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i've got an integration test that grabs some json result from a 3rd party server. It's really simple and works great.
I was hoping to stop actually hitting this server and using
Moq (or any Mocking library, like ninject, etc) to hijack and force the return result.
is this possible?
Here is some sample code :-
public Foo GoGetSomeJsonForMePleaseKThxBai()
// prep stuff ...
// Now get json please.
HttpWebRequest httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("Http://some.fancypants.site/api/hiThere);
httpWebRequest.Method = WebRequestMethods.Http.Get;
string responseText;
using (var httpWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse())
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpWebResponse.GetResponseStream()))
json = streamReader.ReadToEnd().ToLowerInvariant();
// Check the value of the json... etc..
and of course, this method is called from my test.
I was thinking that maybe I need to pass into this method (or a property of the class?) a mocked
httpWebResponse or something but wasn't too sure if this was the way. Also, the response is a output from an
httpWebRequest.GetResponse() method .. so maybe I just need to pass in a mocked
HttpWebRequest ?.
any suggestions with some sample code would be most aprreciated!


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dfs needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 84 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
We are an old fashioned, grass roots, fighting gym - boxing - kickboxing - muay thai producing International & Australian champions.
Think of the original Rocky gym or Million Dollar Baby and you could be picturing us!
This t-shirt is for people joining our Extreme8 ( 8 week fitness challenge)
It needs to caputure the attention of people walking by our group while they are running or training outdoors, as well as make those wearing it feel part of the TEAM
The type of training they will be doing is crossfit, and functional strength. look crossfit up on google for more info. Its pretty hard core!
The design must be suitable for a black base t-shirt.
It can use white plus only 1 other colour possibly a vibrant blue or red but Im open to suggestions from designers.
It needs to be quite masculine and tough looking - alittle like an CROSSFIT style shirt.
The back of the t-shirt is probably the most visible area.
Maybe something around the front following the neckline would also be good.
The t-shirt we're using has no side seams.
Details that need to be on it:
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|Jul 10, 2012
Bruker Announces Three Next-Generation Semiconductor Metrology Products
|(Nanowerk News) Today at SEMICON West 2012, Bruker announced three new 450mm X-Ray and AFM semiconductor metrology products to support the industrys transition to larger wafer production. These new products include the InSight-450 3DAFM from Brukers Nano Surfaces division and both the next generation of the D8 FABLINE and the new S8 FABLINE-T X-ray systems from Brukers AXS division. All three metrology systems are designed to meet the industry roadmap challenges at future technology nodes on the larger 450mm wafer size, enabling both greater product capability and reliability for semi development and production facilities.
|Eliminating the need for model setup, and providing TEM-like accuracy in fractions of the time without wafer damage, Brukers automated atomic force microscopes (AFMs) have proven essential tools for critical technology development and continued process control in production since 200mm wafer development. Similarly, Brukers X-ray metrology has a long tradition of providing a reliable, accurate and non-contact method of characterizing various essential semi parameters without the need to use a reference. The wafer size transition from 300mm to 450mm represents another critical technology inflection point that is now supported by Brukers core metrology technologies.
|Brukers significant commitment to the SEMI industry is embodied in these three exciting new 450mm-compatible products, stated Bruker AXS division president Dr. Frank Burgäzy. Both X-Ray and high-resolution AFM technologies have been identified by the 2011 International Technology Roadmap as critical for the success of future semiconductor technology nodes, and Bruker is uniquely placed with our technologies to address these future needs. We are very pleased to be part of this critical wafer size transition, and feel that these systems are another indication of our continuing determination to enable the steady advance of semiconductor technology with production-worthy X-ray and AFM metrology solutions.
|About the InSight-450 3DAFM
|Based on the production-proven InSight 3DAFM platform for 300mm, the InSight-450 3DAFM is ideally suited for a broad range of roughness, depth and CD applications. Capabilities include bare wafer process validation, roughness characterization and pit/bump/scratch defect metrology; incoming substrate qualification; thin film and epitaxial deposition performance with micro/nano roughness and angstrom-level step height precision; etch depth metrology for process development and control, in-line resist profile measurements of CD, SWA, and LER with full TEM-like profiles; and CMP flatness performance to monitor dishing and erosion. The flexibility of the InSight 450mm AFM means all of these applications are available in a single tool, thus reducing overall cost for metrology. The InSight-450 3DAFM provides this capability with no modeling required, full NIST traceability and no material or wafer damage, making it the ideal tool to provide early learning in 450mm process development with scalability to 450mm production.
|About the FABLINE X-ray Systems
|Bruker continues its industry leadership in X-ray metrology with the next-generation D8 FABLINE, which is equipped with the latest high-brilliance X-ray sources, detector technology and user-friendly software for improved data analysis. The system provides a broad range of in-line, thin film X-ray measurements for FEOL and BEOL process monitoring on blanket or product wafers. It is ideally suited for determining thickness, composition and strain in SiGe, SiC, SOI, III_V on Si, as well as composition and thickness for metal films and stacks, including ALD layers. Bruker has also developed the new S8 FABLINE-T TXRF (Total X-ray Reflection Fluorescence) for non-destructive trace metal and light element contamination analysis in order to continue the penetration into the semiconductor market. New and emerging device processing creates metal contamination control challenges for IC manufacturing and the latest state-of-the-art of X-ray instrumentation will be required to face these challenges. Together, these latest FABLINE products provide the most advanced X-ray metrology systems for semiconductor production floors and fabs.
|About Bruker Corporation
|Bruker Corporation is a leading provider of high-performance scientific instruments and solutions for molecular and materials research, as well as for industrial and applied analysis. For more information about Bruker Corporation, please visit www.bruker.com.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
My 10 favorite gluten-free Christmas Cookies
1. The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
These are my husband's absolute favorite cookies ever. I make them throughout the year, but even at Christmas, these are the cookies he wants. Last weekend we added 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts to them and they were delicious! I love the toasty, nutty flavor the walnuts added!
2. Chocolate Pinwheel Refrigerator Cookies
Super easy refrigerator cookies that are really fun to make. They don't have to be perfectly rolled to be pretty and tasty! The kids in my neighborhood love these!
3. Cream Cheese Meltaways or perfect Gluten-Free Roll-Out Cookies
I have no idea how to make them dairy-free... so we haven't eaten these in a while, but one of my best friends and a sweet neighbor makes them every year for her family and she makes them into little decorated boy-scout cookies. She declares them the best sugar cookies ever!
4. Double Fudge Walnut Cookies
A variation of the chocolate chip cookies, these are one of my very favorites. Rich, fudgy, super chocolately... if you have chocoholics in your life this would make a great gift! They also hold up well to being frozen and being shipped!
5. Gingerbread Boys & Girls, or Gingerbread Roll-Out Cookies
Based off of a Paula Deen recipe, I created these several years ago and they are one of my favorite Christmas cookies. Super easy to roll out and really delicious. You can't go wrong with gingerbread cookies!
6. Gluten-Free, Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies
You could also make these peanut-free by using almond butter or sunbutter or cashew butter... use whatever nut or seed butter you like. I love this crispy, chewy version of a classic peanut butter cookie.
7. Preacher Cookies or Stove-top Oatmeal Fudge Cookies
A favorite cookie from childhood! I first learned how to make these in 7th grade home economics and I've been making them ever since. Easy, no-bake, super quick to throw together. If you need cookies fast, these little babies will work! They were always a favorite at Sunday night youth group!
8. Snickerdoodles
Another favorite from childhood. These may have been the first cookies I ever learned how to make! The simple vanilla cookies coated in sugar and cinnamon are a toddler favorite and fit easily in little hands.
9. Classic Gluten-Free Spritz Cookies
These cookies are buttery and delicious. Almost like a short-bread and super delicious. They remind me of the butter cookies my parents always had around the holidays in a big round metal tin. We'll be making these again this year and serving as a dessert at our holiday meal! If you don't have the spritz cookie "machine" you can simply roll them in a log or in a square shape, refrigerate the dough for easy slice & bake cookies!
10. Vanilla Sandies
These cookies were an accident... but an absolutely yummy accident! They remind me of gluten-filled pecan sandies which were once a favorite cookie! They are soft and light, yet buttery with a wonderful crumb! You could also easily crumble these cookies for a lovely cookie crust. Would be wonderful for a banana pudding or a chocolate pudding pie!
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This is a fantastic round up! YUM, I have added lots of them to my to make list!! My name is Cindy and I blog over at Vegetarianmamma.com I wanted to invite you to link up your recipe at our Gluten Free Fridays Recipe Link up party! It happens every Friday and we'd love to have you join us with some of your awesome recipes! It doesn't mean that you have to be a gluten free bloggers. If you have some recipes on your blog that are gluten free that counts! :) Many recipes are naturally gluten free.ReplyDelete
Also be sure to link up your blog on our Gluten Free Bloggers directory. You can reach the directory by clicking the "glutenfree bloggers" tab on our blog! Thanks, Cindy :)
PS, we are starting the party early! It will be live Thursday night at 7:05 Eastern Time.
Awesome round up! Can't wait to try the pinwheel and double fudge ones! I have a few gluten free cookie recipes that you might like on my blog.... Freshnessgf.comReplyDelete
Keep the great recipes coming! Vanessa
Great round-up of recipes, my daughter will be so pleased to see some of her traditional favorites can be GF! Thanks for doing the work and taking the guess work out of it for me. :)ReplyDelete
Carrie -- these cookies look FANTASTIC! You are so kind and generous to post the recipes for us...thank you!!! Especially since I had just been feeling sorry for myself when a friend gave us a huge plate of homemade Christmas cookies, and it's the first Christmas that I couldn't have any. Your recipes and pictures made my day.ReplyDelete
One side question -- can I ask what patterns and company three of those plates are from? So pretty! #1, #10, and the one with the blue snowflakes. :)
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I know number 1. That's Pfatzgraff's Grapevine pattern. We had it until last Christmas when my mom gave us new dinnerware and I passed my Grapevine dinnerware onto a friend who had the same but was missing pieces. I love my new dinnerware, but I miss my "grapes" from time to time.Delete
These are great! Been looking for the Preacher Cookie recipe forever! My grandma & I made them every Christmas when I was a kid. She just called them No-Bake Oatmeal cookies, so that made searching for them a challenge, to say the least, lol.ReplyDelete
So, thank you! I can now share this childhood treat with my own kidlings. =)
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6 comments:
- Crafty Green Poet said...
All bunnies are smart!
I love parp music, I'm sure BL will enjoy learning and the bunnies will enjoy listening.
- January 8, 2014 at 11:37 PM
- speedyrabbit said...
of coause Benji is smart,good luck BL with the harp,you will do fine.
RG Google Chrome is easy to use I use it all the time as internet explorer is slow,so come on in the water is fine!xx Rachel
- January 8, 2014 at 11:47 PM
- Brandi B. said...
The music will be beautiful.
Benji will be a good bunny.
Joke? I don't get it...
- January 9, 2014 at 6:22 AM
- Auntie Jane (It is official!) said...
BL, I didn't know you were a musician. I have two friends who play harps. They are wonderful instruments. You are off on a great adventure. Way to go!
- January 9, 2014 at 8:13 AM
- Karen M said...
How do the buns like the harp? Ours never cared much for Laura's tuba.
- January 9, 2014 at 8:27 AM
- Auntie Jane (It is official!) said...
Karen, how could bunnies not love a tuba? First, they could array themselves before the big flared out part and ask themselves: Who is the fairest bunny of us all? And then there is that incredibly inviting bunny hole right in the middle of the big flared part. Laura does leave her tuba sideways on the floor, doesn't she?
- January 10, 2014 at 9:10 AM


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To prove that great things come in small packages The Doctor's Orders return for their third 45's special bringing together four powerhouse DJs to play 45 of their favourite 45's each at this night ingeniously called 45 x 45.
Those little 7" platters that had our mums and dads dancing round the jukebox are experiencing a serious revival among the DJ community. Just check the #45Friday trending on instagram. Never ones to be swayed by trends out DJs tonight have long been collecting these fun sized vinyl bombs and will be spinning all manor of Hip-Hop, Funk, Reggae, Soul, Disco and a sneaky bit of Pop that is sure to keep you rocking in your socks all night.
Good friend of The Doctor's Orders, DJ Format is no shrinking violet when it come to funk fuelled vinyl, as you can tell from his drum heavy, breaks laden productions. A serious collector he will be making sure that he keeps both the dance-floor and his mates behind the decks on their toes tonight.
Not one to be out done when it comes to either his hopeless vinyl addiction or his skills on the turntables Mr Thing will be exploring all corners of his ridiculous 45's collection. His infectious enthusiasm for his trade will spread like wildfire for those wise enough to pack this basement club.
A dark horse to many, Spin Doctor has his 45's game on lock. Having started by stealing his older brother & sister's records he has left no stone unturned either in the UK or abroad when it comes to digging for soul drenched 7" to get you moving.
New to the 45's fold is one of London's busiest DJs, Canada's own Jim Sharpe. Having settled on these shores he has made a name for himself rocking parties, recording mixtapes, producing re-edits and now he is gonna show off his 45's game.
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After five seasons in the NFL with the Ravens and Colts, safety Tom Zbikowski decided to call it a career when the Bears cut him in training camp this season. And he's already got his post-NFL career picked out: He wants to be a firefighter.
Zbikowski told David Haugh of the Chicago Tribune that he plans to enroll at the Chicago Fire Department training academy next month. Zbikowski wasn't particularly highly paid by NFL standards, but he has made a lot more money than the vast majority of people make by age 28, and he said he decided to find a job where helping people was the top priority and money is secondary.
"I've had an extremely blessed life and I saved three-quarters of my money, so I can do whatever I want and I want to be of service to a community,'' Zbikowski said. "Firemen show up in scary situations. They're symbols of pride, of faith, of what's good in society. I like to live dangerously.''
Zbikowski is an avid boxer who won three professional fights during the 2011 NFL lockout, but he sounds like he's done competing in both sports, and ready to start the next phase in his life.


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I love fall's crisp cool nights, sweater weather & endless cups of tea. Along our property we collect crates of wild apples to make sweet desserts & compotes. Apple cinnamon cake is a easy & tasty way to enjoy Autumn's apple harvest - plus it's a perfect something to nibble on as you sip a warm cup of earl gray on a rainy afternoon.
This is Jason's Grandma's apple cake recipe - now, to set the record straight she was not Italian, but she did pass on this fantastic, no-fail, super moist apple cake recipe!
Grandma's Apple Cake
Torta di Mele della Nonna
3 cups flour
1 cup oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
5-6 apples, thinly sliced
1 1/4 cups sugar
4 eggs
1/3 cup orange juice
3 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons cinnamon
In a large bowl, mix together all the ingredients except apples, beat until smooth.
In another bowl, mix sliced apples with cinnamon and 2 tablespoons of sugar.
In greased 10 inch tube pan, make layers of batter 1/3 at a time, then a layer of apples. (You should get 3 layers of apple) Ending with apples on top.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour 15 minutes until a pick comes out clean.


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by Hugh Gilmore
The following appeared at the bottom of my column last week: Readers: Are you traveling this summer? We'd like to know: (1) Where you're going; (2) Why you're going there; (3) What you'll read while you're away.
Amma Napier of Chestnut Hill was first to reply, saying that she, her husband and two daughters were leaving for Brazil this week to visit her sister who has a Brazilian husband. They live in Niteroi, just outside of Rio de Janeiro, on a hill that overlooks a lake and the Guanabara Bay.
And her reading? Amma says, "I feel I should be reading 'Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands,' by the Brazilian writer, Jorge Amado, since my sister gave it to me for my birthday. I tried it, but couldn't keep up with all the characters right before bed (when I do most of my reading). I'm definitely bringing "Hope in the Dark." by Rebecca Solnit. I loved her book about traveling in Ireland, and it is supposed to be a great book for learning about possibility and change (something I deal with in my career as a facilitator/coach/change agent). I am also bringing a lighter book by Chris Bohjalian, 'The Law of Similars,' recommended by a friend at the Plymouth Meeting Friends Strawberry Festival (I get several favorites there each year). Still might bring "Dona Flor," as it is really fun. See you around the neighborhood."
I was also glad to hear from Tom Keels and his partner, Larry Arrigale. They just finished publishing "Philadelphia's Golden Age of Retail" for Acadia Publishers. Tom writes, "Larry and I will be taking a late summer trip to Ogonquit, Maine, to celebrate our 20th anniversary. While there, I hope to get a chance to read "Malcolm's Wine," if I can ever pry it out of Larry's hands. I will probably try to read more Michael Cunningham (either 'A Home at the End of the World' or 'Specimen Days'), since I fell in love with 'The Hours' last year and am anxious to try more of his work. BTW, I am loving "Scenes from a Bookshop." (HG: Ahem.)
We also heard from MacArthur Award winner Bill Siemering, of Wyndmoor, who heads the nonprofit organization Developing Radio Partners. He writes, "I'm traveling to Madison, Wis., for a high school class reunion and probably won't be gone long enough to read a book. But my wife, Lucretia Robbins, artist and teacher of Art in the Garden, (HG: very worth Googling, especially if you have a 12 to 16-year-old daughter) is an avid reader and she recommends 'The Gift of Rain' by Tan Twan Eng as an excellent read."
From Fort Washington, legal wizard George C "Skip" Corson, Jr. wrote to tell us he intends to go to "a small cabin on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee … a full mile off of any paved road … to be again with members of my family and of my late wife's family (who've been going there since right after World War I), to enjoy the delights of no TV, no PC, no laptop."
That would be delight enough, but Skip avers he will also "eat fresh, local fruits and vegetables, swim (or at least float) before breakfast and before bed, sail, canoe, kayak, and motor boat, hike, play some tennis and "cow pasture pool."
We've checked, and that was officially the first time "cow pasture pool" has ever been mentioned in the Local. When not living the healthy life, Skip Corson also will attend performances by The Barnstormers in Tamworth and, of course, read.
And what shall he read? He says, "Various and sundry works by Rafael Sabatini, John Buchan, Edmund Crispin, P. G. Wodehouse and a book recently written by my Penn Charter/Penn Law School classmate and friend, David M. Jordan, 'FDR, Dewey and the Election of 1944.'"
Another energetic vacationer, Chestnut Hill businessman Tom Tarantino, writes that he and his wife, Barbara, are going to Switzerland and Italy to tour the Alps and the Dolomites. "We will go to Zermatt to see the Matterhorn, take the "Glacier Express," a special bubble-roofed train across almost 300 bridges and through almost 100 tunnels from Zermatt to St. Moritz and then drive through the Dolomites to Bolzano and Cortina d'Ampezzo, ending up at Venice."
Mr. Tarantino's motive? "We are going there to chase two people. Edward Whymper, the greatest mountain climber of the 19th Century – he was the first person to climb the Matterhorn. And Reinhold Messner, the greatest mountain climber of all time (he is still alive) who, among other things, is the first person to climb all 14 Eight Thousanders (the 14 tallest mountains in the World) and the first person to climb Mount Everest solo and without oxygen."
And what will they be reading? "Two books: 'Killing Dragons: the Conquest of the Alps' by Fergus Fleming. And 'Die Messner Mountain Museen' by Andreas Gottlieb Hempel. It is the official catalogue of the five MMM – Messner Mountain Museums – that have been established by Mr. Messner at five different locations in the Dolomites with the idea that driving from one to the next will also show you all the mountains themselves."
Among the true friends of the writer in our area is a young woman named Nicollette Milholin. She lives in Mont Clare, Montgomery County, across the Schuylkill River from Phoenixville. Nikki, as she's called, is a literary columnist dedicated to interviewing authors, reviewing books and promoting events. Visit http://bookboundcolumn.blogspot.com for links to her published columns and a list of recommended literary events. We think it's the best book blog in the Delaware Valley.
This summer she's traveling back to her hometown in western Michigan, "traveling along the breathtaking shore of Lake Michigan, Mackinac Island and into the Upper Peninsula."
The occasion? "My cousin is getting married, so it's a prime time to spend a couple of weeks visiting with family and traveling the picturesque region."
What she'll read? "When I travel, I love to immerse myself in works written by authors with local ties. For this trip, I'm delving into filmmaker and Traverse City, Mich., resident Michael Moore's new book 'Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life,' which I'll be reviewing for an upcoming Book Bound column. I'm also hoping to read more from Michigan favorites Bonnie Jo Campbell (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and poet Catie Rosemurgy (Escanaba, Mich.)."
Christina Kobland is the director of Native Return LLC, of Lafayette Hill, an organization dedicated to ecologically responsible land management solutions. She writes that she is traveling to Prague, then Germany, Hungary and Austria (on the Danube) and ending in Krakow, Poland. "I have never been there so I want to see those countries, and also because I'm half Polish."
What will she read? "I don't know yet. I'll be lucky to read my email."
Another devoted Philadelphia educator, Mary Silverstein, writes, "Hi Hugh, I enjoy your column. When I travel, I always fortify myself with many books. Sometimes choosing books takes a lot longer than picking out my wardrobe.
"This summer, I am going to Pine, Ariz., to visit my brother and his wife; I haven't seen my bro for three years, and since I just turned 80 and he is 77 – though hale and hearty – I don't know how many times more I will get to see him. They are readers too, so I expect lots of hammock time under the soughing Ponderosa Pines, enjoying this year's picks. After that, I go on to West Hollywood to my youngest daughter's abode. We'll play some Scrabble and see a movie or two, but I'll have some reading time there as well.
"I shall take about six books on this 12-day trip, including 'Swamplandia,' 'A Plague of Doves,' two by Chinua Achebe, 'No Longer At Ease' and 'Anthills of the Savannah.' Perhaps also 'Invisible Man' because I haven't read it cover-to-cover in many years."
Mary Ann Domanska, Springside teacher, actress and writer, says, "I'm heading off to San Diego for the 2012 International Society for Technology in Education Conference next week. I'm presenting a talk on 'Publishing Kids' Creative Writing as Podcasts using the Haiku Learning Management System.' I plan to bring back lots of great ideas for my classroom."
She continues, "I plan on reading 'Al Capone Does My Shirts,' by Gennifer Choldenko (required reading for a Creative Writing Institute I'll be taking later this summer at Arcadia. It will focus on writing middle-grade novels and, more importantly, my 12-year-old daughter loved it). I also plan on listening to 'Where the Mountain Meets the Moon' by Grace Lin on my iPhone as part of a literature study group."
And the final words for today come from librarian extraordinaire Marsha Stender, of the Free Library of Philadelphia's Andorra branch. "I'm going to Beantown to visit my daughter, son-in-law and grandpup. Audrey D. Dogg is growing up fast! "I'll be taking along 'State of Wonder' by Ann Patchett and 'Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil' by Tom Mueller."
Note to our readers: Last week's survey asked a fourth question – "Where do you stand on the eBook vs. print book controversy?" The replies were many and interesting and are being saved for a future column, probably to appear in two weeks.
Next week this column will come to you from Montreal. I will get through the first night with my Kindle or a New Yorker. Then I'll head out hunting for a book or two that should entertain me for the short week we'll be there. Au revoir!


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Beacon of Hope
By Matt Hawkins
May 27, 2014
No matter the circumstances, there is no excuse for failing to succeed in life. This will be the message students will hear from Ashley Horton '14. The Chicago Public Schools product will spend the next five years teaching in her home city's struggling schools while she pursues a master's degree in urban education through the Academy of Urban School Leadership.
Horton, who spent the first decade of her education in CPS, discovered the passion to teach in an urban setting after her family moved to the south suburbs for junior high and high school. The education quality contrast shocked Horton.
"It was eye-opening to see the difference in education, and that made me want to pursue education so I could give back," the elementary education major said. "I wanted to set high expectations for students."
The AUSL option appealed because it gave on-the-job training and mentorship in addition to the master's degree. AUSL students spend a year in selected Chicago Public Schools while taking courses at the downtown Chicago campus of National Louis University. The CPS schools are ones that have not met state academic standards and are working with AUSL to turn around academics and educational environments. Graduate students commit to four additional years teaching in CPS.
"I wanted to teach in an urban environment with students who carry so many issues into school," she said. "This is an excellent chance to gain that experience and to learn to handle situations with confidence."
Horton's student teaching experiences at Bradley surprised both her and students as she learned the craft in the diverse Peoria District 150.
"They were shocked an African-American female wanted to be a teacher and in college," she said. "It was eye-opening to see students at a young age thinking a future was almost impossible, but I wanted to be a living example of things that are possible."
Horton's experiences at Manual Academy, Rolling Acres Middle School and Whittier contrasted with the stable, supportive family that enabled her to pursue her dreams. Hours spent listening to students' stories exposed her to situations that helped prepare her for a lifetime in urban settings.
"Those experiences helped me reach out to so many people and learn to accept them," she said. "I met so many different types of people that it opened my eyes to what I wanted to do to help those who needed a little encouragement."
Horton's message to students echoes the encouragement she received from Bradley faculty and staff. She counted teacher education faculty Jim Burdette and Dr. Patricia Nugent as well as Multicultural Student Services Assistant Director Norris Chase among her biggest cheerleaders.
"Professors pushed me to go above and beyond expectations," she said. "Plus, the support of the staff was so encouraging."


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Moderator — Christine Cochran, president, Commodity Markets Council; Nariman Behravesh, chief economist, IHS Global Insight on Critical Issues Shaping the Global Economic Outlook; Charles Whitman, founder and CEO, Infinium Capital Management on Electronic Trading and the Globalization of Grain Markets; Pete Nessler, president, FCStone, LLC on A Brokerage Firm's Approach to Risk Management; Michael Copps, commissioner, Federal Communications Commission on Opening the Internet to the Rural Community.
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A survey to determine which of Britain's laws merits the "most absurd" crown has named a ban on popping your clogs in the Houses of Parliament as worthy winner.
Second up was the rarely-enforced legislation which makes sticking a stamp bearing Her Maj Liz II's head upside down on an envelope an act of treason, closely followed by the Liverpudlian bylaw which prohibits women going topless unless they work in a tropical fish store.
The poll was carried out by UKTV Gold, and the 4,000 participants also honoured Ohio's prohibition on getting fish pissed as the best piece of international tomfoolery. Occupying second spot on the worldwide podium was Indonesia's punishment of masturbation by decapitation, with the fact that in Bahrain a male doctor "can only examine the genitals of a woman in the reflection of a mirror" taking the bronze medal.
And before you start crying foul on the topless Liver Bird thing, the Telegraph quotes a Liverpool City Council spokesman as debunking: "It's something that has been heard of before and does crop up from time to time, but it is absurd. It is a myth and totally made up. It has no basis in fact."
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- It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27 per cent)
- It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down (7 per cent)
- In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store (6 per cent)
- Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day (5 per cent)
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- It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour (3 per cent)
- In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow (2 per cent)
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- In Ohio, it is illegal to get a fish drunk (9 per cent)
- In Indonesia, the penalty for masturbation is decapitation (8 per cent)
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- In Switzerland, a man may not relieve himself standing up after 10pm (6 per cent)
- In Alabama, it is illegal to be blindfolded while driving a vehicle (6 per cent)
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"The Andy Griffith Show" had characters that were beloved all over the world, but here in Southwest Virginia, and especially in Galax — just down the road from the real "Mayberry" — they felt like family.
Griffith's kindly sheriff character of "Andy Taylor" was a role model of simple country wisdom, humor and compassion, and a father figure to many who tuned in to the show, which ran from 1960 to 1968.
Griffith died Tuesday at his home in Manteo, N.C., at age 86.
He'll never leave the hearts of fans, and in the Twin Counties, Andy never left our TVs, either.
Television station WDBJ-7 in Roanoke has broadcast "The Andy Griffith Show" at 5:30 p.m. each weekday for decades.
Griffith was something of a local legend, growing up in Mount Airy, N.C., just 30 or so miles from Galax. Though not from the Twin Counties, he was considered by many locally a "hometown boy" who made good and continued to represent the values of his Appalachian upbringing when he made it to Hollywood.
His show featured a small, idealized Southern town not much different from Galax, Hillsville, Independence or Fries. No doubt many in these Virginia mountains, just north of Mount Airy/Mayberry, saw a nod to themselves in the fictional Darling family, a string band of "hillbilly" characters who were popular guest stars on Griffith's show.
"I see so many TV shows about the South where the creative powers behind it have no life experience in the South," Griffith acquaintance Craig Fincannon told the Associated Press. "He was of this dirt and had such deep respect for the people and places of his childhood. A character might be broadly eccentric, but the character had an ethical and moral base that allowed us to laugh with them and not at them. And Andy Griffith's the reason for that."
Richard O. Linke, producer of "The Andy Griffith Show," is quoted as saying of the actor that, "If he's a hillbilly, he's the hippest hillbilly I ever met."
Griffith's career included stage, television and movies, and he was also an accomplished gospel singer and recording artist.
Griffith also became North Carolina's favorite son, and a symbol of the state. It was a role that was sometimes a burden, but he played it with grace, taking time to talk with people who had to meet "Andy Taylor."
In 2002, North Carolina dedicated a part of U.S. 52 in Mount Airy as the "Andy Griffith Parkway, in a ceremony that the normally reclusive Griffith attended.
Griffith died about 7 a.m. Tuesday at his coastal North Carolina home, Dare County (N.C.) Sheriff Doug Doughtie said, reading from a family statement. "Mr. Griffith passed away this morning at his home peacefully and has been laid to rest on his beloved Roanoke Island."
From Landmark News Service:
Andrew Samuel Griffith was born in Mount Airy, N.C., on June 1, 1926. He was the only son of Carl Lee Griffith, a skilled carpenter and foreman in a chair factory, and Geneva Nunn Griffith.
At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, he majored in music. He joined the respected Carolina Playmakers and landed several comedic roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
At school he met Barbara Edwards. In the summer they both got acting jobs in "The Lost Colony." She had the role of Eleanor Dare, opposite his Sir Walter Raleigh. "I was never right for that part," he had said. "I think they just gave it to me because of Barbara." He played it for five seasons, until 1953.
The couple married on Roanoke Island in 1949.
Griffith's career spanned more than a half-century and included Broadway, notably "No Time for Sergeants;" movies such as Elia Kazan's "A Face in the Crowd"; and records.
"No Time for Sergeants," released as a film in 1958, cast Griffith as Will Stockdale, an over-eager young hillbilly who, as a draftee in the Air Force, overwhelms the military with his rosy attitude. Establishing Griffith's skill at playing a lovable rube, this hit film paved the way for his sitcom.
He was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts Hall of Fame in 1992 and in 2005, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the country's highest civilian honors.
Andy Taylor first appeared on television in 1960 as a guest character on "The Danny Thomas Show." He was the sheriff and justice of the peace in a small town called Mayberry.
Mayberry was written as anywhere in rural America, but Griffith added references to places such as Raleigh and the Outer Banks. That same year he became the central character in "The Andy Griffith Show."
"I didn't think it would last, to tell you the truth," he said in a 2008 interview with The Virginian-Pilot newspaper. "I thought we'd be canceled and might not even make it through that first year. I look at that first year today, and I was so bad. I was so country, trying to be funny. It was pretty cornball. If it hadn't been for Don Knotts... "Then we went to work on it. I said, 'Let Don be funny.' It turned around when I became the straight man. I would just react to him. I'm good at reacting."
Knotts, who died in 2006, went on to win five Emmy awards. Griffith was never nominated.
"The Andy Griffith Show" was No. 1 in the ratings during its final year, 1968.
Griffith's decision to end the show got a lot of opposition across America. He had wanted to end it after the seventh year, but CBS made such a lucrative offer that he agreed to the eighth. "I was restless," he remembered. "I wanted to do other things. I thought the show was slipping and that it was time to go."
He owned 50 percent but sold the rights to the reruns, which continue to run today.
Griffith produced a successor show called "Mayberry R.F.D." starring Ken Berry, who also played a widower with a young son. When it was canceled, Griffith took the news hard. "CBS had decided it was going to purge the network of what it called 'rural' comedy. I think it was a bad thing for the country. When we try to hide our real roots, it's not good."
Griffith's post-Mayberry career was full of disappointments and outright disasters.
It seemed no one wanted to see Griffith outside of Mayberry, even though Universal Pictures signed him to a five-year deal. In his first movie, 1969's "Angel in My Pocket," he played a minister. It flopped. Universal wanted to team him with Knotts in a movie, but Griffith refused and got out of the contract. "I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape."
A return to TV in 1970 with "The Headmaster" didn't work. "I learned a lesson, and that is that it's hard as hell to mix laughter and messages. I needed to go back to making people laugh."
He formed his own production company, but the failed series "Salvage" and "Best of the West" resulted.
His personal life didn't go well, either. In 1972, his 23-year marriage to Edwards ended.
They had two adopted children. Edwards got custody of their 12-year-old daughter, Dixie Nann. Andy got custody of their 14-year-old son, Sam. The son was apart from the family for some years before his death in 1996. Sam Griffith's attorney was quoted in a Los Angeles Daily News report after the death saying Sam had suffered for years from alcoholism.
Dixie Nann made Griffith a grandfather.
His second marriage was to Greek actress Solica Cassuto. It lasted eight years, from 1973 to 1981.
Griffith met Cindi Knight when she was a young dancer in "The Lost Colony." When I spoke to her by phone recently, she recalled, "It was a very slow romance to develop, over years of time.... Andy is a fine man."
They were married on Roanoke Island in April 1983. She was 27; he was 56.
Just two months later he was hit by a rare neurological disease called Guillain-Barre syndrome that attacks the nerves. It left him paralyzed from the knees down. "I couldn't walk for some eight months. When I did walk, it was with braces. I don't know how I could have made it without Cindi. She was by my side."
Then in 1986, the television show "Matlock" put him back on the map.
"I liked, particularly, that Ben Matlock was a smart Southerner. Not a rube."
This time he owned the show outright. It ran eight seasons. When it was passed over by NBC, ABC took it, a rare show to cross networks.
ABC moved the production from Los Angeles to Wilmington, N.C., partially to cure Andy's homesickness. In the process, it saved a lot of money.
In 1989 he brought the TV crew to Manteo to film a two-part episode, giving locals a chance to be famous. "During all the years of the old Griffith show I tried to talk them into filming something in North Carolina, but they said, 'Why? They already think you're in North Carolina anyway.' "
Sidewalks in downtown Manteo, "The Lost Colony" theater and the Green Dolphin Pub were among the TV sites. The episodes opened the "Matlock" season in September of that year, and it was a big deal for Roanoke Island.
The show ended in 1995.
Five years later Griffith had a heart attack and quadruple bypass surgery at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
He primarily spent his time off at his Manteo home, near "The Lost Colony." Despite his community activities, Griffith valued his privacy. He was friendly and outgoing to a point.
He was known to turn down requests for autographs.
Manteo resident Eddie Greene met Griffith when both were performers in "The Lost Colony," and the two kept in touch over the years.
He said Griffith often traveled from California back to Manteo to get away from the hectic life of celebrity.
"It was like coming home," Greene said. "Manteo was his Mayberry."
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, easily the trippiest and goofiest of the five addled adolescent vampire romances based on the Stephenie Meyer books, is upon us. Four years to the month since Twilight rocked the box office and turned Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson into scandal fodder, the glowy, gloopy Bella-Edward-Jacob love triangle comes to a close.
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A former Westfall police officer with a blemished work history will reap hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars in a settlement of a three-year court fight, according to public records.
Editor's note: A Dec. 3, 2012, story, "Westfall supervisors settle ex-cop's $703K suit," referred to a draft letter instead of the final version of the letter. The final terms of the suspension referred to in the story were set out in an Aug. 6, 2007, letter. The July 24 letter referred to in the story was a rough draft and recommendation written by Chief Mark Moglia before the parties met to discuss the matter.
A former Westfall police officer with a blemished work history will reap hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars in a settlement of a three-year court fight, according to public records.
Ex-officer Robert Dombrosky and his lawyer, Cletus P. Lyman, will split $703,000 after Westfall supervisors settled a lawsuit. The payout, including interest, will come in annual installments lasting until 2022, according to the settlement payment schedule.
Dombrosky had been suspended from the Westfall Police Department in July 2007 after a bar fight at the Erie Restaurant in Port Jervis, according to court documents.
The Orange County District Attorney's Office in New York charged Dombrosky with attempted assault. At the time of the suspension, Dombrosky, who earned $755 a week, was promised his job back with Westfall Police and back pay if he was found not guilty.
That promise came during an executive session between Dombrosky, former Westfall Police Chief Mark Moglia and Westfall supervisors, according to court testimony.
While he was suspended, the Westfall and Matamoras police departments were dissolved and a new joint force, the Eastern Pike Regional Police, was formed. The joint department is directed by a police commission.
Officers from the former departments were hired, but the new department had no room for another employee, and the commission, which did not exist when Dombrosky was suspended, had made no promise to rehire him, court papers say.
In July 2007, while investigating the Erie Restaurant incident in Port Jervis, Moglia learned of another bar fight Dombrosky had been involved in around the same time. This one was at the Blue Ribbon Bar in Branchville, N.J.
New Jersey State Police were dispatched to that fight but made no arrests. Moglia wrote about it in a July 24 letter that suspended Dombrosky for 30 days without pay and recommended that Westfall supervisors demote Dombrosky from sergeant to corporal.
"As part of your suspension, you are required to attend programs to help you with your alcohol intake problems," Moglia wrote. "If you do not enroll in a program, then you will not be allowed back to work."
Dombrosky did not enroll in an alcohol program, according to Lyman.
"Dombrosky denies being addicted to alcohol. Police officers are given psychological tests from time to time to determine fitness for duty, and he is willing to be tested again as he has been before and to do what is reasonably required to demonstrate fitness," Lyman said in an email to the Pocono Record. "He has never been charged with driving under the influence (and) has maintained an excellent employment record for the past three years."
The 2007 incidents, though, weren't the first time Dombrosky had been in trouble at work.
In June 1999, Dombrosky received a written reprimand for an altercation at the Tom Quick Sports Bar in Milford. It was noted on the reprimand that it was the second time in two months that he had been involved in an altercation at a local bar, according to the reprimand, which appears in court filings.
In 2001, Dombrosky was suspended from the Westfall Police Department for five days without pay for an altercation in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, in which his police credentials were displayed.
Dombrosky was transported to Pocono Medical Center. State police and hospital personnel said he appeared intoxicated, a written reprimand in his personnel file said.
According to department policy, officers should not appear intoxicated in public, even when off duty.
In 2006, Dombrosky was suspended for a day without pay for failing to show up at work, employment records show. And in February 2007, Dombrosky received a written notation from Moglia regarding an off-duty fight in a home in which the victim allegedly received a bloody nose from Dombrosky. The notation was in court records.
"Your off-duty conduct is out of control," Moglia wrote. "If your off-duty conduct continues in this manner, further discipline action will be taken."
He was also written up for being late to work and failing to attend a preliminary hearing in court, representing the department for an arrest he had made while on duty, employment records show.
A little over a month after Eastern Pike Regional Police was formed on Jan. 1, 2008, Dombrosky was acquitted of the charges in the 2007 Erie Restaurant incident.
In May 2008, Dombrosky's attorney sent a letter demanding back pay from the time of suspension, a job with Eastern Pike Regional Police and threatened litigation.
On July 19, 2008, Dombrosky was involved in a single-car crash on Heaters Hill Road in Westfall Township, according to an Eastern Pike Regional Police accident report.
His car went off the road, hit a tree and he left the scene of the crash. He was found guilty in court of giving false reports to law enforcement agencies, an accident involving a damaged or unattended vehicle, and failure of duty to give information and render aid.
Dombrosky filed a complaint in federal court in December 2009, demanding a job with Eastern Pike Regional Police and back pay from the time he believed he should have been reinstated. He was eventually given back pay of around $16,000 for the time he was suspended.
In court papers, Lyman cited the police tenure act and township code, claiming Westfall denied Dombrosky due process, which allows public employees with job protection to receive notice of any charges against them that may result in termination, and a right to a hearing.
"He is still seeking reinstatement to the Eastern Pike Regional Police," Lyman said. Dombrosky, now 38, still lives in Westfall with his wife and son, Lyman said. Efforts to reach him were unsuccessful.
Next year, Westfall Township will give Dombrosky and Lyman each a payment of $87,500. But the court case is not over.
Federal Judge A. Richard Caputo had allowed the case against Westfall to proceed, but in May, he ruled on a summary judgment motion in favor of Eastern Pike Regional Police. That cleared the department from litigation in the case because Dombrosky's issues happened before the department was formed.
Dombrosky is now appealing that decision, seeking the right to sue Eastern Pike Regional Police, which is funded by Westfall and Matamoras.
Further complicating matters, Westfall this month gave notice to Matamoras that in a year, it wishes to dissolve its partnership in the joint police force. The implications of that move remain to be seen.
Meanwhile, it is unclear why Westfall's insurance carrier, Darwin National Assurance Co., refused to contribute to the settlement.
"I cannot comment because of possible litigation concerning the insurance company," Westfall Supervisor Paul Fischer said.
The Pocono Record sought documents regarding the insurer, to learn whether the township had the proper insurance coverage, but the township refused to provide the paperwork, saying it is privileged information.


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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Costumeology: The Dark Fairy
This particular Halloween season brings three dress-up opportunities for moi and y'all know I'm not about to wear the same costume three times. Mon dieu! So, lets take a looksee at what I've thrown together for one of my upcoming alternate egos, shall we? Without further ado, I present to you my Dark Fairy garb...
Now, every femme fairy needs an ethereal little skirt, don't you agree? Yeah...So, even though I have a plethora of tulle in my closet, I didn't have any tulle related vestments in this keen red and black color combo and no standard pink sparkly fae wardrobe would do for me this Halloween. Nope, I'm looking to personify the classic trickster fae folkette. As such, I worked up this cute little dark netted number last night in the span of hour...And what a satisfying hour it twas too!
These beauties have been adorning the wall of my closet for months! Oh, don't worry, they weren't at all lonely for I have LOTS of wings.
Anyway, are they not spectacular???
You know you want a pair...And you can purchase them here along with many other amazing versions. Her wings are awesome and really well made.
Anyhoo, as I said, these lovelies were sitting in my closet for eons, urging me to marry them off to a sampling of perfect accompaniments. I was obliged to comply. Just look at how amazing my wings look with their tutu comrade...
But wait, there's more!
No self-respecting fae would be caught dead with the ears of a human! Nope, only pointy elfin ears will do this All Hallow's Eve!
Um, am I the only one around who has spirit gum in her cosmetic case year round???
Ahem...Let's move on.
Lastly, I purchased this very cool kit from Sephora to aid me in achieving each of my spooktacular looks this season. Methinks the store should offer these boxes of wonder the rest of the year as well. Come on, you can picture it. Ice Queen makeup for winter. Flower Fairy makeup for Spring. Golden Goddess makeup for summer. It would be amazing right? Yeah, I agree, retailers have no vision.
My Dark Fairy costume just needs a little liquid leather and fishnet to top it off. Then I'm good to go!
Ahhh, Halloween, how I love thee!
4 comments:
- Ellen Bloom said...
Whoa! Cool wings, tutu and ears! don't forget to take photos of ALL your fantastic ensembles!!!
- MonkeyGurrrrrl said...
I bow to your Hallowiffic craftiness. We are not worthy.
Also, I can't wait to see the completed ensemble (said in a hoity-toity french accent)!
- FinnyKnits said...
You should really work that skirt into your regular rotation. It's super hot.
- Lady Euphoria Deathwatch said...
Hi Lady Linoleum,
I too have wings. The larger ones are for special occasions, but a have smaller ones for daily wear. I find that the smaller ones are easier to do house work in.
It is nice to know that you also wear them on days other then Halloween.
Every lady needs a pair of wings to complete her life and add a bit of zip to her days.
Happy flying.
Hugs, Lady Euphoria
PS: Sorry I'm just getting to this. I had no internet access for a few months and I'm catching up.