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Apartment is nice and sweet and can fit up to 4 people and consist of:
*bedroom with 1 double bed and 1 mezzanine bed, dinner table, wardrobe,boombox.
* fully equipped kitchen, with cooker, oven, fridge, kettle, toaster, coffeemaker, dishes and so on.
*bathroom with shower unit and toilet
Guest Access
Also we provide:
*towels and bed linens
*iron and ironing board
*good recommendations where to go and what to see in Prague
*24 hours support during your stay
The Neighborhood
This area is really busy, but the street where building with apartment is situated is quite and noise from the the center will not disturb not at night neither during the day.
Plenty of shops, restaurants are around there, small farm market exactly in the corner, where you can buy fresh fruits and vegetable, also some souvenirs from Prague. And prices are good, we compared:)
Location is truly amazing, close to main attraction. You can reach
*Old Town Square in 2 minutes walk
*Wenceslas square in 5 min walk
*Charles Bridge in 15 min walk
Getting Around
It takes 30 minutes to get to your apartment from airport by taxi. We can organize a transfer from the airport directly to the apartment - the cost of this service is 20 EUR/car for 1-3 people, and 25 EUR/car for 4 people. In this case our driver will meet you in the arrival zone, drive to your apartment and hand you in all needed maps and keys.
Parking is not included in price, but no worries about it, when you will arrive we will explain you all details about parking and show you where you can park your car, for the lowest price. The nearest public parking is located on the Opletalova str. and parking costs 12 eur/day (weekends and nights for free)
- Please leave the apartment in the same condition as you found it. All bed linen/tea towels and other textile as well.
- Check-in from 15h00 (we will do our best to prepare your apartment as soon as possible) and check-out until 11h00 (you can leave your luggage in our office afterwards)
- We kindly ask you not to make any noise in the hallways and other common areas in the house after 22h00. There are many old people in the house and we have promised the neighbors to keep the peace and maintain friendly relations.
We love our guests so much that we provide them with a welcome set consisting of tea, coffee, sugar, detergent (dishwasher and washing machine), hair&body 2in1 shampoo, kitchen utensils, towels and bed linen.
- If you stay in our apartment for more than 7 days – we will clean and change towels/linen once a week for free.
- If you break something, please tell us. It happens, life is life :)
Thank you for understanding.
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very nice contact! gladly again!
sehr netter kontakt! gerne wieder!
We arrive to this apparent, but it wasn't the apartment advertised. The woman didn't tell us despite having spoken to me the day of our arrival. They made it out like our new apartment was do much nicer and it was like they were doing us a favor but the shower smelled of urine, there was urine on one of the pillows, fluff on the floor and the sofa bed tilted so that it hurt our backs and made us fall half down a gap. We also messaged the owner asking for some information but still no response and we have now left.
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
We really enjoyed our stay in Prag!
When we have booked this flat, Alex and Anastasia had contact us even before our stay. They were so friendly and let us know all the important information. When we arrived in Prag, we got a map with all the important stuff on it and Alex also sent a mail to ask, if everything is okay. The apartment was cosy and clean and just a few steps from Wenceslas Square.
We really recommend this flat! :)
A huge thank you to Alex and Anastasia, you made our stay unforgettable.
location of the office and the apartment is very close to the main station and the inner city and therefore easily to reach by foot. people in the office are friendly, proper english speaking and helpfull. the apartment itself gave a great impression, all clean, well-equipped and working (dish-washer and so on). the perfect base to explore the city and relaxe afterwards.
Everything was in order,but we had only four rusians chanels in TV .We are not Russian :)
Everything worked as we planned. The appartment was well equipped and quite close to the center, like 20minutes.
they are assessing you well about what to do, or if you have any doubt.
The apartment of Alex and Anastasia was beautiful. It is better than shown in photos and description. We got detailed informations ahead for the procedure when we arrived and have to get the keys from their office, which is nearby the central station. The apartment was just 3 min by foot from there. Furthermore we get very useful informations of hotspots and must seen places in Prague. All in all, it was a very pleasant stay in the heart of Prague. We very recommend this apartment.
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20 Sep 2012 5:17 AM #1
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I don't see in the docs which image or video formats are accepted by Sencha. I discovered by myself that tif images are refused while png's are accepted, and I can't load a mp4 video that I made with ScreenFlow.
What formats goes with Sencha ?
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Thank you for the suggestion, we will look into adding this to documentation.
The image formats that are supported by Animator are the same ones that are commonly supported by webkit browsers. These are: .jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp and .svg. TIFF format is not supported by any major browsers.
About the movie, it will not play inside Animator project when imported, but when you export the scene, you should be able to see / play it. MP4 is supported, and should play correctly. If it still doesn't load after export, please let us know.
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by Melissa Brunner
Word from Topeka City Councilman Chad Manspeaker this week that will propose expanding the scope of the city's Human Relations Commission to include protections for people based on sexual orientation and gender identity might give some of you a sense of deja vu. Haven't we been down this road before? I took a journey back into our archives for a little history lesson on Topeka's recent past when it comes to anti-discrimination policies.
A major fight came in 2002. The council considered adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the city's anti-discrimination policy. Hundreds of people packed council chambers for the meeting which ended with the council first voting to remove sexual orientation and gender identity, then voting 7-2 to approve an ordinance with increased penalties for crimes against individuals ased on race and religion.
In 2004, the council approved not discriminating based on sexual orientation for city employment practices. The measure was challenged by petition and enough signatures were gathered to put the issue to a public vote. In the spring primary election, the ordinance was upheld. On a side note, however, weeks later, a statewide vote was held on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. It was passed with 70 percent of the vote.
Some would say efforts to fight discrimination for any group took a hit in 2010. In a series of actions, the Human Relations Commission was disbanded as a city department dedicated to solving unfair housing and employment cases, and revamped as a volunteer commission. The move was made amid budget cuts, with the thought being the cases could be handled by the state's Human Relations Commission.
Councilman Manspeaker's proposal aims to bring the debate over discrimination and which groups should or should not be protected back to the forefront. We will be following where the talks lead this time around.
<i>Addendum:</i> Looking a little further back in our archives, I found a couple footnotes. Back in 1998, the council also considered an attempt to abolish the HRC. It was ultimately saved amid a compromise that changed its makeup. There also was discussion at that time about adding sexual orientation to the list of protected classes, but that was removed. (Thanks to former Councilman Jim Gardner for refreshing my memory on that one.)
Before that, in 1993, the late mayor Butch Felker commented that he would "consider" adding an openly gay person to serve on the HRC. However, I do not find any follow up where that happened.
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Jock itch (tinea cruris) is a fungal infection that affects the skin of your genitals, inner thighs and buttocks. Jock itch causes an itchy, red, often ring-shaped rash in these warm, moist areas of your body.
Jock itch gets its name because it is common in people who sweat a lot, as do athletes. It also is more likely to occur in people who are overweight.
Although often uncomfortable and bothersome, jock itch usually isn't serious. Keeping your groin area clean and dry and applying topical antifungal medications usually are sufficient to treat jock itch.
Jock itch usually begins with a reddened area of skin that spreads out from the crease in the groin in a half-moon shape onto the upper thigh. The border of the rash may consist of a line of small, raised blisters. The rash often itches or burns, and the skin may be flaky or scaly.
See your doctor if you have a rash on your skin that doesn't improve within two weeks or if you treat it with over-the-counter medications and it returns within a few weeks. You may need prescription medication.
Jock itch is caused by a type of fungus that can be spread from person to person or from shared use of contaminated towels or clothing. Jock itch is often caused by the same fungus that results in athlete's foot. It's common for the infection to spread from the feet to the groin, as the fungus can travel on your hands or on a towel.
The organisms that cause jock itch thrive in damp, close environments. You're at greater risk of jock itch if you:
The organisms that cause jock itch thrive in damp, close environments. Warm, humid settings that promote heavy sweating — thus washing away fungus-killing oils, making the skin more permeable and more prone to infection — favor its spread.
You're at greater risk of jock itch if you:
In many cases, your doctor can diagnose jock itch simply by looking at the rash. If the diagnosis isn't clear-cut, your doctor may take skin scrapings or samples from the infected area and view them under a microscope. To rule out other conditions, your doctor might send a sample of the rash to a lab. This test is known as a culture.
For a mild case of jock itch, your doctor may suggest first using an over-the-counter antifungal ointment, lotion, powder or spray. The rash may clear up quickly with these treatments, but continue applying the medication twice a day for at least 10 days.
If you also have athlete's foot, treat it at the same time you are treating your jock itch. This will reduce the risk of recurrence. If jock itch is severe or doesn't respond to over-the-counter medicine, you may need prescription-strength creams or ointments — or even antifungal pills.
Reduce your risk of jock itch by taking these steps:
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When carrying out some germination tests on species in the Cucurbitaceae, I notice that young plants of this family produce a lot of clear fluid when they are dissected. Most plants I dissect do not produce any fluid, even ones which appear to be turgid and have large cells. Why do cucurbits do this, and what's the fluid?
Members of the Cucurbitaceae family (squash, pumpkin, cucumber, melon etc.) are unique* in that they possess two distinct phloems, see figure below. The fascicular phloem (FP) is the main transport conduit, and more closely resembles the phloems of other plant families. Its role is to transport photosynthates and other nutrients (Turgeon & Oparka, 2010).The extra fascicular phloem (EFP), is more minor and has an atypical composition for a phloem. Although we have been aware of this dual phloem system for centuries (Crafts, 1932; Fischer, 1883, 1884, 1886), it is often ignored!!
The minor strands of EFP have been found to be the source of the extreme bleeding observed in cucurbits (Zhang et al., 2010). However this excessive bleeding has meant that cucurbits are a very popular model plant for phloem composition studies, since copious amounts of phloem contents are easily accessible. This is problematic since we now know that the exudate originates from the atypical EFP strands, making it a poor model (maybe is isn't even a phloem at all)!
The reason that the EFP does not block upon wounding is that it lacks blocking and sealing mechanisms (such as P proteins and pectins), which usually exist in order to protect the phloem from damage or disease, and to prevent the loss of vital metabolites. The fact that these are not present in EFP, along with the fact that EFP is rich in defensive proteins (Walz et al., 2004), may suggest a defensive role for this secondary phloem. Its anatomical placement around the vital vascular transport conduits supports this idea.
*No others are known, but could definitely exist.
Looking through some papers it is not clear to me that botanists actually know why this should be the case, and I am sure that you are more qualified than me to comment on this Richard! However, there's some discussion of this in Zhang et al. (2012).
These authors argue that the "exudate from curcubits is copious" because of physiological adaptations due to their growth habit - i.e. they are vines and as such often require the structural support of other plants. Vines compensate for a lack of a supporting stem structure by having xylem vessels that are wider than comparable freestanding species and "high hydraulic conductivity" (which is a measure of how readily water will flow through pores - in the case of curcubits - very readily). Similarly, sieve tubes and sieve pores are very wide compared to species in other families. Since these sieve tubes have such a large cross-section, they do not readily self-seal.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - The Geneseo Chamber Singers and Spectrum Women's Ensemble will feature works by Wilbye, Brahams, Dawson, Gershwin and Haydn during their joint spring choral concert at 8 p.m. April 30 at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 23 Main St. in Geneseo. Gerard Floriano, professor of music in the School of the Arts, will conduct both performances. A David Hurd will provide piano accompaniment for Spectrum. The concert is free and open to the public.
The Spectrum Women's Ensemble will perform Come Shepherd Swains by John Wilbye; Three Sacred Choruses, op. 37, by Johannes Brahams; King Jesus is A-Listening by William L. Dawson featuring soloist Amanda Skinner; and Three Settings George Gershwin, arranged by Geneseo student Louis Lohraseb and featuring soloists Iris Malfetano and Shelly Massachi.
The Chamber Singers will perform Franz Josef Haydn's Missa Solemnis in B-Flat. The work will feature three solo quartets: Danielle Relyea, Amy Joscelyn, Chris Blasting and Michael Radi in the Kyrie Gloria; Laura Best, Antonia Laruccia, David Keyes and Devon Borowski in the Credo Sanctus; and Janine Hardenburg, Leora Bernstein, Matt Romanow and Alex Szczepanski in the Benedictus Agnus Dei.
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STEUBENVILLE — City school officials held the latest in a series of informational education talks Wednesday afternoon with their teachers to provide a culture to prevent future tragedies....
Does the curriculum include the obligation to report alleged sex crimes? Does it include the penalties for failing to do so? Apparently, the superintendent(in name only because the coach makes all the decisions, he just gets an inflated salary) allows those who do not report rape and shield the perpetrators to walk the halls of a school and act as a role model. What message does that send to students and staff and parents? If a math teacher knew about a rape and did nothing is there any chance he would be still be in the classroom? Obviously, the coach needs to be removed immediately but the superintendent is more than culpable, too. Where is his compassion for the victim?Where is his moral compass? Maybe he can ask the coach what to do
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Mandatory notification to outside authorities comes after obscene phone calls, voyeurism, sexual harassment or forced sexual contact," explained Clark.
This is quoted from the article...."MANDATORY NOTIFICATION"
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I know of a teacher that used to work at Steubenville high school. This individual refused to fix grades for athletes and because of this was "encouraged" to leave. The only way to fix this problem is to suspend athletics for a year or two.
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does anybody know a site where I can download historical data on stocks including companies that have gone bankrupt such as lehman brothers?
it appears that bankrupt companies no longer appear in the finance sites that I know...
Google and Yahoo finance have a survivorship bias -- they only include firms that are still around. I know of no free source that provides the data you seek. I get my data from Compustat and CRSP via the Wharton Resource Data Service, but these (or Bloomberg or Reuters) are likely too expensive for an individual.
Have you asked your broker if they will sell you the data you want?
There is a very cheap, i.e. free, way of obtaining the list of companies included in the S&P 500 at any given time.
Check the revision history for the S&P 500 List updates on Wikipedia.
It is ugly and unreliable but you usually get what you pay for :) ... it should be okay if you are just playing around with your own strategies.
This doesn't solve the main issue since you still need a way to get the data for those companies. But having the right ticker usually helps...
Take a look at http://www.mergent.com/servius - I believe they have historical data for all companies, whether they're currently being traded or not.
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I'm trying to figure out how to plot a 3rd point on a graph
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Latest press release from US space agency NASA has revealed about one of NASA's most ambitious projects; a new camera installation on the International Space Station which will assist human astronauts in keeping up with the disaster zones on Earth.
The project is being administered from the Huntsville, Alabama-based Marshall Space Flight Center.
While briefing the project, the manager of the SERVIR (acronym of Serve, in Spanish) program, Dan Irwin, claimed that the ISERV will be involved in capturing images on the ISS which will offer the deepest assistance in the study of a variety of activities taking place on the green planet.
The images will offer priceless information regarding the disaster zones on Earth. In addition, the images will help in conceptualizing and decoding crucial information and data from various disasters associated with humanitarian calamities.
The camera features intelligent optical resolution
It is extremely sharp, powerful and has been designed specifically for spotting relatively smaller objects from the space. It is good enough to capture objects as small as cows on Earth. The optical resolution of the camera has been fabricated especially for the said purpose, and that's how it will prove extremely effective in studying the amplified consequences of climatic fluctuations on life at Earth.
"The camera's nominal resolution is 2.8 meters. That's about the size of a cow, although we may be able to sense the presence of smaller targets, down to the size of a person," acclaimed a science expert with SERVIR, Burgess Howell.
Meanwhile, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency is busy making final arrangements for the scheduled July 21 launch of the camera by its HTV-3 spaceship from southern Japan.
However, the initialization of the camera aboard ISS will only begin in November.
About the Pathfinder
The camera, dubbed Pathfinder, will be used for capturing images of landslides, floods, forest fires and other similar calamities taking place on Earth with the intent of analyzing and limiting such happenings in future.
A prototype designed and developed by NASA in collaboration with the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Pathfinder is capable of capturing images at seven frames-per-second (fps) in bursts of six to second.
Also, it can provide assistance in the estimation and assessment of destroyed buildings along with their location.
To boot, it can capture around 40 to 60 pictures of a particular area during an overhead passage; while the ISS takes 90 minutes to complete one orbit around the Earth.
The camera is powered by purposefully developed software that can help in estimating the best viewing possibilities for a definite region down on Earth; for which, it carried out detailed analysis of the location of space station in orbit, its direction, altitude as well as path.


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This Week's Liturgy
The Spirit of Truth
May 24th, 2015 (see other dates)
Pentecost Sunday
Discussion Questions for Reading 1Before the Holy Spirit came to rest on the disciples, they were confused and fearful. They longed for the good old days when all they had to do was follow Jesus' lead. What events or persons in your life have helped you to live your faith more openly or courageously? What difference do you think the sacraments of initiation have made in your life?
Why might it be important for members of the Church to be able to communicate in many ways? Name some of the ways your parish communicates God's word in the Church and in the community.
Reading 1 Acts 2:1-11
Reading 1 ReflectionWhat would you say has been the most exciting event in your life so far? The disciples who were gathered in the upper room at the first Pentecost would have no trouble answering that question. They would immediately tell us the story of the Holy Spirit's dramatic descent on the followers of Jesus. A great, thundering wind! Tongues of scarlet fire parting over their heads! Each person filled with the Holy Spirit! Everyone suddenly speaking in languages they had never known before! What a day that was!
At Pentecost the gift of the Spirit filled the disciples with the energy and power to speak so that people from many nations could understand them. It was an event that changed the world and gave birth to the universal Church.
Discussion Questions for Reading 2Brainstorm on the chalkboard or a sheet of newsprint all the gifts, talents, and skills of the members of the class. How do you think the Holy Spirit wants these gifts to be used in the one Body of Christ? List ways of using these gifts in the family, the parish, and the world.
As the Church was filled with the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, we were each filled with the Spirit at our Baptism. What work of the Spirit do you most want to do for the Church? For the world?
Reading 2 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13
Reading 2 ReflectionThe game of one-upmanship can cause trouble even in religious communities. When St. Paul wrote this letter to the Corinthians, they were debating about whose spiritual gifts were better. Did those who could speak in foreign tongues have a more valuable gift than those who could prophesy? The truth is revealed in the letter. All of the gifts of the Spirit are valuable. And they are all given for the common good.
In the Spirit we are all made one in the Body of Christ. Whatever our different gifts, there is one God who produces them and makes us one.
Discussion Questions for GospelHow would you complete this statement: "To me, peace means...." Describe times when you have experienced peace. When Jesus says "Peace be with you," what do you think he has in mind?
Why is the power to forgive sins so important in the Christian community? What examples have you seen in your family or your parish of people sharing the peace of Christ?
Gospel John 20:19-23
Gospel ReflectionSome events are so life-changing that we have to keep going back to them in memory to grasp their true meaning. That's how it was with the gospel writers and the resurrection of Jesus. In this reading, John recalls the evening of the first Easter. Jesus appears in the midst of the disciples and gives them his peace. He breathes on them and gives them the breath of the Holy Spirit so that they have the power to forgive sins.
As we know from the first reading, the Spirit would be experienced again as fire and a mighty wind at Pentecost. But whatever form the Spirit takes, his gifts are intended to bring unity and peace to the Body of Christ.
Proclaiming Faith Activities for Primary Grades
Fruits of the SpiritOn the feast of Pentecost, the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit.
In the second reading, Saint Paul lists the fruits of the Spirit. Explain to the children that when we are filled with the Holy Spirit, we will show these fruits in our lives. Saint Paul tells us that these fruits are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Discuss with the children what each of these mean.
Gather nine pieces of construction paper. Write one fruit of the Spirit on each piece. Make a circle with nine chairs. On each chair place one piece of the construction paper. Select nine children. Have them walk around the chairs as music is playing. When the music stops, have them each sit in a chair and claim the fruit listed on the construction paper. Then go around the circle and encourage each child to say what he or she can do to show how to share this fruit of the Spirit. Continue this until all children have had a turn being in the circle.
Sharing the Fruits of the SpiritHave children illustrate the fruits of the Spirit. Give each child a piece of paper. Have the children choose one of the fruits of the Spirit. Encourage them to draw or write about how they can share this fruit of the Spirit.
On the prayer table, place a large bowl. Have the children place their drawings in the bowl. Encourage the children to give thanks for these fruits.
Proclaiming Faith Activities
Imagining PeaceJesus says, "Peace be with you." Imagine that the peace of Christ is truly present in each of the following places. What does his peace look like? Describe it.
- The peace of Christ is in my heart. I can see it in ___________________________________.
- The peace of Christ is in my family. I can see it in ___________________________________.
- The peace of Christ is in my parish. I can see it in
- The peace of Christ is in my world. I can see it in ___________________________________.
Celebrating the SpiritThis is a day to celebrate and thank the Holy Spirit for all our unique and wonderful gifts.
Using any available materials, make large red or orange Pentecost symbols (paper tongues of fire, kites or windsocks, decorated balloons or pinwheels) to be displayed outdoors.
On each symbol write three gifts of the Spirit you have been given for the common good.
If possible, attach your symbols to dowels or streamers. Carry them in an outdoor procession, relay race, or circle dance.
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KnitBits Preview: Inspiration for Babies & Toddlers
I love when designers share their knitting inspiration. If you're like me, you'll want to check out tomorrow's KnitBits.
It features a beautiful video about the design process behind our latest book, Comfort Knitting & Crochet: Babies & Toddlers. Some of the objects that influenced our patterns might surprise you!
Comfort Knitting & Crochet: Babies & Toddlers includes 50 knit and crochet patterns. Like what you see? You can pick up a copy at your local yarn shop.
As a special treat, we're sharing two free patterns this week, but they'll only be on Facebook. Make sure you like our page so you don't miss out!
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Gov. John Hickenlooper�s State of the State address, delivered Thursday, was a call for action on a broad series of issues facing Colorado. Guns and his welcome commitment to civil unions got the biggest headlines, but other areas may hold more promise both in possibility and effect.
Hardly a complete road map, the State of the State speech nonetheless gives guidance to the General Assembly. This one set a healthy tone for the state�s future.
The State of the State speech is not an opportunity for great oratory or speech writing. It is at heart, and of necessity, a laundry list of accomplishments and challenges, a mix of boastfulness, apology, thankfulness, pleading and prayer.
Beyond the required boilerplate, the governor stressed a number of meaningful objectives. Not high on his list, but one of the most important, was Hickenlooper�s endorsement of a Colorado version of the federal DREAM Act to grant a modified version of in-state tuition at Colorado colleges and universities to illegal immigrant children who have grown up in Colorado.
Doing so represents common courtesy � the children have themselves broken no law � as well as a recognition of the value of both education and our neighbors. Helping those children get a good education is no more and no less � than bolstering the future of our state.
In other areas, Hickenlooper acknowledged some hard realities. At the top of that list was wildfire. With 388,000 acres burned last year, 648 homes destroyed and six people killed, it is something for which Colorado must be prepared.
The governor said he will seek funding to assist in removing trees and create healthier forests in areas at high risk of wildfire. As he put it, �We need to re-examine the way homeowners are insured in the wildlands-urban interface, and do a better job of encouraging and supporting fire-mitigation practices.�
Hickenlooper also spoke to the need for the state Legislature to come up with rules to implement the voter-approved Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana. He rightly stressed that one key element is to develop some standard by which to tell when someone is too high to drive.
At one point, the governor drew applause from Republicans for praising natural-gas development and decrying patchwork regulation by cities and counties. The governor�s enthusiasm for regulatory centralization could prove a bone of contention with some environmentalists, but there is no denying the resource�s importance.
The need to reform the state�s system of enterprise zones got a mention, as did the importance of job creation. Hickenlooper touted a Forbes magazine report that showed Colorado in the top five states for business.
He is also big on education, citing the continuing importance of ongoing educational reform, early childhood education and the ability to measure teacher effectiveness.
Some of Hickenlooper�s highest praise was for the voter-approved Amendment S, which, the governor said, will bring the state�s personnel system from the 19th century to the 21st. That, however, only serves to highlight the need to unravel the state�s messy constitutional amendments.
As the governor said, �TABOR, the Gallagher Amendment and Amendment 23 shouldn�t be viewed in isolation. They create a fiscal know that can�t be untied one strand at a time.�
On guns, the governor backed the enactment of universal background checks for gun purchasers. That should be a fight, but one worth having. In that, however, he will be far from alone.
Where the governor may best use his unique pulpit would be to push for modified in-state tuition for immigrant children and untangling he mess we have made of our state�s Constitution.
Even moderate success on those thorny issues could be Hickenlooper�s best shot at a lasting and positive legacy.


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Noisebridge China Trip
My contract manufacturer for TV-B-Gone and TripGlasses and Trippy RGB Waves kits (and a few other things) has a plant in Shanghai and a plant in Ji Ning (about half way between Shanghai and Beijing) (both are SEZs -- Special Economic Zones).
Mike Zhao, an American who lives in San Rafael, but born in Shanghai, is the head of the contract manufacturer, called Etonnet. He's also a total geek, and goes to Maker Faire, and has been to Noisebridge. He's going to Shanghai and Ji Ning starting 20-October-2009, and asked me if I'd like to go, and asked if other NB people (and/or others) would like to go check out the manufacturing scene and China. Mike will return on the 27th, but I think it would be cool if the rest of us go to Beijing for a few days and check out a bit of China-ness there, as well as visit with some hacker-types at Beijing university. We will return on 3-November-2009.
To give a little taste of what it might be like:
A few months ago, Bunny, who manufactures Chumby in China, organized a trip to China to show interested people the manufacturing scene (and China). Evil Mad Scientist went along: Evil Mad Scientist Schenzhen trip
The cost will be very reasonable, as these things go, and the bulk of the cost would be the plane tickets to and from China. At the moment, a round trip ticket costs $694 (SFO to Shanghai, and then Beijing to SFO). When I went last time, nice hotel rooms were about $15 per night in the part of Shanghai I stayed in, and the total cost for me besides the plane ticket was about $350.
Note: We will need to limit the trip to the first 5 people other than me and Mike to buy their tickets, since we only have one large van to take us around once we get to China.
If you are interested, please add your name, below.
People interested in going to China from 20-October-2009 through 3-November-2009:
You do not need to be a member of Noisebridge to go on this trip.
The trip is limited to 5 people other than Mitch, so the first 5 people on this list (after Mitch) who buy their plane tickets will be able to join us:
Mitch Altman
David Yao
David Kelso
please add your name here
How to purchase an airplane ticket for $694 (if there are any of these remaining)
If you want to go on this trip, I would recommend buying your airplane ticket ASAP, since these cheap seats might not be available after today. Other seats may be available for $900 on other Airlines, such as Northwest Airlines. But it would be nicer if we all flew in together to Shanghai on the same plane.
Here is the itinerary for the $694 ticket:
Leave SFO: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 1:15pm
Arrive Shanghai (PVG): Wednesday October 21, 8:55pm
Leave Beijing (PEK): Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 11:55am
Arrive SFO: Tuesday, November 3, 10:00am
NOTE: we arrive in Shanghai, but return from Beijing
Here's how Mitch got his plane tickets for $693.50:
- go to Kayak.com
- Click on the "Multi-city" radio-button.
- Fill in the first two lines like this:
- From: SFO To: PVG Leave: 10/20/09 Time: Anytime
- From: PEK To: SFO Leave: 11/03/09 Time: Anytime
- Click the "Search" button.
- If cheap seats are still available, the first item on the resulting screen (after a few false screens are possibly displayed first) will be the flight from Asiana Airlines for $694.
- Click on "select", which is underneath "$694". You can use Orbitz or CheapTickets or Expedia to purchase the tickets (Kayak does not charge anything). I used CheapTickets. Click the "Go" button.
- You are redirected to the site of your choice, where you can purchase the ticket.
How to get a visa for going to China
This info is really rough, for the time being -- I'll make it better after I get back from traveling next week.
To go to China, you need to have a visa!
I'm going to deal with my visa after I get back from Providence, next week. As I remember, you download a form from the Chinese consulate general website (make sure you say that you are going as a tourist, otherwise it is a pain!), and bring it in to their consulate office (somewhat near to Geary and Masonic, in San Francisco). When you walk in you need to take a number (which isn't totally obvious), and when they call you, you walk up to the displayed teller window and give them your filled out paperwork (what you downloaded from their website), the fee (can't remember how much -- and I can't remember, but it may need to be in cash), and your passport (which they keep for a day), and you may also need to bring a printout for your plane ticket (I can't remember, though this might just be filled in on the downloaded form). You go back the next day, pick a number, and they give you your passport with the visa pasted in. Your passport needs to have at least 6 months before expiration.
They're hours are limited, so check them out on the website. Also, there are several kinds of visas -- we only need single-entry. And, again, be sure to get a Tourist visa (since we are tourists, and not going for work).
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6 Real Serial Killers More Terrifying Than Any Horror Movie
#3. Magdalena Solis Cut People's Hearts Out for the Sake of an Elaborate Scam
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Magdalena Solis was part of an elaborate scam involving two grifters, the Hernandez brothers, who were bilking the small farming village of Yerba Buena, Mexico. That sounds pretty tame compared to the other stuff on this list, but let's just say that at some point things got a bit ... out of hand.
In 1962, the brothers had shown up and claimed they were Incan priests who had a wealth of Incan gold the gods wished to share with the village, but the only way to appease the gods was to bring regular offerings of money and cleanse their bodies of demons. And the only way to cleanse their bodies of demons was to have sex with the Hernandez brothers. Like, all the time.
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Only someone with no experience cleaning semen stains would choose the word "cleanse."
The villagers weren't terribly bright (for instance, the Incas were in Peru, not Mexico), but after a while they did grow tired of having sex with the Hernandez brothers with absolutely no sign of their promised bounty of gold. So the brothers recruited a prostitute named Magdalena to pose as a reincarnated Incan goddess inexplicably fluent in 20th century Spanish. They revealed Magdalena to the villagers in a puff of smoke during one of their cave rituals, and Magdalena immediately fell perfectly into character by demanding that everyone have sex with everyone else and drink from goblets of chicken blood garnished with marijuana leaves.
When the villagers inevitably got bored with Magdalena, still wondering where in the blue hell their gold was, she responded by ordering two of her "doubters" stoned to death in the ritual cave. And at this point, it went from a cheap "sex and money for promises of gold" scam to something else entirely.
India TV News
Hell hath no fury like a trio of sociopaths being denied stolen goods and sex.
The victims' blood was gathered in the ceremonial ganja goblets and consumed. And thus Solis and the Hernandez brothers had discovered a bulletproof way of perpetuating their scam -- kill a villager or two every so often as a blood sacrifice and the others will be too terrified to voice any doubts.
Who knows how long the scam might have continued had a random teenage boy not walked by the cave on his way to school and spotted Solis and her absurdly desperate followers bashing one woman's face in with rocks and chopping another man's heart out with machetes. The boy ran like hell to the nearest police station, and a patrolman followed him back to the village to check it out, because he apparently hadn't seen enough horror movies to know what happens to cops when they go investigate strange murder caves by themselves.
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"Everything looks to be in order here."
When the officer didn't return, the police decided to posse up and rolled into the village to discover his body hacked to pieces and his heart removed. The boy had also been killed in the same horrifying Temple of Doom fashion. They cornered Magdalena's cult in the ritual cave and arrested most of them, although the Hernandez brothers were killed in the ensuing shootout. Solis and her surviving followers were tossed in state prison for 30 years. The Incas remained in Peru, where they had been the entire time.
#2. The Giggling Granny Poisoned Her Entire Family
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Nannie Doss had a thing for arsenic, and with it she poisoned the tittyshits out of virtually every member of her family before delivering an affable, chuckling confession to police, earning her the nickname "The Giggling Granny." By the time she was finally caught, she'd killed her mother, two sisters, two daughters, a nephew, a grandson, and four husbands, for motives best described as "no goddamned reason whatsoever."
AP via The Body Report
To relieve stress, some people prefer yoga. Different strokes.
And what is really chilling about this story is how long her murder spree continued before anybody caught on, although her first husband, Charley, did grow suspicious after their two middle daughters mysteriously died of "food poisoning," because it literally used to be that easy to murder people. Charley ran off, taking their eldest daughter with him but leaving the youngest behind with Doss, because apparently he didn't like that child.
The Sunday Times
Joan Crawford ain't shit.
Nannie Doss stayed married to her second husband, Frank, for 16 years, during which time she probably killed her newborn grandson by stabbing him through the skull with a hatpin and definitely killed her older grandson with a generous dose of poison. Frank, for his part, was an abusive drunk, and Doss eventually got sick of him and dumped rat poison into his whiskey, which is a recognized but generally frowned upon cure for assholes.
Doss got married three more times, and each husband wound up dying mysteriously. She even killed her third husband's mother, just after poisoning him and burning their house to the ground to keep it from going to his family. In between her fourth and fifth marriages, she moved in with her cancer-stricken sister and poisoned her, too, because why the hell not? "Might as well kill my own mother while I'm at it," she presumably thought, before doing exactly that. At this point, the authorities must have assumed that Nannie Doss was shrouded in some ancient mummy curse, because the only other explanation is that they were all terrible at their jobs.
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To be fair, budget cutbacks severely limited the number of Magic 8 Balls made available to police officers.
Doss finally got caught when she poisoned her fifth husband badly enough to send him to the hospital for three weeks, but not enough to kill him. The day he was sent home, Doss filled him with enough arsenic to kill 20 freaking people. Finally, one of the doctors became suspicious of Doss and ordered an autopsy, which confirmed that her husband had been poisoned.
Police confronted Doss, and she immediately confessed, laughing throughout the entire interview while gleefully admitting to murdering 11 members of her family. Doss kept right on smiling as she boarded the bus to prison to serve out her life sentence, commenting to a reporter as she left that she didn't feel bad at all about the outcome. Life magazine even asked her permission to publish her life story, because they apparently forgot that she had murdered children in addition to her drunken asslord husbands.
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Seen here during one of the rare moments when she wasn't murdering someone.
#1. Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo Murdered People for Black Magic
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Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo was a former apprentice to a Haitian priest who blossomed into a master-level Crazy Mage armed with the legitimate belief that he had the power to see the future and cast powerful spells, provided he kept his black magic cauldron well-stocked with sacrificial human body parts. He had a cult of devoted followers to fulfill this task for him by kidnapping (mostly) random people and torturing them to death to appease Kadiempembe, a devil-like figure and the bestower of his magical gifts. We assume this same demon was responsible for granting him the handsomest Emilio Estevez mullet in recorded history.
And just a hint of Sean Astin.
Yeah, that's not how you were picturing him, was it?
Constanzo was a warlock for hire, selling his spells and clairvoyance abilities to drug dealers and law enforcement officials alike in Mexico. He stewed human brains, blood, bones, and guts in his cauldron alongside scorpions, spiders, and other witchcrafty totems to create spells to make his clients invisible to police detection and invulnerable to gunfire.
You take some arachnids, throw them in a pot, add some water and a brain -- baby, you got a potion goin'!
Even the drug dealers were afraid of Constanzo -- when one cartel refused to make him a full partner after they'd enjoyed so much success with his spells, seven of their members mysteriously disappeared, turning up several days later floating in a river with fingers, ears, hearts, brains, and freaking spines removed, like they'd been attacked by the goddamned Predator. Constanzo had a handful of other rival drug traffickers fed to his cauldron and even had a member of his own cult hacked into dark wizard porridge to set an example for the rest of the team (the example being "We should probably find other jobs").
The heat didn't really come down on Constanzo until his group kidnapped and mutilated an American college student, at which point the U.S. government put intense pressure on Mexican officials to solve the crime. Police followed a member of Constanzo's cult to his terrifying ritualistic murder ranch after the man blew through a checkpoint, and they found remains of 15 people buried along the property. The missing student's brain was discovered floating in a potion in Constanzo's cauldron, presumably waiting to be graded by Professor Snape.
F. Presentation counts, Adolfo.
Constanzo's gang was hunted down and arrested, and Constanzo himself was finally cornered in an apartment surrounded by 180 police officers, because magic probably isn't real, but we aren't taking any fucking chances. Rather than allow himself to be captured, Constanzo instructed one of his henchmen to shoot him. The police discovered the evil wizard's body riddled with bullets, because apparently that henchman wasn't taking any chances either.
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Can you taste the differences in water bottles?
I have drank from many different water bottle brands and they all taste the same to me. I was talking to my friends and some say that they can taste the difference between Dasani and Ozarka. Can you?
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Yes. Poland Spring bottled water has a distinct taste to it. I can tell the difference between it and the filtered waters. I can also tell the difference between it and other spring waters when I travel around the country, but I would be hard pressed to slap brand labels on them correctly in a blind taste test.
I'll bet the folks in the Poland Spring marketing department will claim that the difference in taste is because their water is filtered naturally in the mountains of Maine, and that the resulting mix of minerals creates a unique flavor.
I can taste the difference between different water brands but I always wondered if it had more to do with source/purification/bottling process. Then again, maybe its just the re-re-re-re-re-recycled plastics I'm tasting.
I can taste the impurities in any water. My favorite bottled water is Smartwater but I rarely buy it over the cheapest brand available. I have yet to find a bottled brand that is worse than unfiltered tap water.
I drink a lot of aquafina, not because it is the best tasting or purest, but simply put because it is less than $4.00 for a case of 30 bottles from Sam's Club. I actually prefer the taste of Dansani (coke's tap water) over aquafina, but I don't buy it as often. There is a natural spring that comes out of the side of the mountain down the road from my house, that stuff tastes fantastic. It has a lot to do with it being filtered through sandstone.
I worked for a water bottling company one year while going to school (summer meaningless job). They had three springs, one was wonderfully delicious water, the second was ok, and the third "spring" was the same water everyone in the local town got their tap water from. I can't remember the term, but no matter where the water came from, they put ozonination? in it and stirred the whole vat with something that looked like cardboard. It then went through another filtering system or two and then was botttled. You couldn't drink it for 24hrs
If you did drink it within 24 hours it made you kinda sick. When working the line in the summer and it was hot, we would always check the lines for the water that had sat for at least 24 hours. I don't know if this is true anymore, but it is what we did at the plant I worked at.
The stuff in five gallon jugs I never worked with, but it was so cold in there that we used to go in there during breaks to cool off in the summer. I always said if they moved me to that line I was bringing my hockey skates.
@ecriscit: I like Aquafina, but I have a 5 gallon water cooler and let the local people filter it. (I buy local filtered water). They do better then Kmart 5 gal water. imhop
I also like Brita filtered water.
I can always taste the plastic in Dasani.
@caffeine_dude: Make sure to check your bottled water spout periodically. They have been known to have some serious issues at various worksites, I don't know of issues at people's homes. I installed a water filter on the sink in my last house, but someone kept letting the water run and the filters had to keep being changed. Just a little turn of the filter and it goes from filtered to non filtered, but that must have been too hard.
@mtm2 - I have actually been trying to reduce my use of bottled water lately after I read about the chemical they put in the bottles to make them break down easier. It is just so convenient, when on the road, to stop somewhere and get a cold bottle of water, or have it on ice in the cooler. Various localities that I travel through, in my state and others, have various tasting waters. Some taste terrible. I have even tried the little water bottles with built in filter from brita or someone, but some of that water just can't be fixed.
freakin water snobs! lol I just get whatever is on sale. water tastes like water to me!
Well u see water is my favorite drink (dont judge lol) so yes i can taste a difference pretty easily. My favorite drink is Fiji due to its amazing taste and its honestly not too pricy. Tap water is just yuck, Voss is the worst water i have ever had... safeway or fredmeyer brand waters taste almost acidic and nasty.. smart water is great (not as good as Fiji) school water is disgusting.. Dasani is okay (not the best) Ozarka i have not tried .. Generally though spring water is my favorite, vapor distilled is good, plain filtered tap water is gross, and i dont even want to talk about school water (it really does belong in its own group NASTYYYY) XD I know i know... im picky lol XD


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In other business Thursday, the Leavenworth County Commission:
• Approved a preliminary and final plat for property near 21...
In other business Thursday, the Leavenworth County Commission:
• Approved a preliminary and final plat for property near 219th Street and Parallel Road.
• Approved the rezoning of property at 15313 232nd St. from a light industrial district to a single-family residential district.
• Approved the renewal of a special use permit for Brundage Precision Tactical Firearms, 23966 Loring Road.
• Approved the renewal of a special use permit for a cellular communications tower at 21511 Hollingsworth Road.
• Approved a temporary special use permit for the Buffalo Bill Century Ride planned for Sept. 20. They also approved the waiver of a $100 application fee.
The Leavenworth County Commission met Thursday with Kansas City Area Transportation Authority representatives to discuss services the agency may be able to provide in the county.
"I think we really just want to have a dialogue," Richard Jarrold told commissioners.
Jarrold is KCATA's senior director for system development and engineering.
In addition to Jarrold, commissioners met with Shawn Strate, who works for Johnson County Transit and the KCATA. Karen Clawson, a transportation planner for the Mid-America Regional Council, also was at the meeting.
Earlier this year, County Commissioner Dennis Bixby began serving on KCATA's board.
Leavenworth County previously was represented on the board by George Huvendick.
KCATA doesn't currently provide transit services in the county.
Bixby said Leavenworth County had bus routes when KCATA was started, but the bus service ended in the county many years ago.
As gas prices near $4 per gallon, there are possible transit opportunities the county needs to explore, Bixby said.
In addition to fixed route busing in other parts of the Kansas City metropolitan areas, KCATA provides a service to elderly and disabled residents who can arrange for transportation to things such as doctor appointments.
Jarrold said he would like to see what services, if any, would fit for Leavenworth County.
"The challenge in all of this is that transit service really doesn't pay for itself," he said.
He said it requires a subsidy.
County Commissioner Clyde Graeber said the Leavenworth County Council on Aging provides a service that transports people to doctor's appointments.
"We're currently doing that at a very reasonable rate for the elderly and infirm," he said.
Jarrold said KCATA doesn't look to compete with organizations such as the Council on Aging.
"Those groups do an excellent job," he said.
He said KCATA would like to work with those organizations. He said KCATA is interested in whether there are unmet needs.
Jarrold said he can take a look at some ideas for the county.
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30 Day Free Trial to Blockbuster Total Access (DVDs, Blu-Rays, & Games) for $0 + free shipping
Free or discounted trial offer valid for new customers only; cannot be combined with any other offer. For those getting a free or discounted trial, limit one per household. Requires internet access, a valid email address and a valid method of payment for the monthly fee. If you do not cancel your subscription prior to the end of your free or discounted trial period, your subscription automatically renews at the applicable monthly fee for the plan selected (plus taxes) until cancelled. If you cancel your subscription prior to the end of your free or discounted trial period, BLOCKBUSTER By Mail rentals must be returned no later than ten days after the expiration date of your trial to avoid additional charges.
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Obligitory this isnt a deal and Woot shouldnt accept it as a featured deal comment.
i got them for a free two week and added 22 games to my list, not a SINGLE one available any time soon. Glad it was a free trial. Not sure why they say games, would be interesting to see if any games are. I even added new, old, good, bad, lame, random ones i never heard of ect.
@freakyjoker: movies you want not in stock? huh, sounds like the old brick and mortar Blockbusters...... Hm... how 'bout that.
Was a member for a little more than 2 weeks. They offer a lot to look at on the site, but if you want to play it or watch it, you're out of luck. Nothing you would want is available. ALWAYS long wait. Not worth it. Cancelled.
yep.... i can beat that... got a 2 different accounts with a 6 month free trial.. its been 3 months on both accounts and i've YET to receive any game at all.. blockbuster sucks
I don't know what everyone complains about, its cheaper than Netflix and you can go in store and trade the movie rather than waiting a several days for your next movie. I've had blockbuster and Netflix and BB wins due to the fact I have one near by I can trade in.
As people do mention the NEW releases are hard to get online (that is why there is the store trade in) and the game selection is limited. Luckily I do it primarily for Blu-ray disks.
@alpha7: You realize that for the majority of the country, there is no more BB brick and mortar stores right?
Tried this for 3 months, frustrated by long wait times for certain discs and long delivery times. Switched to Netflix and it's 1000% better.
Can this count as a deal? I'm not sure Blockbuster will be in business for 30 more days...
To Sauer:
Blockbuster went bankrupt quite a while ago. The name was bought out by a company whose name I forget. Blockbuster as it was before was renamed to "Blockbuster Liquidation Corporation"; in other words, they're now a Blockbuster building renting/selling service, rather than with movies/games.
@th3tr3mors: I had a similar 6 month free trial. After 2 movies they never sent anything else even though everything in my queue was available (I gave them 2 weeks from their receive confirmation). I ended up cancelling the free trial halfway through. Not even worth it for free.


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4 Bad Lessons 'Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer' Teaches Kids
Lesson #2 Everybody Hates a Freak
Later, all of the younger reindeer are taking flying lessons, when surprise! It turns out that Rudolph is the best among them. When he lands, he is so joyful and proud that he playfully locks horns with his friend. Then, to his horror, his nose cover falls off. The kids begin making fun of him -- being children raised in an atmosphere of hate and intolerance and all. At this point in a normal movie, we might expect whatever adult authority figure is around to step in and give Rudolph a speech about believing in himself. Hey, sure enough, here comes the flying coach to take a look at all the ruckus. Upon seeing Rudolph, this is what he says:
He straight up screams in horror at Rudolph's horrible deformity, then ushers the other children away from him as quickly as possible. He then informs Rudolph that he is now forbidden from ever interacting with his former friends -- or indeed, any member of his species -- ever again.
At this point you might be thinking "so what? They're setting the coach up as the bad guy. Rudolph will show him up later." And you'd be wrong again. Every single adult reacts the same way, even Santa Claus:
See that? That's Santa Claus, the personification of Christmas, screaming at Rudolph's father, in front of everyone, telling him he should be ashamed of himself for birthing such an abomination.
If you're thinking this all sounds a lot like the setup for a metaphor condemning racism and segregation, well, you could be forgiven for that. The movie spends all this time exploring the complete revulsion, fear and hatred of the different, but it completely forgets to condemn it. Even though Rudolph eventually finds a place in society, none of the characters torturing him learn a damn thing. So the ultimate lesson on display here isn't "we're all the same, underneath, and some special people will understand that," as much as it is "everyone on Earth, up to and including your own parents, your teachers, and the personification of charity himself, just can't stand your fugly ass, so you should probably just die.
Jesus, is there some pre-existing superstition in Reindeer society that a red nose is the mark of the devil? Nope, it's not just Rudolph being condemned for his differences. In the same movie, we see the story of one elf who doesn't buy into the twisted elven Caste system. He doesn't want to build toys; he wants to be free. And his family, friends, co-workers and other elves despise him for it. So what does he want to do that's so despicable? Midget wrestling? Porn star? Nope: His dream is to be a dentist. This is what thinking for yourself earns you up at the North Pole.
"You sit back and reflect on how much we all hate you!"
"Jesus Christ, why won't you just kill yourself? What is it gonna take?!"
Lesson #1 There is no moral to the story.
And then comes the ending, and we all know what happens: Complete vindication. Rudolph's nose lights Santa's sleigh, everybody comes to accept him, he saves Christmas, and all is right. But pay attention to how it happens: They don't come to Rudolph, hat in hand, and realize that if only they'd accepted him earlier, they would never have been in this situation. They come to him reluctantly, like they're doing him a favor by being there, and only because they need a freak to help pull Santa's slave palanquin through the fog. Nobody's sorry for they treated him, or repentant for their harsh words, or even particularly respectful when they come to Rudolph:
"Someone get this mutant out of my face. I'm trying to make an announcement."
That's the happy ending: They finally found a use for him. There's your lesson, kids: Don't be born a freak, and if you are, try to make yourself useful anyway; maybe it will stop the beatings, or at least lessen their severity (probably not, though).
Merry Christmas!
For more terrible lessons you didn't know you learned as a kid, check out 8 Important Lessons Learned from '80s Cartoons.


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Dr. Skaggs, a retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel, is professor emeritus of history at Bowling Green State University. Among his dozen books are A Signal Victory: The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813 and Thomas Macdonough: Master of Command in the Early U.S. Navy, both published by the Naval Institute Press. He is currently writing a biography of Oliver Hazard Perry.
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In Lion OSX, changing the keyboard layout "Input Sources" setting in the "Language & Text" only changes the setting for the current user. Is there a way to populate the setting to all existing, and also all future new users to the same set of language keyboard layouts?
The default input source is set in
You could either copy the file to other acccounts:
Or add it to the User Template directory so that it will be included by default on new accounts:
Note that the UUID will have to be changed if the file is copied to another computer.
You can view or edit the property list in a text editor by converting it from binary to XML:


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I'm having trouble writing an if else statement. Considering that I've been doing so for years in ColdFusion, this make me feel very stupid.
Here's the task. I need to pull first name, last name, email, co-chair status from a database and return the results. However not everyone has an email, so I need a statement that will include a mailto link for those that have emails, and exclude a mailto link for those that don't.
Here's the code I'm using that includes the mailto link for all.
What adjustments do I need to make? thanks, david
<?php do { ?>
<a href="mailto:<?php echo $row_GetMembers['BACmember_Email']; ?>"><?php echo $row_GetMembers['BACmember_First']; ?> <?php echo $row_GetMembers['BACmember_Last']; ?>
<?php /*START_PHP_SIRFCIT*/ if ($row_GetMembers['BACmember_CoChair']=="Yes"){ ?>
 Co-Chair
<?php } /*END_PHP_SIRFCIT*/ ?>

<?php } while ($row_GetMembers = mysql_fetch_assoc($GetMembers)); ?>


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4 Oct 2012 3:41 AM #1
iOS 6.0 problem with keyboard in Ext.Msg.prompt
We discovered today that using iOS 6.0 on both an iPhone & an iPad tapping the keyboard on a Prompt field in a message box does nothing! No text is being typed into the prompt !!
Wonder if there's a way around this.
For now we've done a if (Ext.is.iOS) .. and use a different bit of handling to work around it.
BTW, we're using Phonegap 2.0.0 as well
9 Oct 2012 5:33 AM #2
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Using Sencha Touch 1.1.1 with my iPhone 4S running iOS 6 Ext.Msg.prompt is working for me. I did not wrap in Phonegap to see if this is a ST bug.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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9 Oct 2012 5:47 PM #3
We _are_ using Phonegap (2.1.0)... and it was working fine prior to iOS 6.0
Both iPhones & iPads are affected.
... And we have discovered this afternoon that Chrome (Version 22.0.1229.92 m) also fails!
Safari 5.1.7 is OK though ! ?
We're in trouble Mitchell, because the pop-up data entry system in your grid works with this !
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10 Oct 2012 6:50 PM #4
I can vouch that this problem exists on iOS 6 w/ Sencha Touch v1.1.1 (release) and further confirm that this is reproducible within chrome v23.0.1271.26.
- Popup dialog appears.
- User taps on input field.
- iOS keyboard appears.
- User inputs data using iOS keyboard.
- User inputted data is discard, input field is not updated to reflect input.
10 Oct 2012 8:51 PM #5
Thank you!
Any clues on an override or fix for it?
I have managed a workaround for everything except for the grid editor
Please Note: My workaround was not actually a fix for this problem... I simply used a different technique to achieve the same outcome... which actually is nowhere near as good as using the Msg.prompt
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11 Oct 2012 10:04 PM #6
Mitchell... For what it's worth...
By commenting out this little bit of code in sencha-touch-debug.js
... around line 26308
the problem goes away
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for (attrName in attribs) {
if (attribs.hasOwnProperty(attrName)) {
attrib = attribs[attrName];
/* /^auto/i.test(attrName) ? */ (assert.test(attrib+'') ? 'on' : 'off' ) //: attrib
19 Oct 2012 1:47 AM #7
Still no overrides?
27 Oct 2012 4:50 AM #8
27 Oct 2012 5:08 AM #9
Ext.Msg.prompt doesn't work in Chrome either.
27 Oct 2012 5:25 AM #10
var protoShow = Ext.MessageBox.prototype.show; Ext.override(Ext.MessageBox, { show : function(config) { protoShow.call(this, config); if (this.inputsEl && (config.multiLine || config.prompt)) { config.input.dom.setAttribute('maxLength', 100); } return this; } });


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WHEELING - Non-traditional forms of education, such as Kindermusik or Montessori School, are a key to helping children succeed throughout their educational careers.
That's the opinion of local certified Kindermusik instructor Judy Bischof, and Paula Sikora, owner of Sikora Montessori School in Elm Grove.
Bischof, owner of Kindermusik by Judy, who offers 12 week sessions of Kindermusik on Wednesdays throughout the year at the Children's Museum of the Ohio Valley in downtown Wheeling, said that it is proven that children who are involved with musical activities at a very young age definitely have an advantage over other children in their learning process and future education.
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Programs such as Kindermusik and Montessori provide students with alternate pathways to learning.
"It's like a switch that you flip on and it increases their ability to learn - so we now found out that they do better in math and they have wonderful language skills," said Bischof, after teaching a recent Kindermusik class for infants. She said there is a strong link between music and intelligence.
"A lot of us probably know people who were really smart in school, but then you also find out they play an instrument," she added.
"We do a swaying movement. ... Swaying with your baby stimulates their brain development, which is amazing, but we now know through studies that music stimulates every area of a child's brain - so when we're swaying and moving to the music it is stimulating their brain ... it also helps their balance and coordination," said Bischof.
She said they do a lot of walking and dancing in the infant class to help stimulate the babies as well. "We use scarfs, bells, different instruments with them so they can experience different sounds," Bischof added.
According to the Kindermusik website, the program is designed to empower parents and teachers to instill a lifelong love of music and learning in their children. The program's philosophy is: "No child is too young to start Kindermusik. The Village classes are designed for newborn babies up to 18-month-olds and they offer age-appropriate classes for children ages newborn to seven years.
Sikora said the Montessori methods of teaching is a large component of critical thinking skills important during the years of adolescence and provides students the necessary skills to be confident and successful in their later years of education.
"What we aim to address in the Montessori education is: order, concentration, coordination and independence," said Sikora who is also opening a Kindermusik component to her school.
"We have different components of our education that go along with our methods and our philosophy and the materials we use for teaching in the Montessori style. ... Currently our children have French classes on Tuesday and they have strings and piano classes on Wednesday."
"Montessori children tend to be leaders - not followers - so they feel more free not to follow peer pressures. In a social way, they are more confident, they're more comfortable going on their own path, even if that's against the grain of what the group might be doing," Sikora added.
Students who attend Montessori also tend to do better than their peers in mathematics, as was evidenced from Ohio County's recent math field day. Six of the 35 winners who will move on to regionals attended Montessori at the Montessori Children's Center in Bethlehem - a program that typically has less than 20 students per year.


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Both AMD and NVIDIA have received subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division in connection with the DOJ's investigation into potential antitrust violations related to graphics processors and cards. The root of the AMD subpoena is its recent acquisition of ATI Technologies last month, which was approved according to Canadian antitrust laws.
The DOJ has not made any specific allegations against AMD, ATI, or NVIDIA. Both AMD and NVIDIA said that they intend to cooperate with the DOJ in its investigations.
Together, AMD and NVIDIA hold just over half of the entire graphics market, each with about an equal share. Following the news, NVIDIA shares fell 3.6 percent on Nasdaq trade, while AMD shares fell 2.1 percent on the New York Stock Exchange.
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This Act is a civil statute (carrying no criminal penalties) that prohibits mergers or acquisitions that are likely to lessen competition. Under this Act, the government challenges those mergers that careful economic analysis shows are likely to increase prices to consumers. All persons considering a merger or acquisition above a certain size must notify both the Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission. The Act also prohibits other business practices that may harm competition under certain circumstances."
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Oracle Database 12c runs best on Solaris
By unixman on Jul 09, 2013
Oracle has released Oracle Database 12c. There are dozens of years and thousands of man hours of joint development between Solaris and Oracle Database engineers, resulting in unique performance capabilities provided by the operating system. Check out why Oracle database runs best on Solaris and make sure to tune-in to a webcast on Wednesday July 10th at noon (Eastern)!


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Welcome to the Department of Recreation & Leisure Studies!
Applied Health Sciences - Recreation & Leisure Studies
Welcome to the Department of Recreation & Leisure Studies!
Since 1981, the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies has been an established leader in undergraduate and graduate education.
Our programs are designed to qualify graduates for a wide range of positions in the rapidly expanding field of recreation and leisure services. You can find our graduates working in an extensive variety of recreation and leisure service provision agencies around the world – we are proud of them!
In the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, we integrate and apply knowledge from philosophy, psychology, sociology, geography, health studies, and environmental studies to understand recreation and leisure behaviours. We also strive to provide students with plenty of hand-on, experiential learning opportunities to help connect theory with practice!
Our commitment to integrity, respect for diversity and inclusiveness, and the value and importance of recreation and leisure in society is the foundation for imaginative and innovative scholarship in teaching, learning and research.
Academic Programs
Undergraduate Program
The Department offers concentrations in Community Recreation, Outdoor Recreation and Therapeutic Recreation. Additionally, our undergraduate students are exposed to the underlying knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to be a successful recreation and leisure services professional through our Core Curriculum. For more information, click the links below:
• Community Recreation
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Graduate Program
Through the Graduate Program in Applied Health Sciences, we offer a Master of Arts degree in Leisure Studies and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Social and Cultural Health Studies. In both of these degree programs, you can focus your program of study and research on a wide variety of topics related to recreation and leisure studies. For specifics on the program and for more about finding a supervisor, please visit:
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We invite you to explore our site and learn more about the programs we offer, our experiential learning opportunities, and what our current students and alumni have accomplished.
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In general relativity, light is subject to gravitational pull. Does light generate gravitational pull, and do two beams of light attract each other?
The general answer is "it depends." Light has energy, momentum, and puts a pressure in the direction of motion, and these are all equal in magnitude (in units of c = 1). All of these things contribute to the stress-energy tensor, so by the Einstein field equation, it is unambiguous to say that light produces gravitational effects.
However, the relationship between energy, momentum, and pressure in the direction of propagation leads to some effects which might not otherwise be expected. The most famous is that the deflection of light by matter happens at exactly twice the amount predicted by a massive particle, at least in the sense that in linearized GTR, ignoring the pressure term halves the effect (one can also compare it a naive model of a massive particle at the speed of light in Newtonian gravity, and again the GTR result is exactly twice that).
Similarly, antiparallel (opposite direction) light beams attract each other by four times the naive (pressureless or Newtonian) expectation, while parallel (same direction) light beams do not attract each other at all. A good paper to start with is: Tolman R.C., Ehrenfest P., and Podolsky B., Phys. Rev. 37 (1931) 602. Something one might worry about is whether the result is true to higher orders as well, but the light beams would have to be extremely intense for them to matter. The first order (linearized) effect between light beams is already extremely small.
According to general relativity, yes, two beams of light would gravitationally attract each other. Einstein's equation says that
$$R^{\mu\nu} - \frac{1}{2}R g^{\mu\nu} = 8\pi T^{\mu\nu}$$
The terms on the left represent the distortion ("curvature") of spacetime, and the term on the right represents matter and energy, including light. As long as $T^{\mu\nu}$ is nonzero, there will have to be some sort of induced distortion a.k.a. gravity, since $R^{\mu\nu} - \frac{1}{2}R g^{\mu\nu} = 0$ in flat spacetime.
In case you're interested, the relevant equations are the definition of the stress-energy tensor for electromagnetism,
$$T^{\mu\nu} = -\frac{1}{\mu_0}\biggl(F^{\mu\rho}F_{\rho}^{\ \nu} + \frac{1}{4}g^{\mu\nu}F^{\rho\sigma}F_{\rho\sigma}\biggr)$$
where $F$ is the electromagnetic field tensor, and the electromagnetic wave equation
$$D_{\alpha}D^{\alpha}F^{\mu\nu} = 0$$
where $D_{\alpha}$ is the covariant derivative operator. In principle, to calculate the gravitational attraction between two beams of light, you would identify the functions $F^{\mu\nu}$ that correspond to your beams (they would have to satisfy the wave equation), and then plug them in to calculate $T^{\mu\nu}$. When you put that into Einstein's equation, it places a constraint on the possible values of the metric $g_{\mu\nu}$ and its derivatives, and you could use that constraint to determine the geodesic deviation between the two beams of light, which, in a sense, corresponds to their gravitational attraction.
Yes. The energy-momentum tensor (which is on the right hand side of Einstein's equation) is non-zero in the presence of any kind of energy density, including radiation. This means that the light beams will curve spacetime (measured by the left hand side of Einstein's equation) and hence affect the path that the light takes. But for typical light beams, this is very small and hence neglectable.


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So, I got a netbook (Some weird China brand) and it has a multitouch screen. I got to installing Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 and I used the mouse and keyboard for that. When I wanted to try the touchscreen, at first it didn't seem to work, then I tried to multitouch, and this is what happens:
I put my finger on point A
I put my finger on point B, while still holding point A.
The cursor now jumps to the location on the screen where point A is touched. I can now use point A to drag the cursor ONLY when holding point B. I can use point B for clicking by tapping, but ONLY when holding point A at the place I want to click.
What is going on?