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" Brand: Wilko / Type: Flea Treatment "
I adopted a cat that kept sitting on my window sill. She was scratching a lot so I tried the Wilko brand spot on. The Wilko spot on is meant to be on the cat for 7 days before anything else can be added. For 5 days, she continued to scratch and bite her fur feverishly and I confined her to the bathroom. Fortunately, she accepted being in there and seemed to prefer bare surfaces anyway, being fearful of more fleas on the ground, perhaps. For five days I did not find a single flea that had fallen off the cat in the bathroom. I did see one emerge once on her leg and then bury back into her fur. On the sixth day, I bought and fitted a Wilko flea collar (for less money) and on the next day fleas were falling out of her into the bath (she had perched on the edge of it for most of her 6 days' quarantine.) In other words, the Spot on is useless and only serves to extend the suffering while the owner abides by Wilko's warning to add no further flea treatment products for seven days. The people at Wilkinson were not polite when I returned the Spot on (one capsule remaining) telling me not to buy it again. I showed them 6 of the fleas that had come out of the cat after putting on the Wilko flea collar; I had stuck them under cellotape against a small piece of paper. All they did was shriek stupidly and say stupid things like 'you're not getting a refund for the collar as well.'
Everyone who owns a cat/kitten will be very aware of the pure joy that it gives and my Myrtle Rose is not different. I adore my nipper and get so much pleasure from her its unreal however owning a cat doesn't come without its issues of course.
When I bought Myrtle she was flea treated, wormed the lot. At 8 weeks old I couldn't find a flea collar small enough to fit her little neck and most flea treatments were not suitable to use on her due to her age but three weeks into having her the flea treatment she had had prior to her coming to me had worn off. So at 11 weeks old I was getting bitten, as were my visitors, at fist it never struck me about fleas I mean she had been treated and she was the only pet apart from hamsters I own so fleas never occurred to me.
However what I never occurred to me is I used to have a visitor come with a dog that did have fleas, and although treated she could never get rid of them so she must have given them to my Myrtle....since then allow no animals in my place!
I ended up buying this double pack of flea treatment costing me only £2.75 which was considerably cheaper than the £6.00 offerings from more known brands on the shelf that only gives us one treatment and both little tubes you get are meant to give 8 weeks of repelling fleas so 16 weeks of protection!
The Packaging:
The packaging of this is rather simple and you get a piece of card with the two tubes encased onto it clearly stating that you get two applications in the tube provided and on the card there is a photograph of a cat and we are told that it is Wilko Cat 'Spot-On', Repels Fleas and that it 'Repels fleas in just 4 hours' and that it is for use on cats or kittens over 12 weeks old and that it is insecticide free and we are told exactly the ingredients used on there too. On the back of the card other information listed includes being told a bit about the product and how to use it, cautions and the size is given (each tube holds 0.8ml of the product) and contact details for Wilkinson's are given. Nice enough and hugely informative packaging this is and there are even little diagrams on there showing us simply how to use it at a glance too.
Using It'
So to use this is really rather simple. The little tube that the treatment comes in is dark green, small and plastic and it has an easy to twist and snap of f little lid and then you get the clear liquid and pop it on the back of your cats neck, parting the hair and not rubbing it in and that's it really within 4 hours we are told that it 'repels' fleas. In my view that is insinuating that it kills them and this smelly like fish liquid certainly doesn't do that!
Yep it stinks but thankfully after a while that smell vanishes. It didn't seem to bother Myrtle when I applied it or harm her skin though it did send her yampy tearing through my flat at 100 miles an hour and then avoiding me for the rest of the morning!
I left her alone with it on for longer than 4 hours and then peered at her, poking about and giving her a thorough check for fleas. Ok she didn't seem to have as many as previous roaming about but I had grabbed a load prior to using the treatment with tweezers but I still spotted a couple on her and wasn't happy with and she kept scratching. Ok so I thought leave it give it a few more hours to settle in and work but no the next day and the days that followed there were more fleas appearing. Prior to using this I had yet again sprayed my home with flea killing spray and this simply had not worked. I checked the instructions again to check I had followed them correctly and I had.
I was left with the other tube of product that was meant to be used 4 weeks later with the idea then you just buy more and continue using them but I got continued to get bitten, Myrtle continued to scratch and I thought blow this I am not wasting my time and coping with these fleas for another 4 weeks just to use the next treatment so binned it and bought something else.
This is a cheap to buy product and didn't work one bit in my view. I should have realised that at less then 3 quid for 8 weeks anti flea treatment it was too cheap to work and this really wasn't worth out time and gets a massive thumbs down from us!
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A Top Notch Top Coat
Having a manicure is kind of "my thing." I very rarely have bare, unpolished nails for longer than a day or two, and my bathroom cabinet is stocked with polish colors I love. Unfortunately, "my thing" can be a bit of a pricey luxury, as getting a manicure once a week adds up! Recently, however, I've started doing my own nails and have been going to the nail salon less — and thanks to Revlon's Liquid Quick Dry, I don't have to spent 20 minutes trying to dry my handiwork (pun intended!) under the blowdryer. I am not overstating when I say this top coat protects against chipping almost instantly. I am not entirely sure how it works, but it's more liquid-y than most topcoats and contains mineral oil that's good for moisturizing the nail beds. I have been let down by many a top coat before, but this one, I swear to you, is an impatient gal's best friend. [$5.75, Drugstore.com]

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The Iowa 80 Truckstop in Walcott is a favorite destination not only for truck drivers but for anyone who wants to roll out to a wealth of shopping, dining and sight-seeing opportunities. The iconic truck stop, which is celebrating its 50th year, is open 24 hours, 365 days per year.
The late Bill Moon, founder and owner, began the operation in 1964 — before Interstate 80 was completed.
The truckstop, still owned by the Moon family, includes the Iowa 80 Kitchen restaurant along with a gift shop, "Super Truck Showroom," chiropractor and dentist offices, barber shop, workout room, laundry facilities, small movie theater, TV lounge for truck drivers, private showers, food court, convenience store, fuel center, truck service center and truck wash.
"The facility also has a pet wash, so if you're traveling with your furry friend, you can use the self-serve wash," says Heather DeBaillie, marketing manager.
The truckstop serves more than 2 million cups of coffee annually, and, over the years, has cracked more than 18 million eggs to serve customers. Visitors, incidentally, go through 55 miles of toilet paper per month.
It also is home to the annual three-day Truckers Jamboree on the second Thursday, Friday and Saturday in July.
"People come from all over the country and Canada to display their trucks," DeBaillie said. "It's just one big celebration of trucking."


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I don't know if i totally fit the 'average guy' definition. I'm more in to outdoors, projects around the house, fishing and hunting then sports or video games. You'll never see me get mad, I'm very patient understanding and always look on the bright side. I'm definitely not in to drama and games and can't stand people that thrive on it.
I like to stay active, it's not very often you'll find me sitting on the couch. I'm always up for something new and fun, not sold on sky diving yet but anything else I'm down.
I don't really have an ideal match. If you're easy going, down for a hike, like beer, and can handle sarcasm, then your off to a good start. And 2 out of 4 isn't bad either!
Well I guess that's me in a few paragraphs. If any of it sounds cool then feel free to write and say hi!
Once people talk to me they notice I'm funny and genuinely a nice guy
For music I listen to anything. It's mainly country but 90's alternative and rap are always good and even a little top 40.
Movies, again pretty much everything. I like comedy, action, mostly but I'll watch anything. My friend made me watch steel magnolias the other day and I made it through it!


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In a large heavy skillet, heat 1/4 inch of oil until shimmering. Add half of the plantains and fry over moderate heat until golden and tender, about 3 minutes per side; lower the heat if necessary and transfer the plantains to paper towels to drain. Season with salt. Repeat with the remaining plantains, adding more oil if necessary. Reserve the oil in the skillet.
Press the fried plantains between paper towels to flatten them slightly. Heat 1/4 inch of oil until shimmering. Add half of the flattened plantains and fry over moderate heat until deep brown and crisp, about 1 minute per side. Season the plantains again with salt and keep them warm while you fry the rest.


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FT – A Waning West Has A Story to Tell
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Twin Virtues: Inequality of Outcomes & Equality of Opportunity©
Twin Virtues
Ultimately, the most successful societies find the balance between the twin virtues of inequality of outcomes and equality of opportunity.
The new politics must marry the twin virtues of unequal outcomes and equality of opportunity.
When too few get too much everybody loses.
Feminism is about women living their lives on their own terms, marshalling the resources of the society to make that possible, and men embracing this as vital to a successful society and their own liberation.
Can it be that striving for equality of opportunity however imperfect the process not only benefits the individual but also creates benefits for the society that are unintended but wonderful?
Economics must be a 'moral enterprise' as much as politics claims to be. Economic outcomes need to be framed in terms of right and wrong not just efficiency if only because these often align in surprising ways that are good for society and the economy.
My vision of Canada is that any Canadian child from a family of limited circumstance can expect to have a chance at lifetime of unlimited opportunities.
Free trade is a wonderful thing. Time and time again economists have proven that free trade creates enormous wealth for each country 'on the whole'. Historians have shown that free trade is usually associated with rising political, social and cultural liberty. The perennial problem is that free trade always creates tremendous disruption for thousands even millions of individuals often concentrated in one geography, and where the state is idle, not investing in best in class instruments of social justice, free trade can be a permanent ticket out of the middle class, down, not up.
Tax policy should be founded on the principle of generating steady tax revenues sufficient to maximise environmentally sustainable economic growth in order to fund fair government.
Public policy should be designed to decrease inequality before the law and increase equality of opportunity.
Capitalism is not the problem; the problem is what we do with capitalism.
Content is always more difficult to argue than conspiracy.
Let the state regulate and the market operate (most things).
Welfare strategies are best designed as a hand up, not as a hand out.
Political debate should not be fact free fighting.
Explanation lasts longer than eloquence.
Always favour empowerment over dependency.
The most enduring public figures are embraced for the causes they fought for and not the concept of themselves they hoped others would remember them by.
Find your voice and don't be the echo of somebody else.
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Sylvia Stancil, WSU Admissions Counselor, will attend the Tuskegee Airmen College Fair at WCCCD-Western. The College Fair will be an opportunity for prospective students to speak with an Admissions Counselor, find out about admission requirements and learn more about Wayne State University.
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LOMAC uses Low Water-Mark Mandatory Access Control to protect the integrity of processes and data from viruses, trojan horses, malicious remote users, and compromised network server daemons. The LOMAC loadable kernel module can be used to harden Linux systems without any changes to existing kernels, applications, or configuration files. Due to its simplicity, LOMAC itself requires no configuration, regardless of the users and applications present on the system. Although some features and fixes remain to be implemented, LOMAC presently provides sufficient protection to thwart some attacks, and is stable enough for everyday use.
Tupd is a trustworthy daemon that reports uptime statistics via HTTP. Tupd is designed to be small, simple, and secure. These features make tupd suitable for use on critical servers and firewalls where a full HTTP server and script installation would pose an unacceptable security risk.
Snowfence is a simple no-configuration-required Linux iptables firewall for the Sharp Zaurus. It limits the ability of potential attackers to access the Zaurus's services remotely while still allowing the Zaurus's legitimate local user to make use of the network and USB cradle as usual.
The Tinyserial library is a space-saving alternative to the Arduino software distribution's libraries for reading and writing characters and strings to the USART0 serial port on the Atmel ATmega168 and ATmega328p MCUs found on Arduino Diecimilla and Duemilanove boards. While the Arduino software distribution's libraries provide interrupt-driven serial I/O with far more features and support more MCUs, the Tinyserial library provides only the most basic polling-based serial I/O. However, the Tinyserial library uses far less Flash and SRAM, thereby giving you room to implement larger and more complicated applications on your boards. The Tinyserial library respects the GNU libc ABI, so you can call into it from C and C++ programs.
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Snap Chat - The Possibilities of Mobile
Room Full of People, Inc.
Thursday, May 1, 2008 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 AM (PDT)
Event Details
The mobile phone is one of the most basic and highly used social networks for every individual, and yet has been one of the most complicated pieces of equipment for independent application developers. But this is rapidly changing, and developers, investors, and marketers need to know how. Join us for an evening discussion of what is in store for mobile and how you can get involved and monetize this rising platform.
The evening will start with a brief introduction to the mobile tech world by EVP of iLoop, Michael Becker. This will be followed by a panel discussing how developers and marketers can work with and monetize mobile applications. Panelists currently include:
Tim Chang, Partner at NVP
Jason Chen, Android Advocate for Google
Anil Dharni, Director of Products, Hi5
Robert Ficcaglia, CEO of MotivePath.
Steven Manning, Founder and CPO, Frengo
Amnon Sarig, Founder, TuneWiki
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Pivotal, Inc.
731 Market Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco,
Thursday, May 1, 2008 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 AM (PDT)
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Note: It is important to store your coffee properly to keep it fresh. Keep at room temperature, sealed in an air-tight container. Avoid plastic containers as your coffee's flavour may be compromised. Once opened, expect to use your coffee beans within a 1 week to 2 week period.
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Outsourcing Malaysia (OM), is an initiative of the outsourcing industry and a chapter of PIKOM – the country's national ICT industry association. OM is envisioned to promote and develop Malaysia's outsourcing services industry as a global hub for high-value outsourcing.
Supported by its founding partner – the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) -and spearheaded by a group of prominent industry leaders from the global services industry, OM focuses on enabling both buyers and providers to work together on addressing service needs within the aegis of global best practices and competencies.
Officiated by the Prime Minister in 2006, OM represents Malaysian outsourcing providers and aims to collectively build a vibrant and strong industry through collaboration and partnership.


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Well I do know what the definitions are for the two different logic, and each applies to a different software layer(domain/business and application layer). Nonetheless, real life is not as simple as in theory, its sometimes quite difficult to figure out what methods/behaviors should belong to which layer, at least the difference is not as evident as between business logic and presentation logic, which you can easily identify.
Considering a User Authentification system? Lets say I have a domain model called User for the domain/business layer(it may come with a mapper or DAO, but do not worry about this for now), and a controller object called UserController or RegistrationController/LoginController. What behaviors are domain-specific, and what are application-specific? Anyone mind elaborating with this example? Id appreciate this very much, as it will help me better identify what are domain responsibilities and what are application logic for more complex system.
What helps me sometimes is to pretend that I'm writing code for more than just a web app, that I'm also building a CLI app. I ask myself if the code I'm writing would be just as applicable to the CLI as to the web. If yes, then it's part of the domain logic. If no, then it's specific to the web application.
Wow this is kinda tough for me, I know what CLI is but never developed any application for CLI so I dont know how to judge whether the logic is applicable for CLI at all... sigh Thanks for your answer though.
What are you finding tough? Have you used a linux shell before? On linux you can accomplish pretty much anything in the shell you can accomplish on the graphical desktop. If you've only used windows I understand it might be confusing.
If the same task can be accomplished in a linux shell as on a graphical desktop then the task is most likely domain logic.
Nope, I have essentially zero knowledge about Linux Shell(have to say for my web application development its not quite useful to me anyway), although I did use shell at rare occasions on my webhost to execute some commands I mostly got through them with the aid of the support staff of my webhost. I mostly use Windows, while I do have a Mac for developing ios applications at times.


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The dark material on Iapetus would look dark brown to the human eye, according to this near-true color image of the Saturnian moon. Why the moon is stained this color closer to a mysterious equatorial ridge and less so at higher latitudes remains a mystery.
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"Common Core" Critic Muscled out of Public Forum in Maryland
UPDATE: Examiner.com reporter Ann Miller has posted her coverage of the town hall event along with additional video. According to Miller, the questions were selected by the Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools and difficult questions were omitted or altered.
Dr. Dallas Dance, Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, and Lillian Lowery, Maryland Superintendent, had the opportunity Thursday night to make minor amends for a three plus year information blackout on Common Core, the new federal curriculum for Maryland schools.
Instead, Dr. Dance added insult to injury by screening, omitting, and editing parents' questions.
Questions from the audience of about 160 people, which consisted of parents, PTA members, teachers, and school administrators, were submitted on cards prior to and during the 1-1/2 hour meeting for the Q&A period which lasted about 40 minutes.
Dr. Dance chose which questions to read or omit, opting for teacher and school administrator or softball questions. But he also altered the wording of the questions themselves.
Here is the video from Miller's article:
This reportedly occurred at the following event:
Public invited to learn about Common Core at regional forum hosted by BCPS
What: The public is invited to learn about the Common Core of State Standards at the third of four planned regional forums. The Central Maryland forum will feature greetings from BCPS Superintendent S. Dallas Dance and remarks from Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Dr. Lillian Lowery and Maryland PTA President Ray Leone. Those attending the forum also will hear a teacher's perspective on the state's new academic standards.
When: Thursday, September 19, 2013, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Where: Ridge Ruxton School 6916 N. Charles Street, Towson 21204 Background: The Maryland State Department of Education has sponsored four regional public forums for parents, educators, students and others to learn and ask questions about the Common Core State Standards. Nationally, the Common Core education standards establish a set of shared goals and expectations for what students should understand and be able to do in grades K-12 in order to be prepared for success in college and the workplace. In Maryland, the state standards form the foundation for Maryland's new state curriculum, which is being implemented in the current school year.


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Fancy a drink? Our drinks columnist Sam Wylie-Harris raises her glass to a good cause and marks Fairtrade Fortnight
Vine ethics
Since 1992, the Fairtrade Foundation has campaigned to raise global awareness of high ethical and environmental standards in the production of anything from clothes, food and, for purposes here, drink.
It's clearly worked; last year, the sales of all Fairtrade products in the UK totalled £1.78 billion. A substantial £27.5 million of this came from (an equally substantial) 10.9 million litres of Fairtrade wine.
If you want to add to this essential movement to support farmers and workers across the world, there's no better time than now, with Fairtrade Fortnight currently running until March 9.
Supermarkets are good hunting ground for the iconic blue and green Fairtrade tag and Waitrose have championed the cause by supporting Argentina's leading Fairtrade producer, Tilimuqui with a wine made from the country's indigenous white grape, torrontes.
More aromatic than a pinot grigio and fruitier than a sauvignon blanc, try Tilimuqui Fairtrade Single Vineyard Torrontes 2013, Famatina Valley, Argentina (£6.39 from £7.99, from now until March 11, Waitrose) which is a juicy spring white with baskets of exotic fruit flavours, a breezy finish and lingering spicy note.
Marks and Spencer have recently expanded their Fairtrade range and the eye-catching label for Zebra View Chenin Blanc 2013, South Africa (£7.59, Marks & Spencer) should stir some interest around this good, fruity chenin blanc, overflowing with red apple and tangy citrus flavours with a hint of apricot on the fresh finish.
With a Fairtrade tag in trendy monochrome, Monteflores Fairtrade Malbec 2012, Argentina (£9.99, Marks & Spencer) spends six months in oak and this smooth, rich, plummy red boasts a full, structured palate that keeps pumping out the flavours on the long, seductive, silky finish.
The Co-operative sells 52.5% of all Fairtrade wine in the UK and they have sold 35 million bottles in the past 10 years - an achievement which has been recognised by the Fairtrade Foundation, earning them the deserved accolade of the world's largest retailer of Fairtrade wine.
With 17 own-brand Fairtrade wines from Argentina, South Africa and Chile to choose from, consumers are spoilt for choice, but The Co-operative Fairtrade Argentine Cabernet Sauvignon 2012, Argentina (£5.99 from £7.49, from now until March 11, The Co-operative) should make it easier. This soft and juicy cab sav punches above its weight with blackcurrant aromas and a nice core of dark berry fruits, with spicy overtones and firm tannins stands out among the line-up of reds.
Elsewhere, Virgin wines have been supporting the Fairhills Fairtrade project in South Africa since 2008 and their Usizo (meaning assistance in Zulu) range features four styles and favourites include Usizo Pinotage 2012, South Africa (£8.49, www.virginwines.co.uk). Made from South Africa's signature red grape, pinotage (a crossing of pinot noir and cinsault), it is medium bodied with flavoursome mulberry fruit with a hint of damson and slightly smoky profile - a feel-good glugger from the word go.
With the growing trend for rich, round ripe reds from South America, Spanish giant Torres have a prime example with Torres Santa Digna Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2011, Chile (£9.44, www.vintagemarque.com) from their Santa Digna Fairtrade 'Fair for Life' winery in the Valle Central. Elegant and succulent with violet and black fruit aromas and a minty, herbal character with a textured, velvety finish, it's a deliberately drinkable style, well worth picking up a couple of bottles.
With a rather more ornate label, but just as deserving, the first Fairtrade wine from Lebanon has made its debut. Coteaux Les Cedres 2009, Bekaa, Lebanon (£15.99, www.sumawholesale.com) is a blend of syrah (shiraz), cabernet sauvignon, tempranillo and caladoc (a variety of grenache and malbec). Intense and exotic with a sophisticated, savoury palate of strawberries, cherries and cassis with lingering spices and nutmeg on the lengthy berry finish, it's a delicious reminder we sometimes need to branch out and be more adventurous - all in a good cause, of course.
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Boys from Brazil... Ballantine's Scotch whisky brand is hotting up for a summer of cocktails with the launch of Ballantine's Brasil (£11.50, 70cl, www.mixitwithbrasil.com), made from Scotch whisky and Brazilian lime peel.
A delicate combination of citrus complemented with a smooth touch of vanilla, it sounds curious but tastes delicious. The sweet and creamy flavours of Scotch perfectly balance the refreshing lime and create the 'Highland Samba' signature serve - all you have to do is mix Ballantine's Brasil with lemonade, serve over ice and top with two freshly cut slices of lime.
:: Liquid news
The legend lives on... The Rewards of Patience (Seventh Edition) by Andrew Caillard, published by Hardie Grant Books, £16.75 (from £25), on www.amazon.co.uk, is a fitting tribute to Australia's famous vineyard, Penfolds, and its nearly 170-year portfolio of fine wines.
Released every five years, the latest Edition features vintage-by-vintage tasting notes, historic timelines and recent panel tastings by 30 independent wine critics, from Beijing to New York and Penfolds's spiritual home, the Magill Estate Winery in South Australia.
"Once again, the Museum Cellar has been unlocked," says Peter Gago, Penfolds Chief Winemaker. "We have showcased rare bottles and complete verticals to independent assessment from some of the industry's leading commentators."


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Get an overview of this hotel4-star Cochin resort in Fort Kochi with 2 restaurants
Popular property highlights
Located in Fort Kochi, this resort is within a 10-minute walk of Santa Cruz Cathedral and St. Francis Church. Chinese Fishing Nets and Fort Kochi Beach are also within 15 minutes.
Resort Features
This resort features 2 restaurants, an outdoor pool, and a bar/lounge. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a poolside bar, a coffee shop/café, and 24-hour room service.
Room Amenities
All 10 individually decorated rooms feature free WiFi and 24-hour room service. For a bit of entertainment, LCD TVs come with satellite channels, and guests will also appreciate thoughtful touches like bathrobes and slippers.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Helpful staff
Tea Bungalow
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Dining is available at one of the resort's 2 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at the coffee shop/café. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access.
This Cochin resort also offers an outdoor pool, tour/ticket assistance, and barbecue grills. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 10
- Number of floors - 2
- Bar/lounge
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Coffee shop or café
- Free breakfast
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Garden
- Poolside bar
- Free self parking
- Year Built 1912
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Outdoor pool
- Television in common areas
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- In-room safe
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Room service (24 hours)
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
- Separate bedroom
Where to Eat
Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast.
Cafe Du Mahe - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
The Travancore Lounge - Onsite coffee shop.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the resort include an outdoor pool.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at noon
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Pets allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Please note: To comply with local law, no alcohol will be served in this property on the first day of every month. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per adult: INR 2625.00
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per child: INR 1500.00 (from 5 to 11 years old)
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: INR 3675.00
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per child: INR 1900.00 (from 5 to 11 years old)
Optional extras
- Airport shuttle fee: INR 1000 per vehicle (one way)
Hotel Name
- Tea Bungalow
- Tea Bungalow Cochin
- Tea Bungalow Hotel
- Tea Bungalow Hotel Cochin
- Tea Bungalow Hotel Kochi (Cochin)
- Tea Bungalow Kochi (Cochin), India - Kerala


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Happy Monday everyone! Yes, not the normal gloom and doom my weekend summary threads have. So how did everyone do on their goals?
Gaming Goals:
I actually got to play for a couple hours each morning while the little one was still sleeping. I finished Corellia except for 3 Heroic 4 quests. I didn't see where the dailies opened up, but I'll find those the next time I log on. I still need to do the Alderaan, Hoth, and Belsavis bonus series.
Real Life Goals:
My nephew's birthday party was awesome. Everybody had a great time and he got enough clothes and toys to garb and entertain an army.--


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Listillos Eight
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Listillos Eight is a multiplayer game that you can enjoy at any party with friends. You only need your mobile phone with the game, and paper and pencil for each player.
The goal is to find eight words related to a given topic, rather than the other players. In each round you have 60 seconds to find these eight words, but the round ends if a player finds the eight words before time runs out.
The interesting thing is that not only must find the eight words. In listillos Eight, it scores only those words that have agreed to write more than one player. Thus, if a word has been written by two players, each one gets two points. If there have been three players, each one will get three points... But if you have been the only person who has written the word, you don't score.
Press PLAY and the screen game. The topic you have to write will appear in the gray box when you press the pink circle. So, the time shall begin to run.
To start a new round, you have to click on NEW TOPIC button.
You can play all rounds you wish.
You will find more than 400 topics in this version.
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From HaskellWiki
Practical Examples of HXT in Action
- HXT/Practical/Simple1: an easy XML document.
- HXT/Practical/Simple2: dealing with attributes, lists, and optional data.
- HXT/Practical/Weather1: combining HTTP and HXT, getting a Weather report.
- HXT/Practical/Google1: dealing with HTML -- querying Google search.
- HXT/Practical/Ebay1: dealing with HTML -- querying Ebay feedbacks.


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Paris Hilton hits the club scene for the first time since being released from jail last week, partying at Los Angeles hotspot Les Deux on Friday night July 6th.
Paris Hilton is back on the town in LA. The hotel heiress hits the club, made her club debut since being released from jail last week at Los Angeles hotspot Les Deux on Friday night July 6th for a girls' night out.
Paris and her companion, including sister Nicky Hilton and Erin Foster, the daughter of music producer David Foster, arrived at the club just before midnight. She wore a gray sleeved shirt and black fedora, People magazine reported.
The group then sat at a table with two bodyguards protecting them from photo-snapping fans. Was said to be "super happy and full of smiles", Paris really enjoyed her night-out, jumped up on a couch, and then "danced seductively" against a wall as she sang along to a number of songs, including her own hit "Stars Are Blind".
"She was laughing, having fun, drinking, dancing, singing along to songs, talking to everyone and hugging all the girls at her table", People magazine quoted a source as saying.
What do you think? Will Paris readopt her old ways of partying now that she's hitting the club scene again?


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The Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida works closely with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and other public and private partners to protect the full array of our state's native animals and plants and the lands and waters they need to survive. We are also dedicated to ensuring public access to Florida's outstanding natural areas, and we work closely with the Florida Youth Conservation Center Network to help provide 100,000 children and adolescents every year with formative outdoor experiences. Since 1994, the Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida has raised and given away more than $25 million to support conservation. Recent grants include the following:
- Given $325,000 to outfit the new Suncoast Youth Conservation Center in Apollo Beach with kayaks, fishing gear, binoculars, microscopes, aquariums, furniture and much more.
- Purchased with Volusia County's help a one-acre parcel in New Smyrna Beach as a public boat launch managed by the nonprofit Marine Discovery Center.
- Made a $325,000 challenge grant, matched by a $500,000 State appropriation, to provide homeowners across Florida with bear-proof garbage cans to minimize bear-human conflicts.
- Invested $36,000 in successful development of a smartphone app for reporting fish disease and mortality events.
- Made grants of $450,000 over the past three years to multiple organizations working to restore and conserve Florida's famous freshwater springs.
- Provided $70,000 for improving mobility-impaired access to state Wildlife Management Areas as well as funding for new deer-cleaning stations.
- Provided $261,000 in research funds for the critically endangered Florida Grasshopper Sparrow.
- Cooperated with the Florida Aquarium and Tampa Electric Company to grow native corals for restoring dead reefs in the Florida Keys.
Be a Force for Nature! Please donate today!
Founding FWFF Board Member has passed away
The Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida mourns the passing of one of its founding members. Dr. C.T. (Tom) Rainey, an honored Miami veterinarian, longtime active member of the Orange Bowl Committee and other civic organizations, passed away peacefully on June 15, 2017.
Tom was a founding member of the Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida, serving from 1994 until 2010. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Veterinary Medical Association in 1985 and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Georgia in 2003. He was named to the Orange Bowl Committee in 1981, as well as to the Board of the Baptist Hospital Foundation.
Anglers can take advantage of more Gulf red snapper fishing starting this weekend
This Friday, June 16, begins the first weekend of an additional 39-day season for recreational red snapper fishing in Gulf federal waters and changes to the state season. The U.S. Department of Commerce announced these expanded fishing opportunities today, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) followed with an executive order setting the updated season in state waters. The 39-day season is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from Friday, June 16, through Monday, Sept. 4. Also included are Monday and Tuesday, July 3 and 4, and Monday, Sept. 4.
A Stitch in Time Saves Nine (or more) Turtles: Pembroke Pines Teenager Knits for Conservation
While most high school seniors spent the fall and winter sweating over their college admission essays, Pembroke Pines High School senior Savannah Bergeron polished hers off quickly. Then she got back to her passion of the last two years — creating hand-knitted turtles to raise money and awareness to conserve Florida's wide variety of native turtles.
Florida has 26 species of turtles, more than any other state, including all five of the world's endangered sea turtle species. The Sunshine State is also home to the gopher tortoise, an ancient race whose ancestors appeared in the western United States 60 million years ago.
Despite an almost complete ban on commercial turtle harvesting, Florida's turtle populations, as elsewhere, continue to decline due to habitat loss and a thriving black market for turtle meat and shells. Many of Florida's turtles are now threatened or endangered.
Savannah Bergeron wanted to bring attention to this situation and find a way to do something about it. In 2017, she began knitting and selling toy turtles to raise money for turtle conservation. To date, she has raised and donated $2,268 to the Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida (FWFF) for turtle and tortoise conservation. She comes by her passion naturally; her great-great-grandfather was one of the first Everglades park rangers, and her grandfather is a commissioner of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).
No Better Time to Help Protect Florida Springs
Florida's freshwater springs are one of the world's natural wonders. Beautiful and cool, they have provided an oasis for wildlife and humans for tens of thousands of years. They are under threat from groundwater pollution and other environmental stresses, but you can help us protect them by buying the "Protect Florida Springs" license plate. $25 from each plate comes to the Foundation to support research, education, restoration and conservation of these irreplaceable springs. They may not hold the Fountain of Youth for us, but we have the ability to make sure they live forever. Please check out our new Springs page, developed with our sister non-profit, Sea2Shore: http://sea2shore.org/ and our new Springs plate page https://flspringsplate.com/. Thank you for supporting conservation!
"The Foundation awarded $220,000 to manage 16 newly designated FWC Critical Wildlife Areas, which include rookeries for shorebirds and wading birds like the roseate spoonbill." Photo Credit FWC.
Fish & Wildlife Foundation Awards $345,000 in Florida Conservation Grants
Children, bears and birds were the primary beneficiaries of $345,000 in conservation grants given out this week by the nonprofit Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida (FWFF).
Meeting on Key Largo, the FWFF Board of Directors approved a $100,000 grant to help local communities purchase bear-resistant trash cans for homeowners. This follows the Foundation's 2016 grant of $325,000 for bear-resistant cans, which was matched by a $500,000 commitment by the State of Florida. Human-bear conflict is increased when food is in garbage cans that bears can open, said Foundation Board Chair Richard A. Corbett, in explaining the Foundation's commitment to this program.
Richard Corbett Named Foundation Chair
Tampa businessman and FWC Chairman Emeritus Richard A. "Dick" Corbett has been elected chair of the Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida.
The appointment came during the March 27 – 28 meeting of the board of directors of the nonprofit foundation.
"I'm very pleased to be turning the gavel over to Dick Corbett," said outgoing Foundation Chair Rodney Barreto, who is stepping down as chair to lead Miami's preparation for the 2020 Super Bowl. "Dick is a life-long conservationist and outdoorsman and has served the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and our Foundation for many years. He brings considerable dedication and business acumen to this role."
Former FL House Speaker Steve Crisafulli Joins Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida Board
Civic leader and agribusinessman Steve Crisafulli has been appointed to a three-year term to the Board of Directors of the Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida.
A seventh-generation Floridian, Mr. Crisafulli continues to work lands owned for nearly a century by his family from Merritt Island. He was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2008 and served as Speaker of the House for the 2014 – 2016 term, the first Brevard County native to do so.
Foundation Board Chair Rodney Barreto said he was delighted to welcome Mr. Crisafulli to the Board. "Steve has been an extraordinary leader in all of his community, business and legislative endeavors. His thoughtful pragmatism, deep ties to the land, and dedication to preserving Florida's natural heritage and traditional outdoor past-times make him an ideal addition to our Board."
- Celebrating 75 Years of Florida's Wildlife Management Areas
- Florida Endangered Species Plan Approved
- Foundation Announces 2016 BlueGreen Awards
- Foundation, FWC & NPS Visit Miami's Columbus High School


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thirukadaiyur Overview
You can reach thirukadaiyur from Chennai by road in about using a cab upon driving using a cab.
it is a small temple town located on the east cost of tamil nadu 300 km south of chennai and nearly 15 km north of karaikal. it belongs to nagapattinam district and the official language spoken here is tamil. the road connectivity of the town is good and it is well connected to other major cities by road. the nearest railway station is situated at a distance of 17.93 km from thirukkadaiyur whereas the nearest airport is the civil airport located at a distance of 125 km in tiruchirappali. for local visits and sightseeing various savaari cab services can be availed as they are the best means of transportation. the town experiences a tropical climate with an annual average temperature of 28.4 degree celsius. it also receives a moderate amount of rainfall with annual precipitation rate of 1257 mm.. Book cabs in thirukadaiyur


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Why Would Famke Janssen Make Up a Story About an Intruder Leaving a Doll Book by Her Bed?
The revelation today that the police believe Famke Janssen made up a story about an intruder leaving a book by her bed creates more questions than it answers.
For background: in August, Janssen called the New York Police Department to report that someone had broken into her home. While there was no sign of forced entry and nothing was stolen, there was an obscure children's book called The Lonely Doll by her bed. Yiiiiikes. As it turns out, police found lists bearing Janssen's name within the pages of the book, the book belongs to her after all and the whole thing was some sort of confusing hoax. While the police may have answered all the questions they need to, there are certainly more questions to ask about this bizarro story, primarily…
Why would Famke Janssen make up a story about an intruder leaving a creepy doll book by her bed?
Was it all for attention? What's going on here? What else has she lied about for attention? Is her leg really even broken or did she just fake that for attention too? Can we trust anything Famke Janssen has ever told us? If that even is her real name…
Why did it take the police one full month to open the book?
When investigating a potential stalker situation, the logical first step seems to be to check the book for any notes scrawled in pig's blood:
I'm going to stab you at 4 PM tomorrow.
Your stalker
Instead they would have found grocery lists on which Famke Janssen practiced her signature. Case closed.
Why does Famke Janssen write her own name on her grocery lists?
Famke Janssen's Grocery List:
Creepy doll book to stage elaborate home intrusion hoax
Why is The Lonely Doll considered a children's book?
Just look at this cover! The book is about a doll and a couple bears who promise to never leave each other! What a spookfest.


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Flappy Bird is crazy fun.
Slow walking people. Calling customer service and put on hold, then being disconnected after a long wait. These are just a small sample of frustrations experienced by everyone. Bloggers, being easily bored, have recently added a mobile game called Flappy Bird to this catalog. Topping the popularity charts in the App Store, the Schadenfreudian wonder was crafted in retro-loving style by a Vietnamese app developer named Dong Nguyen.
Not much is known about Mr. Nguyen or his game studio, but Flappy Bird is infamous for being frustrating and addictive at the same time -- a recipe for success that also frustrates the bloggers trying to understand it.
In IT Blogwatch, bloggers have time for one more game.
Filling in for our humble blogwatcher Richi Jennings, is a humbler Stephen Glasskeys.
Chris Buffa is on top of his game:
Flappy Bird is a rare breed of video game. It debuted last year and almost nobody cared. Now it's the top game on the iOS App Store. It's the sort of viral phenomenon that is bound to flap its way into pop culture. ... A friend thinks it's like Dark Souls...but we think it's like the water level from Super Mario Bros. MORE
Proceed with caution, counsels Nick Statt:
It was after maybe the 14th or 15th time I'd seen "Game Over" flash across my iPhone screen in the last maybe seven minutes that I decided that the app Flappy Bird -- an experience so simultaneously simple and maddening that I could already picture it haunting my dreams -- was perhaps the worst smartphone game ever created.
...Now, when I say "worst smartphone game," I don't mean objectively bad, lacking in quality, or all around worthless. I mean "worst" in the way that Netflix is the worst thing that happened to your reading habits, or Seamless the worst thing that happened to your diet. Flappy Bird is simply just the worst -- the worst thing to happen to everything and anything you're doing at any given moment. MORE
Elaine Heney, indie-nial complains needlessly:
Over the last 6-12 months, indie developers have been complaining that trying to get to the top of the app store – without the development and marketing budgets of the large game companies – can seem nearly impossible.
...Not so – meet Dong Nguyen.
...Dong is the developer of a little game called Flappy Bird which is the #1 top free app and #1 top free game in the app store right now.
...He's also the #2 free app & #2 top free game with Super Ball Juggling.
...I was chatting to Dong earlier. He has allowed me to share his story here. MORE
From the Happy New Year of the Horse's mouth:
.GEARS (dotGears) Studios is a small, independent game developer based in Vietnam.
...Mostly, we're making arcade games that are bite-sized, take no more than a few minutes of playing right on smartphones and tablets.
...Our work is heavily influenced by retro pixelated games in its golden age. Everything is pure, extremely hard and incredibly fun to play. MORE
Marco Tabini, keeps tabs on sales:
Apple announced...that App Store sales topped $10 billion in 2013, with December alone responsible for "record-breaking" revenues that exceeded $1 billion.
...Besides exceeding the national GDP of an alarming number of countries, App Store revenues have been accelerating almost constantly: It took nearly two years to generate the first $3.6 billion in gross revenues—a sum that the company matched, on average, in a little over four months last year.
...These numbers are important for users [who] enjoy unprecedented access to software at little or no cost, as well as developers, [who] have access to a marketplace that continues to expand both in size and economic value. MORE
The name of the game is simplicity, remarks Tadhg Kelly:
It's nice to know that the games industry can still surprise you and that – just when everybody thinks it's been figured out – there's room for a Flappy Bird.
...Players still like to play a fun game that seems new compared to all the other stuff they've been playing lately. Simple. Yet if there's one thing on which you can always rely, it's that the industry will over-complicate what it means. MORE
Meanwhile we find Dean Takahashi, Maru-ned on a high peak:
Flappy Bird is a silly free game, and that fact that it has climbed so high in the past week is a sign that we're all just a little nuts.
...You play a pixelated "Flappy Bird" in the game. You tap the screen and try to fly past green posts that look like the pipes in Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. ... If you hit a pipe, the game is over. It gets more challenging as you go. And that's it.
...My kids say that everyone is playing it. ... Evidently, the game's appeal lies in how frustrating it is. We only spotted it because John Gargiulo of BlueStacks, which makes software that runs Android apps on other platforms, pointed it out to us.
..."In my years in mobile, I have never seen anything like this," he said. MORE
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
BMC Wins Singapore Firm
Houston-based BMC Software reports this morning that it has signed on a provider of products and services for the textile and leather industry, based in Singapore. BMC said that DYStar Group Pte Ltd., which provides sustainable products and services for the textile and leather industries, has adopted its Remedyforce service desk software for its IT resource deployment efforts. Financial impact of the deal were not disclosed. BMC Remedyforce is a widely used software packaged use for IT service management by enterprises.


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The Queensland government will not push ahead with widespread asset sales as part of its overhaul of the state's finances.
Despite former federal treasurer
This could include outsourcing some government services to the private sector,a restructure of government-owned corporations, and reforming workplace practices.
At a seven-hour meeting with Liberal National Party MPs in Brisbane on Monday – during which Mr Costello gave a briefing to the 74 LNP MPs – Premier
Mr Newman, who has previously said Queenslanders do not support privatisation, has ruled out the sale of major assets including energy company Energex and the $60 billion export hub of the Port of Gladstone.
Treasurer Tim Nicholls, who commissioned Mr Costello to head the $2.2 million audit of the state's finances, had been more supportive of asset sales.
But Mr Newman had the backing of nervous backbenchers who feared further asset sales could result in a backlash at the 2015 election.
"We will not be taking recommendations forward unless it has a majority parliamentary support [from LNP MPs]," Mr Newman said.
Selling Energex last resort
"Energex is something I believe should only be sold as a last resort."
His government has already ruled out major asset sales in its first term.
But it has sold down its stake in freight company QR National and offloaded seven government office buildings as well as its stake in South Australian energy company ElectraNet, which have reaped a total of $3.3 billion. Sales of the Port of Townsville and the Queensland Investment Corporation may be on the agenda down the track.
Mr Costello said the government would have to make some tough decisions to pay down state debt, which is due to reach $82 billion in 2015-16.
"Queensland has a problem: its credit rating has been downgraded, it's paying higher and higher interest costs, and something has got to happen," Mr Costello said before he briefed MPs.
"If it doesn't change, it's just going to get worse and worse, and Queensland, if it won't get back to AAA, the risk is that Queensland will be downgraded further. There is no easy answer here. The money has gone out and the money has been spent and somebody has got to clear up the mess."
Mr Costello said asset sales were more palatable to voters than tax rises or cuts to government services.
Response to audit recommendations
The Newman government will table its response on Tuesday to the 155 recommendations in the Costello audit as well as the full 1000-page report.Former Queensland Investment Corporation chief executive Doug McTaggart and academic Sandra Harding also worked on the report.
The government has previously only released the executive summary of the audit, which recommended the sale of assets including energy companies and ports to help pay down $25 billion to $30 billion in debt. The audit said it would take 50 years of budget surpluses to achieve the same financial result as asset sales.
Mr Nicholls said before the meeting that asset sales needed to be "strongly considered" to help regain the AAA credit rating, which was lost by the former Labor government in 2009.
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Two days after their massive electoral comeback at the polls, legislative Democrats elected their new leaders. In both the House and Senate, DFL members on Thursday rewarded the individuals that helped them reclaim control of both chambers.
Senate Democrats elected Sen. Tom Bakk of Cook to be Senate Majority Leader. He had served the past two years as minority leader. In the House, the DFL caucus named current House Minority Leader Paul Thissen of Minneapolis as their choice for Speaker of the House.
No southeast Minnesota lawmakers got picked for the other key legislative positions. Here's the list of other lawmakers getting the leadership nod. In the Senate, Sen. Katie Sieben of Newport was elected assistant majority leader and Sen. Sandy Pappas was chosen as the next president of the Senate. Sen. Rich Cohen, of St. Paul, was named chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and Sen. Rod Skoe of Clearbrook will be chairman of the Senate Taxes Committee.
In the House, members chose Rep. Erin Murphy of St. Paul as majority leader. She played a key role in helping recruit candidates for the election.
Rep. Kim Norton, DFL-Rochester, said she did have some concerns about the top House leadership spots being held by two metro-area lawmakers. Rep. Paul Marquart of Dilworth also ran for the post. But in the end, Norton said she expects Murphy will do a good job.
"I was just concerned with the two Twin City representatives at the top, and I would have much preferred having geographical balance," she said.


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Sehnsucht, a New Play by Sarah Blush
The implicit message of "Make America Great Again" and paleo dieting is the same: we used to know how to live right, and things would be better if we lived that way again. Sehnsucht is a play about our preoccupation with the past and the impact of propping it up.
The play begins with a group of siblings wistfully reminiscing about when they were cavemen. We learn that this is just one of the attractions inside an audacious resort, a literal relic of a bygone era profiting from its recipients' desire to escape the present and take refuge in some elusive past. The play then visits an imagined empire with no recorded history (inspired by the 19th-century Chinese Dowager Empress Cixi) and Sigmund Freud's huge collection of historical artifacts.
The title is an untranslatable German word expressing the nostalgia we can feel for a time or place we never actually experienced. Knowing how we're "supposed" to live supposedly offers clues for how to feel better, happier, more satisfied—contemporary society's constant refrain. As modern life increases in rapidity and technology, there's a longing to understand what behavior, if any, is essentially human. We peer into history, trying to figure out when we were most ourselves. Sehnsucht questions to what extent this longing can be comforting, paralyzing, and even sinister.
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Makroekonomická analýza české ekonomiky 1996
[Macroeconomic Analysis of Czech Economy in 1996]
This article consists of analysis of all main indicators of Czech economy in 1996. They are: GDP and economic growth focused on economic dynamism; disproportional in the development of the main components of aggregate demand and supply and productive efficiency of the domestic economy; productivity focused on trends in productivity of labour in the national economy and selected sectors and finally on total factor productivity (capital and labour); external economic relation focused on balance of trade deficit and trends in export and import and also on the trends in the use of net import of goods and services and trade deficit financing - capital inflow and balance of payments; public finance; monetary policy; inflation focused on general trends and two main impulses: demand and cost.
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Volume (Year): 1997 (1997)
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President Obama consoled some of the loved ones of the dead and visited with wounded survivors of Friday's shooting massacre at a movie theater in suburban Denver.
In more than two hours of conversation, Obama said he learned more about the lives and bravery of many of the victims, while sharing hugs and tears with some of the surviors and the family and friends of those who didn't make it.
"I came to them not so much as president as I do as a father and a husband," Obama told reporters shortly after visiting victims at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora. "I confessed to them that words are always inadequate in these types of situations, but that my main task was to serve as a representative of the entire country and let them know that we are thinking about them at this moment, and we will continue to think about them each and every day."
The hospital, a short drive from the movie theater, received 23 casualities. Ten are still being treated at the hospital — including seven that are still in critical condition, according to the hospital. One of the wounded brought to the hospital later died.
Obama said among the people he met were Allie Young, 19, and her best friend Stephanie Davies, 21, who were sitting near the front of the theater, only a few feet away from where the gunman threw cannisters that billowed smoke before he opened fire.
Young stood up and was shot in the neck, puncturing a vein--a wound that immediately started spurting blood, the president said. Davies, Obama said, dropped down on the floor with Young, pulled her out of the aisle and placed her fingers over where Young had been wounded. Davies continued applying pressure to Young while the gunman shot round-after-round nearby.
"Alllie said she needed to run; Stephanie refused to go," Obama said. "Instead, with her other hand, she called 911 on her cell phone. Once the SWAT team came in, they were still trying to clear the theater. Stephanie then, with the help of several others, carries Allie across two parking lots to where the ambulance is waiting. And because of Stephanie's timely actions -- I just had a conversation with Allie downstairs -- she is going to be fine. I don't know how many people at any age would have the presence of mind that Stephanie did or the courage Allie showed."
Obama went on to praise Davies and Young as "what is best in us" as Americans.
Since the incident, there have been some calls — most notably from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg — to make gun control a crucial part of the debate between the GOP likely nominee Mitt Romney and Obama.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said the "president's view is that we can take steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them under existing law."
Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki suggested that it was too soon to say whether gun control would become a bigger part of the campaign conversation.
"I think this stage where this is so fresh and new for so many people, including the people in Colorado, who are still mourning the loss of their loved ones," Psaki said. "And so it's really too early to say how this will play. And again, we're just taking it day by day. That's what our focus is today."
David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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2014 NHRA: NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Sunoco Sponsorship Teleconference
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2014 NHRA: NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Sunoco Sponsorship Teleconference
The following are excerpts from a teleconference featuring Tom Compton, NHRA president; Graham Light, NHRA senior vice president, racing operations; Bob Owens, president and CEO of Sunoco; Rob Marro, general manager for performance products and automotive events of Sunoco.
GENO EFFLER: Good morning, everybody, this is Geno Effler, the vice president of public relations and communications for NHRA. Thank you all for joining us today. We'll be hearing from Tom Compton, the president of NHRA, as well as Bob Owens, the president and CEO of Sunoco. Also on the call to answer questions will be Graham Light, our senior vice president of racing operations at NHRA, and Rob Marro, the GM for performance products and automotive events. After the opening statements from Tom Compton, we'll turn it over to Bob Owens. After Bob's remarks, we'll go to the Q&A session.
TOM COMPTON: We're very excited about the long-term marketing partnership we announced today with Sunoco. It's been in the works for a while. We're very excited about the future with Sunoco. As such, Sunoco will be the official fuel supplier of NHRA as well, including nitromethane. There will be on-site activation at NHRA national events as well as the opportunities for retail promotions to increase attendance and television viewership at NHRA at all of Sunoco's gas stations and retail convenience stores in NHRA markets. The activation will include television, digital presence, on-site visibility, NHRA theme, consumer and retail promotions, all of which are designed to increase attendance and television viewership. We're excited about the partnership. It's long-term. We're looking forward to a long future with Sunoco going forward.
BOB OWENS: Thank you, Tom. We're equally excited about this. Sunoco is a company that's been around since the 1880s - actually before automobiles. We've been fueling motorsports for over five decades. We feel it's in our DNA. The opportunity to get involved at the highest level here is very appealing to us and we're looking very forward to it. We're a world leader in fueling motorsports with over 50 racing sanctions. It's something that we take a great deal of pride in.
We've got today north of five thousand retail sites. Coincidentally, we're closing on another acquisition here even as we speak in Tennessee, and a week ago today we announced an acquisition primarily in Texas and New Mexico of another 1200 service stations. While we're about five thousand today, that number will grow closer to 6500 in the very near future. Our race fuels business is an international business. We really enjoy the position that it gives us with our consumer brands of retail gasoline. The opportunity to partner with NHRA is just a perfect fit from our perspective. We look very forward to working with the NHRA.
Q. As sophisticated as the Pro Stock engines are in both car and bike, has there been testing done with this spec fuel? How soon is the fuel going to be put in service at the track?
GRAHAM LIGHT: First off, the official fuel, racing fuel, goes into effect in 2015. It's not immediate from the mandated fuel requirement. Sunoco already has product out in our venues for some of our sportsmen categories. They have many different blends. The blends are very, very close in specifications to what's currently out there. We don't see any problems with the conversion from the current spec fuel to the Sunoco product. The product is available. The teams can go test with it. Certainly in the wintertime I would anticipate the Pro Stock motorcycles and cars testing extensively with it.
Q. Sunoco does, in fact, have this great presence in another section of motorsports. I wonder if the Sunoco presence in the NHRA will be quite similar. Will the Top Fuel and Funny Car teams have the same benefit that (NASCAR) Sprint Cup teams have?
BOB OWENS: It's our belief that these relationships are not individual but, in fact, are synergistic. All motorsports benefit from our presence. You will see, as Tom outlined, the different elements going forward. But it's certainly our intent that the answer to your question would be yes, there will be great benefit on both sides of the table with this new relationship.
Q. To be more exact. A Sprint Cup team goes to a racetrack and has Sunoco-labeled cans. The fans know how important Sunoco is. Will you put that same kind of situation in place among teams that I've known over the years that kind of make their own fuel or mix their own fuel together, and they're just in blank holders, if you will?
ROB MARRO: Part of our conversations and agreements with the NHRA is that we will be present at all the national events and having midway space, quite significant amount of midway space, to give exposure to our product and brand. Part of that, as you mentioned, the five-gallon or ten-gallon jugs that have the current fuel supplier's logo on it is something we're looking at. We're trying to maximize our exposure, to capitalize everything that can be capitalized on in this agreement. Part of what we need to do is for the stars of the drag racing sport, you know, one of the things that we feel we can bring to the table is we can help give them the long overdue exposure that they may be seeking with our five thousand plus retail facilities, now with the potential, as Bob mentioned, of over six thousand. We look forward to potentially having those types of relationships.
Q. For the Sunoco guys. Since natural methane is not made in the United States, will you be importing it from China as it's currently done? Does this mean nitromethane will be available in Sunoco stations nationwide in whatever quantities?
ROB MARRO: We have not taken a look at the distribution of nitromethane outside of the NHRA. That's something we're in the planning stage right now. As far as where the nitromethane comes from, as Bob opened up, we are the world leader in motorsports and supplying of fuels for motorsport. We will look in every avenue for opportunities for sourcing the product. If that means it comes from the current manufacturer that supplies the current official fuel, then we're more than open for that. But we have our supply contacts throughout the world and we will fully utilize them. We have a supply and trade department here at Sunoco that is quite extensive that would do a lot of the lifting for us in determining where the product is that meets the specs that the NHRA requires of Sunoco.
Q. Is there any way that is going to trickle down to the Heritage Series for nitro racing?
GRAHAM LIGHT: I think it's probably a little premature to think about that. Today's announcement is announcing a 2015 program. Those months between now and then are going to be used up in a lot of ways. The Heritage thing is certainly a possibility down the road, but I think it's premature to make that assumption at this point.
Q. For NHRA, what specifically set Sunoco apart from other options as you were examining having a relationship of this magnitude?
GRAHAM LIGHT: I think Bob touched on it earlier. They have a long history in motorsports. They've been successful in many forms of motorsport. They're known for their involvement in motorsports and their support of motorsports. That made it pretty easy to know they had the capabilities we were looking for. They expressed a long interest. We've talked to Sunoco I think the first time 12 years ago. This is something that has been brewing for a long time. We're just real pleased we're able to make the announcement today and formalize the relationship beginning next year.
Q. Graham, with Sunoco supplying the ethanol that the boys are using in NASCAR, any consideration of bringing that over into the Pro Stock categories?
GRAHAM LIGHT: We talked not only about that but also methanol over the course of time, too.
First off, our brand of racing doesn't use the volume of gasoline that maybe some other types of racing do. While we're all about green and so on, we also are concerned about the cost to the competitor. When you have a change as significant as that, there's a fairly extensive cost that goes with that, not only in the research and development of engine components, but also the money to go out and test and to perfect a new combination. In this economy, we're very cautious not to burden our race teams with costs. When you spend all that money, the bottom line is the same, people win the races. Everybody has spent a lot of money. That's something we've looked at over the years. It's not necessarily off the table, but it's not a path we're going to go down immediately.
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On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:48 PM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote: > I guess my disk subsystem (it's a consumer-grade DAS SSD) doesn't have > enough latency for my reflexes to hit ^C fast enough. Any way to > inject this fault deterministically? > If the point is to get this warning, you can always setup synchronous_standby_names with the application name of a slave that is not listed in pg_stat_replication to make the master hanging for a slave that does not exist :) But in this case there is virtually no slave to wait for, so perhaps it has no meaning... But it lets you all time you want to do a manual cancel and get this warning. For example: postgres=# show synchronous_standby_names; synchronous_standby_names --------------------------- slave2 (1 row) postgres=# select application_name, sync_state from pg_stat_replication; application_name | sync_state ------------------+------------ slave1 | async (1 row) postgres=# begin; BEGIN postgres=# create table aa (a int); CREATE TABLE postgres=# commit; ^CCancel request sent WARNING: canceling wait for synchronous replication due to user request DETAIL: The transaction has already committed locally, but might not have been replicated to the standby. COMMIT postgres=# show synchronous_commit; synchronous_commit -------------------- on (1 row) postgres=# \d List of relations Schema | Name | Type | Owner --------+------+-------+--------- public | aa | table | michael (1 row) Btw, I believe that this is correct behavior, because in Peter's case the manual command gets the priority on the value of synchronous_commit, no? If anybody thinks that I am wrong, feel free to argue on that of course... -- Michael Paquier http://michael.otacoo.com
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working dogs.
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This is what we woke up to
Dec 5th!
Thank goodness for
dogs that will go the distance, especially early morning.
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the barn while Sling brought them in.
Yes, that is ice
coating the barbwire.
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Obituary Rita Levi-Montalcini: In Memoriam On January 2, 2013, Rita Levi-Montalcini was laid to rest at the Cimitero Monumentale in Turin, Italy, the city where she was born more than 103 years ago and where she started her medical and scientific career. Her death was reported by all major news media (BBC News, The Economist, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and The Washington Post), and her passing was recognized by the Vatican, the Italian President of the Republic, the Italian Prime Minister, and the Mayor of Rome. Rita Levi-Montalcini lay in state in the Palazzo Madama Senate building in Rome, where thousands of citizens paid a final tribute. There have been few scientists who have been accorded so much honor and acclaim (Figure 1). Much has been written about Rita's scientific life and accomplishments, including her early training as a medical student at the University of Turin and her close association with fellow students Renato Dulbecco and Salvador Luria; her makeshift laboratory in her bedroom during World War II; the 30 years of collaboration with Viktor Hamburger at Washington University; the in vitro assay for nerve growth factor (NGF) she developed from a visit to Rio de Janeiro in 1952; the serendipitous finding of NGF in snake venom with Stanley Cohen, which led to its purification and characterization as a protein; and her leadership roles as founder and president of the European Brain Research Institute (EBRI) and as a member of the Italian Senate. Here we wish to shed light on unique aspects of her scientific and humanitarian life that have not received much attention. Rita Levi-Montalcini represents a remarkable breed of scientist who is rarely encountered today. She not only had to endure obstacles due to sexism and religious discrimination, but was also affected by totalitarism, politics, and war. She often noted that she viewed herself as an artist more than as a scientist. Her decision in the 1930s to study the nervous system was based upon her fascination with its beauty and complexity. During experiments carried out from 1940 to
1960, her scientific hypotheses did not require highly sophisticated techniques. Indeed, Rita's and Stanley Cohen's use of NGF antibodies in 1960 gave rise to identical results as did NGF knockout mice generated more than 40 years later. Interestingly, most of her experiments did not contain statistical data. Her demonstration of the diffusible nature of the growth-promoting activity by mouse sarcoma tumors implanted in the chorioallantoic membrane, the halo effect of NGF, and the effects of immunosympathectomy were so pronounced that they did not require any statistics. Rita did not like results based on a statistical analysis and, as she used to say, she preferred ''experiments with a yes or no answer.'' In the cell culture room in Rita's Center of Neurobiology in Rome, there was a plaque with a saying attributed to Albert Einstein: ''Imagination is more important than knowledge.'' Indeed, her scientific attitude was, as she used to say, a product more of intuition and imagination than of deep complex reasoning. She also mentioned that the best ideas came
Figure 1. Rita Levi-Montalcini, born April 22, 1909; died December, 30, 2012
during the evening, when the brain could elaborate hypotheses without the congestion of too many daily facts. Rita insisted that the reductionist approach, which provided so many scientific advances in biology, should be complemented by a holistic approach whereby the functioning of a cell should be analyzed in multiple ways. This type of thinking was a forerunner of systems biology. The intuitive, imaginative nature of her reasoning, coupled with her superb observational skills, came to light after the Nobel award in 1986 with Stanley Cohen. After the award, she wrote that NGF had an ''organismic role'' that was more extended than the basis of the Nobel prize, which was on the discovery of growth factors. Studies since then confirm an extended role of neurotrophic factors, not only in peripheral and central nervous system, but also in the immune and endocrine system. Her predictions anticipated the demonstration that NGF plays an important role in aggressive behavior, learning and memory, fertility, pain, and neuronal plasticity. Because there were so few women in science in the 1940s and 1950s, Rita faced many hurdles in establishing herself as an independent scientist. Nevertheless, she always possessed an enormous drive to address fundamental questions of how the nervous system develops. The research she carried out secretly in Fascist Italy was accomplished without benefit of any grant or fellowship support. With the help of her parents, she purchased a Zeiss binocular microscope to view her silver-stained embryonic sections. Moreover, during this period, Rita was banned from publishing her papers in Italian scientific journals because of her Jewish heritage. In an interview in 2008, Rita noted that these obstacles were not a concern to her, but that the research on 5-day-old chick embryos sustained and energized her during those troubled times. Rita was invited by Viktor Hamburger to investigate the mechanism by which the periphery influences the growth and direction of nerve fibers during development. Rita left Italy after World War II
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Transformstion to canonical form
The following rather simple problem led my to some genral questions of
how to proceed in symbolic transformations which I would do on paper
within Mathematica. I'm sure you can give useful hints which I apreciate
in advance.
Consider a slight generalization of the Thales circle: In a triangle
ABC, let g be the fixed angle in vertex C. (In the Thales case we have g
= Pi/2).
What is the equation for the coordinates (x,y) of the point C?
The immediate statement is derived from the scalar product of the two
vectors (C-A) and (C-B):
(C-A).(C-B)== Sqrt[(C-A).C-A)] Sqrt[(C-B).(C-A)]
G = Cos[g]
A={0,0}; B={b,0};C={x,y} we obtain the equation:
eq1 = x^2 - b*x + y^2 == G*Sqrt[x^2 + y^2]*Sqrt[(x - b)^2 + y^2]
Now: what is a useful procedure in Mathematica to transform eq1 into an
equation of the form
eq2 = (x - u)^2 + (y - v)^2 == w
and to find the parameters u, v, and w in terms of b and G?