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Hey, looks like the new cam doesn't have a built-in stabilizer. How about a new steadicam. I'm sure Scoble won't mind strapping one of these things on.
I couldn't agree more with the moral of the vector/array optimization story (above).
You should never guess at what your performance bottlenecks are. I can't even count the times the dev team was sure that the problem was some one thing, then we profile, and see that it was something completely different. Often the problems aren't the major stuff, but little things.
Don't waste your time, or let others, optimizing code without clear evidence of what is slow. (go buy TrueTime of Quantify!)
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Eating in is the new eating out. But you knew that.
Since the recession hit and disposable income went the way of land lines, Americans have taken to entertaining at home with a passion.
You may not know that young people are at the vanguard of that movement. Of course, it's cheaper – a consideration when your paycheck is at the lowest of your adult life – but it's also convivial, fun, even.
"It's something I do a lot with my friends," said Erin Jolley, 30, a nutrition and cooking teacher for the Federal program, Share Our Strength. "We cook as a part of how we share time together."
The food isn't usually fancy – slow-style stews, which have the advantage of cooking on their own while you and your friends share a beverage and appetizers, deconstructed tacos and the ever-popular pastas. No matter what, it's always better than eating alone.
But some young people pride themselves on pulling out all the stops.
"Ooh," said Jessica Jameson, 25, describing a typical dinner party she cooks for friends, "I like to make orange -glazed brown sugar chicken and bake some asparagus. But my knock-out dish is grilled pork chops with apple chutney."
Others rely on the tried and true. Sydney Brega, 26, who works at the Mail Room, recently moved into her own apartment and is planning to throw herself a house-warming bash with a retro theme based on the fondue pot she picked up at the flea market.
"I'm totally into fondue. It's from the sixties," she said.
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Generally, yes, developers are stakeholders on a software project. That's consistent with the dictionary definition of the term. Here are a few definitions of stakeholder, from various publications:
Karl Wieger's Software Requirements:
Ian Sommverville's Software Engineering 8:
Roger S. Pressman's Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach (6th Edition) defines five groups or stakeholders: senior managers who define business issues, project/technical managers who organize and control the practitioners, the practitioners who engineer the system, customers who specify the requirements for the software, and end-users who will interact with the delivered system.
Scott Ambler's Active Stakeholder Participation: An Agile Best Practice:
In practice, I've typically seen stakeholders broken down into groups, and one group contains the people building the system. It is important to recognize that, when building a system, the developers do have needs and concerns that need to be balanced with the needs of everyone else. However, these need to be prioritized and taken into consideration with every other need.
Usually no, but there can be exceptions. "Eating your own dog food" comes to mind as the main exception as in this case the developers may be using what they build directly and thus they are stakeholders to some extent. However, I'd question if this was more than a few percent of developers overall though.
If this is being asked in relation to Scrum then no...
Stakeholders are individuals external to the current product development team in one form or another. If you are on team X and another developer is on team Y and you are working on differing products which interact with each other at a later point in time then you become a stakeholder in each others product.
Yes - for a system that will live on and be maintained. Developers are likely to work with the code to fix bugs and introduce new features long after the initial team closed the project. An important requirement for long lived systems are maintainability and who should put their stakes in this if not developers?
After a bit of googling, I must say that this is an unanswerable question. There is no one definition of a stakeholder and different sources use it differently.
As the Scott Ambler reference by Aaron points out, more than one methodology avoids the term altogether. Others try to break it down into different categories of stakeholders. The result is that while there's a general meaning that stakeholder is "someone with interest", the precise meaning is lost.
What that interest is comes down to one of two meanings in my mind:
The sponsorship body fits either definition. How end users fit into the sponsorship body is another topic entirely. For now, lets assume they do fit in because I'm not willing to split hairs on it. Anyone on the project team fits the second meaning as well.
In the end what matters is that value is derived from our applications and we understand that the sponsors get the final word.
My general feeling is that people who want to lump in developers into the "Stakeholders" group largely care because they have seen situations where developers are treated as cogs in a machine and often treated poorly as a result. Feedback on requirements is not allowed, significant unpaid overtime is mandatory, etc. Because you're giving up time and sanity above what should be expected, there are people inclined to see that as an investment. Investment = stake so in their minds the development team are stakeholders.
As a result, I'm not a fan of the term. "Sponsors" is clear. "Stakeholders" is not.
No, they're not.
Stakeholder: A person or organization that may be affected by the success or failure of a project or organization
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They may be. If their postion after the product is finished will be different than before, they are a stakeholder. For instance, if a developer is paid a salary to develop software for a company, chances are he is not a stakeholder because nothing will change afer the product is delivered. However, if he is a partner in a startup, where his financial position depends on the product being successful, I would argue that he is a stakeholder.
Another example would be the (admittedly rare) case of a developer making software that he will use. In that case, he definately is a stakeholder because he has a vested interest in having that software work correctly.
Developers are indeed stakeholders (affected by what is produced): both those who initially develop a system, and those who maintain it. The former tend to be interested in new technologies and increasing their skill base, whereas the latter want to be able to keep up with the usually large number of systems they have to maintain.
However, 'legitimate' stakeholders is another question. When balancing requirements, all stakeholders are certainly not going to find their concerns addressed to their satisfaction. Is your company worried about losing top developers? Bump up developer concerns. If not, developers tend to end up fairly low on the totem pole. Unfortunately, this can have the effect of ignoring maintainability as well, building up technical debt like there's no tomorrow.
Basically, a Stakeholder is an individual or organization or, put it simply, "is an entity which is having good/bad influence on the project completion".
Stakeholders are very important in project accomplishment. Stakeholders may be a client, usergroup, project manager, project leader or coordinator.
You have to satisfy expectations of stakeholders in project completion.
I think it depends on the project.
A stake holder includes anyone who has a stake or interest in what the system does because then they will have some requirements to say what it should do. Therefore I wouldn't include developers in a project where the code is simply pushed out the door and forgotten but would include them if they are supporting the project or extending it as it is then the developers require the system to be maintainable/extendable.


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Ghastly gore glimpsed in Killing Floor 2 announcement trailer and screensWritten by: / / 6 Comments
Tripwire Interactive has announced a new entry to the team's multiplayer zombie destruction sim in the form of Killing Floor 2 – a game they say "ramps up the gore" for some more over-the-top Zed killing.
Killing Floor 2 is the follow-up to an Unreal Tournament 2004 mod, Killing Floor, which was spun into a standalone game in 2009 and has so far sold 2.5 million copies. The sequel, however, ratchets up the gore, technology and features to allow for up to six players in co-operative modes online, but you could always face the terrible creatures Tripwire has created on your own.
New enemies (as well as fan favourites from the original game) are promised, this time with improved AI to increase the challenge of taking them down. You'll of course have a very wide selection of weapons at your disposal to make confrontations with the twisted beasts more manageable, with a perk system included to enhance your abilities in combat.
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The team also promises that Killing Floor 2 "reinvents melee combat completely" with control over the types of attacks you want to dish out, with "bone-breaking crippling attacks" the result. Here's another promise from Tripwire:
"Killing Floor 2 ramps up the gore with a proprietary, high powered persistent blood system bringing new levels of fidelity to the genre. Players will send entrails, severed limbs, and blood flying as they wade through hordes of enemies. But they need to watch out! If caught, enemies will rip them, and their entire party limb from limb."
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Killing Floor 2 is due out in Steam Early Access on PC and SteamOS later this year. Here's the story setup in case you needed any motivation to destroy thousands of zombies keen on chomping your brain:
"In Killing Floor 2 players descend into continental Europe where the outbreak caused by Horzine Biotech's failed experiment has quickly spread and gained unstoppable momentum, essentially paralyzing the European Union.
"Just one month after the events in the original Killing Floor, the specimen clones are everywhere and civilization is in disarray; communications have failed, governments have collapsed, and military forces have been systematically eradicated. The people of Europe know survival and self-preservation too well and lucky survivors have gone into hiding.
"Not all have given up hope though… A group of civilians and mercenaries have banded together to combat the outbreak and established privately funded operation bases across Europe. Upon tracking specimen clone outbreaks, players will descend into zed-laden hot zones and exterminate them."
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Moon ShotsWritten by on July 4, 2012 Contributors: Greg Sharp
EYE. Dean Moon demonstrated what photographers call "a good eye" long before the first pair of Moon eyes appeared on Creighton Hunter's T roadster. Now that we've seen the Greg Williams collection and examined the few rolls of Dean's medium- and large-format film that wound up in the Petersen archive, we're even more impressed. An unusually high percentage of those frames are impressive, if not extraordinary, for both composition and technical quality. The earliest rolls are big 4x5s, four frames per roll. More than once, it's been challenging to pick a favorite among the four negatives.
The military must've felt the same way about the film they saw, because Dean spent his Korean War years teaching photography to recruits and flying over this country with a camera, instead of crawling across that one with an M-14. Soon after separation, the Moon byline and photo credits started showing up regularly in HOT ROD and other publications. Dean's black-and-white product shots in Moon Automotive and, later, Moon Equipment Co. catalogs set an industry standard. The catalogs themselves set another.
For the rest of a remarkable life cut short after 60 years, he kept a camera close. Look no further than this dramatic spread for evidence that at racing events in which Dean Moon wasn't personally competing, he morphed back into the ace shooter he was before becoming an industry leader. Success in both fields all started with a good eye.
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For a guy with a booming business back home, Dean sure got around as a photographer and enjoyed excellent access to various motorsports. He wisely climbed something to obtain this killer close-up of Bill Vukovich (facing camera, center left) examining the Borg-Warner Trophy after he won his first of two consecutive Indy 500s in 1953.When Evert "Pops" Chrisman, the father of Art and Lloyd, installed the prototype set of Moon discs on the 196-mph Chrisman & Duncan coupe (HRD's July '11 cover car), their maker was on hand to document what proved to be a historic installation.Not many photographers in hot rodding history have been equally adept at shooting both mechanical and human models. Dean is a notable exception, as illustrated by voluptuous Ruth Hampton, whose acting roles included Miss Border to Border in the film Johnny Dark.This familiar Bonneville scene with the Reed brothers' Von Dutched belly tank, which appeared in ads for years, gained invaluable exposure for Moon discs. An Ardun V8 pushed this car to 215 mph with LeRoy Neumayer aboard in 1954—one year before its subsequent pilot, John Donaldson, became the first Speed Week fatality.We know nothing about this print, which Greg Sharp supplied. Our best guess is that Mr. Paranoia was worried about any leftover fuel coming into contact with something hotter than his flames.In between quarter-mile passes in the Moon Bros. Deuce sedan at the Santa Ana Drags, Dean pulled out his trusty camera to capture pioneer promoter C.J. "Pappy" Hart and the ever-present stogie. This portrait is one of the best and earliest we've seen of the visionary garage owner who, with partners Creighton Hunter and Frank Stillwell, opened the first commercial, weekly dragstrip in 1950.After Editor Wally Parks (pictured) upstaged the factory-backed teams with a stunning, 166-mph blast across the sand of Daytona Beach in HOT ROD's highway-driven '57 Plymouth, Dean Moon offered to build a 392 Hemi for Bonneville record runs. Staffer Ray Brock broke a class record at 183-plus before an overdose of nitro blew Moon's motor on the return run. Wally bragged in HRM that the speed was the fastest ever recorded by a stock-bodied American car.More than 50 impressive entries in the 1957 inaugural Hawaiian Motorama ranged from rods and customs to race cars and horse-drawn carriages. HRM assigned coverage of this event plus the following weekend's drag race to our man Moon. Here, Dean caught Rod & Custom Editor Spence Murray surveying the show floor from the nose of the homegrown, Ardun-powered, 120-mph B/Altered known as Wiki-Wiki, a surprise class champ at NHRA's '56 Nationals. Next in line are an unidentified scalloped, channeled '34 five-window and Joe Lau's yellow Deuce Victoria. The fifth car back is one of just six factory-racing Corvettes. Owned by dry lakes and Bonneville veteran Bruce Geisler, it turned 102 mph at the Hawaiian strip and 126.93 at El Mirage. Across from Spence sit an RSK Porsche trailed by Longie Gandall's injected Chrysler rail, the subject of a subsequent Dean Moon car feature (July '58 HRM).Editor Murray was also a participant here, having shipped his Rod & Custom Dream Truck 8,000 miles from the Indiana shop of customizer Bob Metz, who completed a '58-style update by adding tail fins. Spence made the trip to give his Hawaiian readers a close look at the vehicle that they, along with their mainland counterparts, helped design.
Not long after making the shocking 166.97 run at Lions Drag Strip that triggered the mainland's Fuel Ban, the Cook & Bedwell dragster was floating west. The weekend following this show, Emery Cook would win Top Eliminator at the Kahuku airstrip on the far side of Oahu while setting a new Hawaiian land-speed record of 166.66 mph.Emery Cook's toughest competition in Hawaii came from another California car, the Glass Slipper of the Cortopassi brothers. Fresh from being named America's Most Beautiful Competition Car at the '57 Oakland Roadster Show, the streamlined rail ran 160.71 mph on the island and advanced to the Top Eliminator final before its injected Chevy lost oil pressure.Another overhead angle illustrates the wide variety of '57 dragster designs, along with Troubles, a twin-Harley drag bike that we can't identify. In the right foreground sits the wide-track Craig Auto Special, powered by a front-blown Chrysler fueled by six inline Stromberg 97s. Beside the rare Porsche racer is Carl Sumida's flathead rail, which earned a Best Constructed trophy. Behind it is Maurice Richer's Nesbitt's Orange Special (claiming, arguably, drag racing's first nonautomotive sponsorship), which turned 155 mph here—and stayed here with a new, Hawaiian owner.Sitting in on Eric Rickman's advance publicity session for the '58 Nationals, Dean squeezed off a roll of his own while Rick worked. He also persuaded Miss HOT ROD to briefly don a Potvin-equipped, Moon-eyed "flathead" hat that failed to appear in any of NHRA's publicity prints. The roadster is the Ardun-powered Scotty's Muffler Special.When Craig Breedlove hit the salt in October 1964, Dean was there to document his attempt to reset the LSR and break the 500-mph barrier. We only wish that Moon were still around to tell us whether the run getting underway here is the record-clincher that totaled the car and nearly killed the driver at least two different ways—in which case this would be one of the last pictures of the Spirit, intact and dry.If you don't believe that this was the coolest guy this side of the Beatles in 1964, why did their archrival, the Beach Boys, release a record called Spirit of America? Like Mickey Thompson before him, Craig proved that a California hot rodder with little backing and no formal engineering training could outrun the wealthy Europeans who'd traditionally owned the sport of "record racing." Unlike M/T, Craig realized their common goal of bringing the LSR back to America, repeatedly.


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Sept. 5, 2008 -- Nearly half of Americans are likely to develop arthritis in at least one knee by age 85. For people who are obese, the risk is greater.
Researchers from the CDC and the University of North Carolina studied data on 3,068 people in Johnston County, N.C. Participants, all 45 years old or older, were evaluated twice over an average follow-up of six years. Participants received physical exams, X-rays, and also were interviewed.
Researchers were able to use the data to estimate risk of developing symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (OA) by their mid-80s. OA is the most common form of arthritis.
At the start of the study, the average age of participants in the study was 61 with 15% having symptomatic knee OA. About six in 10 of the participants were overweight or obese. Though the study focused on one small geographic area, the researchers say the data are likely applicable to Americans as a whole.
Researchers found that the lifetime risk of having symptomatic knee osteoarthritis was 44.7%. Sex, education level, and race didn't seem to affect a person's chances of developing arthritis. The two factors that do have an effect: whether or not someone has a past knee injury and whether or not the person is overweight or obese.
Participants with a history of knee injury have a 56.8 % risk, compared with a 42.3 % risk for those without past knee injury. People of normal weight have a risk of 30.2% of developing knee osteoarthritis with symptoms, compared with 46.9% for overweight participants and 60.5% for obese participants.
The researchers, who write that arthritis is a leading cause of disability in the U.S., call for more focus on weight management by both individuals and their doctors.
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The Niners last played Dec. 8 when they picked up an 81-73 victory over Stetson inside Halton Arena. Senior Jennifer Hailey posted her seventh double-double in eight games this season with 19 points and 13 rebounds to lift Charlotte's record to 6-2. Classmate Amanda Dowe added a double-double of her own, her fourth this season, with 10 points and 12 boards.
Sophomore Hillary Sigmon chipped in a career-best 19 points, featuring three 3-pointers, and senior Jai Forney tallied 16 as the 49ers improved to 3-2 on their home court.
Rounding out the productive effort from the starting five was junior Ny Hammonds, who distributed a career-high tying 10 assists for the second time in a week. She continues to lead the country in assists per game with her 7.6 average for the fourth-straight week in the national statistics released Monday.
On the season, Hailey and Dowe both average a double-double. Hailey's 14.9 points and 12.1 rebounds edge out the 12.5 and 10.8 respective averages of her fellow post.
North Carolina A&T brings a 5-3 ledger, including a perfect 3-0 home mark, into Tuesday's matchup. The Aggies have won two straight and five of their last six, with the lone setback coming at Richmond Nov. 28. NCA&T traveled to Lynchburg, Va., and earned a 60-56 triumph over Liberty Saturday.
A low-scoring team that scores nearly 14 fewer points per game than the 49ers, North Carolina A&T is led by Amber Calvin's 12.1 average. JaQuayla Berry is next with 9.8 points and a team-high 7.3 rebounds per contest for head coach Tarrell Robinson's squad.
Although the Aggies have not scored many points, their defense has been just as stout, surrendering just 54.0 points per game through their first eight contests. Six of the seven opponents have tallied less than 60 points, including a season-low 27 by North Carolina Central Dec. 1 in the first Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference meeting for either school.
Charlotte leads the all-time series 23-7 after picking up an 87-63 victory at home last season. Dowe topped the Niners with 19 points and 11 rebounds in last year's meeting, while Hailey also had a double-double of 16 points and 10 caroms.
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Did you know that it's the 25th anniversary of The Princess Bride?
I have to admit that I didn't see the movie for several years, but now I LOVE it! A few months ago @mphdavid asked everyone to post their favorite quotes from The Princess Bride. I just re-read those responses and it appears that a lot of you love this movie, too. I haven't come across any deals on the DVD or Blu-ray, but several morning TV shows are covering the anniversary. Happy anniversary, Princess Bride!
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HOLY CRAP...I am old.
No more rhymes and I mean it.........
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It's as old as me!
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Now why didn't somebody design a shirt to coincide with this anniversary?!?!
Have fun storming the castle!
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Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
@unoriginal26: You keep using that word. I dunnno think it means what you think it means.
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Is this a kissing book?
I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any chance happen to have six fingers on your right hand?
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That may be the first time in my life a man has dared insult me.
To the Pain....
I learned an interesting fact about the movie recently.
I think most people will generally agree that the best-acted scene was the one where Inigo finally avenged his father's murder. How did Mandy Patinkin bring forth such a visceral performance?
(This is sad, but really shows how a good actor can channel their emotions into a part.)
Mandy's father had recently died of cancer. Mandy decided that cancer was Count Rugen and played the scene as though he was sword fighting the cancer that took his father. When he told Rugen, "I want my father back, you son of a bitch," he was talking to the cancer and truly meant every word.
He said that it was incredibly therapeutic to be able to play out those feelings in such a way.
25? Woo hoo!
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
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Why after all of these years would one remember this event? I can't even remember it after scratching my head!
Aw, you guys. I was hoping to see all these goofy responses when I clicked on the question.
This was a "Med Cruise Movie" which played in the Ready Room during one of my husband's deployments. The squadron watched that movie just about every day & they all could quote it just about line for line! When they got home from deployment, by the end of any function quotes from the movie would manage to work their way into the evening.
Because I loved this movie, when I got my very first cell phone, I wanted the brief bit of "fluttering" music that plays as Buttercup jumps out the castle window & falls into Fezzik's arms as my ring tone. You know, I think I still do. Yeah, I'm weird like that.
I actually saw this in the theater on opening night. Didn't go for it, but the action flick or horror film was sold out or broken or something.
I even have the opening night 45rpm that they gave away to the first hundred or so people in the theater.
Incidentally, has anyone else read the book that this movie was based on?
And will SOMEONE SOMEWHERE finally print this shirt. I've been waiting forever.
I wish you would have said "of the movie." The book's 25th anniversary was a few years ago. By the way, if you haven't read the book you are missing a whole lot of the fun of The Princess Bride. Although I will admit that I read the books seeing/hearing the actors as their respective characters because they were so well done.
Also, little known fact, the tried getting Arnold Schwarzenegger instead of Andre the Giant (I'm so glad they didn't)
@chellemonkey: You're right. I should have specified that it was the anniversary of the movie. You're even more right that Andre was the best choice for the roll.
A bit late, but if anyone is still following this thread, I came across this picture today and thought you might enjoy it. "The Princess Bride" cast 25 years later:
@pitamuffin: Do you think they will make it? It's gonna take a miracle!
I knew it was 25 years old. Oddly watching this movie every year on new years day has been a tradition in my house since it came out on VHS. Yes, I said VHS, (at least I didn't say we had it on Beta Max)! I love this movie and I am just happy that my wife and daughter love it as well!


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I was recently searching for the mathematical formula to find closest point of approach (CPA) between one ship and another ship. I need to apply the formula in my radar ship program and I can't find the correct way to calculates it.
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Didn't realise you were a hipster, Nobby?
Didn't realise you were a hipster, Nobby?
Had an idea for Round 10, the last round. Instead of the usual 10 questions with a bonus questions how about 20 questions? No bonus question, it could change the league table dramatically and with it being the final week, always got to go out with a bang?
sounds good to me as will give me chance to make ground (providing i get some right!)
I liked it the first time, and I like it even better in bold
Sounds good because I will win it ha.
Ohhh big letters, i believe what it says
*damn you anti caps, I was doing it ironically*
Too many people though, there'd be some who'd have the advantage of getting to answer every round (as obvs we won't be answering questions we set ourselves). I wonder if anyone will get the reference in my answer to number 5.
Yeah we have about 25 odd people that send in answers each week and it would give people an advantage. I can come up with more ideas for the next quiz though and have the format/layout etc to be different
How about the person who does worst each week sends in their own question for next week?
I think you're making the questions harder each week HC . Not confident about the answers I've sent in.
Email Sent, had a shocker last week so can't do much worse this week!
We have another 0 pointer this week. I'm sure they know who they are though
Some amusing answers there, no doubt.
These forumers haven't sent in the answers for Round 5 yet:
- roganp
- Barney Butterball
- iHeadHunta x
- Lenzar
- ssestig
- Makonnen
- DazRTaylor
- Nottingham Forest
- kris0710
- rancer890
- malikoi
- Pangaea
I sent in my Round 5 answers HC.
Got them
Still a few people left to send in. Last chance today.
Just updating the table for next week and I realize that last week I had ShyBaldBuddhist below a lot people when he was on 18 points, why didn't no one tell me?
Sent my answers in
Got them
Mine sent
Something about 10 letters, characters or something or other.
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiit's Tuesday!
Wheeee! Will be nice coming back later after my exam this afternoon (very drunk from celebrations no doubt) to something rather more fun.
Wait, it's pancake day?!?!
1. In Euro 2012, Group B consists of which 4 teams?
Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Portugal.
2. Gary Lightbody is the lead vocalist of which band?
Snow Patrol.
3. Bob Bradley is the current head coach (manager) of which international side?
4. Who played Santiago Munez in the films Goal, Goal 2 and Goal 3?
Kuno Becker, Leonardo Guerra (played 10 year old Santi in the 1st film).
5. Auckland City FC currently play their home games in which stadium?
Kiwitea Street or Freyberg Field. (Same stadium, just different names like at West Ham)
6. What does the BBC stand for?
British Broadcasting Corporation.
7. Eden Hazard currently wears which number for Lille?
8. Oprah Winfrey, the American talk show host, is how old?
9. Which two teams were in the English FA Youth Cup Final last season?
Manchester United and Sheffield United.
10. Name 10 of the 16 current (2014) Winter Olympic sports?
Figure Skating, Speed Skating, Short Track Speed Skating, Curling, Ice Hockey, Cross Country Skiing, Alpine Skiing, Ski Jump, Nordic Combined, Freestyle Skiing, Snowboarding, Biathlon, Luge, Bobsleigh, Skeleton. (I was very lenient when it came to marking this answer)
11. In Deisler26's career, name the 4 teams he faced in getting to the TIM Coppa Italia Final in 2022. (Includes the team he played in the final but excludes the qualifying rounds).
Inter Milan, Catania, AC Milan and Fiorientina.
acidmonkey – 8pts | MattSpurs94 – 4pts | Deisler26 – 10pts | ManUTactician247 – 1pt | SRL88 – 10pts | Nobby_McDonald – 4pts | Scribe – 5pts | TWalsh – 7pts | SnakeXe – 8pts | ShyBaldBuddhist – 2pts | Flamers – 0pts | hrbfcrule – 7pts | Cplepeters1900 – 7pts | deltablue – 4pts | Adelaidean – 9pts | hursty2 – 5pts | AK22 – 9pts | Raware – 5pts | City2000 – 6pts | jackripper – 0pts | rancer890 - 1pt | Kris0710 – 10pts | Barney Butterball – 6pts | B.W.G – 10pts |roganp – 4pts
*If you think you have got the wrong score then let me know, I did double check every set of answers I got so they should be correct but I am only human.
Code:Username R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 Total --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B.W.G 11 9 12 11 10 53 kris0710 10 11 9 10 10 50 Deisler26 7 8 10 11 10 46 hrbfcrule 9 10 11 9 7 46 AK22 8 11 8 9 9 45 SRL88 6 8 12 7 10 43 Scribe 10 9 9 8 5 41 SnakeXe 6 10 7 10 8 41 Adelaidean 10 6 8 6 9 39 deltablue 12 10 5 8 4 39 MattSpurs94 10 9 9 5 4 37 Barney Butterball 7 7 8 8 6 36 cplpeters1900 9 7 5 8 7 36 ssestig 9 12 6 7 -- 34 TWalsh 6 -- 11 10 7 34 hursty2 9 7 6 6 5 33 DazRTaylor 10 10 11 -- -- 31 Raware 8 8 6 4 5 31 City2000 8 5 7 3 6 29 Nobby_McDonald 7 8 5 5 4 29 rancer890 6 5 4 5 1 20 ShyBaldBuddhist 10 -- -- 8 2 20 Makonnen 4 5 6 4 -- 19 roganp 8 7 -- -- 4 19 Flamers 9 2 5 2 0 18 Pangaea 5 4 3 4 -- 16 jackripper 6 4 5 0 0 15 ManUTactician247 4 4 3 2 1 14 acidmonkey -- -- -- -- 8 8
Hot Chocolate (MattSpurs94) - This was the Snow Patrol question, HotChocolate would be a great name for a band!
Snow Patrol, ugh thought you had more taste (Deisler26) - We've established this week that the great Deisler is not a fan of my music.
Kiwi Stadium (Various) - There were many similar to this, and actually you weren't to far off!
69 (Deisler26) - The only one to guess '69'
100+ (Various) - Many people thinking that Barbra Streisend has been around too long.
England, France, Sweden, Ukraine (Please be this group!) (ManUTactician247) - I wanted to give you a point for this, it made me laugh. But no, you didn't get a point.
Juan Taco (hrbfcrule) - I'd like to meet him one day although the real answer was Kuno Becker.
Spice Girls (deltablue) - Secret fan by anychance?
Naked snow run (hursty2) - There were many variations of snow sports but this one stood out.
Stade de Auckland (City2000) - Some great stadium names but this has to be the best one in my opinion.
However the best answer so far, in the entire quiz goes to deltablue for this brilliantly thought out answer to number 9. Which I've only just got.
Boca Juniors and Young Boys (deltablue) - I've only just got it, that is quality. Brilliant delta, I take my hat off to you.
1. Georgia, Israel, Iceland and Estonia
2. Spandau Ballet
3. Sealand
4. Tom Hanks
5. Kola Tree Road
6. British Boob Council (I wish) British Broadcasting Council (real answer I think)
7. 99
8. 952
9. Ipswich Town, Bury Town
10. Icey, cold, snowy, white, pointless, suicidal, idiotic, fast, dangerous sports
11. I have been reading it but my memory isn't that good!
1. Who was the first player to score 4 goals in an English Premier League game?
2. Who won the first season (2011) of The X Factor (U.S.)?
3. Which player has received more caps for Spain, Andres Iniesta or Cesc Fabregas?
4. Hollyoaks is sponosored by which camera company? (Channel 4 UK)
5. Which player scored the winning goal in the CONCACAF Gold Cup Final 2011?
6. Which song has the opening lyrics: Take the time, to make some sense, of what you want to say.
7. Which was the last club that Chris Kamara played for?
8. Name 5 of the 7 titles of the books/films Harry Potter.
9. This logo belongs to which club?
10. Who is the current World Snooker Champion?
Bonus Question: In SRL88's career thread, which team finished above him and beat him in the FA Trophy final in the 2014/2015 season?
Last edited by HotChocolate; 22-02-2012 at 08:55. Reason: Incorrect Spelling- d'oh
Logo link?
*EDIT* It's there now, too keen
Last edited by Flamers; 21-02-2012 at 15:08.
Yes, yes they did The image didn't help me mind
(answers sent btw)
\o/ two points. Will have a proper look at the questions later. Qucik gander and I think I know 5 of them
Confident I'll get at least 2 this time!
sent them in, i generaly think i might have full points im that confident
Is it not British Broadcasting Corporation.
lol no i meant i kno them cos my missus watches that crap!
NF are you reading my answers?
No, why? :confused:.
Oh right yeah I am .
Sent mine in, had to make a few educated guesses, and some stupid answers of course. Come on, the X-Factor?!
Anyone else getting a delivery failure for the email address? I'll PM them to you, HC.
I love the fact that NF kept battling his side when he was clearly wrong
Alright Snake, I'll keep posting who's answer I haven't received just in case I don't get all of them for whatever reason (which is what happened a week or two ago)
hrbfcrule has pointed out I miss spelt both of Iniesta's and Fabregas's name.
I have since changed that and that's why it says last edited, don't worry, I haven't changed any questions
Sent my answers in. Think I have done ok this week.
Email sent HC. I have done much better than last week.
I wasn't going to point out spelling of footballers names
Answers sent!
Sent in my answers. I answered one question with a question.
Sent, with an idea, just a handful of points yet again, found my true level after a good start.
Only one or two points for me this coming week, so you'll probably have at least me beaten deltablue.
I'm usually half-decent at quizzes, but there are too many oddballs in these questions for me.
A great week for me as I knew the majority of those questions (makes a change!)...well, apart from the damn reality tv show question and Hollyoaks question. Confident of at least 7-8 questions that are right
Knew Hollyoaks as it's mentioned in trailers beforehand when I'm watching the Simpsons, maybe should avoid such non-sporting UK-specific questions in future though.
X-Factor US, Harry Potter, the song lyrics, World Snooker Champion could be known anywhere in the world in my opinion, granted Hollyoaks isn't but like I said it would be hard to make sure every question was answerable for everyone.
Hollyoaks is trash, just like The Only Way is Essex.
im so Fick!!!
He could be quite lean for what we know.
Regarding last week's answers... I take it Hot Chocolate didn't like 'No Sheep Til Buxton'.
From deltablue, I like the idea and I'm willing to put it in if there wont be a revolt against meO mighty Quizmaster, I had an idea to run past your great mind, maybe we should have a bonus point for the best answer, just one a week shouldn't devalue the quiz much and make willy answers for questions you don't know more worthwhile.
Although the same person can't win it twice and it's based on my opinion?
Just spotted the rather awkward typo I made.
Got quite a few that haven't handed their answers in yet:
- roganp
- Deisler26
- iHeadHunta x
- ssestig
- City2000
- hursty2
- Makonnen
- DazRTaylor
- Scribe
- kris0710
- rancer890
Email sent
Sent you a PM
Sent!Pretty sure I've done rubbish.
Awesome guys.
It's quizzzzzzzzzz day!
I thought it would be best to leave this until today so that it didn't cause any difference for people who hadn't sent in answers to those that already had but I decided to remove Question 5: Which player scored the winning goal in the CONCACAF Gold Cup Final 2011? This is because in my eyes the 'winning' goal is the one that puts the team in front. The game finished USA 2-4 Mexico and therefore the 3rd goal was the 'winning' goal but after considering it mid-week I decided that I did that based on my opinion and others might see it differently.
Pablo Barrera was the correct answer but as I said I removed it because people could take the question differently. I have added a 'bonus point' in this weeks round, so there will be a possible 13 points next week to make up for the possible 11 points this week.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused, blah, blah, blah. I hope you forgive me
1. Who was the first player to score 4 goals in an English Premier League game?
Efan Ekoku.
2. Who won the first season (2011) of The X Factor (U.S.)?
Melanie Amaro
3. Which player has received more caps for Spain, Andres Iniesta or Cesc Fabregas?
Andres Iniesta. (Iniesta had 63, Fabregas 62).
4. Hollyoaks is sponosored by which camera company? (Channel 4 UK)
6. Which song has the opening lyrics: Take the time, to make some sense, of what you want to say.
The Masterplan, Oasis.
7. Which was the last club that Chris Kamara played for?
Welshpool (he joined them for 1 competitive game at the start of February this year!)
8. Name 5 of the 7 titles of the books/films Harry Potter.
Philosophers Stone (Sorcerers Stone), Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, Deathly Hallowes Part 1 (Part 2).
9. This logo belongs to which club?
Rubin Kazan.
10. Who is the current World Snooker Champion?
John Higgins.
11. In SRL88s career thread, which team finished above him and beat him in the FA Trophy final in the 2014/2015 season?
Northampton Town.
MattSpurs94 4pts | ManUTactician247 2pts | acidmonkey 11pts | SnakeXe 8pts | Flamers 1pt | hrbfcrule 6pts | SRL88 9pts | Nobby_McDonald 4pts | Pangaea 2pts | jackripper 1pt | ShyBaldBuddhist 8pts | Cplpeters1900 4pts | AK22 8pts | Barney Butterball 6pts | deltablue 5pts | Raware 10pts | Adelaidean 5pts | TWalsh 3pts | Deisler26 11pts | Makonnen 4pts | City2000 5pts | hurtsy2 3pts | Ssestig 4pts | B.W.G 10pts
*If you think you have got the wrong score then let me know, I did double check every set of answers I got so they should be correct but I am only human.


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I've already removed and reinstalled grep on Ubuntu but still the same error persists.
Whatever grep command I type I always see the following output:
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/bin/grep has the same byte size as it does on my other identical hosts, where it works fine, so it's likely to be some environmental variable or local setting.
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Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Ali Asiri handed over 150 tons of dates to the Pakistani government today, as a gift from the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz to the people of Pakistan.
The handover ceremony took place at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad and was attended by Undersecretary of the Ministry for Middle East Affairs Omar Sherzai and Representative of the Saudi Ministry of Finance Saad Al-Sinaidi.
During his remarks, Sherzai expressed Pakistan's appreciation of the Kingdom's continuing humanitarian support.


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Edison levy needs support
January 12, 2014
To the editor: The Edison Local Board of Education and administration has decided to put a five-year, 5.9-mill operating levy back on the ballot on May 6....
Wait a second! Does Mr. Beatie think we the taxpayers are so stupid to believe that the reason busses are not full is because more kids are driving to school? MORE KIDS ARE DRIVING TO SCHOOL BECAUSE BUSSING IS NOT AN OPTION. PARENTS HAVE BEEN FORCED TO GET THEIR KIDS A LICESNSE, A CAR, AND GET INSURANCE, NOT TO MENTION PAY TO PARK IN THE SCHOOL PARKING LOT! Kids go to other districts because they are closer. Why would a kid that lives on Ridgeland Drive make a 20 minute commute to EHS when they can make a 5 minute commute to Toronto and attend class in a new building? Taxpayers, do not give in! They already took away your kid's way to school. Let the teachers and admin. endure some of the pain this time.
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If anything, the voters of the district need to replace the members of the current school board with people that offer real solutions.
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In addition to removing members of the school board, they might also want to look at passing a resolution that bans the placing of future levies on the ballot. For how many years now has the Edison school district tried to pass a levy but failed?
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Say this levy would pass, what do the voters get besides higher taxes? What is in it for the kids? Will bussing be brought back immediately? Will the district remain operating in a streamlined manner or will they just hire everyone back, get in the same bad situation AGAIN, and need another levy to pass AGAIN?
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Actual - Expenditures 2005 - 21.6 million Budgeted - Expenditures 2014 - 20.5 million
Where did the 7 million in cuts go???
Your expenses are increasing at a rate that is not sustainable, even if the levy passes.....
The 2 Million the new levy will bring in will not last the 5 year term of the levy...
The emergency levy that is expiring this year (2014)will have to also be renewed/passed this year (2014)...
Union Contracts are up for renewal at the end of 2015...
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Union contracts are up for renewal in 2015? LOL! Voters better take notice! Tell your board members to delay voting on a levy until after a contract is negotiated! Otherwise, if it passes the teachers will use it as leverage, they will get every comfort and demand their hearts desire and you will be right back where you are now.
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Static, how are we misinformed? Bussing was taken away was it not? Most parents that have kids that attend the high school had to either buy their kid a car, insurance, AND A PARKING PASS, so that their kids could drive to school and park there, drive them to school themselves, or find their kids a ride to school with another student. Is that inaccurate? Does calling us that disagree with you a bunch of "misinformed blowhards" make you feel superior? Please feel free to inform or enlighten us. It works much better than just calling us names and you won't even look like an idiot doing it.
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Static, I'd like to ask you this.
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Yes, I feel for more superior after saying that...seriously? After seeing your handle on this post I went back and read what you wrote on a previous post. So, I say your misinformed because the root of your arguments are based on rumor, assumption, skewed data and what appears to be jealousy. If your such an economist and expert on how to allocate public funds and run a publicly funded school district then run for the board and turn the district around. You act like the board's objectives are to take an easy pay check and run the district into the ground, which makes no sense since if the district ceases to exist then they will be out of a job. Quit being an armchair expert and do something since you seem to have all of the answers.
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So let me get this straight, my statements are completely accurate (bussing eliminated, students have to drive or find a non-provided way to school, buy a parking pass, TEACHERS PARK FOR FREE BTW, etc...)? Please explain how my statements are inaccurate? I then asked you a series of questions regarding the issues which you refused to answer, yet I'm the "misinformed blowhard?" If I were eligible, I'd gladly take a seat on the board. I'd at least see to it that the taxpayer was protected to the best of my abilities. If you just so happen to be the author of this letter or very close to that person, I strongly suggest that name calling and declaring your false superiority and refusing to answer valid questions do nothing to strengthen your position.
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BTW Static, I am an EHS grad. I fully intend to return to the district someday. However, the more you increase taxes, the less people will want to reside there, the tighter the squeeze on their finances, and that leads to less down the road for you. You don't seem to have much a grasp of economics, do you?
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I'm EHS grad as well. I didn't answer your questions because I do not have the answers, so i'm not going to sit here and act like I do, I'll leave to you. My comment about feeling superior was obvious sarcasm. I pay considerably more in property taxes where I live, 3-5x more for a comparable piece of property and we have great schools, police and fire to show for it. I'd love to return to the district as well, but with your mentality there will not be a district to return to. BTW-I'm not saying that bussing was not removed, obviously it was. It's much bigger than bussing. And as for economics, your solution to protect the taxpayer by underfunding a school district, in turn causing it to close, is a great plan for increasing land value and bringing in new residents. You should run for office.
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On what planet do people move to an area because they have great schools? People move to places because they have good jobs available there. It does not work the other way around. Schools cannot survive off of a population that is broke, it just will not work.
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well, people do that on this planet. I did that on this planet. I'm not sure where you live but you don't have to live next door to your place of employment so you choose an area/town/city close to your job, and a factor in that decision is land value and the quality of the schools.
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And a good way to prevent busniess from coming in is to make sure noone wants to move there by running all of the would be amentites into the ground. I'm sorry but to me your logic is completely backwards.
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If I lost my job, and got hired by a company in the Shenandoah valley in VA I could not just say, "I'm not moving there because the schools suck." I'm going to go where I have to in order to make a living and support a family. Good schools are a plus but take a waaay back seat to other necessities.
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Jobs are an incentive to move somewhere. You bring in good jobs, good schools follow. I could build the best private school, with the best teachers, newest equipment, and best of everything. However, if it is 200 mi. from the nearest employer, that pays a wage that workers can afford to send their children to my school I would not have any students. Nobody around here will choose Edison over other schools if it even is a choice anyway. Your kids have to drive to attend EHS, if you value education, you'd be better off to have them drive to CCHS. If you have a child that is an athlete with criminal tendencies you'd be better off sending them to SHS so they get free alcohol, hideouts, fixed grades, and a chance to pull that drive-by Thursday, and play Friday.
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Rpg; Your posts should be required reading at school board meetings. One thing about you, you tell it like it is. It's a shame local school boards don't have a member just like you. You would make things interesting
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Lovely Purple Flat in Vatican City
Size38 m²
Floor No.(with elevator)
- Kitchen
- Family/child friendly
- Washer/dryer
- Elevator in building
- Balcony/terrace
- Internet/WiFi
- Disabled access
Pretty balconied apartment of 38 square meters . The house is 50 meters from the Metro A ( Valle Aurelia ), 100 meters from the train station ( Rome - Viterbo F3 ) and 100 meters from the bus stop . Located near the Vatican Museums , Piazza San Pietro can be reached on foot in 15 minutes and with the Metropolitan in 5 minutes. In 15 minutes you will be in Piazza di Spagna, Via Veneto or inside the railway station "Termini " (read the reviews of my guests ) .
Comfortable for people. Fully furnished, comes with bed linen, towels and bathrobes. The bathroom has a shower, toilet complete with toiletries and a hairdryer .
You will find TV , wi-fi , washing machine, weather helm , iron and ironing board . The kitchen , complete with every useful accessory , includes, in addition to the hob and the gas oven, refrigerator and dishwasher.
The second bed is made from a comfortable sofa bed, if you request it is available as a travel cot for children.
Nearby parking is available free of charge and also two supermarkets , pizzerias, restaurants and a cinema ..
For stays of at least 7 days, the price can be customized.
Rome is the capital of the Italian Republic, it is also called "Urbe" and "eternal city". It is the biggest city of Italy with the highest number of inhabitants. The climate is mediterranean, with very warm summers and early springs.
Rome is full of history, every district has got a cultural monument or at least one important place to visit. The Colosseum, the Roman Forum, the Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps and the Altare della Patria are just some of the wonderful attractions that can be seen in Rome.
Rome is also the most important city in Italy regarding the number of tourists: it is visited by 35.000 tourists on average every day, which is an absolute record.
The city is connected by two metro lines (a third and a fourth one are under construction), several tram lines and buses and during the night there are night buses. Moreover, an overground rail system connects Rome to the neighboring cities and to the beach of Ostia. In Rome, there are two airports with worldwide arrivals and departures. The nightlife is bustling and attracting, especially for young people.
If you are interested in Italy, you must visit Rome: discover numerous restaurants and the streets of Trastevere, experience the magic of strolling along historical places and fall in love with this amazing city.
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a little bit late for a recomandation, we were here june 2014.
It was a very nice and cosy little appartement. Just like on the photo's. Tip: rent a bike. You can easily bike through Vaticaanstad to the city centre.
A little balcony, nice. But no views (on a office).
If you do not want to pay much, and dont mind not to be in the city center, I would recommand this appartment.
We are satisfied with our stay in the Lovely Purple Flat in Vatican City . It's in a calm area and in a safe building, on the first floor with a lift . The great advantage: it's not far from the metro station, which allowed us to visit Rome easily .
The flat is quite nice and comfortable, purple is especially Lydia's favourite colour!
Fabio, M&R's collaborator, took us to the flat on our arrival and took us back to the aeroport on our departure ; he's a kind man and punctual .
Augusto, M&R's friend, welcomed us kindly and handed us the key ; in addition to his instructions , there are other helpful instructions in the flat .
A good bottle of Italian sparkling wine was waiting for us , and also a big plate full of delicious croissants, tarts and biscuits!
Grazie mille, Matteo&Rosaria ! We quite appreciated your hospitality , we had a wonderful Christmas !
We recommend your flat to people who would like to visit Rome.
Arrivederci !
For a couple the appartment is perfect. It has everything you need. The hosts were very nice, they leave us inside the appartment even a little breakfast (croissant and some pastry), water, pasta and coffee, that was a really very nice gesture. The location is near from the Metro Station Valle Aurelia, but as it closes at 11:30 on weekdays it was a little complicated to get there by night, its near from the Vatican but not so near, so it's difficult to get there by foot. We have not any complain at all, we were very comfortable, as it's a cousy place. Also, they have offered us the taxi service (cheaper than the airport) with a nice and smiley driver, Fabio. Thank you for all! We have a great time in Rome.
We had 4 great days in Rome. The apartment is nice and clean. The metro is 1 minute walk and Vatican is just 15 minutes walk.
The owners are nice and helpful.
There is everything you need in the apartment.
We stayed in Rome last week. Aparment is exactly like appear in photos. It`s nice, clean an it has all that you can need (WIFI,washing machine and dishwasher incluided) You have an underground station in 200 meters and can go walking to Vatican in 20 minutes or about 1 and half hour to the center of the city. I recommend it to everyone!
Very nice apartment! Lovely decoration and very central. Would certainly go there again!
WONDERFUL STAY IN ROME. THE APARTMENT 'TO CLOSE OFF THE METRO A VALLE AURELIA. PURE NEAR THE VATICAN. Owners very friendly. I HAVE ALREADY 'RECOMMENDED THE APARTMENT TO RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.
thank you very much. we were very satisfied with the accommodation and hospitality by Maurizio. The studio is very well decorated and maintained. The metro is 40 meters of housing, which is convenient. the only problem is easy to find the studio when we come to Rome we suggest Maurizio future tenants provide a detailed situation of the studio at the exit of the subway as the locals do not know all the street! Cordially. M.et G. Tycoon
merci beaucoup. nous avons été trés satisfait du logement et de l'accueil par Maurizio. Le studio est trés bien décoré et entretenu. Le métro est à 40 métres du logement, ce qui est pratique.
le seul probléme est de trouver facilement le studio quand nous arrivons sur Rome: nous suggérons à Maurizio de fournir aux prochains locataires un plan détaillé de la situation du studio à la sortie du métro car les locaux ne connaissent pas tous la rue!
M.et G. Magnat
we enjoyed our stay very much, the small apartment is equipped with everything you could possibly need and lovingly decorated and very clean! by maurizio you a warm welcome and instructed in all the circumstances, we felt great and had recorded numbers for all eventualities also necessary. nevertheless our flight arrived very late, he expects us relaxed and friendly! the ubahn located in the vicinity and to the vatican there are only a few stations. small point of criticism: the walls are very thin and you can hear the neighbors and the towels could be a bit bigger. we would recommend it anyway!
wir haben unseren aufenthalt sehr genossen, das kleine appartement ist mit allem ausgestattet, was man brauchen könnte und liebevoll eingerichtet und sehr sauber! von maurizio wird man herzlich empfangen und in alle gegebenheiten eingewiesen, wir haben uns super aufgenommen gefühlt und hatten auch notfallsnummern für alle eventualitäten. trotzdem unser flug sehr verspätet angekommen ist, hat er uns entspannt und freundlich erwartet! die ubahn liegt in unmittelbarer nähe und bis zum vatikan sind es nur wenige stationen. kleiner kritikpunkt: die wände sind sehr dünn und man hört die nachbarn durch und die handtücher könnten ein bisschen größer sein. wir können es jedenfalls empfehlen!!
Small colorful friendly apartment very close to the Vatican. Everything was very clean. Friendly hosts, transfer perfectly. Very good transport links via local train to Viterbo and 3 Roma Ostiense plus underground line A directly on the street. Great shopping and dining in a normal Roman residential neighborhood. Only downside is the relatively noisy street Anastasio II near the Wohnung.Gutes price-performance ratio.
Kleine farbenfrohe freundliche Wohnung sehr nahe am Vatikan. Alles sehr sauber. Freundliche Gastgeber, Übergabe perfekt. Sehr gute Verkehrsanbindung über Regionalzug 3 nach Viterbo und Roma Ostiense plus U-Bahn Linie A direkt auf der anderen Straßenseite. Gute Einkaufsmöglichkeiten und Restaurants in einer normalen römischen Wohngegend. Einziger Nachteil ist die relativ laute Straße Anastasio II. in unmittelbarer Nähe der Wohnung.Gutes Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis.
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SEDWICK, Mary Ralich, 81, of Centerville, OH, formerly of Wintersville, passed away on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, in Centerville.
Mary was born November 3, 1931, at the family homestead in the Kings Creek Bowl, WV, the 10th child of Nick and Sarah Ralich.
She attended Weirton Elementary until the third grade, transferred to Cove Elementary, and was a 1950 graduate of Weir High School.
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Between the age of 15 and graduation, Mary worked at the Green Mill Restaurant, Murphy's 5 & 10 and Pure Milk on Freedom Way until graduation. After graduation Mary worked at the Ohio Valley Hospital in the business office, after which she got into the Metallurgical Department at the Weirton Steel Company. While working at Weirton Steel she went to the Steubenville School of Cosmetology at night, at which time she earned a certification in Beauty Culture in Ohio and West Virginia. On November 11, 1957, Mary was elected as one of the six semifinalists in the "Miss Naval Reserve" contest. She met and married Jack S. Sedwick, Sr. on May 18, 1963, in Holy Resurrection Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church. Their union produced two sons: Jack Sheldon, Jr. and Eric John. Mary worked at Roberta's Beauty shop for three years. After the shop closed, she was hired as a substitute teacher at the Jefferson County Joint Vocational School in Bloomingdale, Ohio. She started working there in 1983. Her interests in life were bowling, basketball, crocheting and her membership in the Serbian church.
Mary was preceded in death by her parents, Nick and Sarah Kosanovich Ralich; her husband, Jack S. Sedwick, Sr.; brothers, Lee and Milan Ralich; sisters, Mildred Solomon, Dorothy Senker, Josephine Ralich, Nellie McMillan, Eva Ralston and Ann Rinkel; granddaughter, Hannah Sedwick. Mary is survived by her son, Jack S. (Diane) Sedwick, Jr. of Flowery Branch, GA and Eric (Kelli) Sedwick of Dayton, OH; grandchildren, Nicole, Madison, Morgan, Jacob and Nicholas.
Friends may call at Dunlope-Shorac Funeral Home, 215 Fernwood Road, Wintersville, OH, on Sunday 2-4 and 6-8 p.m., where funeral services will be held on Monday, 10 a.m. with Very Rev. Rade Merick officiating. Entombment at Fort Steuben Burial Estates. Pomen services Sunday 6 p.m.
The Sedwick family would like to give special thanks to all the staff at Miami Valley Hospital and Crossroads Hospice.
Memorial contributions may be made in honor of Mary Sedwick to the Miami Valley Hospital Foundation, Alzheimer's Association Miami Valley Chapter or the American Cancer Society.
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10 Apr 2007 5:39 AM #1
[solved] GridPanel / Grid doesn't resize columns on window resize
Hi guys,
I have tried everything, still no luck. Browsed this forums but couldn't find an exact solution to this problem.
I have a GridPanel added to a NestedLayoutPanel in my main BorderLayout. That GridPanel has a Grid for browsing some products. Now, my problem is, when I resize the window, the columns doesn't get adjusted to the new Viewport width and a scrollbar pops up at the bottom of the grid. I have autoSizeColumns: true and monitorWindowResize: true, still no luck.
Basically, I want that scrollbar go away and my columns automatically resizing to the new region width after a window size change.
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You'll have to hook a handler to the Region's "resized" event, and resize the GridPanel, and autoSize the Grid.
11 Apr 2007 3:47 AM #3
Thanks a lot, Animal. I'm gonna figure out, how to do that propely.
11 Apr 2007 4:47 AM #4
would be nice if you let us know if you have found a solution!
13 Apr 2007 4:47 AM #5
Ok, I hit a wall.
I've hooked up on region's resized, but unfortunately that's only fires when a user using the in-layout split bars to resize a region (I guess).
I figured, that I need to listen on layout's 'layout', I did it with a Grid.autoSize(), but it didn't do anything.
I have a nested layout and in the nestedlayoutpanel, I have 2 regions, center / south. The problem is, that not the regions nor the panels in the region fire their respective resize / resized event, when a layout event is fired.
My questions are:
1.) Does the regions' and panel's events only fire when the user resized with their splitbars?
2.) If I can use the layout event on the inner layout of my nested, how do I resize the GridPanel in the center region automatically or does it resizes by itself (I guess it is)?
3.) My Grid resized when the layout changes. However, the columns are not. Can I somehow auto resize the columns based on the Grid's or GridPanel's new dimensions (auto size columns is turned on)?
13 Apr 2007 6:08 AM #6
Finally, I've done it after some source digging.
Using the 'layout' event, I've attached a callback what uses the GridView autoSizeColumns().
Like this
// Attaching the even handler innerLayout.on('layout', this.fitColumns);
// pg: the Grid object fitColumns: function() { pg.getView().autoSizeColumns(); }
13 Apr 2007 6:35 AM #7
very good
Thanks for sharing. I had reached the same point and could not get the resize event to fire when I needed. Your solution on the layout even works very well for me too. Thanks again.
13 Apr 2007 7:36 AM #8
This is sort of working for me, but not quite. If I move a region handle, the grid doesn't resize. If I move it again, then the grid resizes, but to the position that it should have been after the first move. It's like it's always one step behind the actual width of the panel.
13 Apr 2007 9:01 AM #9
Har. It works if I call view.autoSizeColumns() twice. The first call is always a step behind, as previously mentioned. The second call gets it right.
Probably a better way than two calls, maybe a 100ms wait or something?
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There is no medical test to diagnose RLS; however, doctors may use blood tests and other exams to rule out other conditions. The diagnosis of RLS is based on a patient's symptoms and answers to questions concerning family history of similar symptoms, medication use, the presence of other symptoms or medical conditions, or problems with daytime sleepiness.
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WACO (November 19, 2012)--Small businesses in the area will soon get an extra boost.
The Service Corps of Retired Executives, a nonprofit group, helps small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs by providing mentors, tools and workshops and is coming to Waco.
The Cen-Tex African-American Chamber of Commerce is partnering with 17th Congressional District Congressman Bill Flores, the U.S. Small Business Administration Fort Worth/Dallas District Office and the SCORE Association District Director to provide the services at little to no cost.
The organization recently announced a workshop targeting veterans looking to start their own businesses.
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Not only did Jay Leno produce laughter during a stand-up appearance in Grand Rapids, he also produced some cash.
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Someone told me it could be a minor leak somewhere but the check engine light does indicate the above on Mazda 626,year 2000. Could the code be misleading?
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Certainly can be misleading. It's just saying that the values from the sensor aren't matching up with what the computer expects to be happening as it makes adjustments. Sensor could be bad, wiring could be bad, another sensor could be bad that makes the computer think that the O2 sensor should be doing something different, could be an exhaust leak, possibly a vacuum leak, potentially even a bad fuel injector, etc.
MIL codes are not definitive. They just tell you what the ECU has detected. It's the mechanic's job to investigate that to confirm (or deny) and then repair as needed.
The check engine light was on and it indicated 3 problems.
EGR Valve O2 Sensor Leak somewhere
I check it in two stores + my mechanic and the codes were consistent in all places. We though the problem is probably with electrical wiring since almost all causes show in AutoZone tips showed one reason as poor electrical connection.
A few days ago my battery died and my car will not start even if i drove it a couple of miles with a jump start. Got a new battery and check engine light disappear. All three codes clear for now but I will go to inspection and will re-edit this answer if my emission fails.