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Irene Lay brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 85 Designs von 29 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Ocean Blue Media
I am a social media marketing consultant that helps businesses develop and execute social media marketing programs and campaigns. I help people set up a presence and become visible on the 5 popular social media cluster: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN, YouTube, and Blog.
My target market will be small to medium sized business in the province of Alberta, Canada. I would like to have a broad appeal to businesses that offer their services and product to the general public but need to take it to the next level or who would just like to create and develop their presence/ on the social media networking sites.
I've chosen the company name as "Ocean Blue Media"because the 3 major social media networking sites - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN - are "blue" and "ocean" as the wave of the new marketing era. "Media" of course, is the social media networking sites.
My tag line is: "Harness the power of social media"
I would like the logo to have a dominant color of blue and to have in it the 5 social media logos - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and Blog - in sort of a like a big "Ocean wave" look. I would love to have it reflect that social media attitude that highlights connecting with people without having the "cartoonish" people that are holding hands.
Somethings I would like to see/avoid/include:
1. I realize that the 5 social media logos are "cartoonish" but I don't necessarily want it to be overly cartoonish.
2. Not too overly elegant but stylish with a modern look - the social media look.
3. I would like the logo to stand on it's own - if possible and to reflect the "media wave."
I don't have any images that I can upload to show you what I like / don't like but please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
I hope I've given you enough info to work on your design but please let me know if you need anything else.
Have fun with the new "wave" of marketing in the social media networking space! You are creating a logo for the new paradigm shift in marketing - enjoy!
Looking forward to see your amazing designs!
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Anxiety rises as stimulus dries up
Federal cuts may stall state recovery
Massachusetts is running low on tools to boost the economy as the state exhausts its federal stimulus money amid renewed economic turmoil and looming budget cuts in Washington that could strip millions of dollars from key programs.
Of the $7.4 billion in US stimulus funds awarded to the state in 2009, only about $300 million, or roughly 4 percent, is left to deploy, according to officials in Governor Deval Patrick's administration. Most of the stimulus programs will wind down during the next six months - when officials said the state will most need help in staving off a second recession.
"We've got to keep up a head of steam right now, and I wonder whether we're going to be able to keep it going,'' said Jeffrey Simon, director of the Massachusetts Recovery and Reinvestment Office, charged with overseeing the state's stimulus funds. "I see the positive impact it's had on people here, so I'm a little puzzled by what's going on in Washington.''
Although economists debate the overall impact of the $787 billion stimulus package, most agree on two points: It acted as a buffer against the worst downturn since the Great Depression by creating much-needed jobs; at the same time, however, it has failed to lift the economy out of a malaise that appears to have deepened in recent weeks.
By some measures, the Massachusetts economy is faring better than the nation's, buoyed in part by job growth in its large education and health care sectors.
The state's Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported last week that the state gained 12,700 jobs in July, keeping its unemployment rate at 7.6 percent - below the national rate of 9.1 percent.
But in recent weeks the outlook has worsened, with multiple 400-plus point losses in stock markets, the first-ever downgrade of the nation's credit rating, and mounting worries about debt problems in several European countries.
Adding to those pressures are impending cutbacks at the federal level. Certain unemployment benefits and payroll tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of the year, and President Obama and Congress agreed after months of haggling to cut $25 billion in spending from the budget that will take effect in October.
"I think it's a real worry. You have all these things happening at once and an expansion of the economy that is not firmly established,'' said Jeffrey Frankel, a professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government who served as an economic adviser to President Clinton.
Jay Gonzalez, Patrick's secretary of administration and finance, said the immediate concern is how the $25 billion in federal spending reductions will be parsed among states. At stake for Massachusetts is a $2.6 billion pool of funding for initiatives ranging from clean energy and transportation to public health and affordable housing.
"We have no idea how much could get cut,'' Gonzalez said. "They haven't made any decisions yet about the amounts or how they will be distributed. We really can't plan in that environment.''
Gonzalez and other Patrick administration officials said federal stimulus money has softened the recession in Massachusetts, creating or savings jobs for more than 82,500 people. Some of those jobs lasted only weeks, others years. Gonzalez said more than half of the stimulus money, some $4 billion, was used to plug holes in state and municipal budgets, paying for health care for low-income residents and saving the jobs of teachers, public safety employees, and others. That category of money ran out June 30, the close of the state fiscal year.
The state used another $2.3 billion in stimulus funding for transportation improvements, solar installations, and weatherization projects in more than 10,000 homes.
Some of the money went to new roads and utility upgrades to support private development projects that are taking root in several municipalities. In Somerville, the state constructed an access road to the $1.5 billion Assembly Row project, where builders are planning to begin construction this fall of hundreds of homes and stores. In Weymouth, construction of a new parkway has jumpstarted construction of a minicity called SouthField that will eventually include 2,800 homes, movie studios, a golf course, offices, and stores. And in Burlington, road improvements laid the groundwork for new stores, offices, and homes at Northwest Park.
Together, those developments promise to create thousands of jobs in coming months.
"The stimulus has been profoundly important for our economy,'' said Gregory Bialecki, Patrick's secretary of housing and economic development. "And that's not just because we were able to keep a lot of people working. It's also because we were able to set the table for a lot of substantial projects.''
Bialecki said the sudden drop in federal funding could have a significant impact. He noted that in addition to the stimulus winding down, federal programs including community development initiatives for housing and other local economic projects may be hit by upcoming budget cuts.
The possible impact of cuts to those programs is illustrated by a key fact: Even with stimulus spending on private-sector development, Massachusetts is not collecting as much tax revenue as it did in fiscal year 2008, a sign of underlying economic weakness from consumers pulling back on spending and employers putting off hiring.
"The hope was that by now the private sector would be taking the baton from the federal government and running with it,'' said Mark Zandi, who is the chief economist for Moody's economy.com.
"But that really hasn't happened, at least not yet,'' he said.
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Subaru knows that what's on the inside matters. No matter where the road takes you, you and your passengers can travel in confidence.
Every Subaru Outback comes standard with an all-around advanced protection system consisting of eight airbags and a ring-shaped reinforcement frame. Plus, even when you're looking at the destination that lies ahead, you'll always know what's behind you with the standard rear-vision camera.
Now with the available EyeSight® Driver Assist Technology, you'll always have an extra set of eyes on the road. From pre-collision breaking to adaptive cruise control, Subaru has taken safety to a whole new level. It's so advanced that when the Outback was equipped with EyeSight, it received the highest possible score in front crash prevention from the IIHS.
With all of these features to keep you safe, it's no wonder the Outback has been an IIHS Top Safety Pick for eight years running.
Unlike the Subaru Outback, the Nissan Murano only comes standard with seven air bags. When it comes to safety, less is certainly not more.


text: Valerie Vargas Article Preview for Tattoo Artist Magazine Issue #31 Interview By Chad Koeplinger Chad Koeplinger: Who are some of the tattoo artists that you were interested in at that point? What were you looking at tattoo-wise? What was blowing your mind? Valerie Vargas: At that point I don't think I became fully aware of people that I like now until I already started my apprenticeship, because that's when I was allowed to have a look through the books that for me at the time were way too expensive -I couldn't afford them. And my boss had all of the Tattootimes. He never looked at them anymore but they were up on the shelf and any time it was quiet I'd have a look. I became more aware of Ed Hardy and more of the West Coast kind of guys. But even then I was still struggling to remember names, I just knew the work. I remember some backpieces that are still pretty awesome. And it was also through my friendship with Stewart in the beginning that he was really on it. He knew who everybody was, what they were doing, and he was totally stoked about everything, and he taught me a fair bit about it... (Stewart) If I can interrupt, the tattoos you were into were more cartoon stuff. Not Mr. Cartoon stuff, but like… No, there was Cory Kruger, I still love his work… Joe Capobianco... (Stewart) Joe was the one I was going to mention. There are still things in Joe's work that are present in Valerie's work, but Valerie's is more traditional. But there are kind of playful girls and shit like that. But that was then. And from there you learned about more traditional styles. Definitely. Because I remember, funnily enough, when I was doing my apprenticeship I began to notice more traditional stuff, heavy black outlines, black shading and at the time I just didn't understand it. I just thought foolishly, as pretty much anybody that thinks that they can draw that gets into tattoo, "Aw, anybody can draw that. That shit is easy!" (Stewart) I remember that spider... Yeah, I drew a spider and dagger. I still have it but I'm not going to submit it for this interview. (Laughs) it's fucking awful. (Stewart) She said, look, I can do old school, it's fucking easy. I've done this spider and dagger. And she emailed it to me. And you critiqued it and I remember being so hurt. (Stewart) I'd been tattooing about six months or maybe a year and I just said a few things that were wrong with it -why are these shapes uneven? Why is this like that? Why don't the legs of the spider meet the body properly? She says now that that's the point where she realized traditional wasn't just easy. Traditional tattoos don't look the way they look because the person who applied it can't draw. They look like that deliberately. That's true. And that was maybe a year into my apprenticeship and that kind of changed where I started to look for reference… And to change what I was looking at just from tattooers work in general, really. And I remember seeing your name quite a lot in magazines -Chad on the road, Chad on the road, Chad on the road. Me? Yeah, you and Mario Desa actually. And Chriss Dettmer. Those were the names that just kept coming up. And I began to realize, shit, this stuff looks good for a reason. Like Stewart just said, deliberate. And I realized it doesn't need to be a realistic spider, just because you want a spider. It needs to be what a spider might look like broken down to its basic form, basically, yet remains readable. And after that I remember my work kind of improving, and trying to understand traditional. Because I didn't understand traditional for a while. My boss at the time as well. I remember I didn't know what whip-shading was. And my boss said, "Don't even mention that term in my establishment! Old school is shit!" Because he was an older guy… To him old school was what the guys before him did, why would you do that? And he was more like, not new school, because he didn't' do new school, but he did that kind of look with like 10 different shades of blue mixed together and getting it right and stuff like that… He liked calling it color-bomb or something. To him traditional was where everything was built up, like built up lines and he was like, "Why would you want to do that?" So he was really against it and he didn't want me to go down that path. Like the era of dudes that rebelled against real traditional tattooing -the guys that wanted to push the art farther. Yeah, he was one of them. Exactly. That's part of the reason why he gave me a job in the first place. He could see I could draw and he wanted to develop that. But sometimes I look back and wonder, wow, I can't even imagine what my work would look like if I had gone down that path. It's kind of strange. And I'm so happy where I've ended up. How did you find the technical aspects of tattooing? Because it is a lot different than pretty much any other medium. It is, yeah. Was it hard for you to pick up? Well, obviously not because you've only been tattooing for like two minutes. I haven't been tattooing for two minutes! (Laughs) I think because I understood that it was a completely different thing and I just tried to unlearn whatever I had. It was hard at first, but within a year of tattooing full-time I began to understand that I just needed to let go whatever I had thought was tattooing and just kind of... I like that you came from the art school but didn't decide that you knew better than the way it's supposed to be. You didn't come into it going, "Oh no." I know you've had your few minutes of that -a couple months, but you learned it quick. Most people get taught that lesson early but they don't heed it and five or six years later they're still fighting against it. It's cool that you were able to check your ego relatively quickly. I have to check it constantly. But I remember Dave, my boss, my tutor; he was always very keen on reminding me of that. Just because you can draw doesn't mean you can tattoo. He just kept repeating it. And at first I thought, "Why are you being so mean?" And then after the first couple of tattoos I did I was like, "I totally know what you mean." This is a completely different kettle of fish. And certainly I think being in a relationship with another tattoo artist whom I respect, whose work I deeply respect and have done for a long time -we have some really awesome conversations. Do you guys talk about tattoos a lot? We talk a lot about tattoos. All the time. When do we NOT talk about tattoos? I don't even know. (Stewart) When we talk about food. Yeah. (Laughs) Food or tattoos. And we work together as well so it's a good way to kind of keep you in check too. If he sees me trying something out that he can tell that I'm just trying to get a little bit too clever... it's not that he thinks, "Oh, you're getting too clever, you should check yourself." It's more a case of, "Well, you tried to get clever and that obviously didn't work. Go back to the drawing board and work out why that was." Valerie Vargas can be found at Frith Street Tattoo in London, England. Order issue #31 here: http://tattooartistmagazine.myshopify.com/password (From the full article as seen in the upcoming Tattoo Artist Magazine #31.) Related TAM Blog Articles: Nick Rodin Video Preview for Tattoo Artist Magazine Issue #31 (VIDEO) Nick Rodin Article Preview for Tattoo Artist Magazine Issue #31 Freddy Negrete Video Preview for Tattoo Artist Magazine Issue #31 Freddy Negrete Article Preview for Tattoo Artist Magazine Issue #31


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coelom sē´ləm [key], fluid-filled body cavity, found in animals, which is lined by cells derived from mesoderm tissue in the embryo , and which provides for free, lubricated motion of the viscera. In animals of the phyla Annelida , Mollusca , and Arthropoda , the mesoderm forms as a mass of tissue from special embryonic cells between an outer layer, the ectoderm , and an inner layer, the endoderm . The coelom then forms as a result of the splitting and hollowing out of the mesodermal mass. In animals of the phyla Echinodermata and Chordata , the mesoderm arises as the lining of folds developing from the endoderm, and the spaces within these folds form the coelom. The structure of the embryonic coelom is relatively simple; in an adult other organs push into the coelomic cavity, and it is also subdivided into compartments, e.g., the pericardial cavity, in which the heart develops. The origin of the coelom is uncertain. The acoelomate theory holds that it evolved from an acoelomate ancestor; the enterocoel that it evolved from gastric pouches of cnidarian ancestors. Recent research, particularly with flatworms and with small worms recently discovered in marine fauna, supports the enterocoel theory.
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websitebroker necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 57 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
WebsiteBroker.com is looking to update our look with all new design and branding.
WebsiteBroker.com was established in 1997 as a site dedicated to the buying, selling, valuation and brokering of established websites.
As the website brokerage industry grows, we are growing with it. We are looking to position ourselves as a premium destination for people looking to buy or sell a website. Our new look and feel should inspire confidence while being very approachable and easy to use. Our target audience will be web-savvy, and usability is key.
We are looking for three separate page designs:
- Home Page - http://www.websitebroker.com/ --- This page should clearly split "Buyers" and "Sellers", and provide links to the sections of the site relevant to each. It should be catchy and draw the visitor deeper into the site.
- Category/Search Results Page - http://www.websitebroker.com/new-listings.html --- This page should be clean, attractive, and easy-to-scan. Visitors to our site want to quickly skim the listings until they see one of interest, and then click for more detail. This leads us to...
- Individual Listing - http://websitebroker.com/site-detai…51321.html --- The page has a lot of information, and visitors need to digest it quickly. Presentation of the data is key. The option to contact a seller should be prominent.We encourage you to be bold and creative.Several versions of our new logo are attached. Feel free to change the colors to fit your design.Some sites we like:http://www.slicehost.com
Our Logo: http://www.websitebroker.com/logo.zip
Regarding the use of graphics: Feel free to use images and icons from istockphoto.com. Save the file number, and if yours is the winning entry, we will purchase the necessary licenses. All other graphics must be your original work or free for commercial use (without attribution).
Final deliverable should be in PSD. This contest is for uncoded layouts.
- Bold, unique, trendsetting design
- Emphasis on function and usability
- Clear separation of "Buyers" and "Sellers" on the home page
- Boring, corporate look
- Cluttered design


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The next release of the ISAF World Sailing Rankings will be on 5 October and will include the RS:X European Championship in Bulgaria and the Star Europeans in Ireland.
World Ranking Leaders - 27 July 2011
Men's One Person Dinghy (Heavyweight) - Finn
Ed Wright (GBR)
Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial
Evi Van Acker (BEL)
Men's One Person Dinghy - Laser
Nick Thompson (GBR)
Men's Two Person Dinghy - 470
Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page (AUS)
Women's Two Person Dinghy - 470
Ingrid Petitjean and Nadège Douroux (FRA)
Men's Skiff - 49er
Nico Delle - Karth and Nikolaus Resch(AUT)
Men's Keelboat - Star
Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada (BRA)
Men's Windsurfer - RS:X
Nimrod Mashich (ISR)
Women's Windsurfer - RS:X
Blanca Manchon (ESP)
Visit the ISAF World Sailing Rankings homepage at www.sailing.org/rankings for more on the latest Ranking release and dates for all Ranking releases.
Events Included
For more details on the new events included and events not included in this Ranking release please click on the link below.
Click here for more on Events Included in this Ranking release
The full ISAF World Sailing Ranking lists, results from all ISAF Graded events, lists of Graded events throughout the year, Ranking release dates and the method of calculation for the Rankings can be found on the ISAF website at www.sailing.org/rankings
ISAF World Sailing Rankings - www.sailing.org/rankings


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- data ShakespeareSettings = ShakespeareSettings {
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The Coffeescript language compiles down to Javascript. Previously we waited until the very end, at the rendering stage to perform this compilation. Lets call is a post-conversion This had the advantage that all Haskell values were inserted first: for example a value could be inserted that Coffeescript would compile into Javascript. While that is perhaps a safer approach, the advantage is not used in practice: it was that way mainly for ease of implementation. The down-side is the template must be compiled down to Javascript during every request. If instead we do a pre-conversion to compile down to Javascript, we only need to perform the compilation once. During the pre-conversion we first modify all Haskell insertions so that they will be ignored by the Coffeescript compiler (backticks). So %{var} is change to `%{var}` using the preEscapeBegin and preEscapeEnd. preEscapeIgnoreBalanced is used to not insert backtacks for variable already inside strings or backticks. coffeescript will happily ignore the interpolations, and backticks would not be treated as escaping in that context. preEscapeIgnoreLine was added to ignore comments (which in Coffeescript begin with a '#')
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The lively, costal cosmopolitan city of Malaga is a major tourist region in the Costa Del Sol and lies about 129 kilometres southwest of Seville. Malaga is blessed with plentiful sunshine – nearly 3000 hours of sun a year – long sandy beaches, wide boulevards, swaying palm trees, a lively nightlife, wonderful museums and an excellent selection of restaurants, cafes and bars. Modern culture and contemporary Spanish style go well together in this historic centre.
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Scenes From the 23rd Annual Star Chefs & Vintners Gala
For foodies, it was indeed a starry time on Sunday evening at the lavish Star Chefs & Vintners Gala at Fort Mason in San Francisco.
About 1,000 folks turned out to don their finest and to support Meals on Wheels of San Francisco, the city's oldest and largest provider of home-delivered meals to seniors.
The Bay Area's top chefs and vintners provided an impressive spread of eats and drinks for this annual event, which raised $1.1 million last year for this worthy organization that serves 16,000 meals to home-bound seniors every week.
Yours truly was invited to be a guest at the gala, which started off with a bang with an expansive walk-around hors d'oeuvre and wine reception, where chefs and vintners manned stations to pass out tastes of their finest.
It was quite crowded in the Festival Pavillion, but well worth the effort to jockey for position for such stellar eats.
I had a chance to sneak back into the kitchen area to see the chefs scurrying about to get the first courses ready for dinner, as an army of servers lined up in formation at the ready to ferry the dishes to the dining room.
It was quite the scene, with row after row of plates lined up as far as the eye could see. And it was fun to see the sense of camaraderie, as chefs helped one another to ensure the plates got put together on time.
The dinner was comprised of three courses, each of which was prepared by one of 27 chefs, depending upon the table you were seated at.
At my table, I had the good fortune to feast on creamy "Dungeness Crab and Firefly Squid with White Bean Salad" from Chef Ken Frank of La Toque in Napa, which was served with Rombauer Vineyards Chardonnay 2008.
That was followed by a rustic, thoroughly scrumptious "Rabbit alla Porchetta" by Chef Peter McNee of Poggio Trattoria in Sausalito, which was accompanied by a superb Nicholson Ranch Pinot Noir 2006 that I'm definitely going to seek out on my next jaunt to the wine shop.
Next, a tender "Savory Roasted Veal Rib-Eye with Foraged Mushrooms" from Chef Mark Sullivan of Spruce in San Francisco, which was paired with Hawkes Winery Alexander Valley Cabarnet Sauvignon 2005.
A dessert buffet ended the night with sweet treats from Dynamo Donuts in San Francisco, Citizen Cake in San Francisco, Humphry Slocumbe in San Francisco, and many more. If that weren't enough, the Kara's Cupcakes van was parked just outside the door, so you could take home a mini Chocolate Velvet or Fleur de Sel as you waddled into the night.


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Spread Valle d'Aosta.indettaglio.it on the Social Networks!
Dear Friends,Share on the Social Networks our site: for you is a little effort, but for us it is a great achievement.
Each of you makes the difference! The greater the number of visitors of our site the more resources we can allot to its expansion and improvement.
(1) Please copy our link:
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(2) Go to your favorite social network and paste it, saying that you liked it :)
Choose the Social Netwok :)
Do you have a website and would like to put a link to our site? Copy and paste the following text into your site:
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Milton, Massachusetts
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Milton is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1662 and was previously called Dorchester. It can be found in Norfolk county. For more information, contact the county at 525 Canton St., Milton 02186. On the attached map, Milton is shown as 21 in Norfolk county.
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Finite State Machine behaviour for domain classes
compile "org.grails.plugins:fsm:0.6.9"Custom repositories:
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This plugin allow definition of simple workflows attached to domain classes, including states, events, transitions and conditions. Current workflow's state will be held in domain class' property that must be defined. Multiple workflows can be defined on every domain class.
grails install-plugin fsm
OverviewThis plugin injects the ability to define and execute simple workflows into domain classes. The current state of the flows will be held in class-properties, that must be explicitely defined in the class (like 'status' and 'mood' in the example below).Flow definition will be in a static block called 'fsm_def', which can hold several flow definition, each of them tied to one property in the class.
Syntax:General aspect of the flow definition block is:
Every closure might use the "on", "from", "to", "when" and "act" clauses to define the desired behaviour:Structure of a flow definition follows:
static fsm_def = [
<flow-property> : [
<initial-value> : { <flow-definition-closure> }
<another-flow> : [
<initial-value-2> : { <flow-definition-closure> }
= { flow -> flow.on(<event>) { from(<source>)[.when({ <condition to allow the transition, must return boolean> })].to(<destiny>)[.act({ <code to run if success> })] } }
A bigger sample code
/** * Domain class to held some test of the FsmSupport * */ class SampleFSMEnabledClass { def name def status def mood = "ignored" // fsm_def will override this value // with 'none' in this example) // and a Warning will be traced def amount // A number > 0 will allow the status flow to start static fsm_def = [ mood : [ none : { flow -> flow.on ('up') { from('none').when({ status == 'running' // Depends on second flow ! }).to('high') from('low').to('high').act({ doSomethingInteresting() }) from('high').to('high') from('none').to('none') // Order is CRITICAL ! } flow.on('down') { from('none').when({ status == 'running' }).to('low') from('low').to('low') from('high').to('low') from('none').to('none') // Order is CRITICAL ! } } ], status : [ initial : { flow -> flow.on('launch') { from('initial').when({ isSomethingPending() && amount > 0 }).to('running') from('initial').to('initial') } flow.on('stop') { from('running').to('stopped') } flow.on('continue') { from('stopped').to('running') } flow.on('finish') { from('stopped').to('finished') from('running').to('finished') } } ] ] /* * Sample method to call from conditions! */ def isSomethingPending() { return true } def doSomethingInteresting() { [...] } }
Firing eventsEvery domain class that has the FSM definition will get a set of methods defined:
- fire(<flow>, <event>): Will launch the <event> on <flow> definition. Example:
fire('status', 'continue')
- fire_<flow>('event'): Will launch the <event> on <flow> definition. Example:
Mocking FSM in Unit Tests (since 0.6.1)integration tests will get the behaviour, but if you need to test fsm behaviour in Unit Testing, you might try mocking with the new (0.6.1) mockFsm method call. JUST REMEMBER TO RESET THE METACLASS TO null AFTER THE TEST, SO FURTHER INTEGRATION TESTS WILL GET THE PROPER METACLASS AND NOT THE MOCKED ONE !
protected void setUp() { grails.plugin.fsm.FsmUtils.mockFsm(FsmSupportDummy) super.setUp() }protected void tearDown() { FsmSupportDummy.metaClass = null super.tearDown() }
SupportAdd your issues, problems, bugs, patches in the JIRA trackerSource code now hosted at GitHub
0.6.9: 2013-02-28
0.6.8: 2013-11-04
0.6.6: 2011-10-13
- Fixes some bugs, adds support to ask the domain classes if they are allowed to be fired a given event, using 'fireable'.
0.6.1: 2009-10-07
- Fixed bug with initial value in domain classes with multiple FSM definitions.
- You can now call "FsmGrailsPlugin.mockFsm(MyDomainClass)" to test basic FSM in your unit tests (integration tests recommended for whole testing, though...)
- Testing resources now excluded from runtime, so no more dummy tables created in your database ;)


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Cheng serves as editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Spermatogenesis and is an ad-hoc reviewer of grant proposals submitted to the National Institutes of Health's Cellular, Molecular and Integrative Reproduction Study Section. Cheng is also a member of the Endocrine Society and the American Physiological Society. He holds five US patents.
In 1997, Cheng received the Best Scientific Paper Award from the American Society of Andrology; he was also awarded the Richard E. Weizman Memorial Award from the Endocrine Society in 1988. He joined the Population Council in 1981 as a postdoctoral trainee. He holds a PhD in biochemistry and cell biology from the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and an undergraduate degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.


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Half Full Brewery launches its Bright Ale in cans
Stamford's Half Full Brewery starts canning its beer
A former trader at Bear Stearns on Wall Street, Conor Horrigan knows how to assess risk. Nearly two years into his ownership of Half Full Brewery in Stamford, the entrepreneur is quick to point out the brewery's relatively pint-sized operations, which is just the way he likes them -- for now. He recently took a trip to Lagunitas Brewing Co. in Chicago, one of many beer tours he takes periodically, to learn from his fellow craft brewers. Pulling up a photo from his visit to Lagunitas on his iPhone on Wednesday, Horrigan pointed out that the brewery's tanks are much larger than those of Half Full. For him, that's OK. That's preferable, in fact.
"We won't ever grow to that size if we don't do it in a thoughtful manner," he said.
Still, Half Full has reached a milestone in its business operations that can elude many small brewers. On Wednesday, the brewery started canning one of its products, Half Full Bright Ale, and shipping it to liquor stores in Fairfield County.
30-mile radius
Horrigan wants to stay local, focusing on disseminating the majority of the product within 30 miles to stores like BevMax and Fairway. For the first 21 months of its existence, the brewery has been supplying exclusively draft beer, sold in 300 bars and restaurants in the area. Now, cans of Half Full's ale, priced between $8.99 and $9.99 per six-pack, will find their way into people's homes, picnic baskets and beach coolers. It also marks a trend in the craft beer industry, which is increasingly turning to cans rather than glass bottles to distribute its product.
"We've never done this," Horrigan said on Wednesday, indicating the noisy canning operations underway in Half Full's warehouse. "I was just joking earlier, we actually look like a professional brewery now."
Piping the ale from the brewery's tanks through an automated system, Half Full canned just under 1,000 cases on Wednesday, a process they'll repeat again in a few weeks. Again, Horrigan noted that this is "not a massive amount for other breweries," but a significant step for Half Full. If the current business is 100 percent draft, by this time next year, Horrigan expects the ratio to shift to 70 percent draft, 30 percent cans. While the exact pricing of the canned beer is decided by individual retailers, Horrigan's three existing distributors sell a case, or 24 packs, to liquor stores at a flat price of $29.98.
Canning rentals
"Now, we've reached a point where we have enough of a presence and following that we can add this as a second item," Horrigan said. "And people want this in liquor stores. So we've been able to create a pull scenario rather than a push scenario."
Horrigan is taking a relatively cautious leap into canning, renting the automated equipment by the day from Tyler Wylie, owner of Iron Heart Canning. Based in Norwalk, Wylie acts as a mobile beer canning consultant to small breweries in the Northeast. At Half Full, the work is semi-outsourced to Wylie, Horrigan said, with several of the brewery's six employees helping out.
The cost of installing an automated canning system full-time can be considerable, especially for an operation like Half Full, which produced 1,250 barrels last year, as Horrigan estimated. He did not specify the cost of renting the equipment, but another small-scale brewery, New England Brewing Company in Woodbridge, recently invested about $100,000 to install an automated canning mechanism.
"In order to make it work, renting vs. buying, we'd have to package 80 times with him (Wylie) before it would make sense to own it," Horrigan said.
Can vs. bottle
Years ago, packaging a local, craft beer in cans would have seemed like a wild choice. Cans were once considered gauche in the world of beer, denoting an inferior, overly commercial product. Eventually, enough small breweries began to adopt cans -- for one thing, their much cheaper than bottles -- that the trend became pronounced. Customers came around to the idea that locally made beer didn't have to come in a dark glass bottle.
"It was thought that cans equal boring, institutional, mass-produced beer," said Gregg Glaser, editor-in-chief of Yankee Brew News in Norwalk. "It's all turned around because there's nothing wrong with putting your product in a can. They're a great idea for craft beer, it's just the mindset that got turned around. There's a huge amount of canning in microbreweries now."
Rob Leonard, founding partner of New England Brewing Company in Woodbridge, should know. In 2004, the craft brewery started packing their beer in cans, which "totally changed the whole business," Leonard said. They chose cans primarily for cost reasons; glass bottles, plus the labels and the metal tops, were just too expensive. As both Leonard and Horrigan noted, beers fare better and have a longer shelf life in a can, untouched by spoiling sunlight. It's also more environmentally friendly to use cans, as 90 percent of the aluminum gets recycled, Leonard said.
"The only advantage a bottle has in these days is if you're in a bar fight," he said.
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Tires and Rims
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Towing and Hauling
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|Trailer wiring
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|One-touch windows
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|Power steering
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|Vanity mirrors
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|Assist handle
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Air Conditioning
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Comfort Features
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Measurements of Weight
|Gross Vehicle Weight Rating
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|Gross Vehicle Weight Range
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|Curb Weight
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|Gross Combined Weight Rating
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|Base Towing Capacity
|6000 lbs
|Max Towing Capacity
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Truck Specifications
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Interior Dimensions
|Cargo Volume
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|Interior Volume
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|Passenger Volume
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|Cargo Volume (rear seats down)
|121.5 cu ft
|Cargo Volume (third row down)
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Performance Specifications
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Fuel Tanks
|Fuel Capacity
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Wheels and Tires
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EPA and California-required standards. The names refer to tables of numerical limits for the various air pollutants allowed by the standards.
|Fuel Type
Air Pollution Score ?
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Rushed Reactions: Ole Miss 64, Missouri 62Posted by David Changas on March 15th, 2013
David Changas is an RTC correspondent. He filed this report after the Ole Miss-Missouri game at the SEC Tournament in Nashville this evening.
Three Takeaways:
- A Collapse Befitting Missouri. Missouri has had its trouble with closing out and giving away games throughout the season, but this one took the cake. The Tigers led by 14 in the second half and by 10 with 10 minutes to play. Somehow, they wilted down the stretch, even though Ole Miss never went on a particularly impressive run. With the game tied at 59 and less than a minute to play, Phil Pressey, whose late-game failures have been well chronicled, knocked down an open three from the top of the key to give the Tigers the lead. Derrick Millinghaus then tied the game with a three of his own with 31 seconds remaining. Missouri called timeout, and against the Ole Miss press, Laurence Bowers made an inexplicable pass towards no one in particular at mid-court, and Marshall Henderson got the ball. After a timeout, Millinghaus hit a jumper with 1.1 seconds remaining to give the Rebels the win.
- Millinghaus to the Rescue. Early in the second half, Ole Miss point guard Jarvis Summers suffered an apparent concussion and was lost for the game. Rebels head coach Andy Kennedy turned to his backup, whom he referred to after the game as a "spot" player, and Millinghaus answered the call. In addition to knocking down the game-tying and game-winning shots, he didn't turn the ball over, and played solid defense on Pressey. Without him, the Rebels would be going home. Now, to move on, they'll need another strong performance from Millinghaus against Vanderbilt, as it's unlikely Summers will be able to make a quick turnaround for tomorrow's semifinal. The diminutive freshman from New York stepped up in his team's most important game of the season and at a time when it needed him most.
- Did Ole Miss Seal the Deal? For most of the game, it looked like the Rebels would make yet another trip to the NIT, where they've been five of the past six years. Now, with another quality win on their resume – and their second over Missouri – a NCAA Tournament berth may be in the offing. Kennedy is convinced that his team has done enough. "No team in a BCS league has ever won 24 games and not made the NCAA Tournament," he said. The Rebels will be favored to advance to the championship game, and if they do, it's reasonable to assume that they'll punch their ticket to the Big Dance, especially given the failures of so many other teams who came into the week sitting on the bubble. Even without a win over Vanderbilt tomorrow, Kennedy's team's chances to make the Big Dance drastically improved with this quality win, and the relief Kennedy felt after the game was evident in his mood.
Star of the Game. Derrick Millinghaus. While Henderson scored a game-high 27 points, Ole Miss doesn't win this game without Millinghaus' heroic play. Tournament play often brings out the best in players in situations such as the one Ole Miss faced with Summers' injury, and that was the case on Friday night.
Sights and Sounds. After Kentucky filled Bridgestone Arena in the first game of the session, a letdown was to be expected for this game. But both teams had more fans that anticipated, and both sections were loud. In a league filled with apathetic fan bases, Missouri is a welcome addition, and the Tigers' contingent trailed only those of Kentucky and Tennessee in terms of size. Henderson's taunting of the Missouri section late in the game got it particularly riled up.
Wildcard. For all that he does well – and no one could argue that Ole Miss would be in the position it's in without him – Henderson's antics are borderline unacceptable. His facial expressions and repeated willingness to direct this taunts at opposing benches needs to stop. Fortunately, it's not something we have seen a lot of in college basketball, and hopefully, it will go away when he does.
Quotable. "I know the NCAA Tournament doesn't officially start until next Thursday, but that was an NCAA Tournament game between two NCAA Tournament teams." – Andy Kennedy.
What's next. The Rebels face Vanderbilt at 2:30 CDT tomorrow in the second semifinal. The Commodores will be looking to avenge an earlier season loss to the Rebels. Given the way Vanderbilt is playing, a Commodore victory would not come as a surprise.


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Recent visits to the Pixel Revolution digital art exhibit at the Cultural Center have inspired me to experiment with some digital art paintings of my own. These are a few samples of recent creations. If you would like to see more of my digital paintings, visit http://hobbithousestudio.com/gallery.htm or stop by Hobbit House Studio at 1 Wonson Street (behind Sailor Stan's). If you haven't yet seen Pixel Revolution, you can still stop by the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck and see it through June 1.
There is debate within the art world as to the validity of digital art as a fine art form, not unlike the debate that raged until not that long ago over the validity of photography as a fine art form.
"As we become a society increasingly engulfed in computer technology, there seem to be changes in the art world, specifically in regards to digitalization. Since the 1970s, art produced digitally has risen into the fine arts realm. For example, as opposed to manual photography which catches chemical changes on film, digital photography uses electronic sensors that record the desired image as electronic data. A major advantage of digital photography is the ability to manipulate the image using computer programs and software. Many different effects can be utilized, increasing the tools the artist has to express their vision. Aside from digital photography, digital art contains multiple other forms, such as photo painting, digital collage, integrated digital art, virtual reality, hologram, fractals, and more.
Should these computerized and mechanical processes be considered art? A painter must learn to control the brush with paint, and a digital artist must master the technology needed to produce an image. Technology is used by the artist to show emotion and intent to the viewer rather than just data processing. It seems strange that there are debates about digital art's validity as an art form when there are so many similarities between using a paintbrush as a tool and a computer.
To get some insight, let's look at another art form that was criticized when it first emerged.
Photography as an art form has long been debated. Like digital art, many thought that photography was a purely mechanical process. Along the way, photographers came together to fight for respect in the art world. In 1902 Alfred Stieglitz formed a group known as the PhotoSecession, which hosted exhibitons, created publications, and advocated for photography to be recognized as a fine art. Its magazine, Camera Works, was extremely influential in showing how photography could be used to create artworks of quality artistic vision.
It was not until 1910 at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York that the first photography collection was put on show in a museum. Even after, photography was constantly subjected to criticism. In 1955 the MoMA displayed an important photography exhibit which allegedly proved photography as a form of fine art. The first major exhibition of photography, The Fmaily of Man exhibited over 500 photographs by 273 artists from around the world. After this exhibit, photography began to flourish in the art world. Just as photography had a difficult time as a new art form, digital art is now being challenged." http://nbmaa.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/digital-art-the-skeptics-and-the-supporters/
I personally believe digital tools give artists more freedom to express themselves, and that the time and effort required to master these tools and techniques is as great as it is to master traditional art tools and techniques. I have spent 15 years learning to master Photoshop, and I still don't consider myself a master at it. I also believe that had the great painting masters of bygone days had access to the technological tools available to artists today, they most certainly would have used them. Just imagine what Leonardo da Vinci would have created with Photoshop!
The debate still rages over Johannes Vermeer's use of the camera obscura (the cutting edge technology of his time) in the creation of his works.
"Certain aspects of Johannes Vermeer's paintings which are seldom if ever seen in the work of other artists of the time have puzzled art historians ever since the artist's rediscovery in the mid-1860s. Even before the turn of the century, one critic suspected that such anomalies were not merely stylistic quirks, but evidence that Vermeer had used some sort of mechanical device fitted with lens or mirrors. After decades of protracted debate, the art history community has come to believe that the device was the camera obscura.
From an optical standpoint, the camera obscura is a simple device which requires only a converging lens and a viewing screen at opposite ends of a darkened chamber or box. It is essentially a photographic camera without the light-sensitive film or plate. Only in size and decoration has it changed since the 16th century." http://www.essentialvermeer.com/camera_obscura/co_one.html#.U4Xyb_ldXDU
I am curious to know what people out there think about digital art and its validity as a fine art form. What say ye – yea or nay?
Thanks Otto Laske for sending me off on this creative journey and Charlie Carroll for tipping me off to Vermeer's use of technology.
Visit http://museumofdigitalfinearts.wordpress.com/ to see collections of digital works of some of the most brilliant new artists of the modern age.
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