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The base plate/mount on the R10 has two countersunk holes for attaching to an R series rotator. If one wants to screw the R10 directly to a monopod or pole of some kind, one has to purchase and additional piece of hardware called the Nodal Ninja Ultimate R1/R10 Pole Adapter. That piece has a central threaded hole that can screwed onto a monopod or pole and then the R10 is screwed onto that adapter.
Wouldn't it be simpler in many cases to just put a threaded hole in the center of the base plate/mount so that the R10 can be screwed directly to a monopod or pole without adding more hardware at the top of the monopod or pole?


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Lowes or Home Depot... which do you like more?
So... I'm buying my first house. Because of the whole weirdness with my better half living in another country, and that distinct possibility that, any moment, she'll move to NYC, I've been living in an apartment for FAR longer than I've really wanted to. But interest rates being what they are, and the house prices having dropped a LOT lately, I've decided to bite the bullet and buy anyway. But enough about me. :)
Which do you prefer, Lowe's or Home Depot, and why? I've never really been much of a hardware/home fellow. I'm more at home in a Sephora or an Express than a hardware store. Ask me what the latest clothing line is from Bebe or Calvin Klein? I've got your information. Ask me what a belt sander looks like, and I'm liable to describe an angle grinder. Or a hammer.
But, being as I'm liable to have a lot of things to work on in the home, from paint (yay colours!) to carpeting to mowing the lawn, I was wondering if anyone had preferences on the two big home stores. And why.
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Generally, it comes down to which is closer, which for me is Home Depot. They are pretty much the same, massive aisles, one employee with 2-3 people waiting to get help or you can't find anyone. They seem to have everything until you are looking for that one obscure part. Unless they are completely different up in NY than SoCal, I'd stick to the one closest.
The smaller places like OSH and ACE Hardware are generally better places to head to if you have them. OSH is a lot like HD/Lowes with a simpler selection, ACE has a far better selection as they have a little more freedom in what they can stock, small things like fittings, and other weird bits and bobs you find out you need halfway through a project, but no large things, like lumber, cement, bath tubs, appliances, etc. The aisles aren't 15 feet tall either.
Oh, I don't live in NY. I'm down in Atlanta.
We USED to have ACE hardwares everywhere around here, but I'll admit, it's been decades since I've seen one. It could be that I'm just looking in the wrong places, or it could be that they've pulled out of the area or state.
I don't think I've ever heard of OSH. Is it just called OSH or OSH Hardware or something?
I need to find out what's closest to the new place. I'm guessing Home Depot, but I'm really not sure. Perhaps there's an ACE up there somewhere...
Well lookie there. There's a Home Depot very close, and JUST beyond it, according to the online yellow pages, is an ACE Hardware. Handy! The closest Lowe's looks to be 6 miles away.
@eneref: Personally, I'd ask the neighbors where they shop. If there's a local place, non-chain, that will be your first choice. Lowe's has better paint, and a much better selection of stones (my soil eats wood, so I use stone pavers to define garden beds). OSH is probably west coast; Sears acquired them years ago, anyway. Ace is a franchise, rather than a chain, so you may have a local place that's affiliated with Ace. Ace will still be on the building, and in the advertisements, but probably below the actual store name.
I love to remodel. You have to decide your skill set, and how much your time is worth, and how much money you're willing to give someone else to do things. Plumbing really needs a plumber for the big stuff, and electrical things ought to be done by an electrician. Painting is purely a decision on $$$, and the value of your time. It's a skill, but both Lowe's and Home Depot will explain what you need to know (and have good booklets, too).
@eneref: I take it you have already chosen a house. Have you closed? Do you have plans on moving in soon? Painting, and certain other things, too, is better in an empty house, or at least an empty room. Can you work on the house and stay somewhere else?
Too bad you're so far away; I could interfere like crazy. Oh, wait. You probably think it's GREAT that you're out of my reach.
[Edit] Purchase plants from none of the above. Start looking for local nurseries. Pity it's been so long since I've been in Atlanta. I no longer know where anything useful is. So, do you live on Peach Street, Peach Avenue, or Peach Place?
I agree with catbert, there isn't a huge difference between the two big box stores when you consider them as a whole.
You will probably find that you enjoy certain sections of one (like paint, lighting or the garden shop) better than the other. Or one store may be better managed, meaning that the staff will be more knowledgeable and helpful. I've noticed that with the economic downturn they do at least seem to be glad to see you in the store now.
If you're interested be sure to take advantage of both stores' 10% moving discounts for folks just like you.
Home Depot: http://homedepotmoving.com/SignUp/Registration.aspx?PromoCode=
Lowes: http://www.lowes.com/cd_Lowes+Moving+Center_509684072_
Congratulations on the new home!
@shrdlu: Hah! Yes, it's probably best you're elsewhere. ;) I've already got many a person willing to help me decide what to do with the house from decor to remodeling.
Closing date is October 29th, so I've got some time before I move in to decide what colours to go with and where to apply them. Interestingly, I spent a couple of summers in college painting houses (inside and out), so that's reasonably straightforward to me. As for electrical work... well... as an engineer, I'm sure I can figure it out readily enough with a little guidance. I've a friend who's a trained electrician who's happy to help there.
It is a MASSIVE bloody house... so it's a bit daunting. But they don't build small houses in this area. Still... has a nice yard. Looking forward to playing with that. Really excited about it altogether. I am, frankly, sick of this miserable excuse for an apartment -- from its dead rodents in the walls, to its behind-the-walls flea infestations, to its surly staff. Horrid place.
@eneref: Whoa. You just said FLEAS. Make sure that you move nothing that's dirty (as in clothes, furniture, you name it), and try to use plastic bins or tubs to store things in to move from one place to another. You may also want to consider setting off flea bombs (do they still have such things?) before you move in. Do you have any animals? If so, they need a bath. Remember, you are trying to move sans insects.
I was actually joking about helping, although I do know a fair amount about remodeling stuff. I wish you were closer, though. I could trade off lawn mowing for painting (I have a riding mower, and a walk behind).
I'm still claiming that Lowe's and Home Depot are good for different things, and same with Ace, too. I can get a single screw or nail from Home Depot or Ace; Lowe's people will want to sell a package of them.
I'm glad to live in an area where I can go to various feed and grain stores to get decent equipment. Fooey on any big box stores.
Having worked in two different Lowe's I can tell you the store is only as good as it's employees. The Lowe's in Nevada was fabulous, great customer service and people willing to go above and beyond to help a customer. The Lowe's in California was dirty, unorganized and filled with hateful employees. Yelp.com is a really good place to get reviews on the stores closest to you. Best of luck!
@shrdlu: No animals. There was a family of raccoons living in the walls. Took the complex 3 months to get around to hiring someone to get them out. In the meantime, they brought fleas with them, that have stayed in the walls. I don't have any fleas in the apartment. Just in the bathroom (as underneath that is where the nest was). I keep that reasonably clear with Ultracide on a regular basis. But it's annoying as I can't get into the walls. Most items here are already packed and ready to go. I had to move all the stuff out of the area with raccoons LONG ago, as the closet smells like a rodent's toilet (something about which the apartment complex people don't seem to care). I'll just be happy to leave all this 'luxury' behind (the current owners of this complex have named it Rockledge, Luxury Apartments).
One way to save some money is to buy gift cards from Ebay at a discounted rate. I bought three $500.00 gift cards from Home Depot for $400.00 each. Then used them to buy a riding lawn mower that was on sale. Saved a lot of money. Made sure the sellers on Ebay had good reputations before buying, and all the gift cards were good for $500.00 each. If you are going to do this, start sooner rather than later. The closer it gets to Christmas, the more you will pay for gift cards. Congratulations on the new house!
Well Lowes would be the erm 'localish' store for you since its corporate offices are up here in Huntersville, NC so that is something to think about.
It depends on what I am shopping for. I bought all my appliances at Lowes, the prices were lower and I got a giftcard. Both of them are within a tenth of a mile of each other. I bought all my paint a Home Depot, I like their paint guy better he was cuter. I also had a Home Depot Card - don't get one dangerous stuff.
But if you are really wanting to learn about tools Ace Hardware or a locally owned hardware store might be better because the owner/manager should actually have a clue. I have had trouble at both HD and Lowes with people not being able to help me find out what I need. They can direct me to the aisle I need, but they aren't DIY people so they have no clue they just work there.
Just use care having anything installed from a big box store. We bought a patio door from HD and it took five months of drama to get it installed. They contract the work out to another company. It was like a season on the Jerry Springer show. Never again!
Home Depot's corporate offices are located in Atlanta, Georgia.
If you want to get advice about a project, it suit you to ask any frequent contractor. I worked as a cashier at a Home Depot and whenever I had a personal project going on at home, I would ask the people who were regularly in my lines.
I've found that the go-to employees are the people behind the Pro Desk and the higher-ups on the Front End, namely the Head Cashiers and the Front End Supervisor. They have the mobility to personally escort you to the section you're looking for and the authority to get someone from the department over to you quickly. Ask a cashier to point you in their direction and you should be okay. Good luck!
Personally, I prefer Lowes. They do a little more for their business partners. That's what they call us if we have a business account with them. Several times a year someone will call & see if they still carry what we need and if there's something that they need to add to stock for us. And next weekend, they'll feed us free hot dogs. HD does squat.
Like mackibble says, get your installations done from area businesses. The smaller companies will appreciate your business and are easier to deal with, if something goes wrong. Also, make sure that they have paid their suppliers before you pay them. Go ahead and request copies of paid invoices. Nothing ruins your day faster than finding out that the tile supply guy was never paid for the tile in your $3000 tile installation. And he wants his money from you!
Lowes - at least in my area - tends to have a better selection and lower prices - they are half a mile from each other - so it's easy to check prices. Home Depot doesn't have lamp shades - a much smaller ceiling fan and lighting dept - and lss home decor
I have been doing some home improvements in the last year and have found that home depot and lowes are much better stocked than some of our other large home improvement stores in the upper midwest. They have relatively the same prices EXCEPT! Home depots small items say less than $20 are higher priced, and lowes items over $20 are higher priced. (Its best if you have a Menards, Lowes, and Home Depot within 6 blocks of each other then you can do fine price comparisons.)
Here's the deal, imo, Home Depot associates know more, they are extensively trained. Not to say that there aren't a few that have no clue, but in general you just need to ask an employee who they go to in each department. No they all don't know every department and that's a ridiculous idea that each employee will know everything in the whole store.
Now, Lowes looks a whole lot prettier and that's what they went for. They knew there was no beating HD as a depot or warehouse; HD is a contractor driven store. Lowes targeted the typical female: Color coded organization, wide clean aisles, more decorative products & more options as far as brands with appliance, etc.
But hands down Home Depot will have better prices. If not originally a better price, HD beats Lowes price 10% less. Lowes will only take 10% of the difference between the prices.
It's impressive how the employees at both are so loyal; esp when Lowes offers more to their employees. HD employees don't get discounts or commission.
OH! don't forget to look for Habitat's Restore's if you don't care about not having a warranty for some things - faucets, door knobs etc that is THE place to go cheap cheap cheap! Come up to Charlotte we can go together.
I like lowes better, because in my area they are cheaper than the home depot on almost everything, plus they give a 10% military discount all the time.
Having lived in other places, no two stores are identical, and some store are larger than others. I used to love going between the 2 lowes and 2 home depts that I used to live by, and getting them to beat each other's prices by 10%.
Both of these stores are good for general items. When it comes to higher end products, do not buy faucets from either. They both tend to sell units that look like other units on the manufacturers webiste, but the internal parts are very different. Go to a plumbing supply place for faucets for showers and sinks, unless you want cheap junk. Do not buy their oak or poplar wood for trimming out a house, they are ungodly expensive. Find a mill or shop on ebay.
have fun with the renovation of a new place.
Lowe's is an advertiser on Glenn Beck's show. For me, that rules them out for my shopping dollar.
@snitily: really? How unfortunate. I don't like him.
I agree with @ohcheri - it comes down to staff. The staff at my local Blue is more knowledgeable and will go out of their way to help me more (or ask if I need it) than the staff at Orange. And the Blue here seems to be cleaner and better tended to than it's Orange counterpart.
The test is to wander around the store aimlessly and look lost and see if you get the sort of help you'd like. If neither one pleases you, then go for an Ace or TrueValue. Since you're probably not at the store for lumber or powertools (like I usually am), the smaller hardware stores like Ace and TrueValue should have what you'd like. And then often tend to have even better service than their big box counterparts. I had to go a short distance to the back of the TrueValue once and was approached by three different people asking if I needed help.
Size matters. The Home Depot near my house is small and lacks many items. It always seems to be out of stock of the item I need.
The help inside differs on a store by store basis. When I lived in San Diego, the Home Depot had better help. In the DC area, Lowe's employees are better.
In the end, find a good size store and figure out everything you need to know on the internet - including stock levels and SKU numbers for their products. You can ask them for something that's on the shelf behind them and they will tell you that they don't carry it. They don't even bother to know or check.
For me, convenience usually trumps. There's six Home Depot stores reasonably close to here (5 miles) while the closest Lowes is 8 miles away.
For most stuff, I'll go to HD for convenience. However, the contracting shop at Lowes seems to handle things far better. We've done a couple of moderate sized flooring jobs with them and I find the Lowes oversight better than what HD provided. The Lowes folks took much more responsibility for making sure that everything was right. Not to mention the time HD double shipped me wallpaper and treated me like an idiot for trying to return the extra.
As others have said, the important part is the quality of the staff, which really depends on the local management. I guess in my case the Chantilly (VA) Lowes wins.
I'm a home depot fan myself. Both stores seem to have a huge selection, but the depot seems to have items that fit my style better. Peg board accessories, for example. At Lowes, the peg board stuff is in the closet organization section, and they offer a few prepackaged items. At HD, a large section of an isle is dedicated to different configuration options. You buy prepackaged items, or single items. I like that.
Home Depot all the way.
1. They know what they're talking about.
2. They do not ignore you whether you look confused to just browsing around.
3. Customer Service is their middle name...Home Customer Service Depot.
4. Things are generally a bit more expensive then Lowe's however, you get what you pay for.
5. They have a variety of product THAT GETS THE JOB DONE.
What BOTH stores need is little computer terminals (or something!) so we can search for items and find their current isle. Where's the glue? With the paint/tape? Or with the construction stuff? Or with the cleaners? Who can tell?
If you have one close, I prefer Menards 1st, Lowes 2nd, Home Depot 3rd.
Congratulations on your new home ma'am. From my experience, Lowes seems to offer the best selection on just about everything, but like everyone says, try the closest to you first. Best of luck. Cheers.
@luisibarra81: @eneref is male, hence him having a wife.
Generally, I like Lowe's better than Home(ly) Depot. However, the hardware selection in Lowe's is much more restrictive, in that you cannot buy just a couple of specialty screws- you have to buy a whole box... IDK about you, but i dont need a whole box of size 12, 4inch wood screws when I only needed 4 for a door jam...
I have four Home Despots closer to me than the nearest Lowes, so I wind up there. Convenience is a huge factor (not unlike Sam's vs Costco vs BJ's).
As some others have said, the locations somehow manage to be different. Parking at one is horrendous, another never seemed to have exactly what I'm looking for in stock (had midway-sized lightswitch and receptacle plates in almond, but never in white). And all four are laid out differently - electrical is in the back left corner of my preferred HD, while another one has it more in the middle.
My one trip to Lowes - five years ago - was good, but too far out of the way for me.
If you know what you're looking for and like plenty of choices, a big box is great. If you need a lot of personal help, try a smaller place like ACE, TrueValue or a local shop.
From what I've seen, Lowe's is more consumer oriented, and Home Depot is more contractor oriented.
So if you need a ceiling fan or medicine cabinet, go to Lowe's. If you're buying a bunch of sheetrock or interior doors, go to Home Depot.
SO! being that I work for HOME DEPOT and my Cousin works for LOWES, there is quite a difference in many things. you can weigh the pros and cons all day. When you read through all of these comments all I see are opinions and little factors that puts someone ELSES emphasis on a store. you want a good opinion CHECK them both out for yourself.. but putting all of this into a good reality for you. it all comes back to a little thing I learned in middle school. LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION!
Most stores stock their items based off of numbers and sales of things in the direct area.
like SEATTLE and SANDIEGO Markets are more likely to sell more Tables and Umbrellas than a PORTLAND market.
so of course if im in management Im gonna relocate my products to an area that are gonna make me rich not break even.
SO here are a few truths..
FACT: Home Depot treat their employees better than Lowes.
FACT: Lowes costs less than HOME DEPOT
If your shopping in a ghetto are. Customer service probably bad
They each have a store opposite sides of the street near to my home. The staff at Lowes are by far:
1. easier to find
2. more knowledgeable
3. less odorific
4. less creepy, like they weren't trained how to be "friendly"
Plus, Lowes usually has what I want in stock, whereas Home Despot is full of empty shelving. (edit: @texasmojo's comment about general public vs. contractors rings true here.)
Same with the checkouts: there's always at least one checkout open so I don't have to fight the stupid automated checkout that insists I place a large, unweildy object in the bag before it will let me buy anything. Last time it did that, I just left the bugger behind, crossed over the street to the store with the blue logo.
They each have a store opposite sides of the street near to my home. The staff at Lowes are by far:
1. easier to find
2. more knowledgeable
3. less odorific
4. less creepy, like they weren't trained how to be "friendly"
Plus, Lowes usually has what I want in stock, whereas Home Despot is full of empty shelving. (edit: @texasmojo's comment about general public vs. contractors rings true here.)
Same with the checkouts: there's always at least one checkout open so I don't have to fight the stupid automated checkout that insists I place a large, unweildy object in the bag before it will let me buy anything. Last time it did that, I just left the bugger behind, crossed over the street to the store with the blue logo.
@eneref: OSH is Orchard Supply Hardware (http://www.osh.com/). Like mentioned previously, they are a smaller scale HD/Lowe's, but tend to offer better service to their customers. Many of them even still fell like "small mom and pop" stores.
Lowes. Because my best friend was treated horribly when employed at Home Depot. The things that go on are truly shocking. From misconduct to out and out illegal behavior, it's certainly not a healthy or safe place to work. And they really take advantage of their elderly employees. If, in your business, you have a senior citizen wet themselves because they can't get a break from a cash register in four hours, you basically suck.
Lowes: Better Price
HD: Higher end Mdse
I live in the DC area- we have alot of both kinds of stores. Hugely prefer Lowes- nicer customer service, more knowledgeable. Alot better selection. Home Depot doesn't even have cashiers just self help registers although there are lots ofif employees roaming around, talkig to each other try getting one of them to help you.

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October 25, 2013
Top 2013 Halloween Events in Cape Town
Are you ready for a frightfully fun week of Halloween events in #lovecapetown, friends? I sure am!
So much so, that I've rounded up my top scary events for you. Now, before some of you get all culturally correct on me and say that Old Hallow's Eve is not a South African celebration, let me say that dressing up in spooky costumes and having a good time is a universal activity and one the Mother City fully intends to enjoy.
From ghoulish zombie walks to medieval theatrical marathons and waking-the-dead dance parties there is plenty happening to scare you silly in our hometown this week so join me at the following heart-stopping events:
For the undead fanatics:
Zombie Walk 2013
The smell of rotting flesh and fear is in the air this Saturday evening as the ever popular Zombie Walk takes over the Company's Garden.
When you've had your fill of living humans, join the epic after party or stop by the fabulously eerie restaurant, The Crypt for a ghostly nightcap.
Date: 26 October
Location: Company's Garden, Cape Town
Website: www.facebook.com/events/1411863625698375/
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Laugh until you cry with the hilarious cast of ImproGuise as they raise funds for the worthy Rape Crisis and celebrate their 21st birthday with a 15 hour improv theatre marathon, the Soapathon, at the Little Theatre in Gardens.
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Date: 26 October
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Is it true that every closed operator on a separable Hilbert H space only has countably many eigenvalues?
Or put the other way around, if I want to ensure that a (not necessarily bounded) linear operator on a separable Hilbert space only has countably many eigenvalues, is closedness (or better said, closability) a sufficient condition?
(By the term eigenvalue, I do not only mean a point in the spectrum of course, but one that actually fulfills $Tx = \lambda x$.)


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Let $M$ be a module over a ring $R$. In nice situations (though I don't know what exactly nice means...) the following two numbers are equal:
1.) The codimension of the support of $M$
2.) The biggest $k$ such that $\text{Ext}^k(M,.)$ doesn't vanish
Why do we expect this intuitively? Why should lengths of injective/projective/flat resolutions have anything to do with the support?


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Chihuahua-mania swept America, and Taco Bell's future never looked better.
So What Went Wrong?
When the Chihuahua was abruptly yanked off Taco Bell ads in 2000, people became suspicious. Many believed that the dog had died and was now being served in gordita form to its adoring fanbase. In reality, the ads were cut because their presence led directly to a 6 percent drop in Taco Bell sales. These results were so bad that the president of Taco Bell, Peter Waller, was swiftly replaced by a former executive for Wendy's.
Because you don't sell a product with talking dogs. You sell it with sex.
As for why exactly the ad didn't make people want to buy actual Taco Bell food, we're going to guess that there's a big difference between saying that, for instance, a cartoon rabbit loves Trix cereal and saying that a real dog likes Taco Bell. Real dogs eat garbage and cat shit. For a chain whose biggest problem is convincing customers that their beef is graded for human consumption, it's bizarre that it thought the best selling point was, "Don't worry, this tiny dog loves it!"
We'd rather eat Alpo than this.
Things went from bad to worse in 2003 when a long-fought legal battle ended between Taco Bell and two men who claimed the company had stolen their idea of a Spanish-speaking Chihuahua, an idea so uniquely brilliant that no one else in the history of the world could have ever thought of it. The two men claimed the Taco Bell executives had signed a contract with them only to back out of the deal and steal the idea for themselves. A jury agreed with them, and awarded them $42 million in damages. Essentially Taco Bell stole a terrible idea and got screwed by it twice.
We consider it payback for the hundreds of productive hours lost on the toilet after Taco Bell burritos.
#4. The Energizer Bunny
For those of you not alive in the mid-'90s, the Energizer bunny was a marketing mascot created by Energizer to one-up the already firmly established Duracell bunny in the highly lucrative rabbit/battery market.
The '90s: When advertisers completely ran out of ideas.
The Duracell version was created in 1973 to showcase their batteries' ability to hold a charge significantly longer than other, inferior battery brands. The ads featured a group of pink toy bunnies all playing the drums simultaneously. Each would quit, one by one, as their batteries died. But a specific bunny, powered by Duracell, would keep going, on and on.
This is somehow related to batteries.
That's why in 1989, Energizer released their own ad mocking the famous Duracell campaign. It started with the familiar scene, but then after the Duracell bunny was left alone, the Energizer's much cooler bunny (he had sunglasses!) would roll into the scene, showing that he could play the drums so long it made all other toy bunnies look like a pile of shit.
The response to the Energizer ad was enormous. Fans saw the new Energizer bunny as cool, exciting and badass, because to be perfectly honest there wasn't much else going on in 1989 (it was becoming clear that a nuclear war wasn't going to happen, and that was a pretty big letdown). The Energizer bunny, originally intended as a one-time parody of the pre-existing Duracell bunny, soon took off and became a pop-culture icon. Over the next 20 years, 115 Energizer bunny ads were created that included other pop-culture figures.
So What Went Wrong?
Quick: What brand of batteries do you have in your TV remote right now?
"... black ones?"
We're betting you don't have any goddamned idea. Let's face it, it's not like one brand of battery is radically different from another. This isn't Mac vs PC here. You don't even see them -- they stay hidden away in the battery compartment of the gadget. It's hard to even get a sense of which one lasts longer, unless you keep a running calendar of the battery-change dates on everything you own. And in that case, you probably also keep jars of your own fingernail clippings.
So here we had products that are already difficult to distinguish from one another. And already Duracell had established that theirs was the one with the bunny that played a drum. The Energizer bunny was a ... well ....
But he has sunglasses, see? He's dangerous.
So even after seeing the ads thousands of times, consumers had no idea which brand was which. In 1990, near the peak of the Energizer bunny's popularity, Duracell claimed that 40 percent of its customers thought the campaign was promoting Duracell, not Energizer. Consumers were connecting "battery" and "bunny," but at no point were they connecting "bunny" and "Energizer." Despite the immense popularity of the ad campaign, Duracell extended its lead over Energizer and held that spot into the late '90s.
It seems like if you really wanted to make a battery that stands out from the crowd, you'd make the battery itself some gaudy color and, we don't know, make the brand name a racial slur or something. At least give people something to remember when they go shopping.
"Try the Golliwogg brand! They're charged with the power of hate."
#3. California Raisins
The California Raisin Board created some ads in the '80s that featured Claymation raisins singing and dancing to soul music. It was kind of like Gumby, if two racists pictured Gumby in their minds before headbutting each other at the speed of light.
Of all the examples in this article, none hit the mainstream harder than the California Raisins. In a short four-year period, the Raisins produced four albums, a lucrative merchandising deal, a prime-time mockumentary about their formation, a Nintendo game and an Emmy-winning Christmas special.
To recap, the California Raisins have won an Emmy. Jason Alexander has not. Let that sink in.
By 1990, the California Raisins had made over $200 million in media deals and secondary products (dolls, shirts, suppositories).
So What Went Wrong?
They had successfully created a pop-culture fad, but all fads end. Things all came toppling down in 1990 when people just stopped responding to the Raisins' charms. Merchandise and record sales both tanked, and the campaign ended as quickly as it had begun.
And thus, America was saved.
While raisin sales went up a small amount during the craze, after the ads were pulled, raisin sales fell lower than they had been before the campaign started.
When you look back at the ad campaign, you see the problem: At no point did they actually make raisins seem like something you'd want to eat. It was a great campaign for reminding everyone how awesome Marvin Gaye was, but raisins? They portrayed raisins as ugly sunglasses-wearing Claymation monstrosities. They seemed to be trying the beer ad technique of associating their product with cool music and fun, but beer companies do it because people actually do drink beer when having fun and listening to music (bars, concerts, parties). It makes no sense to try to make that association with raisins. If you show up at a party and all they have are huge bowls full of raisins, congratulations -- you've probably just joined a cult.
"We find raisins hide the taste of cyanide nicely."
Where this story gets sad is when we discuss who really got screwed through all of this. While lots of media and advertising moguls filled their pockets on the Raisins' success, actual raisin farmers themselves never got anything. This is because it was the Raisin Board's policy to reinvest any and all profits right back into the advertising. When the board folded in late 1990, the profits vanished as well.
For some reason, animated raisins are indistinguishable from animated poop.


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What is the best way to implement a dialog tree system in my game? I want an NPC to give the player different sets of responses, some which may only appear when the Player has an item or a previous event has occurred.
Dialog Trees should be done using XML. You store the conditions for the responses and the response in nested trees with a reference to a script file if you need to do something more complex.
You should keep the scripts and dialog separate especially if you are putting together an RPG which has a metric ton worth of conversations. You can then use a library like simpleXML to read the XML file.
There's a similar question over on SO with an example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/372915/game-logic-in-xml-files
I would look into a embedding a scripting language like lua or ruby and coding dialog interactions in that.
Thus a dialog script could look like:
This also works well for coding AI and other simple things that are useful to tweak during run time. You can even add an editor built into your application that can be invoked when running in debug (or as an Easter Egg).
In the game Stendhal we use a finite state machine to implement NPCs.
The following diagram shows a little example from the how to write quests tutorial.
At the beginning, the NPC is in an IDLE state and may be walking around. A player can start a conversation by saying "hi" and the NPC will go to state ATTENDING. In this state it answers to questions about his "job" and offers some game "help". The player might ask for a quest and the NPC will go to state QUEST_OFFERED waiting for the player to accept ("yes") or decline ("no") it.
We have defined a set of conditions that can be attached to transitions. For example completing a quest may only be possible if a PlayerHasItemWithHimCondition is met.
After a transition was executed the NPC may say some text and/or execute an action. Similar to the conditions we have defined a reusable set of actions like EquipItemAction which is used to give a quest reward to a player.
Multiple conditions can be combined using AndCondition, OrCondition and NotCondition. Usually there is a number of actions to be done on quest completion, so there is a MultipleActions class as well.
While the actual implementation in Stendhal suffers from not being translatable in other (human) languages easily, I think the general concept is good.
You can take a look at the Dlgedit tool of the Open Source RPG engine Adonthell. It's very advanced and should contain everything you need (including sources ;))
I think for adding in translations, you could still use XML for the logic as stated above. When you're getting into that type of complexity you should write your own dialogue tool. Your dialogue text would get stored as a key to a database that you could swap out depending on the language you'd want to display.
For example you could have:
You would then have the quest text renderer replace "Localize.FixMyCar" with the appropriately translated text.
Your tool would display what the player would see in a selectable language alongside the editable raw XML.
Similarly you could use something like this from the example you referenced:
If your keys are descriptive enough not having the complete text shouldn't be an issue.
Something like this could be useful as well:
Data drive your characters with LUA scripts or even XML files. When you interact with an NPC, grab the file that is attached to it, read it in, adjust for any game variables that may have been triggered, and product the valid response.
The biggest gain from doing it this way is you can easily go in and manipulate the dialog, add new characters, etc. You also avoid mucking up your code base with special logic in handling each and every case.
If you use XML, make sure you build a small tool to edit the XML file. You'll go crazy otherwise.
If you have a pretty deep set of dialog trees, use ChatMapper. They have a fully featured free version and the tool allows you to export your dialog trees into XML. I've been using it and it's an excellent way to visualize and organize complex dialog trees.
If your dialogs are of any complexity, the most important thing you'll need for dialog implementation is a way to understand the complexity of your interaction. I recommend a Node editor of some kind to visualize this, though I don't have any good open systems to recommend.
I think , that You use your own script language for directing these type of game(if not, You should).Then expand your script for dialogs handling too.
Simple automaton might do:
It might look something like this:
In the game You find id and try to match id and the condition.
You need to model the conditions and actions. By objects, function pointers, XML ...
Good dialogue editor will be handy too.


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This is a guide on cracking a cheat for a game but I'm not really understanding it http://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?t=233826 can anyone help?
ARMADiLLO v3.60 and Debug Blocker
Why don't you ask the same to the guy who has posted it.
because hes not offering any help
Thats a very unclear tutorial, but what you do is only analyse the program and then he only tells you what you must look for. My advise is to read it over and over until you get what he means, once you have olly things will be more clear.


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If you have a generous heart and at least a little bit of money in the bank, you may find yourself constantly being asked for cash or loans from family members and friends. All of us go through personal or financial challenges in our lives. But when you start feeling like a piggybank for those closest to you, it's time to establish healthy financial boundaries with relatives and other loved ones.
Here are five tips to establish clear financial boundaries with others, and help you break the cycle of serving as the family ATM machine.
1. Identify those seeking recurring financial requests
It's one thing to help a relative or friend out of a single jam – or perhaps to come to their rescue more than once if they're going through a particularly rough patch like unemployment.
But if you're constantly being asked for money or "loans" – month after month – or if you receive numerous requests for financial assistance, you're likely caught up in an unhealthy financial relationship. Sometimes, you may even be simply getting taken advantage of because people have come to rely on you as the "dependable" place where they can turn. If the latter scenario rings a bell, make a list of those people who often come to you for money frequently or who have recurring requests for financial aid.
2. Deal honestly with your emotions
Once you identify who frequently asks you for money, take a moment to think about how those requests make you feel. Perhaps being asked for cash all the time makes you frustrated, guilty or mad. Or maybe you've spent so much time simply feeling sorry for the person in need that you've neglected to get in touch with your own emotions about the situation. Regardless of what's happened in the past, it's time to take a stand and set some limits for the present and the future. You do this by first addressing your own emotions – honestly addressing them, whether they're positive or negative.
Yes, you read that right: You may actually have some positive feelings associated with being asked to help out friends and family. Are you the type of person who enjoys being able to play the financial hero and come to someone's rescue? Do you pride yourself on being so generous that you practically give others the shirt off your back or are willing to part with your very last dollar? Or maybe you secretly get an ego boost out of knowing that you're the one in your family circle who's at least stable enough that people come to you for help.
But what about the more likely scenario: that being constantly petitioned for money creates negative emotions? Most of us don't want to acknowledge negative emotions because they make us uncomfortable. But it's important to recognize what's going on with you internally. That exasperated "Oh no, Not again!" feeling, or that knot in your stomach you're experiencing, are your mind and body's way of giving you red flags and warning signals. And sometimes, paying attention to our emotions – whether it's being angry, fed up, or simply calm and at peace because you have a moment of clarity – can be just the thing we need to motivate us to make the right choices.
3. Ask yourself the right question
In cases where you really want to say 'no,' but are afraid or reluctant to do so, ask yourself one simple question: "Why am I hesitant about saying 'no'?" Once you answer this question honestly, you'll probably realize that you're worried about one of three things:
1) You're worried about hurting the other person's feelings or offending them 2) You're worried about the other person rejecting you in some way, or not loving you or being as close/friendly to you 3) You're worried that the other person will get mad at you, think you're selfish and inconsiderate or that you don't care about them Note: that in all these scenarios, what you're really worried about is what will happen to your relationship with the person if you decline to provide help.
Unfortunately, if you follow this line of thinking, you're neglecting to think about the flip side of things: namely, what will happen to the relationship if you do provide help? It's far more likely that the relationship could be damaged by money actually changing hands than money not changing hands. That's because any number of situations could happen.
The person may not pay you back on time, or at all, upsetting you and damaging the relationship.
The person may end up coming back for more money, also upsetting you, and ultimately damaging the relationship.
The person could feel beholden to you in some way, unnecessarily shifting the power dynamics in the relationship, again thereby damaging it.
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Grenache a red wine with a bright future in Washington
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Grenache grapes are grown at the Spice Cabinet Vineyard, overlooking the Columbia River in the southern Horse Heaven Hills. It was planted by the Mercer family, which owns Mercer Estates in Prosser.
Grenache vines are grown by Milbrandt Vineyards on the Wahluke Slope near the town of Mattawa. Grenache is a red variety beginning to gain traction with winemakers and wine lovers alike.">
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Grenache vines are grown by Milbrandt Vineyards on the Wahluke Slope near the town of Mattawa. Grenache is a red variety beginning to gain traction with winemakers and wine lovers alike.
One vineyard growing grenache is Upland Vineyard on Snipes Mountain, a hill in the middle of the Yakima Valley near the town of Sunnyside. Vines on Snipes Mountain date back to 1917.">
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One vineyard growing grenache is Upland Vineyard on Snipes Mountain, a hill in the middle of the Yakima Valley near the town of Sunnyside. Vines on Snipes Mountain date back to 1917.
Grenache is a late-ripening red variety that thrives in hot climates, such as the Rhone Valley in southern France, Spain (where it's known as garnacha), California and Eastern Washington's Columbia Valley.
As a standalone wine, grenache tends to be lighter in color and exhibits bright red flavors with mild tannins. It also plays an important role in blends with syrah and mourvedre, two other Rhone Valley reds.
Last fall, Washington winemakers crushed 900 tons of grenache — a small amount that makes this a grape made in relatively small lots. At nearly $1,900 per ton, grenache also was the state's most expensive grape variety overall, showing just how much in demand it is in Washington state now.
We recently tasted through a large number of Washington examples of grenache. Here are a few of our favorites. All are made in small amounts, so ask for them at your favorite wine merchant or contact the wineries directly:
Zerba Cellars 2010 Grenache, Columbia Valley, $38: Doug Nierman continues to make some of the finest wine in the Pacific Northwest at this winery on the Oregon side of the Walla Walla Valley. Aromas of coconut, chocolate, clove and plum give way to flavors of blueberry, black cherry, black tea and red plum in a big finish.
Bunnell Family Cellar 2009 Grenache, Columbia Valley, $34: Ron Bunnell, who emigrated to Washington from California in 1999, continues to burnish his reputation with Rhone varieties with this impressive grenache. It opens with aromas of black licorice, toast, plum and blueberry, followed by a rich entry that leads to flavors of red plum, raspberry, chocolate and plum.
Daven Lore Winery 2011 Grenache, Yakima Valley, $35: Yakima Valley winemaker Gord Taylor has crafted a superb wine from a cool vintage. This opens with aromas that reminded us more of pinot noir than grenache, with notes of red currant, violet and rose petals. On the palate, it reveals distinctive flavors of raspberry, cherry and sweet herbs.
Kerloo Cellars 2011 Grenache, Horse Heaven Hills, $40: This Walla Walla winery reaches into the Horse Heaven Hills for its grenache grapes. This opens with aromas of maple, plum and berry, followed by rich flavors of black pepper and ripe plum. There's a lot going on in this pretty wine.
Mercer Estates Winery 2010 Spice Cabinet Vineyard Grenache, Horse Heaven Hills, $30: The Mercer family planted Spice Cabinet in a bowl overlooking the Columbia River with a palette of varieties. This grenache features aromas and flavors of cranberry, rhubarb, strawberry, black pepper and rich red plum. It's a beautiful wine with a memorable finish.
Whidbey Island Winery 2011 Grenache, Horse Heaven Hills, $29: Longtime Western Washington winemaker Greg Osenbach reached into famed Alder Ridge Vineyard in the Horse Heaven Hills for this grenache, which also includes a dose of syrah. Bright aromas of strawberry and red licorice give way to bright, classic flavors of cherry, raspberry and chocolate.
Sigillo Cellars 2011 Grenache, Snipes Mountain, $23: This is just the second release from a winery in the Cascade Mountains town of Snoqualmie. Winemaker Steve Bailey used grapes from Upland Vineyard in the Yakima Valley to craft a pretty and focused Grenache with aromas and flavors of cherry, raspberry, dark chocolate and a hint of blueberry.
Upland Estates Winery 2011 Grenache, Snipes Mountain, $32: Grape grower Todd Newhouse manages one of Washington's oldest vineyards, with vines going back to 1917. This grenache, made by winemaker Robert Smasne, opens with classic aromas of cranberry, cherry and strawberry, followed by round, juicy flavors of high-toned red fruit backed with bright intensity and modest tannins.
Eric Degerman and Andy Perdue run Great Northwest Wine, www.greatnorthwestwine.com.
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Light scattering techniques are widely used in protein characterization. Dynamic light scattering (DLS) is established in the measurement of particle and molecular size, and in studying the interactions between proteins. Electrophoretic light scattering (ELS) is used to measure the electrophoretic mobility of particles in dispersion or molecules (such as proteins) in solution. This mobility is often converted into zeta potential to enable comparison of materials under different conditions. In the case of proteins, the measurement of protein mobility allows the calculation of protein charge, which in turn relates to factors such as activity and reaction kinetics. Recent advances in instrumentation and methodologies are addressing the technical challenges of using light scattering to make mobility measurements on proteins.
Experimentally, protein mobility measurements present two practical challenges. First, working with protein solutions often means working with dilute concentrations, low DLS count rates, and low electrophoretic mobilities. Second, the act of applying an electric field to the sample can damage the protein by stimulating aggregation, with resultant mobility measurements reflecting the aggregate molecules rather than the native protein.
A new approach combines a high sensitivity light scattering system (Zetasizer Nano ZSP, Malvern Instruments) with a diffusion barrier technique that separates the molecules in the sample from the electrodes, to avoid the risk of aggregation. A measurement protocol regulates voltage and temperature; and automatic size measurements before and after the electrophoretic mobility measurement verify that no aggregation has occurred.


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Designing the Green Line
Evandrike Correia, Civil Engineering Technology, 2014
Co-op Employer: AECOM
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Civil engineering technology major Evandrike Correia can't help but imagine the future when he rides the Green Line. That's because he helped design an additional seven stops beyond the existing Lechmere Station.
Correia recently worked as a co-op to create building information models, a process involving digital representations of physical facilities known as BIM, for global project management firm AECOM—the company responsible for the MBTA Green Line Extension Project.
"When I got there, there was more work than people," Correia said. "I took over some of the work that the engineers didn't have time to do." Correia worked closely with the engineers at the Los Angeles-based company's Boston office, even attending meetings on behalf of the engineers to collect necessary information for their projects.
While Correia couldn't go into specifics about the ongoing project, he was able to share the software used throughout the design process: Revit. In fact, students at Wentworth now learn the software in class, which made Correia even more valuable to the engineering team throughout his co-op.
"It has everything you need, all in one," Correia said. "Instead of using several different programs, you just need Revit. You can use it to [virtually] walk through the stations as if they were real."
AECOM is currently in the planning stages of the project and will start building the stations in September with an expected completion date of March 2015. Correia will continue working part-time for AECOM during the summer, and might complete a second co-op with the company.
"I may be able to go and work for the company in Abu Dhabi for my second co-op, which would be exciting," he said.
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7 Mar 2012 10:02 AM #1
Treepanel with row editing issues.
I'm implementing the row editing for my treepanel, but it isn't working as I expected, sometimes the update action distorts my treepanel and sometimes doesn't. Also I'm having problems with the sync function:
onEdited:function(){ console.log(this.getStore().getUpdatedRecords().length); this.getStore().sync(); }
And the record is updated in the database.
If I perform another update I expect the same results but, instead I get:
and an Internal Server Error :S
Any Ideas?
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Yes, I checked, but it is not valid because it expects just one record, but I'm sending two.
According to the docs:
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Returns all Model instances that have been updated in the Store but not yet synchronized with the Proxy
So I don't know if the sync function is working, I can see the update in my database :S


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Northwestern boys grab rare win at Gilbert
WINSTED — Now here's something you don't see every day: a team coming into "the Hive" at Gilbert and outrunning the Yellowjackets.
Well, Saturday night in the sauna that was the Jackets' home court, Northwestern ran and ran some more en route to an 80-68 win that kept its record perfect at 6-0. Yes, the Highlanders went into their crosstown rival's gym and came out with a win.
And that just doesn't happen often. At least not for the seniors from Northwestern. John Stevens, who scored 26 points and led a furious second-quarter defensive effort that also fueled a 32-point offensive out- burst, knew this night was special for him.
"We had never won here while I have played for Northwestern," Stevens said. "It's a real hard place to come and play. It's loud, small and full of energy."
This season, though, the basketball capital of the Berkshire League is located a little farther down Route 44 and up on a hill.
Highlanders coach Doug Sebach has a deep, athletic group that has played together forever, while Gilbert coach Mark Douglass has two standouts and other parts of a team that needs to learn to play as a unit.
"I told my team before the game that most of (Northwestern's players) have played together for years and will know where the other will be on every play," Douglass said. "We need to get to that point."
Connor Guiheen led all scorers with 29 points and got his team off to a fast start with a back-door bucket off the tip. A back-and-forth first quarter saw Northwestern go up 14-8 at one point with Stevens scoring nine.
The Yellowjackets' leading scorer, Robert Skinner, got off to a slow shooting start, but the senior, who has been playing against Stevens since fifth grade, heated up along with Yoharky Sarmiento with three minutes left in the quarter.
Sarmiento began the comeback with a long 3-pointer. A pair of free throws by Skinner and a traditional three-point play by the energetic guard gave his team its first lead of the night at 16-14 with 1:35 left in the quarter.
Luis Cordova (12 points) completed a 10-0 run with an offensive put-back, and it looked like the up-and-down track meet everyone expected. The first quarter ended tied at 18.
Showing just how fast things can get out of control when you face a team that can throw 10 players at you in an endless rotation, the Yellowjackets got stung in lightning-fast manner in the second quarter.
After an Arthur Lefevre 3-pointer started the frame, Stevens took over and stole three inbound passes over the next minute to help the score mushroom into a 31-20 lead in a blink of an eye.
That run established a pattern that continued all night. Whenever Gilbert made a little run to get the lead under double digits, the Highlanders had another burst that would push the lead back up to 15.
The lead was 50-33 at the half. While the Jackets whittled it down to under 10 a few more times in the second half, the visitors simply had too many answers. Skinner led Gilbert (3-2) with 23 points and Cordova had 12.
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The Apache are best known for their fierce fighting skills and engaging in battles against other tribes and white settlers. They successfully defended their land during Spanish colonization, but the introduction of horses and better weapons by the Spanish led to increased intertribal warfare. By the mid-19th century, Apache lands were in the path of the American westward movement. Many Apache heroes are known for their strong but futile resistance to the United States that lasted through the beginning of the 20th century.
Featured Fact: The Apache usually had matrilocal societies. The husband often lived with his wife's family and worked for them.
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text: We human beings like to simply have our beliefs, not challenge them. In fact, for a great number of us challenging beliefs is a stigma, taboo, or outright sin. We live in a world where about six billion people think that they, by and large, have a pretty good handle on how things are. They know 'what's what,' even though none of them can seem to agree about even the most basic things. So what makes us so special? Why do we think, each of us, that we are somehow holding the magical lottery ticket? Wherever one human being kills another, you find a difference in belief, so in a sense you could say this is THE most important question humanity faces. At the same time, nowhere in the vast majority of public education systems, will you find a single course, let alone unit, on belief formation. What the hell could be going on here?


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This is an offshoot of the question on Fun math outreach/social activities. I have listed a few videos/documentaries I have seen. I would appreciate if people could add on to this list.
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333 Wacker Drive
Designed by architects Kohn Pedersen Fox, the unusually shaped 333 Wacker Drive was constructed from 1979 to 1983. The rear half of the building follows the guidelines of the city grid, while the other half features a curved façade that follows the bend of the Chicago River. The green-glass curtain reflects its surroundings and creates a spectacular visual experience.
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KILLEEN (January 24, 2012)--About two-dozen members of the Killeen Police Department's KCOP program and volunteers from Texas A&M University-Central Texas took to the streets of Killeen Thursday to survey the homeless as part of a program called "The Point in Time Count."
The survey focuses on the number of people who are experiencing homelessness, the circumstance that led them there and where they're staying.
Organizers hope the updated information will lead to more resources and funding to help the homeless.
"It's very important so that we can keep count of how many homeless people we have in our area and also that we can be able to work with the community, the city and the county to promote programs that we can help them to be self-sufficient," said Maria Foster with the Killeen HELP Center.
The survey Thursday found an increase in homelessness, particularly among veterans.
Of 46 completed surveys Thursday, 15 people identified themselves as veterans.
"These numbers are higher than the previous year, but it could be weather-related and more people are out and about on a nice day like today as opposed to last year when it was cold and rainy," said Leslie Hinkle with the City of Killeen.
"However, the increase in these numbers indicates that community-based services are needed in our community to assist people who are experiencing homelessness."
The services may include housing, job training, and medical care, transportation, she said.
Cities nationwide are participating in similar counts this year and will report the data to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.


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Mobile internet on OpenSolaris
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I have a new mobile phone which is less steam driven than the one it replaces and, hopefully, will not power itself off and reset to factory defaults every few days. Being modern it can act as a USB modem device and therefore allows me to have my OpenSolaris Laptop work with it.
Following the instructions from James Leggs blog and some from an Email I had been sent (James' instructions were the same as the email) it all worked just fine except: The phone is a Nokia E71 and by default the USB setting was menu->connectivity->usb was set with "USB mode" to mass storage and "Ask on connection" to Yes. It seems that that was enough for OpenSolaris to see it as a disk drive and then not plumb up the serial devices. Changing the "USB mode" to "PC Suite" resolved this.
The only addition I have made was to add these scripts into /etc/ppp to disable nwam and fix resolv.conf when the link comes up and reverse that when it is taken down.
cjg@brompton:~$ cat /etc/ppp/ip-up #!/bin/ksh -p /usr/sbin/svcadm disable -t svc:/network/physical:nwam mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.preppp cp /etc/ppp/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf chmod 644 /etc/resolv.conf cjg@brompton:~$
cjg@brompton:~$ cat /etc/ppp/ip-down #!/bin/ksh -p test -f /etc/resolv.conf.preppp && mv /etc/resolv.conf.preppp /etc/resolv.conf /usr/sbin/svcadm enable nwam cjg@brompton:~$
Not rocket science and when nwam knows about ppp they will surely go but until then quite satisfactory.
Finally create a launcher that will start this at the click of a button. I have cheated here and simply have it starting in a terminal so I can stoop it by quitting the terminal:
cjg@brompton:~/Desktop$ cat 3G\\ network.desktop [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=true Icon[en_GB]=/usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/actions/call-start.png Name[en_GB]=3G network Exec=\\spfexec pppd call vodafone\\n Name=3G network Icon=/usr/share/icons/gnome/24x24/actions/call-start.png cjg@brompton:~/Desktop$


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The LNG plant being built on the Yamal Peninsula will mark the first time Air Products deploys its proprietary LNG technology in Russia. The plant will be Russia's largest LNG production and export site.
Air Products announced it has signed an
agreement with a consortium, including Technip and JGC, to
implement the Yamal LNG project.
The LNG plant under construction on the Yamal Peninsula
will mark the first time Air Products deploys its proprietary
LNG technology and equipment in Russia.
The plant will be Russia's largest LNG production and
export facility.
Air Products will supply three MCR main
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propane pre cooled mixed refrigerant liquefaction process. Each
of these units using Air Products' proprietary AP-C3MR LNG
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produce 5.5 Mtpa of LNG, for an overall total of 16.5 Mtpa in
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parameters of the project, and we are looking forward to
fruitful cooperation with Air Products and a successful
start-up of the process trains according to the schedule."
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#8. Undie Taker
"No, I'm not Neo. Yes, I realize he also wore sunglasses and a black trench coat, of course I realize that now. What's that? No, I uh ... I don't have a bunch of guns in my coat, you're thinking of Neo again. I have ... I have other ... things."
By the way, this one is also $50.99, but it comes with the stained panties and a free membership on a whole bunch of government watch lists.
#7. Plain Brown Wrapper
Yup, you can by an outright "stereotypical black guy" costume right off the shelf, in 2011. Jesus, look at the model's eyes, he's clearly crying. He didn't spend $500 at the San Dimas Modeling Academy just to dress up like Blackface Gallagher, dammit!
Wait a second, as of the writing of this article, this is showing it's out of stock. How is that possible?
#6. Doginatrix
"I want a costume for my dog, but I also want to leave no mystery as to why he ends up murdering me."
"Oh, yeah, we have something for that, totally."
#5. Gropin' Granny
"Hah! You see? You thought I was boring for wearing a lame, stale 'Grandma' costume. Well, the joke's on you: I'm actually retarded!"
#4. Droopers
"Get it? Because some restaurants force women to dress this way as a way of making sexism socially acceptable! And now I, a man, who would NEVER be forced to wear something so demeaning, am wearing it as a joke! As a way of making fun of you! Ah hah, are we gonna rub our parts together later, or what?"
#3. Race Horse
We looked closely, and they're not posing: This costume is full on attached at the groin. That's so inconvenient, how are they supposed to dance? Or go to the bathroom? Or have any friends, or get invited to parties, or live with themselves?
#2. Yuk
"Ha ha, it'll make everyone wanna puke at this party!" -- Guy Who Doesn't Understand Adult Costume Parties
#1. Lost Dog
It's good that you have the sign, because otherwise your costume would just be "Old Woman Pooping a Dog" which is holy shit 10 times funnier somehow!
This is the most expensive costume on the list, we think -- $59.99. Although no amount of money will let you recreate that model's tortured face. That's pure stroke, baby.
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What good archetypes have you found in triple Avacyn Restored draft? I'm looking for strategies, color combinations and core cards for each deck type. Maybe you found something that was surprisingly good or bad?
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In my experience, Avacyn Restored Limited is less dependent on drafting clear archetypes than Innistrad. In particular:
The closest analogy, in my view, is core set draft.
That said, if I had to pick archetypes, I think these would win on power and consistent draftability. Think of them as a mental shorthand for "What's good in this set that I'm likely to actually see?"
White-based aggro (W/R)
This is the classic white weenie strategy, basically, with red as the strongest secondary color due to its own weenies like Lightning Mauler, Kruin Striker, and Fervent Cathar. Only some of the low-cost creatures in the set are actually good, though, while others are filler; one way this deck fails is if you draft too many do-nothing 1/2s. Auras or Equipment can help keep them relevant in the game, but many of these are weak, too. In my experience, you will be outclassed by your opponent's creatures at some point, so it's important to have a way to push that final bit of damage through, whether that's direct damage, buff spells, or even Heirs of Stromkirk.
I also think the format is just slow enough that you usually want to play a big finisher or two if you can manage to pick up a good one: that's right, shove Entreat the Angels into a weenie deck! Herald of War is actually one of the better finishers because it comes down early and grows so quick. I'd be looking to pick up some of the more aggressive midrange Angels as well, like Emancipation Angel and Restoration Angel.
Green-based midrange (G/R)
The core concept of this deck is simple: most of the other decks you encounter can't beat curving out with a good two-drop into Trusted Forcemage into Druid's Familiar. Green has a lot of playable commons and uncommons and probably the highest concentration of really good ones as well (Druid's Familiar and Wolfir Avenger, for instance!), and it easily supports splashing a third color without diluting your deck (Borderland Ranger, Abundant Growth). I like red as the support color here, because it's good to have Pillar of Flame, Thunderbolt, and all the haste cards to mess with your opponent's defensive preparations. Blue is also promising for its soulbond creatures like Tandem Lookouts but seems to lead to grindier decks; generally, I think it's better to just take the blowout when you can get it, and cards like Uncanny Speed go a long way towards getting blowouts all the time.
In addition to soulbond, there's a "power matters" theme with cards like Wandering Wolf; if you pick up multiples of Blessings of Nature (an uncommon), a bunch of cards like Champion of Lambholt and Falkenrath Exterminator suddenly become game-ending combo cards.
Blue-based tempo control (U/?)
Mist Raven is a good card. Playing it feels a lot like playing Snapcaster - Vapor Snag in Standard. Then you start using Ghostly Flicker and Nephalia Smuggler and it's like a whole wave of Vapor Snags. There are no Delvers in this set, though, so you're in for a much grindier game, pecking away for 2 or 4 a turn in the air while you frustrate your opponent with blockers and bounce; a bit like CawBlade without any hands-down awesomely broken cards, really. This deck really benefits from some card draw to generate more lasting card advantage, like the Tandem Lookouts - Windcrafter combo -- ideally using it to find your big finisher or some powerful removal.
If you pull a Deadeye Navigator, then you have a real control game in the form of a soft lock. Or, you know, a Tamiyo, but I suspect you don't need to be told that planeswalkers can totally take over in Limited.
Pro player Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa recently wrote an interesting article on the subject where he states:
If we take Paulo's word on the subject, it all comes down to color combinations where pretty much any combination can work.
In the same article he also talks about each color's strengths and highlights the best cards for each color.


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The City of Mullinville has been named in a Kansas Open Meetings Act (KOMA) complaint filed with Kiowa County Attorney J. Scott James. The complaint alleges members of the city council violated a state statue prohibiting city officials from taking binding action during an executive session.
City officials called a special meeting on Monday April 8 to discuss an upcoming water tower inspection and "personnel," according to an April 4 notice.
According to the complaint filed on Tuesday with the Kiowa County District Court, city employee Robert Roberts was fired during a 20-minute executive session attended by mayor Andy Kimble, city attorney Jan Jorns and city council members Tom Daniels, Dee McDonald, Kari Neuhold and Jary Boehme.
Roberts, the only full-time employee of the city, was told his termination was "performance" based, unrelated to a legal conflict arising from his election to the council following elections early this month.
In an interview with The Hutchinson News Roberts said his interest in running for the city council was spawned from his experience as a city employee for the previous six months.
Roberts won a narrow victory over council-incumbent Boehme by only six votes in the April 2 citywide elections.
Kansas statues prohibit a person from being on the "governing body" that employs them.
Roberts said he had received two letters from city attorney Jorns, one before the election and one after the election, notifying him of the conflict.
"I wasn't even given the opportunity to resign," Roberts told the Hutch News.
He said he was asked to forfeit his cell phone and keys during the executive session only one week before he was expected to resign.
County attorney James confirmed a compliant had been filed with his office and that he would investigate the incident. If there was evidence of a violation he would look at "all of the options," in regards to punitive measures, James said.
He also said he had spoken with Roberts and city attorney Jorns about the incident.
Governing bodies are not allowed to take "binding action" during executive session. Kansas law allows elected officials to "come to a consensus," but action must be taken in open session.
Official minutes, signed by Kimble and city clerk Susan Clayton, include two executive sessions, but have no mention of Roberts' firing.
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Jack Kelly, national sales manager for Polymer Solutions International (Booth 205), introduced a new hygienic plastic pallet Monday. The pallet is intended for food and pharmaceutical use, he said.
The one-piece molded pallet is full perimeter edge-rackable to 2,200 pounds with four stringers. It also comes in a three-stringer model, he said.
"Additionally, the pallet is made of FM-approved material to meet fire retardance requirements," Kelly said.
The company, which provides pallets, racks and materials handling products worldwide to customers in more than 80 countries, was recently recognized with an innovation award for the design of their double leg ratchet pallet, added Kelly.
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AUSTIN (December 17, 2012)—Four Central Texas school districts, Centerville ISD, Iredell ISD, Milford ISD and Morgan ISD, are among 78 around the state that aren't in compliance with state school safety requirements, Attorney General Greg Abbott said Monday.
Districts are required by law to submit safety audits, but the Texas School Safety Center said 38 districts did not and that another 40 did, but did not meet requirements for full compliance.
It wasn't clear Monday whether the four area districts failed to report or failed to meet requirements for full compliance.
"Proper preparedness and safety in our schools is not just an exercise, it will save lives when seconds count," Abbott said Monday in the wake of the shooting Friday in at an elementary school In Newtown, Conn., that claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults.
"While we are saddened by the tragedy in Newtown, we can't let another second tick by without getting school districts prepared to encounter the same type of situation in our state. My office will continue working with the Texas School Safety Center to ensure that every school district across this state has an effective school safety plan in place<' he said.
Texas schools are required by law to conduct safety audits once every three years.
"The difference between life and death frequently hinges upon how educators and law enforcement respond in the seconds before and after a violent incident," Abbott said.
"Campus security audits provide crucial information about the proper response during disaster situations," he said.
The Texas School Safety Center was created in 1999 in the aftermath of the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado.