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A League of Their Own - Illinois Railway Museum
This comedy follows the formation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1940s, at the start of World War II. All of the movie's scenes on the train and at the railroad depot were shot at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, home to more than 250 restored electric, steam and diesel trains. The Nebraska Zephyr passenger train seen in the film is part of the museum's permanent collection.
Above and Beyond Framing and Gallery
Custom framing, art and gift gallery. Featuring Steve Hanks, Tom Lynch and Scanlan.
Air Classics Museum of Aviation
Air Classics is an aviation museum located at Aurora Municipal Airport - ARR where the aircraft actually fly. You can climb into the pilot's seat of a UH-1 Huey helicopter. The museum's collection includes aircraft, vehicles, uniforms and other aviation memorabilia from the 1930s to the present time. General Admission: Saturdays and Sundays 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Group Tours: Tuesdays through Fridays by appointment.
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This local theater troupe is located in the "attic" of Batavia's Government Center.
This facility is home field to DePaul basketball, Chicago Wolves hockey and the Chicago Rush arena football. With a wide variety of events each year, the Allstate Arena is a place where everyone can enjoy quality family shows, riveting sports and mesmerizing musical performances.
Arlington International Racecourse
At Arlington International, we aim to make every day of the season special by combining the excitement of thoroughbred racing, gorgeous grounds and fantastic food to create a winning track experience for our guests! Whether you're looking for a fun and exciting day out with friends and family, a casual and charming afternoon at the races, or a sophisticated and stylish get-together, Arlington International offers an extraordinary experience for everyone! Live racing and entertainment from May through September or find a full calendar of race dates and events at arlingtonpark.com.
CITY:Arlington Heights
Art Attack offers a variety of classes, hosts private events, and has an artist gallery for viewing. Art Attack is a place for empowering self-expression and freedom through art.
Florals and custom made silks.
CITY:East Dundee
The Aurora area features diverse architectural styles, including designs by Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Bruce Goff and George Grant Elmslie. The area is also home to one of the largest collections of Sears mail order homes.
Take a self-guided tour of Aurora's historic downtown. Tour brochures are available at the Aurora Area Convention and Visitor's Bureau.
This local history research archives houses historic photos, books, documents and maps covering Aurora's history from the 1830s to the present. Open by appointment only.
The museum features a variety of interactive exhibits designed to educate and entertain children, families, and firefighters. Visitors can pass a leather fire bucket. Marvel at a strange looking firemen's smoke mask. Explore the differences in fire hose nozzles. See and hear how fire engines clear the streets with sirens, horns, and devices that control traffic lights. Watch vintage firefighting films on five video touch-screens. All this, in addition to 5 pieces of fire apparatus on display in a fully restored fire station built in 1894. Suggested donation $5 adult and $3 child.
Aurora University's Crimi Auditorium
This much-lauded and beautiful auditorium hosts classical and popular musical events as well as popular lectures and recitals. It is located in Aurora University's Institute for Collaboration building.
Enjoy the fusion of traditional Indian architecture with modern technology; Explore the various facets of Hindu rites & rituals, as well as the core philosophical precepts of the religion; Experience peace & serenity. All are welcome.
As the centerpiece of downtown Batavia, the Riverwalk extends along the Depot Pond and Fox River to a north point pavilion, where grand views of the Fox River are available.
Big Shot Piano Lounge & Restaurant
Big Shot is an upscale Restaurant & Piano Bar. A cozy place to meet, eat, and drink while listening and interacting with talented musicians. From the warm atmosphere to the variety of enticing menu items, this intimate spot will showcase live talent every night. The extremely friendly restaurant will invite its patrons to participate and sing along with new songs performed by talented professionals. This will definitely be a place to start and end an evening.
CITY:Arlington Heights
This museum located on the campus of Wheaton College is devoted to the history of Christian evangelism and its influences on society. View rare artifacts, art and displays that include a powerful 3-D presentation of the gospel message.
Blue Moon Bikes Vintage Sting Ray Museum
Blue Moon Bikes owner Rod Griffis has been an antique bicycle collector for more than a decade. He actively collects antique bikes, and Schwinn Sting-rays are his specialty. Rod's collection is world renowned for its completeness and authenticity. His extensive collection features Schwinn Sting-Rays from 1963 through the 1980's.
Carmelite Campus National Shrine of St. Therese
The National Shrine of St. Therese is a Roman Catholic shrine, chapel, and museum dedicated to St. Therese of Lisieux. The Shrine is home to the most wonderful collection of relics, personal effects and memorabilia of Therese outside of France. The Shrine chapel celebrates Mass every weekday at 11:30 am. Tours are available for groups of 20 or more, including a private tour of an exact replica of St. Therese's monastery cell in France. The shrine sits peacefully on a 50-acre estate owned and operated by the Carmelites of the Most Pure Heart of Mary. Adjacent to the Shrine is the Carmelite Spiritual Center, offering meeting room rental, lodging, meals and spiritual retreats as well as organized Shrine tours.
Hours: Sunday-Saturday: 12:00pm-10:00pm Carmike Cinemas is a movie theatre that screens new releases and special showings of films such as theatre and arts.
Nestled among fragrant pines and sumptuous flower gardens stands the Chapel in the Pines, a charming Victorian-style country church.
A variety of classes for children and adults, including private event painting sessions for birthday parties, girls night out, corporate events, team building, bachelorette parties and baby showers.
Chicago Athenaeum International Sculpture Park
Sculpture from around the world is on display from sunrise to sunset at this park located in Schaumburg's Robert O. Atcher Municipal Center.
Chicago Athenaeum International Sculpture Park
This wonderful cultural resource includes the art of international and American sculptors chosen to fit the natural environment of this beautiful site.


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Opinion: Why roguelikes have become so popular, despite their barrier to entryWritten by: / / No Comments
Modern-day games such as Spelunky, Rogue Legacy and Nuclear Throne have gained a lot of popularity over the last year due in large part to the way these games incorporate aspects of the 'roguelike' sub-genre of games.
What's different about the roguelike?
The genre is typified by the challenge of taking a single attempt at completing a much larger and more expansive objective than might seem possible without relying on saving your game or multiple lives. In other words, permadeath.
– Rogue inspired other games to use permadeath and random dungeon generation
The roguelike finds its roots in the popularisation of Rogue, an ASCII graphics-based dungeon crawler from the 1980s that inspired others like it including NetHack, and while those who immersed themselves in the epic adventures of these games enjoyed them, compared to other games of the time on home consoles and computers, the visuals and interactions of these games was incredibly archaic.
While the overwhelming challenge of the roguelike gave way to more action-based and immediately rewarding games in arcades and at home that didn't require such a hefty time investment, this style of game certainly wasn't forgotten and players continued to enjoy NetHack and Rogue spin-offs for decades, with some more modern attempts at the genre emerging in games like Dwarf Fortress as recently as 2006.
– Dwarf Fortress is a recent example of a roguelike directly inspired by Rogue
In the last two years, the roguelike (and the roguelike-like) have risen to popularity due in no small part to the original release of Spelunky in 2008, and the game's high definition re-release on console and PC in in 2012 and 2013. Spelunky uses all of the classic roguelike tropes, including permadeath and random world generation, and wraps them up in a skill-based platformer with unique items to buy and collect
Spelunky deviates from the punishing challenge of a regular roguelike or roguelike-like by allowing players to reach checkpoints in the game between levels so they don't have to start all the way from the very beginning when they die, with special items available to you on subsequent attempts if you find them.
– Spelunky has helped make way for the rise of the roguelike in modern-day gaming
The popularity of Spelunky has (arguably) inspired other developers to include roguelike elements in their games, with Rogue Legacy, Don't Starve, The Binding of Isaac, Nuclear Throne and Desktop Dungeons all gaining acclaim in the last few years thanks to their departure from regular checkpoint-based action RPGs and platformers in favour of a more thoughtful and challenging experience. Most of these games also feature a level of progress permanence, so even if you die you'll have collected items or money to grow your character.
Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2 could also be considered modern-day roguelikes, but while challenging in their own ways, these games allow players much more leeway than this sub-genre typically allows. That being said, the phenomenal popularity surrounding the Souls series is exceptional, in spite of its challenge.
– It may not be a typical roguelike, but the Souls series is still very challenging
Why have players taken to roguelikes, roguelike-likes and roguelike-lite games in recent years? Games that feature an incredible barrier to entry and are, at first blush, punishingly difficult?
In an age of generous regenerating health, overtly protective tutorials and a never-ending deluge of encouragement via Achievements and Trophies, why have games that revel in their strenuous demands on players become so popular?
I believe it has a lot to do with the experiences of older gamers who cut their teeth on old school arcade games, as well as console games from the NES, Master System, Mega-Drive and SNES era, which only ever allowed you a limited number of attempts before forcing you to start again or ask for a credit to continue.
In the last ten years, these selfsame gamers have decried the easing difficulty of games and the tools that modern titles use to ensure you get all the way to the end. These are the people who have been craving more arduous challenges, and have now taken their chance to relive the 'glory days' of their gaming careers.
– 2014's Galak-Z will include roguelike elements, including random world generation, thanks to the popularity of the genre
The spark of Spelunky's popularity certainly helped, though, while the Demon's Souls phenomenon paved the way for the popularity of Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2. As the live broadcasting of these games over services like Twitch has become more popular, with games like Nuclear Throne and The Binding of Isaac also benefiting from players showcasing these games as public displays of skill (and fun ways to keep your videos fresh and entertaining), roguelikes have swelled in popularity, too.
While there's no doubt that the gameplay and design advances seen in modern-day titles have been important, there's definitely a feeling amongst the general gaming public that their favourite franchises have become too easy which means that running into the challenges of Dark Souls and Spelunky have been very refreshing and welcome changes of pace.
These games offer an experience that engages players from beginning to end with little chance to relax for very long, which is a far cry from modern military shooters and hack-and-slash games that, while fun, don't require nearly as much attention while playing which has the potential of leading to boredom.
Does more engagement mean more fun? Fans of roguelikes will know the answer to that.
What roguelikes have you enjoyed playing in the past, or do you avoid the genre? Do you agree that challenging games are more fun to play?
Tags: darksouls2, desktopdungeons, dontstarve, nuclearthrone, rogue, roguelegacy, roguelike, spelunky, thebindingofisaac

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The ISM Non-Manufacturing index suggests some growth
The ISM Non-Manufacturing index joined the Manufacturing Index in exceeding expectations in September.
While non-manufacturing industries have continued to expand in recent months - even while the manufacturing sector contracted slightly - the pace of expansion accelerated over the summer and more quickly than many thought was possible.
The positives that lifted the headline index were jumps in Business Activity (59.9 from 55.6) and New Orders (57.7 from 53.7).
Anthony Nieves, C.P.M., CFPM, chair of the Institute for Supply Management Non-Manufacturing Business Survey Committee, told LM that respondents' comments continue to be mixed.
"The majority indicate a slightly more positive perspective on current business conditions," he said.
But not all the news was good, said Paul Edelstein Director of Financial Economics IHS Global Insight. In particular, the Employment index fell to 51.1 from 53.8 in August, suggesting a softer pace of hiring in these industries.
"The Employment index has been trending higher since April, even while official job growth has slowed," he said. "The decline is consistent with our view that the economy is unlikely to generate enough jobs to bring down unemployment."
The other negative was a fall in the New Export Orders index to 50.5 from 52.0, essentially a neutral reading and a consequence of the Eurozone recession and slower growth in China.
The prices paid index – measuring input costs – increased to 68.1 from 64.3 signaling accelerating input cost inflation. Food, gasoline, and diesel prices were the main culprits, while natural gas prices fell. According to comments from respondents, the drought is, not surprisingly, pushing up food prices at the commodity and intermediate goods levels, even if they have not flowed fully into CPI food prices yet.
With the Manufacturing index now just above neutral and the Non-Manufacturing index pushing further into expansion territory, the Composite Manufacturing/Non-Manufacturing index increased 1.3 points to 54.5, also the highest since March. This puts the third-quarter average at 53.5, slightly higher than the second-quarter average of 53.2 and consistent with our forecasts for moderate real GDP growth in the 1.5-2.0 percent range.
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Margaret Hague
Maternity Hospital
Margaret Hague
Maternity Hospital circa 1940
Hague Maternity Hospital
Photo: A. Selvaggio, 2002
The Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital is one of the most revered landmarks in Jersey City, having more that 350,000 babies of record born there from 1931 to 1979. The official opening was on October 12, 1931. Two claims for the "first" baby born at the hospital appear in the press. One for Carmen J. Rullo of Bayonne on October 9, 1931, and the other for Hugh James Nevin of Jersey City, born on October 15, 1931. The maternity hospital was ultimately responsible for the birth of more than 350,000 babies, including the former Gov. James McGreevey, Martha Stewart and two of Frank Sinatra's children.
Designed by architect Christian H. Ziegler, the ten-story Art Deco building was the first new building of the Medical Center Complex and had been proposed by Mayor Frank Hague in 1921. He recruited the assistance of the members of the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders, especially Mary T. Norton, later a US Congresswoman from Jersey City, for his project. With Hague's support, Norton successfully lobbied the freeholders for the funding for a maternity hospital. Norton's own goal was to address the high infant mortality in Hudson County that peaked in 1923 at 212 per 1,000 births (Vernon 71). Hague then set out to establish the best maternity hospital of its time and to have it named for his mother who died in 1921. Built between 1928 and 1931, it took a $1,600,000 bond issue to fund the construction. The hospital later included an Eleanor Roosevelt Nursery. Mrs. Roosevelt visited the nursery and was greeted by New Jersey Governor A. Harry Moore from Jersey City, Mayor Hague, and Congresswoman Norton.
The Maternity Hospital had accommodations for four hundred mothers and babies; it offered extended visiting hours for working fathers and day care for children of mothers in the hospital. The building featured a stainless steel chandelier in the delivery room, brass handles, and terrazzo floor. The public rooms on the first floor were done in aluminum and bronze. The interior furnishings were from a local furniture store, Gray's of 173 Newark Avenue. The building also had several penthouses and a movie theater on the top floor. For a number of years, the hospital was noted for its low maternal death rate.
The Maternity Hospital closed in 1979, and the City of Jersey City leased it for office space until 1995. A maternity facility at the Margaret Hague Pavilion of the main Jersey City Medical Center temporarily took over the hospital's services until 2003. A stained glass window of the Madonna and Child, once in the lobby of the Maternity Hospital, was placed in the Pavilion.
As part of the Jersey City Medical Center Complex at Montgomery and Baldwin Avenues, the Maternity Hospital will undergo renovation. Rather than demolishing these locally significant and historic structures, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency named Metrovest Equities of Manhattan to rehabilitate the buildings. The complex will be called The Beacon and redesigned for rental and condominium apartments as well as commercial space and cultural venues. The renovation project is to be completed by 2010 for a projected cost of $350 million.
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Project Administrator: Patrick Shalhoub


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Woodbury Market offered help during outage
How nice that there are people who come forward to help during an emergency. In Woodbury, it was LaBonne's Market. The store offered water for household use, and to recharge cellphones and have a cup of coffee. Woodbury was without electricity for quite a few days. Our town is grateful to LaBonne's.
Louis Gurry
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I wonder what the best way to test and debug facebook iframe applications locally (using the facebook c# toolkit and the azure toolkit)?
When i try to debug it's always starting the Compute Emulator on a different port.
Basically i want to have a special facebook iframe app pointing to a specific port on localhost (e.g. http://localhost:81) and after pushing the debug button that my app url (e.g. http://apps.facebook.com/myspecificappdev) is being started in my browser (with debug functionality).
I found this thread but unfortunatly this didn't help me a lot: http://azuretoolkit.codeplex.com/discussions/207487
What's the best way to debug such applications? Is their maybe a sample project which already has that part set up correctly?


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Think Like a Toddler: 12 Babyproofing Steps You May Have Missed
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Bathroom Toilets
Bathtubs may be the first thing that comes to mind when babyproofing your bathroom, but don't forget the toilet. It takes very little water for a child to drown, and a toilet is the perfect height for a little one to pull himself up into standing position. Children can also fall in if they are reaching for a toy or object they may have dropped in there.
Don't leave your child unsupervised in the bathroom, even for just a short amount of time. Also, installing a toilet lock that automatically locks the lid when it is down will help prevent your child from pulling the lid up and falling in.
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MCGREGOR (November 7, 2012)--Lark United Manufacturing of Texas, LLC, a company that assembles cargo trailers, has opened a manufacturing facility in McGregor.
Lark United is the #8 company in the nation for enclosed cargo trailer manufacturing and anticipates the McGregor site to secure a top-five leading producer position, a company spokesperson said.
Right now the McGregor plant employs seven, but is expected to increase to between 60 and 80 workers with an annual payroll of $1.5 to $2 million.
The 80,000-square-foot facility is located in the 9,500-acre McGregor industrial Park, sharing the park with SpaceX, Ferguson Enterprises, C3 and Heart of Texas Electric Co-Operative.
Applications are being accepted at the facility located at 2290 McGuffey Road.


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Back in September, we began offering some pointers on blending your own whisky to help you get the most out of the marvellous Home Blending Kits we have bestowed upon the world (we're good like that) as well as explaining a little about how whisky blending came about. Now, we left that post on a bit of a cliff-hanger I'm afraid but fear not! We didn't forget about this, good heavens no! Time to re-cap/catch up on How To Blend Whisky Part I because herein lies... Part Deux!
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Turnout for snow-shoveling effort was amazing
I think Mayor Neil M. O'Leary had a spot-on idea to get the kids who were off from school to pitch in and help shovel out the schools after the blizzard. But what was unexpected for me, and probably hundreds of others, was that nearly 600 kids turned out.
That was amazing! And they say the kids today are lazy.
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Awesome wrote on Feb 15, 2013 6:37 AM:
" I am so proud of our city. I'm proud of our mayor for proving once again that he believes in our children and believes that they are no different than kids everywhere- put in a little faith and give them something to work for and they will rise to the standard set for them. I'm proud of those kids for saying things like I saw on the news about being one big family and taking care of city because its the right thing to do. I'm proud of the parents who encouraged their kids to go out and get to work and maybe more proud of the patents who didn't give their kids the choice but told them get out there and work. Lastly I hope that more than a few of those kids walked away with a sense of pride and purpose and went home and helped shovel out a neighbor or a sidewalk just because its the right thing to do. I can't wait until spring - maybe a few will pick up a rake and dive in! "
between the lines wrote on Feb 15, 2013 10:32 AM:
" Yup great idea. More costly and time consuming than hiring professional snow removers with snow removal equipment. There is plenty of equipment sitting in every plaza in the city doing nothing. I'm sure Santopietro would put his guys to work clearing the schools.
Keep up the good work Mayor. Another week or 3 and the kids may be able to get back to school.
If this was such a good idea, why not park all the plows and have the kids shovel our streets too?? "
Keep up the good work Mayor. Another week or 3 and the kids may be able to get back to school.
If this was such a good idea, why not park all the plows and have the kids shovel our streets too?? "
Monique wrote on Feb 15, 2013 3:31 PM:
" Fantastic, Brilliant...YES YES YES!!!!!
Thank you Major O'Leary "
Thank you Major O'Leary "
Sandy Socks wrote on Feb 15, 2013 4:42 PM:
" And another nice benefit of all this is the kids probably went out and bought sneakers, or video games or earrings or went to the movies and definitely stopped at fast food places.
Most of that money got pumped right back into the local economy.
Bravo mayor.
Who says the "Work Ethic" isn't alive and well in Waterbury. "
Most of that money got pumped right back into the local economy.
Bravo mayor.
Who says the "Work Ethic" isn't alive and well in Waterbury. "
conservative1 wrote on Feb 15, 2013 5:52 PM:
" the turnout was amazing, the results were dismal at best. The Mayor should have some serious explaining to do with schools closed for a week "
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There is an absolutely huge kerfuffle going on in the mainstream press at the moment about the hot new release of the first English whisky in over 100 years from St George's distillery in Norfolk…
We visited the distillery in September and met with Managing Director Andrew Nelstrop. We've got a few juicy exclusives, photos and insights to share with you lucky, lucky people.
We'll start by saying first and foremost that we absolutely adored the spirits we tasted – the complexity and depth of flavour found in the samples we tried with Andrew were stunning, and the dedication to excellence displayed at every step of the distillation and maturation processes were truly a delight to see. These guys are doing it properly.
The distillery is located in a picturesque village just outside Norwich, and on pulling up to the entrance, we thought we were looking at a rather nice country home rather than a working distillery. It would doubtless have been incredibly easy (not to mention cheap) More...
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text: This is my first castle I ever drew. When I think of castles I think about King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Castles are magical because lots of old stories always had a castle being described in them. One of my favorite movies Warlock had a couple of cool castles, so did Lord of The Rings. Anyways I hope you like it. Be gentle when voting since it is my first one.


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6 Historic Figures Who Shaped The World (By Cheating Death)
The most amazing thing about history is how ridiculously close things came to turning out differently. An inch here, a second there... that's the only difference between the world we live in now and an alternate universe where it's all Nazis and dinosaurs.
For instance, there are some great men who we take for granted, not realizing how close they came to getting snuffed out like Tupac, forever changing history as we know it.
#6. George Washington
It should go without saying that pregnant women should stay clear of bolts of lightning. This is especially true when they are pregnant with the guy who is destined to invent the United States of America and get his face on the one dollar bill.
Came Within Inches of Death When:
Mary Ball Washington, mother of the future father of the USA, was enjoying a dinner party and sitting next to the fireplace. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning exploded down the chimney, zapping a girl sitting right next to her with enough gigawatts to fuse her fork and knife together and kill her to death.
Accidentally creating the useless knife-fork combination.
Mary got badly jolted, but not enough to scramble the infant Founding Father currently floating around in her belly. The party was understandably ruined.
Predictably, Washington was later attacked by the T-1000 on his 12th birthday.
If she'd been sitting a little closer, if her chair had been a little better at conducting electricity, if any one of a million variables played out the other way... no USA.
We don't think we're exaggerating, either. An American Revolution without George Washington--and an early America without him as president-- would have made this whole operation infinitely more difficult. Especially considering historian David McCullough described the Revolution as a near-failure on its own, and Washington biographer Thomas Fleming mused than an American Revolution commanded by Major General Horatio Gates instead of Washington would have "ended in a whimper."
Also, if we simply remove George Washington from the Revolution, his role would most likely have been filled by a seven-star General of the Armies of the United States named... Benedict Arnold. You know, the guy who, halfway through the war, changed his mind and joined the British.
#5. Hernan Cortes Almost Has His Heart Torn Out by Aztecs
Cortes is the guy who is the reason they speak Spanish in Mexico. He showed up there in the 16th Century with just 600 guys and took on the Aztec Empire, and famously began his assault by triumphantly sinking his own ships the instant they arrived in Mexico, a tactic most military advisors would describe as "catastrophically retarded."
"No joke, I sank every fucking one."
Of course he eventually came out on top, utterly changing the course of history in the Western world.
Came Within Inches of Death When:
When Cortes' crew finally showed up at the Aztec island-capital of Tenochtitlan, the Spanish discovered that the Aztecs were #1 on the continent for a reason: They were the baddest motherfuckers in the jungle.
Cortes and a good chunk of his men were ambushed and dragged off kicking and screaming to be sacrificed atop the city's Great Pyramid, high enough for the Spanish camps to see them. According to The Immolation of Hernan Cortes by historian Ross Hassig, the Spanish were "made to dance before a statue of the Aztec god of war, Huitzilopochtli, and then, one by one, they were sacrificed... their hearts were torn out and their faces and hands flayed so they could be tanned and sent among the wavering towns as a warning."
Afterwards, there was a Pot Luck.
Fifty-eight Spaniards were sacrificed that night. When the Aztecs grabbed Cortes to carry him up to the heart-ripping table, a member of his crew named Cristobal de Olea decided he would intervene as best he could. Presumably feeding his balls spinach to make them grow to astronomic size, Cristobal attacked and killed the four Aztecs carrying his captain, freeing Cortes at the cost of his own life.
Had Cristobal not stuck out his skin that night to be flayed, Cortes would have died just like everyone else on the pyramid that night, and with him the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. After all, Spain wouldn't find out about any of it until whenever the fuck news reached the other side of the Atlantic by word of mouth, since Cortes sank the fucking ships.
#4. Kurt Vonnegut
Known by too many of us for his cameo in Back to School, he also happens to be one of the most influential writers of the last 100 years.
He accomplished all of this despite the fact that his own military dropped many, many bombs on him.
Came Within Inches of Death When:
After being pinned down, surrounded and captured during the Battle of the Bulge, aka "the bloodiest battle in American history," Private Vonnegut of the 106th Infantry volunteered to be the spokesperson of the POWs, just so he could tell his German captors "what [he] was going to do to them when the Russians came." Considering how this was when the Wehrmacht were executing prisoners even when they were not cracking jokes about the single most sensitive subject in the Third Reich, it's amazing that Kurt and his entire division weren't killed on the spot.
The Nazis would put up with shit like this for all of five fucking seconds.
The knee-slapping Vonnegut and his comrades were instead led off to POW life in the German city of Dresden. If you know anything about history or World War II, you just said, "Oh, shit."
For Dresden was about to become the worst place in the entire planet. For two days the U.S. and Britain firebombed the everloving Buddha out of the city with enough payloads to be considered a war crime, killing tens of thousands of civilians in an incendiary, revenge-fueled fuckstorm.
Most of the POWs were killed along with them. But not Kurt, thanks to an arbitrary decision made by his captors. They stuffed him and some other prisoners in an ad hoc detention facility: Schlachthof Funf, or Slaughterhouse Five. It was an underground meat locker that turned out to be the perfect spot to survive a bombing.
And work out.
Thus, after surviving the bloodiest battle in American history, captivity by the Nazis, a firestorm that reduced a city to (as Vonnegut described it) "the surface of the Moon" and hard-labor digging mass-graves for the Germans at Dresden, Kurt Vonnegut returned to the U.S. to receive the Purple Heart for what he described as a "ludicrously negligible wound," and eventually wrote a dark comedy about the whole episode.
Not only does the book that resulted--Slaughterhouse-Five--remain one of the most game-changing works of science fiction and dark comedy ever put to paper, but Vonnegut himself became such a noted anti-war figure that Fox News had no choice but trash him during his obituary.


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When you give a companion armor he/she will wear whatever has the highest armor rating regardless of what sort of enchantments it may possess. You also can not remove your companion's basic apparel. So when you get a companion who is a mage, such as J'zargo or Aranea, and you want to equip them with robes they will not wear them because the robes you give them and the robes they already have on both have an armor rating of 0. I've already tried giving them armor with a higher rating so they will take off their basic robes and then take away the armor, but they just put the basic robes back on. Does anyone know how to get their mage companions to switch robes? I'm trying to get J'zargo to wear the Archmage's Robes instead of his Novice Robes of Conjuration.
If you AREN'T on the pc, the only way to get J'zargo to wear those robes (as I did on my xbox 360) is get pickpocking to 100 for the "PERFECT TOUCH" perk which allows you to steal his default armor and thus allow him to wear the archmage's clothes, that's how I got it anyway.
If you are playing on PC, there are several answers to this question you might find helpful. Notably:
The second being a link to a mod that let's you liberally change whatever gear your followers are wearing.
give her the items, open the console, click onto the follower and type:
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so it should look something like removeitem 0004a26b 1
Note: This id is just some creation of mine, i've got no idea what object it could be.
The id is a hexadecimal (contains a to f) number of 8 characters.
This way is better than removeallitems, for you can pick those items you want and trading items to follower seems to reset theit default equipment.
If you're on PC, you can use the console for this, much like most other Skyrim problems. If you're on Xbox 360 or PS3, you're probably screwed, much like most other Skyrim problems.
In the console, you can type
For the Archmage's Robes in particular there are two different versions (quest outcomes I guess?). Without +50 magicka its ID is
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Plethora of counterfeit drugs overwhelming the regulators
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A burgeoning multibillion-dollar industry of counterfeit drugs - ranging from AIDS and cancer medications to antidepressants and sexual enhancers - is keeping regulators busy and leaving the public vulnerable.
These medicines can deliver too little, too much or none of the active ingredient - or the wrong one - and sometimes are adulterated with dangerous chemicals or contaminated by unsanitary manufacturing or storage conditions.
The FDA in recent years has confiscated millions of dollars' worth of counterfeit medicine. The agency, in partnership with international regulatory, customs and law enforcement agencies from 100 countries, shut down thousands of Internet pharmacies selling illegal drugs and seized about $10.5 million worth of pharmaceuticals during a weeklong crackdown on counterfeit and unapproved medications that launched in late September.
But such enforcement action isn't nearly enough to stop the proliferation of phony medicine, FDA officials concede.
"This is a drop in the bucket," said Ilisa Bernstein, director of the Office of Compliance in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "We don't know how many websites are out there, but there are a lot more. We may have some impact on these 4,100 websites, but they can pop up days or weeks later using another URL and another way to deceive consumers."
IT IS ILLEGAL IN THE United States to sell medication without a valid prescription. All U.S. pharmacies, including those offering drugs online, must be licensed in the state where they are based or where they do business.
Foreign pharmacies can be licensed in the United States only if they follow all state and federal laws and they distribute only FDA-approved products. No foreign pharmacy has met those requirements, said Carmen Catizone, executive director of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.
Yet consumers can access tens of thousands of illegal online pharmacies, many of them based overseas. Buying drugs under these circumstances is a violation of the law.
"It's as if they are going to the corner and buying drugs from a drug dealer," said Dr. Bryan Liang, director of the San Diego Center for Patient Safety at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
Bernstein said it's impossible to know exactly how many people have died or been hurt by taking counterfeit drugs, although there have been highly publicized cases in the United States and overseas.
"A lot of people don't want to admit that they bought these drugs or were harmed by them," said Liang, who is on the board of the Partnership for Safe Medicines. Some people never realize that the drug they took was not the real thing.
Keavin Blount, the son of a St. Louis-area woman who died of cancer, said his mother suffered through her final months after she purchased a counterfeit from her local pharmacist and was injected with it by a nurse at the hospital where she was getting treatment.
The drug, Procrit, was prescribed to treat Maxine Blount's anemia following chemotherapy, and for a time it helped her regain her energy so she could participate in family activities, her son said.
After several months, though, it seemed to stop working. Authorities later determined that the drug was a highly diluted counterfeit, but they were unable to determine where it came from.
"I felt that there were some days with my mother that were taken from us," Blount said.
Experts say some of the illegal operations are based in the United States, often with an elaborate cast of participants who make, sell and distribute the drugs. Many of the drug ingredients come from overseas.
Eli Lilly and Co. is one of the drug makers battling the problem.
"Sometimes one criminal operation will make the packaging with our name brand on it," said Jeannie Salo, director of Lilly's global anti-counterfeiting operations. "Another operation may make the ingredient, which is not the (real) thing. Another person might operate an Internet site."
The appearance of fakes can be convincing, she said. "In some cases, you'd never know unless you tested it," Salo said.
Last year, 532 different medicines were identified as having been counterfeited, said Tom Kubic, president of the Pharmaceutical Security Institute, a global network of security directors for pharmaceutical manufacturers.
The top three classes of drugs were genitourinary medications - for erectile dysfunction and incontinence, for example - anti-infective drugs, including antibiotics and medications to treat HIV-AIDS, and cardiovascular drugs, Kubic said.
Some illegal sellers, Kubic said, appear to have shifted their focus in recent years from patients to doctors and clinics.
Liang suspects some doctors look for cheap drugs on the Internet to use in their practices so they can bill private insurance or Medicare at the legal drug's higher reimbursement rate. But regardless of their intentions, they are taking a risk, he said.
Earlier this year, the FDA warned doctors and clinics, including at least 10 physicians in northern Illinois, that they may have purchased fake Avastin, a cancer medicine administered intravenously.
One of the physicians, Dr. Fariborze Barhamand, who has a medical practice in Naperville, Ill., said through his attorney that he was unaware that the drug distributor was based overseas or that many of its products were not FDA approved.
Jayme Matchinski, a partner at Hinshaw & Culbertson, a Chicago law firm, said her client was trying to help patients by shopping for lower-priced cancer drugs, which can be costly. Now he has been wrongly linked to an illegal operation, she said.
Doctors can be fooled too, she said.
"He (Barhamand) is upset," she said. "They had an account with that pharmacy but never received the drug or made any orders."
The FDA declined to comment on any of the doctors or clinics across the U.S. because of an ongoing investigation.
States hold the authority to license wholesalers and others involved in distributing drugs, which has resulted in a patchwork of state laws and regulation, said Vince Ventimiglia, an adviser to the Pharmaceutical Distribution Security Alliance, a coalition of more than 30 companies and trade groups in the pharmacy, logistics, distributing and manufacturing business.
"The patchwork creates opportunities for bad actors to shop around to weaker states," Ventimiglia said.
Experts say consumers should be reassured that drugs bought in drugstores such as Walgreens and CVS are safe. But some counterfeits have found their way into the legal supply chain.
Rick Roberts has spoken out about the problem for more than a decade, ever since he unwittingly injected a two-month supply of a fake drug that he purchased from a CVS pharmacy. As part of his advocacy he is scheduled to speak next month at a pharmaceutical supply-chain conference.
Roberts, an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco, had been prescribed human growth hormone to treat his AIDS wasting syndrome. After giving himself an injection one day, he noticed a new stinging sensation that lingered.
When he checked with his pharmacist, he was told that the drug, Serostim, had been recalled because authorities suspected some doses were counterfeit.
For months, he panicked about the possible impact on his health, which was unstable at the time, he said.
He found out later that for one month he had injected only a sixth of the medication he needed and that another month's supply contained a hormone that women produce while pregnant.
Because he relies heavily on medications - he took about 10,000 pills last year - he examines the products more closely now.
"I'm very careful," he said. "Taking that many pills increases my chances of getting a counterfeit, if there is a counterfeit out there again. That's why it (the incident) changed my life and how I approach all my medicine."
In 2005, CVS Caremark announced that it would no longer purchase pharmaceuticals from wholesalers that trade in the secondary drug market.
"Recently, this practice has faced increased scrutiny due to the rising concerns that wholesalers trading in the secondary market potentially provide an entry point for counterfeit or adulterated products to enter the legitimate pharmaceutical supply chain," a company statement said at the time. "CVS does not trade in the secondary drug market, and is now requiring its pharmaceutical wholesalers to meet this same high standard."
Mike DeAngelis, a company spokesman, said the change should help prevent future incidents.
"We believe this straightforward approach, combined with stricter licensing requirements for wholesale distributors, are the most effective ways to ensure the continued integrity and authenticity of the prescription drugs we dispense to our customers," DeAngelis said in an email.
Some industry experts say a national track-and-trace system would make it easier to confirm legitimate products and identify suspicious ones. Efforts are under way to introduce federal legislation.
Other efforts are aimed at making it harder for criminal online pharmacies to operate. Liang has researched online pharmacies and found that the vast majority are illegal.
"The best way to fix the problem is to make sales of prescription drugs online illegal, period, unless it is from a VIPPS-accredited pharmacy," he said.
VIPPS stands for Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Sites, which was created by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy to help distinguish legal pharmacies from illegal ones. Legal businesses are encouraged to display a VIPPS seal on their sites.
For now, it's buyer beware. If a deal seems too good to be true, it probably is, experts said. And anything suspicious should be reported immediately to authorities.
"It is important to make sure that consumers recognize that the U.S. drug supply chain is among the safest in the world, and we have laws and regulations in place to make sure we have that closed system," the FDA's Bernstein said. "But we still need to be vigilant."
Tips for buying medication online
Medicine purchased from illegal Internet pharmacies might look real, but it could be counterfeit, contaminated, expired or otherwise unsafe. The FDA recently launched a campaign, BeSafeRX, to help consumers distinguish between legal and illegal online pharmacies.
The agency says safe online pharmacies:
l Always require a prescription from your doctor and don't offer prescriptions free or for sale.
l Provide a physical address and telephone number in the United States.
l Offer a licensed pharmacist to answer your questions.
l Are licensed with the state's board of pharmacy.
l Don't offer deep discounts or prices that seem too good to be true.
— Chicago Tribune
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The 12-bed Center will be an advanced clinical facility, providing interdisciplinary, person- and family-centered care for patients with life-threatening illness and complex medical needs. Caregivers will attend to the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients and their families in a comfortable, home-like setting.
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"This incredibly generous gift is really a gift to our community, to our region," said Dr. James Weinstein, president and CEO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock. "It provides us an opportunity to dramatically improve care for those living with incurable illnesses and to show the rest of the country how to do the same." To cover the total estimated construction and initial operating costs of $20.5 million, Dartmouth-Hitchcock has begun an ambitious fundraising campaign to raise the remaining $10.5 million.
Norris Cotton Cancer Center provided fertile ground
Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) has played a pivotal role in advancing palliative care at Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
"Palliative Care grew in fertile soil at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center," said Dr. Ira Byock, who led Dartmouth-Hitchcock's palliative care team from 2002 to 2013 and is a renowned expert in the field. "Oncologists here recognize that in addition to its biological complexity, cancer is profoundly personal for patients and families."
NCCC's approach to comprehensive cancer care fits naturally with palliative care principals: both incorporate shared decision making and focus on carefully matching patients' care plans with their personal needs, values, and preferences.
"Because this disease is often life-threatening, palliative care is especially important to cancer patients," said NCCC Director Mark A. Israel. "Our clinicians have been leaders in the development of novel palliative care interventions to improve the quality of life and care of patients with cancer, especially for those living in rural areas."
In the late 1990s, the Cancer Center was one of four ENABLE demonstration sites, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the feasibility of integrating palliative care into routine cancer care. Since then, clinical research teams at the Cancer Center have brought rigorous methodology to the study of palliative care delivered concurrently with leading-edge cancer care. In a 2009 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the ENABLE team demonstrated that palliative care can measurably improve quality of life and decrease depression for patients with cancer.
"Opening an inpatient palliative care and hospice center is the right thing to do for our region and a critical step on the path to creating a sustainable health system," notes Weinstein. And for many patients and their families, the Center will be an important stepping stone on the very personal path of living with advanced cancer.
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I'm using ArcGIS Server 9.3.1, ArcSDE, VS.NET 2008 and I'm trying to enable a service to be edited multiple times, the service its going to be public and it will be used to report emergencies and other situations that will require attention. I need some pointers on how to accomplish this.
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New England Clam Chowder
Categories: Comfort Foods
Type: Soups and Stews
Type: Soups and Stews
Serve this rich, creamy soup with plenty of saltines or crusty bread
Prep Time: 15M
Cooking Time: 35M
Serves: makes 4-6 servings
- 36 littleneck clams
- 1 tbsp oil
- 4 strips bacon, sliced
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 2 baking potatoes, such as russet, peeled and cut into 1/2 in ( 1cm) cubes
- 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 cups whole milk
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 2 tbsp finely chopped parsley
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- Place the clams and 1/4 cup water in a large saucepan. Cover and cook over high heat, shaking the pan, until the clams open. Using tongs, transfer the clams to a bowl. Strain the liquid through a wire sieve lined with paper towels to remove grit. Add enough water to measure 2 cups. Remove the clams from the shells. Coarsely chop the clams, cover, and chill.
- Heat the oil in a large, heavy pan over medium heat. Add the bacon and cook until crispy. Using a slotted spoon, transfer to paper towels to drain.
- Add the onion and potatoes to the pan. Cook for 5 minutes, or until the onion has softened. Stir in the flour and cook for 2 minutes.
- Stir in the clam juice and milk and season with salt and pepper. Cover, reduce the heat, and simmer for 20 minutes or until the potatoes are tender. Stir in the cream and clams, and heat through without boiling. Season and serve hot, topped with the bacon and parsley.
- cook clams on day of purchase
- Prepare ahead: Steps 1 and 2 can be completed several hours in advance; keep the clams refrigerated until ready to use.
Manhattan Clam Chowder: Delete the milk and cream. Add one 28oz (794g) can chopped tomatoes with their juice to the pot with the clam juice. Substitute chopped thyme for the parsley.
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19 Mar 2013 12:19 AM #1
Unanswered: Need to find the CheckBox status for CheckBox
How to find the checkbox status for sencha gxt checkbox component? I have binded Checkbox to ListView and how do i get the checkbox status when i click ListView cell?
I am able to get the complete cell details in onSelect() of ListView, but i want only CheckBox status at this end.
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When you say "status" do you mean whether or not the checkbox is selected?
I'm assuming you mean that you have a ListView of items that contain a checkbox. If so, have you tried ListView.getSelectionModel().getSelectedItems()?
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Thanks for the reply. Sorry for not posting the clear details in earlier message. Here are the details on what is required....
I want to create a multi select dropdown with Checkbox against each option in the dropdown. Since we don't have a direct Sencha GXT component of this type, i tried to derive this component by using Sench GXT ComboBox component (the closest i can choose). The example i picked for the same is the ComboBox component having XTemplate approach. Code for the same....
interface ComboBoxTemplates extends XTemplates {
@XTemplate(" {name}")
SafeHtml country(SafeUri imageUri, String name);
@XTemplate("
{name}
")
SafeHtml state(String slogan, String name);
I replaced @XTemplate with my own custome code like...
@XTemplate<"input type=\"checkbox\"...../>{name}
I was able to achive the whole UI and successful in capturing the event as this is the default functionality without issues. We were successfull in select/unselect multiple options from dropdown without issues. If we click anywhere other than checkbox we were unable to update the checkbox status eg. clicking on option name or white space after name we were successful in getting the selected/unselected value but unable to update Checkbox getting checked/unchecked with select/unselect option respectively.
Kindly suggest changes required in our approach if required. Thanks
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May I assume that you are using a custom cell to render the contents of your XTemplates?
Here's what we've done - note that TEMPLATE.anchor(...) is an XTemplate that returns a SafeHtml that renders text to behave like a hyperlink:
public abstract class AbstractBaseClickableCell<C> extends ResizeCell<C> implements SelectEvent.HasSelectHandlers { @Override public HandlerRegistration addSelectHandler(SelectEvent.SelectHandler handler) { return addHandler(handler, SelectEvent.getType()); } @Override public void onBrowserEvent(Context context, Element parent, C value, NativeEvent event, ValueUpdater<C> valueUpdater) { if (!isDisableEvents()) { String eventType = event.getType(); if ("click".equals(eventType)) { XElement target = event.getEventTarget().cast(); if (target.hasClassName("anchor")) { this.onClick(context); } } } } protected abstract void onClick(Context context); protected AbstractBaseClickableCell() { super("click", "mouseover", "mouseout"); } } public final class ClickableAnchorCell extends AbstractBaseClickableCell<String> { @Override public void render(Context context, String value, SafeHtmlBuilder sb) { if (value != null) { sb.append(AnchorTemplates.TEMPLATE.anchor(AnchorCss.ANCHOR_CSS.anchor(), value)); } } protected void onClick(Context context) { if (!isDisableEvents() && fireCancellableEvent(context, new BeforeSelectEvent(context))) { fireEvent(context, new SelectEvent(context)); } } }
You should know, however, that ListView.getSelectionModel().getSelectedItem() has no bearing on the cell, you would need to manage the state of the checkbox and ensure that the cell is selected so that the above returns the list of selected items.
Play around with this and please let me know how it goes.


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Looks like he's dancing a Paso Doble by himself. Great timing.
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Wow, if this rises only to "photo of the day", I'm toast. What would the really extraordinary ones look like!?
ARTPOP! :D Like the Applause vid..
So good
Lovely color, inspiring and perfect in it's own way!
great shot thx
The spots of color around the picture give it a vibrance,that pulled my eyes at the same time, to the whole. Dont like the tilt very much. The central figure is just great. .. j.e.s.
wonderful color!
My Apologies But the scenery looks tilted
We can feel the silence from the wall, the hanging robes as most monastery would tell, but the waving robe give the whole photo some kind of motional and live scence, that's where I love.
I can sense a subtle smile on the face of the young matador as he enjoys the simple pleasure from the swoosh of his robes. There is no imaginary toro that he battles with, instead he has a day of simplicity to look forward to. There is a bishop in Germany who is known as the Bishop of Bling, because of his opulence, who would know nothing of the rigours of life in a monastery where food is barely sufficient.
The courtyard is the frame of this photo. We see three walls that - in all probability - frame the existence of this monk. There are the added maroon and saffron colours from the washing that give extra insight into another way of life. The humanity of this photo is compelling - well done Mr Salvador.
Technicality / Composition / Content / X factor / originality = 8/10 zoom lenses
Beautiful photograph and a great sense of place !
@Kausik Bhattacharyya Initially I felt as you did, but then I realized that this straightened the monk's pose, who is the main subject of the photo. I think if the monk were at an angle to adjust for the background, the photo would lose its appeal.
@J SWell said, J S ! As always, Cheers :)
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Reverend Mik (Mitchel McAllister, aka "that asshole") is not a real hacker, instead working on projects that have no relevance or value to anyone at Noisebridge that matters. Nonetheless, he is an ordained minister (not preacher) and a worldbuilder, and hacks social issues whenever there are no members present to punish him for it.
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Design your own free luggage tags - KLM for $0
KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, brings you the world from all over the USA.
KLM gets you closer than ever to the destinations of your dreams through its global network and its ever-popular Amsterdam (Schiphol) hub.
Stay up to date on our attractive fares and destinations via our newsletter, eNews. And, if you subscribe now, we'll provide you with your own, free personalized luggage tags.
Throw away those boring luggage tags and give your baggage a new look by designing your own, unique tag. You can use a photo of your family, your favorite destination, or, to make it easier, you can choose from one of the images pre-selected by KLM.
Two tags will be made with your design to ensure you can easily recognize your bags among thousands of others. Or, you can give the tags to someone else as a gift.
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Awesome! Totally worth it! I love to get travel deals in my email and now I have luggage tags that will always be unique! Great woot!
This is great for a new baby ... Nothing like having a tag on the stroller that says "HANDS OFF BABY". People look at you like you just told them you killed their dog.
I mean it do not touch!
WTF I don't come up stranger and start to kiss your hands in the mall ... I would get arrested. Don't do it to my baby.
Very cool! Thanks for posting!
Worked like a charm--just entered info, mailing address/email/phone and apparently the tags are in the mail. I'm guessing they're going to stick me on their mailing list, but hey I can always use another option for (too expensive) airfare.
This really is great freebie. Nice find!
Cool deal, thank you for sharing!
Very Nice Catch!
And these will be sent to me in time for my upcoming Vegas trip. Thank you!
I did this at the end of November and received them before Christmas! You have to provide a strap to put it on your luggage.
Awesome... way cool...
This is awesome! Def going to send this to friends! :)
Ordered! Hope they turn up soon. Great Find!
Just Received Mine Today!
I just got mine 2 days ago. They are nice, just as pictured on site. Happy!
I missed this one when it was posted, but it still appears to be valid. W00t!
This one is alive and kicking!
Still alive. I got some today.
Not good anymore. It is dead. booooo hooooo
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Every time I reboot my machine the brightness goes back to 100% in Gnome. I wish it would keep the last setting. Is there anyway?
This is supposed to be configurable in the energy options, set the brightness to the desired level and it will always be used. If you use a laptop you will also need to configure the level for battery mode as well...
I found that Gnome has some issues about lcd panel brightness, e.g. if I run on battery mode and set the brightness manually to a given level and leave the laptop unattended for 10 seconds it will go back to the preset brightness when I take control back. Same goes when on A/C mode except it takes longer so goes unnoticed more easily. I believe all those settings should be saved somewhere and restored - at least for A/C mode.
EDIT: For gnome3 this does not work (at least for me).
The file /etc/rc.local should look like this:
Per @zerdo: In my dell studio 1558 the brightness setting is stored in
Also, per @Nick :
If this is the only answer you read, note that the 0 in
This function, the backlight control, is dependent on your bios and kernel version.
Try these four things.
Kernel (boot) options
When you boot, at the grub screen, hit e to edit. To the kernel line add
Intel -
As you can see, you may need to google search for your settings.
If that works, edit
Edit the "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT" line so it looks like this
Save your edit, update grub
Command line
If that does not work, you can try to manually set the brightness.
Note: Path may vary with hardware / kernel version, may be
The output of that command varies a bit with hardware, 1 -> 10 , 1 -> 12 , 1 -> 100 ??? Choose a value and set it (choose the value for your hardware).
If that works, add it to
Add in your setting above "exit 0"
You can also try
You then adjust with the command line
Again, add that to
Add in, above "exit 0"
You can try to set your brightness with
The general syntax is
You identify your pci bus address with
If you get your setting wrong, most likely you will just loose your display, and have to reboot. As this is a hardware setting, you really need to identify your hardware and research the settings first.
Intel - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=74914
Toshiba - http://www.linlap.com/wiki/toshiba+satellite+t130
Acer extensa - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/518002
Here is a quick workaround for that :-
edit the /etc/rc.local file by typing
sudo gedit /etc/rc.local in terminal
comment out the
this is necessary otherise it wont work !
after this add the following line in the file
such that it looks like this :-
replace 0 with the required brightness value ( ranges from 0 to 10 )
save the file and exit.
now try testing the setting by typing this command in terminal
if the brightness changes to minimum , you have got it right ! reboot to see the changes.
Note :- you may have to replace acpi_video0 with your device code if you have a different one ( its mostly acpi_video0 ). Most of u wont need to do so.
To adjust screen brightness in 11.10, you will need to access the "System Settings":
If Ubuntu isn't remembering your adjustment, you may use an application or you may need to use the workaround for GNOME: Brightness setting not saved in Ubuntu 11.10
Here is a great work around I found, credit and thanks to thaelim on Ubuntu forum How to get effective display brightness management under Unity/Gnome Shell just download the script edit the perimeters at the beginning of the script and save it when your done to your home folder. Heres the download of the full script brightmanager.py
These are the variable perimeters to change to your desired settings, as you can see I like mine at 20 all the time with no idle timeout.
After saving then open a terminal and enter
Then open up startup applications from the dash, click on the add button, name your start up application, and enter your command as:
replacing "david" with your home folders name, then add a description and click add, logout, and back in, and your done, you now have brightness settings for battery, AC, and idle.
You will want to do this for each user and each user should have their own copy of the script in their home folder with their own desired settings in the beginning of the script.
There seems to be a bug report abaout this:
For me, it has worked to place:
in /etc/rc.local.
Or, as others suggested,
might work.
The "Screen" option of "System Settings" works OK, and in
I found the solution to my problem:
Add the next option under your "Device" section in
This worked for my NVIDIA card (Ubuntu 11.10 x64 on Toshiba Satellite L745-SP4142CL)
It worked for me with the following spesifications:
I found a workaround from Andrew, It helps.
Be quoted:
The command above should display an output similar to this:
where "acpi_videoX" is "acpi_video0" or "acpi_video1". This is the acpi_video that controls the brightness, so remember it for the next steps.
If the command above doesn't display any output and you have a folder called "intel_backlight" under "/sys/class/backlight/", then use "intel_backlight" as the ACPI interface for the next steps.
where "acpi_videoX" is the ACPI interface which controls your laptop's brightness, which you find out under step 1.
Remember this value for the next step.
And in this file, paste this:
here, you need to:
replace BRIGHTNESS_VALUE with the brightness value you got under step 3;
replace acpi_videoX with the ACPI Interface that controls your laptop's brightness, which you found out under step 1.
Then save the file.
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GLENVIEW, Ill. — Kraft has joined with other leading advertisers willing to plunk down several million dollars for the opportunity to air a 30 second sport promoting its MiO brand water enhancer during the Super Bowl XLVII on February 3.
"Nearly two years since we launched, MiO has already proven to be a huge hit with millions of fans," said Doug Weekes, VP of refreshment beverages for Kraft. "So it's only fitting that our game-changing liquid water enhancer will lead the new Kraft onto the world's largest advertising stage during this year's Super Bowl."
The ad promoting MiO, one of the most successful new product introductions in recent years, will air during the third quarter. The announcement of its very first Super Bowl commercial spot comes nearly two weeks after Kraft released its plans for 2013 with a new line of products and flavors, one of which is new Cherry Blackberry flavor MiO.
"Bland and boring do not cut it anymore," Barry Calpino, VP, breakthrough innovation at Kraft said at the time. "We're seeing an all-out quest for fun, passion and adventure in food and beverages as people embrace a multitude of global and regional flavors. Culinary experimentation is 'in,' so everyone wants the flexibility to customize their food. Our latest innovations are fun, great-tasting products that meet those needs and are in sync with today's lifestyles."


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Noisebridge Lit Crawl event
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Lit Crawl at Noisebridge!
October 19, 2013, 7:15-8:15pm
The San Francisco Lit Crawl consists of dozens of literary events that occur on the same night in the Mission district. It's like a pub crawl, but instead, has hundreds of people who are part of LitQuake going from reading to reading.
An event will occur at Noisebridge during phase 2 of the Crawl, which is between 7.15 and 8.15 pm on October 19.
If you would be interested in participating in this event, please add this information here. Contact James Warner at james at jameswarner dot net if you have questions/suggestions/complaints relating to this event -- many thanks!
- Liz Henry
- Darius Garza 313kid at gmail dot com
- Kurt Van Leiden kurt at kurtvanleiden dot com (electronic puppet reading poems)
- John Allen Cassady
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My daughter's English teacher insists that synonyms for "turn up" and "turn down" (volume)do not include the words increase and decrease. We wondered if we had been using increase and decrease incorrectly for years or....?
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Your daughter's English teacher is nuts. Sound volume certainly may be increased or decreased (as a non-countable mass noun). Possibly the teacher may be focusing on the setting on the volume control as distinct from the sound volume itself, but even if so that doesn't hold much water; even if the setting is a countable quantity, we still speak of those as being increased or decreased.
I really want to know the teacher's detailed reasoning behind this assertion, because it seems nonsensical as given.
Your daughter's English teacher could very easily open a dictionary and find that she's incorrect:
Sound volume could also be refered to as the measure of the pressure generated by a sound in decibels. As the measured result of the actions


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At Frisco Fire Safety Town we teach children about safety in a fun and interactive environment. Our year-round safety education classes, run by the Frisco Fire Department, focus on teaching students how to prevent injuries and stay safe. Since opening in January 2007, we have welcomed well over 310,000 visitors to our facility!
Fire Safety Town includes classrooms, an interactive fire engine and a safety house - which features a realistic living area, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom, where children explore and learn about home hazards, severe weather and more.
The fun and learning continue outside in our 'mini Frisco,' with small buildings that resemble local businesses and landmarks. Visitors wander through the area on paved roads, complete with street signs and working traffic and crosswalk signals, a railroad crossing and a toll booth.
Many activities are 'hands-on,' including letting students drive battery-operated jeeps throughout the outdoor streets of Safety Town, as they learn about the importance of seatbelts. They also get to ride bicycles after classroom lessons about wearing helmets while cycling.
Inside our popular CORE Construction/Farmers Insurance Theatre, students see a typical family room as it would appear 'after the fire.' The melted blinds and soot-covered walls serve to emphasize the damage done by the fire, smoke and heat. A video and real-life firefighter use sound and visual effects to lead visitors through an emergency situation, spotlighting possible causes, the 9-1-1 call, the extinguishment and investigation.
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Aly & Fila vs Fady & Mina - The Journey (FSOE 300 Anthem)FSOE070 - September 29th, 2013
The official anthem for one of the biggest radio shows in trance has landed. Combining the sounds of legendary duo Aly & Fila and the rising talents Fady & Mina, is 'The Journey'. Celebrating the 300th episode of Future Sound of Egypt, it marks a milestone in trance history.
Egypt has got many things to be proud of, and the duo's Aly & Fila and Fady & Mina are a crucial part of it. The experienced label-owners invited the upcoming boys to make sure the FSOE 300 soundtrack would please both the lovers of the classic trance sound, as well as those into today's flavours.
'The Journey' builds rapidly, kicking in with acid elements and a high BPM, right before it unfolds a warm, calming break of melodic delicacy. The outburst of synths that comes right after makes up for an absolute highlight, not only during the FSOE 300 anniversary nights, but to every trance floor it's about to meet.
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13 Jun 2012 5:43 PM #1
Small Bug in forEachValueCS()
In sencha-io-debug.js (most recent version), there are two typos in forEachValueCS() that cause the following error:
Uncaught TypeError: Object function () { return this.constructor.apply(this, arguments); } has no method 'wraning'
[Lines 6071 & 6072)
I believe the syntax should be Ext.cf.util.Logger.warn.
In looking back at previous versions, I believe it was present there as well.
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The Colorado Rapids came out aggressively, taking full advantage of the disjointed Dynamo b-team. In the ninth minute, forward Kamani Hill took a strong shot with his left foot from 25 yards and it ended in the back of the net.
The visiting team attempted to tie it up in the 19th minute when Cam Weaver headed it toward the goal, but the shot was saved by goalkeeper Steward Ceus.
The Rapids doubled their lead in the 76th minute when Andre Akpan finished up a messy save by Tyler Deric, delighting their fans with a 2-0 win to end their season.
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