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6 Companies That Make Money Solving Problems (They Made Up)
They say that sex sells, but when it comes to sales techniques, sex has nothing on fear. Huge swaths of our economy operate entirely on scaring people into giving up their money. And the worst part? A lot of the time their product is worthless.
So keep an eye out for companies like...
#6. FreeCreditReport.com
The Paranoia:
Quick question: How many times today has somebody asked you what your credit score is? Well, you're currently on the Internet, so it's probably somewhere around 400, usually by ads with sliding bars on them. We admit, your credit score determines some rather important factors in your life, such as how easily you can get a loan, or buy a house, or if that cute girl in the pop-up ad will go out with you.
She won't.
The Pitch:
According to FreeCreditReport.com, it's even worse than that: the ads say if you have a bad credit report, you'll wind up working in a seafood restaurant somehow. Even if it's due to "some hacker" stealing your identity. They're not the only website offering to give you your credit score, but FreeCreditReport.com is by far the most famous, maybe because of the way they carpet bomb the airwaves with an annoying jingle about how screwed you will be if you don't visit their website:
Holy shit, your whole career down the toilet, just because you didn't have the basic business skills to know a deal when you see one! Here's another one from them saying identity theft can keep you from ever owning a car, here's another one threatening you'll wind up working as a waiter if you don't subscribe to their service. On top of the fact that they're using goofy jingles to cover for a ludicrous threat, if you work in the food service industry these ads must royally piss you off. They threaten people that if they don't sign up for their service, they'll wind up like you.
Otherwise, they're pretty up front about what they do, right? Hell, it's right in the name? You head to their website and see your credit score for free. If it's good, then awesome; if it's bad, then... well, they're actually not very clear on what you're supposed to do then, but at least you know, right? And it didn't cost you a dime!
The Problem:
If you go to FreeCreditReport.com expecting a free credit report, you're in for a rather big surprise. What you're actually getting is a free seven-day trial for a credit monitoring service, which they're more than happy to renew automatically, at a rate of $14.95 a month. Not only that, but they're only sponsored (read: operated) by one of the three credit monitoring bureaus, Experian, so it's more or less impossible to get any complete credit information from them no matter what you do.
It's like ordering fries off the dollar menu, only they cost $15 and are a pumpkin.
This is all written up on their website, of course, in eye-catching blue text on a blue background in the lower left, so if you do sign up for it then you really have nobody but yourself to blame. Nah, we're just kidding, the FTC totally shoved a nightstick up Experian's ass, forcing them to pay $950,000 back in 2005.
Make a clever jingle about that, you bastards!
Speaking of which, you may also have noticed that their site now greets you with a gigantic disclaimer at the very top that the government forced them to put up there. Undeterred, they simply changed their name to FreeCreditScore.com, offered the same deal, only without the warning, with a brand new round of annoying ads to push it.
The amazing thing is, you can get your credit report completely free at AnnualCreditReport.com. You can do this once a year, which may not sound like much, but your credit score really doesn't change very rapidly. And no, there's nothing an identity-stealing hacker can do that will force you to serenade tourists at Captain Jack's Fish & Chips.
#5. Gold Vendors
The Paranoia:
If you listen to talk radio, particularly the right-wing kind, you've heard all about gold. In these uncertain economic times, what with terrorism and communists in the White House, gold is the safest investment there is! Glenn Beck is all about gold; he'll do entire segments about the impending collapse of our economy, and between you'll hear advertisements from companies like Goldline International.
The claim is that once the economy collapses, all those precious dollars that you've been holding onto in the bank will be completely worthless. $34.76 down the drain, just like that. That's why the price of gold is skyrocketing! Better get in while you can!
Wait! Don't eat that solid gold egg just yet!
The Pitch:
Thankfully, companies like Goldline have your back. They'll take that potentially worthless money of yours and exchange it for precious metals, like gold and silver. Once the shit hits the fan and the world turns into Mad Max, it's cold, hard, silver and gold that people are going to be clamoring for, instead of worthless, green, cocaine-laced slips of paper.
The Problem:
Wait a second. If paper money is about to become worthless, why does Goldline accept it as a form of payment? Their whole business model is based on convincing us gold will be the only valuable means of exchange, while at the exact same time they're giving away all of their valuable gold and absorbing as much worthless cash as they possibly can.
Goldline is apparently more charitable than most charities.
First of all, gold usually isn't that great of an investment--ask anybody who bought some in 1981 and then lost half their money when its value plummeted for the next two decades. Sure, the value of gold is sky-high right now. And as the real estate market demonstrated, if something is highly valued right now, that means it will eventually keep rising and rising forever and ever! So what do you think it means when the professionals start trying to convince uneducated Glenn Beck fans to buy their gold? It means they're hoping you're stupid enough to be the one to get caught holding it when the bottom falls out. And if you really believe in the "collapse of society" stuff, what are you going to want more during an apocalypse: a big pile of gold, or some food? Unless the gold is that chocolate kind, you'll probably want to go with the latter.
This doesn't really help anybody.
The value of gold is just as arbitrary as paper money. If you want something to trade after the end of the world, stockpile cigarettes, bullets and toilet paper. Bling will not be a priority when the zombies come.
#4. Enzyte
The Paranoia:
According to penis scientists, a whopping 45 percent of men are dissatisfied with their size.
No amount of hand washing can cleanse a dick scientist's sense of shame.
The Pitch:
Following with the "it's not a lie if the commercial is silly" technique of the Free Credit Report folks, you have these ads showing a depressed husband and his bitter, unsatisfied wife, both equally unhappy about the laughable size of his manhood. Fortunately, the ads says there are completely safe herbal supplements like Enzyte, whose spokesman is so goddamn satisfied with the results that he's always smiling, because the only thing he can think about now is the baseball bat he's packing between his legs.
His smile says, "I have an obnoxiously large dong." But his eyes cry out for help.
In case anyone was wondering what "natural male enhancement" means, the ads give us a scene where Mr. Enzyte's swim trunks fall off, and the neighborhood ladies look on in amazement. And for just $99 a month, flashing your penis at the neighborhood women could also result in stunned silence.
The Problem:
Let's back up for a moment. Why do you want a bigger penis? To impress other dudes in the locker room? So you can wear bicycle shorts seven days a week with confidence? No, it's because you think you need it to pleasure sexual partners.
Well, stop worrying. While about half of men are unhappy with their size, only 15 percent of women say they have a problem with the size of their partner's brigadier general. Given that women are able to stretch and conform to most shapes and sizes, and that you've only got about three inches to go before you reach most of the major nerve endings, there's not much reason, physiologically, why a large member would be any better.
Most damning, though, is the fact that women aren't so concerned with how large it is, compared to what you do with it. If you really want to please your woman, you just need to learn some expert sex techniques.
Maybe try some role-playing.
Luckily for you, you have the Internet.
As for Enzyte, you can probably guess that it doesn't actually have the ability to make your penis bigger (if it did, the company's profits would dwarf Exxon-Mobil and Wal-Mart combined). When the company got taken to court, one of the executives freely admitted that they may have stretched the truth a little, and by that he meant absolutely everything was a lie. The pills were endorsed by doctors who didn't exist, supported by statistics that weren't real and backed by a customer satisfaction survey that might as well have been taken from the activities page of Highlights magazine for how helpful it was.
Blatant false advertising is frankly a "Goofus"-esque atrocity.
While such a scam might have been enough for the average man, founder Steve Warshak took it to another level. Anyone who purchased Enzyte was enrolled into a "continuity program" without their knowledge, where they were continually charged and sent more Enzyte. Not only that, but canceling was purposefully made as difficult as possible; many men were told that they could not obtain a refund unless they got a doctor to verify that their penis was still laughably small. The man behind Enzyte, when all was said and done, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for "prey[ing] on perceived sexual inadequacies of customers."
We thank them for throwing in the word "perceived."


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text: Meta Battle Subway PokeBase - Pokemon Q&A Login Register All Activity Questions Unanswered Tags Users Ask a Question Rules Chat What is a good moveset for Cresselia? 4 votes We are approaching the end. Mine knows: Moonlight: Used to heal Cresselia. Ice Beam: Good power, high accuracy, chance to freeze, deals with Dragon, Flying, and Ground. Psychic: Good power, high accuracy, STAB, chance to lower Sp. Def, also deals with Fighting and Poison types. Calm Mind: Increases special stats. Cresselia learnset movesets cresselia asked Aug 5, 2010 by trachy edited Jul 2, 2011 by DarkTyphlosion Please log in or register to add a comment. Please log in or register to answer this question. 14 Answers 6 votes I stole this from a guy who stole it from a guy, it could very well be the most annoying thing I have ever encountered, I love it: Cresselia (F) @ Flame Orb Trait: Levitate EVs: 80 HP / 252 Def / 4 SAtk / 172 SDef Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk) - Psychic / Psyshock - Psycho Shift - Rest - Sleep Talk Basically, it is a status-proof tank with dual status. Psychic is to avoid being Taunt trapped, and offers nice STAB, Psyshock can also be used if you want to hit that physical Def. Psycho Shift is what makes this girl work, with Flame Orb, it can burn and cripple the Opponent's attack, while you can Rest off the burn, and heal the damage. If you encounter something that can't be burnt, Rest + Sleep Talk can Psycho Shift a nice Sleep to an unburned opponent, or you can do some damage with Psychic. This thing is great utility and a beast of a tank, especially physically. EVs give it 401 HP, even defenses (339 each), and the rest is in SpAtk. I use Modest Nature so your choice of Stab attack will actually do some damage. answered Sep 3, 2011 by Heinz_Ketchum I know this post is old, but I Love this set!! commented Jul 4, 2012 by 5th of November Please log in or register to add a comment. 4 votes This is a great standard moveset! Coverage, STAB, buffing, and recovery! I must say, Cresselia is my favorite legendary. If you're interested, Cresselia can also utilize a straight sweeper set, and a full support set: SWEEPER (Needs Baton Pass support for Speed/ Special Attack. Works in perfect synergy with Girafirig): Shadow Ball (Coverage against Ghosts and other Psychics) Signal Beam (Coverage against Darks, Psychics, and even Grass-types) Psychic (Obvious STAB. This and Shadow Ball lower Special Defense for improved sweeping) Ice Beam (Coverage against Dragon, Flying, Grass, and Ground-types) SUPPORTER / DUAL-SCREENER: Reflect (Screens and adds Defense for the team) Light Screen (Screens and adds Special Defense for the team) Moonlight (Reliable recovery in case you need to set up screens again) Lunar Dance (When Cresselia's about to faint, use this to fully restore that fainted Sweeper. Works incredibly in any team) Cresselia makes an incredible supporter, and with its enormous bulk and already passable offensive stats, it can do anything, with the right Baton-Passer support. The only problem with Cresselia is that, for a legendary, its movepool is pretty shallow (Ice Beam, but no Thunderbolt? Epic fail...), so make the best out of what you have. answered Aug 5, 2010 by ~-~WILL~-~ The sweeper is very good. However, I have one complaint for the dual-screens moveset: Taunt. A foe uses that and you are dead. Perhaps some Taunt coverage of your own? I think Taunt would be worth it more than Moonlight when you are going to sacrifice a Pokemon anyways for the good of the team. Plus, it will only be in there three turns max. commented Aug 5, 2010 by trachy It might need EV training in Speed for reliable Taunt though. commented Aug 5, 2010 by trachy EV training in Speed would be extremely helpful. Taunt, even in the current Standard Metagame, is quite uncommon. The only regular taunter is Steelix, so if you avoid him, you should be okay. Or if simply putting in some kind of attack (Like Psychic) would seem better, rather than Moonlight, then that'd still be good. Moonlight is only there if you want to stretch out the length of the battle, and need to repeatedly set up screens. commented Aug 5, 2010 by ~-~WILL~-~ Please log in or register to add a comment. 1 vote Cresselia is a support Pokemon often seen in Doubles. I'll give two sets for her. @ Sitrus Berry Trait: Levitate EVs: 220 HP / 196 Def / 92 SAtk Calm Nature - Icy Wind - Hidden Power [Fire] - Trick Room - Psyshock This is the set I run on my RainRoom team. Calm nature and 196 Def EVs give equal Defenses. Icy Wind for Speedcontrol. Hidden Power Fire to kill Ferrothorn and his companions (Scizor, Forretress). Trick Room to let my slower pokes move first. And Psyshock as STAB. @ Sitrus Berry Trait: Levitate EVs: 220 HP / 184 Def / 104 SDef Modest Nature - Icy Wind - Helping Hand - Trick Room - Psyshock Almost the same set but this one is a little more Defensively orientated. Only change here is Helping Hand > Hidden Power Fire so she can turn your ally's attack in a OHKO. answered May 10, 2013 by Toon_Cerberus Isn't Trick Room and Icy Wind on the same set a bit contradicting? commented May 10, 2013 by the_netts It allows you to gain speedcontrol when Trick Room dies Like on turn 4 and 5 Icy Wind the opponent so you will outspeed him when Trick Room dies. commented May 10, 2013 by Toon_Cerberus The Cresselia animations moving in unison is a little creepy >.< commented May 24, 2013 by Garchomp_Fan Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Gen V Cresselia (F) @ Leftovers Trait: Levitate EVs: 128 HP / 128 Def / 56 SAtk / 196 SDef Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk) Moonlight Calm Mind Psyshock Ice Beam answered Jun 29, 2011 by trachy Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Cresselia (F) @ Leftovers Trait: Levitate EVs: 252 Def / 180 SAtk / 76 Spd Bold Nature (+Def, -Atk) - Moonlight - Charge Beam - Hidden Power [Fighting] - Shadow Ball answered Apr 18, 2012 by Pooka Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes This works as an amazing wall/ tank. Especially in the sun. Cresselia@ leftovers ability: levitate EV's: 252def/ 252 hp/ 4 sp def nature: +def -att moonlight calm mind psychic hidden power fighting You use calm mind a few times and heal off any damage taken with moonlight. After a few calm minds, she hits pretty hard. I have 6-0'd a few OU teams with her before. answered Apr 8, 2013 by Extremespeed edited May 10, 2013 by Extremespeed Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes MOVE SET FOR CRESSELIA This is the move set for my cresselia.It works really well in doubles and provides a good survivor. .SUBSTITUTE- costs HP, but another move in the move set covers for that.provides a wall from OHKOs,so it can save your skin MOONLIGHT-heals cresselia's health,in general or after substitute ICE BEAM/SHADOW BALL-main type covarage,either for ghost and other psychics or grass and flying PSYCHIC-two words: STAB POWER! probably one of the best psychic type moves EVER!Keep it at all times answered Aug 31, 2013 by Hythonwolf400 Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes My very unique set for Cressy Cress@Kee Berry Ability:Levitate EVs:252 HP, 252 Sp.Def, 4 Def Nature:Bold Recycle Moonlight Icy Wind Toxic Recycle renews Kee berry for more defense, Moonlight for HP, Icy Wind for outspeeding and Toxic for damage. Simple but effective. answered Feb 12, 2014 by AegisDatLash Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Here's an unusual set: Cresselia Item: Leftovers Ability: Levitate Nature: Bold EVs: 252 HP / 106 Defense / 152 Sp. Defense Moves: -Psychic (STAB) -Toxic (Status) -Moonlight (Heal) -Calm Mind/Charge Beam (Calm Mind for more reliable stat boosting and Sp. Defense boost or Charge Beam for a bit of extra damage) This set is different, but be careful because you will likely get walled by quite a few Pokemon. answered Sep 9, 2014 by SpartanX Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Rain/Sun Support Cresselia@Heat Rock/Damp Rock Ability: Levitate EVs: 252 HP/ 128 Sp. Def/ 128 Def Moveset: Sunny Day/Rain Dance Moonlight Toxic Psychic This is specifically for Rain or Sun teams. Obviously, you would have Heat Rock for Sunny Day and Damp Rock for Rain Dance. This can help boost the number of turns by 3 more (8 in total). Moonlight is useful under the sun (it gains more health). Even if its rainy weather, it still gives decent recovery. Toxic is a status move to hurt the opponent and Psychic is nice STAB damage. answered Dec 18, 2014 by MechSteelix Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes A rather new approach to sweeper Cress... SubCM + Salac Cresselia! Cresselia @ Salac Berry Ability: Levitate Bold Nature EVs: 252 HP / 136 Def / 120 Spe -Substitute -Calm Mind -Moonblast -Lunar Dance Cresselia has famously annoying bulk, which allows it to have insanely bulky Substitutes as well. It can CM freely, and after a few Subs, it'll get down to Salac level, where it can start outspeeding and slaughtering everything. Or you can Lunar Dance off to a weak sweeper to give it another lease on life. answered Feb 3, 2015 by Radicool21 Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Here's my set. Cresselia (F)@Light Clay Trait: Levitate EV's: 252HP, 4Sp,Def, 252Spe Timid nature (Spe+, Atk-) Calm Mind Reflect Lunar Dance Moonblast This set is basically a screen/stall set. Timid nature with full investment to make her set up a screen as quick as she can and full Hp investment so she's capable of taking hits. Calm Mind will help with the lack of Sp.Atk. Reflect for those pesky physical attackers, along with Light Clay so eight turns should do the trick. Lunar Dance so you can bring an ally back if she is on the verge of fainting. Moonblast for dark type coverage. Other options could be Psychic, Ice Beam etc for attacking or Moonlight for health replenishment. answered Aug 4, 2015 by Sir-Jimbob Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Cresselia's incredible bulk and interesting movepool give it two options: Staller and a Spec. Tank. Here's both... Staller Cresselia @ Lefties Ability: Levitate Nature: Calm (+Sp. Def, -Att.) EV's: 252 Def, 252 Sp. Def, 4 HP Moves: -Psychic/Psyshock -Toxic -Swagger/Thunder Wave -Safeguard Toxic and Swagger to annoy everyone (especially Spec. Attackers), Safeguard to not get annoyed yourself and Psychic/Psyshock so you aren't Taunt bait. This set works great with a SniperCuno or a Tank Kyogre. Spec. Tank: Cresselia @ Sitrus Berry Ability: Levitate Nature: Modest EV's: 252 Sp. Att, 252 Speed, 4 Def. Moves: -Psychic -Moonblast -Calm Mind -Moonlight Psychic is STAB, Moonblast is coverage, Calm Mind is because your Spec. Atk. isn't all that high and Moonlight is recovery. This set works great with a Xerneas or Sun Sweeper. Hope these help! answered Apr 19 by mkkp Please log in or register to add a comment. 0 votes Now then, On PokemonShowdown I have created a set that works wonders for me. It is absolutely beautiful. This is all based on stall tactics, and taking out pesky dragon and dark types. I have deemed this set the "CressClutch set". : Cresselia @ Lum Berry Ability: Levitate EVs: 248 HP / 252 SpA / 8 SpD Modest Nature - Calm Mind - Moonblast - Moonlight - Psychic Now, as I said, this set can deal with pesky dark types that will ruin your face. However, Cressalia is the ultimate switch in. I always use her when I have no one else can survive an attack. It has such an amazing special defense and defense stat. Now, the calm mind is to boost the special defense stats, mainly. I have found it useful to have that special attack stat at most times. The moonlight is for health regen, and psychic is for a STAB move. The final piece of this puzzle is Moonblast. The only reason I have this on is, as I said, for solid dragon types, and pesky dark types. Oh, and the lum berry, is for a toxic switch in. I first used it for sleep powder and spore users. Have a good time battling folks answered Jun 4 by Darkvortexwolf Please log in or register to add a comment. 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Is there a way to avoid entering a password in the process of booting up? I am using a new and latest installation of Ubuntu, with Gnome desktop in it.
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System → Administration → Login Screen. Unlock the dialog and choose what account to log in automatically as.
You might have installed Ubuntu with the whole partition being encrypted. This will require you to enter a password before it can boot the system. If you want to avoid this, you should not choose the option for full partition encryption.
See also here
Do you mean the password request to unlock your keyring? If so, refer to this - http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions/867/how-can-i-stop-being-prompted-to-unlock-the-default-keyring-on-boot


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In Financial Distress, liveBooks Sold to WeddingWire
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LiveBooks, the content management company that provides website management and other services to professional photographers and designers, has announced that it has been acquired by WeddingWire, Inc., an online marketplace for vendors in the wedding and events industry. Terms were not disclosed.
Andy Patrick, CEO of liveBooks, announced the ownership change to liveBooks customers earlier today, and assured them that the liveBooks service and brand name would continue.
"The liveBooks name, the 'powered by liveBooks,' that all stays the same," Patrick told PDN in a telephone interview today. He added that the sale to WeddingWire, a privately held, seven-year-old company, "brings a lot of resources, a lot of stability, and the ability to grow in the way we wanted to." Patrick said liveBooks had hired an investment bank six months ago to sell the company. Patrick said of the sale, "I'm very excited about it, I'm very comfortable with it.
He said the infusion of resources will enable liveBooks to provide its customers with new products, but he didn't provide any details. "And we will be sharing the details of these developments in the coming months," he told customers when he announced the sale.
Patrick acknowledged that liveBooks has struggled financially in recent months. "We got to the point where we needed both financial support and people to continue to do what we've been doing."
Patrick attributed the problems to increased competition–there are now 25 or 30 firms providing websites for photographers, he says. Some of them provide free web sites, he adds. "It drove the price[s] down."
But Patrick says liveBooks had also struggled after the recent acquisition of two companies that provide e-commerce capability for print-on-demand photo products. Neither acquisition was a success, according to Patrick.
The first acquisition, completed last October, was for Pinhole Press and Pinhole Pro. Pinhole was a provider of print-on-demand marketing services and personalized photo gifts That acquisition "was not making sense," Patrick said.
This past February, liveBooks bought San Francisco-based Fotomoto, an e-commerce application for the sale of images and print-on-demand products.
"Let's just say it had a lot of issues," Patrick told PDN.
"We tried some things, they didn't work out, we had to make adjustments."
Six months ago, liveBooks hired investment bank Janney Montgomery Scott to help it find a buyer. Two-and-a-half months ago, the liveBooks was forced to lay off 20 percent of its workforce, and customer service has suffered, Patrick says.
Customer service has been one of liveBooks's strengths, Patrick says, "and it's not been good over the last few months.
"We had to make cuts, and we couldn't live up to our standards and the standard people expected."
Patrick says he has no plans to leave liveBooks. "I have no end date."
–David Walker
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The 8 Creepiest Cases of Identity Theft of All Time
Identity theft is one of the most widely committed crimes in the world, affecting millions of people a year in varying degrees of severity, ranging from a few unwanted pizzas on your credit card bill to landing on an international watch list for political assassins. Sometimes the crimes are so elaborate and the consequences are so strange and unpredictable that it almost makes us want to cancel all our credit cards, forfeit all our licenses and live in a hole in the earth with pillowcases full of cash, surviving entirely on boiled tree roots and stale urine.
#8. Brittany Ossenfort Gets Arrested
Living with a roommate is almost always tough. What you save on rent and groceries you lose on alone time, a lack of policing on your around-the-house nudity and a general sense of security; there's another person here who has keys and knows exactly when you sleep.
But Brittany Ossenfort thought she was past all that, and with good reason. She and her roommate, Michelle, had met through mutual friends (which is like the center tile of "Please Don't Be a Creepy Murderer" bingo), and became good friends themselves. Sure, Brittany thought it was a bit strange when Michelle started to dress like her, and had her hair dyed and styled to match Brittany's. And when Michelle got a matching tattoo on her hand, yes, a few alarm bells were probably clanging around somewhere in the back of Brittany's mind, sort of like when you get an emoticon-filled picture comment from a stranger on Facebook whose profile image is him cleaning a knife. Still, their friendship and cohabitation continued on undaunted for a year.
Via Quizlaw.com
How soon the lessons of Single White Female are forgotten.
That all changed when Brittany Ossenfort got a call at work asking her to bail Brittany Ossenfort out of jail. Brittany briefly entertained the idea that she might be Timecopping herself, but tossed that out the window when investigators did some actual investigating and discovered that the "Brittany Ossenfort" in custody was actually Michelle, who had been arrested on prostitution charges and had given Brittany's name and information to the police. Even more sleuthing by these crackerjack investigators uncovered the fact that Michelle's real name was Richard Phillips.
Via Kansascity.com
Richard. Otherwise known as "Dick." Otherwise known as she used to have one.
Michelle/Richard was a transgender woman who had been living as a woman for as long as Brittany had known her. Unfortunately, even after her identity was cleared up and the police were able to agree that the real Brittany was not, in fact, the person they had arrested, Brittany's name could not be removed from the arrest record. Apparently, once an inmate is booked into a facility, whatever name that person is booked under cannot be changed or amended for any reason, even if they had their identity stolen, or had been Timecopped.
"My name? It's uh, last name 'Cop,' first name 'Time.' And they're both italicized."
Luckily, Brittany has paperwork that she can carry around with her at all times should she ever get stopped by the police.
#7. Anndorie Sachs Has a Baby
Anndorie Sachs was a mother of four enrolled at the University of Utah when she received a call from a gravely serious Child Protective Services representative informing her that she was under investigation because her newborn baby had tested positive for methamphetamines. Sachs was confused by this information, because as far as she knew, she hadn't given birth in years and had never taken methamphetamines (two things that tend to stick out in a person's memory).
"Honey, did you start taking meth and then give birth?" "No to the baby. Maybe to the meth."
When she told CPS as much, they refused to believe her, and began an in-depth investigation into her life, questioning her employers and her family, and even interrogating the four kids she had who weren't shrouded in mystery (apparently their "in-depth" investigation included scaring and intimidating young children, but not a DNA test or a medical exam). All the while, they were threatening to declare her an unfit, drug-addicted mother and take her children away.
As the investigation dragged on, it came to light that Sachs' car had recently been broken into, and her driver's license had been stolen. The thief was a pregnant meth addict who took the stolen license and marched it to the local hospital to give birth under Sachs' identity, even putting Sachs' name on the birth certificate before strolling back out into the world to continue not giving one haggard shit about the life she'd just farted into existence.
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Feast your eyes on the horrors of a meth addict's meticulously clean, well-furnished kitchen.
Even after this was discovered, Social Services was still unwilling to accept that Sachs wasn't the mother, though to their credit, they finally did a DNA test to prove once and for all that she wasn't. Unfortunately, for some baffling reason the hospital was still intent on sticking Sachs with the $10,000 bill for the birth (remember, that's the birth of a child who wasn't hers by a woman she didn't know). And the battle to clear her medical records may never end, because if you become a victim of medical identity theft, your personal information can be changed by the person who stole your identity. So if Meth Teeth McGee told the hospital her blood type was B, that's what Sachs' records will say from now on. More time, money and vigilance have been put into protecting Battle.net accounts than personal medical information.
"People with babies can't lie. Everyone knows that."
#6. Nicole McCabe Assassinates a War Criminal
Nicole McCabe, an Australian woman who had been living in Israel with her husband for two and half years, was six months pregnant and happily awaiting the birth of her baby when she heard over the radio that she was one of 26 people implicated in the assassination of Hamas chief Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was wanted by the Israeli government for murder and arms dealing. Mahmoud had been smothered to death with a pillow in his hotel room in Dubai (always a 26-man job). Despite the fact that McCabe had not left Israel in over six months (and that trip had been to Australia, not Dubai), Interpol happily added this 27-year-old pregnant lady to their most-wanted list for murdering a high-ranking war criminal with her bare hands.
"This is so sweet of you, but do you think we can make it quick? I have a murder appointment at 7."
Further investigation linked the assassination to Mossad, an elite Israeli covert force made famous by Eric Bana in Munich. In order to have access to al-Mabhouh and not be sprayed with bullets like Sonny Corleone on an infinite loop the instant they set foot in the airport, Mossad stole the passports of 26 individuals with clean records and gave them to their assassins to enter Dubai. Nicole McCabe's was just one of the passports they swiped.
Via Theaustralian.com
"That's the one. Her eyes say 'I could kill a motherfucker,' but her hair says 'I'd rather party'."
When the plan was uncovered, however, McCabe and her fellow victims were left holding the bag. She received no help from the Australian embassy or the international community whatsoever, beyond being issued a new passport number to "protect her privacy." For all she knows, some vengeful hit squad could be waiting to car bomb her to the moon for a crime she had no part of. Even worse, her passport was never actually physically stolen -- all the information was gathered from another source somewhere in the system, meaning there was absolutely nothing she could have done to prevent it.
#5. Harrun Majeed Buys Some Pizza
Harrun Majeed, a 14-year Navy veteran working toward a degree at a community college, drove out to the local Publix supermarket to buy his son a birthday cake, because when you live in a town that has a Publix, your birthday cake options are limited to either buying one from the Publix or baking one from couch stuffing and a jar of fresh tears. When he got home, he realized he had dropped his credit card somewhere along the way, and immediately got on the phone with his bank to report the loss and cancel the card.
"My last purchase? Sexy butt toys. But if you see any charges for lube, that's someone else."
However, the bank informed Majeed that his card had already been used in the time since he lost it to buy two pizzas from a restaurant in the same shopping center as the Publix, for a total of about $40. Clearly, he had dropped the card in the parking lot, and somebody had picked it up and instantly splurged on pizzas in celebration of their good fortune. Majeed called the police as soon as he got off the phone to report the fraud, and the cops drove out to the restaurant to find that, incredibly, the culprit was still there, waiting for the pizzas he had ordered.
"I believe human mortals call this a 'prank.' I also urinated on one of their child creatures."
The thief was Dr. Richard Ludwig, a dentist who was in town for his son's baseball tournament. Ludwig had a personal net worth of about $3 or 4 million, and $250 cash in his wallet at the time of his arrest for using someone else's credit card to buy two large pizzas for 40 goddamned bucks. He even signed the credit card slip with his own fucking name. It's like he was daring the police to try and explain anything he was doing.
Via CBSlocal.com
Gah! Man, there is no way that psycho doesn't collect the teeth that he pulls.
He was charged with three felonies that could land him in jail for up to 15 years. Worse, he got called a "stupid dickhead" by a comedy website.
You're a stupid dickhead, guy.


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Edgbaston Ward
The history of Edgbaston goes back to the Domesday Book. The Ward contains a wonderful variety of trees, green spaces and gardens. It remains the premier residential district close to the City Centre.
The Ward is an area of great diversity. It contains some of the most desirable housing in the City but also some areas of deprivation. This diversity is also seen in the distribution of wealth, health and other social indicators.
The Edgbaston Conservation Area and the smaller St Augustine's, Lee Crescent and Ryland Road Conservation Areas cover half the land area. The influence of the Calthorpe Estate has been particularly important in preserving the quality and character of the areas to the South of Hagley Road. The area features a unique range of 19th Century domestic architecture from Regency Villas to Gothic piles, many of which are listed.
There is also a wide variety of private and social housing in the rest of the Ward including the Benmore and Woodview Estates which since June 1999 have been managed by Optima, a new registered social landlord.
There are also three sites of nature conservation in the Ward.
The Ward is largely residential with very little manufacturing industry but contains very important service industries, The University of Birmingham, The Queen Elizabeth and other hospitals and many schools. There is a substantial commercial area along Hagley Road and around Five Ways, as well as small local shopping centres.
The Ward includes Warwickshire County Cricket Club, Edgbaston Reservoir and the Botanical Gardens.
Although some parts of the Ward have suffered from social pressures and street crime, the residents' strong sense of community has resisted decline. Birmingham remains unique among our provincial cities in having such a high quality residential area so close to the City Centre.
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October 25, 2013 / Category: Hammer Strength
The first annual Hammer Strength All American Athlete of the Year Award went to a very deserving individual: Jeanelle Scheper from the University of South Carolina. Our 2013 female award-winner entered college as a 15-year-old, set a school record jumping 6'3" ¼ during the 2013 season and became the Student Athlete of the Year. Additionally, she received accolades from her home country of St. Lucia as the St. Lucia Junior Female Athlete of the Year and the Sports Woman of the Year.


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It's always better to be proactive than reactive, according to many cardiologists.
But when something does happen, especially to your heart, it's important to stay healthy after surgery.
One year ago, Leslie Lee shared her story about the day she started sweating at work. "It kept getting worse. My heart started racing, I started breathing fast. I got light headed and dizzy," she said.
The 36-year old actually thought she was in the early stages of menopause. "I thought 'Oh no! Not yet,'" she said. "That's not supposed to happen!"
Lee said she never had any chest pains and she never suspected it was a heart problem, even though she has a family history of heart disease. "I have an uncle who had a quadruple-bypass surgery and an aunt as well. I've had several members of my mom's family die suddenly of a heart attack without any warning whatsoever," Lee explained.
Lee had to have a 12-hour surgery to correct several rhythm problems in her heart, a condition that cardiologist Herbert Ladley at the Wellmont CVA Heart Institute said can be cured. "The procedure has the beauty of identifying the problem, reproducing the clinical problem, making it go away and testing to make sure it's gone for good," he said.
Now, four years after surgery, Lee said she's still working to keep her heart working. "I'm trying to watch what I eat. I have a healthier diet. I work exercise in as much as I can," she said.
The mother of two is trying to instill a heart-healthy lifestyle in her children. "If they can start making healthy habits now at 11 and 13, they won't be in my position when they get older," she said.
Dr. Ladley said it's very important that people in our area pay attention to their heart health because coronary heart disease is prevalent in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia.
For more information about how to Live Red, visit Wellmont.org/LiveRed. You can also find out more about Live Red on Facebook.


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When using the hermeneutical approach of contextual analysis, What are the main tenets of this approach? How much context is usually necessary to consider?
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I'm not sure contextual analysis rises to the the level of an "approach", but it's a tool used by many other schools of hermeneutics—especially those that put significance on understanding what the original author intended to communicate. The basic idea is that when an author makes statement
Take, for instance, Jesus' statement in Luke 14:34a (ESV):
Without context, you could easily interpret that to mean that doctors are wrong to order patients with hyper-tension to reduce their sodium intake. But as you start to look at the statements surrounding this one, that interpretation becomes harder and harder to justify. In fact, Jesus isn't really making any medical advice in this passage at all.
As for what context we need to consider, different hermeneutical schools will have different priorities. Here is my hierarchy of context, which I think coincides well to the Grammatical-Historical approach:
[I could not find a reference to back this up or refute this list. Any suggestions?]
Generally, the higher up the scale and the stronger the affinity, the better evidence a context offers. In the example above, the historical context might suggest that Jesus is talking about a soldier's salary, but the immediate context makes clear the culinary uses of salt are in view. Even so, since an author usually has a choice of several words, they may have multiple and interlocking connotations.
Usually, meaning of a particular statement can be found by examining wider and wider circles of context. We do need to be careful not to impose an inappropriate context on text, however. It's possible that some obscure passages will never be fully understood as we have lost the original contextual framework in which they were written.


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Praxair's new plant and extensive pipeline system will have the ability to supply oxygen and nitrogen to the majority of chemical companies in the port. The new 1,300 tpd plant will increase Praxair's oxygen and nitrogen capacity in the port and expand its business with global customers.
Praxair will build its second air separation plant and
extend its pipeline system in the Port of Antwerp, the
second-largest petrochemical enclave in the world,
the company said on Thursday.
The new 1,300 tpd plant will increase Praxairs
oxygen and nitrogen capacity in the port and expand its
business with customers under long-term contracts, including
agreements with several leading global companies. The new air
separation plant is expected to start up in early
The increase of installed capacity, as well as an expansion of Praxairs pipeline
network in the Port of Antwerp, gives us the reach and
production to supply the increasing oxygen and nitrogen demand
of customers throughout the port, said Todd Skare,
president of Praxair Europe.
Integrated ports such as Antwerp have remained
competitive, in spite of the extended recessionary period in Europe, and we fully expect the port
to continue to grow and attract significant new investment in
the future," he added.
Praxairs new plant and extensive pipeline system will
have the ability to supply oxygen and nitrogen to the majority
of chemical companies in the port. The new facility is also
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I do have one software(.exe) file which I need to run on my macbook pro. For that I need cross platform application just like wine in Ubuntu.
Can anyone suggest me the application?
I do have one software(.exe) file which I need to run on my macbook pro. For that I need cross platform application just like wine in Ubuntu.
Can anyone suggest me the application?
There is a wine port for OS X: http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX
From the project page:
(Notice that Darwine, the original effort to port Wine to OS X, was primarily written for PowerPC Macs. Some work was done to support Intel Macs, but it is no longer actively developed, so you are better off avoiding it.)
There are no official Wine packages available for Intel Macs as of this writing, so you'll have to use a third-party application like WineBottler (http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/), PlayOnMac (http://www.playonmac.com/en/download.html, for Snow Leopard and Lion). or Wineskin (http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php, for Lion and Mountain Lion).
daviewales has mentioned in a comment below a package manager I didn't know of called Homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/). You may want to give it a try.
Otherwise you can try the commercial product CrossOver, which is basically Wine with, as Wikipedia puts it, various compatibility patches added, more user-friendly configuration tools, and commercial support.
You can download a free trial here: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/
In addition to the other answer, take a look at WineBottler: http://winebottler.kronenberg.org
This application deals with some of the technical side of using wine on OSX, like creating application profiles etc. It essentially allows you to encapsulate the .exe as a mac application, and run it natively in OSX without the need for running a virtual machine.
It is only in beta, but I have successfully used this to run various windows .exe applications under OSX 10.6.x (Snow Leopard). Be warned, not everything will work, but that is to be expected!
Havent got round to testing it yet in Mountain Lion yet as I have only just migrated. Hope this helps!
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Candlewood Suites DFW South
The beautiful Candlewood Suites DFW South is located adjacent to the CentrePort Business Park and is approximately three minutes from the DFW International Airport.
Our hotel is centered in the DFW Metroplex, providing you with easy access to the AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, Rangers Ballpark, Six Flags Over Texas, Hurricane Harbor, and the Verizon Theatre. Our extended stay hotel in Fort Worth is just a short drive from shopping and entertainment districts like Grapevine Mills Mall and the Stockyards Station in Fort Worth.
Lodging here is convenient for corporate travelers, as our extended stay hotel is near Fort Worth businesses like Cuna Insurance, the American Airlines Training Center, the Small Business Administration, Boeing, FlightSafety, CAE Simiflite, Bombardier, and NCR. Our DFW hotel's amenities include 1,450 sq. ft. of meeting space as well as a business center.
For a "home away from home" feeling in Ft. Worth, our hotel offers spacious suites, complete with full kitchens, complimentary, high-speed internet access and 32-inch LCD TVs with DVD players, as well as the 24-hour Candlewood Cupboard store, a music & movie lending library, fitness center and complimentary guest laundry all at our Candlewood Suites - DFW South.
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July 12, 2016
While this hotel was clean and adequately appointed, the staff's appearance, attitude, and actions will keep me away in the future. Our reservation was done via phone, and information provided about the rooms was inaccurate, causing a problem. Staff members consistently provided excuses for why they could not help, only to reverse course and offer options. Ended up with extra charges due to this problem and multiple, lengthy visits to the front desk.
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The staff, especially front desk, have always been incredibly friendly and accommodating. The rooms are spacious and clean.
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Everytime I have my family, I make sure I stay at a Candlewood Suites. We feel like we are at home, comfortable and with all convenient amenities. This one in DFW was particularly very homey.
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Cranberry Energy Bites RecipeCranberry Energy Bites
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These no-bake bites make a simple pre-workout snack. You can quickly mix up a batch on Sunday and pack them with you to the gym or office throughout the week.
Yield: 9 bites
Preparation time: 10 minutes
- 15 unsweetened dates, pitted
- ¼ cup dried cranberries
- ¼ cup unsalted sunflower seeds
- ¼ cup old fashioned rolled oats
- Zest of 1 orange
- 1/8 tsp salt
- Place all ingredients in the bowl of a food processor. Process on high for about 10 seconds, until all ingredients are chopped. They should stick together when pressed between your fingers.
- Roll into 9 equal sized balls, about 1 to 1 ½ tablespoons each. Store in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
Nutrition information for 1 bite: Calories 149; Total Fat 2 g; Saturated Fat 0.2 g; Trans Fat 0 g; Cholesterol 0 mg; Sodium 33 mg; Carbohydrate 34.5 g; Fiber 3.5 g; Sugar 28.4 g; Protein 1.8 g


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We are two parents with three children, a blonde, a red head and one brunette, ages 8,9,and 12 years. Why do I write that? because we look very American which may not be such a good thing in Morocco. I love everything I read about the adventure, history and beauty of Morocco and it may be ignorance, but I am afraid of driving cross country and have a fear of being pulled over by machine gun toting rebels kidnapping my children. Feels awful to say it and this is very ignorant on my part but as a mother I wonder if I am jeopardizing my children?? We have planned driving trips through many European countries and Mexico, when it was safe. We love to drive and gain our freedom and it is also economical for a family of 5. All I have read say that Morocco is safe and the people are kind to Americans. We are well traveled and enjoy simple living and immersion into the culture. My route would take us from Marrakesh over the mountains to the Kasbahs, Falls, Atlas Film Studio with a drive toward Merzouga and an overnight camel trip to the Sahara and then a drive to Fez. I want to figure out how to put Essouira into the mix as well. I know bad things can happen anywhere in the world I just don't want to fly my family into a place where I shouldn't. I am becoming more educated that this would be a safe journey. Please respond.
You're worrying way too much about this! Morocco sees a huge number of Caucasian European tourists (~370,000 from the UK alone) due to its proximity to Europe thanks to cheap low-cost carrier flights as well as historic ties it has with France, being a former French colony. (To this day, French is one of the more commonly spoken languages, at least in the bigger cities, in Morocco.) Travel advisory by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office UK mentions a general threat of terrorism as is common in the Asian/African region, and yes, driving standards may be significantly different to what you're used in the US or Europe. However, in practical terms Morocco is an extremely safe country and you certainly aren't going to find 'machine gun toting rebels' (who exactly do you think is rebelling against what?) kidnapping tourists.
There have been incidents of tourists being kidnapped a couple of years ago in some other North African countries such as Algeria, but not Morocco (as far as I can see from a general web search).
Morocco is a relatively safe place.
The biggest issue would be heat and sun if you travel in summer.
Take care of air conditioning in the car and of long sleeves to protect the skin of your blonde and red head children (though I guess that all the family could benefit).
I've just returned from a 1500km driving tour of central and eastern Morocco. My girlfriend and I both felt very safe in and out of the car, welcomed by the locals in cities and villages. The only risk for driving during the day is the abundance of traffic police with checkpoints and radar guns. We were stopped for crossing the white center line (which is hard to avoid doing with very slow trucks, donkey carts, and cyclists on the road) and asked to pay a fine. I talked my way out of it, but could see it happening again if I wasn't on my toes.


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PORTLAND, Maine � A glut has driven down lobster prices in Maine � bringing cheer to lobster-loving consumers at the start of the state�s tourist season but gloom among lobstermen.
Retailers have been selling small soft-shell lobsters in the Portland area for an unusually low $3.79 to $4.99 a pound. At those prices, lobsters have been selling for less than the per-pound price of bologna at many supermarket deli counters.
Zain Nemazie, of Austin, Texas, was expecting low lobster prices � but not this low � while on vacation in Maine with his family.
�This is as good as it gets,� Nemazie said late last week after paying $4.59 a pound for large 1�-pound lobsters at a seafood shop on Portland�s waterfront. �We�re from Texas, where we�d be paying at least $12 a pound.�
At Docks Seafood in South Portland, owner Bob Coppersmith said customers were eating up the low prices, including a deal where he was selling five small live lobsters for $25. He later dropped it to five for $24.
�One gentleman came in and said, �So I get five lobsters for $25. What�s the catch?�� Coppersmith said. �I said there�s no catch. He said, �You�re going to put five lobsters in a bag and not weigh them and give me them to me for 25 bucks?� He just couldn�t believe it.�
The Fourth of July represents the unofficial start to Maine�s tourist season, when out-of-state visitors begin arriving in earnest.
Typically, Independence Day also is when Maine�s lobster catch begins picking up as lobsters begin shedding their hard shells in favor of new soft shells. Soft-shell lobsters have less meat than hard-shell ones, but they are easier to crack open � it can be done by hand, no claw cracker needed � and sell for a lower price.
This year, though, soft-shell lobsters began showing up in abundance in fishermen�s traps weeks earlier than normal.
Most of those lobsters usually go to Canadian processors. But the processors haven�t been able to handle the Maine catch because Canadian lobstermen had such strong catches during their spring season, resulting in a backlog, said Neal Workman, head of The Fisheries Exchange, a Biddeford company that tracks prices, catches and other market information for the lobster industry.
Supply right now far exceeds demand, resulting in a �perfect storm� for the industry, he said.
�Things are plugged up,� Workman said.
Virtually all soft-shell lobsters are sold to processors or on the local market, because they�re too fragile to ship long distances. The lobsters sold at retailers outside New England are most often hard-shell lobsters, which command a premium price and are hardy enough to be shipped long distances.
For now, the excess supply in Maine has driven retail prices to under $4 a pound for the smallest of the soft-shell lobsters. Larger lobsters, and those that still have hard shells, are more expensive.
While consumers may be smiling, lobstermen are smarting because of the low prices � between $2.50 and $3 a pound � they�re getting for their catches.
The fishing season is young and lobstermen are hopeful prices soon will rebound to their normal levels, said Patrice McCarron, executive director of the Maine Lobstermen�s Association.
�The Fourth of July is a big boom in demand for us,� she said. �We�re going to see some lobsters move through the system, so there�s hope that we�ll see a balancing in the market once we get through the holiday demand and get back on track for a typical season.
�But there�s definitely a lot of angst among harvesters.�
With Independence Day around the corner, Pete McAleney of New Meadows Lobster, a lobster dealer in Portland, was using the low prices as a marketing opportunity.
�To heck with hot dogs and hamburgers, eat a lobster,� McAleney said. �They�re very affordable.�


text: Hey all! I was looking through all the anime drawings I had and I came across this adorable picture of Yuki that I drew over a year ago. I decided to put the cute ball of fluff that I drew to use and so I made this tutorial! Fruits Basket is no doubt one of the best shojo manga/anime series out there and it takes a full perfectionist to be able to draw like Natsuki Takaya, the creator. I'm a dire prefectionist, but even I could not compare to her. But...I can dream! -_- Anways, let's get on with the super kawaii tutorial! Enjoy! ^_^


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15 Jan 2011 10:52 AM #1
Datastore: "Unable to load data using the supplied configuration"
Hey, i tried to do the datastores tutorial provided on the mainpage but i get some error trying to use the .json database.
I have a tomcat server running on port 8080 and a databasefolder at /database/customers.json.
I have no problems accessing that file with a browser but extdesigner does not load the file. Any idea what it might be?
19 Jan 2011 2:50 AM #2
I have exactly the same issue.
From your documentation about data stores I wanted to try the example with the customers.json. I followed the instruction, placed the file on my ubuntu in a virtual box and specified the URL (basePath + url) and clicked "Load Data" which results in an error:
"Unable to load data using the supplied configuration.
Open in Browser: http://dev.local/customers.json"
The URL works fine in the browser and I can see the content of the json file.
What might be the problem?
Regards, Michael
19 Jan 2011 5:49 AM #3
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Hi TimTim & Michael,
This error also occurs when the store is unable to decipher the data that's returned from the server. Is the "root" config of your JsonStore set to "customers"?
19 Jan 2011 5:59 AM #4
Hi Jarred
Yes, the root is set to customers.
In my case, when my JsonStore in ExtDesigner (running on my mac) should connect to http://dev.local/customers.json (which is on 192.168.56.10, a virtbox ubuntu running apache, and GET request with browser works from my mac), does the rule of xdomain references bite me? Or is it supposed to work that way from within ExtDesigner?
The code I have:
JsonStore Definition
CustomersStore = Ext.extend(Ext.data.JsonStore, { constructor: function(cfg) { cfg = cfg || {}; CustomersStore.superclass.constructor.call(this, Ext.apply({ storeId: 'CustomersStore', root: 'customers', idProperty: 'name', url: 'customers.json', autoLoad: true, fields: [ { name: 'name' }, { name: 'age', type: 'int' }, { name: 'zipcode', mapping: 'zip' } ] }, cfg)); } }); new CustomersStore();
customers.json Content:
{ customers: [ {name: "Bradley Banks", age: 36, zip: "10573"}, {name: "Sarah Carlson", age: 59, zip: "48075"}, {name: "Annmarie Wright", age: 53, zip: "48226"} ] }
Unable to load data using the supplied configuration.
Open in Browser: http://dev.local/customers.json
I'm already thinking about setting up the local apache of my mac as a reverse proxy to dev.local so that ExtDesigner can connect to localhost...
19 Jan 2011 6:03 AM #5
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Thanks for the fast reply. Let me try to replicate your issue as your configuration and everything look fine to me.
In my case, when my JsonStore in ExtDesigner (running on my mac) should connect to http://dev.local/customers.json (which is on 192.168.56.10, a virtbox ubuntu running apache, and GET request with browser works from my mac), does the rule of xdomain references bite me? Or is it supposed to work that way from within ExtDesigner?
19 Jan 2011 9:23 AM #6
Now, beeing at home, things are clearer (and working .
I removed all of Ext Designer (/Application/ExtDesigner.app, ~/Library/Application Support/Ext JS, Inc., ~/.config/Ext JS, Inc., ~/Library/Preferences/..?) and reinstalled the app again. Startet up, registered and gave it another try with the jsonStore... and it worked!
What was the difference? Proxy!
At work, I had to set the proxy to be able to register the software. Afterwards unsetting the proxy was not possible through the app and removing ~/Library/Application Support/Ext JS, Inc (and backing up the license file and reputting it upon restart) didn't help either.
After the fresh reinstall at home, setting up the proxy was not needed anymore, registered the software and now it works!
Don't know why, but the issue is related to the proxy settings.
Does this help you in anyway to locate the issue?
Tomorrow at work I'll see if it still works, but it should, as long as I'm only connecting to stuff reachable without having to use the proxy (i.e. http://dev.local).
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Yes that makes perfect sense. Unfortunately there is not the ability to alter the whitelist for the proxy...it is hard coded to bypass the proxy for any private IP subnet (class A, B, and C, both IPv4 and IPv6) and localhost. I didn't think to ask about the proxy, so good sleuthing!
The only workaround I can think of is to 1) use the IP address of the VM directly...the VM will have either a private IP, or if it's setup to be NAT'ed, it'll have its own IP on your network. Or 2), you can edit your hosts file (typically in /etc/hosts) and have localhost point to the VM IP instead of the loopback address (127.0.0.1). Whitelist editing will be a feature in the future.
19 Jan 2011 9:46 AM #8
That's what I read too befoer posting here. But actually, my vm has an IP from a private address ranges (192.168.56.10) and address resolution is done with an entry in my /etc/hosts on my mac (192.168.56.10 dev.local). That's why I'm still confused actually. Ext Designer should have bypassed the proxy as far as I understand, shouldn't it?
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http://192.168.56.10 instead of http://dev.local. The proxy whitelist looks at the host of the URI to determine if it should go through the proxy or not. So as far as hosts are concerned, dev.local != 192.168.56.10, even if dev.local resolves to that IP.
Hope that helps.
23 Sep 2011 6:11 AM #10
Can't use the IP for my dev server
I'm unable to use the IP address of my dev server. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Ext Designer, but it appeared to retain the license and proxy config info. Can you let me know how we can clear that out or add a whitelisted domain to the proxy configs in Ext Designer?
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