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Talking Gremlin: Christmas Special
Talking Gremlin: Christmas Special is packed full of amazing & funny animations, all of which are FREE and very festive! He will repeat everything you say in his awesome voice and is guaranteed to be tons of fun for you, your friends and family this Christmas! Read his full story in the app :)
Talking Gremlin: Christmas Special features Zaptor Icarus Parsec, the identical twin brother of Little Fip, whom you can find in the original Talking Gremlin app!
In his own words, here's what Zip agrees to do when you download him to your iPad:
⁕ Repeat what you say, but in my awesome voice
⁕ Laugh when you tickle me - giggle!
⁕ Wave at you
⁕ Taunt you weak humans with my muscular strength
⁕ Take any physical abuse you throw at me - but I'm tough and WILL fight back!
⁕ Yawn right before your face if you ignore me
⁕ Cry when I get hurt - I'm tough but I have feelings too, you know?
⁕ Be forced to do something you may not like if you annoy me too much!
Zip says that he is currently learning more emotions and reactions. If you continue to interact with him, he promises to update you with these in the near future!
Feel free to broadcast your recordings of Zip (max 40s.) to the rest of the world via Youtube, Facebook and Email :)
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- iPod Touch owners may have to put in earphones that have a microphone attached, otherwise the Gremlin won't be able to hear what you say.
- Animation smoothness will depend on the age of your device. 1st Gen device owners will get lower framerate.
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I came across this article titled "Top 5 Reasons Lean Projects Fail" and thought I would jot down my own list of 8 big reasons for lean failure:
1 Let's start with his article – viewing lean as a collection of projects. Too many companies think lean is all about doing business as usual, but adding in a bunch of kaizen events. In that mode the events/projects rarely generate significant, sustainable results.
2 Buying lean – My post the other day on La Z Boy is a prime example … "The firm has made a $400,000 investment to introduce a 90-point lean manufacturing programme." I can't imagine what anyone can spend $400,000 on that would make them lean. Software and technology will not make anyone lean, and even the most outrageous consultant I know doesn't charge $400,000 to anyone for all out training and advice.
3 Limiting lean to tools – the most common failure by far. Most companies see lean as a collection of shop floor tools, techniques and parlor tricks and do not even contemplate changing anything on the management side of the business. Unfortunately you get what you manage … manage the business the same way and you will get the same results. Change management and you get different results. It's really that simple.
4 Improving processes that are (a) not really processes at all or (b) should be eliminated instead of optimized. In the first case, it is pretty common to see people defining a series of activities in the middle of an end to end process, then calling it improved when all they have done is shoved the waste up or down the process. In the second case it is fairly common to see folks improving material handling or quality inspection when they should be working on getting rid of it, or looking at ways to reduce the cost of handling paper work or conducting meetings instead of asking why enough times to realize the paperwork or the meeting shouldn't be there at all.
5 Cafeteria lean – this happens all the time … ignoring respect for people because it is too mysterious or too hard, and latching onto 5S because it is easy. Lean is an integrated, comprehensive approach to running the business – an all or none proposition. You can't pick and choose a few lean concepts you like and ignore the ones you don't understand, are too difficult or that make you uncomfortable.
6 Missing true north – this is where accounting comes in. More often than not 'improvement' is defined as reducing direct labor cost and headcount missing the fundamental point entirely. I mean, if lean is about eliminating waste and waste is defined as anything that does not add value for customers, how can the metric – the primary goal – be reducing the folks who add value? Reducing cycle time is the primary objective and very few companies really strive for this.
7 Over-reliance on consultants and lean coordinators – Rather than drive to make lean thinking a fundamental part of everyone's job companies quite often see lean as something that is driven by specialists while people pretty much do as they have always done. (probably just another way of stating #1-3)
8 Senior management ignorance – Even in companies that publicly pronounce a commitment to a lean strategy it is appalling how little time senior managers put into learning about lean and how little they know about their "strategy".
Hard to tell where any one of these reasons end and another picks up. Most companies that fail are guilty of all 8 reasons.
That's my list – it will be interesting to see any others anyone wants to add.
USSynethics, last years Shingo Prize winner states: Lean is all about eliminating waste. We eliminate waste because it is disrespectful to make someone do something that is of no value. http://www.orgsurvival.com/changing-culture-ussynthetic-the-2011-shingo-award-winner/
Dr. Rajkumar Says: April 23, 2014 at 4:03 am
It is very easy to describe Lean – Eliminate waste. to understand what is waste, how to identify, how to use the tools for elimination and really administer is very tough but having gone thru all stages and took 4 years to implement across the factory was tiresome but the results were marvellous in my experience. I would say the sustenance is more important to continue the journey. Most of the time people sit relaxed on achieving some results but continuous pursuance is the key.
Peter Parsons Says: April 23, 2014 at 8:25 am
Great list. I particularly appreciate numbers 3 and 5 although I believe they are all on target. Too many times the focus is on teaching people how to use the tools rather than ensuring they are motivated to do so. Many companies assume their personnel are motivated or try to implement the program by decree.
I would add to number 8 that management ignorance includes lack of active participation in the program and presence on the "ground floor". While we don't expect the CEO or GM (senior managers) to be constantly on the production floor, having him / her show up occasionally to engage in both formal and informal interactions to check in sends a strong message about commitment while developing an understanding of both what their tacticians are dealing with on a daily basis, and how their people are accepting the program.
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Document Type Master's Dissertation Author Abrahamse, Daniell Robert URN etd-08202003-111641 Document Title The potential role of project management in Category B municipalities Degree MSc (Project Management) Department Construction Economics Supervisor
Advisor Name Title Mr G Basson Committee Chair Keywords
- municipality
- South Africa
- project management
- Integrated Development Planning
- strategic planning
- local government
- community participation
- basic services
Date 2002-01-01 Availability unrestricted AbstractThe South African Government's Demarcation process has ensured that the entire Country now have "City to City" municipal areas. This process has been put in place to ensure that basic services can now be provided to all the people of the Country.
With the demarcation process the South African Government also introduced Integrated Development Planning (IDP). The IDP is a process through which municipalities prepare a strategic development plan, for a five-year period. The IDP is a product of the Integrated Development Planning process and a principle strategic planning instrument, which guides and describes all planning, budgeting, management and decision making in a municipality.
© 2009, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of PretoriaAccording to the Municipal Systems Act 1998 (Act No. 117 of 1998), every new council that comes into office after the Local Government elections has to prepare its own IDP, which will guide them for the five years that they are in office. The IDP is therefore linked to the term of office of Municipal Councillors. This process is aimed to provide basic services to the community, by means of making the community part of the entire process.
The research focuses on the following i.e. to determine the need for Project Management when implementing projects as reflected in the Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and to determine how Project Management can be applied in community participation for development projects in Category B Municipalities.
The following is discussed and forms part of the corpus of the research:
- The Integrated Development Plan and its benefits in terms of service delivery to the community.
- The important role Project Management plays in terms of projects as reflected in the Integrated Development Plan.
- The Project Manager must be on board during all the phases of the project life cycle, to ensure that the projects are implemented according to the following constraints:
- On time;
- Within budget;
- Utilising limited resources;
- And achieving the desired deliverables.
- The Project Manager must have leadership qualities to be successful in a municipal environment.
- That the Project Manager must be appointed on a performance contract to save guard the interest of the community and the municipality.
- The inclusion of the community must always be a motivational force behind development, and therefore one of the most important role-players during the project management process.
- That Project Management plays a vital role in service delivery and community participation, especially when implementing the Integrated Development Plan.
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The spiritualist movement that emerged in Europe and the United States in the 19th century held that humans could communicate with the spirits of those who had departed the earthly realm. It posited parallels between the earthly plane and that of the spirit world where the human spirit would dwell and continue to evolve toward perfection following bodily death.
Partly based on the writings of Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, spiritualism's beliefs and practices affirmed not only the continued existence of the human soul after physical death but also the possibility of communication between the living and the departed. Swedenborg said there were levels or planes of existence through which the spirits traveled as they continued their evolution toward perfection. Moreover, the spirits acted as intermediaries between God and humanity, and could therefore act as moral guides. Seances, table-turning, and spirit-writing practices were common methods individuals or sensitive "mediums" used to contacted spirits which then imparted information about the afterlife. The term "spiritualism" came to include a range of metaphysical arts such as mesmerism (hypnotism) and phrenology.
Spiritualism became popular in the United States following the 1847 publication of the book The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind, by Andrew Jackson Davis of Poughkeepsie, New York. Davis claimed to have received the book's content from the spirit of Emanuel Swedenborg while in a trance. When, in the following year, the Fox sisters of Rochester, New York, made contact with the spirit of a deceased peddler through audible rappings, they and spiritualism became a sensation.
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In the idealistic, romantic atmosphere of the 19th century, spiritualism was seen as scientific proof that the human soul not only continues after death, but continues to grow and improve. This idea offered comfort to the bereaved and gave credence to the idea of universal salvation. Many Universalist ministers and parishioners espoused spiritualism and practiced its arts. Universalist ministers Adin Ballou, John Spear, Joshua Ingalls, and Linus Smith were all adherents as were former ministers Samuel Brittan, William Fishbough, and James Peebles. One of the most popular trance lecturers was the much-married Cora L. V. Scott Hatch Daniels Tappan Richmond whose family had been members of Adin Ballou's Hopedale Community.
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Although books were published on its philosophy and practices, and more than three dozen spiritualist periodicals were in circulation worldwide by the 1880s, 19th-century spiritualism never institutionalized into a religious denomination. Nevertheles, it was practiced widely in the public sphere. Mediums and mesmerists filled large auditoriums with people seeking evidence of life beyond life through communication from spirits.
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(updated 8/2006)
[Update 2/2005: For at least 3 years this idea was based on two cases. That's it, two cases. Finally an Italian research team has studied the same approach in 32 patients, again finding it works. You'll find the details from that study at the bottom of this page, and some links for much more information on the role of light and dark in bipolar treatment.]
This will take a little explaining, and then we'll come around to the treatment issue. First, here's a story from the great research team at the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), originally reported in Bipolar Network News from which the graphic below derives; later published by Wehr and colleagues.
|Here you see a 3 year record of sleep and mood for a man
with rapid-cycling bipolar disorder. How the NIMH managed to get
these recordings I don't know. On the left, marked by red,
you see a sleep record (don't bother trying to figure out what it means,
just look at the pattern, which will be obvious in a minute).
Next to it, marked by purple, is the total amount of sleep per 24 hours (to the right is a lot, to the left is a little -- again, it's the pattern that matters).
On the right, marked by blue, you see a mood record that shows obvious and frequent cycling from manic peaks to depressive lows (the lows are slightly longer, you can see, especially the one marked ***).
If you look closely you can see that the amount of sleep (under the purple arrow) closely matches the mood curve: less sleep during + peaks; and more sleep during the depressive phases.
The main point so far is to see the rapid and obvious cycling.
|Here is the same record, starting from the severe depressive
episode marked before (***), and now continuing into treatment --
beginning at *. Notice that almost as
soon as treatment begins, his sleep becomes more organized (neat black and
gray bands); his total sleep per 24 hours starts to be consistent *;
and his mood curve starts to settle toward the middle *.
So, what was this treatment? NO MEDICATIONS. That sounds great, doesn't it? But it wasn't easy: the NIMH research team required this man to stay in darkness 14 hours every night, from 6 pm to 8 am the next morning. (After a few weeks they eased up: only 10 hours of "enforced darkness").
How could "darkness" treat rapid cycling? And what does this mean for your treatment?
How does darkness treat rapid cycling?
To understand this patient's response to this treatment, we must turn to our "biological clock". For a stunning example of how powerful this clock is, and how important in bipolar disorder, have a look at an example of a patient who cycled every 24 hours, first a day up, then a day down -- and has matching laboratory evidence of cycling (hormones, even handwriting!) The NIMH team theorized that in rapid cyclers, their clocks have lost the ability to respond to the timing of natural day and night.
They knew that the a specific part of the hypothalamus, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), has direct nerve connections from the eyes. It gets direct signals about how much light is out there. And it has been shown to be the main location of the "biological clock" in many animals, including humans. They thought that the SCN might get "desensitized" in some susceptible people by too much light, namely too much artificial light at night. (For much more information on how light and darkness affect bipolar disorder through the biological clock, start with my page on Bipolar Disorder: Light and Darkness (2006), and try some of the links there as well -- cool stuff!)
They hoped that the could reverse this with its opposite -- enforced darkness at night. They believed that the SCN could become more sensitive again, if given this treatment. Perhaps then it would then have more influence over the body's cycling, as it is supposed to?
They set out to test this idea by taking a person with rapid cycling, on no medications, and helping him get "plenty of dark". In fact, they made sure that's what he got! Every night he came to their research program and went into a room with a bed, but no lights. He didn't have to sleep, but he couldn't do anything -- there was no light to read by, no television, no phone: "enforced bed rest and darkness". You can see how well this worked for him from the curves above.
What does this mean for your treatment?
I hope the implications are obvious: you might be able to get by with less medication if you avoid late evening light and activity. Unfortunately, because there is no pharmaceutical manufacturer selling "darkness", we don't have lots of funding to support research on this treatment. So there have not been formal tests of this approach, except a second case report, and that Italian study, details below.
On the other hand, here's one treatment that has very few risks (the other is exercise, if you haven't read about that yet). And it would be easy to move at least a little bit in the direction of less artificial light, and less late evening activity. At worst, you'd spend some evenings lying there in the dark. I know from my patients' reports that this is not trivial: it means lying there with your thoughts, which can be pretty rough. However, look at this guy's curves again -- he did it, and look how fast things started changing for him (on no medications):
I don't recommend that you try to treat yourself with darkness alone, that's not the point; rather, I suggest that you look at how much artificial light you're getting, particularly late at night, and try to cut back on that. There is indirect evidence that blue light is the particular type of light you need to avoid at night (unfortunately, just like the kind of light your TV puts out). several manufacturers are making low-blue-light products which might be of use -- at least a low-blue nightlight, if not a filter for your TV! See more in the Bipolar Disorder: Light and Darkness essay.
That Italian study of 32 patients used dark therapy (6 pm to 8 am) for only three nights, and still they were able to show that it was better than "treatment as usual".Barbini That's the good news. The bad news is that it only seemed to work if the patient had been in a manic phase for a relatively short period of time. You see, the group of patients they studied did not have the "rapid cycling" pattern shown above, but rather a manic episode that was severe enough to require hospitalization. On the other hand, one could interpret this as more good news, I suppose, in that dark therapy was able to help even the most extreme form of bipolar manic symptoms, and do it in three days! Patients who received dark therapy required less medication and left the hospital earlier. Note however that these patients were still getting the usual medication approaches, unlike the patient described above.
With the addition of the Italian data, and since the risks of this treatment are minimal except for the utter boredom it surely inflicts, which I understand is not trivial, I think it's time to consider adding "dark therapy" for manic phases and rapid cycling. At minimum we can presume, for now, that avoiding late nights in front of a TV or computer screen (or working graveyard shifts) is likely to help minimize the need for medication and possibly enable a speedier recovery. If avoiding such light is impossible, learn about blue-light blocking (which has not yet been directly tested but follows the research in this area).
Other relevant pages:
Bipolar Disorder: Light and Darkness -- Treatment Implications
Bipolar Disorder Treatment Details


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At last the plucky Falklands explorer has found some of the black stuff.
Unfortunately, it did't find very much – two oil shows over a 1-metre section – and that means the game is almost up for Desire. The company has just £22m (or 6p a share) of cash left, which should just about cover rig demobilisation costs and the rest of its 3S seismic programme.
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Can Social Media really be called Social any longer, is Social Media broken beyond all repair? Almost since its launch, people have been observing the "Echo Chamber" effect of Twitter. There have been studies that only 20% of the users are actually producing original content, the other 80% are simply reposting that content. Some have even gone so far as to claim that this "reposting" is in fact Content Curation. I think this is a very loose interpretation of any definition of content curation – if indeed such an activity really exists. What most people seem to refer to as content curation is in fact content aggregation. Content aggregation is the process of finding, culling and republishing other people's work to make your content seem interesting.
Why Social Media is Broken
Don't get me wrong I use content aggregation as a strategy in marketing communications – I don't consider it curation though. I use services like Paper.li to produce aggregated content that is then republished. I also aggregate content for my weekly newsletter "Did You See..?" (feel free to sign up). Some people would call this curation because I collect specific content – Digital, Mobile and Social Media marketing news, and then republish that. I disagree with it being called curation, because it misses one important factor – cataloging. Curation has to have a sorting/searching function for it to be curation. Can you imagine a Library that simply housed books with no way to find them, you just had to walk around until you found something interesting?
So back to why Social Media is broken. Its broken because it is no longer truly social. It is competitive and at times almost combative in nature, its all about being heard above the general clamor for attention. Evidence of this is in any one of the expert posts on how to get "retweeted", "reshared", or increase your "whatever" score, they will all tell you the same thing – share good content. They have strategies on where to find this good content – Alltop, Pulse, Taptu or any of the other feed based sites will make you popular. How many of us complain about seeing the same posts over and over again when something becomes popular? But how many of us also share the same things that we have already seen? We know that the people we are sharing with, for the most part, are reading the same sources as us, but we share nonetheless. Occasionally, and increasingly rarely, do I see original comments posted with these shares. And that is where social is broken.
Lack of Thought Broke Social Media
The technology we use has made it too easy to share things. No longer do you have to use services like Evernote to "bookmark" a webpage and then remember to share it. Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and every other social network has a widget for that. Want to share a funny cat picture no problem, want to share an article about the Wall Street Occupation, one click and done. The problem with that approach is that there is nothing of you in the share. There is nothing personal and therefore nothing social. I have no problem seeing the same content repeated but without the context of why you are sharing it becomes noise.
In the next few months Google Plus will open it's doors publicly to businesses. This could quite possibly be the worst thing to happen to the platform in its short life. Google has been running a beta with select businesses to work out how the Google Plus business pages should work – there are two distinct problems with this approach. Firstly, the businesses they selected to work with have social media departments run by early adopters – obviously or they wouldn't even know about Google Plus, secondly the noise that these pages will introduce won't come from the businesses, it will come from the wannabe influencers who feel that by repeating posts from their "favorite" brand they will get "noticed".
If Social Is Broken How Do We Fix It?
This is a huge question and I quite obviously don't have the definitive answer, I do however have a few opinions for what they are worth. Firstly, think of sharing content like sending an email. When you click send most email software warns you if there is nothing in the body of the email – something along the lines of "The body of this email is empty. Do you really want to send?" Imagine if we could have a share function that did that – "this content has been shared xxx,xxxx,xxx times in the past 24 hours, the comment field is empty are you sure you want to share it?" Or perhaps a filtering system that only shows you new posts on Facebook, G+ etc if there is a new comment attached by the person sharing.
As it stands, there is very little about Social Media that is truly Social. It is a collection of Media and broadcast media at that. In the general rush to be noticed we are all guilty of compounding the problem. In fear of being ignored, forgotten or left behind we pump out content – other peoples content, through our social channels in an attempt to be relevant and meaningful. Social Media is supposedly bringing the death of journalism, but if that is the case why is so much of what is shared on social sites culled from news, magazine and journal websites? Not only culled but shared without comment?
Perhaps the new mantra of the social web should be "Think before you Share".
If Social Media is Broken how would you fix it?


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Do you have any unfinished projects lying around collecting dust? It's so easy to get sidetracked isn't it? It takes tenacity to finish what we start because there are always so many competing distractions.
Contributor: Brian Bill (504 sermons shared)
Scripture: Nehemiah 6:1-6:19, Leviticus 6:1-6:19
Tags: Leadership General
Shared: 5/21/2003
finding and following God's vision.
Contributor: David Derry (16 sermons shared)
Scripture: Nehemiah 6:1-6:16
Tags: Finding Fulfillment
Shared: 4/17/2003
This sermon was part of a series I preached on Nehemiah's one holy passion, the glory of God.
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Contributor: Byron Harvey (153 sermons shared)
Denomination: Evangelical Free
Scripture: Nehemiah 6:1-6:14
Shared: 10/10/2001
We must have courage to keep steady.
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Contributor: Paul Decker (386 sermons shared)
Scripture: Nehemiah 6:1-6:19
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Shared: 2/25/2003
This is a sermon from a series I preached on Nehemiah's one holy passion, the glory of God.
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Contributor: Byron Harvey (153 sermons shared)
Denomination: Evangelical Free
Scripture: Nehemiah 6:15-6:19
Shared: 10/10/2001
Exposition of Nehemiah 6
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Scripture: Nehemiah 6:1-6:19
Tags: Position, Leadership General
Shared: 11/30/2006
God does not only make miracles, but He also displays His miraculous working through His people.
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Scripture: Nehemiah 6:15-6:16
Tags: God's Omniscience
Shared: 11/1/2006
Lessons from Nehemiah on how to build a life of purpose
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Scripture: Nehemiah 1:1-1:10, Nehemiah 6:1-6:3
Shared: 11/12/2000
This can be a difficult text to preach if there is current conflict in your church. This treatment moves the application to the spiritual plane where our true enemy is working to discourage and destroy God's people.
Series: Nehemiah
Contributor: Craig Cramblet (16 sermons shared)
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-denominational
Scripture: Nehemiah 6:1-6:14, Ephesians 6:10-6:18
Shared: 3/10/2003
This sermon is to challege the believer they are doing a great job and they must keep on working hard for the Lord.
Contributor: Sam Martin (8 sermons shared)
Scripture: Nehemiah 6:1-6:4
Tags: Leadership General
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I'm a local, but I did stay offsite as a preteen when I wasn't a local, does that count?
Honestly, we would never even consider staying offsite at WDW, but DLR is very different. If we were not locals, we would never stay at a DLR hotel. Just cannot justify that extra cost. They are very, very nice hotels and I'm sure staying there is a wonderful experience, but IMO they are not as fantastic as the deluxe resorts at WDW, though they cost the same or more.
Like others have said, everything is just SO close, I don't think you will miss anything staying offsite. Also, with the exception of the Grand, you can actually be closer to the parks staying offsite.
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I enjoy staying both onsite and offsite. We frequently stay at the DLH, it is our preference of the 3 hotels. Staying offsite, my preferences are the Hilton, Fairfield Inn, Candy Cane, Hojo's, or Residence Inn Maingate (in no particular order.)
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We stayed offsite the first two times we went to DL and it was a great time. We didn't even stay super close; we stayed at the Red Lion and I would stay there again in the future. For our trip next month, we decided to splurge since it's our 5 year anniversary, so we're staying at Paradise Pier to get the onsite experience and get into the parks early everyday.
If having a kitchen and laundry facilities is important to you, I would say you won't regret not staying onsite. Not to mention, staying onsite is pretty pricey, anyway.
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We have been to Disneyland 6 or 7 times in the last few years, and we've never stayed on site. But I wouldn't even consider going to Disney World and staying offsite.
There just aren't enough benefits of staying onsite at DL to justify the cost for us. Honestly, really the only perk that tempts us at all would be the extra park entrance and early hour at CA if you're staying at Grand Californian. If our children were still small enough to need a mid-day nap, it might be worth the consideration to be so close to walk back to the room, and be right back in the park. Since we typically don't do mid day naps anymore that benefit is negligible in comparison to the extra $1200 it would cost for 4 nights.
We actually really like staying offsite for a few reasons. First of all, we always book a suite. I use LMTclub.com, and we can get a 1 BR suite at Anaheim Marriott Suites for $68/night most trips, or Embassy Suites South for about $100/night. All that extra space is really nice, especially when we go in the off season and the hours are short, and we don't want to go to bed at the same time the kids do. The other bonus (and moneysaver) of staying offsite is that your food choices open up a TON. If we stay somewhere that doesn't have breakfast we can pick up McDonald's or something really cheap for breakfast instead of an expensive meal in the park. Same for dinner. We often get take out from places like Outback, or Bucca di Beppo and eat it in the room for much less cost. Again, this is a huge difference between DL and DW. At The World there are so many restaurants I'm DYING to try that I wouldn't even consider eating dinner offsite, but at the Land, not as much, so it's a big cost savings there.
The only thing I will say is to be prepared that a lot of hotels/condos advertise themselves as being "walking distance to the park," but they really aren't comfortable walking distance to the parks. Some are QUITE long, which isn't an issue in the morning, but in the evening when you've been walking ALL DAY LONG, and your kids are tired and cranky, that walk seems MUCH longer and more for boding. We drive in from Utah, and we always park at Toy Story and take Disney's shuttle into the Park. It's fast, easy, and convenient, and the buses are ALWAYS there, waiting for you. The ART and hotel shuttles were a huge pain in the butt for us, and we felt like we wasted a ton of time waiting. Now again, we usually go in the off season, and I've heard they have better service during the busier seasons.
Anyway this was a long response, but just wanted to reassure you. I grew up going to Disney World, and while it took me a couple of visits to warm up, Disneyland is now "our park." We go a couple of times a year, and it feels like "home." We love it. But it's a totally different vacation than Disney World. For us, Disney Land is our quick, "cheap" getaway, especially since we don't have to get plane tickets, and Disney World is a big, blow out vacation where we don't mind so much spending money on food and onsite hotels.
Hope you love your trip to the Land!
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Location: Memphis, TN
Posts: 165
Tropicana is having a special on 5 and 7 nights stays. I just booked my 7 nights for $642! I wouldn't regret staying off site for those savings and it's one of the closest!
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We've stayed both on and off site. You have to remember that DL and WDW are very different. Staying offsite at DL, I can still be to the park in under 10 minutes. The walk is very beautiful (at least from the Hojo). Staying on-site is fun, but you'll have a great time either way, the walk is not that much shorter, and the vibe all around is great.
We did have tickets to the ART bus when the kids were younger, and that was great after a long day. You may wait for a few minutes, but if you are a WDW regular, you'll find the wait is far less than any time we had there, getting from park back to hotel.
I think of it this way. Staying at Port Orleans Riverside at WDW, it took me 20 minutes to take the river to DD, a minimum of 20 minutes to get to a park on the buses, and 7-8 minutes just to get to dinner at our resort from our room. I can get from off-site hotels in 10 minutes, on-site in 5-8, and use monorail and train with ease to move quickly through DL. Whatever way you'll go, even off-site, it won't take you long to get there.
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Last May we stayed at Pop in WDW. At WDW, we never knew when a bus would come or have room for us, either at the hotel or at the parks, and the walk to the bus stop from our room was long, too. It just felt like staying onsite at WDW we wasted *so* much time that you just don't waste at DLR staying offsite.
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We usually stay onsite at the DLH or PP, but we stayed at the Tropicana in December and I think it will be a long time before we stay onsite again. For the price difference, it just isn't worth it to us. We stay in the parks all day and don't typically use the pools though. I thought I'd miss the walk through Downtown Disney, but the shorter distance more than made up for it to us.
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Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Not trying to hijack but just have to ask the question to all of you who say you easily stay off site at DL but would never want to at WDW. If it takes 20 minutes to take a bus or boat to the parks from your onsite hotel - then how much of a disadvantage is staying off site and driving to the parks?
I have never been but am just curious. Is it to be in the Disney "bubble" type atmosphere, is that the main reason or is there a bus you have to then take even if you drive and park?
It just sounds like even onsite in WDW is a hassle.
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I think it has a lot to do with your mindset. If you are used to the "Disney" bubble and expect to find something similar staying offsite, you might be disappointed.
If you go in with the attitude knowing that your offsite experience will be different than staying onsite, I think you will be fine!
We've done both. We have a blast no matter where we stay. Do we miss certain aspects of staying at a DLR hotel when we are in a motel, sure, but we deal and still make magical memories with our family. Do we slightly cringe paying the high prices while staying at the DLR hotels, yes! But we still have a good time We always struggle with the decision to stay on or off site. If money was no object we would go all the time and stay on property, but that is not the case for us. In the end, we remember the trip at the parks and the awesome memories we made with our kids more than where we stayed at.
I think you will have a fantastic time no matter where you choose to stay. Have a great trip!
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The Magic Kingdom provides a great example of the difference. If you're staying offsite, you:
1. Drive through traffic and park your car
2. Probably take a tram to the monorail or boat
3. Wait in line for the monorail/boat to take you to MK
4. Ride to MK
5. Enter the park.
At the end of the night, you reverse this process to leave, except you do it with tens of thousands of other people trying to do the exact same thing.
If you're staying onsite and use Disney transportation, though, the bus drops you off near the park entrance and you walk in. If you're staying at the Contemporary (which is where we normally stay for this reason alone), you can walk to and from MK in about 8-10 minutes. Walking by throngs of people standing in line trying to leave at the end of the night is the very definition of schadenfreude.
Also on the transit front, if you don't have a car and you're staying onsite, you don't have to worry about getting to and from the resort (Magical Express shuttle service). That can be a money saver if you don't plan on leaving the resort or otherwise need a car.
I do think there is something to be said for the "bubble" effect at WDW. I tend to be completely oblivious to what is happening in the rest of the world while I'm there (whether or not that is a good thing is a debatable point, I'm sure). It's been quite a while since I stayed off-site, but I don't recall having the same experience at that time. I do know that there are tons of people that go to WDW and stay off-site and have a wonderful time, but for me, now that I'm accustomed to staying onsite -- where everyone you encounter is either on a Disney vacation or a CM -- I think an off-site trip would feel like it was missing something.
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Since you asked in terms of a comparison of DLR and WDW, you can also look at it like this. DLR and Anaheim both try to make it as convenient and easy as possible for off-site guests to have access to the parks, since most guests stay offsite. WDW does the opposite. The convenience factor is packed heavily in favor of on-site guests.
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We always stay off site. To me, staying at one of DL hotels is a waste of money.
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I don't think you'll miss it. Just go in expecting it to be different from WDW and you won't be disappointed. The logistics, as described above, are really so different. And the DL resorts are not as immersive as those at WDW IME.
That said, we stay on site when we go. We like the Disney quality in the hotels, we like having the extra hour in the morning, we like all the special Disney touches and the extra pixie dust from the cast members. To us its "worth it". Another factor is that my DH and I both travel for business and are somewhat used to nice hotels, we know we wouldn't get the same quality we are used to from a HoJo or Ramada. So on vacation its worth it to us to splurge on the hotel. Just like at WDW we very much enjoy the "quality" of a Deluxe vs a Budget. Its hard to quantify the difference and it doesn't matter at all to some people, but we appreciate it and are willing to pay for it. (We camp too, we know how to rough it, but on a hotel vacation we like the niceties.) So much of it is personal preference and what is worth it to YOU.
For our first trip as a family I stressed over all the off site and on site options. Even had a rating system for all the different features. Ultimately we chose to go with DLH and loved it. Had we ended up at HoJo I think we would have had a very different experience but still great vacation. This trip we have the budget to stay at GCH so we are. We'll have 2 non-park days at the hotel so I feel we'll get our money's worth (helps its 25% off at that time). We are fortunate we can make that choice right now but if we couldn't I'm sure Disney would still be magical.
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About Safe Quarters
Safe Quarters is a one-day, community-wide effort to collect change and other financial contributions for victims of domestic violence and children who seek refuge at Friendship Home from violence in their own homes. Safe Quarters also exists to raise awareness of domestic violence in our community and the resources available to help victims.
Click here to volunteer for Safe Quarters
On October 12, 2014, teams of volunteers will canvass the city of Lincoln knocking on the door of each and every household to request support.
Last year's event received tremendous support from the community, raising $110,000.
Be a part of the movement to end domestic violence in our community!
- Form or recruit a group of friends, family, co-workers or neighbors to walk a designated neighborhood(s) on October 12. A teams consists of 8-10 volunteers.
- Place a collection container in a place of business, church or other meeting place.
- Sponsor the event, a team or a neighborhood. Sponsors receive recognition based upon the level of sponsorship.
- Raise awareness of the event within neighborhoods, social groups and via social media and other publications. Encourage people to volunteer and to save their change.
- Open your door and your heart to Friendship Home volunteers on October 12, 2014 and be generous.
For more information contact Lauren at firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling 402-434-0167.
If you anticipate missing the door-to-door volunteers on October 12th, change and cash can be dropped off at any Union Bank location from September 29 through October 31. Checks for Safe Quarters should be mailed to Safe Quarters, Friendship Home, P.O. Box 85358, Lincoln, NE 68501.


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Photoshop is revered as one of the best digital multimedia solutions software. So there is no question on what you need to know about Photoshop layers because there is always something to be learnt about this amazing software. It basically encompasses every design need there is. Artists consider using it because of its flexibility. It can be utilized by any artist notwithstanding their design inclinations. Most photographers use the software in editing their photos. Some digital artists use Photoshop, (if not, Illustrator) in their designs. Meanwhile, most web designers use this software in building the visuals of their designs. Truly, with these uses, Adobe's carrier software has been the one-man-wrecking-machine software that solved most of our digital problems.
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Having said that Photoshop is a must-have software, it is also equally a must to master it. And that entails a great deal of effort. With all the tools, options and features of Photoshop, which – until today – is continually developing, it is very difficult to start training with the software. But never fret, you have us. What is 1stwebdesigners for, right?
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One of the probably gazillion things you need to know about Photoshop is its layers. The importance of mastering this feature is, of course, pertinent for a web designer as a web design, before being coded, is most probably created through Photoshop.
Layers are free and independent elements in a Photoshop work space. They can be manipulated in scaling, color, effects, position, opacity and more. Layers often represent separate elements that a designer wants to tweak or customize. In the realm of web design, layers play an important role. They are used to represent the design elements of a webpage. They are made to imply a text box, an image, a background, the content and a lot more.
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Most Photoshop users will agree to the notion that one of the key features of a software like Photoshop is its good layering options. Here are some of them that you need to know.
Fill and Opacity
Fill and opacity are two different things. Although they are commonly confused as the same terms and often connected as a single terminology (i.e. Fill-Opacity), they are completely different from one another.
Fill is an option of a layer to customize how many percent of the background color is seen. This option is commonly used for shapes
On the other hand, opacity is the option that dictates how transparent the whole layer relative to the other layers in the design.
The difference between the two is that the Fill option does not affect layer styles. For example, you put a stroke in the image. Notice that when you ticker down the fill percentage, the stroke is still seen unlike if you lower the opacity percentage, you see the whole image together with the layer styles is made transparent.
This is one of the most rudimentary learnings a Photoshop user should have when it comes to layers. Grouping really does not do a lot of things in the design per se. Despite that predicament, the importance of grouping is never left behind. You see, grouping helps in the organization of layers. Aside from naming them properly, which is also very useful, grouping layers improves the workflow because you don't need to search the whole design looking for a single pixel. Just find where it belongs and voila! You have it!
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Masking is the act of hiding particular portions of the layer to show the layers below it. This technique is a very important skill in a designer's arsenal as it is a good way of combining multiple photos in one seamless image.
Photoshop masks can be used at a very large amount on a single layer. According to TutsPlus.com, you can use up to 11 Pixel Masks and 11 Vector Masks!
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Supposed you're slicing up particular photos in a design. You have a lot of options to choose from. Either you click the layer you want to copy or cut, press CTRL+A and paste it wherever you want to, or use the lasso or quick selection tool. But you have a third option. That is quick selecting it by pressing CTRL + click the image desired.
Layer Styles
Layer styles give you the liberty to select specific options to enhance the design. There are some options to tinker on:
- General Blending – here you can choose the Blending Mode. The Blending mode option allows you to customize background and image relationships and how to complement, contrast or both. Aside from that, you could also choose from advanced options where you are allowed to reduce the opacity of the layer as a whole or per channel.
- Bevel and Emboss – this option gives your layers a 3D feel as they tend to pop out of the design. The Bevel and Emboss option add depth to the design, making it more 'realistic.' In this option, you could select from contouring options like inner bevels, emboss and more.
- Stroke – this is one of the most used options in the menu. Stroke adds an outline to the main image. You can choose the opacity of the stroke, the color and its blending options.
- Inner Shadow- gives you a subtle darkening of the layer. Inner shadow also provides depth. (Outer Shadow is the opposite of this)
- Inner Glow – adds a shiny and feathered yellow design in the outline of the image within. (Outer Glow is the opposite of this)
- Color Overlay – fills the whole image with a chosen color. It will totally forget what's inside the fill. It will surely fill every spot of what you wanted it to fill with.
Layers are one nasty piece of business to study. It requires a lot of time and patience to do this. With the importance of layers highlighted, it is equally important to study them well. The key to this lesson is that you should try using them and commit mistakes. It's where we really learn- from our mistakes. So next time, you'll be dealing with layers, stand up and be proud that once in your life, you got 'layed' here at 1stwebesigner. Again, pun intended.


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The Richmond Pamukkale Thermal is a 4 star hotel of Richmond hotel chains located in Karahayit region of Pamukkale. The city center of Pamukkale is just 3 km away and distance from Denizli is 22 km.
Pamukkale, one of the most significant natural wonders in the world, is waiting for you with all its glory at the Richmond Pamukkale Thermal Hotel. Our hotel offers a very pleasant atmosphere for those who would like to experience the peerless beauty of the relocated in Karahayit region of Pamukkale. The city center of Pamukkale is just 3 km away and distance from Denizli is 22 km.
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I would like to acknowledge the Custodians of the lands where I live and work; I pay my respects to Elders past and present and also acknowledge our children, for just as our Elders have lit the way for us in the past our children will hold the light when we are gone.
As you may have guessed Yaama is how we say hello in my language, I am a Gomaroi man from down the hill at Tamworth (yes the country music capital) and have taken up the position of Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Employment Officer here at the University of New England.
I am looking forward to living and working here in Armidale, but in saying that I have yet to do a full winter up here so we will see how much I am enjoying it in a couple of months.
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I bought the black and white one while pregnant with Jensen. I didn't like using it but I know a ton of women who do and it's a great deal for them. I didn't realize I had already boughten one months before for a friend until I opened the package and I got it on CLEARANCE at $27.25, so just a few bucks for shipping is a great deal on these things.
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US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton speaks during a joint press conference with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala (not in frame) at the Government Palace in Lima on October 15, 2012.
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With more customers running Microsoft Windows Hyper-V in their data centers, meeting uptime SLA's as Windows applications like Microsoft Exchange and SQL scale up is critical. It is essential that you have the best high availability, automated disaster recovery plan and a cost effective solution to manage storage in your virtual environment as downtime in your clusters can be expensive from a customer satisfaction perspective and more importantly, lost revenue.
Watch Symantec's Storage and Availability Management experts Jeffrey Armorer and Lisa Erickson give an overview of the best practices to protect business critical applications running on virtual and physical Windows servers. The topics include:
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Definitions for bread maker
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baker, bread maker(noun)
someone who bakes bread or cake
bread maker(Noun)
A household appliance which makes bread or dough from raw ingredients.
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Six Innovative Robot Hands
Robots are supposed to make our lives easier, helping us make dinner, watch the kids or welcome guests. But in order to lend us a hand, robots will need some pretty impressive hands themselveshands that can pick up an egg, play catch or pour coffee. Engineers are up to the challenge, and over the past few years they have developed robotic hands with unprecedented dexterity, strength and sensitivity. Here are six recent designs that make our robot-staffed future seem not too far away.
By Valerie Ross
Beanbag Hand
Earlier this month, researchers introduced the world to a "universal gripper" that can pick up everything from a water glass to a foam earplugusing a balloon-like sack filled with coffee grounds. Grainy materials, such as coffee grounds or sand, can undergo a jamming transition, changing from liquid-like to solid-like behavior. (Think of how easy it is to pour coffee grounds into a filter, and how firmly they're stuck together after the coffee's been brewed.) To pick up an object, the researchers push the gripper sack onto it, allowing the grains in the sack to form around the itema light bulb, for example. Then they apply a vacuum to the sack, which jams the coffee grounds into a solid-like state, so that the gripper has a firm hold on the object. The vacuum also causes the balloon to contract by less than half a percent, giving its grip that extra oomph without applying bulb-breaking pressure. "All we have to do then," says University of Chicago physicist Eric Brown, "is lift up the arm."


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SpaceGhostPurrp filled SOBs Tuesday night with a packed room of his closest friends and fans to celebrate his intoxicatingly trippy new album, Mysterious Phonk: Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp, with many members of his RVIDXR KLVN banding with him on the tight stage during his set.
Before doors opened, fans waited at least an hour around the block in the rain or under the dripping awnings that line "NYC's largest nightclub", (at least as SOBs deems it to be on their website). They were amazingly patient; maybe the ganja thickening the damp air helped.
The night flowed almost flawlessly, presented by the lovely Noizy Cricket!!, and with DJ Jena Red pumping out the tunes before and between sets. One-man opening act Despot, aka Alec Reinstein, the ginger-haired Queens rapper who also raps with Ratatat, kept things moving along with upbeat tempos and an almost ridiculous amount of horn sound effects, ending his fiery stint on stage tonight with a guest appearance by his pal Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire. Their matching dive into the crowd to end the set was a pretty fab finish.
Harlem's stylin' and blinged out king of luxury rap, none other than Vinny Cha$e, was up next, with much ado about Swag. Starting out as a hip hop video director and documentary film maker, Cha$e dove into making his own music in around 2008. His talent in visuals definitely lends him added flair as rapper. He's ever the showman waving a blood red scarf, wrist decked in a diamond bracelet and with a heavy braided gold chain around his neck. Having his posse throw weed from a ziplock to fans decadently drove his point home.
SpaceGhostPurrp took over past midnight, with his ominous, trippy beats (from "Don't Give a Damn", etc.) coming through the speakers along with repeated, rapid fire gun shot sounds coloring the set on backing tracks. As is the de rigueur in hip hop these days, all his friends and photographers were invited up, so many that SGP was hard to spot but for his Oakland cap and black Danzig sweatshirt (nice choice!) peering out from the midst of the crew, coming to the forefront at choice times, like during obvious crowd favorite, "Suck a Dick". SGP's set definitely one-upped Cha$e's show of luxe when dollar bills were thrown from the stage like the best kind of green confetti. Water tossed from bottles on the crowd wasn't as delicious. However, it was an odd scenario for SpaceGhostPurrp to be so engulfed in his crowd since his album is so introspective and fiercely independent, all beats his own and with zero guest appearances. But there's always strength in numbers when you're starting out as a live act.
(video by National Dairy)