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What happens if you book tickets through an airline or travel agent, but on the travel date miss a connecting flight (either because the first flight was delayed, or because immigration/security took too long at the connecting airport)? Will you be put on the next flight for free? Are you expected to pay for a new ticket or a change fee? I'm specifically wondering about Continental/United, but also curious about airlines in general.
Generally, if you have a through booking, then if you miss the flight because of the airline's fault then you become their problem.
This doesn't mean you'll automatically get put on the next flight. You'll need to talk to the airline and ask for help, and ask for re-booking. If the next flight has spare seats, then all should be well. Most likely though, you'll get put on standby for the next flight, and hopefully will make the next one or the one after. As it's the airline's fault, you should get meal vouchers, help with a hotel if needed etc. (Note - the exact level of help you get depends on the jurisdiction you're in, and the home jurisdiction of the airline)
However, if you miss the connecting flight because of your own fault (eg you fall asleep while waiting near the gate), then it's probably no different to if you have two independent bookings....
Normally you will be put on a later flight free if you miss a connection because of a previous flight delay. I'm not sure about security and customs delays.


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I regularly check out incredibly huge directories onto my XP machine. When it comes down to deleting and finally trashing them, it takes forever. Is there any way to speed this process up?
I usually delete huge directories from the command line. It bypasses the Trash and is typically much faster. You should be careful and check the command you type twice, so as not to accidentally delete something really important.
The easiest way is to use
You need
If some files are currently open by some process, they and the directories they contain naturally won't be deleted. There are tools that can help you understand which process locks the file, but it's a different story from this one.
The worst way is to send to Recycle Bin: you still need to delete them. Next worst is shift+delete with Windows Explorer: it wastes loads of time checking the contents before starting deleting anything.
Next best is to use
The best I've found is a two line batch file with a first pass to delete files and outputs to nul to avoid the overhead of writing to screen for every singe file. A second pass then cleans up the remaining directory structure:
This is nearly three times faster than a single rmdir, based on time tests with a Windows XP encrypted disk, deleting ~30GB/1,000,000 files/15,000 folders:
This is a regular task for me, so I usually move the stuff I need to delete to C:\stufftodelete and have those
Press SHIFT + DELETE to delete files/directories while skipping the recycle bin.
Note: You cannot recover these files, but it's faster!
If you want to bypass the recycle bin just hold down the shift key while deleting, also sometimes I find the command line del command to be quicker than deleting through explorer. If it's always the same folder you're deleting set up a batch file for it.
You could even schedule it to happen on a regular basis if that's suitable.
Maybe deactivating the trash can before you start could be helpful.
I don't have a huge directory handy to test this out on, buy try using shift+delete to delete the files. This step skips the recycle bin, which ought to save you some time.
Keep your trash can close to empty. Putting items in a full trashcan takes much longer.
Windows will quickly move items into the trash until it fills up. After that it needs to delete the oldest items in the trash to make room for new items. This process is very slow.
FastCopy includes a delete option. I haven't tried it that much myself but it may a fast alternative.
Here's a more off the wall suggestion if you're regularly doing this and the circumstances are right.
Store your directory in a separate disk partition. The benefit is that you can very quickly (almost instantly) destroy and recreate partitions.
There are obvious limitations such as having fixed partition sizes unless you use/trust something like Partition Magic. However, I have used this technique when dealing with very large SDKs which get updated frequently.

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1 Nov 2011 7:50 AM #1
Unanswered: Treegrid with complex JSON.
Hello everyone.
I am trying to use a treegrid component to display a JSON.
The main problem I have is that the JSON doenst follow the usual hierarchy with "children" for example.
I have to display some information in the treegrid manner, but my JSON is somewhat complex, like, the "children" info is not on a children tag.
So, for example, if my JSON was like
{ a : [{ b: {name : ABC}, c: [{ d: {desc:AAA}, d: {info:BBB}, d: {smtelse:CCC}, }] }] }
Can I do that without the "children" hierarchy?
1 Nov 2011 2:03 PM #2
It isn't impossible but it would be tricky. You might be able to do it by extending the Json reader and overriding the method getResponseData. I think if you use that to munge the response data from the current format to the expected format it should work.ConsultJS: http://consultjs.com/
Skirtle's Den: http://skirtlesden.com/
17 Nov 2011 7:44 AM #3
We went for the "quicker" way. I just render a full Ext file the way I want, with inline stores and etc.
In the future we gonna need to move to the JSON way and create Rest interfaces...


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The committee seeking to fill the vacant 1st District West Virginia Senate seat now is accepting resumes.
Those interested in serving as a state senator representing Hancock, Brooke, Ohio and part of Marshall counties must submit their resumes by 5 p.m. Dec. 19. Resumes are being collected by 1st District Senate Replacement Committee member Teresa Toriseva, and there are three ways to send them:
Drop off or mail resumes to Toriseva Law Offices, 1446 National Road, Wheeling, WV 26003;
Email resumes to TCT@Toriseva Law.com; or
Fax resumes to Toriseva Law at 304-238-0149.
Toriseva said the committee plans to meet to consider the resumes either Dec. 20 or Dec. 21 at the Brooke County Library, depending on availability.
The committee has 15 days from Dec. 11 - until Dec. 25, Christmas Day - to recommend three candidates for the 1st District seat previously held by Ohio County commissioner-elect Orphy Klempa and submit them to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin.
Klempa resigned his state Senate seat earlier this week, and his term expires at the end of 2014.
A prospective candidate must be a registered Democrat living within the 1st District.
Members of the committee are Toriseva and Ohio County Democrat Party Co-Chairman John Saunders representing Ohio County; Brooke County Democrat Chairman John Martino and his wife, Marge Martino, representing Brooke County; and Lil Douglass and Dino Rossi, representing Hancock County.
The 1st District now also includes Marshall County, though its representatives won't be included in the decision because it was not part of the district when Klempa was elected in 2010.
The 1st Senate District also is represented by state Sen. Jack Yost, D-Wellsburg.
State law dictates no two senators can reside in the same county.


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My question is: I wanted to see flesh heap stats and I typed -st to no avail, and then guessed that it would be -stats, but I could not find it. Is it available at all? Or it is already there exists and hidden somewhere?
Flesh heap stats are floored (rounded down) to the nearest integer. You cannot use in game text commands in the chatbox like in the original dota, however there is an icon for flesh heap that displays when you have a level in the ability. A flesh heap bonus of zero will not show.
There are icons for other heroes too, like Silencer's intelligence stolen, but I'm not sure what else you'd have in mind.
Flesh heap displays the count as a buff within your status bar after you've leveled the skill. Just look there; no commands needed.
So I had a look here which supossedly has all the console commands and I couldn't find anything similar to what you asked for. So, most probably it is not available YET, or maybe they implemented it but didn't update the wiki page(which was last modified 17 February 2012).
Sorry for the answer. Wish I could have given you some better news :)
As Decency suggested maybe you don't need a command line to find out what you need. If I find out anything else I will edit this ;)


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Olivia's sturgeon thriving in Lake Michigan
Three years ago, Olivia Marty held a 6-inch-long lake sturgeon in her hands before releasing it to the Milwaukee River in Thiensville.
Olivia was six years old at the time and she named the five-month-old sturgeon "Giggy Fish" because one of her family nicknames is Giggy.
Her sturgeon swam downstream to Lake Michigan where it has evaded predators and grown to nearly 23 inches in length, according to biologists who netted the fish earlier this month in Big Bay de Noc, off the north end of Lake Michigan.
The crew from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources was able to learn the fish's identity by scanning an electronic tag that had been implanted under its skin prior to its release in 2008. They returned Giggy Fish to the lake.
"That is pretty cool," Olivia said when she heard the news. "Its amazing how fish grow that fast."» Read Full Article
Get your sports video fix in our Prep Sports Primer
Prep Sports Primer, the fastest 90 seconds in local high school sports.Join sports director JR Radcliffe for this week's
JR takes a look at some of the top stories in the area, including the 6-0 Muskego football team, some dominant efforts by the Brookfield Central girls cross country team and more.
Milwaukee man charged in Guaranty bank robbery and second attempt foiled by employee
The Milwaukee County District Attorney today charged Robleh A. Kahin, a 27-year-old Milwaukee resident, with the attempted robbery of Guaranty Bank, 4000 W. Brown Deer Road, on Sept. 22 and the robbery of the bank on Aug. 2.
In all, Kahin was charged with three felonies, robbery of a financial institution - use of a dangerous weapon, attempted robbery of a financial institution and attempting to flee an officer.
If convicted on all three charges, Kahin could face up to 68 years in prison and fined up to $160,000.
According to police, at approximately 2:20 p.m. Sept. 22, the Brown Deer Police Department received a 911 call from an employee at the bank reporting an attempted armed robbery had just occurred. An alert bank employee, seeing a man with a gun approaching the bank, locked the doors, preventing his entry.
The suspect fled in a Lexus RX350, which was located by Glendale police officers, who pursued the suspect vehicle along with Fox Point officers.» Read Full Article
Mequon native named White House fellow
A Mequon native has been appointed a White House fellow.
Reginald Chambers was one of 15 people appointed by President Barack Obama to the 2011-2012 Class of White House Fellows. He will be working in the White House as part of the president's National Economic Council.
The son of LaRoyce and Minnie Chambers, Reginald Chambers grew up in Mequon and attended the University School of Milwaukee.
He most recently served as an investment executive in New York and London with 3i Group, where he helped found and lead its North American infrastructure team.
Chambers earned his law degree from Harvard Law School and a bachelor's degree from Duke University. He lives in Harlem, N.Y., with his wife, Tiffani, and year-old daughter, Madison.» Read Full Article
Districts to see $30.4 million from investment firm charged by SEC
An investment firm charged with selling unsuitably risky investments to five Wisconsin school districts has agreed to settle the charges and pay $30.4 million, which will be distributed to the districts, U.S. securities regulators said today.
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged RBC Capital Markets LLC with misconduct in the sale of unsuitable investments to the Waukesha, Whitefish Bay, West Allis-West Milwaukee, Kenosha and Kimberly school districts, and for inadequate disclosures about the risks of those investments, according to a news release.
RBC marketed and sold to trusts created by the districts $200 million worth of risky investments, for which the districts contributed $37.3 million of their own funds and borrowed the rest. The districts made the investments to help fund post-retirement benefits, which they had promised to employees.
"It's a great day for these five districts," said Stephen Kravit, an attorney representing the districts. He added that they had been vindicated in fraud, and that a significant portion of their losses would be paid immediately by RBC.
Districts can expect to receive their share of the money, distributed by the SEC through a formula, within 10 days.» Read Full Article
Communities won't see increase from North Shore Fire Department
The seven member communities of the North Shore Fire Department will not see an increase in the community contributions to the department in 2012, but further adjustments to the 2012 budget, adopted this morning, may be necessary.
The $13,843,909 budget includes the $362,000 paramedic supplemental payment from Milwaukee County. County Executive Chris Abele has said his 2012 county budget would not continue the $3 million of supplemental payments. The North Shore's share of that figure is $362,000.
Fire Chief Robert Whitaker said Milwaukee County fire chiefs continue to meet to devise an alternative to Abele's proposal, including one plan that would reduce the payments but not eliminate them. The supplemental payments have been on the chopping block in past budget years but the payments were ultimately not cut.
The chiefs hope to enlist the assistance of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Council at its Wednesday meeting.
Milwaukee River sturgeon release Saturday in Thiensville
Around 1,130 young lake sturgeon -- an average of 7 inches long -- will be released to the Milwaukee River Saturday in Thiensville as part of an ongoing effort to restore a naturally reproducing population of the species to the river.
The sturgeon were reared this year in tanks containing river water inside a trailer at the Riveredge Nature Center east of Newburg in Ozaukee County, Riveredge educator Mary Holleback said. Using river water in the tanks will improve the odds of these fish returning to the Milwaukee River to spawn once they reach maturity in Lake Michigan.
Each of the sturgeon have had a fin clipped to help identify them in the future. An electronic tag containing identifying information was injected into most of them.
Around 4,000 young sturgeon were released to the river from the Riveredge tanks in the last five years.
On Sept. 14, a research crew from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources reported netting one of the Riveredge sturgeon in Big Bay de Noc off the north end of Lake Michigan.» Read Full Article
Former Wauwatosa West basketball coach Landisch loses battle with cancer
Former Wauwatosa West boys basketball coach Mike Landisch lost his year and a half year battle with cancer Sunday night.
Landisch, 31, is survived by his wife, Colleen, daughter, Makenna, and son, Caden, who was born in August. He was placed in hospice four weeks ago.
The Wauwatosa community and beyond, embraced the likeable Landisch, who discovered he had kidney cancer in January, 2010. There were several fundraisers set up to help him and his family battle medical bills.
Landisch's final season as a coach was one of the best in the school's recent history.
The Trojans finished with an 11-6 Woodland Conference record and a 15-11 overall mark and they won their first regional championship since 1996.» Read Full Article
Bayside Middle closes because of power failure
Bayside Middle School closed Monday morning because of a power failure in the midst of a wind and rainstorm.
School officials emailed an announcement that they would end classes at 10:20 a.m. The power failure means students could not use the restroom facilities and the cafeteria can't serve lunch. Officials do not know when power will be restored.
Students are being sent home by their regular afternoon bus route.
Berger and Schneider help HHS spoil Cedarburg homecoming
Though they didn't know it at the time, the splendid Homestead offensive connection of quarterback Cody Berger and halfback Jay Schneider got some help in making Friday a most splendid night for the Highlander football team.
The pair connected on four critical passes for 121 yards, including Schneider's impressive end zone takeaway from Bulldogs defensive back Joe Zuba for the clinching 28-yard touchdown with 3:04 remaining.
Homestead later learned it was now all alone at the top of the North Shore mountain because rival Germantown had smashed unbeaten Milwaukee Lutheran, 56-35.
"I think this may have been our best game of the season," said Highlanders coach Dave Keel. "We had a little rhythm right from the get go The kids played hard on both sides of the ball and we got some nice special teams play."
"....This is definitely something that we can build off of. To win here, during their homecoming with this kind of great stmosphere was really special."» Read Full Article
Fast-rising GT boys v-ball team holds off Bay in five games
Welcome to the state's top 10 Germantown boys volleyball team.
Now you're going to get everyone's best shot.
And that was indeed the case Wednesday night at Whitefish Bay, as the Warhawks had to come back from a two games to one deficit to pull out a 23-25, 25-23, 20-25, 25-15, 15-9 decision against the determined Blue Dukes in a North Shore Conference dual.
"They just started to get the feeling (in the fourth game) that they were going to take control of the match and not let the officials decide it," said Warhawk coach Brian Rushmer. "We started getting the ball up better (on the dig) and that really helped."
"We have a lot of talent, but if you can't control the ball (on the dig) you can't win. You make a bad play, just move on."» Read Full Article
Man charged in crash that injured police bicyclist
A 47-year-old Mequon man has been charged with second-offense drunken driving causing injury as well as hit and run injury after he allegedly ran into a Milwaukee police bicycle officer with his van last week.
According to a criminal complaint released Wednesday:
Milwaukee police officer Allan Tenhaken was conducting a field interview with a colleague at 1531 W. Vliet St. around 9 p.m. Sept. 15 when Vladimir Krivoshein drove past at high speed in a van. The side mirror struck Tenhaken, who was on his bicycle, in the chest. He spun around and fell. While the interviewee helped the officer up, Krivoshein fled from the scene.
Two other police officers heard the description of Krivoshein's van broadcast on the radio, saw the van a few minutes later in the 1200 block of N. Water St. and pulled it over.
From Krivoshein's lackluster performance on several sobriety tests, the officers suspected he was drunk and arrested him on an allegation of drunken driving.» Read Full Article
Whitefish Bay Bridal Walk coming Saturday
The Whitefish Bay Bridal Walk, including trunk shows, in-store consultations and a wedding fashion show, will run from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, in the Whitefish Bay shopping area along E. Silver Spring Drive.
Registration for the event's prize give-aways will begin at 12:30 p.m. at 316 E. Silver Spring Drive.
The event is sponsored by New Options Salon & Boutique and Schwanke-Kasten Jewelers along with Boutique Photographer, Placesetters, ReFresh Aesthetic Center, Regina's Bay Bakery, Sendik's Food Market, Simon Oliver, Three Wishes, and Zita Bridal Salon.
You can find more information at shopwhitefishbay.com.
Grafton, Cedarburg, Mequon to study Lake Michigan water supply
Mequon, Cedarburg and Grafton are hiring an engineering consultant to study the feasibility of the three communities joining together to supply their residents and businesses with Lake Michigan water 15 to 20 years from now.
Among the future supply options they are considering: buying lake water from another lakeshore community, such as Port Washington, Milwaukee or the North Shore Water Commission; building their own lake water pipeline and treatment plant; or constructing a series of wells near the lake shoreline that would provide water of lake quality.
The three municipalities will pay $89,228 to CH2M Hill, an international firm with offices in Milwaukee, for the two-year study, said Grafton Water & Wastewater Utility Director Thomas Krueger. The Grafton Village Board on Monday approved the proposal.
A preliminary report expected by December will include estimates of future water demand, preliminary costs of each lake option, indication of whether other nearby communities might join the group, and a recommendation on whether the three municipalities should create a regional water authority to implement a lake water supply plan.
If the three potential partners agree to pursue a lake supply, the consultant will complete the analysis and provide a draft report by July 2012, Krueger said.» Read Full Article
Charges filed after raid finds explosives, pot operation
A Whitefish Bay man has been charged with possession of an improvised explosive device and manufacturing a controlled substance in connection with an Aug. 22 raid on his home in the 4700 block of N. Berkeley Blvd.
Brian Dale Hollenbeck, 41, was free Monday on a $20,000 signature bond set by Milwaukee County Court Commissioner Barry Phillips while he awaits a preliminary hearing on Friday, records show.
According to a criminal complaint, investigators discovered a hydroponic growing operation in the attic of Hollenbeck's home and recovered four firearms, about 1.4 pounds of marijuana and a garbage bag filled with dried marijuana stems and plant matter.
Investigators also confiscated 17 1/4 sticks of dynamite, improvised explosive devices with electronic match fuses, M90 dynamite, two 1/8 sticks of dynamite, $500 in cash and a key to a safety deposit box containing $8,460, according to the complaint.
Robbery spree covers three counties
A masked man has captured the attention of police, not just because of the number of armed robberies he has committed - 15 so far, all in the past month - but the unusual geographical breadth of his hits.
He has covered eight police jurisdictions in three counties, hitting gas stations and liquor stores near freeways and highways in the greater Milwaukee area. And he's not working alone; after the robberies, he jumps into the passenger seat of a getaway vehicle.
"What is kind of unique here is the fact that it's spread out in such a wide range of jurisdictions, from Ozaukee to Waukesha County, Milwaukee County," Milwaukee police Lt. Kenneth Grams said Monday. "So that's fairly . . . I'm not going to say unique, but that's not real common."
The man started his armed robbery spree just before 10 p.m. Aug. 18 at the S&M Petro Mart on Stevenson St. in Milwaukee.
Since then, the man has committed 14 more nighttime robberies, police said. All the stores are within a mile of major highways, and all the robberies except one occurred between 8 and 11 p.m. Three of the robberies were repeats at stores he previously had hit, Grams said.» Read Full Article
Insanity plea entered for teen charged in ax killing
Waukesha - A plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect was entered Monday on behalf of the Fox Point teenager accused of killing his grandfather in May with an ax.
Richard B. Wilson, 17, of Fox Point is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the May 8 slaying of Ronald Siepmann, 78.
Siepmann, a real estate developer, was found dead in a shed on the property of his Beaver Lake home in the Town of Merton.
Wilson, in Waukesha County Circuit Court for a hearing Monday, waived his right to a preliminary hearing and his attorney, Michael Steinle, entered the not guilty plea for him.
Waukesha County Circuit Judge William Domina ordered a competency examination of Wilson in connection with the criminal insanity defense, and that report is expected to be reviewed at Wilson's next court appearance Nov. 17.» Read Full Article
Jake's Deli, Robert Haack Diamonds coming to Glendale
Jake's Delicatessen, a fixture on Milwaukee's north side since the 1950s, is planning to open a new store at Glendale Market shopping center, 6969 N. Port Washington Road.
Jake's would lease space that was formerly a Nick n' Willy's Pizza, according to plans filed with the city. The take and bake pizza franchise closed about a month ago.
Jake's, 1634 W. North Ave., has for decades been known for its corned beef sandwiches, among other items. It got a new managing partner, Gary Plassmeyer, last year. The other owners include Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig.
This will be a second location for Jake's, Plassmeyer said. He said the plans aren't final yet, but could result in the Glendale restaurant opening within six months.
Also, Robert Haack Diamonds plans to open a new location at Glendale Market, in empty space next to Dr. Dawg's hot dogs.» Read Full Article
Red-zone stops fuel Red Knights
Down 27-20 with less than four minutes left in the game, Bay (2-3, 1-2) opted to go for it on fourth down at the 18 yard line, and quarterback Grant Menard's pass was broken up in the end zone.
Bembenek selected to fill vacant Brown Deer School Board seat
The Brown Deer School Board selected Michael Bembenek to fill the seat left vacant by the July resignation of Kathy Stresman at a special meeting Thursday. Bembenek , Kevin Klimek and Kathleen Schilz applied for the seat and had separate interviews with the board.
Bembenek will take his oath of office on Sept. 27.
Brown Deer School Board interviewing candidates for open seat
The Brown Deer School Board will meet in special session at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Administrative Services Center, 8200 N. 60th St., to interview three candidates for School Board seat vacated in July by the resignation of Kathy Stresman. Michael Bembenek is scheduled for a 7 p.m. interview, Kevin Klimek at 7:30 p.m. and Kathleen Schilz at 8 p.m.
The board will discuss and possibly fill the vacancy following the interviews. The entire meeting is open to the public.
Sensient CEO blames Whitefish Bay, contractors for damage to Lake Drive home
say they were defamed by village and Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District officials -- and cited for opening a manhole -- aren't the only village residents with a legal beef over last year's summer flooding.The Whitefish Bay couple who
Kenneth and Maureen Manning have a negligence suit pending against the village and two contractors, blaming them for a sewage backup the Mannings say cost them nearly $400,000 in cleanup, repairs, replacements and the loss of irreplaceable family memorabilia.
The Mannings' suit says they have lived on Lake Drive near Henry Clay St. for more than 10 years and never had sewer backups until the July 14-15 storms last year. (That wasn't even the biggest storm of the month, which hit a week later.) To their knowledge, there were never any such backups since the house was built in 1924.
Kenneth P. Manning is CEO of Sensient Technologies.
The lawsuit claims the village and two contractors it hired to upgrade sewers along Fairmount Ave. last year failed to maintain a properly functioning storm and sanitary sewer system during the project, vastly increasing the likelihood of basement backups.» Read Full Article
Hit-and-run driver turns himself in to Brown Deer police
Brown Deer Police report a 27-year-old Milwaukee man believed to have struck another motorist on Bradley Road shortly before 3 a.m. Sept. 11 turned himself in to police Monday afternoon. He will be referred to the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office for charging on Wednesday. According to police, the suspect's vehicle struck a 41-year-old Milwaukee man who was standing behind his car on West Good Hope Road at North 43rd Street. The victim was getting items from his trunk to change a flat tire. After striking the man, the suspect's car backed up, hit a light pole and then fled.
The victim was taken to Froedtert Hospital where he was treated for substantial leg injuries. He has been released and is recovering from his injuries.
At 2:50 a.m. Sept. 11, Brown Deer Police Officers and the city of Milwaukee Fire Department were dispatched to a report of a car accident with injuries on Good Hope Road at Sherman Boulevard. Upon arrival, it was discovered that it was a two-car accident and that the striking vehicle fled the scene.
Cedarburg's De Riah Boutique to open Mequon salon
De Riah Boutique and Salon of Cedarburg said Tuesday it will open a second salon this November at 10526 N. Port Washington Rd., Mequon, in the Concord Square development. The Mequon location will offer services for hair, nails and makeup and a complete line of spa treatments. It will be co-owned by Shelley Szypszak and Rachel Kernan, who have worked together for over 17 years in the salon and spa industry.
Mequon neighbors object to proposed subdivision along Milwaukee River
A proposal for a 19-lot conservation subdivision drew a crowd Monday night at the Mequon Plan Commission meeting, with some neighbors upset about the plan that would create lots from half an acre to 5.35 acres in size.
The 42-acre site south of Freistadt Road and east of Oak Shore Lane border the Milwaukee River and is a habitat for many birds and animals and the neighbors would prefer that to houses.
Some had concerns that the subdivision, because of the variety of lot sizes, would have less expensive homes, but David Leszynski, the developer, said that houses would likely start at the $500,000 price point, with higher prices for riverfront lots.
The Plan Commission recommended that the Common Council approve a zoning change from the current 1-acre lot minimum to a planned unit development designation. That would allow lots of varying sizes, with the average lot size 1-acre. Whether developed as a planned unit development conservation subdivision or under the current zoning, there would be 19 houses in the area. Part of the 42 acres is in the floodway and is not buildable.
The Common Council will schedule a public hearing on the proposed zoning change at its Oct. 11 meeting.
Concordia to dedicate new School of Pharmacy
A new $12 million building featuring state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories for pharmacy students at Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon will be dedicated on Friday with an open house.
The public is invited to the open house from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Friday.
In advance of the dedication, radio WKLH's (96.5 FM), Dave and Carol will broadcast live from the atrium of the pharmacy school building on Wednesday from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. as part of the station's "Workforce" tour. The show will consist of interviews with university officials and a pharmacy student.
The building now houses two classes of pharmacy students. The second class of 85 students began the program last month, joining the initial class of 71 students who began their studies last fall. When full, the school will contain four classes and nearly 400 pharmacy students.
A study last year, requested by CUW's School of Pharmacy, found the economic impact to the area from the school is expected to exceed $9 million per year.» Read Full Article
Whitefish Bay couple claim defamation in manhole incident
cited last year for removing a manhole cover during an August rainstorm are contending that village and Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District officials conspired to defame them in retaliation for their criticism of administrators' responses to serious flooding problems.A Whitefish Bay couple
Michael Payne and Sally Heiple Payne filed a formal notice of claim against the village and the district, seeking $200,000 in damages. The claim also contends village officials have violated the state open records law by denying the couple some records and vastly overcharging them to inspect others.
"What these people would really like is to get their name cleared," said their attorney, Kevin Demet. "They feel they were entirely scapegoated."
According to the claim, the village's major flooding problems last year were really the fault of village officials who decided to disconnect a storm sewer at the start of a construction project along Fairmount Ave., a plan that "has never been publicly acknowledged by village officials."
Heavy rains in July 2010 caused serious flood damage at hundreds of Whitefish Bay homes, particularly in the area of Cumberland Blvd. and Fairmount Ave., where the Paynes live. After complaining for weeks about what they considered inadequate response, when a fourth heavy rain hit Aug. 20, the couple partially opened a manhole on Fairmount to help drain about 18 inches of water in the street that again threatened nearby basements.» Read Full Article
Nicolet can't keep pace with Lutheran
One of the game's most exciting moments took place when senior quarterback Brandon Kappel completed a pass to Bryce Bowen, who fumbled the ball to sophomore teammate Justin Wallace, a lineman who scooped the ball and chugged his way to the end zone for a hair-raising touchdown.
"That gave us a little bit of life, gave us a little bit of confidence," Kozaczuk said.
Junior Tyler Crass would keep the fans on their feet when he intercepted a Lutheran pass and set his team up for another drive, down just two scores.
The comeback, however, ended there.
Former School Board member applied for counseling positions before leaving board
In response to an Open Records request from NOW Newspapers, the School District of Brown Deer has provided a list of the applicants for two guidance counselor positions that were filled over the summer.
Former School Board member Kathy Stresman applied for an open elementary guidance counselor/social worker position on July 11 and for an open high school guidance counselor position on July 17.
Stresman resigned from the board on July 26.
When asked if she left the board in order to apply for the positions, Stresman last week refused to discuss any jobs that she had applied for in the district but did talk about her newly created position in the school district as community and family outreach coordinator.
She said she learned of that part-time position on Aug. 23 and was interviewed for it on the same day. The School Board both created the position and hired Stresman in less than five minutes on Aug. 30. The job was not posted.» Read Full Article
Cedarburg rallies for three fourth quarter TDs to beat Bay, 25-21
It was almost a mirror image of what the Whitefish Bay football team faced last week when the Blue Dukes turned back Germantown in the final seconds from their own goal-line and held onto victory in their North Shore Conference opener.
But Thursday night, the tables were turned as the surging Cedarburg offense completed a remarkable 22-point fourth quarter rally when quarterback Joey LePak hit end Zach Hetzel on a quick nine-yard hitch with 7.5 seconds remaining to lift the Bulldogs to a 25-21 victory.
"It was a crazy situation, emotions were just flying so high," said LePak, who completed 14 of 22 passes for 157 yards and two TDs. "We just dedicated ourselves to getting this done."
But Blue Duke coach Jim Tietjen instead saw an opportunity lost when Bay had a 14-0 halftime lead and a 14-3 advantage heading into the fourth quarter.
"They made plays and their playmakers made them," he said. "We needed to make stops and we didn't. They exposed our corners (in the second half) and then they were able to run inside."» Read Full Article
Bay residents OK lower school levy after focusing on recreation
A small group of determined residents almost succeeded in hijacking the Whitefish Bay School District's annual meeting last night. About 18 to 20 residents came to the meeting bent on forcing a $700,000 reduction to the tax levy.
They failed but got the attention of the School Board, which will discuss funding of the Recreation Department as an agenda item at a future School Board meeting.
Recreation Department funding was one of two issues the group focused on in remarks at the meeting. The other item was teacher benefits. Michael Braun and Jamie Kowalski, who led the fight against the referendum for school improvements and additions, had the support of other residents in the attempt to reduce the levy.
After motions and countermotions aimed at trimming the levy, the residents at the annual meeting approved a levy of $21,267,910, a $1,000 reduction from the levy presented for approval by the School Board. The vote to approve was 20 yes, 18 no.
Shorewood could hire consultant to work on assessment error
In an effort to expedite review of an error that could raise property taxes, Shorewood officials are grappling with a proposal to contract with financial advisory firm Ehlers and Associates.
The proposal, announced at a Village Board meeting Tuesday, is an attempt to undo a data-entry error that allegedly was made by the village's outside assessor.
Village officials assert Associated Appraisal Consultants, the outside assessor, reported one of Shorewood's tax-incremental financing districts had growth of $77 million, instead of $77,000. The mistake was revealed several weeks ago when the state Department of Revenue published its list of municipal equalized values.
Because of the error, Village Manager Chris Swartz said Shorewood could face the possibility of having to raise an additional $2 million in taxes for 2012, resulting in a 5.8 percent increase in the tax bill.
"If this happens, the village would request an adjustment in 2013, which would result in a similar tax decrease," Swartz said.» Read Full Article
Whitefish Bay adopts grievance policy for employees
The Whitefish Bay Village Board adopted an employee grievance policy Tuesday night, bringing it into compliance with Act 10, the state budget repair bill that mandated the development of such policies for all governmental bodies. The grievance policy covers issues previously covered under public employee contracts.
The board reviewed and adopted a policy developed by attorneys from Buelow Vetter.
The policy allows an employee to file a written grievance with his/her department head within five business days of the incident. The department head or his/her designee may settle the matter but if not the village manager would review the issue as a second step.
The process would continue through a hearing by an impartial hearing officer who would prepare a written decision.
Should the issue not be resolved by the decision of the impartial hearing officer, the Village Board, or the Library Board in the case of a library employee, would conduct a final review and decide the matter by a majority vote.
Bavarian Inn seeks restaurant operator; Oktoberfest begins Friday
Bavarian Soccer Club officials continue to search for a new restaurant operator at Glendale's Bavarian Inn, while also preparing for the opening of this year's Oktoberfest.
In March, a club affiliate, Friends of Bavarian Soccer Club LLC, bought the 14-acre property, which is west of I-43 and north of W. Lexington Blvd. Along with the Bavarian Inn restaurant and banquet hall, the property includes Old Heidelberg Park and soccer fields.
The Bavarian Inn has since been closed to the public, although the facilities have been used by the soccer club and four other German culture clubs that make up United German Societies, which owned the Bavarian Inn through an affiliate, Deutsches Land Inc.
The March sale prevented a sheriff 's auction that was scheduled to satisfy a $1.2 million foreclosure judgment owed to Mitchell Bank by Deutsches Land.
Since then, the soccer club has made improvements, including a new gazebo, to the outside grounds, said Cathy Shaw, club president.» Read Full Article
Update: Mequon's fine dining Riversite closes
The Riversite, a fine-dining mainstay in Mequon for more than 20 years, has closed for good.
Owner Corey Schultz, who bought the restaurant at 11120 N. Cedarburg Road from Jim and Claire Marks in November 2008, confirmed today that the Riversite is closed, as of Sunday, but did not comment further.
An email from Corey and Maggie Schultz to customers Monday announcing the closing said: "The current economic climate would not allow us to continue to operate. We had our good nights, but we also had our slow nights, and over the past few months, the slow began to outnumber the good by too great a margin."
Under Schultz, the restaurant made efforts to attract more value-driven customers in challenging economic times. It added a small-plates menu on Tuesdays and expanded daily appetizers; offered three courses for $30 on Thursdays; and this year lowered prices on entrees to $16 to $35, down from $18 to $42, while still including soup or salad.
The restaurant, with Thomas Peschong as chef, repeatedly held a place on the Journal Sentinel's Top 30 list and was the only Ozaukee County restaurant on the current list. Peschong, whose cooking style drew on classical technique as well as global flavors, had been nominated for a James Beard Award.» Read Full Article
Fresh Market, Burghardt Sporting Goods to open in Fox Point
The Fresh Market and Burghardt Sporting Goods are planning to open stores in Fox Point, taking space formerly used by Borders Books, at RiverPoint Village Shopping Center.
The Plan Commission will meet Tuesday afternoon to review conditional use permit applications for the two retailers.
The commission's agenda says Burghardt would use space at 8625 N. Port Washington Road, while Fresh Market would be at 8705 N. Port Washington Road.
Both addresses were formerly used by Borders, which closed this spring. The proposed Fresh Market would be on the upper level of the former book store facing Port Washington Road, while the planned Burghardt store would be on the lower level facing I-43.
Burghardt Sporting Goods would use around 16,000 square feet, said Josh Minkin, of Alpine Commercial, who represented the tenant in its lease negotiations. Burghardt is locally owned, and has another location at 14660 W. Capitol Drive, Brookfield.» Read Full Article
Bay's defense does just enough against Germantown
A penny for Whitefish Bay football coach Jim Tietjen's thoughts as Germantown was sitting on his team's three-yard line with 2.2 seconds to go and his exhausted defense desperately clinging to a 21-17 lead?
"As a defensive coach, I'm just thinking of the next play in front of us," he said. "That it's the most important one of the game. I try to get them settled in and in the right positions."
And his thoughts after junior linebacker Jeremiah Holt tomahawked the ball away from Warhawks receiver Louis Tuszynski in the middle of the end zone, sending the rest of the Bay team racing out onto the Lubar Stadium Field Friday night in pure joy?
"...Our kid made the hit and the scoreboard tells the story."
And that's how the North Shore Conference season got underway on a muddy, windless night as the Bay defense lost the battle to Germantown (over 430 yards allowed) but won the war.» Read Full Article


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Im currently working on a basic form. What i want to do with this form is that when you hit submit/button to first change the value of a field and then submit the form as usual. It all looks a bit like this:
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Cauchy's Arm Lemma is used in the proof of Cauchy's Rigidity Theorem for convex polyhedra. The Lemma states that in the plane or on the sphere that if all but one of the side lengths of two convex polygons $P$ and $P'$ are the same, and the angles formed by the remaining sides of P are less than or equal to those of the remaining sides of $P'$, then the ommitted side length from $P$ is less than or equal to the omitted side length for $P'$, with equality occurring iff the angles are all the same. I know of a couple of extensions of this theorem (a nice presentation of this sort of thing is available in O'Rourke's paper [O'R01]). The Lemma can also be used to show that convex linkages may be (unsurprisingly) straightened.
I'm seeking other applications of this Lemma, particularly those that might be suitable for use as exercises in an advanced undergraduate course, or other applications in the theory of polyhedra.
[O'R01] Joseph O'Rourke, An extension of Cauchy's arm lemma with application to curve development, Discrete and computational geometry (Tokyo, 2000), Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci., vol. 2098, Springer, Berlin, 2001, pp. 280–291. MR MR2043660 (2004m:52052)


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Need Help Building A Gigantic Light Table
So my girlfriend decided she was going to make a gigantic light table. Her idea was to slap a sheet of acrylic on a couple of pieces of wood and shove a couple of lamps under it. She already got the acrylic top for it before I explained to her it wasn't really going to work that way.
The top is 7 feet by 4 feet. Yes, 7'x4'. So now I'm trying to design one that will actually work well. Currently, I'm thinking 4x4 corners with 1x4's along the sides for a frame and likely 1 or 2 more 1x4's width-wise across the middle for support to keep the center from drooping/collapsing. Then would need a sheet of plywood painted wide on the bottom to close it up. Of course, that means the thing will weigh a ton. Metal isn't an option since I have no fabrication resources.
Anyone have any better ideas?
Then also comes the light source. I'm leaning to LEDs. Maybe using 4 rope strands lengthwise spaced 1ft apart? Anyone have any suggestions for good LEDs or another way to go?
Thanks for any input!
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When I heard what she was wanting to do, I really wanted to let her do it on her own. She's amazingly skilled and crafty it just wasn't going to work the way she wanted. Plus, her tool supply consisted of a hammer and a single phillips screwdriver. She was thinking she could just nail everything together.
So now since I am involved, I really want to help her make something that will be killer and work well, it's just a bit beyond anything I've made before so kind of at a loss.
Really hoping with all the technical and construction brains we have here, I can get some help and rock this thing out!
I have minute experience with dealing with acrylic, the thing that I have found was acrylic cracks easily, so predrill holes and use screws. I would imagine you could turn some acrylic to use as clear supports. My experience with acrylic is it cuts ugly so you may need to trim up the edges. YMMV as I have very little experience, and would like to see what others have to say. Last time I worked acrylic it was my preinternet days.
Do you have any led Christmas light for a proof of concept?
Good luck.
By no means am I professional, so take this for what it is.
You can buy table legs at about any home store. They're already grooved and they would look nice (depending on if it's your style or not). If you're trying to save money, a newel post will likely be less expensive and you can cut off the portion you don't need to make the leg look as you please. To give you an idea of strength, a 2x4 made of pine (top condition) can support well over 500 lbs. You'll have four of them, so unless your table weighs 2000 lbs, you'll not need to worry about that.
If you're going to use a 1x4 rail all the way around the table, use oak or maple. They have a higher strength and won't bow over time. I highly suggest you connect them to the table legs using a Kreg Jig pocket screw. It puts the screws through the end of the board at a perfect angle and allows for a good, solid connection when done properly.
You shouldn't need to run more than one center support through the table if you use oak or another hard wood (not pine). Put the legs in about 6 inches from the edge and you'll have just a 36"x72" span. Top it with a finished 3/4 sheet of plywood (about $40-45 at your local supply). They come in all sorts of finishes (Oak, Birch, Poplar, Maple, etc) for added strength.
Sounds like a fun project, but with a couple of useful tools, it should be fairly simple to complete.
Good luck!
Consider polycarbonate instead of acrylic. Polycarb is way stronger although it is more expensive. For something that is probably going to last, like a table, it may be worth the upgrade.
LED rope lights should work for a light source. If you use a board for a center support, stand it on edge instead of laying it flat. More strength, won't bow, and will block less light. Especially if you use a 1" X 3" of 1" X 2". I believe I've seen dowels made of acrylic. If you can find a supplier that stocks them, they make a nice transparent center support.
1. Go to your local hardware store or framing shop and grab some 90 degree/1/8" aluminum edging. Also get a mitre saw if you don't have a crosscut table saw at home, some JB Weld, blue tape, and Vaseline.
2. Get some butcher paper and draw a 2'x3' square (or whatever size you chose) on the paper.
3. Measure and mark the aluminum along the pattern keeping in mind that the mark you make on the outside will be the tip of the square and there is 1/8" of material you need to account for. Mark a second set of aluminum pieces for the bottom.
4. Cut the pieces and test the fit. Then cut the second set of pieces.
5. Apply JB weld to the joints and use painters tape to hold them together.
6. After the JB is set, mark and drill two holes on each side. Use a file or sandpaper to clean up any burs afterwards.
If you want yo use an acrylic dowel or something like that for a clear center support, I know you can get such things at McMaster-Carr online. I can't comment on the strength or stability of such things, but I know you can get some thick stuff (such as 1" x 4" acrylic bars).
I agree that LED strips would probably work well. If it were me personally, I would probably try to put in sets for red, blue, and green and control the levels of each with a microcontroller to allow for any color, but that's probably just the engineer in me.
7. Mark and cut the plastic to fit (do not remove the brown paper sticker on the plastic, even after cut).If you don't have a table saw at home take it to home depot and cut it (cruddy edges won't matter in the frame) or use a jigsaw with a fine tooth plastic cutting blade.
8. Tape the plastic to the frame using painters tape and mark the holes with a sharpie. Then drill the holes with a plastic bit. Remove the brown paper attached to the plastic and attach the plastic with machine screws.
9. Get your light source, I recommend using fluorescent rectangular bulbs or rip apart a goodwill fluorescent desk lamp (with long bulbs). They are cheap, they need no programming, transformers or other mounting BS. Fluorescent lights are also 300% brighter for dispersed light. Turn on the lights and hover the plastic above them until you are satisfied with the amount of light and the spread. Have someone help you mark the right height.
10. Make 4 straight cuts to your aluminum stock using the height measurement you just took.
11. JB Weld the 4 posts you cut to the inside corners of the bottom portion of the frame (the one without the plastic).
12. Place the tops of the 4 posts to the inside corners of the top frame (the one with the plastic) and tape them in place.
13. Drill through each of the 4 posts where it meets the edge of the top frame making sure not to hit the plastic. Remove the tape and de-burr.
14. Cut a thin sheet of black corrugated plastic to fit all of the sides and glue it in place. Cut two sheets for the bottom but DO NOT glue it down.
15. Take the bottom out and place the lamps where you want them. Drill holes and zip tie them into place where you need them.
16. Stick the bottom back in with the lights attached. Ten cut a "C" where you want the cords to come out. Do not cut a complete hole or light will come out.
17. Attach the top using 4 more machine screws and you're done!
How thick/stiff is the acrylic? Is it a single 7' x 4' piece?
What kind of projects will she be using the light table for?
Will this be a permanent fixture in the room, or will you want to put it away when not in use?
@skispeakeasy: Holy crap! Wow. Thanks for the detailed response. Definitely going to be using some of your ideas.
@straub: I wondered about having some fun and using different colors and a controller. Not having any experience at all in that, how difficult is it to figure out for someone more or less handy? How expensive? Have any suggestions for a site to go check out some products?
You haven't answered an important question: what is the intended purpose of the light table when it's finished? That will affect the materials and construction details.
I'd suggest you start by going to your local glass/plastics dealer, and discuss what you want to do. They will give you expert advice about what kind of top to use (there are many different types of plastic and glass), the material strength, and amount of support needed. Have them do all the cutting, too!
You'll get a lot more brightness per dollar if you use fluorescent tubes. LED lighting is still a relatively new technology and the price point is very high, compared to fluorescent. OTOH fluorescent will develop more heat inside the table, so you may need to take that into account.
Finally, white paint on the inside bottom of the table will reflect less light than you expect. I'd suggest something more reflective. How about a metallized mylar foil... something like a space blanket?
@crowbite: It's going to be used as a craft table. Mostly to backlight some large drawings and also for doing multiple glass projects.
She already has the top - a 7ft x 4ft x 1/2in sheet of #2447 acrylic.
@bingo969: You might try something like this. I haven't used any kind of off-the-shelf product like this myself (I'm more of the design the circuit, solder everything myself kind-of-guy) so I don't know where the best place to look is, but it seems like this one will serve your purpose well and seems to have everything you'd need included (power supply, controller, LED strip). My main concern would be if it's bright enough. Also it might be a problem for you that the strip comes in one long piece. You can likely cut it into pieces and parallel them as long as you're careful about where you cut them and how you attach them.
If you're using LED lighting, I don't think you'd need to worry about getting the bottom to reflect as @crowbite suggested. LEDs are pretty directive.
If you're confused or need any help with the electronics let me know and I'd be glad to help.
This is very similar to what @straub suggested, but has four 2' strips instead of the single strip. It has a remote and can change color/light quality. It looks like they can be trimmed; an amazon review says there are scissor icons every 6" where it's safe to cut. I've seen it at Costco for around $20, maybe $25, and it can be extended up to 20"/10 strips using the extension kit.
Thank you to everyone who has offered advice and suggestions! I might attempt to make myself a small light "table" for crafts, although I'm thinking 12"x12" and maybe just a simple wood frame, attach polycarb or acrylic on top, and slip an LED rope light underneath when I want to use it on a regular table.
@bingo969: Good luck! I think several of us would love to see pictures when you two finish!
@neuropsychosocial: You can find them much cheaper on ebay. I was going to back light my TV I hung on the wall.


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It is a good idea to have an idea of the sites you want to visit, as well as things you want to do during your trip. Do some research on travel blogs and communities. You should ask friends and family who have traveled before about places they enjoyed the most. Read through site-specific guide books like Lonely Planet, Let's Go, Rough Guide, Rick Steves, or Frommers.
Book all travel far in advance. However, do not book anything until after the first week of classes. You may find there are NYU-sponsored trips already in place.
If you are planning weekend travel, then flying from city to city may be your cheapest option. With flights, the earlier you book, the cheaper it will be. Be aware that the taxes for the flight may be more money than the cost of the actual flight. Many of the cheapest flights leave very early in the morning from airports outside of the city.
In some places it can be difficult and expensive to travel to these airports at these very early times because public transportation may not run all night. If you go on a low-fare airline, expect to pay a fee for any stowed luggage you bring.
This site is specifically for bus travel within London, United Kingdom. Here you can plan trips and see bus routes and maps.
With Megabus, you can travel throughout the UK for as little as £1.50.
Busabout is designed for back-packers which makes it a great way to meet people, and a cheap way to get around—it may be more appropriate if you plan to do more traveling during the summer.
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This train will take you into the heart of Europe.
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If you are planning on traveling (especially after your semester) you may find that Eurail is the best option. It is a train pass that gives you train travel within 18 European Countries. Not only is it a cheap, convenient way to travel around Europe, but also many Euro trains are super comfy! Buy your tickets in the US as they are more expensive in Europe.


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Create a one-of-a-kind outdoor living space with the 29" La Palma Copper Auto Ignition Fire & Water Bowl around your outdoor living area, pool or landscape. This copper unit combines fire and water - creating a charming and relaxing atmosphere. Bring the attention you desire to your property with this fire and water bowl.
- Water Flow of 10-12 gpm
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- Can be operated remotely from any home or pool operated system
Custom built from copper with an automated ignition system - this fire bowl is shedding light on what it takes to make a truly sophisticated fire feature.
Equipped with a commercial grade stainless steel burner, the 29" La Palma Copper Auto Ignition Fire & Water Bowl comes with a CSA Approved electronic ignition system for an added convenience and flare. In order to ensure consistently reliable ignition, the stainless steel burner ring hood must be pre-configured between either fire glass or lava rock. Once your decision is made, this unit is easily used with the fire media of your choice – and for added peace of mind, all burner and mechanical parts are covered under a one year warranty.
For 0.25" – 0.5" fire glass, a protective fire glass screen is recommended to ensure that no glass slips down into the base of the fire pit. Also, for additional safety, a low voltage electronic shut-off valve is available for all propane units to protect against any wear or leaks that could otherwise be dangerous.
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Gadgets CordCruncher helps manage earbuds
|The CordCruncher Headphone uses an elastic sleeve to adjust the cord length from 16 inches to 3.5 feet and eliminates extra cordage, allowing for tangle-free freedom of movement. (CordCruncher/MCT)
There isn't much to it: a set of earbuds whose cord is encased in an elastic sleeve. But the cool thing is that it stretches from 16 inches to 3.5 feet and stays tangle-free the whole time.
To stretch them out, you carefully extend the earbuds out of the sleeve and to retract them you just hold both ends of the sleeve extended and the headphone wire shoots into the sleeve.
Then you can just roll it up in a ball and you're all set for the next time you want to use them.
The company states that the elastic sleeve is made from a hypo-allergenic material and it works very well to give you decent sound and to conquer their main objective: keeping the headphones' cords tangle free.
There isn't a microphone on the cord for hands free calls, but for $20 they are more than worth the money since you get the earbuds along with a cable management system.
Details: www.CordCruncher.com available in iGizmo White, Matte Black, Pearl Blue or Rocket Red
The Lensbaby Edge 80 Optic is the newest in the interchangeable optics for the Lensbaby System. I tested mine in the Composer Pro.
If you're not familiar with Lensbaby, it's a system of lenses designed to capture a circle of focus surrounded by a soft blur and are available in mounts for most of today's digital SLR cameras.
Unlike most of the other optics, the Edge 80 has a 12-blade adjustable aperture which is nice. The Sweet 35 is the only other Lensbaby with an adjustable aperture. The other have aperture discs you have to change for each different f-stop opening desired.
What makes the Edge 80 different from all previous Lensbaby optics is it gives you a slice of tack-sharp focus through your image bordered by soft blur (instead of a circular sweet spot of focus).
I used mine during a portrait session and really liked the look it gave my photos. The look combined with the ease of changing aperture and moving the slice of focus really made my session fun and easy.
Details: www.lensbaby.com $300
The pocket-sized Logitech Cube is a multifunctional device that works as a mouse and as a presentation remote with a range of 85-feet.
It's shaped, oddly enough, just like a cube so it takes a little getting used to as a mouse since it's nothing near shaped what most everyone would be used to.
As for the mouse features, it has a right click button in the center and a left click button up front. A USB port and a power button are on the back for keeping the internal Lithium Ion battery powered up.
As for its presentation features, it was pretty easy to flip through slides backwards and forward, once you get used to what button does what.
For example, to flip pages backward you have to flip over the Cube while clicking the main button and you press the top to go forward to the next slide or page.
It also comes with a Logitech Unifying USB adapter to plug into your computer for a wireless connection without needing any software for the mouse or to use the presentation features.
The Unifying receiver can connect up to six selected mice and keyboards at the same time. You can find specific information on which products work on the Logitech site.
Details: www.logitech.com $69.99
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text: The next cartoon animal that I will be giving you a lesson on is very popular because of the oddness of it's kind. I will give you a hint, this animal is part of the bird family and they have long necks, big eyes, long legs, and triangular mouths and or beaks. If you guessed ostrich you are totally right. I am going to show you "how to draw an ostrich" step by step. This tutorial also came out great and I was going for the dumbfounded look when I sketched out the face. The ostrich is a flightless bird that lays humongous eggs. Their bodies consist of an egg shaped form with lots and lots of feathers throughout. I had fun drawing out this cartoon animal because he came out looking like a typical ostrich that we all mentally visualize in our heads. I hope you have fun and like this tutorial on "how to draw an ostrich" step by step. All the instructions and steps are laid out so that anyone can tackle this lesson and have fun with it. I will be back in a bit so stay tuned in for more drawing fun!


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The CDX File Extension
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What is my fastest option to get from Copenhagen airport to Tivoli by public transport on a weekday?
This is actually really easy - I've been to Tivoli twice, and it's conveniently right next to the central train station.
As Wikitravel says:
And then from the Hovedbanegården station, follow the signs across the street to Tivoli. Enjoy it!


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The Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC), the nation�s most successful athletic fundraising event, drew more than 5,700 cyclists from 35 states and eight countries to Massachusetts this past weekend. Enduring cold rains for most of Saturday and unseasonably cold temperatures throughout the weekend, cyclists rode up to 190 miles over one or two days with one collective goal in mind: to raise $40 million for adult and pediatric patient care and cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The fundraising goal is at an all-time high. The final sum raised will be announced in November, as money is still coming in and donations will be accepted until Oct. 1, 2014. If the fundraising goal is met, the PMC�s 35-year gift to the Jimmy Fund will total $454 million.
"These past 35 years have been incredible," said Founder and Executive Director Billy Starr. "I am forever inspired by the commitment of PMC riders and volunteers to this mission. Their desire, and ability, to raise so much money for cancer research is unparalleled." The PMC anticipates more than 240,000 donors.
PMC weekend was emotionally moving. More than 3,000 volunteers cared for the needs of the riders, from preparing and serving food, filling water bottles, and providing massages, to offering medical and mechanical care, transporting luggage and cleaning up after riders traveled through the water stops. The camaraderie shared by cyclists, volunteers, and supporters was inspiring. Doctors at Dana-Farber joined their patients as teammates and rode together with a unified goal. About 350 of the PMC�s cyclists are cancer survivors or current patients. Thousands of riders have lost loved ones to the disease. Still more rode in honor of those in treatment.
"PMC weekend invariable shows the best of the human spirit. Even with all the rain, all I saw was smiles and I never heard a complaint," Starr said.
Connecting athleticism to charitable fundraising was a new idea in 1980 when Starr and 35 of his friends rode across Massachusetts and raised $10,200 for cancer research. Today, athletic charity events annually raise more than $2.5 billion, funding crucial programs at health and human service organizations. The PMC leads the pack and is the most efficient. The PMC annually contributes 100 percent of every rider-raised dollar directly to the Jimmy Fund.
Cyclists chose between 12 routes that ranged from 25 miles to 190 miles. Each committed to raising between $500 and $5,000 to be part of the PMC team. Typically, ninety percent of all PMCers exceed the minimum fundraising contribution and one-third raise more than twice the amount required.
The PMC was presented by the Red Sox Foundation and New Balance. The PMC is nationally recognized as a model in fundraising efficiency; it generates 50 percent of the Jimmy Fund�s annual revenue and is Dana-Farber�s largest independent contributor. PMC funding is considered "seed money." It allows researchers and doctors to finance innovative experiments and conduct initial trials to qualify for federal funding. DFCI research that was funded by PMC raised money has resulted in more than $1 billion in federal funding and DFCI is among the leading recipients of grant funding from the National Cancer Institute.
Page 2 of 2 - "The PMC has made what we do at Dana-Farber possible," said Edward J. Benz Jr., MD, president of Dana-Farber. For more information about the PMC, visit pmc.org.
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Here's what I need.
I need to use
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?........ query to retrieve tweets with specific hashtags only.
Currently I can specify include_entities=true but seems I have no way of specifying which particular hashtags I am after.
So the questtion is:
Is there a workaround/solution here or do I have to get all the tweets and filter out the ones with the hashtags I am looking for?
Basically I'd like to be able to call
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=true&screen_name=my_screen_name&hashtag=my_hash_tag&count=10 and get the 10 latest tweets from @my_screen_name that do have the #my_hash_tag.
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Feng Zhu has a well designed blog with tons of diverse work by him and his students, updated regularly. I always end up spending way too much time on there when I visit.
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I am doing exercise 3.23 in Atiyah Macdonald and in the first part of the problem they ask to show that the ring $A_f = S^{-1}A$ where $S = \{1,f,f^2 \ldots \}$ depends only on the choice of the basic open set $X_f$ and not on $f$. For reference,
$$X_f \stackrel{\text{def}}{\equiv} \{P \in \operatorname{Spec}(A) : f \notin P\}.$$
I interpret this as saying that if there is another $g \in A$ such that $X_g = X_f$, then $A_f \cong A_g$. Since $X_f = X_g$ we deduce that $\operatorname{rad}\Big((f)\Big) = \operatorname{rad}\Big((g) \Big).$ From these equalities of radicals, this means that there are equations
\begin{eqnarray*} f^n &=& ag \hspace{5mm} \\ g^m &=& bf \end{eqnarray*}
for some $n,m \in \Bbb{N}$ such that $n,m >0$ and $a,b \in A$. Now we may suppose that $f$ and $g$ are not nilpotent for then $A_f \cong A_g \cong 0$. To show that $A_f \cong A_g$ I am trying to use Corollary 3.3 of Atiyah - Macdonald:
${\color{blue}{\text{Corollary 3.3: If $\tilde{g}: A \rightarrow B$ is a ring homomorphism such that}}}$
${\color{blue}{\text{(i) $s \in S \implies \tilde{g}(s)$ is a unit }}}$
${\color{blue}{\text{(ii) $\tilde{g}(a) = 0\implies as = 0$ for some $s \in S$}}}$
${\color{blue}{\text{(iii) Every element in $B$ is of the form $\tilde{g}(a)\tilde{g}(s)^{-1}$ for some $a\in A$ and $s \in S$ }}}$
${\color{blue}{\text{then there is a unique isomorphism $h:S^{-1}A \rightarrow B$ such that $\tilde{g}$ factorises }}}$ ${\color{blue}{\text{through the localisation $S^{-1}A$.}}}$
In our case we can set $B = P^{-1}A$ where $P = \{1,g,g^2, \ldots\}$.
$\textbf{Difficulty:}$ I have been spending some time now trying to define such a map $\tilde{g} : A \longrightarrow P^{-1}A$. Now it seems to me from those two equations above that there are only choices (up-to multiplication by some constant) orf such a map $\tilde{g}$. The problem is every time I define my $\tilde{g}$, property ${\color{blue}{(iii)}}$ is not satisfied. For example, I have tried to define for $x \in A$
$$ \tilde{g}(x) = \frac{bx}{a} \hspace{4mm} \text{or} \hspace{4mm} \tilde{g}(x) = \frac{x^n}{ab} \hspace{4mm} \text{or} \hspace{4mm} \tilde{g}(x) = \frac{bx}{ag^{m-1}}.$$
Suppose I try to write some $x/g^k$ in $P^{-1}A$ as $g(x')g(s)^{-1}$ for some $a' \in A$ and $s \in S$. Then one candidate we have is $x' =x$ and $s = f$. But then we only get
$$g(x)g(f)^{-1} = \frac{bx}{g^m}.$$
If I try say $g(xf)g(f)^{-1}$ to remove the $g^m$ in the denominator the problem is that I just end up with $x$. The problems are similar for the second and third $\tilde{g}$ I defined above. How can I get around this? Please do not give it all away as I would like to enjoy some of the fun!


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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Nine months ago, Adam Scott led the British Open by four shots with four holes to go. That's how close he was to winning his first major. Instead, he made like Ed Sneed at the 1979 Masters. Sneed led by three with three left but never got one of those green jackets. Neither did Scott get his claret jug. Instead he became one of those train-wreck tragedies that dot golf's lore, closing with four straight bogeys to finish one behind Ernie Els.
The fact that it happens is one thing. How you deal with the inherent demons can be quite another. They've been known to swallow careers.
A decade or so ago, Scott was one of the game's next big things. It seems like there's never any shortage of those. Many become trivia questions. There were probably times when Scott could have maybe gone either way.
Not anymore. Those days are history. He has changed his life completely, and for keeps. All it took was one 12-foot birdie putt through the rain and looming darkness late Sunday afternoon on the par-4 10th, which finally took out 2009 champion Angel Cabrera on the second hole of their sudden-death playoff. Well, actually it was two putts. Scott earlier had made an 18-footer on the final hole of regulation, which as it turned out he would need just to keep playing when Cabrera — playing in the last twosome right behind Scott — stuffed it in close and got his own 3.
Did we mention that no Australian had ever won a green jacket?
Two years ago, after he tied for second with countryman Jason Day (who Sunday led with three holes remaining before bogeys at 16 and 17 left him two back in third) when Charl Schwartzel closed with four birds, Scott said his "heart" wanted to win this major, that he would "love" to be the first Aussie to do it.
"I just have to putt a little better," he said at the time.
He's the fourth guy in the last six majors to win using a long putter, which the governing bodies are about to put on the endangered-species list.
But in a Masters that was very much threatening to be remembered more for the controversial two-stroke penalty that Tiger Woods received following Friday's second round, there will be no asterisk.
Particularly with the mates down under.
"I was trying not to think about that today," said Scott, who closed with his second straight 3-under-par 69, and third of the tournament, to tie Cabrera (70) at 279, after opening with his only bogey of the round. "We're a proud sporting nation. We like to think we're the best at anything. There's been a long list of great players that could have achieved this. It's amazing that it was my destiny …
"It was time for me to step up. It was a huge moment."
Eight Aussies had been runner-up here, starting in 1950 with Jim Ferrier, who shot a final-round 75 to lose by two to Jimmy Demarat. Obviously the one who's remembered most is Greg Norman, who was second in 1986 (one behind Jack Nicklaus), 1987 (when Larry Mize beat him in a playoff by holing the chip shot of all time) and 1996 (when he blew a six-shot third-round lead with a 78 to lose by five to Nick Faldo). Now those close calls have been mostly wiped away, at least back home.
"Greg's inspired a nation of golfers near to my age," said the 32-year-old Scott, who shared an emotional hug with his father, his coached until he was 19. "He's an icon, my hero. Most of us felt he could have slipped one (green jacket) on, for sure. He's given me so much belief in myself. I drew on that a lot today. He's been a great role model."
As was his dad, who counts this as one of the few events he comes to.
"He did an incredible job of letting me be who I am," Scott said. "He told me, 'It doesn't get any better than this.' It was nice that I was kind of able to reward him today."
After trailing by three at the turn, Scott played the back nine in 3-under. He got a break on the par-5 13th when his second shot came up a bit short but didn't, as often happens, roll back down the slope into the wet stuff. He then got up and down for birdie. He also had a two-putt birdie at the par-5 15th. He came to 18 tied with Cabrera. Three swings later, he was ahead. But Cabrera, who like Scott barely missed a birdie putt at 17, did likewise and it was off to extra holes.
They started on 18. Both rolled their approaches back off the green into the fringe. Cabrera's chip nearly went in. On 10, the second playoff hole, so did Cabrera's birdie putt. So it was up to Scott. It was getting to the point where they might not have been able to play any more holes due to darkness. And who really wanted to come back on Monday? Scott asked caddie Steve Williams, who used to carry Tiger's bag, for the read. Williams told him it broke some two cups right-to-left. Scott did the rest, and the only thing left to do was exchange a serious high-five.
"My heart was about to stop," is how Scott described Cabrera's near-miss at 18. "I was thinking, 'Is this it, really?' "
Woods tied another Aussie, co-first-round leader Marc Leishman, for fourth with a 70 for 283. If his ball hadn't hit the flagstick and went into the water at 15 on Friday, who knows? But it did, and the subsequent 8 (with the added penalty some 12 hours later) turned it into a possible four-stroke swing. Which of course could have made a difference. Anyway, he figures to again be the favorite in two months when the U.S. Open returns to Merion for the first time since Tiger was in kindergarten. It will mark the fifth anniversary of the last of his 14 major wins.
The four-time winner hasn't won this one since 2005.
Cabrera, who at 43 was trying to supplant Ben Crenshaw as the second-oldest winner here behind Nicklaus, had done next to nothing the last decade except win the 2007 U.S. Open and that green jacket. But this is the third time in the last five years that he's played in the last group. He came here ranked 269th in the world, 23 spots behind John Daly, whose presence this week was limited to his merchandise trailer parked right down Washington Road next to the Hooters. Yet Cabrera is also the only active player besides Tiger to have won the U.S. Open and Masters.
For a while, it looked like it was Cabrera's tournament. Then, probably Day's. In the end the stage belonged to another, someone who hasn't finished worse than 15th in the last five majors.
"That's how golf is," Cabrera, who walked off arm-in-arm with his onetime President's Cup teammate, said through an interpreter. "I would have been happy if I'd won, but I'm happy for him."
Cabrera knows. He's the only Argentine to ever win a major.
"I remember him pulling me aside and telling me I was a great, great player," Scott said. "It's something I'll never forget."
Now, he finally has something else.
"I don't know how that happened, it seems," he said. "It's like a long way away from two years ago, or even last July. It's hard to exactly put it all together in my mind at the moment. It's incredible to be in this position.
"Everything fell my way in the end. You never know … The list is so long, of everyone that's helped me. I'm a proud Australian. I hope this sits really well back home. I guess when I get back I'll find out."


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This beautiful 30,000-square-foot clubhouse features an upscale restaurant with patio seating and 18 holes of championship golf.
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K1 Speed
This entertainment and meeting facility features two indoor European karting tracks, a restaurant and a multitude of alternative entertainment options, including billiards and video games.
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Brunswick's Buffalo Grove and Tavern '45
This 56,000-square-foot upscale bowling and entertainment center, offers a comfortable and lively atmosphere to enjoy the company of good friends. 32 lanes feature upgraded bowling equipment and plush sofa seating that encourages socialization and connection. A laser tag arena and arcade with multi-player games that are good for the competitive spirit. Food & beverage service is available laneside or in the in-house restaurant, Tavern '45, featuring distinctive American pub fare, local craft beer and an outdoor patio.
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Trampolines on steriods!! This giant warehouse is filled with commercial grade trampolines that are connected together. Play trampoline basketball, trampoline dodgeball and land in a huge foam pit. Kids of all ages love the fun and completely forget that they are getting exercise. Check out this exciting concept online for more pictures and videos.
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Built on the well-known Cuneo Estate in Vernon Hills, White Deer Run Golf Club is an 18-hole public course sprawling over 240 acres of rolling terrain and picturesque lakes with bent grass greens and fairways. Able to accommodate small and large group outings and banquets.
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Hello all,
Assume we have a sequence of quasiconcave functions (in $X$) denoted by $f_{i,j}(X)$ for $i,j = 1,\ldots,n$. Denote by $F(X)$ the $n\times n$ matrix whose $(i,j)$ entry is the function $f_{i,j}(X)$.
Assuming that $F\succ0$ (positive definite for all $X$), I want to prove (or disprove) that the function $g(X)=a^TF^{-1}a$, where $a\in\mathbb{R}_+^{n\times 1}$, is quasiconvex.
Someone have any idea?
Thank you!
Correction: $f_{i,j}(X)$ are quasiconcave and not quasiconvex. Credit to Robert.