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Lake Wales Woman Works to Raise Awareness for Ms. Wheelchair Pageant
Coordinator finds many among state's disabled unaware of event, organization.
Published: Monday, March 24, 2014 at 6:03 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 2:08 a.m.
LAKE WALES | Is there any woman in the United States who has never heard of the Miss America Pageant?
Probably not many. Yet Shari Wilson-Williams has found that even among the community of people with disabilities, many have never heard of the Ms. Wheelchair Florida Pageant.
Wilson-Williams, a Lake Wales native, is doing her best to change that. Wilson- Williams, who won the pageant in 2008, has set about raising the pageant's recognition factor since becoming state coordinator for Ms. Wheelchair Florida Inc.
"Last year, we really found in Florida it hadn't received the recognition or notoriety it deserved," she said. "You still could go into disability agencies … and people were like, 'Really? We didn't know it existed.' "
The Ms. Wheelchair Florida Pageant takes place April 4 though April 6 in Orlando. The pageant is open to women ages 21 through 60. The current title-holder, Lisa Jackson of Pensacola, is 46.
The event features a keynote speech by Chelsie Hill of the Sundance Channel reality series "Push Girls." Hill, a former dancer, was left paralyzed below the waist from injuries sustained as a passenger in a drunk driving accident.
Wilson-Williams, 33, was diagnosed as a child with dermatomyositis, a muscle disease that affects the joints. She has used a wheelchair since she was 9 years old.
The Winter Haven High School graduate entered the Ms. Wheelchair Florida Pageant in 2001 and was first runner-up. She decided to enter again in 2008 and emerged as the winner.
That background led to her selection as the state coordinator.
"It was my mission to spread the word, to bring awareness, to rebrand the organization," she said. "Even though we are called Ms. Wheelchair Florida and have a pageant, it's more of an advocacy and education agency, and we just happen to have a pageant every year."
The Florida group is affiliated with a national organization, Ms. Wheelchair America. The winner of the Florida pageant earns the right to compete in the national event, scheduled to take place in August in Long Beach, Calif.
Wilson-Williams said she dreamed of being a pediatrician and studied biomedical sciences at the University of South Florida before earning a master's degree in education. She now works as an independent-living coordinator at Self-Reliance Inc., in Tampa. The nonprofit organization is part of a state network of centers that provides support and advocate for residents with disabilities.
Wilson-Williams' husband, Curtis Williams, is a quadriplegic as the result of a diving accident. He works full-time in ministry, and both of them drive modified vehicles. Wilson-Williams said she is also very involved in her church.
"I never took no for an answer," she said. "Just because I was sitting in a chair, I knew I was able to accomplish whatever goal I wanted."
She said others she meets often seem surprised that she is married.
"People, to this day, in a chair will say, 'Oh my God, you're married? So there is hope for me,' " she said.
Each entrant in the Ms. Wheelchair Florida Pageant is required to discuss her platform, or issue of personal interest. In 2008, Wilson-Williams spoke of the need for full inclusion of students with disabilities at schools. She recalled how at pep rallies and games, she and others in wheelchairs were often restricted to designated "handicapped" areas.
Jackson, the current title-holder, has various disabilities resulting from juvenile diabetes. She required amputation of one leg in 2006 and the other in 2012. She is also blind in one eye and has limited vision in the other.
Jackson earned a college degree and worked as a teacher for five years before medical problems forced her to retire. She said she learned about the Ms. Wheelchair Pageant through a medical contact after her second amputation.
Highlights of Jackson's appearance as the title-holder include throwing out the first pitch at a game of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, a minor-league baseball team. She has also appeared at a children's hospital, a Ronald McDonald House and an exposition in Orlando for people with disabilities.
Like Wilson-Williams, Jackson is married and very involved in her church, where she directs two choirs.
Jackson said Wilson-Williams accompanied her last year to the Ms. Wheelchair America Pageant in Houston. Jackson said the state coordinator has provided invaluable help during her year-long reign.
"She was very hands-on, and any time I had a question or needed to ask for something, she was always available," Jackson said.
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LUBBOCK (January 18, 2013)--Texas Tech's Masked Rider school pride and spirit program has new horse that's now named Woody, but will get a new name to be chosen by fans.
School officials in Lubbock say the formal naming contest for the 8-year-old quarter horse began Friday and runs through March 1.
Texas Tech recently completed purchase of the 1,100-pound gelding called Hollywood at Dusk from a ranch in Tulia.
Woody replaces 13-year-old Midnight Matador, which was retired in October for medical reasons after serving as the Masked Rider's mount since 2002.
Woody has already made a large-crowd appearance as Tech's equine mascot.
The horse was guided by Masked Rider Ashley Wenzel at the Dec. 28 Meineke Car Care Bowl at Reliant Stadium in Houston. Tech beat Minnesota 34-31.
"Woody was chosen as the new mount for the Masked Rider because he best fit all of the criteria that a horse in this role must possess," said Sam Jackson, associate chair of Tech's Animal and Food Sciences and Masked Rider Program advisor.
"Several of the horses that were evaluated met some of the criteria, but the list of potential horses became quite short when all of the necessary traits were evaluated. The most significant requirement for a horse in this role is to be absolutely well trained and quiet in his disposition. Most of the horses that were evaluated were simply not quiet-minded enough or did not have the natural disposition to be able to excel in this position."


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6 Tricks That Let You Control Animals Like The Beast Master
#3. Make a Lobster Do a Headstand
For an animal hack that serves no purpose at all and is only notable for the bizarre position you can leave the creature in, our ability to hypnotize lobsters is still surprisingly fascinating:
Simply grab the crustacean and turn it on its head, using its claws to balance it. Then rub the top of the tail. The lobster will then stay in that position for hours, balancing on its nose and just generally shamed into paralysis.
Why it Works:
While the trick for putting lobsters in a trance is widely known (lots of recipes for lobster dishes will even mention it as a way to make the lobster hold still), very little research has been done on why exactly it happens. Maybe it has to do with blood flow, the same way a person can pass out if they hang upside down long enough. Experts speculate that it's a defense mechanism, like with the chicken -- but again, no one really understands how it would possibly help in a life or death situation. It apparently works on crabs as well, and some people insist on cooking their seafood in this position, presumably because they love the taste of crustacean humiliation.
"Just ... just kill me, man.
#2. Put a Lizard to Sleep by Rubbing Its Belly
On the hierarchy of animal adorableness, lizards barely squeak in above spiders and hairless moles. They have all the writhing ugliness of a snake, but they are also equipped with dinosaur feet and eyes that act independently of one another. Fortunately for you, and for nature, there's an easy way to incapacitate them long enough to pretty them up a little with some tiny sunglasses and a cabana hat -- assuming you have those things.
It couldn't be simpler: You put the lizard on its back, then rub its throat and belly. It will go completely limp in your hand.
Why it Works:
A lizard depends on muscles in its throat and torso to contract and expand the lungs to keep oxygen flowing in the body (it doesn't have a diaphragm). When it's on its back, the weight of its limbs put abnormal pressure on these muscles and they can't do their job properly. Exacerbating this is your damn finger poking at its belly and throat.
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As a result, the whole system shuts down temporarily, conserving what little oxygen it's getting. The result is a lizard that's more or less putty in your hands. To be clear, the process doesn't hurt the lizard, it just forces it to shut down, like an on/off switch. And just to give this context, when humans suffer from oxygen deprivation, the symptoms aren't nearly as elegant.
Suddenly lizards don't look so stupid.
#1. Turn Off an Alligator by Flipping It
Alligators don't swim as much as they drift lazily through water, much like that creepy guy who hangs out at public pools, except without the beer koozie or the wake of body oil. That languid glide of alligators is deceptive, however, because they are certainly much faster when they want to rip your arm out of its socket -- and it's impossible to tell which mode they're in. Well, it turns out there's a way to make sure that the alligator stays drugged-up and on autopilot, and never enters predator mode -- but it requires some courage.
Because they occasionally burst into song.
To hack its brain, you'll first have to approach it from the back, avoiding the teeth, and hold its jaws together. That sounds harder than it is -- the alligator can clamp down with an amazing amount of pressure, but is surprisingly bad at opening its mouth when any kind of force is applied. Once you have a good grip, you'll have to turn the alligator onto its back. Here's how that's done by the pros:
This feels like a good time to point out how incredibly dangerous this is. Even the alligators that don't want to eat you, generally don't like being touched and they'll let you know by murdering you. But if you can manage to get an alligator on its back, you can send it into a sort of hibernation where everything in its body slows and it can't be bothered to do anything but lie there.
Why it Works:
Unlike pretty much every other animal affected by these odd brain hacks, alligators actually voluntarily use this "skill" in everyday life. When, for instance, an alligator feels threatened by an oncoming boat, it submerges into water and its heart-rate drops from 35 beats-per-minute to two. It becomes perfectly motionless, which is in effect what is happening when we turn it over on land; it's re-enacting what happens when it feels threatened in water.
Outside of the water it is, of course, a pretty useless defense but one that still takes over as a means of protection. Fortunately, alligators don't have a lot of natural predators on land other than humans, so falling into this state of paralysis isn't a trait that's been weeded out over the centuries. So keep in mind if you try this: You're banking that your alligator doesn't happen to be part of the first generation that finally figures out what we're doing.
You can read more from Kevin at the splendidly named Cabbage or follow him on Twitter, if that's the sort of thing you're into.
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The pantheon of rock 'n' roll legends just might be seeing Green.
Green Day, Nine Inch Nails, The Smiths and Bill Withers are among the first-time nominees for 2015 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The field also includes German electronic band Kraftwerk, hip-hop collective N.W.A., blues singer/guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and Motown girl group The Marvelettes, all of whom show the versatility of rock 'n' roll, says Joel Peresman, president and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation.


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Faculty have the right to inspect and review the education records of any studentTrueFalseAn advisor does not have to allow a student to inspect and review her personal notes about the student that are held in a file in the desk of the adviser's office.TrueFalseWe should provide data to an accounting firm which asks for a list of all the accounting students who are in the top 10 percent of the senior class.TrueFalseTom Faculty has posted the grades of all the students in his class on the wall outside his office. This is a violation of FERPA.TrueFalseA student's degree can be confirmed to some external (outside of BSU) source without first obtaining the permission of the student because BSU identifies "degree" as directory information.TrueFalseA student has a right to inspect information in his or her file in the Registrar's Office and in his or her major department.TrueFalseStudent representatives on committees (e.g. honors, judicial, etc.) have the right to see other students' education records during the deliberations of that committee if they have been designated as school officials.TrueFalseAn institution must give its students the opportunity to withhold the release of any or all designated items of directory information.TrueFalseIt is permissible to distribute graded examinations by placing them on a table for the students to pick up after classTrueFalseIn writing a letter of recommendation, it is permissible for a faculty member to include a student's grades and GPA without obtaining the student's written permission since the student requested the faculty member to write the recommendation and provided a copy of her resume with the requested information to the faculty member.TrueFalseA student's written permission is required before an institution releases information to a national research organization conducting a study on the advantages and disadvantages of selective admissions. TrueFalseAn institution must release any information identified as directory information by the institution to anyone upon request.TrueFalseA former student has the same right to inspect and review his record as a student who is currently attending the institution.TrueFalseA faculty member comes into your office and asks one of the staff for the names of all the graduates in his program since its beginning in 1980. Which of the following statements is true?a) The faculty member can legally obtain this information under FERPA as long as he has written permission from the dean or designeeb) The faculty member cannot legally obtain this information since it is excluded from FERPAc) The faculty member must provide a valid reason before obtaining the informationd) The faculty member is not entitled to all of the information since FERPA does not permit release of this information on students not currently attending the institution.As defined in FERPA, "legitimate educational interest" refers to:a) A faculty member's need to provide feedback to students in the form of grades/evaluationsb) The registrar's need to obtain education record information from faculty to produce a student's transcriptc) A school official's right to obtain information only about students he is advising or teaching during the current yeard) A school official's need to review student education record information to fulfill a responsibility as part of the official's dutiesFERPA rights:a) Pass from the parent to student when the student attains the age of 18b) Pass from parents to student when the student begins attending an institution of higher educationc) Are shared equally by parents and student at the higher education leveld) Apply only to parents of students attending colleges and universitiese) Apply only to students attending institutions of higher educationf) A and b onlyg) A and e onlyh) B and e onlyThe FERPA rights of a student begin:a) When the application for admission is receivedb) When the student is formally admittedc) When the student is formally admittedd) When the student is "in attendance" as defined by the institutionTo be an "educational record", a piece of information must be:a) Personally identifiable to the studentb) Maintained by the institutionc) Kept in the registrar's Officed) Made available to the law enforcement unite) A & B onlyf) A, B, C onlyg) A and D onlyWhich of the following is required from students by FERPA before releasing information about them?A. 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In a number of occasions I have a collection of functions that I'd like to implement in different ways. The most obvious example of this would be to abstract from specific databases. In an object-oriented language you would use an interface for this:
interface DB {
ResultSet query(String query);
void persist(Object o);
In speudo code I would want to do something like this:
(ns dbbackend)
(abstractfn query [q])
(abstractfn persist! [o])
And then implementations for each database:
(ns dbbackend.mysql :implements dbbackend)
(defn query [q] ...)
(defn persist! [o] ...)
It is not entirely clear to me what the best practice is to do something similar in a functional language, specifically Clojure. Should I use multi-methods for this?


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Aggravating lack of quick releases and plates suitable for the new generation of small Digital cameras like the Fuji X 10.
My manfotto plate makes a mockery of the whole Idea as it is far wider than the camera base, and the general size and weight defeat the object of leaving it attached, a swiss plate is no better.
I know that has not much to do withe Pano brackets, and there is no problem fitting such a camera to a NN3.
But a quick release plate is only quick if you can leave it in place with out turning a small camera into a monster.
a small plate and quick release, and/or an adaptor to allow standard QR to allow a small plate to fit would be ideal.
I have seen a swiss type plate fot the Olympus pen base and the top part of the plate fits well, but the whole thing including the dovetail is the normal size so it defeats the object.
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The Bear's Den Coffeehouse, Starbucks, features a coffeehouse environment to showcase student talent. Students can showcase their artwork in three Art Gallery locations: the Student Union Art Gallery, Brass Rail Gallery, and Corner Gallery. The Cub Café Snack Bar features Chick-Fil-A, Burger Studio, and other casual meals to bring students, faculty, and staff together on a daily basis for food fun and interaction in a comfortable atmosphere. The union prides itself on being a well-rounded facility that offers students and staff many opportunities for formal and informal involvement and services.
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Using Devise.
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During signup, I want to create the user's parent organization as well. So two pieces to the form: 1) organization info, and 2) basic user info (email/password)
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Dr. John Hall says: "It affected everybody. Healthy strapping young kids. Everybody."
Not too long ago people in the United States were plagued by a disease that left them crippled and some were unable to breathe.
"I remember what a devastating disease it was. And we'd go through the old general hospital and see people on Iron Lungs who couldn't breathe and paralyzed and dying. It was bad."
Polio is a disease of the central nervous system. For some it paralyzed their respiratory muscles and kept them from breathing.
"So they had to be put in the Iron Lung, which would automatically breathe for them.. Some never got off of it, some did."
Dr. Hall remembers when the vaccine for polio was first invented by Doctor Jonas Falk.
"It was on the downswing by the time I graduated medical school."
On April 12th 1955 the government granted permission for the polio vaccine to be distributed to children in our country. Long lines formed outside health clinics across America. Doctors used sugar to tempt the youngsters into taking it...
"A little square cube and in order to be sure they got it all down they'd just squirt a little pink solution pop it in the babies mouth, they like that sugar, and they got it all down."
According to the national health museum, in 1960, there were more than 25 hundred cases of polio in the U.S. By 1965 there were only 61.
"Now, this is almost completely worldwide eradicated. Just a few third world countries still have any cases and just think of the deaths and all the crippling it had done over the years."


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18 Jan 2012 1:47 PM #1
ExtJS and Spring MVC integration
I am getting ready to put together and design a Spring MVC based front end for a client that plans to use JQuery for some of the more complex GUI and Async processing.
I'm curious if anyone has some advice on how well ExtJS can integrate within a Spring MVC site. From what I can tell The ExtJS components could completely replace the JSP pages used by the Spring Framework but I am more interested in knowing if the ExtJS libraries can be effectively used to Augment a Spring JSP and its associated taglibs.
I would welcome anyone's thoughts and experiences who have worked on integrating ExtJS into this or a similar framework
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What kind of integration do you need? In our ExtJS-ORM project on Sourceforge.net we did some integration of REST Extjs stores (for grid and forms in the first) with backend. Backend has been written based on Spring MVC 3.x and JPA.
So, if you your application has well defined JPA model that you want to represent in different grids on client side by ExtJS with ExtJS-ORM library your yielding instantly definition of all stores for each entities, relation between them, reference-based columns and etc. For more information you can read our Wiki:
All comments are welcomed! Now we are finishing migration on ExtJS 4 and will produce example wars that present in action all this stuff
Kind regards,
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ExtJS and Spring MVC - what about Sencha Architect?
The Ext JS Spring MVC integration is key and wil be my application's must have components. However I anm considering architect from Sencha to speed up GUI design. Do you have a recipe or tutorial on this topic but using Architect? from firstname.lastname@example.com


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If I adjust my NN180 so that the bubble is dead centre in the reference circle of the spirit level, why does the bubble shift as I rotate my camera?
If I adjust my NN180 so that the bubble is dead centre in the reference circle of the spirit level, why does the bubble shift as I rotate my camera?
Because it does... Use it as a reference only for initial setup. As you're only shooting 1 x row of images with the NN180 it doesn't matter if the image isn't aligned to the horizon at time of shooting because you can fix this in your stitching software.
The bubble is fine if it does not move out of the black circle. It will not affect your stitching.
We listen. We try harder.
As Nick says the bubble is very sensitive.
when you set up, you area aligning the plane of rotation...(The flat surface in the rotator) to be level.
After that you must leave it alone. or you may give problems to your stitcher.
As you rotate the arm and camera, the weight distributed through the three legs of your tripod changes, even a minimum amount of flex is noticed by the sensitive bubble.
There is likely to be some minimally measurable flex in all tripod systems, ball heads, levellers and camera mounts.
However you will notice as you continue the rotation to where you started, the bubble will be level again. this shows the plane of rotation is constant even if the bubble moves.
If nick used some of the less accurate bubble levels in his manufacture. bubble movement may then, not even be noticeable.
However who wants a less accurate product?
And it looks like many NN5, mine included, have a bubble which is not perfectly parallel with the rotation plan of the lower arm.
I'd like to ask Nick if there is a way to take the bubble off and then re-install it in a proper way.
My first nodal head was a Panosaurus, clearly inferior to the Ninja, but it had a detachable bubble (which kept falling onto the ground as I forgot to take it out), but at least I had been able to tune it very finely so that by turning the lower arm it would keep the level plane.
Nick, any advice? it's the only disappointment I had with the NN5.
Thank you
However You may not think so, but the bubble is more accurate than it even needs to be.
Provided it stays in the ring it will have no effect on the stitch as the plane of rotation will be identical in every shot.
The "plane" of rotation is always as accurate as the surface of the rotator.
(Provided that is, you do not adjust the head to level the bubble with each shot.)
Pay attention to the bubble once: in the beginning of your shots. Take your tour around and it will be at the same place. I never had stitching problems with levelling at the beginning.
To compare the results, i tested a round relevelling in between: i got a lot of stitching problems, had to add lot of controlpoints manually.
So this was the proof for me to leave it alone as was explaned above.
When you don't believe it, test it on your own with releveling, and i think you will spend a nice evening.
Hi, let me make myself clearer:
1. I am not saying that you need to re-level the head as you turn it around, that would be totally wrong. Since we know the level is offset, by re-leveling you only make sure that it is always off-level and always in a different off-level state. Not very good right?
2. The fact that when you complete the 360¬? turn it comes back to the right level proves nothing, just that the head and tripod did not move, the very least we can expect
3. The problem is not in the bubble but in the incorrect way the bubble is mounted that is not perfectly parallel to the rotating plan of the lower arm.
4. Everyone obviously chooses his own quality standards.
I'm getting the uncomfortable feeling that I am being seen as a "provocateur", which I am not. I am a paying customer trying to help improve a good but not perfect product.
The only real answer I got so far is that this is not a serious issue and we should accept the small error, let's call it tolerance for convenience.
For those who are interested I've found a workaround: find the real neutral position of the bubble, which would be probably when the bubble is somewhere on the border of the black ring and then mark that position with a tape. Next time just set your rig so that the bubble is again in the marked position. Now if you turn the arm around, the bubble will stay in the same position, in other words it will not move around. Now the head is properly leveled.
I still believe that a properly calibrated bubble is a pre-requisite for any quality precision tool, no matter how critical the item may be.
Hello Forum,
Many people using all kind of panoheads from different manufacturers are complaining about there bubble level.
The issue is not that the bubble level itself is inaccurate but that the precision of the leveling when it is mounted (often glued) is not 100% but at most 99.99%
This very small off set is normal as long as the bubble keeps inside the black circle of the bubble level and can be ignored.
However even the smallest off set of the ideal level mounting position is causing a moving bubble when the panohead is rotating with complaints as a result.
An off set is not as bad as it sounds but if you want to have a "precise" bubble level you can "adjust" every bubble level yourself, not by removing the bubble level and then remounting it but by finding the real center of the bubble level and then marking or memorizing this point.
This is how you do it:
1) mount your panohead on a sturdy tripod and place the tripod on a hard en solid surface,
2) level the panohead so that the bubble is in the centre of the black marked circle of the bubble level,
3) rotate the panohead 180 degree, for sure the bubble will move and perhaps even will go a little outside the black circle !
4) adjust the legs of the tripod, or use a panohead leveler if mounted, to level the bubble "halfway" the original center position and the new position, remember this "halfway" position, think about the position like it was a clockwork and memorize the "time" of the bubble,
5) rotate the panohead 90 degree, the bubble will move again,
6) level the bubble again "halfway" the last (memorized) position and the new position and remember the new "halfway" position,
7) repeat step 4 to 6 and eventually you will find a point where the bubble is not moving,
:001_cool: congratulations, you have found the real center of the bubble level and all you now have to do is to memorize this position (again think about it like it was a clockwork) or you put a small dot with a black permanent marker pen in the center of the bubble,
9) when using the bubble level the next time you don't level the panohead by using the black marker circle but instead you level to the real center of the bubble level and you will see that now the movement of the bubble will be very small or even absent :-)
Wim.Koornneef's way seems to be ideal for any one who is anal about this.
However you can make perfect spherical pans with the head in any orientation, It simply is not an issue for stitchers.
I am sure Nick would say the that neither perfect bubbles nor perfectly set bubbles are economic.
Scientific and engineering instruments usually come with adjustable bubbles that you can set yourself. Those with fixed bubbles will state the tolerance. ( usually quite large.)
I would have thought. a bubble with a spherical base could be made, at a reasonable price, that could be self set and locked in place with a top cap. If this were to be true Nick could sell it at a premium price as an alternative.
However I am very happy with my bubble as it is.
The bubble on a tripod does not usually rotate, so we are unaware how inaccurate they always are.
A big thank-you to the mods.
Problem solved, I'm also happy I gave a little contribution.
A prompt response like this glues a customer forever, I know you are mods and not employees but the community is here!
We try to set the level as accurate as possible. We mount the lower rail on a heavy metal block which is leveled using instrumental precision bubble which is calibrated EVERY time before use. The bubble is glued on the lower rail using very thin layer of epoxy. Before the epoxy is cured we set the bubble so that it is centered. We keep checking the bubble till the epoxy is cured. Of course, human is prone to error. and every degree of error will be doubled when the lower rail is rotated by 180 deg. The bubble in NN5 has a sensitivity of 34' (0.57deg) per 2 mm movement. To set a tolerance of 1mm bubble movement, we need 34'/4 (remember 180 deg rotation doubles the movement)=0.14 deg of accuracy which is pretty high for my OWN standard.
You know what, even the instrument grade bubble will shift every time before use. Recalibration is needed. I guess it has something to do with thermal expansion. But then instrument grade bubble is much more sensitive.
We can make the bubble adjustable, say by making a bubble holder which is mounted to the lower rail by 3 screws. By adjusting these 3 screws, the level can be adjusted. Then I know 99.7% users will not use this feature and 99% users will have problem in calibrating the bubble. I am not sure how many people will justify the added cost. and not to speak the danger of failing to restore acceptable leveling after attempt of calibration. I can almost hear their complaint. "Damn, stupid Nick! Why not set and glued the bubble as other manufacturers do."
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Has everyone stopped contributing as much?
My participation here on the deals side has dropped significantly. Yet my black triangle has been effortlessly maintained.
Is everyone just participating less? I understand the "vacation" feature that will let your stats stop moving if you suddenly disappear, but this has been months. Not that I mind, but it seems odd.
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I know I don't participate as much as I used to. Just don't like the way the site is being run compared to the way it was a year or two ago.
It's summer, so I don't have as much time to participate being I like to be outside, but I have noticed some people aren't around as much.
I did notice you weren't posting as much and was pleasantly surprised to see you answer my question earlier about cars :)
@kamikazeken: Too many crappy deals posted by owners of the sites the deals come from. Deals posted by people that have never made a purchase. It's hard to weed through all that junk to find good deals.
Besides, every time I try to post a deal, it gets stuck trying to find images. It sits there for hours trying to find one and never does. I reported this issue but received no response. Haven't been able to post even if I wanted to so I participate in discussions only now.
I've pretty much stopped posting deals. There's so much crap posted that any kind of decent deal has a high likelihood of being pushed so far down the list in an hour or two that it's seldom seen. The high number of junky, wholesale-oriented Chinese sites (dresses, lights, and geegaws, mostly) was becoming insurmountable, given my reduced time for browsing, but I notice their number seems to have decreased lately so I harbor hopes for improved future browsing.
I still participate on the ATC side almost as much as before, but time is tighter these days and I don't know how it will work out for me in the next few months.
All in all, for these and other reasons, it's just a less fun, less appealing place to shop and/or hang out.
Maybe there's been a decrease in production of quality contribution. If I posted 5 deals a day that never reached more than 3 votes each, it wouldn't help my triangular colorness (at least that's how I think the system works, to a degree).
I think I've noticed the decline as well. Heck, even @wootbot can't seem to get any good posts either.
Well, could be because everyone is on vacation right now.. or probably #ragequit in light of recent events.
Or maybe because there hasn't been much interesting deals on right now?
We'll definitely see more deals the closer we get to Black Friday.
Or maybe we don't feel as welcome anymore?
Deals being deleted just because its some days before the actual deal is active. What if someone likes to plan ahead, like myself?
Or why are we downvoting people just because we disagree with someone slightly.. wouldn't downvoting people mean because they are totally irrelevant to the topic? Right? Or just because a deal isn't supported in their area?
I'm such a modern day philosopher.
I'd say there's also a lot less deals to be had during summer. Just wait for us to get into fall and then close to Black Friday.
As a relatively new guy who's managed to stick around, I can tell you that the hivemind cool kid's club around here is really unappealing. There are certain players up at the top who get upvoted based on their name and not on their deals. Then we get deals for flatulence prevention on the front page. Hooray.
I have been a lot less active as well simply because of all the critics as well as the constantly changing of tags.
Like some one else stated good deals get pushed down so fast that you almost have to be searching for something specific.
Its almost a given day to day what will be on front page DVDs, Jump Drives/media storage, skimpy womens clothing, coupons & free apps/kindle book
I'm guilty of posting some of these but it seems some are voted for the sake of rep not quality of deal.
shrug I've certainly been less active. As nice as the community is, the whole Woot change has decreased my interest overall. I'm still around though.
Kicks sand...hey! I live in Florida. :-D Still pretty new here, but I've noticed a drop in participation. Will speak for myself (the one I know best): Am feeling disenfranchised. <---haven't heard that word since the last election. ;-)
Valid questions have been asked by myself & many others. No official answers. In fact, no acknowledgement of some questions, even if staff is paged. Deals & questions deleted - no reason why. Tags changed to eliminate Free deals from being viewed and voted to the top. FAQs promised over a month ago. They were put together by a fellow member, @lichme!
Not very welcoming here. At least to me. And, before you put me in my rightful place - Yes, I do know it's their site and they can do as they please. Further, I do not have a piano tied to my behind so I can leave at any time. Others have. Am beginning to understand why.
@inkycatz: Funny you should say that, I just emailed @jumbowoot today asking for an update on that
@inkycatz: Ah, inky - none of this is directed at you! I know you kick questions, etc. upstairs. And I thank you very much for doing that. You can only do so much. Sadly, I do believe I see a piano tied to your behind, though. :-/
I stopped checking deals and the main site around the time the main site layout changed.
I don't care for that login screen popping up at me.
Most of the woots aren't really relevant to my interests anymore and the shirts aren't on AA blanks anymore.
My triangle is no longer black.
The woot properties are just kind of old hat to me now. :/
I'm doing a lot less, sans the last day or two. As far as I know the black triangle hasn't gone anywhere. I agree with the disenfranchised statement of @gmwhit. In my less sophisticated words, I'm feeling a little bit deflated about woot these days. Haven't added a deal in a month or so. I added a couple of questions in the last few days which are probably why I'm back up to 95. /meh
edit: Also worth mentioning I don't even look at the deals here anymore and haven't for months. Pretty much just pop in here now and then for the questions almost exclusively.
And now I'm curious about the tags (though I don't see the point in added a new question about it, it's been done before.) I get removing my lengthy tag about nothing. To change it to a simple "chat" tag, when we're discussing deals.woot itself seems lacking. Then, there is another post about BOC, and that gets a meta tag.
Not as much here, but I seem to be doing so more in spurts than anything else.
I took the past several months off of Woot and now that I'm back I started my posting sprees again. Thus far I've noticed that some of them get lost in all the other "deals" posted by sites trying to promote their sites. I have however seen that most of my deals have seen quite a bit of popularity from the community and have done well overall. I'm happy to be back with all you fantastic wooters but I have already seen the drop in overall activity by the community.
I know a lot of the more active user have been turned off greatly by the tags issue and the lack of any kind of acknowledgement. Even in a "less formal setting" staff members have kept quiet on the tags.
With that and other issues in the past few months it has created an overall feel of negativity in many of the questions and discussions. This wears out the mods and the members attitudes. Other members then become more outspoken with their negativity since its what they see and mods make replies that come off less playful and more with an edge because they are tired of the negativity. And then the cycle grows.
The tags completely changed the deals we see. Samples and trials that were loved are buried in favor of a DVD for $1 off of a popular movie, not even a great sale. People dont see what they enjoyed getting here and stop coming. New members fill in but post what they see, more DVDs. No comment and unhappy users mean less activity from the "old" members and feel changed.
@thumperchick: The reason you may be confused is the lack of consistency. Well, duh! <--- I have such a flair for the obvious.
I suggest you tattle on your own question and request the addition of the tag "meta." Won't solve much, but will put it in the search for all things meta.
@raider9924: As a long term wooter that does in fact post many dvd and bluray deals I must say that the ones I post are indeed good deals, many more than 1/2 off regular prices and they are usually very popular amongst the community. I would also like to say that many of those "free" deals were ones that much of the time were never honored by companies or would be posted so often and so early before their release that they became very annoying...just my opinion.
My activity level has definitely decreased as of late.... I know I'm not posting deals as often as I was before the redesign. I'm not spending as much time hunting down deals to post or to tattle on for that matter. But my biggest complaint has to do with "Ask the community" I have almost completely lost interest in this area of the site. There are too many "chat" type questions and not enough consumer-related questions/comments.
For example right now the top 5 questions are; this question, What ignites your curiosity to learn more?, What was your first car?, How often are you late to work?, How much coffee/tea do you drink at work? CHAT CHAT CHAT AND CHAT In my opinion only one of these actually pertains to this site or is productive...
@studerc: I did not intend to offend members that post good deals on DVD and Bluray sales. I have purchased many of them and appreciate a good sale on any product. My comment was directed at "old time favorites movies" that are on sale for $6.99 instead of its normal $7.99, that IMHO is not a great deal just a normal sale. I enjoy seeing deals for Blurays that are regularly prices at $25 for $10-15, those are good deals that I and many other members enjoy.
I have applied for many free deals and have received that vast majority, the only exception I can think of was for a pen. Maybe I have been lucky in selecting which free items to apply for but I have received many free items in my time here.
Well now that we're all being honest, I'm going to be more direct. Are all of the lingerie deals that make it to the front back actually good deals? You'll see that I had a good bit of a serial downvoting (which has since passed) out of frustration. I just can't believe that every. single. link. every. single. day. that certain people post are all good deals. I just can't, especially since there are several other vendors selling the same things that never seem to creep onto the front page.
See what I'm saying here?
I agree with raider -- if you want links to random old movies on amazon, or lingerie deals, or random novelties etc. then you're good to go.
I went from green to purple with little additional effort. I think overall activity may be declining a tad.
yup. I dropped down to purple by not doing anything for a couple months, then back to black just asking and answering a few questions. Surprised me to be honest.
Only deal I posted recently was a free one that got deleted.
@jimmyd103: You seem like a man that would enjoy DW.Chat. Did you know that we're having a meet tonight at 8PM woot time? Feel free to join us where we can chat.
@cowboydann: You are SO bad! Love your sense of humor. :-D
BTW: @jimmyd103 the chatting there is open...meaning honest. You might find it refreshing. I do.
@jimmyd103: I think that tying activity on the community side of the site to rank probably drives a lot of the sillier questions. Although I greatly enjoy all this chat chat chat and during the summer when I am not looking for deals these chat topics are why I come in here, I will also agree that they aren't really on-topic for the site. Given the proliferation of tabs on D.W anyway, perhaps there should be a "deals Community" and a "Chat Community". Although there is a lot of gray area in between, especially when a friendly conversation wanders off the subject as sometimes happens on the community side.
One of the reasons I participate less is the vindictive moderator(s) who finds one comment I make that may have pushed some imagined limit, and then proceeds to spend hours reviewing all my posts/comments, and deleting dozens of them. It's been going on again since this morning, with another comment just deleted from the die hard batteries deal in the last hour or so. There were several deleted early this morning, and then a few more around noon, and now the one on the sponsored battery deal. That's a span of about 6-8 hours someone has been reviewing all my posts.
This is the first comment I've made practically all summer. My participation will probably remain like this as I go into school...no time to hunt for deals on the Interwebs!
@kamikazeken: heh, i knew this was coming
I do what I can when I can. Having said that, my black triangle drops like a stone when I am inactive after having been active. I get indigestion from the rapid up and down!
I'm at my usual pace...1-2 deals posted per month. Activity on the ATC side is more heavily weighted, I think. @kamikazeken: Not saying that you're a troll, in any way, but you seem to be our replacement for iggz. The difference is that you speak your mind, andmake sense. I ♥ you for that!
@kamikazeken: I went through a woot phase where many of my posts were delete, or (more embarrassingly) changed to something ridiculous, intended to make me look like the ring-tailed noodle-loaf that I was.
I do feel for you, and think that they should let more things slide sometimes, but we have to remind ourselves that there are websites out there whose staff will tolerate almost nothing. Some would make this place look like a Cretan orgy.
I started by trying to post about 5 deals a week.
That fell to about 5 per month. Work and life got busy.
Now we're at about 2 real deals per month and 2-3 silly "deals" per month. See the Bucket of Cheese for a silly deal.
Honestly, I really just got a little bored with posting deals. The Mods had nothing to do with it. Questions and comments and answers are where it's at.
I've dialed back on participating and submitting, too. The compatability issues with tablets was a factor (I couldn't vote on comments), but now that it's fixed, I'm still not as active. Even before the tablet problem, I found I was not having as much fun here as I used to.
When we add a deal within 12 hours of it going live and it gets deleted, and then someone puts the same deal on later and it stays, we're pretty much done. So, the answer is yes. And, Wootazon is no longer in our top 10 sites, and falling.
@thebopster: are you more than one person?
Maybe it's just me, but 394 black and purple triangles is a demotivator. Heck, we can't ALL be that special....or can we?
@thumperchick: This is not the first time I've said "we" when posting. No, I am not 3 people, but my answer came from 3 people in the same abode. And, we all agree with what I posted previously. We are MisterRon, LoSparkz, and myself. I believe that should answer your question.
ive stopped long enough to let my triangle drop to purple... its just not run well anymore. its lost its original goal - ONE deal a day... also there seems to be less involvment from the staff, from long time users, and its just not as fun anymore.
Woot! to me just feels like meh. now...


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It seems like every .net book talks about value types vs reference types and makes it a point to (often incorrectly) state where each type is stored - the heap or the stack. Usually it's in the first few chapters and presented as some all-important fact. I think it's even covered on certification exams. Why does stack vs heap even matter to (beginner) .Net developers? You allocate stuff and it just works, right?
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I'm becoming convinced that the primary reason this bit of information is considered important is tradition. In unmanaged environments, the disctinction between stack and heap is important and we have to manually allocate and delete the memory we use. Now, garbage collection takes care of the management, so they ignore that bit. I don't think the message has really gotten through that we don't have to care which type of memory is used either.
As Fede pointed out, Eric Lippert has some very interesting things to say about this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2010/09/30/the-truth-about-value-types.aspx.
In light of that information, you could adjust my first paragraph to basically read: "The reason people include this information and assume it is important is because of incorrect or incomplete information combined with needing this knowledge in the past."
For those who think it is still important for performance reasons: What actions would you take to move something from the heap to the stack if you did measure things and find out that it mattered? More likely, you'd find a completely different way of improving performance for the problem area.
I agree completely; I see this all the time.
One part of the reason is because many people came to C# (or other .NET languages) from a C or C++ background. Since those languages do not enforce for you the rules about storage lifetime, you are required to know those rules and implement your program carefully to follow them.
Now, knowing those rules and following them in C does not require that you understand "the heap" and "the stack". But if you do understand how the data structures work then it is often easier to understand and follow the rules.
When writing a beginner book it is natural for an author to explain the concepts in the same order that they learned them. That's not necessarily the order that makes sense for the user. I was recently technical editor for Scott Dorman's C# 4 beginner book, and one of the things I liked about it was that Scott chose a pretty sensible ordering for the topics, rather than starting in on what really are quite advanced topics in memory management.
Another part of the reason is that some pages in the MSDN documentation strongly emphasize storage considerations. Particularly older MSDN documentation that is still hanging around from the early days. Much of that documentation has subtle errors that have never been excised, and you have to remember that it was written at particular time in history and for a particular audience.
In my opinion, it doesn't. What is much more important to understand is stuff like:
And so on.
That's the ideal.
Now, there are situations in which it does matter. Garbage collection is awesome and relatively inexpensive, but it is not free. Copying small structures around is relatively inexpensive, but is not free. There are realistic performance scenarios in which you have to balance the cost of collection pressure against the cost of excessive copying. In those cases it is very helpful to have a strong understanding of the size, location, and actual lifetime of all relevant memory.
Similarly, there are realistic interop scenarios in which it is necessary to know what is on the stack and what is on the heap, and what the garbage collector could be moving around. That's why C# has features like "fixed", "stackalloc" and so on.
But those are all advanced scenarios. Ideally a beginner programmer need worry about none of this stuff.
You guys are all missing the point. The reason why the stack / heap distinction is important is because of scope.
Once x goes out of scope, the object that was created is categorically gone. That is only because it is allocated on the stack, not the heap. There is nothing that could have gone in in the "..." part of the method that can change that fact. In particular, any assignments or method calls could only have made copies of the S struct, not created new references to it to enable it to keep living.
Totally different story! Since x is now on the heap, its object (that is, the object itself, not a copy of it) could very well continue to live on after x goes out of scope. In fact, the only way it won't continue to live is if x is the only reference to it. If assignments or method calls in the "..." part have created other references that are still "live" by the time x goes out of scope, then that object will continue living.
That is a very important concept, and the only way to truly understand "what and why" is to know the difference between stack and heap allocation.
As to WHY do they cover the topic, I agree with @Kirk that it's an important concept, that you have to understand. The better you know the mechanisms, the better you can do to make great applications that performs smoothly.
Now Eric Lippert seems to agree with you that the topic is not correctly covered by most authors. I recommend you read his blog to achieve a great understanding of what's under the hood.
Well, I thought that's the whole point of managed environments. I'd even go as far as calling this an implementation detail of the underlying runtime that you should NOT make any assumptions about, because it could change at any time.
I don't know much about .NET, but as far as I know, its JITted before execution. The JIT for example could perform escape analysis and what not and all of a sudden you'd be having objects lying on the stack or merely in some registers. You cannot know this.
I suppose some books cover it simply because the authors attribute great importance to it, or because they assume their audience does (e.g. if you wrote a "C# for C++ programmers" you probably should cover the topic).
Nonetheless, I think there is not much more to say than "memory is managed". Otherwise people might draw wrong conclusions.
You have to understand how memory allocation works to use it efficiently even if you don't have to manage it explicitly. This applies to pretty much every abstraction in computer science.
There can be some edge cases where it that can make a difference. The default stack space is 1meg while the heap is several gig. So if you're solution holds a large number of object you can run out of stack space while having plenty of heap space.
However, for the most part it is pretty academic.


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One of our favorite pastimes here at Cracked is collecting evidence to prove that "old fashioned" is nothing more than a synonym for "creepy, bordering on medically insane." And nowhere is this more evident than in some of the activities our not-so-distant ancestors considered entertaining. Say what you will about today's ultra-violent video games and movies, but at least we don't equate fun with something like ...
#7. Throwing Atom Bomb Viewing Parties
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If the government announced they were going to detonate an atomic bomb just an hour's drive away from your hometown, we're guessing that at the very least you'd put in an angry phone call to your congressman and arrange to be out of town that day. What you would probably not do is grab a lawn chair and go watch the mushroom cloud.
So when President Truman approved the repeated scorching of the very face of Mother Earth herself just 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas in late 1950, how do you think Las Vegans reacted to the news? Did they lock themselves in bunkers? Did they cash in their chips, jump into their cars, and keep on driving until they hit Delaware? Or did they stage atom bomb viewing parties and use this whole thing as an excuse to do even more drinking and gambling and sexing?
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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. That includes any body parts that may fall off.
Taking advantage of a massive government publicity campaign promoting their nuclear testing activities, residents and officials didn't hesitate one bit to redub the town "Atomic City." The nearby nuclear testing was hyped as just another Vegas tourist attraction. Showgirls donned mushroom cloud swimwear. Curious visitors pressed as close to the explosions as they could without fear of pistol whipping, and many hotels hosted "dawn bomb parties" where revelers drank the night away while waiting for the detonations to light up the sky in an apocalyptic fireworks display.
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This is Miss Atomic Bomb 1957. And no, that's not a joke.
Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and when "downwinders" started complaining of ill effects from all that pesky atomic fallout, it marked the beginning of the pooping of Sin City's atomic party. Nuclear testing was forced underground in 1963, and eventually the site ceased testing altogether.
No word on whether Vegas' atomic craze just sort of quietly petered out or if they sent the era off with one final bang, but we're going to assume that they celebrated in much the same way military officials celebrated the end of the "successful" atomic pummeling of Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads back in 1946 -- with delicious mushroom-cloud-shaped cake. Never let it be said that The Man doesn't know how to celebrate mankind's ability to wreak horrifyingly godlike destruction with class.
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It was iced with vanilla butter cream and filled with undiluted fear.
But at least they were just watching weapons of war being tested. It's not like people used to sit back and watch actual battles take place ...
#6. Having Civil War Battlefield Picnics
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Early in the Civil War, there was a pretty pervasive belief among Northerners that the war was going to be a quick one. Yep, them Southern boys were about to be pulverized beneath the weighty haversacks of the almighty Union forces ... and John and Jane Q. Public didn't just want to be there to watch it happen, they wanted to make an afternoon out of it.
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There's a realistic chance that the dude in the center is looking at an oncoming cannonball.
You see, as Union troops approached what would be the First Battle of Bull Run, they were "followed by hundreds of civilians, teamsters, congressmen, and their ladies." This throng of carnage groupies came in their Sunday finery, packing picnic baskets and opera glasses, thus earning Bull Run the nickname of the "picnic battle." The atmosphere was exactly like that of a modern day tailgate party, except for the explosions and innards flying about all willy-nilly within somewhat observable distance.
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If you were lucky enough to catch an arm, you got to keep it as a souvenir.
The morning went swimmingly for the North, and the crowd was totally feeling it ... until the Confederate reinforcements arrived. The spectators soon found out just how quickly the tides of war can turn when they were swiftly washed over by a wave of Union soldiers shouting, "Turn back, turn back, we're whipped!" The picnickers quickly went from visions of a flawless victory to a very real run for their lives. Many nice picnic baskets were tragically trampled that day; much fried chicken went woefully ungnawed.
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We can't be the only ones who hear the Monty Python guys yelling "Run away" when we see this picture.
Amazingly, only a single civilian was killed in the battle, but in an unfortunate/hilarious set of circumstances, New York congressman Alfred Ely -- one of the most vocal proponents of pressing the Union offensive, with his cries of "On to Richmond!" -- accidentally got his ass captured by the 8th South Carolina Infantry during the fray and spent the next six months festering in a Richmond prison.
#5. Visiting Paris' Public Morgue
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Let's say you're some kind of highfalutin official in the mid-19th century version of a big city like, say, Paris, and you've got more dead bodies popping up than you know what to do with. How do you handle this situation?
We'll tell you how they handled it: They built the Paris Morgue right down the block from the Cathedral of Notre Dame, set up a glass-walled refrigerator room, and propped up all the dead folk on slabs so that the general public could filter through and gawk at their general deadness.
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And from that day forward, the sight of bare breasts gave little Jean-Paul the liquid terror shits.
The idea, supposedly, was that the public could help identify the unknown corpses, which was the old-timey version of DNA testing. That's why you can see the dead dudes' clothes hanging behind them in the drawing above. However, the public morgue was visited by as many as 40,000 people every day (about the same as Disney World), and it was clear that, like, two guys came to actually do that -- what started with practical intentions soon metamorphosed into a full-fledged social phenomenon, with scads of Parisians and tourists, young and old alike, gathering at the morgue day after day to harrumph and/or swoon at the latest additions.
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That poor little bastard on the right is in both pictures, proving he has the world's worst mother.
The morgue made it into all the official guidebooks to the city and was so popular with the locals that one newspaper reported, "It would be difficult to find a Parisian, native or transplanted, who does not make his pilgrimage." The visitors even had a nickname for the displayed corpses -- macchabees -- and we're not sure if it makes it more or less skeevy that they were staring at (sometimes nude) corpses in varying states of decay like some kind of high art display.
After enjoying a nearly half-century run as the coldest hot spot in Paris, the morgue was finally closed to the public in 1907 when people realized that, holy shit, things like books and theaters existed.
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Of course, they read nothing but books about corpses, but it was a step in the right direction.
#4. Collecting Murderers Like Action Figures
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Even Victorian-era Londoners liked to collect action figures, so it's totally not sad that you paid $150 for that statue of Mega Man's dog. Only instead of buying replicas of superheroes or semi-naked girls, people back then collected tiny little murderers. Like this guy:
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Those are life-size, by the way. That's just how short people were back then.
Those are earthenware figures of James Blomfield Rush, and they probably seem like a perfectly mundane thing to collect -- until you realize that the one in the back depicts Rush choking some dude to death while apparently also letting a dog snack on his sausage. That's because he was the perpetrator of the Murders at Stanfield Hall, the gruesome double murder of Rush's employer, Isaac Jermy, and his son, Isaac Jermy Jermy (the Jermy clan wasn't completely comfortable with the whole "middle name" concept). And decorating your shelf with murderers was far from a one-time thing, as evidenced by these dust collectors right here:
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"Do you have anything in a stabbing? Or maybe a more subtle living room piece, like a poisoning?"
These figures depict the famous Red Barn Murder, a case in which known ladies' man William Corder knocked up his paramour, Maria Marten, and then strangled her with his handkerchief, which of course was considered the gentlemanly way to murder your illicit lover. If you look closely at the figure of the barn, that's Corder luring Marten inside, where he would eventually bury her beneath the floorboards.
Not every Victorian family could afford fancy pottery depicting the day's trendiest murderer, but there was a cheaper alternative: collectible death pamphlets. On the day of an execution, peddlers roamed the streets hawking broadsides featuring a detailed account of the murder and the resulting execution in verse (with illustrations!), belting out this "execution ballad" the entire way to attract customers.
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Jermy tragically died while doing jazz hands.
Some of the more popular ones sold millions of copies. Think of it as 19th century London's version of buying MP3 singles, if instead of breaking up with her boyfriends Taylor Swift brutally murdered them all.


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