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mattrob wrote:That seems reasonable. If the abstract class contains only abstract methods, then you might consider making it an interface instead.
First, is there any guideline as to making multiple categories of a particular type of object? For example, creating many species of dog, or many types of enemies. Is it best to make an abstract base class (dog) and make a subclass for each category (species in this case)? Or is there a better way?
Also, what is the best way to handle an event like a battle or a race?Depends on what you're doing, and how this fits into your head.
Should it be an object?Could be. Then you could pass the event into a handler function that performs the appropriate animations and whatnot. Or you could have a method like dog.playFrisbeeWith(Person p). Depends on your actual requirements and how this fits into your head.
If so, would it be better to have a base class? Like an abstract class Competition and subclasses Race, Frisbee, etc.?If they all have common code, then sure.
Or should methods be built into the code for a JPanel object?What? Why JPanel?
Or a competition interface?If they all have similar methods but all implement them differently, then sure.
If there's already a tutorial on this somewhere, please let me know.I'm sure there are a ton of tutorials on basic game design. Your questions aren't really Java-specific, so maybe you should broaden your search criteria?
mattrob wrote:Welcome to the world of development. You are running into the main problem here: experience or lack thereof. There is no "one ring to rule them all"; every application is different, has different problems and thus has different solutions. The hardest part in programming is to FIND a solution that actually works. That requires thought, planning and designing, and the occasional mistake or two.
First, is there any guideline as to making multiple categories of a particular type of object? For example, creating many species of dog, or many types of enemies. Is it best to make an abstract base class (dog) and make a subclass for each category (species in this case)? Or is there a better way?
If there's already a tutorial on this somewhere, please let me know. As I said, I'm new, but I catch on quick. ThanksThere are MANY resources on game development out there; its can be pretty daunting to start out so I would seriously stress that you start with the simplest game you can think of. Create pong, create a memory game, create Tetris, whatever, but make it incredibly simple and build from there.
cronosprime1 wrote:Yep, I have something similar. Only I call it 'GameEntity' :) I guess most games will have the 'entity' structure, classes for the game loop, classes to maintain game world state (I tend to go for GameWorld and GameLevel) and many more. In most games I split animating entities and static entities from each other, for optimization reasons (static entities don't update for one).
I've found that in pretty much every game I've made or tried to make, it was useful to have a VisualThing class, an abstract class extended by every type of visual entity.
One thing that I've learned the hard way was that it's really best to make the whole game single threaded, if possible.I agree. Writing bug-free non-threaded code is hard enough. Writing bug-free threaded code is extremely difficult. However, sometimes there's no choice if you're using complex networking and the like.
I completely disagree with the avoid threading comment. I mean, if your game has zero animations and is small, then sure I can agree you should not add the extra complexity of threads. But if your game does any animations at all, and those animations are not threaded, your game sucks, period. Chet Haase and Romain Guy, two of the bigest names in computer animation programming (especially in Java) agree with me.Complete and utter nonsense. It makes absolutely no difference if you play animations using threads or sequentially in a single thread - whatever happens they need to be synced to a steady framerate for your game to "not suck". Either way, it can be done with exactly the same result and I dare say the single threaded approach is quite an amount easier, if only you know how - which you don't seem too, judging by your post.
That way user input would be checked for every frame. One check per frame is a pretty responsive application if the app is running at 20-30 fps.
method executeEveryFrame (timeSinceLastFrame)
advanceAnimation1 (timeSinceLastFrame)
advanceAnimation2 (timeSinceLastFrame)
checkEventQueueForUserInput ()
if you aren't using swingCan't vouch for Swing; I've never used it.
don't care at all about realistic timingI don't understand what you mean by that and why you think unthreaded code can't provide "realistic timing"
don't mind having all your animations tied to the framerait of the slowest animationThis problem can be solved by logic to the effect of:
if (animationInstance.timeSinceLastDraw > animationInstance.timeBetweenFrames)
animationInstance.timeSinceLastDraw = 0.0
animation.timeSinceLastDraw += timeSinceLastFrame
always plan to have the same animations going at once and with exactly the same number of framesYou could definitely have a list of animations to run every frame which you add to and remove from.
and either plan on enforcing beefy minimum requirements or seriously limit the number of animations you plan to run at onceWell, yes, at some point, your requirements get so heavy that you need more than one processor, in which case I agree threads are necessary. For high-performance apps, it does make sense to use threads for animation to allow the user maximum use of his or her system's resources.
Seriously, there are so many tools for threads it is so easy to use them, I can't understand why so many people are so insistant on avoiding them like the plague.According to Guido Van Rossum, creator of Python, "unfortunately, for most mortals, thread programming is just Too Hard to get right.... Even in Python -- every time someone gets into serious thread programming, they send me tons of bug reports, and half of them are subtle bugs in the Python interpreter, half of them are subtle problems in their own understanding of the consequences of multiple threads...."


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Kanina Crosen, nurse practitioner with the Oxford Adult Care and Weight Loss Center, said diabetes is very prevalent in Calhoun County. Crosen agreed that the disease can be quite costly.
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WARNING! It is imperative that I mention this serious safety hazard at the beginning of my review. The freezer handle on this Sears Kenmore refrigerator, model number: 68892 (253-68892014) is a dangerous safety hazard. The freezer handle extends to the bottom of the freezer door and the bottom part juts too far out, way too far out. Whenever a person puts his or her head in the refrigerator compartment to retrieve an item, when you are lifting your head from the refrigerator compartment, you may, can, and will bust, crack or hit you head on the ?sharp? bottom part of the freezer handle! I busted my head on the bottom part of the freezer handle as I described it above. I received a big gash on my fore-head and the blood streamed out and I cursed and had a little head ache. It was serious enough for me to go to the emergency room. This is a serious product design. I reported this to the Sears customer service representative. 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To open the freezer, I place my fingers straight up above where the handle used to be, right on the corner, and pull. Works like a champ! Or you can grab the top of the freezer door in any position in that track that runs behind the top of the freezer door. You can leave the retaining screw in place. That?s what I did. Or you can take it out and have a hole to look at. You can place your doctor appointments, post-it-notes or some other reminder over the screw and you?ll have a good looking bulletin board! Now, to finish my review. I purchased my refrigerator on March 5, 2014. This refrigerator is nice looking with a smooth texture. It looks nice in the kitchen. I looked at about 10 at Sears and then went to an appliance store. This model was the best, I think, of all the ones that I looked at, including the $2,000 - $3,500 dollars ones. I like the see through glass shelves. They slide out so you can more easily reach items in the back. You can move the shelves up or down to make the kind of space you desire between the shelves. The door racks are a blessing! Nice and wide. Runs the length of the door. I like ?em better than individual bins. The door racks will hold jugs, jars, bottles and gallons. You can just reach in there and grab what you want without hindrances The freezer compartment has an adjustable shelf so you can place food on and under the shelf. Very convenient. The freezer is also self-defrosting. The Crispers bins that hold the fruits and vegetables are not full size. They are kind of slanted in the back, towards the middle and cuts off half of the bins. The back part looks like the end of a ski slope. The Crispers are made that way because the compressor is on the bottom of the refrigerator taking up space were a full size Crisper could fit nicely. The light bulb is in the middle of the refrigerator, above the top shelf. The bulb is ?naked?. No shield to protect it. Please be careful when moving items around so you won?t break the bulb. Or lower the shelf if you want more space. The refrigerator has good lighting. You can see what you?re looking for. The deli drawer is affixed to the top shelf. You can reach in and get your bologna and hot dogs but the drawer can?t be taken all the way out. Well, it can come out if you struggle, press and lift. I think it?s made not to be taken out. I did not want the ice maker, water dispenser and a lot of fancy stuff. ?The simple, the better?. This refrigerator will do what the top of the line refrigerators did back in the 60?s, 70?s and 80?s. Keep your food and produce cold. This refrigerator has rollers, (wheels) that make it easy to pull out and clean behind it. It was amazing, I kinda pulled on it and it rolled out like toilet paper. The refrigerator was kind of loud the first day when I plugged it in, but after a day of running, I think, after it makes it adjustments, the sounds will stabilize and it will be hardly noticeable at times. I timed it for 2 weeks. It turns on and off periodically for cooling and defrosting. Summary: All in all, this is an excellent refrigerator. Excellent price too. The price will fluctuate on sale anywhere from $68.00 to $150.00 within a few days as compared to in-store and Sears?s web site. I purchased mine in-store and the next day when I looked at my delivery schedule, the price was $68.00 dollars less. I went to Sears and the clerk adjusted my purchase price to match the Sears web site and credited me with $68.00. That made it worthwhile to me to purchase this refrigerator. If you are planning on buying a refrigerator, take a look at this one. BYE!
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I was in the market for a 2nd refrigerator as mine was from the 1970's and went into the store with knowing what I wanted, or so I thought. I then saw this model and knew this was it. I liked tha glass shelves in the event of a spill, it wouldn't run down to the bottom of the appliance. I am very happy with it all the way aroud. AS I host the hoidays for the entire family, it is important to me to have an extra refrigrator and this serves that purpose well. It would be perfet for an appartment or for some one just starting out.
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Bought this refrigerator for Grandma since she really needed a new one & couldn't afford it. After much research we got this Kenmore. Grandma's old one was a Kenmore so she was happy. Height was a big factor, had to be white, & top freezer. There were only (3) to choose from. They all seem so cheaply made nowadays. Eliminate the one with wire shelves, & where's the deli drawer??? That left one model... the most expensive one. Free delivery. She had it in two days. It runs nice & quiet. I like the rounded edges on the door. Grandma misses the light in the freezer, (& nickel ice cream cones, but so be it).
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This refrigerator keeps temp well, runs well and looks good. My only complaint is that it is kind of loud (much louder than the 15 year old frig I replaced it with).
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I was initially excited for this fridge because it had virtually every feature I wanted for the best price. However, my online shopping experience was poor and the quality comes closer to reflecting a reconditioned model at $400 rather than an $800 unit direct out of the box. Unlike other reviews, the noise does not bother me. It is relatively quiet although it does make some noises I am not accustomed to. The construction is very poor. Both sides are rippled, the inside is indented, and the piece of sheet metal on the bottom of the unit in the back is installed with an insufficient number of screws, so portions are pulling away from the unit. These are all things I could easily ignore, if it were not for the fact that the light in the fridge does not turn off. The assembly that holds the light and temperature control was installed too far from the door. It made no difference that I appropriatly leveled it. The assembly is designed to hug the contour of the interior, and there is an empty space showing it was not installed forward enough. So now my Energy Star fridge is running a 40 watt bulb 24/7. In addition, why is this unit ALWAYS on sale? I work in retail, and prices eventually go back to the EDLP, unless of course it is a scam to make you think you are getting a unit worth $800. And why are sale start and end dates not referenced anywhere on the product page online? Every other retailer I shopped supplied this information next to the current pricing. I got frustrated with the lack of this information, and the price changing at least 4 times in a 5 day period. This company's practices are questionable at best, which is unfortunate for the employees who were the one bright spot in my buying experience. My first real experience with Sears is definetly my last.
Framingham, MA
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Port Hueneme, CA
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My wife & I bought one of these, had to return it due to a bad door seal. The replacement was a little better, but the freezer temp varied 20 degrees, not good! We then switched to a frigidaire, much better. The customer service dept. is a joke!(if you have a problem, call the store, not c.s.) Sears: k-mart quality without the blue light specials!
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Quick History: Cane Furniture
It gets a bit tricky, because the material is called cane, the process is called caning, and the product is caned furniture. This must be differentiated from cane furniture, which is any furniture made from rattan (we will look at rattan and wicker furniture in next week's Retrospect column).
Cane strips have been used in weaving objects since ancient times, originating as basket material and evolving into furniture. A woven cane bed was buried in Tutankhamun's tomb in 1323 BC, and a cane coffin holding a Moche princess was buried in Peru around AD 750. Cane was used all over Asia and Africa throughout history, woven on objects like Tibetan shields from the 14th-16th centuries AD (image 2).
Caned furniture first appeared in Holland, England and France around the 1660s, thanks to bustling trade with Asia. Caning was typically used for the seats and backs of wooden chairs (images 4 & 5). According to one vintage source, caned chairs were popular because of "their Durable, Lightness, and Cleanness from Dust, Worms and Moths," a reminder of how interiors at the time were itchy germ traps. Caned chairs were not only hygienic and airy, but also lighter weight than solid wood, and less formal than the typical seats heavily upholstered with silk or tapestry. Local cane manufacturers sprang up in Europe, and the style remained popular through the 18th century. In the late 1780s, Marie-Antoinette performed her daily toilette (hairstyling and makeup application) at the Petit Trianon while sitting in a lightly-covered caned chair made by Georges Jacob (image 6).
In the 19th century, caned furniture became associated mainly with Dutch and English colonial furniture, because these countries had colonies in places like Indonesia and India where rattan was easily accessed and where the technique may had a long history (image 7). This colonial aesthetic spread across the globe to other European colonies as well; caned furniture made sense in tropical climes because, unlike solid woods, it would not warp or crack from heat or humidity.
Caning became the typical seat material of the cafe chair in the mid-19th century thanks to Thonet, whose No. 14 chair from 1859 revolutionized the furniture industry (image 8). The simple caned seat contributed to the chair's extraordinary lightness, which meant that it was less expensive to produce and transport. Twentieth century designers like Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier also admired the chair for its sense of hygiene, and how it contrasted with the heavy old-fashioned upholstery that was in style at the turn of the century. Of the era's domestic interior, Le Corbusier famously said, "The machine we live in is an old coach filled with tuberculosis." The caned Thonet chairs he placed in his radical interiors were, like the caned chairs of the 17th century, a healthful and modern alternative.
Despite this Modernist endorsement, in the 20th century caned furniture is typically designed in imitation of either colonial styles (image 9) or of 18th century styles (image 10).
Next week, we will explore other types of rattan furniture, and discuss the difference between rattan and wicker.
Images: 1 The Residence, Mauritius, via onlyexclusivetravel; 2 Tibetan shield (14th-16th c.) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; 3 Diagonal weaving diagram via Former Glory; 4 Dutch cane chair (1680) from the Getty Museum; 5 English cane couch (1690-1710) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; 6 Marie-Antoinette's caned toilette chair by Georges Jacob (1787), from the Getty; 7 Anglo Raj chair from the late 19th century, via 1st dibs; 8 Thonet chair, via Trifora; 9 Wisteria; 10 Horchow.
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i've alway loved the thonet chairs, which are featured prominently in all the viennese cafes, esp. those that were popular in the 19th century such as cafe central, cafe griensteidl, cafe sacher, etc. these chairs are very much a part of the imperialistic/modern culture of turn of the century vienna & the hapsburg empire. another great historical post!
In really hot areas of central america, people sleep on cane beds (kinda like the couch in #5 but not so fancy). they are great because they allow air circulation under the bed while you sleep, rather than a hot mattress.
My family has a history of repairing caning. My grandfather was paralyzed when he was quite young, and he took up doing skilled repair work for a living (he recaned seats, rewove holes in suits, things like that). He taught my mom, and recently my roommate's possession of two broken caned chairs gave her an opportunity to teach me. I took them home over Christmas, and recaned them as my Christmas present to my roommate. By working next to my mom we finished both of them in three days. Roomie and I now have two really nice kitchen chairs and I got some solid bonding time with my mom.
It's not as difficult as people think it is, but after three days your hands do hurt. And boy, does it take time! It makes sense that recaners charge a standard $1.50 a hole. Now I'm on the lookout for real (perferably broken) caned furniture, because as long as it has the holes I can fix it, and you can sometimes get a pretty good deal from folks who don't want to take the time to find a recaner / don't want to pay for the fix.


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Major road construction on DOT's drawing board drawing board for Clay County by David Lias South Dakota�s summer and highway construction seasons traditionally arrive at the same time.
This year, however, residents of Clay County and Vermillion are experiencing summer�s sweltering heat without having to drive through many highway detours caused by road projects.
Next year will be different, and Vermillion Mayor Bill Radigan wants to make sure that local government officials are aware of what the South Dakota Department of Transportation has in store for the region beginning with fiscal year 2000.
Radigan attended a meeting July 13 sponsored by SECOG and the South Dakota Department of Transportation in Sioux Falls. DOT plans for southeastern South Dakota were outlined at the meeting.
Radigan shared some of what he learned with the Vermillion City Council. He distributed papers that describe the highway projects scheduled for Clay County.
The state has scheduled 19 projects in the county from FY 2000 through FY 2004.
�My purpose in sending you this material is so that you will all be aware of the plans being made, and so that you can let any changes you would like to see in any of the projects be known to me and (City Engineer) Bill Welk,� Radigan stated in a memo to council members.
Welk, Radigan and other local officials attended a DOT hearing Tuesday, July 27 in Sioux Falls to share input with state officials.
�Some of these projects are not in Vermillion, but several will be and some that are not will have an impact on traffic around our city,� Radigan said.
FY 2000 projects
Fiscal year 2000 will mark the beginning of work on one of the most significant transportation projects in the Clay County area since Interstate 29 was built nearly four decades ago.
Construction is slated to begin on the Missouri River bridge between Vermillion and Newcastle, NE. The route involved will be SD Highway 19, and the work will include the building of bridges, approaches and surfacing. Cost of this project is $20.97 million.
A related project will be grading and asphalt concrete surfacing of a mile-long road from approximately a mile south of the Vermillion airport west to the new road that will take traffic to the Missouri River bridge. This project will cost $475,000.
SD Highway 50 is also scheduled to receive improvements along a 7.2 mile stretch of the road located from west of Vermillion to east of Vermillion. The pavement restoration project will cost $1.239 million.
Construction workers will travel to SD Highway 46 in FY 2000. A 10 mile stretch of the highway, from Yankton County east to SD Highway 19, will be resurfaced, and part of it will be receive curb and gutter. Workers will also re-grade a hill east of Irene and flatten slopes. This project will cost $1.817 million.
Structure and approach grading work will be completed in FY 2000 1.3 miles south of the junction of SD Highway 50 and SD Highway 19 on the southwest side of Vermillion at the old Dawson Bridge over the Vermillion River. This project will cost $375,000.
A railroad crossing on Dakota Street in Vermillion is also scheduled for rehabilitation. This project will cost $48,000.
FY 2001 projects
The five mile stretch of SD Highway 50 from Vermillion east to Interstate 29 is scheduled to undergo mill, overlay and grading work to lower a hill in fiscal year 2001. This project will cost $1.389 million.
Structure and approach grading work is schedule in FY 2001 at a bridge 2.2 miles south and 12 miles east of Irene over Ash Creek. Cost of the project is $213,000.
A similar project is scheduled at a bridge 6.7 miles south and 9 miles east of Irene over the Vermillion River. This project will cost $330,000.
FY 2002 projects
Nearly 12 miles of SD Highway 19, north of a point just south of SD Highway 50, will receive grading and interim surfacing during fiscal year 2002. Cost of this project is $5.817 million.
The rehabilitation of a bridge structure is also scheduled that fiscal year. The bridge is located three miles south and over five miles east of Irene over Spring Creek. The work will cost $165,000.
Structure and approach grading is planned at a bridge located one mile south and 14 miles east of Irene over Ash Creek. Cost of the project is $140,000.
FY 2003 projects
Major work is planned on SD Highway 19 during fiscal year 2003. A nine mile stretch of the road, from SD Highway 46 south, will receive grading and interim surfacing. This work will cost $4.562 million.
Nearly 12 miles of SD Highway 19, extending north from south of SD Highway 50 at Vermillion, will receive AC surfacing. This project will cost $2.317 million.
Six structures and approaches on SD Highway 19 bridges will be replaced during fiscal year 2003. The structures and approaches are located approximately nine miles, seven miles, four miles, two miles and one-tenth of mile south of SD Highway 46, over the Vermillion River, and creeks and drainage ditches. This work will cost $3.3 million.
Structure and approach grading work is also planned for a project in excess of a mile south and six miles east of Irene over a creek. This project will cost $140,000.
Another structure and approach grading project is scheduled approximately seven miles east and five miles south of Irene over Frog Creek, at a cost of $168,000.
FY 2004 projects
Several smaller projects are scheduled for completion in Clay County during fiscal year 2004.
AC surfacing will be applied to a nine mile stretch of SD Highway 19, from SD Highway 46 south. This project will cost $1.7 million.
Grading, base and mat work will be done on three-tenths of mile from upper Vermillion to Lower Vermillion, at a cost of $155,000.
Structure and approach grading work is scheduled one mile south and 10.8 miles east of Irene over a creek. Cost of this project is $145,000.
Similar work will take place over a creek 6.7 miles south and six miles east of Irene over a creek, at a cost of $145,000.
Structure and approach grading will also be completed over a creek 14.6 miles south and 12 miles east of Irene, and over a creek 5.5 miles south and 12 miles east of Irene. These two projects will cost $140,000 each.
Total state expenditures
The South Dakota Highway of Transportation is prepared to spend nearly $287 million on the state�s highway construction program in FY 2000. Two-thirds of those funds � approximately $190 million � will come from the federal government.
Almost $95 million, or 33 percent of the funds, will come from state government, and the remaining 1 percent, or $2.6 million approximately, will come from city and county governments.


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World Book Day[1] or World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days) is a yearly event on 23 April, organized by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright. In the United Kingdom, the day is instead recognised on the first Thursday in March.
World Book Day was celebrated for the first time on 23 April 1995.
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The connection between 23 April and books was first made in 1923 by booksellers in Spain as a way to honour the author Miguel de Cervantes who died on that day.[citation needed]
In 1995, UNESCO decided that the World Book and Copyright Day would be celebrated on this date the date is also the anniversary of the birth and death of William Shakespeare, the death of Miguel de Cervantes, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Josep Pla, and the birth of Maurice Druon, Manuel Mejía Vallejo and Halldór Laxness.
Although 24 April is often stated as the anniversary of the deaths of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, this is not strictly correct. Cervantes died on 23 April and was buried on 23 April according the Gregorian calendar; however, at this time England still used the Julian calendar. Whilst Shakespeare died on 23 April by the Julian calendar in use in his own country at the time, he actually died eleven days after Cervantes because of the discrepancy between the two date systems. The apparent correspondence of the two dates was a fortunate coincidence for UNESCO.
World Book Day by country[edit]
To celebrate this day Cervantes' Don Quixote is read during a two-day "readathon" and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize is presented by the King in Alcalá de Henares.
In Catalonia, Spain, since 1436, St. George's Day has been 'The Day of the Rose', where the exchange of gifts between sweethearts, loved ones and respected ones occurs. It is analogous to Valentine's Day. Although the World Book and Copyright Day has only been celebrated since 1995 internationally, books were exchanged on 'The Day of the Rose' in Catalonia since at least the year 1926 in memory of Cervantes.
In Sweden, the day is known as Världsbokdagen (World Book Day), and the copyright part is seldom mentioned. Normally celebrated on April 23, it was moved to avoid a clash with Easter to April 13 in the year 2000[2] and 2011.[3]
United Kingdom[edit]
In the United Kingdom, World Book Day is held annually on the first Thursday in March, to avoid the established international 23 April date due to clashes with Easter school holidays, and the fact that it is also the National Saint's Day of England, St George's Day.
See also[edit]
- International Children's Book Day
- World Intellectual Property Day
- Inventors' Day (by a country)
- List of World Book Day Books
- ^ "What is World Book Day?". Worldbookday.com. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
- ^ Världsbokdagen flyttas , Svensk Bokhandel, 22 October 1999
- ^ Världsbokdagen "flyttas", Dagens Nyheter, 11 November 2010.
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It doesn't deserve a star – I went here once and will NEVER be back. If the dining room is any indication to how their kitchen is it'll make you turn around and walk out. The only thing this restaurant has going for it is that it was in a TV show. They're hanging onto that with all they have. The food is terrible to boot. Don't waste your $$$ here.
Capitalizing on Twin Peaks Fame – Service was ok, environment close to outlet mall, food was low-middle but WAY too much.
Wouldn't return.
endless home cut fries, huge portions, friendly staff and darn fine pie and coffee. – A great place to meet with friends, pie and coffee or super sized omettes, hang out on Tuesday night jam sessions. Often a very busy place (the first sign of good food, friendly service, generous portions) Right on the corner, it is filled with Twin Peaks memorabilia, and tweety birds everywhere. Great family atmosphere. If you have to wait a second or two for your food, they provide interesting and humorous literature at every booth for your amusement. even an old-time pac man and pinball machine!
Twede's cafe is a great small town gem, not stuffy or snooty, it's down home and comfy.
Avoid Eating Here. Extremely Dirty!!!!! If The Bathrooms Are Dirty I Can Only Imagine The Kitchen Is Too.
a real disappointment .... – Slow service and possibly the dirtiest place I've eaten since I was a starving student. I would be scared to see the kitchen.
best hashbrowns, great waitress and fast service – My husband and I ate at Twede's Restaurant yesterday, June 24, 2008. We were looking for a down home place to eat after visiting family in Seattle and Twede's in North Bend, Washington was a good choice. The waitress was friendly and food was excellent. The hashbrown potatoes were crispy and tasty and the biscuit was huge. The atmosphere was pleasant. We visited Twin Falls trail in the nearby forest afterwards...our memories of the area was a great stop off I-90.
Don't stop here – Ugh. Won't be going to this place again. Took my kids there this morning for Saturday breakfast and was very disappointed. We live in a nearby town and from the outside it looked like a good old fashioned diner. We love roadside diners and find some little dives like this are real gems. Not this place though. The cafe is cute and rather kitchy and attractive for kids but the floor was absolutely filthy -- which made me wonder about the kitchen. Not daily dirt and mud that we all track in. This was true grime in need of several buckets of Pine Sol.
The service was okay. Polite waitress (we tipped her accordingly). Fairly speedy considering the place was somewhat busy. They all seemed like friendly enough folks. Just don't eat anything.
We ordered a cinammon roll to share and all agreed it was the worst we'd ever had. I'm not sure what the dough was, but it wasn't anything I recognized. The plain waffle (vs the strawberry) was indeed absolutely plain. A 6"'ish waffle hucked on a plate for $6. Eggs, bacon etc are ordered separately. The waffle was bland and cardboard-like. Kids said the same thing about their pancakes and ate only a small part of them. It's as though someone had added Crisco or something into the batter. All in all we left a bit grossed-out by our breakfast.
I'd actually give them a star and a half because the waitress was fast and they did do a cute job with the presentation of the kids food. Milk and hot cocoa (which was good) arrived in plastic-lidded cups with a cute dab of whipped cream and sprinkles on TOP of the cup. And the pancakes arrived with a little circle of chocolate chips on them. Very cute. But the food itself was bad. Perhaps the egg dishes that were on other tables were better but even the kids agreed we shouldn't go back to find out.
The Home of Poor Service and Bad Breakfast – My husband and I wanted a good country breakfast with generous servings and a home-made taste. We certainly didn't find it at Twede's. The establishment is dirty, all of the surfaces have a tacky feel to them. The service was poor, we waited, and waited, for our food to come, and we didn't get what we ordered when it did come. The food was bad. I have never had a worse "biscuit" in my life. I was given a square shaped cut out of something between a stale scone and wonder bread with absolutely no flakey buttery anything. The prices were exceptionally high for what we received. Our conclusion, they're living off of the tourist appeal from Twin Peaks fans who want some Cherry Pie.
Stay away! – This was a very disappointing experience. My friends and I were hungry after cross-country skiing and hoped for a friendly and tasty local cafe. We found poor to no service, bad food and unwarranted prices like $7 onion rings. The coconut cream pie seemed to be made of a combination of crisco and wax and was unedible. I wasn't looking for anything fancy and I have problem with greasy food, but I believe coffee and water should be refilled and greasy food should taste good. The worst part was the prices, I pay only a little more in Seattle for much better quality. I recommend avoiding this place.
Twin Peaks' ties and excellent diner food keep Twede's bustling – The Scene
Twede's has staked its claim to fame on David Lynch's television show Twin Peaks, which used the location as a backdrop for its Twin Peaks Cafe. Tourists soak up the quirky, diner atmosphere, complete with blue vinyl booths, linoleum floors, neon signs and Tweety Bird figures, but the local crowd, dressed in jeans and flannel shirts, make an appearance as well. Servers, coffee pot in hand, aren't above calling customers "hon" or "sweetie," as they push the cafe's cherry pie.
The Food
The food is good and the servings are huge. Most breakfasts, including omelets and bacon and eggs, are served with gut-busting servings of crisp hash browns. The Denver mix, buttery cubed potatoes, diced ham, onions, green pepper, scrambled eggs and cheddar cheese, is a gooey, wonderful mess of food that could easily feed four. The cherry pie, with flaky, homemade crust, is decent, but not outstanding.
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Global Range: (20,000-200,000 square km (about 8000-80,000 square miles)) Range includes the Rio Grande watershed of Texas and northeastern Mexico from Brownsville northward to Brewster County, Texas (Bailey et al. 2005), and the Pecos River drainage of northwestern Texas (Culberson, Reeves, and Loving counties) and southeastern New Mexico, north to Brantley Reservoir (Ernst 1990, Degenhardt et al. 1996). Occurrences in Mexico are known from Coahuila, central Nuevo Leon, and northeastern Tamaulipas (Ernst 1990). In August 2007, Farr photographed individuals 0.5-4 km south of the river near Ciudad Miguel Alemán, Mexico, across from Roma, Texas (Bailey et al. 2008). Elevational range extends from sea level to around 1,100 meters (900-1,100 meters in New Mexico) (Degenhardt and Christiansen 1990, Degenhardt et al. 1996).
A 1998 record also exists for Menard County, Texas, about 170 km northeast of the nearest previously documented locality (Franklin and Reams 2001). This was an adult male found on the shoulder of a road, so additional study is needed to determine whether this record represents an established population or a translocated individual.
A specimen from "Blue Springs" in Eddy County, New Mexico, probably came from the Black River, a tributary of the Pecos River (Legler 1958).
Bailey et al. (2008) found P. gorzugi at low density and with a significant hiatus in the middle reaches of the Pecos River from the New Mexico border southward to the confluence with Independence Creek in Terrell County. Bailey et al. (2008) and W. Farr (Houston Zoo) were unable to locate individuals in the main channel of the Rio Grande south of Roma, Texas.
A sketchy record from the Bitter Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Chaves County, New Mexico (Bundy 1951), may be erroneous; Degenhardt et al. (1996) questioned the identification (no specimen is known to exist), and recent searches for the species there have been unsuccessful.
See Ernst and Lovich (2009) for a recent map of the known distribution.


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im not sure how far along i am right now but i cant wait to post belly pics. no use to now, im just plus sized so my tummy is a little big to begin with.
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I am starting a new business as a sole proprietor and am thinking about a 'Doing Business As (DBA)' name for it. My question is do towns/counties restrict the business name on the street signage to only DBA name or can it deviate from it?
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ecofer | Window Shopper | 4/1/2013 - 4:44 am
Ajay, you are free to advertise practically any name you wish on your store-front in America. This is a part of free speech. Mind that you do not infringe on another business' trade mark and of course don't offend your neighbors & potential customers. Here's a few great tips when considering names. This comment was edited to remove a link. Please review our Community Best Practices for more information about how best to participate in our online discussions. Thank you.
BuzGuy | Contributor | 6/1/2009 - 10:37 am
I'm not sure what type of business you're looking to start; but if it involves an actual shop\location you might want to consider an L.L.C. for the liability protection it has against your personal assets. Also, most counties require the proper name be used for a DBA since you're only allowed to do business under that registered name.
sbbarca | Contributor | 6/14/2009 - 9:26 pm
First of all, you should get information from your county or city on what the exact rules for signage are. That being said, it is unlikely because it would be burdensome on business owners to waste expensive and valuable space in placing the exact DBA on signage when they really need to use various trademarks or other information about the product. However, better check up before you waste thousands of dollars on signage you won't use.
CutCompCosts | Contributor | 6/3/2009 - 7:43 pm
You likely can file for another fictious name that you want to use. I have 3 different names I use for one of my corps.
LocationIsland | Creator | 6/2/2009 - 12:28 pm
Ajay, The quick answer is; No, they probably do not have to match. If you think of most franchises across the county...that McDonald's down the road, for instance; it may be owned by 'The Acme Burger Company, LLC' but it proudly displays the McDonalds trade dress and signage; It should be same with your business. Depending on the location of your business, your municipality may require you to file a 'DBA Statement' or 'Fictitious Name Statement' with them (mostly for consumer protection reasons) but it's usually a very simple & straight foward process. You pick a unique name, submit it to the city or town and, after it's advertised in a local paper, you're usually give the approval to use it. Of course, you should always consult with your own legal professionals for advice concerning your specific situation. I hope that helps and good luck in your new venture, - Tony
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