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Find quick answers to our most frequently asked questions about the series.
This Old House
- How does This Old House select project houses?
- Where can I find information on past This Old House projects?
- Can you help me solve a problem with my old house?
- Where can I find an item or supplier I saw on the show?
- Can you help me find a contractor, supplier, or architect in my area?
- When does This Old House air in my state?
- What is the This Old House theme music?
- Where's Steve Thomas?
- How can I contact the crew? Can I get an autographed photo of them?
- Can I visit former This Old House projects?
- Where can I get information about the Ask This Old House show?
- What is This Old House Online's Privacy Policy?
How does This Old House select project houses?
This Old House chooses two projects each season.
The fall project is usually located in or around our base of Boston, so that the crew can stay close to home for a significant part of the season.
The winter project is generally located in a mild climate where outdoor work may be undertaken during the winter months.
The renovations are completely funded by the homeowners and not by This Old House, though the show arranges for product discounts and donations where possible. All donated items are considered gifts and the homeowners pay taxes on them.
To submit your project write to us at:
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Your proposal should include the following information:
- current owners
- a few pictures
- a brief description of your house
- what you want to do
- how much you plan to spend
- when you are planning for the work to be done
Do not send videos.
Please note: No responsibility is assumed for proposals that are lost, damaged, postage-due or misdirected mail and none will be returned. All submitted materials become the property of This Old House Ventures, Inc.
Where can I find information on past This Old House projects?
To learn more about current and past projects, visit TV House Projects on this site. You'll find show descriptions, house tours, floor plans, house resources, and feature articles.
Can you help me solve a problem with my old house?
Due to the volume of mail we get, we simply can't provide individual answers to project questions. We do have a couple of suggestions for you:
First, try submitting your question to Ask This Old House
Also, visit your local hardware store or home center and talk with one of the sales representatives for help with do-it-yourself projects. If you need professional help, the store is a good place to get a referral. You can also talk with the owners of other houses you've seen under renovation to find out whether they were satisfied with their contractor. It's always a good idea to check the references of any candidate thoroughly.
You can also check out our Home Renovators' Forum, where you can pose your question to other homeowners and do-it-yourselfers and learn tips and techniques from their experiences.
We also send out a weekly e-mail newsletter with links to articles that answer frequently asked questions. If you don't currently receive it, sign up here. It's free, and it's a good way to get news, updates, and additional tips and advice from us.
Where can I find an item or supplier I saw on the show?
Check our online Resource Directory for materials, contractors, suppliers, and installers for our current and past projects. If you don't know the house project that featured a resource, then check out our show descriptions online for detailed descriptions of recent episodes.
Can you help me find a contractor, supplier, or architect in my area?
Unfortunately, we can't respond to requests to recommend contractors, suppliers, or architects in specific geographic areas. Check our Resource Directory for manufacturer's names; they can often refer you to local sources. We also suggest you visit home supply and hardware stores and lumber yards in your area and talk to other homeowners nearby who are renovating their homes.
When does This Old House air in my state?
Please visit our online TV schedule and select your state on the pull-down bar to see the day and time that This Old House airs in your area.
What is the This Old House theme music?
This Old House now has its own original theme music, composed by Peter Bell and called simply "This Old House '97." You'll hear it on PBS when you're watching episodes of the current project house, or when you're watching This Old House Classics on one of our syndication channels. When you watch older episodes of This Old House on PBS you're hearing our previous theme music, which was the opening bars of "Louisiana Fairy Tale," written by Haven Gillespie, with lyrics by Mitchell Parish and J. Fred Coots, and recorded by Fats Waller in 1935.
Where's Steve Thomas?
After 14 years as host of This Old House and contributing to the successful debut of the new series, Ask This Old House, Steve decided to explore other opportunities and begin a new chapter in his life. Although we were sorry to see Steve depart in 2003, we're excited for him and wish him well. His departure was completely voluntary.
How can I contact the crew? Can I get an autographed photo of them?
All mail for the crew, including requests for photos and autographs, should be sent to This Old House, 135 West 50th St, 10th floor, New York, NY 10020.
Can I visit former This Old House projects?
We do not give out the address of houses featured on our program. The houses that This Old House renovates are privately owned and the owners want to reclaim their privacy after appearing on the show.
Where can I get information about the Ask This Old House show?
Visit our list of Frequently Asked Questions about This Old House.
What is This Old House Online's Privacy Policy?
Please read our privacy statement.


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I have been using hostgator for long time and their customer support is unbelievable excellent! Can anybody tell about other hosting companies who can beat with HG when compared to customer support?
Is hostgator is the best for customer support?
This year, Hostgator is The Best Web Hosting Service's top pick for the category best customer service of 2010. Hostgator provides hosting services to customers consisting of both individual freelancers and Fortune 500 companies in more than 200 countries throughout the world.
People have had mixed experiences over hostgator and their customer service though that is expected for any hosting service as they really could not stay perfect. Though from what I have heard and experienced myself, they have been relatively stable in terms of being able to perform.
What I can assure you is that they respond fast and for some instances, they have live support for setup and out of the box questions.
What I can assure you is that they respond fast and for some instances, they have live support for setup and out of the box questions.
When it comes to the customer support there are very few hosting companies who are able to complete customers each and every demand. Even a lot of service providers claim 24/7/365 days support but mostly they just unavailable on weekends. As I am related to with web hosting company I always see how hard tech support guys work in our organization. However, customers should also remember that support guys are not magician.
There are few occasions which really consumes unexpected time to get it sorted, this is the most common reason which annoys webmasters a lot. Web Hosting services industry is full of uncertainties as nobody can judge the future technical glitches in advance.
when it comes to customer support hostgator is very good. although i do not like their backup system.
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Hostgator was best company to provide quality support services to there clients before acquired by EIG. After its acquisition by EIG, the support quality has dropped and also customers are facing major downtime issues.
No doubt, Hostgator had best customer support but recently I have heard and seen a lot of bad reviews. I would suggest you to look around for other options as well.
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quote: Somewhat ironic that American's preach liberty over something that gives free choice to the user while living in a country where freedom barely exists. About the only things American's are still truly free to do is shoot each other. Beyond that freedom is just a facade. It's like a hollywood film set - the masses see pretty buildings, but those with power and money know it's all fake.
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Central SectionIllinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan,
Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, and southern and western Ontario
NAGT Outstanding Earth Science Teacher Award
Information about the Award. (On the National NAGT Website)
In addition to the Sectional Winner Awards, in the Central Section, State OEST winners receive:
- a 9x12 black enamel plaque on simulated walnut
- a complimentary registration at the next NC-GSA meeting.
- a complimentary ticket to the Central Section NAGT luncheon business meeting at the next NC-GSA meeting.
Apply Online
2013 Section OEST Award Winner
Mary Lestina is in her twelfth year of teaching at City High School in Iowa City, Iowa. She currently teaches Ecology, Physical Geology, and Weather and Climate trimester electives for juniors and seniors, senior level Physics, and freshmen level Foundations of Science III. Mary graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a Bachelor's of Science Degree in 2000, majoring in All Sciences and Earth Science Education with a minor in Meteorology. She earned her Master's of Science Education Degree from the University of Iowa in 2005 with an emphasis in Earth Science. In 2010, she was awarded the Excellence in Science Teaching Award from the Iowa Academy of Sciences.
As an active member of the Science Department, Mary has worked on curriculum review and standards alignment projects and was part of a team of teachers recognizing the need to extend the Earth Science offerings through Earth Science Trimester Electives. She has worked with science and special education teachers incorporating reading strategies, differentiated learning, and understanding by design strategies into her classroom giving students the best experiences possible. Mary is an active member of the National Science Teachers' Association and the Iowa Academy of Sciences (IAS), presented at several national and local science teacher conferences, and has severed as IAS Membership Committee Chair and a member of the IAS Recognition Committee.
Mary has sponsored the Science Club since 2000, and in the past has sponsored the Environmental, Rocket, and Global Perspectives Clubs at City High School. Mary's teaching philosophy is to encourage all students to connect their lives to their education. Her positive attitude, high expectations of every learner, willingness to improve, and a value of every student's unique abilities makes learning more meaningful for students within her classroom.
2010 Section OEST Award Winner
De Anna Tiben is the 2010 Central Section recipient of NAGT's OEST Award.
2009 Section OEST Award Winner
Dennis ("Denny") Dougherty graduated from Western Michigan University in 1970 with a BS, majoring in Earth Science, Anthropology and Sociology. In 1976, he earned the MA in Secondary Education from Northern Michigan University. Denny's career in science education began in 1973 and spans nearly 30 years of teaching seventh and eighth grade science with the Sault Area Public Schools. He retired from teaching in 2007, but continues to be actively involved in informal science education with Lake Superior State University's Kemp Geology Museum, teacher workshops, and geology field trips.
Denny's passion for science education and commitment to active, engaged learning are exemplary. His legacy lives on, as geology teaching kits he developed continue to be available in his district and through catalogs, providing teachers with activities that encourage students to become involved scientists as they perform experiments and make observations.
Denny led development of the Natural Science Park in Sault Ste. Marie beginning with a small grant of $3,000 in 2005. His "contagious energy" garnered more than $40,000 in donations, and the park is compared by one of his nominators to a 2000-mile Great Lakes geology field trip. The park includes six 10-ton "rock cycle" boulders, a 16-ton block of fossiliferous Devonian limestone, and large ore specimens from the region's mines. Interpretive signs and materials incorporate Michigan's science teaching benchmarks in Earth, life and physical sciences, making the park an outdoor learning laboratory for teachers, students, and the community.
Throughout his career, Dennis Dougherty has fostered a love of science in countless students, while building their critical thinking skills in a supportive environment. He has shared his expertise with innumerable colleagues, and led transformative informal science education efforts to reach the wider community.
2008 Section OEST Award WinnerTeresa Lee Huckleberry is the 2008 Central Section recipient of the NAGT's OEST Award.
2007 Section OEST Award Winner
Mr. Paul Varsho is the 2007 Central Section recipient of NAGT's OEST Award. Paul graduated in 1977 from the University of Wisconsin - Madison with a BA in Secondary Education. In 1983, he received a MA in Professional Development from the University of Wisconsin - Stout.
Paul is an outstanding example of dedication, knowledge, ingenuity, and professionalism in an educator. A teachers at Menomonie Middle School for 27 years, Paul embodies the philosophy that "each child should develop a love of learning and of the natural world, to question why and how things occur, and to develop the thinking skills needed to be literate, contributing citizens in modern society." He uses creative hands-on classroom activities and home and community based assignments to engage his students. Paul is known for his enthusiasm which "is backed up by a solid understanding of how to affect student learning, and the ability to reach the whole range of students from the most gifted to the most challenged."
Paul has been a science Olympiad coach since 1987, going to National six time. He is currently involved in development of the Harvard-based SPARCS teaching reform assessment initiative. He has been selected to participate in a UCAR workshop of Modeling in the geosciences and a NASA Program to evaluate Centennial of Flight Engineering Design Challenges. Paul has also been involved with the Boy Scouts of America, is active in the Wisconsin Central Education Association, and is a member of the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers.
His accomplishments include a Fullbright Memorial Fund Teacher Award in 2002, JASON VI Teacher Argonaut Selection in 1995, the Wisconsin State Science Teachers Regional Award for Excellence in Science Education in 1990, and receiving National Board Certification in the Area of Adolescent/Young Adulthood Science in 2002.
Section Recipients
- 2006: Mr. Aaron Spur - Price Lab School - Northern University High School, IA
- 2004: Matthew Leone - Libertyville, IL
- 2003: Craig Wolter
2007 State OEST Award Recipients
Iowa - Ms. Amanda Schiller of Donnellson, IA, is highly respected by her colleagues, students, and community. Amanda is described as a "supportive and encouraging" teacher who "takes lessons to the next level, involving hands-on excellence in her classroom, resulting in an open-ended research based opportunity for students to formulate their own scientific ideas." She has taught earth science for four years and is known for her adaptability and cooperative spirit. Amanda is also known for her ability to motivate student learning. "She hooks them into learning about earth science and then feeds these concepts into their immense curiosity about science." She contributes to the community through a number of volunteer activities and has participated in a number of professional development opportunities.
Ohio - Mrs. Chantelle M. Rose of St. Paris, OH, has been teaching for eleven years and is very active in professional development, curriculum development, and bringing "real science" to life for her students. Chantelle is considered "a dedicated, student-centered, creative teacher" by her colleagues, students, and community. She encourages and empowers her students to participate in scientific research through her professional development contacts. Chantelle is a creative and innovative teacher who works with all students to achieve in science. She created a science course, "Science in Ohio," to motivate students to understand and appreciate the science in their state. Chantelle's professional services is exemplary and she is known for bringing science from her classroom into the community and beyond.
State Recipients
- 2004: Philip Lacey - East Liverpool, Ohio; Ken Fiscus - Albert Lea, Minnesota


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5 Drinking Myths That Can Kill You
Like everything else in life, getting drunk is something worth learning how to do right. Unfortunately, a lot of what we know about drinking and drunkenness we learned from our friends, while everyone involved was, you guessed it, drunk.
So let's take a moment to debunk some of these rumors while we're all sober (most of us anyway).
#5. "Let Him Sleep it Off"
This myth probably stems from most people's desire to do as little work as possible while getting shit faced. Basically, the theory is that if someone drinks to the point of passing out, the best option is to toss them in bed and, like magic, they'll be fine after a little sleep.
Finishing said friend's lukewarm forty of Colt .45 after returning to the party is strictly optional.
Especially on high school chicks!
The Truth:
Tossing a friend in bed after they've passed out drunk is a fantastic idea, provided you're hoping your friend drowns in their own vomit. Passing out and falling asleep aren't the same thing.
Someone who has passed out as a result of alcohol intoxication is unlikely to be awakened by the need to hurl. If they happen to be lying on their back when the spewing starts, the chunks have nowhere to go except into the lungs. Tell Hendrix we say hi!
What You Should Do Instead:
Lay them on their side and, between shots of tequila, try to check and make sure they haven't stopped breathing at some point. If their breathing becomes irregular or they start vomiting without waking up, they have alcohol poisoning. Call for help.
In the morning, they'll thank you for being responsible and taking care of them in their time of need. At least until they see the collage of swastikas and penises you drew on their face and arms.
#4. Drinking Keeps You Warm
Alcohol makes you think that you sound smart while actually making you objectively dumber. Anyone who's been sober at a bar is familiar with this paradox. But you may not know that it has the same effect on your ability to not freeze to death. Yeah, alcohol's a dick like that.
The benevolent St. Bernard coming to the aid of a snowbound mountain climber with a warming shot of brandy ... it happened in too many 1950s era cartoons for us to count.
And you know what? Go take a shot of booze if you have some around (we assume most of our readers do). You feel warmer, right? But just like how that chick you brought home wasn't nearly as hot as she was the previous night, the same goes for your core body temperature.
L - R: Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie
The Truth:
Alcohol makes you feel warm and turn beet red because it causes your blood vessels to dilate. This brings the blood closer to the surface of your skin, which makes you feel warmer.
Unfortunately, with the warmth now oozing off the surface of your skin instead of trapped in the core of your body, you're losing precious body heat. The Mythbusters took this on recently and said the same thing (in case you don't want to take our word for it).
So while sitting in your unheated apartment in the dead of winter pounding vodka might seem like a decent idea, your skin and Russian history are leading you astray.
What You Should Do Instead:
If you find yourself stranded at the top of a mountain with a few buddies and a crate of schnapps, you're probably better off ignoring the booze and using each other's body heat for warmth. It's only gay if someone sees you.
If a St. Bernard does show up with a shot of brandy, feed it the shot and then drape its passed out body over your icy torso.
#3. Taking Aspirin Prior to Drinking Will Prevent Hangovers
Drinking to the point that you have a hangover the next day is kind of like taking a peaceful drive through a majestic countryside only to arrive at your destination and find your wife nailing your best friend. It's a great trip, but the ending fucking sucks.
Naturally, throughout the ages people have come up with all kinds of harebrained schemes to avoid that dreaded hangover. One of the more timeless techniques is popping an aspirin or two prior to drinking. Sort of makes sense, in theory.
The Truth:
First of all, what kind of magical fucking aspirin are you taking that has the tenacity to still be fighting a headache well into the morning? It's not methamphetamine. Even if popping an aspirin before drinking did do anything to fight a hangover, its powers would have run their course well before you needed help.
But wait, it gets worse. A study by the American Medical Association found that ingesting aspirin actually slows the rate at which your body metabolizes alcohol. Not only does that increase blood alcohol levels, but it makes the effects of the alcohol last longer. So if you feel better than usual when you wake up in the morning, it probably means you're still drunk.
And while that may sound like a pretty awesome solution, especially if it gets you to work in time, you'll think differently when the delayed hangover hits you like a truck a few hours later. Or alternately, when you literally drive head on into a truck on the way to work because you're both drunk and hungover.
What You Should Do Instead:
When it comes to a hangover, dehydration is the real enemy. Try drinking eight ounces of water between drinks. It won't completely prevent a hangover, but it will make it a hell of a lot more manageable. Alternately, you could also just do what some do and drink indefinitely.


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Twenty-one Arizona National Guard airmen once responsible for top-secret Predator drone flights over Iraq and Afghanistan now face felony charges for allegedly bilking $1.4 million in federal funds through a phony expense scam.
Attorney General Tom Horne on Monday announced the indictments of retired Col. Gregg Davies, seven other officers and 13 enlistees accused of falsifying home addresses so they could collect expenses meant for personnel on short-term assignments.
All of the defendants belonged to the Air National Guard's 214th Reconnaissance Group, which operates MQ-1B Predators out of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, where pilots at satellite-linked stations remotely fly the unmanned aircraft.
Because some of the accused had not been notified Monday, Horne withheld names of defendants other than Davies. Prosecutors said charges include fraud, conspiracy, operating an illegal enterprise, money-laundering and theft. Some airmen could face prison sentences of up to 12½ years. The accused were not arrested, but authorities sent them summonses for an Oct. 25 arraignment in Pima County Superior Court.
Horne said he is "committed to the prosecution of individuals who fraudulently collect taxpayer money." He said Davies faces the most serious charges because he allegedly facilitated the conduct of others. "In any group, no matter how good the group is, you're going to have a small percentage who are dishonest," Horne added.
Lee Stein, an attorney for Davies, said his client was surprised by the criminal charges.
"Colonel Davies has served his country for over 31 years with dignity and honor fighting the Global War on Terror from Tucson," Stein wrote in an e-mail. "In light of his history of distinguished service, this indictment is both disappointing and bewildering."
Stein said he had not had a chance to review the indictment Monday so could not discuss its substance. "But Colonel Davies believes in this country," Stein added, "and has confidence that justice will prevail."
An attorney for retired Lt. Col. Michael "Kav" Kavanaugh, a former member of the Predator unit, confirmed Monday that his client was among the airmen who face charges.
Kavanaugh previously told The Arizona Republic that allegations of fraud are untrue and unfair. Kavanaugh referred questions to his attorney, Jordan Green, who noted that the investigation has been going on more than three years. Green said his client will "finally get an opportunity to clear himself in a court of law."
About 200 personnel work in the 214th Predator Group, also known as "The Black Sheep," which was formed in 2007 with many of the airmen brought to Tucson from other locations.
The alleged conspiracy occurred from 2007 to 2010 and involved Air Guard personnel who were on federal assignment, paid with U.S. tax dollars. According to prosecutors, most of the defendants collected more than $100,000 each in improper expenses. The total loss is estimated at $1.4 million.
U.S. Air Force auditors first uncovered the alleged scheme in 2009, and reported at least two dozen Tucson airmen had submitted false temporary duty, or TDY, claims. Some of the airmen were disciplined and ordered to reimburse the military, while suspected criminal conduct was referred to the FBI and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
It is unclear why the attorney general is now handling the case rather than federal prosecutors. Horne declined to explain, as did a spokesman for U.S. Attorney John Leonardo.
Former Attorney General Terry Goddard said Horne's office may have taken jurisdiction because Arizona's criminal statutes covering conspiracy and money-laundering are "more prosecutor friendly," and carry stiffer sentences, than federal law.
Air Force policy allows airmen on temporary duty away from home to collect payments for housing, meals, travel and other expenses.
But auditors in 2009 found many accounts contained "admitted fraudulent activity," in some cases authorized by the group commander.
"This condition occurred due to a complete breakdown of management controls," they wrote. "The lack of effective procedures allowed 214th RG members to illegally exploit opportunities for personal gain without penalty."
Horne said some of the defendants collected up to five times their salaries in unwarranted expenses.
Brig. Gen. Michael McGuire, who became commander of the National Guard in September, said only eight of the 21 defendants remain in the organization, and all have been removed from the Predator unit.
The criminal indictments come one year after Arizona Republic articles on National Guard corruption publicly revealed the TDY scandal, and just three months after Maj. Gen. Hugo Salazar retired as Guard commander.
The Republic articles documented a systemic patchwork of criminal and unethical conduct that included sexual abuse, embezzlement, drug-dealing, fraternization, cronyism and failure to discipline.
The newspaper findings were corroborated in May by a Pentagon agency investigation conducted at the urging of Gov. Jan Brewer.
That review found senior leaders in Arizona failed to uphold military standards of integrity in part because they were ethically compromised by their own misconduct.
In August, Brewer named McGuire, an Air Guard officer from Tucson, to lead the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs as adjutant general. McGuire has stressed that the vast majority of Arizona military personnel are honest and honorable, while vowing to enforce "firm but fair leadership."
The controversy over temporary-duty pay spawned a three-year leadership upheaval in the Guard's aviation division, leading to the ouster last year of Brig. Gen. Michael Colangelo as Air Guard commander. Based on the damning audit, Colangelo relieved Davies as the Predator group boss. One of Davies' subordinates, Lt. Col. Thomas "Buzz" Rempfer, also was dismissed after he complained about the firing and other issues.
The Air Force inspector general subsequently issued a report concluding that Colangelo abused his authority.
Salazar issued a letter of reprimand to Colangelo, who was fired when he protested the discipline.
McGuire was not part of the command chain for those actions. He oversaw the 162nd Fighter Wing in Tucson from 2011 until this year, and before that headed the 214th Reconnaissance Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
McGuire, who joined Horne at Monday's announcement of criminal charges, said: "I welcome the efforts of these law-enforcement partners to ensure that we receive an accurate view of the facts. ...We fully support the legal process."
Andrew Wilder, spokesman for Brewer, said the governor is grateful to those who exposed fraudulent activity and "supports legal efforts to ensure that people are held accountable for any alleged wrongdoing."


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A user of mine just received a phishing email claiming to be the IRS. What methods of reporting are available, and what should be included?
Most often, these kinds of emails are sent from either compromised hosts, spammer accounts at free webmail providers, or dedicated spam-spewing networks (this is called snowshoe spam). In either case, the most appropriate parties should be, and should appreciate, being contacted since it represents a threat on their network. Reporting can be tricky, however, as it is not always obvious where the message came from. The first two things you can do are send an email with an RFC5322 attachment of the email, with full headers, to
Variations of the above that additionally flag reported mail as phishing:
The first address is used by Cisco for receiving reports of missed spam in their IronPort anti-spam solutions. They monitor this mailbox and develop signatures for reported spam. So, eventually, the specific phish you received should be caught by their spam filters.
The second address is KnujOn ("No Junk" spelled backwards), a non-profit group that collects spammer domain data and follows the money trail in an effort to actually bust domain registrars that are too spammer-friendly.
The UCE address is used by the United States Federal Trade Commission to build out investigations and cases against spammers. Again, given the highly difficult nature of performing such investigations, one should not expect results from sending messages here. However, given the effort involved, and the fact that it might be useful in going after spammers/phishers, it seems a worthwhile action to me.
The most immediately useful action is to contact the folks responsible for the source of the spam. We can use this information to locate compromised computers or accounts, open mail relays, etc, and respond in kind. Determining exactly where to send this information may be tricksome. If your organization has an Information Security office, you can fall back to forwarding said email to them for processing. Otherwise, plow through the
From that IP address or domain you can look through the registrars to determine technical contacts, and forward the message to them. If you have a domain, then you can also attempt to use abuse@. That address was partially formalized in RFC2142, but is certainly in common use.
In all cases, you really need to forward the email with full headers intact. The specifics of how one does that will depend heavily on the specific mail client, but
As far as I know, you can report spam to their e-mail and/or internet provider (if any is known). I know Yahoo, DaddyGo etc. even have special forms for reporting spam (try google e-mail provider and +"spam report", e.g. +yahoo +"spam report")
For general direction how to write complain e-mail to provider about spam spam.abuse.net.
For pshising, I would definitely also warm organization / site / whatever is used in attack.
You can also report it to the IC3, a partnership of the FBI,NW3C and Justice Bureau. http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx


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Poteet's 1932 Ford Sedan Delivery - Delivery Deluxe - Expanded For WebWritten by Chris Shelton on April 20, 2008 Contributors: Kevin Lee "That's the stuff I like to do; I like changing stuff to where the guy can't tell, but it just looks better." -Dave Lane, Fast Lane Rod Shop
A pretty unlikely car drew a crowd all weekend long at this year's National Roadster Show. Though a '32 Ford, its sedan delivery body wasn't typical show-car fare. In fact, dressed in black and shod in brown artillery wheels, it was pretty sober looking. A resto-rod at heart, it led one to wonder if anything had been done to it. It just looked so ... simple.
Simple appearing, yes; however, two words on the placard indicated this was no simple car: George Poteet. If you're not really familiar with George, this much you should know about him: He's sort of a patron of the hot rod arts. He has this habit of choosing builders-often up-and-comers-based on their
specialties, working up an outline with them, and then leaving them alone to build the best possible example based on that outline. For this particular car, he chose Dave Lane, as in Fast Lane Rod Shop in Donahue, Indiana.
This isn't the duo's first collaboration. Already on the rise by the time he and George met nearly a decade ago, Dave is quick to point out that he owes a good deal of his favorable press to some of the cars upon which he and George collaborated.
One car Dave built for George about half a dozen years ago is particularly relevant to this sedan delivery. Like the delivery, it's a Deuce, it's black, and, above and beyond the fact that Dave removed its fenders, the car looks so incredibly simple. There was nothing necessarily groundbreaking about the Kelsey Hayes wheels, '40 dash, or yellow-and-white gut, but you just couldn't help but look at it. The five-window coupe appeared in our Jan. '04 issue.
"George had some really good ideas to start with," Dave began. Among them, "We put roadster quarters on that." As he pointed out, five-window quarters look almost like a Model A's, since they're flat around the fender. On a roadster, however, they flare out to meet the fender. "It's such a pretty thing," Dave mused.
"With that car, it was all about really subtle modifications-nothing a guy could tell," he continued. "There are guys who owned five-windows that couldn't figure out why their cars and George's car looked so different. They'd look at it and go, 'Well, mine isn't chopped either, so why does that one look
that way?' And, they never caught on that it was chopped just shy of an inch. The hood was pie-cut just a little bit, too-about 3/8-inch. That's the stuff I like to do; I like changing stuff to where the guy can't tell, but it just makes the car look better."
Now, stop right here and ponder that last sentence. Let it sink in. Dave proves he's willing to walk a mile just to trick your eye. Which brings us back to this stock-looking delivery. If you're starting to get the idea there's more to it than meets the eye, we've got some news for you: You don't know the half of it, Jack.
Delivering the Perfect Deuce
As Dave tells it, George doesn't so much present ideas as much as initiate bench-racing sessions. "We were walking around the basement in Detroit (Autorama) just throwing ideas around," Dave said. "We both like commercial vehicles, so we started talking about a sedan delivery. You can do something with those that hasn't been done before."
Yeah, no kidding you can forge new ground with a Deuce delivery; with merely 400 examples produced in 1932, it is by far the rarest car in a model year already exceptional just for the fact that it lasted only one season. In dreaming up something different, Dave and George basically hatched a plan that figuratively cut against the grain of the street rod philosophy: Instead of making a truck more car-like as everybody else does, they talked about making a car more truck-like. "A real commercial theme, you know?" Dave beckoned. Drawing on various influences like Jim "Jake" Jacobs' brown Model A panel, "We started talking about bare floors and rubber floor mats instead of carpet," Dave said. "You know, cargo areas that actually work, and so on. It's just trying to take a really basic vehicle and spit-shining it. Just shine everything up real nice, but don't throw a bunch of stuff at it."
But, there's something that differentiates bench-racing sessions with George Poteet: Whereas most of us bench race just to fulfill wishes that our pocketbooks can't grant us, "Bench-racing sessions with George often end up with a running car," Dave observed. "So, eventually he turns to me and said, 'Why don't you give (artist) Eric Brockmeyer a call and work out some drawings that we can bounce around a little bit?'"
The Kindest Cuts
"We started thinking about proportions, and a lot of commercial-type vehicles had shorter doors and a longer body for storage," Dave indicated. "So, we just thought, why don't we take that idea and build it into this body? After all, this is the way Ford should've done it." But, Dave didn't lengthen the entire car to achieve the more commercial profile. Instead, "I moved the B-pillar forward.
"I pasted a picture of the body in my photo program and started shortening the door just a little bit-about an inch and a half," he revealed. "Any more, and the door started looking a little too short; any less, and you couldn't really see the change. I wanted to lean on it just enough that you wouldn't quite know it, but if you were to stand back, the body would look just a little bit more commercial."
While Dave could've just lengthened the quarters, shortened the doors, and called it a day, that would've been too easy-not to mention too predictable. Following the commercial path forged earlier, he took a slightly different track. "If you've ever noticed a regular pickup's or panel's doors, they have this steel inner panel with this really cool triangular access hole and rib pattern," he noted.
"There were no inside door panels to those sedan doors when we got 'em, so I just found a set of pickup doors and cut 'em apart." He's being modest, but you'll have to see the construction photos to know why (check them out at www.rodandcustommagazine.com).
Since the floors and kick panels were intended to be left bare, they had to look somewhat like the doors. That meant two things: extensive ribbing for strength and dimpling for screw garnishes. "There are actually two firewalls in the car, but with insulation between them," Dave enthused. "I insulated everything with Dynamat, then put the two together. It's just made to look like you're seeing just a plain old firewall from the inside or the outside."
Because this is a work truck, Dave said he and George thought the interior should be as stripped-down as possible. "Other than the seats and the rubber mats, we both thought there should've been a little wood in there to protect the steel, and then the rest would be just steel," he surmised. "That was kind of the philosophy of it all."
Believe us or not, but this delivery-this ultra-subtle, traditional-looking resto-rod-is a billet wagon. That's right; under the modest brown paint, there's enough CNC-whittled metal to have made Lil' John Buttera beam with delight. "George sent me a wheel that was spoked like that and asked if we could have a set of wheels made," Dave recalled. "It just so happened that a friend of mine who owns a machine shop always wanted to make a set of wheels." Though two different diameters-16- and 18-inch-the wheels are actually proportional throughout their entire shape.
To make the real Ford fenders match the new wheels' diameters and position, much less match each other, Dave divorced the edges from each fender, reshaped the edges, and reunited them. Whereas the deliveries got the passenger-car grille, Dave replaced it with a pickup grille to emphasize the car's more utilitarian side. Aside from protruding into the grille opening to mimic the dam behind the passenger-car insert, its sides feature hammerformed inserts and panels that finish the gap between it and the framehorns.
Not your average car; not your average builder.
Just as George Poteet's sedan delivery is an unlikely candidate for an indoor car show, Dave Lane isn't your average builder. In fact, like the car, he's rather modest. "Believe me, two weeks before the Grand National Roadster Show, I kept thinking we shouldn't even go," he confessed. "I just wanted to fit in. I just didn't want people asking, 'What are you guys doing here?'
"But, then this guy came over and grabbed my hand and shook it just as hard as you could imagine and said, 'I'm Tom Prufer, and that's the prettiest f----- '32 I've ever seen,'" Dave effused. "It just blew me away; I could've packed and gone home.
"This car was built because George and I just love the concept behind it, and, honestly, it was built for him and me," Dave emphasized. "But, when someone like Pete Eastwood or Jim (Jake) Jacobs or (Roy) Brizio-people I truly hold in the highest regard-come over and say something nice ... wow.
"When I got home, I just thanked George for the opportunity to do this car, and he said, 'No trophy can replace the respect of the people you've always respected. When they say something nice about it, you know you've done good.'"
George Poteet
Though Dave welded the front and rear crossmembers in place, he modified a Chassis Engineering X-member so it bolts to the framerail flanges. It looks as if Dave riveted together the chassis, but he sheepishly admits the "rivets" are modified button-head screws that serve no structural function. Instead, he modified the chassis to take a network of hidden fasteners. The chassis sports a few off-the-shelf brackets, like the Chassis Engineering pedal mounts and Pete & Jake's lower shock mounts, but Dave fabricated the remainder of the brackets from flat stock. The front wishbone ends are '32 and the rear are '35-36, but the rods themselves are solid bars milled to look as if they'd been assembled from tapered C-channel. The Hot Rod Works axle has a Winters quick-change centersection and bearing carriers that accept plug-in axles and early Ford backing plates. The front axle is a 46-inch-wide, 4-inch dropped Super Bell. All four brakes are '41 Lincoln-style from Wilson Welding.
Colorado's Craig Cooley assembled the large-journal 327 from an intact '68-vintage engine. Aside from a mild cam, forged flat-top pistons, stainless Speedway exhaust manifolds, an Edelbrock intake, and an aftermarket pump, it's largely stock, right down to the tin, pulleys, and hallmark orange paint. Automotion's Larry Fulton prepped the 2G carburetors and supplied them with progressive linkage and O'Brien Truckers' air filter housings. After scratch-building the exhaust from straights, donuts, and Stainless Specialties mufflers, Dave had the system's exterior chromed and its interior ceramic-coated. Though Dave wired the remainder of the car with conventional cross-linked wire, Rhode Island's Narragansett Reproductions fabricated the cloth-loomed engine compartment wiring. David Key prepped a Ford Top Loader four-speed and converted it to top-shift with a Jeep-style tower. Dave mated it to a GM bellhousing with a Wilcap adapter.
Working from scans pulled from an artillery-style wheel of unknown origins, Mike Fossbinder machined the two-piece wheels from aluminum billets. At 16 inches in diameter, the fronts are carbon copies of the original; however, he increased the wheel's every dimension to create the 18s. Though the proportionally sized caps appear to be '34 Ford V-8 caps, they're in fact two-piece items machined from aluminum. Due to a low-friction bearing in a carrier and a counterweight machined into the cap's backside, their emblems remain upright at all times. The Firestone Deluxe Champions measure 4.50x4.75-16 and 6.00x6.50-18, respectively.
Dave extended the cargo area by 11/2 inches and shortened the doors by the same amount using parts from closed-cab pickup doors. The differences between sedan and pickup doors, while numerous, are extreme. Above and beyond narrower and taller, the pickup doors are one-piece affairs with a fixed inner doorskin and garnish molding. Even though Dave narrowed the sedan doorskins 11/2 inches, he had to widen the pickup door structures another 51/2 inches. Similarly, he had to chop the pickup window frame to match the sedan's profile. Before welding together the inner and outer skins, Dave insulated the inner door structures with Dynamat. The passenger grille was replaced with a commercial unit and a custom apron with hammerformed inserts that conceal the crossmember behind the grille bars, as well as the outer sides of the apron. The hood was pie-cut and the roof insert channel was replaced with one that accommodates a vinyl-wrapped filler panel made by Bobby Walden. The front fender edges were moved to match each other, and the car's new stance and the rear fender lips were arched to match the tires. The base/clear colors are DuPont, and Dave won't say anything more specific than black and brown. John Wright's Custom Chrome in Grafton, Ohio, tended to the plating.
Following the commercial theme, Dave dissected and reassembled closed-cab pickup doors to match the narrowed sedan doors. Before welding them together, he lined the internal cavity with Dynamat. Ribs and dimples in the handformed floors and kick panels match those in the pickup-paneled doorskins. Though the firewall appears bare on both sides, it's actually two pieces that sandwich a layer of Dynamat. Classic Instruments updated the '32 Chrysler panel with gauges featuring contemporary movements, but it was up to Dave to quarter the dash to make the larger panel fit. Dennis Crook restored a Deuce steering wheel, but Dave painted it to match the wheels and mounted it on a matching-year mast jacket. Though externally stock, the column features a handmade shaft and bushings, and it connects to a Vega-style Mullins box via Borgeson joints. Kelly Page milled the entire cargo area, including a tool tray and a hidden cabinet, from hard-rock maple. Dave then made the cargo door's garnish molding by cutting up '34 Ford sedan rear-door moldings.
Rather than trying to steam and bend the hard-maple lath boards to conform to the cargo area, Kelly milled maple boards into thin strips and bonded them together in a purpose-made jig. The composite design, much like plywood, is vastly stronger and more stable than solid wood. Best of all, it'll retain its integrity over time, unlike steam-bent wood.
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Though it looks as if it's riveted to the boxing panels, the Chassis Engineering X-member actually bolts to the framerail flanges. To do that, Dave first trimmed the ends off the X-member legs and plated them with panels that fit flush against the boxing plate. He flanged the top and bottom of each plate with 1/2-inch-thick flat stock that protrudes into slots cut in the boxing panels by 2 inches, or roughly the depth of the framerail's flange. Two 7/16-inch threaded holes in each plate correspond with 16 countersunk holes in the upper and lower framerail flanges.Despite looking convincingly factory made, every bracket on the chassis, including this combination engine mount and steering box bracket, started as flat plate. "A lot of them have the ribs on the outside edges because I tried to make all this stuff look like it was cast or something." His secret: "I took 1/8-inch by maybe about 1/2-inch flat stock and welded it around the edges of the pieces. Then, I just kind of filed it down until it looked like it was ribbed."Dave Lane contends that Deuce fenders are notoriously asymmetrical. Starting with non-welled fenders, he separated their entire leading edges and moved them until they matched. Furthermore, he moved the arches in the rear fenders to better follow the new wheel radius established by lowering the car. While he hadn't done it at this point, Dave narrowed the headlight bar until the bar's top holes corresponded with the lower mounting holes in the fender.Dave retained the top's open construction, but he used one of Bobby Walden's steel filler panels in place of the conventional vinyl-clad chicken-wire insert, wrapping it in vinyl rather than welding it in place. To get it to sit flush with the top, he bent a flange into a 3-inch-wide metal strip, shaped it to match the original hole, and welded it in place of the original flange.Dave fabricated this access panel in the same flavor as the door and kick panels. Under the panel is a wooden toolbox; removing the box reveals a cabinet with two six-volt Optima batteries laid on their sides. Other thoughtful touches include the handformed brackets that tie the wood panels to each other and to the body, like the ones in the foreground that stabilize the B-pillars.Some people love the process for its flashy appeal, but Dave elected to have the delivery's wheels CNC-machined for versatility sake. For example, while the front wheel is a direct copy of the 16-inch steel one that George found, the rear one measures 18 inches. Whereas most production billet wheels are merely custom centers pressed into universal rims, every part in these particular wheels is unique, because Dave's machinist scaled up every single dimension-hubcap included-to preserve the original wheel's proportions.


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16 Dec 2011 7:55 AM #1
Error: namespace is undefinedDesigner version tested:
- Designer 1.2.2 Build 48
- Windows 7
- Ext JS 4.x
- When I link a class into another class I get "namespace undefined" error
- Create a form panel
- Create a window
- Link panel into the window
- Export your code and execute your application
- the window showing with the inner panel
- javascript error: namespace is undefined
- insert alias property into the ui class with magic word 'widget'
Ext.define('MyApp.view.ui.MyForm', { extend: 'Ext.form.Panel', alias: 'widget.myform', .....
20 Dec 2011 11:41 AM #2
I tried what you suggested and it did produce alias: widget.myform but it did so in MyApp.view.MyForm and not the base class
Ext.define('MyApp.view.MyForm', { extend: 'MyApp.view.ui.MyForm', alias: 'widget.myform', initComponent: function() { var me = this; me.callParent(arguments); } });
Last edited by Phil.Strong; 20 Dec 2011 at 11:41 AM. Reason: typoPhil Strong
21 Dec 2011 7:59 AM #3
Ok Phil,
but what appen if you have exported code before linking? external ui files are not re-generated by designer, if I link after first export I loose the alias property.
22 Dec 2011 1:32 PM #4
A fair point
I was scratching my head earlier thinking why did we put alias in the super class and not the base class. I think it should be moved to the base class.Phil Strong
22 Dec 2011 1:39 PM #5
Can't wait for Sencha Designer 2! Good work!
5 Mar 2012 1:14 PM #6
This is a bug by design/or flaw in the code generation approach of Designer 1.x.
Designer 2.x we are now taking the approach of using a single class with overrides. Therefore this issue never occurs:
http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...g-Build-gt-298Aaron Conran


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From Noisebridge
Breadboard with Compass module and Boarduino, calibration button with indicator, FTDI serial out connected.
- Compass Module CMPS03 http://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/htm/cmps3tech.htm
- DC Boarduino http://learn.adafruit.com/boarduino-kits/dc-parts-list
- FTDI Friend http://www.adafruit.com/products/284
- ShiftBrite http://macetech.com/blog/node/54
Other potential components
- SCF5740 Siemens (OSRAM) 4 digit display http://catalog.osram-os.com/media/_en/Graphics/00034126_0.pdf
- 0.96" OLED Display https://www.adafruit.com/products/684
- FTDI/USB http://www.parallax.com/catalog/integrated-circuits/ftdi
- RGB LED http://www.taydaelectronics.com/rgb-led-5mm.html
- RGBpixel
Future potential SMD components
Other products
The following will give a compass heading via serial monitor
/* CMPS03 with arduino I2C example This will display a value of 0 - 359 for a full rotation of the compass. The SDA line is on analog pin 4 of the arduino and is connected to pin 3 of the CMPS03. The SCL line is on analog pin 5 of the arduino and is conected to pin 2 of the CMPS03. Both SDA and SCL are also connected to the +5v via a couple of 1k8 resistors. A switch to callibrate the CMPS03 can be connected between pin 6 of the CMPS03 and the ground. */ #include <Wire.h> #define ADDRESS 0x60 //defines address of compass void setup(){ Wire.begin(); //conects I2C Serial.begin(9600); } void loop(){ byte highByte; byte lowByte; Wire.beginTransmission(ADDRESS); //starts communication with cmps03 Wire.write(2); //Sends the register we wish to read Wire.endTransmission(); Wire.requestFrom(ADDRESS, 2); //requests high byte while(Wire.available() < 2); //while there is a byte to receive highByte = Wire.read(); //reads the byte as an integer lowByte = Wire.read(); int bearing = ((highByte<<8)+lowByte)/10; Serial.println(bearing); delay(100); }


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LITTLE RIVER (January 17, 2013)- Just days before he was arrested and charged in connection with his parents murder, neighbors say they had never seen 42-year-old Darrell Wayne Parker so polite and friendly.
Parker was jailed Wednesday, charged with one count of capital murder in the shooting deaths of his mother and stepfather, whose bodies were found Tuesday morning in their rural Bell County home.
A second capital murder charge will likely be filed against Parker in the deaths of former high school and middle school coach Chuck Youngblood, 62, and his wife Cathy, 63, authorities said Wednesday.
He's held in lieu of $1 million bond.
The Bell County Sheriff's office has been interviewing Parker for the past 2 days, yet no motive has been tied to the Youngblood murders.
But Parker's neighbors shed some light for News 10 on Thursday. Shane Allen, who has known Parker for 3 years, spent time with him just days before he was arrested and charged.
"He was very calm and polite," Allen said.
"It seemed like he was feeling good, like maybe he just got some good fortune."
The Bell County Sheriff's Office says the last time anyone saw Chuck and Cathy was last Thursday. Allen says Parker was driving a grey Chevrolet Trailblazer that same day. According to Allen, Parker said his parents gave it to him.
"I thought 'lucky him', you know, his parents giving him a car," Allen said.
Acting on information provided by neighbors, deputies arrested Parker Wednesday at a home in Little River-Academy, where the couple's missing grey Chevrolet Trail Blazer was found.
Investigators have not recovered the weapon used in the shootings, authorities said, and no motive has been determined.
One of Parker's neighbors told News 10 that police were searching for a gun near Parker's home earlier this week.
Investigators also haven't determined when the Youngbloods were shot.
Details have been hard to come by in the early stages of this investigation. Meanwhile, Allen says he's still trying to swallow the fact that the man who's lived next to him could be a murderer.
"To think someone was that calm, and then I find out his parents have been dead for a day or so? I mean, where does your mind go?" Allen said.
Deputies found the bodies Tuesday morning inside the couple's home at 13127 Willow Grove Rd. after responding to request for a welfare check from a Temple Daily Telegram reporter who knew the Youngbloods and was concerned because she hadn't been able to reach them.
The Youngbloods, who both were shot repeatedly, were pronounced dead at the scene and autopsies were ordered.
Chuck Youngblood was a former head football coach at Evant ISD.
Youngblood also coached at Carver Middle School in Waco from 2003 until January 2009, district spokesman Dale Caffey said Wednesday.
He left Waco to join the Beeville ISD, Caffey said.
From 2000 to 2002 he was a special education teacher in the Belton ISD, the district confirmed Wednesday, and from 2002 to 2003 he worked for the Lorena ISD.
Cathy Youngblood had worked at Texcell Credit Union in Temple for more than 15 years.
Her supervisor, Amy Merriman, remembered her Wednesday as an exceptional person liked and respected by all of the staff.
She was named staff member of the quarter in the second quarter of 2012, Merriman said.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- Shawnee County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a home in the 1900-block of N.W. 39th at approximately 5:45 a.m. Sunday morning, to investigate a reported domestic disturbance call made to 911.
When deputies arrived, they were confronted by David Kershaw, 45. Kershaw was on the front porch, armed with a handgun. Other deputies responded to assist with securing the area, while deputies negotiated with the Kershaw.
Captain Jerry Stanley with the Topeka Police Department wrote in a press release that negotiations continued for about one hour, when Kershaw fired his handgun at deputies.
"Shots were fired by law enforcement, leaving the 45-year-old suspect with injuries, considered non-life threatening. He was transported to a local hospital. The deputies were not injured," wrote Stanley.
"At the request of Sheriff Barta, the investigation into the discharge of firearm(s) by Shawnee sheriff personnel is being conducted by the Topeka Police Department, and will be submitted to the District Attorney's office for review," wrote Stanley. The deputy involved has 8 years experience, and is on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
Officials say the investigation could take several days.


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By the polycirculant conjecture, every vertex-transitive graph is a polycirculant graph (D. Marusic 1981 and D. Jordan 1988). There are two papers that claim to prove this conjecture: 1. A. Golubchik, "On the polycirculant conjecture", available on http://arxiv.org/abs/math.GM/0204209, April 2002. 2. E. Mwambene, "A proof of the polycirculant conjecture", available on http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506617, Jun 2005. But I find some papers that proved the conjecture in special cases, after 2005. For example (a) Every vertex-transitive graph of valency four is a polycirculant (E. Dobson et.al 2007) (b) All vertex-transitive locally-quasiprimitive graphs have a semiregular automorphism (M. Giudici and J. Xu 2007). (c) Every connected distance-transitive graph admits a semiregular automorphism (K. Kuntar and P.Sparl 2010).
So I want to know that the polycirculat conjecture is proved or not?


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I'm enjoying OpenTTD a lot more than Transport Tycoon Deluxe, but I miss the jazz jukebox from that game; there's a poor variety of music in OpenTTD. Does this feature exist in OpenTTD? If so, where can it be found?
Well, about the Jazz jukebox specifically, it does exist in OpenTTD:
I'm not sure how closely it matches the original, having never actually played the original. If you want the original game's music in OpenTTD, see the OpenTTD Wiki's installation instruction:


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i have a problem with the the downloaded files in my PhoneGap-App for Android. The download-Function from PhoneGap actually works quite well i think. It gets the file from the URL and stores it on the SD-Card. (Code is below)
So where is the Problem? When I download a JPG or PNG to the Download-folder, i want it be accessible through the native Gallery. But the picture don´t appear in the gallerie. To see it I have to restart the phone or I have to use another App like Astro.
Is there a "Refresh_the_native_Gallerie"-Function or something like that?
Thank you very much.
try {
var filePath = 'file:///mnt/sdcard/Download/google.png'; // Correct filePath
var url = "https://www.google.de/images/srpr/logo3w.png"; //Correct URL
var fileTransfer = new FileTransfer();
fileTransfer.download(url, filePath, function(entry) {
console.log("s3_download download complete: " + entry.
// Do i need a "Refresh_all_other_Apps"-function here?
}, function(error) {
// Normally no Error
console.log("s3_download download error source " + error.source);
console.log("s3_download download error target " + error.target);
console.log("s3_download download error code" + error.code);
} catch (e) {
console.log("downloadTest ERROR: " + e);
Cannot answer my own question so fast only edit my question. So here is the answer:
I wrote a little PhoneGap-Plugin, which does actually nothing more than calling the code from zapl. Thanks again. Hope it will help someone with the same problem.
You can find the code here: https://github.com/philipp-at-greenqloud/pluginRefreshMedia


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Miguel Helft covers Internet companies, including Google and Yahoo, for the Business Desk of The New York Times. Before joining the San Francisco bureau of the Times in 2006, he spent four years as an editorial writer at The San Jose Mercury News, and six years as a business and technology reporter at various publications, including The San Jose Mercury News, The Los Angeles Times and The Industry Standard.
Prior to his journalism career, Mr. Helft worked as a professional mountain guide and a software engineer. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Philosophy and a Masters in Computer Science. Miguel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was raised there and in Paris, France. He lives in Oakland, Calif., with his wife, Samantha Graff, and two sons.
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Maybe the best clueless gamer yet.
Maybe the best clueless gamer yet.
HAHAHAHA! Oh man. The last panel shouldn't have surprised me but it did.
Like Dishonored, I started out doing an all stealth/no-kill run and halfway through said "fuck it" and have been blasting my way through the last few levels.
Who ever play the previous sequel of this game should definitely say this game suck. Its look gorgeous and its combat system and shooting style is smooth but it's not about how it look, its more like how do feel when you play the game. I play each and every game of this series. There was flow. Flow in story and need to develop a strategy rather than shoot them up. On previous version of the game you have to make a plan and play according to it to accomplish your objective with minimal non target casualty. But in absolution you can't even think about to accomplish a single mission without non target casualty. Because the enemy AI is so damn good (or 47 is too much familiar after his movie) they can recognize you from a mile away. So wearing disguise is no good for this game but it was the key feature of this game series success. This game will be a massive hit if it is not in the Hitman series. That not only ruin the series but also ruin the game it self.
Okay, I can't seem to recall if it was this game, but I vaguely remember that at the shooting range, if you screw up a bunch of shots in a row, one of the onlookers actually says something along the lines of "Your parents hate you and probably wish they had aborted you". Is this correct?
I don't know how the hell you're playing, but I've played the whole thing on Expert without killing a single civilian/non-target and without even firing my gun. It is entirely possible but takes an extreme amount of patience, something that a real hitman would absolutely have. You do have to plan, you do have to retry, but that's how every Hitman has worked.
No offense, but if you suck at Hitman enough that you have to resort to killing everyone, maybe you ought to consider the possibility that it's you who's the problem, rather than cowardly blaming it on the game. The problem with Hitman is that in a day and age where it's shoot-first-figure-shit-out-later, people are unable to comprehend the fact that they might be doing a lot more puzzle solving and thinking than fast-paced action.
I have played every single Hitman game made, and have enjoyed all of them, and this Hitman is no exception whatsoever. It is beautifully designed, has tons of reply value due to the ridiculous number of ways you can achieve your objective, and has a much more immersive stealth aspect than the others. Yes, the enemy AI detection could do with tweaking, but they're already looking in to it and in my opinion, it really doesn't detract from the game.
Series fans are hard to please; you give them more of the same, they'll bitch about there being no innovation. You give them something somewhat different, they'll bitch about how it's "wrecked the series".
Am I missing the reason why every part is titled "Part 1".
Oh we'll I suppose having different titles within part one would suggest that but it just wasn't that clear ttime from the way it was done in this. Or more likely I am dummmbbb!
So, now you've backpedaled from saying this game ruins the series, to instead bitching about the disguise thing. I'm glad you've figured out that the whole game is not terrible and it is not impossible to beat without killing any civilians (which you most certainly were before).
The disguise things is a difficult balance to strike. They should retool some of the detection rates yes, but making any disguise completely perfect also breaks a huge component of the game; stealth. What is the point if in the church you can just walk by everyone without getting detected, gather all the charges, and finish the game in less than a minute? You would be bitching and whining about how the game is too easy, and you damn well know it.
Excepting certain instances (the street vendors of Chinatown, the masked Baxter thugs, and maybe the cops in the library), I find it perfectly plausible that those who wear the same disguise as you might recognize that you're not one of them. We want AI to move forward, not backwards. In real life, putting on a cop's uniform and walking by a bunch of other cops in the same office building who have never seen you before will at least attract questions, if not outright suspicion.
Whatever, I still hate this game, Its more like a mixture of maxpayne 3 and splinter cell for me. Not the old hitman game I liked.
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If you like the old Hitman games then play the old Hitman games? I've really not found anything out of the ordinary about the game in terms of the Hitman series. It still feels like a Hitman game and there are still ridiculous ways to kill your targets and just your targets. The only thing they added, in my eyes at least, is making everything else more viable. The fact that you think the viability of all these other methods besides disguises.
Pro-Tip: Putting on a cop uniform does not make you a cop. The AI is going to be suspicious of you if you aren't careful. This is called reality.
"Reality" is a little generous. Why is it then when you dress up as the town's only barber that everybody knows by name, you can walk through the entire level undetected? It's not like it's hard to keep track of all the barbers in town--there's only one. Equally perplexing is when guards openly talk about being on the lookout for a bald guy that likes to dress up in disguises, yet they never bother to raise an eyebrow when I walk past them with my bald head in a disguise (my goofy ass band-aid that barely covers my bar-code must have thrown them off). They took the silly videogame rules from older Hitman games and replaced them with newer and equally silly videogame rules. The game's a lot of fun, but there's little logic to this disguise system when you start to give it a closer look. Even the cop thing is iffy at best: The Chicago Police Department employs over 12,000+ sworn officers, and I find it hard to believe that they all can recognize each other in a densely packed crowd.
The Bangladeshi dude has a point: The first half of this game plays like a Splinter Cell game. There are a lot of missions early on that only require you to sneak from point A to point B without ever executing a hit. Thankfully, the second half of the game drops that bullshit and goes back to being Hitman. The new disguise system isn't terrible in theory, but it needs a lot of work.


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I tried to ask a bunch of questions via Twitter ... but for some reason none of them got through. I tried searching for them but they never showed up in search. I am just saying, because Charles seems dissappointed in the lack of interaction, but I would guess that I am not the only person who tried to ask questions and couldn't get through. Not one of my questions during the entire PDC seems to have gone through.
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Large Venues
If you would like to host a large party with more than 50 people (retirement party, graduation party, wedding reception, significant birthday or anniversary, or family reunion) you'll want to have it at a larger venue, where trained professionals set up, cook and serve the meal, monitor party progression, and clean up everything.
Although banquet halls, hotel ballrooms, and restaurant banquet rooms have traditionally been the places to go when hosting large parties, you might have fun exploring interesting alternatives, such as country clubs, museums, university foundations, galleries, or community centers (senior centers, women's centers, or other public places that offer large rooms for rent). You'll want to find out about amenities at these unique locations; although many such venues might not staff events, they often work with party-staffing agencies, which will facilitate your search for the perfect caterer.
- Pros You don't have to do any of the actual work on the day of the party, and yet you will receive all the kudos for planning a great event. You'll also receive help with much of the planning: Most banquet halls utilize a private staff and provide options for the menu, beverages, décor, entertainment, and other logistics.
- Cons Standard large venues can feel a little "tired," so you might have to put your creativity on overdrive to make your occasion feel unique. You'll also need to make quite a few phone calls when you're looking for the right place, unless you are fortunate enough to have received recommendations from someone trustworthy. Oh yeah, and unless you are planning a corporate event or have made arrangements with your guests, you'll also get to pay for the whole thing.
If you are on a limited budget, don't feel at all guilty about arranging for a no-host or cash bar, which means that soft drinks are complimentary (or rather, paid for by you), but alcohol is paid for by those who will be drinking it. Again, just make sure to include the words "no-host" or "cash" bar on your invitations so your guests will know what to expect.
Instead of renting out an entire banquet hall, ask around at your favorite restaurants, many of which will host large parties in separate rooms. Although you won't have the same staff-to-guest ratio attention from every staff member as you would at a banquet hall, you'll save a lot of money and you might get better-quality food.
Destination Parties
As the name suggests, destination parties take place away from your home, often occurring at a vacation spot or remote city. Although not appropriate for every kind of party, destination parties are great for celebrating marriages, family reunions, significant birthdays or anniversaries, or important holidays.
- Pros Having all your friends and family in one location can be really fun! During meals and activities, you'll have ample opportunity to reconnect with people you might not have seen in a while. By spending several days together, you'll fall into a comfortable routine, not only spending time with other guests, but taking time out for yourself and/or your partner.
- Cons Destination parties can be incredibly expensive logistical nightmares. You'll need to plan accommodations, help with travel, arrange meal and activity options, and make sure guests understand payment arrangements. Although you don't have to pay for the entire event, you will need to cover any "unclaimed" costs, such as a short hotel or restaurant bill or rental fees for group activities.
Another way to look at destination parties is as a "vacation" party, in which you rent a home at a getaway locale, such as a river or beach or in the mountains. Such rental properties often cost far less than you might imagine, lending a festive, party air to the group vacation. Your guests will probably reciprocate by taking you out for whatever group meals you haven't planned and cooked yourself.
Are destination parties worth the effort? Well, you will have to put a great deal of effort into organizing the event, but all that hard work will definitely pay off when you rekindle relationships with friends, family, and college or high-school buddies.
Many websites offer tools for organizing large parties traveling to a common destination. Guests can log on and find different options for accommodations, travel, meals, and activities, making their own arrangements. Wedding websites, such as www.theknot.com, are great for this type of service, but a quick Google search will yield additional results in your area.
Destination parties can be tricky if you expect children, seniors, or disabled people to attend. Keep your guests' needs in mind when you select your spot, and try to pick a destination that will accommodate everyone in your party.
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5 Beloved Celebrities Everyone Forgets Did Terrible Things
The strange thing about celebrity scandals like the recent Paula Deen racism controversy is how inconsistent we are with our outrage. We forever remember Michael Richards for screaming racial slurs, and Charlie Sheen will always be a punchline, but the vast majority of the world has forgotten that ...
#5. Jimmy Page Kidnapped a 14-Year-Old Girl
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Jimmy Page is basically the reason you think guitars are awesome. His run with some rinky-dink garage band called Led Zeppelin set the benchmark for all hard rock and metal to come, while simultaneously pissing off any amateur guitarist who thought "Stairway to Heaven" didn't sound too difficult.
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"I might not be able to play music like them, but I can definitely do as many drugs."
And sure, he was no slouch in the deviant rock star department either, with tales of the band's outrageous behavior still being talked about today ("I heard they once used a live shark as a dildo!"). But that's par for the course, right? We like a little debauchery with our rock stars.
The Incident:
Of course, debauchery has its limits, such as kidnapping a 14-year-old girl, having sex with her, and keeping her behind closed doors for years so as to avoid jail time. Which, as you probably already figured, Page totally did.
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It isn't rape if it happens in the air. Citation: aliens.
In 1972, Page was hanging around a nightclub and laid eyes on 14-year-old Lori Maddox. He liked what he saw and didn't give a shit that she was underage by, well, a lot. Why should he, after all? The club clearly didn't.
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"In a certain kind of light, she clearly looks probably 18. Close enough."
As the young, handsome lead guitarist in the biggest rock band in the world, Page was probably very shy and awkward around girls. So, instead he sent roadie Richard Cole to Maddox's table with the message, "Jimmy told me that he's going to have you whether you like it or not." The roadie then grabbed her and chucked her in the back of a limo, saying, "You fucking move and I'll fucking have your head."
From there, they drove back to Page's house, where he and Maddox proceeded to have lots and lots of dirty illegal sex. Of course, Page knew this was incredibly wrong, and if word got out, he was screwed. So he did the only responsible thing he could think of: for three long years, Maddox was for the most part kept behind closed doors so the relationship with Page wasn't discovered and he wouldn't end up in jail.
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Just think of everything we'd have missed out on.
Why You Forgot About It:
It was a different time, we guess? Obviously Page never went to jail or got arrested, and Maddox actually stayed with him for years afterward, calling him "romantic." We're going to guess it was classic Stockholm syndrome. We'll just quote Maddox's own words from the book Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga: "It was magnificent. Can you believe it? It was just like right out of a story! Kidnapped, man, at 14!"
Yes, right out of "a story," the type that usually ends with Liam Neeson chopping the kidnapper in the throat.
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He actually looks like more of a sex offender now than he did when he was a sex offender.
#4. Motley Crue's Lead Singer Killed Someone While Drunk Driving
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Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin were plenty outrageous, but Motley Crue may well have had them beat. Known and loved as the hardest rocking (and hardest partying) band on the planet, Motley Crue have sold 90 million albums over their 30-year career. More importantly, their off-stage antics helped put the children of every cocaine dealer in Los Angeles through college.
OK, children and grandchildren.
Their shenanigans were so over-the-top crazy, it almost made them caricatures, lovable parodies of the hedonistic '80s. Of course, not everything they did was lovable. Like the time one of them killed a man.
The Incident:
On December 8, 1984, lead singer Vince Neil was having a party at his house. The party was on day three, and booze was running low, so Vince jumped in the car to drive himself and his rocker friend Razzle to the liquor store. You know where this is going.
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Hint: not to the liquor store.
A drunken Vince was speeding the entire time, not because the liquor store was about to close, but because "over the limit" was basically Motley Crue's catchphrase, and he was all but contractually obligated to be a crazy idiot all the time. Naturally, he soon lost control of the car and collided head-on with a Volkswagen coming the other way. Razzle was killed instantly, and the two people in the other car were hospitalized, with one comatose for a month.
Why You Forgot About It:
Money and fame have their benefits.
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Man-hugging with Snoop Dogg is just the beginning.
Neil was convicted of DUI and vehicular manslaughter, which could've brought him up to 10 years in prison. This didn't happen; in fact, almost nothing happened. Being a superstar, Neil had enough money to pay for the weaseliest lawyer available. Said lawyer managed to talk down the sentence to 30 days in jail, five years' probation, and $2.5 million in fines. Oh, and Neil only served 20 of those 30 days because Motley Crue had a tour scheduled and, as any criminal will tell you, the courts are very understanding of this sort of thing. Next time you're in this situation, tell them you can't go to jail because you'd miss your overnight shift at Walmart.
Even Neil himself recognized that he got off scot-free, saying, "I wrote a $2.5 million check for vehicular manslaughter when Razzle died. I should have gone to prison. I definitely deserved to go to prison. But I did 30 days in jail and got laid and drank beer, because that's the power of cash. That's fucked up."
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Neil would prove his repentance by continuing to be wealthy and successful forever.
Not so fucked up that it's stopped Neil from driving under the influence several times since then, of course. But at least he admitted it that one time.
#3. Sean Penn Tied Up and Then Beat the Crap Out of Madonna
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Sean Penn is known for two things: acting and taking regular shits on right-wing politics. When the phrase "Hollywood liberal" gets tossed around, Penn is often one of the first examples mentioned. The Iraq War was perhaps his finest moment, as he spared no expense in letting the world know exactly how he felt about young people dying for oil. Over and over again.
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"Look at me! Look at me ... er, I mean, no more war!"
So it's easy to think of him as a Bono type, a guy who might be annoying, but only because he cares about the suffering in the world too much.
The Incident:
While married to Madonna, Sean Penn pulled a Chris Brown that out-Chris Browned Chris Brown before there even was a Chris Brown.
He punched three women to steal that cigarette.
The two then-rising stars were married in 1985, although nobody really knows why, since the whole thing was a mess from the start. Sure, Penn was a ragehead who dealt with annoying paparazzi by shooting at them, dangling them upside down from balconies, and smacking them with rocks. But that's not what we're talking about here; his knack for doing the same kind of stuff to Madonna, however, very much is.
Penn and Madonna would get into violent arguments all the time, and it probably didn't help that Penn drank so much every night that even Andre the Giant would've told him to slow it the fuck down. Finally, in 1988, after Penn flew into a rage over Madonna's supposed affair with Warren Beatty, she called the marriage off. Penn responded by turning his abusive nutcase dial up to 11.
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Aka "the only number it ever went up to in the first place."
After he got good and drunk (again), Penn climbed into Madonna's house, where she was alone. He then grabbed her, tied her to a chair, and assaulted her for hours, both physically and emotionally. He then went out for more booze, came back, and kept up the beating. Madonna only escaped after telling Penn that she had to go to the bathroom, which meant he had no problem battering, beating, bloodying, and bruising the supposed love of his life, but felt it would have been too degrading to make her pee in front of him.
Why You Forgot About It:
While Penn was arrested, the charges were dropped because Madonna didn't want to generate a media circus, which may have been the one and only time in her life that Madonna actually wanted the press to go away. A couple of decades of political activism and two Oscars later, and the world barely remembers an incident that would turn most people into a pariah. But hey, can we really blame him for the immature mistakes he made when he was only, uh, 25 years old?
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Punch him. Punch him right in the glasses.