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Applying Conventions in ASP.NET MVC
I recently came across a interesting post from @ntcoding demonstrating the flexibility and power of FubuMvc's HTML conventions. The post demonstrates the benefits of applying custom conventions, and provides examples such as displaying a dropdown list of Enums whenever a view model has a Enum property.
Applying these types of conventions really help to DRY-up your code base, and typically this is something that FubuMVC shines at. That said, if you're stuck using ASP.NET MVC, not all is lost; There are some handy extension points you can use to keep things DRY.
Keeping the Context
Let's keep Nick's example view model, as it works for a nice comparison for the different approaches. As a reminder, we're using a model called CreateBookInputModel that looks like this:
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public class CreateBookInputModel
public String Title { get; set; }
public String Genre { get; set; }
public String Description_BigText { get; set; }
public BookStatus BookStatus { get; set; }
public IList<string> Authors { get; set; }
public HttpPostedFileBase Image { get; set; }
The great thing about Nick's example is that it provides a nice variety of opportunities to demonstrate the application of conventions.
Editor Templates
The first variation I'm going to make from Nick's Fubu MVC example is that rather than using Spark and listing out a label and input for each property on the model, I'll call into ASP.NET MVC's Editor Template Html helper to build up a view:
This helper will attempt to resolve a view for the model object. In this case, since there is no custom view for the CreateBookInputModel, ASP.NET MVC will use the default editor template for Object. Brad Wilson from the MVC team does a great job of summarizing the behavior and responsibilities of the default object template:
The Object template's primary responsibility is displaying all the properties of a complex object, along with labels for each property. However, it's also responsible for showing the value of the model's NullDisplayText if it's null, and it's also responsible for ensuring that you only show one level of properties (also known as a "shallow dive" of an object).
Using the default ASP.NET MVC editor template this helper will render out an input for each of the properties on our model, wrapped in some additional markup to provide hooks for styling with css.
To keep the markup compariable, and to demostrate the first ASP.NET MVC extension point, let's take a look at providing our own template:
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@if (Model == null) {
} else if (ViewData.TemplateInfo.TemplateDepth > 1) {
} else {
foreach (var prop in ViewData.ModelMetadata.Properties.Where(pm => pm.ShowForDisplay && !ViewData.TemplateInfo.Visited(pm))) {
if (prop.HideSurroundingHtml) {
} else {
The only deviation from the default template here, is that I've replace the "wrapper" markup to be a paragraph tag.
String Template
Much like Fubu MVC, simple strings work straight out of the box, providing a simple input box for the user. You can customize this default freely by dropping your own Editor Template for string into your views. The default string template looks something like this:
@Html.TextBox("", ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue)
Custom Conventions
The next interesting case Nick uses, is to override the default String convention to instead display a textarea for any property with a "_BigText" suffix. It is fairly typical in ASP.NET MVC so see a UIHintAttribute applied to each property that requires a custom view to be rendered:
public String Description_BigText { get; set; }
By applying this attribute, ASP.NET MVC will try to find a view called "BigText" to use for this property, before falling back to the default String template:
@Html.TextArea("", ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue.ToString(),
0, 0, new { @class = "text-box multi-line" })
This approach works just fine, however we now need to litter our model with this attribute for every property with a "_BigText" suffix – an approach that is a little too error prone for my liking. Lets see if we can do better.
Using the UIHintAttribute is one way we can provide the ASP.NET MVC additional metadata to guide it to finding a view to render the view model property. ASP.NET MVC internally uses the DataAnnotationsModelMetadataProvider (by default) to provide all the information about a view model, including the metadata from the attributes that a view model may be decorated with. Although attributes provide a easy entry point for providing metadata, it's easy enough to provide an overridden implementation to also include additional metadata, based on some custom convention:
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public class CustomModelMetadataProvider : DataAnnotationsModelMetadataProvider
protected override ModelMetadata CreateMetadata(IEnumerable<Attribute> attributes, Type containerType, Func<object> modelAccessor, Type modelType, string propertyName)
var attributeList = attributes.ToList();
var modelMetadata = base.CreateMetadata(attributeList, containerType, modelAccessor, modelType, propertyName);
ProvideTextAreaForBigText(modelMetadata, propertyName);
return modelMetadata;
private void ProvideTextAreaForBigText(ModelMetadata modelMetadata, string propertyName)
if (propertyName != null && propertyName.EndsWith("_BigText") && string.IsNullOrEmpty(modelMetadata.TemplateHint))
modelMetadata.TemplateHint = "BigText";
By inheriting DataAnnotationsModelMetadataProvider, we continue to support custom attributes to add metadata about our model (such as UIHint), but I've added an addition step here to provide a "TemplateHint" to any property with the "_BigText" suffix. The TemplateHint tells ASP.NET MVC to try to find a view called "BigText" to use to render this property. If the view is not found, it will simply falling back to the default template for this object (String). The last requirement to use this metadata provider is that it will need to be either registered in ASP.NET MVC's DependecyResolver, or in the static registration point ModelMetadataProviders.Current on application startup.
Getting smart with Enums
One particularly nice part in Nick's post, is where he provides a convention such that if a view model property is an Enum, a select input will be provided with each of the Enum items.
Doing this with ASP.NET MVC isn't too hard either mind you. Again, we can fall back on the ModelMetadataProvider extension point to apply this convention:
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private void ProvideSelectListForEnums(ModelMetadata modelMetadata, Type modelType)
if (modelType != null && modelType.IsEnum && string.IsNullOrEmpty(modelMetadata.TemplateHint))
modelMetadata.TemplateHint = "SelectList";
var values = Enum.GetValues(modelType).Cast<object>();
var items = values.Select(entry => new SelectListItem { Text = Enum.GetName(modelType, entry), Value = entry.ToString() });
var selectList = new SelectList(items, "Value", "Text", modelMetadata.Model);
modelMetadata.AdditionalValues.Add("SelectList", selectList);
This is slightly more involved that the previous convention, but let me walk you though it. First of all, we only want to apply the convention if the model property is an Enum. If it is, provide a "TemplateHint" to tell ASP.NET MVC to try to find an appropriate view for the select list – lets call this view "SelectList" so that it's discoverable by other developers. Next, retrieve the values for the select list, and use them to create SelectListItems. Finally, add the select list values as additional metadata for our model, so that it is available in the view.
Speaking of the view, it looks a little like this:
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var modelMetadata = ViewContext.ViewData.ModelMetadata;
var values = modelMetadata.AdditionalValues.ContainsKey("SelectList")
? modelMetadata.AdditionalValues["SelectList"] as IEnumerable<SelectListItem>
: Enumerable.Empty<SelectListItem>();
@Html.DropDownList("", values, "Choose..")
Let's wrap this up – Comparison and Final Thoughts
So we've pretty much covered off the building blocks necessary to apply a DRY-er, convention-driven approach to building MVC apps. But wait….what about file uploads and string collections – Nick provided these in his example! You're right – I didn't bother implementing these, mainly because they follow exactly the same pattern already laid out above. I'll leave these as an exercise for the reader (and am happy to take pull requests).
What I do find interesting is that following this approach in ASP.NET MVC, a few of Nicks concerns are addressed:
- What happens if the markup is complex and is not so easily created in code?
- What happens if need to apply specific classes?
- What about when I want to override conventions – what pitfalls await me?
As views can be used to specify the markup for our conventions, complex markup is not so much of an issue, as we have the full power of the MVC view engine at our disposal. Additionally, since the existing ASP.NET MVC extension points still apply, it is not too difficult to handle specific cases where the conventions should not apply. For example, we can override our convention for a given property by providing a UIHintAttribute – it will take precedence over the convention, and all is happy in the world.
I will mention however, that something much, much more favorable about using FubuMVC's html conventions is that it is easier to break out out conventions into standalone, pluggable parts.
This gets rather tricky in ASP.NET MVC since the ModelMetadataProvider is a designed to be a singly registered component. Of course, as Nick points out, you can always just use fubu mvc's html conventions in ASP.NET MVC 😉
Asynchronous MVC using the Task Parallel Library
I'm not going to go into any detail in this post as to why asynchronous actions may be beneficial to your application; other people have covered that in more detail than I'd care to go into. This post will however, try to show how implementing Async controllers can be made simpler, using the Task Parallel Library in .NET 4.0 and a little bit of MVC trickery.
Before I go too far, I'd like to point you to have a look at an introduction in using the TPL with MVC from Mike Hadlow. Mike's post shows how you can use the TPL to simplify the consumption of Asynchronous services, from an Asp.Net Mvc AsyncController.
In Mike's example, he ends up with the following AsyncController implementation:
public class HomeController : AsyncController
readonly UserService userService = new UserService();
public void IndexAsync()
userService.GetCurrentUser().ContinueWith(t1 =>
var user = t1.Result;
userService.SendUserAMessage(user, "Hi From the MVC TPL experiment").ContinueWith(t2 =>
AsyncManager.Parameters["user"] = user;
public ViewResult IndexCompleted(User user)
return View(user);
As you can see, we unfortunately have to abandon the succinctness of the TPL syntax, and revert back to the Asynchronous Programming Model pattern of having a start method with a completion callback.
Mike points out that it would be rather nice if instead, we could write a controller action that returns a Task result instead – our resultant action would be nice and simple:
[HttpGet] public Task<ViewResult> Index() { return from user in userService.GetCurrentUser() from _ in userService.SendUserAMessage(user, "Hi From the MVC TPL experiment") select View(user); }
Even though this will compile (when using the TPL extension extras library), unfortunately, this will not run, as the default controller action invoker for running async actions (AsyncControllerActionInvoker) does not know how to handle Tasks…
Asp.Net Mvc Futures
The asp.net mvc futures project currently includes some more flexibility in its support for async patterns. Rather than being limited to supporting the "Async –> Completed" action pairs, the futures project contains the following options:
The Async Pattern (BeginFoo/EndFoo)
The event pattern (Foo/FooCompleted)
The Delegate Pattern (returning a Func<> that represents a continuation).
The most interesting of these techniques (to this example) is the Delegate Pattern:
public Func<int> Foo(int id)
return () => id * 2;
Using this approach, a controller can specify a delegate to provide a completion callback. It's not too much of a leap to see the similarities with this, and the desired technique using Tasks.
So how does the Asp.Net Futures project add these additional features? Perhaps we can extend them to support TPL?
Hooking in to the Action Invoker
To support the additional async patterns using the futures project, a Controller must inherit the AsyncController from the futures assembly. This controller overrides a property from the base controller class in order to specify a new Action Invoker that can correctly identify actions that represent asynchronous methods. To identify these actions, the AsyncActionInvoker delegates to a AsyncActionMethodSelector that will reflect over the methods on a controller, and pick our asynchronous actions based on naming conventions, or the return type in the case of the delegate pattern. This seems like a good place to start looking to add our new feature.
Unfortunately for us, the AsyncActionMethodSelector does not delegate out to individual objects to identify and handle each type of asynchronous pattern, so supporting an additional pattern will involve some changes to this class. Following the Open/Closed principle could really have cleared up the design here…
Anyway, once we have extended to the AsyncActionMethodSelector to support our new pattern, we need to hook this back into the AsyncActionInvoker (which again, requires some code changes to this class – seriously, this code could've been much simpler if people followed SOLID principles!), and then we can use this new invoker from our Async Controller.
Using this new invoker, our controller can now support the use of Tasks for Asynchronous Actions!
As with other areas of the MVC framework, extending the framework to add new features like supporting Tasks to represent Asynchronous Controller Actions was a little bit more painful than it could have been, but in the end, it's worth it to clean up the the required code to support asynchronous controller actions.
To check out the implementation of all this, you can get the full sample source from GitHub:
Script Management in ASP.Net MVC
In all but the simplest of modern web applications, it's not uncommon to find that our application depends on many web assets such as CSS and JavaScript files. While it's generally good practice for maintainability to keep these files separated into small logical chunks, unfortunately practice has implications on the overall performance of our application when referencing these resources; an additional HTTP request will be made for each asset, in turn adding to the latency of the initial load of our application.
Whilst many developers are probably aware of various optimization techniques such as those proposed in the YSlow recommendations (like script combining, minification, caching, compression), implementing these techniques can be a bit of burden.
Further still, when we utilize the Master and Content page features of our view engine, we will often want to place core JavaScript (such as the JQuery library) and common component initialization in the Master Page, whilst the Content pages may have their own file sets and initialization scripts.
This set-up adds an additional complexity to managing our scripts; we need to ensure the scripts tags are all rendered first, regardless of where they are located in the page (Master Page/Content Page/User Control) or our application will start throwing JavaScript exceptions all over the place!
Help is at hand!
Several projects exist that attempt to address some, or all of the issues I've mentioned (page request optimization and asset management) – lets take a look at some of our options:
Telerik ScriptRegistrar
Probably one of the closest matches to our requirements, the Telerik ScriptRegistrar and its partner in crime the StylesheetRegistrar provide a simple mechanism to provide a range of optimizations to improve the performance of our applications. The ScriptRegistrar API is composed of a fluent interface allowing groups of scripts to be rendered at the bottom of our master page, whilst additional script dependencies and initialization can be registered in content pages. One small gotcha to look out for here is that partial views returned from Ajax requests will not have the scripts registered.
- Resource combination (served by a IHttpHandler)
- Grouping
- Compression
- Caching
- Support for Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
- Nice Fluent Interface for script registration and initialization
- A Commercial License is required if you are building closed-source commercial products for redistribution (GPLv2 license).
- Extra care is required for scripts registered in partial views rendered by Ajax calls (since these are not included by the ScriptRegistrar).
- Minification of your scripts is not provided (although some support for selecting between pre-minified scripts and un-minified scripts in debug mode is provided)
- Cache headers and ETags are not generated
Include Combiner
The Include Combiner project, which is included in the MvcContrib* solution as MvcContrib.IncludeHandling, tackles many of the aforementioned issues surrounding the optimization of asset management. It is not as complete as the Telerik implementation, and also suffers from the same complexity in registering scripts in partial views returned by ajax, however this tool is still worth a look for Asp.Net Mvc applications, especially for projects already consuming MvcContrib.
- Resource combination (served by a custom controller)
- Grouping
- Resources grouped by page usage (rather than explicit sets) – scripts shared across pages must be re-downloaded for each page.
- Compression
- Minifies scripts
- Generates cache headers and ETags
- Simple interface for including/outputting resources
- Included as part of MvcContrib
- No server side caching – content is fetched every request
- Treats JS and CSS separately, and therefore causes a minimum of 2 additional requests per page.
- Extra care is required for scripts registered in partial views rendered by Ajax calls (since these are not included by the ScriptRegistrar).
Possibly the most complete libraries in terms of features, Combres is a strong choice for managing assets in your application. Combres requires that you define named resources sets which can then be combined, minified, compressed and sent to the browser as a single request. Interestingly, combres has an interesting extensibility model allowing developers to provide additional features, such as applying .less rules and replacing relative urls with absolute urls in css files. On the downside, the configuration model for Combres is very XML heavy, and not as nice to consume as the fluent API provided by other libraries. Unfortunately, the underlying implementation seems to wrap around the XML configuration too, so extending the library for easier consumption (applying your own conventions etc) might be tricky, especially when considered in conjunction with the fact that there are NO unit tests included in the source code (available on CodePlex).
- Resource combination (served by a IHttpHandler and RouteHandler)
- Grouping (Resource sets)
- Compression (gzip or deflate depending on browser)
- Minifies scripts (YUI compressor, MS Ajax or Google Closure)
- Generates cache headers and ETags
- Server side caching
- Integrated with Asp.Net routing engine, and therefore also supports webforms development in addition to MVC
- Extensible filtering support
- XML heavy asset configuration model
- Requires resource configuration upfront – as far as I can tell, there isn't an easy way for a view component to quietly declare "I need this JS/CSS" and for it to be included if it isn't already there
Optimizing our web applications and conforming to good practices like caching, combining and compressing our resources needn't be a burden for developers. There are some great tools available to help us keep our applications nimble, whilst ensuring we aren't distracted from delivering our customers value with technical implementation concerns. I've listed our some of the tools I've come across that bring us closer to achieving this goal.
Is there anything I've missed? Do you have any tools you use to optimize asset management? If so, let me know so I can check them out too!
*MvcContrib is a project designed to add functionality to and ease the application of Microsofts Asp.Net Mvc framework and really useful for developers looking to develop and test UI elements on top of MS Asp.Net Mvc. Check it out here.
Upgrading a webforms project to an ASP.NET MVC application
In a newly created ASP.NET MVC application, Visual Studio is quite friendly to us, and provides us nice little menus for creating our controllers/views:
This menu does is not provided however, for any existing apps that we may want to migrate to using ASP.NET MVC.
How can we tell Visual Studio to treat this web app as an ASP.NET MVC app? I couldn't find an immediately obvious way to do this, and it took me more than a simple google search to figure this one out, so here's what to do:
- Unload the web project (right clicking on the project within Visual Studio –> Unload Project)
- Find the tag <ProjectTypeGuids>
- Add the guid {603c0e0b-db56-11dc-be95-000d561079b0};
- Reload the project
- The new menus should now be available! (you should probably now go ahead and add the Controllers and Views folders)
Hopefully this helps someone else too!
*disclaimer* This worked for me, but I place no guarantees that it will work for you too!! If your computer explodes, your cat passes away, or you end up getting a divorce, please don't blame me! *disclaimer*


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Native Report: Season 8
Thursdays at 8:30pm on PBS North
Starting January 3, 2013
This January, tune in for a new season of Native Report. Trekking our region and across the nation, host Stacey Thunder and co-host Tadd Johnson bring you the best stories from Indian Country.
Coming Up
January 3, 2013
Visit a small town art gallery to attend a one-man, one-time-only exhibit; attend the WEWIN honor luncheon; and hear an interview with Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Chairman Stanley Crooks.
January 10, 2013
Go underground and visit the American Indian Records Repository; visit a video shoot featuring celebrity Randolph Mantooth; and join a powwow at the Lincoln, Nebraska Indian Center.
January 17, 2013
See an historical exhibit and learn why treaties matter; visit the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indian's Arvid E. Miller Library/Museum; and take a closer look at climate change, specifically what's called the National Climate Assessment and how involvement by Native Nations is crucial.
January 24, 2013
Go backstage at an all-native music festival with the blues-rock band Indigenous; meet a World War II veteran from the Bois Forte Reservation; learn about "Article 31," a landmark piece of legislation affecting all of Wisconsin.
January 31, 2013
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Messing with the Man/Walkthrough
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Before the mission starts get the cops after you. Then, destroy any you see! The Chaos Bar will go up a lot faster if you actually do what Mitch said. Grab an Angel, and then destroy things! You will need a powerful weapon like an MP5.
Another very useful method to complete this mission is to put on the Cop uniform by going to the police station in Washington and heading into the locker room (the mission "Cop Land", which is part of the Vercetti Estate missions must be completed). Grab a helicopter from the Vercetti Estate's roof and fly over to Fort Baxter. Because you have the Cop uniform on, the soldiers there won't shoot at you. In one of the towers will be an M60 machine gun. Pick it up, save the game and head back and pick up another. Then start the mission. First, get a 3-star wanted level by using any weapon aside from the M60. Once the Police Maverick comes onto the scene, put every single bullet you have for the M60 into it, until the helicopter it blows up (even when it begins to fall from the sky, continue to shoot it). This will more than likely earn enough points to finish the mission, but if not, simply destroy a few more police cars or kill an officer or two to fill the bar.


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I was thinking the exact same thoughts when the Brady Quinn rumors surfaced.
My hypothesis is this:
With the crippling contracts of Sanchez and Santonio, there is no "big" or "impact" moves that can be made.
Absolutely the team can and i hope WILL draft well, but 2013 is a lame duck season because of Mark and Santonio. Those 2 contracts, at those 2 positions absolutely have the team crippled until 2014.
At the same time, the FO is not stupid. They realize a big chunk of the fan base is extremely frustrated with Mark Sanchez. This is where the Brady Quinn's/David Garrard's of the league come in. Of course the Jets were going to go that cheap route, they have no alternative this year.
FWIW, i think Garrard is a better option when healthy than Sanchez, so trust me, im breaking out the pom poms this season like the rest of you.
I dont see what is so crazy about it all, but again its just my hypothesis. Thats what the board if for, right?
I havent even read all the pages in the thread. WHat is the New Generation Jets fans approach on the signing?
Why draft a QB in the first three rounds? Because that's where the value is. So far only Geno Smith is getting a first round grade (doesn't mean other QB's wont go in the first), so getting a QB in the 2nd or 3rd round is getting the most value for that pick. Jets can draft a stud OLB or OL then go after a QB who can be brought along slowly, unless the kid lights it up ala Russell Wilson.
So long as Garrard remains healthy, Sanchez will never see another down. That is exactly what this team needs. The players will respect this move to the highest degree. The players have never liked or respected Mark Sanchez because he never earned anything he got.
Now? Garrard is going to come into camp and clean his clock. We are going to see how much of a failure our young QB has been.
This is also great from a fans perspective. Any knowledgeable fan knows the team will never win it all with David Garrard. But the rest of the fans now know that they have something to look forward to. After last season, the fans definitely needed something to look forward to or else they would have stopped going to games. The fans do not want to watch when they know the team doesn't have a chance. Now they do.
And best of all, if we draft well and fix this OL, we may even possibly sneak into the playoffs. Not saying it is definitely going to happen, but we do have the basics to build a very effective running game. Defense, Special Teams, and a good running game coupled with a QB that won't turn the football over? That's a recipe for a 10-6 season and a wildcard.
As a fan why on earth would I feel anything other then misery if we open the 2013 season with david garrard as our QB.
This is a guy who was "above average" when he was in his athletic prime. Now he is 34 and coming off 2 seasons of inactivity.
You say youself, we all know we cant win with garrard so I should be happy that we are basically going to try to win 6 games with garrard "managing the game", not develop a younger player at the position, and then PRAY that we can move up high enough in the 2014 draft to get teddy bridgewater who is FAR from a cant miss prospect?
The only players who the fans should be happy to see starting are a rookie picked in the top 50 (albeit it with our own picks or ones we get in a revis trade), or somelike matt flynn who could turn into the type of QB we need to be successful.
Nice backup upgrade. Don't see this as having any impact on the Jets having a franchise QB anytime soon. Nobody is buying into the Idzik competition nonsense as suddenly turning Sanchez, McElroy, Tebow, Gerrard, add failed franchise QB name here, in competition as having any long term impact on the Jets actually fielding a team with a franchise QB.
If we decide to unload Sanchize this year or next we are still a few years from fielding a team with a SB quality QB.
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Remember when we brought in another 35 year old has been?? What if we catch lightning in a bottle again?? What if Garrard has something left???
He should protect the ball better than Sanchez and is way more accurate. over 61% completion. He could make us competitive. I hate the tanking the season theory.
Garrard was pretty damn good before the Jags offensive line fell apart and he was taking 30-40 sacks a season and the turnovers started, he didn't throw a lot of picks and his completion percentage was much better than Sanchez. I'm totally on board with this move as a one year rental, having a veteran QB might help Hill reach his potential like Demaryius Thomas did with Manning.


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Inter Milan are in talks to sign PSG defender Gregory van der Wiel
Inter Milan director Piero Ausilio has confirmed they are in talks to sign PSG defender Gregory van der Wiel.
By Simone Bargellini
Last Updated: 13/07/13 6:57am
Inter are hoping to bring in van der Wiel on a loan deal as they look to bring in a new right-back this sumer.
Dutch defender van der Wiel refused to rule out a move to Inter earlier this week and Ausilio has admitted talks are ongoing for the former Ajax man.
"We have an open discussion with PSG over van der Wiel. We are talking about a loan, so we'll see," said Ausilio
However, Ausilio has admitted that Juventus have so far rejected their overtures for Mauricio Isla.
"We are talking to Juve, but everyone sticks to their guns," added Ausilio. "They have one evaluation of the player, we have another."
Inter have also ended their interest in Basel defender Aleksandar Dragovic, feeling they have enough cover at the back.
"We like Dragovic, but we are covered in that area of the team there are seven players," concluded Ausilio.


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This question has probably been answered on this forum before so forgive me for the potential duplication! My husband and I are taking a trip to jamaica for four days and I'm still breastfeeding /pumping. My LO is 6 months and I've been back to work since she was 3 mos. looking for tips/ travel regs on traveling with the pumped milk?
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"We don't have any disappointments compared to the installed base. We are just hoping that Nintendo's results for Wii U will be a bit bigger, like Iwata-san said," he commented. "Selling a new way of playing can take some time, and we know the power of the brands from Nintendo and we know from the fans that the majority of what will be the system sellers are not yet available. And on our side, Rayman will be one of them for sure. We really expect Rayman to be a huge system seller on the console."
Nintendo has done a terrible job marketing this thing. Even intelligent, knowledgeable gamers on n4g don't get the point of the gamepad. How could the mass market? Unfortunately the gamepad's potential can't be demonstrated in a two second clip like the wiimote. People have to already have it in their home before they understand what makes it great. I don't know how you could market that...
From the article: "In ZombiU for instance, the players are really fond of the multiplayer mode because it's totally new; it's like one FPS player against an RTS player."
Doesn't that sound great? That's because it is. And that's just a launch title from one company. I just hope some more developers can come up with innovative ways to use the pad before everything crashes and burns.
The gamepad is a great piece of hardware that I am enjoying more and more with each new game I get. I personally love it. I agree that off-screen play should be required, it is one of the bigger reasons why I like it so much. I also do think adding the touchscreen makes it a fun, new way to play games and control my console and T.V.
If the console does flop, it will be a shame, but Nintendo will be moving on to a new console in 5-6 years anyway. After a price drop and more games, I would encourage fence sitters to pick it up, and enjoy it for what it is. The $ -to- FUN ratio is certainly in the positive category for me.
maybe people would see it.... if Ubisoft wasnt a dick and delayed a (finished)game I should be playing right now.
lol yeah try to sell that controll scheme to ppl so they can buy more Wiius and by your game lol!!!!
Man stfu and consumers are talking they are tired of the same old, same old ips and bs Nintendo passes off as next gen hardware!!!!!
Im not like others on here that trys to sugar coat #hit. I speak off of personal thoughts and the reasons i gave above is the main reason i havent picked up a Wiiu and im sure there are thousands and millions who feel the same. The casuals have flocked so they arent the ones buying the systems the hardcores are!!!!


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On the evening of January 5, 2013 surrounded by her loving family, Viola Mae Stephens slipped peacefully into the arms of her loving God, where she was joyfully reunited with friends, family and her husband of 40 years, Dr. Walton Glen Stephens.Viola was born on October 17, 1907 in Burlington, KS to Charles and Stella Bunton. She is preceded in death by her sister, Mildred Morris, brothers Leo Bunton and Wayne Bunton. Viola graduated high school and attended junior college in Emporia, KS. She moved to Borger to live with her sister in the late 1920's and worked at the Western Union office located in the Black Hotel. Dr. Stephens had his office across from the Black Hotel. At the end of the day, Dr. Stephens would return to his room in the hotel and there is where he met Viola. They were married on November 22, 1934. They lived at the corner of Roosevelt and McGee for over 60 years. Viola was very involved in civic organizations and was a charter member of The 20th Century Club where she also served as president in 1949 and was member for over 50 years. She was also a member of the Rotary Anns, Top of Texas Medical Society, The Collectors Club, Quendecum Club and a patron of The Music Club. Viola was very instrumental in forming the Hutchinson County Library. After her husband's death in 1973, Viola continued to stay busy with numerous bridge groups, parties at her home and making her famous fudge. She was a member of First Baptist Church and loved her friends in Sunday School and worked in Vacation Bible School every year until she left Borger when she was 90 years old. She also took some courses at Frank Phillips College to keep her mind sharp.In 1997 Viola moved to Jacksonville Florida to be closer to her son. In 2010, after a fall, Viola moved back to Texas to live with her daughter.Viola leaves behind a legacy of grace and love to her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. She is survived by her son, Donald Glen Stephens (BHS class of 1955) and wife Randy of Jacksonville, FL and their children Nicolle Cundiff (husband David) of Lynchburg, VA, Helen Plaugher (husband Dave) of Jacksonville, FL and Janet Stegner (husband Phillip) of San Francisco, CA and her daughter, Susan Stephens Bolton (BHS class of 1964) and husband Louis of Grand Prairie, TX and their children Wyndee Kunesh (husband Mark) of Waco, TX and Bill Clark (wife Kristin) of Mooresville, NC. She also has 8 great grandchildren.Visitation will be Friday, January 11, 2013 from 6:00PM to 7:30PM at Brown Funeral Directors Chapel Of The Fountains, in Borger, TX. Services will be held at Brown Funeral Directors Chapel of the Fountains in Borger, TX on Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 11:00AM with Pastor Steve Taylor officiating. Burial will follow in Highland Park Cemetery in Borger, TX.


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Submission + - US CIO/CTO: Idea of Hiring COBOL Coders Laughable
theodp writes: If you're a COBOL programmer, you're apparently persona non grata in the eyes of the nation's Chief Information and Chief Technical Officers. Discussing new government technology initiatives at the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference, Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel quipped, "I'm recruiting COBOL developers, any out there?," sending Federal CTO Todd Park into fits of laughter (video). Lest anyone think he was serious about hiring the old fogies, VanRoekel added: "Trust me, we still have it in the Federal government, which is quite, quite scary." So what are VanRoekel and Park looking for? 'Bad ass innovators — the baddest ass of the bad asses out there' Park explained, 'to design, create, and kick ass for America.' Within 24 hours of VanRoekel's and Park's announcement, 600 bad asses had applied to be Presidential Innovation Fellows.


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There was an intriguing post last week on Neil Gaiman's journal that suggests that the usually black-clad teller of tales is by now on a monthlong trek through the hinterlands of China on a story safari:
Tonight I'm home, sitting on the sofa with my daughters who are watching the Olympics. This morning I went out and bought lots of lightweight, quick-drying clothes and other useful travel things, with my assistant Lorraine. (At one point during the clothes-buying part of things Lorraine helpfully said, "Boss you're still wearing their pants. Why don't you go back into your own?" Which seemed like a sensible idea, so I grabbed my jeans and headed back to the changing room, overhearing the sales lady saying, "Is he a professor?" and Lorraine's reply of, "He's a writer. It's the same thing.")
So I now have lots of new, light, easily washed clothes, many of them grey or white, which means I will spend much of the next four weeks feeling like I am in disguise.
I don't know if I'll be able to post while on the road — I'm going to be very much off the beaten track doing research for the next big project, and a lot of time I'll be on foot in rural China…
The next big project sounds mighty interesting. Gaiman also said in that post that he is in talks with publisher HarperCollins about making his first novel, "Neverwhere," available for reading for free online, as was done with his book "American Gods" this past February. "Neverwhere" could be everywhere as soon as September, he wrote, and it will "be done in some different ways" than the "American Gods" approach.
In other Gaiman news, the Los Angeles Times recently had a well-done piece on the stage production inspired by his unsettling 1995 graphic novel "The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch."
The article was written by Amy Nicholson and quotes Gaiman on the underlying themes of the book.
"It's not so much about the nature of memory as about the nature of family memory, collective memory, generational memory," says Gaiman. "Family secrets are always there and are impossible to properly unravel — and then at the point where the secret doesn't matter, nobody remembers any longer."
Gaiman's story took root with SoCal's Rogue Artists Ensemble, a company devoted to puppetry and masks. The Rogues spent two years asking to adapt the book for the stage — a "mad persistence," says Gaiman, that won them the distinction of being the first troupe to be given clearance.
"All the things we love to do are already in there," says Rogue's artistic director Sean T. Cawelti, who stages the show.
But unpacking the layers of storytelling in puppet tradition — now warped and bracketed through modern eyes — is complicated for both company and audience.
"We play the violence as realistic and grim," says Cawelti of the puppet show within their show. "It's a comment on what's going on with the boy in his real world. This game is funny and cute, then serious things take place."
The play is running through Aug. 31 at the Bootleg Theatre (2220 Beverly Blvd., L.A., (800) 838-3006). It also got a very strong review by F. Kathleen Foley, also writing for The Times.
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BONUS For fun, check out Gaiman's favorite monsters of film from the past 25 years.
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Professor Bernhard Kuster, Chair of Proteomics and Bioanalytics, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany has had experience using Nonlinear Dynamics software.
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just ordered a 3903 brushed emaxx. can i run 3s lipo's? and from the pics up here it looks like you can use a brushless motor on the stock dual motor mount? is that what i'm seing?
I ran 2x2s lipos on my 3903 until I upgraded to brushless. I use brushless on the stock dual motor mount.
Whether or not you can run 3S depends on what ESC you want to run.
If it is the EVX2, no you cannot. This is due to the BEC side only being able to handle 2S max.
I have installed an 1/8 scale brushless motor on the brushed mount of an EMaxx... just be sure to tape off the extra hole so dirt and rocks don't chew up your spur and pinion.
Whatever it is I just typed... could be wrong.
Nice! I got some 2s lipos and another esc. Thanks.
I am running 4s on my EVX2 with no problems. I have 2 E Maxx trucks and have run 4s in both. The first one had 4s in it for a few months before I got power hungry and fitted a brushless system. The second one also has 4s in it and used mainly for crawling. Had that one for a month or so again with no issues. Its the early EVX2 by the way so am using a lipo alarm on the BEC side. So yes you can run 4s on a brushed maxx and I know plenty that have.
" TRX3922a doesnt snap " IT SHATTERS !!!
The EVX2 is designed to run two 2S LiPo's... he wanted to run 3S LiPo's which would over-volt the ESC.
EVX2 Spec's:
Input voltage: 6-14 NiCad and NiMH cells (7.2 to 16.8 volts DC) or 4-cell LiPo (14.8 volts DC)
Running two 3S would put voltage up to 25.2 volts on fully charged packs... remember that the EVX2 is internally wired in series; which adds up the voltage of the attached packs.
Running a single 3S on the BEC side will fry the ESC's internal BEC.
However, 3S and 2S have been ran together with the 2S on the BEC side to gain 5S voltage (21 volts). But this can only be done with the now retired version of the EVX2... the non-LVD version. The newer version will not allow this.
Whatever it is I just typed... could be wrong.
I think he meant a single 3s, or ~11v, but Im not sure. How would running a single 3s on the BEC side fry the BEC when running a single 4s on the bec side dosnt? Or is that just for the new EVXs?
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Alt-248 on the number pad = °
Works fine for me. I got a 4s cause it was on sale at Thunder Power, and I have a single KD motor in the far sideways mount, and the truck balances well. I occasionally use a RX pack to add power when running lights and my CC blower shrouds (twin brushless fans), but without the fans, I dont need the RX pack.
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So does that constitute a Nitro conversion?
" TRX3922a doesnt snap " IT SHATTERS !!!
That looks excellent!
Whatever it is I just typed... could be wrong.
There's no doubt that the stock chassis is weak, that conversion looks sweet
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Im almost scared to jump my truck, the chassis/bulk connection is by far the weakest part of this truck. You can try to strengthen it with metal skids and chassis braces, but really, if your going to jump with brushless, you need a KD, FLM, gorrilliamaxx, or HR chassis. and Aluminum bulks. Maybe some others out there, but those are the ones I know are super-strong.
Of coarse, that creates weak points elsewhere, so you have to get aluminum shock towers, but by the time you get about $1500+ into it, youve got a strong truck. Personally, I still love the maxx and would never trade it for a revo, but thats just me.
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My buddy beats the snot out of his Maxx.... 2650kv brushless on 4S.
Once he switched to RPM arms, skids, and bumpers he hasn't broken a thing.
Whatever it is I just typed... could be wrong.
Not sure, but I think RC monster makes custom ones pretty cheap. So does Dan at KD, but his are a little more expensive I think.
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cool, Id do that in a heartbeat if i snapped a chassis. Ill have to remember that.
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I got one from www.farnell.com.auJust run a search for the part you want.Good place to get harder to find parts in Oz.
So have you used them in Australia?
Quote from: Derme302 on May 24, 2010, 02:56:00 AMSo have you used them in Australia?Yes, yes I have. Allow 2-3 weeks for shipping. I have got the AVRISP2 and a good 800A(peak) SCR from them, here in Australia. Am happy with their service.
Isn't it just Farnell.com re-branded to a new name?


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On Saturday night, we took a band of adventures into the library of Karazhan to confront the Shade of Aran. We first warmed up by playing a quick game of chess (which I've found to be one of my favorite parts of Karazhan, probably because nobody gets killed). Then we talked about strategy and engaged Shade.
We did well to communicate and keep most of his fireballs and frost bolts interrupted, thus keeping his mana consumption to a minimum. At 40% health, when the elementals were summoned, our warlock took care of two (banish and fear) while we tank and spanked the other two down. This was probably where Shade used most of his mana. We had the elementals under control. We refocused on Shade. And at 3% health, he mass polymorphed us all. Was that the end for that attempt? Oh no... not this time. We were all topped off and ready for the pyroblasts this time. And while the polymorph had meant a wipe for our attempts in the past, not this time. The Shade of Aran left us the Pendant of the Violet Eye and the Drape of the Dark Weaver.
We next decided to check out the Prince and find out how we could do at that point. Did I mention that we only had 2 healers? Yeah, we know... you should normally have 3, but when you have uber-healing (and a shadow priest's VE on top of that), it was no problem for Shade. Prince, however, probably needed a bit more healing. We got him into the second phase a few times, but we just didn't get him that far. Who knows... maybe this next weekend. But again, we killed Shade, so we made progress and we were happy.
The experiences in World of Warcraft through the eyes of a player that can't spend 10 hours a day raiding.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Shade Slain
Posted by Leiandra on 7/16/2007 03:43:00 PM
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- DadGuy said...
funny how you worded topped off during the polymorph stuff. Being poly'd heals you you know. =)
I think the big problem was that we didn't have all the water elementals to deal with at the same time as the polymorph.
- July 17, 2007 at 12:44 PM
- Leiandra said...
I used "topped off" because somebody said that in the raid. But you're right... it didn't make much sense.
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He's now gone through a head coaching change for the first time in his career. He's also got a new offensive coordinator, and will more than likely have a new quarterbacks coach.
It's new schemes, new concepts and a new direction, which could be a good thing for a young veteran like Stafford, who turned 26 years old Friday.
Stafford will be learning a new system under new offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi, who comes over from New Orleans where he was Drew Brees' quarterback coach the last four years.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Lombardi said he, head coach Jim Caldwell and whoever is named the quarterbacks coach, should they bring one in, will have a very detailed plan for how Stafford can succeed when he returns April 7 for the offseason training program.
"We're going to have a process that's going to start on Day 1 and work through the end of the season that is going to help him learn this system, learn defenses, how we want to attack the defense and that's going to make him into a better quarterback," Lombardi said.
Brees thrived under Lombardi's guidance the last four seasons, completing 68.1 percent of his passes for 19,661 yards with 156 touchdowns with a 101.4 passer rating. He's been selected to the Pro Bowl each of those seasons.
Caldwell hired Lombardi hoping he can have a similar effect of Stafford.
Stafford, like Brees, has a 5,000-yard season (2011) under his belt, but he's failed to reach 30 touchdown passes the past two seasons and his 19 interceptions in 2013 were the most since his rookie year.
"Listen, every quarterback could tighten up some of his footwork issues," Lombardi said of what's he's seen on tape from Stafford. "Matthew's got such a talented arm that I think there were times where he's making throws that you say, 'Well, maybe you shouldn't have thrown that because of the position of your feet or whatnot,' but I looked at every single one of his interceptions in depth and not every single one is something Matthew did wrong.
"There are interceptions that happen because a receiver breaks his route off too early, or goes through a receivers hands. Get's tipped at the line of scrimmage. So, I was a little encouraged after watching that. This was not an interception machine."
Lombardi did admit that Stafford, like every other quarterback in the NFL at this time of year, "needs to get better." And that's where he comes in.
"Peyton Manning is sitting right now thinking, 'How am I going to play better next year?' he said. "I guarantee you Drew Brees is thinking about how he's going to play better. So, by no means am I saying that he's the perfect quarterback, but like I said, he's smart, he works hard and he's talented."
Over the past couple weeks, Lombardi has worked to get to know his personnel and start to formulate a playbook. He said Detroit's offense will have a lot of the same concepts as the Saints' offense and he will call the plays on Sunday's.
It's Lombardi's job to get Stafford and everyone else up to speed and on the same page.
"He's clearly a bright young man," Lomardi said of Stafford. "Football is very important to him. He's a hard worker. I knew before I ever met him how talented he was. He seems like he has all those characteristics that make up a good quarterback."


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Food and fun will fill the afternoon and evening of the Relay for Life of Tama County on Saturday, June 14. All events will take place at the South Tama High School track to honor cancer survivors, remember loved ones, and raise funds to fight cancer. In case of rain it will move to the nearby South Tama gymnasium. The Relay for Life is free and open to all.
A delicious food menu will be available at all times, served by the Czech Chicks team. A Silent Auction will be open until 8 p.m. offering wonderful items from homemade bread to oil changes to theater tickets, and much more.
Anyone interested in making a luminaria donation, buying a raffle ticket or walking in the Survivors Lap may do so. For more information contact Ashley Bolen, Tama/Toledo, 641-484-0204; Marilyn Svoboda, Clutier, 319-479-2732; Karen Symonds, Dysart, 319-476-7762; Luane Lorenzen, Traer, 319-231-0820. An order form for luminaria also appears in this newspaper.
Join other Tama County folks to support the American Cancer Society in the fight against cancer. Every day someone new is diagnosed, every day a better treatment is discovered, every day someone recovers and lives to celebrate more birthdays. Come to help in this important battle that touches everyone, young and old alike.
SCHEDULE for RELAY FOR LIFE OF TAMA COUNTY
12:00 PM Doors open with music by DJ Cat Campbell
1:00 PM Opening ceremony
Welcome by the Mayor of Tama, Dan Zimmerman
National Anthem by Carri Holst
Flag Presentation by American Legion
2:00 PM Silly Hour be ready to do the "Hokey Pokey" "Chicken Dance" and other "silly" dances.
Silent Auction open.
3:00 PM Frozen T-shirt Contest:
Participants can compete to put on an icy T-shirt the fastest.
Scavenger Hunt
4:00 PM Poker Lap: Receive a card each lap, after 5 laps the highest hand wins a prize.
5:00 Sugar & Spice
5:45 PM Survivor Speaker Dr. Dennis Mallory, D.O
Survivor Victory Lap
Caregivers Lap Celebration
8:00 PM Raffle Drawing for Quilt, Hot Air Balloon Ride, Queen Size Bed & Rose Sculpture
Silent Auction closes.
9:00 PM Luminaria Ceremony
Reading of the Names by Cat Campbell of Cat Trax
Final laps
Closing Ceremony
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Also, if it would feel "almost like lying" for you to refer to your friend as "she," that's something you should think about separately. Is it because your friend isn't sure of her gender, or because you're used to thinking of her as male and it would feel dishonest not to tell the other people she's trans*? (Don't out people unless they say it's okay, because there can be safety issues. f you aren't comfortable introducing her to other people as the gender she identifies with, you don't have to--but the answer there is to not introduce her, not to say "this is my trangender friend so-and-so.")
Is this a game that you'll be doing something like vent? Because if your friend is intending on becoming fully female, I don't think she would be offended by people treating her as such over the internet at this point in time, even down to flirting. Is your main concern that people will hear a male voice, and be confused?
I've read that the correct way to refer to transgender people is with the pronoun of the gender they're presenting. So a man who feels like a woman but hasn't yet started the transition should still be referred to as 'he'. If they have transitioned to female appearance, 'she' is the appropriate pronoun. I was wondering how this applies to situations where the gender is not obvious?I have a transgender friend I've talked into coming to play an MMO with me. S/he is still living as a man and was having doubts as to whether s/he would in fact swap to being female, but she has asked me to use 'she' in game. I'm worried about how my online friends will react when/if they find out that the person they assumed was female both looks and sounds like a man in person. I don't want to offend my friend by treating him as a guy, but I also don't want to lie to my other, online friends and I feel like calling my friend 'she' is close to lying.If anyone has any perspective to offer on this situation I would appreciate it. It's not a usual situation for me.
I mentioned voice communication to my friend and she said she'd say that her mic is broken.
Even if their name is Manly McManson and they only ever wear plaid and open bottles with their teeth, if they prefer female pronouns then you use female pronouns.
Even if their name is Manly McManson and they only ever wear plaid and open bottles with their teeth, if they prefer female pronouns then you use female pronouns.
Heck, I had a friend who got so much flirting that he renamed his female toon "Imaguy" and it didn't slow it down much at all.
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Delectable pancakes with chocolate chips and shredded zucchini folded into the batter, served the traditional way with butter and maple syrup for a whole new spin on breakfast.
Up until a few years ago I hated zucchini. Loathed is more fitting. I had only ever had soggy, tasteless zucchini. I wouldn't even touch zucchini bread. Imagine that. Am I the only one in the world to turn down zucchini bread?!
That all changed the day my Mom plunked a dish of deep-fried zucchini, grown in her own garden, down in front of me. As fate would have it I immediately fell in love and vowed never to go without again. I would find new and inventive ways to incorporate this delicious vegetable into my life. Forever.
Anywho, when I spotted these pancakes in the current copy of Eating Well I wasted no time whipping them right up. With my own special twist of course. Chocolate chips. Semi-sweet and white chocolate. I bet butterscotch or peanut butter would be great to.
Just don't skimp and if you have a zucchini hater in your life. . . feed them a big stack of these and you just might rock their world. Forever.
Delectable pancakes with chocolate chips and shredded zucchini folded into the batter.
- Wring the water out of the zucchini in a clean kitchen towel by twisting over the sink.
- In a large bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.
- In a separate bowl whisk the eggs, milk, butter, brown sugar and vanilla together.
- Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet. Stir to combine then mix in the zucchini.
- Heat a large cast iron or non-stick skillet over medium-low heat and grease with butter. Working in batches pour scant 1/3 cups for each pancake into the pan and dot the uncooked top all over with chocolate chips. When the edges begin to look dry and cooked and bubbles dot the top - flip and cook until golden on the other side.
- Serve hot with butter, maple syrup and/or whipped cream.
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"It's just Manny being Manny."
That tired, enabling quip was one that followed Manny Ramirez throughout his brilliant and bizarre career. Fitting, as it may also best sum up the abrupt retirement announced by the fabled, dreadlocked slugger on Friday.
For the second time in two years, Ramirez tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. Back in 2009, while a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Ramirez did not appeal the 50-game suspension imposed on him, opting to simply serve out the sentence with an "aw shucks" smirk on his face. But the punishment doubles for second-time offenders, and rather than accept a 100-game suspension from Major League Baseball, the 38-year-old slugger opted to walk away from the game last week.
Always a magnet for attention, the news of his sudden retirement had an impact throughout the league.
"We were obviously surprised," said Tampa Bay Rays vice president Andrew Friedman, "and hurt by what transpired."
It's understandable that Friedman is a bit hurt, particularly in the wallet region. Paying Ramirez $2 million to go 1 for 17 with his new ball club before hanging up his spikes probably wasn't the impact the Rays were hoping Ramirez would have on their organization.
So while the defending American League East champion Rays scramble to replace Ramirez in the lineup with a suitable power hitter, and also turn around their dreadful 1-8 start to the season, what is Manny doing? Well . . . he's just being Manny, of course!
"I'm at ease," Ramirez said. "God knows what's best [for me]. I'm now an officially retired baseball player. I'll be going away on a trip to Spain with my old man."
Adios, amigo.
Believe it or not, this is the best thing that could have happened to the Rays and M.L.B. With each passing day, Barry Bonds is being exposed as the fraud that he is in a court of law. Completely vanished from our radar are the likes of Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire. Even Jose Canseco couldn't last more than a week on "Celebrity Apprentice."
It isn't just that the baseball world doesn't have a tolerance for these headliners of the steroid era anymore; it simply doesn't have the room nor the time for them. The game is healing before our eyes, and as the scab of shame deteriorates, so too do the men who befouled the game. They traded everything for a brief moment of immortality, and ironically that cost them a lifetime of shunned obscurity. This is poetic justice in its purest form.
There really is no point to exhaust the arguments of the legitimacy of Manny's career numbers. The asterisk that haunted Roger Maris like a scarlet letter has long lost its impact in society. How can a symbol designated to call attention to a discrepancy mean anything when the symbol is as common and plentiful as the tainted numbers themselves? The rogue wave of baseball's steroid era left behind an ocean of asterisks to swim through.
No one will remember Manny Ramirez for his 555 career home runs. No one will remember his .312 lifetime batting average, or that he knocked in 1,831 runs. And when it comes to this particular character, most people won't even remember the steroids. What everyone will remember about Manny, though, was the odd, uncomfortably childish clown persona that he molded himself into.
In a sophomoric inability to accept the responsibility that came with being a premier athlete, Manny attempted to come across as a fun-loving man-child who just loved playing the game. He relished any opportunity to remind the world (often by flopping around in the outfield after misplaying a line drive) that baseball is just a game, and therefore can't be taken too seriously.
This is a healthy mantra to adopt if you plan on suiting up to play beer league softball in Montauk this summer. But when you are paid to be the cornerstone of the offense for the Cleveland Indians, or the Boston Red Sox, or the Los Angeles Dodgers, or even as a midseason acquisition for the Chicago White Sox, or as the veteran designated hitter for the Tampa Bay Rays, you need to try a little harder.
"It's sad, man," said David Ortiz of his former teammate in Boston, where they won two World Series rings together. "He got his issues, like a lot of people know. But as a player, I think he did what he was supposed to."
Ortiz isn't alone in saying that, despite his antics, Manny was a great player. Inside the fraternity of Big Leaguers, Manny was regarded not only as a great teammate, but a very hard worker. There are tales of his rigorous self-imposed batting practice sessions, all of which were fueled by his love for the game and his desire to excel in it. Though mysteriously, none of that footage has ever been captured on tape.
The sad truth is that his B.P. sessions were probably accurate accounts. And in his own heart, Manny Ramirez probably did love the game. But he sure did have a funny way of showing it.
You can say you love your wife, but if every time you appear with her in public, you act the fool and deeply embarrass her, then you really aren't showing her any love. Despite your pleas of being a misunderstood and happy-go-lucky guy, you're just being an asshole. Toss in repeated drug abuse to go with a childish insistence on defying any form of accountability, and you don't just have misrepresented love, you have a blatant disrespect.
And that is Manny being Manny.
Have fun in Spain.


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THOUSANDS of people flocked to Rutherglen at the weekend for the biggest event on the town's calendar.
The Winery Walkabout again proved popular as warm weather and blue skies greeted wine lovers.
Corowa's Kia Belsher was one of 57 young people dressed as senior citizens for the event.
"It's a great day with good wine, good people and a great atmosphere," she said.
"We always dress up and this year we decided to go as seniors."
Tom and Fran Lowe attended the event for the 15th time, which Mr Lowe described as "special".
Rutherglen Estates cellar door manager Jim Doyle said the weekend was easily the winery's busiest all year.
"We have 15 staff on, whereas on a normal Sunday we'd have two to three," he said.
"Sales have gone well above what we expected to sell."
The traditional grape stomp in the town's main street again proved popular as member for Murray Valley Tim McCurdy and teammate Renee Chandler took the honours.
Indigo Council mayor Bernard Gaffney said the weekend could generate up to $10 million for the region.
"I'd expect all the acc-ommodation providers to be full in the area," he said.
"The only issue is the crowd is so big the mobile coverage has dropped out, which could be an issue if a serious incident occurs.
"But it is a great weekend."
Store owners also had issues with EFTPOS machines as services stopped working.
"We'll sell well over 12,000 pies over the weekend," Parker Pies owner Fred Parker said.
"The good weather is out, which has a great impact on crowd numbers and is good for the community.
"I'm just concerned the EFTPOS service has gone out and will be a disruption."
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Conference Gets Industry Leaders Debating the Tough Issues
SAN JOSE, Calif. — November 17, 2010 — The SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) 2011, the executive platform for discussing the trends and challenges converging on the semiconductor manufacturing industry, will focus on new forces and dynamics that are driving the semiconductor business cycle. Held in Half Moon Bay, Calif. on January 9-12, 2011, this year's program features presentations from industry leaders and top market economists who will lead insightful debates among CEOs of leading technology providers. Mark Durcan, president and chief operating officer of Micron, will provide the keynote address.
Building on the theme "The Role of Capital Efficiency through Cycles," the conference focuses on key industry trends including managing capital efficiency, maximizing R&D investment choices, investing in future growth, establishing sound collaboration and risk mitigation strategies, and recognizing adjacent market opportunities. Understanding financial and economic industry issues as they relate to the semiconductor industry is critical for industry decision makers in this challenging, dynamic planning environment.
The three-day conference features economic trends and forecasts from VLSI Research, Semico Research, Gartner, JP Morgan, and IC Insights; discussions on the key drivers in the semiconductor technology and capex cycle from Intel, Micron, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, and DuPont; and insights on breakthrough adjacent market opportunities from the Consumer Electronics Association, U.S. Department of Energy, Think Equity and many others.
This year's highly-anticipated "Blue Chip Panel" will feature top executives from ATMI, Cymer, Cabot Microelectronics, JSR Corporation, and Synopsys offering strategic perspectives and executive insights.
New this year is a special joint session for both ISS and Strategic Materials Conference 2011attendees. The session begins with a focus on critical customer inputs and technology roadmap perspectives from leading global device companies including Intel, Micron and GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Then Novellus chairman Rick Hill explores the current outlook and judgment of leading investment and financial analysts covering the sector in the lively "Streetviews Panel." The joint session concludes with the "Blue Chip Panel" moderated by Michael Wright, president and CEO of Advanced Inquiry Systems.
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Harry Redknapp feels it will be a "miracle" if Michael Dawson plays again this season after the Tottenham defender suffered serious ankle and knee injuries during the 3-1 win over Stevenage.
Tottenham progressed to the last eight of the FA Cup with the replay win, but the victory was marred by the injuries to Dawson, who had to be carried off on a stretcher after falling awkwardly following an aerial challenge with defender Chris Beardsley.
Tottenham boss Redknapp said: "Michael has gone to hospital. It was his ankle and his knee. He has a pretty bad injury there. Looking at his injury it would be a miracle to think he is not (out for the season)."
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Extremism during the election, instead of after?
Mitt Romney's budget plan is, at a certain level, kind of amusing, at least in a macabre sort of way. The Republican presidential hopeful seriously believes – or least wants you to seriously believe – that he can slash taxes, increase defense spending, and balance the budget simultaneously. You'd think with his vast fortune, Romney could have bought a calculator by now.
Ezra Klein calls the GOP candidate's plan "a fantasy." That's certainly true, but it's the kind of fantasy that I find curious. From Ezra's piece:
Consider what Romney has promised. By 2016, he says federal spending will be below 20 percent of GDP, and at least 4 percent of that will be defense spending. At that point, he will cap federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, meaning it can never rise above that level.
All that's hard enough. Romney will have to cut federal spending by between $6 and $7 trillion over the next decade to hit those targets. As my colleague Suzy Khimm has detailed, those budget promises already require cuts far in excess of what even Paul Ryan's budget proposes.
But Ryan's budget includes more than $700 billion in Medicare cuts over the next decade, Romney's budget won't. And Romney promises that there will be no other changes to Social Security or Medicare for those over 55, which means neither program can be cut for the next 10 years.
Right, Romney's "plan" is transparently silly. It'd be foolish enough to think he could eliminate the deficit while walling off more than half the federal budget, but the Republican candidate actually goes further – he not only intends to shield the Pentagon and entitlements from cuts; he's going to spend more money on them, while also passing a massive tax break.
To make the arithmetic work, Romney would have to make enormous cuts to public investments in every other part of government, including everything from law enforcement to infrastructure, education to medical research, food safety to immigration.
Politically, this would be insane. Indeed, the plan is quite literally unbelievable. It's why Ezra followed up on Twitter with a good question: "Does anyone really, truly think that he'll push these much more severe, unpopular cuts when in office?"
Perhaps not. But that leads to a related concern that turns Campaign Politics 101 on its head: Romney is striving for extremism before the election, not after.
Look again at the picture Ezra painted: according to Romney's own promises, a vote for him is a vote for a wildly unpopular series of budget moves. If voters were aware of the fact that Romney were proposing deep cuts to law enforcement, infrastructure, education, medical research, food safety, and immigration, while also giving the wealthy a ginormous tax break, he'd probably lose nearly every state.
But therein lies the point. Common sense suggests candidates – in either party, in any cycle – would run a general-election campaign promising relative moderation. Maybe after the election the candidates might propose measures the American mainstream doesn't like, but sane contenders don't want the electorate to perceive them as radical.
And yet, here we are. "Does anyone really, truly think that he'll push these much more severe, unpopular cuts when in office?" It seems hard to believe. But I also wonder if anyone can explain why he's pushing these severe, unpopular cuts before he gets to office.


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Prior to NPMH, Hungary had not had any national programme on mental health issues, except a Parliamentary Resolution on the National Strategy for the Reduction of Drug Problem in 2000, and the National Alcohol Policy that was developed between 2004–2005 and adopted but never implemented by the Public Health Interministerial Committee. MHD&AP attracted attention to a topic that was previously neglected from the national policy agenda. According to the Biannual Collaborative Agreement, the Hungarian Government agreed with WHO to develop "national strategies for mental health and substance use disorders based on WHO European documents", hence NPMH – both its first and second draft – identifies MHD&AP as its primary international antecedent.
Still, WHO has marginal appearance in the documents with surprisingly few direct references. In the more than 100 pages long version of NPMH there are only 8 direct references to WHO, only one of which is a reference to NPMH&D. Six out of the remaining seven references can be classified as embodied knowledge according to the definition of Smith and Freeman (2008, 11), "knowledge that hinges on the authority of the actor who produces the knowledge and the embodiment of their knowledge within particular textual forms". As it is evident from the following quotes, WHO's role in the text is to bolster up the arguments by its authority:
"According to the prediction of the WHO, the frequency and burden of the mental breakdowns will increase in the future…".
"According to the WHO, the social, environmental and economic factors of mental health are the following...".
"According to the prognosis of WHO the frequency and burden of mental disorders will grow in the future…".
There is only one occasion when the authors drew on an instrument that had been created by WHO: in the case of the reference to WHO Welfare Index.
If we consider the topics that are prioritized in MHD&AP, we find that NPMH reviewed all the prioritized areas of the WHO documents; the Hungarian documents, however, lay great emphasis on the need of the institutional development of psychiatric service. Comparing the intentions of the WHO and the Hungarian documents, it becomes evident that the accents have been shifted. There are emphasized issues in MHD&AP which are present in the Hungarian documents, but with much lesser significance. For example, in the first version of NPMH the problem of stigma, or the involvement of the users of mental health services and their families and carers are clearly not priorities. This changed somewhat in the second version, which – with an explicit reference to the European Pact – includes a short-term priority list that is identical to that of the European Pact, which includes stigma and social exclusion. Another issue that has a great significance in the WHO documents but was understated in the Hungarian National programme is prevention. One of the authors explained the neglect of prevention as follows:
"It is obvious that we are not talking about the same conditions in the case of, let's say, the Netherlands, or even Britain and Hungary. In some regions of Hungary, the psychiatric service is on the level of a third world country. I agree that it is not right to set prevention against medical intervention, I do not believe that mental health education, or the struggle against work related stress is not important, but one must see clearly that prevention is very expensive, like a Mercedes or another luxury car. Even in the USA these programmes were stopped, because they could not finance them. And these programmes have very poor efficiency, one cannot really measure their effects" (A leader of HPA).
Community psychiatry – one of the fundamental elements of WHO Mental Health initiatives – is in its infancy in Hungary. Although it is often mentioned in the document, but only at a rhetoric level, without any actual plan about how this new paradigm will be introduced and realized. As we are going to see later in the light of the criticisms on NPMH, even though the Hungarian documents bring out certain WHO-inspired mental health policy issues, it is questionable to what extent they were actually internalized by the authors.
"At the time when we were writing this Programme, we did not know that the National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology (OPNI, Budapest) would be shut down shortly. In the programme we wrote that a shift from large psychiatric institutions to community-based services would be recommended. Now we are hesitant about whether it was a good idea to include this recommendation into the document. A lot of people disapproved of this. Also we will never know whether we contributed to the close-down of OPNI with the Programme" (An author of NPMH).
Ironically, in the course of the closing down of the largest Hungarian mental health institution, the National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology (OPNI, Budapest) in 2007, no reference was made to professional conviction about the necessary shift from asylum-like mental health institutions to community psychiatry, rather the financial rationalization argument in the Health Care System was adduced. Hungarian psychiatric institutions are in great need of development. As a 1997 document, the Human Rights & Mental Health: Hungary, produced by Mental Disability Rights International pointed out, there were significant malfunctions in the Hungarian mental health system, a lot of which still exist. The discourse about the mental health reform has stayed within the framework of the debate about institutions. The few professionals who suggest any alternative reform-pass are neglected and/or discredited by the leaders of the professional field.
To sum up, while MHD&AP declared that mental health policy and services need to address the needs of the population as a whole, need to be comprehensive and integrated, covering mental health promotion, early intervention in crises, innovative community-based care and policies to achieve social inclusion (WHO 2005, X), the shift from psychiatry to mental health happened only on a rhetorical level in the Hungarian documents.
FERNEZELYI Bori & ERÖSS Gábor (2009), Lost in Translation: From WHO Mental Health Policy to a non-Reform of Psychiatric Institutions, KNOWandPOL report, 12-15.