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Hiya guys....we stayed at Windsor hills..2 miles from Disney last Feb..loved it..they have 2-3 bdroom condos. Townhouses with splash pools and full 5 bedrooms houses with private pools...so everyone has a budget I know this place was super clean pool with slide very safe and secure..easy off site drive and cheap restaurant ...just a great alternative ...well be waiting for dates..the shortcutting drive was shorter than any Disney bus..and I think they have meeting rooms...for any classes we want to have..by the pool..so even if we don't get a hotel together..some can have some get togethers..ooh plus all have full kitchens ..we saved a ton on breakfast.
Recommendations for offsite hotels, timeshares, rentals, etc.
Started by Leanne Smith , Feb 10 2013 01:43 PMoff-disney hotels disney
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Posted 10 February 2013 - 01:43 PM
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Posted 11 February 2013 - 12:37 PM
We have stayed off property only once. While it was nice to have a house and our own pool and spa, it certainly lacked the Disney magic that you can only get staying on property. I am a confirmed Disney nerd and am very happy to help anyone who needs it! My next trip is in 15 days!! Can not wait!
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Posted 11 February 2013 - 12:48 PM
Vonni, we stayed off-property one year when going with my husband to a conference (not with my group) and we stayed off-property. My husband said then that he would rather stay on-property after that. I don't know why... he just didn't feel as part of things. It could have been the fact that he spent most of his time in conference workshops, though.
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Posted 11 February 2013 - 02:24 PM
The house was really nice that we had and we had the pool heated and a real hot tub. It was great to have a washer and dryer but there is just nothing like Disney service! And there is something to be said for not seeing your car for a week or two! I feel sad when I am away from their property! I just looked at the Disney Youth site and tickets are available now and they weren't last week! What are the dates that you are planning? I am going in 2 weeks but would love to go again!!
Posted 11 February 2013 - 03:32 PM
Vonni, we're going in November. Disney hasn't confirmed my dates yet, though. I'll announce them when they do (they said they'll try to confirm by the end of this week).
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Posted 11 February 2013 - 03:33 PM
Regarding staying on-property or off-property, I think the majority of my group stay off Disney property and really enjoy that. So those wanting to stay off-property, don't shy away from that if it's what you want to do. I'll post more information about choosing between the two options very soon.
Posted 11 February 2013 - 03:45 PM
Yes..I agree with everyone ...we got married at the Polynesian so..I do adore the on site hotels...but for $300 night we can't do poly anymore....I do get upset when people are so angry at on site and offsite....just because we chose it last time doesn't mean you have to neverstay on site again..but its a great alternative ...we do love the Disney bubble...
Posted 11 February 2013 - 04:30 PM
Leanne, I'm so glad we have a good community here and on Facebook, where no one has ever gotten into arguments about on-site and off-site accommodations. I've seen too much of that on the various Disney message boards and certainly don't want to see it here.
Posted 11 February 2013 - 04:35 PM
Hello friends!
I thought I'd introduce myself - I'm Robin and I live in a suburb of Atlanta. I homeschool my four boys, ages 14 (almost 15), 9, 6, and 5. We are very excited to be making our second family trip to Disney in the Fall.
I am an obsessive Disney planner - complete with spreadsheets and lists. But, I'm by no means a pro and I am always so excited to learn something new. The size of our family necessitates that we stay off-site, so I can answer some questions about that. Let me just go ahead and say, I think it's the way to go if you have a family the size of ours!
I look forward to sharing the excitement over this upcoming trip with y'all!
Edited by Robin Harrison Axelberd, 11 February 2013 - 04:40 PM.
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Posted 11 February 2013 - 04:55 PM
Robin I have 4 boys and a 1 yo girl. We stay on roperty in the cabins. We love it but once Grace becomes 2 we will be looking at other options. I would love to hear what you do. We have not made reservations yet so maybe we will change our minds! I love the convenience and the perks of staying on property plus we tend to really enjoy the free dining plan. We do the whole spreadsheet thing too ... did you go to Tech(we are in SC but we are from Atl and both went to Tech!)? So we are always looking to save money!
Posted 11 February 2013 - 09:03 PM
I DID go to Tech! My hubby didn't but he is a huge GT football fan - so it worked out well for us.
We have stayed at two different properties, but both were the area of Funie Steed and Formosa Gardens (if you map it on Google, you'll see the roads). The first place was a villa and the second was a condo.I'll tell you about the villa first. In 2009 we rented a 4 BR villa (my MIL lives in Daytona Beach and usually drives over for one or two days), and we paid $750 for 6 nights, including $120 for having the pool heated. It was so spacious - enough room that not everyone was on top of each other. The pools at the villas are all screened in and have child locks. They are also not very big, but just right for getting wet and splashing around.
The condo we rented in 2011 was $791 (including tax) for *9* nights! The condo was not so soundproof, so there was a lot of thumping, etc. overhead. It also wasn't nearly as big.
This year we will be renting a villa again. Given the time of year, you can really get a steal on the rental properties.
We've never stayed on property (though my hubby and I are going to take an adult-only trip in May!), so our family doesn't really know any different. I can tell you that the DDP may be convenient, but everything I've been reading lately says that it is definitely not worth it - even when it's "free." I've even read that the Signature Dining events are not worth the two table service credits even if you order the most expensive thing on the menu!
This was our eating strategy: We ate breakfast at the condo. Then, every kid got their own waist pack and they chose their snacks (several) - trail mix, ritz bitz, granola bars, fruit snacks - I bought a lot of stuff ahead of time using coupons and stashed it away Then we'd either go "home" for a late lunch/early dinner and then return to the park for fireworks/parades/whatever OR we'd eat a late lunch at the park, keep going and then fix dinner at the condo. Basically, we somehow managed to only eat one meal at the parks, and sometimes we'd buy a snack.
I think the biggest sacrifice in not having the DDP and having a condo is that it isn't much of a vacation for mom! I still cooked a few nights and I still had to make breakfast every morning. Though, my kids are older and hopefully they will be much more self-sufficient. And, my hubby is a really big help, but you know how it is - the weight of responsibility just rests on our shoulders.
So - that's just a peek at how we "roll" at Disney.
BTW - how lucky are you to have gotten a girl after all those boys!!!
Edited by Robin Harrison Axelberd, 11 February 2013 - 09:04 PM.
Posted 11 February 2013 - 09:11 PM
We stayed in a condo at Windsor Palms in 2011 - it was OK. Units weren't soundproofed well. In 2009, we stayed in a villa in Sunset Lakes, and that's where we'll be staying again this year. I found the properties on vrbo.com and homeaway.com. With the size of our family and the (rock-bottom) prices of the rental units during the time of this trip, I just can't justify staying on property. And trust me...I've tried!
~ Robin
Posted 11 February 2013 - 10:02 PM
I thought it would be more helpful if I make this the off-property recommendations thread, and started a new one for Disney resorts.
Posted 12 February 2013 - 08:20 PM
Ok - so even though I said that we were going to stay in a villa, I've been reading a lot about Wyndham Bonnet Creek. Anyone who's been there want to share your thoughts? My biggest concern is noise...
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Posted 12 February 2013 - 10:00 PM
Robin, I've heard a some great reviews of Bonnet Creek. I'll see if I can't get those folks to post in here for you.
Posted 12 February 2013 - 11:28 PM
In January '12 we stayed at Holiday Inn Orange Lake. It was amazing for our family of 5. If I could pick it up and put it on premises, I would do it in a heartbeat. I love being on premises, though.
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Posted 13 February 2013 - 12:26 AM
The Orange Lake area is very close to Disney property, isn't it?
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Posted 13 February 2013 - 01:20 AM
It was really close. It's on Irlo Bronson in Kissimmee.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 01:41 AM
I have to highly recommend skyauction The past 2 Disney trips we've done we have used their certificates and have been extremely happy. You basically go to skyauction and search for vacation certificate. On there they have a link for the booking website to see what resorts are avaliable, when and where. You put in what month, what state and then they pop up. If they have a resort you are interested in, for the week you want to go then you purchase the certificate from sky auction and then go back to the resort search website to book. It's a lot easier than it sounds than me typing it. Promise LOL The last certificate we bought from them we used in October and they had a blowout sale on certificates and I got 2 for $150 each, the one prior to that I got for $249. And those prices are for 7!! nights. Both were 3 bedroom units too with jacuzzi tubs, huge kitchens. The first one we booked was actually a 1 bedroom, 2 bedroom lockoff so we got 2 units for the price of one. The resorts are basically some of the older timeshare units. To give you names of the ones we've stayed at...The first was Barefoot'n In the Keys and the second was Legacy Vacation Club-Spas. You do NOT have to do a tour to use your certificate. Pretty great deal I think. Now they don't usually have weeks open for summer in Florida, it's mostly off season type availability but still where else can you get a 3 bedroom condo for 7 nights for under $300? We hope to be able to come with you guys this year on the Disney trip and if we do we will likely be purchasing another certificate for a condo. I love staying onsite but to save that much money I just can't justify the cost. Plus, I kind of like having my nice big jacuzzi tub after a long day at the parks. =)
Posted 13 February 2013 - 07:53 AM
We've stayed off-site on a few of our Disney trips.
My kids enjoyed Vistana Villages the best, as there are several pools (3 pool areas, I think), and kids' activities. We were there in July, so activities were in full swing-- poolside movies, roasting s'mores, crafts, etc. I don't know what the activities would be like in November. The location is great for visiting Disney, Universal, and SeaWorld, which we did during that trip. The downside is that there is only one small restaurant on-site, but there are plenty of eating establishments nearby. The rooms are small townhouses with a kitchenette, living room, washer/dryer, and either one or two bedrooms. The bathroom featured a whirlpool tub. Both the tourist-y I-ride trolley and the regular Orlando buses stop right outside of the main entrance of the Villages. But if you are in a section towards the back of the complex, it can be a bit of a walk back to your room.
We've also stayed at the SpringHill Suites in the Marriott Village in Lake Buena Vista. I believe there are two other hotels in the Marriott Village--a Courtyard by Marriott, and I am not sure of the other...maybe a Fairfield Inn and Suites. The accommodations were your standard SpringHill Suites rooms. Comfortable, not luxurious. There is an outdoor pool, and a food court with the typical pizza, ice cream, sandwiches, etc...
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I am currently taking Introduction to Image Interpretation online and there is a section in it that talks about Precision and Accuracy. I wanted to know if someone out there has any good information that I can use to learn more about it.
This illustration stuck with me, and helps me remember at the most basic level what precision vs. accuracy is.This is the source of the image, also containing a little more context. In general, Precision is the how close your grouping of measurements are. Accuracy is how close your measurement is to the actual measurement in the real world.
Blah238 is right, they left out Accurate, but not Precise - that might look something like:

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The 5 Shadiest Crimes Ever Pulled Off by Famous Corporations
Corporations have the worst type of bad reputation: the boring kind. They get accused of the same crimes as the drug dealers and mob bosses in our favorite movies, but their tactics are dry and methodical. When you get to the level of Fortune 500 corporations with recognizable name brands, we tend to assume that everything has been thoroughly vetted by legal, and subsequently wiped for prints just to be safe. There's just too much money at stake to risk getting sued for some minor misstep.
Except some of our most recognizable corporations are sitting on more machine gunnings and convoluted criminal conspiracies than you can throw at the last 30 minutes of a Die Hard movie. It turns out that owning a fantastic assortment of golf shirts doesn't preclude you from committing the sort of crimes that even the cool table in the prison cafeteria has to admit are pretty ballsy.
#5. An NFL Team Is Smuggled Across State Borders Like a Shipment of Cocaine
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In 1984, Baltimore Colts owner Robert Irsay was considering the unthinkable: voluntarily moving to Indianapolis. For years, Baltimore had refused to build a new stadium, and Indianapolis had pre-emptively built an entire freaking dome in the hopes of attracting an NFL team that wasn't turned off by the stench of desperation. Add in a growing economy and one of the nation's largest populations of bored white people, and the move seemed like a can't-miss business proposition. But it was still Indianapolis, so Irsay decided to field offers from other, warmer, less Indianapol-ish cities, such as Phoenix.
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Like an inattentive boyfriend who finds himself on the verge of being dumped, Baltimore saw Irsay making eyes across state lines and promised to think about changing for him. When that didn't work, the city promptly switched into "you can't leave me, bitch, I won't let you" mode.
Foreshadowing the grit and shameless corruption that would one day make The Wire politicians like Clay Davis such compelling TV characters, the Maryland state legislature and the city of Baltimore decided to take control of the Colts by force, using an obscure law called eminent domain (which roughly translates to "Finders keepers, but we're the government so you can't laugh at us for saying that"). As the state legislature prepared to transfer ownership of the Colts to the city, Irsay could only call a press conference to futilely exclaim, "It's my damn team." And then he remembered who the rich white guy was around here and put a plan into action that the con men from The Sting would call "a little much."
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It's amazing he had time for any scheming, what with the daily airbrushing sessions.
First he called Phoenix and told them they could have the Colts if they agreed to his terms immediately because he was planning to move his entire company out of Baltimore that night. Phoenix withdrew from consideration, presumably under the rationale that they didn't make split-second decisions like that, as they weren't cocaine dealers. Indianapolis might have had similar reservations had they not been so focused on not shooting in their pants when they heard Irsay's voice on the other end of the phone.
It was a good thing Indianapolis was so eager, because it turned out Irsay hadn't totally thought through the various contingencies of smuggling an entire NFL team hundreds of miles in a single night. That's when Indianapolis Mayor William Hudnut called his friend, the wealthily named John B. Smith, the head of Mayflower moving company. Mayflower moving trucks up and down the East Coast were suddenly converging on the Baltimore Colts practice facility. Within a matter of hours, the movers were quietly making an entire NFL franchise disappear. The drivers of the 15 trucks were given different routes to the state border so the cops couldn't stop them all.
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Two decoy trucks were filled with rabid jackals, just to keep the Highway Patrol on their toes.
The next morning, every physical piece of the Colts franchise was in the state of Indiana, the Indianapolis Star had a photo of Irsay and Hudnut cheering, while the Baltimore Sun had Baltimore mayor William Schaefer weeping. Fortunately, the city of Baltimore would eventually go on to get a Super Bowl-winning franchise, and no one ever committed a crime in their city ever again.
#4. Chiquita -- Funding Terrorism
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As we've previously mentioned, the Chiquita fruit company has the sort of skeletons in their closet that once caused their company president to retire by jumping off a building. Back when they went by the far less mariachi-tinged name "The United Fruit Company," Chiquita conspired with the CIA to start a bloody civil war in Colombia, and even took part in some good old-fashioned union busting. (Note: Old-fashioned union busting was a mostly machine-gun-based activity.) But that was decades ago. They'd cleaned up their act, and were now an attractive Latin dancer with a silly name. They may still be operating in the same industry as when they committed the atrocities, and in the same country they plunged into civil war, but that was all behind them. Hey, look -- she put a big fruit basket on her head!
Chiquita Bananas
This is not the hat of a rational company.
Of course, when criminals change their names, put on elaborate disguises, and stay in the same line of work they were in when they killed people, that usually means they're just getting serious about getting away with some shit. In the case of Chiquita, that included secretly funding multiple terrorist organizations.
Now before you go blaming them, Chiquita would probably point out that their banana farms are located in the Colombian hinterlands, where rebel groups like the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN), and right-wing organizations such as the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), like to shoot and bomb each other and where everything that moves is immediately kidnapped. It's hard, dangerous work to run a business in the middle of a war zone of embassy takeovers and bus bombings. Of course, it would have been easier to sympathize with them if this hadn't been the same civil war they had started decades before. But that was the past, and Chiquita had to keep their employees safe in the present. The obvious answer would have been to move operations to a less murdery part of the world -- but that option was quickly dismissed when someone realized that it would cost less to just pay the guys with machine guns.
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"Hell, if we can get them to help negotiate employee salaries, they might make us more profitable!"
In 1989, Chiquita started paying the murder squads they were supposed to be protecting themselves from. Chalking it up to the price of doing business in a war zone that you've created, they played both sides of the fence, paying the FARC, ELN and AUC, which were all eventually listed as terrorist groups by the U.S. State Department.
In Chiquita's defense, the State Department was way less into labels when Chiquita started paying them. And when they learned they were funding officially sanctioned, grade-A terrorists, they immediately did something about it. Specifically, they consulted a lawyer to find out how illegal it would be if they were to, say, continue funding terrorists. Fortunately, the lawyer they consulted was a human being with a basic understanding of right and wrong. He was also apparently aware that his client's sense of business ethics was on par with most birds of prey, because he gave them the sort of unambiguous, one-sentence legal advice lawyers usually reserve for clients who have just taken hostages: "Bottom line: CANNOT MAKE THE PAYMENT."
While that advice may have been impossible to misunderstand, it was apparently extremely easy to ignore, because Chiquita continued to make payments to those terrorist organizations for another year, which is especially astounding when you take into account how unlikely it is that terrorists let you set your account to automatic payments.
When the scheme was discovered in 2004, the governments of the United States and Colombia were upset. In all, the Cincinnati-based Fortune 500 company had funneled $1.7 million to the organizations over the years, or as one prosecutor summed it up, the equivalent of "financing three World Trade Center attacks."
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"I knew it. This is about that September 11 thing, isn't it? That was three years ago!"
While the PR department presumably looked into the legal and logical contradictions involved with hiring one of the terrorist organizations to intimidate the head honchos into not paying them anymore, the U.S. government fined them $25 million. The company immediately saw the error of their ways.
#3. Shell Oil Owns Nigeria
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Over 63 percent of the world's oil is produced by 10 lucky countries, which helps explain why oil tycoons tend to clock in somewhere between drug dealers and Donald Trump on the spectrum of tackiest per capita displays of wealth. The top 10 countries are a mixture of famously oil-rich Middle Eastern nations (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait), countries that possess lots of land and the technology to drill it (Canada, the U.S., and Russia), and countries that clearly landed on this list by way of clerical error, like Nigeria.
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A nation that we just now learned exists outside of our inbox.
Shockingly, that's not a mistake. The capital of petty email fraud is extremely rich in oil. But before you start responding to those wealthy Nigerian princes stowed away in the "Look into?" email folder, it turns out very little of that money ever found its way to the people of Nigeria. During the oil discovery process, somewhere between the part where "a bubbling crude" comes up through the ground and the part where the narrator helpfully clarifies "Oil, that is, black gold, Texas tea," the people of Nigeria turned around to find the Royal Dutch Shell Company balls deep in their oil deposits. They started pumping oil out of the country in the 1930s and haven't stopped since. For most of the century, the people of Nigeria were pretty good sports about the whole thing, but sometime in the 1990s they turned into major nags. Suddenly, everyone was all "Stop bulldozing our villages to install pipelines" and "The constant oil spills are killing our fish and vegetation."
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"I'm not sure, but it seems like there was less poison everywhere when I was a kid."
Everyone, including Shell, seemed to acknowledge that they weren't exactly helping the local ecosystem, but pretty soon the Nigerian accusations had escalated to human rights abuses with a dash of crazy conspiracy theory. For instance, when the military tortured and executed nine environmental activists in 1995, they claimed that it was Shell pulling strings. The things Shell got accused of doing in Nigeria were so aggressively evil, and would have required them to be secretly in control of so many decisions in the country, that it became hard to take their accusers seriously.
Like any bitter divorce, there was an emotionally and judicially unsatisfying out-of-court cash settlement between Shell and the families of the slain protesters in 2009. Shell claimed that it was worth more than $15 million to not be associated with such heinous accusations, and that seemed to be where it would end.
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"Our punishing mustache-twirling schedule doesn't leave time for that sort of hands-on evil."
That's when the terrifying truth started to leak and then WikiLeak out for everyone to see. First, in 2009, internal memos surfaced that would have been used in the trial that Shell had paid $15 million not to have, which seemed to indicate that they had, in fact, paid the military to use force on the protesters, and just generally behave in a way that would make even the most paranoid crazy person drop the shit they were about to fling at the wall, and say, "Wait, really?"
The WikiLeaks documents that came torrenting onto the Web in 2010 contained more bad news for Shell, and also for people who value subtlety in their evil corporations. In one correspondence, Shell's head of Nigerian operations bragged to the U.S. government that the company had infiltrated pretty much every relevant ministry of Nigeria's government and was secretly calling the (occasionally very literal) shots from behind the scenes, just like the crazy accusations claimed.
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"I hear these guys sell pretty good taquitos over in the U.S."
Like a movie villain outlining her evil plan for global domination, she bragged that Shell "knew 'everything that was being done in those ministries'" and "boasted that the Nigerian government had 'forgotten' about the extent of Shell's infiltration and was unaware of how much the company knew about its deliberations," before lifting one of the Nigerians she'd turned into tiny shrimp and popping it into her mouth.
In better news for Shell, the documents were so damning that legal scholars think they must have access to some manner of wish-granting genie to have convinced the prosecution to settle for $15 million. And those come in handy when you're a Fortune 500 company that's about to get your balls sued clean out from under you.


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The 6 Most Terrifying Items People Actually Collect
Some people collect stamps or coins, but for some reason, that's just not enough to keep them interested. So they do what any reasonable person would do: collect the most disgusting, creepiest things imaginable.
Here's six collections that are great conversation starters, if you want the conversation to be about whether or not you're a serial killer.
#6. Celebrity Hair
Celebrities--is there nothing the public won't ravage them of? People rifle through their trash, reporters snap pictures of their genitals with telephoto lenses. What's left? How about owning an actual piece of a famous person? Of course, lopping off a finger or ear is still against the law, but you can still settle for a hunk of their hair.
Who would collect this?
Everyone. In the last decade the number of serious hair collectors has skyrocketed from about 150 to over 2,000. Why? Well you already know there's no non-creepy answer to that question, but the interest seems to be tied to all the recent breakthroughs in DNA research, so people are collecting on the vague idea that they can clone themselves a celebrity some day. Seriously.
It's just a matter of time
A few strands from JFK sold online for $205. The clump of hair pictured below is from Che Guevara, which sold for $100,000 in October 2007. You hear that? A damn commie socialist outsold John Fucking Kennedy. How about a little American pride in our fur trappings?
The leading hair dealers are Louis Mushro, a Michigan collector who deals on eBay, and John Reznikoff, who's the Guinness world record holder for his huge human hair collection (once again proving that it's not that hard to get into the Guinness Book of World Records).
Reznikoff has pieces from Marilyn Monroe, Napoleon, Albert Einstein and even Abe Lincoln, complete with chunks of brain matter from his assassination. Hell, he even has some hair from the man who shot him (Wilkes Booth got clipped while being dragged from his burning barn hideout).
So how do the still-living celebrities feel about this? Well, in 2005 Reznikoff struck a deal with Neil Armstrong's barber on some snippets, but when Armstrong heard of the transaction he tried to block it. His efforts failed, and Reznikoff donated several thousand dollars to his favorite charities as a consolation. Money he'll surely make back when he clones his spaceman army).
#5. Murderabilia
"Murderabilia" is what they call works of art produced by serial killers. Prison wardens encourage killers to pursue such creative outlets, it makes a guy more manageable while keeping a paintbrush in his shankin' hand. While behind bars famous psychopath John Wayne Gacy had art exhibitions, and was a leader for terrifying clown awareness.
Meanwhile cult leader and swastika enthusiast Charles Manson spent his alloted arts and crafts time painting, sketching and making spiders out of yarn and string. In fact he scribbled down two pages of instructions on how to make a genuine Manson yarn spider, all in his native language of crazy.
Page three details how the yarn spider should be stored in a cool dry place and continuously fed the blood of innocents.
Who would collect this?
There are no exact figures but the sale of murderabilia is hugely successful online with daily transactions at MurderAuction.com and DaisySeven.com, whose slogan "Where crime pays. Everyday." just barely beat out the alternative "For people who masturbate to CourtTV".
Louisiana mortician Rick Stanton was a pioneer in selling murder doodles and organized the first art exhibitions of famous killers' work. Stanton is considered by many to be the originator of the collectible craze, saying the murderers' art is, " ... the stuff where the feelings are everything, where the person is everything ... They're not concerned with trends, or with sales in the art world."
Another piece by Charles Manson
It should be noted that serial killers probably aren't concerned with sales mostly because of laws that prevent them from making any money. In 1977, a little doggy told David Berkowitz he could make a truckload of cash from a tell-all book, and publishers came running. These events lead to the formation of "Son of Sam laws," which prohibit a felon from profiting off their crimes, and preventing mediocre art school students from going on a killing spree.
Also, a brief analysis of the works by the killers themselves shows no correlation between depravity and talent. It turns out a shitty painter will remain shitty even after disemboweling a hobo. For instance:
Above is an orgy skull dreamed up by Gacy when he got tired of painting clowns. Yes, it's a skull made of dongs. This is way scary, and not laughable or pathetic in the least.
This depiction of a mermaid tickling a shark was miscarried into the world by killer Charles Ng, whose body count totaled over 25 people. He felt the compulsion to bring more suffering into the world and designed the poster for Jaws vs. SPLASH!.
#4. Nazi Gear
Attempting world domination isn't all throaty speeches and fancy goose-step parades, you've also got to mass produce a lot of crap with your logo on it. Nazi Germany made an enormous amount of wartime paraphernalia. Everything from swastika armbands to ornamental knives, all of which is important when you're trying to get your brand out there.
Over the decades, quite a market has developed for all this leftover Nazi gear, from pins and jackets to ceremonial daggers. Find a jackboot at a garage sale? Good. Still got a Nazi foot inside? Better. If it was used by a Nazi to kick a puppy, that's probably the equivalent of a Micky Mantle rookie card.
Who hasn't held a Nazi tea party now and then?
Who would collect this?
We should point out right away that it's not just neo-Nazis collecting this stuff. There's plenty of attraction for history buffs and antique collectors who want nothing to do with creepy guys in Prussian Blue concert tees.
Still, the obsession with the Nazi trinkets borders on fetishism in some circles, as in recent years when SS Christmas cards were sold at auction along with a negligee belonging to Eva Braun.
Rare bottle of Hitler wine: 4,000 pounds
EBay has refused to deal in Nazi memorabilia and Yahoo! was sued over a past auction of Hitler's speech notes. Of course, like porn, the taboo is part of the appeal. Maybe that's why they started selling new Nazi merchandise a few year ago in Hong Kong.


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What tools are available for (easily) managing drawings similar to the software architectures published by Amazon, such as this one. I'm looking for something like OmniGraffle or Visio, but suitable for Isometric.
Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Autocad, Xara, Freehand, Inkscape.
Essentially anything which can create vector output should be able to create isometric objects with relative ease.
And of course almost any 3D application would work.
Google search for "Diagram software with 3D" and the first thing that comes up is edrawsoft which does exactly what you want.
Aahh... I had a simmilar question about a year ago, check it out here:
How to draw isometric vectors?
One good thing would be: CAD Tools for Adobe Illustrator
But there are more plugins(cheaper) and other ways to get around isometric graphics...check out the question I mentioned above.. and my chosen answer is here: http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/4944/1392
This stuff seems easy at first..depending on the task, stuff with isometric graphics can get pretty complicated.
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Most of the number theory textbooks I've dealt with take a very classical approach to the subject. I'm looking for a textbook that's something like a first course in number theory for people who have a decent command of modern algebra (at the level of something like Lang's Algebra). Does such a book exist, and if it does, what is it called?
Edit: As I posted in a comment below:
In the introduction to Ireland and Rosen, they note something that was bugging me for a while, "Nevertheless it is remarkable how a modicum of group and ring theory introduces unexpected order into the subject."
This is precisely the perspective I was looking for, so if anyone passes by this topic looking for a book that approaches number theory in this way, I feel like this quote should point him (her?) in the right direction.


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What is the best Subway sandwich?
I go to Subway pretty often, but always get the same thing: a toasted ham footlong on the Italian herbs and cheese bread with lettuce, provolone, and honey mustard with banana peppers on the side. With February fast approaching, I'd like try other combinations, so please advise: what is your favorite Subway sandwich and what goes in it?
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Subway Melt on Italian herb/chz with lettuce, a double shot of pickles and spicy mustard. Microwaved. If I wanted a toasted sub, I'd go to Quiznos.
12 inch meatball with everything on it. I'm salivating just thinking about it. My subway meal of choice for years.
I'm a huge fan of the Italian BMT on Italian Herb/Cheese, toasted. I get Oil/Vinegar on mine with lettuce and tomatoe. Bar-none, the best sandwich there.
Since I had Firehouse Subs I don't got to Subway at all.
Foot long Cold Cut Combo on Italian herb and cheese.
Isn't this like asking, "What is the best pizza topping?" :)
I've found the pastrami at Subway is pretty high-quality (to my taste buds), if on the salty side.
This thread explains why Subway always seems to be out of Italian Herb & Cheese bread. lol now that I think about it, I don't even know what other kinds of bread they have.
I actually prefer Quizno's, but at Subway it's gotta be the Honey Bourbon Chicken on Honey Wheat!
@rprebel: keep your fancy breads. Italian white all the way.
Meatball marinara toasted on white w/ provolone, onions, and banana peppers. It's always $5, even without the deal. Other than that, gotta go w/ BMT on Italian herbs and cheese, toasted with pepper jack cheese, lettuce, onions, banana peppers, vinegar and oil.
Anything with bacon. The bacon is a bit thin at Subway, but it's still bacon.
Teriyaki chicken with sweet onion sauce
Honey Oat and Parmesan Oregano are good as well. I just choose bread based on the sandwich I get.
When you toast the Parmesan Oregano, the bread gets a sweet-stickyness to it that goes well with Tuna and Sweet Onion Chicken. None of the other breads do this and I suggest trying it sometime.
Footlong tuna on wheat. Any cheese. Untoasted. Lettuce, pickles, olives, green bell peppers, onions, bananna peppers, jalapenos, S n P, mayo n mustard. Not sure why i like it so much, but i get it every time. I'm kinda mad its no longer a $5 footlong. $5.75 for me now :(
@bigelowb: im totally with you on quiznos, and they have gotten as cheap as subway is too in the past 2 years!
but for subway sub my favorite would have to be the philly cheese steak one? i think thats what it is... the one thats like 8-9 bux for a footlong
Another vote for teriyaki chicken with sweet onion sauce, sounds like that could be lunch today!
I gotta go with the classic Subway Club. The Italian Herbs bread is really good too!
the best is EASILY a double meat spicy italian with marinara sauce, provelone cheese, parmesean and oregano toasted on the monterrey cheddar or plain italian. sub cookies for chips and i'm golden!!
Italian BMT on the Italian herb and cheese bread. Add turkey and bacon. Swiss cheese, mayo, lettuce, black olives, banana peppers, salt, pepper, vinegar, and oil.
Mmmmm. Now I'm hungry
Jersey Mike's. My last couple of sandwiches at Subway were awful. Won't go back.
Pizza sub is the best. It isn't on the menu but if you ask for it, they know about the tastiness.
I'm going to Subway because I'm looking for something quick and not a nutritional disaster, so take my answer with a grain of salt!
Whole wheat bread (or 9 grain), turkey & ham, no cheese, all of the vegetable toppings other than tomatoes, just vinegar if they have it, otherwise o/v, salt/pepper/oregano. Mmmmmm.
@dcalotta: no CHEESE??
I am personally partial to the sweet onion teriyaki chicken on honey oat. Swiss cheese, toasted, then lettuce, tomatoes and LOTS of olives, then the sweet onion sauce.
. . . dang, now I'm craving.
Cold Cut Special.
i get ham with american cheese on flatbread and i heat it then get spinach a little bit of green peppers and mayonase


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The 5 Most Badass Medics in the History of War
If you could throw G.I. Joe and Dr. House in a blender together, the military medic is the delicious human smoothie you'd get as a result. While most of us require headphones to block out the slightest distractions during work, combat medics heal fellow humans while bullets and bombs try to kill them. So at the very baseline of the profession, we're talking about men and women with proverbial balls so big that their fatigues are shaped like Hammer pants.
And when we look at the ones who go above and beyond, well, we get crazy stories like ...
#5. The Medic Who Delivered Plasma (While Delivering Bullets)
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You might be picturing these combat medics pulling off the very basics while on the battlefield -- applying bandages, giving CPR, the stuff you've seen in movies. But way back in 1945, 18-year-old medic Robert Bush wasn't just giving basic care at the Battle of Okinawa, he was doing the tough stuff -- like administering blood transfusions on the battlefield. If you have a hard time imagining what a blood transfusion looks like outside a sterile hospital setting, start with this picture of another World War II medic delivering plasma to a wounded private:
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Civilian entertainment was notoriously difficult to come by during World War II.
But instead of barefoot Sicilian peasants, imagine the medic is surrounded by screaming Marines fighting off Japanese combatants. And picture a gaping chest and shoulder wound in the victim, one that required an immediate plasma delivery to aid in blood coagulation. Go ahead and just picture the fiery pits of the deepest hell while you're at it, because that's the scene we're trying to paint Bush in here.
Now, if you were a Japanese soldier fighting for the empire, maybe you'd give pause when coming upon a guy so almost-dead that he's getting a blood transfusion. Maybe you'd step over him and move on to the next American. If so, good for you, but that's not how things worked at Okinawa. Hospital Apprentice First Class Bush held his blood bag with one hand, drew his pistol with the other, and, after presumably snapping off some cool one-liner like, "The doctor will see you NOW, BITCHES!" began mowing down the charging Japanese.
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Rarely do things ever work out for soldiers who fight for any "empire."
Bush maintained his position, emptying his pistol into the horde before scooping up the wounded officer's rifle to continue fighting against the onslaught. He continued protecting his "patient" even after a grenade blew up near him, destroying his right eye with shrapnel.
In his own words:
"They got me. The first grenade took my eye out, and I put my arm up to hold it off, and got some fragments in the other eye. Got a lot in my eye and shoulders. They hit me with three hand grenades in a matter of seconds. I was firing on them with [the lieutenant's] carbine. Every time I saw a Japanese head pop up, I could see the star on their helmets, I'd fire one round a foot below where I saw that head come up, because I knew I couldn't miss, I'd get 'em on the way down."
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When in doubt, aim for the dick.
In the most badass display of bedside manner ever, Bush stayed right at the wounded man's side until the man was finally evacuated. Then he calmly made his way back to the battle aid station, where he promptly passed out.
#4. The Medic Who Hulked Out on the Enemy
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For 6-foot-5-inch, 250-pound Idaho farm boy David Bleak, the U.S. intervention in the Korean War wasn't just a chance to get off the potato farm and see the world, it was an opportunity to demonstrate the fact that he was secretly goddamned Captain America (or Sergeant America, whatever).
In 1952, Bleak volunteered to be a part of a 20-member reconnaissance team with the mission of capturing a Chinese prisoner of war for interrogation. Little did anyone in the group know that they were walking into Ambush Mountain, which would have been really helpful information in retrospect. After the patrol's first ambush, Bleak did his job as a medic -- tending wounds, tying tourniquets, casting healing spells, all that. His team pressed on, only to find a second ambush waiting in the trenches. And it was during that second ambush when something snapped. It was almost like he said, "Ambush us once, I'll tend wounds and do my job. Ambush us twice, I'll FUCKING RIP YOUR THROATS OUT THROUGH YOUR EAR HOLES."
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That's the sort of realistic nuance you just don't get from reruns of M*A*S*H.
Bleak went full berserker mode. The enemy troops watched the American medic jump into the trench and go on a rampage with his bare hands, breaking the neck of one guy and crushing the windpipe of another. Then he fully secured his place in the nightmares of any enemy onlookers by plunging his one weapon, a trench knife, in the chest of a third. And he wasn't done.
After sending three enemies to that great trench in the sky, Bleak's Spidey senses told him a grenade was on its way. Did he run? No. Did he attempt to meet it in the air so he could throw it into outer space? Probably. But when that didn't work, he simply used his own hulking monster truck of a body to shield his closest comrade.
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Bleak, seen here taking a break from deflecting grenades by flexing his abs.
Still alive, somehow, his blood-rage temporarily satisfied, Bleak transformed back into a medic and continued patching up the wounded, even ignoring his own bullet wound while taking care of buddies. And for him, "caring for the wounded" meant shoulder-hauling a fellow soldier who was too injured to walk. Remember, this was an Idaho boy who was not only high on adrenaline but probably excited about carrying something that felt a little like a sack of potatoes.
It was at this point that two dumbasses attacked Bleak with fixed bayonets. Bleak grabbed them both and smacked their heads together, Three Stooges-style. Hey, we weren't there -- this is what witnesses swear happened, and we won't doubt them. Mainly because we don't want this guy's ghost to come back and beat the shit out of us.
#3. The Medic Who Didn't Let Paralysis Get Him Down
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When Gary Beikirch joined the Green Berets in the mid-'60s, he knew exactly what he was getting into. Joining the military in 1967 was like walking into a Porta-Potty on the second day of a music festival -- you know you're going to see some shit.
Beikirch was part of a special forces team paired with indigenous Vietnamese allies called the Montagnards, and on April 1, 1970, Beikirch's camp came under a massive assault from the North Vietnamese. After first checking to make sure this wasn't a tasteless April Fool's Day prank, Beikirch got straight to work, only his work commute required crossing a live battlefield to reach fallen soldiers. Before he could even get to the first injured Green Beret, Beikirch's back was hit with a sliver of shrapnel and he was partially paralyzed.
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Which finally relieved that itch in his boot.
Soooo, game over, right? If the medic needs a medic, it's time to go home. At the very least, wait out the battle and hope backup arrives before another bomb kills you altogether. But not if you're Sgt. Gary Beikirch.
He was partially paralyzed, yes, but helpless, no. Beikirch rounded up a few Montagnard assistants to carry him around on a litter so he could give medical attention to the other wounded men. And please remember they were still under fire this whole time -- he got shot in the side while giving mouth to mouth and took another bullet in the stomach later. And he kept doing his job, from a stretcher, with two bullets and a hunk of shrapnel in his body.
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Merely a flesh wound.
For his heroism, Beikirch earned the Medal of Honor from President Nixon and the lifelong respect of anyone who's called in sick over a sniffly nose. The best news of all is that after six months of recovery in Japan, Beikirch was not only able to walk again but went on to spend 20 years on a completely different battleground -- serving as a counselor at a middle school.


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quote: They aren't protecting "intellectual property" here.
quote: I can see how you could call it "intellectual property" - but your right, it wasn't as if they posted pages and pages of engineering schematics. It was only concerning a firewire interface for GarageBand which AFAIK didn't provide any technical info.


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Electricity takes the path of least resistance!
Is this statement correct?
If so, why is it the case? If there are two paths available, and one, for example, has a resistor, why would the current run through the other path only, and not both?
Is this statement correct?
If so, why is it the case? If there are two paths available, and one, for example, has a resistor, why would the current run through the other path only, and not both?
It's not true. To see this, you can try an experiment with some batteries and light bulbs. Hook up two bulbs of different wattages (that is, with different resistances) in parallel with a single battery:
Both bulbs will light up, although with different brightnesses. That is, current is flowing through the one with more resistance as well as through the one with less resistance.
"Least resistance" can be interpreted as least heat generation. There might be such principle, at least I can show it for @Ted Bunn example so that the answer would be "yes". The largest difficulty in formulating extremal principles is specifying the constraints. I chose fixed current, because I don't see a way to fix voltage for the model in hand without fixing everything else.
In any case I think reformulating least resistance as least dissipation under certain constraints is a right direction.
What you have is two bulbs connected in parallel. Let's fix the overall current $I$ through the bulbs rather than voltage $U$. That is it is a case when you are to push a certain amount of electricity through the system. In this setting currents on the bulbs $I_1$ and $I_2$ would be to minimize heat dissipation:
$$ \begin{cases} I_1 + I_2 = I, \\ I_1^2 R_1 + I_2^2 R_2 \to \min \end{cases} $$
Using Lagrange multipliers:
$$ \begin{cases} I_1 + I_2 = I, \\ d \left[ I_1^2 R_1 + I_2^2 R_2 + \lambda (I_1 + I_2 - I) \right] = 0 \end{cases} $$
which leads to
Thus having assumed the extremality of current distribution we arrived to the distribution which is in harmony with the Ohm's law. One can check that it correspond to the minimum of heat dissipation.
No. The statement is not correct. Current will take any path that is available to it. Which means it can even take the path of leaking out of the wire into the surrounding air, which is seen as sparks when dielectric breakdown of air happens. What you intend to mean perhaps is why current distributes itself in the inverse ratio of resistances, given the same potential difference across different resistive elements.
Ohm's law $I=\frac{V}{R}$ would explain what you are asking. Given a common potential, the amount of current flowing through a resistive element is inversely proportional to the resistance. This would mean, and hopefully answer your question, that a path of lower resistance will have more current flowing through it and vice versa. (Normally the resistance of air is so high that current taking that path and leaking out of the cable is negligibly zero under normal circumstances.)
For a more thorough explanation, currents (and voltages) are distributed to minimize the total power dissipated as heat. This is a consequence of making the action of a disspative system stationary
Here W is the virtual work done by dissipative elements (resistance, capacitance, inductance etc) and L is the dissipation free dynamical system
For an alternative, this link explains how Ohm's Law corresponds to Fermat's Principle of least time.
The statement is correct if you interpret it to mean that there is a larger current in the path that has a lower resistance, when both paths have the same voltage across them. (This doesn't mean that the path with higher resistance has no current, just less current - as Ted Bunn's example shows)
You can understand this by thinking of the analagous situation of a a long pipe that diverges into two branches and re-converges back again. Suppose that the pipe is filled with water and there's a pressure difference (say using a pump) between the two extreme ends of the pipe. One of the branches is just like the rest of the pipe while the other branch is lined with, say, wheels that add to the resistance and make the water flow slower in that branch.
The pressure difference across both branches are the same (just like the voltage between two parallel electrical resistances is the same) but the water flows at a faster speed in the branch without the wheels, just like there's a larger current (rate of flow of electrons) in the path with lower resistance.
I suspect the statement was meant to be about electrical discharges via dielectric breakdowm. Such as lightening bolts etc. As such it has partial validity, in that say a tall tree is more likely to be hit than a short one. But the reality is that dielectric breakdown is a chaotic process, which is why lightening appears forked, rather than taking a straight pathway. Once you get ionization along a path, more current flows along it causing more ionization, and so on.
For simple circuits not relying on breakdown, its a simple matter of resistance/impedance, and the current will distribute itself among multiple paths as described above. But for breakdown situation, whatever path gets connected first often takes the entire current.
If you turn on the water at your sink it comes out the nozzle, not the pipe.(unless you have a leak) Or in the case of a rocket if you ignite the fuel it comes out of the opening. These all have the path of least resistance, if you have two different paths the flow of energy will go through both of them until one of the paths has too much resistance, then the flow of energy will go through only one path. The same basically applies to electrical circuits.
Quote"Electricity takes the path of least resistance. Is this statement correct?"Unquote YES
People often don't understand what the shortest path means. If I have a lightning rod connected to a wire which has a slight bend in it people still believe that the current will follow the wire to Earth and are astonished when the voltage jumps to a tree 15 feet away. We are talking here about millions of volts and hundreds of thousands of amperes. At these frequencies the slight bend will present an enormous impedance to the current and the tree is far more attractive in spite of the distance. BTW: when a lightning rod gets struck it is not doing its job. It has a point and it is known that electrons will gather around this point and since the lightning is negative like will repulse like. That is the principle of the workings of a lightning rod.
This statement is true and a direct consequence of the 5th Law of Thermodynamics, the Onsager Relations for which Lars Onsager of Yale received the Nobel Prize in 1968.
In an electrical circuit, for DC, current takes the path of least reisitance; For AC it takes the path of least inductance (impedance). So a pulse of voltage will cause the current distribution to be determined by path inductance and then finish with the distribution determined by resistance.
On a circuit board, this is critical as the ground plane insures the differences between these two distribution paths are minimal.


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Basic question here from a behavioral researcher: What are the major structures of the medial temporal lobe (MTL)? Can anyone link to a good diagram of these structures?
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The MTL consists of (note that some structures overlap):
* indicates that not all literature includes this component in the MTL
I didn't find a diagram of only the MTL. The best diagrams I found were (not shown here because I don't own the copyright):


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Monday, 5 October 2009
Paul Ekman: Death and forgiveness
Dr Paul Ekman is Manager of the Paul Ekman Group, LLC (PEG), a small company that produces training devices relevant to emotional skills, and is initiating new research relevant to national security and law enforcement. He was listed as one of the 100 most influential psychologists of the twentieth century by the Review of General Psychology in 2002, and was among Time magazine's most influential people of 2009.
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It is not passing into death I fear, other than overwhelming fear of what is about to happen on the other side - an eternal nothingness, no consciousness, no memories, no being and no existence (including no awareness of a pass existence now switched off).ReplyDelete
Can only describe it as a dreamless sleep awaiting the alarm clock that will never go off to rouse you and not being aware it hasn't gone off and you are missing out on being awake.
Interesting. I'd say on the whole that I have no fear of death itself (with the exception of the effects it would have on my loved ones). Perhaps it was an early exposure to Socrates, but it seems basic enough that either death is an end to existence, which inherently means that there's nothing to fear because there will be no self that could undergo harm, or there is another existence.ReplyDelete
If there is another existence, it seems likely that there is some element of grace or transcendence to it. Selflessness exists among animals and people even when there is no personal or genetic benefit. (Saying that "there must be some personal or genetic benefit that we just can't see" is simply begging the question.) We are moved by things such as beauty. This suggests to me that if there is another existence, despite all rational indicators, that this other existence ties to the transcendence/grace/spirit.
So back to the Socratic argument, either it is nothingness or one experiences grace. Either way, I don't feel any fear of either option.
My two cents worth, but at least you got a high word count for your two cents! ;-)
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I think the process of the soul or consciousness leaving the body will be difficult - maybe analogous to orgasm or ecstasy, that feeling you can't control that is both embodied and emotional, and you feel your body leaving you ...ReplyDelete
Also I have trouble remembering that forgiveness does not mean the person who wronged you is excused or that you will trust or like that person, or will allow him/her close enough again to hurt you again. The one who hurt you still has to acknowledge the harm done to you and ask YOUR forgiveness and accept the consequences of lack of trust and love.
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I think the Dalai Lama may have a good point in the forgiving and not forgetting sense. The whole deal with Buddhist thought is centred around compassion; for the things we don't understand in another person, for the things they've been through, for their own struggles with themselves that may, on some level, be a cause of their actions. I believe it is nearly impossible to forget things on purpose or by choice, but you do have the choice to feel compassion for the people in this world who, by sheer lack of the same mental, emotional or spiritual tools that some of the rest of us have, have committed wrongs in the view of society at large.ReplyDelete


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Posted by Elaine Marie Cooper
We recently visited the Pacific Northwest and, while on an outing with my son and his wife, discovered a lighthouse.
I never cease to be amazed at not only the beauty of these buildings but at the reason for their existence: protecting nearby ships from crashing onto the shore.
The very presence of lighthouses signifies safety where there is potential for harm. Without that light, someone's life could be in danger.
Our lives are dangerous journeys at times with the potential for harm. But God provides His light to guide the way on our path.
When reading Psalm 84:5 last week, a word jumped out at me as often happens. A new appreciation for a scripture that I may have read dozens of times before. The word that grabbed my attention was "pilgrimage."
"Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on pilgrimage." (NIV)
Whenever I see that word, I think of the John Bunyon allegory, Pilgrim's Progress. While I confess I have never made my way through the entire Old English text, I understand the significance of the character called "Christian"—a man on a journey meeting up with numerous challenges as he makes his way through life. Some paths are fraught with danger, some with temptation, some roads lead to greater revelation of God's grace.
It's a journey that we all take, some longer than others, some more hazardous than others. But all with the same Light of God's love present, to keep us away from the rocks of destruction.
A comfort, indeed, to know that our Lighthouse is always there.
"I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word. I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me. How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path." (Psalm 119:101-105 NIV)


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The discovery of a bald eagle that died apparently after becoming entangled in a "limb line" at Goat Rock Reservoir highlights the hazards that unattended fishing gear can pose to wildlife.
Georgia Department of Natural Resources fisheries staff found the immature eagle Sept. 21 on the Georgia side of Goat Rock, a Chattahoochee River reservoir north of Columbus. The bird was hooked at the base of one wing. The carcass had partially decomposed, suggesting the eagle had been in the water several days.
A limb line is a type of sport trotline where a short length of line with a hook is tied to a tree limb overhanging the water's edge and baited for fish. Like all trotlines, limb lines must be marked with the owner's name and address, checked at least every 24 hours, and removed after the fishing trip. The line attached to the eagle was not marked.
Bird encounters with fishing gear are not necessarily commonplace, but they do warrant attention, according to Jim Ozier, a Nongame Conservation Section program manager with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
It's something that's easily avoidable in most cases," said Ozier, who leads the DNR's annual bald eagle surveys.
In the spring, biologists spotted an osprey at Lake Oconee with a fishing lure hooked to its foot. Last summer, a Pennsylvania wildlife officer rescued a bald eagle tangled in fishing line. A Georgia Power Co. biologist found an eagle hooked by a limb line on the Altamaha River several years ago. That bird was also rescued and released.
Responsible anglers monitor their trotlines and make a reasonable effort to retrieve lost gear such as lures and line. "Being good stewards of the resource is important," said Fisheries Chief John Biagi of the DNR's Wildlife Resources Division.
Limb lines can also be a hazard for boaters and other anglers. Ozier said he has had several close encounters with abandoned limb lines while canoeing Georgia streams.
Bald eagles are thriving in Georgia compared to only a few years ago. Surveys this year counted 124 occupied nesting territories, 98 successful nests and 162 young fledged, totals that are all up from 2008. These raptors, removed from the federal endangered/threatened species list in 2008 but still protected, are nesting in suitable habitat across the state, taking advantage of reservoirs and ponds that offer their primary prey – fish.
There are two known eagle-nesting territories on Goat Rock, one in Georgia and the other in Alabama.


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The Saudi Committee for the Relief of the Palestinian People signed four agreements worth $6 million with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Jeddah today. The Saudi Committee is headed by Minister of Interior Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz.
The Saudi donation includes $5 million in cash and in-kind to assist with food aid, medicines, medical equipment and fuel for Gaza. The Kingdom is also donating medicines and medical supplies worth $1 million to UNRWA for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
"These generous donations from His Royal Highness Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz and the Saudi Committee are deeply appreciated, as they will help alleviate the suffering of Palestine refugees in Gaza," UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen Koning AbuZayd said in a press release.
"The funds for fuel will be particularly helpful in enabling us to maintain food deliveries and health services and to promote environmental health through ensuring garbage collection."
UNRWA is a humanitarian and human development agency that provides education, health care, social services, micro-credit and emergency relief to more than 4.5 million registered refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. In Gaza, UNRWA provides assistance to over a million people.


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May 29, 2009
Table Bay sunset – Flickr pic of the day
This enchanting picture was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Warren Tyrer.
Warren says, "The clouds were rolling in and as the light started to fade, the pale pinks were revealed, painting the sky in gentle pastel tones.
"I love the beauty of the fairest Cape, especially as she shows off her different moods. You never know just how she is feeling until you are sitting waiting to capture it."
Take in the magnificent scenery that Cape Town has to offer with a tour, and capture your own perfect sunset.
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It has been more than a decade since I did all vector related math and physics so pardon me if my question does not make sense. I am reading some article that says it was inspired from Coulomb's law and gives the following expression to calculate the partial force that one particle is exerting on another at time $n$:
$f^{i,j}_n = (c - |p^{i}_n - p^{j}_n|)\frac{p^{j}_n - p^{i}_n}{|p^{i}_n - p^{j}_n|}$
where $c$ is the range of the particle over which it's force can spread and $p^{i}_n$ is the location of particle $i$ in the form of $(x,y)$.
I checked up the Wikipedia article on Coulomb's law but this formula does not make sense to me. What exactly is the formula trying to achieve? Can someone please help me understand this?


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eggPlant is a low-overhead, non-invasive black-box GUI test automation tool based on image capture and matching techniques.
eggPlant is a low-overhead, non-invasive black-box GUI test automation tool based on image capture and matching techniques.
As per wikipedia:
Eggplant is a two-computer system, consisting of a controller machine, where scripts are authored and executed, and a system-under-test which runs a VNC server. Eggplant connects to this VNC server via its built-in viewer via TCP/IP. The system-under-test can be any system that has a VNC server for it. Originally, Mac-only, the controller environment/IDE is now available on Linux and Windows.
Scripting is accomplished using a proprietary scripting language called SenseTalk, an English-like language that is easy to use. SenseTalk is used in conjunction with a "guided record" mode, meaning the scripter teaches Eggplant to navigate a system and verify a set of test steps.
Eggplant can be run from any operating system to any platform, technology, or browser. It can be used for mobile testing, cross platform testing, rich internet application testing, and performance testing.
Since it does not interact with the underlying code, eggPlant is suitable for QA automation and testing of any application including those that can cause problems for other tools such as:
• Flash
• Java
• .Net
• Eclipse.
eggPlant provides automated QA test software that is
• non-invasive
• technology agnostic
• easy to script and use.


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A prof said that SQL injection is misnamed because it actually occurs from the program generating the SQL (e.g. Perl, PHP etc.) and I'm wondering is SQL "complex" enough to have any vulnerabilities that are actually it's fault?
SQL has the same vulnerability than all other dynamically interpreted programming languages (this includes shell scripts, Javascript, PHP...), which I call "data is code". Such languages have a concrete syntax which is meant for human consumption ("
When a language is dynamically interpreted, it makes it seductively easy to build the expression from dynamically obtained parameters. E.g. "
See for instance this question for an example of the kind of things which is not captured by the "character escaping" mental framework. Whenever I see the functions
Nonetheless, there is a proper way to build SQL expressions dynamically without getting into the "data is code" issues: parametrized expressions. This is about working with the abstract representation of the SQL code, the one after parsing. When we use parametrized expressions, we do not try to reverse the parsing step, and security is much enhanced (and it is good for performance, too).
So it is not really SQL's fault; the programmer is still to blame, for not using the right solutions which exist and are documented. We may still consider that SQL designers, and, in particular, the people who integrated SQL in PHP, should have made some effort to make dynamic SQL expression building a bit harder when parametrization is not used. For a better language design (with regards to this specific issue), see LINQ: it keeps the syntax where it belongs, i.e. in the source code, not in runtime-interpreted character strings.
Most of the time SQL injection happens because people do not properly use it in their code. If you use SQL in your code you need to use prepared statements instead of using appending variables to your SQL string.
SQL is just a tool, if you don't use that tool properly you are going to have a bad time.
If you hold the knife by its blade you will get cut. But that's not the blade's fault.
SQL has the same inherent weakness as most languages: it will do exactly what you tell it to do.
The problem arises when you don't properly clean input, or the database users has permissions beyond what they need, allowing untrusted third parties to tell it what to do. If they tell it to do something bad... it's going to do something bad.
Various implementations have had various vulnerabilities over the years, including the fairly recent discovery that some MySQL builds would allow you to log on with any password roughly 1 in 256 times: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/06/13/anatomy-of-a-bug-the-mysql-authentication-disaster-patch-now/
But SQL injection is generally a flaw in the program between the user and the database (PHP website, etc)


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Are you going to Rome to explore its long history or eat your weight in the world's most amazing pasta? In the Eternal City, you can hop on a moped and zoom around the city, stopping anywhere that strikes your fancy. You can try your hand at battling like a gladiator at the Coliseum or wonder what it might have been like as a spectator. At the capital city of Italy, you can visit the remains of the Roman Empire and find the home of the Vestal Virgins. While making your way through the city, you should keep your eyes out for symbols of Remus and Romulus, the legendary twins who were suckled by a wolf and founded Rome. You can race your friends up the Spanish Steps or enjoy a lunch on one of the steps in the glorious sunshine. If city life gets overwhelming, a daytrip to Florence or Pompeii is available from many tour companies throughout the city. To get a wish granted, you'll need to throw a Euro coin into Trevi Fountain. Before returning home, you will want to visit the Vatican and gaze upon the work of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. Don't forget to take binoculars to see the fine details.
Choosing your Rome hotels can make all the difference. You can be close to the Termini Station and all the nightlife or in a quieter neighborhood for families. From a few days in the city to a week's vacation, you'll be able to find cheap deals on Expedia that leave enough money to buy Italian leather shoes to take home. With a discount on hotels in Rome, you'll be able to splurge on an expensive Italian dinner or that darling purse. When the best of Italy calls to you, it's time to trust Expedia for help planning your trip and saving money.


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A 2012 Open Meeting Law complaint, alleging that the Rehoboth Finance Committee provided inaccurate records of two meetings, ended in informal action.
The Attorney General's Offi...
A 2012 Open Meeting Law complaint, alleging that the Rehoboth Finance Committee provided inaccurate records of two meetings, ended in informal action.
The Attorney General's Office agreed with the complainant that the Rehoboth Finance Committee failed to include in the minutes a summary of a discussion that occurred during one of the meetings. But the AG's office said that the committee took "appropriate remedial steps in response to the complaint" by amending those minutes to include a motion made by the complainant that was omitted in a prior approved version.
The AG's office then encouraged the committee to provide an even more detailed summary of its discussion.
"A summary does not need to be transcript (sic) of the meeting, but should include enough detail so that a member of the public who was not present during the meeting could read the minutes and understand what occurred," according to a ruling on the complaint, prepared by Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Sclarsic.
According to a summary of Open Meeting Law requirements prepared by the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, "Public bodies are required to create and maintain accurate minutes of all meetings, including executive sessions."
The minutes, which must be created and approved "in a timely manner," must include the date, time and place of the meeting, a list of the members present or absent, and the decisions made and actions taken including a record of all votes, the AG's office said. According to the Open Meeting Law, the minutes must also include a list of the documents and other exhibits used at the meeting.
The minutes, documents and exhibits are public records and a part of the official record of the meeting, the law says. The AG's office said that, "records may be subject to disclosure under either the Open Meeting Law or Public Records Law and must be retained in accordance with the Secretary of State's record retention schedule."
— Staff Writer Marc Larocque
Editor's note: This is the fourth and final installment of a series in the spirit of Sunshine Week examining Open Meeting Law complaints in Greater Taunton, four years after an overhaul of Massachusetts' "sunshine law."
A violation of the Massachusetts sunshine law involving a 2011 Taunton School Committee meeting demonstrates that public bodies must state their reasons for entering all executive sessions that are closed to the public.
The Open Meeting Law violation, issued in a ruling by the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office in 2012, involves a complaint from a former Taunton public school employee who was being fired. The former employee alleged that during her grievance hearing, held before the Taunton School Committee in executive session on Sept. 21, 2011, the committee barred her from witnessing testimony related to her discharge from the school district.
While the AG's office did not find that the committee violated the Open Meeting Law by discussing the grievance in executive session without her present, the state's chief law enforcement entity concluded that the Taunton School Committee failed to properly state its reasons for going into executive session in the first place.
The violation was one of nine unique Open Meeting Law complaints filed against municipal boards in the Taunton area since 2010, including two in Taunton, five in Rehoboth and two in Dighton. Out of those nine complaints, five resulted in rulings by the Massachusetts attorney general's office that the boards were breaking the so-called sunshine law, although none resulted in fines or other significant punishment.
Statewide, according to a recent review conducted by The Patriot Ledger of Quincy, there were 500 Open Meeting Law complaints filed with the state attorney general's office during the last four years since the law was updated and the attorney's general's office took over enforcement instead of district attorneys. According to records of the filings and consequent rulings, the AG's office found public boards in the state had violated the law in 221 of these cases.
Advocates for open government have called the Massachusetts Open Meeting Law one of the weakest in the country since the so-called sunshine law's overhaul, with fines only ordered in three of those 221 cases. In most cases where violations were found, a similarly worded reprimand was handed down, ordering "immediate and future compliance with the Open Meeting Law," sometimes adding, "caution that similar violations in the future may be considered evidence of intent to violate the Law."
When it comes to entering executive sessions, which are closed to the public, the Open Meeting Law has very specific rules about when public bodies can use it and the requirements surrounding it. One of the 10 reasons for entering executive session, according to an Attorney General's Office primer on the subject, is to discuss the reputation, character, physical condition or mental health — rather than professional competence — of an individual; or to discuss the discipline, dismissal of, or complaints against an employee or public officer.
Page 2 of 2 - The individual to be discussed in such executive sessions needs to be notified in writing by the public body at least 48 hours prior to the proposed executive session, the primer says.
The AG's office says that an executive session called for this purpose "triggers certain rights on the part of an individual who is the subject of the discussion," including the right to choose to have the discussion in an open meeting. In all cases, the Open Meeting Law also mandates that while in executive session, the public body has to keep accurate "minutes," or records, of what transpired for future public examination.
But, more closely related to the Taunton ruling, before going into an executive session, the chair of the public body must do several things, the law says. They must first convene in open session, state the reason for the executive session (which the public body cannot veer from during the executive session), declare all subjects to be discussed (without compromising the purpose for which the executive session was called), state whether the public body will reconvene in open session at the end of the executive session and take a roll call vote on whether to enter executive session.
The ruling on the Taunton School Committee case stated that the board failed to follow Open Meeting Law's procedural requirements for entering executive session. The ruling said that the committee failed to state that its purpose was to consider grievances filed related to a collective bargaining agreement with a local educational services and assistant's association.
In the 2011 Taunton School Committee case, the committee also failed to publicly state that holding the discussion in open session would be detrimental to the committee's bargaining position in the situation, which is also required by the sunshine law, according to the summary of the violation, written by Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Sclarsic.
But there was no fine or punishment in this case. After issuing a warning that similar violations in then future may be considered evidence of intent to violate the law, Sclarsic simply wrote, "We now consider this matter resolved."
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often-overlooked yet significant and prophetic event in U.S. history, the Barbary War was America's first battle against an Arab despot and President Thomas Jefferson's first major challenge to U.S. foreign policy. As described by A.B.C. Whipple, it is a great yarn as well as first-rate history. The author skillfully combines vivid accounts of derring-do with shrewd appraisals of contemporary politics and diplomacy. Because the Continental Navy had been disbanded, there was an urgent need to develop a new Navy and Marine Corps. Faced with the choice of trading arms for hostages or meeting force with force, Jefferson sent a squadron of warships to the Mediterranean while Congress was in recess, prompting the first major debate on the war-making powers of a U.S. president. The war included a blockade of Tripoli, sustained bombardment by the Navy's new frigates, and finally a ground war fought by a U.S. Army captain, eight Marines, and a rabble of Christians and Arabs sent to free the hostages.
Whipple's rousing narrative is filled with fascinating personalities. In addition to Jefferson, there is Commodore Edward Preble, the quarter-deck tyrant who commanded the first naval forces into battle; the bold junior officer Stephen Decatur; the tyrannical bashaw, Yusuf Karamanli; William Eaton, an early-day Lawrence of Arabia; Marine lieutenant Presley O'Bannon; and a host of others.
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text: I have some different lessons for you all today and I will begin with uploading a tut on "how to draw Eris", step by step from Legends of Chima. This character was introduced in 2013 and is a very interesting looking figure. The blue colored body with the white feathers, helmet, and other torso gear proves to be stunning on Eris. If you are wondering what gender Eris is, it's easy to see if you look at the eyes. Eris is a female and this is evident by the long lashes that brush her blue skinned face. Drawing Eris will be fun and easy to don't hesitate to do your best and be sure to leave some feedback. Adios mi amigos!


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Skillful con man Harold Hill has made his latest stop in Louisville.
The infamous character, who poses as a boys' band organizer in the "The Music Man," will appear this coming weekend in the Emerging Artists Group's production of the classic musical written by Meredith Willson. Cody King, an incoming freshman at Indiana University Southeast, will take on the role of the unconventional hero.
Directed by Elizabeth Huling, voice instructor and award-winning New York City actor and singer, "The Music Man" will show July 13-15 with two 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. performances at the KCD Theater, 4100 Springdale Road.
"(The play is) set in 1912, it's 100 years ago, and as I went through the script, I realized things are very different (now compared to then) but they're also really the same," said Huling. "That's what I kind of got in touch with."
With the help of choreographer Amanda Lahti, musical director/costume designer Cathy Ryan and several summer interns, Huling led a group of 50 cast members, ranging in age from four to 60, through six weeks of rehearsal, six days a week.
"These kids are so talented and they're passionate, and we attract the kids who really care about theater," Huling said. "They've had some good leadership in their older colleagues. The alumni that have come back have really raised the bar. We wanted to create a real dynamic. We wanted to be a real community so we have people of all ages. We don't turn anyone away. We hold auditions so we know what their skill set is, so we can determine where to put them and help them feel more comfortable."
Building a sense of community is one of the main themes in "The Music Man," as well. The plot involves protagonist Harold duping naive townsfolk into paying him to equip a marching band and teach them to perform. Having no actual musical training, Harold's plan is to flee for a new city before the town realizes they've been scammed.
However, in River City, Iowa, librarian and piano teacher Marian Paroo, played by Western Kentucky junior Meaghan Heit, catches onto Harold's scheme. Yet, feelings begin to develop between Harold and Marian, and Harold must decide whether to remain in town to win her over or flee to avoid being caught for his criminal past.
In 1957, "The Music Man" became a hit on Broadway, winning five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and ran for 1,375 performances. Its success led to a popular 1962 film adaptation and a 2003 television remake, as well as many revivals such as the one produced by the Emerging Artists Group.
"It's time for a new generation to learn 'The Music Man,'" Huling said. "It's timeless. What I love about the show is it's about part of a community and being engaged in that community, trying something new. It's about loving your family and being loyal to your family. … There's lots of effective and good comedy. It's very family-friendly. Little kids love it; grandparents love it. It's got something for everybody."
Tickets to "The Music Man" can be purchased for $15 at the door or in advance at www.kcd.org/theater or by calling 502.322.7361. For information on the Emerging Artists Group, visit www.emergingartistsgroup.org.
Contact writer Ashley Anderson at email@example.com, 502.498.2051.


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So let's say I'm developing code in directory /asdf/qwer/dfgh/wert/asdf/qwer and I've added about three more directories like that to my path and I have a bunch of arcane environment variables set. Then I realize that I really need another terminal open and set up in just this same way (although this need is not reoccurring so that I would just alter my .bashrc). Is there any command to open a new terminal window that is an exact clone of this one?
Cloning the path is easy if you can run your terminal program from the command line. Assuming you're using
A quick and dirty way to clone the whole environment (including un-exported variables) is as follows:
If you've set any custom shell options, you'll have to reapply those as well.
You could wrap this whole process into an easily-runnable script. Have the script save the environment to a known file, then run
Alternately, if you don't want to start one terminal from another, or just want more control, you could use a pair of functions that you define in .bashrc:
EDIT: Changed
If you start a
In a similar situation, I also found it useful to start the new shell in the same directory as the current one. I used a recipe like this to start the shell.
The -t option is needed whenever you explicitly run a shell using ssh. It causes a pseudo-tty to be created for the process. This is necessary for history commands and other interactive features to work correctly. Earlier lines in the script set DIR to the current directory and SHELL to the user's preferred shell.
while exported variables make it to the other side using the above 'getstate' function, for some reason they end up not being exported there (as can be seen using a simple os.getenv from python). it seems to work better for me when modifying getstate to be an alias:


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Mosquitoes transmit diseases such as Equine Encephalitis, West Nile Virus and other diseases. When mosquitoes bite an animal or bird infected with a disease, they go to lay eggs and come back to bite again. It is this second bite that transmits diseases.
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- Use two traps per regular sized yard, 8 traps per acre
- Put the traps in partially shaded, wind-sheltered areas
- Leave traps out all season long
- Replace pheromone lure every 5 to 6 weeks
- Use old or standing water from around your yard; mosquitos don't like to lay eggs in purified tap water
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- How many square feet should each one cover? Does this decrease within the 4-6 week period? Thanks
- There is no specific square footage recommended, as mosquito density varies from area to area.
The manufacturer recommends that you use at least 2 to 4 traps per average yard, and 4 to 16 traps per acre, depending on the closeness of swampy areas, mosquito intensity and temperatures.
It actually can take a week or two before the lure really starts to pull the mosquitoes in, so I would say the effectiveness would increase and not decrease. It's also been noted by customers that using old rainwater from around your yard is better than using purified tap water if possible, and that the traps work best in areas with little to no breeze. Customers have also noted that you don't need to use the entire lure to see good results.
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I have some basic experience in Blender. Is there any way to insert pre-drawn LEGO pieces into Blender?
First note that this question is a possible duplicate of Do any programs exist that allow you to build your own LEGO manuals? With that, here is the answer:
I learned this technique from this very site less than a week ago and have already tried it out. So far, it works great and has given me loads of ideas.
Edit: The Linux version of LeoCAD currently does not export to the *.3ds file format, so you can not set up a pipeline that way; I know this from experience.
For a general introduction to Lego characters (humanoid figures) modeled directly in Blender you might like to view http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWfS82EOa4A&list=EC3F4C5FF0451A92D9 which is a tutorial on modeling a Lego man. I have just begun to analyse this tutorial to see if I can make an expanded PDF version that will incorporate the correct proportions for this figure but when I will complete this task and if I will publish it depends on too many factors to predict.
I would start to model the lego-head. It is pretty simple, because u can use only one cylinder and then extrude/move and scale faces.
Here is a nice tutorial with an attached blend file.


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