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This is no longer a "win us back" Red Sox team unlike many we've seen of late. This is, like all the others, a "win it all" Red Sox team.
Boston's pre-break trip on the West Coast did not lack for adversity. They lost key reliever Andrew Miller to an apparently season-ending foot injury, then lost a game they led by four runs with two outs in the ninth inning. They faced three straight All-Star starters. They went to Oakland, where the Sox had just seven wins in their prior 30 games.
Yet the 2013 squad did what they've done. They found a way.
The collapse in Anaheim was the first of three straight losses, but Boston won games in Seattle allowing eight and seven runs, respectively. (Teams allowing at least seven this season lose, by the numbers, 90 percent of the time.) They eked one out against the A's on just six hits thanks to a rejuvenated John Lackey and a late-inning combo of Andrew Bailey and Koji Uehara. Because that seemed likely this winter.
They could have won the series, but lost a game in which Brandon Workman threw six no-hit innings. Given Steven Wright and Craig Breslow had already backboned wins, I guess that would have been asking a lot of the baseball gods.
Ultimately, a potential death march ended up 5-5. Their AL East lead shrank just two games to 2.5 — no small feat, given Tampa's won 14 of 16. The Sox maintained their position. And what a position they're in.
They win 32 of their final 65, starting tonight in the Yankees' first 2013 appearance at Fenway, they get to 90 wins — not good enough for the second wild card in last year's AL, but often good enough. They split their remaining 31 road games and win two-thirds of the 34 at home, that's 96 wins — without question a ticket to October baseball.
Online sports book Bovada has the payout on a bet the Red Sox won't make the playoffs at 4-to-1. (The Yankees making it pays 3-to-1. What a wonderful world.) That, of course, guarantees nothing. With 65 to play in a packed AL, Boston's just 4.5 games clear of Baltimore, the current "first team out." That would barely count as a collapse.
Especially not when we look at the dance it's taken to get here. Six third basemen. Four left fielders. Three closers. Their 25-man roster has had 43 names on it. The bottom six spots on their 40-man roster have all changed hands since the second week of May, some multiple times.
It's July. Not even late July.
And that's before even mentioning the rotating cavalcade of saviors hinted at by that Workman-Wright-Breslow triumvirate above. The Sox went 14-3 in starts by either Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz through May 15. Since that date, they've been replaced by John Lackey and Felix Doubront — 2.50 ERA between them, more than six innings per start.
Mike Napoli's still living off his 27-RBI April, but fact is he's been a .245 hitter with mediocre power since the beginning of May. No matter: David Ortiz picked him up. Daniel Nava picked him up. Dustin Pedroia picked him up. Jacoby Ellsbury picked him up. One of the league's best offenses. Again. As always.
Uehara came here as a guy whom the Sox didn't want pitching back-to-back nights. He's closing, and leads the team in relief innings. The eight walk-off wins in 47 home games? Four sprouted from blown saves. How's that for making it work?
"In the dugout there's a lot of positive energy," manager John Farrell told reporters last week. "As long as we're close late, we feel like we've got a push late in the game seemingly every night and some way we'll find a way to put something together."
Mike Carp, .303 hitter. Jose Iglesias, infield wizard with the bat (he beat out another grounder while I was typing) and glove. Remember the UZR measure of defense from a couple winters ago? It says Shane Victorino's the best outfielder in baseball. And the list goes on and on.
We knew they would be likable. I don't think many imagined they'd also be this good. Which, in a way, creates a problem. Those aforementioned odds have the 2013 Red Sox as 9-to-1 to win the World Series. They're No. 2 in the AL, behind Detroit and just ahead of Oakland, to win the pennant.
This is no longer a "win us back" Red Sox team unlike many we've seen of late. This is, like all the others, a "win it all" Red Sox team. Expectations, and the mixed bag they bring.
I type with tongue at least partially in cheek, but these things matter when looking at stuff like the July 31 trade deadline. To me, getting Matt Thornton to essentially replace Andrew Miller is about all they need to do. Spend on volatile relief? Add another bat? Find a big name to fill the lengthening absence of Clay Buchholz. Only if it works in the long term. (Like, say, trading someone in that left-side logjam. Iglesias leaps to mind, for one.)
The prospects are still maturing. The long-term plan still matters. And most importantly, this team is clearly good enough to get to October as is. With the 10-team postseasons of today, anything beyond just getting in is more about luck than ever.
There'll be no easing back in to things starting tonight: In come the Yankees, then four against the hot Rays, then three in Baltimore. NL West-leading Arizona to start August, then the Yankees again before a swing through San Francisco and Los Angeles at month's end.
More than three-quarters of the roster showed up for a voluntary workout at Fenway on Thursday. We'd expect nothing less, the feel-good story, the team we can be proud of.
"Last year in my mind was an anomalous year," principal owner John Henry said on WEEI radio. "People seem to be surprised that we are in first place and that we are a decent team. "� When you have a bad year, (people) assume that it's going to continue."
From continually scraping the bottom night after night to scraping at the top of the standings again. Whatever the next 65 games hold, I can only hope we don't lose just how dramatic the transformation has been.
Jon Couture covers the Red Sox for The Standard-Times. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com, or through 'Better Red Than Dead' at Blogs.SouthCoastToday.com/red-sox/


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StringScanner provides for lexical scanning operations on a String. Here is an example of its usage:
s = StringScanner.new('This is an example string') s.eos? # -> false p s.scan(/\w+/) # -> "This" p s.scan(/\w+/) # -> nil p s.scan(/\s+/) # -> " " p s.scan(/\s+/) # -> nil p s.scan(/\w+/) # -> "is" s.eos? # -> false p s.scan(/\s+/) # -> " " p s.scan(/\w+/) # -> "an" p s.scan(/\s+/) # -> " " p s.scan(/\w+/) # -> "example" p s.scan(/\s+/) # -> " " p s.scan(/\w+/) # -> "string" s.eos? # -> true p s.scan(/\s+/) # -> nil p s.scan(/\w+/) # -> nil
Scanning a string means remembering the position of a scan pointer, which is just an index. The point of scanning is to move forward a bit at a time, so matches are sought after the scan pointer; usually immediately after it.
Given the string "test string", here are the pertinent scan pointer positions:
t e s t s t r i n g 0 1 2 ... 1 0
When you #scan for a pattern (a regular expression), the match must occur at the character after the scan pointer. If you use #scan_until, then the match can occur anywhere after the scan pointer. In both cases, the scan pointer moves just beyond the last character of the match, ready to scan again from the next character onwards. This is demonstrated by the example above.
Method Categories
There are other methods besides the plain scanners. You can look ahead in the string without actually scanning. You can access the most recent match. You can modify the string being scanned, reset or terminate the scanner, find out or change the position of the scan pointer, skip ahead, and so on.
Advancing the Scan Pointer
Looking Ahead
Finding Where we Are
#beginning_of_line? (#bol?)
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There are aliases to several of the methods.
Require 'strscan'
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Colorblock Grid
Kids count themselves in colorblock grids. These segments appeared as early as seasons 24 and 25, and feature the same cast from the "Floating Kids" segments.
Computer Matching
A series of films where a girl plays a matching game to find the number of the day on the computer.
Cooking by the Numbers
A miniseries of number films starring Ruth Buzzi as Chef Rutheé, a wacky cook who makes recipes in fun and silly ways. She is very self-conscious, as her name is often prone to the narrator's mispronunciation of "Chef Ruthie," and sharply insists she be called "Chef Ruth–AY."
Counting Animals
Dancing Petroglyphs
Dancing with Kids
Martin P. Robinson counts flowers in different voices. The segments debuted in Season 34.
Growing Numbers
A series of stop-motion animated segments produced by Jane Aaron, featuring ornate cutouts of the numbers 1 through 20 growing from (and receding into) the surface in a variety of park and city scenes. The segments appeared by Season 23 at earliest.
The various installations in the series differ chiefly by the amount of film being shown.
Hortense is a series of counting animations where Hortense encounters things to count to the number of that day. No segment for the number 2 was made.
Jane Aaron Segments
An assortment of live-action segments created by Jane Aaron, featuring ornate numbers on outdoor locations, becoming animated usually through the use of "pixellation" effects. Several segments featured brief rock jingles written by Christopher Cerf,[1]while others simply showed the number (attached to a metal rod) swinging across the screen.
Kid Mural Painting
A series of films where kids paint a huge mural of the number of the day on a huge sheet of paper in time lapse form at a park. In between, the kids show the number of the day either on their hands or feet.
Marching Band
Masked March
Animated creatures donning ancient masks walk across the screen carrying numbers 1-20. Produced in Season 26, the music featured is the composition "Parade of Numbers" arranged by Ken Field, and performed by The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble.[2] Called "Parade of Numbers" on the Sesame Street Video Player.
Milo Counting
A series of segments where a man (Milo Motola) in an outdoor scene holds and presents sequential numbers from 1 to up to 13. The respective scenes for each number use "pixellation" effects, with the man often taking part in improbable activities such as emerging from a lake or sliding across a field. The segments were produced in 1996 by Ken Brown and Lisa Crafts. Caleb Sampson composed the score for each segment.
Number Astronauts
Number Creatures
An Emmy-award winning series of computer animated segments featuring stylized numbers ending from 13 to 20. The segments were written, directed and animated by Merrill Aldighieri, and were produced for CTW by Arlene Sherman. The music for the segments was composed by Fred Reed.
Number Heroes
Numbers in Outer Space
OK, We Got a Hip-Hop Beat
Race Horses
Rap Animation
A series of recurring cartoons in which various collections of objects such as shapes, cookies, fingers, and units of time are totaled, narrated by a child's hip-hop lyrics describing and rhyming the items at hand. These were produced by Al Jarnow and appeared as early as Season 20.
Rubber Stamp
Filmmaker and stamp designer Ken Brown produced a series where numbers interact with stamped images. They first appeared in Season 23.
Sally Cruikshank Animated Segments
Salty and Pierre
Salty and Pierre, a salt shaker and pepper shaker have adventures by looking for the number of the day. The segments were animated by Magnetic Dreams Animation Studio.
Skip Counting Songs With Kids
Live-action stop-motion animated girls skip count stuff by different numbers. The series is created by Christopher Cerf and debuted in Season 35 (2004).
Swedish Number Cartoons
- ↑ BMI Works #1878129, 1878128, 1881488, 1881536
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SAN DIEGO -- Catcher Rene Rivera made his seventh start of the season Friday against the Giants, which ties him for the team lead with Yasmani Grandal.
Rivera impressed the team with how he worked with pitchers during a 23-game stint with the team a year ago and has done so again during this young season.
Why do pitchers like throwing to Rivera so well?
"I really don't have that answer," Rivera said. "I think they like the way I play my games and that I give 100 percent. Maybe they have a trust in me, how I go about my business, trying to help them.
"It's a good thing. It's a good place to be when all the guys like you and trust you and they like the work you do behind the plate. Hopefully, I can just keep doing what I'm doing."
Pitcher Robbie Erlin had Rivera behind the plate during his victory in Cleveland on April 9. He said that Rivera had a knack of making him feel at ease throughout that start where Erlin allowed one run in six innings with six strikeouts in a victory.
"He really works for the pitchers, you know he's doing everything he can to help you. From a pitchers' standpoint, you get a comfortable level from that, you know it's you two versus the opposition," Erlin said. "He calls a good game, too.
"You know that he's doing everything he can for you, getting you to throw that right pitch, helping you execute it and just making you comfortable so you can do the best job possible."
Rivera has caught all three of Andrew Cashner's starts this season, including his one-hit shutout of the Tigers on April 11.
"I think all our catchers do a great job," said Padres manager Bud Black. "With Rene, he does a nice job instilling confidence in our pitchers, he has a nice rapport with them."


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DULTUH, MN—Earlier this week, the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) broke ground on a $13 million Sports and Health Center addition to benefit the school's 10,000 students and to draw in more recruits.
The state gave a reported $8.7 million, backed by $4.3 million from the university to build and equip a two-level addition to the current UMD Sports and Health Center. The funds will help the university to better meet the needs of the Recreational Sports Outdoor Program and Intercollegiate Athletics. The facility will include fitness and conditioning space, multi-purpose recreational space and office space for the Recreational Sports Outdoor Program. More than 90 percent of the school's students participate in the program, and more than 430 students are involved in varsity athletics.
The need for the new facility originated with a petition signed by students who were dissatisfied with the problem of access to the recreation programs and facilities. In April 2002, students voted to fund one-third of the project cost through student fees. Bids have been let and are due May 17. Construction on the addition will begin in mid-June with completion slated for October 2006.


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- Receive and act upon building permit applications for all of the construction trades
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For many developers, the words "fun" and "programming" aren't often used in the same sentence. But that's about to change if you are programming an iPhone app using Zimusoft's DragonFireSDK, a 2010 Jolt Productivity Award winner in the Mobile and Web Development category.
From installation all the way to my first app, the experience was both fun and straightforward. Up until recently, iPhone development required a Mac. DragonFireSDK opens up a great opportunity for PC developers to get in the game.
The SDK installs seamlessly as a plug-in to VisualStudio and gives an iPhone simulator to immediately see and test your app. What's more, since apps can be written in C or C++, there is no need to learn Objective-C. There are a number of sample applications included which are remarkably easy to follow and emulate. The help documentation is also very well done and answered any questions I had which could not be answered by referencing the sample code. Zimusoft makes the testing process a breeze by providing a website to upload apps, and receive a set of files which are then copied into iTunes and synced with your iPhone or iPod touch.
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You Don't Have to Write Code to Be Part of the Developer CommunitySendGrid Team
I meet a lot of people, from all over the planet. I've met an especially large and diverse group of people over the last 3+ years, within my role at SendGrid. Most people I meet are operating within a world similar to mine, professionally speaking: think startups, tech, [insert geeky buzzword here], etc. I'm not a developer, yet time and again people assume I am. And they assume that you have to be able, to code to be part of a developer community.
Most conversations begin something like this:
Other person: "What do you do?"
Me: "I lead a team of Developer Evangelists. We're crafting a global community of developers, by helping them make the internet a better place for all."
Other person: "Cool. So, are you a developer?"
Putting myself in Other person's shoes, I guess it's easy to feel safe in making that assumption. After all, SendGrid is a technical solution to a technical problem. Our founders are developers, our customers are developers, and our community is largely composed of developers. I'm surrounded by developers!
Fact: I am not a developer.
Have I attended more hackathons than most developers? Probably.
Have I written code before? Yes, but not much.
Have I built an app? Kinda, but not really.
Do I want to learn? YES!
If you can relate, then this post is for you. Especially, if, in light of knowing what I do for a living, you're itching to ask these questions:
As a non-developer, how do you…
- fit into the developer community?
- hire and manage a team of developers?
- work with [predominantly] developers on a daily basis?
- not feel like a complete idiot at all times?
…and how do you do all this effectively and with success?
It's pretty easy to be an equal member of the developer community, if you keep some simple ideas in mind.
Be you
Don't pretend to be anything that you're not. Whether you've never written code and have no desire to, or you're a dedicated, novice student of the craft, present yourself to other community members as such. Don't overstate your experience or your level of interest in gaining said experience, just in the interest of winning over a new developer friend. A developer won't shun you for lacking experience or interest in programming. Heck, she might even want to learn more about your "other" experiences and interests.
Know your role
Once you know who you are, you can determine where you fit among your fellow community members. As you meet people, try to gauge where you fall within the spectrums of experience and passion. As you learn more from those people, identify your own personal areas of interest and explore them. Get an idea of what pushes your buttons, and what's not so cool in your book. As you follow your own path, you'll figure out where you fit within the broader community landscape.
Provide Value
After you've introduced yourself to the community and reached an understanding of how you fit into the puzzle, you should be well-equipped to jump in as a fully participative member of the community. You'll see ways in which your individual contribution can add meaningful value to the collective good of the community at large. As cliché as it may sound, each community member brings to the table a unique perspective and personalized input. And a strong community is characterized in part, by the collaborative intersection of these diverse and unique personalities, perspectives, and actions.
Developers are humans, too
The average developer could be described in the following way: one who has gained proficiency in a language that allows him to communicate intelligently with computers.
Somehow, that simple (and accurate) description has turned into something more complicated (and inaccurate), like this: one who has had bestowed upon her magical powers, making her capable of manipulating the internets, to follow her every command.
Developers have a highly demanded skill. But the fact of the matter is that almost anyone can learn to code, if they so choose. On the other hand, each of us non-developers has a skill of our own – some more and some less highly demanded than coding. Whatever it is that you do well, embrace it, do it, and share it with others. But don't think that you or anyone else is above or below a certain standard, because of that thing that you or they have learned and decided to sell.
Developers are not unicorns. Unicorns are unicorns… silly.
Being part of a community is awesome. That's why communities exist. That's why so many of us consider ourselves members of so many different communities. If you are looking at the developer community from the outside, and want to see it from the inside, be a part of it. If it's not for you, you'll find another. If it is for you, you're in for a fun experience.
#Protip: These ideas can be applied to almost any setting – not just the developer community. It's not rocket science, by any means, but sometimes just thinking about the simple concepts helps us be better members of communities, societies, and civilizations.
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It might have taken more than 60 years, but the price of cannoli at Mike�s Pastry is a mystery no more.
Mike�s, an institution in Boston�s North End, has been attracting tourists and locals alike for decades. The cash-only bakery had held fast to a policy of not posting any prices, but now, a few pieces of plain paper visible over the counter list the different cannoli prices � not all cannoli are created equal � and the prices of some other items.
Mike�s General Manager Angelo Papa says posting the prices has been a benefit for customers and the shop. Now, he says, �My customers, when they�re waiting in line, have their money ready.� And, he adds, they can see prices for items that they might not have realized were for sale in the frequently crowded bakery.
Generally speaking, it�s a good idea to know how much something costs before you buy it. And, thankfully, the number of places engaging in this sort of surprise-the-consumer game appears to be dwindling.
Readers are irked about several different types of establishment that still keep you guessing � most notably restaurants. Why is it that they can get away with a drink menu devoid of prices? Or list �market price� for fish or shellfish and leave you wondering if you�re going to be dropping $20 or $50 when you order?
You could just ask. But that puts the burden on the consumer and some people like to quietly contemplate what they want to spend.
�Market prices are listed as such due to the continual fluctuation in prices of certain species and the cost involved in printing menus,� explained Massachusetts Restaurant Association president Peter Christie.
�Drink prices are often not listed due to the huge variables involving brands, costs and preferences.�
Barbara Anthony, who heads the state�s Consumer Affairs Office, said there is no specific law that addresses restaurant pricing. She acknowledges that can lead to frustration for consumers, but suggested using your consumer power to express your displeasure.
�There are some restaurants where there are no prices on the menu,� she said. �I don�t go to those restaurants.�
While she isn�t advocating for a new law, she said that informing customers of how much items cost before they buy is the right way to do business.
�The idea,� she said, �that you buy something and you don�t know the price is a totally alien concept to me as a consumer and as someone in consumer protection.�


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As the February/March issue of the Liberty Journal, Liberty University's bimonthly news, events and features magazine, hits homes this week, readers can also read stories on the new online version that debuted today. In addition to stories and photographs from the print publication, the redesigned site includes Web Exclusives (feature stories about the LU community) and archives of all past issues.
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Eliza's birthday is Feburary 13th. She was best Valentine's Day gift ever - our little pink bundle who's grown up to give us love notes right and left all year long. She's everything anyone could want in a little girl - sweet, smart, pretty, dramatic, determined, emotional, artistic, and athletic with a love for beauty and adventure.
Hard to believe that sweet pink bundle is now NINE years old.
Seems like yesterday she looked like this - and talked my ear off in her cute little voice every waking minute.
|first day of preschool
|preschool graduation
|Starting Kindergarten
Eliza really wanted to learn to ski. But it was way harder than she thought it would be. Her skis were going every which way and she was so frustrated. As she tearfully fell for about the 20th time on the bunny hill, I told her she really could quit if she wanted to. For Eliza, saying she can quit is pretty much like triple dog daring her not to. She wiped her eyes and said "Nope. I can do this." She got her mind around what was going on, really looked at what other people were doing, made some great observations about what seemed to be working, and resolved to be a skiier for real. Within an hour, she was riding up the big lift and making it down the easy run, unhappy with any suggestions Jared or I might give her but excited to tell us about tips she received from kind strangers who helped her up when she fell and wasn't near us (and she preferred us to keep our distance). But the end of the day, she was triumphantly skiing down that hill with very few falls and pretty decent form. Eliza is one determined little girl.
Eliza's a good reader but usually picks pretty simple books. When we saw part of Anne of Green Gables at a party earlier this year, I challenged Eliza to read that whole book and told her I'd take her out for a special book club date to discuss the book and we'd watch the movie together once she finished the whole unabridged book. It was a bit of a challenge for her, but she finished it and we had so much fun at our first "Mother-Daughter Book Club Meeting." We went to a favorite restaurant and Eliza had a whole list of great questions ready for us to discuss about the book - plus she showed me how she'd written out her favorite things about the book inside the front cover so she could give it to her daughter some day. It was so fun to have a real discussion on a somewhat deep level with my own little daughter. We're excited to read another book together and do this again soon!
Every year since her 4th birthday, Eliza has had a tea party for her birthday. Sure, it started off with a little influence from me since I grew up going to tea parties in England and thought they were pretty cool - but she's taken tea parties to many new levels with her ideas. Sometimes they are princess tea parties. One time it was a pajama tea party. Often she insists on dancing at the close of the tea party. Sometimes young men are invited to the tea party. Last year she didn't want boys there so one of her brothers dressed up as a girl so he could come (check out her 8th birthday tea party photos and see if you can find the imposter). Always her brothers eat as many cucumber sandwiches as they can get their hands on whether they're invited or not. Always there are heart-shaped cookies to be decorated by one and all before the end of the party.
|4th birthday tea party
|Eliza insisted that all the boys dance with all the girls at the close of this tea party -
and everyone thought that was a great idea - they were so cute!
|5th birthday tea party
|6th birthday tea party (she wanted a pajama tea party...)
|7 years old - teeth lost, favorite doll Tasha
|7th birthday tea party
|8th birthday tea party (can you find the imposter?)
|dancing at 8th birthday - Eliza insisted on dancing after tea
Then after school, she had her traditional tea party. She only invited a few friends since it's her off year for birthday parties (we just do bigger parties every other year). It was such a perfect sized group and these little girls were so fun to listen to when they somehow instinctively started speaking with British accents as they very politely asked each other about their lives and passed the little tea sandwiches around. The other girls all called her "Princess Eliza" and she called them all "my lady" and it was all very cute. I love seeing little girls be little girls acting like little ladies rather than seeing little girls trying to act like teenagers.
|Ready to welcome her tea party guests in her new birthday dress
|decorating heart-shaped cookies
|and another cookie-decorating time and candle-blowing time with her brothers before bedtime


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Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome, welkomEdit
Welcome to the Vim Tips wiki! We hope you can help improve the articles by fixing typos, adding comments (at the bottom of each tip page), rewriting tips, joining in discussions, or making any other improvements.
Be sure to visit the community portal for information about our site, with links to how to pages.
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Hi Arnar. Thanks for your new tip. I'm impressed how you have absorbed our conventions, and even inserted a {{Todo}}. In a week we'll start discussing the May new tips, and would welcome your thoughts.
Regarding your todo: Why don't you add a couple of lines with an example of exactly what you mean (I don't follow the conditions under which the script sees empty/zero values – what did you just do? what code did the script execute?). If you subscribe to the vim_use mailing list, you would probably get a good response from posting there. Or, if you like and you post an example, I could ask.
You might like to create your user page (can be very simple, perhaps just say how long you've used Vim – see Special:Listusers for some ideas). You are welcome to put any to-do or other notes related to Vim or the wiki under your user page. --JohnBeckett 09:02, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! Edit
Thanks for the welcome John :)
I'll add a clarification to the TODO and we'll take from there. I can post on the ML if we need more help.
cheers Arnar 11:10, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Good - after your edits, I see what you mean about the problem. Your workaround looks ok, but I'll think more about it later. --JohnBeckett 03:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


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Four years ago, then 11-year-old Emma Rose Shapiro came up with a bold idea. She was sorting through her Halloween costumes from years past and decided to create an organization that gave kids an opportunity to donate their old costumes to kids who aren't as fortunate. And The Halloween Helpers was born.
Through The Halloween Helpers, Emma enlists the help of children who outgrow or no longer want their old costumes and asks them to share these costumes with kids who would not typically receive them. In doing so, she not only helps out kids in need, but she raises awareness among her peers that there are children who cannot afford to participate in Halloween.
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More green kids stories on MNN:
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So this is pretty stupid but here goes: every day I went to work last year, I took a photo right when I made the big turn east into downtown Chicago on the Kennedy express lane, and made a movie out of it.
If it gets tedious, skip to the end.
I'm practicing being a bad editor with my Final Cut Express 4.
First I cut it with some song I had in my iTunes, but I found out that's illegal to put on You Tube.
So I scoured the web for someplace that had free royalty-free music, and finally found PublicDomain2Ten. And when I went there right on the front page they had "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" - I have to think the original version of it.
The singer is a guy named Ed Meeker, and he recorded at Edison Recordings (was Thomas a sound engineer too?).
Oh yeah, what reeeeaaaaally caught my eye?
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I get these pics from Hinckley over at Eurobricks, who attended the convention. I don't believe he has an account here, though, but if he does please close this and let him open a topic. I just had to share this with you guys.
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Here's a teaser pic and here's the whole gallery.
It's truly fantastic. Thanks for the pics and information, Hinckley!


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Feb. 14 /CSRwire/ - NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2007--With two newly launched international funds, Domini Social Investments continues to provide new ways for U.S. investors to make their voices heard around the world.
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of its investment products: the promotion of a society that values human dignity and the enrichment of our natural environment. Domini views these twin goals as crucial to a healthier, wealthier, and more sustainable world.
* Based on total returns for the 12-month period ending 12/31/06 of mutual funds included by Morningstar in the Europe Stock category, the Domini European Social Equity Fund was in the 9th percentile, ranking #8 out of 98 funds. All higher-ranking funds pursue investment strategies focused on small companies, emerging markets, or single
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Sesame chicken is one of the popular Chinese-American food sold in any Chinese restaurant in States.It's doesn't matter what type of ethnicity you are ,if you live in States I'm sure you have taste this food most of the time.Frankly speaking,making sesame chicken at home required little more work.So to make life easier,most people just place their order from the Chinese restaurant.Anyway ,I seldom buy sesame chicken from the restaurant.I prefer to make sesame chicken at home because I can tweak my desire taste.Or may be it's another way to avoid MSG intake since I cook the food myself..
4 pieces boneless chicken breast,about 2 lbs,cut chunk
1 tbsp salt
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp ground black pepper
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/4 rice flour
1 cup oil for frying
2 tbsp hoisin sauce
1 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tbsp Chinese rice wine
1/2 cup sugar
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp minced garlic
2 tbsp sambal olek(spicy chili sauce)
1/4 cup water
2 tbsp corn flour+4 tbsp cold water(to thicken the sauce)
1/2 lb asparagus
1:Mix ingredients (A) in a medium bowl ,season for 2 hours or longer.Heat oil in fryer or skillet at medium heat 350F.Combine rice and all purpose flour together in a shallow bowl.Coat seasoned chicken with flour mixture,shake the excess flour before toss in the fryer.Fry until golden brown,dish out and set aside.
2:Wash and cut asparagus about 3 inch each,microwave for 2-3 minutes at high or steam until soft,dish out and run under cold water.
3:Prepare skillet with 2 tbsp oil at medium heat.Add in garlic,fry for 30 seconds before add in all ingredients,mix well.Check the seasoning.
4:Toss in fried breaded chicken chunk and steamed asparagus into the sauce,mix well with spatula.Continue Here To Read More..


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esanghe necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 101 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
Be the OAK Foundation, Inc. - BeTheOAK.com
Be The OAK Foundation is a newly formed organization inspired by recent fathering experiences of a nuclear family (father of 3, marrying a mother of 3, with 1 shared child) coming together with GrandMa & Step-GrandPa to help a grandchild find her way back to the right track & stay on it.
Mission Statement
The Mission of BE The OAK Foundation Inc. is to unlock the potential of all fathers (starting with Orange County & Palm Beach County, FL). We are committed to helping them build and sustain healthy relationships with their children by helping to create Positive Life Long Memories for them to share.
Vision Statement
Our vision is to Organize an Army for our Kids by enlisting the fathers OF Orange County who are committed to improving the quality of life for themselves and for their children. Be the Oak Foundation INC seeks to join forces with fathers by providing opportunities and the use of resources that have traditionally been underutilized in our community. It is our wish that through our services and programs, fathers will acquire the parenting skills and community support that is sometimes necessary to BE THE OAK for their children, BE THE OAK for their communities and eventually BE THE OAK for the world.
Our target audience is any father (age, race or ethnicity) open to strengthening their parenting skills and improving relationships with their children and families.
- From expecting fathers, to mature grandfathers
- From paternal fathers to adopted fathers to mentoring fathers
We will start with greatest need - by reaching out to fathers in prison and fathers with children touching juvenile justice
PS... We love mothers too - We just father to nurturing as well!
Only requirement - Vector Format
Feel free to suggest colors, symbols, imagery...
The goal is that "BeTheOAK" (a challenge & command... an ACTION!) be communicated. Our Tagline is: "Just as an OAK Tree is viewed as a symbol of strength… So should a father who is firmly rooted in the lives of his children."
Aside: This our first project as we explore 99designs as a potential long-term partner for all our graphic needs (BeTheOAK is a client).
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