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today I started my very own project. I created my own star wars character. He already has his own story. in short, he is a mandalorian. his father was a clonetrooper that deserted from a mission near bespin. he met his wife on mandalore.
with the fall of the republic, somehow the empire got to find out about them and killed the clonetrooper and his wife. They took away their son and handed him to the emperor, who was going to make him his secret apprentice.
the character design will be following:
- dark mandalorian style plated-armor
- black sith robe
- two lightsabers (one in red, one in yellow)
- e11 blaster (he got it from his father)
I have an early cad design from the armor ready to show you. maybe you got some ideas to improve the look a bit more?
the helmet will be based on the boba fett design.
what do you think?


text: Hello everyone. I am just writing a message to let everyone know that early this morning I was taken to the hospital. I was having some major complications. Turns out I have contacted Salmonella from eating a chick-fila sandwich. I just got home and I have had lots of IV fluids pumped in me along with some meds that have made very extremely droggy. I'm still running a fever and having pains. I should be back to 100% in a few days. Just keep me in your thoughts. Thanks.:love

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Search Analytics for Your Site; Conversations With Your Customers by Louis Rosenfeld is a book with a very clear target audience in mind. It is aimed primarily at those who work in user experience, information architecture, content, design and usability. That's right – anyone who works with a website and is responsible for how users interact with the site. Whether it is in relation to what they read, or how they find it – those working in these areas will have no trouble finding something to take away from this book that will assist them in their daily activities.Search Analytics for Your Site is all about learning how search analytics can help you to get the most out of analysing your search query data, how to gain insight from this data, and how to measure performance against pre-defined goals. In addition to this topics such as tips for improving performance and also improving navigation, metadata and content are also covered in the later chapters of the book, providing valuable assistance in utilising the data that has been gathered through the process of analysis.The publishers state that "This book shows you how to use search analytics to carry on a conversation with your customers: listen to and understand their needs, and improve your content, navigation and search performance to meet those needs" and I agree wholeheartedly. The author takes the time to explain the differences between Search Site Analytics (and designing and building to optimise performance) and Search Engine Optimisation and states that "Search engine optimisation looks for ways to make Web-wide searches (for example, via Google and Bing) more likely to find your site. SSA looks for ways to improve how searching works on your site, using your site's own search engine. That said, SSA and SEO share much in common, and can influence each other." This is important to remember as SSA can be used later on as a tool in order to assist in SEO, as it provides further insight into the keywords contained in the site that are of interest to users and can be focussed on in natural SEO and CPC search marketing.The book is written in a simple style, and I was particularly impressed that the publisher has made many of the charts and diagrams used in the book available via flickr, for use when explaining the topics discussed in the book to colleagues in internal presentations etc. This could prove to be invaluable if coming up against resistance internally caused by a lack of understanding of the topic.All in all I would recommend this book as a useful guide should you work in any of the earlier identified roles. It is not a terrifically exciting subject to read up on, however, what it lacks in glamour it more than makes up for in importance. Packed with useful information and written in an authoritative but not patronising tone, the book should act as a solid reference for those looking to add a little more science to their user experience works, and as such include some quantitative data to augment your qualitative user research.
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So, I've had two weeks to familiarize myself with the CZ97B, and I have to say I am very impressed. I was initially concerned with grip size, but its not bad at all. A smidge big, but different grips will surely take care of that. Sight acquisition is quick, and the 97 feels balanced to me. Upon racking the slide, it felt real smooth, as did the safety and the mag release. Fit and finish is nothing short of fantastic, no play in the slide to frame fit, and I love the mat poly finish for low glare. Also, the poly is more durable as well. I'm not a huge fan of the trigger, as it seems to be long in single action, and stagey in double action. However, I do plan to have the trigger worked after I take it out a couple times just to see how much I need done to it. Upon loading the mags, which I believe are Mecgars, the 10 rounders are VERY difficult to load starting at the 7th. I loaded them to 7 a couple days ago, and will try for 8. Eventually I hope to get max rounds in them. But we will see.
After taking it out to the range for the first time, I will post my results here to complete the review of this fine pistol. I plan on doing so within the next couple weeks as time allows. I will have a very detailed report to offer including ammo, distance, time of day and conditions.


text: Worcester teachers to protest forced displacement of staff Education Associaton of Worcester President Len Zalauskas is asking MTA members and their supporters who live in or near Worcester to join EAW members this Thursday, May 3, at 6 pm at Worcester City Hall to protest the mass displacement of staff at Claremont Academy. Worcester teachers will be picketing to protest the school superintendent's decision to require all staff at Claremont Academy to reapply for their jobs with only a quarter of them guaranteed a position at the school. "This is not the way to do business in Worcester or any other place in Massachusetts," said Zalauskas. "This sets back labor-management relations tremendously." The picketing will be held outside unless it is raining, in which case the protestors will move into the building. Students, parents and staff at the Claremont have held several protests already opposing Superintendent Melinda Boone's insistence that staff be required to reapply for their jobs. A protest scheduled for April 26 was cancelled after some progress was made in reaching a compromise and talks were scheduled for Monday, April 30. Zalauskas said that Monday's talks broke down because Boone insisted that all staff must reapply and only 25 percent are guaranteed a job in the school. Zalauskas said that Boone's pledge that teachers displaced by this action will be moved to other schools in Worcester doesn't address the concern that teachers at the Claremont are committed to their students and to one another and believe it is bad policy to make such sweeping changes. Boone's decision comes just days after the release of a report commissioned by the state found there is no hard evidence that replacing half the teaching staff makes a significant difference in student achievement. The EAW has filed a "prohibited practices" charge contending that the district has no legal authority for its actions. While districts have more discretion in making personnel decisions at underperforming (Level 4) schools, the same is not true of Level 3 schools, such as Claremont. Zalauskas said that the superintendent's unilateral imposition of this change is bad for morale of staff and students alike and will set back the cause of improving student achievement. Teachers at Claremont Academy issued a statement on Tuesday which said in part, "The faculty at Claremont Academy remains committed to supporting the academic, social and civic development of our students. As one of 22 Level 3 schools in the district we continue to work diligently to implement our school-wide focus on high standards for both ourselves and our students so that we do not fall under federal Level 4 mandates. We have always had profound respect for the privilege of educating the students at Claremont Academy and we will not waiver from our promise to the Main South community."


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ARSC T3D Users' Newsletter 33, April 28, 1995
The scalar_fastmath Routines of benchlib
In newsletter #29 (3/31/95) I announced the availability of benchlib on the ARSC T3D. The sources for these libraries are available on the ARSC ftp server in the file:
pub/submissions/libbnch.tar.ZThe compiled libraries are also available on Denali in:
/usr/local/examples/mpp/lib/lib_32.a /usr/local/examples/mpp/lib/lib_scalar.a /usr/local/examples/mpp/lib/lib_util.a /usr/local/examples/mpp/lib/lib_random.a /usr/local/examples/mpp/lib/lib_tri.a /usr/local/examples/mpp/lib/lib_vect.aand the sources are available in: /usr/local/examples/mpp/src. In Newsletter #30 (4/7/95) I described the "pref" routine of lib_util.a, in this newsletter I cover the contents of lib_scalar.a. This library provides replacements for six of the Fortran intrinsics and an additional three routines that compute useful mathematical functions. The replacement routines are: sqrt, alog, cos, sin, exp and exponentiation (the ** operator). By using the same name as the library routine in /mpp/lib/libm.a, the user need only link in this library and the calls to these intrinsics will be satisfied with versions from the new library instead of the default library.
The three additional routines are:
sqrti - computes sqrt(x)/x or its mathematical equivalent 1/sqrt(x) coss_s - a complex function of a single real variable x, that returns a complex number (cos(x),-sin(x)) cuberoot - computes x ** (1/3)these routines have their own subroutine names.
Timings for both the default version in /mpp/lib/libm.a and lib_scalar.a are in the following table:
Times in clock ticks per call (smaller is better) libm.a lib_scalar.a sqrt 235 122 alog 244 159 cos 369 186 sin 200 177 exp 198 152 ** 1400 291 equivalent lib_scalar.a Fortran code sqrti 296 134 coss_s 399 176 cuberoot 1673 597I have not done extensive testing of the benchlib routines to see how accurate they are. For the test cases I tried, I didn't see any difference but I have a feeling that the default libraries are more accurate.
ScaLAPACKMost of the routines in libsci for the T3D are only single PE routines. But there are two extensions to the BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines) that will become the the basis for parallel linear algebra routines. These two additional libraries are the BLACS (Basic Linear Algebra Communication Subroutines) and PBLAS (Parallel Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines). These two libraries can then be used to implement ScaLAPACK, the parallel (scalable) version of LAPACK (Linear Algebra PACKage). All of these libraries are or will be publicly distributed through Oak Ridge National Labs (ORNL).
I believe that these libraries will be the vehicle that CRI uses to provide parallel linear algebra routines on the T3D/T3E. CRI will probably provide optimized versions of the ScaLAPACK routines in libsci that use the same names and argument lists as the publicly available versions from ORNL. This has been the situation on CRI machines with BLAS, LINPACK, EISPACK, LAPACK, and PVM. For the users, this is a win/win situation, they get optimized routines on the T3D and their code uses routines for which there are portable, publicly available libraries.
So I think that time invested in ScaLAPACK is time that will payoff in the future. Last week in na-digest there was a request for input on ScaLAPACK and I'm passing that request onto our T3D users as a glimpse into where parallel linear algebra on the T3D/T3E is headed. There are already preliminary versions of some BLASC and PBLAS routines on the T3D and I'll describe them in future newsletters.
> > From: Jack Dongarra <firstname.lastname@example.com> > Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 11:48:37 -0400 > Subject: Band Systems Survey > > Dear Colleagues, > > As part of the ScaLAPACK project we intend to include software > for the solution of banded linear systems. Since algorithm > performance is greatly impacted by the characteristics of the > system being solved, we solicit your input to help us design our > software for the kinds of systems found in practice. > > ScaLAPACK is a freely available software package for scalably > solving problems in numerical linear algebra on distributed > memory parallel computers. If you have a need to solve large > banded linear systems, now is the time to provide us with your > requirements. > > We ask you to fill out the following short questionnaire. If > you have colleagues(engineers, physicists, or researchers in > other disciplines) who may not normally read NA-NET but who may > be working with banded matrices, we encourage you to pass this > questionnaire on to them. > > We hope to receive your responses within the next few weeks. A > summary of responses will be posted to NA-NET. > > Andy Cleary Jack Dongarra Xiaobai Sun > Univ. of Tenn. Univ. of Tenn./ORNL Duke Univ. > > (For more information on ScaLAPACK, see: http://www.netlib.org/scalapack ) > > ________________________________________________________ > Questionnaire on the use of Banded Linear Systems > -------------------------------------------------------- > > We are concerned with applications in which a requirement is the > solution of the linear system A*X = B in which A is an n x n > banded matrix. A matrix is banded if there are two parameters bl > and bu such that > > i > j & (i-j) > bl -> A(i,j) = 0, and > j > i & (j-i) > bu -> A(i,j) = 0. > > That is, elements in the lower triangle more than bl elements from > the main diagonal are identically zero and likewise for elements in > the upper triangle more than bu elements from the main diagonal. > Elements of the main diagonal may or may not be zero depending on > other characteristics of the problem. > > The matrices X and B are n x k matrices. The j-th column of X, > X(:,j), is the solution of the system with respect to the right > hand side B(:,j). > > If your work involves the solution of such systems, we would > like to ask you to fill out the following questionnaire and > e-mail to: email@example.com > > --------------------------Snip Here----------------------------- > Personal Details > > 1) Your Name: > > 2) Your Affiliation: > > 3) The nature of your project/research: > > Problem characteristics > > 3) How many equations (n) do your banded linear systems typically have? > > 4) How many diagonals above/below the main diagonal (bl, bu) are non-zero? > > 5) How many right-hand sides (k) do you typically have at once? > > 6) Are your matrices symmetric/Hermitian? If so, are they > positive definite ? > > 7) Are your matrices diagonally dominant ? Any other > characteristics ? > > 7) Do you have any preference for iterative algorithms or direct algorithms ? > If direct methods are used, is partial pivoting required and > satisfactory for numerical stability? > > > Problem generation > > 8) How do banded linear systems arise in your application, in > particular, are the banded systems typically generated as stand-alone > problems, or as a step in a longer series of calculations? > > 10) Are you currently using parallel computers to solve these problems? > > 11) If you are using a parallel computer for these problems, > where are the matrices A, B and X located on entry into a > system solution routine ? Are they on disk(s), in a single > processor's (or host's) memory, or distributed amongst the processors? > If the latter, what distribution do you use? > > > ------------------------------
More on MakefilesIn last week's newsletter I gave an example of a makefile that changes enviromental variables. I was under the misconception that the SHELL of the makefile was always the shell that invokes the makefile. That's not correct. The default shell for make is the Bourne shell (/bin/sh). That's why export works in the example I gave. From within a makefile you can print out environmental variables using the commands:
all: echo $$TARGET echo $$SHELL
The Switch to the 1.2 Programming EnvironmentA new feature of the Apprentice tool is that you are able to save the results of a "report" or "observation" to a text file. If anyone has trouble with this option please contact Mike Ess.
List of Differences Between T3D and Y-MPThe current list of differences between the T3D and the Y-MP is:
- Data type sizes are not the same (Newsletter #5)
- Uninitialized variables are different (Newsletter #6)
- The effect of the -a static compiler switch (Newsletter #7)
- There is no GETENV on the T3D (Newsletter #8)
- Missing routine SMACH on T3D (Newsletter #9)
- Different Arithmetics (Newsletter #9)
- Different clock granularities for gettimeofday (Newsletter #11)
- Restrictions on record length for direct I/O files (Newsletter #19)
- Implied DO loop is not "vectorized" on the T3D (Newsletter #20)
- Missing Linpack and Eispack routines in libsci (Newsletter #25)
- F90 manual for Y-MP, no manual for T3D (Newsletter #31)
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Ok, so I can kinda understand some people's desire not to eat flesh, however, I don't understand the no animal products of any kind... I mean, seriously, why not milk, or eggs for that matter? I just don't understand their reasoning... if they even have any.
Sarge, its their mindset that eating animals or any derivative of an animal is anti-vegan, strict vegans won't wear fur either and even feed their cats and dogs vegetable diets, cats are carnivores and need lots of meat, btw....JP
So it doesn't bother them how many under ground dwelling creatures are disturbed, killed and maimed when tilling for planting the fruits and vegetables :?
the dingbats marched, protested, and molested a fur company and it's customers in Portland. they did it for more than a year. the company finally went out of business. they'd been here for over 100 years. the city would not control the protesters even though they were threatening violence and blocking the sidewalk.Portland put up an area for (illegal) workers to gather and wait for day labor. ONE man protested outside the enclosure and was arrested after he sat on the sidewalk. it got about 5 min. coverage and was never mentioned again.
http://www.katu.com/news/7133786.htmlhttp://www.katu.com/news/local/14444957.htmlit's not about smart. how much money can you spend when you already know the legal system is against you? they never stood a chance in the SR of O.


text: I am not sold on having Nazr start the season as a starter. Haven't we been through this before. If Webber leaves, which seems to be a given based on recent news coming from the LA & Dallas press that Webber will sign with the Mavericks. We have no backup center. If this comes to fruition, we are left with only JMax, AJ, Rasheed and McDyess as the bigs. We will have one of the shortest lineups in the league at the PF & Center positions but will be very guard heavy with seven. down I think that we need to acquire another big man, if McDyess goes with an injury we are screwed.


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Open casting call for extras for the filming of Lynnee Breedlove's novel "Godspeed" Saturday (tomorrow) 1-5pm. It's a punk rock show, featuring Fabulous Disaster and Jesse Luscious performing the Blatz tune "Fuk Shit Up."
1) Where - 460 Bryant St., San Francisco, CA
2) When - 1pm to set up, shooting around 2pm
3) Style - think early 1990s punk rock, bike messenger, SF Hags.
Starting this fall, Fat is releasing 7"s that will eventually become a full-length. We'll carry them in our on-line store, along with the rest of the LOC family of bands- F-Minus and Choking Victim.
Go to the Godspeed Movie site for more information on what's needed and who's already involved. Kathleen Hannah, Ad Rock, and Jesse Luscious are just 3 of the many music peeps already involved with this future classic of a film!
It's out of this world!
The art show and raffle drawing are Friday 8/18 and 8/19 at Acme Bar, 2115 San Pablo Ave (@ Addison, 1 block south of University) in Berkeley, CA (510) 644-2226, 4pm-2am, 21+. You do not have to be present to win!
Raffle prizes include $7500 in tattoos from the following shops: Spider Murphys, Black Heart, Sacred, 13, Industrial, Picture Machine, One Shot, Mom's, Goldfield's, True Love, Everlasting, Secret Sidewalk, and Zebra.
The other $3000 worth of prizes include bar tabs from Acme, Radio, Ruby, and Spoontonic, plus swag/gift certificates from Alternative Tentacles, Good Vibrations, Lanesplitter, 510 Skateboards, Trumer Pilsner, Bette's Oceanview Diner, Harris Steak House, Festoon, and the Icon, Twister, and Dolled Up Vintage shops. There's a ton of other local prizes, plus a Pabst Blue Ribbon snowboard (!?!). You can't make this shit up!
Raffle tickets are on sale at multiple places around the Bay Area, contact Acme Bar, Sacred Tattoo, or The Devon Blood page for details. Upcoming fundraiser includes a wide-ranging series of signed instrument auctions from all your favorite underground musical heroes- tune into those websites for details!
When: 8pm (sharp), Wednesday August 16thWhere: Station 40, 3030 B 16th St (at Mission St, across from BART)Price: Free!
"Boom: The Sound of Eviction"- By turns humorous and scathing, this potent social critique explores the effects of the recent Dot-com boom and bust on community displacement and gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a focus on the Latino Mission District. Features interviews with dot-com workers, developers, the Mayor, and the community that challenged their new economic order. Here's what the LA Times said about Boom: "Witty, poignant and impassioned . . . implications for every big city in America." Co-director A. Mark Liiv will be present for Q & A
More information at:www.boomthemovie.orgwww.defendbayviewhunterspoint.com
Hey, kids! BloodHag is having a little contest and literacy test on their MySpace page here. For those who do not want to click on the link to enter MySpace, a.k.a. Rupert Murdochsphere, then read the rules below. In the mean time, check out their new album Hell Bent for Letters (Virus 357) on CD or LP!!
BloodHag contest! Find the missing lyric and win!
BloodHag is well known for being well-read, unfortunately, our laser-like focus on reading sometimes backfires on us, and we neglect the other areas of our life. This neglect has surfaced in the worst place...our new album!
Yes, folks, due to inattention on the part of Dr. J.M. McNulty and myself a lyric has been left out of one of our songs! I don't mean we forgot to print it in the liner notes, I mean we recorded the lyric, but due to some screw-up during the mixdown on Protools, a whole line was left out of one of our songs! As the singer and lyric-writer it really kind of pisses me off, but it's all my fault, since I was there during mixdown and didn't notice anything at the time.
So, most of you who haven't seen us perform this particular song live probably would not have noticed this missing line, but if you studiously read the lyrics and compare them with the songs (since of course all you fans have no problem understanding my vocals), you'll find the missing super-brilliant lyric.
Which brings us to the contest! Find the missing lyric and win a BloodHag t-shirt and an autographed Sci-Fi paperback!
How to play: Find the missing lyric and send it to firstname.lastname@example.com, include your email, t-shirt size and mailing address. I will collect the correct answers until the deadline on 11:59pm, August 31st, 2006. I will write all the names on little pieces of paper, put them all in Zach's Highlander baseball cap and draw out the winner's name. I will contact you, and you will freak out with joy and wait by the mailbox every day until your prize arrives (allow 6-8 weeks for delivery).
DO NOT send your answer to the myspace email.
So take advantage of our inattentiveness and win big! If you haven't bought the CD yet, go to alternativetentacles.com and buy it now!
Thanks everybody, look for us back on the road in October!
As part of the RollerCon 2006 festivities, The 'Pricks will play their final show ever at the always entertaining Double Down Saloon this Saturday July 29th!
Do a rail for me, boys!
Please strongly consider donating to Devon's medical fund, I just did! A benefit at 924 Gilman just raised a nice chunk of change but it's just a drop in the bucket- as anyone who has dealt with catastrophic medical procedures knows. We're all just one twist of fate away from his situation.Thanks, Jesse Luscious/AT Mail Male
From T-dawg comes this update:"He's listed as stable in the ICU, he's unconscious, but his recovery looks good if he stays the course he's on right now. Either way, its going to be a long road to being his usual self. The bullet that is lodged in his brain is not going to be removed, as the doctors fear it would do more damage to operate to remove it than to leave it where it is.
One of his closest pals, Matt Howse, has sorted out an account for Devon, for those of us who want to contribute to helping him on his way to recovery. It's very important to us that everyone understands that 100% of every dime that goes into this account will go to Devon and Devon only. There aren't any middlemen, percentage takers or foundations that can get their hands on it. I've set this up on behalf of his family and friends, so any questions, please ask. It's even a free checking account to they won't even take fees for it.
So, you can send in money three ways; mail a check/money order/whatever to Devon Get Better c/o Sacred Tattoo 707 Broadway Oakland, CA 94607 (Make sure checks are made out to "Devon Get Better" which is what Matt has set up the account under) or you can deposit money into the account directly at any Washington Mutual branch, the account number is 3063634311. I've also set up a Paypal account for those who use Paypal, the address you send money to is email@example.com
The art benefits and shows will be starting this week, and will continue as long as there's drive from all of us. For anyone who wants to contribute art, tattoo time, or anything else that can be contributed towards his recovery, you're more than welcome to. Just contact Matt Howse at email@example.com for details.
We've met with the neurosurgeon who's overseeing Devon, his prognosis is good for the type of injury he's sustained, but it will be days or weeks before we know how he'll fare with being his old self. All of our love to our friend."
Our Way Home Reunion is a cross-border peace event which marks the courageous legacy of US Vietnam War resisters who came to Canada and the courage of those resisting the current Iraq War by seeking safe haven in Canada now. The Our Way Home Reunion includes workshops, keynote presentations, panel-discussions, on-stage theatre performances, a film festival and a major peace concert.
D.O.A. will play this Saturday, July 8th. D.O.A. will appear on stage right after the legendary Buffy Sainte-Marie. Ex-senator and peace activist George McGovern will also be there among others that believe that working for peace makes more sense than fighting wars for oil.
Check out the AT Tour Page for more DOA dates in Canada. DOA will be touring the West Coast of the US in October.
Our buddy The Reverend Bookburn has announced:"We shall also honor Axis of Evil Music. They won the Reverend's longtime contest to either pie or hurl jello at the corporate scab 'Dead Kennedys.' They shall get a song dedication, and if we find them, multiple prizes.
Showtime: Sunday, June 25, 9:00 to 11, Eastern time, USA at Radio Volta."


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AMES, Iowa — Communities, local food networks and county extension offices have the opportunity to schedule Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Good Agricultural Practices workshops for local growers. ISU Extension and Outreach, through a grant funded by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Services Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, will conduct GAP workshops for fruit and vegetable producers during spring 2014.
Key workshop instructors from Iowa State will be Angela Shaw, assistant professor in food safety and extension specialist; Catherine Strohbehn, extension specialist and professor in hotel, restaurant and institution management; and Linda Naeve, extension value added agriculture specialist.
The course is offered as a two-part workshop, covering Level1 (KNOW) and Level 2 (SHOW) GAP training. During the six-hour Level 1 session, farmers who provide food directly to consumers through community-supported agriculture, referred to as CSA, or farmers' markets or are considering retail foodservice sales will be trained in good agriculture practices and market considerations. The session includes an educational packet of materials and working lunch.
The Level 2 session provides assistance in writing the "bones" of a farm food safety plan that demonstrates GAPs are in place and provides food safety assurances to buyers. Farmers considering sales to retail foodservices, such as grocers, restaurants, hospitals and other institutions, and those interested in adding value to fresh produce and selling products in a convenience form should attend this workshop. The workshop is six hours and includes an educational packet and working lunch.
The instructor team is seeking individuals, groups or extension offices to host the two-part series. They recommend having 20 farmer producers per workshop and suggest an individual workshop fee of $25 or $45 with farm discounts if attending both sessions. The team will assist with advertisement, registration and coordinate registration and speakers. Local hosts will assist with location, meal options and contacts with potential participants and speakers. They have the following dates reserved for trainings.
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PHP is a simple yet powerful open source scripting language that has become a big player in web development. Over a million web sites, from large corporate sites to small personal sites, are using PHP to serve dynamic web content. PHP's broad feature set, approachable syntax, and support for different operating systems and web servers make it an ideal language for rapid web development.The PHP Cookbook is a collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for PHP programmers. The book contains a unique and extensive collection of best practices for everyday PHP programming dilemmas. For every problem addressed in the book, there's a worked-out solution or "recipe" -- short, focused pieces of code that you can insert directly into your applications. But this book offers more than cut-and-paste code. You also get explanations of how and why the code works, so you can learn to adapt the problem-solving techniques to similar situations.The recipes in the PHP Cookbook range from simple tasks, such as sending a database query and fetching URLs, to entire programs that demonstrate complex tasks, such as printing HTML tables and generating bar charts. This book contains over 250 recipes on the following topics:
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Concise approach to using PHP
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Not just a cookbook but a how-to for every aspect of PHP programming, including the most common approaches for working with each and every PHP data type.Logically organized by PHP feature, the book covers the basics of working with strings, numbers, dates and times, arrays and functions. Each section summarizes the unique aspects of each PHP component.By far the most useful section of the book is a full discussion of PHP classes and how to write them. If you are new to class-based code, this book provides an excellent introduction and then very thoroughly provides examples of working with classes: abstract class, overriding properties, method polymorphism, etc.The sections on filing handling were indispensable for me when I needed to work with files on the server, as were the sections on Sessions and Data Persistence, Security and Encruption, Graphics (for dynamically scaling graphics on the fly, especially), and Regular Expressions.The only section I did not enjoy and use as much was the section on Database Access, perhaps because I have not been in environments where we were using PDO, so a lot of the examples weren't helpful to me personally.I feel this is really an essential guide to demonstrating how to handle the most common uses of PHP, whether its how to delete array elements or instantiating a class or creating a user session.Very informative, clearly written and well-organized.Be sure to get the 2nd edition, which includes PHP 5. It was released in 2006 so at the time of this writing, is already 6 years old, but I would say it is still extremely relevant and useful and not significantly "dated"
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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The PHP Cookbook is one of the better books for PHP I've seen. It covers a wide range of topics and talks about things that most books don't. It was very up to date and extermley helpful. It really helped me solve my programming problems.
Great book
By Anonymous
I was extremely happy with this book. I am actually new to PHP, but with knowledge of html and asp, this is the perfect reference.If you need to use PHP to do FTP, you may find that page 442 is missing. I called Customer Service and they sent me this link right away:http://examples.oreilly.com/phpckbk/ch17_442.pdf
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By Mads B. Rasmussen
I can't but help giving this book the highest marks possible. I've read a quite a few books on the subject and this one is by far the most useful.If provides examples and explainations for almost situation you could imagine.I read it from front to back, and now I use it as a refference along with online manuals and the sorts. Great for "real life" web application development. Leave the hardcore theory for the PHD's :).
By Marie Mazerolle
This is the most useful book I've ever bought! I've read it from cover-to-cover, and I used a LOT of recipes. It was my first cookbook, but since then I've also bought the java cookbook. I just wish there were more books in that collection.
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By Fred Darel
Easy to ready but poor examples. Should follow MySQL CookBook - this one an execellent one: good examples with explanation.
By Jono Bacon
I am a professional writer asnd web developer, and I find this book is one of the most fantastic books I have ever used. Virtually every PHP problem I encounter has been answered to some extent with the book. If the book does not give the complete solution, it puts you in the right direction.There is a good amount of information in this book, and provides a easy access method for getting what you need. If you code with PHP, get this - you won't regret it.
I'm a beginner in PHP. I read this book every day now and I find it very useful and well written. PHP Cookbook gives the reader a Q&A approach to PHP, which is practical and easy.
By Kenneth Wilcox
This book has a little bit of everything. It may not taste as good as something you can make with Betty Crocker, but the end result is the same. I've used several examples in my php pages already. (Who knew if (8 = = $myvar) would solve potential problems) I was disappointed with one example so far, it answered the question with a php class with no example of how to implement that class. Now with a little hacking you can figure it out, but I was hoping these recipes would have the solution all hacked out for you. Still an excellent book, and worth getting, but like all version 1 releases, it could use some more work.
By joseph
A very, very good book. I recommend this text with no hesitation.
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On his November 29 radio show, Limbaugh said that if Obama wants to avoid the automatic cuts scheduled for the beginning of next year, Republicans should end negotiations and force Obama to concede to their demands:
LIMBAUGH: [T]he way to handle that, the way to call his bluff on this is to not negotiate with him and leave it up to him what happens. Very publicly walk away from the talks so that whatever happens vis-à-vis the cliff is perceived to happen -- well, the real point will be to flush Obama out, find out. I would suggest to people who really believe Obama is concerned about his second term and his legacy -- he doesn't want a recession -- the only way to flush that out is to come dangerously close to allowing it all to happen.
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In my coverage as Forrester's new payments analyst, I'll serve consumer product strategists who accept or facilitate payments as they create, navigate, and capitalize on digital disruption within payments.
We are in the early stages of unprecedented innovation and transformation of the consumer payments industry, and emergence of a digital wallet marketplace is the next act. The definition of a digital wallet continues to evolve as innovations come to market, and the term is sometimes used synonymously with "mobile payment." However, there are significant differences. Forrester defines a digital wallet as:
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how long did it take Im curious, I had a loanstar a while back and need a new one
It was surprisingly fast. Mike told me it would take him 2 weeks to sew them (but it turned out to actually be more like 1 week), and shipping from Germany to Canada took about another week or so after that. That is lightning fast compared to other packages I've had delivered from Europe - in fact, oddly enough, it's faster than much of the stuff I've received from the States. Go figure.
I'll have to talk to him again, how are the shin tool pockets my old ones were a bit to short
I just bought a set of ESB Weathered Flight Suit, pouches, and a Flak vest from Loanstar, and wow. Everything's top-notch quality and I got it all within two weeks of placing my order. Thanks a lot! :cheers
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Just received my Loanstar ROTJ Flight Suit, Flak Vest & Neck Seal.......INSANE quality! Now I know there are other vendors out there, but for MY money Loanstar is the best you can possibly get. His stuff is worth EVERY penny. There isn't one piece of detail that was missed with his work.
Again Mike, my continued Thank You!! :cheers
Are these a continuous run? am really tempted to order a ESB set :)
Hi there, are you still making your awesome suits? I´d be interested in a ESB version. If yes I´ll send you a PM with my measurements.
Are you still making the ESB flight suits? If so, I am interested in purchasing one.
Got mine a while back - forgot to post about it due to other mayhem...
Excellent quality! Thanks, Mike!
Hi there, I´m from Spain, member of the 501 - Spanish Garrison and I´m trying to finish my ESb boba. Are you still making the flightsuits?
Hello Loanstar, I like your Flightsuit. I'm new in the Dented Helmet Forum. Do you still produce them?
Hi there guys, have any of you heard from Loanstar lately? I ordered and paid for my Boba ESB flightsuit nearly two months ago and got no news from him.
As far as i know he will return from a trip this or next week.
Will meet him next weekend so i will give him a shout.
Ok Turrican, thanks for your answer.
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Im back and Gobelas order has been sent . (You have a PM brother ) :)
By the way, the trip was nice :D
Hey Mike,looking forward to some nice storys on friday.
Nice to see you back in town. :thumbsup
Flightsuit received a couple of days ago. The only words I can say about is AMAZING JOB!!!!!
Regards from Spain.
Are you still doing the ESB flightsuit? :)
Question...is it the flight suite only, or does the flack jacket come along with it... im prolly asking a silly question..sorry if so
Flack jacket is extra.
Is this an ongoing run?
I have ordered and received my ROTJ flightsuit now from Loanstar and it's very good.
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Devils on the Doorstep
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Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Jiang Wen's Devils on the Doorstep is a dark, satirical epic set during the final days of the Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
Japanese soldier and his Chinese translator are left in a village with orders for the peasants to guard them. The soldier begs for an honorable death, the translator for life, and the villagers simply want to be rid of their crazed captives.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
There are certain songs I have always believed should remain firmly in the locker until it is impossible to not end up with egg on your face! In recent times trips to both Newcastle and Monday night's opponents Reading have definitely emphasised that!
When our hosts scored their second on the night I was beginning to hope those travelling Gooners who had chosen to start singing a certain festive ditty about winning away from home were not going to regret it!
Monday was thoroughly enjoyable for our particular group, a comfortable train journey seeing us taking in some fine pre-match fare in a Berkshire hostelry before taking our place in an away end where we all witnessed a game almost beyond belief back in October.
There was always a danger I guess, given what did happen on that crazy night, we could have been in for a boring 0-0 draw this time round! Given our recent plight and all the media attention that has gone with it, that definitely would not have been what the doctor ordered.
When concentrating on your attacking qualities, for me there is nothing quite like blistering pace, especially given the kind of football we like to play. The line up on Monday certainly had that look about it, Theo playing 'up top' being something we have only seen fleeting glimpses of in the past.
Reading can score goals, there is no doubting that and they have shown examples of this on numerous occasions this season. Consequently I expected them to enjoy situations where this might continue. Likewise however, I felt if we were on our game we would see plenty of opportunities come our way too.
This is pretty much how it panned out with some excellent football seeing us enjoy five excellent goals, Santi's hat-trick sandwiched between Lukas' and Theo's efforts and five goals for us travelling Gooners to enjoy.
Nineteen goals in two visits is a simply incredible statistic and one that will live long in the memory. Above all else however, it is three massive points and that is the most important thing to come out of the week.
Talking of memories I am finishing my notes today talking about something I have never needed to in the 13 or so years I have been writing this diary/blog.
Back in July 1999 I penned a 'trial' diary after a pre-season trip to Notts County. Little did I know that come December 2012 I would not have missed a single game home and away since.
Believe it or not, unless for some reason it is postponed, I am not travelling to Wigan away on Saturday. A good friend is getting married and I am attending. Despite my considerable efforts to persuade him to change his mind it appears the situation is beyond salvation!
He has been seriously reprimanded about his behaviour of course and at least the early kick-off time up at the DW Stadium means I will be able to see the game on television.
It will feel extremely strange not being there but my desire is no different. Let's get three points.
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Fake e-mail messages sent to you for the purpose of obtaining personal and financial information are some of the most common e-mail fraud messages received by Internet users today. Colloquially, these fraudulent e-mails are called phishing.
Phishing e-mails are made to appear that they are from a legitimate company, typically a financial services organization, like a bank, credit union, or investment brokerage. Others purport to be from other organizations that perform financial transactions using personal data.
The phishing e-mails typically inform you that account information needs to be updated and that action must be taken immediately. The information they ask for ranges from user name and password all the way to name, address, and credit card information, depending on which legitimate company they are posing as.
Identifying phishing e-mails is not always easy as criminals are becoming more adept at learning from their past mistakes. However, there are generally certain clues that will give away a phishing e-mail, and the associated fake web page, that you can use when you are in doubt about the integrity of an e-mail message.
We all get e-mail messages from companies with whom we've never done business, that's just marketing, but you shouldn't get messages from those companies asking you to update account information, provide personal data, or otherwise imply an existing relationship. This should be your first clue that something isn't right with this e-mail message.
While legitimate senders, particularly marketers, use terms like 'act now' and 'this offer expires soon' they generally don't tell you to act within the next 24 hours. Also, phishing e-mails will often state that your account will be suspended, terminated, closed, or otherwise rendered useless if you don't act immediately.
These criminals typically do not know who you are, they just have your e-mail address. Since they don't know you, they cannot put "Dear John Smith" at the top of the message. They will tend to either use no salutation at all, or will use phrases like "Dear RealCompany Customer", "Dear RealCompany User", etc. [Note: RealCompany is a made up name for example purposes in this article and has nothing to with any company or organization that may actually have that name.]
The criminals can get your e-mail address many ways, but the most common is through viruses and worms planted on other users' computers. The viruses gather e-mail information from the address book of infected computer's e-mail client (like Outlook or Messenger) and report this back to the criminals. The viruses typically infect tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of computers at one time so given the size of most people's address books, the criminals can build a list pretty quickly. If you're on someone's address book and their computer is infected, the criminals can get your e-mail address.
This is what they are after. They'll indicate that you need to provide your user name and password or credit card number because they have lost it, are ensuring all of their customers are legitimate, or state that they are addressing a security breach and need you to "re-confirm" your information.
A few typos and poor grammar occur even in legitimate communications, however, some criminals may not have a good command of English or may be in such a rush that they don't do quality assurance on the phishing e-mail. One of the most easily recognized clues is poor verb conjugation.
In our example above RealCompany.com may use domains like www.realcompany.com, secure.realcompany.com, mail.realcompany.com. A phisher does not have access to the server(s) with the address of realcompany.com so he must spoof, or forge, the address. He might use something like secure.realcompany.realcompany-confirm-update.com, or even a numeric IP address like 22.214.171.124/realcompanycom/index.aspx, all in the hope that if you glance up and see realcompany in the address bar you'll think it's okay.
Phishers will also sometimes put links into the body of the e-mail that look legitimate, but actually go to a different address. Continuing the with RealCompany.com example, the text in the e-mail might state, "...go to https://www.realcompany.com to update your account information..." but the actual link might go to a different address altogether. Do note however, that a legitimate link to Realcompany might actually take you to https://www.realcompany.com/productinfo.html where they want you to be able to go directly to the information pertaining to the subject of the e-mail.
Another thing to look for is what is called the top level domain. Top level domains can be .com, .net, .org, .edu, .mil, .bz, .info, among others, as well as country codes like .uk for United Kingdom, .jp for Japan, .us for United States, .ru for Russia, among others. Sometimes the phishers will compromise servers in other countries and this will be reflected in the web address. If the company is one that you do business with and typically has a .com or .org address, you should be suspicious if the address on the fake web page has a country code. Particular ones often used by criminals include:
Phishers, working fast to avoid getting caught, often won't have time to create a secure web site. They are also not likely to have the credentials for common security technology such as Secure Sockets Layers (SSL).
A few ways to check for this include making sure the web address starts with "https", not just "http", looking for the lock icon at the bottom, double clicking the lock icon to review the web site's certificate. This last one is probably the most important as the more advanced criminals can spoof the lock icon and address bar. You'll want to make sure that the URL listed in the certificate matches what is displayed in the address bar.
A non-profit organization called the Anti-Phishing Working Group hosts a web site full of information about phishing as well as samples of select reported phishing e-mails in their Phishing Archive at www.antiphishing.org.
According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group's web site, there are many major U.S.-based companies whose names are used by criminals for phishing e-mails. This doesn't mean that all communications from these companies should be treated suspiciously, but that the criminals know that these companies have many customers and their chances of finding a customer of one of these companies from the e-mail addresses they have harvested are much greater than if they posed as a smaller company.
First, do not respond to it either by hitting the "Reply" button or by clicking the links. The sender's address is usually fake, so responding that way won't do anything for you, and in the worst case could let the criminals know they have a valid e-mail address they can use for further activity. Clicking through the links will only take you to the phisher's fake web site where they may be able to download spyware and malware onto your computer.
If you want to take some course of action, report the phishing e-mail to the legitimate company or organization that has been spoofed in the e-mail. Most have online mechanisms, either forms or e-mail addresses, where you can communicate this to them. Legitimate companies generally post their phone number, usually a toll-free number, on their web site should you decide to call them instead.
You can also file a complaint with the Internet Fraud Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov. They will probably not be able to address your specific incident, but by providing information to them they can warn others and investigate the crime.
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