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Besides being a beautiful, easy to use and powerful platform by itself, WordPress is also loved because of it's high level of customization and optimization. Plugins are the best way to optimize and enrich your WordPress blog. And it's not limited to performance only. The plugins WordPress offers range from page speed optimization, user engagement, advanced backup, full theme modification to social sharing and search engine optimization.
No matter what kind of website or blog you own, you'll definitely find something that will make your site better. Just like with clothes some plugins are one size fits all, and other are quite specific. Almost every blog will encounter spam, security concerns and will want to expose their content to the largest audience possible. This two article series focuses on the most essential and useful WordPress plugins every blog will find useful. Whether you're bored with the default comments platform, want to try custom fonts or just add neat social sharing options, continue reading to find the best WordPress plugins out there. The plugins are sorted into categories and only a few of them have the same features so you can find the very right ones for you.
The first part will cover optimization, forms, comments, site backup, posts, security, design & theme customization and media. Stay tuned for part 2 which will contain even more specific and targeted WordPress plugins.
The second part will cover ecommerce, SEO, social media, marketing and lot of great miscellaneous plugins.
1. WP Super Cache
WP Super Cache is a very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
2. WP-Optimize
WP-Optimize is a WordPress 2.9++ database cleanup and optimization tool. It doesn't require PhpMyAdmin to optimize your database tables. It allows you to remove post revisions, comments in the spam queue and un-approved comments within few clicks.
3. W3 Total Cache
W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your site by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download times and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.
1. Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail content flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
2. Fast Secure Contact Form
A super customizable contact form that lets your visitors send you email. Blocks all automated spammers. No templates to mess with.
3. Gravity Forms (Premium – $39)
Gravity Forms is hands down the best contact form plugin for WordPress. Build and publish your WordPress forms in just minutes. No drudgery, just quick and easy form-building.
4. AJAX Contact Forms (Premium – $10)
This is a jQuery based AJAX powered HTML / PHP contact form with Twitter Direct Messaging, easily integrated into WordPress via shortcodes and functions.
1. Disqus Comment System
Disqus, pronounced "discuss", is a service and tool for web comments and discussions. Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community.
2. GD Star Rating
GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up an advanced rating and review system for post types and comments in your blog using single, multi and thumbs ratings.
3. Wizzart – Recent Comments
This plugin offers a highly customizable widget to show recent comments of your visitors in your sidebars.
4. Facebook Comments
Full Facebook Comments moderation and management for your WordPress site. Quick and easy to set up. Insert automatically or via a shortcode.
5. Thank Me Later
Automatically send a 'thank you' e-mail to those who comment on your blog. This plugin engages visitors by reminding them to check back for new comments and interesting content.
6. Disable Comments
Allows administrators to globally disable comments on their site. Comments can be disabled according to post type.
7. WP Customer Reviews
WP Customer Reviews allows your customers and visitors to leave reviews or testimonials of your services. Reviews are Microformat enabled (hReview).
Site Backup
1. WP-DBManager
Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of back ups, optimizing and repairing of database.
2. BackUpWordPress
BackUpWordPress will back up your entire site including your database and all your files once every day.
1. Editorial Calendar
The Editorial Calendar makes it possible to see all your posts and drag and drop them to manage your blog.
2. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) gives you a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site.
3. SimpleReach Slide
The Slide recommends related posts from within your site on a widget that "slides" in at the bottom of the page.
4. WordPress Popular Posts
WordPress Popular Posts is a highly customizable sidebar widget that displays the most popular posts on your blog. You can use it as a template tag, too.
5. Raw HTML
Lets you use raw HTML or any other code in your posts. You can also disable smart quotes and other automatic formatting on a per-post basis.
6. Auto Post Thumbnail
Automatically generate the Post Thumbnail (Featured Thumbnail) from the first image in post or any custom post type only if Post Thumbnail is not set.
1. Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog's "Comments" admin screen.
2. SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the forms for comments, registration, lost password, login, or all. For WP, WPMU, and BuddyPress.
3. Secure WordPress
Secure WordPress beefs up the security of your WordPress installation by removing error information on login pages, adds index.html to plugin directories, hides the WordPress version and much more.
4. BulletProof Security
WordPress Website Security Protection. Website security protection against: XSS, RFI, CRLF, CSRF, Base64, Code Injection and SQL Injection hacking att
Design & Theme Customization
1. Widget Context
Widget Context allows you to specify widget visibility settings – you can choose to display them only on certain posts, front page, category or tag pages etc.
2. WP Google Fonts
The WP Google Fonts plugin allows you to easily add fonts from the Google Font Directory to your WordPress theme.
3. WP Maintenance Mode
Adds a splash page to your site that lets visitors know your site is down for maintenance. Full access to the back- & front-end is optional.
4. Genesis Simple Sidebars
This plugin allows you to create multiple, dynamic widget areas, and assign those widget areas to sidebar locations within the Genesis Theme Framework
5. Shortcodes Ultimate
With this plugin you can easily create buttons, boxes, different sliders and much, much more. Turn your free theme to premium in just a few clicks.
6. All In One Favicon
Easily add a Favicon to your site and the WordPress admin pages. Complete with upload functionality. Supports all three Favicon types (ico,png,gif).
7. Font Uploader (Premium – $10)
This plugin lets you upload your own font files and apply them to any element of your website without requiring a knowledge of html or css.
8. WPtouch
WPtouch: A simple, powerful and elegant mobile theme for your website. WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress website into an application-like theme.
9. Widget Logic
Widget Logic lets you control on which pages widgets appear using WP's conditional tags. It also adds a 'widget_content' filter.
10. WP Content Slideshow
WP Content Slideshow is the perfect Slideshow for WordPress. It displays up to 5 Posts or Pages with Tile, Description and Image for every Post.
1. Easing Slider
The Easing Slider comes with various options that allow you to choose different sources to get the images from and also multiple styling options so that you"ll never have to edit any files directly & with ease. Create your own unique elegant slider.
2. NextGEN Gallery
NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with dozens of options and features.
3. flickrRSS
Allows you to integrate Flickr photos into your site. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photostreams.
4. WordPress Video Plugin
A filter for WordPress that allows easy video embedding of supported sites. Support for 65 different video sites.
5. oQey Gallery
oQey Gallery is a premium grade plugin for managing images and video, creating photo slideshows with music, photo & video galleries that works fantastic.
6. uBillboard (Premium – $20)
uBillboard is a Premium Slider for WordPress. It is a jQuery based slider with a multitude of transitions and options so you can customize it all you want without being overwhelmed with options you never wanted or needed.
7. WP Lightbox 2
This plugin used to add the lightbox (overlay) effect to the current page images on your WordPress blog.
1. WP e-Commerce
WP e-Commerce is a free WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin that lets customers buy your products, services and digital downloads online.
2. Jigoshop
Jigoshop is an eCommerce plugin for WordPress developed by professionals with years of experience delivering online shops for global brands.
3. WooCommerce
Transform your WordPress website into a thoroughbred online store. Delivering enterprise-level quality & features whilst backed by a name you can trust.
4. uPricing (Premium – $15)
uPricing is the ultimate and unique solution for all your WordPress related pricing page needs. Creating pricing tables has never been easier. uPricing comes with easy to use jQuery powered admin interface that lets you create and edit your pricing tables.
5. PayPal Donations
Easy, simple setup to add a PayPal Donation button as a Widget or with a shortcode.
1. All in One SEO Pack
All in One SEO Pack is the best SEO plugin out there which will automatically optimize your WordPress blog for search engines.
2. WordPress SEO by Yoast
WordPress SEO is the most complete WordPress SEO plugin that exists today for WordPress.org users. It incorporates everything from a snippet preview and page analysis functionality that helps you optimize your pages content, images titles, meta descriptions and more to XML sitemaps, and loads of optimization options in between.
3. Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it's much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently.
1. Add Link to Facebook
Automatically add links to posts or pages that are being published to your Facebook wall, pages or groups. Simple one time setup and forget. The way links appear on Facebook can be customized.
2. WP to Twitter
Posts a Twitter update when you update your WordPress blog or post to your blogroll, using your chosen URL shortening service. Requires PHP 5 and cURL
3. Digg Digg
Digg Digg allows you to integrate popular social buttons into WordPress easily.
4. ShareThis
The ShareThis plugin seamlessly enables users to share your content through Email,Facebook,Twitter, Google +1, Like, Send and many more.
5. BuddyPress
BuddyPress lets users register on your site and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups and much more. A social network in a box, BuddyPress lets you build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community.
6. bbPress
bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.
7. The Google+ plugin
The Google + Plugin integrates WordPress with your G+ Profile and Page – now with BuddyPress and Post Format support.
8. Twitter Widget Pro
A widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including parsing @username, #hashtags, and URLs into links.
1. Newsletter
This plug-in lets you collect subscribers on your blog with a single or double opt-in subscription process. Double opt-in is law compliant and it means the user has to confirm the subscription following simple standard instructions sent to him via email.
Easy management of 125×125 ads on your blog. Ads can be run for a specified number of days, and will automatically be taken down. Track clicks too.
3. s2Member
s2Member (membership with PayPal) offers powerful membership capabilities. Protect members only content. The s2Member Framework integrates with PayPal very easily and fully supports recurring billing.
4. MailPress
The WordPress mailing platform.
5. Subscribe2
Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.
6. MailChimp Widget
Adds a widget that allows your users to sign up for your MailChimp mailing list.
7. Simple PopUp
A simple, attractive, extremely fast and non annoying pop up box for your WordPress Blog. It's power lies in its ease of use.
1. WP-PageNavi
Want to replace the old ← Older posts | Newer posts → links with some page links? This plugin provides the wp_pagenavi() template tag which generates fancy pagination links.
2. Jetpack by WordPress.com
Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.
3. Exclude Pages
This plugin adds a checkbox, "include this page in menus", which is checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page will not appear in any listings of pages (which includes, and is usually limited to, your page navigation menus).
4. Broken Link Checker
This plugin will check your posts, comments and other content for broken links and missing images, and notify you if any are found.
5. ManageWP Worker
ManageWP Worker plugin allows you to remotely manage your blogs from one dashboard. You can read our review here.
6. Redirection
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections and keep track of 404 errors without requiring knowledge of Apache .htaccess files.
7. FD Feedburner Plugin
Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed seamlessly and transparently to Feedburner.com.
8. Hotfix
Provides unofficial fixes for selected WordPress bugs, so you don't have to wait for the next WordPress core release.
9. Google Analytics for WordPress
Track your WordPress site easily and with lots of metadata: views per author & category, automatic tracking of outbound clicks and page views.
10. WP-Polls
Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can also easily add a poll into your WordPress's blog post/page.
11. Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu
The lazy and the productive will love it : all admin links available in a neat horizontal CSS driven drop down menu. No need to click on "Manage" then "Pages" to edit pages. And plenty more space on your screen.
12. Pretty Link Lite
Shrink, beautify, track, manage and share any URL on or off of your WordPress website. Create links that look however you want using your own domain name.
13. 5sec Google Maps (Premium – $8)
Integrate Google Maps into your WordPress blog easily without using API or any code.
14. Advanced Access Manager
Advanced Access Manager is a new way of controlling access to your single blog or multi-site setup. This easy to use interface is a very helpful tool for experienced WordPress users.
Do you know and use any other plugins besides the ones we suggested here? We would really appreciate your feedback here, but we are pretty sure this list will be very comprehensive for you and will satisfy most peoples needs!


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Whitefish man dies after possible fall from window
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A Whitefish man is dead after he was found unresponsive outside a window of his home.
A friend of the man went to check on him around 4 p.m. Thursday, after he didn't show up to work.
The 60-year-old man was lying on the ground in his underwear. He was unresponsive and had scrapes on his elbows.
Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry says the man may have fallen out the window, but details are still under investigation. Curry does not suspect foul play.
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Highest and Lowest State Liquor Taxes - I NEED TO MOVE!!!
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- signofthefourwinds Dec 30, 2012 10:52 AM
I found a graphic in the Wall Street Journal a couple of months back that listed the highest and lowest state excise-tax rates per gallon. As someone that tries to find cheap booze prices, I found this information very helpful (and depressing, since I live in Michigan).
Washington - $26.70
Oregon - $23.03
Virginia - $20.91
Alabama - $18.61
Michigan - $13.24
New Hampshire - $0
Vermont - $.32
Wyoming - $.83
Montana - $2.00
Colorado - $2.28
So, do the states with the lowest taxes listed above actually have the lowest liquor prices? (This may be a dumb question, but I'm not sure what else goes into pricing liquor other than state excise-tax, so I'm asking anyway.)
Article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000...
When we lived in upstate NY everyone went over to New Hampshire to stock up, because there were no taxes. But it didn't seem to be that much cheaper unless you brought a tractor trailer! And here we have Indian (sorry Native American I think?) reservations for cheap cigarettes which are half the price without tax. What each individual place decides to do with their base price is up to them, and if they want to advertise out of their area then that's their privilige. At least where I am, the prices vary store to store, and you can shop around. But I know states that do have state run stores so hard to say, in general.
re: fourunder
I'm sure that's just a sample of the highest.
re: fourunder
When I lived in NJ, it used to be low. That was decades ago, and I know they've raised them a lot since then. Sad.
But, taxes aren't the only factor in pricing. NH has no alcohol tax, but all the stores are state run, and I don't find the pricing that much better than MA (which is pretty high, though not top five). Plus the selection is not that great. Point being, there are better reasons to be depressed about living in Michigan.
It's kind of like buying in duty-free shops. A lot of the time, despite the lack of taxes, the price is jacked up so you won't save much, if anything. New Hampshire does have pretty low prices on a lot of things, but it is certainly possible to find things cheaper in MA from time to time if you go to the right store. Plus NH only sells liquor in state-run stores so the state is taking in the profits in lieu of excise taxes, thus making it an unfair comparison. Also, you won't find the same kind of selection you would in a private-market state.
California has pretty low prices (check the bevmo site) and it still has middle of the road taxes.
I presume the OP is not serious about moving . . . can't imagine anyone drinking so much in distillates that it's worth moving for.
That said, the article itself tells of people driving from Washington to Oregon for cheaper liquor . . . I have some experience with that.
For many years I worked for Liquor Barn, a chain of 104 stores -- the pre-cursor to BevMo -- based in California, but with 16 stores (IIRC) in Arizona. The northernmost store we had was located in Redding, CA -- 137 miles from Ashland, OR, the first town of any size in that state. That one store would go through approximately 400-500 cases (6/1.75L) of Black Velvet Canadian Whisky every month. People from Oregon would drive down in motor homes and buy 25+ cases at a time, and then drive back north. They'd buy for their friends, family members, neighbors . . . it was a little scary!
The grass is always greener . . . Washington people now drive to Oregon; Oregon people still drive to California . . . whatever.
re: zin1953
A field trip to load up on Black Velvet? Wow.
re: zin1953
" Oregon people still drive to California . . . whatever."
Yes we do, it is only a 20 mile round trip for me. Huge savings even with Ca sales tax.
Wow, I'm shocked that Massachusetts isn't on the list.
I used to subscribe to a "best wines under $10" blog based out of New York City, and every time I went to buy one of the recommendations the wine cost me, IIRC, between $14 and $18 here in Taxachusetts. Similarly, when I see discussions of spirits prices around the country I often notice that I seem to be paying a lot more.
Thanks for the post 4Winds. This helps explain to a large degree why I was feeling such frustration looking for deals in my new state of NE... it's not that I'm getting gouged here.. it's that I was just used to getting gouged LESS in CO.
I just came back to CO for the holidays in a vehicle rather than on an airplane.. there's a whole lot of gin, scotch and tequila making the trip back with me! I may have to FedEx one of the kids to make room for it all. I'm saving between $5 and $15/bottle on distillates. I'm not sure how much I'm going to lose in decreased MPG on the road.. but I'm not going to figure that out for fear of getting depressed.
A list I found with google :
I have no idea about the liquor tax or regulations in Maryland, but I do know that based on over a year's worth of booze discussions on these boards, the prices I pay in Montgomery County, Maryland seem like some of the lowest in the country. It's worth noting that this is only for Montgomery County. Go over one county to Prince George's and you'll pay noticeably more.
I can also tell you, liquor ain't cheap in Virginia.
Back in the day (20+ years ago) Wyoming was indeed very cheap and it was the first time I saw drive through liquor stores. The state controlled ALL alcohol (we couldn't buy any at grocery or convenience stores) where we lived. We rarely drank alcohol in a bar.
There is a new 2014 map listing the states with the highest and lowest taxes on liquor.
"Spirits are taxed the highest in Washington at $35.22 per gallon. Next in line are Oregon ($22.73), Virginia ($19.19), Alabama ($18.23), and Alaska ($12.80). Least-taxed states are Wyoming and New Hampshire, which have no spirits excise taxes (note that these are states in which the government controls all sales, and spirits may be subject to ad valorem mark-up and excise taxes). These are followed by West Virginia ($1.87), Missouri ($2.00), Colorado ($2.28), and Texas ($2.40). To see where your state falls, see the map below."
re: signofthefourwinds
re: signofthefourwinds
We lived for almost 20 years in Southern Oregon. We happily drove two hours one way to buy booze at greatly reduced prices. You know, like almost half off. It was a little day trip. Drive down, have lunch at a nice place, fill the car for us and our friends and drive back. MORE than paid for the gas.
re: c oliver
When I worked for Liquor Barn in the 1980s, the store in Redding, CA -- closest to the Oregon border -- would go through 75-100 cases (6/1.75L) of Black Velvet Canadian Whisky PER WEEK, with much of that going into the back of vans, pickups, campers, and motor homes . . . nearly all, into vehicles with Oregon license plates, often 25 cases at a time.
Then again, our store in Imperial Beach (an "economically challenged" part of San Diego) -- closest to the Mexican border -- sold several hundred cases of Budweiser a week, nearly as much <$5 Chilean wine a week as all California wine combined, and the proverbial "ton" of high-end Bordeaux and Dom Pérignon . . . the last two items often being loaded into vehicles with Mexican (Baja California) plates.
re: zin1953
re: zin1953
Wait. I was just in Imperial Beach visiting my BIL. Do you still own a store? Which one?
Good fish taco truck on 18th st. Good Pho in the Walmart plaza.
re: EvergreenDan
No, no, no . . . I *never* owned a store, in IB or anyplace else.
Liquor Barn was a chain of 104 stores, 88 in California, and 16 in Arizona (IIRC). I worked with them from over a dozen years, in various capacities -- principally as one of their corporate wine buyers (for all 44 stores in Southern California) and in charge of both their employee and customer wine education programs throughout the entire chain. Originally begun as a division of Safeway, it was spun off to the owners of Majestic Wine Warehouses PLC out of the UK, then went into Chapter 11, was rescued out of that after about a year, then sold to a group of California-based investors, before it eventually declared Chapter 7 and died a slow and painful death . . . only to be resurrected as "Beverages, & more!" (aka BevMo).
re: zin1953
I never knew that history. Thanks. Love BevMo though we don't get there often.
re: signofthefourwinds
I've seen that one before - it's an interesting map. Like I've said, at least in MD, the county-by-county difference can be huge. Just off the top of my head, a bottle of Elijah Craig goes for around $28-$30 in most stores in Prince George's County but sells for $20.65 in Montgomery County. DC is definitely pricey for liquor, but beer is actually cheaper in DC than any of the surrounding counties, as far as I can tell.
re: signofthefourwinds
When we lived in MA, we would make a point of stopping at the NH liquor store whenever we crossed the state line. I don't remember making a special trip of it though except for during a stretch of about 4 months when I was working almost in sight of the line (and one of their outlets). It was cheaper, but I don't remember how much cheaper.
I live in Wisconsin now. You don't go to Illinois to find cheaper prices on anything. Selection, yes. Price, not so much.
re: harrism
At one point MA state police put spotters at the NH state liquor store parking lots and would pull people over at the MA border.
NH is a bit cheaper, but not enough for a special trip. Selection is terrible, at least in the types of esoteric things that I like. Vermouth, as I recall, was especially ghastly.
I"m sure they have great prices on candy corn vodka.
But in general, I'd rather give my money to a local store, and encourage them to stock interesting things.
re: EvergreenDan
Yeah, at the time my tastes were not sophisticated enough to care. No candy corn vodka, but mostly not much better.
I totally agree with you about local stores. Fortunately I have a couple in town now that are pretty good. Neither is really amazing, but the seem to complement one another at the margins and I can find most of what I want. Now I just have to keep my tastes from becoming too much more sophisticated.
re: EvergreenDan
Just in browsing the prices at the New Hampshire Liquor and Wine Outlets (http://www.liquorandwineoutlets.com/) the prices aren't any cheaper than I can find in Bethesda (and in some cases are higher), and the selection for the more higher end and obscure stuff (imported rums, tequilas, higher-end sherry, digestiffs and amaros, small batch and single barrel bourbon, etc..) are weak to non-existent. Sort've a shame since I was going to be up in Maine for a week this summer and would be driving through NH on the way up from my GF's parent's place in RI.
re: The Big Crunch
The loss leaders, which don't get advertised online, are the really great deals in NH. I've picked up premium items for less than their wholesale price in NY.
re: Alcachofa
Alcachofa, they're loss leaders... they come, they go, they're rarely the same.
re: The Big Crunch
Perusing your link, I see that NH prices are on par with Quebec's SAQ prices:
1.75l NH price = 750ml Quebec price.
Yeah, we pay double.
re: porker
Ouch. I have felt the pain in Quebec, I didn't know it was that severe. Porker, you need to return to the Caribbean!
re: ncyankee101
From what porker wrote it seems that Oregon is in the same league price-wise...and there's no free health care there.
re: c oliver
If you look at the 2014 map, Washington state is now much worse than Oregon, which is a distant #2 - $35 tax per gallon vs $23.
re: ncyankee101
WA State doesn't have free health care either :)
re: porker
porker, I've seen that, or very, very close to that, between Oregon and Calif. When we used to 'bootleg' for our elderly friend in OR, we could buy Smirnoff for as little as $16+ with sales tax and that same thing (1.75L) for $35ish with no sales tax in OR. You are not alone :(
re: porker
Looking a little closer
I realize "double" might not be FULLY accurate
NH Washington cab $7.95 USD
SAQ Washington cab $18.40 ($16.56 USD)
NH Johnnie Walker Red 1.75l $29.99USD
SAQ Johnnie 750ml $29.95 ($26.96USD)
($35.94 USD/liter)
etc etc
(slightly > 2x.....)
The SAQ is somewhat draconian in their pricing and practices.
You MUST purchase spirits and most wines/imported beer from them, whether for personal use or bar or restaurant.
Bars & restos pay an 8% premium across the board over personal prices (they add special labelling, a small sticker, for this).
If you want a product not listed by SAQ (any wine, beer, or spirit), you have to special-order it through THEM and swallow THEIR taxation/pricing (you will lose any price benefit of cheap stuff from elsewhere).
They also have a policing arm which randomly tests bars and restos for strength (dip tests - they don't care if you're ripping the customer, they're worried that watering down your booze slows their sales) and proof of proper labelling (that you paid your 8%).
I'm just sayin.
Yeah, I miss the Caribbean...and the US, and Mexico, and Central America, and Spain....
re: EvergreenDan
Pull people over for what? Is it illegal to transport alcohol across state lines for personal consumption? For resale, yes, but I didn't think there was anything to stop you from transporting for personal use/consumption?
re: jrvedivici
I think it could become an issue when you're buying for all your friends and family. A vehicle loaded with many cases of whatever could be questionable. I don't know if I knew this was an issue going from CA back into OR or just suspected that it could be. But we were never stopped so it was never an issue for us.
re: c oliver
When I was growing up my parents would make the liquor run to NH for home and friends. Most people covered it all up with luggage and blankets. The word on the street back then was if the police stopped you after leaving NH they would confiscate it.
re: jrvedivici
profiling presumed future drunks.......
re: jrvedivici
When you purchase tax-free goods from outside of MA, you are expected to declare it and pay use tax which is equal to the sales tax that a MA retailer would have collected. Therefore, you are expected to pay whatever the liquor tax is in MA that is paid by the stores (or distributors -- not sure) on your behalf.
I found this out the hard way when I imported an expensive auto part from Europe and received a bill from the state about a year later.
(I'm neither tax lawyer nor accountant, though.)
re: EvergreenDan
You are correct about self-assessing sales tax on taxable items purchased elsewhere. However, the tax on booze in MA is an excise tax, not a sales tax. The sales tax on booze was very short lived. (Which makes sense: you're gonna have an excise tax, then slap a sales tax on top of that? Ugh.)
I don't think that story about troopers following people who went to the NH liquor stores is true. I think it is mixed up with the fact that they do scope out people buying fireworks in NH, especially close to the 4th of July, and pull people over suspected of bringing personal fireworks into MA.
re: Alcachofa
>>> Which makes sense: you're gonna have an excise tax, then slap a sales tax on top of that? <<<
In most (but, apparently, not all) states, a sales tax is charged on the actual sale price, which -- again, in most (but, apparently, not all) cases -- includes whatever excise taxes, tariffs, customs duties, etc., etc. are included in the price.
re: zin1953
NC charges sales tax on liquor - as well as food, medicine, clothing, everything (unlike other states I have lived in). A few years ago, they did revise the taxes on non-prepared food so it is only 2% now, rather than the full 6-7% it had been.
re: ncyankee101
Quebec (and Canada) also charges tax everything (except non-prepared food, but I don't know how long that'll last).
PST (provincial sales tax) is 10% and GST (General (federal) sales tax) is 5%.
They don't calculate based solely on the purchase price...they charge the 10% on the purchase price, then calculate the 5% on the new total (purchase price plus PST), ie they tax the tax.
re: porker
re: EvergreenDan
The NH liquor store is now carrying several varieties of vermouth, including Dolin. They have been getting better in selling more esoteric spirits, but it's still mainly a great place to pick up 100 different flavors of vodka. I think that their wine prices are pretty similar to what I pay in the Boston area, but some liquor prices are much lower. My wife likes Bombay Sapphire Gin. It's $40 for 1.75L in MA, goes for $35 on sale. Regular price in NH is $35, and it goes on sale for $30. Not a great deal of savings, but as we travel to Maine from Boston often, and go right by, it's not a major extra trip for us.
Hey, first post here, just had to comment since I hear talk about various prices state to state a lot working in a PA state store. Most people complain that we're consistently more expensive, but as a native West Virginian, nearly everything in a PA store is 5-20 bucks cheaper depending on the product, with a few exceptions of course. I always credited this to the markups of the private stores in WV. When I managed a store there the markup was 77% on every bottle- huge. But looking at some of the figures and seeing that PA's tax rate is pretty high and WV's pretty low, it's pretty reasonable to say that tax isn't a really reliable way to tell the price of booze in an area. I haven't really bought alcohol anywhere else, NY once which, yeah, was high, but I'm not familiar with prices in other places. I can find most of the stuff people mention here for similar prices, so I assume it's reasonable. I have to assume the price is really just a variable based on cost of living and other stuff, basically they sell it for what they can. I wish I would have known how much cheaper PA's prices were when I was still in WV, definitely would have made the drive.
re: hwdavis88
As a California resident, trust me: PA is high. AND limited.
re: zin1953
Actually, PA is very competitive on a few items - especially when they are on sale. I have been shopping online and travelling to PA and FL over the last 4 years, and comparing prices between NY, GA, CA (Hitime wine), NC and PA. They have had the best prices on Laphroaig 18 yr and Thomas handy ($60), prices as good as anywhere on Barbancourt 5 star (sale) and Wild Turkey 101 rye (when they had it) at $19-20. There were quite a few others I don't recall now, but I always came back from PA with a dozen or more bottles.
The selection is much better if you go to one of the "luxury" stores.


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Jerome Corsi appeared on the Former New York Governor's radio show to discuss ForgeryGate.
Obama probably thought no one would notice that ring…. cause I assure you, if he had any inkling that would be noticed… he would have not worn it.
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Pictured here is the cover of "P.E. For Seniors: Practical Exercises, Volume 1" a new book by Nanette Heidtman, with photography and layout by Louise Sollers.
"I have ordered some copies which should arrive in a couple of weeks," said Heidtman. "However, if you want your copy now, just check out the web page (http://tinyurl.com/heidtman). This spiral-bound paperback is 175 pages of text and photos explaining exactly how to do the exercises. You can customize a workout routine to fit your needs. There will be an ebook version on Amazon.com by next month. This book was written by a senior, for seniors and demonstrated by seniors."
Heidtman said several local merchants will soon carry the book, including Times Remembered in Ferndale and Rain All Day Books in Fortuna.
"The cover photo was taken at Chetham Grove, ancient redwoods, not far from my house. I'm standing next to a fallen giant tree. Even though that tree's life is over, new growth is sprouting from its trunk. An amazing place to visit," she said.


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Amazing job, they have some great new features in the pipeline that will make RSEvents! even better!
Just as with their other extension, this rocks!
I don't think "what limitations do I have?" anymore, but "what challenges will I overcome next?"
Amazing release - Jan, Sascha, Mustaq, Malte, Bob and everyone else that helped make this release possible, thank you!
Go get it now!
Without a doubt Peter's extensions make the process of building a website so much easier!
I think everyone else out there has this same question, "Why are you not on the core Joomla! team?" You are able to do what we as members of the Joomla! community only dream about - and you make it so simple! Thanks again for all of your contributions.
Thanks! Means a lot!
Why not on the core team?... money and time!
Also, making my own stuff gives me the freedom to do it how I want... and I enjoy that.
If you haven't checked out RSFormPro!, do it now! They have a demo area on their site so you can test all of their extensions, but again, you won't be disappointed!
Two features that I need to mention are the ability to link your events to articles (instead of just an event view --- BIG IMPROVEMENT from other calendar managers) and the ability to download or subscribe to the calendar. This gives your users better usability for your site.
An all around great product. I can't wait for more updates!
Obviously there has been much talk about Joomla 1.6 having a blogging component built in, but this component provides the best to-date solution available anywhere for Joomla!.


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Is Industry Ready to Share Supplier Audits? Rx-360 Takes a Shot.
The buzz around Rx-360, an international pharmaceutical supply chain consortium headed by seven advisory panel members including Martin Van Trieste of Amgen, has been brewing for months. More than 125 people attended the consortium's launch meeting in Washington, DC, last Friday, June 5—quite a few more than Van Trieste and his team originally expected. Clearly, the turnout demonstrated industry's interest in working together to help improve supply chain security. Also demonstrating a yearning for cohesion were the results of the meeting's live polling questions. Using devices to vote from their seats, 100% of meeting participants agreed that Rx-360 was needed. Most also said they would join or are considering joining the consortium.
When asked about which of Rx-360's objectives they support, 20% said adopting industry standards; 13% said monitoring; 6% said technologies; and 61% said shared audits.
Regarding the last stat, when asked how comfortable they feel about sharing audits, 16% said shared audits were not an option; 33% said shared audits would require significant rework; 33% said shared audits could be adapted fairly easily; and 18% said they were good to go right now with shared audits (this latter group is most likely made up of smaller pharma and biopharma companies who have a difficult time getting large suppliers to let them conduct audits).
Rx-360 is proposing three types of shared audits for suppliers, which are described in more detail on the consortium's website. The "sponsored" model involves a member company paying for Rx-360 auditors to conduct an audit of a supplier. The "Rx-360" model would involve a joint decision among a certain number of consortium members to audit a supplier. The "subscription" model would allow consortium members to submit and pull already conducted audits from a member database (those audits would have been done by the submitting company or a third-party).
After breakout sessions in which groups of about 6 to 10 individuals discussed the three proposed audit models, Rx-360 took additional polls: 67% said they think the sponsored model is viable; 90% said the Rx-360 model is viable; and 81% said the subscription model is viable.
While those numbers seem quite supportive of Rx-360's efforts regarding shared audits, much work needs to be done before any model can be adopted. For example, 66% said they would not trust anonymous Rx-360 member company audit reports.
Very detailed standards would have to be established for audits conducted by Rx-360 or third parties, for the auditors themselves (qualifications, years on the job, etc.), and for audit reports in order for member companies to use and trust audit results. These audits would also have to be relevant to different types and sizes of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies in order to be useful. Some people at the meeting suggested the shared audits serve as a background guide for a company to obtain general information about a supplier and then decide whether or not a particular supplier needs additional auditing in certain areas.
In addition, members would need some type of FDA endorsement of Rx-360 based audits (Van Trieste has said that FDA is in support of their work thus far). Accreditation may be the way to go on that front—a route IPEA's third-party audit program (established by the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council) is already seeking.
And of course there are the suppliers themselves to consider when talking about shared audits. Given that they can no longer handle the amount of client audit requests, not to mention regulator audits, suppliers would benefit from a shared program. By letting a consortium such as Rx-360 conduct one very thorough audit that 5, 10, or even 100 clients can share, a supplier can save a lot of time and hassle. But would they receive some sort of monetary benefit for doing so? Would they be able to say, "We don't want Company X to get a copy of this audit report" or "We don't feel this audit report is justified?"
Clearly, the idea of shared audits is a good one but it also comes with many challenges and questions to be worked out. I hope Rx-360 can pull it off. Let us know your thoughts about shared audits.


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Thank you for choosing our university for your international study experience. It is a great honour and pleasure for the International Students Office (ISO) to have you with us.
This website is intended to serve as a quick reference whenever you encounter a problem or simply have a question. It will prepare you for life and study in Moscow and answer at least some questions that might arise during the first days of your stay.
We wish you success and many wonderful discoveries!
Shadow Theatre, Designer Cake, and Other Reasons to Come to the HSE's Art Night
On November 3, Moscow will play host to Art Night. Visitors will be welcomed to theatres, museums, libraries, and higher education institutions. The HSE is also offering its own programme of entertainment — the Art of Dreaming. Here are several reasons why you should make sure you visit the HSE's Art Night.
I Am Excited to Be on the 'Ground Floor' of this Long Term Project
Marco Colosio, M.Sc., the first foreign PhD student at the Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, arrived in Moscow three weeks ago. Marco talks about his scientific interests, his background in Italy and his first impressions of Moscow and CDM-Centre. Marco is a graduate student at University of Padua (Italy), specializing in psychology psychobiology and cognitive science.
A trip to Europe's Highest Point
HSE's Extreme Sports student club is organizing this year's open skiing and snowboarding trip to the slopes of Mount Elbrus and Mount Cheget. The club invites not only students, alumni and staff of the HSE to participate in the event, but also their friends from other universities.
The HSE Professors' Club welcomes you to the exciting 2014-2015 Concert Season!
The next concert will take place on October 29, 2014 at 6.00 pm. Performers: Yana Ivanilova (soprano), Alexey Skanavi (piano). Programme: « Children's question: For adults about children».
HSE Tourist Rally: Students Learn to Survive in the Wild
The 22nd Annual Open Tourist Rally, organized by the HSE's Extreme Sports Club, has taken place outside Moscow. Nearly 200 Russian and international students from the HSE and other Moscow universities took part.
HSE Faculty of Design: Pushkin Museum programme partner
On October 3, 2014, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Artsis opening the exhibition 'British Design: From William Morris to the Digital Revolution,' prepared by the Moscow Design Museum. The exhibition will feature an educational programme, in which the HSE Faculty of Design is partnering with the two museums.
HSE Day: International Students and Faculty Get into the Spirit of University Life
The Higher School of Economics is becoming more and more internationalized. It is for this reason that HSE Day, which took place at Gorky Park, reached an international level as well. Among the numerous activities at the event were ones that featured English as their main form of communication. Thanks to this, international students, foreign instructors, and all guests of the celebration who wanted to speak English were able to feel they could take full participation in the events.
Activities English Speaking Guests Can Join without Offending their Ears
HSE Day 2014 is a festival for everyone unimpeded by communication barriers. The organisers have created a special space where English speaking guests can feel completely free and will be able to understand what is going on!
10 Reasons to Come to HSE Day or Unauthorized Entry Only
It's September but you don't have to get blues because autumn starts with HSE Day — a massive city festival in Gorky Park. For the third year in a row on September 10 the HSE transforms the park into a university campus where you can have fun finding out about life in a modern university. Here are 10 good reasons why everybody, even if they have nothing to do with the HSE should come to this special day.


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Friday, November 11, 2011
Photo gallery from Grapes for Humanity event featuring Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson online
Grapes for Humanity is an organization that helps to raise funds to benefit humanitarian causes around the world with the assistance of the international wine community and Geddy Lee is a member of the board of directors. Back in September all 3 members of Rush participated in the annual charity auction which ended up raising more than $50,000 for the charity. On the final weekend of the auction back on September 17th, about 60 wine lovers joined Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson at Union Station to take a Via Rail train to Belleville. They were then bussed to Huff Estate Winery in Bloomfield, Prince Edward County for an event featuring plenty of good wine, good food and great company. A photo gallery from the event was posted online at the Grapes for Humanity website and features plenty of great photographs of Geddy and Alex. You can check it out at this link. Thanks to RushFanForever for the heads up.


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NASA: The Moon is not enough
NASA and its international aeronautical cohorts have some serious explaining to do before they start rocketing folks to the Moon again. They better convince the public why it's so important for our species to invest hand-over-fist just to root around some boring gray orbital dust ball - a dust ball we already stuck a flag in a …
isn't the ISS enough of an example?
Let's do experiments in space. Extend our knowledge, push back the frontiers.
What happened? Well almost no science, for a kick-off. The space station is just about able to keep going - although there have been scares which almost led to it's abandonment. It seems to have no purpose anymore, except to provide missions for the scuttle - which in turn only exists to service the space station.
If we were to do it all again (would we, should we?), knowing what we do about the cost, time and outcomes, what would humanity decide? Go for it or spend the money elsewhere.
If we've learned anything from the ISS programme it's that the lofty goals of the scientists easily get subverted, downgraded or simply cancelled when political expediency, short-term thinking and budgets get cut. Going to the moon - possibly to stay, would be vastly more expensive. Can we say that the benefits to the human race would be worth it and more importantly, that they'd be delivered?
Can LunatIQs* Help?
""Because of the way the universe works, the story of human life is a story of extinction," said Paul Spudis of the Lunar and Planetary Institute (and half-empty guy when it comes to the cosmic ballet apparently).
"It's not a matter of if, but when."
I agree, on all three counts. ;-)
""Our imaginations typically aren't good enough to forecast what we'll see in exploration," said Spudis." ..... I Disagree, Spudis. And would Bet the Planets on IT, for of course, they would at least be Involved..
* An AIQ available from the NIRobotIQ ICQ Range..... and Virtually Silent Running.
Ca IRa and Welcome to ITs Real dDeep Cool Waters...... and Gravitational Waves and ElectroMagnetic Pulses.
CyberSpace, the NeuReal Frontier with Pit Fall Barriers for the Imposter Poster.... IP Thief ...... Mole
19 or 39?
"a dust ball we already stuck a flag in a full score and 19 years ago."
Ahem, surely you mean 39 years ago?
Damn right
The next time you go out at night, look up at the sky and take a really good look. Assuming that it's not cloudy, and the light pollution doesn't spoil it, you should see a sight that has fascinated men for millenia.
What are they - what's happening there. These are the questions that we want to know the answers to.
For those that say robot craft or telescopes are enough, I would say do you just read the catalogues in the travel shop, or do you actually want to go to the places that you read about?
Yes, there are problems that need solving here on Earth and I wouldn't deny that these have to be dealt with. But the universe is a wonderful, wondrous place and we should be trying to push ourselves to explore as much as we can.
So let's go straight to Mars, not to the Moon?
"Been there done that" is a reason not to go back to the Moon?
Well, I dunno. Seems to me to be a damn GOOD idea to go back to the Moon until we can do it in a straightforward manner - and only then think about Mars....
If I were going to try crossing Niagara Falls on a tightrope, I think I'd practice on something a bit easier first....
500 Megayears?
The moon's been around longer than that and Apollo returned with mineral grains almost eight times older than that.
Has to be permanent
The $200Bn ISS, the marvellous, technological wonder it is will be ditched into the ocean in about 10 years time with little to show for it, and what then? Will they build yet another space station or is that a bit too 20th century now?
I've often tried to find out what actually goes on up there but I'm sure that all they've discovered is how to build a space station and how to live in one.
If they have another brief visit to the Moon or take an Apollo-esque trip to Mars it will be nothing more than a vast money spending exercise struggling to justify itself. The next big project has to be putting people, permanently into space, if building a Moon base puts them a step forward to achieving that then great, if not then no thanks.
It is worth noting that after the Apollo programme had been cancelled the money was simply absorbed into everything else, no-one had a tax cut or anything beneficial.
Re: 19 or 39?
I'd explain this but I'm sure 20 commenters will do it better in a matter of seconds.
Oh come on
"NASA and its international aeronautical cohorts have some serious explaining to do before they start rocketing folks to the Moon again."
@Roni Leben
A "score" is 20 as in "Three score years and ten" meaning 70.
So "a score and 19" is 39 :-)
Re 19 or 39
Austin did say "a full score and 19 years ago", which is 20+19.
It was meant to echo the opening lines of the Gettysburg Address.
We must allow our colonial cousins a little poetic licence now and again.
@Has to be permanent
"I've often tried to find out what actually goes on up there but I'm sure that all they've discovered is how to build a space station and how to live in one."
They do a lot of medical science stuff. I will say this, I think NASA has a fantastic website. Here's their main page for station science:
Now bare in mind that RIGHT NOW, there are three people on the station who have a lot of construction work and stuff.
Real soon now that phase is going to be over with the Shuttle retirement, they're going to double the crew to six and they'll be doing a lot more research.
And, realistically, they'll probably just extend it's lifetime. Mir got extended almost a decade past it's "warranty". Most of the hardware for ISS is "expected" to last a lot longer than any of the Mir hardware was.
I would find it extremely bizarre and unprecedented if they actually deorbit it in 10 years.
Re: 19 or 39?
Come on man!
Surely you remember the iconic speech by Abe Lincoln that begins "Four score and seven years ago..."
A score is a set of twenty of something...
So a score of years = 20 years...
"a full score and 19 years ago" = 39 years!
Do your research!
@Sarah: We do but only your wishes!
to explore space you would probaly need to update a old dos star calculator and create nano degrees
I vote for cheaper transport into space
Noddy's guide to rockets: Burn 1% of your fuel so you can shove it out the back very fast. A tenth of it was used to accelerate your fuel tank. Far less was used to accelerate you payload. Nearly nine tenths was used to accelerate the rest of your fuel in the wrong direction (the proportion gets lower as you run out of fuel).
Air would make a good propellant for the first stage to orbit. It has the great advantage that it is not moving very fast in the wrong direction. Bad new is it needs a power source to do anything useful. A nuclear powered air breathing engine would not need the enormous fuel tanks that you see on current rockets. If you are not brave enough to put a nuclear power plant on a rocket, cook it with microwaves from space.
An orbital micro-wave powered air breathing engine would drop the costs of getting to low earth orbit considerably. Bad news is the kit required is hefty, and requires assembly in orbit. Thanks to the space station, people now have some experience of construction in space. Building out of moon rocks and dropping it down might be cheaper than lifting the kit from Earth.
I am sure some Americans can think of other uses for kit that can send megwatts of microwaves at a fast moving (or stationary) target, and the ones I am thinking about have money to burn.
The information on the moon is all very interesting (to me anyway), but the moon also has the raw materials to get people to the asteroids and Mars cheaper than sending everything direct from Earth. That might sell the idea better than information about the past - at least to people who do not understand how much investment would be required.
Reasons for the ISS
I hear a lot about the science being done on the ISS, and whilst I would like there to be great breakthroughs due to the endeavour, in my mind it's not the biggest benefit it's given to us.
I think the fact that it's a focal point between nations, that allows countries who are in other ways unable to work together to get together.
US, Russia, Europe, Japan, Canada and the rest have at least one project where they actually help each other, this in the long run can only be a good thing.
On a smaller scale, Europe, the Jules Vern was a European venture, not just UK, or France or Spain, but the whole of Europe contributed to it's creation, teaching much needed engineering skills and inspiring bonds between countries.
I don't think this is a universal answer to world peace, but it can't hurt. *
The science in my mind is secondary (although still important)
Heart for obvious hippie based reasons
* At least until we start fitting the thing with big Lasers!
We need to pwn the moon
If we stick to orbital stuff, everything needs to be lifted out of Earth's full-fat gravity well. That's expensive. If we can get some mining and materials processing setup on the moon, there's only 1/6th of the gravity that you need to overcome to lift things into orbit, so it makes sense to get raw materials (steel would be a good start) from the moon and just lift the electronics -and tricky bits that you need a wide industrial base for- from earth. It makes sense in the not-very-long term.
Once you have industry on the moon, that gives you the platform to certainly make use of the solar system, if not beyond quite yet.
Or we could just sit here in our one basket -use the money to fund Botswanan farmers or what ever the cause is this week- and wait for extinction. There will come a point (opinion varies on exactly when) when all the resources we produce will be needed to maintain the population; and we will have lost the option.
Costs and benefits of space exploration
I often hear complaints about the cost of space exploration (initially it looked like this article was going down that route). Based on the research I've done every dollar spent on space exploration has returned 3-7 dollars to the world economy. A lot of the computer technology we enjoy today can say a big thank you to the American space program.
What amazes me is that people criticise the cost of space exploration while largely remaining silent on the cost of weapons development and international arms sales. Vast sums of money are spent on arms and weapons development every year and yet the return on investment in terms of useful civilian technologies is quite low.
Let's boost space research which has had huge positive knock-on effects around the world, and cut back on making bombs. Seems pretty simply eh?
Space, the final frontier
It's easier to build the Enterprise in space than in Earth! ;)
Truly the "Mars is more interesting" camp haven't thought that by setting a permanent moon base, we're actually setting a milestone for the actual Mars trip! As someone else mentioned, I'd rather master the Earth-Moon trip before going further away.
Moreover, the Mars manned missions did point out something about building the Mars-bound spaceship in space, then sending it on its way. The Moon looks like a better place to do something like that.
And that "better things like war, hunger, climate change" argument is trite. There is far more money being spent in *doing* war than space exploration; this directly causes hunger. Stop spending in war, funnel all that into other needs and you'll get the problem solved!
Ged orrrf moi land!
I do hope if they decide to return to the moon I will be able to collect ground rent from my acre of moon land should the lander descend there.
Ha Ha to all those doubters who said it was a wasted investment!
Moon Base Alpha
What ever they do they better not build Moon Base Alpha otherwise we will loose the moon.
(for those without a clue.... Space 1999. A TV series)
Playground needs new toys
NASA is like kids who get bored with their toys and want to play with new ones.
The problem with the moon and mars toys is they are likely to cost billions to trillions of dollars.
And honestly, not too many other people get much enjoyment out of watching them play with the toys.
I am more in favor of projects like SpaceShipOne. If you people want to go play around in space, do it with your own $$$.
Because it's there!
Of course we should return to the moon! Humans have always needed to explore and expand their boundaries. If Columbus hadn't made the then seemingly pointless voyage across the Atlantic and if the pilgrims hadn't settled America, we wouldn't have.....hmm....hang on a minute....hmm....
A full score + 19 = 39. Score comes from the Norse word "skor" which means 20. So a "full score" is 20, unless it happens in extra time, is on a triple letter score, or is a no score draw. A full score in music is about 108 bars. A score in a single(s) bar is generally worth more, unless you've drunk too much beer to really know the score, or if you've managed to score some coke. I hope that's helped to settle that score.
Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)
@halfcut: "There will come a point (opinion varies on exactly when) when all the resources we produce will be needed to maintain the population; and we will have lost the option."
Nope! When things get tight, we just say stuff messing around with small loads and use Project Orion (nuclear propulsion).
Put a skyscraper on the moon in one fell swoop.
"the Orion design would work by dropping fission or thermonuclear explosives out the rear of a vehicle, detonating them 200 feet (60 m) out, and catching the blast with a thick steel or aluminum pusher plate."
Paris because (obviously) she likes things to be tight...
This is all crap
Until the issue of radiation damage to human tissue and DNA is solved, the notion of traveling outside the earth-moon orbit is unfeasable. There is no way, at this time to protect human astronauts in interstellar travel.
Abe Lincoln
You might not know if you are British and did not study American history.
When I was at school I studied mostly about the native Americans and JFK getting bumped off by his government colleagues (yes I do believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was one of the gunman but that there was a CIA sharpshooter on the grassy knoll who finsihed the job so Oswald was just a decoy)
Posted anonymously because the CIA can get you anywhere.
I agree wih a new moon mission
Humanity has one goal at this point
and that is to create Jean Luc Picard and a ship for him to ride arround in. come on folks, we only have about 400 years to work with here. we gotta get the lead out.
Seriously, we should be less worried about exactly what type of number crunching we can do to calculate the density of dust on the moon. we need to just focus on living there. the more obscure science can wait until we have a summer house up there.
Re: 'Because it's there!' and 'new toys', etc
Scratcher shoots... SCOOOOOOORE! ;-)
For those who say "first solve the problems here", let's tally what the space program and all those $$$ have given us. Upon close examination we'll see that, in some cases, there is a direct benefit to humanity from space exploration. Someone's already mentioned computers. But what about all the OTHER microelectronics we've come to know and love? How about pretty much EVERYTHING with a microchip - from video games to your programmable household thermostat. All that was a result of miniaturization made necessary by the needs of the space program. Or how about heart pacemakers? At least three of my elderly relatives have these to keep the ol' ticker running. Again, miniaturization brought about by the needs of space exploration. Then, of course there's satellite TV, GPS, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
The list is nearly endless. Yes, space exploration is dangerous and costs grillions of $$$. However, in the light of real and tangible benefits gained, I'd say it's money well spent. The coolness factor is, in my opinion, merely frosting on top.
Yes, we have problems here on our little blue-green ball. We likely always will. That shouldn't stop us from trying to improve ourselves and our condition in every way possible.
To boldly go...
where only 12 men have been before...
Actually for those who endlessly bleat on about solving poverty , etc etc consider this
NASA gets 16 billion US dollars a year, convert that into pounds and it would keep our welfare state going for about 3 weeks, that money would keep the US's welfare system going for about 2 days
I'm no great NASA fan, but...
"NASA is like kids who get bored with their toys and want to play with new ones."
is probably the wordiest rendering of "I have no idea what I'm talking about" I've seen all week.
Re: Can LunatIQs* Help?
Yes, of course they can. amfM, have you never met the Association of Autonomous Astronauts? I think they'd be right up your street/planet/galaxy/dimension!
John Carpenter is all crap
>"There is no way, at this time to protect human astronauts in interstellar travel"
Yes there is, there are plenty of them. Lead shielding would be insanely heavy stuff to send up, but it would work just as well in space as it does on Earth.
Even better, though: if you're sending astronauts on a long space journey, they're going to need some fairly substantial water supplies (even allowing for recycling) - and water makes great shielding against cosmic rays. Build all the water tanks into the outer hull of your spacecraft and the interior will be nicely shielded.
"Based on the research I've done every dollar spent on space exploration has returned 3-7 dollars to the world economy"
Well I don't know about everyone else but I'm convinced. Are you by any chance an author on Wikipedia! :op
@ Humanity has one goal
If you are going to create a crew person from Star Trek, bugger Jean Luc Picard ( if you like) Personally I would go for Seven of Nine with or without the spray on uniform.
As far as going to the moon? Of course we should, we should never have stopped going there. By now there really could have been a base and some serious research being done. Under zero or low gravity there is a lot of interesting science and engineering that can be done that is impossible on earth. Crystalline structures in metallurgy and materials science for one comes to mind. Space exploration gave us so many new technologies before and it will again.
@ Matthew
"It is worth noting that after the Apollo programme had been cancelled the money was simply absorbed into everything else, no-one had a tax cut or anything beneficial."
Actually, the Apollo program was cancelled--with a couple more missions already slated and the Saturn rockets for them already built--in order to divert money into the Viet Nam war effort.
So, which expenditure would have benefitted us more, do you think? Seems like a no-brainer to me...
Honestly, given the amount of money we're flushing down the toilet fighting an expensive and ultimately pointless war in Iraq, the comparative dribble of change--less than that needed to finance a few weeks' worth of overseas misadventures--that it'll cost to return to the moon seems like a damn good bargain to me.
@Boris the Cockroach
...and the folks here on the left want to expand our welfare system...
manned space program benefits
I grew up watching Commando Cody, Jet Jackson, the Mercury and Gemini flights, Fireball XL-5, Star Trek, and the Apollo missions. Although all of that stirred and inspired me, rational discussion of manned space program benefits needs to be based on something other than nostalgia.
My impression is that "space program technology" is mostly engineering, not basic science, and that most of it was based on military prior art, not NASA pioneering from scratch. The basic science and technology had already been worked out in military programs from the V-2 to the Redstone and Atlas boosters, as well as commercial efforts like the the AM transistor radio: Frankie Valli wailing "Sherry" over the first shirt-pocket transistor radios did more to promote the miniaturization of electronics than Sputnik ever did.
As for computers, the space program has lagged, rather than led the way. This is entirely appropriate, since you want reliable rather than flashy technology in outer space.
Although there were some basic science discoveries attributable to non-military space programs (the van Allen radiation belt, Hubble imaging, cosmic ray measurements etc.), most of this could arguably have been accomplished without ever putting anybody in orbit.
It seems, therefore, that the manned space program was vastly oversold in terms of its tangible benefits to the taxpaying public except for TANG, the convenient orange-flavored sugar beverage beloved of our heroic astronauts. (The fact that "tangible" begins with TANG will not be lost on conspiracy theorists.)
The real motives for the manned space program probably lie in secret military missions piggybacked on an ostensibly public program and convenient excuses to funnel ever more dollars into the military-industrial complex.
If some people enjoy the show while their pockets are picked, I suppose that's more pleasant than my depressing alternative. But I also believe that the truth will make you free, rendering truth all that more precious in an increasingly unfree world.
re: Playground needs new toys
Not really. They want more budget.
Remember folks, NASA a an **administration**, run by administrators for administrators. Their power/fun/egorub comes from playing with vast project and vast sums of money. Actual scientific output is of lesser concern.
Damn heretics
"It's a witness to 500 million years of history and preserves it."
Haha, very funny, if it wasn't for the fact y'all be burning in Hell for this. Every intelligent, open minded person knows that it can't be more than 6,000 years old!
Why the rush?
"It's a witness to 500 million years of history and preserves it. Further exploration and study of the moon may have major implications in our understanding of how the solar system evolved."
Apart from the age being wrong, I'm sure it'll still be be in good nick in a few tens or hundreds of years when we've developed a better way of getting to it.
What I need to know
Is how any of this culminates in my own personal X-Wing. Show me that and I'll sign off on whatever you want, beit the Moon, Mars, or whatever.
What I do know is that if all you have to show me after spending a kagillion dollars is moon water and space amoeba, the moon water better cure cancer or make people fly and you better not call space amoeba alien life.
If it doesn't have six antenna, make silly beep-beep noises and supplies every human with a light sabre, blaster and a first class ticket to Alpha Centuri, you don't have permission to call it anything other than spit in a bucket.
Climate change? Hungry children? Poverty? Disease? Screw that, I say restart the game and level our culture from scratch with the benefit of hindsight. I'm sure there's a planet out there that's basically one big Hawaii, tastefully decorated with the best hotels aliens can buy and has free parking space for 20 billion humans.
The Moon is not Enough, May Actually be Too Much
The reason NASA doesn't want to go to the moon because the first thing that people are going to be looking for is the Lunar Landing which never happend.
how quickly they forget
Mass driver, remember? You put it on the Moon, it hurls rocks to a point such as L5, you build space colonies including giant solar collectors that beam microwaves down to the Earth's surface where collector farms turn them into electricity for the grid.
Yeah we used to take stuff like that seriously back in the day, when engineers were allowed to build stuff like the Saturn 5 and climatologists did not yet fill people with a sense of weary fatalism.
Your all nerds of starwars, current technology would allow for a nuclear powered shuttle that in theory would look like those in armergeden, so there would be no real need for moonbase, and would be able to create a primitive navsystem with a 3d star calculator for when hyperdrive arrives you can calculate thrust/distance/arrival star possition and plot path captain, with no stars visible when in space. And a rotation hubble dropping from a bay
We need to establish a Moon presence first and then Mars.
My own Very brief initial reply to a previous post:Yes, Nasa is an administration, but they do good actual space science experiments, and a great many medical developments also.
Main two points: 1) Yes, space science is expensive & and the money that goes to it could've (always) been used for other (~better?) uses on good ole spaceship Earth, but there are always a great deal of ways that humanity will be wiped off the face of the earth eventually as a result of either any of several viruses capable of becoming a pandemic & wiping out up to 98% of human race, global warming changing the entire food chain from the bottom up, asteroid Apofice in 2036, Yellowstone caldera ( 40+ KM wide supervolcano) also capable of wiping out 80% of human race, etc. .The ways for a globally massive casualty of the human race will continue to be a danger unless we diversify ourselves as a race. It's cynicism yes, but take it seriously.
It's very much like a company/corporation with massive assets vitally important to it's well being. Should it have all of it's data & equipment only at it's home site, or should it have equipment elsewhere when the onsite servers fail due to power/fire/mechanical failures? Same type of thinking. We either protect the human race by getting some of us off the face the earth & get started on it, or die as a species. Forever. After something super horrible happens, such as one of above which in one stroke wipes out nearly 80+ % of the human race, all of our funding towards poverty, hunger, and disease prevention will just be so very much worth it instead of doing all we can to make certain of the viability of the continuation of the human race. If we don't do that, we don't deserve to survive as a race past the next global catastrophe.
2) Even if the US drops the military budget down to 1% of current expenditure, other countries won't do the same. Sure, the government 'could' cut out the military war budget, tell the other countries where the US has foreign bases that it's coming back onto own shores, cut off all 10's of BN of $ of funding to Africa & other idiotic countries that are so corrupt that they need our help to find their own 'whatever'. What Happens then to the rest of the world when we do that though afterwards???
Something to think about....
Green ways to orbit.
If I'm not mistaken, it's been demonstrated that taking off like a plane and flying to a cruising altitude before actually boosting into space saves a fair amount of fuel. It can also be performed with less expensive fuel, as I understand it.
Now, admittedly, IIRC, we've had a grand total of one such demonstration, which nearly ended in disaster, with no immediate resolution of the issue involved. However, I feel confident with a bit of study we could learn enough to be able to do it safely in the future.
@Cristhian Mejia
This is a common Myth. The Russians respond to it by saying that if the Americans never went, they (the Russians) would have told the world.
The moon may be able to give us a potential new energy source (Helium-3). We should explore and learn and the consequence is better science.
Also do not forget there is a traffic jam building up as the Russians and Chinese have moon programs on the table too. It would be wonderful if the next generation of moon exploration is a truly international collaboration.
@Green ways to orbit
That's been done numerous times. Off the top of my head: the commercial Pegasus launch vehicle, the USAF's ASM-135 anti-satellite missile.
Fuel advantages aren't that big of a deal. The main advantages include a cheap & reusable first stage, the ability to deploy anywhere, freedom from weather delays and (or so I'm told) cheaper insurance.
Also, don't start throwing around the word "green" here. Most of the pollution probably comes from manufacturing everything and probably correlates with the cost of the rocket. Many launch vehicles such as the space shuttle use LOX & hydrogen fuel which produces WATER as a byproduct.
Of course manufacturing hydrogen isn't very "green".
Bottom line, it's a lot more complicated than less fuel = better. We're not talking about cars here.
@ Boris the Cockroach / Spend wisely
Quote: "To boldly go... "
OMG! You split an infinitive! You must die, you heretic!
As to the cost of another manned moonshot programme, it might be more useful to spend the money on an effective system to detect large meteorites and asteroids and to develop ways of dealing with them. At present we have neither - and one thing science has demonstrated is that a major impact is a case of 'when' not 'if'.
A century ago, a meteorite fell over Tunguska in Siberia and burst in the atmosphere with an explosive force roughly one thousand times greater than the Hiroshima or Nagasaki bombs. Imagine what that would've done to London or Moscow or NYC (no jokes about improving Liverpool, please).
Or, of course, we could spend the money on any one of half a hundred beneficial areas of scientific research. Elimination of famine, anyone? Who's up for an alternative to oil? Cure for cancer take your fancy? No? OK, let's go to the moon, stick another Stars and Stripes on it then forget it for a further full score years and 19.*
*That's 39 for the hard-of-learning - just doing your bidding, Sarah.
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Jim Parker, The Windsor StarPublished: Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The Windsor Spitfires and Bram-pton Battalion have crossed paths many times for two teams that only see each other twice during the regular season.
The two finalists for the OHL's J. Ross Robertson Cup have plenty in common from friendships that span the globe to former players, coaches and teammates.
"There's tons of guys that know each other and will try to show who's the best," Spitfires forward Conor O'Donnell said.
Windsor centre Andrei Loktionov streaks down the ice during practice Monday at the WFCU Centre.
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When the two teams square off Wednesday in the opening game of the best-of-seven series at the WFCU Centre (7 p.m., Cable 11, live blog at windsorstar.com), there will be plenty of familiar faces on both sides starting with O'Donnell.
O'Donnell was a Brampton draft pick back in 2005 and spent the first 75 games of his OHL career with the Battalion before a trade last season to Windsor for a fourth-round pick.
"There's no bad blood, but getting out there and playing against your old team is big," O'Donnell said before practice Monday.
O'Donnell isn't the only member of the Spitfires who spent time with the Battalion.
Brampton head coach and director of hockey operations Stan Butler hired Spitfires associate head coach Bob Jones as his assistant in Brampton for the 1999-2000 season.
Jones left the next year to join the St. Michael's Majors.
"Our second year, I had Bobby Jones as an assistant and we made the playoffs," Butler said. "I love Bobby. He's a good guy."
Both the Spitfires and Battalion have benefitted greatly from the addition of a Russian import this season. Brampton's Evgeny Grachev was the OHL's rookie of the year and was a teammate of Windsor's Andrei Loktionov last year with HC Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in Russia.
"We played two seasons on the same line," Loktionov said. "I know he's a good player."
Several players from the two teams have crossed paths in the OHL.
Windsor captain Harry Young was briefly a teammate of Brampton goalie Thomas McCollum when the two played in Guelph.
Spitfires defenceman Ben Shutron was a teammate of Brampton's Matt Kang when the two played in Kingston.
Windsor's Lane MacDermid and Brampton's Thomas Stajan were rookie teammates together back in Owen Sound in 2006.
"I think that's just hockey, but there might be a few more than usual in this series," Spitfires defenceman Ryan Ellis said.
Ellis has his own ties with a couple of Brampton players. He and Battalion captain Cody Hodgson were teammates on Canada's gold-medal winning World Junior Hockey Championship team.
Windsor's Josh Unice and McCollum were the goaltending tandem for the United States as this year's World Junior Championship.
Ellis, Taylor Hall and Greg Nemisz played with Brampton's Matt Duchene on Canada's gold-medal winning World Under-18 Hockey Champion-ship team in Russia a year ago.
Ellis, Hall and Duchene also won gold for Canada at the Memorial of Ivan Hlinka under-18 tournament over the summer.
While Jones was Butler's former assistant, Jamie Allison is the current assistant of the Brampton bench boss.
Allison was a former first-round pick by the Spitfires in 1991, but was traded by Wayne Maxner after his rookie season.
Allison went on to play in the NHL with Calgary where he was a teammates with Boughner.
Windsor's Jason Day is a scout with the Battalion, but goy his start scouting for the Spitfires under former general manager Mike Kelly.
Come Wednesday, friendships will be put on hold as the two begin battle for a league title and a spot at next month's Memorial Cup.
"There are no friends on the ice," Loktionov said.
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Question by ts: What could cause severe muscle and joint pain??besides exercising?
2 weeks ago I started having really bad joint pain all over my body and It hasnt gone away. Now my muscles are hurting as well…It had gotten a little better but my joints were still hurting…specially my ankles and wrists….today just for walking up the stairs my ankles and all muscles on my leg are really sore and hurting….what could this be? I havent worked out for over a month so It has to be a symptom to some kind of disease…
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fibromyalgia…..check out the symptoms on the net. i have it and its very painful
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To be diagnosed you must have pain in several trigger points associated with fibro. There are no blood tests and such available to test for you its based on physical examinations and patient assessment.
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I found that most medicines does not work to relieve symptoms.
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u need to re evaluate your diet
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Ok so Im a 27 yr old mother of 2…. I have a chronic pain ALL over, been diagnosed with cluster headaches, have fought depression since i was 15, I suffer with the pain daily ranging from crazy intense to just a annoying throbbing pain, the pain effects my sleep, and have IBS as well. Being a Mother of 2 I have to put my pain aside to take care of them. But would be happy to know if there is something I can do to relieve the pain. Also I am a recovered alcoholic for 3 yrs now and the pain is starting to drive me to want the bottle again…. Please give me some tips and advice someone…
Note… I have not been tested for anything as of yet due to lack of insurance. Ok....
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Hey all, I am 15 and have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, but yet have still to be medicated.
I quit all sports due to the disease, when I quit I had no clue I was sick, All I knew was that I couldn't do it anymore.
I was wondering what meds I will be on and what they will do. Just an idea of what some of the meds will do and make me feel. And how long it will take to cure,etc.
Thanks all
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