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Discussion in 'Politics' started by DjinnFor, Nov 22, 2009.
I'd not be surprised if this was five pages by tomorrow. What's your stance on these issues?
Can America collapse faster so we can stop listening to annoying radio hosts? Just have a communists/facist/evilist/deathist/doomist/antichrist/negroist/UNist/enslavist/policist revolution and get it over with for god's sake.
Personally I think the only solution to this is by building a time machine and moving the population of the united states from all time periods into 1776. That would make for a GLORIOUS age!
I think his idea of how "this recession was purposefully made by banks or something so that they can create a world bank and eventually a world government etc" is a pretty believable conspiracy theory.
Fall of the Republic goes into that a whole lot.
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I basically toss all this up in the same bin as 'Mayan Apocalypse'.
I mean, sure, it's infinitely more likely than the Mayan Apocalypse (No chance compared to virtually no chance). Basically anything that falls into 'conspiracy theory' is auto-dismissed.
They might be able to fabricate what seems like an impressive story supported by facts, but t the end of the day, few of the facts ever hold up and the methology is the same as that of fundementalists. Assume a scenario and then try and find potential proof to support it. It always ends up being pretty much bullshit, especially when the sensible answer makes way more sense to begin with.
I mean come on what am I supposed to believe:
High ranking executives and political forces execute a complex and dangerous plan, putting their fortunes on the line for more power, risking exposure or a total backfire to gain grand world power -- even considering the logistics involved, the ease in which a whistleblower could exist and the fact that it'd be more sensible to keep on being powerful where they are right now anyways.
A bunch of greedy fools invested in a bunch of dangerous sectors, under the assumption everything would be good forever and because stock holders would be pissed if profits dropped all the sudden because someone had a hunch that the bubble was going to burst?
One of these falls in line with what I consider to be the true reality of people. The other sounds like the beginning of the plot to Modern Warfare 3. I'm not silly though! I'm sure theres conspiracies going on all the time! Conspiracies such as taking peoples money and investing it in high risk business ventures in a market that was previously only sustained by hopes and dreams! Man, I wonder if that every happened. :rolleyes:
I think some people just get unsettled at the insane uncertainty of life. In a strange ways, these theories are comforting. They give a semi-tangible enemy and make the world make sense.
Of course, escapism like that is cowardice.
Personally, I'd love a "globalist conspiracy" to really happen. I'm so sad that the thousands of globalist conspiracy over the years never pan out. It is always the secessionist conspiracies (an not so conspiracies when they blow up real people) that has a go. Since when was the last time a conspiracy that joins people as opposed to dividing them happened? :rolleyes: The only times where it happens outside of standard conquest is when culture and economic integration makes it totally natural to merge, and even than it doesn't really happen without a ethnic movement before it.
What gets me isn't that crazy theories exist, but one the most alarmist ones are those with a world government. Do they even know what that means? If it is really a government that represents the world than it is perfectly good and fine.
It is government that represents the interests of a small group of people from small region while controlling the rest of the world that is more dangerous. AKA THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
From the perspective from other nations, they are already pretty damn screwed by America's superpower status. Now it can definitely be worst since as empires go, America is a fairly restrained one. That said, power imbalance just don't work that well.
Sometimes I wonder whether any white racists ever took all the antisemite propoganda at face value and figured that the Jews are in fact smarter, more capable and more organized their their own inferior race and is indeed more fit to survive......
I'd APPLAUD them if this were really the case, as oppose to bitching about it. Its a act of awesome and daring that needs praise not rants. (from a certain perspective) I'd really rant only if it hurts my bottom line directly, but I'd still be damned impressed. Sadly, reality is rarely as awesome as the conspiracies.
Reality is a result of many conspiracies (but most of them utterly uninteresting deception ranging from "the dog at my homework and up), but I have no reason to think that future conspiracies will be much different from what has been seen in the past, and that it would necessarily hurt me. In the game of conspiracies it is one of power and information, and my position as a reasonably well informed person with reasonable economic and social resources protects me that much from it.
If I'm a planning to screw over people for more power and money, I'd try it on the poorest and least intelligent folks with minimum resources. The only problem is that so many people are doing it already that I have a lot of competition...but that is just the same old after all. Known oppression leads to only boredom and new things are more exciting after all.
Occam's razor
Yeah I was going to say that, but it's not always true in this situation! so it's an easily refutable point! but it does TEND to be true!
Kayin, how does Occam's Razor not apply in this case? How would you refute it?
Humans are very irrational and tend to make more of a mess out of a situation than is necessary. Now, Occam's Razor is pretty much saying
"While maintaining all known facts to be true, the best/most accurate solution is probably the simplest"
In the case of humans in general, or even worse, conspiracy theories, people can't even agree on all the facts to begin with. We pretty much never understand a situation well enough with people to apply the razor to a situaiton, as opposed to say like, math I guess. That'd be pretty clear cut. Theres no "Substraction was on her period today and was cranky!" to deal with!
So to say "Pfft, this stuff is dumb, occam's razor" doesn't really say much! It's also sorta saying that their scenario is also factually viable, which is often not the case! So really, throwing that out there isn't particularly useful imo.
Well what I mean is that in one case, we have a conspiracy of hundreds of people! These people all have to be master planners, capable of keeping secrets, with long term plans, and execute a complex, difficult plan! And this plan has not much marginal benefit for them!
Or in the other case, we have people behaving like humans have been known to do, due to advances in behavioral psychology and behavioral finance!
Well I agree, but I don't think anyone we'd argue against would buy that alone as any sort of argument! Because by their assumptions, the Razor may very well support them!
Instead we have to go "No, it supports US and here's why" -- IE: What you just said. Basically it means we have to have a semi real argument if anyone actually tries to go along with this.
That's pretty much a waste of time, because it's impossible to prove a negative! So you'll never prove there is no conspiracy.
That's why I'd rather prove that they are dumb!
This thread is a conspiracy about conspiracy theories which in itself is a conspiracy which is a over story for the real conspiracy which is exploiting people's lack of understanding over conspiracies to conspire to grab lots of money to futher the grand conspiracy of obtaining power to build a conspiracy over mankind!
There is no need. Just figure out all possible conspiracies of equal probability and greater and assign equal effort into their probability and you'd get a rational result.
The problem isn't that there is conspiracy theories, the problem is that those conspiracy theorists don't know if a real conspiracy comes and rapes them up the ass.
How do they know their own sources of knowledge is not a conspiracy? How do they know that the apparent conspiracy is actually a conspiracy to distract conspiracy theorists or to discredit them? How do they know that their own senses are not begin deceived by psychological biased used by others to manipulate them?
The problem with them is not in coming up with conspiracies, but their thinking is so rigid as to being complete incapable of evaluating all the other possibilities and understand the very limits of their understanding.
The problem isn't having a story, but clutching to one story out of the millions of them possible and refusal to evaluate another one.
From my understanding, when combined, plots of the world benefit Americans due to the fact that it is easier to exploit less resourceful people than Americans while America's power serves as a good leveraging point and most Americans benefit from the windfall. You don't even need to lift a finger for the company you hold stock to screw over some third world population or have the US govt pressure some government into a puppet that do their bidding at expense of their population. It is not even secret, with a number of activities admitted to now that it is all set and done.
My personal opinion is that it's far more likely people are either doing this intentionally (individually or as a collective group) and it being entirely premeditated, rather than the crap going on now to be purely by chance. Sure, it may not be a collaborative world-wide effort as is claimed by the conspiracy theorists, but when you look at what caused the derivatives crash, for example, and who lobbied for laws to be changed so that it could happen, and look at who exploited everything on the way up and on the way down, you can't deny the crash was entirely intentional and by design, at least by the few that had big interests doing so.
For those of you who disagree, look up 'derivatives bubbles' and try to understand that no matter what you happen to own or loan or do, no matter how risky the venture you invest in is (actually, riskier is better), if you use certain financial tricks that were not possible until derivatives came into existence, and as long as you have enough money (banks as corporations have as much money as they wish to loan, by the way; look it up), you can do one thing (give out cheap loans; remember that?) to inflate the market and make boatloads of money doing so, and another (bet on the loans defaulting) to earn boatloads of money when you crash the market, and pay all your 'profits' as bonuses to yourself.
Now, understandably, banks lose all the money they loaned when things crash, which represents a sizable chunk of money (trillions, usually), but that's why you bet against the market crashing, so that you can save all of it but still report profits and pay execs as the market inflates. If you make a mistake in that regard, all you need to do is report losses and demand a bailout (and pay most of it as bonuses; remember that too?). That being said, we've seen three major industry/market crashes since derivatives came into existence maybe a decade and a half ago. Make sense of that without resorting to 'conspiracy theories'. There's no way people would be that stupid, first of all, about derivatives and their potential harm or how easily they could be exploited unless they wanted it to be that way, and there's no way it wouldn't be outlawed by now unless someone had connections in high places (as well as owning all the major news corporations).
Admittedly, not all banks did this intentionally, nor did they have tons of money in politicians, which is why some went out of business and others didn't. The key thing here is that all it takes is one bank to do it; they could probably inflate the market themselves if they orchestrated it well enough, but failing that if they can sucker a couple of other banks into doing it as well out of ignorance or greed, the question becomes not if there will be a collapse but when it happens and how many billions of dollars this bank will pay out as bonuses.
All I've got to say is, Goldman Sachs and other large banks (but Goldman Sachs far more than any other bank) have their hands in the tax-payers left pocket, right pocket, back pockets, and chest pockets right now, considering how many former Goldman players Barrack Obama has appointed, so if anything else I would agree that the bailout itself was just a tax-grab for banks. Bare minimum, people are trying to steal your money and doing it through the government by demanding new regulations be passed, and/or getting their friends who were appointed into the government to help them out. Bare minimum.
Anything else is up in the air at the moment. But keep this in mind; here are the predictions that Alex Jones specifically (or his affiliates) have made:
-The Cap and Trade carbon tax is an exact duplicate of the system that banks have exploited for ages, but without the crash and bailout; banks can now just steal your money at no risk to themselves because the government decides how valuable the carbon credits are
-The H1N1 vaccine is designed to be harmful rather than helpful, and the world's governments are, at this moment, covering up a plague in the Ukraine that is composed of a fusion of the H1N1 vaccines nasal spray, the H1N1 virus, and other seasonal vaccines, has infected over 1 million people, and killed 300 in it's first week, possibly by burning people's lungs black (whether that is pre or post-mortem is unknown), so that a world panic can be created
Some older predictions that may come true soon:
-The U.S., Canada, and Mexico will join together in a North American union like E.U., and move most of U.S. jobs to Mexico
-The U.S.D. is dropping like a rock and when it hits the bottom, a new world currency (or a replacement currency like the yen) will be instituted where everyone with offshore money profits from the exchange
-If the U.S.D. stops falling and starts recovering, a national 'sensationalist' panic will be instituted to encourage people to invest in the U.S.D. to secure their money after the insiders have moved their money back into America, so that the dollar hits sky-high
These are allegedly according to 'their' own documents, 'their' being just about anyone connected through the Bilderberg group and the Trilateral Commission. If these predictions start coming true, I suggest you guys take this a bit more seriously.
But of course it could be a load of crock. Only time will tell.
Cap and Trade is what happens when you let free market ideologues think about how they'd solve an environmental crisis. I find it particularly funny to see the completly unironic suggestion that this is a form of big government interference. Ask any militant environmentalist/ecologist or socialist what they *really* think of Cap and Trade...
The alternatives to Cap and Trade are *actual government legislation* to limit emissions, or burying your head in the sand and say there isn't a problem (which is, apparently, the solution for free marketer ideologues who think even Cap and Trade has too much government in it).
Instead you get this thing where the government just says "Here is the max number of emissions we're allowed to do this year" and then allows the worse polluters every stupid loophole like giving money to people who plant trees, or such bullshit, or buy emission credits on the free market from those people who actually do reduce their emissions and thus have extras to distribute.
If there's something you can count on from wackos on both the Left and Right, it's being opposed to vaccines.
Newsflash: most US jobs have already moved to Mexico, and there's no NAU. If anything, Canada and Mexico should be the ones afraid of a NAU, because we all know it's just going to be a dummy imperialist organisation where the USA has all the power and other nations have to bow down to it, like the U.N., World Bank and WTO.
The USD is dropping like a rock because the economy is crap due to throwing away money on useless foreign aggression wars. Ask Germany how the value of it's money fared after WWI...
Alex Jones makes predictions that any person with half a brain could make, and then asserts this as proof of conspiracy and intent.
Actualie economists prefer a carbon tax. Carbon emissions are a negative externality, and a carbon tax is the way which would neutralize it with the least amount of deadweight losses. But a carbon tax is politically infeasible, so we get a cap and trade instead.
DjinnFor's post: tl;dr
Letting the worst polluters keep polluting through markets is a good thing, loopholes such as tree-planting money are not. Assuming you set your cap right or your tax right, both work.
In cap-and-trade the government doesn't decide the price of carbon.
Financial crises are very old things. There were lots of bad ones before the Great Depression. Did the conspiracy go back that far?
Don't want to get dragged into this so I'll summarize my position:
1 - conspiracy theories are the realm of the intellectually-lazy who don't want to study something in depth and thus take refuge in making shit up and connecting unrelated facts in a seemingly total theory that's in fact a hodge-podge of old and new, fictional and real through the prism of a mind that's too partial to properly research such things.
2 - Capital (notice the capital C there) wishes it was as smart and coordinated as these people make it out to be. It's not as smart or as organized both by design and inherent flaw.
3 - Occam's razor.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure what you're trying to advance here is that Cap and Trade has less government in it than a government-mandated Carbon tax, and that my primary problem with a Cap and Trade system is that it has too much government. Right so far? The fact that I mentioned banks, not government (privately owned, my friend), and that it's called Cap and TRADE, means you need to go read up on economics.
Start with "Derivatives Bubble", then read about how the government will be increasing the cost of credits per year, and then look up on how former members of the biggest banks, like Goldman Sachs, hooked up with Al Gore to invest money in a Carbon Tax trading company that will buy and sell said credits. If you had a stock called a Carbon Credit that increased in value by a minimum of $10 per year for fifty years, you'd be pretty darn rich because of it too. And no, nothing will be traded on the free market with Al Gore scooping up and hoarding the credits and watching himself grow money out of thin air... all because some idiot decided Carbon Credits carry over each year. You'd think a simple oversight like that could be fixed, no?
What's good about vaccines? Hell, I know several qualified medical doctors who are against them. While I'm sure grown adults can handle being injected with viruses, I've yet to see the health benefits of injecting live or even somewhat pacified viruses into year old babies with still-developing immune systems. Add to that the fact that the recommended maximum daily intake of mercury in one day is usually tripled or quadrupled or quintupled when you go get the whole set of shots as an infant.
And see Ukraine; partially live vaccine + 5 seasonal flu's =/= healthy.
Newsflash: that doesn't mean it's not going to happen, nor that there isn't an intent to do so for the reason I specified.
My point wasn't to explain why it's dropping, only how people are to take advantage of it. And besides, in a globally recovering economy, how is the U.S. still going down? Canada recovered in April. And has Alex Jones not asserted that said wars were the result of a conspiracy as well? If you weren't aware of that I apologize.
I think you're just going out of your way to cover your ears and shout "I can't hear you", or else you're incredibly ignorant of what Alex Jones is and has been talking about. I listed these predictions without bothering to mention the conspiracy and intent, and now you're basing your opinion off of him with what little I bothered to throw in a post that took me five minutes to write. I'm sure 'anyone with half a brain' could have predicted 9/11, as well; the government sure as hell didn't. But then I was watching in 2000 when he mentioned that there would be a catastrophic event on the United States that would push the government into making all sorts of security measures that would violate several parts of the Constitution. And oh, hey, it happened; surprise, surprise.
Tell that to the U.S and the idiots who wrote the Bill. The Bill is in the Senate right now (or else it's been passed); you can go read it online if you'd like. The Government is increasing the price by $10 per year for 50 years.
Sorry bro.
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#3601 closed (wontfix)
ImageField with db_column results in KeyError in Admin Edit
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I seem to have stumbled upon a bug with ImageField.
Here are the steps to reproduce :
- define a model with an ImageField that has a db_column attribute that is different from his attribute name
- add an object of this class using the admin
- try to access the change_form of this object again and you should see a KeyError
If I understand correctly, the problem is located at line 136 of django/contrib/admin/view/main.py where we try to access self.original.dict[self.field.column], which doesn't exist.
My patch simply return self.original.dict[self.field.attname] instead.
Please note that this hasn't been extensively tested and I really don't have the needed time to add unit tests.
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Changed 10 years ago by brice@…
not extensively tested patch
comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by hakejam
- Needs documentation unset
- Needs tests set
- Owner changed from nobody to hakejam
- Patch needs improvement unset
- Status changed from new to assigned
- Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Design decision needed
Verified the problem still exists. The patch above works as advertised, although I have only tested in a simple case.
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by hakejam
- Summary changed from ImageField and db_column don't do well to ImageField with db_column results in KeyError in Admin Edit
Changed title to better describe the problem.
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by jacob
- Triage Stage changed from Design decision needed to Accepted
comment:4 Changed 8 years ago by Gulopine
I've verified manually that the newforms-admin has resolved this issue, but I'd rather see some tests to verify that it doesn't creep up again before I'd be comfortable calling this closed.
comment:5 Changed 6 years ago by adamnelson
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There are many medical cures for ringworm sold in pharmacies. They have been developed for the purpose of treating this skin infection. But a disadvantage of relying on these synthetic medicines is the cost of actually buying them. Most of them are not so cheap and do not guarantee positive results. They can also damage the skin or cause allergic reaction. This is where natural cures for ringworm come in.
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Shane Sparks: What to Wear and Not Wear to a Dance Audition
First off, I want to say if you are dope you can wear anything; YOU are the talent NOT your clothes.
But, on the other hand, I do feel better when I wear certain clothes. I need to feel loose and comfortable, I have to look the part I'm auditioning for.
No matter what you are auditioning for dress with dignity. I know some auditions call for a hot sexy girl for the video, but don't let that decide who you are. Dress to impress, but remember this…not every audition is for you. If you feel cheap you probably shouldn't do it.
The sad part is there's always a dancer that will go the extra mile to get the job and because that's what they're looking for she'll book.
Please ladies don't get caught up in the trap. There is a million respectful jobs out there just wait for them.
I know we have to make money, but trust me no money in the world is worth selling your soul for.
Anything worth having takes time. If you are talented they will see it and you'll never have to worry about that video or pictures you took to survive when you first got to LA.
Believe in yourself and it will pay off.
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BELMONT -- A Belmont woman sexually assaulted by a school janitor in 2001 has filed a lawsuit against the Belmont-Redwood Shores School District for neglecting to fully investigate, report to authorities or fire the convicted sex offender after at least eight allegations of sexual abuse over 20 years.
Roxanne Pedro, 25, filed complaints Feb. 26 against the district and several other administrators prosecutors say were complicit in her abuse, including San Mateo County Superintendent Anne Campbell, who announced her re-election bid last month.
Also listed as defendants on the complaint are former district Director of Business Services Jeffrey Keuscher, former principal of Ralston Middle School, Jayne Chelberg, former assistant principal Daniel Lyttle and former vice principal Lawrence Glendenning.
Campbell, spokesman Thomas DeLapp and other representatives for the Belmont-Redwood Shores Unified School District did not return calls for comment Tuesday.
The perpetrator, 55-year-old Andre Edwards, will soon finish up a nine-month jail sentence after pleading no contest in April to groping Pedro and another student in 2010. Pedro's attorney, Marc Lewis, said it took 12 years for his client's case to be prosecuted, and only after Edwards similarly assaulted the other girl by luring her into his office, forcing himself upon her and reaching under her clothes.
"Roxanne was devastated by the news that another girl had been victimized at the hands of Edwards, and she was an emotional wreck in the days and weeks after meeting with the probation officer," the complaint read. "After facing more than a decade of skepticism and disbelief from her peers, teachers, school administrators and the police, it appeared the authorities had finally accepted that she had, in fact, suffered horrific sexual abuse in 2001."
The complaint alleged administrators were "skeptical" and "neglectful" of the abuse, which occurred when Edwards towered over Pedro in his janitorial office and asked her questions about her genitals and whether she knew how to perform oral sex. He then yanked up her dress and fondled her with his fingers before warning her not to tell anyone and taunting, "That was just a taste."
The girl went immediately to Principal Chelberg, who said it was unlikely the longtime janitor "would engage in such repugnant conduct," the complaint said. Edwards later told police she had been in his office asking him to buy alcohol and cigarettes.
According to the complaint, the girl was also reportedly antagonized by police, who demanded she write an apology letter to her abuser after she failed a polygraph test. The former honor student returned to school to be ostracized by students, faculty and administrators at the highest level, her grades plummeting as she began skipping class.
Prosecutors maintained that the series of traumatic events thrust the girl "utterly unprepared and still emotionally traumatized" into a period of sexual confusion and promiscuity, and she began dating a 19-year-old man at the age of 12. The young girl, who was a virgin at the time of her abuse, was pregnant by the age of 13.
The lawsuit went on to mention at least six additional incidents where the district failed to react appropriately, beginning with the failure to report a sexual abuse case in 1991. They let him keep his job in 1992 after he was fired from the Peninsula Jewish Community Center for peeping at undressing girls, overlooked reports he had kissed and groped a basketball player in 1993 and failed to investigate the discovery of a used condom and pornographic magazine in his office in 2001.
In June 1996, the district launched an investigation led by then-principal Campbell into allegations Edwards verbally harassed multiple students with remarks like "You don't know what a real man is like until you have had me," and "You want me and you know it." Though the investigator "believed in the credibility of the former student and had no reason to doubt her word," school officials neglected to report the case to authorities after deeming the girl's claims "unsubstantiated."
"School officials are mandatory reporters," said Lewis, who added that two other teachers reported the abuse to school officials in the 1996 case. "If there's enough evidence there to conduct an investigation and roll out specific procedures, how is there not enough evidence to report it, as they are obligated to do under the law?"
In an open letter sent to families in the wake of Edwards' arrest, school officials defended their response to the allegations and outlined preventive measures they had taken, including moving custodial offices to a more visible location and installing Dutch doors, advising custodians to refrain from being alone with students in their offices and providing yearly staff training and greater general oversight. Still the district, who once told this newspaper "If you're not convicted, we can't do anything about it if you don't have absolute proof," attributed its inaction in Pedro's case to a lawyer's conclusion that "it did not have enough provable facts to warrant formal disciplinary action against Edwards."
"The district does not need 'absolute proof' to take disciplinary action against an employee, but by law we also must observe due process and privacy rights for both students and employees," the letter read. "This is a case of hindsight being 20/20. ... We believe the district acted appropriately in 2001 within the confines of what it could substantiate as the facts of the situation at the time."
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Dark transfer
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- "I got this crazy healing ability. I can see the weak points in you like little broken red lines! I can see where you got wounded recently. Someone smack you during a sparring session? Bet it was Nihl. I could heal that hurt. Pour the Force into the place where the red lines intersect. Or—and here's a new idea—Maybe I could explode that point. Kill you. Interesting idea. Should we try?"
- ―Cade Skywalker to Darth Talon, after she had attacked him
Dark transfer[1][4] was an extremely rare Force power that allowed the user to bring others back to life from the brink of death;[3] it could initially only be accessed through the dark side.[2] The only person confirmed to have ever learned this skill on their own was Cade Skywalker, who used it to resurrect Wolf Sazen[3] and Marasiah Fel,[5] and to prevent the coral seed deaths of Deliah Blue and Jariah Syn.[6]
Cade also learned to use this Force power to kill, as shown when he used it on Darth Talon after she attacked him for being impudent to Darth Krayt. At Krayt's request, he later healed the damage he caused to Talon.[7]
When Cade and Azlyn Rae were infected with the Rakghoul plague, Cade used this ability to rid them of it, a feat that had only previously been done with the Rakghoul serum.[8]
Later, Cade discovered—thanks to the advice of his former Master Wolf Sazen—that he could also use this Force power with the light side of the Force instead of "only the dark side" as he originally assumed. Cade was able to use the power of the light side to revive both Deliah Blue[2] and his mother Morrigan Corde, based on his love for them.[9]
Krayt revealed to Cade that he also learned how to control the Dark transfer from Cade, Darth Andeddu, and Karness Muur, and used it to resurrect himself after his murder by Darth Wyyrlok. He used it to simultaneously kill and revive Cade Skywalker to sway him to the dark side, but Cade resisted and used the opportunity to finally defeat Krayt.[4]
Behind the scenesEdit
In the cut story Emanations of Darkness, Jaalib Brandl demonstrated an ability very similar to Dark transfer. In a climactic duel with his former flame, Fable Astin, Jaalib inadvertently forces his love from the top of a tall precipice. Fable's body is badly shattered on the rocks below, and she is dangerously near death. However, Jaalib cannot bear to have his one true love die at his own hand. Harnessing the power of the dark side, Jaalib saved Fable from death and healed her, but at great cost to himself, causing him to be captured by New Republic forces.
- "Betrayal by Knight"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 12
- Emanations of Darkness (Cut story)
- Star Wars: Legacy 1: Broken, Part 1 (First appearance)
- Star Wars: Legacy 7: Broken, Part 6
- Star Wars: Legacy 15: Claws of the Dragon, Part 2
- Star Wars: Legacy 16: Claws of the Dragon, Part 3
- Star Wars: Legacy 28: Vector, Part 9
- Star Wars: Legacy 31: Vector, Part 12
- Star Wars: Legacy 46: Monster, Part 4
- Star Wars: Legacy—War 3
- Star Wars: Legacy—War 6
- Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith (Mentioned only)
- Legacy Era Campaign Guide (First identified as Dark transfer)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Legacy Era Campaign Guide
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Star Wars: Legacy: Monster
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Star Wars: Legacy 1: Broken, Part 1
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Star Wars: Legacy—War 6
- ↑ Star Wars: Legacy 7: Broken, Part 6
- ↑ Star Wars: Legacy 15: Claws of the Dragon, Part 2
- ↑ Star Wars: Legacy 16: Claws of the Dragon, Part 3
- ↑ Star Wars: Legacy 28: Vector, Part 9
- ↑ Star Wars: Legacy—War 3


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Pioneering Hong Kong's Indie Scene
The Fringe Club, long the bastion for up-and-coming artists and alternative culture in Hong Kong, will host its 12th City Festival starting this week. But unlike in other years, the festival will not be contained within a single month.
"We wanted to experiment with the idea of a festival without walls, that is not confined within one location and within a narrow time frame," said Benny Chia, the festival's artistic director. Fringe will host City Festival programs throughout the year; they'll include live performances, exhibitions, roundtable talks and public drum jams. Certain acts and exhibits will also tour outside of Hong Kong.
Mr. Chia, who has been working in the arts for 30 years, is always on the lookout for new talent in Hong Kong and beyond. He shares what's piqued his interest.
Interactive Art: "We've now found ourselves in a new age: We can enjoy the arts when and where and how we like, especially in the virtual world. But you can't do everything in virtual reality — that is not going to replace the kind of experience you can get going to a theater with a live audience. As festival directors, we have to deal with these changes. It's not just about buying a ticket and then you sit in the dark and pass a couple of hours and that's it. You can do more than that. You can try to understand a bit better of, say, how a music track is done. We've set up interactive panels and encourage mingling between artists and the audience. We want to ask artists hard questions. Having a longer time frame for the Festival will make art a way of life, rather than just a one-off event."
A Lightened-up Hong Kong: "One of the things I've noticed about Hong Kong is that if anything goes wrong, the first thing people do is point a finger at someone, usually the government or some big business. For example, when the CEO of West Kowloon [Graham Sheffield] resigned [a few days ago], the first response was accusations. It was immediate self-denigration: 'Oh, we will be a joke in the international art scene.' We are always blaming somebody or blaming ourselves.
I think Hong Kong needs to get a life. And I've seen some signs that Hong Kong is lightening up, such as the Chief Executive [Donald Tsang] teaming up with rap singer Jin to give his Christmas message. I would like to think this is a trend."
Food as Popular Culture: "Everytime I turn on the television to get some news, I always see TV food programs. These days, it seems like if you can chop without losing any fingers, you can become a TV chef. I think this is probably a response to people just getting tired of politics and news about the financial markets. There's complete freedom and self-expression in the culinary arts. You don't have to worry about saying the wrong things and getting locked up. It's a way to express happiness without being coy or cheesy."
The Common Artist: "It's harder to find artists with tragic destinies such as Van Gogh. There was an article published during the last Documenta [an international contemporary art show in Kassel, Germany] that asked: 'Where are the stars?' The star in that year's Documenta turned out to be the celebrity chef of El Bulli [a renowned Spanish restaurant]. It seems like the last big art name died with Andy Warhol. If you walk into any Biennale show, you have to have your notebook in hand and write down the names. There are more and more artists. In the old days, if you remembered six or seven of them you could bluff your way at many parties. Nowadays it's a lot harder."
Hong Kong's Changing Art Scene: "The Hong Kong art scene, especially in the visual arts, is still a pristine kind of world. Many artists do it for the love of it — money is not at the forefront. Many of them have not quit their day jobs. But things are changing. The Chinese art scene has affected Hong Kong tremendously. Things that were thought to be impossible are happening across the border — in terms of owning spacious studios, creating big pieces of art, attracting attention from international auction houses. It's a Wild West. Everything seems to be possible. If your neighbor is doing all kinds of things — such as building a house with a swimming pool — what would you feel like? Of course it will impact the poor guy across the fence. I'm ambivalent about this effect — I'm not sure whether it will be a positive or negative change."


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Men allegedly let cars flood to collect insurance
Published: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 11:26 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 11:40 a.m.
HOUMA - Two Houma men are charged with purposely taking their cars to an area they thought would flood and leaving them there as Hurricane Ike threatened in hopes of collecting insurance money for the losses, State Police said.
Stephen Kimball, 55, 1514 St. Charles St., was arrested Monday by State Police detectives.
He is charged with a single count of insurance fraud for allegedly leaving his Cadillac at the Falgout Canal Landing marina in Theriot as Ike advanced through the Gulf of Mexico, later flooding much of southern Terrebonne Parish.
Shaun Chaisson, 30, also of Houma, is charged with insurance fraud as well. Detectives said he left his 2006 Mitsubishi Gallant at the landing on purpose.
Detectives are investigating a third auto left there; information on it has not yet been released, said trooper Gilbert Dardar, a spokesman for State Police Troop C.
Kimball, Dardar said, was having trouble selling his car and told police he parked it at the marina near a friend's camp two or three weeks prior to the storm.
But Kimball's friend said he moved his camp, which sits on a barge, 24-36 hours before Ike hit and that Kimball's Cadillac was not there, according to Dardar.
Chaisson, arrested May 21, initially told his insurance company his Mitsubishi was at his mother's house in Houma when it flooded. He later admitted parking it at the marina, Dardar said.
Chaisson said he parked at the marina to help a friend prepare his camp for the storm but was too drunk to drive it away.
The third alleged fraud was reported to State Police through the National Insurance Crime Bureau, a not-for-profit group supported financially by more than 1,000 property and casualty insurance companies.
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Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. Its members throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, conducting voter mobilization and monitoring equal opportunity in the public and private sectors.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), seeks a highly experienced Meeting Planner/Exhibits Manager to foster a culture of philanthropy within the Association.
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- Assist the Vice President in planning the Annual Convention, as well as meetings and conferences within the National Office, Board Meetings, Committee meetings and special events such as the Spingarn Dinner and the NAACP Image Awards.
- Solicit exhibitors for the Annual Convention Commerce & Industry Show. Maintains a working relationship with current exhibitors and increase exhibitor base. Works cooperatively with NAACP Development Office to insure that sponsors receive benefits associated with their sponsorships
- Manages minority vendor program at the Annual Convention.
- Manages Author Pavilion at the Convention to insure that authors and pavilion contractor receive all necessary information
- Assists in mailings to branches and other units regarding the Annual Convention, Board Meetings, Annual Meeting and other NAACP events as well as to insure that they are mailed in a timely fashion during the year.
- Responsible for logistics, housing, meals and travel for Religious Leaders Summit, NAACP Resolution Committee Meeting
- Completes plans and arrangements for exhibit hall; provides housing information, contracts, etc., for exhibitors and potential participants in a timely fashion.
- During annual conventions, maintains registration/service desk, coordinates arrangements and support services required by exhibitors. Works with official convention decorator to ascertain that exhibit hall is run in an efficient and orderly manner with adequate security.
- Performs any other duties as assigned by the Events Planning Vice President, the President and CEO or the Chief Operating Officer.
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A production of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations from London's West End is headed to the Angelika in Dallas and Plano
I have, in the past, written about the very cool program called NT Live!, which has brought to the Angelika in Dallas and Plano, among other theaters nationwide, productions from the National Theatre in London. The Angelika is adding a new wrinkle on March 21, when a production of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations will be shown throughout the U.S. You can catch it at the Angelika in West Plano and at Mockingbird Station. It starts at 7:30 p.m. that day in both venues.
The show was captured "live" on Feb. 7 from the Vaudeville Theatre in the West End, which is to London what Broadway is to New York. This is not a National Theatre production, but it is a first. Here's the description from the show's Web site:
- "For the very first time, the Dickens classic GREAT EXPECTATIONS will be staged in London's West End, and audiences around the world will be able to share the historic opening night experience at their local theater. Although Great Expectations has been adapted for film on two separate occasions, once by David Lean in 1946 and most recently by Mike Newell, it has never been produced for The West End or Broadway, widely believed to be too difficult to translate to stage. However, this Jo Clifford adaptation has been universally acclaimed as a triumph on its sellout tour of the UK head of its West End debut. The live broadcast will take place on Thursday, February 7, 2013, and include red carpet, arrivals and behind the scenes footage exclusively for participating theaters with encore screenings available beginning March 2013. The event will form part of the global celebrations surrounding the 200th Anniversary of the Dickens' birth."
Here's a YouTube video about the performance:


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We have all seen the bad movies where bad guys intercept a video feed from security cameras and replace the live video stream with a false video stream. This was possible using simple CCTV networks, but not easy with video streaming over large IP networks. Now, it's relatively trivial.
Most of these can be migrated by using VLAN's to separate data. Unfortunately, tools exist for VLAN hopping. For VoIP specific applications, voiphopper (http://voiphopper.sourceforge.net) can be used to gain access to Voice VLAN ID by emulating a Cisco, Avaya or Nortel IP phone. Most commonly, it is used to spoof an IP Phone CDP packet and create a new Ethernet port based off the VVID. Once access is granted to the VLAN containing voice or video IP phones, VideoJak (http://videojak.sourceforge.net), UCSniff (http://ucsniff.sourceforge.net) or other applications can then be used for interception, man-in-the-middle attacks, replay, or any other desired usage. Increasingly, such tools are rolling VLAN hopping into their functionality for ease of usage.
UCSniff has two modes. Monitoring is of only mild interest as unless the enterprise is using hubs or has SPAN turned on, it is not a serious threat. If an attacker gains access to the switches, however, usage of the tool could be more worrisome. Man-In-The-Middle (MitM) mode is more worrisome. UCSniff works by ARP poisoning the network and re-direct traffic to itself. Unless an enterprise is specifically monitoring for ARP poisoning, the effect is entirely transparent to the user. The most effective hostile deployment is to replace an IP phone with a laptop containing UCSniff. This usually guarantees being on the Voice VLAN and therefore, bypasses any necessity for VLAN hopping. Once on the voice VLAN and in MitM mode, a malicious user can passively intercept, jam, alter, or otherwise manipulate the video streams as they see fit using the tool. One can target a specific user or a specific conversation. UCSniff incorporates automatic VLAN discovery via CDP as well as VLAN hopping capacities.
Another interesting usage of the tool, in a Cisco Unified IP Phone environment, is to collect corporate directories. These directories are very helpful in mapping names to specific devices, and can offer a hostile party a more concise list of targets. This is done through an incorporated tool called ACE, Automated Corporate Enumerator, which mimics the behavior of a phone to acquire all of the necessary personnel information in a very short period of time.
One noticeable method of detention is the cessation of UCSniff without re-ARP'ing the targeted clients. They will all crash. If all IP phones crash at one time without any corresponding server or network issues, a hostile party using ARP poisoning may have disconnected without properly resolving clients back to their original information.
VideoJak is a lightweight tool specifically designed for IP video hijacking or denial of service. Its purpose is to intercept video from a feed, capture a stream, and then replay it on the network. It can also be used to intentionally degrade video IP traffic to varying levels. Very simple and straightforward application, but with problematic implications for IP video surveillance and security systems.
Auxiliary Methods
A cruder but efficient method is to use Wireshark to intercept CDP packets, look for "VOIP VLAN Reply", and use VLAN hop (http://www.candelatech.com/~greear/vlan/vlan.1.9.tar.gz) or VOIPHopper to alter one's assigned VLAN to the corresponding VLAN ID found in the intercepted packets. If a switch is insecurely configured, flooding the CAM tables can make a switch perform like a hub allowing an attacker to intercept additional communication.
Countermeasures for a Cisco environment:
• Turn off CDP if possible
• Do not use default VLAN's under any circumstances
• Restrict VLAN trunking to strictly the VLAN's used on that specific switch
• Turn on BPDUguard and rootguard
• Set switchport port-security to prevent CAM table attacks, which may be useful in alleviating ARP poisoning
• Apply a VTP domain password
• Monitor for ARP poisoning
• Isolate corporate phone networks from phones in public spaces
• Follow Cisco's Phone Hardening guidelines (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/security/4_0_1/secuphne.pdf)
• Follow NSA's Switch Configuration Guide (http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/switches/switch-guide-version1_01.pdf)


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By Ms. Andricka Thomas (CECOM)May 19, 2009
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. - Transition seems to be a constant in military life. Since the congressionally mandated 2005 Base Realignment and Closure law was announced, affected military installations began preparations to receive and transition personnel to and from other assignments.
The U.S. Army CECOM Life Cycle Management Command, in conjunction with Army Team Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, has identified its recruitment needs to sustain its transition mission from Fort Monmouth, N.J., to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
Recently, the CECOM LCMC and Army Team C4ISR participated in an Employer Networking Event at Walter Reed Army Medical Center hosted by its U.S. Army Garrison, Human Resources Directorate, Transition Employment Assistance Management Service or TEAMS.
"We know and appreciate the sacrifices that Soldiers make. The skill sets Soldiers acquire while on active duty are valuable to our mission," said Command Sgt. Maj. Tyrone Johnson, CECOM LCMC. "We want to raise awareness about the job opportunities in CECOM LCMC and Army Team C4ISR. By participating in an event like this one, we can speak directly to wounded warriors and Soldiers in transition and let them know we are interested in what they have to offer."
This monthly job fair was originally established to directly link Soldiers in transition with employers, according to Alicia Ross, corporate employment coordinator with TEAMS.
"Here, the employers are from the federal and private sector," Ross said. "In fact, we have opened up the job fairs to our entire Walter Reed population, including active duty Soldiers, Reservists, wounded warriors, DA [Department of the Army] civilians and contractors." Walter Reed is scheduled to close as a result of the 2005 BRAC implementation scheduled for completion by September 2011.
The job fair is part of a larger program designed to assist personnel in transition, to include resume development, interview techniques and career coaching and counseling.
"We aim to link qualified Soldiers with employers to help facilitate a smooth transition to civilian life," said Donald Walker, federal employment coordinator with TEAMS. "I look forward to establishing partnerships with C4ISR organizations."
Army Team C4ISR provided a list of current job announcements to job seekers and informed applicants about the different programs available within the organization. Christopher Newton, CECOM LCMC human resource specialist, engaged each applicant to help identify where their skills may be best matched to compete for current C4ISR job vacancies.
"I learned a lot about the organization [C4ISR and CECOM LCMC]," said Staff Sgt. Pauline Sedano, a supply specialist stationed at the Uniformed Services University of Health Services who spoke with Newton. "This event was very helpful."
The job fair and other transition services are open to the entire Walter Reed population however, personnel in transition from other areas are also welcome to information and resources that TEAMS has to offer, said Walker.
"We assist Navy, Air Force, Marines and Army personnel," said Walker. "If you're active duty or a Reservist, we're here for you; if you're a vet, we're here for you; if you're a DA civilian, we're here for you; if you're a spouse, we're here for you."
Walker said one challenge they face is identifying the skill sets a Soldier has and does not realize, putting them down on paper and transferring those skills into a resume.
"We overcome our challenges by talking to Soldiers to help them identify their skills and showing them on paper that they have relevant experience they, perhaps, didn't realize," Walker said. He said he looks forward to a partnership with Army Team C4ISR and CECOM LCMC in the coming months.
"If you participate, we will provide a venue to get your job information out there to our population," Walker said.


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This happened recently when I dreamed up the idea of moving two 4-foot-wide bookcases upstairs to the guest room. They would be perfect up there, I figured. Why hadn't I thought of it before?
Then I remembered. I had thought of it before, some years back. The bookcases are 6 inches too wide for the wall, my tape measure reminded me. Only 6 inches! The length of a dollar bill! It's not as if I could squeeze the bookcases into the space. Push, shove, squeeeze. The space simply is not there.
This is similar to what I refer to as our "piano problem." The living room wall that would be ideal for our upright is not quite wide enough to accommodate it - even though it looks as if it should be able to. Believe me, we have tried. The piano bumps into the draperies and extends a displeasing distance over the window. We lived with it that way for a while, but, pianos being so easy to move around and all, I finally decided we had to move it - most likely for good - to another, less desirable location.
Next came ?the "fridge fiasco." Several months ?ago, my mother picked out a refrigerator for her kitchen to replace an old, smaller model positioned under a hanging cabinet. The height of the new one worried us. Would it fit under the cabinet? Not entirely trusting the dimensions stated on the label, we measured and measured and measured again. The numbers always varied slightly. Was it the shoes we were wearing? Of course not. In the end, it fit with space to spare.
It's not just furniture and appliances. Our daughter's water bottle is about an inch too tall to stand upright on the cupboard shelf. Our beach towels - no matter how we fold them and place them on the shelf - bump into a wire storage unit that hangs inside the linen closet. That means we have to give that door a little extra shove to close it.
We bemoan books that are too tall for the shelf. Toothbrushes that are too thick for the holder. Platters that are a smidgen too long for the china cabinet. Hair that is an inch too short to pull back in a ponytail. Wrapping paper an inch too short of covering the wedding gift we need wrapped within the hour.
A friend reminds me, however, what a joyous thing it is when things do fit where you want them. I know what he means. Perhaps it's an accent table from a garage sale that now works perfectly beneath a hallway window. Salvaged shutters that fit a window. New sheets that properly hug your mattress - without popping off during the night. Or a wicker basket that nestles nicely inside a sideboard cubby.
"It fits!" Two lovely words indeed
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"All you can have for a simple but comfortable night"
28th August 2013, vbin, Milan, Italy
Not far from port area but easy to achieve there. Quite rooms, clean at any level, full of gadgets in common area up to headphone CD music station, indoor and outdoor breakfast/drinking area where relax in sunny or mild nights, kind and smart service, parking inside ( must be good driver and agile: parking sites are really tiny).Department store at 200m distance.
"IBIS Nice"
25th August 2013, Amit127, Zurich
Location of hotel is good , the tram stop is not very close but certainly not far; pretty much walkable. The Garibaldi large square is close and can be walked up to. Internet is very slow in the rooms , dont expect to see a buffering video stream or even you tube was not working; it used to work sometimes perhaps during low traffic. However, for emails and basic stuff the internet was sufficient enough.Parking slots are very small, beware if you want to use your car daily.Now the biggest negative I found is the breakfast, I agree it was not expensive from Nice standards but then the quality offered over compensated for the price I paid. No scrambled egg or even boiled eggs and only some cheese and a salami was there for protein stuff. Weird tortilla and lot of unhealthy cake/bread combi was ofcourse there. Often the milk was finished and the only lady overlooking the breakfast was found missing and kitchen door had to be knocked to get the milk bottle refilled.However, the staff in general and the lady was polite and would immediately get you the stuff.Another problem, the cleaning lady (training is lacking) took everything off from the shelf in the room which I have never seen anywhere someone touching in my all last stays at Ibis or anywhere else. So she took off my steel spoons, my browny cake, my 80% filled coca cola pet as part of the cleaning , all my used tickets lying beside; thankfully they were all petty items.
3rd August 2013, Nicklas O
The rooms are sparse to say the least. Ants in the rooms! The location is a bit off even if you can walk to the plage (30 min). The beds are hard and the A/C is noisy. Don't even think about eating the breakfast here - expensive and all they have to offer is sugar, sweets and even more sugar. No hot food and not even a single vegetable. Bad!!
"Great Stay"
28th July 2013, 1stEurope, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
We stopped in Nice for 2 nights during our trip through Europe. This hotel was one of the nicest we stayed in during our trip. The only negative was that it was a bit of a walk from the hotel to the beach, as the beach was the main thing we stopped in Nice for. Other than that, the room was very spacious and clean and the staff was very friendly.
"'Nice' clean hotel offering good value and close access to the centre"
19th July 2013, wwwater, London, United Kingdom
We received a very good service from this hotel, going beyond what I expected. The receptionist(s) were very helpful and efficient checking us in and issuing the keys (roomcard). We also enquired about the parking and very knowledgable about the local street parking times (free from 8pm until 9am next morning Mon-Sat) and giving directions to local sites. Parking can be hard in city, quite often full bumper to bumper and the locals double park and kind of half blocking the parked car by the curb. Couldn't see any traffic wardens patrol so I also just parked up where I could find a space but not obstructing any other vehicles. Seems quite safe neighbourhood even in the late evenings when we once walked back.The staff are very friendly and once we wanted to borrow a kettle and some mugs in the , we were lent one with 10 euros deposit in the middle of the night and they very happy to help.
"Dirty towells left at the bathroom"
4th September 2012, SimonedaCosta, Manaus
What a terrible surprise to find at the bathroom two dirty towells probably from the older guests. It says big about the cleanless of the hotel. The location is far from everything and you will need a car to go to the beach and other atractions. The good thing about it was the size of the room: spacious.
"Air Conditioning Please"
18th August 2012, kelly_kgb_b11, Spesbach, Germany
Although it filled everything I expected, there was one downside to my trip to Nice. The air conditioning. There is no need to advertise air conditioning if you intend to call the lukewarm air flowing through the vents just that. Instead we tried to keep the window open, and couldnt sleep due to motor traffic outside. I recommend a courtyard side room and that way it is cooler (in the shade) and quieter.
"An OK hotel"
26th September 2011
No major complaints. Service minimum (no water kettle). Soundproof of room (windows and door) could be better. The bed and quilt is what I like IBIS best.The location is good if you need (as we did) to go to Nice Riqier Gare, and is bad if to enjoy the beach.
"Spacious room w. free internet"
3rd August 2011, Ljubljana
I stayed at the hotel for two nights and I really enjoyed it. The rooms are big (especially for IBIS standard) with free WiFi available. The location is ok, the old town and promenade are reachable on foot and tram station is also close. And supermarket is just over the street. All the right ingredients for a pleasant stay.
"Great value for money, friendly staff, May 2011"
30th May 2011, Troy
Hotel was about 10 minute walk to the marina and about 15-20 minute walk to the shopping/restaurants. Hotel staff were extremely helpful at providing directions, calling cabs, and even helping us find an ATM machine. Rooms were very spacious and the beds were quite comfortable. There is no restaurant in the hotel but that's fine because there are more than enough places to eat nearby. Would definitely recommend the Ibis hotel for the value.
"You get what you expect."
19th May 2011, Ulm
A business hotel with no surprises. You cannot do wrong although it will not enhance your Nice experience.Fulfills all requiremts adequately, adequately clean, adequate wifi (not fast but not slow), adequate breakfast (nice croissons).
"A Nice hotel in Nice"
18th February 2011, DebbieLanguedoc, Languedoc
I'd struggle to find a fault with this hotel. Situated a 15 minute walk from the sea front with shops and roads close by, yet we weren't disturbed by noise.Our room was large, with windows that actually opened more than the usual one inch.A decent sized bathroom with a bath, and shower over the bath....but be warned...the base of the baths (at least ours) was treacherously slippery! Some form of handle or anti-slip coating would be an advantage.Breakfast was served in a pleasant airy room off the main reception area. Continental, but with plenty of variety, croissants, 3 types of bread, ham cheese, the usual fruit and juices, pancakes and a delicious thick cheesy galette. We didn't have our evening meal at the hotel but chose instead to walk into the town centre and try one or two of the many restaurants there.The staff were most helpful, there was always someone at the reception desk and without fail they were a cheery bunch.One advantage of this hotel is that it boasts its own underground car park, so a quick trip down in the lift was all that was required if we needed something from the car. The vehicle was secure also, the car park door is opened /closed on request by reception via a bell either side of the door. (you have to state your room number) so make sure you remember it!We plan a return trip to Nice this year and will specifically choose this hotel again. More or less full marks, I would have given the rooms 5 but have deducted one for the slippery bath.
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Apparently here in North America we missed out on Anton Gun's full part from Random Bastards' DAGGERS when it was put online a few months ago. While the internet movesRead More
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Random Bastards presents their teaser for "DAGGERS". From Random Bastards: RANDOM BASTARDS proudly presents, together with our friends at RIDESTORE.COM, the twelfth film! After receiving worldwide success and recognition with last year's "BLUE BALLS", the dirty north crew are back with some of the sharpest knifes, fresh out the drawer and ready to cut stuff up. As always with our productions, "DAGGERS" will be available as a free digital stream and download this fall. Stoked? We are. STARRING: Jocke Rasmussen, Jonathan Lindhe, Dylan Gamache, Hans Åhlund, Kas Lemmens, Felix Engström, Anton Gun, Cees Wille, Nejc Ferjan, Zach Rawles, Clemens Schattschnieder, Peter Ström, Klas Beyer, Marc Swoboda, Dominic Wagner, Benni Urban, Viktor Wiberg, Erik Karlsson, Philip Grund, Marcus Rand, Cam Pierce, Jani Sorasalmi, Dylan Alito & friendsRead More
Random Bastards celebrates a full decade of making snowboard films with our biggest project so far. Together with Junkyard.com, they proudly present the official teaser for BLUE BALLS. Together with their favorite riders, filmers, partners and brands they've independently made this production and can't wait to show it to the world. The full film BLUE BALLS will be available for free stream and download this fall. Until that, enjoy this first tease… STARRING: Hans Åhlund, Brandon Hobush, Erik Karlsson, Toni Kerkelä, Viktor Wiberg, Ludde Lejkner, Jonte Linde, Dylan Alito, Jocke Rasmussen, Philip Grund, Zebbe Landmark, Zach Rawles, Nejc Ferjan, Eric Johansson, Klas Beyer, Clemens Schattschneider, Kalle Ohlson & more…Read More
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I've got a site that's been using Joomla since J first came on the scene. It's currently running Joomla 1.5.23
I find that Joomla takes way too much of my time to maintain and it becomes a security risk because keeping the core and all the plug-ins, etc. up to date is tedious, to say the least. I've got numerous other sites on WP and just love it more and more with every new release. Needless to say, I want to drop Joomla and be solely on WP.
What I've done (and determined) so far
I've read the info at http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content and the part specific to Joomla (it provides three links to variou import tools).
I've also read plenty on info on the forums here, and on other web sites.
I've determined that using one of the migration scripts it should be fairly easy to get the basic page content into WordPress, although there may be issues with formatting (requiring me to manually reformat posts) and their will definitely be issues with images and any content that relies (in Joomla) on plugins or modules, etc.
Here's what I'd appreciate advice on
1) I'd like to make sure the images issue is as automated as possible, but not sure how to go about it.
2) Plug-in / module specific issues I don't mind resolving manually. Shouldn't be too many (he says with fingers crossed)
3) Here's the big and important part that so far I'm not 100% sure how to go about doing:
- How do I ensure my site doesn't end up generating loads of 404 errors?
- What is the best practice for migrating a site to a new system, taking into account the SEO permalinks from the old system which Google (etc.) have stored and ranked?
Currently my site is in domainname.com/site
This is because it was originally on some other system and back then I found that setting up Joomla in a new directory and then putting a message on the old site pages notifying users of the move, etc., was the easiest way to go about it.
I am thinking the new wordpress install will also need to end up in /site otherwise Google results will all generate 404s. Correct?
Anyway, the bottom line is that I'd appreciate hearing about how to go about handling what needs to happen AFTER the migration.
4) I've read these articles:
Can anyone suggest whether the methods outlined in these articles are the best way to go about it?
5) What happens to article comments? I am assuming they get lost in the process, unless I manually copy them all over? Is that correct?
What I'd like to create, after doing this successfully, is a guide that comprehensively spells out the steps needed to achieve a full and proper migration from Joomla 1.5.x to WordPress (including handling the potential issues with 404s, SEO migration, permalinks, etc.)
Any tips or suggestions on any points in the above would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,