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Don't you mean CEEform sockets?
Never heard them called "commando" before though.
Blue ones are 230V, red 400V, yellow 110V to name the three most common.
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Don't you mean CEEform sockets?
Never heard them called "commando" before though.
Blue ones are 230V, red 400V, yellow 110V to name the three most common.
If it passed a single PAT, fire the tester because he or she is utterly incompetent, and a danger to everyone.
A male-to-male power lead should be an instant fail in the visual, you don't need to do anything else to know its a serious fail and immediately destroy it.
Any so-called PAT tester that just plugs the thing into the machine is a waste of space, and by using them your employer is in breach of PUWER, which is actual legislation with criminal penalties.
Great, so he couldn't be bothered to buy an adapter in the airport at either end, so risked burning down the building.
Then compounded it buy yanking on the wire, which you NEVER do under any circumstances whatsoever, because there's a reasonable chance of what he did happening, along with a much bigger chance of damaging the plug.
There's a reason UK plugs have the wire out of the bottom - it's so pulling on the wire doesn't pull out the plug, so people don't try.
It's perfectly adequate for prototyping DB applications, teaching the basics of relational databases, and for single-user databases - where it's orders of magnitude better than Excel.
The issues arise when people forget it's just a prototype and try to build it up into a multi-user system instead of migrating it.
That's when you get a monstrosity.
Most of that data isn't even valuable to the entity who created it!
Even those enamoured of "big data" acknowledge this, hence most of the point of the big data tools is boiling down crazy amounts of data into tiny nibbles of potentially useful information.
Even outside of that, a log file is useless >99.9% of the time, only becoming useful on rare occasions to figure out what went wrong.
The useful stuff is in emails, the important stuff is generally in Word and Excel documents, maybe PDF-d once ready for publication.
- It's very common to bash something out over IM and email, then "write it up" in Word.
Back at the article - it doesn't matter whether MS want to merge Office and Windows together, because if they do that on the desktop they'll be immediately done for abuse of monopoly.
True, and the morality of this remains both debatable and highly contentious.
Either way, it's an extremely recent societal change and evolution doesn't work on the timescale of individual lifetimes, it takes quite a few Grandfathers.
"failure of any one of the [genes] gives rise to deficiency."
Bollocks. Utter tripe. Complete and total bunk..
He's either claiming Intelligent Design by the back door, or that evolutionary pressure on humans completely stopped selecting for intelligence thousands of years ago.
Genes simply change, and the vast majority of changes are neither good nor bad.
Even in modern human society, changes notably for the worse are still selected against (the mentally disabled tend not to have children) - although there is probably still some selection pressure towards being religious.
It does appear that his overall contention is true of his educational establishment though, because he's still there spouting rubbish when he should have been thrown out by now.
So, how does the newspaper find your photo to buy it in the first place, if it costs neither of you anything whatsoever to sell it to them?
In the real world, either the photographer is paying an agent to pitch their photos to the newspapers, they pitch the photos themselves, or the newspaper is paying people to search out photos. Usually all three.
Only the last one costs the photographer nothing - but the photographer almost always gets nothing for them either, because the paper will use the first decent 'free' one they find.
For example, Getty Images is an agency and many freelance photographers have arrangements with a few editors.
The article appears to be describing a way of linking multiple Getty Images-type exchanges together.
As long as you're able to control the price at which your work is sold, then it is to the good - more exposure, and lower cost of doing business.
There is of course a risk of the registries becoming full of useless tat, so newspapers etc don't bother - a risk that becomes practically certain if the 'orphan works' insanity progresses any further.
That would effectively mean not being on these registers would end up 'orphaning' your work, so it's yet another reason why that "orphan works" land-grab needs to be smashed back into both the EU and especially UK Plc's collective faces.
Repeat after me - there is NO SUCH THING as an orphaned work.
When you buy a thing, there are several parts to the money paid:
1) Cost of making the individual thing physically transferred to the buyer.
2) Marginal cost of designing/creating the original thing.
3) Marginsl overhead cost of running the shop selling the thing.
4) Profit made by the seller.
If you make and sell intangible copyrighted works, (1) is almost zero, (2) and (3) are your real costs.
(2) has already come down dramatically and are still falling - the cameras and other equipment needed for most artworks cost far less than they did even five years ago - yet the cost of actually licensing the work to another entity and getting your money has barely changed in decades.
For example, the PRS uses most of the money collected in order to run itself - so the transaction cost is high, and very little of the cash gets back to the artists.
If you can radically reduce the cost of licensing and payment (to mere pennies instead of the current rather high prices,) then you will get more profit on your work.
I don't think you could get a more abject fail even if you tried...
SAP is "sap", as in "sapping my will to live."
Take a look at a motorway sign.
What colour is it?
For example, my local library is in completely the wrong place, and my local pub is missing entirely!
How can I trust a map that doesn't show every pub?
The two things about iOS maps that annoy me the most are very simple though:
The colour scheme is wrong. They appear to be using the same USA colour scheme throughout the world, regardless of the local conventions and laws. Motorways are BLUE and major A roads are green, that's what the Highway Code says. Both yellow is just horrible, you can't distinguish them.
It is incredibly slow. Google maps takes a second or so to start displaying, iOS maps takes upwards of ten.
When you download an app you can see what permissions it wants and check if that matches what you think it does.
Which is great.
However, you can't tell it "No, Farcebook, you may not have access to my contacts", which is crap.
However, in iOS and Windows Phone, you have no way of knowing what a given app does - once on board it is permitted to do anything at all to things like contacts etc in the "shared storage" areas, and you have no way of knowing beforehand that it even could.
So you are completely reliant on the curation of their app stores.
Come on, an Ethernet port isn't the same as RS232 or whatever. Its damn near impossible to find an office with no Ethernet jacks. Heck, it's pretty rare to find any building without them!
I use the Ethernet port on my laptop every single day, and I'm not doing anything particularly special.
All the MacBook users I know also use the Ethernet port most of the time, and any adapter is annoying and easy to lose or forget.
Solidworks and Vectorworks are both good and well respected, which one is better for your business depends the kind of plugins you need.
Solidworks still seems to have the better FEA tools, while Vectorworks has by far the best lighting simulation.
I don't know enough about the other plugins to say either way.
Solid modelling catches so many stupid errors. I only wish more architects would start using it, and stop putting sprinklers, ducting, low ceilings and my 2m racks all in the same place...
The only thing that can help you is to throw away Autocad and get a CAD package instead of a glorified sketchbook. It'll help your customers as well, les stupid mistakes...
(Autocad is a drafting package, it's never been CAD. They have tried to fix it, but at heart it's just not solid modelling.)
GPUs are "massively parallel", because their architecture was originally optimised to do the same set of T&L calculations to every single pixel on your monitors.
So a General Purpose-GPU is really great at doing the same f(x) to a huge dataset, whereas a CPU is good at doing many different tasks to a small dataset.
If significant parts of your task can be boiled down to "foreach x do f(x)", GP-GPU is going to really speed things up. Otherwise it probably won't.
Sooner or later you'll see a YouTube video that isn't credited to the user, but instead is marked "YouTube", or even "Internet".
It's extremely common for the metadata to get stripped off online photos, which the various media outlets love to use.
In both cases, somebody has deliberately or accidentally "orphaned" the work by stripping the attribution and metadata.
Unfortunately, the earth moves. Hence any locally apparent rise in sea level is just as likely to be the earth going down as the sea coming up.
Building too many heavy buildings, draining aquifers and natural crustal movement can all explain it.
The same goes for a local sea level fall, of course.
Take a mean all over the world, then get back to us.
And why an "expert" who is in fact, almost completely wrong?
For a start, SMS is not guaranteed delivery, it's best-effort and even has settings for how long to keep trying - between one hour and a week or so.
I think this marketeer has confused "has a delivery receipt" with "always delivers", an easy mistake for the hard-of-thinking.
SMS is fundamentally not much different to email.
Cell Broadcast was designed with this purpose in mind (at least, according to the gnarled O2 engineers at the Airwave conference a few years back).
Mandate that all handsets must support it, and even the idiot USians will push out a firmware update within six months. The towers all support it already anyway - even if a lot of them have nothing to say right now.
Why grow some balls when you can get upwards of £300k by making a fuss?
Ok, his legal bills are probably 2/3 of that, but still...
Wrong, it's needed for a household using any devices to receive live television broadcasts.
We buy Kensington "keyboards for life" that claim to be thoroughly spill proof, and they'll replace the keyboard if it turns out it wasn't.
They seem pretty much up to it, I don't know of any failures in the last five years. Pretty cheap as well!
We buy a *lot* of those keyboards for most of our customers, and we'll keep doing so because they last.
So far the worst I know of was red wine, spilt over keyboard and machine. They sent the machine in for repair (how we know about it) and simply rinsed the keyboard.
Luckily the wine mostly splashed up the unvented side of the machine, and the tiny puddle inside missed all the expensive bits.
To use the door analogy:
If your job was to lock and guard the door to a military installation, but you left it open and unguarded for weeks (if not longer) and somebody wandered inside, you'd be court-martialled for dereliction.
Even if it was just a civilian office block you were supposed to guard you'd get fired.
Finally, in the UK the ones wandering in would probably have squatters' rights by now!
IE isn't a desktop app in Win8RT.
It is under Win8 (x86)
Also you're an astroturfer, so I hope you got paid for that post.
Heck, the orderable Surface hardware being advertised doesn't even run Windows 8, it runs Windows 8 RT instead, the almost-but-not-quite* TIFKAM-only, Windows App Store front end.
Win8RT is to Win8 what iOS is to OSX, except that you can run Win8RT apps under Win8.
Those ads are for Microsoft's iPad/Nexus/Note, and just like those there's almost no mention of the OS.
* Its stripped-down version of Office uses the desktop, nothing else is allowed to. Presumably a tacit admission that TIFKAM simply isn't suitable for non-trivial applications.
Sourcesafe is probably why those Windows guys don't use source control.
Worst piece of frack I've ever had the misfortune to use, as it punishes you for trying to use it - and we've even had an RC broken by Sourcesafe. So we threw it away.
I now use GIT for "unofficial" projects, as you can make a repo anywhere that you have read/write access to and it does 90% of what's useful.
No reason why everyone shouldn't use it for their "personal" projects, even if you never upload the repo to anywhere it can still save your bacon.
No, it's not vague bullshit.
If you work for a single company, cannot replace yourself at will with someone else (and are the entity responsible for finding that replacement if you can't do the work in the end), don't choose your hours, don't use your own tools, and only work under the direct supervision and direction of your "client" etc, then you're clearly not really self-employed, you're an employee who's rights have been taken away by an unscrupulous employer.
It's usually very obvious where the "client" has decided to do things this way to avoid employers' NI.
Someone who is truly self employed is contracted to provide a particular service, not a "warm body" for them to direct at will - "other duties as assigned" is an employee contract, not a business-to-business contract.
- The only real exceptions to the "replace yourself with another" are actors, presenters and designers etc, where part of the contracted service is a particular artiste.
Put it this way - if your current (or most recent) PAYE employer suddenly declared to you that you're self-employed now, but nothing else about your relationship with the company changed, it'd be pretty bloody obvious that it was simply to evade tax.
That happened to a metric shitload of building tradesmen until HMRC started cracking down on them.
There are grey areas of course, and you do have the right to challenge an HMRC decision on this.
The weird thing is that this is almost certainly illegal already, as HMRC are allowed to apply the "looks like an employee, smells like an employee, therefore *is* an employee" test.
It hit a lot of people in my industry - a lot of so-called freelancers suddenly became PAYE.
Physically slide open to answer, slide closed to hang up.
That or flip phones are probably the best bit of UI ever developed, and far, far better for the nearly-blind* or stiff-fingered than any touchscreen or even physical answer-buttoned phone could be.
Along with physical buttons to dial numbers, that makes them perfect for my grandparents.
Whereas this, with the limit of a fixed set of numbers, is for children or Alzheimer's who can't remember the current phone number for X, and not for your average OAP who can probably remember more phone numbers than me!
A contract phone is an odd choice for children and mentally incapable customers.
* Drunk?
Cat food smells really nice when fresh out of the steam oven, it only gets that "cat food" smell when they add the gravy - or jelly as you'd probably call it.
Tastes quite good as well - it's all the chicken heads and feet that give it such a wondrous flavour.
Yes, Whiskas do a "product appreciation" course where you make - and taste - a little of it.
Was a very interesting summer placement, glad I did it.
I'm surprised anyone even tries to do good up scaling using classic CPUs, they're completely the wrong architecture.
You need the massively-parallel nature of a GPU to do it in a sane amount of time.
It's also a pretty obvious usage anyway - you're making a series of images from another series of images, that's what GPUs were designed to do!
I suspect you could do a pretty good job of upscaling to 1080p using a Raspberry Pi.
Indeed, crashing into asteroids or simply going close to them will affect the orbit greatly, acting to shed KE any time an asteroid is impact or slingshotted.
Aside from that the solar wind and photon pressure alters any non-circular orbit in a non-linear way - it's one of the methods being seriously considered for preventing a catastrophic asteroid impact.
Without a planet like Jupiter that reduces the rate of major impacts, planets inside the "Goldilocks zone" that have the right temperature and composition for life will get twatted by asteroid impacts far too often for any complex life to evolve.
Our Earth hasn't been hit by anything big for 65 million years, and prior to that it was probably another 200 million years or so.
Very early on the Earth got properly pasted though, being hit by something the size of Mars has gotta hurt!
Privateers were the ones given a licence to plunder certain ships, eg those flying the flag of another country. In most cases they were given a ship and a crew to go and do this with.
Essentially they were a deniable part of the military, rather like modern espionage.
Pirates did not, and still do not operate under a licence from anyone, they just board a ship and steal and/or ransom the cargo, crew and passengers.
Back then they'd probably ransom the officers and passengers, using the ship and the money to fund their lifestyle. The crew were probably killed or forced to join the pirate crew.
These days the full ship and crew are ransomed.
This is why the British have a standing policy of never, ever paying a ransom. All it does is fund the next act of piracy. We send in the SAS or SBS instead.
In theory, once they know that boarding a British-flagged vessel will cost them dearly and won't get them any money, they won't bother with ours and will go for other flags.
Finally, some privateers did break the terms of their licence, becoming pirates. Those were the ones who were really hunted down, "por encouragement los autres".
A Registered Design is the EU equivalent of a US Design Patent.
The cases were on the same thing, the appeal court judgement makes that quite clear and has some very strong language regarding the German court - almost as close to "You bunch of ****ing morons, you on crack or something?" as it's possible to get.
No, they'd lose.
Actually, I'm wrong, such an appeal wouldn't even be considered because there is no European court that does that.
You'll notice that Apple haven't appealed and they've had a long time to do so, because their lawyers also know this.
Samsung did not infringe the design in question. It's the end of the line. And no, it wasn't because the Apple product was "cooler", it was simply because Samsung's devices don't look like the registered design. Different shape, different buttons etc.
There is still other IP that they are each accused of infringing, but this one is proven and closed.
Let it lie or we are all f***ed, to put it mildly.
They can still offer incentives to get all your friends on the same network.
For example, some providers still offer unlimited free calls within their network, while external calls come from the inclusive minutes.
Number portability means that you have to know that your friend is on the same network instead of guessing from the number, which further encourages you to tell your friends which network you're on - thus more word-of-mouth advertising.
So it still works.
"When Canalys finished its sums for all PCs, tablets and smartphones, Brazier said the firm found just 32% of devices run Windows"
I wonder what they would find if they included the rest of home and business computing?
It seems odd to include tablets and smartphones yet exclude games consoles, STBs (and "Smart" TVs), and the home and business "network appliances" (NAS, hardware firewalls etc).
On a per-device count, my guess is that less than 20% run Windows, and I'd be interested to know how accurate that is.
I don't want my tablet to look like a PC, or my PC to look like a tablet!
Tablets and PCs are different, and require different interfaces.
Trying to make them the same is fundamentally doomed to failure - you either get a tablet you can barely use because the UI expects accurate pointing and a keyboard, or a PC that you can barely use because it expects you to have a touchscreen (extremely tiring for long-term use), only one or two applications running and only one monitor.
Microsoft made the first mistake before - now they are making both mistakes at the same time.
Which is a shame - as a phone or tablet UI, TIFKAM looks like it is actually a pretty good idea. It's Android's live widgets but with sharper corners, and Samsung's Android multi-tasking.
Where Surface fails is the jarring change to the desktop, where Windows 8 fails is the jarring change to TIFKAM.
Windows Phone 8 doesn't have either of those, so might succeed - the risk is that Surface and Windows 8 break it by annoying and confusing customers.
Apple should be worried about WP8 - iOS still has zero info on the home screen, and they desperately need to fix that.
There are laws that apply to this within the EU, so it will be interesting to see how long this stance lasts once somebody (maybe the French) bring a suit.
Yes, the cookie law does apply - a website cannot ignore a clear instruction from the browser saying "I reject this".
The more general privacy laws probably also apply, but those are likely to be more complex to argue.
That's exactly what they did - during setup of your user profile, the question "Do you want evil advertisers to follow your every move on the Internet?" is asked*.
Oddly enough, the vast majority of users pick "No, I don't."
* Example only, actual question received may vary. Not to scale.
Well, it could, but we'd need to flood most of the Scottish highlands to cover wind doldrums.
While you might find some people in favour of that, oddly enough the locals don't like the idea.
Although Salmond might as it's one way the Scottish could afford independence, rather like Labour and the ConDems on wind and PV - hell bent on it regardless of cost or feasibility.
Presumably it's a political thing - get into politics and your brain is surgically removed, making you incapable of considering consequences beyond the next election.
The next Parliament is going to be seriously ****ed though, as that seems to be when the lack of energy security is likely to come home to roost.
I'm pretty sure even London cabbies go further than that every day, so I'm confused. How can this possibly work?
Or are they saying they all need two
Does Win 8 not have a copy function anymore?
Why in Dante's 8 pits of Hell did they decide to arbitrarily change common keyboard shortcuts just when users need them the most?
Here, I have a crock of shit to sell you. The crock is really good after you clean out the shit.
No, I'm not going to take the shit out of the crock. It's critical to my strategy that everyone gets the shit as well as the crock.
What do you mean, you don't want it? The crock is great! Everyone says so!
I've been pressing the Off button to shut down my machine since XP SP2, and possibly longer.
It's even the default functionality under Windows 7 - Vista was the one with the broken default (Sleep!)
My keyboard doesn't have a Start button. It's got a "Windows Logo" button that looks just like the Windows Logo used in the Windows 7 menu that it opens.
So clearly, the Windows 8 version of the keyboard should have a blank, unlabelled key to open the Start Screen.
And GET YOUR ****ING HANDS OFF MY CHEESE. It's pretty clear that you've never actually read that book, as the key point it makes is that change for the sake of change is stupid, as all change causes a loss of productivity in the short term. Change has to have clear reasons, and offer clear benefits to all users or it will create resentment, be passively fought, and even actively sabotaged.
The originals had a front DVD slot, and given that USB sticks are the official replacement why oh why is there no front USB port?
The front ports on my desktop and the side ports on my laptop are the ones I use the most. (Ok, there's a pack of things plugged into the rear ports but they are the things that are never unplugged.)
Why do Apple think I should clutter my desk with USB hubs?
Ouch, thanks. I didn't realise that, I thought the previous generation had screen-edge USB ports.
- I've only got a Mac Mini for test purposes at work.


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* Rupee ends at 60.2250/2350 vs 60.13/14 Thursday close
* RBI seen selling dollars via state-run banks from 60.59 levels - dealers
* Rupee falls for a 9th successive week, down 1.4 pct
By Subhadip Sircar
MUMBAI, July 5 (Reuters) - The Indian rupee fell on Friday to approach a record low on sustained dollar demand from importers, forcing the central bank to intervene to support the currency, according to traders.
The Reserve Bank of India was cited selling dollars via state-run banks after the rupee fell to the day's low of 60.59, not far from its life low of 60.76 touched on June 26.
However, the central bank's intervention has not been strong during the current bout of rupee weakness, with Governor Duvvuri Subbarao's comments on Thursday about the RBI not targeting any particular exchange rate also deepening the uncertainty.
In the near-term, investors will closely watch the U.S. monthly employment data due out later in the day. Analysts expect U.S. job growth to have slowed in June, but not enough to shift the Federal Reserve away from expectations that it will start scaling back its massive monetary stimulus later this year.
Markets are also awaiting potential measures from the government to open up more sectors for foreign investment in a bid to narrow a record high current account deficit that has now helped send the rupee to a ninth consecutive weekly fall.
"The rupee's outlook is still negative. The government is not coming up with any strong response. Oil prices are going up, which may widen the current account deficit," said Subramanian Sharma, director at Greenback Forex.
The partially convertible rupee closed at 60.225/235, compared with its previous close of 60.13/14.
The rupee fell 1.4 percent for the week and its nine-week losing streak is the longest since the last one ended June 3, 2012.
Analysts feel that the government and central bank will be forced to unveil new steps if the rupee does not stop its slide.
An overseas bond issue targeted at non-resident Indians is one of the options the government has, while the central bank can again open a dollar window for oil refiners to take a big chunk of dollar demand out of the market.
In the offshore non-deliverable forwards, the one-month contract was at 60.64, while the three-month was at 61.30.
In the currency futures market, the most-traded near-month dollar/rupee contracts on the National Stock Exchange, the MCX-SX and the United Stock Exchange all closed around 60.58 with a total traded volume of $5.6 billion. (Editing by Anand Basu)
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By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
3/26/2014 (1 year ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
The alarming uptick in tuberculosis, or TB cases worldwide demands a coordinated, global reaction lawmakers say. An ancient disease, TB remains mankind's greatest infectious killer. It's an airborne disease found in every country in the world, from the wealthiest to the least developed - that most alarmingly, has since become drug resistant.
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
3/26/2014 (1 year ago)
Published in Health
Keywords: Tuberculosis, human cost, worldwide response
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - TB was officially discovered and diagnosed in 1882. The disease continues to outrun our attempts to control it 132 years later. Annually, 1.3 million people die from the disease. As Doctors without Frontiers puts it, in observing TB Day, 22,000 people will catch the disease.
To refresh memories that TB is not a disease of the past, lawmakers from the United Kingdom Nick Herbert, Andrew George and Virendra Sharma have begun the U.K. All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis. The group has joined with over 160 representatives from across the G7 nations and the European Parliament to call for coordinated global action.
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The group maintains that issues cross political divides and fewer still cross national boundaries to motivate decision makers around the world to join together with one voice and call for action.
The word, they say, needs to act fast. The World Health Organization released its annual Global TB Report last October, which showed that TB incidence rates are falling globally, but at two percent this progress is slow at best.
The decline also masks TB hotspots such as Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, and the continued spread of drug-resistant TB, now defined as a "public health crisis".
Neglecting the disease places a heavy burden on domestic healthcare budgets. The human toll by TB, which translates into isolation, infirmity and death is also immense.
Nearly every country has cases of TB and drug-resistant TB, which can cost 10-15 times more to treat than the regular strain.
Even in developed nations, the world must remain mindful of New York City in the early 1990s, where an outbreak of drug-resistant TB was estimated to cost over $1 billion.
The WHO declared TB a "global health emergency" 21 years ago, yet the global fight against the disease is still facing an annual funding gap of $2 billion.
"We must all do more to push TB up the political agenda, and to demonstrate to our governments that investing in TB pays off," the group says. "Over the last two decades, over 20 million people have been cured of TB; we have built a promising pipeline of new TB drugs that have the potential to treat TB more quickly and effectively; and a TB vaccine could be less than a decade away."
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Measles among children is spreading quickly through the United States - and it could get a whole lot worse. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director, Tom Frieden warns that the U.S. could see a "large outbreak" of measles. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ... continue reading
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More than 100 kids have been infected with a mysterious illness that causes poliolike symptoms of paralysis in the United States since August 2014. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Reports of the illness began surfacing around the same time enterovirus D68, a severe ... continue reading
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While it may sound like a science fiction film straight out of the 1950s, genetically modified mosquitoes may shortly be unleashed on the Florida Keys. While sounding very sinister and threatening, the reason is benign. British researchers win approval to use ... continue reading
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The battle to cure cancer is one that has been continuously fought for decades. Chemotherapy, radiation, monoclonal antibodies and surgery have all had their fare share in beating cancer. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Chemotherapy has had many success stories, ... continue reading
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If you're a bit under the weather, join the club. According to the Centers for Disease Control, this year's flu season has returned to an epidemic level. For the week ending January 10, 8.5 percent of all reported deaths were due to influenza or pneumonia. LOS ANGELES, ... continue reading
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When people hear the word "pilgrimage," many think of far-off destinations, such as Lourdes, Fatima, or Santiago de Compostela. Today, in the digital era, we have the opportunity to make a pilgrimage without ever leaving our hometown. In fact, the U.S. Bishops are ... continue reading
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Walking has always been the favored low-impact exercise that most everyone can accomplish. Now, researchers say that a daily 20-minute walk could reduce the risk of an early death by almost a third. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "Couch potatoes," those who ... continue reading
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Ideal location. Beautiful room. Close to theater, Central Park and Fifth Avenue. We would definitely go again!
Solid hotel in great location
Rooms are pretty good size for NY. Fantastic location--could walk to Central Park, 5th Ave, Times Square, etc. Good value for midtown hotel.
Nice hotel great location needs free wifi!
This was a nice hotel in Midtown for exploring New York. My biggest gripe is that they didn't have free wifi.
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I just love staying here. The location is perfect, near the park and central. I also love the bar and restaurant options in the hotel and nearby. Love it :)
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I initially chose the Warwick for its proximity to another hotel where I was attending a conference, and the conference hotel was full. Style and decor are classic, but very well maintained. Staff is friendly, too. Housekeeping would smile and
greet me if I just passed them in the hallway. My room (standard king bed) was one of the more spacious I've seen in NYC. It's hard to comment on value - the room is not cheap, but neither is anything else in Midtown.
Great meal at Mozzarella & Vino, less than five minutes walk down 54th St. It's a cool, small Italian place that didn't break my budget.
Loved it!
Great location, loads of style, quiet and large room. and friendly staff. We hated to leave.
Would not recommend
Pics online don't hold up to in room experience. Walls are in need of paint and my request for best view turned into looking out into other rooms. Bed was super comfy.
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Great Hotel ith great price
Perfect location for everything...from Central Park, to Time Square, and even the subway. Overall the hotel was very clean and service was great. Would definitely stay here again.
Great Stay!
Great location, but that is all
Half of the staff members are some of the rudest people I have encountered. I had two particularly bad encounters. One on the phone and one at the front desk. The other half are not overly nice or helpful, but I wouldn't complain about them. The
room smelled horrible. I can only assume it is because the bathroom fan doesn't work and it gets really steamy. The windows do not open, so there is no way to get fresh air. The outlets need to be replaced because plugs just fall out of them. Also, the hairdryer smoked and sizzled before dying. I guess I should just be happy I did not catch on fire.
There are too many other options to waste money and time on this hotel.
Long Weekend in the City
When booking this hotel wanted something close to Central Park as well as Time Square. The location was perfect. We went for a long weekend (got to JFK at a little before 5am) and we were exhausted. We got to the hotel and checked in our bags so
we didn't have to lug them around. The staff immediately let us know that check in is at three but they'll get us in the first open room. We had our room at 10. This was a great place for the dollar amount especially due to it's location. Since we are from the south west, we are use to warm, and the room was a little cool (building on central system for a/c and heat). The staff immediately sent someone to bring a small heater to ensure our comfort. Highly recommend this hotel.
If you're trying to grab tickets to a broadway show, go to the redsteps (timesquare) by 3 for a show, they sell out quickly.
Great experience
Very convenient for visitors, and business trips. Good experience in all..
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I've noticed with the new photo inclusion functionality - which really does help people posting to this forum a lot, that if you correct something and preview again, you will have to reattach again. I think this catches a lot of people. If you could carry that attachment through on successive previews or at least make people aware they need to reattach, that would help. I don't normally use this functionality so if you have recently changed it or I have misremembered how it operates, please disregard.
Tamara, when trying to respond to a query I often find myself frustrated to see that the poster has left no indication of place or zone where s/he gardens. I think it would be a help to make that information mandatory at the point of registration.
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[quote]Tamara, when trying to respond to a query I often find myself frustrated to see that the poster has left no indication of place or zone where s/he gardens. I think it would be a help to make that information mandatory at the point of registration.[/quote]
I agree with the post. I won't even open it when the poster doesn't identify as I'm not interested in things from Z10 e.g..
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nhbabs - that is a good idea on the face of it but sometimes the OP unknowingly accepts an incorrect id which is later disproved. So maybe it's best to leave the thread as it is. However, for some of us nit pickers the word 'SOLVED' would act as a challenge and stimulate us to have a closer look to see if we agree ;-)
Flora is right. A post with a tricky ID can often be silent until someone posts an incorrect ID! :) It is a nice idea though.
Simple buttons to add italics and bold formatting, etc. to text may help those not acquainted with HTML tags to add formatting. This is a "nice" feature as opposed to a "requirement" in my opinion.
Some newer forum sites have avatar picture and "ratings" based upon how frequently the posters make posts functionality. The ratings give people a clue as to "regulars" and forum "experts" plus some recognition to those folks that do make the forums alive. And the avatar pics is just one of those little bits of personality and customization people like. I've been a regular of one forum or another since Usenet days when everything was text only and so I personally don't have to have such things but I would expect this type of upgrade to be liked by many.
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'Obama's America' Producer Celebrates Michael Moore's Removal From Academy Governing Board
Michael Moore has lost his position as a governor on the Academy's documentary board, and Oscar-winning producer Gerald Molen, one of the film industry's rare outspoken conservatives, is belatedly taking a victory lap.
In a letter to Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the recently elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Molen wrote: "On behalf of my fellow filmmakers and the vast American Heartland which, on occasion, has felt disenfranchised by the Academy, I want to personally thank you and the Academy for removing Mr. Moore and restoring a fair and impartial voting process to the documentary category of the Oscars."
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While Molen's letter went out Thursday, Aug. 29, The Hollywood Reporter learned, Moore, in fact, lost his position as an Academy governor six weeks ago when he lost an election to Alex Gibney, who won a best documentary Oscar in 2007 for Taxi to the Dark Side.
Molen, who won a best picture Oscar for Schindler's List, had been advocating that Moore be removed as a governor overseeing the process of nominating documentary films because he was too liberally biased. He remained silent in the immediate aftermath of Moore's removal in July, but chimed in rather suddenly on Thursday.
"Foxes shouldn't guard hen houses and Michael Moore shouldn't have been in charge of the documentary nominating process at the Academy," Molen wrote in his letter to Boone Isaacs.
Moore was elected to the AMPAS Documentary Branch in 2010, but just ahead of an election in July, Molen wrote a blistering letter to then Academy president Hawk Koch suggesting the entire nominating process was tainted by the presence of Moore, who has built a reputation as one of Hollywood's most politically left filmmakers with titles like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine, which earned him a best documentary Oscar in 2002.
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In his letter to Koch a few months back, Molen also insinuated that his most recent film, 2016: Obama's America, with Dinesh D'Souza was snubbed by Moore and the rest of the Academy because of its conservative message. And he asked for assurance that his follow-up, America, also with D'Souza and due on July 4, 2014, will get a fair shake.
"We've already experienced a time in Hollywood where an atmosphere of oppression and fear was prevalent and people were punished for their political views. Let us make sure that never happens again," Molen wrote in his letter to Koch in May.
On Thursday, in his letter to Boone Isaacs, Molen seemingly revisited that theme. "I look forward to next year's voting being more in line with what the Oscar audiences would expect," Molen wrote.
The removal of Moore, he wrote, "is a major victory for the silent super-majority in America and I am grateful to the leadership of the Academy as well as the voters for returning integrity and balance to a revered and respected national iconic organization."
Moore and Boone Isaacs did not respond to requests for comment.
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Since Game Packs are installed directly from the Origin Client, uninstalling add-on content is only possible by uninstalling The Sims 4. Once you re-install the game, you can pick and choose add-ons to install again.
To uninstall The Sims 4, right click the game in the Origin Client and select "Uninstall". This also removes any additional add-ons and game packs you may have purchased for your game. Uninstalling the game this way should not delete any of your game files, however, Crinrict suggests backing up your Sims 4 Folder.
NOTE: DO NOT use non-official methods which suggest deleting folders in the File System. It has not been tested, is known to generate warnings, and can cause issues with your game. Completely uninstalling The Sims 4 is the only official and safe way to uninstall content at this time.
With the release of The Sims 4 Outdoor Retreat, many players were left scratching their heads when the game pack they purchased did not show up in Origin as an individual game. We don't yet know how EA will handle Expansion and Stuff Packs, but here's a quick guide to finding your purchased content.
When you purchase new content via Origin web or client, the game will be placed in the "More Details" section of the game. When viewing the details of the game, scroll down the page to install any additional Add-ons.
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|Easy trail, no views.
Date Climbed: Sep 19, 2009
|Even though this trail is very easy and wide. I think next time I'll take a different one. It has no views until you reach the AT.
|Posted Sep 21, 2009 9:27 am
Date Climbed: Apr 11, 2009
|Went up the Gould Trail and descended by way of the Cheshire Harbor Trail. 7-8 mile hike. cloudy overcase weather resulted in no view from the summit just a cold mist... still a nice hike!
|Posted Apr 15, 2009 8:41 pm
|Nice route
Date Climbed: Sep 17, 2008
|Had some trouble finding Fisk St, as it's not directly off the main road you're turning off of, but my GPS helped a little. The route's not too bad, I had a nice hike to the top, and breathtaking views to the east.
|Posted Sep 20, 2008 5:50 pm
|Cascade Scrambler
Date Climbed: May 13, 2008
|The hike was beautiful. I'd rather hike to it, than drive to it when given the choice.
The "getting there" section needs some work.
|Posted May 13, 2008 11:11 pm
|Currently Shortest Way to Summit
Date Climbed: Sep 20, 2007
|Route description does not mention that trailhead is at 1560 ft, so this is a 1940ft vertical hike, about 3.3 miles (2.6 to the Rockwell Road, then about .7 along the AT to the summit. This is currently the shortest route to the summit, as the road traversing the mountain is closed until 2009 for maintenance.
Also, the upper half of this route can be made into a loop, by descending the Gould Trail from the road intersection at the top, then taking the Peck's Brook Loop cut-off trail across the ravine to regain the Cheshire Harbor Trail down.
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Congo's Conflict Minerals: U.S. Legislation and Impacts on the Ground
The world's deadliest conflict has persisted in remote regions of eastern Congo, in part because more than a decade of international efforts to negotiate peace had neglected to address the profit motivations fueling the violence. That changed on July 23, 2010, when President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and its requirements for companies trading in Congo's conflict minerals.
Congressional action on Congo is in part the result of a growing grassroots movement determined to bring an end to the war. This movement is fed up with a "see no evil" approach from the end users of Congo's minerals, particularly consumer electronics companies for whom minerals plentiful in Congo are critical.
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When the men and women on the ski patrol are the most dapper athletes on the mountain, you know you're at a classy ski resort.
Arc'teryx has just released its line of custom uniforms for Whistler Blackcomb, the product of a team effort between Whistler Blackcomb staff and Arc'teryx alpine designers Tanya Hall and Tom Fayle.
'Working directly with designers allows for the exchange of ideas and experience to benefit the end design," Arcteryx noted in a press statement.
Though Arc'teryx already makes a patrol jacket, for the Whistler Blackcomb crew, Hall and Fayle made changes to adapt to the specific needs of that ski patrol staff.
The teams collaborated, and came up with a customized radio pocket and an internal mesh dump pocket for carrying goggles and a note pad. On the lower sleeve, a laminated pocket has been sized to store bomb wicks.
Off-area skiing and avalanche control often requires Whistler Blackcomb patrollers to work with helicopters and deep snow, so the team kept the jacket's large reflective crosses that identify patrollers to the public, and added a few more goodies, such as underarm blazes to help make them more visible to helicopter pilots.
The wide pant belt loops accommodates a rigger's belt, part of emergency safety equipment. Thigh pockets are quite large, and fit gloves an other equipment for secure storage. Thigh vents open to control heat while they skill keep snow out.
According to Arc'teryx, "custom uniforms are a portrait of knowledge, dedication and integrity. They reflect the relationship between a corporation and its industry and are an important part of public image. Collaboration [on] the Whistler Blackcomb uniforms has been a rewarding experience."
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Hello. I'd like to stain my 8 year old china cabinet a darker color. Most of the piece is glass. It only has wood from top to bottom at all four corners and also in two strips in the center of the front.
The cabinet is stained in a matted manner, i.e., it is not shiny. I'd like to make the walnut color into a dark espresso color.
I guess I should sand it, clean it, and simply stain it in the darker color. Is that correct? Does water- or oil-based stain matter? How can I tell? Also ... if there are little rubber strips inside of each piece of glass, does that mean I can remove them when while I'm staining? Is remove them highly difficult? Has anyone else re-stained a china cabinet?
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You will not be able to use a regular stain on this if it has a finish on it now as the stain will be able to penetrate into the wood. You will need to use a product such as Minwax Polyshades hwich is stain and polyurethane together and it is made for this type of situation. You can sand it lightly to smooth it out and to make sure the polyshade adhears, and be sure to wipe the sanding dust off with a rag dampened with mineral spirits to be sure there is not any wax or such on it.
I am not sure about removing the glass but I would think it could be removed.
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I am not sure about removing the glass but I would think it could be removed.
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I would definitely remove any handles or knobs before the staining process. I only have experience with painting and staining wooden furniture, so I cannot accurately give you the best advice for your cabinet.
Yes, you would definitely want to remove the glass, otherwise the chances are high of it getting ruined.
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After growing Pelargoniums for several years I do not regard myself as an expert.
This problem has become worse in UK because of the reluctance of many growers to use peat.
The peat substitutes most commonly used, in UK, are coir and bark both of which are very moisture retentive. If you do not wish to use peat based potting compost then I suggest that you use sterilised loam-based composts and horticultural grit to improve drainage. Do not allow your plants to become waterlogged. Regarding cuttings; I have used several different media to root pellie cuttings without problems including peat discs (Jiffy 7s)or sterilised loam/perlite mixtures. Two important points:
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and wired high-speed Internet access is complimentary. This Seoul hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Complimentary self parking and valet parking are available on site.
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Downtown parking lot to host Brewers, Milwaukee Mile events
A downtown city-owned parking lot will host a series of summer events, beginning with parties that revolve around an outdoor telecast of a Milwaukee Brewers game, and a party tied to an IndyCar race at the Milwaukee Mile.
The events will be at a parking lot at W. Wisconsin Ave. and N. 4th St., where hotel proposals go to die. The idea is to bring some activity to the lot, which has been vacant for decades and is just across the avenue from the Frontier Airlines Center.
Those plans were disclosed at Thursday's meeting of the city Redevelopment Authority board, which approved the events.
On May 25, the Pabst Theater and Art Milwaukee will host a party that revolves around that night's Fox Sports Network Wisconsin broadcast of the Brewers road game against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The free event will start at 6 p.m., with the game broadcast starting at 8:40 p.m., said Andy Nelson, of the Pabst Theater Foundation.
The organizers picked an away game in the western United States to get a later starting date, Nelson told authority board members. That was needed to ensure enough darkness to better see the game's outdoor projection, he said.
The Pabst Theater will model the event after its Fish Fry and a Flick, which involves outdoor movies and a chance to buy a fish fry at Discovery World during the summer. Those movies are shown on an inflatable screen.
Nelson said Fish Fry and a Flick, which will start its fourth year this summer, has been popular, often drawing 4,000 to 5,000 people to each event.
He said the Pabst Theater staffs each event with adequate security people, and bartenders, and plans to do the same at the Brewers event. People attending the event will be encouraged to bring lawn chairs to watch the game, he said.
Also, on June 14, Marcus Corp. and Andretti Sports Marketing will host an event tied to the June 16 IZOD IndyCar race at the Milwaukee Mile, at State Fair Park.
That event, which will run from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., will include a local band; possibly food vendor trucks along with food sold by Marcus' hotel division; an area to show racing-oriented films, and a go-cart track, said Mark McDonald, of Marcus Hotels and Resorts.
The music and films will be free.
Other plans include the IndyCar Experience, McDonald said, with some of the ticket revenue going to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. The experience involves riding in a street-legal two-seat IndyCar on downtown's streets, he said.
There also might be pit crew demonstrations on 5th St., which would be closed between Michigan St. and Wisconsin Ave., McDonald said.
Michael Andretti and his racing team will be there, McDonald said, and possibly other drivers as well.
"Will Danica Patrick be there?" asked Bill Schwartz, an authority board member and avid racing fan.
"Probably not a good thing to ask the Andrettis," responded McDonald, referring to Patrick's high-profile decision to leave IndyCar for NASCAR.
The idea for the events came from a working group of city officials, downtown business owners and others who are looking for ways to bring more life to W. Wisconsin Ave., said Dan Casanova, of the Department of City Development.
"We hope to do more of this in the future," Casanova said.
The group also came up with the idea to convert the closed Grand Cinemas ticket booth into a staffed information kiosk for downtown visitors. It opens in May.
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