text:
Lovely Apartment with Terrace
Size55 m²
Floor No.(with elevator)
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Elevator in building
- Family/child friendly
- Balcony/terrace
- Pets allowed
- Internet/WiFi
Accommodation summary
|Cihakova, 190 00 Prague, Czech Republic
|Property type
|Property ID
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
The apartment is 55 m2 with a terrace of 13 m2 and is located on the 4th (top) floor of a building from the 1930's. It consists of entrance vestibule, lounge/diner with kitchen corner, lounge and dining furniture is in leather and light oak style. Kitchen corner has electric hob, oven, dishwasher, coffee maker, kettle, fridge, microwave and has all necessary china ware and cutlery along with pots and pans.
The lounge has 2 leather sofas, conference table, and side lamps. There is an LCD wall mounted TV Satellite with many English language channels, a DVD player and a mini HIFI system. The dining table can seat 4 persons. The apartment has internet connection and WIFI.
The bedroom has double bed, night stands, large chest of drawers and various lamps, mirror etc (wardrobe is built in)and also a small double bed, the shower room is spacious and has shower cubicle, W.C., sink and a washing machine. The terrace has a table and 4 chairs.
Behind the apartment building is a large park, small river and wooded recreation ground. Street parking is available in the area.
The large shopping mall, 'Galerie Harfa' is 3 minutes walk away, and there are numerous local markets, bars and restaurants all within 100 meters of the apartment house.
The apartment is located 300 meters from the metro station Ceskomoravska. Nearby Metro: Českomoravská (Line B); Nearby Tram: U Svobodárny (Lines 15, 19).
This apartment is ideally suited for families with children, offering nearby parks, playgrounds, and adventure activities and the traveller looking for cost effective accommodation.
House rulesNo Parties.
|Price for > 2 guests
|$ 19 CA per guest/night extra
|Check-in after
|Check-in before
|Check-out before
|Cancellation Policy
Reviews for this host's other properties
Home perfect although we are ahead
Perfect Council
Apartment consistent aa barely 5 minutes from two metro station that will allow you to visit Prague
Accueil parfait malgré que nous soyons en avance
Conseil parfait
Appartement conforme a a peine 5mn de deux station de métro qui vous permettrons de visiter Prague
Our landlord Andrew was very helpful in our launch in Prague. A meeting with him at the station, has saved us any fumble by ticket machines, transport links and the right place. He has provided us with many very useful tips for Prague beyond the guidebook, which we were very grateful. The apartment, outside the tourist town was a good location, proved to be functionally what the establishment was concerned, but was without any atmosphere and not invited to stay longer.
Unser Vermieter Andrew war sehr hilfreich bei unserem Start in Prag. Ein Treffen mit ihm am Bahnhof, hat uns jegliche Sucherei nach Ticketautomaten, Verkehrsverbindungen und der richtigen Adresse erspart. Er hat uns mit vielen sehr nützlichen Tipps für Prag, jenseits des Reiseführers versorgt, wofür wir sehr dankbar waren. Das Appartement, außerhalb der touristischen Innenstadt hatte eine gute Lage, erwies sich als funktional, was die Einrichtung anbetraf, war aber ohne jegliche Atmosphäre und lud nicht zum längeren Bleiben ein.
It was a great apartment in the city center. It had everything you could possibly want. Many Thanks!
Es war ein super Apartement mitten in der Stadt. Man hatte alles, was man sich wünschen konnte. Vielen Dank!
Andrew is a nice and friendly host, app. is located very well.
Cutlery was a bit dirty at arrival. Kingsize bed is very nice, but the blankets are a bitt small (for tall persons like 1.95 mtr). Too bad because the bed slept very well.
Andrew was super nice and helpful! He gave us the right tips on how to enjoy a beautiful city like Prague! The apartment is very cozy, well located between Prague1 and Prague2. I would recommend his apartment to anyone!
Andy was extremely helpful. Flat is like on picture all great . Highly recommend
Super apartment, perfectly equipped, Good windows keep the city noise typical street back largely, when they are closed; then you can sleep well. Andrew is a nice landlord who is also valuable tips on the city.
Super Wohnung, perfekt ausgestattet, Gute Fenster halten den großstadttypischen Straßenlärm weitgehend zurück, wenn sie geschlossen sind; dann kann man gut schlafen. Andrew ist ein netter Vermieter, der auch wertvolle Tipps zur Stadt gibt.
Andrew is so nice and helpful its worth it to stay there to meet him! The apartment is very well located. It has all you need to cook, wash and dry your clothes. The bed is confortable. You don't need anything else.
We were 4 persons on a very nice trip to Prag in week 14 2014. The apartment was very fine and clean. Andy gave us many informations about Prag in the week with sms. It was super. The apartment is very near to allthings in Prag. There is very many resturants near Miru just 5 min. walk and they are good and the prices low. So in all it has been a super stay.
Linda, Bjarne, Henny & Per
Ps: Do use this apartment.
Andrew is a nice host and attends well to his guests. The apartment was comfortable and looked just as described and photographed. The location is awesome - walking distance to everything in Prague's centre. As a couple we had a pleasant time there (also thanks to Andy's insights where to go/what to see). We can definitely recommend this accommodation to anyone going to Prague.
- Quality assured accommodation
- Every host is verified by telephone
- Secure payment via SSL encryption


text:
forum: Food & Drink
Pages: 1 2 | Home » Food & Drink » Kitchen nasties: weavils
#1 Thu 29 Mar 07 4:47pm
Kitchen nasties: weavils
In spring and especially autumn when it's really humid in Sydney, I no sooner unpack my flours and pasta and place them in airtight containers, than they are full of weavils.
My Nan used to scatter whole cloves through her pantry. Doesn't work for me.I store them in cool areas but the pesky little critters keep coming back. Obviously, they are in the packs when I buy them but invisible.
Any suggestions? It's becoming a real nuisance, inconvenience and expensive (not to mention wasteful).
#2 Thu 29 Mar 07 7:47pm
- Forum super champ Occupation avoiding housework
- From The land of song.
- Member since Tue 04 Oct 05
Re: Kitchen nasties: weavils
I had this problem about 10 years ago. I seem to remember that the weavils were in a bag of organic wholemeal flour that I had been given. When I first looked into the bag of flour I thought that it was just very speckly as it was wholemael but then realised that all these little speckles were also clinging to the edge of the bag and some of them were moving!
I had never seen flour weavils before.
Unfortunatly the bag of flour had been in the pantry for at least 2 weeks before I had had reason to use it. The weavils were in other bags of flour by then!
I seem to remember that after trying various things I either used or threw alay all the dried goods in the pantry, washed all the cans and jars that were on the shelves and then I bleached all the shelves.
You may of course not have the same flour weavils that we have in the uk. Anyway that is what worked for me in the end!
#3 Thu 29 Mar 07 8:14pm
Re: Kitchen nasties: weavils
Thanks for your reply. Your problem sounds like mine. Because I run a food-related business from home, I have several types of flours but I keep stock to a minimum. The wretched insects still get into almost everything. Have done all you suggested except bleach the shelving.
Guess what's now on my "to do" list?
Thanks again,
#4 Thu 29 Mar 07 9:56pm
- Forum champ Occupation Retired Clergy & Computer Consultant
- From Bradford, West Yorks
- Member since Mon 03 Jul 06
Re: Kitchen nasties: weavils
One tip I have come across - in France - isto freeze theflour as soon as you get it home, then defrost after about a week and seive the flour to get ridf any dead weevils.
#5 Thu 29 Mar 07 10:37pm
Re: Kitchen nasties: weavils
Fancy meeting you again so soon, Geoff.
That's something else Nan did. We'd laugh and say there was no room in the fridge or freezer for milk, meat icecream because of her dry staples.
Another thing to add to my "to do" list- defrost ancient freezer, clear it out and fill with flours (esp) and pasta.
Thanks for your help yet again.
#6 Mon 02 Apr 07 1:29am
Re: Kitchen nasties: weavils
I have screw lided plastic containers for flour. Once, I did have a bag of rolled oats that was teeming with weavils. One of the little sods was trying to get into one of the normal (snap) lidded containers of flour. I threw out the source of the problem (the oats) and any other flour based goods that were not sealed in plastic. A few of them had grown into moths and I sprayed them (this was a kitchen with no pantry so flour lived on top of the fridge). Now as soon as I spot the tell tale wispy strands inside the lid of a container, paper package or box I throw it out. Happened last week with a box of rice flour.
#7 Mon 02 Apr 07 2:07am
Re: Kitchen nasties: weavils
Thanks. Glad I'm not the only one! Have enough trouble locating and then buying stuff like spelt and amaranth flours (plus the usual) and the expense (and time involved) to have to throw the stuff out.
My Nan used to keep whole cloves in the pantry (mine is all but non-existant- try the linen cupboard) or put bay leaves in the sealed containers OR store flour in the fridge/freezer. Her fridge/freezer for one is the same size as ours for four adults plus the business stock (no room for a bar fridge for the business).
So sick of wastage,expense and inconvenience. The wretched things stored in the linen cupboard in "air tight" containers once turned to moths and ate my linen.
Since I run an organic/wholefood/ gourmet business, I can't (much as I'd sometimes like to) spray the cupboards into oblivion.
Then there's the linen, who wants to sleep or towel off with linen blasted with spray? Have used the "moth traps" (sticky things) with limited success.
Wonder what purpose weavils, moths and roaches serve in the "meaning of life". They'd probably ask the same about us.
#8 Mon 02 Apr 07 2:34am
Re: Kitchen nasties: weavils
Where do you get those flours?
#9 Mon 02 Apr 07 3:22am
Re: Kitchen nasties: weavils
Mainly high-turnover mega health food stores for the specialty flours.
The health food section/"normal" section of the supermarket for bakers' flour and organic wholemeal.
#10 Mon 02 Apr 07 7:53am
Re: Kitchen nasties: weavils
Which stores specifically? I have gluten issues so I like to find "special" flours
Pages: 1 2 | Home » Food & Drink » Kitchen nasties: weavils

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Located just across the Columbia River from Portland, Ore., historic Clark County, Wash., attracts visitors who enjoy open spaces. But there are some visitors for whom the county would rather not play host: knapweed, poison hemlock, and butterfly bush, to name just a few.
Left unchecked, invasive plants transform an ecosystem by crowding out native species and the animals that depend on them for food, shelter, and habitat. Noxious weeds also poison people and livestock and create fire hazards. Which is why Philip Burgess, director of the Clark County Weed Management Division, has enlisted an entire community in the state's war on weeds.
In addition to controlling noxious weeds in accordance with state law, Burgess' 10-person crew is responsible for controlling listed weeds in state- and county-owned areas as well as re-establishment areas: the 10,900 acres of surface water, parks, and roadsides on the county's 1,325 lane miles.
But he needs more than a handful of employees to face off against about 10 different species of invasive plants. So the weed management division set up a public education program in 1992 to inform private property owners about the importance of weed control.
"We don't want invasives going back and forth from the roadside areas to adjacent landowners' properties," Burgess explains.
As part of the public education program, county weed management representatives conduct two large outreach events each year, connecting with about 5,000 people including horticulture students, horse groups, small farm owners, and watershed stewards: One takes place during the spring and one at the Clark County Fair in the fall. The division also conducts a four-hour seminar each spring to inform mower and sprayer contractors about newer technologies and best management practices.
In other locales, landowners are usually concerned when they see herbicides being applied near their property. But thanks to the outreach program, this is rarely the case in Clark County, where property owners are told in advance about the benefits of herbicides. As a result, "some of the landowners are interested in spraying their own land with the same herbicides we're using," Burgess says.
Burgess and his team members also evaluate the correct timing in which to apply herbicides to get the most efficacy possible. And while only Clark County employees can apply herbicides on county lands, the department shares this information with the public to ensure proper use on private lands. "We have found that people, although interested in controlling weeds, often don't understand the need for the correct herbicide use and timing," he says. "We want to make sure they aren't wasting their time and money or getting sub-par results."
One of the most important parts of the program is the volunteers who help spread the word about invasive species. Eight men and women licensed by the Washington Department of Agriculture as herbicide applicators "help us reach people in a way that we can't do on our own with the limited resources we have," Burgess says. "They keep greenhouses of invasive species that we display at our outreach events, to help landowners identify what weeds are on their properties."
When land has been overtaken by weeds that are required by state law to be eradicated, the volunteers often help remove the plants by hand.
Another reason residents accept the use of herbicides is the county's emphasis on finding safe solutions. The "Green Team" — a cross-functional team of county staff that oversees environmental stewardship efforts — consults with county department users and technical experts to establish environmental criteria and evaluate herbicides based on the potential for groundwater and surface water contamination. The team also trains county employees and applicators on safety practices.
At least one herbicide — Milestone VM from Dow AgroSciences LLC — that the division relies on is registered under the EPA's Reduced Risk Pesticide Initiative. "It's been a real benefit for us to use herbicides with low environmental impact," says Burgess.
Another requirement for an herbicide is its effectiveness.
"It's important that we get more than just a burndown of target weeds," Burgess says. "[With herbicides] Some invasives aren't even coming back the next growing season, which has reduced our costs. Grasses have grown in nicely, and we haven't had any problems with brownout. Perhaps most important, the surrounding landowners see the end results."
Grants from the state agriculture department help the county eliminate early infestations of noxious weeds, such as yellow flag iris and garlic mustard. Public education also helps the county financially by enlisting the cooperation of residents in the quest to rid land of dangerous plants.
When the above steps aren't enough to control an invasive species, state law and Clark County code makes landowners responsible for controlling the spread of noxious weeds on their property. To enforce the law, Clark County's Weed Management Division established a notification program in 1990.


text:
New crowdfunding rules muddy biz use of social media
Crowdfunding was seen as a way to marry the worlds of social media and venture capital, but the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued new guidelines that largely ban social media from the relationship.
Michigan businesses that were planning to use sites like Facebook and Twitter to inexpensively get the word out that they are looking to raise capital for expansion projects or to get off the ground are now consulting with attorneys and trying to figure out their next steps.
"It's going to extremely limit, if not completely close, the ability for businesses to use social media," said Thomas Coke, an attorney who works in business development for Grand Rapids-based VerifyValid, which runs a business-to-business payment service.
In 2012, President Barack Obama signed the JOBS Act, which created the possibility for equity crowdfunding, which opens up investment opportunities for those who previously were not allowed to receive a request to invest — their annual income or net worth was not considered large enough to be considered an accredited investor.
The SEC defines an accredited investor as someone with a net worth of at least $1 million, or who has income of more than $200,000 in the previous two years. An unaccredited investor falls below those financial thresholds.
But because the commission has been slow to enact the rules to allow crowdfunding to begin, a handful of states — including Michigan last year — enacted their own laws to allow intrastate crowdfunding, to get around SEC rules.
Michigan's law allows companies that are Michigan-based to sell shares of their company to state residents, or receive a set percentage return on an investment in the company.
Coke said once a company puts something on social media, it crosses state lines and is no longer an intrastate offer. Several attorneys who practice securities law say businesses should even refrain from simply posting a link to a portal website that handles the investment transaction, even if the site only allows Michigan residents to invest.
Kevin Hitchen, founder of Localstake, an online crowdfunding portal used by businesses to connect with potential investors, said potential investors who come to his site have to go through a series of steps before they can see investment documents for a company or actually invest, including providing their driver's license to prove they are a state resident.
He said he doesn't think the SEC guidance will hinder efforts under the new law in Michigan.
"Businesses will just have to be careful what they post," he said.
And it is possible to successfully conduct crowdfunding without using social media, as the Tecumseh Brewing Co. proved on Thursday, Hitchen said.
Through Localstake, the Tecumseh-based microbrewery was the first to take advantage of Michigan's crowdfunding law, and the first to successfully reach its investment goal. It raised $175,000 from 21 investors, and did it without using social media. It hopes to be open by October.
Kyle DeWitt, general manager and co-founder of Tecumseh Brewing, said they were able to raise the funds in just 45 days.
"We were pleasantly surprised how quick it went," he said.
He said word of mouth, publicity in local news outlets and two tasting events were basically all it took.
The sponsor of the state's crowdfunding law, Rep. Nancy Jenkins, R-Clayton, said businesses will just have to be cautious when using social media and be careful about what they put even on their own website, so as not to draw the ire of the SEC.
Sandra Cochrane, a technology business consultant for the Michigan Small Business Development Center, said the new guidance will make it tougher for people to get the word out about their particular offer.
Coke said old-fashioned word of mouth is still one way businesses can get their message out.
Iris Linder, a shareholder at Lansing-based Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith PC, who works in the business and corporate practice group, said businesses could talk to customers in person and tell them about ways to go online and invest, but first they should ask if they are Michigan residents.
Businesses could also collect emails from customers (after first checking they are all state residents) and then do an email blast to talk about the investment opportunity and direct them to a website where they could invest, she said.
These are good working guidelines until the SEC issues permanent guidelines, perhaps by the end of the year, Linder said.
Coke said he has heard from some business owners who are angry and confused by the new rules, and are still unsure of what they can no longer do, but he is urging them to remain positive.
"Focus on what you can do," he said.
Eric Misterovich, partner at St. Joseph-based Revision Legal, said one positive aspect to the new guidance from the SEC is that it will further shape which businesses are best suited to use crowdfunding under Michigan's law.
"I think a lot of people planned on using Facebook to spread the word about their offer. We've all grown accustomed to how easy it is to share things," he said. "But if I live in St. Joseph, is someone in Bay City going to invest in my restaurant? Probably not."
He said Michigan's law is still well-suited for hyperlocal businesses that have an established and dedicated customer base.
Once the SEC has completed writing the final rules that allows crowdfunding nationwide, other businesses will likely then be able to use social media sites, because they will no longer be confined to just trying to solicit investors from Michigan, he said.
At that point, it won't matter if someone in another state sees their posting on a social media site, he said.
Chris Gautz: (517) 403-4403, email@example.com. Twitter: @chrisgautz


text:
Mathematical proof is foolproof, it seems, only in the absence of fools
Brian Hayes
I was a teenage angle trisector. In my first full-time job, fresh out of high school, I trisected angles all day long for $1.75 an hour. My employer was a maker of volt-meters, ammeters and other electrical instruments. This was back in the analog age, when a meter had a slender pointer swinging in an arc across a scale. My job was drawing the scale. A technician would calibrate the meter, recording the pointer's angular deflection at a few key intervals—say 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15 volts. When I drew the scale, using ruler and compass and a fine pen, I would fill in the intermediate divisions by interpolation. That's where the trisection of angles came in. I was also called upon to perform quintisections and various other impossible feats.
I joked about this with my coworker and supervisor, Dmytro, who had been drawing meter scales for some years. We should get extra pay, I said, for solving one of the famous unsolvable problems of antiquity. But Dmytro was a skeptic, and he challenged me to prove that trisection is impossible. This was beyond my ability. I did my best to present an outline of a proof (after rereading a Martin Gardner column on the topic), but my grasp of the mathematics was tenuous, my argument was incoherent, and my audience remained unconvinced.
On the other hand, Dmytro himself quickly produced visible evidence that the specific method of trisection we employed—drawing a chord across the angle and dividing it into three equal segments—gave incorrect results when applied to large angles. After that, we made sure all the angles we trisected were small ones. And we agreed that the whole matter was something we needn't discuss with the boss. Our circumspect silence was a little like the Pythagorean conspiracy to conceal the irrationality of Ö—2.
Looking back on this episode, I am left with vague misgivings about the place of proof in mathematical discourse and in everyday life. Admittedly, my failure to persuade Dmytro was entirely a fault of the prover, not of the proof. Still, if proof is a magic wand that works only in the hands of wizards, what is its utility to the rest of us?
Reading Euclid Backward
Here is how proof is supposed to work, as illustrated by an anecdote in John Aubrey's Brief Lives about the 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes:
He was 40 yeares old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library in..., Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 El. libri I. He read the proposition. "By G—," sayd he (he would now and then sweare, by way of emphasis), "this is impossible!" So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition; which proposition he read. That referred him back to another, which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that trueth. This made him in love with geometry.
What's most remarkable about this tale—whether or not there's any trueth in it—is the way Hobbes is persuaded against his own will. He starts out incredulous, but he can't resist the force of deductive logic. From proposition 47 (which happens to be the Pythagorean theorem), he is swept backward through the book, from conclusions to their premises and eventually to axioms. Though he searches for a flaw, each step of the argument compels assent. This is the power of pure reason.
For many of us, the first exposure to mathematical proof—typically in a geometry class—is rather different from Hobbes's middle-age epiphany. A nearer model comes from another well-worn story, found in Plato's dialogue Meno. Socrates, drawing figures in the sand, undertakes to coach an untutored slave boy, helping him to prove a special case of the Pythagorean theorem. I paraphrase very loosely:
Socrates:Here is a square with sides of length 2 and area equal to 4. If we double the area, to 8 units, what will the length of a side be?
Boy: Umm, 4?
Socrates: Does 4´4=8?
Boy: Okay, maybe it's 3.
Socrates: Does 3´3=8?
Boy: I give up.
Socrates:Observe this line from corner to corner, which the erudite among us call a diagonal. If we erect a new square on the diagonal, note that one-half of the original square makes up one-fourth of the new square, and so the total area of the new square must be double that of the original square. Therefore the length of the diagonal is the length we were seeking, is it not?
Boy: Whatever.
Boy: Umm, 4?
Socrates: Does 4´4=8?
Boy: Okay, maybe it's 3.
Socrates: Does 3´3=8?
Boy: I give up.
Socrates:Observe this line from corner to corner, which the erudite among us call a diagonal. If we erect a new square on the diagonal, note that one-half of the original square makes up one-fourth of the new square, and so the total area of the new square must be double that of the original square. Therefore the length of the diagonal is the length we were seeking, is it not?
Boy: Whatever.
At this point I trust we are all rooting for the kid. I would like to be able to report that the dialogue continues with the boy taking the initiative, saying something like, "Okay, dude, so what's the length of your erudite diagonal? It's not 4 and it's not 3, so what is it, exactly?" Alas, Plato reports no such challenge from the slave boy.
The problem with the Meno proof is exactly the opposite of the one I faced when I was an untutored wage slave. Whereas I was too inept and intellectually ill-equipped to craft a proof that would persuade my colleague (or even myself, for that matter), Socrates is a figure of such potent authority that the poor kid would surely go along with anything the master said. He would put up no resistance even if Socrates were proving that 1=2. It's hard to believe that the boy will go on to prove theorems of his own.
Sadly, Hobbes didn't get much more benefit from his own geometry lesson. He became a notorious mathematical crank, claiming to have solved all the most famous problems of classical geometry, including the trisection of the angle, the squaring of the circle and the doubling of the cube. These claims were a little less foolish in the 17th century than they would be now, since the impossibility of the tasks had not yet been firmly established. Nevertheless, Hobbes's contemporaries had no trouble spotting the gaffes in his proofs.
Enormous Theorems, Unwieldy Proofs
In recent years proof has become a surprisingly contentious topic. One thread of discord began with the 1976 proof of the four-color-map theorem by Kenneth Appel, Wolfgang Haken and John Koch of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They showed that if you want to color a map so that no two adjacent countries share a color, four crayons are all you'll ever need. The proof relied on computer programs to check thousands of map configurations. This intrusion of the computer into pure mathematics was greeted with suspicion and even disgust. Haken and Appel reported a friend's comment: "God would never permit the best proof of such a beautiful theorem to be so ugly." Apart from such emotional and aesthetic reactions, there was the nagging question of verification: How can we ever be sure the computer didn't make a mistake?
Some of the same issues have come up again with the proof of the Kepler conjecture by Thomas C. Hales of the University of Pittsburgh (with contributions by his student Samuel P. Ferguson). The Kepler conjecture—or is it now the Hales-Ferguson theorem?—says that the pyramid of oranges on a grocer's shelf is packed as densely as possible. Computations play a major part in the proof. Although this reliance on technology has not evoked the same kind of revulsion expressed three decades ago, worries about correctness have not gone away.
Hales announced his proof in 1998, submitting six papers for publication in Annals of Mathematics. The journal enlisted a dozen referees to examine the papers and their supporting computer programs, but in the end the reviewers were defeated by the task. They found nothing wrong, but the computations were so vast and formless that exhaustive checking was impractical, and the referees felt they could not certify the entire proof to be error-free. This was a troubling impasse. Eventually the Annalspublished "the human part of the proof," excluding some of the computational work; the full proof was published last summer in Discrete and Computational Geometry. Interestingly, Hales has turned his attention to computer-assisted methods of checking proofs.
In the case of another famously problematic proof, we can't put the blame on computers. An effort to classify the mathematical objects known as finite simple groups began in the 1950s; the classification amounts to a proof that no such groups exist outside of five known categories. By the early 1980s the organizers of the project believed the proof was essentially complete, but it was scattered across 500 publications totaling at least 10,000 pages. Three senior authors undertook to revise and simplify the proof, bringing together the major ideas in one series of publications. The process, still unfinished, is testing the limits of the human attention span—and lifespan. (One of the leaders of the revision program died in 1992.)
If some proofs are too long to comprehend, others are too terse and cryptic. Four years ago the Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman announced a proof of the Poincaré conjecture. This result says—here I paraphrase Christina Sormani of Lehman College—that if a blob of alien goo can ooze its way out of any lasso you throw around it, then the blob must be nothing more than a deformed sphere, without holes or handles. Everyday experience testifies to this fact for two-dimensional surfaces embedded in three-dimensional space, and the conjecture was proved some time ago for surfaces (or "manifolds") of four or more dimensions. The hard case was the three-dimensional manifold, which Perelman solved by proving a more-general result called the geometrization conjecture.
Perelman's proof is not easy reading. Sormani explains its strategy as "heating the blob up, making it sing, stretching it like hot mozzarella and chopping it into a million pieces." I applaud the vividness of this description, and yet it has not helped me follow Perelman's logic. Given the difficulty of the work, others stepped in to explicate and elaborate, publishing versions of the proof considerably longer than the original. These were not popularizations aimed at the general public; they were meant to explain the mathematics to mathematicians. Controversy ensued. Were the explicators trying to claim a share of the glory? Did they deserve a share? In August Perelman was awarded a Fields Medal, the biggest prize in mathematics, which may put an end to the controversy. (Perelman refused the prize.)
These incidents and others like them have led to talk of a crisis in mathematics, and to fears that proof cannot be trusted to lead us to eternal and indubitable truth. Already in 1972 Philip J. Davis of Brown University was writing:
The authenticity of a mathematical proof is not absolute but only probabilistic.... Proofs cannot be too long, else their probabilities go down, and they baffle the checking process. To put it another way: all really deep theorems are false (or at best unproved or unprovable). All true theorems are trivial.
A few years later, in Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty, Morris Kline portrayed mathematics as a teetering superstructure with flimsy timbers and a crumbling foundation; continuing with this architectural conceit, he argued that proofs are "a façade rather than the supporting columns of the mathematical structure."
Davis and Kline both wrote as mathematical insiders—as members of the club, albeit iconoclastic ones. In contrast, John Horgan positioned himself as a defiant outsider when he wrote a Scientific American essay titled "The Death of Proof" in 1993. "The doubts riddling modern human thought have finally infected mathematics," he said. "Mathematicians may at last be forced to accept what many scientists and philosophers already have admitted: their assertions are, at best, only provisionally true, true until proved false."
My own position as an observer of these events is somewhere in the awkward middle ground, neither inside nor outside. I am certainly not a mathematician, and yet I have been an embedded journalist in the math corps for so long that I cannot claim detachment or impartiality. I report from the no man's land between the fences.
I do believe there is a kind of crisis going on—but only because the entire history of mathematics is just one crisis after another. The foundations are always crumbling, and the barbarians are always at the gate. When Haken and Appel published their computer-aided proof, it was hardly the first time that a technical innovation had stirred up controversy. In the 17th century, when algebraic methods began intruding into geometry, the heirs of the Euclidean tradition cried foul. (Hobbes was one of them.) At the end of the 19th century, when David Hilbert introduced nonconstructive proofs—saying, in effect, "I know x exists, but I can't tell you where to look for it"—there was another rebellion. Said one critic: "This is not mathematics. This is theology."
All in all, the crisis of the present moment seems mild compared with that of a century ago, when paradoxes in set theory led to Gottlob Frege's lament, "Alas, arithmetic totters." In response to that crisis, a rescue party of ambitious mathematicians, led by Hilbert, set out to rebuild the edifice of mathematics on a new foundation. Hilbert's plan was to apply the process of proof to proof itself, showing that the axioms and theorems of mathematics can never lead to a contradiction—that you can never prove both "x" and "not x." The outcome is well known: Kurt Gödel proved instead that if you insist on consistency, there are true statements you can't prove at all. You might think that such a Tower of Babel catastrophe would scatter the tribes of mathematics for generations, but mathematicians have carried on.
That some of the latest proofs from the frontiers of mathematical research are difficult and rely on novel tools seems to me utterly unexceptional. Of course the proofs are hard to digest; they were hard to create. These are solutions to problems that have stumped strong minds for decades or centuries. When Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture defeats my attempts at understanding, this is a disappointment but not a surprise. (I can't keep pace with Olympic marathoners either.) If I have a worry about the state of mathematics, it's not the forbidding inaccessibility of the deepest thinkers; rather it's my own clumsiness when I tackle perfectly humdrum problems, far from the frontiers of knowledge.
Who's on First?
Donald E. Knuth of Stanford University once appended a note to a computer program: "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." Coming from Knuth, the warning is a joke, but if you hear it from me, you should take it seriously.
Allow me to bring back Socrates and the slave boy for a little exercise in probability theory. They are arguing about sports: In a best-of-seven tournament (such as the baseball World Series), what is the probability that the contest will be decided in a four-game sweep? Assume that the teams are evenly matched, so that each team has a 50-50 chance of winning any single game.
Socrates: In a best-of-seven series, how many ways can a team score a clean sweep?
Boy: Just one way. You've got to win four in a row, with no losses.
Socrates: And how many ways could we form a five-game series, with four wins and a single loss?
Boy: Well, youcould lose either the first, the second, the third or the fourth game, and win all the rest.
Socrates: And what about losing the fifth game?
Boy: If you win the first four, you don't play a fifth.
Socrates: So to build a five-game series, we take a four-game series and insert an additional loss at each position except the last, is that right?
Boy: I guess.
Socrates: Therefore we can create a six-game tournament by taking each of the five-game series and inserting an additional loss in each of five positions. Thus we have 4´5, or 20, six-game series.
Boy: If you say so.
Socrates: Then each of the 20 six-game series can be expanded in six different ways to make a seven-game series, and so there are 120 seven-game variations. Adding it all up, we have 1+4+20+120 cases, for a total of 145. Exactly one of these cases is a clean sweep, and so the probability is 1?145.
Boy: Just one way. You've got to win four in a row, with no losses.
Socrates: And how many ways could we form a five-game series, with four wins and a single loss?
Boy: Well, youcould lose either the first, the second, the third or the fourth game, and win all the rest.
Socrates: And what about losing the fifth game?
Boy: If you win the first four, you don't play a fifth.
Socrates: So to build a five-game series, we take a four-game series and insert an additional loss at each position except the last, is that right?
Boy: I guess.
Socrates: Therefore we can create a six-game tournament by taking each of the five-game series and inserting an additional loss in each of five positions. Thus we have 4´5, or 20, six-game series.
Boy: If you say so.
Socrates: Then each of the 20 six-game series can be expanded in six different ways to make a seven-game series, and so there are 120 seven-game variations. Adding it all up, we have 1+4+20+120 cases, for a total of 145. Exactly one of these cases is a clean sweep, and so the probability is 1?145.
At this point the boy, who knows something about baseball, points out that of 98 best-of-seven World Series, 19 have been won in a clean sweep, suggesting an empirical probability nearer to 1?5 than to 1?145. Socrates is not swayed by this fact.
Socrates: Do not be distracted by mere appearances; here we study ideal baseball. Let me demonstrate by another method.
Boy: Go for it.
Socrates: Suppose for the moment that the teams always play a full schedule of seven games. Since each game can have either of two outcomes, there are 27, or 128, possible sequences. Now go through the list of 128 patterns and remove all of those in which play continues after a team has already achieved four victories. I find that there are 70 distinct patterns remaining. Two of those patterns are clean sweeps—one for each team—and so the probability is 1?35.
Boy: You're getting warmer. Try this: Winning four games in a row has a probability of 1?2´1?2´1?2´1?2, or 1?16. Either team can have the clean sweep, so the combined probability is 1?16+1?16=1?8.
Boy: Go for it.
Socrates: Suppose for the moment that the teams always play a full schedule of seven games. Since each game can have either of two outcomes, there are 27, or 128, possible sequences. Now go through the list of 128 patterns and remove all of those in which play continues after a team has already achieved four victories. I find that there are 70 distinct patterns remaining. Two of those patterns are clean sweeps—one for each team—and so the probability is 1?35.
Boy: You're getting warmer. Try this: Winning four games in a row has a probability of 1?2´1?2´1?2´1?2, or 1?16. Either team can have the clean sweep, so the combined probability is 1?16+1?16=1?8.
Deductive logic has led us to three different answers, at least two of which must be wrong. Although I have made Socrates the fool in this comedy of errors, I cannot conceal that the blunders are actually my own. A few years ago I had occasion to perform this calculation, and I got a wrong answer. How did I know it was wrong? It disagreed with a simple computer experiment: a program that simulated a million random World Series and produced 124,711 four-game clean sweeps. (That's almost exactly 1?8.)
What does it mean that I put greater trust in the output of a computer program than in my own reasoning? Well, I am not arguing that computer simulations are superior to proofs or more reliable than deductive methods. It's not that there's something wrong with classical mathematics. All three of the approaches discussed in my pseudo-Socratic dialogue can be made to yield the right answer, if they are applied with care. But proof is a tool that can also prove you a fool.
For those who believe they could never possibly commit such an error, I offer my congratulations, along with a reminder of the infamous Monty Hall affair. In 1990 Marilyn vos Savant, a columnist for Parade magazine, discussed a hypothetical situation on the television game show "Let's Make a Deal," hosted by Monty Hall. A prize is hidden behind one of three doors. When a contestant chooses door 1, Hall opens door 3, showing that the prize is not there, and offers the player the option of switching to door 2. Vos Savant argued (correctly, given certain assumptions) that switching improves the odds from 1?3 to 2?3. Thousands disagreed, including more than a few mathematicians. Even Paul Erd?os, a formidable probabilist, got it wrong. It was a computer simulation that ultimately persuaded him.
Putting Proof in Its Place
The law seeks proof beyond a reasonable doubt, but mathematics sets a higher standard. In a tradition that goes back to Euclid, proof is taken as a guarantee of infallibility. It is the flaming sword of a sentry standing guard over the published literature of mathematics, barring all falsehoods. And the literature may need guarding. If you view mathematics as a formal system of axioms and theorems, then the structure is dangerously brittle. Admit just one false theorem and you can prove any absurdity you please.
The special status of mathematical truth, setting the discipline apart from other arts and sciences, is a notion still cherished by many mathematicians, but proof has other roles as well; it's not just a seal of approval. David Bressoud's book Proofs and Confirmations gives what I believe is the best-ever insider's account of what it's like to do mathematics. Bressoud emphasizes that the most important function of proof is not to establish that a proposition is true but to explain why it's true. "The search for proof is the first step in the search for understanding."
And of course there's more to mathematics than theorems and proofs. A genre calling itself experimental mathematics is thriving today. There are journals and conferences devoted to the theme, and a pair of books by Jonathan Borwein and David Bailey serve as a manifesto for the field. Not that practitioners of experimental math want to abandon or abolish proof, but they give greater scope to other activities: playing with examples, making conjectures, computation.
Still, there are ideas that never could have entered the human mind except through the reasoning process we call proof. Which brings me back to the trisection of angles.
Wantzel's Theorem
The fact that trisection is impossible is common knowledge, but the reason it's impossible—the content of the proof—is not so widely known. Many authors mention it but few explain it. Even Underwood Dudley's splendid send-up of mathematical cranks, A Budget of Trisections, does not go through the proof step by step.
The origin and history of the proof are also somewhat shadowy. There is a lesson here for those who seek immortality by solving some trophy problem in mathematics. Trisection had been near the top of the most-wanted list for two millennia, and yet the author of the first published proof of impossibility has not earned a place in the pantheon.
That author was the French mathematician Pierre Laurent Wantzel (1814-1848), who is hardly a household name, even in mathematical households. His proof appeared in 1837. As far as I know, it has never been reprinted and has never been published in English translation. (I have posted a crude attempt at a translation on the American Scientist Web site.) Many citations of the paper give the wrong volume number, suggesting that even some of those who refer to the proof have not read it. And to pile on one further indignity, the paper itself gets the author's name wrong: He is listed as "M. L. Wantzel."
One reason for Wantzel's obscurity may be that his proof is almost unintelligible for modern readers. Later expositors offer more lucid accounts. Felix Klein, L. E. Dickson and Robert C. Yates all published versions of the proof; so did Willard Van Orman Quine, who wrote his version in response to a $100 challenge. For a thorough and accessible book-length exposition I highly recommend Abstract Algebra and Famous Impossibilities, by Arthur Jones, Sidney A. Morris and Kenneth R. Pearson.
As penance for my youthful career as a trisector, I would now like to try giving a brief sketch of the impossibility proof. The basic question is: What can you do with a straightedge and compass? You can draw lines and circles, obviously, but it turns out you can also do arithmetic. If the length of a line segment represents a number, then ruler-and-compass manipulations can add, subtract, multiply and divide such numbers, and also extract square roots. Suppose you are given a segment of length 1 to start with; what further numbers can you generate? All the integers are easy to reach; you can also get to any rational number (a ratio of integers). Square roots give access to certain irrationals; by taking square roots of square roots, you can also do fourth roots, eighth roots, and so on. But that's all you can do. There is no way to extract cube roots, fifth roots or any other roots not a power of 2—which is the crucial issue for trisection.
A purported trisection procedure is required to take an angle qand produce q/3. Since the procedure has to work with any angle, we can refute it by exhibiting just one angle that cannot be trisected. The standard example is 60 degrees. Suppose the vertex of a 60-degree angle is at the origin, and one side corresponds to the positive x axis. Then to trisect the angle you must draw a line inclined by 20 degrees to the x axis and passing through the origin.
To draw any line, all you need is two points lying on the line. In this case you already have one point, namely the origin. Thus the entire task of trisection reduces to finding one more point lying somewhere along the 20-degree line. Surely that must be easy! After all, there are infinitely many points on the line and you only need one of them. But the proof says it can't be done.
To see the source of the difficulty we can turn to trigonometry. If we knew the sine and cosine of 20 degrees, the problem would be solved; we could simply construct the point x=cos20, y=sin20. (Of course we need the exact values; approximations from a calculator or a trig table won't help.) We do know the sine and cosine of 60 degrees: The values are Ö—3/2 and 1?2. Both of these numbers can be constructed with ruler and compass. Furthermore, formulas relate the sine and cosine of any angle qto the corresponding values for q/3. The formulas yield the following equation (where for brevity the symbol ureplaces the expression cosq/3):
cosq=4u 3-3u.
For the 60-degree angle, with cosq=1?2,the equation becomes 8u 3-6u=1.Note that this is a cubic equation. That's the nub of the problem: No process of adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing and taking square roots will ever solve the equation for the value of u. (The hard part of the proof, which I'm not brave enough to attempt here, shows that the cubic equation cannot be reduced to one of lower degree.)
This proof, with its excursions into trigonometry and algebra, would have been alien to Euclid, but the conclusion is easily translated back into the language of geometry: Not a single point along the 20-degree line (except the origin) can be reached from the 60-degree line by ruler-and-compass methods. There is something hauntingly counterintuitive about this fact. The two lines live on the same plane; they even intersect, and yet they don't communicate. You can't get there from here. Like Hobbes, I wouldn't believe it, except the proof compels belief. I wonder if my old friend Dmytro would be convinced.
© Brian Hayes
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/foolproof/5
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


text:
Take a break from the blog or those damn Italian keyboards will drive you 'round the bend, believe me!ReplyDelete
Have a great time!
- Anonymous1:58 AM
Can't understand why italian keyboard are "damn"... They're normal QWERTY keyboards and you can find different keys set up only on hardware for special application! :)ReplyDelete
Btw, here in Italy free hotspots are not so widespread as in the USA but you can usually find free WiFi in libraries, McD, close to banks and so on...
Cheers and enjoy the Alps!
Oh my God, I loooooove Italy - you're in for a treat! The mountains are beautiful, the food is amazing, the lakes are stunning, and the people are (on the whole) great! Enjoy, have a fabulous time, and good luck to Beat for his race!ReplyDelete
Enjoy Italy, where people live life sanely. Please also binge on the incredible food, which is the essence of Italy! Have fun, Jill. Hope you can stay more than just a few days....ReplyDelete


text: A neat conduit job says a lot about you. Yet, you've often wasted a large amount of conduit trying to achieve a good appearance. Is there a trick to this? Is there a way to make a good-looking installation without filling the scrap barrel? Of course there is, and we'll see exactly how to do it.First, let's look at a typical installation, as shown in Fig. 1 (original article). If you are a contractor,


text:
The Big Bang Theory Shirts Hunger Games > Hunger Games Merchandise > Rue's Lullaby Shirts > Rue's Lullaby Rectangle Magnet
Rue's lullaby gifts for the Hunger Games fans.
Drag the square at the left to choose the part of your image you want to use. Tips: Click and drag any corner to resize; click and drag from the inside to move.
Click done if you're happy with the way it looks.
This shop is powered by CafePress Inc.
Copyright © 1999-
Privacy Policy |
Non-US currency rates are updated daily and may fluctuate.


text:
Between the newspapers and the talking head jerks, I can't tell.
I'm sorry, but after the Sandy Hook killings of innocent children and the brave adults who gave their lives to try and protect them, it truly offends my senses that they are celebrating a football player who will be just as widely remembered for the murder he was involved in, as his 17 year football career!
It never ceases to amaze me what the idiots in the media and society in general are willing to forget, as long as you're going into the Hall Of Fame.


text:
forum: Everything else
Pages: 1 | Home » Everything else » "Wonderbag" Cooking
#1 Tue 18 Jun 13 9:55pm
- Member Occupation Free Lance Editor
- From San Francisco CA
- Member since Mon 26 Apr 10
"Wonderbag" Cooking
I'm wondering if anyone on this board has heard of, heard ABOUT, or used the "Wonderbag," as a means of insulated, slow cooking that doesn't use a continued application of outside heat.
It came to my attention on another cooking site, and I was intrigued. The website, if I interpret it correctly, says that the product is distributed in some African countries, and is for sale in the UK and Turkey.
I e-mailed an inquiry about sales in the US, and was told that the plan is to offer it for sale, here, later this year. The response, further, said that the founder of the company is in my area this week ... presumably for marketing purposes ... and I have an appointment to meet with her tomorrow. She's going to sell me one, and I'll be able to avoid the cost/time consumption of shipping.
I'm already thinking of recipes (the website has a few), and I'm getting quite excited about a new cooking application. I love the clay (terracotta) pot, but think that the electric "crock pot" is over rated.
Any thoughts, or questions that I should pose in my meeting, tomorrow ??
#2 Tue 18 Jun 13 11:05pm
- Forum super champ Occupation avoiding housework
- From The land of song.
- Member since Tue 04 Oct 05
Re: "Wonderbag" Cooking
My main question would be to ask how the temperature can be kept at a high enough temperature to kill off and unpleasant bacteria that are present in meat .
With a slow cooker / crock pot I cook the meat on high for the first hour then turn it down . I don't think the slow cooker / crockpot is over rated at all as it saves me putting on the main oven and cooks even the toughest of meat joints to a fall apart texture , it can also be put on in the morning so you can return from work to a hot meat.
I have a terracotta tagine that I also think of as a slow cooker , but that's different to the electric one and I often use it over coals on a small BBQ type pot.
When I was in the girl guides many years ago , we would cook stews , potatoes , porridge etc in a hay box . This was a wooden tea chest that was packed tight with hay but had a huge liddec saucepan sized hole in he tightly packed hay . The lidded pan had been heated fully before it was put into the hay box then more hay packed on the top followed by a wooden lid that was weighted to stop it blowing off ( and if it was for a stew the meat would have been heated well for quite a while ) . Porridge was put to cook in the box before we went to sleep so it was ready for the morning and after breakfast the meat stew was put into one box whilst the potatoes were put into another .
I presume this wonder bag works on a similar principal .
#3 Tue 18 Jun 13 11:46pm
- Forum super champ
- From Newcastle, Australia
- Member since Sat 10 Mar 07
Re: "Wonderbag" Cooking
#4 Wed 19 Jun 13 12:12am
- Forum super champ Occupation avoiding housework
- From The land of song.
- Member since Tue 04 Oct 05
Re: "Wonderbag" Cooking
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-develo … ping-world
Ok . found it ...so it's sort of like the old hay box principle .
**I'd also want to know if its washable or if it has a washable lining as inevertably at some point here will be spills on he bag o I will get really grubby through wear.
I have had a look a what it says about the bag and its just filled with recycled polystyrene . Presume this is the polystyrene beads , so from what I see it's sort of like a flat bean bag , presumably with some sort of channels that are filled with the beads to keep the beads in place.
**I would like to know , if like a bean bag that you sit on , do the polystyrene beads flatten over time and need to be topped up ?
#5 Wed 19 Jun 13 4:50am
The White Rabbit
- Forum super champ
- From Sydney, Australia
- Member since Tue 22 Jun 04
Re: "Wonderbag" Cooking
you can get camping thermos style cookers here. You start the cooking then they are sealed up. Looks like a wide mouth thermos and some have compartments. My dad has one. Got it from Aldi so i assume this "technology," is very readily available without having to get someone to fly it in or have a handy bail of hay or an actual slow cooker and the power to run it. I think thermos style would be easier to wash.
#6 Wed 19 Jun 13 8:41am
- Forum super champ Occupation avoiding housework
- From The land of song.
- Member since Tue 04 Oct 05
Re: "Wonderbag" Cooking
'Bale of hay' was around 40 years ago White Rabbit !
But when there were electricity strikes some years ago I remember adopting the same principle so that we could still cook .
#7 Wed 19 Jun 13 11:10am
The White Rabbit
- Forum super champ
- From Sydney, Australia
- Member since Tue 22 Jun 04
Re: "Wonderbag" Cooking
I think it's a great idea. Might try it when the kids are older.
#8 Tue 25 Jun 13 9:07pm
- Member Occupation Free Lance Editor
- From San Francisco CA
- Member since Mon 26 Apr 10
Re: "Wonderbag" Cooking
Well, I bought my Wonderbag, and tried it on Sunday.
I wasn't overly enthusiastic about the results of the dish that I prepared, but I'll try other things with other "formats."
(I attempted an adaptation of a dinner that I prepare in the terracotta "clay pot." It's a layer of rice w/herbs, followed by a layer of chicken [breasts or leg/thighs] and topped with hearty veggies. All ingredients go, RAW, into the water soaked clay pot, then into a cold oven. As the oven heat is increased, the clay pot becomes an "oven-within-an-oven," and the dinner is steamed to perfection.)
-Per general instructions for the Wonderbag," I browned the chicken well, and brought the rice to a boil for 5 minutes. I put the meat, topped with the veggies, into a steam insert above the rice, and put on the top. I put the pan in the Wonderbag for 4 hours (the instructions for chicken call for "at least" 2 hours, noting that longer will result in tenderer chicken).
-The rice was very fluffy, and some of the juices from the browned meat DID seep through the insert for added flavor.
The chicken was fine ... cooked through ... but nothing out of the ordinary.
-The biggest disappointment was that the heat isn't intense enough to cook the carrots, onions and turnips so that they are able to contribute their flavor to the whole. I did add some crimini mushrooms to the very top, and they did better than the heartier veggies. (In the clay pot, everything shares its own flavor with everything else, for a lovely balance.)
Even though the representative of the company told me that the steam insert would work, I think that this type of cooking is best used for stews, soups, etc., where everything is combined at the same level. I will, eventually try this dish that way.
My first impression isn't stellar, but my jury is still out.
Last edited by CatyL (Tue 25 Jun 13 9:10pm)
Pages: 1 | Home » Everything else » "Wonderbag" Cooking


text:
News Release
|<< Back
|Ulta Beauty Announces Second Quarter 2012 Results
Total Sales Increased 22.1%
Comparable Store Sales Increased 9.3%
Diluted EPS Increased 42.1% to
For the Second Quarter:
For the First Six Months:
Balance Sheet and Cash Flow
Merchandise inventories at the end of the second quarter totaled
The Company did not utilize its credit facility during the first half of the year.
Store Expansion
During the second quarter, the Company opened 22 stores located in
For the third quarter of fiscal 2012, the Company currently expects net
sales in the range of
Income per diluted share for the third quarter of fiscal 2012 is
estimated to be in the range of
For fiscal 2012, the Company plans to:
Conference Call Information
A conference call to discuss second quarter results is scheduled for
About Ulta Beauty
Ulta Beauty is the largest beauty retailer that provides one-stop
shopping for prestige, mass and salon products and salon services in
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the
meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which reflect our current views with
respect to, among other things, future events and financial performance.
You can identify these forward-looking statements by the use of
forward-looking words such as "outlook," "believes," "expects," "plans,"
"estimates," or other comparable words. Any forward-looking statements
contained in this press release are based upon our historical
performance and on current plans, estimates and expectations. The
inclusion of this forward-looking information should not be regarded as
a representation by us or any other person that the future plans,
estimates or expectations contemplated by us will be achieved. Such
forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and
uncertainties, which include, without limitation: the impact of weakness
in the economy; changes in the overall level of consumer spending;
changes in the wholesale cost of our products; the possibility that we
may be unable to compete effectively in our highly competitive markets;
the possibility that our continued opening of new stores could strain
our resources and have a material adverse effect on our business and
financial performance; the possibility that new store openings and
existing locations may be impacted by developer or co-tenant issues; the
possibility that the capacity of our distribution and order fulfillment
infrastructure may not be adequate to support our recent growth and
expected future growth plans; the possibility of material disruptions to
our information systems; weather conditions that could negatively impact
sales; and other risk factors detailed in our public filings with the
Source: Ulta Beauty
Ulta Beauty


text:
After the lawyer gets paid.
Seems like the beekeepers are actually proxy's for the big packers (Sue,Dutch,etc) stomping down the competition for all that imported honey $$$.
Kick them when they are down to make sure they stay down.
After the lawyer gets paid.
Seems like the beekeepers are actually proxy's for the big packers (Sue,Dutch,etc) stomping down the competition for all that imported honey $$$.
Kick them when they are down to make sure they stay down.
"Kick them when they are down to make sure they stay down." Yes they should pay dearly for what they have cost the industry, the fines were a slap on the wrist compared to the profits made......heard that Grobe paid good prices for the American honey and Canadian that he did buy . The industry will be alot better off without them .
I believe I read that Groeb and Honey Solutions must also(besides the fine), pay back the avoided tariffs of 40 and 20 million?
Correct me anyone if I am wrong.
Is it possible the Feds will try to keep them in business just to insure that they get the tariffs paid?
Crazy Roland
I do not recall reading the avoided tariffs would have to be paid, (something to the tune of 180 Million dollars) would you be so kind as point me to where you read this
Last edited by irwin harlton; 04-30-2013 at 08:52 PM.
Packer calling to lock in honey for 2013 crop at $2.25. This only tells me they are short and/or price of honey is on its way up.
Or both?
Mark Berninghausen
This past week has been an active one for some honey buyers. Bids of $2.25 for white and more surprisingly $2.20 for ELA.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
Law360, New York (June 27, 2013, 4:31 PM ET) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce has set the preliminary anti-dumping duty rate on honey imports from China at $2.63 per kilogram, according to an agency notice released Thursday.
I've had calls the past week from NC TN and TX looking for bulk honey. Had to turn them down as we are not taking new customers at the present time. Currant price is ex white clover 2.95 in barbell. Water white locust/bush honeysuckle.3.95. Could have sold it all last week. Folks we have a mess I got a call from been friend in MI bees falling apart. Snotty. Brood no high mite levels. I'm talking 1400 hives. Hearing same thing from mud west and north west. Bees already going downhill. Remember neonnicginoids stay in ground and increase yearly. The bees came up from FL and made a box. Two to three weeks later they started to go downhill. Then they brought last load up...two weeks later and they looked good...after being in MI they start to collapse. Corn all around. My opinion...nictinoids in Henbit and other vegitatio. In and around fields. Looks like a disaster for a crop. Hearing SD looks bad and lits corn where sweet clover/alfalfa use to be...how high will price go and how much adulteration will we see?
$2.95, $3.95? News to me and I get a lot of calls as well. I have only heard positive reports up to this point from our area. This isnt really the place for this discussion but snot brood, not EFB? Looking at this logically if the bees were recently brought north and werent on location during corn planting and given the fact that the corn has yet to tassel. Where is the exposure? I am not saying there arent hives with problems, certainly those are disturbing reports, just questioning the certainty with which you are stating the cause.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
Kieth... bass wood, clover and star thistle. Rick....I'm surrounded by seed corn here in michigan and we not seeing a problem. Have had similar problems before. What seems to have helped is pollen patty feeding
Lots of clover blooming in the alfalfa fields within days of cutting around here. 7-10 days after alfalfa cutting many farmers are spraying it(alfalfa and blooming clover) with Cyhalothrin! Major loss of field bees and queen losses. All the pollen sub in the world isn't going to stop that. Still planting corn here also. That's 2 months of drift contamination!
Leer Family Honey Farm-Shannon Leer
Most of the farmers are aware of the bees in the area. They apparently don't care. One in particular can see my hives from the field he sprayed. He told me he THOUGHT the bees were far enough away.....300 yards is awfully close to be spraying a product that clearly has a warning about honeybees. Also they are applying to vegetation in bloom WHILE THE BEES ARE FORAGING. This is not the property owner where the bee are located.
Leer Family Honey Farm-Shannon Leer
NUTRA-BEE feed supplements
So when I am out shooting my guns where I have permission it's up to the neighbor to make sure his cattle are out of the way of stray bullets?
Leer Family Honey Farm-Shannon Leer
Do you see cattle flying over fences..... like bullets & bees ?
You are responsible where the bullets & bees go.
NUTRA-BEE feed supplements


text:
Stay connected with us to get the latest health and fitness news, innovative workouts, healthy recipes and wellness tips.
Change Location
ACE Fit Share
Starting Position: Place a 6-12" raised platform or box on the floor 3-6" in front of your feet on a non-slip surface. Stand with your feet hip-width apart or closer, arms by your sides. Pull your shoulder blades down and back. Engage your abdominal / core muscles to stabilize your spine.
Downward Phase: Shift your hips back and down. This will create a hinge-like movement at your knees. Continue to lower yourself until you feel your heels about to lift off the floor. Try to maintain a flat back by bending forward at the hips. Keep your head directly facing the box and position your arms where they offer the greatest degree of balance support.
Jumping Movement: With ONLY a very brief pause at the bottom of your downward phase, explode up through your lower body, fully extending your hips, knees and ankles. Swing your arms forward to help drive your vertical movement and land on top of the box. As you jump into the air, keep your feet level with each other and parallel with the floor.
Landing: The most important components of the landing phase are correct foot position and control of the forward movement in your knees. Excessive forward movement in the knees places additional stress on the joint.
Try to land softly and quietly on the mid-foot, rolling into the heels. Always push your hips back and down to absorb the impact of landing. Do not lock out your knees on your landing. Land with your trunk slightly forward, head aligned with your spine and back rigid or flat. Keep your abdominal / core muscles engaged, bracing your torso to protect your spine.
Exercise Variation: As you develop your jumping and landing skills, you can progress the exercise intensity and complexity by: (1) driving your arms behind you during the downward phase (illustrated), (2) driving your arms forward or upward (illustrated) during the jumping phase, (3) driving your knees towards your chest (illustrated) during the jumping phase., or (4) increasing the height of the raised platform or box.Learn first how to squat and perform regular squat jumps before attempting to perform box jumps. The height of the platform / box should not exceed your vertical jump height.


text:
Viscera Cleanup Detail
9 Things You Didn't Know About Memorial Day
'Price Is Right' Contestant Loses it Over Plinko
How Kelly Thinks 'The Bachelor' Should Work
Trump's Shoving Montenegro's PM Goes Viral
With "My Queue" you can quickly save videos to watch later.
To add an item to your queue just click the sign next to the video.
Once you've added a video visit "My Queue" to start watching!


text:
Doc made sure to pack his nicest leather sack wrap for Vegas to ensure his big hairy balls didn't touch Matt in a rowdy double team.
by Kip-o-licious March 25, 2010
when one man wraps his scrotum(ballsack) around another mans penis, and that man has sex with his sackwrap.
That guys balls wrapped all the way around my dick while i fucked it until till i gizzed into his sackwraps
by theeurbandictionary October 20, 2010


text:
Click to read on the GoBlueWolverine premium message board, The Victors Club, and to contribute your own opinion:
TJBlog: Recruiting CB's (Armani Reeves).
All American gamers thus far.
TJBlogs: CB Recruiting; U-M's AA Gamers
The Michigan Insider Top Stories
U-M officially announces addition of SimmonsThe Ohio graduate transfer is eligible to play immediately.
The Michigan InsiderYesterday at 1:08 PM
Scouting: David DeJuliusMichigan commitment David DeJulius has had a productive summer in the EYBL running with The Family. Here is a scouting report on what DeJulius brings to the court, and what areas…
Scout HoopsYesterday at 6:58 AM
Spring video: Jerome HunterFour-star forward Jerome Hunter lit it up at the Run 'N Slam earlier this month. Catch some of the best highlights of the Ohio native from the event.
Peegs.comYesterday at 5:17 AM
Four-star DB Irvin Close to Trimming ListANAHEIM, Calif. -- Four-star safety Julius Irvin has taken several visits this spring and could hit the road again this summer before possibly announcing a college decision...
Scout FootballMonday at 8:38 PM


text: When it comes to commerical bee keepers, everyone seems to have a story, or know of someone who has had CCD happen to their operations. However, it seems like no one is doing anything to try to combat it, or trying to do something different to stop it from happening. And I dont get it, I mean isnt your operation your livelihood, and you would want to see something dont about it. I see a lot of commercial beekeepers that are saying that other beekeepers that suspect pesticides, or GM crops, or treatments to be at the heart of it are lying and do not have solid evidence to back this up, but we still see CCD happening. It seems that we are losing more and more colonies and we are still coming to the same conclusion: well we do not know what is causing it, so we arint going to change. Its disappointing to see this because it makes us seem lazy, or stuck in the ways that are harming our operational but also could be devastating for our future beekeepers. There is a part of China that now has to hand pollinate its main crop, apples, because they used pesticides and sprayed their crops so much that all of the colonies the beekeepers had died. Isnt this enough to point to some evidence that pesticides are causing CCD, in combination with other practices? What i am trying to ask here is why are we counting letting CCD happen and not atl east trying to pinpoint to what is causing it so we can eliminate it to save our colonies, and our livelihood.


text:
Notice: On March 31, it was announced that Statalist is moving from an email list to a forum. The old list will shut down on April 23, and its replacement, statalist.org is already up and running.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: st: Collecting Statistics of Averages of Variables
Clyde B Schechter <email@example.com>
"email@example.com" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: Collecting Statistics of Averages of Variables
Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:39:23 +0000
Robert Hartman asked about calculating summary statistics from all possible combinations of some variables. The example in his initial post involved 4 variables, which should be no problem at all. But at the end of his post he says:
"I have about a 70 variable space from which to create all these subset combinations."
If that means that he wants to do this for all possible combinations of 70 variables, that is 2^70 (= 1.181e+21) combinations to work out. That's beyond merely time consuming: if each combination can be completely processed in 1 microsecond, we are looking at over 37,000,000 years of processing. It's examples like this that evoke the phrase "combinatorial explosion."
Perhaps the whole approach needs to be reconsidered.
Clyde Schechter
Dept. of Family & Social Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY, USA
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/


text:
Welcome from Adrian, MI
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Welcome from Adrian, MI
Welcome from the desert in Eastern Washington!
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, was blind, but now I see. [John Newton (1725-1807)]
welcome from WI.
Welcome from Texas!
Hello and welcome from Minnesota!
Would love to see pictures of your quilts!
Hello, and Welcome to the QB from North Carolina. Great to have you join us...you'll LOVE it here.
Happiness is a form of travel...not a destination.
Hello and welcome from the Oregon coast! I moved from WA. state last summer
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
-Oscar Wilde
Welcome to you from almost the other end of the nation, Walnut Grove, Al
Welcome from Shepparton, Victoria, Australia.
God Bless you all.


text:
Stay connected with us to get the latest health and fitness news, innovative workouts, healthy recipes and wellness tips.
Change Location
ACE Fit Share
A stir-fry is all about preparation: you need to have everything ready to go before you start the cooking, which actually takes place in a matter of minutes. Serve this stir-fry over brown rice—or for a more traditional take, over wilted mustard greens splashed with a little rice vinegar.
Nutrition Profile:
Diabetes Appropriate
Gluten Free Diet
Healthy Weight
Heart Healthy
Low Calorie
Low Carb
Low Sat Fat
Serves 4
Prep Time 35 min
Total Time 35 min.
Step 1
Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a wok or large nonstick skillet over high heat. Add shrimp and cook, stirring, until pink and beginning to curl, about 1 minute. Transfer the shrimp to a plate (it will finish cooking later).
Step 2
Heat the remaining 1 tablespoon oil in the pan over high heat. Add snow peas, shiitakes and ginger and cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are softened, 5 to 7 minutes.
Step 3
Meanwhile, whisk sherry, hoisin, soy sauce, cornstarch and pepper in a small bowl.
Step 4
Stir bean sprouts, the cooked shrimp and the sherry mixture into the snow pea mixture and cook, stirring constantly, until the sauce is slightly thickened and the shrimp are cooked through, 1 to 2 minutes.
Featured Workouts
Check out our 12-week fitness plan designed to boost your strength, endurance, muscle definition, energy level and overall health.
Flatten your stomach and build strength in the muscles that provide stability and mobility for the spine, pelvis, ribs and hips.
Focus on pulling, rotating and building strength with workouts created alongside Olympic Gold Medalist Dominique Dawes.
This workout provides a challenging total-body workout that can be done from the comfort of home with no equipment other than bodyweight and space.


text:
You've likely added a tool to fix one problem and then a different tool to fix another problem. Pretty soon you have multiple instances of the same tool, different tools with overlapping functionality, no ability to collaborate across teams—all resulting in unknown bottlenecks and complicated or no reporting. As a DevOps leader, it's up to you to balance the autonomy and flexibility of a DevOps approach. But how?Sponsored Listing
OSI-Approved Open Source (6)
- Academic Free License (1)
- BSD License (2)
- Common Development and Distribution License (1)
- Common Public License 1.0 (1)
- Computer Associates Trusted Open Source License 1.1 (1)
- Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (1)
- GNU General Public License version 2.0 (4)
- GNU General Public License version 3.0 (1)
- GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (1)
- MIT License (1)
- Public Domain (1)
- Grouping and Descriptive Categories (6)
- Linux (5)
- Modern (5)
- Windows (5)
- Mac (3)
- Other Operating Systems (2)
- Android (1)
Top Apps
- Audio & Video
- Business & Enterprise
- Communications
- Development
- Home & Education
- Games
- Graphics
- Science & Engineering
- Security & Utilities
- System Administration
Clover EFI bootloader
Boot OS X, Windows, and Linux on Mac or PC with UEFI or BIOS firmware26,240 weekly downloads
A universal P2P file sharing client for Windows5,011 weekly downloads
Syllable Desktop operating system
Syllable Desktop is a complete operating system that is easy to use, powerful, lightweight and extraordinarily fast and responsive. It has its own kernel, filesystem, GUI and applications. Syllable Server is a matching small and efficient Linux server.195 weekly downloads
ThousandEyes extends visibility across corporate networks as well as the public Internet, helping to solve issues from the branch through MPLS links and SIP trunks to service provider networks. Simulate pre-deployment capacity, monitor detailed performance metrics and see how QoS settings impact call quality.Sponsored Listing
PlayStation 2 emulator for Windows and Linux41 weekly downloads
GTCop Professional Security Appliance aims to provide a powerful tool for satellite communications, with enhanced QoS and bandwidth controls. As derived from IPCop Firewall, it is a stable, secure, easy to configure and maintain GNU/Linux firewall box.1 weekly downloads
Divine Logic
The future of information technology will be based on controlling the flow of natural light. This project is an attempt to establish the code (or software) that will enable this to happen. It involves rewriting an OS from the ground up.


text:
by JK11 December 23, 2009
The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush
taking in a large consumption of alcohol in a short period of time. symptoms include foaming from the mouth excess vomiting and sometimes even self induced pain.
i was tryna get a bop so i got this bitch drunk but she drank too much and got sammie'd and got alcohol poisening ):
by Steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezy April 13, 2011


text:
Among our attractions you
certainly cannot miss the pool:
swimming activities, as well as relaxing and refreshing time. Terre di Nano wants to be a place to
go back in touch with traditions,
rediscovering nature and genuine
products of the earth. In this restful atmosphere the pool is a
central element to combine fun and


text:
WILMINGTON, NC (UNCW) — "The Buzz Peterson Show" makes its 2012-13 premier on Sunday, Nov. 11, the same day the Seahawks kick off their men's basketball season against UNC Asheville at Trask Coliseum.
The 30-minute program featuring UNCW's third-year coach runs from 11-11:30 a.m. on WWAY NewsChannel 3, Wilmington's ABC affiliate. Mike Vaccaro will serve as host of the show once again this season.
There are 16 shows on tap for this season. The show sponsors include Carolina Ford Dealers, Governor's Highway Safety Program, Hardee's, Harris Teeter, Hughes Brothers, Papa John's, Reeds Jewelers and Wilmington Health.
The Buzz Peterson TV Show Dates: Nov. 11, Nov. 18, Nov. 25, Dec. 2, Dec. 9, Dec. 16, Dec. 30, Jan. 6, Jan. 13, Jan. 20, Jan. 27, Feb. 3, Feb. 10, Feb. 17, Feb. 24 and Mar. 3.


text:
Civana Kuhlmann returned this weekend from 7 days at U15 US Youth National Team camp. As this article is written, Civana sits at home in Colorado catching up on homework. We decided to let her focus on her studies and inquire of her parents. After speaking with Civana's mom and dad, Danel and Chris, they shared this of her experience, "As parents, we're proud that she has maintained her studies while enduring a rigorous soccer schedule," they said. "After her demanding U17 National Team experience for the World Cup qualifier, she has worked very hard to prepare for these next opportunities. We're happy and excited for her!"
Following up with her ECNL team coach, Cam Bushey, he had this to add of Civana (pictured at right with U15 National Coach BJ Snow).
"Well, you can look at stats, rankings or things like this, but in the end, what says the most about an athlete, I think, is their spirit, character and willingness to work. Civana is willing to balance and make sacrifices to allow her to have the opportunities she's gotten. She's got a real spirit for the game, and when adversities have come around, she has stuck to her goals. Yes, she's got loads of talent, but I've heard it said before- 'hard work beats talent, unless talent works.' I'm very confident in Civana because she is willing to be an industrious and responsible young kid. When a player is such a threat as Civana is game in and game out, people will notice, but from there, what will they notice next? I hope Civana will continue to allow people to see the product of her work. Actually, I hope that for each player in our Club…"
Theresa "Tess" Boade was also invited to this camp, but she could not attend due to an untimely hamstring pull. She is getting close to returning to feeling 100% again. When we asked how she was feeling, she stated frankly, "I'm not sure if I could give it a percentage, but if I were to put it on a 1-10 scale I would say 7 or 8." Coach Cam chuckled and remarked, "Math is hard, but we are looking forward to having Tess back to full-strength. I know she is anxious to put the jersey on again and play after missing our San Diego event and National Team Camp. She's been really responsible in her recovery."


text: Hello, For about a month or so now my transmission has been acting weird. In 3rd gear and in OD it will flare up a couple hundred RPM's and than come back down to the normal RPM. This happens most of the time while driving now. Only occurs when going between 40MPH (OD engages) and 60MPH. Any ideas? 00 Silverado 5.3 185,XXX Fluid changed / filter last year. Thanks.


text:
Update: Virginia State Police identify victim in Scott Co. fire
SCOTT COUNTY, VA. - An early morning fire claimed the life of a woman in Scott County, Virginia.
The fire happened around 6 a.m. on Bristol Highway in the Hiltons community.
We're told the victim was 97-years-old Louella Pierson.
Every morning Patsy Mercer would call her mother to check in, but on Monday morning it was a different kind of phone call -- it was a call from a neighbor about her mom and the fact that smoke was coming from her home.
Mercer went next door, where fire crews were working to reach her mother. "It's a terrible feeling to stand and watch a house burn down, and you don't know if they're getting her out, whether she's already gone, or what," says Mercer.
It was too late: 97-year-old Louella Pierson died in her long-time home.
"At this point, we're waiting for the house to cool down. Virginia State Police and Scott County Sheriff's Office will then go in and investigate," says Chris Holder, an investigator with Scott County Sheriff's Office.
Investigators don't believe foul play was involved, but they are trying to find out how the fire started.
While Mercer remembers her mother and the relationship she cherished. "Well, I didn't see her every day, but I called her every day. Two to three times a day, or she'd call me," she told us.
Mercer says her mother was a lively person and a loving mother.
The victim's body has been sent for an autopsy.


text:
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Mark Topic as New
- Mark Topic as Read
- Float this Topic for Current User
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Printer Friendly Page
Re: May 2013 Suggestions!
I don't have so much as an item request as I do a storage request. Like a lot of us, I have hundreds of items items in storage and just going through it all to find something takes forever. I would a way to sort items in clothing/furniture storage and non storage by developer. It would make it so much easier to handle storage items if we didn't have to go through them catagory by catagory and item by item to find something we want to use.
Re: May 2013 Suggestions!
Stop coming out with items, that people abuse them with. Maybe cute and funny, but when someone abuses an item, so one can script sexual behavior with it. Think before you make these items!
Re: May 2013 Suggestions!
Since we've been getting more clubhouse skins, I'd like to see some dedicated to the interests of the users (community) of Home. Certainly we can decorate the current clubhouse to reflect our interests, but having a variety of clubhouse styles is overdue.
I would like to see clubhouse skins dedicated to the following:
Miscelaneous collectors
Comic book collectors
Books and mystery buffs
Movie collecting
There are many types of clubhouse skins that can be designed, and I know that SCE/SCEA can't cater to all tastes. But a few different styles of clubhouses would be awesome with different furniture and building shapes.
The newer clubhouse skins can allow the owner of the club to "gift" members (similar to Lockwood's Gift Machine) with clothes or items specific to the clubhouse that will reflect the club's theme. Basically member's only items that may or not be recalled once a person leaves.
Also as part of the description, include instructions on how to retrieve or initiate the use of clubhouse skins by every Developer.
I hope to see more clubhouse skins based on hobbies soon. I think it is now the time for this to happen.
Re: May 2013 Suggestions!
Digital Leisure
I think many of us like the Casino that you have created. Not only are the games fun, but the immersion level is high - the atmosphere. You even included three NPCs in the Concourse...
What I would like to see is an NPC in the store in the Concourse. Also, why not have NPCs in the Concession counter in the Bingo Hall? And where's the Bingo caller? We hear his voice, but he cannot be seen.
You went that far to create a "real" casino and three employees (NPCs). Why not more to further immerse us in the Paradise?
Re: May 2013 Suggestions!
update the name in lights to add punctuation marks
Re: May 2013 Suggestions!
aogamerdude wrote:
update the name in lights to add punctuation marks
Yes And or in other colors


text:
Exploits of the DeRita family of Danville strike envy into young hearts: Teens Stephani, Brittani and little brother Jarid have attended eight Jonas Brothers concerts - plus have had the good luck to meet the stars on three occasions.
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, August 15, 2008, 12:00 AM
Town Square
Tween scene: Jonas-mania
Original post made on Aug 29, 2008
Like this commentPosted by Aerika
a resident of Danville
on Aug 29, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I love the JONAS BROTHERS! My friend is friends with one sister (brittani). Shes really nice, she told us all her amazing stories of how they met the jonas boys and how great their shows were. She said their JONAS craze may never go away. shes to obsessed.


text:
SABIC works around the globe and around the clock, offering innovative solutions to design needs in virtually every manufacturing arena.
Click here for DATASHEETS for resins and LNP™ Compounds.
Resins & LNP CompoundsInnovations in engineered thermoplastics for a variety of applications worldwide
Specialty Film & SheetOffering a broad portfolio of advanced thermoplastic LEXAN sheet and film to various industries
PolymershapesSABIC Polymershapes is an industry leader in the distribution, conversion and fabrication of plastic products and associated materials.
Color & AestheticsOffering a broad palette of color services, from color matching to custom compounding. Let us help you differentiate your products.
EXATEC™ Glazing TechnologySABIC offers a full toolkit of glazing solutions featuring LEXAN™ resin to help reshape the future of automotive exteriors.
Specialty Additives and IntermediatesA growing portfolio of unique, high-purity specialty additives and intermediates.
READY TO BUY?> Resins
> Specialty Film & Sheet
> Polymershapes
Contact UsWe are available to answer your questions and provide technical assistance whenever you need it.
LiteratureSearch our vast array of literature covering a range of documents, including case studies, design guides, processing guides, and so on.
DIGITAL LEARNINGView our on-demand presentations and videos and put our knowledge and expertise to work in YOUR business.
Engineering ToolsCalculators such as a beam stiffness calculator, screw thread pull out strength, boss hoop stress calculator and others can help you design your applications.
SustainabilitySolutions for more sustainable product design.


text:
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Mark Topic as New
- Mark Topic as Read
- Float this Topic for Current User
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Printer Friendly Page
- « Previous
- Next »
Re: Rise of the warrior, TROJANS
SirCrush wrote:
Haha SILVER I started as a Trojan and somehow ended up a Spartan...you sir got the short end of the stick.
That seems to always be the case.
Even worse is that I never received a notification that there was a new chapter for Rise of the Warrior so I didn't even stumble upon until a little while ago. Stupid Facebook!
Re: Rise of the warrior, TROJANS
Re: Rise of the warrior, TROJANS
Why all of this? To buy time so people aren't bored waiting for the february release of the demo.
Re: Rise of the warrior, TROJANS
It's still unfair and obvious that there are more people linked with a Spartan account than a Trojan account. Otherwise there is just no way the teams are equal. I still don't appreciate being dicked around by the game itself choosing which side I'm on and then switching it.
Re: Rise of the warrior, TROJANS
Well I was checking some other forums and found out that there are a lot of people that have multiple accounts with both teams and they chose which one they want to support and then it doesn't matter which one wins because they are playing for both. I think that is pretty smart and I don't know why I didn't think of it but for me in this current situation of being just a Trojan, it kind of sucks.
- « Previous
- Next »


text:
Don't Stress About Hosting, Enjoy Your Guests
Karen Cleveland | Posted 11.19.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Stress, Etiquette, Guests, Parties, Hosting, Organizing a Party, Hosting a Party, Preparing for a Party, Uninvited Guests, Hostess, Drop in Guests, Canada Living News
At some point, I don't know when, I started to plan a bit too much for hosting company. Perhaps I got so caught up that I became fussed, sucking the spontaneity out of what should be fun. Those that profess to enjoy hosting often agree that the trick to keeping it stress free is to be prepared and organized. But don't forget to relax and enjoy your guest's company.


text:
Town Square
Park fund shouldn't pay for Measure J
Original post made by Renee Batti, associate editor of The Almanac, on Feb 7, 2007
The $8,000 cost of putting Measure J on the ballot last November will be charged to the Bayfront Park sinking fund, set up in 1987 by the members of the South County Garbage District, which includes Menlo Park, Atherton, Belmont, East Palo Alto, Redwood City, San Carlos, Woodside and several unincorporated areas.
I believe Measure J was the stalking horse for the council campaigns of Mickie Winkler, Lee Duboc and John Boyle and not a genuine test of the residents' opinions about the development of Bayfront Park.
It was a stretch to believe that the previous council majority would, with a straight face, ask the voters to approve a plan for sports fields that would cost at a minimum $17 million at a time when residents were told the city was suffering from a $1.9 million budget deficit. If Measure K (the utility tax) costs are to be paid from the general fund, why is the Bayfront Park sinking fund being charged for Measure J?
My suggestion is that the bill from San Mateo County for $8,000 be sent to the Winkler/Duboc/Boyle Political Action Committee for payment. The sinking fund, which was set up for the park's maintenance, has already been charged for the feasibility report about play fields at Bayfront Park.
Did the candidates believe that Measure J would pull together large numbers of parents and the election would be theirs? If so, they gambled and they lost. While Menlo Park residents do understand the value of children playing soccer, baseball and football, they also understand that a hilly passive recreation park overlooking the bay is Menlo Park's treasure that deserves to be protected, just as it is and just as the 1976 council designed.
Brielle Johnck
Central Avenue, Menlo Park
a resident of Menlo Park: South of Seminary/Vintage Oaks
on Feb 7, 2007 at 4:39 pm
In a just world, the Winkler/Duboc campaign would be required to pay the $8,000, given that the ballot measure was a shameless campaign strategy of the then-council majority's devising. But so much for a just world -- we have the law to answer to.
But Brielle is right about not taking the money from the maintenance fund. Who made such an appalling decision? Someone who is still trying to undermine the public's determination to keep the park in open space with no commercial use?
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Feb 8, 2007 at 12:51 pm
There were also consultants who were paid to come up with plans for the sports complex, which in turn were used to justify and support the ballot measure. If these expenses were charged to the Bayfront Park Maintenance fund, they were incorrectly charged. They too should be paid by the Winkler/Duboc campaign.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Feb 9, 2007 at 9:35 am
I concur with the previous posts.
Raiding Bayfront Park's piggy-bank for Duboc and Winkler's political gain - to support their candidacies for MP City Council - appears to be dubiously ethical, although probably legal.


text:
Expectation is high that All Black coach Steve Hansen will have his contract extended through to the 2015 World Cup early next year.
It has been an outstanding season for the national team and one in which Hansen has improved and advanced the legacy and internal structures of the national team.
Coming into this morning's test at Twickenham, the All Blacks were unbeaten in 20 tests, 13 of which have been played during Hansen's reign as head coach.
His talent identification, strategies, man management and conduct with external stakeholders have all been exemplary.
The New Zealand Rugby Union are known to be keen to tie him in for longer as a sign of their confidence and faith in his ability to take the side through and defend their world title.
Hansen was initially contracted at the end of last year on a two-year term with a view to that being extended should his performance merit it.
Given the year the All Blacks have enjoyed, the settled nature of the squad, the obviously relaxed but focused culture that has developed and the performances that have been produced, there is unlikely to be any resistance to extending his contract.
There is a strong argument to be made that it would be beneficial for everyone - coach, players, NZRU and stakeholders - to do it sooner rather than later to provide certainty of mind to all as to who is going to be in charge for the next three years.
"We haven't discussed it at board level yet," says NZRU chief executive Steve Tew, "other than to say we will have our normal post-season review and then have another discussion at our last board meeting in December. We will do that and see where things are at.
"These guys [current All Black management team] have done a good job but is is in everyone's best interests to finish this tour, then have a full review of the rest of the year and then make some decisions. Which is what we have done a bit in the past."
Hansen already has a clear vision of how he wants his team to evolve over the next few years and the type of rugby he wants then to be playing in 2015. It is a plan the senior players have endorsed and are engaged in.
It is likely, though, that while Hansen's contract may soon be extended, that none of his wider management team will be afforded the same reward.
There is no question the current group has worked well and the various individuals are performing well, but the NZRU will not want to expose itself by rubber-stamping everyone so early into the Hansen era.
The rest of the management group are probably going to have to wait until later next year to begin negotiations about their respective futures.