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When Paula Schlegel's son was only five, his preschool teacher gave her a free pass to a Jazzercise class. Schlegel said she'd spent years taking care of her family but neglecting herself, and she was so desperate to get back into shape that she walked in the door and joined the class before it even started. It only took one class, and she was hooked. She immediately lost weight and inches. Within six months, she said the change was noticeable. Seven months after joining, she began training to become an instructor.
Schlegel led her first Jazzercise classes in the basement of a church in Bethlehem, and she eventually moved to a slightly larger basement at St. Paul's. She was leading the charge of a program that was rapidly growing in popularity both nationally and internationally.
Jazzercise was born in 1969 when founder Judi Sheppard Missett turned her love of jazz dance into a worldwide dance exercise phenomenon. The program, an international franchise business, offers a blend of jazz dance, resistance training, yoga, Pilates and kickboxing movements. According to the Jazzercise official web site, benefits of the program include increased cardiovascular endurance, strength and flexibility, as well as an overall "feel good" factor. There are approximately 7,800 instructors teaching more than 32,000 weekly classes in 32 countries.
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Paula Schlegel, right, Jazzercise instructor and owner of the Jazzercise center located in Elm Terrace Plaza in Elm Grove, leads the class in a warm up routine. Jazzercise is a dance exercise program that offers a blend of jazz dance, resistance training, yoga, Pilates and kickboxing movements. According to the Jazzercise official web site, benefits of the program include increased cardiovascular endurance, strength and flexibility, as well as an overall "feel good" factor.
A Jazzercise workout takes 60 minutes and consists of approximately 40 minutes of cardio work, followed by 20 minutes of strength training. During the cardio set, routines gradually build in intensity — into the "green zone" when your body is working its hardest. After a few routines in the "green zone," the routine intensity gradually decreases into a cool down song. The program is customizable because it can be done at many different intensity levels and modified to your personal ability level.
Schlegel smiles during her workout. "It's a fun, great workout," she said.
Stretching is an important part of the workout, both before and after the higher intensity movements, because it warms up the muscles to help prevent injuries.
For Schlegel, a Wheeling resident, church basements just became too small. She had her eye out to expand into a Jazzercise center, which could be open any time, had convenient parking and, as Schlegel put it with a laugh, they wouldn't get "kicked out for funerals or weddings." When an opening became available in Elm Terrace Plaza in Elm Grove, Schlegel took a leap of faith and opened her Jazzercise center. Growth and an explosion in popularity made it necessary to make another move, just a few doors down in the same plaza inside Powerhouse Fitness Center.
While there may be similar dancing programs out there, Jazzercise is unique in that Schlegel and the other instructors get choreography sent to them from the corporate offices. "Every eight to 10 weeks, we get a new set of 30 songs to learn," she stated, noting that in this way, the industry can keep everything "fresh" by using the latest music and keeping participants engaged with exciting new routines.
The instructors are also monitored once a year to make sure they and their centers are in compliance. "We move the way they tell us," she said. "It's tried and true."
And this uniformity is one of the best things about the program, according to Schlegel. "It's consistent throughout the world." For example, you could go to a class in Miami, San Francisco or Denver and hear the same songs and routines as you do in Wheeling.
And while there is consistency, each class is unique. Because there are so many new routines every two to three months, instructors can mix in new routines with old ones to create their own custom mix of songs for the workout. "Jazzercise keeps your brain in gear," said Schlegel. You never know what songs an instructor will teach in each class because it's very easy for them to switch out old routines for new ones.
A Jazzercise workout takes 60 minutes and consists of approximately 40 minutes of cardio work, followed by 20 minutes of strength training. The cardio set begins with a warm up, and then routines gradually build in intensity - into the "green zone" when your body is working its hardest. After a few routines in the "green zone," the routine intensity gradually decreases into a cool down song. For the strength training portion, yoga mats are suggested for floor work, but participants have the option to stand as well. Hand weights are needed - but also not necessary - for this portion of the workout. Choose a weight that's comfortable for you. Most participants start with three or five pound dumbbells. And most importantly, participants should bring water and a towel. If you forget your water, don't worry! Jazzercise will give you a cold bottle of water.
While being a Jazzercise franchise owner and running a successful facility is Schlegel's dream, her dream was almost shattered by a devastating health issue.
Five years into teaching, Schlegel began to experience knee problems. When her sore knees became too much for her, she went to an orthopedist, who shocked her when he said it was her hip, not her knee, that was the problem. "I had no idea it was my hip," Schlegel said. "None." Schlegel was diagnosed with degenerative hip dysplasia and would require a hip replacement - she was only 44 years old at the time.
Schlegel recovered rather quickly from her surgery and was back to teaching eight weeks later. She said that it took nearly a full year, however, for all her muscles to completely recuperate. At this point, Schlegel figured her trouble was behind her.
About a year and a half after her surgery, Schlegel noticed her knees hurting again. "I'd heard that once you get one hip done, the other goes pretty quickly," she explained. "The doctor didn't think mine looked that bad, but I think once I did have that one replaced, I was just off balance."
Schlegel was in denial for a while, continuing to teach even though students noticed her limping and her pain was getting worse. Finally, she had put it off long enough. She returned to the doctor and told him she couldn't do it anymore. "If something's broken, I like to fix it," she stated.
In September 2011, Schlegel underwent hip replacement surgery on her other hip. However, the recovery proved to be a lot tougher this time around.
"I came to class as a student to help myself recuperate," Schlegel explained, noting that she could easily modify the workout to accommodate lower impact on her healing hip. "I taught about eight or nine weeks later, and after that class, I couldn't walk. I thought maybe it was just the muscles and everything trying to get in sync, so I taught another class. I couldn't walk after that one either, and from that point on, I was on crutches."
"Looking back now and knowing something wasn't quite right, I think I did know something was wrong, but I just wanted to get back to Jazzercise," she admitted. "I was in so much denial."
In April 2012, Schlegel went under the knife for a third time, this time to revise her second hip surgery. Now, she says her hip is "perfect."
"Looking back, it was horrible, a very dark time, but the outcome was just great," Schlegel reflected with a light smile. She returned to teaching in July and now has a steady schedule of teaching four or five classes a week.
Schlegel is quick to point out that her Jazzercise family provided tremendous support during this rocky period. The other instructors took on her classes as well as their own, and students continued to attend and join through the holidays and into spring. "It was a ship without a captain, but no one ever gave up," she said.
And now that she's feeling better, Schlegel can concentrate on her business, something she feels very hopeful about. "I realize this is a business where people start and stop, start and stop, but we also have ongoing people who - this is what they do," she said, referring to those Jazzercise members who continue to come simply because they love it.
And what's not to love about it? "It's a fun, great workout," Schlegel explained. "Even if you have adversity or a health situation, you can still do it. I have a person who comes in the evening who had a knee replacement, so I'm not the only one doing this who had something replaced." Jazzercise can be done at many different intensity levels and modified to your personal ability level, so it is possible to recover from a surgery while doing it, according to Schlegel.
Schlegel's team consists of six trainers - Schlegel, Gail Adams, Ashley Alberts, Mandy Breiding, Rebecca Broadwater and Brenda Mayer. Schlegel is also in the process of recruiting and training two new instructors, who will try out at the end of February.
For those people who say they aren't coordinated enough or would never be able to keep up with such a workout, Schlegel says emphatically, "Just try it." She says that we all have a special vision in our minds of what it's like, and it really is for everybody. "People love being in this environment," she added, noting that her classes are always a good mix of young, old and middle aged members. "Even if you don't do it at a fast pace, some of the older ladies who come swear that their doctors tell them their blood pressure is better. Just moving is great."
"My daughter used to say, 'that's what my mom does'," Schlegel laughed. Both of her daughters are around 20, and over Thanksgiving, they got hooked on Jazzercise. "Something that was 'mom's thing' became something they loved. They loved the music and the camaraderie and this environment.
"You don't even really realize you're working out."
Jazzercise is located at 176 East Cove Ave., inside Powerhouse Fitness Center in Elm Terrace Plaza. Classes are offered daily: Mondays and Wednesdays at 6:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m.; Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 a.m., 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m.; Fridays at 6:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 4:30 p.m. (express 30-minute class); Saturdays at 7:45 a.m. and 9 a.m.; and Sundays at 9 a.m., 10 a.m. (30-45 minute body sculpting) and 4 p.m. Classes are $35 a month plus tax, or $8 for walk-ins. For information, contact Schlegel at 304-233-5767 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Literary Giant Obsessed by Movies
Celebrated novelist Cormac McCarthy was involved with every aspect of 'The Counselor'
Early on in Ridley Scott's dark new thriller "The Counselor," a clueless lawyer gets a cryptic warning from a criminal who is cutting him in on a big drug deal: "The smallest crumb can devour us."
Hard-core Cormac McCarthy fans may recognize the phrase as a line from his Western novel, "Blood Meridian." There will likely be a few such fans in the audience when "The Counselor" hits theaters on Oct. 25. The movie, starring Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Cameron Diaz, Penélope Cruz and Michael Fassbender, comes from an original screenplay written by Mr. McCarthy, one of the country's most celebrated novelists and now a budding screenwriter.
Mr. McCarthy, a lifelong film buff, has seen several of his revered novels adapted for film but has never made an original feature film before. A lurid, adrenaline-fueled thriller about a lawyer who tries to get rich quick by dabbling in the drug trade, "The Counselor" marks a career milestone that has eluded the 80-year-old writer for decades. Mr. McCarthy has been writing original screenplays since the 1970s, but just one, a TV movie titled "The Gardener's Son," was made. His archived papers include three other finished scripts that were never made, including "No Country for Old Men," which he wrote as a screenplay before he turned it into a novel.
In the past, Mr. McCarthy has been content to let filmmakers interpret his words. But with "The Counselor," he wanted more control. He joined the production as an executive producer, and weighed in on everything from the director and cast to subtle language tweaks and final edits. He was on set for roughly 40 days of filming in London and coastal Spain. "Cormac wrote it with the intent of being involved from beginning to end," said producer Nick Wechsler, who snapped up "The Counselor" within days of reading it.
Mr. McCarthy was mostly a quiet presence on the set, but occasionally, he gave the actors instructions. "He was there every day, and if I was getting something wrong, he'd let me know," said Mr. Fassbender, who plays the unnamed attorney, in an interview. At one point, when Mr. Fassbender was shooting a tense, dialogue-heavy scene with Mr. Bardem, Mr. McCarthy corrected Mr. Fassbender on his delivery of a line that uses the poker phrase, "hole card."
The resulting film hews closely to Mr. McCarthy's original vision, and could reshape his reputation as a writer and storyteller. McCarthy fans and scholars are already sharply divided over the screenplay for "The Counselor," which will be published next week. Some have pronounced it a brilliant and profound morality tale in league with his novel "No Country for Old Men." Others have dismissed it as "the worst thing McCarthy has ever written."
The film adds a new chapter to the author's nearly 50-year career. Mr. McCarthy's works have won major literary awards and sold millions of copies. He's known for his dense, borderline Biblical prose, which is peppered with words like "haruspices," "paraclete" and "pinchbeck," and his poetic descriptions of extreme violence. But in Hollywood, he is still an unproven, novice screenwriter—albeit one with a mammoth literary reputation.
"The Counselor" came as a surprise to Mr. McCarthy's publisher and his literary agent, Amanda Urban. In January 2012, Ms. Urban received a package from Mr. McCarthy. She was expecting a novel and instead found a 180-page screenplay. She called Mr. McCarthy and asked where the story came from. He explained that he needed a break from the two novels he was working on and wanted to knock out something quickly. He wrote the screenplay in five weeks, he told her.
Ms. Urban immediately sent the script to Mr. Wechsler and Steve Schwartz and his wife, Paula Mae Schwartz, the three producers behind the 2009 adaptation of Mr. McCarthy's most recent novel, the post apocalyptic drama, "The Road." They made an offer several days later. Industry publications blasted the news that Mr. McCarthy had written his first "spec script." Mr. Scott, director of blockbuster films such as "Alien," "Blade Runner," and "American Gangster," got hold of the script and flew to New Mexico to meet with Mr. McCarthy. They met for several hours and discussed their storytelling philosophies. Mr. Scott asked Mr. McCarthy not to take meetings with any other directors and promised to make "The Counselor" his next film. Production began six months later, a remarkably fast track to development in an industry where the migration from page to screen can take years.
"The Counselor" is also being treated as a literary event in its own right. Vintage is releasing it as a paperback on Oct. 15, 10 days ahead of the film's opening. "The script reads like a novel," says LuAnn Walther, editorial director of Vintage/Anchor Books. "We expect readers will come to the screenplay in the same way they do to his novels."
"The Counselor" certainly bears the markers of Mr. McCarthy's literary DNA. The story opens in El Paso, Texas, on the border between Texas and Mexico, where an unnamed lawyer, played by Mr. Fassbender, spends a carefree afternoon in bed with his girlfriend, Laura, played by Ms. Cruz. The rest of the story unfolds as swiftly and relentlessly as a Greek tragedy. The counselor, ignoring warnings that he is dealing with vicious criminals who, in the words of one character, "will rip out your liver and eat it in front of your dog," gets involved in a deal to import cocaine from Colombia to Chicago in a septic tank truck. The truck goes missing and everything unravels.
The film is a strange hybrid with few antecedents in Hollywood: a sex and violence-filled drug thriller with shadowy characters who have abstract, philosophical discussions about fate, mortality and the nature of greed. At times, it seems like characters from a Samuel Beckett play wandered into a Quentin Tarantino film.
Mr. McCarthy is famously reticent about his work and declined to
be interviewed about the film. In a statement released by the film's distributor Twentieth Century Fox, Mr. McCarthy said he created the counselor as an archetypal figure who is felled by his own ignorance and greed: "He's a decent man who gets up one morning and decides to do something wrong," Mr. McCarthy said. "And that's all it takes."
Some McCarthy scholars are skeptical that the screenplay will stand up to his novels. "It doesn't read like vintage McCarthy to me," says Stacey Peebles, an English professor at Centre College in Danville, Ky., who has written about McCarthy and film and read the screenplay. "McCarthy writing a sex scene is maybe not a great idea," she added.
A few industry insiders were even more cutting in their critiques of Mr. McCarthy's debut when a copy leaked out. "Boring as hell story with stilted dialogue," one commenter wrote on ScriptShadow, a site that posts reviews of Hollywood scripts. Roger Balfour, a McCarthy uberfan who reviewed "The Counselor" for ScriptShadow, said he read the script twice and was still confused. "There are definitely parts where I thought it could be clearer, but who am I to criticize Cormac McCarthy?" Mr. Balfour said.
Mr. McCarthy's name and talent haven't always guaranteed acceptance in Hollywood. He's written at least five scripts, but just two have been made: "The Gardener's Son," a TV movie that aired on PBS in 1977, and "The Sunset Limited," a 2011 production for HBO that Mr. McCarthy adapted from his own play. His papers in the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University in San Marcos include three complete original screenplays that were never made. He wrote "No Country for Old Men," as a screenplay in the 1980s, then published it as a novel some 20 years later. In its original script form, the bloody Western had a happy ending—by McCarthy standards—with the killer brought to justice. He went through a similar process with "Cities of the Plain," a 1950s Western. He wrote it as a screenplay, then reverse adapted into a novel, which was published in 1998. Another script, "Whales and Men," is a meandering parable about human nature and empathy that follows a group of friends as they witness a whaling that leaves a baby whale orphaned.
In a 1985 letter to his friend Howard Woolmer, Mr. McCarthy described the appeal of screenwriting: "I'm working on a couple of stories in filmscript form. Very good form for conserving the word," he wrote.
When his literary career took off, Hollywood finally came to him. His first five novels sold fewer than 5,000 hardcover copies each. Then in 1992, his novel "All the Pretty Horses" won the National Book Award and became a best seller. Billy Bob Thornton directed the movie, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz. Mr. McCarthy was less than thrilled with the film, which was a critical and commercial disappointment. "The director had the notion that you could put the entire book up on the screen. Well, you can't do that," he said in a 2009 interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Since then, Mr. McCarthy's record in Hollywood has been mixed. Joel and Ethan Coen's 2007 adaptation of "No Country for Old Men," won four Academy Awards and grossed around $74 million in the U.S. Two years later, a $25 million adaptation of Mr. McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Road" got tepid reviews and grossed just over $8 million domestically.
Mr. McCarthy had little influence on those films, and didn't seek it.
Actor James Franco, who adapted "Child of God," Mr. McCarthy's 1973 novel about a necrophiliac, into an independent film that recently made its debut at the Toronto Film Festival, says Mr. McCarthy offered little guidance. "He doesn't give any answers about his work," Mr. Franco said in an interview. When Mr. Franco called Mr. McCarthy and asked why he had written a book about such a repellent character, he was glib. "He said, verbatim, 'I don't know, James, probably some dumb-ass reason,'" Mr. Franco recalled.
Mr. McCarthy's history of standoffishness makes his deep involvement with "The Counselor" all the more noteworthy. "This was an opportunity for him to get his vision on the screen unfiltered," said Mr. Schwartz, a producer for "The Counselor" and "The Road."
Working off a script from a literary giant has advantages and drawbacks. Mr. McCarthy's name will likely draw legions of book lovers to theaters. But guarding against plot spoilers could prove nearly impossible when the screenplay hits bookstores before the film opens.
Mr. Wechsler says most people know better than to expect a happy ending from a Cormac McCarthy story, anyway.
"If you're at all familiar with Cormac's writing, you kind of know it's going to be an emotional train wreck," he says.
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Ordinarily we consider the path of a charged particle under the influence of a magnetic field to be curved. However, in order for the trajectory of the particle to change, it must emit a photon. Therefore, in principle, if we were able to view the path of the particle at sufficiently high resolution, would its path actually be polygonal, with a photon emitted at each vertex?
Can the path of a charged particle under the influence of a magnetic field be considered piecewise linear?
You're asking what would happen if we could view things with an unlimited high resolution. You view the emissions of the synchotron photons as discrete events and you ask is the path linear between these emissions. The problem is - quantum particles do not have trajectories so it's not meaningful to ask about the actual path followed by the particle. All you can do is make measurements and ask about the sequence of measurement results. There is then a limit on the resolution of what you will find, such as the ~micron limit in the pictures in Anna's answer, where the measurements are the ionization events.
When a charged particle bends in a magnetic field ( an electric field also ) synchrotron radiations is released at the bend. In principle the bend can be approximated with a circle appropriate to the radius of curvature of the bend and the radiation released calculated, as in the link.
In a circular path there will be synchrotron radiation emitted incrementally on the curve.How small an increment? it will depend on the mass of the particle, and the energy of the photon. The higher the energy the greater the loss, the smaller the mass the greater the loss, that is why we have LHC and not LEPIII at the moment. The path in vacuum microscopically, will be erratic due also,to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle at that microscopic scale. Not a regular polygon then because probabilities determine the specific energy at each vertex.
When one sees a perfect circle starting in a bubble chamber for example
we see also the effect of energy loss on the circular path from ionization scatterings, which also depends on the mass of the particle. We see on the right entering a high energy charged particle which decays in two short circular segment and ends an electron that spirals in the magnetic field as it loses energy from collisions mainly, since synchrotron radiation is very soft at the energies in the photo.
The paths are good circular fits even in the micron measurements of such photos for the massive particles and taking care of ionization loss fits well the electrons.
The motion of the electron in the constant uniform magnetic field is very much like the motion of an electron in the hydrogen atom. The difference is in the source of the centripetal acceleration.
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It must be emphasised that the similarity between an electron in the hydrogen atom and in a uniform magnetic field is only in relation to the fact that, even in the case of an electron in a uniform magnetic field, the electronic energy levels can be discrete, i.e. the electron energy has quantum levels, the Landau levels. For example, an electron in a box of size $L$ and the uniform magnetic field pointing in the $z$-direction, the electron energy is given by the equation
where $k_z=\frac{2\pi n_z}{L}$, $n$, $n_z$ are quantum numbers (positive integers), and $\omega_c$ is the classical angular speed of the electron in the uniform magnetic field. This phenomenon is also known as orbit quantisation. The Landau levels are present regardless whether the electron is in a box or not, as one can see by letting $L\rightarrow\infty$. These Landau energy levels, n, are very important in condensed matter physics for the study of the geometry of the Fermi surface of metals.
The presence of the Landau levels show that the electron, being in the uniform magnetic field, cannot radiate energy unless it is forced to change from one Landau quantum level to another.
For the electron in hydrogen atom the centripetal acceleration is provided by the Coulomb field,
${\bf a}=-\frac{e^2}{4\pi\epsilon_0 m_er^3}{\bf r}$
For the electron in the uniform magnetic field the centripetal acceleration is provided by the Lorentz force as
${\bf a}=-\frac{e{\bf B}\times {\bf v}}{m_e}$.
As the speed remains constant, the kinetic energy of the electron in its circular path in the magnetic field remains fixed. This implies that the electron does not emit photons. One can understand this from the energy equation over one period (cycle)
$E=\oint_C e{\bf B}\times {\bf v}.d{\bf r}= \int_T e{\bf B}\times {\bf v}.{\bf v}dt=0$.
The situation in an accelerator is different in that, in this case the electrons are accelerated to increase their speed, hence the electrons emit Bremsstlahlung radiation. If the field is fixed as is suggested in this question, the electron cannot radiate as its energy remains fixed.
If the electrons did emit photons while in fixed circular orbit in the constant uniform magnetic field, we could use this as an endless source of energy!! In direct violation of the principle of conservation of energy.


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Apart from its use among the bean-counters who talk about maximising company profits, I can't understand why price point has spread so widely in popular American parlance. As far as I can tell, the term is exactly synonymous with price; do people use it the way they do the word 'monies' — to sound clever on the cheap — or is there actually a difference between the two terms?
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It basically signifies that one is discussing price specifically in terms of how it relates to the demand curve.
If I had to guess, I'd say its gratuitous use probably started with conversations between corporate executives and accountants where the term was being used precisely, moving from there to other executives who were at the meeting, didn't understand the term but thought it sounded good and so tried to imitate the people who knew what they were talking about, gradually spreading out into the culture from there. So, yeah, fundamentally people imitating each other to try to sound clever.
Price point means a point on a scale of possible prices at which something might be marketed; its meaning is different from the meaning of price, which is (principally, but not only) the amount of money expected, required, or given in payment for something.
People can use a phrase used in a specific context and give it a different, or a wider usage. The reasons people would "adopt" a phrase giving it a different meaning, or would use a phrase in contexts different from the original one can be many, and include imitation.
The phrase price point doesn't seem so widely spread. Looking at the Corpus of Contemporary American, I get the following data (the chart reports the frequency per million).
The chart shows how many times the phrase price point is used. As comparision, this chart reports the frequency of phrases where the word price is not followed by point (which includes also the case where the word price is followed by a punctuation mark).
Price point refers to a hypothetical, potential price.
Price is used to refer to an actual price.
There is no difference. For any use of "price point", one can substitute the word "price" as a synonym. The widespread use of the term price point reflects the insidious encroachment of corp-speak and jargon into everyday parlance.
The common (i.e. outside of the narrow economic contexts where it has a specific and well-known meaning) usage of the phrase is a form of mental-gymnastics or double-think that allows the speaker to delude themselves that they're not talking about anything as vulgar and direct as an actual price.
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Windows 7 Taskbar in 10 Minutes -- Part II: Icon Overlay
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This is the second part of my ScreenCast series on implementing the Windows 7 Taskbar features in less than 10 minutes . The short video shows how to leverage the Windows 7 Taskbar Icon Overlay feature for your application.
Part II -- Icon Overlay:
In this part I show you how to implement custom Icon Overlays in the taskbar indicating the happiness (happy/unhappy) of your application. In your applications you can use this to
https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/Windows-7-Taskbar-in-10-Minutes-Part-II-Icon-Overlay/The source code is available here.
You can find the other parts of the screencast series @
Part I -- ProgressBar and Status:
In the first part of my screencast series I develop an application that allows to
https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/Windows-7-Taskbar-in-10-Minutes-Part-I-Progress-Bar/ . The source code is available here .
The Windows API Code Pack can be downloaded here.
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Part IV -- Preview and Window Peek:
In the last part of the screencast series I show you how to develop an application that
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You can download the managed wrappers for the Windows 7 API from the Vista Bridge web page.
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In this part I show you how to develop an application that
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I've been using it when she gets fussy and she seems to love it. Is this a bad habit to get into? I've heard there are potential dental/breastfeeding/dependency issues. Is there any truth to this?
Not all children get it (mine didn't), but I've had friends whose kids have definitely had issues with this. This article discusses the timing of introduction of the pacifier and the bottle. The article is lengthy, and also discusses bottle feeding vs. breast feeding (germane, as the problem is nipple confusion, which can arise here as well). Her final recommendations with bottles (unless you have to supplement feeding) are:
EDIT: Also, in case you're worried about potential effects later in life (ie, the possible need for braces caused or exacerbated by the use of pacifiers or bottle feeding), there does not appear to be a statistically relevant link, according to this study. From the abstract:
When they're infants? Nah. When they're three? Yes!
Your pediatrician will keep an eye on the baby's physical development in their mouth, and should let you know when they've been using the pacifier too long.
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After months of campaigning, millions head to the polls to cast their vote.
Warren County Precinct workers say voters lined up before the polls even opened Tuesday morning.
"If you don't vote, you don't have a voice," Jean Robertson says.
And even with long lines and rainy weather, voters told us that wasn't going to keep them from voting.
"Just trying to do my part as a citizen and give my input on who I think our elected officials should be," James Stahl a Bowling Green voter explains.
The Warren County Clerk's office has a record number of registered voters this year, with more than 66-percent expected to turn out.
Many are saying this election is one of the more hotly contested with the presidential election, Bowling Green's mayor race, and the marriage amendment.
After months of listening to candidates make promises, and debate voters will have the last say when they cast their vote for who they believe is the best person for the job.
If you are unsure about where to vote or have any questions about the voting process, log onto www.kyelect.com or call your local county clerk.


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I have a running Spring 3 web application. All the beans are correctly injected and everything is working as it should (all web service calls are working properly).
While expanding the application I needed to add threads that can be started & stopped via a web service.
In the thread I need to inject some Spring beans. These beens are services (annotated with @Service). In my applicationContext the beans are detected via a component scan:
<context:component-scan base-package="<package>">
<context:exclude-filter type="annotation" expression="org.springframework.stereotype.Controller" />
But when I try to inject the beans (using @Resource) in the thread they are always 'null' (Spring doesn't inject them). The thread is started but fails while initializing.
I also tried injecting them by loading the applicationContext in code: (application context is located in 'src/main/resources')
ClassPathXmlApplicationContext applicationContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("classpath:*applicationContext.xml");
if(applicationContext.containsBean("BeanName")) {
beanObject = (BeanClass) applicationContext.getBean("BeanName");
} else {
Does anyone have any idea how to inject the beans in the thread? Or isn't it possible to inject beans in a thread?
Thanks in Advance!


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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A top Iranian military commander has warned Turkey against stationing NATO anti-missile systems on its territory, saying such a move risks war with Syria.
Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi, who is army chief of staff, is urging Turkey, U.S. and Europeans to dismantle the Patriot missile defense system before a war breaks out. He says the system was stationed in Turkey to protect Israel from Iranian missiles attacks and inhibit Russian defense of Syria.
Firouzabadi's remarks were reported by state TV Saturday.
On Friday, the Pentagon announced it will send two batteries of Patriot missiles and 400 troops to Turkey as part of a larger NATO force to protect Turkish territory from potential Syrian missile attacks.
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syria's foreign minister has blamed the suffering of his country's people on U.S. and European sanctions imposed on his country.
Walid al-Moallem has called on the United Nations to condemn these sanctions and work toward lifting them.
Moallem made his comments Saturday during a meeting in the capital, Damascus, with U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos who is on a one-day visit to Syria.
The US and EU have imposed a wave of sanctions to punish President Bashar Assad's regime for its crackdown against protesters calling for democratic reforms. The protests have morphed into a civil war that has left more than 40,000 dead.
The current sanctions include a freeze on the assets of Assad and other Syrian government leaders, along with an embargo on the oil and arms trades.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) -- Some 1,500 Egyptian women blocked a main road in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, claiming a judge prevented them from voting on the draft constitution because they weren't veiled.
The women lined up on Saturday night in front of cars in the city's Sedi Gaber district, chanting "down with the Muslim Brotherhood rule."
Amira Abdel-Azem, a hospital manager, said judge supervising the polling station was only allowing women wearing a niqab, a veil that covers everything but the eyes, to cast ballots. It was not possible to immediately verify her account.
Alexandria is a stronghold of ultraconservative Islamists known as Salafis but has seen tensions rise over the disputed charter.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the U.S. and NATO troops transferring security to Afghan forces should leave Afghan villages as soon as possible.
Karzai spoke Saturday on the opening day of a conference to develop Afghanistan's foreign policy strategy for the next three years.
He says international forces will end their combat mission at the end of 2014. But he says that before that -- in 2013 -- Afghan forces will take charge of securing the entire nation.
Karzai says the sooner that transition can be completed, the better.
He says he wants the international troops to leave Afghan villages, draw back to their bases and slowly withdraw from there.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. commanders are offering glowing reviews of their 2012 Afghanistan war campaign. And the upbeat assessments could be interpreted as leeway for President Barack Obama to order another round of troop withdrawals next summer.
Obama faces a tension between calls by Democrats and even some Republicans to wind down the war more quickly and the military's desire to avoid a too-fast pullout that might squander hard-won sacrifices.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has not yet recommended to Obama a specific pace of withdrawals for 2013. But during the Pentagon chief's two-day visit to the war zone last week, commanders suggested that things are going better than is generally believed by an American public weary of war after 11 years.
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea's top leadership is calling the successful launch of a satellite proof that Kim Jong Un has the strength to lead the country one year after his father's death.
A solemn Kim Jong Un joined top political, government and military officials Sunday in a national memorial service at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium on the eve of the anniversary of Kim Jong Il's death.
The Associated Press was among a handful of foreign and local journalists allowed to cover the closed meeting, which marked the start of events marking Kim's death. Armed soldiers ringed the streets outside.
Kim Jong Il died on Dec. 17, 2011. North Korea sent a long-range rocket into space in his honor Wednesday, defying international warnings that the launch would be considered a banned missile test.
SUVA, Fiji (AP) -- The Pacific island nation of Fiji is bracing for a cyclone that earlier ripped through Samoa, leaving at least three people dead, eight missing and thousands homeless.
Fijian authorities said Sunday that nearly 400 people on the island of Vanua Levu had evacuated to emergency shelters. Cyclone Evan is expected to hit Sunday night in northern Fiji, likely missing the more populous south, including the capital, Suva.
The storm caused widespread destruction in Samoa on Thursday. The Samoa Observer newspaper says up to 4,000 people were left homeless.
On Sunday, New Zealand authorities were using a plane to search for eight Samoan fishermen who went missing in the storm. Authorities say the men were in three boats, each about 9 meters (30 feet) long and with outboard motors.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's government formally apologized Saturday to the country's Buddhist monks for its recent crackdown on protesters at a copper mine that injured more than 100 of their monastic colleagues.
President's Office Minister Hla Tun led other officials in apologizing to senior and injured monks in the central city of Mandalay.
Police used water cannons, tear gas and smoke bombs on Nov. 29 to break up an 11-day occupation of the Letpadaung mine project in northwestern Myanmar, a joint venture between a military-owned holding company and a Chinese company. Protesters want the project halted, saying it is causing environmental, social and health problems.
The monks had been holding protests to demand an apology for the violence, with hundreds marching peacefully this past Wednesday in Yangon and Mandalay, the country's two biggest cities, along with Monywa, the town closest to the mine, and at least six other towns.
Shin Wirathu, one of the monks leading the protests, said Saturday's action satisfied their demands for a formal apology. The monks had rejected previous apologies by officials as inadequate and directed at the wrong people. Officials in attendance Saturday included Health Minister Pe Thet Khin, Police Chief Kyaw Kyaw Tun and Sagaing Region Chief minister Thar Aye.
"We are now satisfied as they made the apology publicly and legally," said Shin Wirathu "And it's pleasing that the ones who had the main responsibility for the crackdown apologized to the injured monks. We acknowledge it as a historic day but it's a matter of forgive, not forget."
He added that the officials also promised not to let anything like the crackdown happen again.
According to Shin Wirathu, 34 injured monks and 3 lay people are still at hospitals in Mandalay, and one person was sent to Thailand for medical treatment.
Most of those hurt suffered burns that protesters said were caused by incendiary devices hurled by police.
The crackdown was reminiscent of those the country faced under military rule, which formally ended when an elected government took power last year. It stirred particular anger because of the violence against monks, who are held in high regard in this reverent Buddhist country.
The heavy-handed action indicated the government is still unsure where to draw the line on public protests, even though elected President Thein Sein's government has been hailed for releasing hundreds of political prisoners and for implementing laws allowing public demonstrations and labor strikes.


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Malone, Morris and Watt Earn Track and Field All-Region HonorsMay 14, 2014
NEW ORLEANS, La. – Freshman Sherin Malone, sophomore D'Yandra Morris and junior Brooklyn Watt have each earned Division II Outdoor Track and Field All-Region honors.
The top five individuals in each event from each region earned the All-Region distinction, in addition to each of the members of the regions' top three relay teams. The regions used for this award match those used during the cross country season, and student-athletes must come from USTFCCCA member institutions.
Malone, a native of Spartanburg, S.C., claimed the accolade for her stellar efforts in the 100 meter hurdles, while Morris brought home the honor in the shot put event and Watt was consistently among the region's top performers in several throwing events, while earning the all-region award in the discus throw.
Malone set a new school record with a first-place time of 14.96 seconds in the 100 meter hurdles to help lead the Trojans to a third-place finish at the inaugural Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Championships last month. Malone also took first place in the 100 meter hurdles in a time of 15.32 seconds at the Chanticleer Classic earlier in April.
Morris placed first in the shot put with a distance of 12.27 meters at the SAC Championships, while also taking third at the Terrier Relays. She claimed 27th in the discus throw in Spartanburg and placed 12th in the hammer throw.
Watt was named SAC Women's Field Athlete of the Year at the conference championships after collecting pair of first-place finishes, a second-place finish and a seventh-place showing, including the top spot in the discus throw on the second day of the championships. She claimed the top spot in the hammer throw on the first day, while also bringing home seventh in the javelin throw. The Walhalla, S.C. native followed up by taking second place in the shot put.
Nationally, the women saw 619 separate competitors accumulate 911 total honors. The Lone Star Conference had a pair of student-athletes in Angelo State's Jordan Gray and West Texas A&M's Libby Strickland earn six honors each to top the national list. Dinesha Bean of Academy of Art, Salcia Slack of New Mexico Highlands, Danielle Williams of Johnson C. Smith and Kayon Robinson of Adams State earned five apiece.
However, none of those women led their team to the top spot on the total awards list. That honor belonged to Grand Valley State with 32 awards. Robinson's Adams State women totaled 27, with top-ranked Lincoln (Mo.) checking in with 25.
By conference, the Northeast-10 led the way on both the men's and women's lists with 111 and 92, respectively. The MIAA and GLIAC men followed with 89 and 84. Just behind the NE-10 women were the GLIAC with 90 and the MIAA with 75.


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The Arts and Design Courses with Locals semester program at the Universidad Veritas is open to students at the high-advanced Spanish level. Students will choose a total of 4 courses from the following categories: Courses with Costa Ricans, Language Modules, and/or General Electives. Students may choose any combination to complete their 4 choices as long as scheduling permits; however, students MUST take at least one course with locals. The Language Modules are 4 weeks long, while the General Electives are 12 weeks. All courses with locals last for the entire semester. For an extra fee, and if schedules allow, students may take a fifth course. Students who do not place into the high-advanced level on the mandatory Universidad Veritas placement exam will not be eligible for this program and must switch into the Spanish Language, Liberal Arts and Environmental Studies program.
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Students who do not place into the high-advanced level will be required to participate in the Spanish Language, Liberal Arts and Environmental Studies program. Due to a difference in dates, the student is responsible for all airline change fees and any additional costs that he/she may have incurred.
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How is it possible to Down-Vote 31 pages of Deals and only Up-Vote 11 pages worth?
There is at least one account that appears to be a serial down-voter... This account has currently down voted 31 pages of deals while only up voting 11 pages of deals...
According to the Super Secret Rules we must up vote multiple deals to earn one down vote..
Voting rules reference: http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/411eda7e-e129-4434-ab14-15c06e8a69cd/why-cant-i-down-vote#5
So how could this account exist and continue to down vote given the current known Super Secret Rules??...
My Tags: Meta Down-Votes Up-Votes Super-Secret-Rules
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I think someone does not know what "deal" means...
I have no answer to the actual question.
sometimes the down-votes do not seem to be towards the deal but to the actual poster. Not exactly fair, but we can't control what others do.
I looked at my own voting, and I am not thrilled with the amount the I have down-voted. I will need to pay a little more attention to what I am doing.
I don't think the rule that you have to upvote in order to downvote applies anymore (or it is broken). I know I have been logged out for more than 24 hours and when I log in, it lets me downvote before I upvote.
It's an approximate 24 hour moving window. It isn't just on deals/questions. It's on comments, too. A serial downvoter can go off and upvote random comments on ancient questions, and build up a store of upvotes for using on downvoting. I almost never run out of downvotes, because I like voting up good comments. I'd say probably 2/3 of my activity is reading questions that interest me, and voting up useful/funny comments.
I visit sponsored deals now and again, and vote up comments there, also. I vote up a lot of questions, too, and once in a while, I vote on a deal or two. Mostly I ignore that side, though. I feel like I've done my time over there, and it quit being fun aeons ago.
Personally, I'd just as soon see downvoting disappear. That's just me.
I say take it a step further that any downvote MUST be accompanied by a comment regarding why the downvote was given. Then if enough users downvote that comment it disappears and the downvote is no longer counted. That way complaints of "SPAM!" can be removed by the community.
We know there is a certain vendor who posts two or three deals a day plugging their wares, though "wears" works in this case as well. There is a cadre of wooters who downvote every single one of that vendor's items because they feel the need to act as deal police, or perhaps morality police, fearing innocent children may be hurt by seeing a postage-stamped size picture of a scantily clad woman. (Check your sons' browsers: They're not browsing woot to get their jollies.)
Every downvote should require a comment. If you're going to downvote, tell us if it's because there's a better price, or the quality is poor or the shipping is too high. Anonymous downvoting benefits nobody and hurts legitimate vendors.
sometimes i (and others) use voting as a place marker. most use it just so they can tell where they left off at in the fresh listing. i however for a while was using it to mark the stuff i had tattled because it was expired, and wanted to keep track so i wasn't doing multiple tattles on the same product. i have since stopped tattling so much because i realized that most of the stuff wasn't getting ripped.
I posted a deal (a real deal, I think; it was an Amazon Deal of the Day) just yesterday, and I was astonished to find that it was downvoted within two minutes of being posted. No comment, nothing, just a down vote. I posted a comment about how it had been downvoted even though it had only been up for two minutes; of course, my comment was downvoted.
Do you think this'll earn a downvote?
Woot isn't fun OR useful when people do this kind of thing. I never really learned to play well with others, but I tried.
This got me curious enough to check my stats, since I never have.
For deals: 199 pages of upvotes. 20 (1 and a half pages) of downvotes.
For questions: 148 pages of upvotes. 9 (not quite a page) of downvotes.
I guess I usually ignore that downward-facing button, lol.
@gertiestn: Don't take it personally. I don't think I have never seen a popular deal without a down vote unless it was some charity related deal that only the coldest hearted person could be against - even then I have seen downvotes...
@elforman: I agree with the sentiment, but it is not always practical to comment on every down-vote. Also, I would be curious to see what people would post if they were forced to make a comment. It would deter some, but embolden others to either enter jibberish, something stupid, rude, etc.
I think a better solution (already mentioned) would be to remove down voting. Then, if people want to warn others of a bad deal, they would make a comment if it was important enough to them or if they had something valuable to say. The lack of up-votes and associated "warning" comments would essentially be the same as down-voting.
The inherent problem with voting in general is that it allows people to make a snap judgment without all the facts. That leaves a lot of room for error and for decisions based on emotion, etc. Also, it would not surprise me if some people vote down items for unfair reasons such as because they have no interest in it, don't like the way the listing was worded, etc.
@wnyx585am: Yes, but that snap judgment may be all that people have time for. If there were no downvotes, only comments, and you actually wanted to look over more than one page of deals, it would easily take you three times as long to weed out the crappy products/vendors or not-really-a-deal deals. That ranking makes it much easier to skim through the tons of deals that are posted each day, and without downvoting, the ranking isn't really fully functional.
@ki4rxm: I understand your point, but don't know if I agree with you. If down votes did not exist, but a deal has no upvotes and some comments, that would be enough for me to know if it not much of a deal or a bad deal. I don't see a lot of deals right now that are getting overall negative votes anyway. If anything, people just tend to not vote for something that they don't like. Yes, there are a few cases where items get downvoted by a large margin, but those tend to be the exception.
Overall, I don't think the system is bad as is because the end result is fairly accurate and most deals end up where they should. I just wonder if it might be slightly better if it were structured a little differently. Maybe we don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater...
@elforman: I don't agree. Then we'd see a bunch of "This deal just sucks" or some similar comments.
@mtm2: Yes, we would be deluged with "this deal sucks" and similarly useless messages. Which is why I said if enough users downvote the downvoter, the original downvoter's vote would be nullified.
I'm just trying to find a way to make downvoters accountable. Saying simply "this deal sucks" or "spam" adds nothing to the conversation. Explaining that the price is too high, or the shipping is too high, or the product is garbage, while negative messages, are at least constructive criticism and therefore useful to shoppers.
I had considered the effect of removing downvotes altogether, but as others have mentioned using up votes only would not provide an indicative score for an deal. Some deals certainly belong to be in the negative numbers. I'd want to know the difference between a deal with 0 votes because it is a terrible deal and another with 0 votes because nobody has bothered to vote it up.
@gertiestn: This also plays into my suggestion. I think the posters whose deals get downvoted deserve to know why they're being downvoted. I've DV'd about one page worth of deals myself and in most instances I've added a comment explaining exactly why I did so.
My favorite is actually when the sponsored deals close in the negatives ... it just goes to show we think / can find a better deal then what you might be paying for
@dmaz: Turns out I'm a lover not a hater .... hmmm
10 total deals ever downvoted and 17 pages of upvoting
14 pages of questions upvoted and 8 questions (not pages) downvoted
@gertiestn: I posted a couple of deals like that and had a DV in less than a minute, it was a great deal too. I went into sneak mode and found out who did it...this guy has his own business and I think he just DV's anything that is a better deal on stuff that he sells, but I think now he just DV's anything I put out, to be a J...A...!
I'm not going to sink to his level, even though I know he has a couple of accounts...you know who you are!
Like always, look to shrdlu to have the answer. As for myself, I rarely downvote. My voting record is public.
@107bear: Oooh! I would love to know how to go into sneak mode! I mentioned on an earlier question that every deal I post from a particular site gets one (just one) downvote within a minute of being posted, including those that get dozens of upvotes. I suspect that one person has a grudge against the site where the deal originates, and I would love to know why. Has this person had negative experiences with the site that would be helpful for me to know?
This is one of those topics for which I have an opinion, then read an argument that differs and sways me, then another sways me back. I wish I knew the answer, It did make me curious about my own voting history and I found (eek!) 402 pages of upvoted deals and only 2 of downvoted ones. I also had 63 pages of upvoted questions and one short page of downvoted questions. Don't know how to check on comment votes, but I suspect the ratio is similar. Mostly I learned that I'm spending WAY too much time here! 468 pages of votes alone!
@shrdlu: A comment stating downvoting should go away and only 1 down vote at this time bravo!
I would have expected you to attract all the downvoters with a comment like that.
@belyndag: I'm no expert, but just check people's history till you find the one J...A.. that DVs your deal...it just takes time! I don't think there is a way to check comment UVs and DVs, still new, so could be wrong.
I'm sure another Wooter! will have the answer though!
@belyndag: We cannot see who votes on comments. Only certain members of staff and the developer team are able to see that. It's for the best, I'm sure.
@caffeine_dude: The downvote on my comment happened right away, amusingly.
I like voting up comments. It costs me nothing. Why not be generous, right?
I'm curious why this really matters to anyone expect the mods. If there are professional downvoters, they would pick it up.
If I like a deal or a company I will vote them up, If I don't think it's a good deal or I don't like the company, I'll vote it down.
Whenever there is an ad from Crocs, hundreds of people down vote it, yet if there is the mention of Dr Who, zombies or bacon, the votes jump through the roof,
We have a community, we like coming here, if there are people that abuse the community, the mods will take care of it.
@mkentosh: The serial Down-voting account in question has been active for 7 months with 3 times as many down votes as up-votes... The rules state that that should not be the case which suggests that either the rules are incorrect/not working or that this account is exempt/protected in spite of the rules that apply to the rest of us...
Hence the question... Still waiting on an official response...
The next step is to start testing the rule...
@hobbitss: I guess sometimes, haters gotta hate. I say email the mods, move on and enjoy the site.
@mkentosh: Well, the only reason I care about downvoting is because, as I mentioned above, since someone seems to be consistently downvoting deals from a site that I buy from, I would like to know if there is a reason that I should be wary of that site.
I maintain my initial feeling that downvoting has added a lot of negativity to Deals.Woot. I have said it since the first day it was implemented, and I maintain that it is still true, even though "negativity" is hardly a quantifiable piece of data...
@hobbitss: What is wrong with @shrdlu: 's answer: "A serial downvoter can go off and upvote random comments on ancient questions, and build up a store of upvotes for using on downvoting."
She is saying:
We can not count comment upvotes or downvotes so the user can up vote old comments with no record to build up a downvoting cache .
@lll0228: Agreed...
@caffeine_dude: Point taken, however I don't think this individual is that devious...
@mkentosh: Tattling on this individual just seems to easy... Hoof and Mouth as well as other illness...
One Tattle and more than one posting disintegrated...
I'm pretty sureI know which member spawned this question and their troll comments always get deleted. But not before being severely downvoted. So I'm wondering if those downvotes to said users comments end up factoring in to their rating. Or does the fact that their comments are continously deleted have a negative effect on their rating. Or is it all negated by deleting the comments?


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$$p \rightarrow (\neg q \lor \neg r) \land \neg p \land q$$
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"Aye, that's me, you're in the right place unless there's another hard-working, equally starved Starfleet officer around."
Montgomery "Scotty" Scott was a Human Starfleet officer serving in the 23rd century. He was recruited by James T. Kirk to replace Olson as chief engineer of the USS Enterprise before the Battle of Earth in 2258.
Early lifeEdit
Scott was born in 2222 in Scotland. (TNG: "Relics")
Starfleet careerEdit
Scotty eventually joined Starfleet and, sometime during his tenure, he engaged in a debate with his instructor on the issue of relativistic physics and how it pertains to subspace travel. The professor was of the opinion that the range of a transporter was limited to a few hundred kilometers; Scotty felt that he could beam a lifeform from one planet to the next within a star system. His theory, however, had never been tested. As he was experimenting with his theory of transwarp beaming, he used Archer's prized beagle as a test subject, but was unable to locate the dog afterwards.
Scott was sent to a Federation outpost on Delta Vega with his colleague, Keenser, in late 2257, six months before the destruction of Vulcan. He believed his blunder with Archer's dog was the real reason for his ending up there. In 2258, Keenser brought him two visitors, James T. Kirk and Spock, who Scotty believed were sent by Starfleet to supply him with food.
Spock helped Scott fix this transport problem by giving him the finished version of the governing equation "his" Scotty – a longtime friend from his own future timeline – had completed in the future. The final detail Scott needed was to construct the equations from the perspective that outer space itself, not the ships, was moving. Using the new calculations, Kirk and Scott were able to beam aboard the Enterprise while it was moving at warp.
Chief engineer of the USS EnterpriseEdit
Despite his technical knowledge and engineering specialty, Scotty suffered an initial run of bad luck when it came to transporter targets. When beaming himself and Kirk to the Enterprise he ended up in a water conduit in engineering labeled "Inert Reactant", nearly drowning before Kirk was able to evacuate him through an emergency hatch. The first time he used the Enterprise transporter, he aimed for the cargo bay of the Narada where he believed Kirk and Spock would be able to materialize unobserved; the area turned out to be filled with Romulans. His second use of the Enterprise transporter, however, was a tremendous technical success: he beamed three people from two different locations onto one pad, something he had never done before.
After Spock's ship, the Jellyfish, was destroyed, the Enterprise began to be sucked into the black hole created by the simultaneous detonation of its entire store of red matter. However, Scotty was able to eject and detonate the ship's warp core, creating a large enough shock wave that the Enterprise could ride to safety. With Olson, the ship's original chief engineer, having been killed in action, and his benefactor Kirk in command, Scott eventually assumed the position of chief engineer aboard the Enterprise, bringing Keenser along with him. (Star Trek)
A year later, Scotty protested Kirk's decision to park the Enterprise underwater during a mission on Nibiru. When they returned to Earth, he was upset to learn that the transwarp beaming formula, which had been confiscated, was used by the traitor John Harrison to flee to Qo'noS. However, he also objected to the 72 experimental photon torpedoes given to execute Harrison from orbit, as he was not allowed to examine them, and was also angered they were setting off to Qo'noS without adequate time to fix the new warp core. Kirk granted Scotty's permission for a leave of absence, and Keenser left with him.
Later, while dining at a bar in San Francisco, Scotty and Keenser were called by Kirk to investigate coordinates given to them by Harrison. Scotty took a shuttle to investigate, and found a spacedock outside Jupiter. Blending in with an approaching convoy, Scotty entered the spacedock and could only swear in awe as he saw the enormous Dreadnought-class USS Vengeance.
Scott boarded the ship, and deactivated its weaponry when Admiral Alexander Marcus ordered an attack on the Enterprise. Scotty contacted Kirk, who ordered him to go to the cargo bay and open an airlock for him to space dive to. Scotty did so, ignoring that he was tiring himself out, and found a console to tie himself to so he could open the airlock without being sucked into the vacuum of space. A particularly dense security officer showed himself and demanded to know who Scotty was, but his repetitive questions bought time for him to open the airlock when Kirk arrived in a thruster suit: Scotty apologized before blowing the guard out the airlock.
Kirk was accompanied by Harrison, who had revealed he was actually Khan Noonien Singh. His super strength made their takeover of the ship relatively easy. Scotty demanded to know who, or more accurately what, Khan was, but Kirk only responded he did not fully trust him and advised him to shoot to stun him later. When they entered the bridge and knocked out the officers there, Scotty did as Kirk asked. However, it proved ineffective as Khan responded by tackling him, pummeling Kirk, broke Marcus's daughter's leg and proceeded to kill Admiral Marcus. Khan took the command chair and demanded acting captain Spock hand over the torpedoes or he would resume attacking the Enterprise. After Spock fulfilled his request, Khan beamed Scotty, Kirk, and Carol Marcus into the brig, but resumed attacking anyway.
Scotty followed Kirk through the corridors of the ship, where artificial gravity was failing rapidly. They reached the warp core, but he warned the captain that radiation was leaking inside: Kirk ignored him and knocked him out, strapping him in a chair while he went inside to restore power to the engines and prevent the ship from crashing. When Scotty awoke, he asked acting captain Spock to come down, and he wept with Uhura when she arrived and witnessed Kirk slowly succumb to radiation poisoning. Fortunately, McCoy realized Khan's genetically-enhanced blood could save Kirk, so Spock and Uhura apprehended him and brought him to perform a blood transfusion.
Almost a year later, Scotty attended a memorial service in San Francisco for the lives lost because of Khan and Admiral Marcus, presided over by a perfectly healthy Kirk. He resumed service aboard the Enterprise as it began a five-year mission, and was pleased to report the warp core was "purring like a kitten" and ready for a long journey. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
Memorable quotesEdit
"You are Montgomery Scott!"
"You know him?"
"Aye, that's me. You're in the right place, unless there's another hard-working equally starved Starfleet officer around."
"Get tae–shut up! You don't eat anything. You can eat, like, a bean, and you're done! I'm talking about food. Real food."
- - Spock Prime, James Kirk, Montgomery Scott and Keenser (Star Trek)
"Are you from the future?"
"Yeah, he is - I'm not."
"Well, that's brilliant. Do they still have sandwiches there?!"
- - Montgomery Scott and James Kirk (Star Trek)
"So, the Enterprise has had its maiden voyage, has it? She is one well-endowed lady! I'd like to get my hands on her ample nacelles if you'll pardon the engineering parlance."
- - Montgomery Scott (Star Trek)
"The notion of transwarp beaming is like trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet, whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse."
- - Montgomery Scott (Star Trek)
"Get off there, its not a climbing frame."
- - Montgomery Scott to Keenser, before beaming onto the Enterprise (Star Trek)
"Are you a member of Starfleet?"
"Uh... yes. Can I get a towel, please?"
- - Spock and Scotty (Star Trek)
"I like this ship! You know, it's exciting!"
- - Montgomery Scott, after Spock leaves the bridge following a fistfight between Spock and James Kirk (Star Trek)
"I've never beamed three people from two targets onto one pad before!"
- - Montgomery Scott (Star Trek)
"Kirk to Engineering. Get us outta here Scotty."
"You bet your arse Captain!"
- - James Kirk and Montgomery Scott (Star Trek)
"I'm giving her all she's got, captain!"
- - Montgomery Scott, when escaping the black hole (Star Trek)
"Do you have any idea how ridiculous it is to hide a starship at the bottom of the ocean? We've been down here since last night!"
- - Montgomery Scott to James Kirk on the hiding the Enterprise underwater (Star Trek Into Darkness)
"Well now, if it isn't Captain James Tiberius... Perfect Hair. Did you hear that? I called him 'Perfect Hair!'' Ha!'"
- - An intoxicated Scotty, speaking on the communicator to Kirk after his resignation as engineer. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
"Are you drunk?"
"What I do on my private time is my business, Jimbo."
- - James Kirk and Montgomery Scott (Star Trek Into Darkness)
"What, you don't think I can remember four numbers? (chuckling) You of little faith! ... What was the third one?"
- - Scotty, posturing to James Kirk (Star Trek Into Darkness)
"Holy Sh..."
- - Montgomery Scott, on seeing the Vengeance (Star Trek Into Darkness)
"You're a miracle worker!"'
- - James T. Kirk to Montgomery Scott, when the latter sabotages the Vengeance. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
"It's going to be like jumping out of a moving car, off a bridge, into your shot glass."
- - Montgomery Scott, on Kirk and Khan entering a small airlock. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
"Its not easy! Just give me two seconds, alright, you mad bastard!"
- - Scotty, responding to Kirk's request to open the USS Vengeance's air lock. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
"Welcome aboard."
- - Montgomery Scott, to Kirk and Khan after the latter two space dive onto the Vengeance. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
|Chief engineers of the starships Enterprise
|Enterprise NX-01:
|Tucker • Kelby
|USS Enterprise:
|USS Enterprise-A:
|USS Enterprise-D:
|MacDougal • Argyle • Logan • Lynch • La Forge
|USS Enterprise-E:
|La Forge
|ISS Enterprise NX-01:
|ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701):
|USS Enterprise (alternate reality):
|Olson • Scott • Chekov
|USS Enterprise-A (alternate reality):
- Star Trek films:
- Star Trek (first appearance)
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- Star Trek Beyond
Background information Edit
Simon Pegg modeled his Scottish accent on the Glaswegian one of his wife and her family. Pegg concocted a backstory for Scotty on his MySpace page to reconcile his performance's accent with the traditional belief Scotty was born from Aberdeen or Linlithgow. [X]wbm Scott is a speaker of the Scots language.
Pegg's father-in-law found his accent awful, so Pegg resolved to improve it in the sequel. He also tried to incorporate more Scottish phrases like "cludgie" (toilet), but Abrams felt the audience needed to understand Scotty. [2]
Roberto Orci stated Scotty's backstory, like Spock's, was intended to overlap with events in the prime reality, unlike Kirk, whose life is altered from the day he is born. [3]
Scotty wears the stripes of a lieutenant commander on his sleeve in both films, but the shoulder pins on his dress uniform at the end of Star Trek Into Darkness indicate a rank of lieutenant.
Scotty is pictured on card #53, Outpost Engineer M. Scott, card #80 Lieutenant Commander M. Scott, and card #97 Chief Engineer M. Scott of the virtual collectible card battle game Star Trek: Rivals.
Apocrypha Edit
He has a female counterpart in "Parallel Lives, Part 1", an issue of IDW comics series Star Trek: Ongoing.
In the novelization of the film Star Trek, Scott, shortly after his arrival aboard the Enterprise, took offence at Uhura calling him a "vagrant." Kirk responded by describing him as "Montgomery Scott, an experienced Starfleet engineer of unexpected mental and technical gifts, if possibly dubious character." Scott, moments later, revealed that his "friends" knew him as "Scotty".
The 2013 Star Trek video game features several commentaries by Scott about the various items players scan with their tricorders. Among the various anecdotes he relates is a time when, as a child, he had to wear a medical device for a prolonged period to determine the cause of headaches he had been having, only to be teased mercilessly about it. He particularly dislikes being asked to give his opinion on torturous Gorn weaponry or lifeforms.
External linksEdit
- Montgomery Scott (alternate reality) at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Montgomery Scott at Wikipedia


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Book your room at NH Berlin Mitte Leipziger Strasse
Get an overview of this hotelCentral Berlin hotel near Checkpoint Charlie and U-Bahn
Heart of the city
This Berlin hotel is a half-block from the Stadtmitte U-Bahn (subway) station, 1 block from Friedrichstrasse, 2 blocks from Checkpoint Charlie, and 4 blocks from the historical Gendarmenmarkt square.
Breakfast buffet
NH Berlin Mitte Leipziger Strasse's restaurant serves a generous breakfast buffet, as well as an à la carte lunch and dinner. A wellness center includes a sauna, steam room, fitness facility, and sunbathing terrace.
Wi-Fi and flat-panel TVs
Modern air-conditioned guestrooms feature TVs and pay movies, complimentary wireless Internet access, minibars, and coffee/tea makers. Beds offer pillowtop mattresses. In-room safes are provided.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
NH Berlin Mitte Leipziger StrasseLeipziger Str. 106-111 Berlin BE 10117
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
This contemporary hotel is in Berlin's Mitte, the vibrant central district. Friedrichstrasse's principal shopping area, which includes the French department store Galéries Lafayette, begins 2 blocks north and continues to the intersection of the famous Unter den Linden boulevard.
The NH Berlin Mitte Leipziger Strasse's Restaurant Grissini is a popular choice for daily breakfast buffets. Mediterranean and other international cuisines take center stage for lunch and dinner. 24-hour room service is available.
Guests enjoy complimentary access to the wellness center, which features a sauna, steam room, relaxation area, solarium, and gym. Massage services are available. Other amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access in public areas, a multilingual staff, currency exchange, business and conference center, and concierge desk. Parking and an area shuttle are both available for a fee.
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Computer station
- Concierge services
- Conference center
- Conference space size (feet) - 3229
- Conference space size (meters) - 300
- Designated smoking areas
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Fitness facilities
- Free WiFi
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Meeting rooms 15
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Number of floors - 8
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Sauna
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Shopping on site
- Smoke-free property
- Spa services on site
- Steam room
- Terrace
- Total number of rooms - 392
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Year Built 2001
Family Friendly Amenities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Free Wi-Fi
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Laundry facilities
- Soundproofed rooms
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Bathrobes
- Bathtub or shower
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free newspaper
- Free toiletries
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Daily housekeeping
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Desk
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Hair dryer
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- In-room massage available
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Minibar
- Pay movies
- Phone
- Pillow menu
- Pillowtop mattress
- Premium TV channels
- Private bathroom
- Room service (24 hours)
- Satellite TV service
- Separate sitting area
- Slippers
- Soundproofed rooms
Where to Eat
Restaurant Grissini - This dining venue serves generous breakfast buffets and an à la carte lunch and dinner. Cuisine offered is international with Mediterranean and local dishes. Open daily.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a sauna, a steam room, and a fitness facility.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
Spa Services
- Massages
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at Midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 20 per pet, per night
- 1 per room
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between EUR 19,90 and EUR 24,90 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: EUR 22,00 per day
- Pet fee: EUR 20 per pet, per night
- Late check-out fee: EUR 59,50
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
Hotel Name
- Berlin NH Mitte
- Hotel NH Berlin Mitte
- Nh Berlin Mitte Hotel Berlin
- Leipziger Strasse Hotel
We should mention
Up to 2 children 11 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
National Rating
Hotelstars Union assigns an official star rating for properties in Germany. This property is rated 4 star Superior and is displayed on this page as 4.5 stars.


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August 01, 2011
Cape Town Winters are Cool for Nature Lovers
Photo © Cape Town Tourism
Every major city in the world has its parks, and most seaside towns across the globe can boast a clean strip of beach or commanding urban forest, but few city centres come close to matching Cape Town's many stunning locations and natural environments.
From strolls along mountain contour paths or pristine beaches, hikes up the renowned Table Mountain or picnics in the famed Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, to visiting our resident African penguin colony at Boulders Beach, seeing baboon troops along the Cape Point route and spotting Southern Right whales along the False Bay coast, there's a surfeit of attractions for lovers of nature in winter.
Fresh air and scenery
The Cape Peninsula offers a wide variety of beaches. Of course, during the winter months, it is too cold to go for a swim or spend time at length lazing on the sand, but a stroll along the beach during breaks in the rain is just as enjoyable. Get some fresh air and enjoy the view at these locations:
• The False Bay coast stretches from Gordon's Bay to Simon's Town. The water along False Bay is about 6˚C warmer than that of the other two regions, and this is where whale spotting is most likely from June to November. Muizenberg and Fish Hoek beaches along this route also have boardwalks, should you prefer not to get sandy feet.
• The Atlantic Seaboard runs along the west side of the Cape Peninsula and sports some of the trendiest places to see and be seen at, such as Camps Bay and Clifton 4th Beach. During winter this atmospheric stretch is wonderful for watching the swelling surf and dramatic skies.
• The West Coast's endless windswept beaches and rocky shoreline run from Cape Town to Melkbos and beyond. It is here that you can see the picture postcard view of Table Mountain, mostly with a classic tablecloth during winter!
The Southern Line rail route is a rail trip from the central business district of Cape Town all the way through to Simon's Town and takes about an hour and a quarter to journey through a fascinating, ever-changing landscape. Hop on and off as you please.
Forest, mountain and winelands meanderings
There is a multitude of walking and hiking spots in Cape Town; from the City Centre to the Northern Suburbs and beautiful Helderberg region. The Table Mountain National Park stretches across the Peninsula from Signal Hill in the City Centre to Cape Point at the tip of the Peninsula, where walking and hiking trails form an abundant network across Constantia, Newlands, Lion's Head and Table Mountain. Other spots include Cecilia Forest, Silvermine, as well as the Helderberg Nature Reserve in Somerset West and the endlessly picturesque winelands. Take a stroll through any one of the Peninsula's many forests or fragrant fynbos contour paths and enjoy the abundance of nature just minutes from the bustling city.
For hiking route maps, guided hikes and information on overnight stays at the Table Mountain National Park, book with SANParks
Contact: +27 (0)21 701 8692
Website: www.sanparks.org.
Table Mountain Cableway
Kidz Season runs from May 1, 2011 to October 30, 2011, where two children under 18 years travel on the cableway for free, when accompanied by a full-paying adult on weekends, public holidays and during the school holidays.
Contact: +27 (0)21 424 8181
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.tablemountain.net
Cape Point Nature Reserve
Contact: +27 (0)21 780 9010
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.capepoint.co.za
Helderberg Nature Reserve, Somerset West
Contact: +27 (0)21 851 4060
Website: www.helderbergnaturereserve.co.za
Constantia Vineyards, Constantia
Contact: The Constantia Valley Association +27 (0)21 794 0542
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.constantiavalley.com
Durbanville Wine Valley, Durbanville
Contact: +27 (0)83 310 1228
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.durbanvillewine.co.za
Stellenbosch and Helderberg wine routes
Contact: +27 (0)21 886 4310
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.wineroute.co.za
Nature by design
In addition to the Cape Point Nature Reserve, South Africa's indigenous flora can be seen at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden. World-famous and a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage Site, it is set against the backdrop of Table Mountain and Devil's Peak, in the heart of the Cape Floristic Region. Kirstenbosch is home to over 22 000 indigenous plants including many rare and threatened species, and is perfect for long strolls or sitting under an ancient tree. Kirstenbosch takes part in the annual Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show in London, and this year scooped its 31st gold medal for its exhibit.
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Newlands
Contact: +27 (0)21 799 8783
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.sanbi.org
The Durbanville Rose Garden, may be lesser-known than Kirstenbosch and Cape Point, but its extensive 3.5 hectare garden includes 500 varietals and 4 500 rose bushes, as well as trial beds, which are used by many international nurseries to test new roses.
Durbanville Rose Garden, Durbanville
Contact: +27 (0)21 970 3022 or +27 (0)21 970 3025
Website: www.capetown.gov.za/en/parks/facilities/Pages/DurbanvilleRoseGarden.aspx
Green Point Urban Park, Green Point
Green Point Urban Park is a multipurpose 10.5 hectare park open seven days a week, intended as an inner city recreation area. It offers a fitness park, a play park, adventure park, a park for functions or seminars, an art park for exhibitions and craft markets, an events park for concerts, outdoor markets and a heritage park ,which connects various heritage sites to which pedestrians can walk.
Vergelegen Wine Estate, Somerset West
Three hundred years after the establishment of Vergelegen by one of Cape Town's first settlers, Simon van der Stel, the wine estate's exquisitely laid-out grounds, with its enormous oak trees and octagonal garden, continues to be maintained by the latest owners and admired by visitors, while the vines produce wines of exceptional quality.
Contact: +27 (0)21 847 1334
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.vergelegen.co.za
Chacma baboons are seen regularly along the Cape Point Route, and dassies (which look like over-sized guinea pigs but are, in fact, a distant relative of the elephant) and lizards can be found basking in the sun on mountainous rocks and crevices.
NB: When viewing baboons it is imperative that you do not approach or feed these animals – it is illegal and they do bite.
Keep your eyes peeled for small antelope such as the duiker and the steenbok when visiting sites such as the Rhodes Memorial, Cape Point and other nature reserves.
Visit the Cheetah Outreach Programme at Spier Wine Estate in Stellenbosch
Contact: +27 (0)21 881 3242
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.cheetah.co.za
Butterfly World in Klapmuts, about 30 minutes outside of the Cape Town city bowl, plays host to monkeys, exotic birds, reptiles, as well as butterflies, making it a great place for families to visit.
Contact: +27 (0)21 875 5628
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.butterflyworld.co.za
For a spot of birdwatching there are numerous places of interest.
Visit an ostrich farm to find out more about these fascinating creatures, indigenous to Africa. There is a ranch along the West Coast, as well as at Cape Point.
West Coast Ostrich Farm, Philadelphia
Contact: +27 (0)21 972 1955
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.ostrichranch.co.za
Cape Point Ostrich Farm, Cape Point
Contact: +27 (0)21 780 9294
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.capepointostrichfarm.com
Or for a more diverse range of bird species visit:
Die Oog bird sanctuary and nature reserve, Bergvliet
Contact: +27 (0)21 715 8666
Website: www.dieoog.org.za
The Dick Dent Bird Sanctuary in Somerset West
Contact: +27 (0)21 852 3883
Rietvlei Nature Reserve, located off Pentz Drive in Table View
Contact: +27 (0)21 557 5509
The Edith Stephens Wetland Park and Cape Flats Bird Club, Phillipi
Contact: +27 (0)21 691 8070
Email: email@example.com
Giraffe House Wildlife Awareness Centre in Stellenbosch offers access to not only giraffes, but ostrich, eland, crocodiles, birds and buffalo.
Contact: +27 (0)21 884 4506
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.giraffehouse.co.za
One of a few mainland penguin colonies, the endangered African penguin colony at Boulders Beach in Simon's Town is in need of support and funding. Alternatively visit the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (Sanccob), an organisation dedicated to the conservation and rehabilitation of seabirds.
Location: 22 Pentz Drive, Table View
Contact: +27(0)21 557 6155
Website: www.sanccob.co.za
The Two Oceans Aquarium at the V&A Waterfront is a perfect playground for adults and kids alike, displaying Cape marine life in an interactive setting.
Contact: +27 (0)21 418 3823
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.aquarium.co.za
Southern right whales can be spotted at Glencairn, Fish Hoek, Chapman's Peak and Cape Point from June to November when it is breeding season, as well as further afield in Hermanus – a day trip out of Cape Town.
Cape clawless otters can be seen sunbathing on their backs in the mornings in Kommetjie.
For Cape fur seals, take a boat trip to Duiker Island, off the Hout Bay coast, and Seal Island, off the coast of Simon's Town.
Drumbeat Charters, Hout Bay Harbour
Contact: +27 (0)21 791 4441
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.drumbeatcharters.co.za
Circe Launches, Hout Bay Harbour
Contact: +27 (0)21 790 1040
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.circelaunches.co.za
For adventurous travellers, great white shark cage diving is a must! Day trips are offered by companies in Gansbaai, or boats leave from Simon's Town.
African Shark Eco-Charters
Contact: +27 (0)21 785 1947
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.ultimate-animals.com
White Shark Diving Company
Contact: +27 (0)82 559 6858 or +27 (0)82 371 8715
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.sharkcagediving.co.za
In 1991, South Africa became the first country in the world to protect the great white shark with its Shark Spotting Programme which is aimed at ensuring the safety of sharks and beaches. Shark-spotters sound the alarm from Boyes Drive if a shark gets too close to shore.
Shark spotters use a flag and alarm system to warn beach goers of a shark's whereabouts:
• A green flag means visibility for the spotters is good and no sharks have been seen;
• A black flag means visibility for the spotters is poor but no sharks have been seen;
• A red flag means a shark has been seen recently, but is no longer visible to the spotters, stay alert;
• A white flag with a black shark, along with a loud siren, means a shark has been sighted and bathers should leave the water immediately.
Horse riding
Noordhoek Beach is popular for horse riding. Braced against the elements, with the wind in your hair and surrounded by postcard-perfect views of Chapman's Peak – if there's time to spare, this is a must-do!
Sleepy Hollow Horse Riding, Noordhoek
Contact: +27 (0)21 789 2341
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.sleepyhollowhorseriding.co.za
Imhoff Equestrian Centre, Kommetjie
Contact: +27 (0)82 774 1191
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.horseriding.co.za
If it's the Big Five you want to see, you will have to book yourself on a safari – or better yet, an overnight stay in a tented camp on a game reserve. From the Cape Town City Centre there are a few establishments that offer game drives and safari lodges.
Clara Anna Fontein Private Game Reserve and Country Lodge, Durbanville
Contact: +27 (0)21 975 7017
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.claraannafontein.com
And further beyond the city limits …
Inverdoorn Game Reserve and Safari Lodge
Contact: +27 (0)21 434 4639
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.inverdoorn.com
Aquila Private Game Reserve
Contact: +27 (0)21 431 8400
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.aquilasafari.com
There are also many tour operators who can arrange specialised combination tours, such as Western Cape Tours. They are offering a combination of a shark cage diving tour and wine tasting at some of Cape Town's most southerly vineyards for R1 700 to R2 100 per person* or an organised hike up Table Mountain and a cable car ride down for R800 to R900 per person*.
*Dependant on bookings.
Contact: +27 (0)83 703 3771
Email: email@example.com
Website: www.westerncapetours.co.za
The Cape Tourist Guides Association offers adults and kids the opportunity of a drive up the West Coast stopping at a nature reserve for a morning game drive, then continuing to !Khwa ttu San cultural village for lunch, followed by an interactive tour of a replica San village before returning to Cape Town. A special rate of R3 450 for two adults and one child (under 16 years) is valid from 1 May to 30 September 2011
Telephone: +27 (0)82 874 7711
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.capetouristguide.co.za
• Some of these activities are free while for others there is a cost involved. Please contact the venues you are interested in to find out more.
• For many of these activities bookings are essential.
• Some of these activities may be weather dependant.
• As a pioneering city in green and responsible tourism, the Mother City asks that visitors to these attractions act responsibly.
For more ideas on how best to enjoy Cape Town with your family, with a gourmet journey or a cultural magic carpet ride, please visit www.capetown.travel or call +27 (0)21 487 6800.
For more information about outdoor activities visit www.capetown.travel/see-and-do/nature-and-environment.


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