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Beat the Streak Report: Thursday, April 14
After a day on which two of your top three picks didn't play and the other (Raul Ibanez) went hitless, we'd normally look to the future.
But today — for the first time ever — we're throwing the BTS Report time machine in reverse.
Dim the lights and cue the music, it's time for Streak of the Week!
In this new whenever-we-feel-like-it-but-probably-not-more-than-once-per-week feature, we'll regale you with lore and minutia from streaks and streakers past.
Today's hero: Benito Santiago
The streak: 34 games, Aug. 25, 1987-Oct. 2, 1987
Stats: .346 (47-for-136), 5 HR, 19 RBIs
Fun facts*: Longest hitting streak by a catcher. … Longest hitting streak by a rookie. … Recorded three hits during streak while batting from his knees. … Also set record by converting 134 consecutive Top Gun-style high fives with Garry Templeton. … Extended streak to 11 games Sept. 5 while wearing his pants on backward. … Ate fish tacos prior to streak-ending Sept. 2 game. Has not eaten fish tacos since.
*Mostly not even close to true.
Welp, hopefully that was an educational trip down memory lane for everyone. Until next week (maybe) …
Thursday's picks
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Oh, hello there …
• Chipper Jones: .464 AVG (13-for-28) since '06 vs. Marlins starter Ricky Nolasco
• Joe Mauer: .444 AVG (8-for-18) since '06 vs. Rays starter James Shields
• B.J. Upton: .500 AVG (7-for-14) since '06 vs. Twins starter Carl Pavano
• Matt Holliday: .400 AVG (8-for-20) since '06 vs. Dodgers starter Hiroki Kuroda
• Luke Scott: .538 AVG (7-for-13) since '06 vs. Yankees starter Phil Hughes
• Jason Kubel: .538 AVG (8-for-17) since '06 vs. Rays starter James Shields
Yes, Kubel has gone from spicy to hello there in less than 24 hours. Arbitrary!
Feeling kinda spicy?
• Ronny Cedeno: .500 AVG (9-for-19) since '06 vs. Brewers starter Randy Wolf
• Matt Diaz: .438 AVG (7-for-16) since '06 vs. Brewers starter Randy Wolf
You'll thank me later …
• Prince Fielder: .071 AVG (3-for-42) since '06 vs. Pirates starter Paul Maholm
• Denard Span: .063 AVG (1-for-16) since '06 vs. Rays starter James Shields
• Albert Pujols: .111 AVG (1-for-9) since '06 vs. Dodgers starter Hiroki Kuroda
Leaderboard time!
Weren't like 60 of you perfect two days ago? Fifteen Streakers remain at a somewhat impressive 14-for-14 on the season.
Top MLB streakers
Andre Ethier: 10 games
Jose Reyes: 10 games
Willie Bloomquist: 9 games
Orlando Hudson: 9 games
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Early lock today peeps. Mets/Rocks doubledip starts at 12EST.
A minor quibble, but that would be 12 EDT!
My bad, sorry.
Going with Braun today. He hits Maholm well and he hits really well against Pitt, especially in Pitt. GL everyone!
Braun is my pick too.
I went with Orlando Hudson of the Padres.
Tulo well picked today, double header. A perfect streaker picked J.Reyes in that game also. Will the BTS gods be merciful?
@Lav, the answer is no. Both Tulo and Reyes will play both games but they won't get hits in both.
Well, they've both already gotten a hit early in the first game!
I think the BTS gods are way to merciful. The biggies (Reyes, Wright, Cargon, Tulo) may get hits in both games and if the pickers were bloggers, we'd see a rash of comments like "how come my streak didn't increase by 2?" At least Todd Helton, lately, appears to be one of the BTS gods' enforcers 😉
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Thursday's Top Picks of the current Top2500,
131 Batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Robinson Cano, 378, 15.12
Joe Mauer, 211, 8.44
Ryan Braun, 170, 6.8 (MY PICK)
Ichiro Suzuki, 149, 5.96
Shane Victrino, 113, 4.52
No Selction, 100, 4,
Ryan Howard, 78, 3.12
Alex Rodriguez, 76, 3.04
Jimmy Rollins, 72, 2.88
B.J. Upton, 69, 2.76
Miguel Cabrera, 63, 2.52
Chipper Jones, 59, 2.36
Mark Teixeira, 55, 2.2
Troy Tulo, 55, 2.2 DOUBLE HEADER
Of 15 "Perfect streaks" there is 1 playing the early game which is a double header.
Yesterday's Top2500 Reset rate was 29.98% with NO SELECTION reseting the most.
There was also 22.24% PPD due to rain or players not playing, These streakers do not reset, but did not increase either.
Highest "No Selection" 😛 pg# 7 with streak of 11 back to zero.
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick
Gurpsing, 9, pg 18, 337, Chris Getz,
Nyy4life42, 8, pg 28, 651, Robbie Cano,
Bloggers Reset Yesterday
Blanco21, 7,RESET BY Miggy
GL to all
Getz was picked by 7 ppl in top2500.
Wow, the Cano % was almost exactly the same overall versus the top 2500.
@pearson, that's true but they have to get a hit in both games.
I am aware of that. I was just saying they were both off to a good start.
@vinny1979 If you pick a player whose team is playing in a double header and they get a hit in one game and don't play in the other, does your streak extend or pause?
I took Jeter today to get to 3. He's facing Jake Arrieta, the same pitcher who ended my 17 game streak last year when Nick Swisher went O fer so I want some minor revenge.
@yanksgiants, If you pick a player in a DH and he gets a hit in the first game and doesn't play at all in the second game your streak will extend. If they get a hit in the first game, don't start the second but come in and pinch hit and make an out than your streak is over.
Agreed with Vinny regarding double headers. Bottom line is simple. Your player needs a hit in whatever game they play in, if they have at least 1 official AB in the game (flyout Sacs are official ABs for streaks).
Well Reyes Just got a hit in the second game so the person that picked him that was perfect is moving on to 15. Won't be surprised though to see him post asking why he didn't go up 2. Anyway, good for him, risky pick but it worked out. Tulo still hit-less in the second game though.
2nd highest picked Mauer looks to be pinch-hitter potential today. Lineups just posted. Will it change b4 gametime?
That is pure luck that Reyes got two hits. I understand he's hot but your taking a big risk picking anybody in a double header. Mauer might be injured Lav.
Re: Reyes. That picker either 1) had Reyes pre-picked and didn't realize DH today or 2) doesn't know the rules. I wouldn't give him/her credit either way — BTS luck.
Re: Mauer. May be so. Yesterday I assumed it was 'cause of a day game after nite game situation. But today? Probably injured or ill.
I meant to say that Reyes got hit in both games not two hits. My fault.
Read on rotoworld that Mauer is injured. He is hurting right now and Gardenhire doesn't know exactly what.
Tulo just hit his 7th homer. Man do I need to tap into some luck sooner and not too much later.
Tulo just homered again so he not only has four homers in four days but he now has hits in both games. Crazy but sometimes people just get lucky.
I wouldn't worry about the ones who got lucky today with Tulo and Reyes. Their luck is going to end sooner rather than later.
If history repeats this year, so will all of ours. And the bad luck will be the last luck we experience come September. 😦
Tulo-55, Wright-39, Reyes-27 and fowler-1 pickers are good so far. CarGon-27 only other substantial without a hit in 2nd game.
A few years back, when Chipper made an early season run at .400, nearly 1/2 the first page went with Chipper.
He ended up rewarding them with hits in both games.
1st-inning single for Orlando Hudson!
On to 5!
Well Polanco got a cheap infield single but I'll take it. Up to 6.
Jeter singles in the 6th, up to 3.
early single by prado brings my streak up to 5.
Early single for Braun too…..JK guess I am just terrible at this game this year. Stuck on zero most likely. He will get one more at bat next inning. Hoping for a last at bat hit.
Yet another extra inning game. That makes it at least one per day for every day this season, but one.
Though the extra inning game is MIN, I don't think Mauer will come in. They only have 1 other batter on the bench. Would maybe need to see 12+ innings or a possible bases-loaded less than 2 outs before we see him. But who knows?
BREAKING NEWS. Per MLB.tv, Mauer is on the DL. Checkout rotoworld or SportsCenter later for more details possibly.
Pit fills me with some false hope. With Braun due 3rd in the 10th, Pit loads up the bases in the 9th but can only bring 1 run in. On to tomorrow.
Is Kevin Millar playing BTS? He said he picked Ryan Ludwick, who's 0-4 with 3 strikeouts. LOL
I think he's just joking because of course he would not be eligible to play.
Not a good day for players named Ryan.
When did Kevin Millar say he was playing BTS?
Also, do you know why MLB employees are not allowed to play?
I have considered wanting to pursue a job in MLB one day, but have never gotten serious about it, because I do not want to lose being able to play BTS.
Millar made the remark on MLB Tonight. I guess it's just standard practice to bar employees from contest participation.
It makes perfect sense. Theoretically, a "friend" can go in an change a selection after-the-fact so that your streak continues when it actually failed or change the pick to someone that didn't play so you don't reset. The general idea is to prevent any possibility of insider info and impropriety, simply bar anyone associated with the company from winning. Guess I won't be applying to McDonalds when they have their Monopoly game again — employees probably prevented from winning the grand prizes too.
Yeah, but that really wouldn't work, when everyone's picks are displayed at the beginning of the day.
If Prince Fielder does 0 for 5 for me today, even if I worked for MLB, there would be nothing I could do to save my streak, because everyone would know I had Prince Fielder today.
"wouldn't work"? If that was true, there wouldn't be crime 😉
lol, well that plan wouldn't work then.


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Philosopher, legal scholar Ronald Dworkin dies
LONDON -- American philosopher and constitutional law expert Ronald Dworkin, a liberal scholar who argued that the law should be founded on moral integrity, has died at the age of 81.
His family said Dworkin died of leukemia in London early Thursday.
Dworkin was a professor of law at New York University and emeritus professor at University College London.
He was one of the best known and most quoted legal scholars in the United States and also an expert on British law.
NYU Law School Dean Richard Revesz said Dworkin was "not only an intellectual giant, but also a masterful teacher, admired colleague and beloved friend." He called Dworkin the most important legal philosopher of his generation.
"He will be dearly missed by those of us who were lucky enough to know him and by the countless people who followed and admired his work," Revesz said.
Dworkin was best known for the idea that the most important virtue the law can display is integrity -- understood as the moral idea that the state should act on principle so each member of the community is treated as an equal.
A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, Dworkin's own works included "A Matter of Principle," "Law's Empire," and "Justice for Hedgehogs." He argued in his writings that acting with dignity and moral clarity could make life worthwhile.
"If we manage to live a good life well, we create something more," he wrote. "We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands."
Dworkin graduated from Harvard Law School in 1957 and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England.
He told the Guardian newspaper two years ago that he did not know how to judge his life's work.
"I've tried to be responsible for my decisions and to make an authentic life," he said. "When I was a Wall Street lawyer, I realized I didn't want that life. So I went and did what I found most fulfilling, thinking about, arguing for the things that are hard, important and rewarding. I've tried to do it well. I can't say if I've succeeded."
Professor Stephen Guest at University College London said Dworkin was "a cosmopolitan American who regarded London as his main home, and who knew how to enjoy things, especially music and art."
He is survived by his wife, Irene Brendel Dworkin, his children, Anthony and Jennifer Dworkin, and two grandchildren.

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Getting Started with Continuous Integration
Imagine that you've just fixed a bug in your application's code and checked the fix into the project's source code repository. How much do you know now? If all you know is that the fix worked on your machine, you're playing with fire. If you've run the fix through a suite of integration tests and are confident that it didn't break anything else in the project's code, you're doing much better: your process is under control. But would you believe that you can do better than that? There are some teams that know that the new checkin passes the integration tests, that the tests cover the entire codebase, that the project's coding standards are being followed, and that there's no excessive duplication in code. And they know this after every checkin. Best of all, they know this without human intervention: a little icon in their system tray turns red if anything goes wrong, and stays happily green otherwise. At any time, they can visit a Web page on their local intranet to check up on the current state of the code.
The technique behind this seeming magic is called continuous integration, and it's not as difficult to set up as you might think. In this article I'll show you how the pieces fit together for a simple .NET continuous integration server that will help you monitor the quality of your own coding efforts in real time.
Setting Up the Server
The key piece of software you'll need is a continuous integration server. This is a master controller for the build process: it monitors your source code control repository for checkins, and every time that it spots one, it gets the latest version of the code. Then it kicks off a build by calling other tools, such as compilers and unit test tools. Finally, the continuous integration server notifies team members of the build status by publishing information in a variety of ways, from updated Web pages to e-mailed status messages, and goes back to watching for new checkins. There are several continuous integration servers for .NET available; I happen to use CruiseControl.NET, which is currently at the 1.0RC2 release level. Installing CruiseControl.NET is straightforward; you'll want to have the .NET Framework and IIS with ASP.NET installed first. Then just download and run the installers for CruiseControl.NET and the separate Web Dashboard (the applications are free) and you're off and running. CruiseControl.NET is open source, so if you prefer you can start with the source code and build it yourself.
Installing Your Tools
The next thing the server needs is everything required to actually build your software, starting from the source code. It's impossible to give a complete list here, because every project is different. What you need to do is observe your own manual practices, starting from source code checkin and ending with the deliverable. Certainly you'll need to install a source code control client, so the continuous integration server can get at the source code, and either the .NET SDK or Visual Studio .NET to build the software. From there, you may need a unit-testing tool, an obfuscator, a code-quality checker, a setup builder, and other tools.
Depending on your own particular set of tools, you'll also want to install a general-purpose build-scripting utility such as NAnt or MSBuild. While CruiseControl.NET can call many tools directly, it can't know about every development tool in the universe. Sometimes you may find that you need to have CruiseControl.NET call a NAnt task that in turn calls your development tool of choice.
It's important that you get the same versions of all your tools on the build server that you're using on your development computers. Otherwise, some day you'll spend far too much time trying to track down a subtle error caused by, say, the testing tool being at a different revision level on different machines. One way to handle this is to actually check the tools into your source code control repository and install them from there. Another is to use a central software distribution system such as Microsoft Systems Management Server to install the build tools.
A Simple Example
To make this all a bit more concrete, let's look at one of the projects on my own continuous integration server. My build tools stack for this project currently includes these tools:
- Subversion for source code control.
- Visual Studio .NET to handle the actual builds.
- NUnit for unit testing.
- NAnt for build automation.
- FxCop for conformance checking.
- NCover for code coverage analysis.
- Simian for similarity analysis.
- Vil for collecting code metrics.
One key to making the process work smoothly is the proper use of NAnt. I want the build process on the continuous integration server to be as close as possible to the build process on my local development computer. That way, if anything goes wrong, it's easy for me to replicate what happened. So rather than have CruiseControl.NET call out to the individual tools directly, I've set it up to call a NAnt build file that in turn calls the individual build tools. With this indirection in place, I can replicate what CruiseControl.NET is doing simply by invoking NAnt by had any time I need to check what's going on. The NAnt configuration file looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<project name="nant" default="compile"
<target name="compile">
<solution solutionfile="RssDrop.sln"
configuration="AutomatedDebug" />
<target name="test" depends="compile, run-unit-tests"
description="Compile and Run Tests" />
<target name="ccnet"
depends="compile, fxcop, ncover, simian, vil"
description="Cruise Control.NET target" />
<target name="run-unit-tests">
<formatter type="Xml" usefile="false" />
<test assemblyname="RssDropLibUnitTests.dll" />
<!-- Run FxCop compliance checker -->
<target name="fxcop">
<exec program="toolsFxCopfxcopcmd.exe" ... />
<!-- NOTE: ncover runs nunit tests -->
<target name="ncover">
<exec program="toolsncoverNCover.Console.exe" ... />
<!-- Find duplicate code -->
<target name="simian" >
<exec program="toolssimiansimian-2.2.7.exe" ... />
<!-- Code metrics -->
<target name="vil">
<exec program="toolsvilvil.exe" ... />
I've omitted the details of the command lines and arguments for the various tools so as to make the structure of this file more clear. Even if you're not familiar with NAnt, you should be able to tell what's going on here. A NAnt configuration file is a collection of targets, each of which tells NAnt what to do in a particular circumstance; when you invoke NAnt, you tell it which target to carry out. The
ccnet target is the composite target that CruiseControl.NET will execute; it in turn calls the targets that make up the various steps involved in building and testing my project.
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FAQ How do I increase the heap size available to Eclipse?
Some JVMs put restrictions on the total amount of memory available on the heap. If you are getting OutOfMemoryErrors while running Eclipse, the VM can be told to let the heap grow to a larger amount by passing the -vmargs command to the Eclipse launcher. For example, the following command would run Eclipse with a heap size of 256MB:
eclipse [normal arguments] -vmargs -Xmx256M [more VM args]
The arguments after -vmargs are directly passed to the VM. Run java -X for the list of options your VM accepts. Options starting with -X are implementation-specific and may not be applicable to all VMs.
You can also put the extra options in
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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Contests for digital artists!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Random Musings View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Contests for digital artists!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" immimemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 629Location: vancouver Posted: Fri Oct 22, 1999 7:00 pm Hey guys Everybody post some contests that you know of involving digital art. Its fun drawing, but its even more fun when you can win something. This was in the nov issue of pcgamer. You must custom design the paint job of a car. http://www.activision.com/games/i82/pcgamer you can win a 3fx voodoo3 3000, an ms ff steering wheel, and a copy of interstate 82. I also know at gameart you can win a copy of linux(not my cuppa tea, but..) its a random drawing tho. http://www.gameart.com anybody know of any more??? Back to top TurboYVRmemberMember #Joined: 24 Oct 1999Posts: 189Location: Vancouver BC Canada Posted: Sun Oct 24, 1999 6:55 pm Not necessarily CG, but I beleive any drawing contest is good... I can't get HTML to work, so cut and paste, boyo's. halloween fan art contest over at PvP, one of the best online comics. It's right up there with Sluggy Freelance and Penny Arcade. http://www.mpog.com/pvp/contest.html Not on right now, but watch out for the next Rorschach Community Caricature contest. Draw caricatures of the online and gaming communities most famous people, and win a Q3 skin by one of the best skin artists out there! http://www.quakefiles.com/rorshach/index2.htm Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Random Musings All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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"Dentsu Aegis Network has announced the acquisition of Flock Advertising ("Flock"), a well-known and highly awarded full service creative digital agency in Mexico.
The acquisition of Flock will add a strong creative and production capability to complement Dentsu Aegis' historic focus on media services in Mexico, and serve as a platform for Isobar's Spanish-speaking Latin American markets. Flock was established in 2009 by founding partners Sebastian Tonda, CEO, and Mario Nissan, GM Flock Media and Performance (which offers solutions based in technology &; innovation, digital media &; performance, data &; analytics and IT operations), and is known for its unique combination of digital spirit, holistic strategic thinking and focus on innovative business solutions leveraging technology. With roots in social media management, Flock is now a full-service digital agency combining strong creative, innovation, production, consumer intelligence, planning, media and performance. Flock was ranked as one of the Most Effective Independent Agencies in Effie Effectiveness Index in 2015, the most comprehensive global ranking of marketing effectiveness. The agency now counts 142 employees in its Mexico City headquarters, where it currently services 34 clients including Dominos Pizza, Jose Cuervo, Nike, The Coca-Cola Company, American Express and Cinepolis. Following the acquisition, Flock will rebrand to "Flock - linked by Isobar," adding a new cornerstone to Isobar's growing global footprint. The agency will maintain its talent, entrepreneurial spirit and innovative essence and will be further empowered by Isobar's regional and global network of 4,000 digital pioneers. ""Flock is a highly recognized digital creative agency that will bring strength and energy to Isobar's development in Mexico and Latin America," said Isobar Global CEO Jean Lin. "Their services focus on innovation, branded content, analytics and ROI, and are fully aligned and complementary to Isobar's competencies. Flock - linked by Isobar, will also give us a strong foundation upon which to extend future Brand Commerce initiatives. " Flock is a young, highly creative, technically strong and dynamic digital agency that has built a great and well-deserved reputation in the Mexican market," commented Julio Castellanos, CEO, Dentsu Aegis Network Mexico. "They will not only add digital services and expertise to our operating model but also enhance our delivery of digital breakthrough solutions that move the market. " We found a partner that is focused on accomplishing on a global scale what Flock is working to accomplish in Mexico," said Sebastian Tonda, CEO, Flock - linked by Isobar. "With this partnership, Flock will empower its talent, clients and ideas through a global network that is beautifully aligned with our purpose and vision for the industry. ""Mexico is the second-largest economy in Latin America, behind Brazil, and is ranked as the 15th largest economy globally, based on GDP. Flock is ranked first in awareness amongst independent digital agencies in Mexico according to the 2015 agency Scope survey conducted by Grupo Consultores. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed."
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Volume 17, no. 2 Winter 2002
The Beethoven Journal
Vol. 17, no. 2 (Winter 2002)
C. Edward Walden. "Beethoven's 'Immortal Beloved': Arguments in Support of the Candidacy of Bettina Brentano." (pp. 54-68)
Malcolm Frager. "Some Thoughts on the Tempos of the Beethoven Pianoforte Concertos." (pp. 69-71)
Ira Brilliant. "Beethoven Auction Report: Sotheby's (London), December 6, 2002." (pp. 72-73)
Facsimiles of New Acquisitions: "A Beethovenian Invitation from Sir George Smart to Joseph Joachim for Private Music-Making with Joseph Ries in August 1859 in Surrey, England." (pp. 74-75)
Publication Announcement: "The Complete Beethoven Holdings of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin on Microfiche." (p. 76)
William Meredith. "Beethoven Papers Read at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory." (pp. 77-82)
Paul Ellison. "Beethoven News (2002)." (p. 83)
William Meredith. "New and Rare Acquisitions at the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies (2002)." (pp. 84-93)
Susan Kagan and Thomas Wendel. "Beethoven on CD." (pp. 94-95)
Dominique Prevot and Armando Orlandi. "The European Premiere of the Willem Holsbergen's Realization of the Sketches for the 'Macbeth' Overture. Rennes and Lannion, France, November 28-30, 2002." (p. 97)
"Letters to the Editor." (p. 98)
"American Beethoven Society [list of members]." (pp. 99-101)
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Outstanding drama series: General Hospital, The Young and the Restless, All My Children and The Bold and the Beautiful
Outstanding lead actress: Crystal Chappell as Olivia Spencer (Guiding Light); Michelle Stafford as Phyllis Newman (YR); Maura West as Carla Tenney (ATWT), Sarah Brown as Claudia Zacchara Corinthos (GH), Bobbie Eakes as Krystal Carey (AMC).
Outstanding lead actor: Peter Bergman as Jack Abbott (YR); Jon Lindstrom as Craig Montgomery (ATWT); Michael Park as Jack Snyder (ATWT); Doug Davidson as Paul Williams (YR); James Scott as EJ Dimera (Days).
Outstanding talk show, entertainment: Rachel Ray, Live With Regis & Kelly and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Outstanding talk show, informative: Dr. Phil, The Dr. Oz Show and The Doctors.
Outstanding talk show host: Rachael Ray, Bonnie Hunt, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, and the women of The View.
Outstanding morning program: Good Morning America (ABC), Today Show (NBC), and CNN/American Morning.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Daytime Emmy Noms Are In - GH Leads the Way With 18 Noms
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9 Desserts to Make with Sweet and Sour Cherries
As fresh fruit goes, cherries are definitely some of the more elusive. Cherry season can flash by before you've even realized the weather is nice outside. And on top of that, sweet and sour cherries have different growing seasons, both across the country and between varieties. Consider this your to-do list, whether that means now or in the coming weeks when your crop finally rolls in.
From sweet cherry pies to sour cherry 'clams,' these 9 delicious recipes are worth the wait (and the work of pitting.)
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Sweet Cherry Pie
Perfect Sour Cherry Jam
Sour Cherry and Lavender Sorbet
Cherry Clafoutis
Mini Sweet Cherry Pies
Cherry Breakfast Crumble
Sour Cherry 'Clams'
Tartouillat (Cherry and Rum Cake)
Cherry-Amaretto Tart
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I just started reading about games, and I'm going to develop a game where a person is moving around on a 2D map. My preferred language is Java. Is that suitable to develop games?
I'm going to develop a desktop app and need some help to get started. Can someone please give me some good resources for newbies?


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SAN FRANCISCO — A homeless man was killed early Sunday by a driver suspected of being under the influence, who crashed into an encampment off a San Francisco freeway off-ramp, authorities said.
Officers responded about 1:09 a.m. and discovered a transient had been hit by the driver of a Toyota 4-Runner who failed to navigate the curve of the westbound Fifth Street exit, the California Highway Patrol said. The victim and several others were asleep at the homeless encampment when the silver SUV came crashing through the guardrail and into the man's tent.
The victim, who has not been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect, identified as 27-year-old Jaime Juarez, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.
San Francisco police also responded to the crash, which the CHP will ultimately investigate, Officer Eric Anderson said. All lanes of the westbound Fifth Street off-ramp were closed for about two hours, but reopened to traffic about 3:51 a.m.
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Conference Report Card: Big 12Posted by Brian Goodman on April 25th, 2011
Brian Goodman is an RTC editor and contributor.
Year In Review
Before the start of the season, pollsters bought into Kansas State as the sexy pick to take the Big 12 in 2011 on the heels of an Elite Eight appearance in 2010. The Big 12 was not overly impressive in non-conference play, as the Wildcats fell hard to Duke in a de facto home game in Kansas City, and Missouri did the same against Georgetown in one of the more thrilling matchups of the early season.
As league play began, the preseason #3 Wildcats disappointed, starting 2-5, and the usual stalwarts of the Big 12, Kansas and Texas, rose to the top. After topping the Jayhawks at Allen Fieldhouse in January, the Longhorns looked to be in the driver's seat, especially after Kansas was blindsided at Bramlage Coliseum to give Texas a two-game lead. However, Rick Barnes' team suffered another late-season collapse, going 2-3 to finish the regular season while the Jayhawks dusted off the competition to pull ahead to take their seventh straight conference crown.
Elsewhere in the conference, the Wildcats bounced back to end the season in third place. The middle of the conference wasn't settled until the latter stages of the season with Missouri falling lat and Texas A&M, Colorado and Nebraska treading water. Baylor underachieved, given the talented personnel in Waco, and Oklahoma State never really looked in sync. Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Iowa State all had awful seasons to finish at the bottom of the standings.
In the conference tournament final, Kansas played its best basketball of the season, topping Texas to gain some revenge entering the Big Dance. Colorado was snubbed on Selection Sunday despite beating Kansas State three times, but the Big 12 still managed to get five teams into the NCAA Tournament. However, only the Jayhawks made it out of opening weekend alive, and they fell short of expectations as they lost to Shaka Smart and the Rams' reign of BCS destruction.


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Grown-up ways to channel your childhood favorites
Girls Gone Styled
You and your imaginary friends are no longer on speaking terms and the last time you got your butt on a slide, it was electric.
Still, no matter how old you get, your inner princess never really goes away. In honor of Girl's Day, we found five grown-up ways to celebrate your childhood favorites.
Get ready for some serious girl time.
If you loved Hello Kitty, try Brandy Pham's Lela Kitty ring.
This hand-painted enamel ring studded with Swarovski crystals is the purr-fect way to bring out your inner feline. $88, BrandyPham.com.
If you loved ballet tutus, try a skater skirt.
Hands down, the best part about ballet class was wearing a fluffy pink tutu. Carrie went full-out in Sex and the City, but we prefer this lavender scuba skater skirt for a more subtle nod. $38, Homecoming Boutique, 1191 Bethel St., (808) 536-6000.
If you loved tiaras, try a spiked headband.
Princesses are so yesterday; crown yourself a style queen instead with this shiny headband studded with edgy metallic spikes. $15, Bamboo Sky, 401 Kamakee St. #104, (808) 591-8003.
If you loved Strawberry Shortcake, try Jessie Steele's Loretta apron.
Tie on a strawberry gingham apron and you'll look as sweet as pie or, in this case, shortcakes. $33.95, JessieSteele.com.
If you loved tea parties, try Tea Forté Cocktail Infusions.
Thank Alice in Wonderland for your love of tea, then go mad for cocktails that call for lavender, lemongrass or chai infusers steeped in your favorite liquor. $9 for set of 8, TeaForte.com.


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You know those museums that are really quiet and you can't touch anything? These are definitely not those museums. Take the Boston Children's Museum. It's one-of-a-kind, world-renowned center for enrichment. But the kids don't care about that. They just like that it's as fun as a barrel of monkeys. The Museum of Science has scary dinosaurs, loud electric bursts, and an Imax screen the size of a basketball court, and it's still extremely educational. The Kidspace at Mass MoCA has really mind-blowing art, including some uniquely interactive work. At the Discovery Museums in Acton, kids can bounce a ball three stories high or engineer their own train track. Of course, if your family loves those quiet museums, we have plenty of those too.
Watch a video on Edith Wharton's The Mount in Lenox.
Children's Museum, Boston
New Bedford Whaling Museum
Eric Carle Museum, Amherst
Museum of Science, Boston
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Sales Step by Step: What Does Your Web Presence Say About Your Club?
By Scott Meldrum
January 17, 2006
As president and founder of HypeCouncil, Scott Meldrum oversees the development and implementation of online advertising, publicity and word-of-mouth marketing campaigns for top brands and Fortune 500 clients. HypeCouncil's measurable online marketing strategies have generated high sales-driven returns for companies in various industries. For more information, visit www.hypecouncil.com.
Chances are, you've gone online to learn about a product or service you've considered buying. You probably went on the company's Web site, did a keyword search to see where else the brand name shows up and poked around some message boards to hear what other consumers had to say. It should come as no surprise, then, that your prospective health club clients do the exact same thing. According to a recently released study by Forrester Research, more than 70 percent of online consumers use the Internet to research products for purchase.
So what does your Web site say about your company? What do your members say about you online? More importantly, how proactive have you been to ensure that your company is communicating the right messages that capture and engage both current and potential members?
The Web can be an intimidating world, but it is also a valuable communication and brand-building medium that club owners and managers can no longer afford to ignore.
There's no better time than the start of a new year to advance your marketing efforts to the next level. With New Year's resolutions fresh on their minds, consumers are especially receptive to hearing about your club's services and products, too. So let's get started.
Online Marketing's Benefits.Many fitness clubs rely on aggressive print and radio advertising, along with a direct-sales staff, to generate leads and sell memberships. However, If you do not have an equal and formidable presence online, you are missing an equal number of leads and sales. For consumers, online communications are more convenient (they can engage with your club and your brand on their own terms), interactive, personal and immediate. By having a Web site, a club can tailor and target campaigns to specific audiences, track and measure marketing efforts, develop one-on-one relationships with its members, generate greater visibility, and extend its reach.
The first step to improving your Web site is to take a good, hard look at your current Web presence. Your Web site is often the first place prospective members are exposed to your club and your brand, and from your site they usually decide whether or not they want to come in for a tour or trial membership. Your Web site is also a tool to continuously engage current members, motivating them to check in regularly and to get their feedback.
Pulling in New Clients. You are probably one of several facilities your prospective members know about. So, it's important that your Web site stands out from the crowd with the right combination of visuals and information. Making this pre-sale "virtual visit" easy, pleasurable, informative and trust-inspiring is the best way to take the prospect from a casual shopper to a new member.
You should include the following elements on your Web site—professional photos of the facility, an easy-to-understand list of membership benefits, plan pricing and locations (consider a zip code search function, with street map directions). You should also include a section for members to sign up for a trial membership or a form for prospects to fill out if they wish to be contacted by a representative.
Beyond the essentials is the added-value features that will make your Web site shine. These could be member testimonials with photos, a section that highlights the latest equipment at the club or profiles of the fitness and/or nutrition specialists you have on staff. Anything that is interactive, such as a quiz that makes personalized membership plan recommendations or streaming video, will further build important emotional and sensorial connections with the prospective member.
Meeting Current Members' Needs. These people want reinforcement that your club is meeting – if not exceeding – their needs and expectations. Consider offering tools that allow them to track their fitness progress online with regular reminders sent to their e-mail address (a virtual trainer of sorts). Post informative, regularly updated articles and tip sheets written by you or your staff to strengthen their connection with the personalities and "faces" of your club, as well as reinforce their position as experts in the field. Create exclusive, members-only message boards where members can ask questions and swap tips about various topics, such as cardio, weight training, healthy eating, low-impact fitness and so on. The more you make them feel like they are part of a larger family or community, the more likely they'll stay loyal to your program and spread positive word-of-mouth to their friends and family.


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The Route of Emperors and Kings: there is no name better suited to this scenic route in Eastern Bavaria. Running unerringly along the Danube to the cities of Passau and Regensburg in Germany via Linz and Vienna in Austria to Budapest in Hungary, this route retraces the footsteps of both emperors and kings. Awe-inspiring natural sights and splendid abbeys, noble houses of worship, medieval castles, magnificent palaces and royal residences line the river Danube like a string of pearls.
What do you know about Sisi, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, and the Bavarian Kings? As you travel along the Danube on the Route of Emperors and Kings, you will gain an intimate glimpse into the lives of the Wittelsbach, Habsburg and other European dynasties. Reisen Sie entlang des historischen Reiseweges Donau auf den Spuren der Wittelsbacher, Habsburger und weiterer europäischer Dynastien. In 1854 Sisi herself travelled by paddle steamer along the Danube from the ducal town of Straubing to visit her future husband, Emperor Franz Joseph, in Vienna. If you are looking for a tranquil yet varied pace of travel, why not go by paddle steamer, just as Sisi once did?
The arteries of history
In the Middle Ages almost every king and emperor was known as a "travelling king". Rather than reign from their region's capital, they travelled all over the kingdom accompanied by their court and a large entourage, making short stop-overs, or even staying for longer periods of time, at the imperial palaces and abbeys that lined the roads.
The Danube: an historic route
It could be claimed that Charlemagne was the forefather of all travellers taking this route. In 788 he made Regensburg the seat of the Carolingian dynasty, and as a free imperial city it benefited greatly from overseas trade. Between 1663 and 1806 the town also served as a meeting place for the Perpetual Imperial Diet. The Walhalla monument, the "temple of German glory" built by the Bavarian King Ludwig I after 1830, can also be seen rising in splendour over the Danube a little up-river at Donaustauf.
European history and culture
Measuring 2857 km from source to mouth, the Danube is the European river "par excellence". It has been both a travel and transport route since time immemorial, which explains the rich and chequered history to be found along its shores. This history is still in evidence today at the awe-inspiring monuments and memorials that follow the river's course: ancient excavation sites, medieval cities, abbeys, castles, palaces, royal residences and modern museums displaying many different styles of art, all of which are to be found nestled in regions known for their beautiful natural landscape and exquisite culture.
In the footsteps of kings
From Roman emperors to Charlemagne, Frederick I and Empress Maria Theresa, from the Dual Monarchy in Vienna to the beautiful Sisi and Budapest: the Route of Emperors and Kings sets the scene for a truly majestic travel experience. A delightful countryside route rich in history, this is the "Sunday's child" of Germany's scenic and themed routes, and is truly unmissable, whether travelling by car, bicycle or boat.
Length: approximately 750 km
Theme: along the Danube in the footsteps of emperors and kings
Deggendorf: medieval centre, Roman treasure, Gothic town hall
Donaustauf: Walhalla Temple of Glory, ecclesiastical buildings
Metten: abbey complex
Niederalteich: monastery complex
Passau: old quarter, residential palace, cathedral with the largest organ in the world
Regensburg: UNESCO, cathedral, St. Emmeram Palace (Schloss Emmeram)
Straubing: Ducal palace (Herzogsschloss), city tower, ecclesiastical buildings
Linz: castle, Brucknerhaus festival centre
Vienna: castle, Sisi Museum
Gödöllö: palace
Budapest: historic castle district, historic spa resorts
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What do you call that? Mixed media? Still life? No idea.
Anyway, with my vintage buttons alphabet I've had several download options available on my pumpkinbear etsy shop for a while now, but for a while now I've also been looking for some good print-on-demand options. My printer has good color and tone, and I'm reasonably happy about using it to print stuff for myself, and especially using it hard to print on freezer paper and fabric and whatever (knowing that if I do eventually break it from making it print on something weird, I'll get to buy myself a new one, yay), but I'm not confident enough in the durability or stability of its work to print so much as a greeting card for a friend with it, much less an art print or something to sell. At two different craft fairs this year, the same woman wanted to buy some prints I'd made for the girls and just had on display, and I was all, "Um...no."
I also don't particularly desire, anyway, to make or buy prints of my work and then sell them--my overall goals in life as well as crafting are to sell stuff and get rid of stuff, not buy stuff and then keep it on hand hoping to sell it later on.
So, yeah. Print-on-demand.
I decided (finally) to try out ImageKind, because I lurve their main company, CafePress--it's another overall goal of mine to someday woo my overworked graphic designer husband into putting some of his cooler free-time sketches on CafePress, but strangely enough, he balks at being stretched too thin.
After much futzing and fiddling, I got a profile (I'm Pumpkinbear there, of course), and a gallery of my vintage button alphabet:
I mostly imagine it being used for its high-quality printing process on greeting cards and notecards and postcards, but I have to admit that it is pretty fun to play around with all the high-priced matting and framing possibilities, and then get a preview of the fanciness that can be had for just a couple hundred dollars:
High-falutin', huh? And I'm quite happy to have this checked off of my to-do list, because now that I have a place to put them, I get to start on some other pieces that I've been wanting to start on...
Don't you love how completion of a to-do list leads to another to-do list?


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AESTHETICS OF THE VIRTUAL: MODERNITY, CONSUMPTION AND ARTIFICE IN THREE LATIN AMERICAN NOVELS by Fiorella Cotrina A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPARATIVE LITERATURE) December 2009 Copyright 2009 Fiorella Cotrina
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|This study argues that the narratives of the Latin American novels De sobremesa (1896), La invención de Morel (1940), and A hora da estrela (1977) all thematize the masculine consumption of feminine entities, and thus serve as metaphors of modernity. These texts put the antithetical binaries of European center and Latin American periphery into dynamic play, along with those of feminine artifice and male identity, illusion and reality, the body and desire, and writing as both a sadist and masochist activity.; Using Carlos J. Alonso and Beatriz Sarlo's crucial insights about modernity as a myth that locates Latin American culture and literary practices in the periphery with respect to those of Europe, I also incorporate Rita Felski's discussion of European discourses that define consumption as a seductively feminizing activity, to provide readings of these novels that render the broad notion of modernity and proper modern life as artificial, decentered, and virtual.; Chapter One examines how the male protagonist José Fernández's voracious consumption of luxuries and courtesans during his fin-de-siècle nomadic voyage in the European metropolis becomes a self-acknowledged vice in De sobremesa. Helena, the first spiritual soulmate who can halt his morally corrupting consumption, is a phantasmatic figure onto which Fernández projects the anxieties and fears that pathologizing fin-de-siècle discourses assigned to consumption. Fernández returns to Bogotá, no longer believing that the spiritual connection he was looking for can be found in Europe or that consumption is indeed pathological. He creates his own liminal aesthetic space in the Latin American city: Villa Helena. Chapter Two examines the technological effeminization that the Venezuelan fugitive protagonist in La invención de Morel experiences by falling in love with the simulacrum Faustine, whom he encounters in the inventor Morel's island. Gradually seduced by Faustine's beautiful image, the fugitive is transformed into an effeminized consumer who no longer maintains any aesthetic distance from Faustine's auratic image. Rather, he identifies with her and wants to enter into her consciousness. The impossibility of this desire leads the fugitive to transform himself into a like simulacral image by masochistically surrendering his body to Morel's machine, which ultimately records him in a rehearsed simulation of his relationship with Faustine, and annihilates his body in the process.; Unlike Helena and Faustine, who are both European aesthetic and technological images, A hora da estrela's Macabea is a (peripherally) Northeastern Brazilian girl who moves to Rio de Janeiro, looking for a way to escape her impoverished life. Chapter Three examines how A hora's narrator, Rodrigo S.M., decides to write "Macabea's life into existence," after a flaneuresque walk through Rio de Janeiro leads him to catch a glimpse of death on the face and body of the anonymous young woman. Rodrigo gradually gains access to Macabea by masochistically evacuating his own bourgeois male identity for Macabea's female consumer identity: who identifies with female movies stars and listens to cultural products aired on the radio. Yet Rodrigo's masochistic decentering is not sustainable. His identity as a bourgeois writer often resumes a central positionality in the text that demonstrates a sadistic pleasure enacted by writing from the center.
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By Desmond Lachman, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Albert Einstein famously observed that a sure sign of insanity was when someone kept repeating exactly the same experiment but expected to get a different result. Yet that appears to be what European policymakers are now doing in the way that they are handling Europe's sovereign debt crisis. And in so doing, they are posing the greatest of risks not only to their own economic prosperity but also to the U.S. economic recovery.
Among the more distinguishing features of the European sovereign debt crisis is that, almost three years after the crisis began in Greece, European policymakers keep applying very much the same policy approach to the afflicted countries of the European periphery as they have done from the start. They keep offering to bail out those countries with large financial support programs from the IMF, the European Union, and the European Central Bank. However, they do so on the condition that the recipient countries commit themselves to policies of severe fiscal austerity and fundamental structural reform within the Euro straitjacket. And they do so despite the clearest of evidence that this policy approach is not working.
From Bad to Worse
Three years into the crisis, the Greek economy keeps going from bad to worse. Greece's GDP has now fallen by more than 20 percent from its peak while its unemployment rate has risen to over 25 percent. Yet the IMF and EU persist with very much the same policy recipe of fiscal austerity for Greece that they have been applying with such disastrous results since May 2010. And they themselves acknowledge that these policies will cause the Greek economy to contract by yet another 4-1/2 percent in 2013, which will almost certainly further complicate the attainment of Greece's budget targets and Greece's efforts to put its public debt on a more sustainable path.
More disturbing yet, the policy of large scale bailouts subject to severe fiscal austerity has not prevented the crisis from progressively spreading from Greece to Portugal, Spain, and Italy. Far from turning the corner as had earlier been hoped, the economic recessions in these countries have significantly deepened. And the most recent economic indicators offer little comfort that there might be light at the end of the tunnel. Rather they suggest that, if anything, the pace of decline of those economies is accelerating. As a result, unemployment in Spain has now surpassed 25 percent while it exceeds 15 percent in Portugal.
What should be giving European policymakers serious pause is that the worsening economic picture in the European periphery is seriously undermining those countries' political stability. Greece is well on its way to becoming ungovernable with the rise of political parties on both the extreme left and the extreme right of that country's political spectrum. This has prompted Mr. Samaras, the Greek prime minister, himself to draw comparisons between Greece today and the German Weimar Republic of the 1920s.
Meanwhile in Italy, Portugal, and Spain social unrest has become the order of the day, which is undermining the political authority of those countries' elected governments. To make matters worse, secessionist forces are now very much on the rise in Catalonia and the Basque country, Spain's two very troubled regions.
Europe Just Doesn't Get It
The European periphery's bleak economic and political outlook should be raising a number of basic questions for European policymakers. How much sense does it make to have the European periphery sink ever deeper into recession as a result of severe fiscal tightening in the context of a European credit crunch and a Euro straightjacket that precludes currency devaluation to promote exports? Might the countries in the European periphery not need sovereign debt relief to reduce the amount of fiscal adjustment that they need to undertake? How much sense does it make to keep a country like Greece in the Euro at such an enormous economic and social cost to that country?
Sadly, as Europe's most recent handling of the Greek crisis would attest, the chances are minimal that these questions will be seriously raised by European policymakers before the German presidential elections scheduled for September 2013. Rather, one has to expect that Mrs. Merkel will keep trying to get Europe to kick the can forward in an effort to avoid having to admit to the German electorate ahead of those elections that her strategy is not working.
The consequences of Europe sticking next year to the same policy mix as in 2012 are not encouraging since fiscal austerity would be being applied in the context of a less favorable external economic environment. Consequently, at best one must expect a marked deepening in the European economic recession. At worst, one might expect that a further deterioration in the European social and political conditions might force a disorderly exit of some countries from the Euro with untoward consequences for the global economy.
All of this is of considerable moment for the U.S. economic recovery since Europe remains the United States' main trade partner. However, the sad and frustrating reality is that there is very little that U.S. policymakers can realistically do to influence the European economic outcome.
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) resident fellow Desmond Lachman previously served as director in the International Monetary Fund's Policy Development and Review Department. He was also a managing director and chief emerging market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney.


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Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, led the Senate effort to repeal the Federal Communications Commission's network-neutrality rules
The Senate voted, 46-52, against moving forward with a resolution that would overturn federal regulations that govern anticompetitive behavior online.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, led the Senate effort to block the Federal Communications Commission's network-neutrality rules, which regulate the way Internet companies provide access to the Web.
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"It's time to push back" against federal agencies that are overreaching their authority and enacting burdensome regulations, she argued before the Senate voted on a motion to proceed.
In the end, Hutchison was unable to gather enough support for the measure, which the White House had in any case threatened to veto if passed.
The GOP-controlled House approved a similar resolution in April, but Democrats in the Senate had long vowed to hold the line and stop Hutchison's effort. As ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, Hutchison did an end-run around the committee by gathering 40 signatures to force the full Senate to consider the resolution. The measure failed along a starkly party-line vote.
Democrats opposed the resolution, arguing that the FCC's rules are necessary to prevent large corporations from throttling Internet access.
"The FCC's Open Internet rules mean that small entrepreneurs will not have to seek permission from broadband providers to reach new markets and consumers with innovative products and services," Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said during debate on the Senate floor on Wednesday. "Far from preventing investment, the FCC's Open Internet rules will foster small businesses and support their demonstrated ability to create jobs."
Because of the White House's veto threat, both resolutions were seen as largely symbolic, but Paul Gallant, a telecom analyst for MF Global, said that the effort could have put political pressure on the FCC.
"With Congress unlikely to pass formal legislation on net neutrality any time soon, symbolic actions--such as a resolution of disapproval that passed both houses--take on greater significance in future FCC deliberations," Gallant wrote in a memo to investors on Thursday. "And once the courts address the legality of the current net-neutrality rules, the FCC will face difficult and important decisions on a path forward."
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It's been two years since St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in St. Germaine, North Carolina burned to the ground, and the holidays are just around the corner. Police Chief Hayden Konig, also the organist at St. Barnabas, is looking forward to a long month of Advent music and writing bad prose between Thanksgiving and New Year's. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly for those familiar with St. Barnabas, murder and mayhem intervene. First, Old Man Hiram Frost, the town grump, dies after the bank forecloses on his property. At the resulting auction, Hayden gets sucked into a bidding war with a stranger over three cases of French wine. A week later, the mystery bidder shows up again…floating face-first in Tannenbaum Lake. Additionally, St. Barnabas has a new deacon: the aptly named Donald Mushrat (that's Moo-shrat). Deacon Mushrat is oily, overfond of the word "awesome" and obsessed with tithing. Everyone feels blessed that the beloved Rector Gaylen Weatherall will still be giving the sermons, but thanks to a terrible car accident, Rector Weatherall is put out of action for a time, opening the way for Deacon Mushrat's pontificating. Even worse, Konig was in the car with Gaylen during the accident…and his arm is broken. A substitute organist is found, and Konig will just have to grit his teeth and endure their "creative differences." But when another murder occurs and it becomes clear that a killer is stalking St. Germaine, the Chief finds he has bigger fish to fry.
Filled with the hilarity and quirky characters that are distinctive of The Liturgical Mysteries, this book includes a live creche, an inflammatory (literally) Christmas parade complete with a tap dancing Virgin, a scoodle of skunks, and the "liberation" of a priceless medieval reliquary by a gang of hyperactive children trapped in the church for a lock-in. It may be many things, but at least St. Germaine is never boring.
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There's way too much laughing at the gardener already about this post! I've been bamboozled by a misidentified plant. A little voice said~"Check this plant out before you post!" I listen to those little voices and verified. Good thing or my wildflower loving face would be red! I so wanted to share my big find of the summer, which wasn't a big find after all!
Last winter I shared Frostweed in a post, Have You Seen The Frost Flowers. Ever since I discovered that White Crownbeard has a yellow flowered cousin, v alternifolia, I've been on the lookout for it. I thought I found it earlier this spring at my favorite native plant nursery. Labels can be wrong! Never, ever, ever make assumptions! I was lead astray by those winged stems! Sneezeweed has winged stems, too.
As soon as the flower opened, I knew they were Helen's Flower, Helenium autumnale, an entirely different plant. That's not to say that sneezeweed isn't a delightful flower. It really is~
Just look at the lovely yellow face~ How could you find fault with a sweet smiling flower, that's attractive to honeybees, Minor bees, bumble bees, Leaf Cutting bees, wasps, butterflies, bee flies and some beetles. And, for all you gardeners troubled by dear deer~ It's deer proof~ all parts of it being poisonous, so deer aren't supposed to browse it!
I'm hopeful that sneezeweed will find a place among the rough and tumble wildflowers that make their home at Clay and Limestone. I am charmed by this member of the sunflower family with its sweet daisy flowers with toothed drooping rays and that large central disk. They prefer a moist, rich soil, but they've survived all summer here with inconsistent rain and very high temperatures. Almost any of us can grow Sneezeweed~it's native to most of North America~except Alaska. As a native plant lover I want to thank the Europeans for bringing Sneezeweed to our attention. Like many of our most wonderful native plants, Sneezeweed was unknown or ignored until we started seeing them in their gardens.
They're planted in the sunniest spots I have with correopsis, asters, salvia azurea and Tennessee Coneflower. The stems are floppy and next year I'll cut them back in early July~They'll be bushier and look neater. They've just opened, so I'll dead head to keep them blooming, but, leave a few flowers to see if they will reseed. I think they've bloom till frost~just in time for the native ex-asters. Won't they look good together!
One other thing, Helenium autumnale is named sneezeweed because the leaves were dried and made into a snuff by native Americans to induce sneezing to treat a cold, not because they cause hay fever. Sneezeweed is insect pollinated and no pollen is released into the air.
In the meantime, Verbesina alternifolia is going back on the list. Here's what it looks like~
Thanks for stopping by to celebrate Wildflower Wednesday. It's all about sharing wildflowers/native plants no matter where you garden in the blogasphere. It doesn't matter if we sometimes show the same plants. How they grow and thrive in your garden is what matters most.
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Mobile WebKit Optimizations & Tools
11 August 2011 · Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Last night I presented at the Mt View JavaScript Meetup (along with Glan). The following are my slide notes along with links to relevant resources. Get on the bus, 'cuz we're goin' to school!
At the Meetup, I showed my slides in Google Chrome using my SlideKit slideshow framework. Because that only runs in WebKit browsers, I've since posted them to SlideShare and embedded them below for your viewing pleasure.
- My team at Tapulous builds web views that behave as close as possible to native iOS (and Android) screens.
- Tapulous (part of Disney Mobile) has released a string of #1 games in the 8 months I've worked there, including…
- Tap Tap Revenge 4
- Born This Way Revenge for Lady Gaga
- Tap Tap Glee for the FOX TV show
- ClubWorld, our first foray into tycoon gaming
- Cars 2 in collaboration with Pixar
- The optimizations I covered, some of them apply on the open web, some apply to mobile environments in general, and some are specific to mobile WebKit
- On mobile, latency can be up to 10x greater (which is really worser) than on the desktop web. So, reducing the number of requests you make (and the number of hostnames you access in those requests, a point I neglected to mention in my talk) is über-important.
- Rather than linking to multiple CSS or JS files, contatentate them. Also, consider inlining rather than linking to these assets.
- Rather than linking to a bunch of small images, combine them into 1 image and use
background-positionto show the part you need.
- In some cases, it can actually be advantageous to base64 and inline images (and other binary assets such as fonts) into your CSS or
imgtags using data URLs.
- It should be self-evident that it's slower to send more bytes. Additionally, many users on mobile still have to deal with bandwidth caps (as do users in some parts of the world even on "broadband", but that's another story). So, yeah…send fewer bytes.
- The size of text components can be reduced on average by 70% by gzipping them. Most modern web servers can handle this no problem. You may already be doing it.
- Minifying CSS and JS is the process of stripping out unnecessary whitespace and comments from these files. Obfuscation is the process of reducing the length of tokens in JavaScript where possible. We use UglifyJS on our JS and YUI Compressor on our CSS. This is usually a big win.
- Using the right compression method for different types of images can save loads of bytes (as can persuading your designers to use a higher compression setting than they would otherwise!).
- There's no sense in sending cookies along with static assets. Most CDNs are set up not to send cookies.
- Probably the biggest win in the mobile optimization game is not to hit the network if you don't have to. Luckily, we have several caching techniques we can use.
- The "right" way to do caching on mobile WebKit is to use HTML5 cache manifests. Unfortunately, they're a bit tricky to work with. This Dive into HTML5 article does a good job of providing examples of working code as well as explaining the pitfalls.
- Another tool at your disposal is localStorage. The API couldn't be simpler. There's a 5MB limit (without the user being alerted) and you can only store strings, but it's a great way to cache, e.g., Ajax responses or JavaScript templates.
- In Tap Tap Revenge 4, we implemented a scheme that allowed us to cache pages and page fragments inside the app bundle. This requires coordination with the native host app, but again can be a way to avoid hitting the network if implemented correctly.
- A technique we're investigating for future apps is to use custom URL scheme commands to request binary assets from within the app bundle. Something like
<img src="myapp://binaryasset/someimage.jpg">
- One of the nicest things about working in mobile WebKit all day is all of the things CSS3 allows us to do that were way harder just a couple of years ago.
- WebKit (and other modern browsers) also allow us to use a few lines of CSS to generate complex images such as gradients. These can save 100s of KBs. Some excellent gradient generators are popping up. You might be amazed at what is possible.
- A cool and underutilized technique you can use is CSS-only 9-slice borders. Your designers will thank you.
- It was a JavaScript Meetup, so I had to say a few words about the world's most popular programming language.
- Touchscreen devices give us a new set of events for detecting user interactions. Touch events have some differences from more traditional mouse events, but the effort to learn how they work will pay off in a more native feeling experience.
- Profligate use of JavaScript closures can use a big chunk of a device's meager RAM. Closures are an important technique, but if you make extensive use of them you may want to keep an eye on your memory consumption.
- Some JavaScript libraries (including our own internal stuff until recently!) execute code whether it's needed or not. If at all possible, load your nicely concatenated JavaScript blob, but only run the code that's strictly needed. E.g., you may include constructors for a bunch of objects, but only instantiate the ones you need for that page.
- 1000s of person hours have been put into open source JavaScript libraries. The developers have encountered and, in many cases, fixed or worked around countless bugs. Why wouldn't you leverage their work?
- Zepto is a lightweight, WebKit-specific clone of jQuery. It weighs in at about 5KB and offers some of the familiar APIs as well as chaining.
- jQTouch is a jQuery plug-in that gives you the ability to create simple mobile apps quickly and easily. In a couple of our apps, we use a version of jQTouch we modified to work with Zepto.
- iScroll works around the lack of support for
position:fixedin iOS versions of WebKit. It gives you the ability to designate scrolling regions in your pages that behave pretty darn close to native scrolling.
- We are currently evaluating underscore.js and backbone.js for organizing our client-side code. Underscore is really a utility library, but a good one. Backbone provides an MVC structure to JS apps.
- You can get pretty far by building your pages in desktop Safari (or Chrome), but there is nothing like working on the device for being confident your code will behave as you expect. We find these tools indispensible for working in the relatively opaque environment of mobile Safari.
- Charles Proxy allows you to route traffic from your device through your desktop machine, allowing you to inspect requests and responses.
- Weinre is a remote debugging tool that lets you attach a debugging session to WebKit on your iOS, Android, or webOS device.
- Follow me on Twitter or email me with any questions!


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text: Introducing Workspace Reloader - A Visual Studio AddIn to save your open files across project reloads May 2, '12 Comments [27] Posted in Open Source | VS2010 Sponsored By A while back my buddy Sam Saffron (from Stack Overflow and Mini Profiler) complained to me on Skype that he was finding it very irritating that every time he updated his project outside of Visual Studio he would be prompted to "Reload Project" and would lose all his open files because Visual Studio would close them. This apparently is becoming kind of an issue at Stack Overflow. Since they use distributed source control and often have a dozen or more folks all coding inside the same project they are integrating all the time. They'll be deep into something, update their project to test it and all their open windows close. It's a weird Visual Studio behavior that I've never understood. Visual Studio saves all your open files and window positions when you close the IDE and restores them when you open your solution. But when you open a project then right click and "Unload Project" you'll lose all your windows. I've reported it as a bug and it's also been voted up at User Voice, visited as a Question at StackOverflow, and a few folks have tweeted about it (The SO guys with their thumbs on the scale, no doubt) and been bugging some folks but then I got the idea to just fix it myself. It'd be a good chance to write my first Visual Studio Add-In, see if this is even possible, and fix an irritant at the same time. DOWNLOAD: Workspace Reloader Visual Studio Add-in - "This package will reload the code files you had open when your project file was modified and unloaded then reloaded" Warranty: To be clear this is the smallest of extensions. It only listens to two events and it's only 12k so you have no reason that I know of to be afraid of it. Plus, it works on my machine so you've got that going for you. Creating a Visual Studio Extension Developing Visual Studio Extensions requires some patience. It's gotten a lot better with Visual Studio 2010 but back in the 2003-2005 days it was really hairy. There's a number of different kinds of things you can extend. You can add menus, add tool bars, commands, new templates, new kinds of designers and visualizers, as well as use just the shell to create your own IDE. I wanted to create an add-in with Zero UI. I had no need for buttons or menus, I just wanted to listen to events and act on them. I downloaded the Visual Studio 2010 SDK after reading this blog on extending Visual Studio 2010. Make sure you get the right version. I have Visual Studio 2010 SP1 so I needed the updated Visual Studio 2010 SP1 SDK. I made a new Visual Studio Package. This builds into a VSIX (which is just a ZIP file - isn't everything?). A VSIX has a manifest (which his just XML - isn't everything?) that you can edit in a GUI or as a text file. I want my VSIX package to work on Visual Studio 11 Beta as well as Visual Studio 2010 so I added to the SupportedProducts node like this. VSIXs other than templates aren't supported in Express (I keep pushing, though): <SupportedProducts> <VisualStudio Version="10.0"> <Edition>Ultimate</Edition> <Edition>Premium</Edition> <Edition>Pro</Edition> </VisualStudio> <VisualStudio Version="11.0"> <Edition>Ultimate</Edition> <Edition>Premium</Edition> <Edition>Pro</Edition> </VisualStudio></SupportedProducts> I also setup the name, version and description in this file. I need to decide when my package is going to get loaded. You can add one or more ProvideAutoLoad attributes to a Package class from the VSConstants class. A number of blogs posts say you need to hard code a GUID like this, but they are mistaken. There are constants available. [ProvideAutoLoad("{ADFC4E64-0397-11D1-9F4E-00A0C911004F}")] I can have my package automatically load in situations like these: NoSolution SolutionExists SolutionHasMultipleProjects SolutionHasSingleProject SolutionBuilding SolutionExistsAndNotBuildingAndNotDebugging SolutionOrProjectUpgrading FullScreenMode For my package, I need it loaded whenever a "Solution Exists," so I'll use this Constant (in lieu of a hard coded GUID): [ProvideAutoLoad(VSConstants.UICONTEXT.SolutionExists_string)] Next, I wanted to listen to events from the Solution like the unloading and loading of Projects. I started with the IVsSolutionsEvents interface that includes OnBefore, OnAfter and OnQuery for basically everything. Elisha has a simple listener wrapper as an answer on StackOverflow that I modified. The SolutionEventsListener uses the very useful Package.GetGlobalService to get hold of the solution. IVsSolution solution = Package.GetGlobalService(typeof(SVsSolution)) as IVsSolution;if (solution != null){ solution.AdviseSolutionEvents(this, out solutionEventsCookie);} We then sign up to hear about things that might happen to the Solution using the IVsSolutionEvents interfaces and making them look like friendly events. public event Action OnAfterOpenProject;public event Action OnQueryUnloadProject;int IVsSolutionEvents.OnAfterOpenProject(IVsHierarchy pHierarchy, int fAdded){ OnAfterOpenProject(); return VSConstants.S_OK;}int IVsSolutionEvents.OnQueryUnloadProject(IVsHierarchy pRealHierarchy, ref int pfCancel){ OnQueryUnloadProject(); return VSConstants.S_OK;} I want to hear about things just before Unload happens and then act on them After projects Open. I'll save the Document Windows. There's an interface that manages Documents and Windows for the Shell called, confusingly enough IVsUIShellDocumentWindowMgr. I save the windows just before the unload and reopen them just after the project opens. Unfortunately these are COM interfaces so I had to pass in not an IStream but an OLE.IStream so while the ReopenDocumentWindows is easy below... listener.OnQueryUnloadProject += () =>{ comStream = SaveDocumentWindowPositions(winmgr);};listener.OnAfterOpenProject += () => { int hr = winmgr.ReopenDocumentWindows(comStream); comStream = null;}; The SaveDocumentWindowPositions is more complex, but basically "make a memory stream, save the documents, and seek back to the beginning of the stream." private IStream SaveDocumentWindowPositions(IVsUIShellDocumentWindowMgr windowsMgr){ if (windowsMgr == null) { return null; } IStream stream; NativeMethods.CreateStreamOnHGlobal(IntPtr.Zero, true, out stream); if (stream == null) { return null; } int hr = windowsMgr.SaveDocumentWindowPositions(0, stream); if (hr != VSConstants.S_OK) { return null; } // Move to the beginning of the stream with all this COM fake number crap LARGE_INTEGER l = new LARGE_INTEGER(); ULARGE_INTEGER[] ul = new ULARGE_INTEGER[1]; ul[0] = new ULARGE_INTEGER(); l.QuadPart = 0; //Seek to the beginning of the stream stream.Seek(l, 0, ul); return stream;} If this does it's job you'll never know it's there. You can test it by installing Workspace Reloader, opening a project and opening a few code files. Now, edit the CSProj as a text file (maybe add a space somewhere) and save it. Visual Studio should prompt you to Reload the Project. Workspace Reloader should keep your files and windows open. I hope this helps a few people. The source is here. « Back to Basics: Moving beyond for, if an... | Blog Home | The Nerd Parent's Guide: When and how to... » About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By Comments [27] Share on: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or use the Permalink


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Ryan Gosling met with relatives of Gangster Squad character for research
In the film, The Notebook hunk portrays Los Angeles Police Sergeant Jerry Wooters, who protected the city during the 1940s and 1950s by attempting to keep members of the Mafia off the streets.
And, in order to be as authentic as possible, he sat down with Wooters' children to capture some of their dad's quirks.
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But while Gosling admits he had a great time imitating the way the cop walked and talked, he didn't enjoy his period costume attire.
He adds, "The wool was quite itchy, so I had a rash. I channelled that irritation into my hatred for the gangsters."


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POPULAR the largest book store chain in Malaysia, celebrates Malaysia's 51 years of independence by launching its Merdeka Double Promotion§ which will start from 15 August to 1 September 2008, at its 59 outlets nationwide.
One of the major promotion highlights is the inaugural Muhibbah Photography Contest, specially organised for all POPULAR loyal customers.
In addition, POPULAR is also giving away free gifts with purchases during the promotion from 15 Aug to 1 Sep 08. With every purchase of RM120 and above in a single receipt, POPULAR customers will receive an exclusive notebook designed specially in conjunction with the Merdeka Celebrations. POPULAR Card members need only to purchase RM100 and above to obtain this notebook. A number of English and Chinese books, latest music CDs and a wide variety of trendy stationery have also been specially selected and offered at special pricing for all POPULAR loyal customers.
We have also lined up all the special offers just for you:
1) From 15 Aug 12- Sep , purchase Joey Yap*s National Feng Shui Congress 2008 ticket at only RM 80 for POPULAR Card members (RM 108 for Non-members).
Tickets are available at the following participating POPULAR outlets:
- Cheras Leisure Mall, KL
- Ikano Power Centre, Mutiara Damansara
- Sunway Pyramid, Petaling Jaya
- The Summit, USJ
- 1 Utama Shopping Centre, Petaling Jaya
2) Sa Dingding Alive§ Contest & WALL-E Movie Contest
Grab a FREE* of POP Club Magazine today for more details.
* Terms & Condition Apply
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POPULAR Book Co. (M) Sdn Bhd