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President-elect Donald Trump may have scaled back his campaign promise to deport all undocumented immigrants, but he's still gunning for many. His team now hints that local law enforcement may have to join in, which not all Colorado agencies are eager to do.
"What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million," Trump said on a post-election 60 Minutes appearance.
A 2013 Department of Homeland Security report estimates there's just about "1.9 million 'removable criminal aliens,'" in the country, some of whom are here legally. Removing all of them would overwhelm deportation courts, since the Constitution still requires due process. That said, removing undocumented immigrants with criminal entanglements was prioritized by the Obama administration that oversaw the deportation of nearly 3 million immigrants in the past eight years, about a third of whom fit Trump's description — though some had committed only petty or misdemeanor offenses.
Trump's proposal is still a departure, however, due both to the number of deportations proposed in a short timeline and way he plans to arrest people. Senior officials on Trump's transition team told The Los Angeles Times they're drafting plans to intensify the pursuit of immigrants by rounding up those charged or suspected — not just convicted — of crimes and by pressuring local agencies to help or risk losing federal funding.
No policy change compels that yet, but in this new post-election climate, some local law enforcement agencies are speaking out to reassure the public they won't suddenly start acting as de facto immigration officers. Denver and Aurora police departments were first to state they'll continue to abstain from involvement with immigration enforcement, which is a federal function. Colorado Springs Police Department has since joined them.
"Our protocol, and it has been for years, is we notify ICE of serious crimes in which we arrest undocumented people," says CSPD spokesman Lt. Howard Black, who clarified that "serious" is discretionary, but usually means crimes involving violence and/or drugs.
Not only do local cops lack the obligation and resources to take a more active role in immigration enforcement, he says, doing so could compromise public safety. "We don't want people to be victimized and not feel safe calling us," Black says. "We want to know when crimes are committed. Period."
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office, on the other hand, has a history of zeal for immigration enforcement. During disgraced former Sheriff Terry Maketa's tenure, the Office participated in a federal program in which deputies with ICE training were empowered to arrest, interrogate and detain non-citizens suspected of violating immigration law. In turn, the federal government paid the Sheriff's Office over $7 million since 2007 for holding immigrants, who were not charged with any other crime, at the county jail when other detention centers were full (despite the fact that the county jail was itself overcrowded.) When the Office terminated its participation in that program last year under current Sheriff Bill Elder, it was the last agency in the state to do so.
Sheriff's Office spokesperson Jackie Kirby says her agency still honors ICE detainers, but sheriff's deputies no longer issue such detainers themselves. As for what's to come, Kirby says, "It's premature to know what the new administration is going to do. Nothing changes until the law changes, but we're sworn to uphold the law so that's what we'll do."
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The Amarnath Yatra was suspended yet again on Wednesday due to fresh unrest reported from Anantnag, reported DNA.
According to Business Standard, a fresh batch of pilgrims was allowed to leave from Bhagwati Nagar Yatra base camp.
The yatra had just resumed on 12 July under a heavy security blanket, reported The Indian Express
IANS reported that the ongoing curfew in most places of the Valley continued on Thursday as the separatists decided to extend the protest shutdown for another two days.
Curfew has been imposed in the Valley since 9 July to control large-scale violence following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani last week, the report said.
One protester identified as Hilal Ahmad Shah was killed in Anantnag district's Harnag area on Wednesday when an unruly mob surrounded an army vehicle and tried to torch it.
The death toll in the six-day long spate of violence has increased to 37.
UPDATE: Death toll of J&K protests over #BurhanWani's killing, rises to 37.
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On Wednesday, the death toll in the on-going Amarnath Yatra spiked to 10 after a bus carrying pilgrims collided with a truck at Sangam near Bijbehara, 45 kms from Srinagar, reported The Economic Times.
Twenty-three pilgrims also received injuries in the accident. The bus was on the way to Jammu from Baltal base camp in Ganderbal district.
But, in a small bit of positive news, local Muslims defied curfew restrictions on Wednesday and risked their lives to rescue the Amarnath Yatra pilgrims injured in a road accident on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway-1A and carried them to hospitals, said an IANS report.
The driver of the mini-bus carrying the pilgrims died of injuries after the vehicle met an accident near Bijbehara town in Anantnag district.
Locals in Bijbehara town, who were mourning two deaths due to recent violence in the Kashmir Valley, ignored their personal grief and the curfew to rush to the accident spot and rescue the injured pilgrims.
On 11 July, hundreds of Amarnath pilgrims were stranded as Srinagar-Jammu national highway remained out of bounds, as per a PTI report.
Many of the pilgrims, who performed the yatra through Baltal route in Sonamarg area of central Kashmir's Ganderbal district, were stranded near the Tourist Reception Centre in the city.
The pilgrims left the Baltal base camp at around 1 am and reached Srinagar in the wee hours.
"We performed the yatra on 8 July. Around midnight tonight, we were told to leave the base camp. They told us to leave for Srinagar where buses were waiting for us to take us to Jammu," Pramod Kumar, a resident of Bihar, said.
The pilgrims also complained of inadequate arrangements and accused cab drivers of charging exorbitant rates.
However, deputy commissioner, Ganderbal, Tariq Hussain Ganai told PTI that the administration had made proper arrangements for about 24,500 pilgrims to leave Baltal for Jammu.
"We arranged 1,700 vehicles for about 24,500 yatris to leave for Jammu. The vehicles left Baltal straight for Jammu and not for Srinagar. Those yatris are on their way to Jammu right now," Ganai said.
"We reached here at around 3 am and since then we are waiting. There are no buses. How do we move to Jammu?" he asked.
Another pilgrim, Bansi Lal, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, said, "We have not been told anything after we reached Srinagar. There is no information available. We want to leave for Jammu but do not know how."
He said pilgrims stranded in Srinagar must have been "tricked" by cab drivers at Baltal.
"What I can understand is that they must have been tricked by the cab drivers there. We cleared the last three days' yatra last night and sent the pilgrims directly to Jammu. Some left the state by air as well. We never told anyone that buses will be waiting in Srinagar," the deputy commissioner said.
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We've been back in the sand pit for 3 weeks now, and I just finished my first week back at school! I absolutely love 3rd grade! My kiddos are so sweet and fun. I already feel like we've been in school with them for a month. We are still getting used to everything at school, and it's a little but hectic, but everyone here is so nice. I've said that from the minute I walked onto campus. Everyone is genuinely, nice.
Grades 3-5 are departmentalized this year, which means that I am only teaching English, Social Studies, and Writing (taking after you, Papa). My teaching partner is teaching Math and Science. So, I teach the same lesson twice; one for my class, one for his, in each of the subjects. It makes lesson planning a bit easier, but I now have 50 kids to keep track of, monitor, assess, grade, accommodate for...etc instead of 25. It will be a learning and challenging year, but like I said before I really do like my kids, so I think it will all be fine :)
We were invited to church last week with some colleagues, and oh my word, it was so very much needed. We all (Jus, Kay, and I) really liked it. I can't tell you how much I missed this when we were down in Abu Dhabi, it was definitely something that weighed on my heart. Now, I am so glad we have found a place to call our home church.
It's been so nice to see familiar faces from our previous time in the UAE, but we have also made so many new friends already. I just know this year is going to have so many memories!
We have moved into our apartments as of last Saturday, and we really like our place! It's called the Imperial tower and we have a one bedroom again. I love the open kitchen and all the window light that shines in! We haven't received all of our furniture yet, so right now we have just a bed, oven, fridge, and a tiny kitchen table. The transition for all the new staff has really been crazy so far! But we have all leaned on each other and have learned to just laugh it all off :) Justin and I have really realized how much "stuff" that people claim they need to live on, and also us. Our apartment literally has the bare minimum right now and we are still alive! We're not taking anything we have for granted.
Once Justin gets his visa and Emirates id sorted we can finally apply for internet at the house, otherwise it'll be the random posts from school when I stay an hour past just to do a post ;)
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One of the most imposing NXT Rookies on the show's second season, "The Real Deal's" hard work paid off in early 2012, when then-General Manager John Laurinaitis formally placed O'Neil and his main man Darren Young on the SmackDown roster. Taking on the name of The Prime Time Players, Young and O'Neil set out to prove to the WWE Universe that they were worth the "millions of dollars" they said they were, capturing the Tag Team Championships in 2015 after resolving a conflict that had initially driven them apart.
Not that the mind behind "The Titus Brand" is simply a tag-team stalwart. The gridiron grappler has left his fair share of Superstars lying limp on the mat in singles competition as well, bringing the same intensity and passion to his charity commitments outside the ring. A hell of a competitor and a hell of a humanitarian, it's only a matter of time before the name on everyone's lips is spelled "T-I-T-U-S."
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Any of these designs can be done in your choice of fabric and you can choose to add a bow or not. I listed some gingham fabrics here, but feel free to view my Fabric Selection album on Facebook to see all options.
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Bugatti Type 57C Ventoux
It's ironic that Ettore Bugatti's most successful Le Mans car was intended as a Grand Routier, not an out-and-out sports car. Designed by his son Jean, the Type 57 used the eight-cylinder twin-cam engine of the Type 49 but with timing gears rather than chains. The prototype car had transverse-spring independent front suspension, but Le Patron demanded a return to the traditional beam axle for production cars. The model was introduced in 1934 and became the sole offering in 1936 when its siblings were discontinued.
A lowered chassis model, Type 57S, was available, and both could be had with a Roots-type supercharger, in which case a "C" suffix was used. So-called "Tank" versions of the 57C, named for their ungainly utilitarian bodies, won the French Grand Prix in 1936 and Le Mans in 1937 and 1939. In all, 684 Type 57s were built, just 96 of them 57Cs.
The Type 57 was originally offered in four body styles, three of which were named after famous mountain peaks in the Alps: Galibier, Stelvio and Ventoux. The four-seat, two-door Ventoux body was heavily influenced by sketches for the Type 50; with its Profilee style, the Ventoux was easily recognizable by its sharply raked windshield. Unlike the Stelvio, which was commonly outsourced to various coachbuilders, the Ventoux had been designed in-house by Jean Bugatti himself. In addition, the sylphlike Atlantic and Atalante coupes evoked oceanic themes and Greek mythology.
This car was auctioned off by RM Auctions in August of 2011 at the Portola Hotel & Spa and Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California.
210 bhp, 3,257 cc supercharged DOHC inline eight-cylinder engine, four-speed manual transmission, solid front axle with semi-elliptic leaf springs and live rear axle with quarter-elliptic leaf springs, and four-wheel hydraulic drum brakes. Wheelbase: 130"
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Summit Classic Collection CLFD24WC 24 Inch Wide Built-In Dual Zone Wine Cellar
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Summit Classic Collection CLFD24WC 24 Inch Wide Built-In Dual Zone Wine Cellar
If you are looking for some compact wine cellar that can add luxury to your kitchen while saving space, then Summit Classic Collection CLFD24WC 24 Inch Wide Built-In Dual Zone Wine Cellar suits your requirements perfectly. The wine cellar features two independent temperature zones which enable you to store your wine collection at different temperatures. The classic collection modern wine cellar comes with attractive French opening design which allows you present your wine collection in a dramatic way.
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The two door French opening design offers the breathtaking view of the appliance. The doors of the appliance are made of E-low glass that is slightly tinted, and the frame is made of stainless steel. The appliance can built-in under counters or can be used freestanding whatever way is convenient for you. The 24 inch wide and depth perfectly fits wet bar cutouts, and the back is sealed to make it easy for cleaning.
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The wine cellar is divided into two chambers where two different temperatures can be maintained. The two-door wine cellar can store 42 bottles which are 21 bottles in each section. The shelves are made of wood and can be slid in and out giving easy access to the wine bottles stored. The interiors are illuminated with the white LED lighting which enhances the jet-black interiors.
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The interiors feature the thermostat that enables you to control the temperature and digital display which displays the set temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit scale. The digital control of the wine cellar makes it easy to manage the temperature. The model comes with high and low-temperature settings and a conservation mode that enables you to save energy.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Yixin Group, China's top online car retailer, ended 6 percent higher in its trading debut after an intra-day surge of nearly a third, adding to a string of successful tech floats in Hong Kong that is boosting the city's reputation for new listings.
Backed by Chinese internet giants Tencent Holdings and JD.com, Yixin raised HK$6.77 billion (£657.7 million) after pricing its initial public offering at the top of an indicative range of HK$6.60–HK$7.70.
While Hong Kong has been the world's largest listings venue for the past two years, a stream of poorly performing deals had dented its reputation among international investors compared to other fundraising centres such as New York.
In the past six years, half of large Hong Kong IPOs - defined as those worth at least $500 million (£379.2 million) - have ended their debut trading session either flat or lower, according to Thomson Reuters data. In New York, 80 per cent of IPOs over that period enjoyed a first-day pop.
Including Yixin, the last seven large floats in Hong Kong have all gained on their debut - a run of success not seen at any point in at least six years.
Yixin's shares opened on Thursday at around HK$10 and extended gains to HK$10.18 in early trade. They closed at HK$8.15 as the initial excitement abated somewhat amid a weak day for many Hong Kong blue-chips.
"We are a Tencent-backed company...In Hong Kong, we can attract both international investors as well as Chinese ones who are more familiar with our business back in mainland China," said CEO Zhang Xuan, speaking to reporters after the opening bell ceremony.
The gains gave the company a market value of HK$51.1 billion.
Spun off from New York-listed online automobile marketplace Bitauto Holdings in 2014, Yixin has gradually grown into a large online firm for trading new and second-hand cars, as well as providing auto-related financing services.
It posted a loss of 6.11 billion yuan in the first half of 2017, compared to a loss of 647,000 yuan a year earlier. Its revenue more than tripled to 1.55 billion yuan over the same period.
Tencent owns 24.3 percent of Yixin, while JD Financial Investment, a unit of JD.com, controls 12.7 percent and Chinese search engine Baidu holds 3.5 percent of the company.
On Monday, shares in gaming firm Razer Inc, backed by Intel Corp and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, surged 18 percent in its Hong Kong stock market debut, after raising about $500 million in an IPO.
That came a week after China Literature Ltd, the e-book unit of Tencent, saw its shares surge more than 80 percent in their debut, marking the biggest first-day gain for a large IPO globally this year.
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Impact corporate decisions on capital structure and investments, including mergers and acquisitions, with the Wisconsin MBA Program specialization in corporate finance and investment banking. Delivered through the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking, the program combines the breadth of management fundamentals in the first year and the depth of several real financial consulting projects in the second year. Students also benefit from regular interaction with highly placed executives who share in-depth perspectives on current industry issues and trends. This comprehensive approach prepares students for a lifetime of success as financial officers, consultants, or investment bankers.
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"[Wisconsin has] great people, a thriving campus with a city life, and an academic model that aligned with my professional goals. The core classes taught me business insights, and the finance courses will allow me to differentiate myself in the job market."
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The corporate finance and investment banking specialization in the Wisconsin MBA Program provides challenging applied learning experiences to equip you for career success. During your second year in the MBA program, you'll work with major companies such as AT&T, American Family Insurance, and 3M to provide business recommendations and asset evaluations to senior executives. In addition to gaining practical consulting experience, you will learn management skills and explore the latest market trends during finance current topics seminars presented by high-level executives. Through real-world experiences such as these, you'll gain the financial tools and conceptual knowledge to analyze problems, make tough decisions, and develop recommendations to blue-chip corporations.
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Graduates of the Wisconsin MBA Program in corporate finance and investment banking find success as financial managers, analysts, and treasurers for recruiting partners ranging from Citibank to General Mills. With an average starting salary of six figures and average signing bonus of more than $20,000, you are likely to graduate with the career opportunities you desire.
As a corporate finance and investment banking student, you will join a program supported by a network of alumni and board members working together to enhance your professional knowledge and connections. Every fall, an advisory board of practitioners and corporate officers with experience in financial services, investment banking, and consulting mentors students. Board members and alumni provide expert guidance for financial consulting engagements and provide professional development through events such as mock interviews to prepare students for careers in the financial industry.
The Wisconsin MBA Program in corporate finance and investment banking is a comprehensive program designed to hone general managerial skills while still covering a wide range of investment and financial topics.
Applied learning opportunities become the focus of your second year in the program. Corporate finance consulting engagements will require you to put your first year's courses into practice by providing investment recommendations to high-level executives.
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London: Netflix is close to commissioning a biopic of the Queen as its first original UK series. The streaming platform has reportedly fought off competition from BBC and ITV for `The Crown`, which has been developed by Left Bank Pictures, reportedly.
`The Crown` will chronicle the Queen`s reign from her ascent to the throne at the age of 26, right through to the present day.
The drama will also focus on the political landscape in Britain over the last six decades.
`The Crown` is being written by Peter Morgan, who worked on 2006 film `The Queen`. Stephen Daldry, who recently directed Helen Mirren as the Queen in `The Audience`, will also work on the project.
The series, which will reportedly cost 100 million pounds to produce - is set to debut on Netflix on 2016. Left Bank managing directors Andy Harries and Marigo Kehoe will executive produce `The Crown` once it is officially commissioned.


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When we began our work with Samsung in the early 1990s, they were a sleeping giant, known as OEM producers for global consumer electronics and appliance brands. We were hired to design the platform for a long-term brand identity not rooted in traditional media and a 30-second spot. Our assignment was based on a memo Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee sent to his company, declaring that design innovation would lead the quest to become No. 1 in the industry and shift Samsung from a manufacturing-centric to a consumer-centric organization. This simple memo became the corporate banner by which we introduced the concept and process of PowerBranding for this enterprise, rich in goodwill and manufacturing strength but without a face to the public. Design innovation was our assignment. It was the last thing, however, we tackled.
We took a lesson from the master, Mr. Rand, and began making a plan that would establish the business of good design as a corporate institution within Samsung. Without this, designers would continue as they had been working-designing better-looking boxes around existing electronic "guts." This was styling and decoration, not design. This was, and still is for many, the way it is done.
Good design is not design if content and culture are not driving the thought process and development. Content is what gives design an ultimate reason to be. Consumers may like a certain design, but they love a product when it also meets their needs and allows them to join the brand. The goal of good design is to take a consumer from "like" to "love."
It does require designing the plan first, as design is more than knowing how to manipulate software. Mr. Rand sketched his ideas on paper; Frank Gehry builds wood and foam core models before turning the concept into drawings. As only Frank can say, "design is not about pushing buttons on a computer. It is about pushing the user's buttons."
For Samsung, the plan to push all the right buttons consisted of partnering with Arts Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., a renowned school where some of the world's top graphic and industrial designers make their talents business-ready. We worked with Samsung and the school to build a curriculum for innovation and product development. The $10 million, eight-story Innovative Design Lab of Samsung (IDS) was built in Seoul, South Korea. Arts Center professors, relocated from California to Seoul, were led by three unsung heroes-Bruce Gordon, David Brown and James Miho-who believed, if they got it right, that the world would soon feel the voice and face of design at Samsung, and hence, its importance.
From that day forward, Samsung never designed just a product again. IDS designers studied intellectual assets, brand values, consumer values, lifestyle needs, desired experiences and emotional connections. Samsung believes, to this day, that it must sell corporate values, consumer values, ideas and content that become visibly realized through design.
Design innovation is the result of a company that is in control of its values and mission for the ultimate benefit of consumers who want to be in control of their environment and experiences. The new Divine Proportion exists when products developed to meet business and consumer needs achieve a natural and pleasing balance between both. Good design speaks for itself-without promotion. Look at Apple, Sony, Target, Nike, Nissan and Motorola, to name a few, who have captured the imagination of consumers through design. Design it and the world will follow.


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During the last winter I had the chance to come quite close to some birds, including woodpeckers, in fact closer than ever before. Winter is gone now - at least lets hope so. However lets start my postings with some bird pictures. Most of them were taken at North Chagrin Reservation.
At first Woodpeckers:
The largest woodpecker in the USA proofen to exist is the Pileated Woodpecker (1). This is a male one busy making big holes into that tree hunting for ant and bug larva. Another impressive but very shy one is the Red-headed Woodpecker (2). The head feathers of this one are still in the process of replacement.
The Red-bellied Woodpecker (3) is one where you might ask yourself if its name is accurat, but it has indeed some orange-red feathers on his belly. The smallest Woodpecker in northeastern Ohio is the Downy Woodpecker (4).


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A nice little rally point for YouTube Atheists to unite.
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nice tatt! good mix of folks on that pro-atheist (pro common sense imho) vid. take care folks and take up community!
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Configuration Guide for Local SEO for WooCommerce
If you've already installed the Local SEO for WooCommerce plugin, you can start using it.
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You can find your Local SEO Settings by going to SEO → Local SEO → WooCommerce settings.
- Log in to your WordPress website.
When you're logged in, you will be in your 'Dashboard'.
- Click on 'SEO'.
On the left-hand side, you will see a menu. In that menu, click on 'SEO'.
- Click on 'Local SEO'.
The 'SEO' settings will expand providing you additional options. Click on 'Local SEO'.
- Click on the 'WooCommerce settings' tab.
Local SEO functionality
It is important to realize that this plugin offers all functionality provided by our Local SEO plugin. Go to the configuration guide for Local SEO to setup the Local SEO functionality.
Shipping method settings
You can find the shipping method settings by going to:
WooCommerce -> Settings -> Shipping (tab) -> Local Store Pickup
Single Location
If you have configured only one location in your Local SEO configuration the screen looks like this:
- Enable/Disable: let's you activate or deactivate this shipping method.
- Checkout text: is a text that is shown during the checkout process. It could provide some information for your customers on the process after the order has been completed. Like: 'You will be notified when your order is ready for pickup'.
- Local pickup costs: Sets the costs ( if any ) for shipping the order tot hat specific location. Use a positive floating or integer value without taxes here.
Multiple Locations
If you have configured multiple locations and possibly some location categories in your Local SEO configuration the screen looks like this:
- Enable/Disable: let's you activate or de-activate this shipping method
- Checkout text: is a text that is shown during the checkout process. It could provide some information for your customers on the process after the order has been completed. Like: 'You will be notified when your order is ready for pickup'.
- Costs per category: enables you to activate and set the costs for all locations inside a specific location category.
- Costs per location: enables you to activate and set the costs for specific locations.
Important: Your location specific setting will always override the category specific settings for that location.
WooCommerce's "Local pickup" shipping method
This plugin makes WooCommerce's Local pickup shipping method superfluous. If you already configured WooCommerce to use it, you will be prompted to disable it when you have enabled Local Store Pickup shipping method.
If you hadn't configured WooCommerce to use it we disabled the visibility of that shipping method for you and you can't configure it anymore until you disable Local Store Pickup as a shipping method.
New order statuses
In order to manage your WooCommerce orders properly we created a couple of new order statuses:
- Transporting: means that your order has been shipped and is currently in transport tot he local store.
- Ready for pickup: means that the order has arrived at the local pickup store and can now be picked up by the customers.
To manage this flow we created the Transport overview. You can find it here:
This overview shows a list of all orders that need to be shipped to a local store and has either one of the following statuses: "Processing", "Transporting" or "Ready for pickup".
From this overview you can update the status of a specific order to one of the following statuses: "Processing", "Transporting", "Ready for pickup" or "Completed".
Once a customer has pick up his order from the local store you can set the status to "Completed" and the order will disappear from this overview.
New order statuses mails
Along with the new order statuses we created a couple of extra e-mails in the order process. So we can notify customers when a status has been changed. We created e-mails for when the status changes:
- From "Processing" to "Transporting"
- From "Transporting" to "Ready for Pickup"
You can configure WooCommerce e-mails settings here:
WooCommerce -> Settings -> Email (tab)
The checkout process
If you have enabled and configured the locations and the shipping method correctly The location will appear as a shipping option during the checkout process.
We have altered the regular checkout process when using a local store pickup to make it more logical for our purpose.
We adjusted the following items:
- We removed the "Shipping address" from the overview. We don't need it anymore since we are shipping to a local store.
- We added the checkout text which you can configure in the shipping method
- We changed the taxable address and thus the tax calculation to the address of the local store


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"Mooooooommmmm, I'm booorrred!"
Believe it or not, I was happy to hear those words from my children. It wasn't my responsibility to constantly entertain them, and when they got to the point that they were bored, that's when their creativity took over, if I didn't rush in to rescue them.
Learning Environment
When we made the decision to homeschool, one of the first things I did was to go through everything we had in the way of books, toys, games, etc, and cull anything that wasn't educational or in keeping with our values. I was purposeful in what I provided them with because I wanted to make it so that no matter what they chose to do, it was beneficial. Even on weekends, days when I was sick, or just sick of homeschooling, I knew their free time would be productive and edifying.
Unstructured Time
Through homeschooling I've come to believe that unstructured time is important in childhood. It's during this time that their imagination kicks in and they experiment with new ideas and discover new interests. If every minute is filled with school or extra-curricular activities, then they're deprived of that opportunity.
Junk Playground
A few years ago I read an article called Is This the Perfect Playground, Full of Junk? about an exploratory playground in the UK that was filled with what most people would consider "junk." Things like mattresses, tools, rope, wood, and old cars. The kids were free to build, demolish, and take risks, with only some basic guidance of a few adults. (Link to article below) While I'm not totally comfortable with all of the ideas, I do agree with the premise, and I wish I had read it when my kids were younger because I think I would have tried to give them even more basic playthings, as opposed to all of the colorful plastic toys.
When Hayden was about nine, we were remodeling a house and Hayden came to us with a light switch he had found and asked if he could have it. My husband and I looked at each other and shrugged an "I guess so," and he happily ran back to his room. He soon emerged to show us what he had done with it. He had found some wires, a battery, and a small fan (from a computer, I think). He connected them together, flipped the switch, and the fan came on. I was amazed because I would have never thought to do something like that.
Years later at another house, we had inherited a workshop full of junk. One day he and a friend asked permission to use some of that stuff and they built a rudimentary car using old lumber, wheels, and other found materials.
In both of these examples, my son took things that I considered "junk," and did something meaningful with them. Given the opportunity, what might your kids create?
Art & Animals
Our daughter was drawn to arts and crafts supplies and spent countless hours drawing, painting, or sculpting. She also loved animals and had a wide variety of pets and rescues. She was knowledgeable about animals at a young age because in trying to save a 'possum, raccoon, squirrel or bird, she would research them on the Internet, pursuing her interest to a self-taught science lesson.
Forts and Paths
From my own childhood I remember using a card table and blankets to make forts or houses with my sister. We then used every book in the house to make paths. (I don't remember ever putting those books back up, so sorry Mom!) I also liked playing in the dirt with Hotwheels cars, making roads, and using sticks for fences and buildings. Huge cardboard boxes were always fun to make things out of, too, such as a playhouse for my sister and I, or a kitten.
Don't be afraid for your children to become bored. Provide them with simple things and let their imaginations find creative uses for them. Allowing your kids to play with basic materials may not only be good for their imaginations, but your bank account as well. The resulting projects may also reveal new talents and interests.
Do you have similar observations from your own experience? I'd be interested to hear about them so please share them in the comments.
If you subscribe, future posts will be delivered to your inbox, and I promise not to send "junk!" 🙂
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Captain Paul Fields of the Tulsa Police was suspended and then transferred for refusing to order his officers to attend an event at the Masjid al-Salam, the Islamic Society of Tulsa (IST). Masjid al-Salam means Mosque of Peace Be Upon You (or something very close). In the IST constitution, on their website, they say they have a "continuous affiliation with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)." The ISNA is an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trials (they collected charitable funds and funneled the money to Hamas and others), as is the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), who owns IST. It is believed the NAIT is funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Video below.
Here are the questions we need answers to:
Does/did Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan know about Islamic Society of Tulsa's connections to the ISNA, NAIT, and the Muslim Brotherhood when they suspended and reassigned Captain Paul Fields, and then charged him with having an "anti-Islamic agenda?" Did he know it when he and 150 Tulsa police officers shared the hospitality of BBQ chicken and baklava with the Islamic Center of Tulsa? Do un-indicted co-conspirators of the Holy Land Foundation terrorism funding trials mean nothing to Tulsa law enforcement? Do FBI reports mean nothing? It doesn't matter whether mosque goers are seen as peaceful members of the community. The Masjid al-Salam Islamic Society of Tulsa has terrorist ties. Z Truth has the story of the anti-Islamic agenda charge against Fields and some good commentary.
The Investigative Project on Terrorism on FBI information:
The Islamic Society of North America's (ISNA) roots in the Muslim Brotherhood have been strengthened by newly declassified FBI memos and from a second, highly unlikely source.
The records, recently obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism through Freedom of Information Act requests, show that FBI agents investigated a parent organization to ISNA, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), during the mid 1980s.
The FBI investigation concluded that the Muslim Brotherhood members who founded U.S.-based groups had risen to "leadership roles within NAIT and its related organizations," including ISNA, "which means they are in a position to direct the activities and support of Muslims in the U.S. for the Islamic Revolution." The FBI memo also said that:
"Within the organizational structure of NAIT, there have been numerous groups and individuals identified as being a part of a covert network of revolutionaries who have clearly indicated there (sic) support for the Islamic Revolution as advocated by the AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI and his government as well as other fanatical Islamic Shiite fundamentalist leaders in the Middle East. This faction of Muslims have declared war on the United States, Israel and any other country they deem as an enemy of Islam. The common bond between these various organizations is both religious and political with the underlying common goal being to further the holy war (Islamic Jihad)."
According to the Tulsa County Property Assessor, IST is owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). Both ISNA and NAIT were named by the U.S. Justice Department, as recently as November 2008, as a party to the financing of millions of dollars to the terrorist organization Hamas.
"Even mosques and Islamic institutions in the U.S. and around the world have become tools in [terrorists'] hands and are used for collecting funds for their criminal acts."
Miftah was not condemning all mosques, but was referring, for example, to Brooklyn's al-Farooq mosque, which had been an incubator for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, and to a mosque in Bridgeview, Illinois, which had been investigated for funneling money to terrorist organizations….
Miftah told me he was shocked by the incident. "At least here, I thought there would be more appreciation from the mosque and IST; that at least some member is taking the pain of doing some research and writing… On the contrary it was a totally different reaction." He says that friends of his who are long-time contributing members of IST were just as shocked.
Miftah called Tulsa police and filed a report. The mosque obtained a restraining order against him, not to be lifted until an apology was given at that Friday's prayers. Miftah attended the prayer service, not knowing about the restraining order, until an official announced it and the "anti-Islamic things" Miftah had done. Apparently Miftah did not issue the apology, and the congregation was told he would be arrested if was seen on mosque property.
Eventually word got back to Miftah that he was welcome to come back to the mosque if he created no further "disturbances." Miftah said he would consider returning if officials publicly said he was not anti-Muslim, never made a disturbance and that the mosque did not have the authority to keep him from attending.
Jamal Miftah further made it clear to the Shura [governing body] that he was concerned that this type of financial activity would damage Muslims in the USA and the World and "convey yet another wrong message to the world about Islam and Islamic organizations." Jamal Miftah received no response and the Shura refused to adopt transparent accounting practices.
The petition alleges the NAIT, which "holds title to the real property of local mosques," funds the mosque, and NAIT is "largely" funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The suit says IST, ISNA and NAIT have a policy of "intimidating dissident Muslims, by assault, by defamation…putting dissidents in danger of assassination via official or vigilante action with false claims of apostasy." See a video interview with Miftah below.
The complaint (Case No. CJ 2007-04083) linked above includes charges of defamation, assault, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
I don't know the resolution, or if a resolution is to be expected in a "complaint" or "petition," but I offer the Jamal Miftah story to give you a feel for this mosque sitting in a quiet neighborhood in what was once a neighborhood elementary school – where a friend who lives just down the street says mosque goers routinely park on both sides of the streets, often going in the wrong direction, in front of fire hydrants and sometimes on the sidewalks (although calls to police have pretty much discouraged sidewalk parking).
Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan attended a seminar in Israel in April. He was one of 15 law enforcement "leaders" to receive an invitation from the Anti-Defamation League. Maybe Israel saw the insane treatment of Captain Fields and thought Jordan needed some retraining. Jordan says he now has "a more global perspective on combating terrorism in our country."
"We need to make it so it's not so difficult for our citizens to get us information on anti-terror matters, on crime matters, anything," he said.
The delegation met with several security agencies, including the Israeli security agency, Shin Bet, the Israeli Defense Force and the border police. The group also spent a day at Ben Gurion International Airport.
Jordan said one of the most significant things he observed on the trip was the role that all Israelis play in fighting terrorism. Source: Tulsa World
Captain Paul Fields has not been reinstated since this April meeting the Chief attended. Perhaps Jordan doesn't understand that Israelis fight terrorism ONLY AGAINST ISLAMISTS. The ISNA and the NAIT are Islamist organizations. The NAIT owns the Tulsa mosque. The Islamic Society of Tulsa is affiliated with the ISNA. The FBI says the ISNA and the NAIT are connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. This police department is every Islamists dream.
Jamal Miftah Interview – Kicked Out of Islamic Center of Tulsa, the Masjid al-Salam Mosque (video – 11/2006)
Thanks to The Neo-Conservative Right for linking and adding to the story.


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"The Saturn V launch vehicle is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to the Saturn V launch vehicle."
Actually Douglas Adams was referring to Space in this quote from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy" but he might as well have been talking about the liquid fuelled American behemoth which, having checked on Google Earth, would stretch from my house to the nearest Co-Op and would only have fitted just over two and a half times in the distance to Badham's Chemist in St John's Avenue.
Or put another way, the Saturn V – which launched the Apollo missions to the Moon – was 363 feet tall. Thirty six storys. Just twelve inches shorter than St Paul's Cathedral in London or sixty feet taller than New York's Statue of Liberty.
Or put another way, even the 1/144 Airfix model that Jet Age member Tim Mansfield has kindly given me to take part in my forthcoming Goes Like A Rocket presentation is so tall that I had to use the sky board normally used for the Joint Harrier Strike Force set on end as a background for the pictures on this page!
The lowest (S-1C) stage alone could almost swallow the Russian R-7 rocket that launched Sputnik 1, the first Earth orbit satellite, in 1957. And each of the four boosters strapped on to the core of that Communist built launcher itself was taller than the Nazi V2 missile which spawned both the R-7 and Saturn V in World War II.
Fully fuelled for lift off, the Saturn V weighed 2 950 tonnes and generated 3 400 tonnes of thrust, more power than 85 Hoover dams. It could launch 125 tonnes to low Earth orbit or 46 tonnes to the Moon and remains the tallest, heaviest and most powerful operational rocket ever. It is also the only launch vehicle to take astronauts beyond Earth orbit. However, the whole Saturn V did its job in less than half an hour from launch to orbit.
The story of America's Saturn V can be traced to the arrival of Werner von Braun and about 700 of his Nazi rocket scientist colleagues in New Mexico in 1946. Operation Paperclip was designed to harvest the expertise that had produced Germany's V2 ballistic missile and during the 1950s von Braun worked on ever more proven and advanced designs for the US Army at its Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville Alabama. These included the Juno rocket which the freshly formed NASA used to launch America's first satellite in 1958.
As such, from 10 January 1962, von Braun was able to meet NASA's design brief for a rocket to carry a 40 tonne payload to the Moon. Initially known as the C5 until 1963, this launch vehicle would comprise three stages – an arrangement first imagined by Russian space visionary Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and patented by American liquid fuelled rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard.
The lowest of these – and firing first – was what became known as Stage S1-C. This was ultimately built by Boeing around five Rocketdyne F-1 engines which burned liquid oxygen and RP-1 kerosene fuel – as had the V-2. The height of the roof at Boeing's Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans determined the 33′ diameter of Stage S-1C and thereby the whole launch vehicle. The first test of all five engines of Stage S-1C took place at Marshall Spaceflight Center, within Huntsville's Redstone Arsenal on 16 April 1965.
The second – S-II – stage was built by North American Rockwell Aviation at Seal Beach, California and featured five Rocketdyne J-2 engines, also arranged in a quincunx. The S-II was in fact the last of the three Saturn V stages to be designed and had to be particularly light but strong. Weight saving techniques included the fuel and oxidant tanks of the S-1C being replaced by a monocoque tank structure in which the base of the bottom of the hydrogen tank was also the top of the oxygen holder. The two chemicals were separated by a bulkhead formed of two aluminium sheets separated by a honeycomb structure made of phenolic resin. This honeycomb construction – and the use of phenolic resin – had been previously been used by the Bristol Aeroplane Company and the bulkhead – which had to withstand a temperature difference of 70 degrees centigrade between the two tanks – saved 3.6 tonnes compared to more orthodox techniques.
The third – S-IV – stage was built by Douglas Aircraft at Huntingdon Beach, also in California, and was powered by a single Rocketdyne J-2. The S-IV stage engine also had – uniquely among liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen rockets – to be able to shut down and then re start in Earth orbit to allow its payload of Lunar, Command and Service Module to perform Trans Lunar Injection. This was achieved by using the Auxiliary Propulsion System units – mounted on the after end of Stage S-IV for attitude control during the orbit and TLI phases of the flight – to pressurise the remaining oxygen and hydrogen in the tanks so that they would flow to the combustion chamber and re-ignite on command.
Each stage had its own Propellant Dispersal System which could be remotely triggered by Cape Canaveral's Range Safety Officer to destroy the rocket if it veered off course and threatened to harm life or property.
On top of Stage S-IV was the ring shaped Instrument Unit, built by IBM and assembled at the Space Systems centre at Huntsville and designed to control the Saturn V's internal guidance, navigation and control and emergency range safety systems, electrical power, communications and environmental controls. This featured an early digital computer – one area in which the USSR lagged behind the USA -for flight system control and was a great advance on the one electrically powered gyroscope used to do the same job on the V2.
Finally, above the five ton Apollo Command Module, was the tower of the Launch Escape System which could have pulled the three astronauts clear of any launch pad explosion. This had a greater sea level thrust than the Redstone rocket which had powered Alan Shepherd -the first American in space in his Mercury spacecraft – on his sub orbital flight in 1961. On each Apollo Moon flight, the Launch Escape System was jettisoned after the S-1C stage and its interstage ring separated from the S-II stage.
Of the three stages, only the Douglas built S-IV was small and light enough to be flown to Cape Canaveral, Florida in special Guppy aircraft, the other two larger items having to arrive by sea. The S-IIs were shipped from California by way of the Panama Canal, the S-1Cs came down the Mississippi River and round the tip of Florida and each Saturn V "stack" was put together vertically at the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) three miles from the launch pad. The VAB could handle up to three stacks at a time and each Saturn V would leave mounted on a Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP) complete with Launch Umbilical Tower (LUT) aboard a giant Crawler Transporter. Built by the Marion Power Shovel Company and fitted with very accurate self-levelling suspension above four double tracked treads, each Crawler Transporter would then take the Saturn V, MLP and LUT on a causeway across the Banana River and leave it on the appropriate pad for final tests and fuelling.
In contrast, the R-7 (underside seen left) was assembled horizontally and moved to the launch site – over a pit at Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazhakstan – on a railway mounted cradle prior to erection.
First launched on 9 November 1967 and last launched on 14 May 1973, thirteen of the fifteen Saturn V vehicles built were sent into space at a cost per launch of $ 1.5 billion at 1966 prices ($ 16.8 billion in today's money) or almost ten times the cost of the 1940s Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb.
Boeing's 138′ long Stage IC worked for 161 seconds (2.7 minutes), burning 15 tons of fuel and oxidant a second and taking the whole rocket to an altitude of 38 miles and a speed of 6 000 miles per hour. This involved clearing the launch tower in twelve seconds and breaking the speed of sound in one minute at an altitude of over three miles.
To operate the turbo pumps – visible on the side of each F-1 engine bell – feeding fuel and oxidant to the combustion chambers of the five engines, the secondary Open Cycle Gas Generator rocket engine had to produce 55 000 shaft horsepower – more than 16 Deltic diesel locomotives. Within the quincunx, the centre engine was fixed while the other four could be gimballed to steer the rocket.
At this point explosive bolts and a set of eight retro rockets would have fired to separate it and its interstage ring from the S-II stage which would then have fired its engines for 390 seconds (six minutes), yielding 1 125 000 lb of thrust by way of an invisible exhaust to take the combined second and third stages and Apollo spacecraft to an altitude of 118 miles and a speed of 14 000 mph.
This sequencing of rocket stages relied on all components working precisely one after another in contrast to the Soviet R-7 rocket which had launched the first Sputnik in 1957. Both the central core engines of this launcher and those on the four strap-on boosters were ignited at launch, the boosters falling away during the ascent and only one further stage being fired at altitude to take the satellite into parking orbit.
Back on the soaring Saturn V, the S-IV stage would have taken over from the discarded S-II, firing its single J-2 engine first for a 2 minute 30 second orbital insertion burn and then – after a period of coasting in orbit – a six minute Trans Lunar Injection burn to take the spacecraft modules away from the gravity of the Earth and towards the influence of the Moon. Once the Command and Service Module (CSM) had extracted the Lunar Module from the S-IV and moved ahead of it, the third stage was then commanded to fly on a different trajectory to avoid collision.
This was either ultimately into orbit around the Sun or, on later Apollo missions, a collision course with the Moon – away from the selected LEM landing area so that seismographs set up by previous crews could detect the resulting "Moonquakes". On 3 September 2002, astronomer Bill Yeung discovered a suspected asteroid, which was given the discovery designation J002E3. It appeared to be in orbit around the Earth, and was soon discovered from spectral analysis to be covered in white titanium dioxide, which was a major constituent of the paint used on the Saturn V. Calculation of orbital parameters led to tentative identification as being the Apollo 12 S-IVB stage. Mission controllers had planned to send Apollo 12's S-IVB into solar orbit after separating from the Apollo spacecraft, but it is believed the burn lasted too long, and hence did not send it close enough to the Moon, remaining in a barely stable orbit around the Earth and Moon. In 1971, through a series of gravitational perturbations, it is believed to have entered in a solar orbit and then returned into weakly captured Earth orbit 31 years later. It left Earth orbit again in June 2003.
Although available thrust decreased with the deployment of each stage during ascent, efficiency of the Saturn V rocket engines increased as each stage boosted the remaining components to a higher speed above the drag of Earth's atmosphere and with an ever lightening load as propellants burned off.
The final Saturn V launch was the only one not connected with the Moon landing programme and featured just S-1C and S-II stages launching the orbiting space station Skylab, built from a smaller Saturn 1B second stage. On this occasion the S-II stage was modified to finally insert Skylab into orbit and then vent its propellant into space, making it more inert as a piece of space junk until it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere in 1975.
With NASA's 1966 budget representing 0.5% of America's GDP, sheer cost prevented more Saturn Vs being built and the concept being developed into even more powerful rockets that could have launched a re-usable winged Space Shuttle, sent large probes rapidly to other planets, built space stations in just a few launches and even deployed a nuclear engined third stage in orbit. As it is, with the Space Shuttle now retired, America's latest heavy lift rocket project is the Space Launch System. This uses a mixture of liquid fuelled Space Shuttle Main Engines and solid boosters which are less controllable once lit and can -as was proved with the Challenger disaster – prove vulnerable to pre-launch frost damage.
However, it may be that the lower – and perhaps even upper – stages of future vertically launched cylindrical step rockets will be landed back on Earth in a controlled manner for further use. This concept has been tested by the SpaceX Corporation on the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket which deploys four baffle-like steering wings at the top of its casing when it has separated from the upper stages of the rest of the launch vehicle. Despite promising solo tests at a land launch site – recorded on video above – the first stage of the Falcon 9 deployed on 10 January 2015 to send supplies to the International Space Station did not quite land correctly on the intended 300′ long drone barge off the coast of north east Florida. As a result, although the six ISS astronauts received the groceries they had been expecting since the autumn of 2014 – when another SpaceX rocket blew up at Wallops Island, Virginia – SpaceX founder Elon Musk was forced to conclude that his booster had landed too hard and that he would have to "piece it together with telemetry and …actual pieces. The ownership of the cattle in the video and the effect on them of witnessing a powered rocket landing has yet to be discerned!
Of the Saturn V rockets currently on display, only the one at Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas, is made up entirely of stages that could have flown. The Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, example has a test vehicle as its S-1C and the Huntsville "stack" ( laid on its side like the aforementioned two) is made entirely of test components. Huntsville's US Space and Rocket Center also has an entirely replica Saturn V displayed vertically and there is an S1-C on display at Michoud, New Orleans and an S-IVB in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.


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Last week on SurvivorBlah, blah, blah - Shamars cornea revolted and got him pulled from the game and Laura gets voted out just because she is weak and useless at challenges. What were they thinking? What a stupid boot choice! /sarcasm font.Onto the episode! Persona Muy Grating
Onto the episode! Persona Muy Grating
GOTCHA! night 10
Everyone is congratulating themselves except for Sherri-not-SandraBullock (Come on, you had to see the resemblance too!) Matt (who I have now christened Gloin from LOTR) asks Sherri-not-Sandra if she is fine. She replies she is. (A note to the guys, when most women say they are fine, they really are not.)Sherri-not-Sandra is ticked they voted Laura off and went against their alliance of the weak. Since watching a self-emollition of a tribe is really boring, I am glad the rest are voting strategically. And why is she ticked? They flushed the idol and unless Reynold gets another (spoiler alert) they still have the numbers to pick him off at any time.Reynold makes lemonade out of lemons like no one I have seen. "Hey, the idol getting flushed out needlessly was actually a good thing! It caused bad boo-boo feelings among the other tribemates! " I wonder if Reynold is extremely optimistic or delusional. But I will not fault him for playing it much better to play it early than play it too late.
CUE OPENING CREDITS!Meanwhile, on Bickers, Brandon is starting continuing to unravel. I know he wants to be called Honey Badger, but with his obsession with peeing on/in everything in sight, he shall be known to me as Golden Shower Boy (GSB). He yammers about his family and offers to be voted out at tribal. And then he does a 180 and everything is sunshine and roses and unicorns farting out rainbows. I am not a psychiatrist, but I suspected the phrase Better life through chemistry would really help with Brandons manic tendencies. (Just a hunch!) As Corrine stated. Hes loco! Brandon then says "You are going to see the most intense Brandon youve seen thus far and its going to be awesome. Im freaking myself out, I dont know what Im going to do. Yes, Brandon, you are also freaking me out. Why do I get chills? Could this be foreshadowing? Stay tuned and find out!(And a horrible thought occurred to me. Brandon has reproduced. Which means we can look forward to more Hanz fun with his kids in the 43rd installment of Survivor.)Its time for reward and even though one member of the Qwerty viewing household is relieved it is not another damned puzzle (maybe that was Lauras forte), it means Gotcha! is screwed.Its a pretty simple set up. Two members from each tribe hold up nets via rope, really rough looking rope and members from the other tribe toss coconuts in the net until the load is so heavy the rope slides through the holders hands, macerating them until they look like raw hamburger. The winning tribe get booze, beef, generic (not Heinz) condiments and veggies.Gotcha! has Michael and Gloin and GSB while Captain Underpants man the nets for Bickers. Did you notice our boy Cochrane stepping up even when Phil was going to sit him out? *SNIFF!* I am so proud! (I was going to name Cochrane Tin Tin for the unnatural things that happened with the sweater vest last time he was on, but then I saw Devin Velez on American Idol)
Anyway, Captain Underpants throws jinxes at the Gotcha! throwers and surprisingly, it works. Maybe his training at Area 51 in alien mind control is paying off. Scary Sherrinot-Sandra and her eyelashes, once again prove they are useless in challenges. (Was her luxury item from home Covergirl maxilash?)Gotcha! loads up GBS and the rope slips through his hands. I really thought he was going to have his Incredible Hulk moment there. Gloin puts up a valiant effort and with blood vessels bursting left, right and center decides the aneurism isnt worth it and drops the rope.Captain Underpants outlasts Michael and against all odds Bickers wins reward. *eye roll*.
DAY 11Eddie is depressed, Michael comes up with the brilliant idea that they need to try something new. Heres an idea, how about winning?Almost everyone is scrambling to find the hidden immunity idol. Sherri-not-Sandra is ticked they voted Laura off and still lost so logically, it would have been the same if they had kept Laura and their alliance of the weak intact. Ummmm, really? I hate to point out to Sherri-not-Sandra that she also really sucks at challenges. Oh, and you laugh of the nicknames, but did you notice that CBS got Michael and Matt mixed up? Yes, Matt screams Event Planner to me.And despite everyone risking life and limb poking their hands in deep dark crevices, Reynold finds the idol again.To steal borrow from Kingfish.(Reynold, after finding the HI) This time Im not gonna tell nobody, no how, no way. Gonna zip the lip this time, aint gonna tell nobody. Nobody! None! Nada! Ninguno! Do you hear me? Nobody! Uh Uh! A big Nosiree to that! (Or words to that effect.)And since Laura is no longer there intently studying his crotch, he actually has a really good chance of keeping it hidden.Of course he runs over to tell his bud Eddie. I wonder what would happen if someone actually kept the hidden immunity idol, well--heres a radical thought, hidden.
CUE THE WEATHER!I guess it is rainy season, because it is raining so hard it looks like it is snowing. For a moment I thought is was snowing because here it is -18 C (about 0 F) and blowing snow for the last few days. At least Cochrane is not getting burnt to a crispy critter. Honestly, that kid is the only non-albino I know of that burns worse than I do.Anyway Brandons eyes are getting scary crazy (according to Andrea)when Phillip takes credit for the win and is generally just being Phillip and the tribe thinks its a great idea to let Brandon handle a knife.
GOTCHA! TribeWe get a very appetizing shot of Gotcha!s waterlogged feet, and I now have a new appetite suppressant image. Eddie informs us he has a head cold. Gloin wants his mommy! And invokes his dwarf gods by wishing something good for his tribe.
Bickers day 13Cue ominous music Brandon has now dissociated from reality and is referring himself in the 3rd person. (Remember when Melissa Rycroft was dumped by Jason on national TV and she slipped into 3rd person mode Melissa is not happy about this.. I am surprised Jason didnt find his car keyed or worse.) He is keeping his tenuous grip on the here and now by stabbing ants and giggling maniacally. Phillip starts to broach the subject to Andrea about throwing the challenge to get rid of Brandon (I guess it is not paranoia if someone really is out to get you!) and after another interaction between Underpants and GBS, the minor key music swells, and GBS decides the best way to punish Phillip is to dump the rice and beans. Leif - I mean Erik (and I finally figured out why I want to call Erik Leif check out this photo of Leif Garrett!) tries to intervene and save the rice, but quickly realizes that GSB is too far gone and slowly backs away. All is not lost as the rest try to salvage the rice and beans. At least GSB didnt ##### all over their food (that we know of). Maybe reward challenge will be a sieve to help shake out the sand.
On to Immunity Challenge.A very nice looking challenge area with blocks and staircases. Reynold (who proves he is inept at reading social cues) starts sucking up to Bickers by talking about the merge. Even if hes not the greatest at reading body language, the background music played by the Survivor Orchestra should have clued him in that something was going down.Jeff asked Brandon how he is doing (think Jiify was given a head's up?) and Brandon addresses the other tribe and begs them not to let Phillip win. ReynoldClueless asked where Brandon was going and Corrine speaks on behalf of the Bickers and forfeits the challenge to go to Tribal Council. Reynold starts to clue in as Brandon freaks at Corrine.Jeff, fulfilling his secret desires to be a psychologist, quickly removes Brandon from his tribe and keeps him within arms length. As Brandon rambles and berates Phillip (why do I get the impression Brandon was bullied as a child and an adult and this is really not about Phillip at all, annoying as he is?), Jeff goes from a single hand hold on Brandons neck and after unsuccessfully trying to execute the Vulcan nerve pinch holds Brandon back with two hands. After some neck massaging, Brandon submits to Jeffs authority (or as Brandon would pronounce it Arthurity). GSB explains to the other tribe that he dumped the rice and beans to make everything equal. A sort of if you cant have it, no one will. I am sure there is some way to blame this on Obamacare but I am too tired to try.Reynold proves what a knob he is by asking Jeff to let go of homicidal Brandon who has just threatened Phillips life to raise his arms and proclaim that Gotcha! has won immunity. *BOGGLE!*Dork!Jeff decides that they should have tribal council right then and there. Shock of shocks, Brandon gets the majority of the votes (except for his own which he loudly cast for PHILLIP!. Jeff informs him that he is not going back to camp and sends him to cool off behind the canvas. Hands up how many of you thought Brandon would make a final charge at Phillip? Me too. I hope Survivor gets really good group rates on therapy because it looks like the surviving Bickers are going to need it.Was it Reynold that said a win is a win? What a dipsh!t!Next week on Survivor, Phillip and Corrine face off the powers that be decided to exorcise the bad vibes on both teams by switching things up.
ASIDE: OK, I am pissed off! It seems the same psychological screening firm that Big Brother uses is now doing the casting for Survivor.Apparently, Brandon had gotten the all clear from the shows psychologist to compete. SIGH. I guess I should be grateful that he targeted Phillip rather than one of the females who (just because they are pre-menopausal) are flaunting their bodies and trying to tempt him down the path of darkness (Check this out! http://community.realitytvworld.com/boards/DCForumID1/4300.shtml Like was mentioned, family dinners are going to be awkward.). But hey, Phillip is uberannoying and Brandon had issues that maybe could not have been foreseen.But I do have an issue with the casting of Shamar. I cant believe I am defending Shamar DAMN YOU! MARK BURNETT!!!!, but come on! I dont have a degree in psychology but even I am not dense enough to think that casting an Iraq war vet with anger management/PTSD issues on a high stress reality TV show would be a swell idea. And just to add to the hilarity, lets throw in morbid obesity and a sudden severely restricted caloric intake. Nothing like mixing in hypoglycemia with its associated symptoms of fatigue, dizziness, unclear thinking and aggressiveness with someone who already has issues and is trained in violence. I guess the Gota tribe was lucky that Shamars lethargy made it hard for him to act out any homicidal tendencies.Dont get me wrong, I still think Shamar is messed up and an a$$hole, but I do get the symptoms of low blood sugar and I recognized some of what Shamar was going through. (Again DAMN YOU, MARK BURNETT!) I was shocked (and relieved) it was Shamars eye that got him booted from the game rather than a diabetic coma, a rage based rampage where someone else got hurt. Well, I ve rambled long enough, thanks for reading and Peace!
LAST EDITED ON 03-18-13 AT 12:25 PM (EST)When things are so bad that sweet little Qwertypie is moved to cuss, you know something is very rotten in Denmark. Or Canada. Very funny Q, you have a definite talent for this as you've demonstrated time and time again. I very much appreciated reading it. Thanks.To the Shwack shack with you!
When things are so bad that sweet little Qwertypie is moved to cuss, you know something is very rotten in Denmark. Or Canada.
Very funny Q, you have a definite talent for this as you've demonstrated time and time again. I very much appreciated reading it.
To the Shwack shack with you!
I love this. great job Q
>applause< Well done Qwerty and thanks for pointing out all the look alikes, it just gets weirder and weirder. Loved....Everyone is congratulating themselves except for Sherri-not-SandraBullock I knew she reminded me of someone but I just didn't care after a couple of minutes. (And a horrible thought occurred to me. Brandon has reproduced. Which means we can look forward to more Hanz fun with his kids in the 43rd installment of Survivor.)I have it on good authority that Burnett already bought the kids and is hand feeding them raw meat to insure a bloody good season.Leif - I mean Erik (and I finally figured out why I want to call Erik Leif Erik has got to be his love child from one of the groupies when he was a teen-idol.Bite Me
Everyone is congratulating themselves except for Sherri-not-SandraBullock I knew she reminded me of someone but I just didn't care after a couple of minutes.
(And a horrible thought occurred to me. Brandon has reproduced. Which means we can look forward to more Hanz fun with his kids in the 43rd installment of Survivor.)I have it on good authority that Burnett already bought the kids and is hand feeding them raw meat to insure a bloody good season.
Leif - I mean Erik (and I finally figured out why I want to call Erik Leif Erik has got to be his love child from one of the groupies when he was a teen-idol.
I'm sorry I didn't reply sooner. Great summary! I loved the twin idea. We use to have a thread that compared survivor look-a-likes. My favorite is Leif/Eric. Now I see Eric in his green, short shorts with a pair of roller skates. And I guess I need to throw in an ice cream cone. Thanks for that picture in my head. You know with all that has gone on, maybe the psychologist for the show was off the deep end, and Brandon, Shamar, Phillip, and ect seemed normal. Thats gotta be it.
You know with all that has gone on, maybe the psychologist for the show was off the deep end, and Brandon, Shamar, Phillip, and ect seemed normal. Thats gotta be it.


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Mageia 4 is nearly here, so we decided to look at Mageia 4 RC in preparation. It's always such a long time between each Mageia release that it causes genuine surprise when we come back to it for review. Often when using and reviewing distros, there's always some problem that comes with the better qualities. We either learn to work around them if it's a distro we're using day-to-day, or give up altogether. It's very rarely that we come across a distro that we find such a pleasure to use – something we're not looking for in any operating systems, let alone a Linux distro. However, Mageia is one of those distros we always find ourselves enjoying when we use it.
Admittedly, enjoyment on a level such as this is extremely subjective. Mageia is very considerate of the user. Modifications and additions to the desktops and the default software are all done to make using the distro more convenient. While Linux is and always has been about choice, Mageia does a great job of revealing these choices to the user upfront. This all starts with the installation.
Choose your ISO
There's a lot of choice before you even start installing Mageia, with multiple disc images to choose from. There's the standard selection of desktop environment specific ISOs, ranging from KDE and LXDE to newcomers Cinnamon and MATE. If you have one of these desktops in mind for your PC and plan to do your own special modifications post install, then you won't need to look much further. Otherwise, if you want to see what Mageia has to offer you can choose the complete DVD. This includes a number of changes you can make during install: selecting themed groups of packages, different desktop environments and even individual package selection.
Installation on any of the versions of Mageia has always been fairly flawless, and Mageia 4 is no different. It's quick, and does enough to guide through more novice users without being patronising for the veterans. The kind of extra options on the full DVD aren't offered with distros very often, so it's nice to see that as a way to install Mageia exactly as you wish.
Like magic
After installation is all finished you'll be greeted with one of the major new aesthetic additions to Mageia. MageiaWelcome is the new welcome screen for the distro that helps everyone get started with their freshly installed OS. With a few initial set-up options included in the screens that make up MageiaWelcome, it's useful for people new to Linux and veterans that want to get the initial wave of updates and app installation done quickly. It's informative, useful and just the kind of thing we're talking about when we say Mageia is considerate of its users.
The other major feature that helps Mageia maintain this level of user-friendliness is the excellent Mageia Control Centre. Everything you need to control or modify Mageia is kept in here: software installing, package updating, boot menu editing, hard drive partitioning, network configuring and so much more. It's neatly labelled with tabs that allow you to jump exactly where you need to go. Each tab itself contains only a few options so that you're not constantly scrolling up and down to find the setting you wish to use.
Using the rest of Mageia is as easy as you'd want it to be. The only problem that you might encounter is that installing with a DVD means you'll need to update the software sources to only search online repositories when installing software. This has been a problem since the very beginning for Mageia, although is now only limited to the DVD version. At the very least you can perform the first major update without needing to worry about it.
Desktop choice
The implementations of the new desktops are done well, better than they were throughout the beta. The Mageia theme has been properly applied to Cinnamon and MATE, making them familiar to those that use the desktops otherwise. The login manager to get between them could be a little better though, however it's functional and not something you'll be seeing very often.
So overall, there is a lot to like about Mageia. Mageia 3 signalled the maturation of the project, making it a perfectly viable distro with no major problems to make you consider otherwise. This fourth version takes that one step further, stabilising the code just that bit more and adding the very useful MageiaWelcome.
Mageia truly is a distro we should be using a lot more often.
Very much the distro to beat, Mageia has come a long way in the last few years to be one of the best versions of Linux available. The new additions make it even better for novices and veterans alike


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