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Great location and servicePosted Oct 9, 2017
Great location, the staff is excelent, very concerned. Breakfast is great and rooms have everyting I needed.
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Cons: Better window sound proofing for the street noise for room on front side of hotel.
Location: nicely located close to restaurants, mini-marts, and transportation.
The Premium Double Room was great and very spacious, with an open room divider separating the bed area from the sofa and work desk area. And the bathroom was huge and very accommodating. Lots of good closet storage space too.
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Pros: Good place close to restaurants
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Location: Good restaurants, mall and places to see
it was ok, little too noisy, small bathroom. The breakfast was very poor,
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Ok ok.Posted Dec 11, 2016 on Hotels
Its a value for money hotel. Not many things to do. The breakfast of Cosmos 100 is much better than Cosmos 116
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Nice Hotel, missing AirConditioningPosted Dec 6, 2016
Pros: Front Desk service, cleanliness in rooms and lobby.
Cons: Better trained restaurant and bar staff. Add air conditioning in rooms.
Location: Location is acceptable. Plenty of restaurants nearby. A lot of traffic in the area during rush hour.
The hotel is very nice and well maintained. Rooms are clean and modern. The restaurant in the lobby is small but functional. Front desk staff are very well trained and provide great service. The restaurant staff is a bit inexperienced and service during breakfast is not as good as it should be. Overall I liked the hotel, the only real complaint I have is about the lack of air conditioning in the rooms. Yes, the temperature in Bogota at night is very nice and perfect for sleeping. However, to enjoy the nice temperature you must open your windows. If you have a room facing the street it is very noisy making it difficult to leave your windows open and get decent sleep. If you leave the windows closed the temperature is not as nice. Overall I like the hotel, it provides a good service at a nice price, but they should have thought about putting air conditioning in the rooms.
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Really small room. No expedia VIP benefitsPosted Sep 4, 2016
Really small room. No expedia VIP benefits as advertised.
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Centrally located near mall, restaurants, etcPosted Aug 5, 2016
Pros: The personnel working at the front desk, the parking lot, the restaurant and the maid services were excellent!!
Cons: Renovate the entire hotel. The shower water sink does not runoff constantly, the toilet sticks constantly and after repairs by a qualify technician.
Upon late arrival, at night, I was given a room in the 3rd floor. It was located near two big ventilators coming out of the hotel restaurant. It was loud and noisy. I spoke to the concierge and ask for an upgrade and paid extra. I moved to the 4th floor and the first night was OK. The following days at night time I can hear the water lines making so much noise that I contacted the front desk because it could be a water leak behind the walls. They told me the tenant next to mine room had left the water of the bathroom running constantly for almost 10 hours. Friday, Saturday and Sunday the noise was so horrible at early morning, and at one time the fire alarm was on for no reason at all. I believe the walls of the hotel rooms are very thin with little insulation and noises can be hear coming out of the hallway or the outside windows.

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I downloaded the Crux live cd and it loaded really fast! No GUI and it is very basic, but I like their concept of keeping it lean and clean. I thought about installing it to HD but was intimidated by the prospect of figuring out how to get my NIC working since I didn't see any Ethernet drivers. I started reading the How to's on their site but got bogged down with something else.
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An ethics complaint filed Wednesday against state Rep. Larry O'Neal, R-Warner Robins, will show the people of Georgia just how serious a joint committee of the state legislature is about policing lawmakers' conduct.
The complaint, filed by former Georgia Democratic Party researcher Edward Chapman, alleges that O'Neal, a friend of the governor who also has done some legal work for him, put the governor's interests above the interests of the state when he inserted some last-minute language into a 2005 bill. The amended House Bill 488 was made retroactive to 2004, thereby saving the governor an estimated $100,000 in capital gains taxes on a land deal. The bill became an issue in last year's gubernatorial election campaign, and Perdue has said he had no idea when he signed the bill that the tax benefit would accrue to him.
The nine-page complaint, with detailed footnotes, contends O'Neal's actions violated state law and showed a lack of integrity that has damaged the Georgia General Assembly as an institution.
Certainly, there are political motivations in Chapman's filing with the legislature's Joint Ethics Committee, a body created in a 2005 law. But Chapman's filing is far less political than a complaint made to the committee just a few weeks ago by outgoing state Democratic Party Chairman Bobby Kahn. In that complaint, Kahn alleged House Speaker Glenn Richardson, R-Hiram, had engaged in an "inappropriate relationship" with a female Atlanta Gas Light lobbyist, at the time the legislature was considering a bill which, had it passed, would have allowed the utility to pass on the cost of a $300 million pipeline to its customers.
A three-member panel of Joint Ethics Committee members opted not to have Kahn's complaint heard by the full committee. Sen. Eric Johnson, R-Savannah, the committee chairman, explained to Morris News Service just a few days ago that the committee "... cannot look into vague charges based on gossip and rumor ... ." That was a reasonable position to take, in that Kahn never really explained what he knew about the alleged relationship, how he knew it and how whatever he knew constituted a conflict of interest on Richardson's part.
The complaint against O'Neal is an entirely different matter. There's no vagueness in the language of House Bill 488. It's no rumor that the bill was rushed through the waning days of a General Assembly session, when legislators are dealing with a literal blizzard of bills. There are legitimate questions about whether O'Neal engaged in unethical conduct, using his position as a legislator to benefit a friend who just happens to be governor of this state.
Chapman's complaint is a practical, rather than prurient, exercise in determining whether the members of the Joint Ethics Committee have the character to do their jobs. The committee cannot brush these allegations aside without creating the unfortunate impression that it has absolutely no interest in ensuring that Georgians are represented by men and women worthy of holding a public trust.
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Chapter 10: Panzers
North of Poltava, Ukraine, October, 1941
They stayed awake all night, squinting west across the Psyol River to the invisible, continuous rumble of heavy vehicles. Some of the men prayed. Commissars and officers moved up and down the lines, inspecting and admonishing the soldiers to vigilance and readiness. "At the first sign of the Germans, we counterattack," they said.
Maurice doubted it.
That first sign came at dawn. As the sky greyed behind the Soviets, the early light picked out German tanks advancing along the roads, cautious yet swift.
Maurice's fingers tingled as the rising sun revealed columns of armoured vehicles and marching men, officers' staff cars and motorized cannons.
The lines stretched for miles. The German army moved in unison, fast, alert and fearless like a predator.
Two Panzers ventured onto a small wooden bridge. They weren't even fazed when the bridge collapsed under their weight. The water didn't reach over the tops of their treads. The drivers down-shifted and continued on.
An officer shouted to Maurice's right and anti-tank guns fired. Shells burst on the lead Panzer and flames erupted around the turret, but didn't damage the tank. Its machine gun fired and then its cannon barked. Maurice saw Red soldiers' bodies fling up out of destroyed trenches.
"Fire!" Andrei and Orest pulled their triggers and the kick-back of the rifles geysered dirt into the air. Damn, Maurice thought. If that doesn't draw the Germans' attention, nothing will.
The shells went wide.
Machine guns erupted from behind and a German armoured car carrying dozens of soldiers exploded, throwing bodies high into the air.
Maurice's men fired again, and this time one shell hit a tank front-on. The shell stuck, burned into the metal plate and burst, but did not penetrate the armour. The tank reversed gears and drew back from the riverbank. The Panzers halted on the west bank, waiting.
All at once, shells began falling behind the Soviet lines, bursting and burning among the men. The Germans had turned their heavy artillery guns on the Red Army.
"Down, boys," Maurice said, pulling his helmet as low as he could. It's hopeless. If a shell doesn't land in this trench and kill us all, it'll only be sheer luck.
Soviet guns answered, sporadic and uncoordinated. They were aimed generally westward, in contrast to the German shells, which seemed demonically guided to Red Army targets.
When the heavy fire relented, Maurice chanced a look over the trench. The German tanks were advancing again. Somewhere, a heavy anti-tank gun fired, hitting the lead Panzer square on. The explosion blew its treads off and it lurched sideways into the river, crippled, smoke pouring from its front plate.
But more Panzers splashed through the river. Behind them came soldiers, running from cover to cover, firing their fast submachine guns. As they climbed onto the near bank, some hit landmines and fell, crippled, but more Panzers drove around them.
To his right, eastward, came a deep rumble. Maurice saw hulking Soviet KV heavy tanks, looking twice as high as a man, crawled forward on their wide treads, firing cannons and machine guns.
Why are they moving so slowly, he wondered. He saw their tracks moving, churning the earth and sinking into it. They're too heavy for the soft ground. They were impervious to enemy fire unless it was point-blank on, but they were soon immobile. The Panzers just went around them.
"Pull back," Maurice yelled, and the boys picked up the guns and ammunition and ran, crouching low as they could to the next trench, where they joined several other odalenje. Maurice's boys hurriedly set up the guns and aimed at the Panzers.
They were too late.
The tanks swept past them, crushing wounded men under their treads. Andrei and Nikolai swung their gun around. "Aim at its back," Maurice said. "FIRE!"
The gun whooshed and the shell hit the Panzer's cylindrical fuel tank, oddly exposed on its rear deck behind the turret. The tank's rear end lifted high and Maurice thought it would flip over. Shards of metal flew in every direction and the tank's hull split and burned. The explosion rang in Maurice's ears for minutes.
"Let's get them, Lieutenant," Orest said. He stood to pick up the gun, and Viktor, his loader, looked at Maurice wide-eyed. "We killed one tank.
Let's get more of the bastards."
Big Eugene stood too, submachine gun at the ready. "Get down," Maurice said. He grabbed Orest's uniform and pulled him to the ground. Big Eugene dropped as a shell burst thirty metres away. Maurice saw him crawl back to the trench, flat on his belly.
The Panzers halted and the Soviet infantry charged, advancing in a line and shooting as they ran. German machine guns cut them down by the dozen.
One Red soldier, bent almost double with rifle held low, ran across the field from the opposite side. Maurice marvelled the Germans did not notice him. He got to the closest Panzer and leapt onto its deck. Without breaking stride, he jammed a grenade under the turret and leapt off again, running and diving onto the ground. Maurice watched the explosion tear off the turret. Two Germans climbed out of the remains of the tank and fell to Soviet fire.
Smoke filled the battlefield, from explosions and gunfire, burning tanks, cars and trucks, trees and grass. Behind the black clouds, the sun rose red. Maurice could no longer see the brave Russian grenadier.
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1941: Their retreat across Ukraine wore their boots out—and they kept going.
Three months after drafting him, the Soviet Red Army throws Maurice Bury, along with millions of other under-trained men, against the juggernaut of Nazi Germany's Operation Barbarossa, the assault on the USSR.
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Frank Hamilton, Alla Melnick, and Göran Rygert
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Alla Melnik on bayan, Göran Rygert on bass and Frank Hamilton on guitar, who will play music from all over the world.
You will be listening to lovely Italian music, French musette waltzes, Irish dances (bring your best step dance shoes!) as well as popular Jewish songs (Fiddler On the Roof!). They will be playing American music of Scott Joplin, Django Reinhardt and favorite standards.
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Alla Melnik is a virtuoso on the bayan (Ukrainian button accordion), who started playing at the age of seven. At the age of sixteen, she attended Leontevich Music college in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, graduating from Kiev University of Arts and Culture in Russia with advanced degrees in concert performance, conducting and musical education. She
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Alla and Göran normally appear as "The YellowBlue". The name comes from the fact that the colors of Ukraine's and Sweden's flags both are blue and yellow. (www.theyellowblue.com)
Göran Rygert from Sweden is an accomplished string bass, contrabass balalaika and ethnic wind instrument player. He is assistant conductor for the Atlanta Balalaika Society. As a practicing professional architect, he brings to his over six-hundred musical compositions and arrangements an elegant sense of structure and form. "Visituder" is Goran's CD, containing melodies that he set to famous Swedish poetry. He is also the founder and leader of the Swedish men's choir, "Vasa Drangar".
Frank Hamilton on guitar, is a legend in folk, international and American music. He was a former member of folk-singing group, "The Weavers". As a house musician for Chicago folk music nightclub, The Gate of Horn, he has accompanied international music stars. He has recorded with Pete Seeger, an album, "Nonesuch". His own CD is "Long Lonesome Home". He was co-founder and education director of the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. He performs locally in a variety of musical styles.
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Devices such as computers (and smart phones or game consoles etc) can be linked up to other computers. This is called computer networking. Each computer that gets connected to a network is given a different IP address, so that each computer can be identified and communicated with individually.
When you link different computers together, a computer network is formed. You can have a computer network contained completely inside your home; in fact, if you have an internet connection at home that gets shared by all your different computers, laptops and ipods then you already have your own network!
In the case of most home and business networks (e.g. your office), all the different computers are joined on a private network. On the private network, each computer will have it's own "internal" IP Address, but externally, all the computers on that private network will appear to have the same IP Address.
So that's why if you load this webpage on two different computers on the same private network, it will show the same IP Address at the top: because they are coming from the same network, even though on the private network those two computers have different IP Addresses.
Can my IP Address reveal my physical location?
Essentially: yes. Your ISP knows exactly where you are (because they have your billing details linked to your IP Address), however to most other people, websites and organisations, IP Addresses can usually only reflect an approximate location (perhaps at a suburb level).
Can I hide my IP Address?
If you don't want web servers to be able to see which IP Address you are coming from, you can use a "Proxy" or a "VPN" service, which puts another network link in front of your computer; so that it seems like your traffic is coming out of a different location.
The VPN that you use will know your real IP Address but the assumption is that you trust your VPN provider. Using a VPN will not fix all your privacy or anonymity problems, but it is a good start.
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Looking In All The Wrong Places
by Chuck Ruby, Ph.D.
A recent article in STAT addresses the poor track record of psychiatric drugs. But instead of concluding that the drugs or a flawed diagnostic system is the problem, the article focuses on the brain as the possible culprit in why the drugs don't work.
It starts out with the story of Katie, who has been struggling for 20 years with visions and voices. My heart goes out to Katie in her life of struggle. But the article inhumanely and sterilely portrays her as merely a difficult patient. It notes that she has been homeless and hospitalized several times. But it never addresses the likely reason she was homeless: she's been hospitalized and drugged several times. This would make her a shell of a human being without connection to her emotional world, which is where we find value, motivation, meaning, and the willingness to have faith in ourselves and others.
She is said to have finally found the right psychiatric drug after trying "just about every drug there is". She is now taking Risperdal, one of the most dangerous of the psychiatric chemicals. It is said to "work well" for her. But this just means it put her into such a stupor that she isn't concerned by the visions and voices anymore. But also, she is unlikely to be able to do anything else in an independent and functional way - thus the times of homelessness. Later in the article, she says, "With Risperdal, the voices don't go away - but they get really quiet. They hardly bother me anymore."
The author points out that it took Katie's doctors 15 years to properly diagnose her condition, and even longer to find the right drug. Now why would it take 15 years to find a correct diagnosis? The DSM has been touted as a remarkable breakthrough as an objective and accurate psychiatric diagnostic tool. How could this be? The answer: The DSM is not, in fact, a valid diagnostic tool of real brain disease diagnoses. It is a catalogue of human problems in living, with fuzzy boundaries, similar to horoscope categories.
The article claims that while "scientists have made tremendous advances in decoding the genetics of physical illnesses, such as cancer, and developing precision therapies, treatments for mental health remain blunt tools." The first part of this is true, but the reason mental health treatment tools are blunt is because "mental illness" (I'll now dispense with the quotes but remember the term is figurative) is not an illness of the body that can be targeted for treatment. It is a metaphor that refers to personal, economic, political, spiritual, and existential dilemmas common to all people. If they keep looking for it in the body they will never find it. It would be like looking for evidence of heartbreak by examining the heart.
Nonetheless, psychiatry continues in blaming the brain. Psychiatric drugs are said to "work by blasting entire mechanisms in the brain, without addressing the specific chemical pathways that have gone awry." In truth, medical science has never demonstrated mechanisms of the brain or chemical pathways to have "gone awry". Again, they are looking in the wrong place. As another analogy, it would be like looking for the reason a driver is speeding by examining the engine.
With continued focus on the brain, the poor track record of psychiatric drugs and a 70% decline in drug company research is ostensibly "because the biological causes of mental illness are so complex. There hasn't been much innovation in psychiatric medications in more than two decades." This demonstrates the error. They keep looking and looking a the heart in order to find the causes of heartbreak, and they come up empty handed. True, the causes of mental illness are complex, but not complex bodily systems. The causes are complex human experiences.
So the search for biomarkers in the brain continues in order to help diagnose mental illness and to find treatments, with the often used comparison to the biomarker of increased blood glucose to diagnose diabetes. They hope such biomarkers will tell them "what's gone wrong in the circuitry of a particular patient's brain and offer clues for drug development — and, perhaps one day, even precision psychiatric therapies. But that's far easier said than done." Actually, that's impossible. It's impossible because they keep looking in the brain for defective circuits when decades of research has failed to give even a scintilla of evidence that the brain is what's wrong. In most other areas of real scientific research the preponderance of evidence gathered dictates the direction of future research. In psychiatry, the research continues looking for proof the earth is flat, after years of evidence showing that it is spherical.
Then comes an absurdity. This article suggests that some biomarkers might not be physical. This is an oxymoron: biomarker by definition is about biology, which is physical. Voice analysis is an example given, but wouldn't this just demonstrate not a biomarker, but one's experience of emotional distress? The medically-scientifically-sounding quote, "Research suggests that voice analysis could give clues as to a patient's mental illness, as certain sentence structures and cadences can objectively be linked to psychiatric disease" just means voice tone and structure are linked to distress. But more problematic about this, why not just listen to the meaning of what the person has to say? They are looking right past the issue.
But returning to biomarkers, a study is used to suggest an imbalance of free radicals could help diagnose schizophrenia. This is another absurdity. Free radicals increase when someone is under chronic stress. These aren't biomarkers of schizophrenia, they are biomarkers of chronic distress. But would we really need to find biomarkers in order to conclude someone is distressed?
So the article turns to genes. One chair of psychiatry says, "As more genes are linked to various mental illnesses, the number of psychiatric biomarkers should increase." Another misleading comment because no gene has ever been linked to mental illness.
In another frequently used tactic, the story of Alzheimer's is presented to assuage those who are frustrated with the failure to find treatments for mental illness. It is said that the "physical characteristics of brains disordered by Alzheimer's are well known, for instance, yet drug companies have failed for decades to come up with effective drugs, despite pouring hundreds of millions into research." Throwing Alzheimer's in here is a ploy, again to give a medical impression about mental illness. Alzheimer's is a condition caused by real brain defects. There are no brain defects of mental illness.
The article then turns to illicit street drugs and their use as "treatment". Aside from the fact that current illicit street drugs like cocaine and heroin were once prescribed as "medicines", this line of research is silly. It is said that Ketamine is showing remarkable promise in treating depression. Psilocybin for anxiety and depression in terminally ill cancer patients. And MDMA, or ecstasy, for PTSD. Sure. And I use rum and coke to treat my workaholism. These drugs just like prescribed legal psychiatric drugs do no more treating than does alcohol.
Throughout this article, the language used and the allusions made give the impression that mental illness is about brain defects, when there is no evidence of that. It is repeated that brain mechanisms, circuits, and pathways are misfiring, awry, jarred, and strengthened. This is incredible as there is no evidence of any of it.
In closing out the article, the author notes that psychiatric drug prescription rates have increased substantially in the past two decades, with the rate of antidepressant use alone quadrupling, and with one in six Americans on some type of psychiatric drug. This should tell us something. Is the huge increase in drug prescription rates a sign of increasing prevalence of mental illness? Or that despite the use of these drugs, they don't work? Or perhaps an even more parsimonious explanation: there is no illness to treat.


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My dad is turning 60 on Friday, 3/25 so we're having a traditional Puerto Rican bash for him Saturday night & we're roasting a pig! 3 of his siblings flew in from Connecticut & Pennsylvania to surprise him.
Julie, Eddie, Tia Cuca & Tio Jaime drove to Brookshire to J&J Meat Packing to pick up the pig. Later that night my family came over to prepare the pig. Cuca & Lydia prepared the dry rub & garlic marinade. They mashed up 11 whole heads of garlic w/ recao...basically a Puerto Rican cilantro but much more flavorful. You can imagine how delicious my house smelled!
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Here we go again with a new independent social housing regulator
For the past five years the social housing regulator has been embraced by the Homes and Communities Agency, but a forthcoming review is likely to change that – Phil Morgan offers his take on the background to that change
UNTIL 2008 social housing regulation had been effectively split, with the Housing Corporation regulating housing associations and the Audit Commission, through the Housing Inspectorate, inspecting both housing associations and local authorities as a quasi-regulator.
The Cave Review, which reported in 2007, had recommended a new independent regulator covering all social housing and working through a series of standards. This was captured in the Housing & Regeneration Act 2008, which set up a new regulator called the Office for Tenants and Social Landlords (which for fairly obvious reasons was not called OFTENANT and instead called the Tenant Services Authority).
The Tenant Services Authority (TSA) carried on with the regulation of housing associations during the financial crash and consulted, successfully, on a series of standards captured in the Regulatory Framework issued in 2010.
The Homes & Communities Agency (HCA) was also set up by the 2008 Act and some simple protocols were put in place between the TSA and HCA where their interests in regulation and funding overlapped.
Grant Shapps, having been appointed as Housing Minister in 2010, then decided to follow up his five-year mission to cull quangos, announcing that the TSA was "toast", and steering through the Localism Act 2011 which cleaved regulation into economic and consumer.
Economic regulation was proactive and focused on governance and viability. Consumer regulation was reactive and subject to a "serious detriment" test.
The social housing regulator became a part of the HCA, operating through a regulation committee, with its non-regulatory activities (offices, HR, etc) run by the HCA. The regulator, within the HCA, became more active from 2013 onwards, issuing a series of regulatory downgrades primarily on economic regulation, but with a number of downgrades and regulatory notices following failures on consumer regulation (mostly but not all health and safety related).
Pressure on the current approach to regulation came from the ONS reclassification of housing associations as public bodies, with a number of deregulatory measures put in place around consents and mergers.
Likewise the growing move to devolution, with elected mayors due in 2017, brought into question the need for an investment body such as the HCA.
In addition the social housing regulator has been unusual in that its funding has come solely from Government.
Most other regulators bring in at least some income from charging those they regulate. There is undoubtedly pressure that goes with Government being the sole funder. Social landlords benefit financially from having a regulator in place. Payment of fees would ensure more accountability of the regulator to the sector, as well as more independence from Government.
So what will a new independent social housing regulator look like? Well it won't be the Tenant Services Authority reincarnated. The 'serious detriment' barrier will continue to restrict its ability to regulate tenant involvement and services.
Likewise the response to the ONS reclassification saw a further move away from the extent of regulation in place, and there will be further pressure from larger associations for greater flexibility in exchange for more development. There is also an opportunity to place tenant scrutiny within governance to cement tenants' co-regulatory role.
There will undoubtedly be some wry smiles too, as the second independent social housing regulator in seven years is unveiled. Some of us have been here before.
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Stupid Ruby Trick: Using a Hash to generate the Fibonacci Sequence
by gabebw
Via http://gist.github.com/173565, which is in turn via Nick Quaranto.
The gist pointed out that Hash.new, with its default values, is good for implementing Fibonacci sequences. So I decided to check:
fib = Hash.new do |hash,key|
k = key.to_i
hash[key] = case k
when 0 then 0
when 1 then 1
else hash[k-1] + hash[k-2]
This recursive (and memoized!) definition means that you can do
fib[18] and get back
2584, plus you get the Fibonacci numbers from F0 (
fib[0]) to F17 (
fib[17]). Recursively defined Hashes are useful auto-memoized structures.


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text: Human Rights Observatory BP to Pay Nearly $19B in US Oil Spill Damages British oil giant BP agreed Thursday to pay $18.7 billion to settle the damage claims from the worst oil spill ever in the United States, BP's massive 2010 oil drilling blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. In an agreement reached with the U.S. Justice Department and five Gulf coast states along the country's southern shores, BP said it would pay about $1 billion a year over the next 18 years. The blowout 1.6 kilometers below the surface set off an explosion aboard the Deepwater...Read complete article© Voice of America - Thursday, July 2nd 2015


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Skip to comments.Climate Alarmists Target the Arabunna People With No Evidence
Posted on 06/29/2012 1:00:03 PM PDT by Rocky
The Arabunna people live in the area around Lake Eyre in Southern Australia. It is a hot, hostile desert region, which is no surprise, because well its in Australia.
(Lake Eyre region in South Australia.)
A new report from the University of Everybody-Panic is a study of the horrendous future faced by these poor folks:
"The first stage of University of Adelaide research released today shows that South Australias Arabunna country, which includes Lake Eyre in the far north, is likely to get both drier and hotter in decades to come.
'Temperatures could increase up to four degrees Celsius in Arabunna country in the next century, threatening the survival of many plants and animals,' says the author of the report, Dr John Tibby from the University of Adelaides Discipline of Geography, Environment and Population." SOURCE: PhysOrg
There has been little change in the area temperatures since the satellite records began. Despite that, University of Adelaide professors are selling their fantasies of a terrifying future to the Arabunna, the aboriginal people who live in the area.
Meanwhile, the temperatures in the region are currently lower than they have been in the entire satellite record
Maybe the aborigines should invite the envirowackos to dinner.
"Could" "Might" "May" "Possibly", etc.
You give people with to much time on their hands enough money they could do a study showing the moon is made of swiss cheese. The climate grant propaganda studies have all been exposed as nothing but POLITICAL HYPE by the leftist alarmists, who have LOST ALL CREDIBILITY since the release of the emails.
I forgot to click on "excerpt". There's more explanation and a map (which I don't know how to copy here) at the link.
Thanks Rocky.
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text: Our paper carries 'For Better or Worse' in the comics section. In the strip, he is a model railroader and she now owns a gift/hobby shop. Yesterday and today (Friday/Saturday) I watched as one customer distracted the clerk while another removed a locomotive form a showcase. Today, the theft of a $1500 US brass loco was discovered. Another clerk had left the case unlocked while she stepped out. I told you that to tell you this. Nearing the end of my time as a train hobby shop owner, we had developed a theft problem. More and more I put things under lock and key, Kadee 5s, N scale cars and locos, HO locos, etc. Then I was out for a major health problem for four months with my wife and Faye, my clerk, taking care of business. We were robbed blind. By the time I returned and looked at the inventory books and compared it to the shelves, it was obvious that we were in deep trouble. I know that some of my N Scale went to a couple of guys in a small town north of me, but I couldn't catch them in the act. I also know that some of my merchandise was being sold at a local club in the area as I had one 'customer' come in looking for the parts package for a particular loco that he had just bought at the club. I had the parts pack. It was in the empty box that the loco had been in when it was stolen. Yes, the comic strip really hit home. This is just one of the dangers of owning a retail store front hobby shop. After all, the thief really needs that model or part more than the shop owner and a regular customer. After all, everyone knows that all shop owners can easily afford the loss, they make tons of money by ripping off their customers with high prices. Well, by the time I got my losses under control, it was too late. My shop was history. How many others have gone the same way? Roger Roger Hensley - email@example.com == http://cid.railfan.net/eci_new.html == == East Central Indiana HO Scale Railroad ==


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School Administrative Unit 29 (SAU 29) is comprised of seven independent school district. These districts are: Chesterfield School District, Harrisville School District, Keene School District, Marlborough School District, Marlow School District, Nelson School District and Westmoreland School District.
SAU 29 is the largest multi-district SAU in New Hampshire (NH). Its responsibilities include managing a collective budget of approximately $84.3 million, maintaining 14 school buildings, coordinating the activities of seven independent school boards, and supervising the education program for approximately 4,156 students. SAU 29 and its member districts employ more than 1,000 people and covers 211 square miles in southwestern NH.
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An examination of the lives of Brazilian trash pickers who make their living by scavenging through the world's largest landfill for recyclable materials.
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In the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, garbage pickers make their living by scavenging through the discards of others for recyclable materials. Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, who utilizes the landfill for trash that he uses in his work, documents the trash pickers, revealing the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will speak next week to the commander of the orbiting International Space Station.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Wednesday the call with Peggy Whitson — and fellow astronaut Jack Fischer — will take place April 24.
On that date, Whitson, the first woman to command the International Space Station, will have spent 535 days in space, the most time spent in space of any American astronaut.
Astronaut Jeffrey Williams currently holds the record.
The 57-year-old biochemist has also performed eight spacewalks, more than any other woman, and a ninth may be in the offing.
Whitson's current stretch in space was extended to September because an empty seat will be available on a Russian Soyuz capsule for her return.
Spicer said the call is partly intended to discuss the "importance of encouraging women to pursue careers" in STEM — science, education, technology and math — fields.
Astronaut Kate Rubins and Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, whose White House portfolio involves women's empowerment, will also take part in the call.
Last month, Trump signed new legislation adding human exploration of Mars to NASA's mission. The law authorizes $19.5 billion in spending for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the budget year that began Oct. 1.
Trump hailed the work of NASA when he signed the bill, saying it "has inspired millions and millions of Americans to imagine distant worlds and a better future right here on earth."
The call will air live on NASA TV.


text: Thought about putting together a 15 month calendar for the customer base. Pretty inexpensive at the local photo shop and I get to choose the 15 pictures. I used to get calendars all the time from my vendors, but don't see them as much anymore. Since the advent of the PC and the lower right of screen mouse over to see the date, maybe it seems old fashioned. I still like calendars. I wonder if the customer base would too? What do you think?


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Kansas colleges want to attract more in-state students
Associated Press - February 18, 2017 5:06 pm
Three open seats on the Kansas Board of Regents have yet to be filled even though the board's next meeting is just days away.
The Kansas Board of Regents is considering a task force to seek ways to keep more students in the state for their higher education.
Regents chairwoman Zoe Newton made the request this week after a Kansas State University administrator presented data showing that enrollment among first-time freshman from the state dropped nearly 10 percent from fall 2012 to fall 2016. The Regents data tracks enrollment in 53 higher education institutions throughout the state, including public universities, community colleges, technical colleges and private religious intuitions.
Possible reasons for the dip that were discussed with the Regents include an improving economy that draws young people immediately into jobs, rising tuition costs and higher admission standards. The task force will focus on boosting enrollment among first-generation students.
Is this an attempt to increase gun sales?
The Governor and legislature have made repeated cuts to education at all levels. To appoint a task force to look at increasing student census at this point in the cycle of deterioration suggests that the dingbats and circling low and getting ready to land.
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RealmShift, this year's best novel, is now available in Australia (and internationally, for that matter) through two fine book stores – Infinitas Bookshop in Parramatta and Galaxy Bookshop in Sydney City. You can go in to buy off the shelf or contact them for mail order sales.
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Aaron Lennon felt there was "not really a choice" for him to make once he found out Everton wanted to sign him.
Transfer deadline day saw Lennon join the Toffees on loan from Tottenham until the end of the season.
The 27-year-old winger - holder of 21 England caps - had been linked with various clubs after being frozen out at Spurs with Hull City thought to be in pole position over the weekend for the services of the former Leeds United prospect.
And reflecting on the move he eventually made, Lennon said: "It's obviously been a tough start to the year for me, but I was over the moon when I got the call.
"It was a hectic day yesterday and it was a busy weekend, too. I was speaking to a lot of clubs, a lot of managers, but this was the one I wanted.
"Finally, when I got the call from Everton, there wasn't really a choice, I just couldn't wait to get up here and I'm glad it was all sorted.
"Everything about Everton made me excited to join.
"I've always liked the club, the way the manager (Roberto Martinez) has got the team playing and the squad that they have - it was the most attractive to me and it was an easy decision for me."


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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl is a British writer, a popular author of ingenious, irreverent children's books.A writer of both children's fiction and short stories for adults, Roald Dahl is best known as the author of the 1964 children's book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (he also wrote the script for the 1971 movie version). Dahl has been described as a master of story construction with a remarkable ability to weave a tale.
Roald Dahl was born at 32 Fairwater Road, Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales in 1916, to Norwegian parents, Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl. Dahl's family moved from Norway and settled in Cardiff in the 1880s. Roald was named after the polar explorer Roald Amundsen, a national hero in Norway at the time. He spoke Norwegian at home with his parents and sisters. Dahl and his sisters were christened at the Norwegian Church, Cardiff, where their parents worshipped.
This was a boarding school, and for the first time Roald would be away from his family overnight. He did not like it at this school, and with very good reason. The head matron at St.Peter's did not like him and she was supposedly a very cruel woman.In his book, "Matilda", Roald based the character of Ms. Trunchbull, the principle who dislikes children, on Captain Hardcastle. Because he felt so alone and homesick, Roald wrote over six hundred letters home to his mother, Sofie, during his stay at St.Peter's.
Roald got interested in photography. This was not a very easy hobby to have at the time.His memories from school are mostly bad, of beatings, the torture of new boys and other miseries. But his memories weren't all bad. He based one of his most popular children's books on a good memory from Repton, the chocolate bar inventions from the local chocolate factory which the boys were to sample and critique. This,of course,resulted in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Roald was not an academically good student, in fact he was one of the bottom students of his class. Sports, on the other hand, was one of his strong points at Repton.
- He worked from 1937 to 1939 in Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika (now in Tanzania), but he enlisted in the Royal Air Force (RAF) when World War II broke out. Flying as a fighter pilot, he was seriously injured in a crash landing in Libya. He served with his squadron in Greece and then in Syria before doing a stint (1942–43) as assistant air attaché in Washington, D.C. (during which time he also served as a spy for the British government). There the novelist C.S. Forester encouraged him to write about his most exciting RAF adventures, which were published by the Saturday Evening Post.
Major achievements
- Dahl was promoted to Flight Lieutenant in August 1942.During the war, Forester worked for the British Information Service and was writing propaganda for the Allied cause, mainly for American consumption. This work introduced Dahl to espionage and the activities of the Canadian spymaster William Stephenson, known by the codename "Intrepid".Dahl was once sent back to Britain by British Embassy officials, supposedly for misconduct – "I got booted out by the big boys," he said. Stephenson promptly sent him back to Washington—with a promotion to Wing Commander.
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Interstate 35 has just been reopened after a horrifying crash on Saturday night. At around 11pm two big rig trucks, as well as a passenger vehicle collided. This caused the northbound lanes of I-35, near Forreston Road to be closed for several hours.
So far, two deaths have been reported, both from inside one of the trucks.
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Miami, FL (PRWEB) September 04, 2013
Miami-based flower wholesaler Globalrose recently announced its newest specials on roses in a variety of quantities. In operation for over fourteen years, Globalrose has built its business on providing the highest quality fresh wholesale flowers at the best available prices in the industry. Manager Lorenzo de la Torre cites their rose special as another way that Globalrose is able to maintain its reputation for offering an alternative to the traditional fresh flower supply chain.
"Because we grow our own product, we are able to offer our customers larger quantities of flowers than most of our competitors at a fraction of the price per stem," says de la Torre. "Buying bulk saves time and it saves money. By offering these new specials we are able to offer even more options for our customers."
The current specials offered by Globalrose range from $44 for ten white hydrangea flowers and $55 for 50 red or assorted roses to $79 for 100 roses in four different colors and $369 for 500 roses. In this last offer the costumer can choose up to 20 different colors . The ability to provide flowers direct from farm to door - cutting out the middleman - allows Globalrose to deliver flowers that are at least five to seven days fresher than the industry average - no more than two four days old by the time they arrive at their customers' doors.
"These specials really define what we want to be in the industry," says de la Torre. "Quality, freshness, and price - these are the cornerstones on which we have built our business. Because we handle our flowers every step of the way - from farm to door - we are able to be in complete control of the quality; nothing gets by our strict standards. Additionally, because we are able to harvest our flowers by hand every day and expedite shipping, we guarantee that our flowers are among the freshest in the industry. This control also allows us to operate with streamlined overhead, thus giving us the option to provide the lowest prices in the market - as well as offer the most comprehensive specials for our customers. We look forward to continuing to serve the market in this manner and bring the freshest, highest quality, best priced flowers to our customers' doorsteps."
Established in 1999 as an online fresh flower company offering wholesale roses and wedding flowers, Globalrose has been cultivating flowers for over 30 years on its own farms. They grow more than 90 different rose varieties – as well as offer almost every type of flowers available in different qualities to meet their customers' needs. This has allowed them to sell more than 26 million flowers – providing florals for over 32,000 special events and over 10,000 weddings. Their decades of experience in growing flowers, coupled with their established sales force, has allowed Globalrose to guarantee a high quality and consistent product that is shipped directly to their customers' doorsteps. Globalrose.com has all your flowers needs: from a party for two or an event for many or just because, everyone can enjoy the absolutely fresh flowers they provide.
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3 Quick & Easy Ways to Boost App Ratings
Ratings and reviews can massively influence whether a user opts to download your app. They can also help you, as an app developer, or brand, know how to continually improve your app.
Based on my own personal experience, working at Fashion Retailer, Next, I want to share a few ways in which you can improve your app ratings and reviews.
1. Don't Just Read Your App Reviews, Act On Them
A user has taken time out of their precious day, to leave feedback for your app, so make time during your busy working day, to read what they have to say. Not only that - encourage your colleagues and superiors, to do the same.
App feedback is worth its weight in gold. It gives everybody in the Business, an understanding of what's currently working well, and where areas of improvement need to be made, from the perspective of those that matter most - your app users. It's also a great way to identify bugs, crashes and other such usability issues, you may otherwise have never known about, or deemed to be a problem.
At Next, our Mobile Dev Team have created a dedicated channel on group messaging app, Slack, to receive notification of new app reviews, as they hit the App Store. It enables our Developers to keep tabs on any new issues they need to further investigate and address, as well as understand what our app users are crying out for, by way of new functionality.
Reading reviews is all well and good, but you also need to act on them - and fast! Fortnightly app updates, now seem to be the norm for most major organisations, so there is an expectation among users, for change to be bought about quickly. The more rapid the rate of response to acting on app feedback, the more likely the individuals(s) that originally requested the change, are to want to use your app again.
2. Fix the Crashes, First
Not so long ago, our iPhone app, had a 2.5 star rating. Our current release, now has a 4.5 star rating, based on 76 reviews. So what did we do, to turn things around? We fixed a whole host of crashing issues - that's it. No UI changes, or new features introduced. We just targeted the recurring annoyance, referenced in the negative reviews by our app users - app crashing. In light of these fixes, our iPhone app currently has a crash-free rating of 99.5%.
There are a few tools out there to help identify when your app is crashing, and the reasons for it; however, I thoroughly recommend getting set up with Crashlytics.
Another piece of advice, is to always test ahead of major upgrades to iOS and Android, such as the recent release of iOS 10. Sign up to download the Dev or Beta version of the operating system upgrade, ahead of its public release. That way, you can pre-empt where the crashes are, fix them, and release an app update, to prevent the likelihood of your app users encountering them.
3. When It Comes to Asking for App Feedback, Timing is Key
Prompting the user to give feedback on their experience in using the app, after just a couple of minutes of opening it for the very first time, is a seriously dumb move. Give them chance to explore the app and everything it has to offer, then ask for their feedback.
Think about the user journey and the points at which the user is most likely to be satisfied, or in a positive state of mind. For a retail app, this is likely to be at the point they have just completed their order. So, why not ask them then? It's a lot less disruptive than asking them midway through making a purchase.
Further-still, asking a user at the point of completing their second order using the app, increases the likelihood of a positive review. Things must have gone well first time round, for them to want to come back and place that second order.
Whilst the above advice, might not necessarily benefit apps across all sectors and industry verticals, it's at least worth knowing. If nothing else, regularly read your app reviews and share / escalate user feedback to the powers that be, internally. It's then up to them to make the right decision. All it takes, is that one opportunity to demonstrate that the return on investment of acting on direct, user feedback, far outweighs the cost associated with making the change.


text: Search Again Deven Unadkat DO (973) 450-2100 Primary Specialties Emergency Medicine Affiliations Clara Maass Medical CenterJersey City Medical CenterNewark Beth Israel Medical CenterSaint Barnabas Medical Center Request Appointment Primary Office Address: Emergency Medical Associates 1 Clara Maass Drive Belleville, NJ 07109 Fax: (973) 450-0383 Secondary Office Address: Emergency Medical Associates 3 Century Dr Parsippany, NJ 07054 View Map Phone: (973) 740-0607 Fax: (973) 740-9895 Recommend this Physician Get Directions Physician Information Dr. Unadkat received his medical degree from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his emergency medicine training at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where he was elected chief resident. After graduating, he served as the Assistant Emergency Medicine Residency Director and is an assistant Professor of clinical Emergency Medicine at the Hofstra University School of Medicine. Dr. Unadkat also holds an advanced degree in health administration and policy from New York University. Over the past several years, Dr. Unadkat has been caring for patients in various settings including: urgent care, observation units, free standing ERs, large academic centers, and community hospitals. Currently, Dr. Unadkat is the Associate Medical Director of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Rapid Diagnostic Unit at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. Dr. Unadkat is board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Unadkat's interests include observation medicine, emergency department operations, quality, satisfaction and medical education. Experience & Education Medical Education: New York College of Osteopathic Medicine Residency: Long Island Jewish Medical Center