de-fangs an otherwise worthwhile position, simply because the atheist group in question ends up looking so curiously like the very thing they claim to hate.
Christian Piatt is the creator and editor of BANNED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE and BANNED QUESTIONS ABOUT JESUS. He co-created and co-edits the "WTF: Where's the Faith?" young adult series with Chalice Press, and he has a memoir on faith, family and parenting — PREGMANCY: A Dad, a Little Dude and a Due Date — set to hit book stores everywhere on April 1, 2012.
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It's a Go for Omate's Android-Powered Smartwatch
Aug 23, 2013 11:22 AM PT
With nearly a month to spare, startup Omate burst through its Kickstarter goal of US$100,000 this week and is on its way to shipping its TruSmart smartwatch in time for the holiday season.
More than $250,000 have been pledged so far toward the device, which is perhaps the closest thing yet to an Android smartphone that can be worn on a wrist.
"On paper, pound for pound, this looks like a very good smartwatch," Michael Morgan, senior analyst for mobile devices with ABI Research, told TechNewsWorld.
"It's competitive in design, competitive in features," he said. "It's so competitive I have to wonder if they didn't get ahead of themselves. It has everything that I would expect to see in a $350 smartphone."
According to Omate's Kickstarter page, it expecting to sell the watches for $199.
Brimming with Features
TruSmart will have a wagonload of features, according to Omate. You'll be able to make voice calls without a smartphone, as well as do SMS and social media messaging, GPS navigation, play music and perform calendar functions.
The smartwatch will also support voice commands, speech to text and gesture controls. An embedded 5 MP camera is included as well.
In addition to being resistant to dust and water and sporting a 1.3 GHz dual-core processor, TruSmart will support Bluetooth and WiFi b/g/n, which can be used to communicate with any smartphone.
Battery life in standby mode is rated at 100 hours.
"As for active usage, we're still testing all the variable functions," Omate cofounder Nick NM Yap, who also serves as its product and media guru, told TechNewsWorld. "We'll have more data from those tests at the end of the month."
Battery life could be an issue for the device, according to ABI's Morgan.
"I can't imagine that this thing could have any type of respectable battery life when you put a cellular modem in there," he asserted.
Not a Smartphone Replacement
In fact, battery life is a huge issue with this class of device, Ross Rubin, principal analyst with Reticle Research, noted.
"As consumers, we're used to watches that have a battery life of a year," Rubin told TechNewsWorld. "A lot of smartwatch solutions today need to be recharged every couple of days.
"One of the reasons that smartwatch designers have chosen not to include cellular connectivity is because of the battery drain," he added.
Including a cellular modem in a smartwatch can have another drawback as well: "Depending on your cellular carrier, you may have to have a separate cellular bill for your watch," Rubin observed.
Although TruSmart bristles with smartphone features, its makers don't see it as a smartphone replacement.
"We don't expect you to have long conversations with your grandma on the watch," Omate's Yap said. "It's for short communications like 'I'll see you there' or 'I miss you, too.'
"Just because it can do voice calls, we don't expect you to stop using your phone and start talking solely through your watch," he added.
Drizzle Before the Deluge
In addition to including a cellular modem, TruSmart will support Android 4.4.2. That should make it easier for developers to bring their apps to the device.
"Previous smartwatches talk about applications, but developers have to create them from scratch," Yap explained. "We're starting from an Android platform full of applications."
The device is also "a true standalone watch," he added. "Previous watches are mostly Bluetooth accessories to a smartphone. Nothing more than that."
So far, the smartwatch market has been dominated by small players, like Pebble, but that could change rapidly. In fact, Samsung may be ready to bring a smartwatch to center stage in the next two weeks.
"A lot of these crowdfunded smartwatches are being seen as the drizzle before the thunderstorm of the major players coming in," Reticle's Rubin said.
"Once companies like Samsung and Apple come in, it will validate the category and build awareness," he added, "but it's going to be difficult for the smaller players to compete with the marketing resources of the big companies."


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- 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened, plus more for pan
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- Pinch fine sea salt, if desired
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 3 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons fleur de sel
Step 1
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a 9 by 13-inch jelly roll pan with softened butter or cooking spray.
Step 2
Beat your butter in the bowl of a stand mixer until it is light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add the brown and granulated sugars a little bit at a time, pouring them in on the side of the bowl. While you're adding your sugars, stop the mixer occasionally and scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl to make sure that everything is fully mixed. Cream the butter and sugar mixture until it is light and fluffy, about 8 minutes. (Creaming creates air pockets in the dough, and therefore these blondies have a light and delicate texture.)
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Whisk your flour, baking soda and sea salt, if using, in a bowl. (Add the salt only if desired because there is plenty on top of the finished brownies.) Add your eggs 1 at a time, adding the second only after the first is fully incorporated. Once the second egg is fully incorporated, add your vanilla. Turn your mixer down to low speed and slowly add the flour mixture. Once the dry ingredients are fully incorporated into the wet ingredients, add in all those chocolate chips. Your machine will seem to be struggling to mix in the chocolate chips because there are so many of them, but don't turn it up, leave it on low and allow it to fully mix the chips in. Spread your cookie dough into the prepared jelly roll. Evenly sprinkle the top of the dough with the fleur de sel.
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Christmas of HOPE is an off-shoot of the charity the HOPE Fund of Penns Valley. The HOPE Fund was started because we saw a great need in our community to help residents faced with medical or personal disasters.
At Christmas time, we wanted to be able to help the families assisted by the HOPE Fund even more by providing Christmas for their children. Because the HOPE Fund is funded completely through donations, and because those donations are designated for families in need facing dire health situations or other tragedies, there needed to be a very definite separation between the HOPE Fund and Christmas of HOPE. Therefore, Christmas of HOPE is recognized as its own entity.
Christmas of HOPE has a new process in place as of October 1, 2019 and is no longer taking referrals from guidance counselors at our local schools. We are, however, accepting applications this year from those in need of assistance in providing Christmas to their children and will be happy to help you! If you are struggling financially and need our assistance, please click here for instructions. Businesses and community members have generously stepped forward to sponsor children by donating money, gifts, and their time to provide Christmas for local children. In 2018, we served over 90 children of limited means through Christmas of HOPE.
This program has grown tremendously since its inception. This is our ninth year now and it is only been possible because of the support of the entire community.
We are about providing for the needs of the children sponsored as well as some of the "wants". What we ask of our sponsors is very simple, but immensely rewarding. We give you information on a child. This will include the age, sex, sizes, needs and interest of the child. The form will not tell you a name, but for confidentiality sake, it will have a code. You and your family, team or co-workers will have time to shop for items on your list. If you volunteer to sponsor a child, the information you need for shopping will be given to you immediately along with other information and directions on what to do next.
Each child we serve also receives a new pillow case filled with miscellaneous supplies such as pencils, crayons, markers, school supplies, shampoo, body wash, tooth paste and tooth brush as well as a Faith based Christmas present.
All children that we serve are residents of the Penns Valley Area School District. We are so blessed to be part of this community and to have so many generous people, businesses and churches help support this cause. If you would like to consider sponsoring a child next year for Christmas or would like more information, you can email email@example.com. If you would like to make a monetary donation, checks can be made out to Christmas of HOPE and mailed to The HOPE Fund of Penns Valley, PO Box 427, Centre Hall, PA 16828.
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Danklands by Holly Childs, European edition of 100, Australasian edition of 100. Cover artwork by Marian Tubbs.
Danklands, the second novella by Holly Childs, coming out as an e-publication this February (first published November 2014 by London gallery/publisher Arcadia Missa), prose-poetry in 15 chapters over 100 pages. Australian edition of 100 in bb pink; European edition in bb blue.
Holly Childs is an Australian writer, editor, and artist, making work around "digital semiotics, transformations of language, obscurities, fashion, aberration and corruption:" Danklands is a corruption of Docklands, Melbourne; immediately west of Melbourne's Central Business District, "one of Australia's largest urban renewal projects," an ex-industrial harbor flanked by office and residential high-rise; Etihad Stadium, Direct Factory Outlet shopping, Costco. (In 2014, Holly Childs lived next to Docklands; I lived 2km west).
Andre, Stan, Augusten, Bam, Pansy, a genderfluid cast populate a future-past; an Australian nowhere; second decade of the third millenium. Fractured narrative of a cast of twenty-something friends who write, make art, chat, fight, fall in love; fracture and fissure of faces, bodies, cities, oceans, ozone, social relations, apps, and gadgets that age rapidly:


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The Budget 2014: positive news for business owners
- Entrepreneurs' Relief maintained
- Stimulus for key SME industries – manufacturing and house building
- Reduction in business rates
- Small company reliefs extended
Today's budget statement contained some encouraging news for business owners both large and small. The Chancellor's introductory remarks centred on 2013's strong growth figures, which saw the economy grow by three times the amount projected at the Autumn Statement.
The Chancellor was keen to attribute this growth to the Coalition's economic plan, which aims to make the UK a more resilient economy. Osborne also underlined the Office for Budget Responsibility's decision to upgrade its 2014 outlook for UK growth from 2.4% to 2.7%. In addition to this, the Chancellor was able to lay claim to strong jobs figures, with 1.3 million more people in work than at the time of the last Budget, and a 24% fall in the benefit claimant count.
Measures to benefit UK businesses will undoubtedly be welcome, including a reduction in business rates, and an extension of small company reliefs. British firms will benefit from measures such as a doubling of the annual investment allowance (AIA) to £500,000 a year for investments in new plant and machinery. This will be welcomed by larger firms alongside the planned Corporation Tax reduction from 23% to 21% for those companies declaring profits in excess of £1.5m.
Shares in UK building companies rose as markets reacted to an announcement of an extension to the popular Help to Buy scheme to 2020, which has stimulated demand in the residential property market. House builders were also buoyed by the announcement of a £0.5bn finance package to assist smaller house building firms.
Ultimately, lobbyists for the SME business community, such as the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), will undoubtedly criticise the absence of measures to encourage more competition in the banking industry and to increase access to alternative sources of finance for embattled small firms.
For deal makers, the Chancellor's decision to preserve Entrepreneurs' Relief, which reduces the amount of the Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on the disposal of qualifying business assets, means that vendors can continue to benefit from this crucial relief as applied to the sale of company shares.


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This is an update for Moving-Average based stop order published here: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=2209
The strategy moves stop level of the chosen position exactly on the chosen Moving Average Value. The recommended settings are in range 100-200 for hourly or higher time frame.
Unlike the previous version, this strategy:
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c) Stops automatically when trade disappears.
d) With "autotrading patch" does not show annoying "Event Log" window every time when stop order is changed. So, if you switched "Don't show this window on next event" to avoid "stop order changed events" you can switch it back, so, other alerts will not skipped anymore.
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Penalties help Lloyd to $10,000 Ocala victory
By Roby HelmNeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series
OCALA, Fla. (Dec. 1) — Hometown driver Ivedent Lloyd Jr. was declared Saturday's $10,000 winner in the eighth annual Chevrolet Performance World Championship following penalties for the only two drivers to lead in the 100-lapper.
Don O'Neal of Martinsville, Ind., was sent to the pits after he retaliated following a lap-69 tangle with Mark Whitener of Middleburg, Fla., who took the checkers first but was disqualified several hours later for a piston violation in his crate engine. | Turner wins title | Prelims | Slideshow | Video
While Lloyd, whose engine passed tech inspection, picked up $10,000, Matthew Turner of Dawsonville, Ga., finished 12th to capture the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series by 10 points over seventh-finishing David Gentry of Murfreesboro, Tenn.
With Whitener's disqualification, Shan Smith of Dade City, Fla., was moved up to second in the final rundown as the 21st-starting driver earned the Hedman Husler of the Race Award. Doug Horton of Bruceton, Mills., W.Va., 16th-starting Keith Nosbisch of Valrico, Fla., and Dennis Franklin of Gaffney, S.C., rounded out the top five. Mack McCarter of Sevierville, Tenn., was sixth, the final driver on the lead lap.
The polesitting Whitener and O'Neal mixed it up through most of the race with eight lead changes in a marathon race slowed by 12 cautions that lasted an hour and 45 minutes.
Whitener led from the outset with O'Neal moved into second by the 12th lap as the frtonrunners battled lapped traffic. Greg Martin briefly took second from O'Neal after a restart, but Martin's race ended when he hit the turn-four wall on lap 23.
O'Neal grabbed the lead on lap 26 in turn two while 19th-starting Ronnie Johnson moved into the third spot.
Whitener regained the lead for laps 32-33 before O'Neal went back out front, and Johnson's race was over a few laps later when he hit the wall exiting turn four.
Driving a Jim Beeman-owned car, O'Neal was in control over Whitener, Gentry, Horton and Nosbisch after 42 laps, but Gentry slowed with a flat tire on lap 45.
Whitener and O'Neal continued swapping the lead halfway through the race, and the frontrunners had a straightaway margin on the third-running Horton by lap 60. The frontrunners traded slide-job passes and O'Neal dove under Whitener to take the lead on lap 66.
Three laps later, Whitener tried to slide under O'Neal in turn two, but the cars came together with the combination of Whitener's car pushing and O'Neal staying in the throttle. O'Neal got sideways and backed into the turn-two wall.
Twice during the ensuing caution, O'Neal ran into Whitener's car to show his dissatisfaction, and officials sent O'Neal and his damaged car off the track.
Whitener led the rest of the and 75 laps in all to take the checkers, but it was all undone ealry Sunday morning when the second-finishing Lloyd was declared the winner.
Notes: Lloyd's Snow Brothers chassis is sponsored by IBS Machine Products and Augusta Delivery Services. ... Doug Horton's fifth-place finish helped Warrior Race Cars win the tour's Chassis Manufacturers Challenge. ... Chris Cantrell of Chester, S.C. finished 21st and wrapped up his $5,000 VP Racing Fuels Rookie of the Year Award. ... The NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series returns Bubba Raceway Park to open the 2013 season on Jan. 28-Feb. 2 with five straight nights of racing.
Chevrolet Performance World Championship: (1) Ivedent Lloyd Jr., (2) Shan Smith, (3) Doug Horton, (4) Keith Nosbisch, (5) Dennis Franklin, (6) Mack McCarter, (7) David Gentry, (8) Chase Edge, (9) Walker Arthur, (10) Shannon Lee, (11) Justin McRee, (12) Matthew Turner, (13) Johnny Stokes, (14) Larry Harrod, (15) Josh Adkins, (16) Michael Blount, (17) Jason Fitzgerald, (18) Don O'Neal, (19) Kyle Bronson, (20) Chris Cantrell, (21) Chris Wilson, (22) Ryan Montgomery, (23) Joey Coulter, (24) Ronnie Johnson, (25) Greg Martin, (26) David Smith, (27) Jeff Mathews. Disqualified: Mark Whitener. Fast qualifier (among 45 cars): Whitener, 15.477 seconds. Heat race winners: Whitener, Bronson, Lloyd, Horton. Consolation winners: Arthur, Coulter. Last-chance winner: Lee.


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An invitation to microarray researchers, The deadline for submissions to the new ABRF MICROARRAY RESEARCH GROUP 2000-2001 STUDY has been extended to Wed., Jan. 10, 2001. Please note that this is a new study. Please submit data to this study even if you participated in our previous study (which was held at the end of 1999 and the first two months of 2000). The survey form for this new study is posted at http://brcweb.bio.cornell.edu/marg2000/index.html. The goal of this study is to build a current picture of the microarray analysis world. The focus is on both Affymetrix GeneChip and all sources of cDNA, oligonucleotide, and protein microarray spotting technologies. Laboratories using these technologies are invited to participate in this study by filling out a web based survey form. The form is used to collect information such as instrumentation, protocols, staffing, funding, and throughput. This data will be analyzed to build a current profile of microarray analysis laboratories. Please note that this is not a sales or marketing survey. The survey is being done by the Microarray Research Group of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (http://www.abrf.org). The results will be freely available to the microarrays community following analysis of the data. The survey is geared to gather information anonymously from academic, pharmaceutical, and commercial laboratories that offer microarray technologies as a shared resource; however individual laboratories employing these technologies are also encouraged and very welcome to participate in the survey. The results of our last survey are posted on the web at http://abrf.org/ABRF/ResearchCommittees/MARG/MARG_Survey_2000_Poster.pdf. An analysis of data submitted to this survey will be presented at the ABRF2001 meeting in February 2001 (http://www.faseb.org/meetings/abrf2001) and will then be posted on the web. We appreciate your participation in this study. The ABRF Microarray Research Group: George Grills, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY (co-chair) Chandi Griffin, Gen. Clin. Res. Ctr., University of California, San Francisco, CA (co-chair) Kevin Knudtson, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Kathryn Lilley, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Aldo Massimi, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY Laurey Steinke, University of Nebraska Medical Center, NE (EB liaison) James VanEe, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY


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You catching that rainwater?
he only part that wasn't a wonderful adventure was the Luggable Loo toilet. The sound of a flushing toilet still gives me warm fuzzies 16 years later.
Hang in there. Eventually you will get water. My neighbors gave up after three dry wells dug (in an area reknown for not having good wells) and ended up hauling 400 gallons every day for 10 years. Anything is possible with perseverance.
…the more techologicaly adbanced a prep is, the more likely it is to fail.
I am going to buy a couple of flashlights today for security purposes.
My "stepson" has become quite the little homesteader. He's not even two yet and is following me around handing me tools, taking it upon himself to drag stuff to the burn pile, eating like a "big boy", basically just snatching stuff off the grill and munchin' down.
The neighbors came down yesterday, admitted they were just being "nosey." I find it a little odd they came by the day after were heard someone walking around. GF says they seem alright but, I haven't met them and to be honest, don't really think I want to.
Found out the coyotes are bad in the area, not a surprise, I grew up not too far from where the land is... Not unusual. GF knows to keep a good eye on the baby. Buying a new gun in a week or so, probably just a little .22, but, it's just 'yotes for now.
The baby's appetite has improved 4 fold. I think it's a combination of being a little healthier already, running in the yard all day beats the hell out of walking around a 12x13 hotel room, and different enviroment. He also was waaaaay more energy.
Got a sturdier grate for boiling water. The little grate on the grill wasn't handling the extended high temps too well. Four cinder blocks and voila, perfect for bath water.
Water is the biggest deal. We're fine without any electricity. In fact, the GF told me this weekend she "doesn't care if we get the power on." She's enjoying the lack of distraction, increased "family time" and, I'm sure, the fact that i'm not yelling at the t.v. nonstop telling people what kind of idiots they are.
Tried to rig some sort of external antenna for the cell phones last night but, alas... Any ideas?
And forget the electric coffeepot. I started making my ex (before he was my ex) coffee on the woodstove and it was easier, and he preferred it. Said it tasted like REAL coffee. $29.
After I left for work saturday, my girlfriend heard a noise in the house. She looked up to see a squirrel pulling taco shells out of the box and eating them. She yelled at him, he tried to run off, through the hole for the old washer drain... With the taco shell in his mouth. The taco shell was too big to make it through the hole, he backed up, ran around in a circle. Looked at the hole, tried again. Taco shell caught, he backed up, ran in a circle, saw the hole and tried one more time. Backed up, ran in a circle looked, found the bigger hole for the dryer vent and hauled ass. She said she could hear him just under the hole eating taco shells. Lmao. While she was telling me the story all I could see in my head was SCRAT from the ice age flicks...
notsofast, man, I am totally eating this up! This is better than watching survival shows on TV! I too am a little bit jealous. Your stories remind me of when my family moved back to our home state when I was a kid. It was interesting and a whole lot of fun.
we have, however, decided, through all of this, to recycle our grey water. gonna run the drain from the bath tub and bathroom sink to a couple of 55 gallon drums then i'm going to install a hand pump in the bathroom to pull the water from the drums to the toilet. bath water will pull double duty.
and our "buddy" came by last night to visit. had the dog cowering under a dresser, both cats under the chair and girlfriend almost had a heart attack...
found out my visitor wasn't a sasquatch... . turns out it's a 99% chance it's a bear. but, we don't eat too much honey so i think we'll be ok. never had bear meat. (i wonder if it tastes like chicken.)
said he spends most of his "t.v. time" watching monsterquest and finding bigfoot.
he wants us to come hang out some, might have to take him up on it. he offered to let us use his generator. can't afford the gas but, nice of him none the less and appreciated.
some have asked about cooking over pine. we don't cook over pine when we want a bare flame, meats for example. when we're cooking in a pan the pine doesn't affect the taste AS LONG AS the smoke isn't wafting into the pot or pan. when we want a bare flame for burgers or steaks we're now using hardwoods or still charcoal but, only a little charcoal as the cost is killing me.
Its encouraging to read your stories. My husband and I have a 2.5 year old and he really adapts, but me being the mom I worry about friends family and neighbors judging us and or calling the SS.
like i said, hoping to have the power on come tuesday or so, and maybe a small chest freezer. the water line can wait. we can keep going up to the meter with buckets. but, ice is starting to become a priority. if we get a small freezer we can still keep things refridgerated in a cooler by making our own ice, which will cut another $30-$40 a month off our expenses.
on a serious note, i can NOT get rid of the rat. the SOB has managed to eat all the bait off of the rat trap WITHOUT tripping it. i'll be damned if i know how he's doing it but, he does it every time.
guess i'm gonna have to take serious actions and borrow a gun. blast his ass while he's munchin' on my nutty bars.
the globes also help refract the light which means without them you need a larger flame to cast the same amout of light which in turn leads to more fuel usage.
2000 watts at 110 is only 18 amps combined and unless you know how to synchronize AC lines, you can't just combine them so you have 2 9 amp lines. I'm not sure you can even run a swamp cooler off 9 amps, so you might be SOL for cooling with that approach.
the lights are about to be turned off, the landowner has tacked a sixty dollar late fee onto the land note. my lung doctor says i'm looking at about another 30 or so days before i'm "useful." at least, that's how i take it. they put my pick stints in, for longer term antibiotics use.even if we don't lose the land i'm not gonna have the strength and energy to do what needs to be done.not sure what we're gonna do but, i can promise ya, i'm not gonna sit around and friggin' cry about it. i've been through tougher than this i don't mind tellin' ya.


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These pages provide statistics for the participants of the BOINC-based MilkyWay@home project, and are based on statistics made available from the official project site.
MilkyWay@home Project Totals
|The goal of Milkyway@Home is to use the BOINC platform to harness volunteered computing resources in creating a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This project enables research in both astroinformatics and computer science.
|BOINC is a software platform for distributed computing using volunteer computer resources, and provides the framework for SETI@home, Rosetta@home, and other projects. It is based at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.


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Dr Andrew Fagelman Soho Evil Creep Supports Repeated Violations of a Patients Rights and Body my opinion Proof He Did Not Fire Delita Hooks
Delita Hooks violent liar confident she can lie to the NYPD and the NYPD and Internal Affairs will protect that doctor's office like they get VIAGRA from the NYPD or something because Dr Andrew Fagelman did not fire the unprofessional violent liar so the NYPD sure did Dr Fagelman a favor didn't they?
Something is very wrong at that medical office and keeping her at the front desk is just proof. Why did he hire her why does he keep her at the front desk despite the fact so many people have told me she has a huge attitude problem. See her behavior in the video it was horrible before I started filming and when I couldn't get help I wanted to document her rude unprofessional behavior so shocking and then when I start to film the camera goes black what you don't see is a 100 times worse than what you see and she got away with that kind of violence and lies thanks to Dr. Fagelman the New York Police Department and internal affairs. Have a year and a half left to sue the doctor. It would help if someone would be willing to testify under oath that he knew she was a walking timebomb. I am suing the New York least apartment and internal affairs as well as the city.
Thank you for helping me with 23,600 views. Please continue to help me to expose dr. Andrew Fagelman in my opinion of file creep should not be allowed to practice medicine she doesn't understand basic right and wrong and allows of filing mine crazy woman to sit behind that reception desk with her big bad attitude and I was her ultimate scapegoat and Human Piñata.
Have permanent damage to my eyes and neck the worst insomnia yet of my life worse since September 11 which is unbelievable but this is really upsetting and PTS. I have a jacket in the 9/11 museum but really what the police did to me is just yet another shocking abuse and also evil because there's right and they are wrong. Besides violating my rights and my body this whole experience is beyond disturbing and shocking and where is just one decent human being in authority involving the medical community or legal community to take action? She's going to have to hurt yet another person for someone to do the right thing and put her behind bars? Dr. Fagelman in my opinion is not ethical said like to know what he's up to and a spare time
- No. No, NO NOOOO!!! Terrible experience. It's like a ghetto art gallery, complete with Beyoncé wannabe incompetent receptionists and hip hop music blaring in the background. I'm sick, I don't want to listen to Nelly or Lil Jon.
I went in to see Dr F for a face rash, the receptionist insisted that she take my picture for their files as part of new patient registration. I explained that I was there for a rash on my face, asking to take my picture was a little insensitive. I refused to let her take my picture, she insisted explaining that it was for security purposes. I could hear her and her little posse of rap video trash in pink scrubs making fun of me as soon as I was out of sight.
Dr F's assistant was great and very empathetic.
Dr F is um... awkward. I felt so uncomfortable around him. I got the sense that he had no clue what he was talking about. He just sat at his desk clicking around on his huge Apple computer. I wanted to ask him if he was googling my symptoms!
I could not get out of there fast enough, it wasn't pleasant. I don't expect a visit to the doctor to be a day at the beach, that said the receptionist had epic amounts of sand in her panties.
The long closed off desk that Delita Hooks some call her "Delite" Delita Hooks came out from behind to continue her unprofessional violent tirade violating my patient rights repeatedly and then my body.
please help this go viral so shame MD, my attacker, NYPD and IAB thank you.
The NYPD an internal affairs fix crime in my opinion based on my own experience.
I looked beautiful that day and I felt happy. Note the amount of bags I was holding and one quite heavy with an iPad in the larger bag and I didn't know if she was going to rob me so I held on to my bags as she got away with a hate crime.
The NYPD IAB sure did
lucky for Dr Fagelman that Delita Hooks was not arrested since he did not fire her.
He never even asked my MD Dr Vine if I was okay. All he did is allow Delita Hooks to go back to her long closed off reception desk where she is still sitting.
The women in the video who yell no D don't do it never asked if I was okay and I was talking a lot about me and if this is an evil I don't know what is it's doctors office. The New York police departments roll also evil.


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Software donation gives students a head start for oil and gas industry careers
Posted by Andrew Careaga
A donation worth more than $1.7 million from the engineering firm Petroleum Experts (known as Petex) will allow students at Missouri University of Science and Technology to learn from the latest in petroleum engineering software tools.
Headquartered in Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, Petex has developed a suite of engineering software designed to improve the efficiency of oil and gas fields.
Petex has granted a license to Missouri S&T to use the petroleum engineering company's Integrated Production Modeling suite. The software has a commercial value of $1,717,820.
"These petroleum engineering software tools are the standard across the worldwide oil and gas industry and are currently used by more than 350 oil and gas companies," says Dr. Hamid Guedroudj, Petex's technical director. "By incorporating these tools in the curriculum, Missouri S&T will make sure their petroleum engineering students have access to the latest and most widely used software in the industry."
"Missouri S&T's petroleum engineering program currently uses Petex software in production engineering, completions and artificial lift courses as well as graduate research," says Dr. Shari Dunn-Norman, associate professor of petroleum engineering at Missouri S&T. "With this software gift, the full suite of programs will now enhance our capabilities in reservoir engineering and the geosciences."
The Petex engineering models capture the physics, geology, engineering and fluid thermodynamics to model full production systems – from reservoir, the oil and gas wells, to the surface pipeline system and process. These models once built are used to optimize production for existing oil and gas fields and assist with the system design of new fields.
Dunn-Norman adds that the donation will help students gain the skills necessary for their future. "This is the leading software in nodal analysis and production optimization from wellbore to surface pipelines and it is vital that our students are experienced in using it," says Dunn-Norman.
The Petex software will be used by more than 200 petroleum engineering students at Missouri S&T, as well as geology and geophysics students, says Dunn-Norman. S&T's petroleum engineering program is integrated with the geosciences programs, she adds.
S&T students will have access to the full Integrated Production Modeling suite, which consists of the following:
- PVTP, which predicts the effect of process conditions on the composition of hydrocarbon mixtures and fluid characterization
- MBAL, an analytical reservoir tool commonly used for modeling the fluid dynamic reservoir effects and material balance.
- REVEAL, which is designed to study specialized reservoir effects and assess their impact on the injection, production and enhanced oil recovery from the reservoir, capturing the thermal, rock mechanics and chemistry.
- PROSPER, a design and optimization program for modeling most types of oil and gas well configurations.
- GAP, a multiphase oil and gas optimizer that models the surface gathering pipeline network of field production systems. GAP integrates dynamically the reservoir model (MBAL) and well models (PROSPER).
- RESOLVE, a field engineering development tool that manages and control the IPM suite, Reservoir Simulators, Process Simulators to dynamically model, optimise and provide production forecasts of field operating scenarios. RESOLVE enables coupling of most major industry reservoir, process and economics simulation model to better evaluate and operate oil and gas fields.
"We're very thankful to Petex for their generous donation and their support of Missouri S&T's petroleum engineering program," says Dr. Ralph E. Flori Jr., Gulf Oil Professor and Chair of geological sciences and engineering. "This donation will help equip our students for their future careers because the software is so widely used in the oil and gas industry."
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I want to make sure a piece of software I am writing is usable by people with various disabilities such as blindness and an inability to use a mouse and / or keyboard.
Unfortunately I have no experience with things such as screen readers or other methods that disabled people use to make using a computer easier / possible. I've never really had much experience with disabilities at all and unfortunately I don't know any disabled people who I can ask.
I was wondering what other people do to make sure that their software is available to a wide range of people with varying abilities?
This seems to be a subject matter that is often ignored by developers and I think it is a real shame.
Edit: If anyone has any specific information related to desktop development in addition to the information already provided in the answers below I would be grateful. Particularly methods that apply to cross platform development on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.


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So people are familiar with the idea of holding a spinning bicycle wheel while on a stool (whose seat can spin). You then tilt the spinning wheel and lo and behold you start to spin on the stool.
Ok fine, I get that (conservation of Angular momentum).
So the real question is: if I have 2 wheels mounted on the same axis and they are spinning in opposite directions, does the angular momentum cancel out? Do you still spin if you are tilting them while on the stool?


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When he first started teaching, one of his third-grade students was wary of writing. But after working with Ferreira she started writing essays, stories and poetry.
"She completely blossomed as a writer," said Ferreira. As an educator it's not solely about giving students the tools but "seeing the kids realize their potential."
Ferreira has been involved in education since college, where he volunteered at the Greenwich House preschool. After graduating from New York University with a degree in psychology, he stayed on at the school as a teacher for five years before a two-year stint with Teach for America.
Since becoming the director at BCAP, Ferreira's taken over the organization's summer camp, after-school and BCAP Express programs. He also helps plan curriculum, the coordination of camp enrollment and trips, among other duties.
The BCAP summer camp is a two-week program for seven- to 12-year-old children from a diverse range of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. One of its goals is to teach youngsters how to use the resources within their neighborhoods for recreational and educational purposes.
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Campers get a behind-the-scenes look at art exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Children's Museum, and are given access to other borough institutions like the Botanical Garden.
Ferreira said participants make new friends and often stay in contact with each other when the award-winning program is over. (Last year it received a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from First Lady Michelle Obama).
Ferreira loves teaching, but he said he's enjoying his new role as a supervisor.
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