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Strong and fast enough for the Competitive Racing Team.
The Arundel Mandible Water Bottle Cage holds your bottle with two slender arms that create a smaller cross section yet provide up to 40% more bottle-grabbing power than other cages. The Mandible is a design perfectionist's dream: more strength in a smaller package. Arundel offers their minimalist cage with minimalist graphics: No colored decals here.
You can use the Mandible for road, mountain, cross, or triathlon. Arundel knew that their new Mandible cage couldn't be just another fanciful design with a new logo and a crazy name created for the sole purpose of adding another item in their catalog. The Mandible had to work, and work better than anything else available. Not only does the cage design increase holding power, Arundel lightened the structure by adding a foam core to the carbon cage. Most cages simply cut out the center to save weight. Typically, this process exposes the mounting bolts and arm edges and makes it hard to slip a bottle in or out. The Mandible's smooth, three dimensional form leaves nothing for the bottom of a bottle to catch on when you pull it out.
The Arundel Mandible Water Bottle Cage is available in four colors -- Gloss Carbon, Matte Carbon, Oil Slick, and White Out.
- Carbon fiber
- Sleek design with minimal graphics
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- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Bought even though I think it's crazy to spend so much for a carbon fiber bottle holder. Extremely strong grip on my Camelbak Podium bottle.
Everything they are cracked up to be
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Yes, this is just a bottle cage, but anyone who spends any time riding on less than good (ahem, Texas...) chip-seal roads knows that losing a bottle is more than a little inconvenient. I am thoroughly impressed with these rather bling bottle cages. Sure, they're a luxury item, but really no more expensive than other shiny carbon bottle holders, and they are SOLIDLY built. As hyped, they will hold a bottle through pretty much any situation.
Highly recommended if you want some bling and don't want to lose bottles.
Light and Tight
Super light weight and holds bottles firmly. Oh... looks great too!
Very secure and beautiful looking
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Got these on sale and would have paid more. Very impressed on how well they hold the water bottle, even on very rough roads. I usually use the larger water bottles and have not had a problem with them falling out. Yet the cage is not so tight that one has to struggle to get the bottle out. From my other carbon water bottle cage experiences (Bontrager, Giant, Ritchey, Arundel), these are the best experience for me so far.
Best cages money can buy!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have used just about every high end, carbon bottle cage out there; and every time I try something new, I always come back to the Mandibles.
They are incredibly light, hold bottles very tightly, but also allow for easy entry and release. I would say the best of all worlds, and I have never broken a single one, and have had these on 6 different bikes.
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Water bottles love to be held
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Holds your water bottle tight even through the toughest of times and light as a feather.
Beautiful and secure.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
A slim, yet powerful cage that holds my bottles securely, but doesn't make me fight to get them out. Beautiful industrial design is a plus.
They're Great
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Even the biggest pothole won't jar the bottles loose. They cages look great and hold the bottles tight. The quality is second to none.
Impressive cages
When I built up a new bike I had new Zipp cages from a previous purchase for the new steed. Unfortunately, these new Zipps didn't perform as well as the old ones and I began to have bottles launch frequently. Since this can pose a safety issue I began the search for new ones. The Mandible received high marks and with the bonus free bar tape I pulled the trigger. I'm very impressed with the design, style and function and they work! Bottles are snug and I'm 100% confident I will never lose another bottle again. These are excellent.
the best
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
once you use one of these cages you'll never buy another kind.
No vibration, no dropped bottles. perfect.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have used xlab Gorilla cages for years and then moved on to the zipp cages. I would loose bottles in the zipp cages and the xlab Gorilla cage was always pretty tight. This is the happy medium, super light, never loose a bottle, and easy access. They also appear to be very well made. I have had these on for two years and abused the heck out of them, everything is rock solid. I know 60 bucks is a lot for a cage but they will last and are light weight as well.
You'll never eject another bottle
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I've used these cages for several years and they do everything they ought to. They securely hold bottles, it's easy to put in or pull out a bottle, they're plenty light, and they've proven to be quite durable across several seasons. As a bonus, they look great too. I wouldn't be willing to try another cage.
Best Cages around
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
If the Arundel Mandible can handle a year of serious MTB racing, it can handle anything. No dropped bottles...Ever!
Ridiculous but perfect
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Yes, it's absurdly expensive. No, it doesn't need to be carbon fiber. Yes, the Tao Tacx will cost 80% less and weigh only 26 grams more for 2 cages. But if you spent a certain amount on your carbon fiber frame, you'll getting these. They are exceptionally well designed--they work wonderfully and hold up well. They do not get all scratched up or look grimy if you take care of them. They clean up well. They look amazing, the design is elegant, minimal and timeless. There are many finishes to match what you have. If you went all-in on your bike, just do this.
Lives up to its name
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Gone thru the paces with this cage. Easy to put bottles in and easy to put bottles out. Holds them on like a lock jaw when to road gets rough. Its just nice not having to worry about dropping a bottle and running them over or worse jamming them between the frame and cranks while you're in the zone.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Yes, it's probably the most expensive bottle cage you've seen.
Is it worth it? I think so, let me tell you why.
This work of art is the Ferrari of water bottle cages simply because it's sleek, lightweight, and it performs. Arundel offers the cage in several finishes to match your fancy steed and has minimal gravitational pull due to a minimalist carbon fiber construction. Here's where it gets set apart from the rest: Security. This cage will not drop a bottle no matter what you put it through. I've thoroughly tested this cage on the underside of a downtube through tons of descents littered with rock gardens. Guess what? Still have every filthy bottle. Can't say I've had the same luck with others.
Arundel cage.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I am actually quite happy with this cage it looks great on my pinarello, it does what is supposed to do holds the bottle nice and tight but very easy to slide in and out.
finishing detail not as expected
...actually I was quite disappointed by the finishing quality of this product. Looked like they had not been through the production finishing stage after molding. arm edges were not straight and and different thicknesses, need some filing to look somewhat decent. Not exactly what I would expect to have to do. I am sure they function okay with their renowned bottle retention but not the finished product that I would expect from this level of product. ...feel like sending them back.
Do you offer a rear mount in this cage of...
Do you offer a rear mount in this cage of a similar cage. My tri bike has an adamo saddle.
they offer a triclamp kit that attaches to seatpost and then you attach this or any arundel cage to the triclamp.
excellent cage
The cages look fantastic and have great retention. Only quip I have is some of the molding material was still attached, and needed to be sanded down.


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An important part of a councillors work is representing constituents on matters of concern, giving confIdential advice and support in resolving matters, particularly where the Council is responsible for a service delivery.
Councillors (also known as members) all hold regular surgeries within their ward, which residents can attend to raise any issues.
All citizens of Birmingham are eligible to attend these surgeries with any problems they may have.
For details of your Councillors Advice Bureau please select your ward from the menu. If you are unsure which ward you live in, please check via the ward information and services or e-mail email@example.com with your address; alternatively you can phone 0121 303 2731.
A list of Advice Bureau can also be obtained from your local Neighbourhood Office, showing the date, time and address of surgeries.
When visiting the surgery, you need to provide as much information about your problem as possible
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To find out where surgeries are held, you can use the Ward Information and Services, and enter your ward, this will give the time, date and address of surgeries. You can also ring 0121 303 2731.
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With effect from May 2008 the City Council's Standards Committee will be the first point of contact to investigate possible breaches of the Code of Conduct for Members by elected and co-opted Members and not the Standards Board of England. In appropriate cases, complaints may be referred by the Standards Committee to the Standards Board for England.
The information for Complainants and the complaints form can be accessed in PDF format online, on the page entitled Complaints Against Councillors.

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NFL unveils new Pro Bowl uniforms NFL unveils new Pro Bowl uniforms Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More Audibles Top 10 runs of 2012 ... so far by Chris Burke Add Favorite Favorite Added Twitter Email Posted: Tue Nov. 20, 2012 The latest issue of Sports Illustrated -- on iPad Wednesday, Nov. 21 and newsstands Thursday, Nov. 22 -- features a package on the return of the running back. Below, Chris Burke breaks down the 10 best runs of the 2012 season through Week 11.Partially because some of them are buried on bad teams, it is easy to overlook just how many elite running backs there are in the NFL right now. More than half the league, though, has a guy you could consider a legitimate No. 1 back -- up to and including players like C.J. Spiller, splitting carries in Buffalo, or Darren McFadden, in and out of the lineup in Oakland.Each of those guys have provided some incredible highlights, and as we take a look at the most electrifying run plays of the 2012 season so far, both made the cut into our top 10.The star power in the following top 10 runs of 2012 is eye-popping -- as is the athleticism and pure ability needed to pull off these plays.There surely will be more game-changing run plays to come before 2012 is out, but here are the best of the best so far, along with how they happened.10. Chris Johnson, Week 7 vs. Buffalo ([si_launchNFLPopup video='f39bdd2acf634c8ead4740b49032d182']Watch[/si_launchNFLPopup])It may have taken Chris Johnson seven weeks to find the end zone this season, but the run on which he broke his scoreless drought was a doozy. For whatever reasons, Johnson has struggled with his ability to find cutback lanes since the start of 2011. He had no such issue here.From the Buffalo 16-yard-line, Johnson took a handoff heading left, then jump-cut to his right, where a massive chasm in the Bills defense had emerged. With Craig Stevens (red X) pushing Chris Kelsay upfield, Johnson only had to beat George Wilson to get outside. A nifty juke accomplished the task.The greatest run you'll ever see? Hardly. But for a guy who had yet to find the end zone -- and who later in this game added an 83-yard TD -- it was impressive. Oh, and bonus points for a Superman flight into the end zone.9. Darren McFadden, Week 3 vs. Pittsburgh ([si_launchNFLPopup video='452adbdd14e84822843dc7da8a332866']Watch[/si_launchNFLPopup])Unlike several of the other plays on this list, the blocking for Darren McFadden's 64-yard TD run against the Steelers was sensational. Despite seven Pittsburgh defenders crashing the line of scrimmage, Oakland's offensive line managed to seal off a clear running lane for its talented back.Once he burst through that hole, McFadden's gallop to the end zone was a two-step process. Step one: Beat Ryan Mundy, Pittsburgh's safety who had McFadden lined up from his safety spot.McFadden took care of that with a video game-like double-juke that set him free.Step two: Outrun the defense. Done and done. Touchdown, Raiders.8. Robert Griffin III, Week 6 vs. Minnesota ([si_launchNFLPopup video='c42a369e58a54b3c9ee43b0dbbfa405a']Watch[/si_launchNFLPopup])You want to take about a brilliant play call? Here ya go ...With the Redskins clinging to a five-point lead on Minnesota and facing a 3rd-and-6 late in the fourth quarter, Washington offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan put the ball in the RGIII's hands. Shanahan's called QB draw worked to perfection -- the Vikings fired upfield, allowing Griffin to shoot up the gut.Minnesota's only free defender at that point was safety Jamarca Sanford. Griffin headed right at him, then bounced outside around a great block from receiver Josh Morgan.A mere 76 yards later, Griffin was in the end zone for a victory-clinching touchdown.7. C.J. Spiller, Week 1 vs. New York Jets ([si_launchNFLPopup video='2bda8278319b49da854e8c2f11199724']Watch[/si_launchNFLPopup])Spiller has had a couple of dazzling outbursts this year. His 56-yard touchdown run against the Jets on the season's opening weekend was his best.Not only did he break a tackle at the line of scrimmage, ensuring that the play would result in at least some positive gain, he somehow managed to turn this situation ...... into six points. How? By running between the simultaneous tackle attempts of Bart Scott and LaRon Landry, giving him three broken tackles on one play. It was a combination of speed, balance and strength that few NFL backs would have turned into a huge gainer.6. Doug Martin, Week 9 vs. Oakland ([si_launchNFLPopup video='e3a40e6626f5451c8743d5b2655eecda']Watch[/si_launchNFLPopup])Take your pick of Martin's touchdowns in Oakland -- he had four of them, after all, every single one coming in the second half. The vote here is for his first score that day.Martin found a slim hole in the line, provided by some solid blocking, and found himself downfield with Tyvon Branch and Matt Giordano awaiting him. The Bucs' back then turned a solid gain into a highlight-reel play, cutting on a dime to the sideline, where he kicked it into overdrive and raced past the Raiders' helpless safeties.5. Reggie Bush, Week 9 at Indianapolis ([si_launchNFLPopup video='613c79d79a7740e28636fbf7679a82f3']Watch[/si_launchNFLPopup])There are some athletes in this world capable of doing things that normal humans cannot comprehend. To wit: Reggie Bush.Bush has been wowing us with his natural ability since his days at USC -- and he continues to come up with at least a few showstoppers every season in the NFL. He had one in a Week 2 win over Oakland, but I'll take his Week 9 work in Indianapolis.Bush narrowly made his way around the end of his offensive line, jumped to a stop at the Indianapolis 15 as several Colts defenders approached. He planted, skipped to his right in a heartbeat, shook another tackle and headed into the end zone.Don't try that at home -- you'll probably blow out a knee.4. Adrian Peterson, Week 9 at Seattle ([si_launchNFLPopup video='595d7d1e2d9c42c4b6df538605236c65']Watch[/si_launchNFLPopup])We've reached the point of the countdown where any of the remaining runs could be No. 1 on our list. And we start with Adrian Peterson's 74-yard rumble against the Seahawks, one of two non-TDs in the top 10.Peterson's remarkable return from a serious knee injury has been well-documented, but a run like this one just proves how quickly he's recovered. After taking a handoff from Christian Ponder, Peterson tried to follow his blockers right. Only, the blocking completely backfired on this play -- Alan Branch, Leroy Hill and Richard Sherman all sat in position to bring Peterson down.None did. Peterson got around the corner for a short game, then cut back sharply between two Seahawks defenders -- a mix of incredible instincts on Peterson's part and poor tackling. From there, it was a race to the end zone.Peterson wound up being tackled at the one, only to score seconds later.3. DeMarco Murray, Week 3 vs. New York Giants ([si_launchNFLPopup video='77edb034243941b6acec30a24c0c0be5']Watch[/si_launchNFLPopup])The second of our non-TDs ...In the third quarter of Dallas' Week 1 win over the Giants, DeMarco Murray took a pitch and ran right into the chest of Mathias Kiwanuka. Rather than hit the deck, though, Murray plowed Kiwanuka over, then turned back to his left.Waiting there: Justin Tuck, who wrapped both arms around Murray's legs. He spun out of that tackle attempt, too, and retraced his steps right.After springing loose from Tuck, Murray suddenly found himself with loads of green in front of him. With a blocker in front of him, Murray picked up 48 yards before the Giants finally tracked him down.2. Chris Ivory, Week 10 vs. Atlanta ([si_launchNFLPopup video='dc9a16ca1b2c4a3eade18cd5c1d1f654']Watch[/si_launchNFLPopup])For a lot of NFL fans, this was an introduction to Saints running back Chris Ivory. The Saints trailed the then-unbeaten Falcons 10-0 midway through the first quarter when Ivory got the call. Atlanta DE John Abraham appeared to have him hemmed in for no gain, until Ivory sped past him.He did the same Asante Samuel, then turned a good play into a great one by mimicking Peterson's sideline sidestep, squeezing between Samuel and Thomas Decoud.Then, the pièce de résistance: A filthy stiff-arm on Dunta Robinson, which gave Ivory clear passage to the goal line.1. Jamaal Charles, Week 4 vs. San Diego ([si_launchNFLPopup video='8fbc72bc6f974f8686079d2fb7b08d77']Watch[/si_launchNFLPopup])Back in Week 1, Jamaal Charles unleashed a 91-yard TD run to help his Chiefs rally past the Saints for their lone win of the season thus far. Seven days later, Charles was at it again, this time against the Chargers.What started as an innocuous 1st-and-10 pitch -- one in which the Chiefs' blocking seemed totally overmatched at first -- turned into a brilliant 37-yard score. Charles had nothing as he headed right so, just as five Chargers defenders were about to box him in and take him down, he hopped backwards and reversed field.The Chargers, now out of position, still had a shot to corral Charles for next to nothing. That is, until Matt Cassel came down and threw a block on Jarrett Johnson, just nudging Johnson out of his tackling lane and setting Charles free into the secondary. Charles cranked it into high gear from there, outstretching at the goal line to get across for Kansas City's first points. An incredible effort, aided by a quarterback -- and our top run so far in 2012. More Audibles


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Thank your lucky stars
The fortunes of comedian Gabe Kaplan
By David Cotner 08/22/2013
In life — and in luck — if you hit on something big, it tends to stay with you forever. "Forever" was, until recently, a fairly abstract concept that, as with the effects of luck, has become a practical one in the modern age. The power of the law fosters concepts like perpetuity, while the speed of television broadcasts shot into space via passive electromagnetic radiation ensures that even the farthest star systems will enjoy way-out reruns of Small Wonder and The Morton Downey Jr. Show for eons to come. Lucky aliens. One TV show sure to warm the hearts, or whatever pass for hearts out there in the black reaches of space, is Welcome Back, Kotter, the late-'70s socially conscious ABC sitcom that presented a wry, comedic version of integrated, inner-city school life. Based on stand-up comic Gabe Kaplan's high school experiences in Brooklyn and starring Kaplan as the titular Kotter, it was a program that launched the career of John Travolta, and was so popular that its merchandising included everything from lunchboxes to a line of action figures, although the entertainment value of an action figure based on a schoolteacher is decidedly slender. Kaplan's second career, spanning the better part of the past four decades, continues as that of a successful high-stakes player in the World Series of Poker. Luck and timing: a powerful combination in the life of an incisively insightful comedian for whom both qualities are equally and constitutionally crucial.
VCReporter: Is reading someone's poker "tell" the same as being able to read an audience?
No. It's its own thing. It's just like with chess: Bobby Fischer was a great chess player; does that mean he's really smart and would be good at physics? Being a good actor doesn't mean you're not going to be a good poker player, but it doesn't mean you are going to be a good poker player. It's a whole different set of skills, but actors sure seem to like to play poker! And now, when you watch the World Series of Poker, you've got 30 to 40 actors that enter.
So what is it with this idea that gambling is a necessary rite of passage with males?
With poker, everybody thinks they're a great lover, they're a great poker player –– especially with men. You want to think that you're really good at this game because it taps into the whole masculine mystique of being "that guy" outplaying somebody at a poker table. So everybody really overestimates their skill as a player, including some of the really good players who fall into that syndrome of trying to become professionals, traveling around and playing the tournaments and thinking, "Well, now I'm a professional poker player." And very few of them — a miniscule amount, actually — will survive on a year-to-year basis for any length of time.
How much luck do you think you've had?
When I started, I was playing with people who were better than me. I won a few tournaments and I got lucky. I pretty much stopped doing it, and I haven't got lucky. I haven't played in tournaments for a few years, but the last time I played, five or six years ago, I almost won the World Series of Poker. I came in second, and I was pretty lucky until there were just two players, and then I got really unlucky the last six or seven hands, and there was nothing I could do. My luck had been great for four days, and on the last day, it deserted me. It wasn't a lady on the last day!
Is it better to be lucky than it is to be right?
Luck is like baseball, a matter of inches. Life is a matter of inches, too. Like in show business, how many times has somebody been casting for a sitcom or a movie and somebody's in there just at the right time? Every actor, every performer has, at one point their life, a situation comes up where they're there at the right time. Right place, right time — everything revolves around getting that one situation where things break right for you — you can be the most talented person in the world, but if things don't happen correctly, if the stars aren't lined up at one point in your life, it's not going to happen.
Was Kotter a stroke of luck?
Here's the luck element of it: I started out at the Improv when it first opened up in New York [in 1964], where Rodney Dangerfield, Richard Pryor and I were the first group of comedians there. Robert Klein was a couple of years older than me — I was the youngest — and Pryor was working at the Village Gate. Rodney had been a comedian, and he had retired because he'd had to make a living for his family. He came back at that point [to the Improv] to start doing comedy again. From 1964, I had worked, and worked consistently, and it was 1972 already, and I wasn't on television. I had had this wealth of material that I had built up over eight years and the talent coordinator for The Tonight Show had come to see me a few times, and he didn't like what I was doing, but I was doing what I thought would be right for television. I was still pretty young — under 30 — but one time he came into the Improv, and I had this material that I did that was pretty far out that I only did at colleges. It was not the kind of stuff that was on TV at the time. I got lucky where that circumstance happened, I got on The Tonight Show. I did well. I met James Komack, the guy who was producing Chico and the Man, and he happened to be a kid from Brooklyn, too, and he said, "There's more to this about what you're talking about with these kids. The characters are really interesting, so let's do a show about them." And I said, "Well, I can't be their contemporary, what if I'm their teacher, and the same kids are my students instead of being my friends?" And he said, "Yeah, that works." So all those things, down the line . . . I could have been a comedian that never got on television.
Gabe Kaplan will appear at the Ventura Harbor Comedy Club on Friday, Aug. 23, and Saturday, Aug. 24.
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I was recently gifted the sleek new Windows Phone 8X by HTC and I've been having a blast playing with it. Despite the fact that I wasn't given a phone number to accompany my device, I have been using it to download various apps and to take photos galore.
As someone who went from being addicted to her Blackberry to finally embracing the iPhone, I must admit there have been countless times that I have pondered about what other telephonic contraptions could be making my life easier. Being given the chance to experiment with another kind of device has been quite the eye-opening experience. The first thing I appreciated about my new toy was the size of the screen as I prefer viewing my media on a larger scale. The interface of the Windows phone is simple to use and it really turns me on how quickly I can swipe everything. I find that on my iPhone the navigation always lags so this was a pleasant change. The only thing that has been bumming me out are the colors on the main screen but maybe I can change them and I haven't even realized how to yet? That's what I'm hoping, because purple and orange are not the cutest looks.
In addition to offering a Beats by Dre audio system (hell yeah dude), the HTC phone is offering a killer camera in which I used to take the above photos of my workout steeze. These images are unedited and exude the kind of color quality I need in my life. I'm looking forward to seeing what else I can do with the Windows Phone 8X by HTC. #Troop8X #HTC8
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Liberty confirms the purchase and is paying a premium for the Virgin shares
John Malone's Liberty Global will buy the British pay-TV provider Virgin Media for about $15.75 billion, the company announced Tuesday.
Liberty is offering cash and stock worth more than $47 for each share of Virgin Media. The price reflects a premium of 24 percent considering Monday's closing stock price for Virgin Media.
Also read: John Malone's Liberty Global Eyes Virgin Media in Possible $24B Deal
The deal places Malone, left, against rival News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch, who owns Britain's largest satellite group BSkyB. Virgin is the U.K.'s second largest pay-TV provider.
Virgin, created in March 2006 with the merger of NTL Inc. and Telewest, says it has nearly five million subscribers.


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I want to create an desktop interface to create geo-processing tool and that to using Open source GIS software. I will be using Postgresql and postgis too to save and retrieve data for operations. I want to save resulted geo-processing data with naming conventions in Postgresql. For that i want to know Open sources Software to create interface, geo-processing tool and how tO save and retrieve same. Is it possible?
Based on the comments above, as I see it, you have a couple of options. The first is to use an existing Open Source GIS like QGIS or GRASS. You can customise both of these by editing the source code and/or writing pulgins (the former option being more radical and the latter more akin to using Arc Objects). Both support Python.
Your second option is to use a geospatial library and a GUI language to basically roll-you-own GIS interface. For example, one approach would be to use Python's TKInter or wxPython as a development environment for your GUI and then use Python to interface with PostGIS. You could do all this in .NET too. This is the hard way and I can't see the advantage over customising QGIS or GRASS (other open source GIS packages are available).
You could use PyQt and develop a Quantum GIS plugin. In this scenario you can reuse some code, cause QGIS have several Postgresql/PostGIS plugins (PostGIS manager, PostGIS Topology Editor and PostGIS SQL Query Editor). Good resources are available here, here and here.
I think one of the best options is to create your own GUI with Java, which is open-source. You can also take advantage of using JTS library and PostGIS for geo-processing tasks with Java.


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Our department is responsible for determining and maintaining assessments, property inventory records, ownership interest and maps on approximately 30,000 parcels. There are over 1,000 deeds processed yearly by our office. This process involves plotting deeds, adjusting parcel sizes, and transferring ownership interest on our records. Our staff provides this information to taxpayers, appraisers, bankers, realtors, attorneys and others. There is a personal computer available in our office designated for public use to access this information. There are various real property tax exemptions available to eligible property owners.
We receive a copy of all building permits issued by the Town of Colonie, the Village of Colonie, and the Village of Menands. Our appraisal staff reviews and evaluates each of these permits for either inventory or assessment changes. This process also requires our appraisal staff to produce a supportable and defensible estimate of value from each permit. This value then becomes the new assessment.
We pride ourselves on providing friendly service for each and every individual.
Assessor's Responsibilities
To establish the value of any parcel of property, the Assessor may need to know the purchase price (if any), the selling prices of similar property, what it costs to replace property, what rent it may earn, how much it takes to operate and keep it in repair and many other facts affecting its value.
Utilizing these facts, there are three different approaches the Assessor can take to find a property's value:
The cost approach is based upon the total of the current costs necessary to replace the property. This includes the current cost of labor, materials and indirect costs such as architectural fees, land development costs, construction financing, etc. The Assessor will also consider any depreciation which may exist.
The income approach is the preferred method for appraising income-producing properties (investment properties), such as apartments, hotels, motels, business property, etc. The Assessor must consider operating expenses, taxes, insurance, maintenance costs and the degree of financial risk the owner takes in earning income from the property. Also, the expected return for this kind of property is considered.
The market approach is a comparison of the property to be appraised with other similar properties that have been sold in the same or similar neighborhood. This is done very carefully since the property being appraised may have sold for more than it was worth, or for less. Using this approach, the Assessor must always consider such over- and under-pricing to arrive at a fair evaluation of the property value.
4) Any business applying for status under the jurisdiction of the Town of Colonie Industrial Development Agency or Albany County Industrial Agency must file an application with the Assessor's Office by March 1. A copy of the pilot agreement must accompany the application.
5) Providing the Town of Colonie, Albany County, School Districts, and Fire Districts with their total assessed taxable values which is required to determine tax rates.
6) Apportion the assessment on all special franchise properties which are utility properties located on roll section 5 of the assessment roll.
7) Determine the assessment on all public service properties which are located on roll section 6 (utility and non ceiling railroad) of the assessment roll.
8) Providing the New York State Office of Real Property Tax Services with an Annual Assessors Report reflecting all assessment changes from year to year including all new construction assessments, exemptions, Board of Assessment Reviews, Small Claims and Certiorari Proceeding adjustments.
9) Defending our assessment roll cases involving the Board of Assessment Review, Small Claims Hearings and Certiorari Proceedings
Public Access to Assessment Records
In addition to the posting of the Tentative Assessment Roll on the Town web site, the Assessor's Office was awarded a grant from the Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund to convert our property record cards from manual updating to a computerized updating and viewing system via a web-based application. This project is being completed by Systems Development Group, Inc. of Utica, NY and is scheduled to be released for public access in the summer of 2011.
Exemption Filing Deadline - March 1 The last day for filing all exemption applications for the current year. Applications may be filed subsequent to March 1, effective for the following year.
Taxable Status Date - March 1 The date property is valued according to ownership and condition each year.
Tentative Roll Filed - May 1
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If you believe your assessment is incorrect, please feel free to contact the Town of Colonie Assessor's Office. Our appraisal staff will be happy to listen to your concerns regarding your assessment.
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prepare for your meeting with us so that we may understand your
If you are not satisfied with the determination made by the assessor after the informal review process, a complaint may be filed with the Town of Colonie Board of Assessment Review. The dates for filing the complaint form are between May 1st and the 4th Tuesday in May. Grievance Day is always the 4th Tuesday of May each year.
Requirements for the New STAR Exemption
Basic STAR applications may be mailed to the Assessor's Office. The applications must be completed and signed by all owners. We will need copies of drivers licenses for all owners as proof of residency.
For Senior Enhanced STAR, please come into our office. We need copies of your latest Federal Income Tax Return, and copies of drivers licenses for proof of residency and proof of age. We will gladly help you complete the application and make sure you have all the necessary documentation.
Where may I obtain exemption application forms and when must they be filed?
All exemption applications may be
obtained at the Assessor's Office in Memorial Town Hall, weekdays between
8:30 AM and 4:30 PM or the New York State Office of Real Property Services on the web at: http://www.orps.state.ny.us/star. The STAR exemption applications can also be obtained
at the William K. Sanford Town Library Information Desk. All exemption
applications must be filed no later than March 1.
How do I challenge my Assessment?
A grievance complaint form may be filed after May 1; but no later than Grievance Day which is the 4th Tuesday in May. Forms may be obtained at the Assessor's Office beginning May 1. The property owner or representative has the burden of proof in an assessment challenge.
When does my assessment change?
Assessments change as a result of alterations, new construction, fires, demolitions and periodic Town wide assessment updates which are necessary in maintaining an equitable assessment roll.
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Is early bird check in on Southwest Airlines worth the $10 each way?
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I JUST flew from Sac to Columbus, with a transfer in vegas, yesterday on SW Airlines, and I'd say yes, it's worth it IF you are flying with kids, if you want to sit in a particular type of seat, or if you want to sit next to your traveling companions. It's now basically first-come first-choice of seats, and if you are in the last half of passengers being boarded, you're screwed when it comes to seat choices.
Haven't flown in years, but what's $10 these days? If it gets you a small advantage, it's worth it.
I'd say it's all up to personal preference. I like sitting in the back, so no need for me to pay to get on early.
With SWA allowing check-in 24hr before the flight, I find the $10 to be a waste. I almost always check in as soon as the system will let me. I am usually in the "A" group, so I can get most any seat I want.
I would say that it depends on a couple of variables.
First, is the flight the main run for the day from airport x to airport y?
Second, are you travelling with people you want to sit with?
Third, do you care where you sit?
I took a SWA flight to vegas from one of their smaller hubs, flight was packed. I did the standard 24 hour call ahead, I made late B boarding. I almost didn't get a seat with the person I wanted to sit next to.
All business travellers know to call ahead. If it is the main run from that airport for business I would say it was worth the $10 if you want to sit in a particular area and want to sit with someone.
Set an alarm on your phone for 24 hours before the flight. Call the people you're traveling with to remind them to check in EXACTLY when it opens up, OR have them give you their log into info so you can do it for them. That's it. You'll be A group and can sit wherever your group desires.
For me, it's worth it when I know I won't have access to a PC or a smartphone 24 hours before the flight leaves. Then I know I'm checked in and I can print my boarding pass whenever I get to a computer.
Keep in mind that early bird doesn't always guarantee an A on your ticket. I just went from OKC to Seattle a couple weeks ago and got a B on one leg of the flight.
As time is going on, and more and more people have good access to the internet, it is going to be worth more. Right now if you check in right at the 24 hour mark you can almost always get a good place in line.
This is starting to change. A few people have mentioned (and it has happened to me) that I checked in right at 24 hours and got a "B" seat. I think that in the next few months to a year it is going to be like getting a BOC to get a good place in line even if you are right there at 24 hours.
So, if getting a good seat (i.e. not sitting in the middle, or getting to sit with family/friends) is important to you, it is worth the 10 bucks to be sure you get to do that.
FWIW, I'm almost certain A1 through ~15 is reserved. I've checked in no more than 2 seconds after it opened multiple times and have been given A16 multiple times. On top of that, I've had no more than 8-10 people in front of me at A16. I think those are your $10 seats.
On that note, any A or even an early B will still give you run of the plane. Maybe your group of 10 won't be able to sit together, or the front bulkhead seats will be taken, but in general, groups of 2-3 will find seats together and chose their position very easily.
Definitely worth the $10 if you're traveling to/from a busy metro area. Can't bear to be crammed into another tiny rear seat cross country again!
I fly SW all the time and have never done the early bird check-in before - but next week, I'm off to Disneyland and for me, it's well worth the $10...especially for the trip home. The flight is sold out and...I don't really want to worry about checking in, mid-Space Mountain ;-)
This will be the first time I've done it, so I'll know better if it's worth it, a week from now
@firebirdude: I also thought that A1-15 was Early Bird. However I just tried EB for the first time, and I got A45. Two times ago when I checked in without EB, I got A50. So that $10 only got me ahead by 5 people.
However, I did EB because the most recent time I checked in, my office's LAN went down exactly 24 hours before my flight, and by the time it got back up, I was a C!
@firebirdude: We are first time fliers with Southwest and a party of 4 traveling from BUF to LAS on Thanksgiving Day. I am wondering if EB checkin would be worth it for the flight in? I already purchased it for the return trip home but not sure if it would be beneficial for the flight there?
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Like I said, set an alarm on your phone to go off 25 hours before your flight leaves. This gives you an hour to get to a computer. At exactly 24 hours until departure, log on and check-in everyone in your party. The A's go clear up to ~40 and even if you get an early B for some of your party, you'll be fine. The plane is friggin huge. I have never once paid for early bird check-in and have never had anything later than about ~A25. You paid enough for your tickets already. Don't give them the extra 40 bucks.
I just got B 13 with early bird check-in, so I paid $10 to get B. But I didn't have to remember (or be able to) check-in at exactly the 24 hour mark and I wonder what I would have gotten without EB?
waste of money and time.i always check in 24 hours prior to flight time and i have always gotten A boarding passes. the 2 times i used early bird check in i was in the B boarding group.i like aisle seats in the front of the aircraft and on my last flight i was in row 21 out of 23 before i could get an aisle seat.never again!!
@sendsley: probably A boarding group
We were a family of 4 travelling on Thanksgiving day this year from Buffalo to Las Vegas and I had the earlybird boarding both ways. I actually booked early bird for the return flight home initially a few weeks prior to our flight as I did not want to be rushing back to a computer to book seats while we were sightseeing somewhere 24 hours before checkin. I bought the early bird checkin for the flight there as well about 2 days prior to our flight as I was not sure how busy it would be on Thanksgving day for flying. Both times we got the B Boarding and we were really able to get our choice of seating to sit together. If you are a group or family I think it may be a wise choice however if it is only a party of 2 or just yourself, unless you want a specific seat, then I would forego this option.


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Additional funding from the Pro Parks Levy Oversight Committee and from City Council allowed for additional improvements, including pedestrian improvements to the NE 65th Street park entrance, removal of the central parking lot by the tennis courts, and creation of additional habitat.
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It feels bad talking about a space without knowing a single function on it, hah?
So what is a function on the moduli space of curves, from the geometric point of view?
From the functorial point of view, it should be invariants of family of curves, which is natural w.r.t. pullback of families. The j-invariant maybe one for M_1. But does anybody have a concrete example for higher genus?
I do have two guesses of sources of functions:
There are some geometrically defined divisors, maybe take one, and then pick two sections of the line bundle it defines, and take their quotient?
Maybe there are some "natural" differential form, whose integral over the whole curve is a function on M_g?


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It was suggested here that 'kissing the calf' may be a play on words for 'burning the calf'. Is there other support in scripture where the use of 'kiss' and 'burn' has interpretive significance?
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There are three passages when considered literally do not appear to be related, but when kiss and burn are considered allegorically as being related, confirm a NT teaching.
Though the following events took place in the wilderness, at first glance they do not appear to be related:
Israel desired to sacrifice in the wilderness(Ex 3:18)
Aaron met Moses in the wilderness and kissed him (Ex 4:27)
Satan met Jesus in the wilderness and tempted him (Mt 4:1)
'Burn' is used in sensus plenior to indicate the total devotion of the Son to the Father, even unto death as represented by the burnt offering. In the burnt offering, the priests do not eat of it, but it is totally consumed by the fire, such that it represents a relationship between Father and Son at which we can only marvel.
Using the pun relationship between nasak and nashak 'kiss' also takes on the meaning of 'burn'.
Israel, called the Son of God (Ex 4:23), desired to go to the wilderness to burn a sacrifice. Though zabach 'kill' is used, not nasak, there is no killed sacrifice that isn't burned.
From the following verse, Moses takes on the allegorical representation of God and Aaron represents Jesus, his mouthpiece and Son:
When Aaron meets Moses in the wilderness rather than 'kiss' he now 'burns' a sacrifice.
We have two cases now where we see pictures of Christ meeting God in the wilderness and giving his total devotion, Israel in the desert, and Aaron with Moses. The third is troublesome, since Jesus met Satan there.
The purpose of the linking pun is made clear:
In the wilderness where Jesus met Satan, he offered "a better sacrifice" in his obedience. All the burnt offering were but a "shadow of the good things coming". Heb 10.1


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From personal experience I tend to wear two pairs of socks, normally some running socks and then my hiking socks on top of that. It helps me avoid blisters. Quite a few of my friends thinks this is nonsense. But with well worn-in boots I always tend to get more blisters if I wear only one pair. Does anyone know if there is any scientific reason for this? or is it just an old wives tale?
Hiking blisters are from friction. When things shift, your sock is more likely to stay with your boot than your foot as the two fabrics (or leather and fabric) will catch each other. This leaves the sock moving against your foot, which causes friction. When you wear two socks, specifically a smooth liner and a wool hiking sock, the outer sock moves against the inner sock instead of against your foot and less friction is created. Less friction = fewer blisters.
For the same reason, two pairs of wool won't work as well as what you currently do because the wool is likely to bind and behave like one sock instead of two
There are a lot of unspecified variables involved here... type of socks, fit of the shoe/boot, type of shoe, conditions you are hiking in, etc.
But in general, double-socking may offer the following which may help prevent blisters:
If the question is whether double-socking is better, that is unanswerable and totally a question of personal preference. If 2 socks work for you, and reduce blisters, go for it. For other people's feet / shoes, 1 sock may be better. I've even worn 3 socks when my shoes were big enough, and I have hiked with people who wore no socks without issue...
If the question is whether two socks are proven to reduce friction - even that depends on the fabric of the socks, the material and fit of the boot, the foot, and the environment (hot, cold, wet, dry, etc...).
FWIW Ten years ago everyone in the Canadian Forces were issued wool socks. Now they are all issued two-pair sock systems. Personally I never once got blisters with wool socks but I always kept my boots tight.
Two pairs of socks reduces friction and absorbs more moisture, both of which help prevent blisters.
Personally, I prefer thin neoprene socks underneath thick wool socks.
The esoteric "answer":
Try footwraps.
stolen from Wikipedia
My opinion is that using two pairs of socks is nonsense - there will be folds then, resulting in stronger impact of friction and more blisters. It would be better to use good "functional" socks that keep the foot dry. I think the moisture is the worse thing for blisters.


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So I have an awesome configuration on my home pc. My
/home directory has its own partition.
My home partition slowly fills up until the system is unable to complete even simple tasks. For example, when this issue has occured, I can load up firefox. It just pops up an error message saying that it cannot be done.
Rebooting solves the issue.
The strange thing is, I've run baobab and it doesn't notice a problem. There should be hundreds of gigabytes of data somewhere, but it doesn't see it.
Does anyone have any idea of how I might troubleshoot this issue? I'm thinking I could do
lsof but I've always found the output of that to be too much information.
Maybe my drive is, like, dying.
Edit: is there a /home analog of /var that gets cleared out at boot time? Maybe I could check in there next time I notice this problem to see if I can divine what's up.
Update: I found the issue. my .xsession-errors file is filling up with
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I've seen in several places on MSO that people believe there is too much upvoting on questions (such as Neil Butterworth's comment on this question). Why do people believe this? I understand the problem with sympathy upvotes, but this seems to be another issue. What's going on?
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Basically, there's two schools of thought.
One is shown by Koper's comment above - just be merely existing, a question is a Good Thing and is therefore worthy of a reputation gain by the OP.
Another is that a question is not necessarily a big contribution to the site in a sense that it's a LOT easier to ask questions than to answer them, and as such asking questions is compensated (reputation-wise) entirely non-commensurate compared with answering them ( in real life, an equivalent logic would be "yes, people who serve Big Macs provide invaluable service to MacDonalds customers, and without them MacDonlds would not exist - but the work is so simple that anyone can do it and thus is not worth more than mimium wage"). E.g. it's far easier to gain rep points by asking loads of obvious questions (the usual example is just copy/pasting questions from some textbook), which basically deflates the worth of reputation of people who put in the effort to answer the questions.
Anther factor in the second school of thought is that simple/dumb/obvious/Google-me type questions, precisely due to their obviousness, get up-voted a lot more than well-thought-out ones, because for any person who puts efforts into questions there's 100s of people who are too lazy to do so, yet both get rewarded the same.
Just to be clear, proponents of the second school of though don't object to upvoting good questions - just to the fact that as the system currently works, it is NOT geared towards up-voting good questions, and explicitly geared against asking good questions (and, due to abovementioned rep inflation, implicitly discourages answering with good answers, at least on the margin).
Some history might throw a little light on the subject.
Way back in the misty depths of the beta, there were relatively few users, and most of them were experts of one grade or another (except me, of course, I was just faking it).
In that environment basic questions were not very common (remember that Joel posted the How do I move the turtle in LOGO? to emphasize that basic questions are OK), and were rarely upvoted. Instead it seemed to me that questions were being upvoted if they exposed or emphasized things that were not common knowledge among that well informed crowd or if they addressed problems that plagued these good programmers (or if there were technically meaningless fluff, but that is a different lesson).
So it was hard to get a lot of points on real questions, and we got used to that.
Since then:
Anyway, it is easier now to do well with questions, and that just seems wrong to people who got the feel of the site back in the medieval period.
A second contributing factor is a class of users who ask an endless stream of questions without any obvious purpose, nor any willingness or ability to learn from the answers; nor any sign that they will ever mature as programmers. These questions are often badly posed, based on misunderstandings, or attempting to use the wrong tools the wrong way: questions that take care, effort, and time to answer. Now we could try ignoring these guys, but real beginners often ask questions that have the same problems and will really benefit from a good answer to them; so ignoring questions that look like there were emitted by question-pumps reduces the true utility of the sites and harms the people they could most help. This makes us (or at least me) resentful and suspicious of people who generate the bulk of their reputation from questions.
Because they have a very strict set of beliefs as to when a question should be upvoted and the OP rewarded for their contribution to SO.
There may be very many reasons they've chosen to not only limit their upvotes, but chide others who upvote for other reasons, and I don't know that there's a good reason to speculate on why they feel this way.
As for me, I upvote
The other extreme is that some people only upvote a question if it is a shining beacon - a monumental and substantial addition to the SO knowledgebase.
But it doesn't matter. Feel free to ignore people who suggest that you vote according to their patterns and beliefs, if you like.
The Electorate badge rewards voting on questions as well as answers (or, for people who have voted a whole lot on answers, questions rather than answers). Granted that it doesn't have to be upvotes, we lose a small amount of rep for downvotes, and it feels nicer to upvote than downvote.
I agree in general that questions are less valuable than answers, but discouraging upvoting them is not, apparently, the solution. Perhaps question upvotes should get less rep than answer upvotes.
Because a badge was created to encourage upvoting on questions since people were upvoting answers way more.


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On February 6, 1996, the first day of his life that Dick would never forget, nothing about the structure of the day seemed unusual: dental appointment, the usual office projects and problems. Dick waited for a phone call from his wife, Nancy. There was nothing unusual in that, nothing except the fear ripping his heart out, pulling it from the roots and clenching his stomach like a fist, while he hoped against hope Nancy would call and tell him it was nothing: a mistake, a benign cyst. He would gladly have endured the worst day of his professional career for just one day of the way his life was before. It wouldn?t have been so much a return as a reprieve--a reprieve from a death sentence. Not a death sentence for him, but for Nancy, his wife of 28 years. Dick?s own sentence was despair.
Nancy left the surgeon?s office, rode down the elevator, stepped out into the parking garage, her keys clutched in her hand, looking for her car. Twenty minutes later she was still looking for it. The keys had impressed deeply into her palm, as if she were trying to make a duplicate impression in wax. When she opened her hand the deep lines cut by the keys flushed pink from the returning blood flow; she didn?t feel any pain, and she?d forgotten she was looking for the car or where it was. It didn?t matter.
She had gone to the surgeon for a breast biopsy, a simple outpatient procedure to confirm that she couldn?t have what her doctor thought he might have seen on a mammogram. She had been prepared for another test, another period of waiting, another result that, might even be refuted and have to be repeated, perhaps even a second opinion. But it hadn?t happened. She?d been on time for her appointment, punctual as always, ready for instructions on what to do or not to do, perhaps some pain, and then to go back to work and wait for the result. But there had been no biopsy, no need for it the surgeon told her. The cancer was clear on the mammogram. There was no point to a biopsy to confirm what he already knew: Nancy had breast cancer. Her next surgery should be to remove the neoplasm growing in her breast. In the parking lot, she looked up from her hand, realizing from the keys and the imprint in her palm that she was looking for her car, but it was dark all around her. How would she find her car. How would she find her way out?
Dick?s phone didn?t ring. instead he heard his name on the overhead pager: call the operator. He snatched up the telephone receiver. Nancy was looking for him; she had come straight to the office instead of calling. When Dick saw her face he knew there was no reprieve. He didn?t have to ask, or he couldn?t. So Nancy told him: the doctor had done a mammogram and told her she had cancer. Then she told Dick what he knew she would: she wasn?t going to have chemotherapy. Dick knew she would tell him that because of a pact they had made together years before, that should either of them get cancer they would not put each other or themselves through the misery of chemotherapy.
Dick and Nancy?s experience with cancer had started back in the 70?s when Nancy?s cousin died from leukemia. The cousin had been treated with chemotherapy and suffered tremendously for a long time. One of Dick?s aunts took chemotherapy treatment and swore that rather than endure another round of chemo she would rather die--she did so three months later. In 1988, another of Dick?s aunts died on the operating table while having a tumor removed. In 1989, a friend of Dick?s died from prostate cancer, and in 1996, a woman Nancy worked with lived three months after being diagnosed with lung cancer. Nancy had filled this woman's position after her death and now sat in her chair, a reminder of the power of cancer every time she sat at her desk.
To Dick and Nancy, chemotherapy was not an option if the impossible ever happened to either of them; chemo made what little time left to cancer victims a torment, and the suffering didn?t even extend the time for those willing to endure it. It wasn?t even a fair trade.
In the moment that Nancy walked in the door, all Dick could think of was that his wife was going to die. Nothing in his experience offered him any hope. In a fog of shock, with dimming denial his only cushion, he called the surgeon. The lump in Nancy?s breast needed to be removed as soon as possible. Three days later the surgeon removed the malignant lump and seven lymph nodes, one of which showed traces of cancer. The treatment would be standard: chemotherapy and radiation, and Nancy?s answer was the same: no chemotherapy, no radiation.
Dick entered a blind alley with nowhere to turn. He wanted his wife to live, to recover, but he knew Nancy; when she made a decision she stuck by it. Throughout their marriage, in all their time together, Nancy had been a rock; she was always there for him and for their children, and she had always been consistent, providing an anchor in a constantly changing world. But Dick needed a way out of the blind alley, and he wanted to take Nancy with him, lead her out of the darkness. But even staring at death Nancy didn?t back down. She had seen the effects of chemotherapy with her own eyes, and so had Dick. Would he not stand by her in this, the most important stand she had ever taken, would he not back her up when she needed him to support her in her decision more than she ever had? After all, it had been Dick?s decision too. Neither of them made decisions lightly, and when they did they took their stand on their values. It was part of how they had forged their lives, how they had raised their children to face the world--to stand up for what they believed in, no matter how tough the going got. You didn?t turn and run in the face of trouble, or even death.
But Dick wanted hope; he wanted more than hope--he wanted Nancy. But he couldn?t see a way out of the blind alley, and it kept closing in, squeezing him. At home in the evenings he couldn?t keep his eyes off her. How could she be there now and not be there in the future? This happened to other people, not to them. He would wake up and the nightmare would be over, but when he did wake up, when he opened his eyes in the morning, it was the first thing that filled his consciousness. He would reach over and touch her, his lips moving silently.
At work a friend asked Dick the usual question by way of greeting, How?s it going? Dick stifled his automatic "fine" and told the truth. Nancy had breast cancer and would not accept treatment, neither chemotherapy nor radiation. His coworker suggested he talk to another employee, Michael, who had a cancer story.


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I'm working on redesigning a 90's ecom website - the goal is to make it mobile phone/tablet friendly and we have decided to go the mobile first way because the website has more mobile visitors. My first deliverable is a set of wireframes. Are there any best practices resources that I can refer to before I get started. Most of the info available online highlight the importance of having a mobile friendly website or delves a lot into css. I would appreciate any inputs on how I can get started.
What are some of the best wire framing pracitices/guidelines for mobile first approach for an ecommerce website?
There are so many considerations, and if you looked up any articles on responsive versus adaptive design for the web/mobile you will come across most of the common ones. I have listed some here to get you started (sorry I don't have the exact references):
Mobile device considerations
Responsive design considerations
CSS considerations
Some responsive design related articles:
Tools and Resources:
Let me know if you find any of it useful.
Worth looking at prototyping tools such as Axure or Proto.io which support mobile quite well. The latest beta of Axure 7 supports basic responsive layouts for mobile also.
Also worth keeping in mind, particularly with a mobile first solution is to keep it simple, keep the customer focused on one task at a time, and make tap zones large (7mm is a good guide as it's the typical width of a humour finger tap and isn't dependent on resolution). Also, allowing for those larger tap zones will force the design to simplify - and will make itself more amenable to porting, particularly to lower resolution Androids.
Before getting too caught up in responsive (or indeed more sophisticated adaptive design), it's worth asking whether responsive design is applicable for the user. Is the user actually performing the same tasks in a mobile context to what they're doing online? Nowadays it's better to take a multi-channel approach to modelling user behaviour and designing online and mobile offerings to compliment each other. It's worth looking at diary studies / qualitative testing etc to find out what it is that customers want to do on mobile ... and "are there other things that they'd expect to do online" ... this might help frame the conversation when discovering user needs. This is far more important to the success of the product than worrying initially too much about device compatibility etc - those discussions will come later.
With respect to creating "high detailed icons" - that's now becoming unfashionable particularly with the launch of iOS7 ... skeuomorphism is a thing of the past ... thing flat and simple. Also, this trend is also the norm / expected for Windows mobile and is also becoming increasingly common on Android devices also.
Other considerations include whether the mobile solution will be an app, a webapp, a shell-app - e.g. an app housing a web solution etc. A webapp, with a shell-app for appstore presence may be a good approach depending on the nature of the product.


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English Muffins
Categories: Comfort Foods, Cooking with Kids, Kid-friendly, Snacks, Vegetarian
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Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Homemade English muffins are a real treat
Prep Time: 25M-30M, plus rising
Cooking Time: 30M
Serves: makes 10 muffins
- 3 cups bread flour, plus more for kneading
- 1 tsp instant yeast
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 1/4 cups tepid water
- 2 tbsp butter, melted
- 2 tbsp semolina
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- Mix the flour, yeast, and salt in a bowl. Make a well in the center, and pour in the water and butter. Stir to make a slightly sticky dough.
- Knead the dough on a floured work surface for about 8 minutes, until smooth and elastic. Shape into a ball, place in an oiled bowl, and turn to coat. Cover with plastic wrap. Let stand for 1 hour in a warm place until doubled.
- Line a baking sheet with a kitchen towel and sprinkle with most of the semolina. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead. Divide into 10 balls. Place the balls on the towel and press into thick disks. Sprinkle with the rest of the semolina. Cover with another towel. Leave for 20-30 minutes, until risen.
- Heat a frying pan with a lid. In batches, place the muffins in the pan and cover. Reduce heat to low and cook for 10-12 minutes, until they puff up. Flip and cook for 3-4 minutes, until golden.
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