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Thanks! I checked them out just the other day. While they do have M72 front trunnions, they don't have M70 front trunnions which I also want.
I just dug through my kits to look, and it looks like the M70 and M72 trunnions are the same they just different info stamped on the side.
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Perhaps before she walks up the aisle with the 'Story Of My Life' signer Katy should have a look at this video, in which Niall very much shows his childish side.
Horan took to the stage for his final gig in Melbourne and dressed himself up as a Teletubby for the audience (we're pretty sure he's La La), while he joked about with Liam Payne in between songs.
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Memorial Service for Beloved Ohlone College Drama Professor
Fremont, CA—On March 25, Ohlone College lost a beloved former professor in the Drama Department. Norman Kirschbaum, was a longtime highly regarded drama instructor, costume and fine jewelry designer, and craftsman.
Norman was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he studied Drama and Speech at the University of Minnesota before moving to California in 1962. He was the Chairman of Speech and Drama at Newark High School in Newark, CA from 1968 to 1974. However, his real talent was showcased as an assistant professor in the Ohlone College Drama Department. He was widely applauded by the community for the daringly dramatic and flamboyant flair of his many successful theatrical productions including Hit The Deck, West Side Story, Oklahoma and Kismet. Norman later retired to the Desert Hot Springs, where he spent the remainder of his life.
Norman is remembered by many for his natural ability to instill his own enthusiasm in his students' hearts and their work. He is survived by a nephew in Minnesota and by his loving partner, Mr. Victor Torres-Kirschbaum.
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It looks like ceanothus cuneatus but if the leaves are toothed it could be c. Crassifolius.
a similar species that is very common in the Santa Monicas and in a few places in the simi hills is c. Megacarpus which has similar but alternate leaves. Also huge pods as the name Implies.
good to know, i'll keep an eye out for it.
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So, my long term partner and I have been exploring poly for the last 2 years, our relationship is strong and good and is going on 6 years. I have been dating people these 2 years pretty casually, and all singles. but a few months ago, I met someone who I really like and with whom I am forming a nice relationship. He is not single, he is married, poly, and with an infant and another little one.
so a couple problems seem to be brewing....but I'm not sure. things seem a lot more confusing to me, more than ever before. as if monogamous dating weren't already a little sensitive, this is just almost too much.
--the first problem is that his wife wants nothing to do with me. we've never met, but he seems to think we won't like each other and should not meet. and there are complications such as she seems to be going through a lot of difficulty with post partum depression, insomnia, feeling threatened.
--we have agreed to sexual exclusivity, but his real time constraints and sheer exhaustion means we don't see each other that much, once every 2 weeks on average. we agreed to sexual exclusivity for health and emotional reasons. meaning no one will have sex with anyone new without getting consent. but it makes me feel like he is more on the level of significant other, when our actual physical time spent is becoming more like someone I would date casually. we chat regularly during the week though.
In some regards, I feel so uncomfortable about all this that I just want to break it off, but I really like him. and I am also not sure if my discomfort really has more to do with my own shifting expectations--going from monogamous relationship 'scripts', to figuring out how poly relations work, and also for me, dating someone with a family. exp when Im used to dating single people who are a lot more eager to spend time with me. I guess under this all, I feel hurt and neglected.
we're planning to talk soon. I sometimes think his wife's refusal to have anything to do with me is a big red flag. but we've only been dating 3 months, and she is going through a hell of a lot. like I said though, I'm newish at this.
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A European woman in the hands of Muslim fundamentalists. A western rescue mission goes awry. Execution by the special unit is a foregone conclusion. But: vengeance is nothing - forgiveness everything! Unfortunately only a very few have the greatness of heart to exercise it. Mozart's contribution to the clash of civilizations and a not-to-be-underestimated comedy for music.
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Belmonte has arrived on the distant Turkish shore and approaches the high wall surrounding the seraglio. Here he encounters Osmin, the Pasha's right-hand man, and questions him about the people he is seeking. Osmin, however, has not the slightest intention of giving this stranger any information whatsoever and sends him on his way.
Belmonte continues to look for a way to get into the seraglio.Through a prison window, he manages to catch a glimpse of Pedrillo. This confirms that Constanze and Blonde are also being held prisoner in the harem.
Pasha Selim has chosen Constanze to be the object of his affections. He visits the harem every day and does everything in his power to persuade her into accepting his suit. Constanze remains steadfast in adamantly refusing to succumb. She has no idea yet that her beloved Belmonte is so near.
Meanwhile, belmonte has disguised himself as an architect an enters the First Courtyard of the seraglio. He teams up with Pedrillo and together they try to get past Osmin into the Second Courtyard.
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Osmin has taken a fancy to Blonde, but his persistent advances are met with resistance by the young English woman. The two of them are involved in constant battles of wit, which Osmin just can't win.
Constanze makes it increasingly difficult for the Pasha to approach her and he finally loses patience. He threatens to punish her if she does not soon accept his suit.
Blonde learns about the plan for their escape from Pedrillo. Before they can put the plan into action, however, they first have to outwit Osmin. Pedrillo manages to persuade Osmin to help him empty a bottle of wine and the latter then falls into a deep sleep. The two couples are able to meet and plan their escape.
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Belmonte, still disguised as an architect, smuggles Pedrillo out of the Seraglio and they head for Belmonte's ship. There they wait for night to fall.
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The death penalty awaits them, but Pasha Selim decides to forgo revenge and sets the captives free.
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- Attributes. Attributes are divided into Physical, Social, Mental, Sorcerery, and Essence. These all begin at 0, except Essence which begins at 1.
- Choose one of Physical, Social or Mental to also begin at 1.
- Every Exalt has 10 Specialities, which cover an area no larger than one of the 25 Skills listed in Exalted. No more than 2 Specialities may be placed in the same Skill.
- Every Exalt has one of five Anima Banner Gifts. They are as follows:
The Dawn Caste sets armies to route. (Lesser Creation of Emotion (Fear) (4), Simple (-1), Local (-1), Limited (Living Things only, -2), Common)
The Zenith Caste drives back their ancient enemies. (Lesser Destruction of Unclean Things (5), Simple (-1), Local (-1), One Trick (-3), Common); (Lesser Creation of Emotion (Fear) (4), Simple (-1), Local (-1), One Trick (Unclean things only, -3), Common). They can also rapidly dissolve corpses.
The Twillight Caste requires safety and certainty to study what they do. (Lesser Preservation of Self (3), Simple (-1), Self-Only (-3), Limited (Preventing damage, -2), Common)
The Night Caste is virtually impossible to locate or track. (Lesser Creation of Stealth (4), Simple (-1), Self-Only (-3), Wide variety (-1), Common)
The Eclipse Caste can ensure that oaths made freely will be kept (Greater Creation of Sanctity (7), Deep (-3), Local (-1), Limited (Freely given oaths, -2), Common).
- Next, divide 6 points between the Virtues of Temperance, Compassion, Valour and Conviction. Within the highest rated Virtue, note down a Virtue Flaw (both it's condition and what it's like to Break). Every two points of a Virtue beyond the first the Exalt has (so 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, etc) grants a bonus Essence Point.
When you act against a Virtue rated 2 or higher, you must spend a point of Essence and gain Limit equal to the level of the Virtue. When exposed to your Limit Break condition, you automatically gain the Virtue in Limit. When Limit reaches 20, you Limit Break- at the end of which, your temporary Essence refreshes by your Virtue Flaw's Virtue- even if this takes you beyond your normal maximum.
- Additionally, each Exalt has 15 additional points. These points may be spent in the following ways:
Gifts, as per standard Nobilis. However, Common Gifts should be those of command and heroism; those in line with Solar Charms.
Sorcery, which costs 3 Gift points per level. Sorcery functions like Realm within Creation, but Sorcery Miracles take one turn per Miracle Level, plus one more, to use. For an additional 2 Gift points per level, the Exalt may know Necromancy, which works as Realm in the Underworld.
Essence, which costs 1 Gift poitn per level, to a maximum of 5. Each level of Essence increases the Exalt's Essence pool by 2. Additionally, any effect that would directly impact another's mind or person (such as a Gift to change someone's shape) may only be used on someone with a lower Essence than your own.
An additionl Virtue level may be purchased, at 1 point per level.
- Finally, take Limits and Handicaps as per normal Nobilis.
As a note, Artifacts and Hearthstones are both well represented by the Focus limit, and it gives a bonus point of Temporary Essence per 2 Gift points, instead of 3.


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Docker, Rails, & Docker Compose together in your development workflow
Posted on by Andrew Hao in Docker, Ops, Rails, Web
We've been trialing the usage of Docker and Docker Compose (previously known as fig) on a Rails project here at Carbon Five. In the past, my personal experience with Docker had been that the promise of portable containerized apps was within reach, but the tooling and development workflow were still awkward – commands were complex, configuration and linking steps were complicated, and the overall learning curve was high.
My team decided to take a peek at the current landscape of Docker tools (primarily boot2docker and Docker Compose) and see how easily we could spin up a new app and integrate it into our development workflow on Mac OS X.
In the end, I've found my experience with Docker tools to be surprisingly pleasant; the tooling easily integrates with existing Rails development workflows with only a minor amount of performance overhead. Docker Compose offers a seamless way to build containers and orchestrate their dependencies, and helps lower the learning curve to build Dockerized applications. Read on to find out how we built ours.
Introduction to docker-compose (née Fig).
Docker Compose acts as a wrapper around Docker – it links your containers together and provides syntactic sugar around some complex container linking commands.
We liked Docker Compose for its ability to coordinate and spin up your entire application and dependencies with one command. In the past, frameworks like Vagrant were easy ways to generate a standard image for your development team to use and get started on. Docker Compose offers similar benefits of decoupling the app from the host environment, but also provides the container vehicle for the app to run in all environments – that is, the container you develop in will often be the same container that you deploy to production with.
Docker (with the orchestration tooling provided by Compose) provides us the ability to:
- Upgrade versions of Ruby or Node (or whatever runtime your app requires) in production with far less infrastructure coordination than normally required.
- Reduce the number of moving parts in the deployment process. Instead of writing complex Puppet and Capistrano deployment scripts, our deployments will now center around moving images around and starting containers.
- Simplify developer onboarding by standardizing your team on the same machine images.
In this example, we will run two Docker containers – a Rails container and a MySQL container – and rely on Compose to build, link, and run them.
Installing boot2docker, Docker, and Docker Compose.
Docker runs in a VirtualBox VM through an image called
boot2docker. The reason we have to use
boot2docker and VirtualBox is because the Mac OSX filesystem is not compatible with the type of filesystem required to support Docker. Hence, we must run our Docker containers within yet another virtual machine.
- Download and install VirtualBox.
- Now install boot2docker and Docker Compose.
$ brew install boot2docker docker-compose
- Initialize and start up boot2docker
$ boot2docker init $ boot2docker start
- Configure your Docker host to point to your boot2docker image.
$ $(boot2docker shellinit)
You'll need to run this for every terminal session that invokes the
docker-composecommand – better export this line into your
Creating a Dockerfile
Let's start by creating a Dockerfile for this app. This specifies the base dependencies for our Rails application. We will need:
- Ruby 2.2 – for our Rails instance
- NodeJS and NPM – for installation of Karma, jshint, and other JS dependencies.
- MySQL client – for ActiveRecord tasks
- PhantomJS – for executing JS-based tests
- vim – for inspecting and editing files within our container
Create a
Dockerfile from within your Rails app directory.
FROM ruby:2.2.0
RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y build-essential nodejs npm nodejs-legacy mysql-client vim
RUN npm install -g phantomjs
RUN mkdir /myapp
WORKDIR /tmp
COPY Gemfile Gemfile
COPY Gemfile.lock Gemfile.lock
RUN bundle install
ADD . /myapp
WORKDIR /myapp
RUN RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile --trace
CMD ["rails","server","-b","0.0.0.0"]
Let's start by breaking this up line-by-line:
FROM ruby:2.2.0
FROM directive specifies the
library/ruby base image from Docker Hub, and uses the
2.2.0 tag, which corresponds to the Ruby 2.2.0 runtime.
From here on, we are going to be executing commands that will build on this reference image.
RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y build-essential nodejs npm nodejs-legacy mysql-client vim
RUN npm install -g phantomjs
RUN command builds up the image, installing specific application dependencies and setting up the environment. Here we install our app dependencies both from
apt and
An aside on how a Docker image is built
One of the core concepts in Docker is the concept of "layers". Docker runs on operating systems that support layering filesystems such as
aufs or
btrfs. Changes to the filesystem can be thought of as atomic operations that can be rolled forward or backwards.
This means that Docker can effectively store its images as snapshots of each other, much like Git commits. This also has implications as to how we can build up and cache copies of the container as we go along.
The Dockerfile can be thought of as a series of rolling incremental changes to a base image – each command builds on top of the line before. This allows Docker to quickly rebuild changes to the reference image by understanding which lines have changed – and not rebuild the image from scratch each time.
Keep these concepts in mind as we talk about speeding up your Docker build in the following section.
Fast Docker builds by caching your Gemfiles
The following steps install the required Ruby gems for Bundler, within your app container:
WORKDIR /tmp
COPY Gemfile Gemfile
COPY Gemfile.lock Gemfile.lock
RUN bundle install
Note how we sneak the gems into
/tmp, then run the
bundle install which downloads and installs gems into Bundler's
vendor/bundle directory. This is a cache hack – whereas in the past we would have kept the
Gemfiles in with the rest of the application directory in
Keeping Gemfiles inline with the app would have meant that the entire
bundle install command would have been re-run on each
docker-compose build — without any caching — due to the constant change in the code in the
/myapp directory.
By separating out the Gemfiles into their own directory, we logically separate the Gemfiles, which are far less likely to change, from the app code, which are far more likely to change. This reduces the number of times we have to wait for a clean
bundle install to complete.
HT: Brian Morearty: "How to skip bundle install when deploying a Rails app to Docker"
Adding the app
Finally, we finish our Dockerfile by adding our current app code to the working directory.
ADD . /myapp
WORKDIR /myapp
RUN RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile --trace
CMD ["rails","server","-b","0.0.0.0"]
This links the contents of the app directory on the host to the
/myapp directory within the container.
Note that we precompile all our assets before the container boots up – this ensures that the container is preloaded and ready to run and jives with Docker tenets that a container should be the same container that runs in development, test, and production environments.
Setting up Docker Compose
Now that we've defined a
Dockerfile for booting our Rails app, we turn to the Compose piece that orchestrates the linking phase between the Rails app and its dependencies – in this case, the DB.
docker-compose.yml file automatically configures our application ecosystem. Here, it defines our Rails container and its db container:
build: .
- .:/myapp
- "3000:3000"
- db
- '.env.web'
image: library/mysql:5.6.22
- "13306:3306"
- '.env.db'
A simple:
$ docker-compose up
will spin up both the
web and
db instances.
One of the most powerful tools of using Docker Compose is the ability to abstract away the configuration of your server, no matter whether it is running as a development container on your computer, a test container on CI, or on your production Docker host.
The directive:
- db
will add an entry for
db into the Rails' container's
/etc/hosts, linking the hostname to the correct container. This allows us to write our database.yml like so:
# config/database.yml
development: &default
host: db
Another important thing to note is the
volumes configuration:
# docker-compose.yml
- .:/myapp
This mounts the current directory
. on the host Mac to the
/myapp directory in the container. This allows us to make live code changes on the host filesystem and see code changes reflected in the container.
Also note that we make use of Compose's
env_file directive, which allows us to specify environment variables to inject into the container at runtime:
- '.env.web'
A peek into
.env.web shows:
SECRET_KEY_BASE=<Rails secret key>
# ...
Note that the
env_file is powerful in that it allows us to swap out environment configurations when you deploy and run your containers. Perhaps your container needs separate configurations on dev than when on CI, or when deployed to staging or on production.
Creating containers and booting them up.
Now it's time to assemble the container. From within the Rails app, run:
$ docker-compose build
This downloads and builds the containers that your web app and your db will live in, linking them up. You will need to re-run the
docker-compose build command every time you change the
Dockerfile or
Running your app in containers
You can bring up your Rails server and associated containers by running:
$ docker-compose up
This is a combination of build, link, and start-services command for
each container. You should see output that indicates that both our
web and
db containers, as configured in the
docker-compose.yml file, are booting up.
Development workflow
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that developing with Docker added very little overhead to the development process. In fact, most commands that you would run for Rails simply needed to be prepended with a
docker-compose run web.
|When you want to run:
|With Docker Compose, you would run:
bundle install
docker-compose run web bundle install
rails s
docker-compose run web rails s
rspec spec/path/to/spec.rb
docker-compose run web rspec spec/path/to/spec.rb
RAILS_ENV=test rake db:create
docker-compose run -e RAILS_ENV=test web rake db:create
tail -f log/development.log
docker-compose run web tail -f log/development.log
Here are some nice development tricks I found useful when working with Docker:
- Add a
dockerhostentry to your
/etc/hostsfile so you can visit
dockerhostfrom your browser.
$ boot2docker ip 192.168.59.104
Then add the IP to your
192.168.59.104 dockerhost
Now you can pull up your app from
- Debugging containers with
Sometimes you need to get inside a container to see what's really happening. Perhaps you need to test whether a port is truly open, or verify that a process is truly running. This can be accomplished by grabbing the container ID with a
docker exec
docker ps, then passing that ID into the
docker execcommand:
$ docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE 301fa6331388 myrailsapp_web:latest $ docker exec -it 301fa6331388 /bin/bash root@301fa6331388:/myapp#
- Showing environment variables in a container with
docker-compose run web env
$ docker-compose run web env AWS_SECRET_KEY= MAX_THREADS=16 MIN_THREADS=4 AWS_REGION=us-west-2 BUNDLE_APP_CONFIG=/usr/local/bundle HOME=/root #...
- Running an interactive debugger (like pry) in your Docker container
It takes a little extra work to get Docker to allow interactive terminal debugging with tools like
pry. Should you desire to start your web server with debugging capabilities, you will need to use the
--service-portsflag with the
$ docker-compose run --service-ports web
This works due to two internal implementations of
docker-compose run:
docker-compose runcreates a TTY session for your app to connect to, allowing interactive debugging. The default
docker-compose upcommand does not create a TTY session.
- The
runcommand does not map ports to the Docker host by default. The
--service-portsdirective maps the container's ports to the host's ports, allowing you to visit the container from your web browser.
- Use
slimimages when possible on production
Oftentimes, your base image will come supplied with a
-slimvariant on Docker Hub. This usually means that the image maintainer has supplied a trimmed-down version of the container for you to use with source code and build-time files stripped and removed. You can oftentimes shave a couple hundred megabytes off your resulting image — we did when we switched our
rubyimage from
2.2.1-slim. This results in faster deployment times due to less network I/O from the registry to the deployment target.
- Remember that your app runs in containers – so every time you do a
docker-compose run, remember that Compose is spinning up entirely new containers for your code but only if the containers are not up already, in which case they are linked to that (running) container.This means that it's possible that you've spun up multiple instances of your app without thinking about it – for example, you may have a
dbcontainer already up from a
docker-compose upcommand, and then in a separate terminal window you run a
docker-compose run web rails c. That spins up another
webcontainer to execute the command, but then links that container with the pre-launched
- There is a small but noticeable performance penalty running through both the VirtualBox VM and docker. I've generally noticed waiting a few extra seconds when starting a Rails environment. My overall experience has been that the penalty has not been large enough to be painful.
Try it out
Give this a shot and let me know how Docker has been working for you. What have your experiences been? What are ways in which you've been able to get your Docker workflow smoother? Share in the comments below.
Coming up: integration with CI and deployment.
In upcoming blog posts, we will investigate how to use the power of Docker Compose to test and build your containers in a CI-powered workflow, push to Docker registries, and deploy to production. Stay tuned!
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Hello, thanks for the article.
I was playing with docker-compose & rails on OSX the other day. And I had a lot of performance issues, booting the App took ~20sec instead of the second it normally takes.
I've been trying to find a solution and 2 came to me. The problems seems to be Virtualbox sync for the /Users folder and people recommend to sync this folder using either rsync or NFS instead of VBox folder sharing ( even with guest additions ). This could be useful https://github.com/boot2docker/boot2docker/issues/587#issuecomment-66935011
Did you encountered the same issues ?
We have swapped to using docker and docker-compose across our dev environments. We too saw some configurations with large performance issues. Most of these seemed related to volume mounts. We also ran into problems with performance and permissioning in boot2docker which caused us to swap to vagrant/virtual box. Using NFS worked the best for us. We've put the DB data files on a separate volume to make getting a new dump quick. We're in a good spot now with over 20 containers running everything from databases and search engines to email utilities. Any performance difference is worth the trade for a complete environment. Now we can stop spend effort on debugging differences in lower environments and writing development stubs.
My solution to the performance issue was to drop boot2docker for vagrant. The problem is caused by poor performances from virtualbox shared folders on OSX (see http://mitchellh.com/comparing-filesystem-performance-in-virtual-machines).
Here is a gist with my Vagrantfile, it uses fig, but with newer versions of docker, you can replace fig with docker-compose (no need to install it).
I experimented with the same docker-compose instructions at about the same time you did (perhaps triggered by the same docker mailing list email). I think adding a third container to the stack which runs tests using something like guard would be ideal – when you start the stack, you see the logs for the db and web containers, and interlaced with this it would be nice to also see the output from guard running your tests. This seems like an easy task – the test container is identical to the web container, except that instead of running 'rails s' it triggers guard to run. However, when I do that, guard runs one time then exits, causing the entire stack to shut down cleanly. Commands in the 'command' line must be something that locks the terminal actively. Still trying to figure it out. That, and having the database put it's files in a volume, and this would be the perfect docker+rails stack
Jason, if you start your containers with `docker-compose up -d`, then the other containers will stay alive even if one stops.
You can also use rerun with rspec! It can rerun a program if file in directories you selected change and it works with sidekiq containers as well.
Thanks for a great write up, Andrew. I'm using a very similar config. While I love the volumes: -.:/myapp directive for dev environment, this caused issues for me with assets pre-compilation in prod: on new builds, new assets would be pre-compiled as expected, but then when running the new app it would still use the old assets…
I haven't had a chance to figure out exactly why this happened yet but I think it was related to the running app writing files back to tmp/cache which would then get re-used when new container is being built. Anyhow… just wondering if you experience any similar issue?
Looking forward to your next article! I tried tutum but was disappointed to see no native support for docker-compose.yml, so for now I'm just keeping it simple and using a git post-update hook to trigger a docker-compose build / stop / up -d on the host…
Good luck getting TDD tools like guard to work properly in a Docker environment. guard just doesn't see any changes.
We have users with guard running on the host, monitoring for changes and triggering CSS compilation.
The best solution I've found so far is running Guard on the host machine. The docker environment take care of setting up databases and so. Guard uses the databases found on the dockerhost.
The only drawback I've found so far is that you have to install the gems in the test group on the host.
If you are using Docker on top of a VirtualBox VM on Mac and have a shared volume, nginx, apache, and other web servers will not see a change to the files unless you use sendfiles off; in you nginx config or similar config file for other servers
A few weeks ago I've started using docker-compose to develop Rails applications. I came with a similar configuration and I noticed that everytime that I modified the Gemfile and I run docker-compose build it install ALL the gems again. Is there a way to avoid this and install only the ones that changed?
Also I've noticed that when I run docker images it generates lots of images that have huge virtual sizes.
Great post!
Hello Andrew,
First of all, thanks for sharing your experience using docker for rails development. Great post!
Like most of you, I've been working on using docker for rails applications. I've got to kind of the same Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml.
When it comes to bundle install, though, there is a lot of discussion. We all agree that one of the greatness of docker is the ability to use the same image across different environments. As in Gemfile you could specify different groups or environments installing different gems accordingly, how would you guys go about this?
Would you install all the gems in the docker image shipping development/test gems in production that we don't need increasing the docker image unnecessarily ?
Or would you create a different docker image for production without the development/test gems on it?
I followed your guide, but I cannot get the rails console running. I'm using Rails 4.1.6 and docker-compose 1.2.0.
When I tried to run "docker-compose run web rails c", the console hang raise an exception.
[1] pry(main)> Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/docker-compose", line 9, in
load_entry_point('docker-compose==1.2.0', 'console_scripts', 'docker-compose')()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 31, in main
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/compose/cli/docopt_command.py", line 21, in sys_dispatch
self.dispatch(sys.argv[1:], None)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/compose/cli/command.py", line 27, in dispatch
super(Command, self).dispatch(*args, **kwargs)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/compose/cli/docopt_command.py", line 24, in dispatch
self.perform_command(*self.parse(argv, global_options))
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/compose/cli/command.py", line 59, in perform_command
handler(project, command_options)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/compose/cli/main.py", line 345, in run
dockerpty.start(project.client, container.id, interactive=not options['-T'])
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/dockerpty/__init__.py", line 27, in start
PseudoTerminal(client, container, interactive=interactive, stdout=stdout, stderr=stderr, stdin=stdin).start()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/dockerpty/pty.py", line 154, in start
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/dockerpty/pty.py", line 242, in _hijack_tty
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/dockerpty/io.py", line 164, in do_write
raise e
OSError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
Can you help me? Thanks.
i think it's because you still need to attach to STDIN. can you use the web console? that might be the easiest solution.
This was a great read, thanks!
1) adding/changing single gem or apt-get dependency requires docker image rebuild. This includes fetching all gems again, probably nullifing any performance gains you might get through deployment improvement or environment isolation.
2) rails generators create files owned by docker process user i.e. root or whatever container-specific user is in use. In latter case, as I understand, if UID-s are made to match inside container and host machine, expected ownership on files might can be achieved. Until there's another developer with another host UID…
1. Yes, but you can cheat in development to play with gems. Plus its one person's pain instead of everyone's.
2. Not a problem for us. Code shared in from the host via NFS. Commits always(?) done from host too.
1.) I have found a solution that issue by adding this to my Dockerfile
# — Add this to your Dockerfile —
ENV BUNDLE_GEMFILE=$APP_HOME/Gemfile \
at this to your web config in the docker compose
– bundle
bundle your gems with docker-compose run web bundle
no need to build again
2.) still an issue and annoying
This is all good but you missed the part of database credentials like user and password. It is silly to have them in the database.yml… rather than specify somewhere in the Dockerfile. Thanks.
Hi there, nice post!
Steve or Andrew, i'm curious about the "Yes, but you can cheat in development to play with gems".. how that works? I agree with Bunter about the need to rebuild everything again after a single gem changes. Maybe you found a way, I mean the hack of using /tmp folder to cache unchanged Gemfile is great but it still needs a different twist I think. That other thing it could be accomplished by using the trick of a volume to store previously downloaded and installed gems explained here: http://bradgessler.com/articles/docker-bundler/
Now I think the solution would be a combination of both hacks, but I'm not being able to get it to work, either due to lack of experience with Docker or due to something else I'm missing.
Love to hear what you guys think.
I only meant that you can easily install new gems in your local development container to experiment with them without building the container. The developer who commits an addition to the Gemfile still has to rebuild the container. However, it's only that developer and decently rare. More importantly, the developers committing Gemfile changes usually have the skills to build a container. Our non-developer staff who run test environments (i.e., designers, qa, etc) can be blissfully unaware of ruby upgrades and gem additions. Pre-docker, I recall the addition or upgrade of some gems (maybe rmagick) that would trigger the reinstall of imagemagick on every development platform. Committing that change was a quick way to be the focus of unwanted chat memes. 🙂
Great post! This is what I am looking for recently.
I have a small question about the MySQL connection, my database.yml is
default: &default
adapter: mysql2
encoding: utf8
pool: 5
username: root
host: db
When I ran docker-compose up, it complained like
/usr/local/bundle/gems/mysql2-0.3.20/lib/mysql2/client.rb:70:in `connect': Host 'iotabackend_web_1' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server (Mysql2::Error)
Could you give me any advises about this issue?
Thank you for your great post. It has a really pragmatic approach, which is really great.
Will you soon publish an article on how to deploy to production as you mentioned at then end of the article?
I was using until recently Vagrant for development environments and Capistrano for deployment. I switched to Docker (with Docker Compose) for the first part, but I still don't have a good workflow for production deployment.
So if you have some insight (with the same pragmatic approach) on this part, that would be appreciated 🙂
I have a problem with my Docker rails instance. I have linked an postgresql img together with the rails app. When I try to run docker compose with rake:db migrate it tells me that the rake command is not found and I should add the missing gem by installing it, but bundle install already installed rake a dozen times… sadly it is not found. And idea how to fix this?
Kind regards
Here is a solution to the performance problems on OSX with vboxsf using rsync: https://github.com/brikis98/docker-osx-dev
I came back here several times to search for the article on deployment but as it turns out there is no such article yet. 😉 Actually your article was the reason why I started using docker and docker-compose back then. On my local machine I have a running system but I want to deploy it and have problems to get started because my docker-compose uses several images for elasticsearch or postgresql for example. It would be very nice if you could add a paragraph on how to deploy a project like the one described above. Or maybe you know someone's website, where the process is described.
Something I can't quite reconcile between what I got working and all these guides I'm seeing:
My Dockerfile only contains two lines:
FROM ruby:2.3.1-onbuild
CMD ["bin/rails", "server", "–port", "3000", "–binding", "0.0.0.0"]
Despite this, I still see all the bundle install stuff going on when I build the image. So what are all the additional lines in the examples above which seem to be programmatically telling it to install the bundle? Is that old boilerplate for which a newer version of the image has removed the need?
Great article !
In more recent versions of docker-compose, the "docker exec" example above can be simplified by using just "docker-compose exec web bash".
This has been available since Feb 2016, after the original article was written:
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The Garden of Eden
Ernest Hemingway
Published: May 03, 2012
Category: Fiction
I was talking with a well-known novelist — female, if you must know — about Ernest Hemingway. I praised the early books, especially the first one, The Nick Adams Stories. She liked many more, and, especially, "The Garden of Eden." As it happens, that is one of my favorites, for the story and the writing, but even more for the risks Hemingway takes.
We think of Ernest Hemingway as the writer who celebrated war and hunting and fishing in short declarative sentences that hit us with the power of a telegram. And as the sad, sick, burned-out man who put a shotgun in his mouth and blew his brains out.
But there was another, far more complicated Hemingway. His mother wanted a daughter and, until he was four or five, she raised Ernest as a girl. Cross-dressing was common in his family. And his son Gregory became Gloria.
He dealt with this murky legacy in only one book — and he intended "The Garden of Eden" to be one of his masterpieces. He worked on it for more than 15 years, writing some 200,000 words in the process.
The book that has, decades after his death, been culled from that bulky manuscript is not the book he intended. It's 256 pages long, a quick read (and quicker if you skip the stuff about hunting in Africa, which is pure padding and wouldn't be missed if it had been cut). Obviously, most of his book is missing — but what remains is a revelation. [To buy the paperback from Amazon, click here. For the Kindle edition, click here.]
Consider: In the 1920s, a young American writer named David Bourne publishes his first novel. He marries Catherine, a beautiful and rich young woman. They travel to the South of France for their honeymoon. There, in a small hotel in a coastal town, David begins his next book while Catherine works on her suntan.
There are terrific scenes that put you into the action: David catching a fish in the canal, the ordering of drinks and meals. The meals are enough to make you run to the fish market. Like this:
They were hungry for lunch and the bottle of white wine was cold and they drank it as they ate the celery remoulade and the small radishes and the home pickled mushrooms from the big glass jar. The bass was grilled and the grill marks showed on the silver skin and the butter melted on the hot plate. There was sliced lemon to press on the bass and fresh bread from the bakery and the wine cooled their tongues of the heat of the fried potatoes….
So there they are, in a zone of unimpeded happiness, when Catherine starts to go funny in the head. First she cuts her hair. Then she proposes a seemingly harmless variation in their sexual relationship. And then she brings another woman into the relationship.
The fantasy of two woman for one man is, surveys tell us, the favorite fantasy of American men. If that's true, men who feel this way should rush to this book, for in addition to some highly charged, very erotic writing, there is also a stark account of the psychological cost of such arrangements. And women who like the occasional "dirty' book should delete their copies of 50 Shades of Grey from their Kindles and read a master at work.
I won't spoil the plot — though it's obvious that the mathematical formula of three divided by two doesn't work out well. But the plot's not the attraction here. It's Hemingway, really getting inside the character of a woman. It's romantic writing from a man whose prior efforts in that form were chilly and male. And it's the pleasure of the South of France in the 1920s, a paradise that was cheap and uncrowded.
Love. The South of France. Complications and kinks. As a combination, the elements are unbeatable. This novel has been ignored long enough — it deserves to be one of Hemingway's better-known books. Read it with a cold drink, skim the African passages, and it will make for a memorable evening.
The novel recently became a stinker of a movie. This trailer will make you think the book is vapid to the max. Whatever you do… avoid the film.


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ROSA KHUTOR, RUSSIA – Jamaica's Olympic bobsled adventure ended with a whimper on Monday as the country that once inspired the Hollywood smash hit "Cool Runnings" finished rock bottom at the Sanki Sliding Center.
The Jamaican team, which qualified for the Winter Games after a 12-year absence, was hoping to represent its country with the same vigor and enthusiasm shown by its 1988 Calgary counterpart, which inspired the movie.
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Cygnus Publishing division adds significant reach for advertisers targeting the pavement and asphalt construction markets
Westport, CT (August 18, 2003) - Cygnus Business Media, a leading,
diversified business-to-business media company, announced today it has
acquired Asphalt Contractor magazine from Illinois-based Mercor
Media. The publication reaches 10,000 "on-road" commercial and
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target essential customers within this sector. We plan to facilitate
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Cygnus Business Media also owns two successful
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Tucked away off a narrow country road in Clark County, in the middle of a farm, 27 acres of hemp grew all summer. Now, the plants will be harvested and processed.
Kentucky, hailed as a leader by industrial hemp advocates, has grown the hemp. Now the state is working on growing the industry.
The apple orchard has been picked clean. Some are stowed in the refrigerator, some are applesauce, some frozen and the rest are dried and sitting patiently on the shelf until the dead of winter (we are not allowed to eat them until all fresh are eaten).
Congratulations to all of the Swine Exhibitors from Spencer County that participated in the 2015 Kentucky State Fair. In the Kentucky State Fair 4-H/FFA Market Swine Show Ashley Montgomery, Makala Hatzman, Madisyn Caudill, Courtney Jeffiers, Dalton Stallings, Kelly Herndon, Emily Herndon, Seth Goodlett, Dillon Stallings, Jenna Thompson, Noah Dunning, Casey Montgomery, Lee Tyler Owen, Ethan Thompson, Emily Truax, Desmond Stubbs, Noah Frank, Jillian Dunning, and Taylor Goodlett represented Spencer County 4-H and FFA well in the all of their classes.
Apples come in many colors, textures and flavors. You will be more satisfied with your culinary results when using recipes with apples if you are aware of, and knowledgable about, the varying characteristics of each type of apple.
Brace yourselves, Kentucky drivers; the annual three-month increase in roadway encounters, and unfortunate collisions, with white-tailed deer is once again upon us.
When attempting to grow tropical plants, we are met with the challenge of mimicking their native habitat which is difficult inside our homes; we can allow Mother Nature to take care of some of this, outside, for now. Move some of your orchids, holiday cacti and Clivia outdoors for the remainder of the season because we can initiate bloom by naturally managing day length and nighttime temperatures.
Fall is a great time to take soil samples for fertility analyses.
Doing it now can allow you plenty of time to follow fertility recommendations before planting season, and that could end up saving you time and money. When you receive the soil test results, look at the recommendations for lime and pH, a measure of soil acidity that affects plants' uptake of all nutrients. If the soil pH is too low, it decreases the uptake of essential nutrients, and elements like aluminum and manganese can become toxic to growing plant roots.
Congratulations to Spencer County 4-H and FFA members, Sydney Warren, Zach Herndon, Hailey Pawley, Briar Honeycut, Connor Foster, Georgi Herndon, Madisyn Caudill, and Darilyn Browning for participating in the 2015 Kentucky State Fair Market Lamb Show. In Market Lamb Showmanship Zach Herndon won his class with Sydney Warren 2nd and Hailey Pawley 3rd, Darilyn Browning was 4th. Darilyn Browning had a class winner in the market show.
Fall is a beautiful time in Kentucky gardens, but it can also be a messy time. Tree leaves turn from green to vibrant fall colors and then drop, creating big piles. Then there are the leaf and spent shoots from our flower beds.
The way we address our yard waste can have a significant impact on our gardens and on the environment. Gardeners commonly rake up and bag leaves to haul away to yard waste dumps.
This option, while tidy, uses a lot of energy, both yours and the energy to transport the leaves and mixed garden waste.
I'm not frightened by spiders; this doesn't mean that I want them crawling on me. I enjoy seeing them in the garden this time of the year. They seem to be everywhere: between the chair and the umbrella, in the frame of the garage door, across the window frame in the office, and across the path through Daddy's Japanese Garden. This last one sometimes elicits panic because I have a tendency to forget about it at night and end up walking through it on the way to close up the chickens for the night. I like spiders, but I don't want one on my shoulder.
As harvest season gets underway across Kentucky, there is an increased likelihood that drivers will more frequently encounter slow-moving farm equipment on the roadways. The staff of Kentucky Farm Bureau (KFB) urges motorists to slow down, stay alert and patiently share the road this fall, especially in recognition of National Farm Safety & Health Week, September 20-26.
May is the month of peonies, so why am I writing about them now? Well, October is the ideal time to plant, replant, move, or divide your peonies. Whatever the case may be, you want to do it now so that the roots can re-establish themselves before the ground freezes.
As September begins, farmers across the state are preparing to harvest what could be a record corn crop.
"I think we're in good shape to be near record for corn, although I've seen a lot of late disease come into this crop that makes me a little bit nervous," said Chad Lee, extension agronomist with the University of Kentucky, referring to Southern Rust which spreads by windblown spores.
"It could hurt the yield a little bit, but I think it's safe to say we'll have near-record yields," Lee said.
Two new residents — a bobcat kitten and a juvenile bald eagle — are now on display at Salato Wildlife Education Center.
The female kitten is about five months old and came from a wildlife rehabilitation facility in Kentucky. She succeeds an adult female that was in poor health and died some months ago, said Geoff Roberts, conservation educator at Salato.
The youngster is "still very much a kitten, growing fast, but she's pretty adorable," Roberts said. "She has a lot of energy now."
I grew up being warned about using fresh wood products as mulch or soil amendments because, in theory, as the wood broke down it would tie up valuable nitrogen, stealing it away from the plants. Recent conclusions based on old and new field research- and practical experience- suggests otherwise. I have found that wood chips make an excellent soil conditioner and weed suppressant (almost more critical this year).
On a stage set to celebrate the Commonwealth's deep agricultural roots, Kentucky Farm Bureau's (KFB) 52nd annual Country Ham Breakfast & Auction concluded tlast week with a show-stealing $400,000 bid for the Kentucky State Fair's Grand Champion Ham.
Anne Patton Schubert, Taylorsville, Kentucky, has been elected as a delegate to the 132nd Annual American Angus Association Convention of Delegates, Nov. 5 at the Overland Park Convention Center in Overland Park, Kansas, reports Richard Wilson, Interim CEO of the American Angus Association.
Summer's heat and dry weather can take a toll on your flower garden, but with a little extra care, it is possible to bring it back to life for a few more weeks of vibrant color and texture.
With both annuals and perennials, making sure they get plenty of water is always important, but even more so in late summer. Annuals, in particular, will start to decline without an adequate supply of water to keep the ground moist.
It's that time of the summer–tomato season! For those of us who love this fruit–yes, it is a fruit–it makes summer meals so easy, refreshing and tasty.
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Microsoft published its monthly security bulletin release on April 10, 2012. Microsoft released six bulletins that addressed 11 vulnerabilities. The bulletins address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows operating systems, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway. The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges, cause a denial of service condition, or execute code on a targeted system.


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NYPD Investigates Another Apparent Chokehold Incident
The NYPD has launched an internal investigation after another video surfaced showing an officer using an apparent chokehold on a suspect during an arrest.
Police say the incident took place on July 14 at a subway station in East Harlem. Twenty-two-year-old Ronald Johns was arrested for fare evasion after he allegedly entered the station through an emergency gate without paying. He has also been charged with resisting arrest and criminal trespass. He is due back in court in September.
The incident happened three days before Staten Island resident Eric Garner was placed in an apparent chokehold as police arrested him for allegedly selling loose cigarettes. He later died in custody.
Chokeholds are banned under NYPD policy.


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I find that Sephiroth works pretty well with Garland.
Pretty lack luster as always, Thundaga replaces it really well, really good addition to his move set overall
I find that Sephiroth works pretty well with Garland.
You absolutely need to use Thudaga. It has amazing range and is a good move to use on enemies that pause at the start of HP attacks such as Terra, Ultimecia, Vaan, and Gabranth. The best part is that it is often enough to just use Thundaga as soon as they start these attacks because most of the ranged moves stop their movement once the user is hit during the execution.
I find the best builds for Garland either make use of his amazing EX Revenge combos or Assists. I personally stick will assists and which ones you should use really depends on your needs. If you're having trouble hitting with his HP attacks, Kuja or Sephiroth are good choices because they lead into a chase which basically gives you a free Flare hit. If, however, you just want to pump out some extra damage after your wall rushes, stick with Jecht or Gabranth. Jechts aerial brave attack and Gabranth's ground brave should also give you a good shot of landing Blaze because of how long they keep the enemy tied up during the attacks. Just don't be too far away if you're trying to do that. Either way, you can pull off all sorts of combos using Assists on Garland.
I personally use Free Air Dash and Omni Ground Dash+. You can do all sorts of cool stuff with Omni Ground Dash turns and Round Edge. I still haven't decided if I'm going to continue using Free Air Dash Boost. On one hand, landing Bardiche is much easier to time correctly for me with the extra speed. However, the added speed also means you need to control your movements considerably more to avoid blocks and counters. for critical boosters, I stick with Sneak Attack, Counterattack, and Assist Critical Boost. Most of Garlands moves can land criticals easily with Sneak Attack and some of his other moves such as Thundaga and Lance Charge benefit a lot from Counterattack because of how they are typically used.
In terms of equips I'd pick between his exclusive weapon or Gungnir. His exclusive has amazing strength stats (70 ATK) but the +10% EX absorption isn't really that much of a boost (you probably wont notice much of a difference in terms of filling his EX Gauge faster). Gungnir gives a +50% brave wall rush damage which isn't that much but is still a nice buff to his damage output because most of his attacks end with a Wall Rush. Despite the nerfs of Wall Rushes, Garland can still easily pull of wall rushes that deal more more damage than the final attack in a combo, so tacking on a Booster isn't a waste of a slot for accessories combined with Gungnir. If you're going for faster EX Gauge building, I pick Heaven's Cloud for its +3 EX Intake Range. All that really needs to be done accessory wise is based on what kind of build you're going for; typically EX Revenge or Assist.
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So, I like Gabranth assist on Garland even more, if you have a full assist bar, you have enough time on on the wall rush after a Bardiche to have Gabranth come in and clean up after you with Execution, felt fuckin stylish
Lack luster.
I go with Bardiche, Thundaga, and whatever his aerial move is that drives him upwards for BRV attacks in the air.
Really, imo, you'd be insane to go with anyone but Kuja as an assist for Garland.
Bardiche (to ground rush)>Kuja assist allows you to get in 2 more Bardiches PLUS a chase and Flare if you're experienced with it (as in, if you've used it more than three times). Just think about it. Bardiche x3+assist damage... In a rulesetff battle, this is at least over 800 damage WITHOUT criticals. That's pretty punishing. Others can't compare.
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Hi dissidians.
I spent last night training (with a human player) how to dodge and how to try do punish with him, it was good and really useful (and most of all basic training) but i think that a Garland good player/mainer could give me some tips concerning him to get even better with him.
Garland has been my main since i started to play 012, it would be a shame playing with him without even understand how to punish, wich what punish, and wich tricks or combo can be used to apply good pressure.
But now comes the unusual part where i explain you that me and my friends play without assist everytime, so i can't just spam kuja on floor rush, spam bardiche, chase, throw flare and maybe add a thundaga and stuff.
Thanks everyone.
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London universities were today braced for an unprecedented rush for places as experts predicted a clearing "free for all".
Institutions in the capital have drafted in about 1,000 staff to man call centres to cope with demand from students looking to secure a course tomorrow.
Experts say this year's post A-level rush will be the busiest yet as the cap on the number of bright students that universities can take has been lifted.
More than 300,000 teenagers get their exam results tomorrow and more of them than ever are expected to want to "trade up" and change courses.
One London university has quadrupled the number of staff manning its clearing centre to 240 and hired a call centre for them to use.
Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at Buckingham University, said: "It looks like it will be the busiest year for clearing. The way universities are manning their call centres seems to suggest they think so too.
"Universities will have people manning the phones marketing themselves madly. It looks like it's going to be a very hectic year."
For the first time universities will be able to accept as many students with ABB grades as they can get. This means that those who do better than expected will be able to "trade up" to better institutions whereas in the past they were tied to their accepted offers.
Professor Smithers said this will have a knock-on effect on mid-ranking universities, which could lose their ABB students, while those at lower ranking universities could lose students who find they can do a degree more cheaply at a Further Education college.
Professor Smithers added: "Under the old arrangements there was a gentleman's agreement that students were tied to an acceptance offer. Now it is more of a free for all."
Tricia King, pro-vice master for student experience at Birkbeck, where 80 staff will be answering telephones, said: "For us, this year will undoubtedly be the busiest clearing yet."
Kingston University is increasing the number of staff manning its phones tomorrow from 55 to 240.
London South Bank University will have 110 people taking calls, University of East London will employ 150 staff, and St George's will have 10 — double last year's number. At SOAS 15 staff will be answering telephones, at Royal Holloway there will be 60 and Greenwich university will have 110 people on hand. At Queen Mary there will be 40 staff, as well as a Twitter feed to keep students up to date.
A spokesman for UCAS said applications were up 3.1 per cent this year, and universities have made more offers than at the same stage last year.
About 12 per cent of all enrolments last year were through clearing.
A-level students who get their grades tomorrow can log on to the UCAS website from 8am to see if they have been accepted onto a course or are eligible for clearing. Applicants should then telephone universities to discuss courses and check if places are available. An official clearing choice can be made from 5pm tomorrow.
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Discussion in 'January 2013' started by roscoe36, Oct 29, 2012.
I read that David Stern will credit the Pistons loss in Euros.
That is perfect. I was worried that the game time would conflict with part I of Oprah's interview with Lance.
Stern can probably pass a hat around the league office facilies to come up with enough jack to cover the missed Palace revenue that would have been generated by the 900 fans who would have paid to see this game.
Stern actually struck a deal with Gores where we will win the draft lottery.
Question: Who is going, and does anyone want to meet up beforehand at the Arena for beers?
There will probably be more Pistons fans at this game than a traditional Palace home game.
Looks like Drummond is scouting Europe for the next Austin Daye.
That kid has some amazing planking potential.
I wonder how high he can kick the wall?
I have no NBATV. I guess I can't watch this game. Hope to read some good reports....especially from those that attended.
Mason introduces BK7 as "the London Knight." Pistons trail 13-2 after 3 minutes. Down 16-2 after 4 minutes. All starters are MINUS 14.
That was an average game.
Missed the game completely. Expected loss when I saw that teen wolf led the team in scoring with only 4 assists, but Knight's binary stat line was alarming. Did he get hurt or something?
Spoiler alert Ex Pistons in the house>>> Zeke in the NBA TV Studio and Bill Laimbeer doing radio broadcast in the 4th qtr with Blaha. Laims is clearly still bleeding Piston red and blue and you could tell by how critical he was of their play in the fourth quarter...Seemed almost disgusted with them...either that or he was still upset that Lawrence had the Piston job and Laims is once again running a ladies franchise as the GM and coach of the NY Liberty. If the Liberty are successful with a ring this year, somebody on the mens side should give him a job again...maybe he can take Joe's place As BL said, terrible start for the Pistons...Tay hits two FT's and then the Knicks go a 16-0 run... guess the Pistons aren't use to traveling to far distances as they seem lethargic in the beginning missing both FG's and FT's Must have been a lot of Pistons fans as there were a lot of cheers when the Pistons scored....They were the "home team" and maybe Mason brought a hundred people with him. But you have to think the Knicks were the team all of the Londoners came to see. The Knicks announcers Spera Dedas and Clyde Frazier gave the Pistons plenty of praise, but in the beginning, they did not look like a team that had won 7 of their past 10.
Per 36 Knight would have gone for 2, 2 and 2. Any FIBA fans at the game probably thought, 'Kyle Singler didn't even start over here!'.
When you get outrebounded by the Knicks, you know you're having an off night.
Pffft! Whatever! If we could have done one of those In-Game Trades at halftime (Melo for Prince), we could have easily came back and pulled this one out.
Goodness the Knicks own us. They really, really do. I don't remember the last time we played them where we weren't basically out of it by the end of one.
The long flight, riding on the London Eye and visiting Buckingham Palace did the Pistons in..
January 7th 2012. The first Q ended 25-24 NY. We got annihilated in the second quarter.
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