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It is closer to downtown area.
The only thing I found pleasing was the parking but even that wasn't guaranteed.
I consider myself an optimistic person but this place was bad, the location was bad. There were homeless all around the motel, terrible smell, dirty towels, backbreaking beds, thin walls, very small elevator, I would not recommend this place to anyone
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-noise on the street -hard bed
The staff was friendly and helpful. I also appreciated the parking. The room had or plenty of space and it was centrally located.
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location - many beggars and shadow figures around. Far from the union square. Too expensive for the location
Staff was friendly
overal facilities and room were not up to basic standard. Not clean and the building aircondition was running all night just outside the room.
Free parking. House keeping did a good job, very clean. We always had clean towels. The location is not too bad.
There was no iron or hair dryer. No shampoo either. The wi-fi stopped working after a while. The bed was kinda hard. Could not sleep.
Interior and actual room was clean.
Terrible location. Dirty streets and surroundings.
Staff were very friendly and helpful. Location was good.
Pillows were uncomfortable. Didn't dleep as well as I would have liked.
Free parking and ease of check-in were pluses.
The motel is located near the city homeless shelters and a lot of shady characters are in the neighborhood streets just outside the premises. Though the parking garage is secure and the motel has a secure feeling once inside the premises it still gives a guest a rather worrisome feeling if ones possessions are truly secure. A seasoned traveler would have no trouble taking the necessary precautions while in the area the motel is located but it does not make for an enjoyable stay other then just getting a nights rest only.
I needed a twin room with a private bathroom under $200 a night. Only Motel 6 had it in SF
WiFi was slower than 3G data. Rock hard beds. Spartan rooms. Slightly funky neighbourhood. Slow lift.
Close to Union Square
Immediate neighborhood a little rough
The staff are very nice.
quite far from the union square. No coffee offered in the morning
Good value Free parking Free WiFi Location Lots of restaurant options in the neighborhood
Noisy Neighborhood might be scary for sensitive people
Good value to price
clean room~Free parking~
No shampoon and bath wash in the room~
quite close to a more decent, less run-down area. Good large bed
no breakfast, not even continental. Don't like the off-the-street elevator to rooms. No hair dryer in the room. Have to ask for shampoo.
NOISE of the adjacent room was ridiculously noisy could not sleep all night a nightmare all around
There wasn't any false aadvertisement on website and what room I got.
There was hair in the bathroom prior to us using it a bit gross.
Just about everything.
The bed was not the most comfortable. The room was way too cold the first night. The next morning I called the desk, and someone came and showed me that the plug had been disconnected, so the temp controls didn't work.
The location and the cleanness. The Staff were very kind.
This place is more for young people. It was very loud until 3am because a young group was there.
Cheap. Free Parking
Location. Lots of high people loitering around.
Free parking which is nearly impossible to find in SF! Great beds Big rooms Friendly staff The area is not as bad as some people say.
Internet connection was not very good
I could get to places I needed to go to.
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The difficulties that Calderón's art presents to the modern reader have tended to obscure the originality of his themes. Accepting the conventions of the comedy of intrigue, a favourite form on the Spanish stage, he used them for a fundamentally serious purpose: La dama duende (1629; The Phantom Lady) is a neat and lively example. In Casa con dos puertas, mala es de guardar (1629; A House with Two Doors Is Difficult to Guard), the intrigues of secret courtship and the disguises that it necessitates are so presented that the traditional seclusion of women on which these intrigues are based is shown to create social disorder by breeding enmity and endangering love and friendship. No siempre lo peor es cierto (c. 1640; The Worst Is Not Always True) and No hay cosa como callar (1639; Silence Is Golden) mark the peak of this development: although the conventions of comedy remain, the overtones are tragic. Both plays also implicitly criticize the accepted code of honour. Calderón's rejection of the rigid assumptions of the code of honour is evident also in his tragedies. In the famous El alcalde de Zalamea, the secrecy and the vengeance demanded by the code are rejected. This play also presents a powerful contrast between the aristocracy and the people: the degeneration of the aristocratic ideal is exposed, wealth is associated with manual labour, and honour is shown to be the consequence and prerogative of moral integrity regardless of class. Yet Calderón's humanity has been questioned in connection with El médico de su honra. The critics who allege that he approves of the murder of an innocent wife because honour demands it overlook the fact that the horror one feels at this deed is precisely what he intended.
A keynote of Calderon's tragic view of life is his deep-seated realization that a man can be responsible through his own wrongdoing for the wrongdoing of another. This realization probably derives from Calderón's own family experience. In La devoción de la cruz (c. 1625; Devotion to the Cross) and Las tres justicias en una (c. 1637; Three Judgments at a Blow), the heart of the tragedy lies in the fact that the greatest sinner is also the most sinned againstin that others, before he was born, had begun to dig his grave. El pintor de su deshonra is built on a similar plot.
The fully developed court plays are best represented by La hija del aire. This play in two parts dramatizes the legend of Semiramis (the warrior queen of Babylon whose greed for political power led her to conceal and impersonate her son on his accession). It is often considered Calderón's masterpiece. Highly stylized, it conveys a strong impression of violence. It presents, with considerable complexity, the contrast between passion and reason. Passion, in its self-seeking, in its grasping for power and devouring of everything in the urge to domination, breeds disorder and leads to destruction; reason, in its sacrificing of self-interest to justice and loyalty, produces order. This basic contrast underlies the themes of Calderón's last period, its various aspects being expanded in a number of interesting variations, many directly concerned with the positive values of civilization. Though none has the intensity of La hija del aire, most exemplify a thoughtful, dignified, and restrained art. Mythological themes predominate, with a more or less allegorical treatment, as in Eco y Narciso (1661; Echo and Narcissus), La estatua de Prometeo (1669; The Statue of Prometheus), and Fieras afemina amor (1669; Wild Beasts Are Tamed by Love).
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He smoked two packs a day for years, so a CT scan under the new guidelines would have been a good idea for him anyway.
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TULSA, Okla. – Colorado State forward Pierce Hornung was selected this week as one of 12 semifinalists for the 2013 Eddie Sutton Tustenugee Award.
The award, now in its third year, is presented by Tulsa Sports Charities to the to the collegiate basketball player who best exhibits the traits of tenacity and unselfishness that Sutton advocated during his Hall of Fame career.
Hornung, a 2012 third-team all-Mountain West selection and Mountain West all-defensive team honoree, ranks as one of the nation's top rebounders. Entering play this week, the 6-foot, 5-inch Hornung ranks second in the Mountain West in rebounding at 9.1 boards per game, trailing only 6-10 teammate Colton Iverson.
The senior forward also ranks among the nation's top offensive rebounders, averaging an impressive 4.3 offensive boards per game to rank second nationally. His 115 offensive rebounds have accounted for 131 second-chance points for the Rams this season, 32 percent of the team's total second-chance points in his 27 games played.
He has recorded five double-doubles on the year and leads the team in steals, while ranking second in both assists and blocks.
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• Matthew Dellavedova - Saint Mary's College (6-4, senior, guard, Maryborough, Victoria, Australia)
• Melvin Ejim - Iowa State (6-6, junior, forward, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
• Grant Gibbs – Creighton (6-5, senior, guard, Marion, Iowa)
• Mike Hart – Gonzaga (6-6, senior, guard, Portland, Ore.)
• Pierce Hornung – Colorado State (6-5, senior, forward, Arvada, Colo.)
• Mike Muscala – Bucknell (6-11, senior, center, Roseville, Minn.)
• Victor Oladipo – Indiana (6-5, junior, guard, Marlboro, Md.)
• Kevin Parrom – Arizona (6-6, senior, guard, Bronx, N.Y.)
• E.J. Singler – Oregon (6-6, senior, forward, Medford, Ore.)
• Marcus Smart - Oklahoma State (6-4, freshman, guard, Flower Mound, Texas)
• Scottie Wilbekin – Florida (6-2, junior, guard, Gainesville, Fla.)
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Thousands of Displaced Gazans Flee to UN Shelters, Only to Face Deadly AssaultsLatest for The Nation:
Jabaliya, Gaza - The bombardment of Gaza is almost always worse at night. The missiles and shells rain down in greater number after dark. The sky is lit up by flares that illuminate the onslaught. With hardly any electricity, the Strip is turned into a vast silhouette. There is little sleep.
For more than three weeks, Israel's unrelenting air and artillery assault on the Strip has targeted homes, schools, hospitals, ambulances, beaches, marketplaces, media outlets, mosques and cemeteries.
At dawn on Wednesday, the Israeli military shelled a United Nations school in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. Up to twenty people were killed, including four children, and more than 100 wounded. The school was sheltering more than 3,300 displaced Palestinians, many of them women and children. They had gone there to seek refuge from the falling bombs.
"Children were killed as they slept next to their parents on the floor of a classroom in a UN designated shelter in Gaza," said Pierre Krähenbühl, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, the Palestinian refugee agency, in a statement. "Children killed in their sleep; this is an affront to all of us, a source of universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced."


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We're having a hard time keeping up with Britney Spears' recent changes in hair color!
The blonde Vegas pop star traded in her signature golden locks for brunette tresses about two weeks ago, and as of this past weekend, brunette is out and auburn is in.
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Taking vocal actionThe way I feel is this. As a woman and a feminist, it makes me deeply angry that anyone thinks they can use their attempts at sexual intimidation to control my freedom of movement, and my complicity in that allows the creeps to feel more power and take more opportunity to do the same. There are things I need to do and places I want to go, and within my own good judgement, I'm going to continue to live my life. That necessitates having strategies for dealing with untoward situations, so I don't live in the expectation that nothing will ever happen to me, but neither do I live in the expectation that only bad things will happen to me. Given that women are going to be targets of harassment no matter what they do, it makes sense to me that I should live my life as I want, and when I become a target of harassment, handle it in a way that preserves my safety, dignity, and worldview to my best possible ability.
In the event of an attack or a potential attack, Anderson, who coordinates self-defense instruction through Chimera — a part of RCC — said nonverbal and verbal messages are the most effective methods.
Anderson said a large portion of their introductory course focuses on getting past socializations about being nice and not hurting feelings.
"We are taught to not hurt anybody's feelings and not to be rude," Anderson said. "Like at a bus stop where someone is standing too close, you should say, 'You're making me uncomfortable,' but that's really hard to do, that's really transgressive."
According to Anderson, the most powerful tool is the word "No" used forcefully, instead of high pitched screaming.
"If you yell, 'No! Go away, Call the police,' that's the information you need — it increases the likelihood that someone will get you assistance," she said. "They want you to scream and be scared; they don't want you to stand assertively yelling at them."


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Windows Azure HDInsight is Microsoft response to Big Data movement. Microsoft's end-to-end roadmap for Big Data embraces Apache Hadoop™ by distributing enterprise class, Hadoop-based solutions on both Windows Server and Windows Azure.
In this video you will learn how to install HDInsight on a Windows 8 machine, as a single node Hadoop cluster.
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The Anton Schwartz Quartet
November 15, 2014 | 8:00 pm
Get in the jazz groove as Up Close welcomes you back with another example of artists demonstrating exceptional musicality in our intimate space. Renowned for his compositions and improvisations that are at once intellectually satisfying and highly accessible, Anton's music 'communicates with your soul' (Jazz USA). His latest CD 'Flash Mob' topped the jazz radio charts for months last spring and Critical Jazz gave high praise with the 5-star review, 'Anton Schwartz is back and better than ever with a release that will have heads turning in short order!'
Guests are greeted with wine and cheese and the 60-minute concert is followed by a 'Meet the Artists' dessert reception. It is our pleasure to reserve tables for parties of four or more. Doors open at 7:30.


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Pensionado income?
These days, when almost nobody actually has a pension, what are the options for demonstrating continual income to get pensionado residency status? I'll use $500/mo in my calculations because that's the latest number I remember seeing. Adjust as needed for current laws.
Would it be enough to put 500*12*5= $30k in a bank and promise to withdraw $500/month? Or buy a 5-year annuity for a similar amount? I know Costa Rica was offering a deal like that a few years ago. Or does the cash flow really have to be "continual", not just for 5 years?
What about that modest IRA I have sitting out there? I don't want to start withdrawing until I'm 59.5, to avoid penalties, but would be willing to if the alternative was starving, or being kicked out of the country. Is there any formula for putting a value on self-directed retirement accounts like that? Especially for someone who is, for example, 45, and won't be drawing from that for a while. How can you convert locked-up "wealth" to "income"?
Apologies if this has been covered. I browsed and searched a bit and didn't see any relevant threads.
I'm perhaps a bit confused. Would Social Security qualify as a pension? It's supposed to be a continual stream (though I'm doubting it will do so forever....) so how does that fit in?
Many Central American "pensionado" plans, when they were first devised and discussed, took seriously the average amount a U.S. citizen would have - as these were they exact people they were trying to entice. Given in-country costs, Costa Rica and Panama (and Nicaragua, too) have done a really decent job keeping the amount low enough to be reasonable, whereas the Belize and Honduras programs are apparently run by morons ($1500-2500 a month, minimum?). SS is a pension per all Latin country pensionado programs, but when the monthly minimum gets over $750, relatively few of the people perhaps most likely to go, will meet the criteria based on SS alone. Hopefully, Nicaragua does not follow thew lead of Honduras, Belize, and perhaps Costa Rica (doubling the old amount seems always to be a debate there).
While I think we are all worried about the future of things such as Social Security, it is the easiest to get to qualify because Nicaragua knows it is from the US government. Big companies will be relatively easy. The more you move away from big government and big companies the more work you will likely need to do to "prove" it is a real pension.
Pensionado status is only for people with pensions. Period. You don´t qualify. Your pension letter must be notarized, certifies by your state Secretary of State, and äuthenticated¨ by the Nica consulate in the US.
Rentista status is for people retired on investment income. Have your lawyer or a literate, responsible native speaker call the Nica consulate and find out exactly what they want. I think a visit to a CPA and your Sec. of State is in your future.
Money in the bank will not count because they know a tipical American will blow it all in the first year. Bad habits die hard, and the cost of a decent standard of living here is much more than many people would have you believe. You can live for $500 a month, but to get comfy, bring a quarter million.
The statutory $400 a month is from an old law, but also applies to returning Nicaraguans, some of whom have small pensions and know how to live cheap.
In another forum, Paul Tiffer said you can get residency by buying a 30k finca, which presumably would include something that resembles a house. This might be something to check out. Bring a good Walmart tent to live next to this house.
¨Nicaragua is poor for a reason¨
Good luck
One of my attempts at pensionado status was that I could show that I would have more pension than required in something like a year and I would happily deposit that additional $6000 ($500/mo for 12 months) somewhere. Nope, wrong, does not compute. Only a "see, this is the pension" answer was acceptable.
Now, we all know that answers can change here but that was my experience. There seemed to be no indication of flexibility.
does it help to have property in nica? or not? i do have a pension, i wonder if i printed it off the website? or maybe a letter from the administrator?
I have seen erroneous information on the web that has grouped Nicaragua with Mexico, per property/pensions (where your monthly minimum "pension" income is reduced by half if you own land/home in Mexico, etc.). Perhaps you saw this somewhere. However, the two matters are separate. I know of two people who posed the matter to Nica authorities in 2008 only to be told it will not help them per the pension demand.
Property, no.
Property ownership makes no difference. It is strictly pension income. The persion income information is just like all the other paperwork--official letter, authenticated by Nicaraguan consulate nearest you, translated and authenticated in Nicaragua.
Actually Comrad Che,
You may be able to use a company pension in the US. This is to say, you need an "Official letter" on company letterhead stating the amount of pension you will receive from the company.
Once you receive your residency, I don't believe they ever check if the pension actually arrives or not.
Since you will not be moving for a little while yet, you'll have the opportunity to amass an even greater fortune than you already have and start your own pension fund. :-)
Viva la revolution!
In Costa Rica, the theory is that when you go to renew your residency you need to show that you converted the right amount of money (I think it is $600/mo there) into Colones.
While I never did this (because I never renewed my residency) my lawyer said bank transaction receipts for the conversion worked fine. It was just the total amount—not when you did the transactions that mattered. So, you could just convert on a good exchange rate day and convert back when the rate in the other direction was more favorable. You never needed to really have the total amount.
and it reminds me of an old saw, how do you amass a small fortune in the public service business? start with a large one!
Hi there I wonder if you can
Hi there I wonder if you can help. I have just joined the forum. I have been looking around central America for some where to retire and have noticed that Costa Rica and Panama have doubled there Pensinado visa to $1000 which seems alot and having decided that Nicaragua is the place for me. I am hoping that it is not the same there. I believe it is $400 in Nicaragua Does any body know the answer. Thanks
400 for you, plus 100 for a dependent
Cheap, but an unpleasant quality of life, especially if you are not planning to bring cash down to buy a house, etc.
Look before you leap, price isn.t the only criteria. Panama looks like the winner in Central America for infrastructure, health, rule of law, ease of adapting. etc. Panama also should be the next Great tourist destination in C.A., but this recesion will probably slow it down. Incidentally, Panama voted recently to double the capacity of the Canal, which should help greatly with their economic future.
Nothing wrong with CR, either, but its a little crowded and pricey in the central valley. Out in the boonies would be worth a look.
¨Pata de Perro¨
Yes will be bringing money
Thaks for your reply.Yes we will be bringing money over and do want to buy a house. MY husband is a chef and will want to start a restaurant or somthing simailar, I probably will go the retirement route. We live in Thailand and have done for six years. But are getting tired of being treated like a outsider with the visa and property laws for Falangs, which I hate being called, expat is better. It seems to me that in central America they encourage foreign investment not like here. My friends moved from here to Panama last year,and say they love it just before the new rules. Would love to join them but this change has made it finacialy difficult for us and I believe they have stopped the small business visa. So my hubby would have to pay for a yearly work permit ($1500 yearly) and no benifits. As you can see we are used to adapting and the health here is very expensive. Do you think with what I have explained to you we would have a better quality of live there As for the red tape,which I believe can be difficult there, I think after visas and and buying houses (not the land lease only for foreigners)over here,which is a mine field, we could deal with it
Before you make that
Before you make that decision, you might want to check out the restrictions on pensionados working. Better yet, why don't you check out some of the numerous posts (some by Paul Tilfer, a Lawyer and a frequent contributor here)that outline exactly how to go about each of the various processes? BTW, $1500.00 (I assume you mean US dollars) sounds a little steep. Check out any lawyers carefully.
Yes US $
Yes it is US $ This only what my friend has told me, I do not know how it works and yes I seem to think it is alot, As for the work my husband would not go on my pension visa he would apply for a investors visa or mybe we we would both go on the investors visa. Like you say I will contact Paul Tiler, I have read some of is topics and he seems really good If we decied to come We would need someone like this.
Panama ?
If you will buy a home, and/or if you can cover an investment visa, then perhaps Panama isn't necessarily ruled out (not saying you should avoid Nicaragua, just making a point). As of December 2008 anyway, if you bought a property/home in Panama over a certain value ($80k or $100k? - cant remember which), then your monthly minimim pension drops from $1k to $700 or $750 (but a dependent adds $250 to the requirement). That might still be too high for your ideal, but it does put it a lot closer to the mmonthly "retirement" amount many people are looking at, etc.
I have written info from both Intur and Migracion that pensionados can not work.
I believe, however, that you can start a corporation that can start a business. I hear it takes about a year, so do your homework and plan ahead. See a good lawyer.
Also, check out a small investor visa. Better to get the right visa than to get the wrong one and have to cheat and hope you don´t run into roadblocks ahead.
¨Pata de Perro¨


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Weirdest Type Design Ever?
Movie poster captured by Heather Shaw. There are several variations, all equally baffling. I'm hoping there's a concept behind it—that it's bad design to make a point.
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34 Responses to "Weirdest Type Design Ever?"
Ben Carlson said on 27 October 2010 at 11:27 am:
I like it. There's nothing severely baffling about it to me.
David said on 27 October 2010 at 11:31 am:
I think it there must be a concept behind it.. surely?! :)
Tom said on 27 October 2010 at 11:34 am:
I think that idea is that because it is hard to read, once you have struggled through it, you won't forget what the ad said.
Robert said on 27 October 2010 at 11:56 am:
Maybe after they designed all the movie posters (IMDB Link) with the text over the actors, they were reveling in the extra space. I don't find the movie posters particularly easy to read either.
Rob Weychert said on 27 October 2010 at 11:59 am:
Unfortunate letterspacing of Diane Keaton's name notwithstanding, I kind of like the type on this. "What's the story?" and "Morning Glory" are made visually analogous to match their syllabic rhythm, and the red-to-yellow upward gradation is meant to evoke sunrise (morning). It works well enough for me.
Jordan Lowe said on 27 October 2010 at 12:14 pm:
Good point Tom. I agree with you to the extent that the viewer has time to read it over again and put the message together.
It's not that bad looking but I'm still confused as to what the title is. Is it the left part, right part, or both?
Moss said on 27 October 2010 at 12:31 pm:
Reminds me of that old typography maxim: "Anyone who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep."
ABS said on 27 October 2010 at 12:56 pm:
I thought you hated it because it looks like Times New Roman, and I thought you hated Times New Roman because it was the default for Windows documents (Word, IE) for so many years.
Chris said on 27 October 2010 at 1:17 pm:
I gotta say, bad or good, that I noticed these posters in the wild and it made me curious.
Matt said on 27 October 2010 at 5:13 pm:
In other design crime news, they have airbrushed Harrison Ford into nigh-unrecognizability.
Steve Rydz said on 27 October 2010 at 5:34 pm:
I can see that there must have been some degree of thinking behind this but I can't imaging what the goals must be for this to be considered a success? No designer gets it right all the time but you'd think someone would have called this one.
Kirsten said on 27 October 2010 at 5:41 pm:
Noted that on every one of the movie posters (Thanks Robert) there is a shift from yellow to orange in the word 'Morning' – 'Morn' is yellow, 'ing' is orange. Just enough of a shift to be visible *if* you look for it, at least on my screen.
Makes me wonder if there isn't some reason-ing to the hyphenation after all.
Stephen Clark Jr. said on 27 October 2010 at 6:34 pm:
I think this is less about type, and more about how the words flow off the tongue.
In other words, these seem to be more about reading the type aloud than simply viewing the type.
kevadamson said on 28 October 2010 at 7:13 am:
I can see the brief being: "We would like Diane big. We need the title big. These are the ad dimensions. Oh, we need the artwork by this afternoon." :)
But that's not the point.
I agree it's a little odd to put the typography under pressure with this composition, but bad design? That depends on how much you attribute traditional typographical "rules", and things looking "nice", as aspects of "good design".
But, by "going there", we're opening the cupboard that contains the cans that contain the worms :P
So: It looks a bit weird. I agree :)
Simon Griffee said on 28 October 2010 at 7:17 am:
Was thinking that maybe the terrible new _ _ _ logo that was introduced and ridiculed by various popular websites a few weeks ago was done on purpose as a PR exercise. If so, they certainly put the company's name on a lot of minds.
Evan Skuthorpe said on 28 October 2010 at 11:51 am:
the spacing at first glared out to me – all wrong, but it's not so bad when you look into it. The hypenated word though… huh? Strange. Can only assume it has a deeper/wider idea behind it. Would help to view more poster and related.
gotham said on 28 October 2010 at 12:32 pm:
maybe Laird and Partners designed it…..
Martin LeBlanc said on 28 October 2010 at 1:14 pm:
I don't see what's wrong with the setence:
"What's morn' the 'ing story?, Glory!"
Stupax said on 29 October 2010 at 3:55 am:
Maybe the designer was just having a bad type day.
Pete Habuda said on 29 October 2010 at 11:32 am:
Boy…things sure are slow around here
@nerkles said on 29 October 2010 at 1:04 pm:
This looks like what happens when you print a PDF that doesn't have the intended font embedded, and it's not one of the standard fonts that every printer has built in. It defaults to a standard one (similar to how CSS does when the requested font is not available) and it looks horrible because, unlike CSS, PDF retains all the metrics (size, kerning, leading, etc.) of the original design while it substitutes another font which has different metrics, and the result looks just like this.
If it's not bad on purpose, somebody simply missed a checkbox when generating the files for the printer.
Ron Cooper said on 30 October 2010 at 8:06 pm:
h a v e you s e e n the movie Helvetica? What an AwesomE Flick!!
(i s jack nicholson in t h i s one??)
yeah, i can kern and clip too
Von D said on 31 October 2010 at 12:34 am:
Funny – I saw that same poster here in SF (maybe even the exact same one), and was confused, too. I asked myself, how did this happen? Who let it happen? I didn't get it, and still don't. Is it a movie? A morning tv show? I feel I shouldn't have to guess even for one second, but I did. Lately, I feel like some are trying to push "bad" design into the "cool" realm by purposely making things a bit off so that it appears quirky and perhaps genuine. No mi gusta.
S.M. Hall/Dante said on 1 November 2010 at 12:41 am:
The link to "Heather Shaw" is not a link. Or rather, its URL is just a "/".
ABS said on 1 November 2010 at 5:18 am:
If Helvetica were the default in old MS Word, we would hate it too.
Microsoft doomed Times New Roman.
Jerrold Maddox said on 1 November 2010 at 10:43 am:
Doesn't it refer to the subject of the film – the struggles of a woman on a morning news show?
BTW – the Frederick Goudy quote is: Any man who would letterspace blackletter would shag sheep.
Patrick said on 1 November 2010 at 5:18 pm:
I'm physically cringing at this unfortunate sight. So many curious questions about the logic behind nearly every decision made, ending with who on earth approved this?
Years ago Print asked a famous designer for a list of things that sucked. His first answer "all movie posters."
E-man said on 1 November 2010 at 6:04 pm:
Am I the only one to think of of the Oasis album and song of the same title whenever I see this? Somebody please alert the Gallagher bros. about this so they can sue the bejesus out of the producers for copyright infringement, kthx!
Paco Merh said on 1 November 2010 at 11:34 pm:
Yeah we don't like it , but what about the people that likes these types of movies?. I'm sure there's someone that likes this design out there.
I don't understand why country music exists, yet half of the world loves it.
Simon said on 4 November 2010 at 3:53 am:
It's newspapers! Well, that's what I thought immediately anyway :)
Most newspapers use a standard serif, have forced justification (and therefore bad tracking) and tonnes of hyphenation. I assume the movie is about news and the media, therefore the typesetting somewhat reflects that old newspaper feel. I'm not saying it's a good thing, just saying.
Elena said on 4 November 2010 at 9:39 am:
@Simon: Interesting theory, but I'd still put it in the "gone wrong" category.
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Howard said on 17 November 2010 at 2:01 am:
A few thoughts:
–Apparently there are a number of versions of the perhaps-apocryphal line about sheep, but I always heard that it was blackletter [aka Gothic or Old English] rather than lowercase. ( Wikipedia tells us that it wasn't originally stealing, either.)
–Apparently like a number of network tv morning shows (I am very fond of The Onion's Today Now!), the one in the movie has a yellow-and-orange colour scheme that appears all over the studio and is reflected in the poster.
–Innocent as I seem to be, I was unaware of some of the slang definitions of "morning glory." Having seen the film, I would find it difficult to believe that any of these were in the mind of whoever titled it. A morning glory is a flower, one that had a brief fame in the sixties as a possible psychedelic. The movie is about a tv morning show that is failing and trying to find some popularity, or glory. In the musical Bye Bye Birdie, "The Telephone Song" features gossiping teenagers singing, "What's the story, morning glory / What's the word, hummingbird?," slang on the order of "See you later, alligator."
–Clearly the typeface is a "maverick" choice–it's not in Trajan.
(I make no excuses for the letterspacing, or for breaking a word between two lines. I can only assume that the latter is an artifact of having to fit the copy into an awkward space.)
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What To Stock Up On Now for Your Holiday Baking
Have you ever run out to the grocery store at the last minute in search of an ingredient for your holiday cookies, only to find that they're sold out? It's rare for a grocery store to sell out of an item but if they do, it's usually around the holidays. And for certain, the more holiday-like an item is, such as red and green colored sugar or marzipan, the more likely it is that you'll arrive only to find an empty shelf. It's better to be safe and stock up early.
This is especially true if you don't own a car or live in a large city and can't easily hop from one grocery store to another. I'll never forget the time that I took a bus to the store to purchase red and green colored sugar for my family's Santa treat, only to find that they were sold out. It was another two busses to the next store which was, of course, sold out, too. That was the year that Santa ate yellow and blue cookies.
The Basics:
It's unlikely that your local supermarket is going to run out of these, but it's nice to have them on hand for last-minute baking projects or emergency entertaining.
• An extra pound or two of butter in the freezer is a good back-up.
• If you have the room, purchase an extra 5 or 10-pound bag of flour. Store it in the freezer if you don't think you will use it up quickly to keep it fresh.
• Extra bags of white, brown and powdered sugar are necessary. Dark brown sugar is nice, too.
• Several bars of good chocolate.
• Double check your supplies of baking soda, baking powder, and vanilla.
• You can go through a lot of parchment paper, waxed paper, and aluminum foil this time of the year.
The Extras:
• Stock up on colored sugar, especially if you have specific colors in mind and double-especially if they're red or green, as well as other cookie decorations.
• It's not at all unusual for a grocery store to run out of marzipan
• Check your supply of holiday spices such as cinnamon, ground cloves, cardamom, nutmeg and be sure you have enough.
• Nuts, especially pecans, walnuts and almonds are essential.
• If you're thinking of gingerbread, make sure you have molasses.
• Fruitcakes and stolen often require candied fruit.
• Coconut is also a poplar holiday baking ingredient.
• Frozen puff pastry and frozen pie dough (either homemade or a good brand) are nice to have stashed in the freezer.
What holiday baking items are you sure to stock up on this year?
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Extracts! One year I was going to make mint chocolate cupcakes and I couldn't find any mint extract anywhere. And I tried about 5 different grocery stores!!!!
Apparently canned pumpkin can be hard to find this time of year.
Almond extract always seems to sell out (though there's usually the artificial stuff leftover). Our butter cookie recipe uses it, and we make batches and batches.
Agreed on extracts.
My favorite tip for this time of year (or year round really) is to just buy a ton more granulated sugar and a bottle or 2 of molasses (more if you bake with it this time of year) On the fly, you can make fresh dark or light brown sugar if needed just by mixing the sugar and molasses to desired taste/color. Then you won't be able to run out! Same is true of colored sugars- just have some food coloring (gel is best for this) on hand, a ziploc bag and you have all the colored sugar you need without fighting at the store.
I just had this problem with walnuts before Thanksgiving. My grocery store was completely out, none in bulk foods and none anywhere else in the store! I've already started stocking up on flour because I know I'll go through at least a five pound bag by the end of the year.
I may have about 10 lbs of butter in my freezer, 15 lbs of sugar and 4 bags of white lily flour in my pantry. /shifty eyes
It's just so cheap right now that you can't justify not buying it. My German-Yankee grandma goes to the commisary this time of year and buys enough baking supplies to keep us in apple pies for the rest of the year.
Agree on peppermint and almond extracts. Lemon & orange can vanish, too. And NUTS NUTS NUTS. Blanched almond and sliced almonds always sell out. You can get plain and blanch/slice them yourself, but you're at the grocery store so late because you're Behind Schedule, right?
Corn Syrup!!!
Went through my butter reserves in the freezer due to Thanksgiving. Time to restock that at least.
Try to find plain milk chocolate kisses in a few weeks and you will wish you had grabbed a few bags for peanut butter blossoms and those tasty little square pretzel/kiss/mm combos.
Also, ditto for the ease of making color sugars. Super simple. Same technique works for sweetened coconut.
It's funny you say that. Last week (before Thanksgiving) I was looking for corn syrup in the baking aisle and had to ask for help. The store employee started by saying "this is the aisle you want to avoid until January..."
Yes lemons!!! Just this past Thanksgiving I was looking for lemons everywhere on Wednesday. NONE to be found!
Canned pumpkin as well.
This time of the year is usually when my local Trader Joe's stock lady fingers (only this time of the year), so I usually stock those up as well.
Flours and sugars are a must. Time to go shopping.
These are all good reminders.Thank you!
I looked for super fine sugar at two separate stores today and there was none to be had. Weird.
defaultname, just whiz regular sugar up in a food processor or blender. No use paying for superfine when you can make it yourself :)
I bought canned pumpkin today without any noticeable shortages on the shelves, but the pecans & walnuts in bulk were fairly scant.
More importantly those leaf dishes in the photo- SO CUTE!


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I forever bow down at the lotus feet of Back To Godhead Srila Prabhupada's matchless gift to the world Born of his oceanic compassion to lead us out of our dark night Into the uplifting light of Godhead
I forever bow down at the lotus feet of Back To Godhead Srila Prabhupada's matchless gift to the world Born of his oceanic compassion to lead us out of our dark night Into the uplifting light of Godhead
Listen my heart to the ancient Voice of our dearmost Friend Who eagerly awaits our return
Lord Jagannath, almighty God! How sweet is this your mystic form, appearing from your own abode, you lead us to our long lost home.
Hari's Name frees him from Yam's(Lord of death) fear Chanting Hari's Name is the gift for the Lord To treasure which one comes to this world Life is thus the preparation to attain death
Let the world hear Of the greatest miracle ever told Of the humble saint who walked among us With his message pure and bold
Lotus-eyed Sri Syama is black. He preserves what you have and carries what you lack. His opulence comes in six pack. Enjoyment without Him is simply wack.
Let your heart speak its ancient history of unrequited longing Let your heart whisper its heavy sighs of love lost and found
My guru bestowed his mercy upon me To hear this most confidential truth And Lord Sri Caitanya delivers the fallen Of this I am living as proof.
Please the Lord by pleasing you Without you no knowing what to do Without Guru's shelter one can not serve the Lord And is cursed to remain materially absorbed
I think I fall SHY of the ultimate I probably AM too caught in the temporary To grasp A vision of the Truth Clear as the SUN to the sages But lost in DArk ephemerality I can only pRAy for mercy
I wrote the first draft of this one night while living in the Brooklyn temple, nearly 20 years ago. I was tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep, so I got up and went to the laundry room where this poem flowed like destiny onto paper.
O Krsna, we have traveled and looked everywhere, but we found You while walking through a Madison neighborhood, chanting Your Holy Name. Krsna's timing is perfect, bringing Srila Prabhupada to the West, at the height of its materialistic culture.
Oh Krishna! Glory to you and your name, Our fame lies in chanting your name, Chanting and chanting is our aim, Without that every moment is a shame
With all this my dear friend, Our Life is Meaningless. It can only be Matchless if used for our KRISHNA who is P R I C E L E S S
Shattered, as a crystal glass dropped upon a temple's marble floor? Alas, my illusion is not so; it bounces, resilient as a ball onto a padded carpet...
All must chant this whether in a dhoti or sari. You may worship Govardha as Giriraj or Giridhari. But whenever you hear these names approach the sound vibration quick be in a hurry.
The dawn of awareness alightens with fascinating glimpses of veiled miracles lying in humble wake to whisper oracles of truth within expectant hearts longing to embrace the soothing vision of divine magic's evanescent touch...
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Happy, happy New Year, I wish you, O my dear, Have a blissful life, Free from lust and anger. The enemies within, Which, cannot be seen, Are lust and anger, Those force us to commit sin.
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While showing his extraordinary prowess, Hiranyakasipu, who desired to kill his own son, heard that wonderful, tumultuous sound, which had never before been heard. Upon hearing the sound, the other leaders of the demons were afraid. None of them could find the origin of that sound in the assembly.
I'm not this body. I'm knowing blissfully. Now love for You has grown, from the seed Your name has sewn.
Dark roads that made me stumble Made my thoughts turn to You, Alas! that moment apart I fell back to my bad old ways. One wrong succeeded next fault, The sin of spiteful envy The sin of name and glory The sin of selfishness.
Oh born of Moslem parents Haridas! And trained in youth in Moslem creed Thy noble heart to Vaishnava truth did pass Thy holy acts thy candor plead! Is there a soul that cannot learn from thee That man must give up sect for God That thoughts of race and sect can ne'er agree With what they call Religion broad
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News - Afghanistan
Afghan boxer Reshad Rezaye has won bronze at the World Series of Boxing competitions in Kazakhstan, beating Chinese and Kazakh rivals.
Another Kazakh boxer ultimately beat Rezaye, putting an end to his hopes for further advancement in the tournament.
Nine nations - including Italy, Britain and the Ukraine - participated in the competitions that began on Friday in Almaty.
Five male and two female boxers represented Afghanistan at the competitions.
The Afghan boxers to return on Sunday in Kabul.


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ALBANY, GA (WALB) - Kids who complain there's nothing to do in the Summer will have no excuses Friday night.
The Albany Recreation and Parks Department will kick off their second year of the Totally Teen Zone. Teenagers can enjoy pizza, games and music from a DJ every Friday in June and July.
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"We all know that teens are usually the ones to sit around and say there's nothing for me to do. This is a semi-structured environment. It is drug-free and free for the kids to come in. It's a safe environment and it's a fun environment," said Albany Recreation and Parks Department Director Suzanne Davis.
Totally Teen Zone is for 13 to 17-year olds. This month it will be held at Thornton Gym from 7 to 10. It's limited to the first 200 people.
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we don't have gas lines on our street either. I was hell bent on having a gas stove, and I installed a LP tank and have a miele cooktop that runs on LP. you'd never know the difference. I have a medium sized tank, and I filled it recently for the first time (after about 2.5 years). It wasn't terribly expensive, and I get the gas stove I always wanted.
definitely consider LP if you're planning on doing some work in the kitchen
Ha, my sympathies. None will get you there. I sadly also have to have electric, what I would look for is one that has the burner sizes where you want them- usually there are two large and two small. I definitely wanted the front right burner to be a large one, worked best for my kitchen set up, that is where I cook pancakes! (the other large burner is back left)
I also opted for the exposed coils, not the glass flat tops, as I use a lot of cast iron pans and knew I would eventually crack or scratch a glass top with them. I have read a lot of conflicting information on glass top and cast iron, opted to keep my cast iron.
You will get used to the electric stove, you just might never love it!
Are you buying or renting the new house?
Honestly, the lack of gas lines would be a total deal breaker for me. I just wouldn't live there. I know that's probably a bit pathetic but I can't get used to electric at all and having an electric cooker for 8 months absolutely ruined my enjoyment of cooking.
In my home town there were no gas lines at all up until recently and lots of people had gas cookers that they ran from propane bottles kept outside (they had to be in special cages or little cupboard things) with lines running inside to the kitchen.
Just chiming in to echo the point about propane tanks--we did that in our house, and apparently just about everyone in our area does so. It's provided by the oil company that services our furnace, was an easy install by the company + our contractor, and the fuel costs are really low. If it's at all a possibility for you I'd look into it. Cooking on electric really does suck. :-(
I'm in a similar situation, moving to the country with no gas lines. I'm looking into installing a propane tank. Is that an option for you?
In fairly large parts of the country, ruling out no natural gas lines would make it impossible to buy a house--entire sections of my area have no gas.
Propane is an option but you need to be able to run a line from the tank. My kitchen is over a walkout basement, with the tanks downstairs (the previous owners had propane tanks for the barbeque and fireplace). If we'd been remodeling the kitchen, it would have been trivial to have a line extended into the kitchen. Unfortunately, you do need that line run in from the tank, so depending on the layout of the house it may or may not be practical to do it now--as it happened, the previous owners had recently remodeled, so it wasn't really viable for us to change it.
Electric stoves have improved since the coil days (though these are still available, especially in rentals). You have two options, a standard ceramic top and induction. Neither is going to be like gas, but they will work. Ceramic tops are cheaper. The glass does not conduct well, so slows the heat, but the newer fast elements do a good job for fast boiling and frying though not hot enough for a wok. (My ultra high burner is hot enough that I have to turn it down for sautéing or deep frying.)
Think about how you cook when you look at burner configurations as there are several. As you spend a bit more money you get more choices. At my price point (I own a Maytag Gemini as I wanted 2 ovens) I had a choice: I could have 2 large elements in front, one a triple (adjustable size 3 ring) and one with the ultra high. Or, I could have the large, ultra high and then the left was a medium sized burner with a bridge to the same sized element in the back. Glass tops require a bridge for double burner griddles. As much as I use a griddle, I think in retrospect I should have gone for the triple element for flexibility and when I need 2 large pans.
Induction is very fast and the stove top doesn't get hot--waiting for the glass to cool so it can be cleaned is a pain--but is more expensive and your pans must be magnetic. My sister in law has an induction cooktop and loves it.
I've cooked with gas and electric, and our current house does not have a gas line. The ceramic stove I have now is not ideal, but when I get to buy a new one, I will go for induction rather than gas. You get the same or better control, but it's much more energy efficient, and much less likely to set a tea towel on fire. :)
I think a lot of you are overreacting. I've used both gas and electric over extended periods of time, and I am very happy cooking on both. Frankly, I prefer an electric oven, and getting a really low simmer is easier with electric to.
So the burners take a while to heat up, and it can be difficult to get a wok as high as the Chinese take-out place down the street. Big deal. I still make great tasting stir fry at home.
And I use plenty of cast iron on my ceramic top. I have been for seven years without problem. Unless you have butter fingers, you'll be fine. The only thing that hasn't worked out for me is one of those reversible griddles. Since it doesn't lay flat and smooth on the cooktop, it doesn't heat evenly at all.
NOT a Kenmore. I've had nothing but problems with it - part of the glass surround of the stove chipped after only 2 years. Also, the front "window" into the oven isn't sealed properly, so liquids get down between the two panes of glass, and it's impossible to clean. Awesome.
I love my induction cooktop. I haven't had gas lines in many years (this is usually the case with apartments and many townhouse communities). I really like that there's less of a fire risk, given that there's no fire! And I also like that I can use my induction cooktop as storage for cookie sheets and pans.
I rent and have an induction cooktop...it's just so damn easy to clean. I feel like the exposed wire kind might be a little closer to the gas experience though.
Induction! I used to have a gas stove which was great, then ceramic for about 4 years (which I hated) and now recently an induction hob. I find the induction more controllable than the gas hob and a doddle to clean but some of my pans make a high pitch ringing noise which is annoying. I was lucky that all but one of my pans were OK for induction and that I managed to get a very high-end ex-display AEG stove with a 75% discount.
I have a GE Profile with a ceramic top and it's just fine. I use Le Creuset and All Clad and I never have a problem with either. Next time I plan to get induction. I think way too much is made of the gas/electric issue. You just need to figure out how to work with what you have.
I'm with Yosh on the overreacting. I grew up with electric and that's what I learned to cook on. Over the years I've had both and if you're a halfway decent cook, you learn to cook on what you've got. And each have pluses and minuses (my current rental is gas and you need a lighter half the time to get the burner lit, which freaks me out every time). We just bought a house, though, with a nice new electric stove and I'm looking forward to not thinking I'm going to blow myself up every time I light the burner. :-)
Check with your new city before you check out propane--they are not allowed in some areas, tho' those are not usually the areas where you need one!
I've cooked on both for many years... you'll get used to electric. And while electric stovetop is a little less responsive than gas, the real positive is that an electric oven bakes MUCH more evenly than a gas one. I have a gas oven now and I curse it every time I pull a lopsided cake out of the oven! The other plus in my mind is that electric wastes less energy, since the pot is directly on the element--which means it doesn't put off as much excess heat in the summer! Of the electric ones I've used, the glass top ones are the best--so easy to clean...
I grew up on electric calrod stoves, and cook on one now, though it's older (about 16 or so years old) and it's small, 24" apartment sized, but it does the job.
I've also cooked on gas and love it, but you are right, gas isn't as easy to simmer as electrics do, but with modern ignighters, they will relight if the flame goes out while on low. That said, I've heard that electric ovens are preferred over gas for cooking, generally. And you can get convection with electric ovens, so if you go with a free standing stove, look into gas burners, with electric oven, convection too if you wish.
My first apartment had a vintage Sunray gas stove that was also the small 24" size, and it was great to cook on.
Again, it all depends on the quality of the stove, even cheap gas stoves may not be up to snuff, as are cheap electric units.
But as others have said, if you are a decent cook, you'll get used to whatever stove you've got.
I also prefer an electric stove! (I have coils.) There's a learning curve to be sure, but I like cooking on it much more than my sister's gas stove.
I live in a rural area, where there are no gas lines, and have propane (LPG) for my stove and BBQ. Most gas stoves can be adapted for propane, which burns hotter than gas. Piping it through to the BBQ is very nice too (no 20 lb. tanks to lug). Love the gas cooktop, I'd have an electric oven if I could. Oh, and when the power goes out, the cook top still works.
I would buy an induction or get a propane tank. If you have used gas for any lenght of time, you will hate that electric stove. I'd like to push my in front of a large train and let it get smashed. I'm all in favor of the electric oven though.
I moved into my SO's house and it has a Whirlpool glass top. I agree w/ the others that they are overreacting... and this is coming from someone who used to cook on a Viking gas range.
Electric does take getting used to, but once you get a hang of it, it's fine. I would recommend getting lots of trivets.... because the biggest thing I had to learn was once I was done cooking, you have to take the pot off the burner since the burner does stay hot for awhile even after turning it off. I got a bunch of cheap cork trivets at Ikea. Also, just be aware that adjusting temperature doesn't happen that fast... so if you want to take something from a rolling boil to a simmer quickly, you have to switch burners. Lastly, if you can, wipe up spills right when they happen, because they're much harder to clean once they've burned onto the top.
In my next home, I will have gas, because, in the end, it is better than electric. But having an electric stove is definitely not the end of the world. It's funny though, the main thing I miss having a gas cooktop for is warming up tortillas right on the flame.
I moved into a condo with no gas available and have inherited the older (and totally pristine) electric stove. It has coils, which are not the easiest to clean, but the thing boils water MUCH faster than the very expensive gas stove at my parent's house. I was surprised with how hot the electric stove gets. I actually have ended up not hating it, especially when you have the added plus of an electric oven. (gas ovens are awful in my opinion.)
You'll get used to it.
If you have to light your stove with a lighter your landlord needs to get that stove fixed.
I also think you can make the adjustment to electric, you just do. I do find from my experience that the glass tops are hard to clean, I really hate them. I also feel more confidant banging my pots around on a coil top stove!
I own an induction with a ceramic cooktop. Very easy to clean, very safe, it didn´t get hot if theres no pot on it.
But you can only use magnetic pots on it. I got my ittala cookware as an extra with my stove.
@amendelblatt My thoughts exactly! I live out in the country, and have a LP tank for my house, (though we use it to heat the house in addition to the stove, so unfortunately we have to fill it more often than you) As long as you have a basement, running a line would be easy for a plumber to do if you're not up for the DIY of doing it yourself.
Just make sure that you purchase a stove that comes with orifices for LP, or the option to flip the orifices to LP, since its at a different pressure than natural gas.
Induction is as fast and responsive as gas and easier to clean. (Because the actual top doesn't heat up much nothing burns onto it, ever). I somehow prefer the "feeling" of gas still, and you may need to change some pots, as mentioned here, but it's the next best thing.
One thing though - see if you can find one without a touch panel control. It is not a friend of greasy fingers.
I've been using Electolux ICON induction cooktop for 6 months now and LOVE IT! I had a choice of converting to gas or going induction and I chose induction. Yes, you need to have magnetic-bottom pots, but many pots and pans brands are now converting their pots and pans to be induction-compatible so so you no longer have to purchase only expensive pots and pans. I was able to get by with Tools of the Trade pots for $25 (Macy's sale) and Farberware (Bed Bath and Beyond and Meyer's annual sale) are induction-compatible (bring a magnet with you and make sure the bottom is magnetic). Induction cooktop cooks faster, more efficiently than gas and you'll notice that on your energy billl. Also keeps your pots looking brand new because the smooth glass top doesn't scratch your pots. When you are cooking soup or stew, and you are waiting for your soup to return to a boil when you add stuff to your pot, it's almost instant that it keeps it at temp and you don't have to wait for it to return to a boil. It's that fast. One thing: before deciding on induction, check the specifications because induction cooktops require higher amps so you need to make sure you have the required specs.
No brainer ... induction ... it's just one of those things in the US that very few people know about, but it's quite common OUS.
We didn't want to mess with natural or propane on our new house project, so we committed to electric. Fortunately, we had experience with induction (quite common in Europe), so we went with that.
Amazing control, faster than gas (I know, hard to believe, but true), safer, more efficient. It's not cheap, so look around for outlet deals (e.g. searsoutlet.com), and be patient if you can. Turns out a lot of people end up buying induction, and return it, because they don't know what they bought.
The only bummer was that I had to give up my copper pans - but my mother isn't complaining about that. Cast iron is nice to work with.
I grew up in a rural area and we had a tank outside the house that would get filled very infrequently. So infrequently that I can't even remember how often they came. Is that an option?
Just chiming in to say that I'm renting, and we have a Frigidaire ceramic cooktop that I absolutely HATE. It's slow to heat, uneven when it gets to temp, and hard to control. Do not buy one. I'd say the same of any ceramic cooktop, honestly. I had a coil stove before this that was much better. And as for ease of cleaning? Hardly. You have to wait 20 minutes for the wretched thing to cool off before you can wipe the glass cooktop, and it always gets splattered and smudged and dirty. And when you clean it more seriously, the special ceramic cleaner you have to buy makes it a long process - I used to removed the coils, wash the drip pans, lift up the stovetop and clean underneath it AND clean the top of the stove on my coil stove and it didn't take any longer. Plus, you have to scratch off any serious spills with a razor blade. It's awful.
I am impassioned because I hate my stove so, so much.
Just chiming in to say that I'm renting, and we have a Frigidaire ceramic cooktop that I absolutely HATE. It's slow to heat, uneven when it gets to temp, and hard to control. Do not buy one. I'd say the same of any ceramic cooktop, honestly. I had a coil stove before this that was much better. And as for ease of cleaning? Hardly. You have to wait 20 minutes for the wretched thing to cool off before you can wipe the glass cooktop, and it always gets splattered and smudged and dirty. And when you clean it more seriously, the special ceramic cleaner you have to buy makes it a long process - I used to removed the coils, wash the drip pans, lift up the stovetop and clean underneath it AND clean the top of the stove on my coil stove and it didn't take any longer. Plus, you have to scratch off any serious spills with a razor blade. It's awful.
I am impassioned because I hate my stove so, so much.


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Flying Alien
In the demo or real game, on the map in the demo (I forgot its name), as the alien, go to the hall.
|iTzz x AlienBoy on Mon, 20th December 2010 01:43 PM


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Bill Sandberg and his wife, Audrey
© Karen Shell
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Seeing It His WayBill Sandberg was born with bilateral occipital lobe disorder. He's legally blind, but he can see what's straight ahead — just not the world around him. Despite that, one of his primary goals as a photographer was to shoot wildlife for Arizona Highways. Earlier this year, with some help from photographer Bruce D. Taubert, he crossed it off his list.
By Kathy Ritchie
It's a damp, gray day at the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch in Gilbert. The forecast high is a brisk 54, but at 7:30 a.m., the temperature is barely skimming the 40-degree mark. It's not exactly an ideal day to photograph great egrets and geese.
Born with bilateral occipital lobe disorder, a condition that has robbed him of most of his peripheral vision, Sandberg can see what's straight ahead — but he can't see the world around him.
More than two hours have passed since Sandberg took his first shot. Taubert asks him whether he'd like to continue photographing the egret. The rain is still coming down, and Sandberg, a little numb from the cold, decides to call it a day.


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Some marriage proposals are romantic, some are quirky, some require a lot of people to be involved, some less so. And some involve the boy who never grew up! As such it is my pleasure to introduce this Peter Pan Marriage Proposal story.
First let's meet the protagonists. Please introduce yourselves.
My name is Chris and my girlfriend is Moriah.
OK in the spirit of good manners ladies first.
Moriah's story:
Thanks so much for sharing your Peter Pan marriage proposal story with us. It was so thoughtful and romantic. I hope you guys have a wonderful life together. Come back and let us know how the Peter Pan wedding goes!
If you'd like to share your proposal story please email your details to email@example.com.