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The power of Oracle WebCenter Content – extended through CARA
By Michael Snow on Jul 11, 2012
Guest post provided by Oracle Partner, Generis.
The power of Oracle WebCenter Content – extended through CARA
Oracle WebCenter Content just got a great companion product – CARA from Generis, an Oracle Gold Partner. CARA is a web-based interface on top of WebCenter Content and it provides both a high-performance / high functionality end-user experience, as well as a full suite of configuration tools that allow you to build a business use case for Oracle WebCenter without coding. CMSwire recently reviewed CARA and called it "a pretty slick tool".
Free Webinar from Generis and Oracle
John Klinke from Oracle and James Kelleher from Generis will be running a demo of CARA for Oracle WebCenter on 19th July 2012 at 11am Eastern Time (USA). This demo will feature the CARA user interface and configuration layer, focusing on the benefits to end users as well as the configuration layer and the associated ROI savings from configuring Oracle WebCenter to meet your requirements rather than coding.
About CARA
So what does CARA offer on top of the Oracle WebCenter? There are two main aspects.
1) A fast, efficient user interface. Slow UIs are one of the biggest reasons that Content Management projects fail. The second biggest reason is if the UI is "unfit for purpose" and the CARA UI has evolved over the last few years based on direct studies with user groups. The team from Generis spent time looking at how users work – how they create content, relate it, push it through the lifecycle – and finding ways of reducing clicks, showing more information on a single screen, and doing intelligent automation based on the system predicting what users are going to do next.
2) A full configuration layer. The largest cost involved in any Content Management project is tailoring the platform to meet the specific business requirements. Typically this meant months of coding / customization, with the associated testing and then upgrade headaches and cost. CARA provides a vast range of configuration items – basically covering everything from how the UI looks for each user through to the business rules e.g. properties screens, folder rules, automated security and so on. In fact, CARA has so much configuration, that Generis is offering a zero customization policy - if customers need a new feature, it will be added as a configurable feature available to everyone. The team from Generis has even created "pre-packaged" configuration start points for various use cases such as Quality Documents, Human Resources, Legal, and a range of Life Sciences cases including eTMF, submissions / eCTD, Correspondence and Commitment Tracking, and Change Control.
Part of the reason CARA is so flexible is that it is a JAVA application built using the Google Web Toolkit (which means it works in any browser). CARA is available also as a mobile solution and in multiple languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese and Polish.
When you first see CARA open, it is pretty unusual for a web application – in fact, it looks like you are working on a Windows machine inside your browser. You can have multiple windows open on your screen (so you can efficiently multi-task) and you can do things like drag and drop between windows.
Apart from the usual lists of documents and menus / buttons, there are some other unique things about CARA, which you won't find in other web UIs. For example, the Widgets Panel shows (not surprisingly) widgets of information about documents that you click on – you can choose from several out of the box widgets, or actually build your own through configuration – including pulling information from third party systems via web services (think JD Edwards, Siebel, databases…). This makes the Widgets incredibly flexible and powerful.
Also – to solve one of the biggest problems in content management ("how do I find my stuff"), CARA has a tool called Dimensions – it's the ultimate replacement for either fixed-folder navigation or running explicit searches. Basically, choose up to 5 levels of attributes by which you want to browse the repository, and each user has their own virtual folder structure. You can pre-define dimensions for roles or scenarios to make it easier for users to find appropriate groups of documents or filter them by different combinations. This is probably the #1 favorite feature when we talk to users.
In the spirit of Oracle dashboards, CARA also has its own Dashboards where you can access reports as charts or tables, export to Excel, and so on:
All of this is underpinned with the configuration layer which allows you to configure both the user interface (layout, availability of functions per group and so on) as well as the business rules (for example security / folders / audits based on attribute value rules, properties screens, property inheritance / auto-generation). The entire configuration is done through the CARA UI, requiring zero coding – cutting cost and time of implementation dramatically:
Don't forget to sign up and attend the Free Webinar from Generis and Oracle to learn more about CARA
John Klinke from Oracle and James Kelleher from Generis will be running a demo of CARA for Oracle WebCenter on 19th July 2012 at 11am Eastern Time (USA). This demo will feature the CARA user interface and configuration layer, focusing on the benefits to end users as well as the configuration layer and the associated ROI savings from configuring Oracle WebCenter to meet your requirements rather than coding.


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Ken Haller, M.D., a SLUCare pediatrician at Cardinal Glennon and associate professor of pediatrics at Saint Louis University, reflects on explaining the Boston Marathon bombings to children.
So what do you say to a kid at a time like this? It depends on the kid, of course, how old they are, how much they've seen about this on TV. So let's start with that. There is going to be saturation coverage of this for the next few days, at least. This may be the time to get out "The Little Mermaid" or "The Lion King" and let your kids watch it for the gazillionth time. Being a parent means protecting your kid as much as you can and that includes protecting them from psychological violence. Seeing video of bloody runners over and over is not appropriate for kids. So switch to Nickelodeon or Disney or PBS Kids -- or better yet, play a board game, read a book, toss a baseball, go bike riding -- but stay away from CNN while the younger kids are in the room.
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whenever there's something dramatic going on in manga or anime i always feel that it develops way too slow... like right now in DGM where the recent chapter is mostly lavi running away from evil black tyki...(still, it develops a hella lot faster than bleach)
True, it's so slow. The fighting scene is dragged too long. No new story development. It would look good on anime, but seeing it in manga is just so boring T_T
I agree it went downhill.
In my opinion since they entered Hueco Mundo.
I think I hate the decor most of all.
Maybe it's me, but I've never seen so much white in one manga-series.
I'm also not very fond of all the minor villains. The Espada, OK, but then those guys who were kicked out of the Espade but are still powerfull...They can really keep this going for a while.
And I kinda miss Ichi's dad.
It's true that Bleach is super slow. It's mainly the fights that lasts too long. Ichigo vs Grimmjaw's fight lasted what, 5-6 chapters or so? and it still hasn't ended yet. Normally, I wouldn't have minded BUT all I see is sword flying and pointless comments. All the other mangas are far faster.
:offtopic, how the **** (sorry) does Orihime's cheer suddenly give Ichigo his boost of power? OFFTOPIC end.
In my opinion, the fights would be a hell of a lot more interesting (no matter the length) if 1- the choreography was better and 2- Kubo Tite didn't rely so much on plot-sensitive strength. Whoever wins the fights either explodes their reiatsu harder (everybody), or suddenly remembers their reason for fighting (Ichigo), or in PSYCHOTICALLY RARE INSTANCES, actually goes through the paces and makes a strategic win (Kenpachi).


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Type: Bug
Status: Closed
Priority: Blocker
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 2.1
Fix Version/s: 2.1
Component/s: Blocks
Testing Instructions:
To test you need to add a block to a variety of pages then edit the block's settings and check the "display on page types" drop down. The set of options that should be available are listed below. The ordering of the options isn't important.
on a course main page:
any page
any course page
any type of course page
on a quiz:
any quiz module page
edit quiz page
on a database activity:
no drop down as this is handle automatically.
on a course report like the course activity report (Courses > course name > Reports > activity report):
any page
any course report
just the current course report ie "Activity course report"
on an admin setting page like Advanced features (Site administration > Advanced features):
The current admin setting page
Any admin setting pageTo test you need to add a block to a variety of pages then edit the block's settings and check the "display on page types" drop down. The set of options that should be available are listed below. The ordering of the options isn't important. on a course main page: any page any course page any type of course page on a quiz: any quiz module page edit quiz page on a database activity: no drop down as this is handle automatically. on a course report like the course activity report (Courses > course name > Reports > activity report): any page any course report just the current course report ie "Activity course report" on an admin setting page like Advanced features (Site administration > Advanced features): The current admin setting page Any admin setting page
Affected Branches:MOODLE_21_STABLE
Fixed Branches:MOODLE_21_STABLE
Pull from Repository:
Pull Master Branch:
Pull Master Diff URL:
Hi Andrew,
As discussed just before
MDL-26105 has been integrated with master now but before the release of 2.1 we need to find a solution for overlap problems arising from a crossover between core components and plugins.
To test the problem add a block to a course report page - inspect the block_instance table, edit the block and look at the setting options (all course related) and after saving watch what happens to the block_instance table.
While discussing it we wondered about the idea of allowing overriding callbacks built by looking at the raw pagetype.
Yell out if you have any questions.
Gliffy Diagrams
Issue Links
- has a non-specific relationship to
MDL-27893 Check that the display page types in 2.1 are backwards compatible with 2.0.3
- Closed
- has been marked as being related by
MDL-28149 Should we support power-users who want to use arbitrary pagetypepatterns for blocks?
- Open
MDL-28150 Should all plugins, not just mods, have a callback to propose page-type patterns
- Open
- will help resolve
MDL-26105 User friendly block settings and help information
- Closed
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I think I have a workable solution.
feedback welcome. If you have suggestions on how to better implement this let me know
Ho Andrew, some quick comments:
1) I think that search for functions should happen only for plugin pages.
2) And plugin_pagetypelist() does basically that. Surely you only need to add fallback to parent dir there.
3) IMO the problem is that the "if (array_key_exists($component, $plugins) " condition is completely wrong (only works for 1st level plugins, like mod/blocks, but not for the rest) and that isn't ever executed (for other plugin types. Also "$component" is messed there and does not point to proper "plugintype_pluginame_" style.
Hope it helps ciao
moved strings out of the core string files. https://github.com/andyjdavis/moodle/commit/20fc347172c3ff31fd5309b284be81f39eda6f4c
Another issue. generate_page_type_patterns() isn't generating valid function names under all circumstances. If a callback for the outline course report were written it should be called coursereport_outline_pagetypelist(). Not coursereportoutline_pagetypelist().
Some code-review on https://github.com/andyjdavis/moodle/commit/fccde4fb076fb2d3848407d735f3787181173435
- coursereport_pagetypelist does not follow the coding guidelines. Should be _page_type_list
- First array in that function is not properly laid out: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Coding_style#Wrapping_Arrays or http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Coding_style#Associative_arrays
- if (count($bits >= 3)) { is wrong
- for($i should be for ($i
- implode($componentarray) - I had to look this up to confirm it was valid. I would always spell this out as implode('', $componentarray)
- Anyway, I am not sure that $component = implode($componentarray) works in any case other than coursereport. What about report -> admin/report; qtype -> question/type, ...
Now looking at https://github.com/andyjdavis/moodle/commit/20fc347172c3ff31fd5309b284be81f39eda6f4c
- I am not sure that 'Any log course report' etc. make sense. There is only one log report.
- It is a bit sucky to change the plugin API to require all course reports to add this string, for such a minor feature as this. Is it really necessary?
As per dev chat:
(10:57:08 AM) Eloy: andrew have you read my comment? it seems that plugin_pagetypelist() already does a big part of what you're trying to achieve. The only problem is that the:
"if (array_key_exists($component, $plugins)"
condition only works for 1st level plugins! (mod, blocks...) but not for the rest!
(10:59:15 AM) Eloy: and of course "$component" is also wrong. Must be, always, plugintype_pluginame
(10:59:22 AM) Eloy: cya
(10:59:29 AM) timhunt: Yes. We need a reliable way to get the frankenstyle name of the plugin responsible for this page from $PAGE. I think we need a specific $PAGE->get_owning_component() method.
(10:59:39 AM) timhunt: This logic should not be mixed up in generate_page_type_patterns
(10:59:43 AM) Eloy: yup
Ive started fixing this stuff. Branch is
MDL-27829_block_page_type_fixes Just recording this here so I know what branch to pull when I get home.
Ok. Ive heavily reworked this. Far fewer lib files will be loaded although the page type will be pulled apart twice. Probably more work to do there.
Note that this isnt finished code. Theres still commented out code lying around in this plus I havent tested this particularly thoroughly. Just after some general feedback from those in the know.
Most of the action is in generate_page_type_patterns().
Im currently intending on creating functions for each course report ie outline_page_type_list() for coursereport_outline. coursereport_page_type_list() will disappear. That means more functions but the functions will be really simple pieces of code. I figured I was trying to be a bit fancy and possibly creating problems for the future trying to do this dynamically.
Ive created the various course report callbacks. Ive also been able to remove the need to iterate through the page type more than once. I think this is more or less ready. Peer review requested.
Hi Andrew,
I've just been looking over this now.
In regards to the patch I noticed only a couple of minor things that don't change functionality but really just help the readability of the generate_page_type_patterns function.
- ln 1593: Is there any need to the array_slice, surely $pluginname = $bits[$i] is fine?
- ln 1582: On this line you check whether the result of the function call is empty but on lines 1607 and 1617 you don't.
- ln 1613: $patterns will always be empty
- ln 1626: Is there any need for this last !empty check of $patterns, we know that default_page_type_list will always return at least the $patterns array being built within that if.
Other than that I think the patch is looking good.
There is one thing worth nothing however and that is that I REALLY dislike the function names being used by this function + callbacks.
They were function names I think I used when I first wrote the bit of code to make use of core component functions and I really regret the way I've named them.
It doesn't really have any bearing on this issue, I will create an issue shortly when I have time to gather my thoughts about it.
Just found a warning when adding a block to the course report listing screen:
Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /var/git/peer-review/master/lib/blocklib.php on line 1594
Call Stack
- Time Memory Function Location
1 0.0003 662080Unknown macro: {main}
( ) ../report.php:0
2 0.0795 24029992 bootstrap_renderer->header( ) ../report.php:20
3 0.0795 24030384 bootstrap_renderer->__call( ) ../setuplib.php:0
4 0.0812 24116744 call_user_func_array ( ) ../setuplib.php:1245
5 0.0812 24117112 core_renderer->header( ) ../setuplib.php:0
6 0.0812 24117192 moodle_page->set_state( ) ../outputrenderers.php:607
7 0.0812 24117192 moodle_page->starting_output( ) ../pagelib.php:718
8 0.0817 24139272 block_manager->process_url_actions( ) ../pagelib.php:1206
9 0.0818 24139272 block_manager->process_url_edit( ) ../blocklib.php:1047
10 0.1201 34184536 block_edit_form->__construct( ) ../blocklib.php:1190
11 0.1201 34184536 moodleform->moodleform( ) ../edit_form.php:59
12 0.1208 34209736 block_edit_form->definition( ) ../formslib.php:152
13 0.1441 37525720 generate_page_type_patterns( ) ../edit_form.php:132
Hi Eloy,
I've had a look at this and it get's my +1.
I've made you the integrator as you've done the previous reviews and helped out with it etc...
Let me know if you don't have time and I will give it a final once over before putting it in myself.
Hi Sam, I'm moving this back to you as far as I assume it's fresher in your mind. So I will, for sure, be able to do other 5x integrations with the same effort.
If at the end of the day I've time to take a look to this I will (although I'm 99% sure I won't). Thanks for all the effort Andrew!
Tried logging in as a teacher, adding a block to a course page and then configuring the block. I obtained the following options:
- Any type of course main page
- Any page
- Any course page
- Any activity module page
The option 'Any activity module page' wasn't available previously. It doesn't seem a sensible option to me. If selected, the block doesn't appear on the course page but instead appears on every activity module page i.e. a lot of work to remove if added by accident! Thus I would recommend that this new option is removed.
Tried adding a block to a quiz activity and noticed the setting 'Display on page types' is missing. It is available when adding a block to an assignment activity and is also available when adding a block to a quiz activity in 2.0.3+.
Sorry I'm failing this issue as, after following the testing instructions 'check that the "display on page types" drop down containing a sensible set of options', I have found that the options are not sensible or in the case of quiz activities, missing entirely.
Many thanks, Helen!
A) Well, there are 2 (alternative) ways here:
1) The test instructions were way too general for this issue. So then, they must be better specified, so this can be retested and passed.
2) The test instructions are correct and the problems reported by Helen are related to this, so we must revert this or fix in in the next 16 hours.
B) And there is also one conclusion: The test: "check that the "display on" dropdown won't pass, no matter which issue is the responsible (I bet it was
MDL-26105 the one introducing the problem). But the fact is that the problem exists. One again, there are two alternatives:
1) Move the problems to recently created
MDL-27829 and ignore.
2) Fix the wrong behaviors in the next 16h.
So, guys, you've to decide about both A) and B) ASAP!
PS: Moodle 2.2 will stop accepting improvements and new features at least 1 month before release. All these issues open hours before release cannot happen again IMO (just a reflexion).
Eloy, you are correct. This world of hurt was introduced by
MDL-26105. I may print out a big banner that says "Thou shalt not rush through big changes just before release". It should probably go over my desk
I was going to do further bug fixing in
MDL-27893 but instead I think I will close that issue and do it against this one.
Comment by me in
Here are the various page types you can in the various areas. Ive added notes describing those that were present in 2.0.3 which don't exist in 2.1
front page:
(perfect match)
course-* any course page
course-view-* any type of course main page
mod-* any activity module page
* any page
2 additional options were available in 2.0.3
course-view-weeks any course main page in weeks format
course-view-weeks-* ?
no options given. Need to check what page type is being used.
additional options were available in 2.0.3
mod-*-view any main activity module page
mod-* any activity module page
* any page
course report (outline report used as example):
course-report-outline-* course activity report
course-report-* any course report
* any page
Additional options were available in 2.0.3
admin page:
front page only
front page and any pages added to the front page
entire site
This is clearly wrong. Here are the 2.0.3 options
my moodle
no options given. Need to check what page type is being used.
additional options were available in 2.0.3
"The option 'Any activity module page' wasn't available previously. It doesn't seem a sensible option to me. If selected, the block doesn't appear on the course page but instead appears on every activity module page i.e. a lot of work to remove if added by accident! Thus I would recommend that this new option is removed."
A block added to "any activity module page" doesnt appear on the course page but does appear on all module pages. Its still a single block so if you delete it from any of those activities its deleted from all of them. All the same, it is a little weird so unless theres real demand for it (there isnt afaik) its gone.
I spoke to Dongsheng about this issue. He was the original author of much of the code and I wasn't party to the original discussions about what was to be done. Apparently there was a conscious decision to discard some of the options as some of them were identical in practice.
If a block has been configured to use an option that has been removed it will continue to work. You just won't be able to add new blocks with the same page types setting. Editing a block set to a now removed page type could be a bit weird.
Adding a block to an activity, I used database for this example, causes the block to have its page type restriction set to mod-data-view. I suspect that the 2.0.3 set of options has been whittled down to a single option. As there is only a single option the drop down box is omitted from the block setting page.
Similarly, blocks added to the my moodle page automatically get the page type of my-index rather than the set of mostly pointless options. I believe this is by design.
SUMMARY: I believe are three things I have to do.
1) the set of page types presented for a block on a admin settings page is incorrect.
2) the testing instructions need to be improved.
3) add a block then manually edit the database to set its page type to be one of the removed page types. check that nothing bad happens.
#1 there is a new commit that fixes admin setting pages. https://github.com/andyjdavis/moodle/commit/800688bd1ef460c6447779d77780c16fc90348a7
#2 testing instructions updated.
#3 There was some code to deal with the removal of selectable page types however it was broken. Somewhat fixed now https://github.com/andyjdavis/moodle/commit/096928c79e4ed6f0145de4099b06cbeb6dbc9b62
There is a bit of an issue with dealing with blocks set to show on page types which we no longer allow the user to select. I added code to add the page type to the list of options but then you wind up with mod-data-view being added as it doesnt match mod-data-*
I then added some intelligence so that it realized that mod-data-view matches mod-data-* but then it stops adding course-view-weeks because it finds course-view-*.
Right now, it will add a new option if the block specifies a now non-selectable page type and it can find an appropriate string. Otherwise your block continues to work fine but when you open its settings the drop down box will just default to the first option.
Eloy, can you please have a look at the two commits in my last comment?
Helen, if Eloy's happy with them, once they're integrated this can be retested.
Oki, I guess you are talking about:
- 800688bd1ef460c6447779d77780c16fc90348a7 (admin)
- 096928c79e4ed6f0145de4099b06cbeb6dbc9b62 (the typo)
- d097ad564df6facad0e6cf8937b91610eeb61d62 (the display warning)
(the 3 last commits in the
MDL-27829_block_pagetype_master branch)
They look perfect, I'm going to re-integrate them to ignite a new testing round. Let's see how it behaves now.
Failing as two out of the four items listed in the testing instructions were not as described:
1. on a course main page:
any page
any course page
any type of course page - PASS
2. on an activity within a course:
you shouldn't get a drop down box at all as this is handled automatically - FAIL
Adding a block to an assignment activity, the block's settings had a display on page types dropdown with the following options:
Assignment module main page
Any assignment module page
Assignment module submissions page
Whilst I'm all in favour of simplifying the UI where possible, I'm concerned that removing the display on page types dropdown completely is taking things too far. Certain modules e.g. assignment and quiz have a variety of different pages. In Moodle 2.0 the new blocks functionality enabled blocks to be added to certain activity module pages but not all. For example, quiz included the following options:
This meant that a block could be added to mod/quiz/view.php but not mod/quiz/report.php for example.
I would recommend that we think carefully before removing functionality that people may be depending upon.
3. on a course report like the course activity report (Courses > course name > Reports > activity report):
any page
any course report
just the current course report ie "Course activity report" it should actually tell you the name of the report youre looking at) - FAIL
Adding a block to the activity completion report, the block's settings had a display on page types dropdown which included the option 'Progress course report' instead of 'Activity completion report'.
Also it stated 'The previously specified page type is no longer selectable. Please choose the most appropriate page type below.' No page type was specified previously, as the block was newly created!
I tried adding several different blocks to the activity completion report page, all with the same results.
4. on an admin setting page like Advanced features (Site administration > Advanced features):
The current admin setting page
Any admin setting page - PASS
About 2) Yes, really i think that the (previously existing) missing options in some activities like quiz, is going too far. It sounds to me that such feature was used also for deciding which pages in one attempt show a given block (note I'm not 100% sure about this, perhaps that is just a dream, lol). Also sounds reasonable to have access to all the subplugins available (quiz reports), like assignment types and so on.
About 3) yup, needs fixing too. Also the newly introduced "The previously specified page type is no longer ..." string... why is it showing there? One new block should not require any conversion from 2.0.x options, so shouldn't be shown. That escaped for sure to my review, apologizes.
So this really needs a certain degree of improvement. I think Helen has explained it perfectly in the previous comment, thanks!
re #2, each module returns a set of page types. If theres only 1 page type no option is displayed to the user. If there is more than 1 the drop down is displayed. I guess I need to go through each activity module and figure out which had options that were removed and out of those which need to go back in.
#3 Ive fixed up the strings. It was saying 'Progress course report' instead of 'Activity completion report' because that report is called the progress report internally but its called the activity completion report in the UI and I was confused. Eloy, there is a new commit in the branch.
The "The previously specified page type is no longer selectable. Please choose the most appropriate page type below." message appears to be being displayed sometimes when it shouldn't be. I'll figure out why.
2.0.3 assignment:
2.1 assignment:
I think that looks fairly reasonable. I think...
2.0.3 quiz:
2.1 quiz:
mod-quiz-edit (I just added this)
2.0.3 glossary:
2.1 glossary:
mod-glossary-view (I just added this)
mod-glossary-edit (I just added this)
2.0.3 lesson:
2.1 lesson:
mod-lesson-view (just added)
mod-lesson-edit (just added)
mod-lesson-report (could add)
mod-lesson-essay (could add)
Because lesson supports sub pages an additional drop down box appears containing "any page matching the above" and "this specific page". I do not pretend to entirely understand what this does.
Ive committed changes to add some more options (see the above posts). Also in that commit is changes to the course report page type list functions to prevent the incorrect display of the missing page type message.
So Eloy, there are two new commits now.
1) course report strings.
2) added page types that I think we want.
I'm going to continue comparing activities between 2.0.3 and 2.1 so a third commit may follow.
2.0.3 forum:
2.1 forum:
I think this looks ok.
2.0.3 wiki:
2.1 wiki:
I think this looks ok.
Added a third commit since the last round of integration and testing.
I thought all site admin pages have page types like admin-setting-* however ones exist like admin-registration-index so if you want a block to display on all of them it needs to be admin-*
After one more iteration we have found some problems that will be alleviated / fixed by these commits:
1) e5a863e55c3dcb8067cb5ce4bcdc8689bbda45b3 - fixed one course report string
2) ddaa9147895528f9baa5d6ec568f49c4db7a7220 - on creation of blocks, ensure that the pagetypepattern inserted is a valid one (that makes the message in the form to disappear for just created pages). Note this is only being applied to /mod pages, so other pages like course-report will continue showing the message. MDL-28150 (and MDL-28149) have been created about to decide if the /mod change should be applied ASAP to all the rest of pages. (this patch was peer-reviewed by Tim).
3) 3e16a2ca66ff2e05125e22b78fe990d9ee479b44 - clean one dupe comment in code
4) 715a5bb732b6d8c5875464ffd3b80c4ece5c5b0a - some more lang strings
And that's all, about to integrate them in order to perform one more testing...
Yes! Finally this test passes Many thanks to Andrew and Eloy.
Small problem of 'The previously specified page type is no longer selectable...' being displayed on a non mod page is mentioned in MDL-28150.


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After two defeats in as many matches, the Stormers face another daunting task against the Chiefs in Cape Town on Saturday.
After two defeats in as many matches, the Stormers face another daunting task against the Chiefs in Cape Town on Saturday.
To say that the men from the Cape are under pressure would be an understatement.
Last year they started their campaign with a six-match unbeaten run and coach Allister Coetzee knows they cannot afford another defeat even though it's still early in the tournament.
"We're back at Newlands, where we have passionate support behind us, and that should give us an extra push," he said.
"We've had a great week of preparation, but it will still be tough (against the Chiefs). We're playing against a side that has already scored one good win away from home this season.
"They have a great pack of forwards and if they dominate there they have backs that can tear any opposition defence apart."
A key component of the Stormers' march to the top of the table, during the league stage of last year's competition, was their forwards' ability to dominate at the scrums and line-outs.
The set-pieces have been amongst the main contributing factors to their poor start to the season and if they want to claim that elusive first win they will have to improve significantly in those departments.
The Chiefs are on a high after claiming convincing wins over the Highlanders and Cheetahs in their opening games.
They showed in those matches that they are determined to continue where they left off in 2012.
Playing away from their Hamilton home is no daunting task for the champions, who were the only New Zealand team in the competition that returned home from South Africa unbeaten in 2012, after notching wins over the Cheetahs and Sharks.
It's the Chiefs' first visit to Cape Town since 2009, when they won 28-14, but since then the Stormers have built up an impressive home record.
Since that defeat, against the team from Waikato, the Stormers have won 21 of their 27 home matches.
But those statistics will not bother the Chiefs who are a on a high and full of confidence.
They have a well-rounded team with a physical pack and potent attackers in their back-line.
Keep an eye on young All Blacks lock Brodie Retallick who has started the tournament like a house on fire.
The 21-year-old does his primary duties in the tight exchanges well but compliments that with great athletic ability and ball-handling skills.
It will be interesting to see how this clash pans out as these sides have contrasting styles.
The Stormers play conservatively with plenty of tactical kicking and a huge emphasis on forcing their opponents into making mistakes. The Chiefs, however, have an expansive game-plan and enjoy attacking from all areas which should make for a fascinating encounter.
Prediction: Despite going into this game without a win in the competition yet, the Stormers will be highly motivated as it's their first home game of the season. This aspect should pull them through and although the Chiefs will be no pushovers, the Stormers will win by five points!
The teams:
Stormers: 15 Joe Pietersen, 14 Gio Aplon, 13 Jean de Villiers (c), 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Elton Jantjies, 9 Nic Groom, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Rynhardt Elstadt, 6 Siya Kolisi, 5 Andries Bekker, 4 De Kock Steenkamp, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Deon Fourie, 1 Steven Kitshoff.
Replacements: 16 Tiaan Liebenberg, 17 Pat Cilliers, 18 Don Armand, 19 Nizaam Carr, 20 Dewaldt Duvenage, 21 Peter Grant, 22 Gerhard van den Heever.
Chiefs: 15 Gareth Anscombe, 14 Lelia Masaga, 13 Tim Nanai-Williams, 12 Charlie Ngatai, 11 Asaeli Tikoirotuma, 10 Aaron Cruden, 9 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 8 Liam Messam, 7 Sam Cane, 6 Tanerau Latimer, 5 Brodie Retallick, 4 Craig Clarke (c), 3 Ben Afeaki, 2 Mahonri Schwalger, 1 Pauliasi Manu.
Replacements: 16 Hika Elliot, 17 Ben Tameifuna, 18 Michael Fitzgerald, 19 Nick Crosswell, 20 Augustine Pulu, 21 Andrew Horrell, 22 Patrick Osborn.
Date: Saturday, March 9
Venue: Newlands, Cape Town
Kick-off: 17:05 (15:05 GMT)
Referee: Jaco Peyper (South Africa)


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Kaskaskia College will offer a "Food Service Sanitation Certification" course in July at the Nashville Education Center.
"Food Service Sanitation Certification" will be held on Saturday, July 19 and 26 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
This course is designed to provide the student with vital sanitary information applying to Food Service Management. Upon completion of the course students will be eligible to take the Food Sanitation Certification Examination administered by the Illinois Department of Public Health. The focus of the course will be on: Sanitation, Health, Microbiology, Personal Hygiene, Safe Food Handling, Management Responsibilities and the Sanitation Regulations of the State of Illinois.
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Target will drop prices at the expense of profits
Online sales grew by more than 30% in the fourth quarter, but store sales slid by 6.1% year over year.
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Any retailers who wanted to get better at what they do were in the right place at IRCE last week.
E-retailers who attended last week's 2010 Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition in Chicago came away with a ton of good information about all aspects of online selling. As conference chair, I attended sessions all day during all four days of the conference, and I was struck—and gratified—by both the high quality and the amount of the content.
Any retailers who wanted to get better at what they do were in the right place.
When my colleagues on our editorial staff and I conceived the conference agenda late last summer, our intent was to provide insight into how the economic recovery would increase the importance of online retailing and the major areas where e-retailers would need to invest today to be tomorrow's leaders.
I'm grateful to all 175 of our speakers for helping us fulfill that mission.
From Keynote Speaker Imran Jooma, head of Sears' e-commerce program, through every breakout track and workshop speaker, the e-commerce experts on the stage provided valuable insights into the current and future requirements for e-commerce success. Jooma's Keynote Address provided an interesting look into Sears' online initiatives today and tomorrow and, by implication, into how Sears and other large, committed retailers will raise the stakes for all online competitors. It laid the foundation for the rest of the conference—which was all about how to step up to meet that competition.
Other Featured Speakers—Geoff Robertson of Whitney Automotive Group, Dennis McEniry of Estee Lauder, Stephanie Tilenius of Google and Tony Ellison of Shoplet.com—demonstrated not only the range of retailers represented on the stage but also the variety of initiatives that those retailers are taking in order to be competitive. Whitney Automotive's Robertson talked about how the Internet rescued a fading, 100-year-old catalog brand. At the other end of the spectrum, Shoplet's Ellison detailed how the web allows a scrappy start-up to grab market share from multi-billion-dollar, well-established retail chains. Estee Lauder's McEniry provided excellent detail into how, with the right approach, the web creates a worldwide market for a brand. And Tilenius's comments underscored the importance of Google to e-retailing success.
All had a common message—you must be ready to move your e-commerce initiatives to the next level. In the hyper-competitive market that e-retailing has become, that means masterful implementation of the basics and a focus on the customer experience. Craig Johnson, CEO of Musician's Friend, nicely summed up today's and tomorrow's market in his remarks that opened the breakout track for CEOs and other top e-retail executives, which he chaired. "We are in a highly promotional market," he said. "There's been a big increase in the cadence of marketing. Price, timely delivery, etc., are all the price of admission these days. Retailers now must spend a lot of time trying to gain customers' loyalty."
Online is the future of retail and my hope was that IRCE would help all of our customers succeed in tomorrow's market. Thanks to the efforts that our speakers put into their content, I'm sure many of the conference attendees went home with blueprints for that success.
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An Impressionist Legacy
Monet to Moore
The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation
Alfred Sisley France 1839–1899 Un sentier aux Sablons [ A path at Les Sablons] 1883 oil on canvas 46.0 x 55.0 cm Promised Gift of the Sara Lee Corporation, Chicago to the National Gallery of Australia through the American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia (AFANG).
Just after World War II, in 1945, Nathan Cummings, a successful but by no means wealthy Canadian-born American businessman, was walking down a street in Paris. The city looked a little grim, compared to its sleek and prosperous image today, but it had survived the war, and Cummings must have felt wonderfully open that afternoon because he stopped to look at a small, intensely green landscape in a gallery window. He walked in, asked about the work, asked the price, and bought it. He had purchased Bountiful harvest 1893, by Camille Pissarro, a painter of whom he had never heard, Cummings later confessed. And this purchase started a collecting adventure — one might almost say a collecting addiction — that resulted in the exhibition at the National Gallery 0f Australia this winter. The Nathan Cummings Collection was born in 1945 and, by 1970, was so large and important that it was exhibited and published by the National Gallery, Washington DC, the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Louvre.
In 1980, almost exactly 35 years after Cummings's Paris purchase, a young man named John Bryan, the CEO of the corporation founded by Nathan Cummings, Sara Lee Corporation, paid a visit to the retired Mr Cummings in his New York apartment. Bryan had heard that Cummings was beginning to sell certain of his great works and he wanted to inquire whether the corporation might be allowed to purchase a select group of works from the Cummings Collection for the new executive offices in downtown Chicago. Neither man had very grandiose ideas - about this meeting. John Bryan wanted to have works of art in the offices that were at once high quality and appropriate, and what more appropriate source was there than the large and important private collection of a man who had made all his money from the corporation. And Nathan Cummings was probably happy that, in a simple business transaction, he could sell a group of works to the company he had founded. The meeting was successful and John Bryan came away with a commitment from Mr Cummings to sell works to the company (at estate values) for use in the decoration of the corporate offices. The Sara Lee Collection was born. Now, almost exactly 55 years after Nathan Cummings' stroll down the street in Paris, and 20 years after John Bryan's providential trip to New York, the international public is celebrating The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation.
This, the largest corporate gift to the arts in American history, is also the only major gift to international arts institutions by an American-based global company. In all, 52 works — one for each week of the year — are being given without restriction to 40 art museums, 25 in the United States of America, and 15 scattered through North America, Europe, the Middle Ease, Asia and Australia. We can safely say that, if anyone had suggested that this would happen to Nathan Cummings in 1945, or to John Bryan in 1980, either man would have responded with an amused chuckle.
But it HAS happened. How and why? To begin with, the curly purchases of the corporation in 1980 were gradually amended so that the initial 18 works eventually became a collection of 52 works. Secondly, the increase in monetary value of most of the works between their purchase and their gift has been so great that, just to keep the collection in the executive offices, had become an onerous responsibility for a company whose major function is to make money for its shareholders! Yet, this very increase in monetary value provided the corporation with a tax incentive to give at least part of the collection away. This, together with the negative publicity that would come from a high-profile sale, gave the corporation the opportunity to be truly creative in their distribution of the collection.
Three alternatives were considered: sale, part gift/part sale, and gift of the collection. Each was thoroughly explored during a meeting of the board, near the end of which the vote was unanimous to give the collection away. In the minds of the men and women on the board, it would benefit both the world and the corporation more if the collection were given to museums in areas in which the company has business ties than if it were sold. And so the process began. 'What was the process? First, the directors chose to recognise that three museums — the National Gallery, Washington DC, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and the Art Institute 0f Chicago — had exhibited the Cummings Collection in his lifetime. In recognition of this, each was given 'first pick' of a single work (fortunately, they didn't choose the same one!). Then, the Art Institute of Chicago was asked to choose an additional 11 works so as to keep a core of the collection in the city in which the company has been headquartered since the 1940s. This gift was announced at the Art Institute of Chicago at a press conference attended by the First Lady, Hillary Clinton.
Before making the announcement, we worked to select a group of major American museums in regions of the country in which Sara Lee Corporation had factories, offices, or a major corporate customer. Each of these institutions was presented with a choice of three or four works of art selected by me, the Curator of the Collection, to complement their permanent collection. In this way, each museum itself was involved in the gift, not merely the passive recipient of paternal corporate generosity. This phase completed, all of us involved with the gift 'took stock' and decided that a global corporation had global responsibilities. We also felt that the initial American gift, made in connection with the Millennium Gift to America program of the First Lady, Hillary Clinton, had overlooked certain institutions, many of whom had called or written requesting that they be added to the program. After a careful examination of these requests, in keeping with the principle that gifts should always be made in areas with a strong corporate base, the final group of museums was approached, again (except in the last three cases) with a choice among two or three works of art from the Sara Lee Collection. The entire program of gifts was completed by 15 March 1999, just in time for the announcement of the international tour of the collection in 1999—2000. Each museum will receive its gift at the close of the exhibition tour.
Yet, what is important about the Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation cannot be summarised with a story or two about Nathan Cummings and John Bryan, nor is it a complete story told with a brief summary of the gift itself Rather, itis the story of 52 individual works of art and of their new permanent homes in 40 museums throughout the world. Fortunately, the collection itself is of very high quality. Each among the 52 works is of 'museum quality', meaning that there was no necessity to persuade reluctant directors to accept a gift. Secondly, the works span a period in European (mostly Parisian) painting and sculpture from 1870—1970, in which artistic production was at a very high level. The earliest painting is an 1872 portrait by Claude Monet of his first son, Jean, riding a mechanical horse. With its prominent signature and date and its art historical resonance with works by Goya and Velasquez, it has undeniable iconic power. This was immediately recognised by Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum, which, in addition to works by Goya and Velasquez, owns a portrait of the entire Monet family in the same country garden painted two years later by the artist's friend, Edouard Monet. Where better for the Monet to be? And the latest work in the collection, Henry Moore's Moon head of 1964, was snapped up by the newly created Singapore Art Museum, where it will hr the first work by Moore in what will eventually be the finest collection of modern art in Southeast Asia. Appropriately enough, Moore also created an immense reclining figure for a public plaza less than half a mile from the museum. And, between the Monet and the Moore, were 50 works of art, each of which had to be placed in a perfect home — a situation rather more like human adoption than a simple gift. As a long-time museum professional, the process was fascinating for me. At first, I imagined that each director or curator would choose the same work that I myself would have chosen from the group selected for their particular museum. I confess to having been 'correct' a little more than half the time, but of being completely wrong in others. In two casts, none of the choices was quite right, so we went back into other 'available' works in the collection to make a perfect fit. And, in each case, the results matched everyone's desires.
In certain cases, the works selected were the first in the institution by that artist. In others, the selection was made to strengthen existing holdings. In still others, a work was selected because it represented a style, school or period in the history of modern European art not represented in the permanent collection of the institution. Some examples might do: the Museum of Fine Arts Houston immediately chose an Edgar Degas Russian dancer because they already own a highly finished Russian dancer pastel in which the same figure was used by Degas. The National Gallery in London chose the more finished of the two Sara Lee Russian dancers by Degas to add a major late pastel to their collection of more than a dozen works by the artist. The Dallas Museum those a superb painting by Jean Metzinger to complement three recently acquired Cubist works by Braque, Picasso and Gris.
What of the National Gallery of Australia? For Brian Kennedy and his staff, the choice was not difficult. Whereas the permanent collection is rich in 20th-century European and American painting, there are only two works by Claude Monet to represent the achievement of Impressionism. What better than to add a classic 'Impression' (rapidly painted easel painting) of a suburban landscape made when the movement was at its height, by Alfred Sisley, an Englishman who spent his entire life in France. Anyone can immediately recognise the logic of this choice and can see precisely why the smaller and fresher of the two Sisleys (the second work, which is going to the Los Angeles County Museum, was painted largely in the studio) was a MUCH better choice for Canberra. A path at Les Sablons is a TRUE Impression and can represent that most hallowed modern movement perfectly.
We at Sara Lee are pleased that we will be able to introduce in Australia the new book about the collection, lavishly illustrated and published by Yale University Press. We want the book to serve as a permanent record of the collection and its gift, and we want it to be as beautiful a keepsake as possible. Once the exhibition has closed at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 2000, these works of art will be dispersed to their new permanent homes as The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation. Sisley's A path at Les Sablons will finally arrive in its new Australian home.
Richard Brettell
Professor of Aesthetic Studies, the University of Texas at dalla, Curator of the Sara Lee Corporation Collection


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Skip to comments.Judicial misconduct alleged in North Carolina (DukeLax Frame tie-in)
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An extraordinary legal shouting match has broken out in Durham, N.C., between the countys beleaguered local district attorney and its senior Superior Court judge, who has chastised the D.A. in open court.
In a harshly worded court filing, Durham Dist. Atty. Tracey Cline accused Judge Orlando F. Hudson Jr. of "moral turpitude, dishonesty and corruption" and complained that the judge "harbors animosity" toward her and has engaged in "retaliatory conduct" and "gross misconduct."
Court filings are typically written in dry, obtuse legal argot. But Clines filing contains unusually accusatory and vituperative language replete with fractured syntax and spelling errors. She wrote that Hudsons actions "striped away" her rights, and that credibility of the criminal justice system is a "causality" of Hudsons conduct. She described Hudsons behavior as "without responsibility or conscious."
Saying crime victims have been "emotionally and relentlessly repeatedly raped" by the judges rulings, Cline said she will attempt to have Hudson removed from overseeing criminal cases. She also wrote that she has filed a misconduct complaint against Hudson with the state commission that oversees judges.
Cline's filing, submitted late Thursday, accuses Hudson of "intentional and malicious acts with GROSS UNCONCERN for this conduct and done in BAD FAITH."
Hudson, the senior resident judge in Durham since 1995, has dismissed murder charges in two cases prosecuted by Clines office. The judge has ruled that Cline "flagrantly violated" a defendants rights in one case, in which Hudson said Cline deliberately misstated facts in court. Cline was elected district attorney in 2008, after former Dist. Atty. Mike Nifong was removed from office and disbarred for falsely accusing Duke University lacrosse players of raping a stripper. Cline was reelected last year after running unopposed.
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Yep. That's how we roll here in Zimbabwe With a Ballpark.
I sat on a jury here four years ago. The Durham PD and the DA took what looked like a slam-dunk prosecution for possession of crack with intent to distribute and totally blew it. It took us less than an hour to find the defendant innocent on all charges, thanks to the DPD's and FBI's utter incompetence. The DPD, the DA's office, the judges, all of them seem to be either corrupt or incompetent. But that's to be expected in the land of one-party rule and where race trumps everything.
Also, we apparently elect DAs that spell at a seventh-grade level when they aren't being corrupt and pandering.
ATV. (Always the Victim)
Perhaps they are both corrupt and incompetent.
Why would any sane person live anywhere new a big American liberal city?
La de da Da Judge, La de Da da DA, La de Da da da.,
One of the stupidest things I ever did in the 1970s was to help a young black guy fill out an application to be a teacher in some miserable Deep South school district looking for black applicants. He got the job.
He was a very sweet person, was actually graduating from a local college...but had fifth grade writing skills at best and had probably only gotten through college by having friendly white people do his work for him.
I thought he might be good for the kids because he was a genuinely nice person. But sadly, I think that I probably just helped perpetuate black quasi-literacy, to the great detriment of people who probably would have been smart enough to actually make it on their own if they had been taught by qualified people (of any color) and held to the same standards as people of any color.
Where did these clowns get their law degrees?
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somewhere in soCal, the heart of the liberal jury system
I once helped a Black Lawyer fill out a fairly routine federal tax form. He had a degree from Yale and is now a federal judge.
The guy actually wasn't dumb but I still thought it odd that a lawyer needed help filling out a form.
One sentence to sum it up:
"A Pox On Both Their Houses"
Nifong expected them to quietly settle out of court, after he and the stripper dragged them through public media hell for their own purposes.
The men fought back.
It is very important to note that the accused were not merely adjudicated "not guilty", they were judged to be innocent, and were cleared of all charges.
They were also proclaimed by the court to be victims of serious prosecutorial abuse, committed by the DA, Nifong.
IMHO, the same insane mentality is in play against Herman Cain.
He needs to fight back hard against the false political premise that unproven "accusations" equal truth,or justice.
I don't think that the Rick Perry comparison is appropriate, but the quotes say plenty about Cline. Click the images showing the quotes to enlarge them.
Seriously, how do these people, and for that matter, Barack and Michelle Obama, pass the bar exam? Is there rampant cheating going on? Do they pay others to take the exam for them? Does a sympathetic political ally "fix" the results? I really cannot figure it out.
Yep. Thats how we roll here in Zimbabwe With a Ballpark.
A very apt description ... a real side splitter!
I've heard of cases or laws being thrown out because of a misplaced comma, I guess these spelling errors are okay though?
The Grammar Police should arrest that crazy lady. lol
NC Central School of Law. In Durham of course.
Just wow. This woman is actually a District Attorney. I wonder about the competency of her personnel.
The real question would seem to be How do they pass the bar exam?
Pathetic. She has a law degree?
Some updates.
Published Sat, Nov 19, 2011 03:49 AM
State Bar looking at Cline
BY J. ANDREW CURLISS - firstname.lastname@example.com
Judge says state violated the rights of Dorman
11.18.11 - 07:30 pm
DA calls for Hudson to be removed from Durham cases
11.18.11 - 07:02 pm
It's called the fruits of affirmative action Judge.
I was thinking the same. How do they pass the bar? Isn't the bar exam supposed to be blind to the person's identity?
Most likely Carolina Central University, alma mater of Crystal Magnum. Central is a Black state university in Durham. Having met a number of people who graduated from there particularly the education dept I think it needs a serious revamping if not closed.
Most likely Carolina Central University, alma mater of Crystal Magnum. Central is a Black state university in Durham. Having met a number of people who graduated from there particularly the education dept I think it needs a serious revamping if not closed.
Most likely Carolina Central University, alma mater of Crystal Magnum. Central is a Black state university in Durham. Having met a number of people who graduated from there particularly the education dept I think it needs a serious revamping if not closed.
See my 28, 29, or 30.
Actually, we here at FRee Republic recognized the endemic rot of the Durham "Justice System" 5 1/2 years ago - in the spring of 2006 - when the attempted lynching of Colin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann, and Dave Evans took place.
What's amazing is that the malefactors were able to keep it so well hidden since then.
She could've saved a whole bunch of time typing up that brief and just file it as a one-page document saying "OH NO YOU DI'NT!".
Between Cline and Hudson, who would win the spelling Bee?
Geithner could have used your help.
That was an astounding response by any group of people. I think the FREEPERS were the most perceptive and insightful of watchers defending the players. I sent an e-mail to their support site and informed them that I thought there was a lot of good ideas and support here. I've been suspicious of the system in Durham since then and it looks like not a whole lot changed. But the people get what they vote for I guess.
Cline says she's facing a conspiracy
District Attorney Tracey Cline continued her attack on Durham's top judge in a lengthy court filing made public Friday that accused Orlando Hudson of heading a conspiracy to discredit and punish her.
In a 285-page motion packed with passionate and personal attacks, Cline asked Hudson to remove himself from all pending criminal cases in Durham because of his rulings against Cline in several high-profile cases.
Hudson has the "reprobate mind of a monarch" who inappropriately tried "to intimidate, control and dictate the discretion of the district attorney."
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Alto Vineyards Winery & Tasting Room
Nestled in the Shawnee Hills of Southern Illinois, sits Alto Vineyards, the region's oldest, most award-winning winery. Founded in 1988 by Guy Renzaglia, Alto introduced a new industry to the area, starting a movement that has altered its landscape. Today, Alto Vineyards shares the region with 11 other wineries along the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail, in the state's first federally recognized grape-growing region, known as an American Viticultural Area (AVA). While continuing to produce some of Illinois' finest wine, Alto opened a new tasting room in Champaign, IL, and began distributing throughout the state and surrounding regions. Celebrating 25 years in business in 2013, Alto constructed a new, modern tasting room next to the vineyard in Alto Pass. Resting atop the new facility lies an outdoor deck for customers to take in the view on one of southern Illinois' oldest vineyards – a truly breathtaking sight that exemplifies the beauty of the Shawnee National Forest and Illinois wine country. We invite you to visit our winery and tasting rooms to experience the tradition of Alto Vineyards.
CITY:Alto Pass
Located on the northeast corner of Johnston City, this 35-acre lake includes a paved boat ramp for fishing, walking path, and campground. Only electric motors and canoes are permitted. You will find largemouth bass, bluegill, redear sunfish, black and white crappie, and channel catfish in this small reservoir. Pedal boat rentals are available from July-September.
CITY:Johnston City
A national symbol of faith, this 111-foot-tall cross, when illuminated at night, can be seen over an area of 7,500 square miles atop the most prominent elevation in Southern Illinois. The cross is surrounded by the Shawnee National Forest.
CITY:Alto Pass
This semi-private, nine-hole course features a historic three-story clubhouse, surrounded by Lake Moses. Host of the annual Benton Gold Cup, the course also features a well-stocked pro shop, driving range, rental clubs and carts, and a golf pro on site.
Full-service campground with pool, pavilion, grocery shop, RV supplies and laundry available. Modem hookups. Shopping, golf, Rend Lake water activities (1½ mi.), 20 shaded tent sites.
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A private, family-oriented RV campground with 120 sites from tents to huge recreational vehicles. Peaceful, wooded setting close to all the activities at Rend Lake.
Visitors can canoe from Riverside Park in Murphysboro to Rattlesnake Ferry in LaRue Pine Hills.
Anchoring the eastern end of the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail, our winery offers you "The Romance of Italy in the Hills of Southern Illinois". We are open year-round, 7 days a week, to provide great Illinois wine. Please join us for wine tasting, a variety of hearty sandwiches, soups, pizzas, and snacks, as well as wine-alternatives such as beer and non-alcoholic beverages. Come enjoy our large indoor seating area and two beautiful outdoor terraces that overlook our vineyard and the rolling countryside.
Right in the middle of Energy you will find Bruce Park. A nicely manicured 8 acre park with trees, pavilions, ball diamonds and soccer fields. The park is a great place to take your family on an outing or for your kids to participate in local sports. While you are there, take a look at the military memorial. There is also a monument with the bell from a schoolhouse that stood on the site.
Located 1.7 miles west of Illinois Route 148 on Grassy Road just south of the Crab Orchard Wildlife Refuge. Waterfowl hunting on 960 acres. Guides available. One of the top three harvest clubs in the southern Illinois quota zone.
A retreat center and summer residential camp with 1 and 2 week summer sessions for 2nd-8th graders just 2 miles southeast of Rend Lake.
This beautiful Carterville park includes a community center, baseball field, skate park, walking path that surrounds a fishing pond, volleyball courts (sand), playground, pavilion, gazebo, and memorial garden. Ballfields and shelters can be reserved.
Located in the Shawnee National Forest, this 1,750 acre lake has 40 miles of shoreline, a maximum depth of 60 feet, and 10hp limit on boat motors.
A 10-mile trail on the west side of Cedar Lake from north to south. Encircles Little Cedar Lake.
Located between Marion and Carbondale, this 18-hole, semi-private par 70 course features lush zoysia fairways and a practice area with target greens. Crab Orchard made Golf Digest's 2008/09 "Best Places to Play" list.
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge is located primarily in Williamson County, with small extensions into eastern Jackson and northeastern Union counties of southern Illinois. At almost 44,000 acres and with three lakes (Crab Orchard, Little Grassy, and Devils Kitchen,) endless opportunities abound for watching wildlife, hiking nature trails, photography, swimming, fishing from the bank or by boat, and hunting. Four seasonally operational campgrounds are open from April-October and offer full hook-up, water, electric, or non-electric sites. Refuge staff and volunteers at the visitor center welcome visitors and sightseers 7 days a week from 8am-4:30pm. Visitor activities such as guided hikes, bald eagle tours, and monthly F.U.N. programs help connect families with the diversity of flora and fauna that Southern Illinois has to offer. The Refuge provides many opportunities for wildlife-dependent outdoor recreation for the nature lover in us all.
This 810 acre lake with a maximum depth of 90 feet and a 24-mile shoreline is part of the Crab Orchard Refuge. It is stocked with rainbow and brown trout and provides largemouth bass, bluegill, sunfish, crappie, channel catfish, bullheads, and carp. Boat ramps are available. Boats have a 10-horsepower limit. Camping is available.
Locally owned sporting goods store opened in 1980. Specializes in hunting and fishing accesories, apparel, and much more. Find decoys, ammunition, and archery supplies all in one stop.
Egyptian Hills Campground & Marina
Eastern side of Lake of Egypt. Facility offers full service, boat rentals, restaurants, bait, tackle, guide service, launching and RV rentals.
CITY:Creal Springs
Egyptian Hills Resort is your passport to the Ultimate outdoor family vacation. Whether you are into waterskiing, wakeboarding, tubing, sport fishing, or pleasure boating; the Lake of Egypt is a boater's paradise. All within a stone's throw of your cabin. Our cabins and chalets sit next to soothing, running streams and waterfalls – with breathtaking lake front views. Each cabin/chalet features a full kitchen, living room, large deck, full bedroom, 2 loft bedrooms and full bath.
CITY:Creal Springs
Opened in 1986, this indoor rink is open seasonally from August to May. Public skating sessions are the main attraction but the rink is available for private parties as well. Large arcade, snack bar and Skate Shop on site.
Kids will enjoy three huge bouncers, two in-ground trampolines, and an awesome jungle gym with a ball pit and a 16-foot slide. Also offers dance, cheer, tumbling, wrestling, and gymnastics classes.
The lush vegetation of the 2,430-acre Ferne Clyffe State Park, located near the small town of Goreville, hides the fact that directly below the soil, a vast area of rock formations exists. The two main areas for rock climbing include Big Rocky Hollow and the Cedar Bluff areas. Cedar Bluff offers both traditional and sport climbing, including several short, but difficult, routes in the class 12 to 13 range that appeal to experienced climbers. Other routes include top-rope access and solid anchors that appeal to new climbers.
Stop on by and enjoy the friendly, peaceful atmosphere. Spacious shaded sites. See an abundance of wildlife. Also available: wireless internet, L-P gas fill, dump station, large pull through, 31 full hook-up sites, 12 pull through sites, (20, 30 and 50) amps available. Public access to: city park, lighted walk path, shower house, laundry facilities/handicap accessible. Cabin rentals available.


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The winner of the Caldecott Medal is "A Ball for Daisy" by Chris Raschka. The Caldecott committee says it is the story "of an irrepressible little dog whose most prized possession is accidentally destroyed". The colors and illustrations are bright and bold and in a very kid-like style.
The first honor book is "Blackout" by John Rocco. It takes place in a large city where the electricity goes out one night – see people's first reactions and then find out how they cope. This link will take you to the author's website to view his Book trailer – very interesting. http://roccoart.com/blackout.html
The second honor book is "Grandpa Green" by Lane Smith. I love the whimsical illustrations in this book.
The third honor book is "Me....Jane" by Patrick McDonnell. This is a story about a young Jane Goodall – and the beginnings of her love for chimpanzees.
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MAGTF Intelligence Officer
Entry-level Marine Intelligence Officers will be given specific training within one of the following disciplines: Ground, Human Source, Signals or Air Intelligence. These officers will gain unique opportunities for leadership, deployment and training. Once the rank of major is attained, all of the disciplines merge together as the officer becomes a Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Intelligence Officer.
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After your first tour, you may be assigned to a billet available to all officers, such as recruiting duty, instructor duty at The Basic School or series commander at one of the Marine Corps Recruit Depots. Later in your career, you may be assigned to Expeditionary Warfare School or seek an advanced degree. This pattern of assignment is designed to expand your knowledge of the Marine Corps and overall strategic operations before you take on increased responsibility within your MOS.
After three years of experience and completion of MIOC (MAGTF Intelligence Officer Course), you will be designated as a MAGTF Intelligence Officer, with leadership opportunities in both joint and Marine Corps billets.
MAGTF refers to the unique four-part structure that organizes Marine Corps operating forces. This framework brings together Aviation, Ground and Logistics Combat elements under a central Command element. The result is a flexible, combined-arms unit with the capabilities to conduct the Marine Corps' full range of operations, from humanitarian aid and disaster relief to projection of power from the sea.
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Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem
Lucian A. Bebchuk
Harvard Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 17, pp. 71-92, 2003
Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 421
This paper provides an overview of the main theoretical elements and empirical underpinnings of a managerial power approach to executive compensation. Under this approach, the design of executive compensation is viewed not only as an instrument for addressing the agency problem between managers and shareholders but also as part of the agency problem itself. Boards of publicly traded companies with dispersed ownership, we argue, cannot be expected to bargain at arm's length with managers. As a result, managers wield substantial influence over their own pay arrangements, and they have an interest in reducing the saliency of the amount of their pay and the extent to which that pay is de-coupled from managers' performance. We show that the managerial power approach can explain many features of the executive compensation landscape, including ones that many researchers have long viewed as puzzling. Among other things, we discuss option plan design, stealth compensation, executive loans, payments to departing executives, retirement benefits, the use of compensation consultants, and the observed relationship between CEO power and pay. We also explain how managerial influence might lead to substantially inefficient arrangements that produce weak or even perverse incentives.
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JEL Classification: D23, G32, G34, G38, J33, J44, K22, M14, M41
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We're into the fifth round of Super Rugby and only two teams remain unbeaten in what has been a tight tussle between the fifteen teams.
We're into the fifth round of Super Rugby and only two teams remain unbeaten in what has been a tight tussle between the fifteen teams thus far.
The top three teams on the overall ladder are made up of the undefeated Highlanders and Stormers, with the Reds in third after suffering their first loss of the season against the Sharks.
Only the Rebels remain winless, however have managed to avoid last place thanks to picking up two losing bonus points and four more points thanks to an early bye.
Occupying last spot are the Force, who will be looking to trade places with their Aussie rivals on the ladder when the two teams go head to head in Melbourne.
But before the battle Down Under commences, All Blacks Piri Weepu and Ma'a Nonu face their old team-mates for the first time in Auckland when the Blues host the Hurricanes.
The Chiefs have a bye this weekend.
Blues v Hurricanes
Eden Park, Auckland
There will be plenty of pride at stake when these two sides clash in their Kiwi derby this weekend.
Both teams are exponents of the running game and will be determined to come out on top in this battle between two of the powerhouses of New Zealand rugby.
The Blues are already at the crossroads at this early stage of the competition after some indifferent performances in their previous matches of the campaign.
The Aucklanders – who were amongst the favourites to lift the trophy at the start of the competition – have made a poor start with only an away win against the Bulls in Round Three to show for their efforts.
They started the tournament with defeats to the Crusaders and Chiefs before the win against the Bulls but last weekend they suffered another defeat against the Stormers in Cape Town.
One thing is certain. The Blues cannot give a repeat of their lacklustre performance from last week when they face this Hurricanes team, who have surprised most rugby enthusiasts with their exciting style of play this season.
Blues coach Pat Lam has been unlucky with injuries and will be without the services of captain Keven Mealamu, who left the field with a calf strain against the Stormers, as well as fellow All Blacks Jerome Kaino (shoulder), Isaia Toeava (hip) and Anthony Boric (neck).
Lam suffered another setback when flanker Luke Braid was banned for three weeks for striking Stormers youngster Nizaam Carr last weekend while another All Black, Rene Ranger is serving the second week of a two-match suspension.
The Hurricanes were amongst the favourites to finish with the wooden spoon at the start of the tournament after several high-profile players left the franchise for greener pastures.
But coach Mark Hammet's charges have surprised so far and were competitive in their opening defeat to the Stormers before registering impressive away wins over the Lions and Western Force, which made other teams in the competition sit up and take notice.
And last weekend they were desperately unlucky not to register their third successive victory when they lost narrowly to the table-topping Highlanders in Wellington.
Amongst the high-profile players who have left the Hurricanes are World Cup-winning All Blacks duo, Ma'a Nonu and Piri Weepu who will both be in the Blues' starting line-up. Nonu was surplus to Hammett's requirements at the Hurricanes and when he made the move to Auckland his good friend Weepu decided to follow him.
Plenty will be expected from them against their old team-mates and the Hurricanes will be on a high alert against their former stalwarts.
Prediction: Although both sides come off defeats, the Hurricanes are in the better position as they played their last match in Wellington while the Blues arrived in Auckland earlier this week after a strenuous journey from Cape Town. This could swing things in the visitors' favour. Hurricanes by five!
The teams:
Blues: 15 Lachie Munro, 14 David Raikuna, 13 Benson Stanley, 12 Ma'a Nonu, 11 Rudi Wulf, 10 Piri Weepu, 9 Alby Mathewson, 8 Brad Mika, 7 Daniel Braid (c), 6 Chris Lowrey, 5 Ali Williams, 4 Liaki Moli, 3 Charlie Faumuina, 2 Tom McCartney, 1 Tony Woodcock.
Replacements: 16 James Parsons, 17 Tevita Mailau, 18 Filo Paulo, 19 Sean Polwart, 20 Gareth Anscombe, 21 Michael Hobbs, 22 Hadleigh Parkes.
Hurricanes: 15 Andre Taylor, 14 Cory Jane, 13 Conrad Smith (c), 12 Tim Bateman, 11 Julian Savea, 10 Beauden Barrett, 9 TJ Perenara, 8 Victor Vito, 7 Jack Lam, 6 Faifili Levave, 5 Jason Eaton, 4 Jeremy Thrush, 3 Jeffery Toomaga-Allen, 2 Dane Coles, 1 Ben May/Michael Bent.
Replacements: 16 Motu Matu'u, 17 Michael Bent/Tristan Moran, 18 James Broadhurst, 19 Brad Shields, 20 Chris Eaton, 21 Daniel Kirkpatrick, 22 Charlie Ngatai.
Kick-off: 19:35 (06:35 GMT)
Referee: Steve Walsh (Australia)
Rebels v Western Force
AAMI Stadium, Melbourne
The Rebels will be aiming to get their first win under their belts when they face a resurgent Force side in this Australian derby.
The Melbourne-based franchise are still winless after four rounds of the competition although they came desperately close to breaking their duck against the Cheetahs last weekend.
They lost that fixture 33-26 after the South African side scored a try in the dying moments of the match and will now target their clash with the Force to register their first win of the season.
The pressure is building on the tournament's newest franchise to get that elusive win or else their campaign could go from bad to worse as they still have several stronger sides to face later in the season.
A lot will depend on the form of James O'Connor, who contributed 21 points in the defeat to the Cheetahs.
The Wallaby utility back made the move to Melbourne from Perth during the off-season and will be highly motivated to do well against his former side.
O'Connor and fellow new recruit and former Waratahs star Kurtley Beale were expected to be the Rebels' saviours but things haven't panned out as many rugby enthusiasts expected.
Beale has been struggling with a leg injury and only played in one match in the campaign so far.
The Rebels have the ability to compete with the top teams, as they showed in their 11-6 defeat to the Reds two weeks ago, but failure to convert try-scoring opportunities have cost them dearly up to now. If they want to beat the Force, this is an area of their game which they must improve.
The Force surprised most enthusiasts when they beat the Waratahs 21-20 in Sydney last week to get their show on the road.
With their first win out of the way, the Perth-based franchise will be keen to repeat last week's performance to build momentum ahead of their matches against the high-riding Reds and Chiefs, which takes place on successive weekends in Perth after this encounter.
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