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Monday, August 27, 2007
ActiveResource Won't Always Play Nice With Form Handlers
The problem, basically, is that the attr_accessor-like methods you can expect on an ActiveRecord object won't be there for an ActiveResource object until HTTP response time (I think), while they're there on ActiveRecord objects from the moment you attempt to use them. Currently I'm dealing with this with a lot of painful, manual hacking, but the correct response is probably a method_missing on ActiveResource::Base that looks like the one in ActiveRecord.
An even better approach might be to make both ActiveRecord and ActiveResource subclasses of some object which represents an active record with no assumptions about its data store. The flaw here, of course, is that using ActiveResource as if it were ActiveRecord is not generally recommended. There's at least one good reason to do it anyway, though. (That'll be the subject of an upcoming post, I think.)
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"An even better approach might be to make both ActiveRecord and ActiveResource subclasses of some object which represents an active record with no assumptions about its data store"ReplyDelete
Why subclass? Why not just put a Facade pattern in front of the two?
This is what I was referring to in my earlier comment).
Ack ... hit "publish" too soon.ReplyDelete
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but couldn't you just have an ActiveRecordOrResource class that will pass through things like .find(:id) appropriately?
It would be cool if REST controllers had an action that provided some representation of their schema, maybe relax-ng or whatever the XML schema definition de jour is. ActiveResource could request that schema so it knew what to expect and could construct the attribute methods you need.ReplyDelete
This would be similar to the way ActiveRecord executes "SHOW FIELDS FROM table" to get the list of columns that belong to the table.
@joe - actually that's what I was thinking of. my design patterns lingo eluded me, but that's what I meant.ReplyDelete
@sean - exactly. ActiveResource does something very similar to ActiveRecord's dynamic method assignment, but it happens at the wrong time. if you use a date_select form handler in an ActiveResource create method, the form handler can't get the date object initially, and the code falls apart on the absence of that date method. But if you stub it in with attr_accessor, the #find code which is supposed to generate it won't generate it. You're forced to patch the method onto the individual object, and only when !request.post?. It gets messy. If the process were cleaner and simpler, like Rails migrations or auto-generated schemas (technically schemae), using ActiveResource would be so much easier.


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City of Lincoln
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Mayor Coleen J. Seng today announced that season passes for the City's 11 public swimming pools can now be purchased online through the City Web site, lincoln.ne.gov. Star City Shores and University Place Pool will open for Memorial Day weekend, May 27 through 29 from 1 to 5 p.m. All pools open for the 2006 season on June 3.
"Season passes are a convenient and economical way to enjoy summer recreation at any of Lincoln's public pools," said Mayor Seng. "With this new online service, the passes can be purchased from home with no special trip, no waiting and no additional cost."
Those ordering season pool passes online with a credit card will receive the passes in three to five business days. Prices are:
Season passes also are available at the Aquatics Office at the "F" Street Community Center, 1225 "F" Street from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Season passes purchased online are non-refundable.
The City's online services are available at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: epay). E-pay services include payments for animal license renewals, parking tickets, criminal histories, event parking, water and wastewater bills and property taxes (fee charged).


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Master the sand | A clinic with Ben Berden
Learn How To Ride The Sand!
A Special Cross Clinic with Belgian Ben Berden
Wed. Oct 5th/5:30pm/Boulder Reservoir
Greetings Cyclocross Riders!
We are happy to announce a special clinic with one of the world's top cyclocross racers! Belgian's Ben Berden (Ops Ale - Clement) is in town to prepare for this weekend's USGP race in Ft. Collins and will be sharing his tips and tricks for riding through sand pits this Wednesday evening at the Boulder Reservoir. Ben is one of the top sand-riders in the world with 15 years of racing experience. He is also a 3-time winner at Koksijde, Belgium, one of the most difficult sand courses in the world and site of this season's World Championships. His techniques will also be useful for riding mud and snow, conditions we are sure to encounter later this cross season. Of course, we will also be working on mounting and dismounting and other cross skills with BCS CX Team Ambassadors Pete Webber, Kristin Weber and Brandon Dwight.
When: Wednesday, Oct 5th at 5:30, sharp! Ready to ride
Where: Boulder Reservoir main parking lot. Map Here: http://ow.ly/6LWeh
How Much? It's free!
Other: If you drive, you will likely need to park outside of the gate and ride to the meeting spot. If you ride to the clinic, please bring a light because it will be dark when you ride home. THERE WILL BE NO REGULAR CLINIC AT BCS-NORTH THIS WEEK - you will have to join us at the Res!


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Rock'n New Year's Eve
Seen & heard
Funny, ours usually rides a bike …
Overheard on the police scanner, regarding a runaway canine in Danville and Animal Control in hot pursuit:
"They're rounding the corner now … The dog is on foot …"
— Kelly Gust, Staff
Past Times
Dec. 29, 1971 Top stories of the Pleasanton Times
Headline: "Pleasanton 1971 In Review"
January: The still-existing controversy over a second hospital for the Valley was beginning to simmer.
February: The federal government gave Pleasanton 105 acres of surplus land along Hopyard Road that became the city's new Little League complex.
March: Old St. Augustine's Church on Rose Street came down after 90 years of service.
April: The right of cities to collect in-lieu park fees from developers and to spend those funds for development of recreation areas was upheld by the state Supreme Court and later by the U.S. Supreme Court, adding $175,000 to city park coffers.
May: Pleasanton won its struggle to get gravel trucks off city streets with county approval of the new El Charro interchange with Route 580.
June: The 1970-71 Amador Valley High School year was one to remember. Out of a possible 10 EBAL championships, the Dons captured seven and finished second in three others.
July: The federal government announced its intention to build a youth detention center to house 175 first offenders at Camp Parks. The plan is still pending along with another federal plan for a national cemetery on the land.
August: Shadow Cliffs Park made its public debut. The depleted gravel pit was rehabilitated by the East Bay Regional Park District.
September: Pleasanton property owners were asked to pay the highest tax rate in the city's history ($1.50) — still not enough to finance all municipal needs.
October: Slow-growth advocates in Livermore with SAVE (Save All Valley Environment) launched a petition for an initiative election to stop growth until problems of water, sewers and school overcrowding can be solved.
November: The end of an era came when residents began vacating Kottinger Village, to be razed in 1972 to make room for a senior citizens complex.
December: Pleasanton selected the Don Juan rose as its official flower.
Groceries: Safeway — canned hams, $6.79 for an 8-pound tin; tom turkeys, 33 cents a pound; navel oranges, 9 pounds for 99 cents. Party ice cubes, 7 pounds for 35 cents.
At the Movies: Dublin Cinema — Walt Disney's "Lady and the Tramp."
Answer to last week's Trivia Question: The Don Juan rose.
Trivia Question: Which Safeway store in Contra Costa County was the first with a UPC code scanner?
By Louise Hartman. Contact her at lhartman@bayarea- newsgroup.com or follow her on Twitter at Newsie1195.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Israelis are growing increasingly fed up with the lack of religious freedom for Jews on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, Judaism's most holy site, because of ongoing fear over a Muslim backlash.
For years already, unofficial restrictions bar Jews and Christians from praying atop the Temple Mount or carrying a Bible to the holy site. Muslim watchers keep an eye on all Jewish and Christian visitors, and Israeli police are quick to arrest those who violate said restrictions.
Of late, the police have simply been keeping the Temple Mount closed to all non-Muslim visitors.
Israeli Temple Mount activists hope to begin reversing the situation with a mass protest scheduled for next Wednesday (August 7), the start of the Hebrew month of Elul, according to Israel National News.
Speaking to the website, right-wing Israeli lawmaker Moshe Feiglin (Likud) said that barring Jews from the Temple Mount was no doubt connected to the new US-driven peace negotiations, and warned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netnyahu will be strong-armed into an agreement that surrenders the "very heart of Jerusalem to foreigners, to Islam."
Feiglin insisted that at this point, the only way to prevent the Temple Mount from once again being taken from Israel is to demonstrate en masse and to be ready for confrontation and personal sacrifice.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
"Waiting On" Wednesday: Looking for Me
This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:
Looking for Me
Publication Date: May 28
From Amazon:
Teddi Overman found her life's passion for furniture in a broken-down chair left on the side of the road in rural Kentucky. She learns to turn other people's castoffs into beautifully restored antiques, and opens her own graciously appointed shop in Charleston. Breathing new life into these discarded objects gives Teddi purpose, but has never alleviated the haunting uncertainty she's felt in the years since her brother Josh's mysterious disappearance. When signs emerge that Josh might still be alive, Teddi is drawn home to find him. It's a journey that could help her come to terms with her shattered family—and to find herself at last.
What's your "waiting on" pick this week?
Want to participate? Grab the logo, post your own WoW entry on your blog, and leave your link below!
58 comments:
- Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit said...
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- January 9, 2013 at 12:02 AM
- Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit said...
Great pick! Love seeing other people's upcycled stuff - cool concept for a book!
Here's my WoW!
- January 9, 2013 at 12:04 AM
- Andrea @The Bookish Babes said...
Thanks for sharing!
- January 9, 2013 at 12:13 AM
- BURIED IN BOOKS said...
That sounds good! I'm a upcycler (at least I think so) myself, but thankfully have no mysterious missing relatives. But what the two have in common sounds like it could be interesting. Hope you enjoy it!
- January 9, 2013 at 12:24 AM
- Divergent Gryffindor said...
/great pick! Love this! :)
- January 9, 2013 at 12:26 AM
- Reeka said...
That book definitely sounds intriguing! Was always a fan of storylines that revolve around "they could still be alive." Thank you for sharing this week!
Reeka @BoundbyWords
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- January 9, 2013 at 12:44 AM
- Jennifer Messerschmidt said...
My mom is into antiques. She might like this. Thanks for sharing and hosting!
- January 9, 2013 at 12:49 AM
- Nicki Yarn said...
Great pic, thanks for sharing.
- January 9, 2013 at 1:07 AM
- The Readdicts said...
That cover reminds me of Victorian England somehow! Nice pick! This seems like an interesting read!
Here's my Waiting On Wednesday post.
Sarika @ The Readdicts
- January 9, 2013 at 2:10 AM
- Patricia (Night Readings) said...
I love a good mystery - thanks for sharing!
Here's my WoW of the week.
Patricia @ Night Readings
- January 9, 2013 at 2:29 AM
- Creations by Laurel-Rain Snow said...
Oh, this one looks like my kind of read! I've read and loved another book by Beth Hoffman. Thanks!
- January 9, 2013 at 2:32 AM
- Henrietta @ Leisure Reads said...
This sounds like a wonderful story above love and purpose. Thanks for sharing!
Would you like to check out my post? My WoW this week is a stand-alone ghost story.
Have a gorgeous Wednesday :)
- January 9, 2013 at 2:43 AM
- Sharon ObsessionwithBooks said...
This book sounds interesting :-) thankyou for sharing!
Happy reading.
- January 9, 2013 at 3:56 AM
- Bieke Paesen said...
I have posted my first WoW today! :D It would be great if you check it out (and if I would get more followers out of it, lol).
My WoW this week
- January 9, 2013 at 4:18 AM
- patty said...
That book sounds like it could be really interesting. Might have to check it out
- January 9, 2013 at 5:21 AM
- Alyssa Susanna said...
Ooooo, I love that chair in the picture! Hope you enjoy!!!
- January 9, 2013 at 5:41 AM
- Tina's Blog said...
I loved her first book. You won't be surprised to know this is queued up in my WoW posts.
- January 9, 2013 at 6:05 AM
- Mary @ BookSwarm said...
Ooh, this sounds good! I love the recycling of old stuff into cool new stuff so I can see connecting with the characters.
- January 9, 2013 at 6:29 AM
- Grace Fonseca said...
You always find something very interesting.
- January 9, 2013 at 6:56 AM
Beautiful cover! Looks like a great read!
- January 9, 2013 at 7:35 AM
- Diayll Sales said...
Humm that's one I might have never found without this post! Thanks for sharing!!
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- January 9, 2013 at 7:37 AM
- Amy said...
This sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing.
- January 9, 2013 at 7:38 AM
- Cherie Reich said...
Love the cover of this one! Thanks for sharing!
Here's my WOW.
- January 9, 2013 at 7:52 AM
- PidginPea said...
Nice pick! Sounds interesting!
Here's my WOW:
- January 9, 2013 at 8:08 AM
- laurice-with-love said...
WOW! I love your pick for today! I'll add that up to my TBR list. Pretty interesting. Mine's WoW is If I Should Die by Amy Plum. :)
Thanks! Godbless!
Laurice @ Dainty Damsel Stories
- January 9, 2013 at 8:17 AM
- Shane said...
Cool pick! Always finding something new here :)
old follower
- January 9, 2013 at 8:25 AM
- Catherine said...
Sounds like a great story! Here's my WoW!
- January 9, 2013 at 8:35 AM
- Dabin Han said...
Sounds cool!
- January 9, 2013 at 8:44 AM
- bermudaonion said...
I cannot wait for this book to come out!!!
- January 9, 2013 at 8:47 AM
- Heather B said...
Here's mine :)
- January 9, 2013 at 8:59 AM
- Susie said...
Awesome choice!
- January 9, 2013 at 9:04 AM
I haven't heard of this author yet, so I will have to check it out. Sounds like it could be emotional looking for someone you thought was dead. Great pick!
Vyki @ On The Shelf
- January 9, 2013 at 9:10 AM
- Wickedly Delicious said...
Never heard of this author. Sounds interesting. Love the cover.
Have a great week
My WOW
- January 9, 2013 at 9:33 AM
- Ivana said...
My first week participating :) I haven't heard of this author before, but it sounds interesting.
Here is my WoW.
- January 9, 2013 at 9:39 AM
- Bonnie R said...
I first heard of this author when 'Saving CeeCee Honeycutt' came out but I never got around to reading it. This one sounds really good I'm definitely going to check it out!
My WoW Pick!
- January 9, 2013 at 9:47 AM
- Color Blind said...
I am getting ready to post my very first Waiting on Wednesday.!
- January 9, 2013 at 10:32 AM
- *krystyn* said...
I'm going to post the very same book that you did because I absolutely LOVED Saving CeeCee and I love Beth Hoffman!!! So glad you posted this because I had not heard of a release date for it yet! It sounds great too!!
- January 9, 2013 at 10:49 AM
- Beth Hoffman said...
Wow, Jill ... Thanks so much for selecting my novel as your Waiting On Wednesday pick! I'm incredibly excited about this story and can't wait to hear what you think of it.
And thank you to everyone for your lovely comments. I'm tickled!
- January 9, 2013 at 12:47 PM
- Girl with Bread said...
Oops. This is my first Waiting on Wednesday and I posted twice by accident!!! I was too excited! Thanks for hosting this meme!!!!
- January 9, 2013 at 2:20 PM
- rivie bleu said...
That sounds like an interesting book, I forget how many different genres I like. I stopped reading for like a long time and just came back about a year ago. This is my first WoW!
- January 9, 2013 at 3:29 PM
- Danielle Villano said...
Great pick! Thanks for sharing! Have a great week :)
- January 9, 2013 at 7:30 PM
- Niki said...
Sounds like a great book! Thanks for sharing!
- January 9, 2013 at 7:37 PM
Just joined into the fun!
- January 10, 2013 at 3:35 PM
- Twisty J said...
This is my first WoW post. I'm excited to join in! Thanks for hosting.
- January 11, 2013 at 2:07 AM
- Jessica Prosper said...
What a great idea. Thank you.
- January 11, 2013 at 2:16 PM
- Jessica Prosper said...
I will start this next Wednesday!
- January 11, 2013 at 2:17 PM
I've made a free website where you can manage your book collection. I thought you might find it useful :)
Thanks a lot <3
- January 12, 2013 at 12:29 PM
- Cozy in Texas said...
I'm not sure if I've read anything by Beth Hoffman. I'll have to look out for her.
- January 15, 2013 at 7:35 AM
- Whitney C said...
No tmy cup of tea but sounds good all the same :). Im waiting on this bad boy http://theparanormalprincess.blogspot.com/2013/02/waiting-on-wednesday-steelheart.html
- February 7, 2013 at 6:52 PM
Not my cup of tea but I hope its good. Im waiting on this bad boy
- February 7, 2013 at 6:54 PM
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Furniture looks nice .
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A few weeks ago I saw this fabulous idea over at No Time for Flashcards and wanted to use it for the play group I was hosting. Unfortunately, my group of 3 and 4 year olds didn't want to spend much time on this activity...but when my 3rd grader came home from school she had other plans for the tree.
Lou had plans to use the tree to practice her spelling words. I quickly made up some paper leaves with her words on them and put them face down in a little pile.
She picked a word at random, read it out loud to me, then had to spell the word without looking at it. If she was able to spell it correctly, she could attach the leaf to the tree. If it was incorrect, the word went back into the pile with the other words for her to review again. I don't think spelling practice has ever been so much fun.
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Jane Lynch, Andrew Rannells, Boy George, and Sharon Needles Cover 'Out 100'
"This year has been a roller coaster -- everything I've ever wanted has come true," Needles says just after stepping off stage as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in a San Antonio, production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. "I've pretty much crossed off everything on my bucket list."
Since beating out her reality TV competition, Needles has become the drag queen equivalent of a household name, toured the country, made her stage debut, purchased her own hearse, and cut an album, set to be released in early 2013. If that wasn't enough, Needles returned to TV in October with FEARce! a weekly horror movie show on Logo.
For all her newfound fame and celebrity appearances, though, it's the music career that seems to most excite the Pride of Pittsburgh.
"I didn't just want to do a single, I wanted to have a strong body of work," she says of the forthcoming record, which is set to be titled PG-13. And once that drops? Needles is planning to take her act overseas before hanging up her broom for a bit. "Just maybe," she says, "I'll take a break and spend a little more time with friends and family that are missing the person behind the wig and corset."
And while not everything about life in the spotlight has agreed with Needles -- "I wouldn't change anything," she says of her new life, "though I've definitely made my mistakes" -- she's poised to learn from her blunders and give up her crown once RuPaul anoints a new winner.
"Nothing lasts forever," says Needles. "Drag Race isn't just a competition I took part in, it's also my favorite television show of all time, so I'm looking forward to sitting in my easy chair and watching the tears, the fashion, and the cat fights."
Jane Lynch
Jane Lynch wasn't exactly sitting around waiting for some guy to make her his muse. He found her anyway.
The actress–comedienne spent a decade with Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre and toured with Second City. She did commercials, bit film roles, and TV guest spots. "I spent many, many, many years saying yes -- to everything," she says. One of those yeses led her to Christopher Guest, and his improv mockumentary films (Best in Show, A Mighty Wind) helped make her just-off-center character work cultishly desirable.
She held her own alongside Steve Carell (The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Will Ferrell (Talladega Nights), and the other brash boys of mainstream comedy. And then another twisted scribe in need of an unexpected muse, Ryan Murphy, cast her in 2008 as Sue Sylvester, the amoral cheerleading coach whose acerbic insults are the strychnine sucker punch to Glee's saccharine.
"I love people who make big choices, who don't stay safe," she says, naming former costars who serve as her own inspiration: William H. Macy, Felicity Huffman, and even Meryl Streep ("She might be playing a character who's not as eccentric as Julia Child or Margaret Thatcher, but her stakes are always very high," Lynch says of Streep, whose sister she played in Julie & Julia).
As Hollywood (again) discovers it has access to a deep untapped pool of female humorists, Lynch has started writing. "I'm spending a lot of time inside my head in a closed room," she says, adding that she has been motivated in some ways by younger generations of self-assured women. "The difference between people like me and Amy Poehler and Tina Fey [is] there's kind of an entitlement that they have to their right to have a seat at the table," Lynch says. "They're out there saying, 'This is what I do, and this is why it's funny. And if you don't like it, you don't like it.' But it looks like everybody likes it."
Though Lynch can say no whenever she pleases -- "It's been a personal growth thing for me," she says -- her yes list is bigger and brighter: In 2011, she hosted the Emmys; the year after she helmed Saturday Night Live. She's won basically every trophy they give to a funny lady on TV, peppering her acceptance speeches with heartfelt thanks to her wife since 2010, Lara Embry, and their two children.
"It's of course very normal and natural for me to talk about because it's, you know, my life," she says. "But it does strike me when I'm on the red carpet and Billy Bush says, 'Oh, how's your wife?' "
Boy George
Boy George has a very clear memory of sitting in jail on January 20, 2009, and watching the inauguration of Barack Obama. "I remember thinking, Oh my God, I should be there! What happened? How did I get here?" he says. It was a pivotal moment for the legendary singer, who'd recorded his own Obama tribute, "Yes, We Can," in part as a testament to his own voyage of self-discovery and change. "What I've discovered as I've gotten older is that happiness is a choice," he says, reflecting on the seismic shifts in his thinking and attitude in the years since his lonely prison vigil. "Of course life throws things at you, but I would say, in my life at least, that a lot of the awful stuff has been self-inflicted."
It's also been highly public, documented by Britain's voracious tabloids, as the Culture Club idol -- who blazed a trail for queer youth 30 years ago with a handful of era-defining songs -- struggled with cocaine and heroin addiction, and later with a series of humiliating arrests. Through it all he has continued to make music, sometimes as a solo musician, sometimes with his old band, and most frequently as an international DJ. "As I've traveled around the world to places that wouldn't let me in back in the day, like Argentina or Russia, one of the things I've been struck by is the number of people who've said, 'You're the reason I came out,' " he says. "In the past I might have taken that a bit lightly, and now I feel that it's a real responsibility. What I've realized is that the world hasn't changed -- there are still lots of places where people are having a really, really hard time because of their sexuality, and I think one of the most important things I can do is be a self-respecting gay public figure."
Boy George's dramatic arrival in 1982 -- "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" topped the charts in a dozen countries and reached No. 2 in the U.S. -- coincided with the advent of AIDS, when his message of pride and self-empowerment was most in need. "If you go back to the beginning, part of my whole plan was to create this universal family of disenfranchised people," says the musician. "It wasn't just about sexuality, it was about anyone who felt odd." Thirty years on, you can see derivations of that in the way a musician like Lady Gaga presents herself, though without the same radical subtext that made Culture Club so provocative and thrilling. "Anyone can dress like a freak -- it's easy," says Boy George. "It's what you think that really sets you apart from other people. There are a lot of people dressed up at the moment who have nothing to say."
Andrew Rannells
Andrew Rannells has had a very good year. After capping 2011 with a Tony nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for the Broadway blockbuster The Book of Mormon, he scored key roles in two new TV shows this year -- NBC's The New Normal, directed by Ryan Murphy, and HBO's generational touchstone, Girls, with Lena Dunham. In both shows, Rannells plays a droll, self-assured "salami smoker," to use Ellen Barkin's delicious pejorative in the opening episode of The New Normal. He also appeared in Leslye Headland's darkly comic indie flick, Bachelorette, with Kirsten Dunst and Rebel Wilson.
"I feel very proud to be a part of The New Normal," Rannells says. "I hope that it's considered to be a part of the evolution of gay relationships on television. Coming from Nebraska, it's exciting to me that people I went to grade school with, people that I grew up going to church with, are watching the show."
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GCMS High School relocates after water main break
A water main break has forced school officials in Gibson City to relocate school classes today and maybe thru the week.
Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High school announced temporarily classes at Gibson City Bible Church because of the water main leak. Principal Chris Garard announced "the high school will be forced to repair our main water supply, which we have discovered is badly leaking somewhere under our building."
This water supply is a 4-inch main line.
Work will begin Monday and eventually will require shutting off all water, including the service to the school's boiler heating system. The relocation will take an estimated one to five days, he said.


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Big Ten M5: 10.24.12 EditionPosted by KTrahan on October 24th, 2012
- Last year's Northwestern team had so little depth that at times it was forced to use just six players all game and play John Shurna at the center spot. This year, the Wildcats will be fine depth-wise as they bring in nine new players. Yes, nine. Three of them are redshirts — freshmen Tre Demps and Mike Turner both sat out last year, as did junior Nikola Cerina, who transferred in from TCU. The Wildcats also added two seven-footers — freshmen Alex Olah and Chier Ajou — at center and graduate transfer forward Jared Swopshire, who came to Evanston from Louisville and is expected to make a major impact on the court. Chris Johnson, a Rush the Court contributor who also runs InsideNU.com with me, sat down with coach Bill Carmody to preview all nine freshmen. Carmody seems very excited about Swopshire and added some insight into the center situation, saying Olah has the upper hand on Ajou right now. He was also high on Sanjay Lumpkin, a freshman guard/forward combo who fits nicely in NU's system and should see significant playing time.
- Wisconsin forward Mike Bruesewitz was injured in a workout on October 9, running into the bottom of the hoop and gashing his leg. He could see his bone through the gash and needed over 40 stitches to close it up, but luckily, it was just a flesh wound. Bruesewitz is still recovering, but he finally opened up about the injury that he initially feared could be much worse. He said he first thoughts were if he could ever play — or even ever walk — again. Bruesewitz will play again this year, though the timeline for his return is unclear. ESPN.com's Andy Katz reported that Bruesewitz likely won't be available for the Badgers' November 14 game at Florida, but could be back for a November 23 contest against Creighton in Las Vegas.
- The Big Ten basketball media poll was released yesterday, and not surprisingly, Indiana ended up in first place. The poll included 24 writers — two from each team — and the Hoosiers received 21 first place votes, with Michigan, the second-place team, taking the remaining first-place votes. Interestingly, Ohio State was picked behind the Wolverines in the Big Ten, despite being ranked No. 4 in the USA Today Coaches Preseason Top 25. You can see the whole poll at the link above. Look out for No. 6 Minnesota and No. 10 Northwestern as sleepers, while No. 5 Wisconsin and No. 9 Illinois might be susceptible to a fall. Obviously, preseason rankings aren't that important, but it's an interesting look at how deep the league is and how far down some good teams are buried.
- Michigan State is the first school to land a visit from top recruit Jabari Parker, who will make the trip to East Lansing this weekend. The Spartans are in the top five finalists for Parker, who also lists Duke, Florida, BYU and Stanford as possibilities. MSU has yet to secure a commitment in the Class of 2013, losing out on James Young to Kentucky and Jonathan Williams III to Missouri. However, ESPN recruiting analyst Dave Telep tells the Lansing State Journal that Parker is the Spartans' top priority, and now they're shifting their focus to underclassmen since most other top 2013 recruits have already committed.
- The common refrain for coaches whose teams receive high rankings typically goes something like this: "We aren't worried about preseason rankings. We have to take care of business on the court or else that doesn't matter." But not Tom Crean. The Indiana coach had a very different response to his team being preseason No. 1, writes Bob Kravitz in the Indianapolis Star. "How cool is that?" Crean said. Some people will see that comment as cocky or misguided, but it's refreshing to see a coach who doesn't pretend to ignore the media and preseason rankings. As Kravitz wrote, Crean knows the ranking is meaningless in terms of how IU will fare this season, but it's an important stepping stone for a coach whose team went 6-25 in his first year in Bloomington.


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Now that's a rare pairing! The water colour looks fantastic, as always
Now that's a rare pairing! The water colour looks fantastic, as always
this is seriously the weirdest couple ever hahahahahaha
I like this pairing, as rare and crack as it is. I can see Abbey and Lucy getting together.
Lucy appears to be singing, but why is the music note cracked down the middle?
Woah Woah Woah, Taesizzle, you said this would totally happen.
Did you lie to us
Date rape. Date rape.
ok seriously, everytime I come to the booru and I see the thumbnail, I see them banging because of the poses and Lucy's expression :V
I KNOW they'renot but the thumbnail, I can't unsee it.
Lisa; It's how she hits the high notes.
White knight Abbey with the fragile broken Lucy? hah why not.
Two damaged cats. Of course they make a good pair.
@<b>Taeshi</b>: Just an example of agreeing with you shipping pic. http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/candybooru/post/view/2434 Abbey's caring nature might really suit her.
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"... intentions are our best single predictors of whether one will or will not perform a given behavior... according to a reasoned action approach, there are three primary determinants of intention: the attitude toward performing the behavior in question, normative influence or the amount of social pressure one feels vis-a-vis performing the behavior, and one's self-efficacy with respect to performing the behavior. The relative importance of these three psychological variables as determinants of intention will vary as a function of both the behavior and the population being considered. Thus, before developing interventions to change intentions, it is important to first determine the degree to which that intention is under attitudinal, normative, or self-efficacy control in the population in question. It should be clear that very different interventions are needed for attitudinally controlled behaviors than for behaviors that are under normative influence or are strongly related to feelings of self-efficacy. Clearly, one size does not fit all, and interventions that are successful in one culture or population may be a complete failure in another."*
-- In Memoriam: Martin Fishbein, 1936-2009
*from Fishbein, M. (2009). An integrative model for behavioral prediction and its application to health promotion. In R. J. DiClemente, R. A. Crosby, & M. Kegler (Eds.), Emerging Theories in Health Promotion Practice and Research, 2nd Ed. (215-234). Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, CA.
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After President Obama comes down from his reelection high and catches up on sleep, he will be plunged into the Washington-wide effort to avert the long-dreaded fiscal cliff. But if his team and the lame-duck Congress can come together on a deal that beats the end-of-year deadlines to head off mandatory tax hikes and spending cuts, he may find that his first-term agency management agenda has new life.
Claiming an electoral mandate is dicey after a close race. And it would hardly be convincing after a $2 billion-plus campaign fought over such far-afield issues as Bain Capital's record on jobs and a vague concept called "trickle-down government."
But Obama arguably won the upper hand on the key question of whether new revenues must be raised as part of a solution to the budget stalemate. As he said repeatedly during the campaign, the wealthy are apt to see a rise in their tax rates. And in winning four more years, his administration has guaranteed future historians an opportunity to evaluate a set of interagency accomplishments and program goals that had only partially taken root in the first term.
A select set of members of Congress and staff have been meeting confidentially to plot a rescue from the fiscal cliff and to maximize productivity during the short November and December time frame. They confront a perfect storm of some of history's most daunting budget challenges.
Negotiators must deal with everything from the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 George W. Bush tax cuts, the alternative minimum tax, the estate tax and the payroll tax holiday, to the threat of automatic across-the-board cuts that would kick in on Jan. 2, 2013, under sequestration, to the need, probably in February, to again raise the debt ceiling. The disaster of October's surprise Superstorm Sandy will complicate the bipartisan task of taming trillion-dollar deficits.
As Obama campaign policy director James Kvaal recently told CNN, the president is ready for a big bargain consisting of "a balanced plan that cuts the deficit by $4 trillion with $2.50 worth of spending cuts for every dollar in revenue and reduces spending on Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlements." Of prime interest to federal workers is the question of whether the grand deal includes continuation of the two-year-old pay freeze in effect until Congress passes a budget. Obama has proposed a 0.5 percent raise contingent upon congressional action, and the major federal employees unions are pushing to make that modest raise retroactive to Jan. 1, 2013.
The central drama this autumn will be whether the president's Republican opponents sign on to the bargain. The havoc the alternative -- sequestration-- would wreak on agencies, programs, contractors and the general economy has been documented for months in detail. Prepare for a tense holiday season.
Flash-forward to Obama's second inauguration. Assuming the fiscal cliff is avoided, then the administration can proceed on an agenda that both tackles issues placed on the back burner during the first term and consolidates first-term accomplishments.
New possibilities include an immigration reform initiative of an uncertain scale, a gesture toward confronting climate change, a long-discussed vehicle for pursuing bipartisan tax reform and a push to require greater disclosure of campaign donations.
With election uncertainty behind them, the Health and Human Services Department and the Internal Revenue Service will step up moves toward the concrete stages of implementing the 2010 Affordable Care Act, whose health insurance exchanges must be up and ready in 2014. Similarly, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will continue the drawn-out process of writing controversial regulations that affect investment firms and large banks as called for in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform act.
But whatever the content of the new budget deal, agencies will remain under pressure to cut spending. Office of Management and Budget acting Director Jeffrey Zients in May asked all agencies to trim 5 percent in their fiscal 2014 budgets for the second year in a row.
Expect continued enforcement of the governmentwide directive to reduce spending on travel and conferences -- a repercussion of the scandal the erupted in April over extravagant budgets for a Las Vegas training conference by General Services Administration employees. (Charges of overspending on conferences have since been trained on the Veterans Affairs Department and the Army.)
At the budget-dominating Pentagon, planners relieved of the nightmare of sequestration could proceed with the strategic drawdown laid out in the administration's January budget. It involves troop cuts for the Marines and Army and equipment cuts for the Navy and Air Force. The envisioned payoff is a more agile, flexible and modernized force that can execute against nonstate actors and shift focus to the Asia-Pacific region after the Defense Department spent more than a decade in protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Contractors, who enjoy $320 billion in annual awards governmentwide, already are bracing themselves for an era of austerity and diminished procurement opportunities.
In the information technology realm, Obama's second term will see continued rebalancing of power between technologists and other workers. Depending on the agency, the shift could involve concentrating authority -- including budget decisions -- in the hands of agency CIOs and more freedom for each agency to exploit its own strengths as mobile technology becomes more ubiquitous. Zients has tasked agencies with a 10 percent cut in IT.
Agency managers will confront a long-anticipated wave of retirements at all levels, occasioned both by the aging of the baby boom generation and the current tendency toward fed bashing in the political arena. By the Office of Personnel Management figures, 30 percent of the current workforce will be eligible to retire during this administration, including 58 percent of the Senior Executive Service. Managers coping with the wave will profit from planning flexibility under a new law giving agencies the option of phasing retiring employees into a part-time schedule while they collect a partial annuity.
One area ripe for cost savings is reorganization of offices and programs to curb duplication. The Government Accountability Office in a 2011 report identified 34 areas where programs were duplicative or fragmented, and more in subsequent reports. Obama since February has sought renewed congressional authority to consolidate agencies, a power he would use first on the Commerce Department and trade-related agencies. In October, the president offered the new detail that his new department would be run by a secretary of business.
Though mocked by Republican nominee Mitt Romney and the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, Obama's overall plan to reduce duplication in agencies originally piqued some interest among congressional Republicans. They later balked at the "vagueness" of the White House proposal and after business groups expressed worry about diluting the influence of the Cabinet-level Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., is hoping to push the plan through.
A prime example of an Obama project reaching fruition as the second term opens is the requirement, under the 2010 Government Performance and Results Act, that agencies set and meet cross-agency "priority goals." Fourteen were spelled out in Obama's fiscal 2013 budget in February, and Zients in an August memo laid out detailed instructions on program goal setting and evidence-based reasoning with an eye toward linking evaluations to the programs' impact on job creation and the overall economy.
Data analytics will continue to gain currency in evaluating both programs and employee performance. The administration also is attempting, for the first time in U.S. history, to fulfill Congress's desire for a full inventory of federal programs.
Though some in the administration are wary of overburdening agencies, Congress during the lame-duck session or in 2013 could pass the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, which cleared the House this summer. Championed in the Senate by Warner, it would boost fiscal transparency and accountability by establishing a single Web-based platform to allow taxpayers and policymakers to more easily track all federal spending. The bill attempts to build on the success of Obama's 2009 stimulus-tracking website Recovery.gov, which by law goes out of business on Sept. 30, 2013.
It's too early to tell whether the bitterness of the 2012 elections have left Republican lawmakers in a mood to compromise with a victorious Obama or whether they will fight his ongoing and new initiatives.
There is at least one area where bipartisan concessions may grease the skids for action. Following years of watching hundreds of presidential nominees routinely stalled in the Senate over unrelated political bargaining, Congress this summer passed a law eliminating the need for floor votes on 170 executive branch positions and 3,000 military officer appointments.
It's a small step, but for agency rank-and-file awaiting leaders to provide political direction, it should help make government work.


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Mayor Chris Beutler will deliver his State of the City address at 10 a.m. Thursday, October 1 in the City Council Chambers, 555 South 10th Street. The public is invited to attend the speech. It also will be carried live on 5 CITY-TV, the government access cable channel, and on the City Web site, lincoln.ne.gov.
The public also is invited to a reception immediately following the speech just outside the Mayor's Office on the second floor of the County-City Building.
Free public parking is available in the lot north of the County-City Building, across "K" Street.


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In this series, I am providing pictures of tombstones from Latvian cemeteries, all with death dates prior to 1945. I do not have any further information on the people mentioned.
Photo taken by me, October 2012. Click to enlarge.
Name: Lid. Serž. Pēters Lodziņš (Airman Sergeant Pēters Lodziņš), born May 15, 1904, died December 4, 1930
Location: Meža kapi, Rīga
Tombstone Tuesday – Pēters Lodziņš, 1904-1930


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Contenture is a new micropayment service (launching soon) for monetizing the content on a web site, such as a blog or newspaper. We need a web 2.0 style logo for our web site that somehow represents this concept. For inspiration, please search Google images for "web 2.0 logo" to get an idea what we're looking for.
I tend to like logos with an icon/graphic on the left hand side of the text. Something simple that looks really good.
The two main concepts for our service are money and content. Money probably can't be represented well without being cheesy, but if you think you can pull it off, go for it. Probably better to have something representing content in some way, or content monetization, if that's possible to portray. But try anything you want, really. We might be surprised.
Otherwise, I'd be happy with just the text "contenture.com", but souped up and looking damn good, optionially with some subtle graphic making it more exciting.
We're looking for "web 2.0" style logos. Search Google for countless examples. An example of a logo I like is the 99designs logo. The colors, the fonts, the layout - everything. I'm not asking you replicate this logo, but I do think highly of it.
Final art should be in a Photoshop readable vector art format for easy resizing.
- "Web 2.0" style
- Cool
- Hip
- Cold
- Corporate
- Probably not something representing "money", unless you can do it in a way that's not cheesy.


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Apple has started preparing San Francisco's Moscone Center West for their 2012 World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) and in so doing have revealed the motto for this year's event: here great ideas go on to do great things.
The banners themselves are the usual collage for popular and laudable app icons, both outside and inside.
The Keynote kicks off at 9am PDT on Monday, June 11th, with the expected introduction of iOS 6, updates to iCloud, more on OS X Mountain Lion and perhaps new Macs. We've heard there won't be any new iOS devices this summer, however, so don't go getting your iPhone 5 or iPad mini hopes up just yet.
Leanna (@llofte), Seth (@sethclifford), and yours truly (@reneritchie) will be there live.
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d3g2 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 235 designs submitted by 75 freelance designers.
Design a logo for a web 2.0 service tarting small business,startups, bloggers
Needs to be cool, innovative and hip.
Hubtime is a new product of a startup focusing in building a web site/application monitoring product. The product is geared toward Small business companies and therefore the logo needs to have professional look (not childish/cartoon like). The product is innovative and bringing a new platform to resolve the challenges of web monitoring. Our product will enable customers to measure, track, alert and report on their web properties. Hubtime is a wordplay based on the following : - Hub (like a network hub) where we gather the data in. - Uptime: measuring the uptime of a web site (Uptime is a measure of the time a computer system has been "up" and running. It came into use to describe the opposite of downtime,) - Time for the performance / time it takes to load a web site / web page.
• Colors (likes): Blue, Teal, Grey, Black, (don't use any of the colors mentioned below) • Traits: Cool, Value, Youthful, Innovative, Daring, Professional,
• Colors (dislikes): Yellow, Red, Brown • Do not have all colors be too bright • Do not use rainbow colors (like Google logo)
* no clocks / clock hands
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This is Key Stage 4 Science (with sections on Biology, Chemistry and Physics) ~ GCSE.
Welcome to my new look CMS website. I have moved all the old HTML pages in the Gondar Design Sciences to this WordPress system on a new server. The materials were originally developed using MicroSoft FrontPage or MicroSoft Expressions Web, but the new server does not have FrontPage Extensions loaded so I had to update to WordPress.
This site has just arrived at its new server and I have now completed the installation, but there are a few minor tweaks needed.
There are eight main Sections in this website. At present, you can only use this Science section as a means of transfering between: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Ecology, Geology, Health, Microorganisms and Investigations. Though there is a general page on GCSE Biology revision here.
Use the list on the right of this comment to navigate between sections.
The photograph at the top of each page in this section of my site was taken in Ethiopia. Gondar is a city in Ethiopia. I lived in Gondar Gardens in North West London for 20 years: so perhaps there is some logic here!


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All items > Knives > Automatic Knives > Protech (Auto) > Protech Emerson CQC-7
- Overall Length:7.92"
- Blade Length:3.25"
- Cutting Edge:3.00"
- Blade Thickness:0.12"
- Blade Material:154CM
- Blade Style:Spear Point
- Blade Grind:Flat
- Finish:Stonewash
- Edge Type:Serrated
- Handle Length:4.67"
- Handle Thickness:0.47"
- Handle Material:Aluminum
- Color:Black
- Frame/Liner:Aluminum
- Weight:4.10 oz.
- User:Right Hand
- Pocket Clip:Tip-Down, Tip-Up
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- Knife Type:Automatic
- Opener:Push Button
- Lock Type:Plunge Lock
- Brand:Protech
- Model:CQC-7A
- Model Number:E7A8-SW
- Designer:Ernest Emerson
- Country of Origin:USA
- Best Use:Tactical
- Product Type:Knife
This knife features a black anodized aluminum handle with a knurl grip, safety and reversible tip-up/down pocket clip. The spear point blade is stonewash finished 154-CM stainless steel with a partially serrated edge. Includes a nylon sheath.
The Pro-Tech/Emerson CQC7-A collaboration combines the classic folder design of the CQC-7 and the convenience of an automatic knife. The action on this knife is exactly what you expect from Pro-Tech, it is superb!


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The 2013 AIDS/LifeCycle Season Is Here...
Jeff Katz | September 1, 2012
And we want YOU to ride with US!
Register today at aidslifecycle.org/register and enter code word "Instinct" (case sensitive) for a special $20 discount off the registration fee! Then e-mail your confirmation to email@example.com and we'll throw in a complimentary one-year subscription to Instinct, too!!
Are you ready to ride?! AIDS/LifeCycle 2013 will hit the road June 2-8.
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HO HO HO | Penhaligon's Christmas Gifts
HOW COULD I have forgotten to add these positively gorgeous hat boxes topped with floppy velvet bows to my Christmas Gift Guide. That's being rectified immediately. I remembered them as I was editing a post on the trend for all things Owl-y nowadays (seriously, haven't you noticed them everywhere?).
Gorgeous gift sets for him and her both. Or the house if you're getting it for a couple. I'd keep the entire thing, packaging and gift within, forever. Fragrances, bath and shower gels, votives, hand wash and lotion... all in the quintessential Penhaligon scents, style and bottles.


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What: History and Other Disciplines, 129th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), Call for Proposals
Where: New York City
When:2-5 January 2015
All information here
No discipline is an island. In the past hundred years or so, the ways that we study, write, and teach history have changed dramatically, often because of influence from other disciplines. In the interwar period, the encounter of a few French historians with geographers, among others, gave rise to what became the Annales school. Since then, social history has existed in close dialogue with economics, demography, and anthropology. Intellectual history has long had ties with political theory and philosophy, and political history with political science. In the 1980s, literary theory, cultural anthropology, and psychoanalysis nourished the new cultural history. Ecology served as an inspiration for environmental history. Some world historians today seek the aid of neuroscience, genetics, and archeology to recast the millennial history of the human species. And the list could go on. Meanwhile, computer science and new technologies continue to transform our modes of collecting, reading, and interpreting material and textual data. The interaction between history and other disciplines, in short, has been the source of fruitful innovation and is now a routine feature of our profession.
But perils and pitfalls always lurk. Infatuations with other disciplines have at times produced short-lived historiographical fashions. According to some critics, challenges from other disciplines have foisted inappropriate standards and methods on historians, undermining our epistemological certainties or encouraging us to generalize too boldly. Still other critics have accused historians of a quiet disciplinary imperialism: a tendency to adopt alternative methods in a simplified form that tames those methods' most provocative assumptions. Different issues arise when public historians grapple with narratives that necessarily rely on engagements with other disciplines but aim at wider publics, as in accounts of environmental changes or scientific innovation.Where does history stand today in its relationship with other disciplines-whether humanistic, social scientific, or scientific?We invite participants to share their experiences of encounters with other disciplines: how these encounters affected their teaching, research, writing, and public interpretive work, and how they reshaped their fields over time. We encourage panels that explore some substantive historical terrain or topic situated at the intersection of history and another discipline, as well as panels that bring historians into conversation with colleagues from other disciplines in order to reflect on the pleasures and frustrations of cross-disciplinary collaboration. We welcome proposals that revisit the history of the disciplines themselves, including history, but also other humanistic and social scientific disciplines. We envision as fitting under this broad umbrella discussions of the institutional frameworks-whether on campus, among external funding institutions, or in our society at large-that foster and constrain exchanges between history and the other disciplines.
Jan E. Goldstein (Univ. of Chicago) is the President-elect of the AHA; she will be presiding over the 129th annual meeting.
Francesca Trivellato (Yale Univ.) is the chair and Andrew S. Sartori (New York Univ.) is the co-chair of the 2015 Program Committee.


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|Our typically stunning Paris balcony, does it get any better than this?!
|The sights and sounds of Paris never get old, it really is one of the most beautiful cities in the world
|The view from the steps in "Midnight in Paris", both in the film and my real life view!
|Waiting for midnight on the steps from "Midnight in Paris"
|Perfect Parisian Patisserie!
|Cat woman in Paris!


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BlockVenture necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 11 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
I want a simple blackjack themed web design using a typical layout with the content on the right. Black text goes on a white backround for the content.
On the left I will have the 120x600 banner.
The header should have the title Real Online Blackjack 'Trusted Since 2002' should be removed. The header should be blackjack themed, no other casino games on there will be acceptable.
The buttons should be text based so I can modify them later on.
URL of the site is http://www.realonlineblackjack.com
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I dont like the current design as I find it too dark and it doesn't look very friendly. Looking for a better design.
The colors should be warm and welcoming. Blackjack themed graphics only no poker, slots, etc
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Three walks by ETSU pitchers and an infield hit allowed the Bulldogs to cut the lead in half in the bottom of the third, and pinch hitter Rob Vernon doubled to right field with the bases loaded, plating two more runs for a 3-2
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Now that Disney has bought Lucasfilm and announced they will start making Star Wars movies again, speculation is rampant as to what the stories will be about.
According to E! News, whatever the plot of Episode seven, George Lucas won't have a heavy hand in the day-to-day creation of it. He's apparently written the treatments for the films, but he won't produce or direct, which should make lots of Star Wars geeks mighty happy, after what happened in Episodes 1-3.
Two decades ago, the Star Wars saga moved on in books that fans know as the Thrawn Trilogy, written by Timothy Zahn. Han Solo and Leia Organa got married and had twins, Luke Skywalker tried resurrecting the Jedi Order and the evil Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn was doing his best to restore the Empire.
"Of all the speculation out there about the content of this new trilogy, that's the single most concrete idea," says Eric Geller of the fan site TheForce.net. "It's almost inevitable that the story will take place in the same time frame as those books."
So is that where the new films are headed? Nope, according to E! News.
Sources close to Lucasfilm say that's not happening (kind of like the geeks thought maybe the book "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" would be the basis of one of the sequels to the original movie, which is was not).
"It's an original story," a LucasFilm source said.
OK, but can we all at least agree to get Mark Hamill back on-screen? The guy hasn't worked in ages.
So, forget the Star Wars novels. Forget the graphic novels. Forget everything you think you know about what happens to Luke Skywalker. According to E! News' sources, Episode Seven will literally be nothing you've ever seen or read before from the Star Wars universe.
And no director has been attached to the project yet.
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ASSISI, Italy (Reuters) - St Francis of Assisi, who called the sun "brother" and the moon "sister," might have referred to it as "uncle technology".
Visitors to the monumental basilica-convent complex where St Francis is buried in the Umbrian hill town of Assisi will now be able to enjoy a touch-screen and 3-D experience to help them better appreciate the art, history and spirituality inside.
A new visitor's center just across the street allows art aficionados to view and enlarge any detail of the frescoes on touch screens, which simultaneously project the image on a wall screen.
"This should enhance the spiritual and artistic experience for the visitor," said Father Enzo Fortunato, the spokesman for the convent and one of the creators of the project.
Indeed, because of the crowds, particularly in summer, a visitor to the basilica really can't get much quality time with Giotto's 13th century frescoes depicting the life of St. Francis and the saint's message of peace and love of nature.
"The message is still the gospel and Francis himself. This is just the medium," Fortunato said at the weekend inauguration of the center.
The darkened rooms offer an educational appetizer ahead of an artistic and spiritual experience that many people - Christian or not - find awe-inspiring.
You no longer have to bring your binoculars if you want to get a close up, life-size view of St Francis' face or any other detail on one of Giotto's famed frescoes on the walls of the upper basilica.
For example, last year art restorers discovered the figure of a devil hidden in the details of the clouds in one of the Giotto frescoes.
It shows a profile of a figure with a hooked nose, a sly smile, and dark horns hidden among the clouds in the panel of the scene depicting the death of St Francis.
The figure is difficult to see from the floor of the basilica but emerges clearly in close-up photography and is now visible on the touch screens.
The multi-media rooms also screen short films that offer a rare peek into the daily lives of the friars who live in the convent, including the refectory where they eat and the chapels where they pray.
Visitors can also view hundreds of digitized versions of historic documents that are too fragile to exhibit.
They include papal bulls concerning the Franciscan order, the deed dated March 30, 1228 in which Simone di Pucciarello, a wealthy citizen of Assisi donated the land where the basilica now stands.
One digital gem is the one of the oldest known versions of "Canticle of the Sun," also known as the "Praise of the Creatures", which St Francis is said to have composed during an illness in 1224, about two years before his death.
The canticle has influenced artists throughout the ages, from Franz Liszt in the 19th century to punk rocker Patti Smith in the 21st century.
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Sadly, there were two potential glaring examples of this last night on Raw.
Number 1: Get the F Out, Bret
WWE has released guys like Shelton Benjamin and The Bashams ad nauseum over the years, in essence because they're great workers but can't talk very well so creative has "nothing for them."
Yet Raw has Bret Hart, a veritable legend who was never the greatest orator even when in his prime, in the role as General Manager – one that involves numerous speaking opportunities.
Last night, Wade Barrett and the NXT guys cut the promo of their lives…and in response, Bret flubbed multiple lines and actually said WWF (which I think is punishable by lethal injection in 14 states and Puerto Rico) on live television. Honestly, he made Jeremy Piven look like Ric Flair.
I know the guy has had a stroke and everything, but he's unfortunately adding very little to that role in his current state. It's a shame; I loved Bret as much as anyone when he was an active wrestler, but the guy who would be perfect for his role happens to be AJ Styles' mouthpiece three days a month.
I just hope he makes it long enough for me to hear him say "in the SummerSlam" 14 times.
Number 2: Homicide is All Fun and Games until someone loses a necktie
Daniel Bryan was released last week, seemingly out of nowhere. Many "insiders" speculate it's an angle, and that maybe Bryan was driving the limo that caused all the damage at the end of Raw.
Of course, there are other "insiders" that have speculated that his firing was because Bryan broke the "PG rules" of the company by choking out Justin Roberts with his tie on Raw last week – which, of course, is a no-no thanks to the whole Chris Benoit situation a few years back.
If that's the case and his release isn't fabricated (something which John Cena's recent Twitter musings lead even more people to believe), then I ask this: So, using an object to strangle a ring announcer is punishable by firing, yet thousands of dollars of property damage and attempted vehicular homicide on an "authority figure" is fine?
Yeah, I don't get that one.
Oh, and also, if last night wasn't further indication that Raw needs to lose the guest host, I don't know what is. Credit to USA and WWE for the corporate synergy, and credit to Mark Feuerstein for being enthusiastic (and apparently a WWE fan, even if only by association of his buddy Big Show).
But two segments, one of which being a backstage pre-tape and the other being a "match" against Ted DiBiase and Virgil? That has to be an all-time non-Bradley Cooper low for a guest host…and I'd be willing to bet that 75% of the fans in Charlotte and a good portion of the viewers had no clue who that guy even is (which is a shame, because Royal Pains is a fun show).
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Went skiing with Gili and Bunnie the Younger, who had never been on skis before. She did very well, with a brief lesson and even venturing onto the Daisy lift. However, there was the obligate Epic Crash, when her speed got out of control and she plowed into a snowbank and had to be dug out. Much fun was had. Hope you all are having a nice break.
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Is this a picture of Bunnie?ReplyDelete
If so, does this mean that instead of rushing to her help, your first reaction was to zip out your camera?!! :-)
I learned to ski exactly twenty years ago (wow), at the tender age of twenty-eight. My then-boyfriend Robert, a lifelong New Yorker, took me to Vermont, where even the bunny hill was an ice-covered death trap. I kept falling, and he'd say, "You have to learn how to get yourself up properly--it's part of skiing."ReplyDelete
Finally, I figured out how to struggle into an upright (if wobbly) position. And he came over, shoved me back onto the snow, and said, "Now get up THE WAY I SHOWED YOU."
Expletives ensued, ending with me telling him to join his brothers on the black slopes and to never try to "teach" me again.
But there's more! A kindly and handsome young Austrian guy in a very flattering Spyder stretch one piece had been zooming by on his way to the lodge, and when I made it to the bottom, he came up to me and offered to help me learn.
Within an hour, I was making nice (if cautious) parallel turns and had progressed to the Bunny-plus hill. Then I accompanied my new friend to the lodge and knocked back some cider and 151 shots until my future husband returned with his brothers, having spent the last hour looking for me, thinking I'd pissed off for good.
"She ski very, very nice!" said my new friend. "You take good care."
Lesson One being, boyfriends and husbands who are much better at something than you are tend to be the very worst teachers.
Lesson Two being, I should have paid more attention in German class.
litbrit, sounds like the way most New Englanders probably learned.ReplyDelete
We've started taking our kids and our oldest, after three years of close supervision, got it last year. Tons of fun. Learning to ski in the midwest, like Vermont, is all about loving the ice.
Tyro, the nice thing about learning on ice is that when you finally head west and get to ski real, honest-to-goodness powder, you look like a total pro!ReplyDelete
(Also, powder is much kinder to one's bones, the backside ones in particular.)


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(Editor's note: Updates with statement from Accenture, says vendor will be retained for overall Covered California contract.)
There's another Obamacare-related computer problem that has surfaced, but this one won't be as devastating to the Affordable Care Act as those responsible for the program's rocky start in October.
While the Department of Health and Human Services was touting another 1.1 million enrollees to the nationwide health program on Wednesday, the Obamacare exchange in California, Covered California, served notice that a Web site designed to help small businesses get their employees insured would have to shut down — for several months.
The Web portal known as the Small Business Health Options Program, or SHOP, has been shuttered until the fall because design flaws have made it "cumbersome" for small businesses to go online to get coverage for employees, said Larry Hicks, Covered California spokesman.
"It wasn't as efficient as it could have been, or should be," Hicks said. "We decided to take it down and retool it, redesign it."
Accenture /quotes/zigman/565535/delayed /quotes/nls/acn ACN is the lead contractor on Covered California's SHOP program. Hicks said it remains to be seen if the company will be retained on that program or what direction Covered California will take. Accenture will remain the lead technology contractor overall for Covered California, he later added.
In an email response, Accenture spokeswoman Joanne Giordano pointed out that Covered California officials acknowledge the SHOP portal worked as designed.
"Accenture built the SHOP portal to the original, agreed specifications but then Covered California received good feedback from brokers and agents and is being responsive by focusing now on ways to enhance it," Giordano said.
There are no reports of similar issues with other states' SHOP portals.
Despite the length of the shutdown, it's unlikely this technical issue will create the same furor as the troubles with the HealthCare.gov web site that stumbled out of the gate when Obamacare opened for business in October. The reason: SHOP is serving only small businesses of less than 50 employees. And those businesses aren't required to provide coverage for their employees but plan on doing so anyway and are seeking assistance though the public exchanges.
Further, Hicks said "the vast majority" of the 571 businesses representing 4,490 workers and dependents were filing paper applications anyway. Companies that want to go through public exchanges to insure workers can still do so, he added. Another 200 companies representing 1,200 people are being processed.
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When it comes to new photographic techniques, Martin Krolop is not far away. The photo blogger from Cologne was one of the world's first photographers, who could test Tamron's new SP objectives in practice. For 14 days, he travelled with them in the legendary wilderness of Iceland.
The Hamburg travel blogger Caroline Lohrmann, Shavethewhales.net, writes with a keen sense about her adventures around the globe. Her texts are profound and offer an open, humorous look at foreign countries and cultures. Her photos are evidence of her eye for style and beauty. A Tamron 10-24mm ultra wide angle zoom is always part of the luggage. We asked Caroline what she has learnt about photography on her tours.
Sarah Schmid and Philipp Johann are two young photographers from Cologne. With the stage name Sallyhateswing, both of them always cause a stir with their creative photo actions. For a beauty shooting, the duo now took advantage of the Tamron SP 90mm F/2.8 Di VC USD Macro objective and they were impressed by the sharpness in the details.
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"In 2011, I never thought that I would be holding my own book in my own hands just three years later." I have lost count of how many times I've already written this sentence in some form or another. But it's true now and will forever remain so. "Anyone can vegan" is Nadine's and my debut book and which we will always remember with a certain astonishment.


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The last paragraph of a letter published on June 25 completely blew my mind! I would not even consider donating one red cent to George Zimmerman's defense fund. He was not even arrested or charged with a crime for about 40-plus days!
The person in charge of the so-called crime watch told Zimmerman to stay in his car and not to pursue the teenager, who just happened to be black. Zimmerman totally disregarded these instructions and he truly intended to shoot and kill the young man.
I doubt there is any chance of Trayvon getting any justice in Florida. As I write, six white jurors have yet to decide the fate of a white person who killed a black teen.
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The first Le Creuset foundry opened in 1925 in Fresnoy-le-Grand, France, and specialized in cast-iron cookware. The cast-iron pieces are still made at the original factory, using the traditional techniques of hand forging and casting in individual sand molds. The brightly pigmented porcelain-enamel glaze that first set Le Creuset cookware apart from other cast-iron cookware now comes in a wide range of traditional and contemporary colors. In 2013, Le Creuset began producing innovative stainless-steel cookware in Portugal with lids that incorporate the same signature three-ring design as the company's classic cast-iron pieces. This stainless-steel collection was awarded the prestigious 2014 Red Dot Award for product design.
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I can't think of a better, more Halloween-centric image: The Bride, created out of Halloween candy! Look closely; those are M&Ms, Skittles, Kit-Kats and all manner of candy packages serving as color pixels, like a Manet or a Seurat painting in pointillism.
October 31, 2013
The Halloween Candy Bride of Frankenstein
The artist is Eric Millikin — a longtime friend of Frankensteinia — who has created a gallery of crazy candy-art monsters first revealed on his blog at the Detroit Free Press. Characters include Elvira, Freddy Krueger, Nosferatu and, of course, The Bride's beau. The illustrations, each one using thousands of candy wrappers, also include a hidden, see-if-you-can-find-it spider.
We're super-happy to see Eric's work all over the net this week and featured on such sites as Huffingtonpost and Ellen Degeneres' Good News blog on Yahoo. Thanks to Eric, everybody is celebrating our favorite holiday with candy, great art, and favorite monsters!
See all the candy-art monsters on Eric Millikin's Detroit Free Press blog.
Happy Halloween!
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- Caffeinated Joe said...
Amazing stuff, quite a talented artist. Happy Hallowe'en!
- October 31, 2013 at 5:26 PM
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I'm not looking for a USTA team because I'm afraid there's going to be too much politics involved in determining who plays and who doesn't. How many people would be on the team? I would only join a serious team completely focused on playing tennis. Thanks for asking. I could hit with you anytime.
Hi Mark,
Thanks for all the info. I do appreciate you taking the time to do that. And last night i did take a drive to Scottsdale Ranch Park and put my name on the list. :)
It IS pretty tough going from feast to famine in one week. Had 5 guys in a rotation and played almost every day so, again, i do appreciate the help. I would certainly be interested in the Sunday group 2 Sundays from now. If you could pass that along to the organizer, that would be great. Although, if you guys have the perfect number, i don't want to be a monkey wrench and will gracefully bow out. (Would you mind telling me about the group? Age range, rating range, and ultra competetive or more relaxed?) Ok, so just let me know. Thanks again bud, -ian
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hi Mark,
I would be interested. What day and time do you play?
ok i will send yu an email.....jif you have a team number send it to me :) Are you gus looking fo single or doubles player?
Did you guys have a team outof PTC this year? I played for the Chandler team.
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