How Far from the Orlando Airport is Disney, Universal Studios and Sea World
Written on December 23, 2009 – 2:26 am | by xingxin8p6
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December 22, 2009 (LPAC)—In the Dec. 19 New York Times, Thomas Friedman argued that what failed at Copenhagen was the entire “Earth Day” strategy, that of a rumored future “doomsday” as a stick to force policy changes. What needs to replace it, he says, is the “Earth Race” (carrot) strategy, where environmentalist goals are tied to market-driven strategies, all pivoted on the Senate passing a Cap-and-Trade bill.
“The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature,” says Friedman, “is Father Greed: the Market. Only a market, shaped by regulations and incentives to stimulate massive innovation in clean, emission-free power sources can make a dent in global warming…. Maybe the best thing President Obama could have done here in Copenhagen was to make clear that America intends to win that race. All he needed to do in his speech was to look China's prime minister in the eye and say: 'I am going to get our Senate to pass an energy bill with a price on carbon so we can clean your clock in clean-tech. This is my moon shot. Game on.'”
Lyndon LaRouche noted that Friedman's comments are “nothing but desperation. They have nothing up their sleeves, but assholes.”
The “assholes” in this case, are the theorists behind the entire “green job” hoax. The operative theory is that the “human vs nature” argument has failed, to be replaced with market ideology: a “win-win” situation of making green (dollars) from going green.
(For the impatient: skip directly to the `attribute_mapper` gem.)
In the past couple months, I’ve worked on two different projects that needed something like an enumeration, but in their data model. Given the ActiveRecord hammer, they opted to represent the enumeration as a has-many relationship and use a separate table to represent the actual enumeration values.
To a man with an ORM, everything looks like a model
So, their code ended up looking something like this:
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :status
end
class Status < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :tickets
end
From there, the statuses table is populated either from a migration or by seeding the data. Either way, they end up with something like this:
# Supposing statuses has a name column
Status.create(:name => 'draft')
Status.create(:name => 'reviewed')
Status.create(:name => 'published')
With that in place, they can fiddle with posts as such:
post.status = Status.find_by_name('draft')
post.status.name # => 'draft'
It gets the job done, sure. But, it adds a join to a lot of queries and abuses ActiveRecord. Luckily…
I happen to know of a better way
If what you really need is an enumeration, there’s no reason to throw in another table. You can just store the enumeration values as integers in a database column and then map those back to human-friendly labels in your code.
Before I started at FiveRuns, Marcel Molina and Bruce Williams wrote a plugin that does just this. I extracted it and here we are. It’s called attribute_mapper, and it goes a little something like this:
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
include AttributeMapper
map_attribute :status, :to => {
:draft => 1,
:reviewed => 2,
:published => 3
}
end
See, no extra table, no need to populate the table, and no extra model. Now, fiddling with posts goes like this:
post.status = :draft
post.status # => :draft
post.read_attribute(:status) # => 1
Further, we can poke the enumeration directly like so:
Post.statuses # => { :draft => 1, :reviewed => 2, :published => 3 }
Post.statuses.keys # => [:draft, :reviewed, :published]
Pretty handy, friend.
Hey, that looks familiar
If you’ve read Advanced Rails Recipes, you may find this eerily familiar. In fact, recipe #61, “Look Up Constant Data Efficiently” tackles a similar problem. And in fact, I’m migrating a project away from that approach. Well, partially. I’m leaving two models in place where the “constant” model, Status in this case, has actual code on it; that sorta makes sense, though I’m hoping to find a better way.
But, if you don’t need real behavior on your constants, attribute_mapper
is ready to make your domain model slightly simpler.
One of the most asked questions I get is how far from the Orlando International airport is Walt Disney World, Sea World and all the other attractions. So I'll give you a quick run-down in this article on the distance in miles from the Orlando airport to Disney and many other attractions and areas around the central Florida area.
The Orlando airport connects to major interstates and toll roads that gets you right to all the major attractions. You can pretty much stay on only one or two roads all the way to where your going. Reading all the road signs can be tricky, but for the most part it's pretty simple to drive from the Orlando airport to where your going.
Now for the number one question I'm asked: how far is Walt Disney World from the Orlando airport? Disney itself is 44 square miles big, so it depends on what part your going to! But in general Disney World is about 22 miles from the Orlando airport.
Walt Disney World is around 15 miles from Universal Studios, and about 10 miles from Sea World. It's about 20 miles from downtown Orlando. How much time it takes depends on the traffic, but normally you can get from the airport to Disney in around 15 to 20 minutes.
Sea World is about 17 miles from the Orlando airport, the closest of the three major parks. How far is Universal Studios from the Orlando airport? That is around 19 miles. You use different roads to get to some of the parks, which is why it sounds like all three are only a few miles from each other. But all are actually close together, only 10 minutes or so apart.
Downtown Orlando, the heart of the city, is about 15 miles from the Orlando airport. The main downtown district is not that big. Orlando itself is sprawled out for miles! There are not that many high-rises, most buildings downtown are only 10 stories or so high.
Let's see how far other areas of central Florida are from the Orlando airport. It's 54 miles from the Orlando airport to Daytona Beach if you take I-4, north-east. Cocoa Beach, a popular east coast beach, is 46 miles east of the Orlando airport. Kennedy space center, where the shuttle launch is, is 54 miles east of the Orlando airport.
Going the other way, Tampa is about 85 miles west of the Orlando airport. You can take I-4 all the way to Tampa. All the normal tourist strips that have all the hotels, gift shops and smaller attractions are within a few miles of all the major theme parks. Of course where your hotel is located will determine how far away you are from the theme parks.
You can get a hotel right on Disney or Universal Property, or be as far as 30 miles away from them! So it's important to know ahead of time what parks and attractions your going to visit, and then pick a hotel or vacation home close to those areas. I hope this helps you out a bit on how far away most theme parks and attractions are from the Orlando airport!
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