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Peripsychoda dimorpha és una espècie d'insecte dípter pertanyent a la família dels psicòdids que es troba a Austràlia: és un endemisme de Nova Gal·les del Sud.

Referències

Bibliografia
 Ježek J., 1987. Results of the Czechoslovak-Iranian entomological expeditions to Iran 1977. Peripsychoda iranica sp. n. (Diptera, Psychodidae) with comments to the genus and redescriptions of included species. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 42: 189–206.

Enllaços externs
 Arctos
 The Animal Diversity Web

dimorpha

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Charlie's Angels: Uden hæmninger er action/komedie film fra 2003 og efterfølgeren til Charlie's Angels fra 2000. Den havde premiere i USA og Danmark den 27. juni 2003 og lå som nr. 1 på box office listen den første uge, og fik en total indtjening verdenen over på $259 mio.

Filmen blev instrueret af Joseph McGinty Nichol og medvirkende var Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu (som de tre Engle; Natalie, Alex og Dylan) med Bernie Mac (som Jimmy Bosley, plejebror til John Bosley, spillet af Bill Murray i den første film) og Demi Moore. John Forsythe vendte atter tilbage som den kendte stemme som Charlie, og Crispin Glover genoptog også sin rolle som "Den Tynde Mand" fra den første film. John Cleese, Matt LeBlanc, Luke Wilson, Justin Theroux, Shia LaBeouf, Rodrigo Santoro og Robert Patrick optræder også.

Handling

Filmen starter på en bar i det nordlige Mongoliet, hvor politikeren Ray Carter er blevet taget til fange. Alex kommer nu frem og befrier ham og søger nu op fra kælderen hvor de er. Oven på er der fest og hvor Dylan er tæt på at blive opdaget, da Natalie pludselig træder ind forklædt som en naiv og let påklædt ung dame. Pigernes afledningsmanøvre mislykkedes og de ender med at flygte.

Tilbage på Townsend bliver pigerne nu mødt af Bosley, der har overtaget sin plejebror John Bosleys plads, som pigernes genvej til Charlie. Snart ringer Charlie og pigerne bliver sat ind i sagen om de to forsvundne HALO-ringe, der indeholder oplysninger om mennesker, der er i landets vidnebeskyttelsesprogram. Ray Carter fik stjalet den ene af de to ringe under hans ophold i Mongoliet, og den anden ring er tidligere på dagen også blevet stjalet. Da pigerne så får at vide at en person, der var under vidnebeskyttelse er blevet slået ihjel, tager de ud til gerningsstedet, hvor de regner ud at morderen er en surfer med en ældre knæskade.

På hjemmefronten hos Natalie går det godt. Hun er lige flyttet sammen med hendes kæreste Peter, og da Alex og Dylan står og forsøger at lokaliserer morderen, snakker de om Natalie og eventuelle afløsere. Det er også her englene møder den legendariske engel, Madison Lee, der på overfladen ser ud til at være god nok. Pludselig opdager den mulige morder og Natalie sætter efter ham, og ganske rigtig så er det ham.

Pigerne får nu at vide at morderen går efter det næste offer, hvilket fører dem til byens knallertbane "Kulbanen", hvor de tror at han går efter en der kalder sig Leo. Pigerne finder begge personer, men inden de når at fange morderen, dukker en gammel bekendt op og dræber ham. "Den Tynde Mand" er tilbage og bliver draget ind i det. På morderen finder de billeder af personer – og også et af Dylan, men hvor der står hun hedder Helen Zaas. Pigerne opdager nu også at den såkaldte Leo er en forældreløs dreng på kun 15 år, og de vælger at tage ham med tilbage til Townsend.

Her får de sandheden at vide om Dylan, der fortæller at da hun var ung, var hun kærester med Seamus O'Grady (som i den fiktive O'Grady mafia familie), der på et tidspunkt imens hun ser det, dræber en. Hun vælger derfor at vidne imod ham, og kommer under vidnebeskyttelse som Dylan Sanders. De finder også ud af at Leo er under vidnebeskyttelse, fordi hans forældre også vidnede mod O'Grady-familien på et tidspunkt. Leo og "Den Tynde Mand" har også en forbindelse til hinanden, idet de boede på det samme børnehjem da de var små. "Den Tynde Mand" blev som barn fundet udenfor i regnen, højest sandsynligt efterladt af et cirkus, og ikke engang dengang talte han.

Englene får nu et tip om hvor ringene befinder sig, og efter et besøg på "Skattekisten", hvor de agerer The Pussycat Dolls, finder de frem til ringene – men som de tror de har vundet, tropper Seamus pludselig op. Han er blevet løsladt og er ude efter hævn over Dylan. Englene og O'Gradys mænd kæmper nu, og pigerne formår at slippe helskindet væk.

Nu tager Dylan den tunge beslutning at forlade Charlie's Angels, fordi hun er bange for at Seamus vil gøre dem ondt, hvis hun er sammen med dem. Alex og Natalie er nu på egen hånd, og da de får tippet om hvor bagmanden bag det hele er, så tropper de to op og ser Ray Carter blive skudt. Så afsløres det at planlæggeren bag det hele er selveste Madison Lee, der kun ønsker at overtage Townsend og dræbe Charlie. Netop som de skal at slås kommer Dylan tilbage og hjælper dem.

Madison Lee skyder nu pigerne, og netop som man tror de er døde alle tre, vågner de op og vi finder ud af at de havde skudsikre veste på. Natalie regner nu ud, hvor O'Grady, Madison og resten af skurkene vil mødes, og de tre piger forklæder sig og tager på mission. Dette bliver nu til et opgør mellem alle parter, hvor det ender med at englene når tilbage til Alex' kæreste filmpremiere og Peter fortæller Natalie at han har købt en hundehvalp til dem.

Rolleliste
 Cameron Diaz – Natalie Cook
 Drew Barrymore – Dylan Sanders
 Lucy Liu – Alex Munday
 Bernie Mac – Jimmy Bosley
 Crispin Glover – "Thin Man"
 Robert Patrick – Ray Carter
 Demi Moore – Madison Lee
 Shia LaBeouf – Max
 Matt LeBlanc – Jason
 Luke Wilson – Pete
 John Cleese – Mr. Munday
 Eric Bogosian – Alan Caulfield
 Andrew Wilson – polis
 Jaclyn Smith – Kelly Garrett
 Bruce Willis – William Rose Bailey
 John Forsythe – Charlie (endast röst)

Indtjening
Filmen indtjente $100,9 mio. ved den amerikanske box office og var nødt til at regne med god indtjening udenlands for at kunne skabe profit.

Trods efterfølgerens store indhold af vilde stunts og special effects, så blev den modtaget blandet hos anmelderne, idet de mente at nogle af englenes evner var lige i overkanten (fx der hvor Dylan opdager et fodaftryk på gulvet, og kan fortælle at det er specielfremstillet og kun kunne fås i en bestemt butik, i en bestemt by og i en bestemt tidsperiode)

Trivia
 Courtney Love, en af Drew Barrymores nære venner, blev tilbudt rollen som Madison Lee, men efter at have fået en abort under optagelserne til Trapped, sagde hun nej.
 Dita Von Tesse bliver i rulleteksterne vist under "Special Thanks", fordi Dita tillod at Cameron lavede "Dancing In The Martini"-scene, en optræden som Dita er meget kendt for.
 Titlen til filmen, der blev brugt under optagelserne var Charlie's Angels: HALO.

Kilder

Eksterne links

Amerikanske film fra 2003
Actionfilm fra USA
Komediefilm fra USA
Film fra Columbia Pictures
Engelsksprogede film


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Matthew Birt
By Matthew Birt
A day of mixed fortunes
Luck plays a big role in everyone's life and as Mugello showed, it can be a cruel mistress.
Tags MotoGP, 2016, GRAN PREMIO D'ITALIA TIM, RAC
With 21 years of experience reporting on MotoGP™, Matthew Birt knows the championship inside-out. For the 2016 season he remains with the motogp.com team to bring you exclusive news and opinion from inside the paddock.
Luck is defined as a force that brings good fortune or adversity to a person's life.
It shapes events, circumstances and opportunities over which an individual has no control.
God-given riding talent and genius engineering expertise play a pivotal role in deciding the outcome of a MotoGP™ race and ultimately a World Championship.
Sunday's dramatic Mugello round highlighted just how luck is such a key contributing factor in shaping the destiny of a World Championship.
Valentino Rossi's luck deserted him at a time when he looked in the strongest position to win at his spiritual home for the first time since 2008.
The hills overlooking Mugello were alive with the sound of revving engines, loud music, air horns and fans roaring themselves hoarse as a boisterous and predominantly yellow-clad crowd watched expectantly as Rossi menacingly harassed Movistar Yamaha teammate Jorge Lorenzo.
Fans were dreaming, just as Rossi was, that he would once again be the master of Mugello.
A memorable sight in the build up to the race was yellow smoke wafting around the track. It was smoke of a different colour belching out of Rossi's crippled YZR-M1 on lap eight that ruled him out in the cruelest manner.
A catastrophic engine failure ended his pursuit of Lorenzo, and as his motor fell silent, an eerie quiet quickly replaced the frenzied atmosphere.
Rossi was devastated but typically philosophical. He couldn't alter what happened but he was hurting so much that he couldn't bring himself to visit the podium to receive the adulation of his loyal but shell-shocked supporters.
The timing of his first mechanical failure since Yamaha's brand new pneumatic valve motor gave up the ghost in Misano way back in 2007 could have seriously damaged his title aspirations.
As Rossi and Yamaha sought answers to the engine failure, he had to sit and watch a classic battle unfold between Lorenzo and Marc Marquez that saw them move 37 and 27 points respectively clear of the Italian.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I think Rossi would have won on Sunday had lady luck not slapped him in the face. He looked comfortable behind Lorenzo and was patiently waiting for the right time to pounce, with the Spaniard clearly not possessing the pace to streak away like he so often does.
Rossi's luck contrasted completely with that of Lorenzo's. The Spaniard had also been the victim of an incredibly rare Yamaha engine failure in the pre-race Warm Up session. But he could not have imagined what a stroke of luck that engine destroying itself would turn out to be.
He dodged a bullet on a day that Yamaha's reputation for bulletproof reliability took a battering. Losing one engine was incredibly rare for Yamaha, so to see two let go in less than five hours was a truly unique scenario.
Luck had been on Lorenzo's side and he fully acknowledged it. Had he done one lap less in the Warm Up then he would have started the race with the engine that was doomed and been condemned to the same fate as Rossi.
The time gap between Lorenzo and Rossi's identical issues was too short for Yamaha to conduct a thorough investigation of the cause.
And with no clear diagnosis in Mugello, there was no cast iron assurance that a worried Rossi would not have escaped such a high profile and demoralising mechanical meltdown had he opted to run a brand new engine.
Rossi's blown engine was fresher than the one that went pop on Lorenzo and both were short of what can be classed as top mileage, so it seems unlikely that hard wear was the cause.
Yamaha clearly could not have predicted how severe their technical woes would be. The blown motors were Rossi and Lorenzo's third of seven in their 2016 allocation. It has since been revealed that their first two had reached double mileage of engine number three without missing a beat.
Yamaha must not only identify the source of the failure but also navigate a solution through the strict freeze on in-season engine development. Engine modifications can only be made on safety grounds and unanimously sanctioned by the Motorcycle Sport Manufacturers Association (MSMA).
One early theory in Mugello is that Rossi and Lorenzo's engine problems could be the result of a defective batch of parts. If Yamaha can prove that was the case then it may be given room to manoeuvre.
Rossi's exit sent many disgruntled fans heading for the exit, but those that remained were treated to a breath-taking showdown between Lorenzo and Marquez.
Lorenzo won by less than a bike length after a final lap that again buried the myth that the reigning World Champion can't get his knuckles dirty when the combat gets close.
Crucially for his title hopes, he capitalised on the good luck that came his way.
Hopefully for the spectacle of the World Championship, then the bad luck that came Rossi's way doesn't mean his own title hopes have gone up in smoke.
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#MangaGP #ItalianGP // by @fujiran
MotoGP Rewind: A recap of the #ItalianGP
Yamaha's 100th MotoGP Victory
Italy, Jorge Lorenzo, Video News
Overtake Analysis: Memorable passes at the #ItalianGP
Italy, Overtakes
Octo Pramac Yakhnich
Petrucci: "I will take my revenge in Barcelona!"
Bradley Smith had better watch out because Danilo Petrucci is coming for him in Barcelona after losing out to the Brit in Mugello.
Italy, Danilo Petrucci, Reaction
LCR Honda
Crutchlow: "There was a need to bring the bike home"
Cal Crutchlow managed his third race finish of the year in Mugello, matching his best result of 2016 so far.
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Different kind of #wheeliewednesday! @estrellagalicia00
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Samsung UN75HU8550 Review – a New Way to Communicate with Your TV This Samsung UN75HU8550 review will help you make a judgment, calculation, and providing information before you make a decision. With UN75HU8550, Samsung uses their success in online services and mobile products to make the users have a much better living room experience, with the fact that Samsung makes a fantastic hardware. Samsung UN75HU8550 has no different because it symbolizes a new era of premium, large, and affordable 4K display. If you want to have a 4K TV now, Samsung UN75HU8550 is the best choice overall.
UN75HU8550 less stands out than other typical Samsung TV, but it still looks great with its unpretentious exterior. Though it cannot swivel, the low-profile stand helps the panel look like levitating above the tabletop. The base with silver brushed metal seems gaudy, but the panel itself with a thin bezel, chrome ribbon around the edges, and small "Samsung" logo seems very attractive. The bezel is almost invisible for the suggested viewing distances ranging from about 8-13 feet, while it is only 0.3 inches. This type of TV is taking a minimalist approach since you cannot really find a lot of new things besides the big panel and nice blue line just below the logo. It also provides connection ports that you can expect from any modern large LED TV like 4 HDMI 2.0 ports.
One of the hot and new features in this UN75HU8550 review is the versatile Smart Remote Control. This small remote control can help you explore the Smart Hub with a subtle manner. The small touchpad located in the center of the remote functions as a trigger where you put your thumb and use this remote as a pointing device. This is like using a nice mouse since both inputting the text and selecting an application is fairly simple. Additionally, you can also use this remote by speaking directly using the voice button. It is not just following voice commands but also interpret the words that allow you to perform a voice search.
Unlike the other types of LED TV with exclusive and great new features, a high ends TV as in this UN75HU8550 review still has a Smart Hub 2.0 where you can stream the content from your TV to your mobile device or any other device that is compatible with your TV. Although it does not have new features, this could be an important part of the TV to eliminate the need to get a separate media player. You can also get an instant access to the internet with an already installed web browser even though there is no optical drive. Once you are connected to the internet, you can browse the store and install all kinds of useful applications such as news providers, streaming services, and fun games.
Meanwhile, the upgraded Quad Core Processor is greatly accelerating the Smart TV features that allow new features and multitasking. The UHD Micro Dimming Ultimate adds scanning technology and a special algorithm to provide better images with higher contrast.
Through Samsung UN75HU8550 review above, it is known that Samsung has added many new ways to communicate with your TV such as gesture control, voice control, and a touchpad on the remote which allows you to change or open an application, change the channel or using a web browser.


Ah, the first time. Such a magical time. It certainly is for jim and Joey.
Jim and Joey have date night. Joey has something special in mind.
This is a story about two sister's, Mary and Libby. They both live in the small town of Woodbridge, Pennsylvania with their dad Terence Hartford . When Mary and Libby were young something very tragic happened to the family. Since then nothing has been the same. While Mary is busy being a college student and looking for love. Libby is trying figure what the hell is going on! Mary meets Avenged Sevenfold and finds out they just didn't come there to do a show in her small town. They came there for her and wont leave without her no matter the cost.
To satisfy Jim's Nephilim curiosity, Seth tells the origin story of the Gods and how his mating happened to Sotiris.
Jim and Chris tried to have some alone time together while they are recording Vol.3 but someone doesn't agree with it.


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Q: Enable extra filter for Kendo date column I've a Kendo grid with 4 columns and one of the columns is date type.
I want to display extra filter options for date type column. Below is my trail.
var grid = $("#mygrid").kendoGrid({
            sortable: true,
            pageable: true,
            scrollable: true,

            filterable: {
                extra: true,
                operators: {
                    string: {
                        startswith: "Starts with",
                        eq: "Is equal to",
                        neq: "Is not equal to",
                        contains: "Contains"
                    },

                    date: {
                        eq: "Is equal to",
                        neq: "Is not equal to",
                        gte: "Is after or equal to",
                        gt: "Is after",
                        lte: "Is before or equal to",
                        lt: "Is before",
                    }

                }
            },

When I say extra: true, it is applying to all columns. But I don't want to display extra filter for string type column. How can I enable extra:true for only date column?

A: You might define extra in Columns.filterable as well.
Example:
$("#grid").kendoGrid({
    dataSource: [
        { name: "Jane Doe", age: 30 },
        { name: "John Doe", age: 33 }
    ],
    filterable: {
        extra: false
    },
    columns: [
        { field: "name" },
        { field: "age", filterable: { extra: true} }
    ]
});

This defines that by default it should use extra as false but for age column it is going to be true.
Running example here: http://jsfiddle.net/OnaBai/fyje2c1g/

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Q: check page extension in localhost If there is a PHP file on the server like mypage.php and when I request it from localhost like:
http://localhost/mypage

back with mypage.php with no problem but when request it on the live server came with 404 error!
I ask how to make the localhost act like live server and must enter the full name of the file with its extension so http://localhost/mypage came with 404 error
And I want to edit httpd.conf

A: I guess the Multiviews-option is set on localhost. If it does, remove it and restart the server.


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Corruption scandal: From Mozambique to Angola?
By ALLINFO
A multi-billion dollar corruption scandal has plunged Mozambique into the crisis. Money for education or health missing, many people suffer from it. According to a report by the neighboring country of Angola could be affected.
Angola's President, João Lourenço (Archive)
Abroad, it runs for Angola's President, João Lourenço still good. The former defence Minister is considered to be bearers of hope, since he's 2017 long-time President José Eduardo dos Santos replaced. Had dealt with the oil country as private property and family members in key positions heaved. Lourenço promised to change the in – and-fired Ex-President's daughter Isabel dos Santos as the Head of the state oil Company.
It was well received. "We are pleased that the office of the President a fresh Wind in Angola is moved in", said Federal Chancellor Merkel in Lourenços visit to Germany last August.
But now the head of state makes good headlines. According to a report by the British consulting firm ExxAfrica tracks from a corruption scandal to lead in Mozambique, also to Angola and Lourenço.
The scandal in Mozambique has all the ingredients of a spectacular Crime. Various state-owned enterprises borrowed a total of approximately 1.8 billion euros in the Swiss Bank Crédit Suisse and Russia's VTB Capital. Mozambique's government guaranteed. But the money is gone. Mozambique can no longer pay the loans and is deep in the crisis.
Three former credit Suisse employees to sit as a result of the scandal in pre-trial detention. Another Central figure in Mozambique's Ex-Minister of Finance, Manuel Chang. His immunity has been lifted by the Parliament. Chang currently sits in South Africa and in custody. Next week should be a decision on his extradition. Both Mozambique and the USA want to bring him before the court.
With the loans, among other things, a national fishing fleet should be built. A company by the name of Privinvest should provide coast guard boats for the Navy and a shipyard for their maintenance build. Behind Privinvest the Lebanese businessman Jean Boustani. Investigators accuse him of bribes, and to have paid, in order to secure orders.
Old Brothers In Arms
According to research by ExxAfrica Privinvest should be in Angola active. By Simportex, a government company owned by the defence Ministry to Angola have a contract in the amount of 495 million euros, with Privinvest completed. The defense Minister was at the time, João Lourenço. Also in this Treaty was the purchase of patrol boats and various coastal protection measures. ExxAfrica writes that the contract language and content in Mozambique is similar. Lourenço should previously visited the project in the neighboring country of Mozambique and in contact with Jean Boustani already been.
ExxAfrica relies in his investigations on high-ranking sources in Mozambique and Angola, but not named. The Angolan constitutional lawyer Albano Pedro considers it possible that Lourenço is entangled in the case. "Because he was the Minister of defense and two countries, the combines a political partnership, and whose political interests lie very close to each other, I have no doubt that here is an Advantage granted has been planned," says Pedro of the DW.
Opposition calls for investigation
Angola's Opposition calls for investigation against the head of state. "We will follow this case with great interest," tell Alcides Sakala, spokesman for the main opposition party, UNITA, of the DW. He believe that there is enough Material for the public Prosecutor to take steps.
Also, observers in Mozambique, to keep the Angola Connection is possible. Both countries have traditionally close relations: they were formerly Portuguese colonies. After the independence-oriented liberation movements came with the MPLA and FRELIMO a Marxist to Power. Both will still govern today.
"MPLA and FRELIMO used to fight against a common enemy, colonialism, and a group of friends, have similar interests," says the Mozambican Analyst Severino Ngoenha to the DW. "The result is that groups that have fought for the freedom can also turn into Mafia groups."
Tags#Corruption scandal: From Mozambique to Angola, #ExxAfrica, #Jean Boustani, #João Lourenço, #Manuel Chang, #Privinvest, #Simportex
By LUSA|Friends of Angola Friends of Angola (FoA), a non-governmental organization (NGO), has urged the…
Tags: #World Bank in Angola, Angola, Friends of Angola


Bait and switch sales tactics?
Shopclass on Demand is a webiste that contains a number of woodowrking videos. I signed up in March during a promotion that promised 1/2 price access for life. That is I paid $25 for six months access and would be allowed to renew for the same price for life. Seemed like a good deal at the time.
I was initially happy with the deal. They had seeded the site with a number of good videos that they typically sell as DVDs for $25 or so. Since then they have added 2-3 more videos each week. However, the quality of the added videos has not matched the initial set of videos. With the exception of an ongoing Chris Schwarz series on handtools the videos have not been impressive. For the most part no better than what one can find for free at numerous sites on the web (The Wood Whisper, Wood Working for Mere Mortals, etc.). Rather dissapointing but I was still happy with the deal; after all it was only $25 for 6 months and they would never raise the price; I was locked in.
Recently Popular Woodworking picked up the rights to the Woodright's Shop videos. They sent me an e-mail promotion recently stating that they would be adding the Woodright's Shop to Shop Class on Demand. I was extsatic. Imagine all of Roy's shows available for viewing on demand.
This week the other shoe dropped. I received an e-mail that the Woodright's Shop videos would be on a new premium channel of Shop Class on Demand. If I want to view the Woodright's Shop will cost an additional $60 per 6 months – more than twice what I was paying. So much for my guaranteed 1/2 price for life.
In my opinion Popular Woodworking is engaging in despicable business practices; a classic bait and switch tactic. I won't be renewing my subscrition.
Sounds like business as usual. Anything to get your dollars from your wallet to theirs. I try not to fall for that stuff, but I am human. I guess you can chalk this up to a lesson learned.
I think magazine subscriptions are in the toilet so they are trying to make money wherever they can.
Ever look at the old woodworking magazines. I mean like 20+ years old. They have alot of content in them. Lots of projects, jigs, stories, interviews etc.. Now look at todays and all you see is ads, Ads, ADS! You pay $5.00 an issue to see about two or three projects, a couple of tips and tricks and thats it.
Issues like what you describe is why I don't participate with these companies. To much about getting our money and not enough in giving good high quality content.
I'm in the same boat as you, and I have to say, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that felt the same way you do.
I've been in touch with the powers that be at PWW regarding both the Roy issue and the content issue. They have been very receptive to feedback, and extended offers to try to level things out a bit. Unfortunately, the offers that we're extended to me are still out of my price range given the fact that I'm heading out for a major cross country move tomorrow. Maybe for someone else, the offer would work, but for me, right now, I have no choice but to stay with what I've got, or cancel the service all together.
I truly believe the guys and gals at PWW are stand up people. They want to put out a good product, and they want to produce content that people want. My only real issue with the recent exchanges that i've had with PWW were more on the content side than pricing.
Anyone that is currently signed up for ShopClass on Demand will know that in recent weeks, there have been video clips released on various turning topics with Steve Shanesy. My issue with these clips was two fold. First, the most recent clips is nothing more than a 7 min. infomercial for the Wolverine Jig, and second, the clips that are being released as "new" content are the first three chapters from a full DVD that was already availible on the site for download. It's as if they thought they could re-release the same content and no one would notice! The OP's comment about the new releases not being up to par with what was originally on the site when we signed up were right on the money.
Anyway, I don't think PWW did a bait and switch. I think they got caught off guard with the whole Roy thing. Everyone got so excited about being able to bring the Roy content to the masses, that no one thought about the people that were under the impression that they were making a long term commitment just a few months earlier.
This whole experience hasn't soured me on PWW, but maybe Shop Class isn't for me. There are just too many good bloggers out there doing free stuff or good subscription stuff to waste money on waiting every two weeks just to get content that was already availible.
I found myself in the same situation, fully agree with you.
I have canceled all but two of my woodworking magazines for the reasons that americanwoodworker above described. Most of the magazines are concentrated on advertising and tool revues. The content of most of them are repeated year after year. The same old content, the same old stories on why and how to do this and that task. SawStop articles are beaten to death in all of them. The two magazines that I elected to keep contain no advertising. It just does not make sense to me to pay $35.00 dollars per year for a magazine that is plump full of advertising.
My sister bought me a years subscription to PWW for Christmas and I like it so far. They have some good projects but I definitely understand where you're coming from, they have a fair amount of ads.
OldTimer, if you don't mind sharing, which magazines are you subscribed to that have no ads? Curious and looking at maybe asking for more subscriptions for birthday, etc.
Woodsmith & Shop Smith. They are geared more for the beginner but they have some good Ideas.
Well I know for a fact that it is a communist plot to get your money. 60 bucks to watch videos that have already been paid for by pbs underwriters…It takes one computer tech to keep up the servers and maybe a staff of 1 or 2 to program the content and keep the web site alive, for 50 buck a year someone is rolling in the dough…Almost sounds like a government program. Save your money and watch Stumpy Nubbs!!!
Bob, not even close. Do you have any idea what high availability infrastructure hosting costs? In order to let multiple people view content at the same time with the same performance, you need some beefy gear in a data center with some pretty beefy gear (redundant electricity from separate grids, back-up generators that can run for days, fully redundant access and core layer networks if you are doing it right). That does not count bandwidth. A FULL DS3 costs about 10k per month from a tier I or tier II provider.. A website or web service with a lot of streaming traffic may require multiple.
I guess I should have been more explicit. When I signed up I was promised that the price would never change and all future content would be included. That was true until recently; they usually add a couple of videos each week. With the wodright's shop they created a new 'special' channel and asked for $60 more for a six month subscription. Hence, I consider it bait (the promise that any new content would be included) and switch (putting new content in a new special channel).
Also, I agree with you that there is considerable expense involved in setting up the infrastructure for delivering video content. However, they had already setup the infrastucture for the previous videos. Hence, other than possibly needing more bandwith, they had no additional infrastrucure expenses to add the woodright's shop.
If you were promised all future content included in that price, I agree with you. I'm sure they found a way around it by claiming it's some sort of premium service and non-premium members will still get additional content, however that is sticking way to close to the letter of the law and shying away from the spirit of it. I choose not to continue or even begin to to business with such companies.
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At £50m could the final cost of re-opening the Wisbech to March rail line prove to be a bridge too far?
First Tracks towards Bramley Line Re-opening - Credit: Archant
The cost of providing Wisbech with a rail link could top £50m says a new report.
Bramley Line between March and Coldham. - Credit: Archant
Cambridgeshire County Council revealed that could be the final bill if a rail bridge over the A47 is included.
Even if a station was provided south of the A47 the total cost could still be in excess of £30m.
The figures were revealed on the day MP Steve Barclay hosted a rail 'summit' at the House of Commons to consider re-opening of the rail line with March.
The county council says precise details of the capital costs involved are still being finalised by their consultants Atkins.
The council commissioned the study to consider capital costs following a 2012 report by Atkins which concluded that the case for a light rail service between Wisbech and March "looks promising, compared to conventional rail subject to the capital costs being affordable".
However the council said the "initial central cost estimates potential costs for upgrading the line plus a station in Wisbech at £37m and the cost of an A47 bridge of £15.6m.
"Costs for upgrading the line with a station south of the A47 are estimated at £31m. "These are early estimates with high levels of uncertainty at this stage."
Further more detailed work would be needed to firm up estimates, said the spokesman.
"The study is currently in final draft form for checking and we will look to publish this as soon as we can, hopefully within the week."
The council said it had also commissioned a "wider economic benefits" study to include how investment could help address key challenges and aspirations for the Wisbech area.
The spokesman said: "Initial findings are looking quite promising in terms of how improved accessibility could help with developing the potential for the area and the local economy longer term. Our aim is to finalise this study by the end of March and consider the results and case together."


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Remembering Why Hayek Mattered
Keith Whittington
There's nothing like reading Rex Tugwell to remind you why Friedrich Hayek won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Rexford Guy Tugwell was an incredibly important figure in the New Deal era. A Columbia University agriculture economist, Tugwell was comfortably interdisciplinary and at home as a public intellectual. He was a prominent member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's informal "brain trust" of advisors and became the chief architect of the Agriculture Adjustment Administration (which managed all of America's agricultural production in accord with federal quotas) and the Resettlement Administration (which relocated unemployed rural workers to newly constructed suburban towns), both of which were struck down by the federal courts. He spent the postwar years lobbying for the creation of a world government and the replacement for the U.S. Constitution with a more up-to-date plan and writing memoirs (to which the Columbia faculty awarded the prestigious Bancroft Prize).
And Tugwell was very much a man of his time. Like many others in the 1930s, he looked at the developments of the previous few decades and saw the singularity approaching. For current technologists, the singularity will arrive with artificial intelligence and nanotechnology, transforming society and humans themselves in a world beyond scarcity. For the technocrats of the first decades of the twentieth century, the world was being transformed by corporations, mechanization, and scientific management. Frederick Taylor's time management, Tugwell was convinced, laid the basis for profound increases in economic efficiency. Mechanization had lowered the time and cost of producing goods to a point where the only real economic problem was how to manage the surplus. Massive corporations had detached the profit motive from economic activity. Thorstein Veblen had concluded that the only work left for the "captains of industry" was the artificial manipulation of supply and demand; the engineers and technicians, by contrast, cared only about producing needed goods in an efficient manner. Businessmen worried about price and profit. The actual workers, guided by the technicians, cared only about serving the needs of the public.
Tugwell drew what he thought was the obvious conclusion – the Soviet Union was on the right track. The surprise was not that the Soviet system worked without prices and competition. The surprise was that the "anachronistic" system of decentralized competition and profitmaking "could operate at all" at this late stage of human development. Most liberals, he thought, could now see the promise held by "the institutions of the new Russia of the Soviets," but few in 1932 yet appreciated what was required. "If we are to plan," the nation would need "fundamental changes of attitude, new disciplines, revised legal structures, [and] unaccustomed limitations on activity." It would mean the literal "abolition of 'business.'"
As a practical matter, the corporations were already run by planners, who insured that rubber found its way to the tire plants which in turn fed the automobile assembly lines which sent finished cars out into the countryside. It was but a short, but significant, step to displace the stockholders, the financiers and entrepreneurs – in sum, the irrational "speculators" and "adventurers" – and to knit all the corporate planners together into a national government bureaucracy. Businessmen "have only a rudimentary conception of industry as a social function"; their spirit was one of "vast gambling operations." The "disciplined aspects of production" had nothing to do with businessmen. That was properly the realm of civil servants "devoted to disinterested thinking" and "a planned public interest." Rather than emerging and competing willy-nilly, new industries "will have to be foreseen, to be argued for, to seem probably desirable features of the whole economy before they can be entered upon."
The "future is becoming visible in Russia," but the "vested interests" were getting in the way. Tugwell could see how things would play out, but we should not expect the necessary changes to be adopted "all at once." "Little by little, however, we may be driven the whole length of this road." The destination: "Civilized industry" and a "new world."
It was this vision – the vision that informed the First New Deal of FDR's initial term of office – that made Hayek so crucial. For a popular audience, Hayek pointed out that Tugwell's road led to serfdom, not civilization. For a more specialized audience, Hayek demonstrated that the price system was crucial to the efficient production and distribution of goods. When the bloom was still on the Soviet rose, economic crisis seemed to call into question "the ancient paradox of business – conflict to produce order," and the presidential brain trust was convinced that the prices and profits should be replaced by bureaucratic planning, cogent analysis was desperately need to explain why market economies (what Tugwell dismissed as "laissez faire") were valuable and how spontaneous order was possible. Hayek was not alone in responding to figures like Tugwell, but reading Tugwell and Hayek together is a useful reminder of how smart people can head off in the wrong direction and how the evident virtues of technicians can be misconstrued. And why Hayek was not just a propagandist for the rich.
Rexford Tugwell and others drew what they thought was the obvious conclusion the Soviet Union was on the right track – and Hayek fought back.
President Obama's Decision to Sign and Not Enforce
Keith E. Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University and is the author of Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review (Kansas, 1999) and Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History (Princeton, 2007). He is the co-author (with Howard Gillman and Mark Graber) of American Constitutionalism (Oxford, 2013).
Crusading Against Collectivism: A Lost Memoir by Herbert Hoover is Published
George H. Nash
Federalism, Congressionalism, and an Appeal For a Renewed Constitutional Morality
Gordon Lloyd
Getting Over the New Deal with Janus
The real lesson of Janus is that the Court is no longer infatuated with the National Labor Relations Act and its doctrinal baggage.


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Iowa State trying to complete worst to first in Big 12 North
Wednesday, November 24th 2004, 6:51 am
DALLAS (AP) _ What an incredible turnaround for Iowa State.
Going into their season finale last year, the Cyclones had lost nine straight games. After losing at Baylor five weeks ago, they had 13 straight Big 12 losses.
The Cyclones (6-4, 4-3 Big 12) haven't lost since and can cap their worst-to-first rally in the Big 12 North this weekend with their first division title.
Iowa State wins the title outright by winning its season finale Saturday against Missouri (4-6, 2-5), a preseason favorite that has lost five straight games. The Cyclones can do no worse than tie for the division, and only Colorado could knock them out of the Big 12 championship game.
If Colorado (6-4, 3-4) beats Nebraska (5-5, 3-4) on Friday, the Cyclones have to win their finale to advance to play the South champ, No. 2 Oklahoma (11-0, 8-0) in Kansas City on Dec. 4. The Buffaloes have the tiebreaker over Iowa State because of a 19-14 win last month.
``Whatever happens on Friday, our preparation and everything will go into the game with Missouri,'' Iowa State coach McCarney said. ``The bottom line is if we can win one more football game in the regular season, we're Big 12 North champs.''
Iowa State ensured at least a share of the North Division with a big comeback to beat Kansas State last week. The Cyclones trailed 23-9 in the fourth quarter before scoring four touchdowns, three in the last 3 1/2 minutes, to win 37-23.
There are two other Big 12 games this weekend, with the four teams involved already certain of bowl appearances.
No. 22 Texas A&M (7-3, 5-2) plays at No. 6 Texas (9-1, 6-1) on Friday in the continuation of a 110-game rivalry. No. 23 Oklahoma State (7-3, 4-3) is at Texas Tech (6-4, 4-3).
Baylor (3-8, 1-7), Kansas (4-7, 2-6) and Kansas State (4-7, 2-6) have all completed their seasons. None qualified for bowls, meaning K-State won't play in a postseason game for the first time since 1992.
Nebraska has to win to extend its streak of 35 straight bowl appearances. But the Cornhuskers can't go to the Big 12 championship game even if they tie Iowa State in the North standings. They lost 34-27 to the Cyclones.
``It's been a trying season,'' first-year Nebraska coach Bill Callahan said. ``We put ourselves in this situation. We have an opportunity to get out of it.''
Even if the Cornhuskers finish with their 43rd consecutive winning regular season, they will do it with their fewest victories since 1968. But they can become the Big 12's eighth bowl-eligible team.
The Big 12 is guaranteed eight bowl spots. So there is a spot for every team with six wins, even if there is a 6-6 team after the championship game.
Texas, which has won five straight games since its lone loss to Oklahoma, is trying to stay in position for a berth in one of the four Bowl Championship Series games. The Longhorns are fifth in the latest BCS standings.
Texas has won four straight against the Aggies in the third-most-played game in college football. Only Minnesota-Wisconsin and Kansas-Missouri have played more.
Texas A&M has rebounded from a 4-8 record last season, coach Dennis Franchione's first.
Oklahoma State and Texas Tech provide a game of contrasting styles. The Cowboys are the league's second-best rushing team (252 yards per game), while the Red Raiders are again the national passing leader with 400 yards per game.
News On 6 DALLAS (AP) _ What an incredible turnaround for Iowa State.
Going into their season finale last year, the Cyclones had lost nine straight games. After losing at Baylor five weeks ago, they had


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Art Teacher Resigns
After His Arrest
ENFIELD -- An elementary school art teacher has resigned amid accusations that he and his younger brother sexually abused a Litchfield County girl over several years.
Nathan Orie, 25, resigned Monday from his teaching job at Parkman and Alcorn elementary schools. Superintendent John Gallacher said there have been no problems with Orie since he started teaching in the district a year ago, at a roughly $36,000 annual salary.
Orie, of 96 Main St., Windsor, and his brother, Brennan Orie, 22, of 44 Lakeshore Drive, Harwinton, turned themselves in last week, after state police obtained an arrest warrant charging them with first-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor. The state Department of Children and Families tipped off police in early January that a girl had been abused. During their monthlong investigation, police were able to verify the girl's complaint, said Sgt. J. Paul Vance, a state police spokesman.
Nathan Orie has been released on $5,000 bail. His brother, Brennan, is out on $10,000 bail. They are scheduled to reappear Tuesday in Litchfield Superior Court.
Girl Allegedly Offered
Arresting Officers Bribe
EAST HARTFORD -- A high school girl tried to buy her way out of an arrest Tuesday, but instead bought herself a bribery charge, police said.
Jacqueline Rios, 16, appeared in Manchester Superior Court Wednesday to answer that charge and the original charges of sixth-degree larceny and credit-card theft. Police accused Rios and Araceli Avila, also 16, of stealing a teacher's purse from a staff room at East Hartford High School.
The teacher's cellphone and credit cards were recovered, police said, but $140 in cash was still missing.
Rios and Avila were arrested on the larceny and credit-card theft charges, but Rios had other ideas, police said.
"Apparently, the student said to the officer that she was going to provide him with money to make the matter go away," said Officer Hugo Benettieri, the department spokesman. Benettieri said Rios was willing to give the two arresting officers $50 each.
Neither Rios nor Avila raised $500 bail, so they spent the night in jail before appearing in court. Rios was released on a promise to appear in court Feb. 19. Avila was ordered held, with bail set at $10,000, until a Friday court date. It could not be immediately determined why Avila received a higher bail.
U.S. Loan, Grant To Aid
Town Sewer Extension
COVENTRY -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a $2.19 million loan and a $1.81 million grant to help pay for extending the municipal sewer system around Coventry Lake.
The funding will go toward the first two phases of the project.
The town, which began construction this week, is still waiting for word on whether it will get a reimbursement for part of the project from the state Department of Environmental Protection's Clean Water Fund, Town Manager John Elsesser said.
Once complete, the full $11.52 million project will bring sewers to 446 households along the lake, where a combination of septic systems, marshy soil and small lots has long threatened lake water and drinking water.
The first phase of the project will bring sewers to Northeast Shores, and the second phase, expected to start this summer, will extend sewers from the existing system on Maple Drive to the first part of the Gerald Park Association, Elsesser said.
School Board To Offer
Preview Of Budget Plan
HEBRON -- The Hebron Board of Education will hold a special meeting Saturday to present an overview of the proposed 2003-04 budget.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m., at the Hebron Elementary School media center, 92 Church St. Residents will have an opportunity to make comments and suggestions about the $8.63 million budget proposal, which calls for a 9.32 percent increase in spending.
For information or to request an interpreter or related services, call 860-228-9417.
GOP Council Members
To Hold Office Hours
EAST HARTFORD -- Republican town council members will hold office hours Feb. 15 and March 15, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., at the Raymond Library to meet town residents and merchants who would like to share their concerns, discuss issues or offer suggestions.
The Republican members of the council are Minority Leader George Franek Jr., Don Pitkin and Stephanie L. Labonowski.
Safety Series Focuses
On Senior Citizens
MANCHESTER -- Senior citizens are invited to attend a 10-week crime prevention and safety series to be presented by the Manchester police at the senior center.
Every other Wednesday, from Feb. 19 to June 25, sessions will be held from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Seniors may attend any or all of the sessions.
Topics will include: personal safety, the Are You OK program, the Vial of Life medical emergency program, traffic safety, auto theft prevention, domestic violence, victim's services, identity theft, Internet safety, telemarketing fraud, the 911 center and home security.
To register, call Barbara Quigley at the Manchester Health Department, 647-3173. The registration deadline is Feb. 14.
To Meet Each Month
MANCHESTER -- The Family to Family Support Group will meet on the third Thursday of the month, at 7 p.m., at the Center Congregational Church at 11 Center St., Manchester.
The support group is for friends or families members of people who have been diagnosed with mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or depression.
The next meeting is Feb. 20. The group is sponsored by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Connecticut. For more information, call Nancy Calerbank at 860-633-0622.
Woman, Injured
In Crash, Faces Charges
MANCHESTER -- A local woman who was seriously injured in a one-car accident last month has been charged with driving while intoxicated, police said.
Nancy Long, 37, of Tudor Lane, also was charged with making an improper turn and failing to wear a seat belt, police said. She turned herself in at the police station Tuesday, and her next court date is scheduled for March 3.
Long suffered serious head and facial injuries in a Jan. 11 accident at Center and Olcott streets, police said.
According to a police report, she was driving west on Center Street at about 6 p.m. when she tried to turn left onto Olcott Street. Her car hit a snow bank, a utility pole and signs. No one else was in the car at the time.
Her blood-alcohol level was 0.309 percent, the report states, and her blood also had opiates -- an ingredient of heroin.
A Cappella Group
At Trinity Chapel
Britain's Hilliard Ensemble, a male a cappella chamber group that has been performing medieval and renaissance music since 1974, will hold a performance at the Trinity College Chapel on Feb. 21 at 8 p.m.
The quartet will present early music by 15th century composers Guillaume Dufay and Josquin Desprez. They will also perform pieces from the 12th century manuscript from the great abbey of St. Martial in Limoges, France.
The performance is presented by the Austin Arts Center at Trinity College. Tickets are $10 general, $8 seniors and non-Trinity students, and free with Trinity ID. For more information, call the Austin Arts Center box office at 860-297-2199.
Nominees Sought For
Food Security Awards
The Hartford Advisory Commission on Food Policy is accepting nominees for the 2003 Community Food Security Awards, which will be given to three recipients who will be honored by Mayor Eddie A. Perez at an award ceremony on March 20, at the Hartford Club.
The award recognizes individuals or organizations that demonstrate successful strategies that improve access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food. Nominees might include anti-hunger advocates, community organizers, educators, planners, nutrition and health providers, food retailers and farmers.
Nomination forms can be requested from Jennifer Martin at Hartford Food System at 860-296-9325, and the deadline is Feb. 21.


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