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International Column
Developments in International Relations
Julian Warner, ASIS&T International Liaison, is affiliated with the
School of Management and Economics, The Queens University of
Belfast, Northern Ireland BT7 1NN,
Tout comprendre, cest tout
pardonner, a proverb of uncertain origin, may conflate
understanding, emotion and action, but mutual understanding
could still be the beginning of concord. How has ASIS&T
fared in a period when globalization, including globalization of
information sources and networks, has enhanced both
communication and the potential for conflict between different
perspectives? The focus of this article, reporting on recent
developments in international activities, will be primarily upon
ASIS&T, but the Society will be considered within its
broader context.
value to international members of engagement with ASIS&T
lies in the intellectual diversity of the Society, its broad
conception of information science and as a forum for members to
identify colleagues in different regions with shared interests
and concerned with similar information issues. A potential for
collaboration and increased knowledge creation within the
discipline as a whole exists. Publications, and even more, the
intellectual and emotional dynamism of personal contacts can
assist knowledge creation.
value to ASIS&T of international members is, in turn,
enhanced intellectual and cultural diversity. Understanding
national sovereignty in information terms is increasingly
complex, and Internet communication is enforcing recognition of
different understandings in different jurisdictions, for
instance with regard to libel. It
is important for ASIS&T to maintain awareness of information
developments on a global basis.
specific developments are inhibiting or enhancing these
of Movement
both assisting and restricting freedom of movement across
jurisdictions could be traced backwards from passports through
letters of credit to non-verbal graphic identifiers. Visas both
enable and restrict travel. A number of scientific conferences,
and not only the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, have complained of
difficulties in obtaining visas for the
part of its international initiative, ASIS&T has established
a relatively informal cooperation agreement with the Section on
Communication and Information Technologies of the American
Sociological Association (CIT ASA). A refereed roundtable, Reconsidering
Inequality within Communication Networks, at the ASA Annual
Meeting in San Francisco in August was co-sponsored by
ASIS&T. In reciprocation, ASA CIT co-sponsored a session at
the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Outside Theory on the Inside of LIS. Co-sponsorship between
ASIS&T and CIT ASA does not carry financial responsibilities
and is intended to advance communication and cooperation between
cognate, but not fully connected, professional societies.
European Chapter of ASIS&T was also the co-sponsor of two
pre-conference workshops at the 5th conference of the
Association of Internet Researchers at the University of Sussex,
United Kingdom, in September 2004. The aim of the workshops was
both to explore the topics of measuring the information society
and of the Web as a mirror of scientific and technical
achievement and to enable geographically dispersed members of
the chapter to meet with one another. The themes of the meeting
included the relation of information technology and Internet
services markets to the understanding of developed and
developing countries. Low Internet prices could be a mark of
developed status. Developed countries may not be interested in
developing countries because the technologies they use may be
obsolescent from their perspective. On a slightly different, but
still related issue, patents have been used to protect the
intellectual property of developed nations and to restrict the
diffusion of useful inventions. Cooperation may occur as the
levels of development converge recall the history of the
19th century United States. Socioeconomic contexts may play a
crucial role in cooperation and communication.
Linda Schamber, chair of the 2004
Annual Meeting committee, ensured a strong representation of
international members in the committee. A major development is
the expansion of the posters sessions of the meeting, which
should facilitate dialogue among researchers from all regions.
Global Information Village Plaza, a feature of recent ASIS&T
meetings, was again scheduled at this years Annual Meeting,
moderated by Nadia Caidi and Michel Menou. The theme for this
years Plaza was a consideration of What If? questions,
for instance, What if broadening access to ICTs was not enough?
Or, What if ICTs do not contribute to human happiness? What
If? questions were sought from information professionals
around the globe. A lively, full and interesting, discussion was
anticipated and journal publication of a summary of the
discussion should follow.
Interest Group/International Information Issues (SIG/III) of
ASIS&T has announced the winners of its fifth International
Paper Contest. Elsevier Publishers has continued to offer
generous support to the winner of the contest to assist with
travel, registration and accommodation for the Annual Meeting.
and informal measures for increasing international membership
have been considered. ASIS&T membership is costly for those
from developing countries. However, autonomy of action is
constrained by the need to maintain consistency across
categories and ASIS&Ts limited size, when compared to
other organizations, such as the ACM. Informal measures for
increasing international membership and participation rest on
the attractiveness of the society itself and include sociability
at conferences and meetings. Leaders in information professions
in other countries can assist by making their national
colleagues aware of ASIS&Ts publications, conferences and
Cooperative efforts, which may be painful and laborious to develop, can enhance our sociability and promote the development of knowledge. The present would seem to be a crucial and opportune time for international expansion. ASIS&T fully embodies an awareness of social and human information issues not tied to a particular set of institutions (such as libraries) or a particular technology (such as the computer). Social and human aspects of information and communications technologies are increasingly being recognized as constitutive of their significance.
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Information Science and Technology


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Hollywood actor flayed for 'skanky, sick' ad
'I felt violated and felt like I was observing evil personified'
WASHINGTON – A new advertisement featuring "Necessary Roughness" actor Mehcad Brooks and titled "Happy 40th Anniversary, Baby" celebrates the deaths of an estimated 56 million unborn lost to abortion since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision 40 years ago this week, and is being called "skanky," "sick" and "disgusting."
The ad, from the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights, comes as hundreds of thousands prepare to attend the March for Life Friday in Washington, D.C.
Brooks, who plays a philandering athlete on USA Network's series "Necessary Roughness," is spiffed up, holding a rose and fondling a glass of liquid. He says, "Hey baby, you think I forgot it?"
In front of a glowing fireplace, he continues, "How could I ever forget our anniversary? All these years. So many people said we'd never make it. They've been trying to tear us apart. Take you away. Put limits on you. On me. On us.
"But every time we've proven ourselves stronger. Anniversary like this is not something you forget."
Alveda King, member of the legendary King family, personal mentor to many young women, and director of African American Outreach at Priests for Life, was upset by the spot.
"A young woman in her 20s sent me her reaction and I think it's so compelling. This young woman wrote: 'I feel molested after seeing it. Skanky, fitting for what it celebrates, sick. Is he married to abortion?'"
King explained the young lady had watched "Necessary Roughness," but vowed to never watch it again. King said many others also wrote to her saying they'll no longer watch the show.
"I felt violated and felt like I was observing evil personified," said King, whose voice cracked with sorrow. "These abortion people think they can say anything. Women should be outraged. I'm post-abortive and it just brought my emotions to the surface. As an African-American man, Mehcad Brooks should be shielding women from abuse and working to foster new generations of good men."
Day Gardner, a former Miss Delaware and president of the National Black Pro-Life Union, was equally horrified.
"I found it totally disgusting. It turned my stomach. I thought the whole thing was very demonic because he's sitting there as a member of the black community and we have the highest abortion rate. As a man, he's a bad example when the black community has such a problem with its men stepping up to be the fathers their children need. This is so evil and so wrong on many levels.
Think of Planned Parenthood as a health provider? Here's the real story, in "Planned Bullyhood."
"Every time he said the word 'baby,'" Gardner emphasized, "I kept seeing all the babies that were tortured and brutally killed since the Roe v. Wade ruling. More than 55 million children have been killed and this idiot is laughing."
"In the 40 years since Roe v. Wade was set down, more than 55 million unborn children have been killed while that many mothers were wounded by abortion," Marjorie Dannenfelser, founder and president of the Susan B. Anthony List, told WND. "Ask the post-abortive women who stood on the steps of the Supreme Court yesterday if the abortion they now painfully regret was sexy or romantic.
"The Center for Reproductive Rights and Mehcad Brooks should be ashamed for attempting to glamorize abortion in this way – women deserve better," she said.
In fact, Feminists for Life wrote the slogan, "Women deserve better than abortion."
Lila Rose, whose organization Live Action exposes the abortion chain Planned Parenthood with sting videos, shared the same reaction as her sister activists.
She told WND, "As abortion supporters celebrate Roe as a romantic anniversary, I have to think about the 56 million children who will never celebrate an anniversary with anyone. It's beyond disrespectful to draw the line with Mehcad Brooks and make a joke out of the violent deaths of millions of unborn children."
Rose also is disgusted because millions of mothers and fathers mourn the loss of their children to abortion.
"This video represents an all-time low for the pro-abortion movement," Janet Morana told WND. She's executive director of Priests for Life, co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign and author of the new book "Recall Abortion."
"It's misogynistic and exploitive," said Morana. "Even worse, it's making a joke of something as serious as abortion. Treating this issue so cavalierly is really insulting, not only to the pro-life movement but to all women. I can't imagine this will appeal to even the most ardent abortion supporters."
Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa, a founder of New Wave Feminists, went right to Brooks.
"I actually went and commented on this guy's Facebook, as many in my group are doing, just thanking him for showing us what abortion really is: the selfish and unapologetic exploitation of women."
As for the real "Jane Roe" toasted by Brooks, Norma McCorvey is now a Catholic pro-lifer who has mourned being used to decriminalize abortion.
In 2005, she petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear McCorvey v. Hill, an effort to expose the fraud in Roe v. Wade and reveal the harmful effects of abortion on women. That same year, after the court rejected her appeal, McCorvey testified before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
"I am the woman once known as the Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade. But I dislike the name Jane Roe and all that it stands for. I am a real person named Norma McCorvey and I want you to know the horrible and evil things that Roe v. Wade did to me and others. I never got the opportunity to speak for myself in my own court case," she told the Senate.
"It is like a living hell knowing that you have had a part to play, though in some sense I was just a pawn of the legal system. But I have had to accept my role in the deaths of millions of babies and the destruction of women's lives," McCorvey said.
She appears in the movie Doonby," which will be screened for free in Washington, D.C., before and after the 2013 March for Life.

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Sleep training is the process of helping a baby learn to get to sleep and stay asleep through the night.
Some babies seem to develop a regular sleep routine quickly and easily. But many others have trouble
settling down to sleep — or getting back to sleep when they've been wakened — and they need help
and guidance along the way.
When can I start and what are the stages of sleep training?
The first three months
Don't try to impose a sleep schedule or training program on a newborn. Your new baby will need to feed
every few hours, around the clock, so it's normal and healthy for him to sleep for just a few hours at a
time. Respond promptly to his cries, feed and comfort him, and try to sleep when he does to minimize
your own sleep deprivation.
Beginning at about 6 weeks, you can reinforce your child's biological rhythms by establishing a regular
bedtime routine. At about the same time every night, for instance, give him a warm bath, read him a
book, and then feed him before putting him to bed. (For more ideas, see our article on bedtime
routines.) Try to get your baby up at around the same time every morning and put him down for naps at
the same point in the day.
At this stage, consider your routine and your baby's sleep schedule as a work in progress: During the first
three months of life, your baby will gradually sleep more at night and less during the day. You'll need to
keep adjusting the schedule as your baby matures and develops.
4 to 6 months and beyond
Typically, by age 3 months or so, babies have started to develop more of a regular sleep/wake pattern
and have dropped most of their night feedings. And somewhere between 4 and 6 months, experts say,
most babies are ready for sleep training and are capable of sleeping through the night for a stretch of 8
to 12 hours.
Of course, every baby is different: Some may be ready earlier, others later. And some will sleep seven
hours or longer at an early age while others won't do so until they're much older.
Before starting sleep training, make sure your baby doesn't have any medical conditions that affect his
sleep. Then be flexible about how you apply your chosen program and carefully observe how your baby
reacts. If he's very resistant or you see a change for the worse in his overall mood and behavior, stop
and wait a few weeks before trying again.
If you're not sure whether your baby's ready for sleep training, ask your doctor.


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Featured News - Current News - Archived News - News Categories
Assemblyman John Ceretto, along with ECMC Lifeline Foundation, Western New York Breast Health, and the National Witness Project, are sponsoring a mammogram screening event at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Niagara Falls from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 26. The screenings will be performed in Western New York Breast Health's mobile mammography coach. These screenings are specifically intended for people who may not otherwise be able to obtain a screening.
"Breast cancer is devastating to women and their families. However, it is also entirely treatable if caught early enough. Regular mammograms are a life-saving defense against breast cancer," Ceretto said. "Since it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I encourage any woman who needs a mammogram to call Western New York Breast Health and make an appointment."
"I am encouraged by the effort Assemblyman Ceretto is putting in to get the word out about our mobile breast cancer screenings. Early detection saves lives. Mammograms have proven to be very effective and valuable in decreasing death from breast cancer. We are grateful to be a part of a service that helps our community. I thank Assemblyman Ceretto and Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church for being a gracious host for our screenings," said Kathleen Michienzi of Western New York Breast Health.
"It is an honor to service the people of the Niagara Falls community. I am grateful to the National Witness Project for their diligence in health and wellness in this area. We are more than happy to open our doors to the community, especially for a cause such as this. Far too many men and women die from breast cancer every year due to late detection. It is our prayer that this screening will save lives," said Pastor Timothy J. Brown Sr. of Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church.
To schedule a mammogram, call Western New York Breast Health at 716-632-7465. Screenings will be done by appointment only. Those without health insurance should still call, as Western New York Breast Health will help find coverage for the mammogram.


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Admission Staff Wants You to Know...
- Hamilton has always been and will continue to be a SCHOOL OF OPPORTUNITY. That's why Hamilton is need-blind for all domestic applicants. Alexander Hamilton — the first secretary of the treasury and a tremendous success story — embodies this ideal and is the perfect namesake for our College. Remaining a school of opportunity is a matter we take seriously.
- We still believe that EARLY DECISION (ED), when applied correctly, can serve both students and colleges well. While it is true that our acceptance rate for ED is slightly higher than Regular Decision and about 48 percent of any incoming first-year class may have applied ED, our ED applications represent only 12 percent of our total application pool and our ED acceptance offers represent only 17 percent of our total number of acceptances. We're upfront with families about our ED philosophy and welcome any questions you may have.
- We are SAT OPTIONAL, but not test optional. There are three main reasons that we initiated this approach in 2001:
We wanted to have every opportunity to attract, accept and yield academically talented students with a wide variety of strengths and from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds;
- Our faculty wanted to reduce the pressure on the Admission Office to admit or exclude students solely on the basis of test scores (given that they are a measure so many guidebooks and rankings weigh heavily);
- It is our hope that de-emphasizing the SAT will reduce the number of families that invest emotional energy and financial resources in test prep and coaching.
- Perhaps most compelling, since we launched this policy, our studies have found that Hamilton students who used tests other than the SAT to fulfill our testing requirement (and were admitted and enrolled) have slightly higher GPAs at Hamilton than their counterparts who submitted the SAT. So, you might ask, why require testing at all? Given that fewer high schools are ranking their students, and that there are great inconsistencies in grading practices and high school curricula, we still believe that standardized testing has a place in selective college admission. However, we continue to believe that our students are best served by being provided with a variety of ways to meet our testing requirement.
- Hamilton decided to ELIMINATE MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS in fall of 2008. This is the result of an extensive planning effort to reallocate more dollars toward need-based financial aid, to ensure our ongoing commitment to meet the full need of all students we admit, and to remain a school of opportunity (see #1). We are fortunate to have a generous $44 million financial aid budget, but we are also aware that we will need more money in the future — and we will do everything possible to protect this legacy.
- We still value the PERSONAL INTERVIEW. When possible, advise your students to come to the interview prepared to talk about themselves and their interest in Hamilton. Many of our interviews are conducted by our senior admission interns, and, contrary to popular belief, they do a better job than we do. (Really. They convert a higher percentage of students to apply than our admission officers.)
- You know we get paid to say nice things about Hamilton. Frankly, we would anyway. But if you don't want to listen to us, hear it from our community. At least at this point, we are the only college we know of with a social media aggregator – bringing together authentic voices – on The Scroll. See for yourself, and note the pun in that name, for a school that values writing!
- We offer JANUARY ADMISSION to a limited number of first-year students, usually 45. We typically offer this option to students we'd love to have at Hamilton, but for whom we have run out of spots. Students who choose the January option can explore other opportunities in the fall, most of which include taking classes, and then join us here on College Hill for their second semester — not at all behind their classmates academically, and in some ways ahead (well, at least a little more worldly).
- A key component of the Hamilton experience is the College's OPEN, YET RIGOROUS CURRICULUM. In place of distribution requirements that are common at most liberal arts colleges, Hamilton gives its students the freedom to choose the courses that reflect their unique interests and plans while also encouraging them to take responsibility — with lots of close faculty interaction and support — for their own education.
As much as we believe thinking for oneself is important (thus our curriculum), so, too, is the ability to communicate those thoughts effectively. Writing is the one skill we aren't flexible about. All students take three writing-intensive courses before they graduate — woven into the fabric of the curriculum across disciplines. AT HAMILTON, WORDS MATTER.
- Need help demonstrating to your (and hopefully our) families that a liberal arts education is a good investment? Peruse this sampling of what some HAMILTON ALUMNI are doing today.
- A longtime Hamilton professor once said, "IT'S A SMALL WORLD AND CLINTON IS AT THE CENTER OF IT." Hamilton is located in the quaint, New England-style village of Clinton, N.Y., in the foothills of the Adirondacks and just minutes from a variety of shopping, dining, recreational opportunities and outdoor activities. Several restaurants — Tex-Mex, BBQ, good Chinese food, a few (of course) pizza places, two coffee houses, a bakery and the best veggie ravioli money can buy … believe it or not, we have it all nearby. Amtrak is 20 minutes from campus, one international airport is less than an hour away (Syracuse), and another is just 90 minutes away (Albany). We're within four hours of New York City and Boston, and just five from Toronto. Clean air, a great view and easy access to the rest of the world. What's not to like?


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"The Glass Kitchen is a charming story of sisters, cooking, and starting over. Portia moves to New York City to be with her sisters after a humiliating divorce from a rising political star in Texas. Like her beloved grandmother, Portia is gifted with 'The Knowing' -- an ability to 'see' a meal that she must cook, even though she does not know who the meal is for or what the circumstances might be. This is a warm and magical tale of love, family, and forgiveness -- with some delicious recipes included!"
— Patricia Worth, River Reader LLC, Lexington, MO
Three sisters move from Texas to New York City to open a restaurant in this novel about food, family, and finding true love from the author of Emily & Einstein.
Portia Cuthcart never intended to leave Texas. Her dream was to run the Glass Kitchen restaurant her grandmother built decades ago. But after a string of betrayals and the loss of her legacy, Portia is determined to start a new life with her sisters in Manhattan...and never cook again. But when she moves into a dilapidated brownstone on the Upper West Side, she meets twelve-year-old Ariel and her widowed father Gabriel, a man with his hands full trying to raise two daughters on his own. Soon, a promise made to her sisters forces Portia back into a world of magical food and swirling emotions, where she must confront everything she has been running from. What seems so simple on the surface is anything but when long-held secrets are revealed, rivalries exposed, and the promise of new love stirs to life like chocolate mixing with cream.


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Component parameters
From Joomla! Documentation
The "J1.5" namespace is an archived namespace. This page contains information for a Joomla! version which is no longer supported. It exists only as a historical reference, it will not be improved and its content may be incomplete and/or contain broken links.
This article is written for Joomla! 1.5 and is therefore not entirely applicable to version 1.6 and later. In particular, it uses JParameter which has been superseded by JForm (see Standard form field types). Also, the
DS constant (to be used instead of
/ in path names) has been removed.
- 1 Background
- 2 Types of Component parameter
- 3 Storing the parameters and their values.
- 4 Accessing the parameters - Back-end
- 5 Accessing the parameters - frontend
One thing that sets Joomla! Components apart from other types of Extension (i.e. Modules and Plugins) is the ability to store significant quantities of data in the Joomla! MySQL database. Typically, this data will be content for displaying on a page (such as the content of an article, or its title) or data about how that content should be displayed (e.g. a setting specifying whether or not the title should be shown). A Component normally creates at least one table in the database to store this data - for example, data for articles associated with the
com_content Component are stored in the
jos_content table (where jos is the table prefix for the site).
However, choosing exactly how to store each item of data requires a little more thought. There are essentially two choices: each data item may be stored in its own field, or a collection of data items may be stored within a single parameters field. (Of course, there is nothing to stop you making use of both methods, for different data items, within the same component). Which approach you use for a given data item is largely a matter of personal choice, although there are some factors to consider:
- Core code included in the Joomla! installation makes it very easy to produce the appropriate form elements for entering data into parameters in the Back-end. If you choose to save the data in separate fields, you will need to code the appropriate form elements yourself.
- Again, Joomla! core code allows you to set default values for parameters across the whole component. Individual component items (e.g. individual articles) can then choose to use the default values, or to override them with values specific to that item. See below for details of how to do this.
- It is not possible to extract individual parameter values directly from the database. Instead, the whole parameters field must be extracted and parsed to obtain the different parameter values. This means that it is not very easy, for example, to run MySQL queries that search for a parameter with a particular value. Any data that you want to run queries against should be given its own table field.
- Similarly, it is not possible to run data validation on parameter fields before saving data.
In general, parameters are conventionally used to store data relating to the presentation of information. The information itself is generally stored in separate fields.
Types of Component parameter
1. Component-wide default parameters
These parameters are set once for the whole Component, and are generally used to provide the 'default' parameter settings for the Component on that particular site.
2. Menu item specific parameters
A menu link to an individual Component item (e.g. an article) can also have parameters associated with it, which can affect the way the Component item is displayed using that link. The types of parameters available will depend on the way that the Component item is displayed (the 'view' in MVC terms, but don't worry if this doesn't mean anything to you!). However, the precise values of those parameters can be set for each menu link individually. If there is another menu link to that same Component item, then it is important to realise each menu link may have different parameter values, and so the same article may be displayed differently in the two cases.
A menu link can also override the Component-wide default parameters, so that the override values (if set) are used in place of the default values for that Component item when accessed via that menu link. As you would expect, when no override value is set, the default value is used instead, in the normal manner.
3. 'Article' specific parameters
Finally, each Component item (e.g. article) can have parameters which apply to that item, regardless of how it is accessed (i.e. via any available menu link, or even without reference to a menu at all!). If the Component designer wants, the article specific parameters can also be set up to use the 'override' behaviour, so that they default to the current values of the corresponding Component-wide parameters, though this is not essential. Again, this is described further below.
Storing the parameters and their values.
In general, a set of parameters is stored within the database in a single
text field.
In Joomla! 2.5 these are stored as a JSON key:value string.
In Joomla 1.5 Different parameters are separated by
newline characters ('
\n' in MySQL - each parameter will appear on a different line when you look at the data in something like phpMyAdmin). Each parameter consists of the parameter name and value, separated by an equals sign (=). As an example:
Here, parameter1, parameter3, and parameter4 have all been assigned values, whilst parameter2 has no value. Typically, a parameter will be given no value where it is set up to allow override of a default value, but 'no override is required' - i.e. it is desired to use the default value.
1. Component-wide default parameters
In Joomla! 2.5 these are stored in the
params field of the #__extensions table, in the row corresponding to the particular component to which they apply.
In Joomla! 1.5 these are stored in the
params field of the jos_components table, in the row corresponding to the particular component to which they apply.
2. Menu item specific parameters
These are stored in the
params field of the jos_menu table, in the row corresponding to the particular menu item to which they apply.
3. 'Article' specific parameters
These are stored in a text field in the table created by the Component. Whilst there is no strict rule for naming the field, it is common to extend the above pattern using the
params name. However, com_content stores article parameters in a field called
Accessing the parameters - Back-end
Joomla! includes some shortcuts to enable component creators to easily add parameter forms to the Back-end of their component. These forms allow a site administrator to enter a parameter value by, for example, entering some text in a box, choosing from a drop-down list, or selecting a radio button. To create these forms, each parameter needs to have an associated
<param /> object in an XML file. The type of
<param /> object determines the form elements that will be shown in the Back-end. A list of the available form elements is given here. More information is given below about the XML file names, structure and location required for each set of parameters.
1. Component-wide default parameters
These can be created at installation of the Component, by including
<param /> elements in the installation XML file (typically called COMPONENT_NAME.xml, and located in the root folder of the Component package. As far as the parameters are concerned, this XML file has the following structure:
<param />
<!-- Example: the following will create a line in the parameters field
reading 'font_size=16\n': -->
<param name="font_size" default="16" />
<url addpath="....">
<param />
<param /> element must be given the attributes
name and
default, which define the parameter name and value respectively. These values are then copied to the jos_components table in the database.
However, on its own this is not very useful, as it doesn't allow users to change the values of the parameters. To do this, parameter form elements need to be defined in a file named
config.xml which is located in
/PATH_TO_JOOMLA/administrator/components/com_COMPONENT_NAME/. The file should have the following structure:
<url addpath="/administrator/components/com_COMPONENT_NAME/elements">
<param name="cid" type="JELEMENT_TYPE_NAME" scope="com_COMPONENT_NAME" default="0" label="LABEL" description="DESCRIPTION" />
<param type="type" name="name" description="description" />
<!-- Example: the following will produce a text box 3 characters wide with the label 'Font size:'.
When the user hovers the mouse over the label, a tooltip will pop up which states 'Please enter the
required font size'. On saving, a value entered into the text box will be saved as the 'font_size'
parameter value. -->
<param type="text" name="font_size" size="3" label="Font size:" description="Please enter the required font size" />
Note that the
<root> element can have any name you wish, but there must be one element at the root of the document (this is a requirement for a well-formed XML document). You can have more than one
<params> element, but only the first one will be considered. It is not currently possible to group certain parameter form elements together.
<url> section contains parameters which are added to the URL of the menu item. To enable this functionality, the
type attribute of the
<param> elements must specify the name of a class which extends JElement, and is able to generate HTML forms to display and set the parameter. You can use one of the Standard parameter types. Or, you can create your own subclass of JElement. Put the class definition file in your component's
/administrator/components/com_COMPONENT_NAME/ directory, and refer to this path in the
addpath attribute of the
<URL> element. More information here: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=476&t=206062.
So that administrators to access these parameters, you will need to add a button to the toolbar in the Back-end of your component. This can be done using the code:
JToolBarHelper::preferences( 'com_COMPONENT_NAME' );
// e.g. for the core Content component, you would use JToolBarHelper::preferences( 'com_content' );
which is typically placed in the PHP file responsible for the Back-end output. (For example, using an MVC structure, you might place this code at the top of
This adds a
Parameters button to the toolbar:
Clicking on the toolbar button produces a pop-up window containing the form fields for each parameter defined in
Note that there is no need to define
default attributes for the
<param /> elements in the
config.xml file, since the default values will already have been saved in the installation of the Component.
2. Menu item specific parameters
A menu item is associated with a particular view from your Component's Front-end - following the menu link in the Front-end will display that view. Joomla! 1.5 allows you to define parameters for a particular view, so that a copy of those parameters can be associated with each menu item using the view. In addition, you can also choose to override the Component-wide default parameters defined as above, so that the override values will apply to the particular menu item.
The view parameters are defined in an XML file stored in the Front-end view output template directory. (This is not to be confused with the site Template directory, which is different!). The XML file has the same name as the layout used with the template. For most applications you will be using the default layout. Thus the path to the XML file is something like:
/PATH_TO_JOOMLA/components/com_COMPONENT_NAME/views/VIEW_NAME/tmpl/default.xml. The structure of the file is:
<param />
<param />
<param />
See Standard parameter types for a full list of the core parameter types. (You can use these types within a
<url> section without needing to supply an
addpath attribute.)
Displaying the forms for these parameters is handled automatically by the core
com_menus component, which creates a number of slider panes on the right hand side (at least when viewed using the default Khepri backend site Template) of the menu item edit screen. Any parameters defined within the
<params> or
<url> tags will appear in the
Parameters - Basic slider pane. Any parameters defined within the
<advanced> tag will appear in the
Parameters - Advanced slider pane.
The following screenshot shows the menu admin page for the Category 'List' layout. You can see that the
Parameters - Basic slider pane is open, and contains form elements for five parameters. There are no 'Advanced' parameters for this view, and so the
Parameters - Advanced slider pane is not shown:
For the override of the Component-wide default parameters,
com_menus uses the same
config.xml file as above, so there is no need to define these parameters again. The override forms are automatically added to a slider pane named
Parameters - Component. However, there are a number of changes from the forms used in the Preferences pop-up window (despite being based on the same
config.xml file):
- Any
<param type="radio" />parameter is shown not as a radio button form field, but by a drop-down list.
- All drop-down lists (both those defined as such in
config.xml, and those defined as radio buttons) are given an extra option. This extra option displays the text "Use Global" but has an associated value of an empty string. The "Use Global" option is set as the default option for the list. Thus, by default, these parameters will use the Component-wide default values, rather than overriding them. (However, note that any text box fields defined with a default value in
config.xmlretain that default value, and so will override the component-wide default value if that is different).
3. 'Article' specific parameters
These are defined in an XML file which can be stored anywhere you like, but is typically placed within the
models folder of the Component Back-end (if you are using an MVC structure) and named according to the model to which they apply, i.e.
PATH_TO_JOOMLA/administrator/components/com_COMPONENT_NAME/models/MODEL_NAME.xml. The XML file has the following structure:
<param />
<params group="GROUP_NAME">
<param />
As above, you can give the
<root> element whatever name you wish. You can also have as many
<params> groups as you like, though each group must have a
group attribute with a different
GROUP_NAME. If there are two or more
<params> groups with the same
GROUP_NAME, only the last one in the list will be considered.
To display the forms for these parameters in the Back-end of your Component, you will need to do a little work yourself. Firstly, you need to access the saved parameter data from the database. For this, you will need to identify both the location of the stored parameters data in the database, and the XML file that you are using to define the parameter form fields. Assuming that you have already created a
$row variable to hold your component item (i.e. 'article') data, that the parameters data is stored in the
params field of the
$row, and that the XML file is located in the models folder as specified above, you could use the following code:
$paramsdata = $row->params;
$paramsdefs = JPATH_COMPONENT.DS.'models'.DS.'MODEL_NAME.xml';
$params = new JParameter( $paramsdata, $paramsdefs );
$this->assignRef('params', $params);
This code is typically placed in the View file (e.g. view.html.php) within the corresponding folder.
To display the parameters forms in slider panes (in the same way that they are displayed in the menu item Back-end), you should use the following code in the template file (e.g.
$pane =& JPane::getInstance( 'sliders' );
echo $pane->startPane( 'content-pane' );
// First slider panel
// Create a slider panel with a title of SLIDER_PANEL_1_TITLE and a title id attribute of SLIDER_PANEL_1_NAME
echo $pane->startPanel( JText::_( 'SLIDER_PANEL_1_TITLE' ), 'SLIDER_PANEL_1_NAME' );
// Display the parameters defined in the <params> group with no 'group' attribute
echo $this->params->render( 'params' );
echo $pane->endPanel();
//Second slider panel
// Create a slider panel with a title of SLIDER_PANEL_2_TITLE and a title id attribute of SLIDER_PANEL_2_NAME
echo $pane->startPanel( JText::_( 'SLIDER_PANEL_2_TITLE' ), 'SLIDER_PANEL_2_NAME' );
// Display the parameters defined in the <params> group with the 'group' attribute of 'GROUP_NAME'
echo $this->params->render( 'params', 'GROUP_NAME' );
echo $pane->endPanel();
// Repeat for each additional slider panel required
echo $pane->endPane();
In order to save the parameters to the database you have to overload the bind() function which can be found in
function bind($array, $ignore = '')
if (key_exists( 'params', $array ) && is_array( $array['params'] ))
$registry = new JRegistry();
$array['params'] = $registry->toString();
return parent::bind($array, $ignore);
Accessing the parameters - frontend
The Front-end situation is a bit more complex than the Back-end. The 'standard' way to deal with parameters in the Front-end is to set up a cascade of overrides, as described above:
Item-specific overrides Menu-specific overrides Component-default
If you don't want to do this, then a little extra work is required
With overrides
The following code will access the Component-wide default parameters, already overridden with those for the menu item (if applicable):
$params = &JComponentHelper::getParams( 'COMPONENT_NAME' );
// e.g. for the com_weblinks component, you would use:
// $params = &JComponentHelper::getParams( 'com_weblinks' )
In an MVC structure, this code would be placed in the
view.html.php file for the particular view required.
Assuming that the item parameters are stored in the
params field, and that the particular item has been loaded into the
$row object by the method, you would then add in the item parameters to the
$params object using:
$params->merge( new JParameter( &$row->params ) );
Note that, in both cases (i.e. overrides by menu-specific parameters, and overrides by item-specific parameters), we aren't just doing overrides - we also add in any new parameters that weren't found in the defaults. In other words, the
$params object ends up with all the parameters we need!
To access the value of a specific parameter, we would use:
$params->get( 'PARAMETER_NAME' );
// e.g. to obtain the value of 'parameter1', we use:
// $params->get( 'parameter1' );
It is important to realise that any
merge carried out is persistent, so the following code (where for example you have an array containing the parameters sets for several items, and you want the parameters for each item to individually override the defaults) would not produce the result you might expect:
foreach ($itemparamsgroup as $itemparams)
$params = &JComponentHelper::getParams( 'COMPONENT_NAME' );
$params->merge( $itemparams );
echo $params->get( 'PARAMETER_NAME' );
In such cases, you will need to use the non-override method, and then force the overrides manually, as described below.
Without overrides
There will be cases where you don't want to use the default override pattern. For example, you may want to ignore the menu-specific parameters, and have only the item-specific parameters overriding the defaults. This is a little more difficult to accomplish, although it can still be done.
You can access the Component-wide default parameter values, without the menu overrides, as follows:
$component = JComponentHelper::getComponent( 'COMPONENT_NAME' );
$params = new JParameter( $component->params );
If you want to override these with the menu parameters, but without the 'persistence' effect described above, you can:
$menuitemid = JRequest::getInt( 'Itemid' );
if ($menuitemid)
$menu = JSite::getMenu();
$menuparams = $menu->getParams( $menuitemid );
$params->merge( $menuparams );
You can access the item parameters as before, and choose whether to merge them in using the code above, or simply store them in a separate object:
$itemparams = new JParameter( $row->params );
You can combine this code to achieve the effect that you want. For example, you could override the Component-wide defaults with the item-specific parameters, but ignore those for the menu. Or you could use the menu-specific parameters in some circumstances, and the item-specific ones in others. [Whenever you depart from the standard approach, though, you should be careful that you inform your users how your Component works. Users will expect your component to work the same way as those from the Joomla! core, so you should have a good reason for departing from this approach.]
Accessing the value of a particular parameter is done in the same way as described above.


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cubewebsolutions needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 62 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
We have mocked up the logo listed in the brief for a small accounting firm in Australia, and need to have something a bit more professional looking designed. Would prefer to use the same colurs.
Would like a logo designed based on the logo here:
The branding is M B WYATT with that exact spacing between the letters.
The name of the business is MB Wyatt Accounting & Taxation. The domain name is http://www.mbwyatt.com.au.
- Item 1...New logo based on the artwork supplied.
- Must be conservative as this is a financial/accounting company
- Using the same colours, but if feel free to be creative.. maybe purple, silver...
- The artwork, if sufficient, will also need to be used to translate to a business card at a later date.
- Will require the hex colour codes to use as colour palette for website as well.
- Anything too flashy or hard to read.
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Welcome to VCA Forest South Animal Hospital. We are a full-service veterinary care facility located in University Park, Illinois. We treat dogs, cats, and exotic animals, which includes birds, reptiles and pocket pets, such as rats and hamsters. We are open 7 days a week with extended business hours - appointments recommended.
In addition to our full veterinary services, we offer alternative therapies such as stem cell therapy, acupuncture, and chiropractic care, as well as boarding, grooming, and daycare.
The friendly, professional team at VCA Animal Hospital is made up of dedicated individuals who have made it their mission and life's work to help pets live long, healthy lives. To be true to this mission, the hospital team relies on many individuals; each team member is equally important in helping us deliver the best experience for both you and your pet. And if things get complicated, we are fortunate to have access to...
Our hearts go out to all the pets and people in California who have been affected by the devastating Camp, Hill and Woolsey Fires.
In conjunction with VCA Charities, VCA Animal Hospitals are raising funds to support animal relief efforts and organizations across California. In addition, select VCA hospitals are offering free boarding for pets displaced by the fires so that their families can focus on other priorities at this time.
Please donate when you visit one of our hospitals, or online by visiting vcacharities.org/donations/.
At VCA Animal Hospitals, your pet's health is our top priority, provided through high-quality, professional care and genuine personal service. We pledge to instill client trust and confidence that your pet will always receive compassionate, gentle care, as well as the highest standard of veterinary medical service available. We pledge to provide the finest personal service and facilities for you, our clients and your special pets.
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Featuring twin front wheels that automatically lean when cornering, the new Tricity delivers scooter-like agility combined with enhanced confidence and an increased feeling of stability. With a strong focus on riding enjoyment, ease of use and affordability, Yamaha's Tricity is equipped to transform the daily lives of urban commuters throughout Australia.
The Tricity development team has focused on creating a future-proof concept that offers an attractive and realistic alternative for today's urban commuters. The key targets for the Tricity are set as follows:
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profilicus is spammer. It's been spamming me with private messages to fake phishing sites.
Just a head's up.
Essorant wrote:Whence will he get new moderators?
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I have recommended about 10 people who have (1) been here a while, (2) are still seen regularly and (3) seem sensible, and a few others whom I see somewhat less often, or whom I have reason to believe might be strapped for time, but might still make good mods. Once people have been contacted and consented to be mods, I'll be retiring my moderatorship.


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Strategic Tech Slideshow: 10 Tech Firms For CIOs to Watch
By Don Reisinger | Posted 08-01-2012
As the technology needs of the enterprise continue to shift - buffeted by trends such as consumerization and bring-your-own-device (BYOD), big data, cloud and security challenges - so too do the strategies of the leading tech vendors as they try to accommodate customer needs. We've seen major strategic shifts at Dell, while HP and Research in Motion have been weathering major market challenges to their business models and products. Here's a look at the state of affairs at 10 major enterprise tech players today - some of them tried-and-true and others enterprise newcomers that are looking to step in and help CIOs and other IT leaders address the latest trends.
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Ultimate Support - Chrome Collection
Get some serious stage presence with this Custom Chrome series of mic stands from Ultimate Support. Great for rockabilly slickness, the shock value of Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson or impact of show stopping rappers like Eminem and Ice T.
Being chrome they are resistant to wear and corrosion, with the included gig bag then you have a stand for life. Ultimate Support have incorporated their 'one hand height adjustment mechanism' for no hassle on-stage adjustment.


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The Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) was established by the U.S. Congress in December 2000 as an independent federal agency. VEF's primary purpose is to promote the bilateral relationship between the United States and Vietnam through educational exchanges, both for Vietnamese nationals to pursue graduate and post-graduate studies in the United States in the sciences (natural, physical, and environmental), engineering, mathematics, medicine (including public health), and technology (including information technology), and for American citizens to teach in the same fields of study in Vietnam.
The VEF U.S. Faculty Scholar Program addresses the stated goal by having U.S. faculty teach courses in English at Vietnamese universities either on-site in Vietnam or by interactive, real-time videoconferencing from the United States. VEF serves as the organizer and sponsor for this project while the Vietnamese host institutions and the cooperating U.S. institutions serve as co-sponsors through their support. VEF selects prominent U.S. scientists and faculty to evaluate the applications.
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Building and Library Hours
The new hours for the FALL SEMESTER
will begin on MONDAY, AUGUST 16,
The building and library hours are as follows:
Sunday 9:45 am - 11:15 pm
Monday-Thursday 7:15 am - 11:15 pm
Friday 7:15 am - 9:45 pm
Saturday 8:15 am - 8:15 pm
Sunday 10:00 am - 11:00 pm
Monday-Thursday 8:00 am - 11:00 pm
Friday 8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Saturday 9:00 am - 8:00 pm
Regular Fall building hours and library hours will be in
effect from SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28,
thru FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3.
Beginning SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4
thru MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, the library and building
hours will be extended to accommodate students during the
exam period. The hours are as follows:
Sunday 9:30 am - 11:15 pm
Monday-Thursday 7:15 am - 11:15 pm
Friday 7:15 am - 11:00 pm (Friday, 12/17 only, building
open to 11:15 pm)
Saturday 7:30 am - 10:15 pm
Sunday 10:00 am - 11:00 pm
Monday-Thursday 8:00 am - 11:00 pm (Monday, 12/20, the library
will close at 6:00pm)
Friday 8:00 am - 10:00 pm (Friday, 12/17 only, library open
to 11:15 pm)
Saturday 9:00 am - 10:00 pm
Building and Library Hours
Tuesday, Dec. 21 through Thursday, Dec. 23
Building 7:30am - 5:30pm Library 9:00am - 5:00pm
Friday, Dec. 24 through Sunday, Dec. 26
Building Closed Library
Monday, Dec. 27 through Wednesday, Dec. 29
Building 7:30am - 5:30pm Library Closed
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Monday, Jan. 3 through Friday, Jan. 7
Building 7:15am - 10:00pm Library 9:00am - 5:00pm
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Regular Building and Library hours will resume on Tuesday,
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All Payroll Authorizations (PAs) must be completed in the
Online Electronic Student Payroll System. The University
will no longer accept a paper PA for hiring Student
U.S. Citizens
Required paperwork for new students who have never worked
for the University:
Required paperwork for rehiring students who have worked
for the University:
All forms can also be obtained from the Office of Administration
and Finance, Suite 265.
**Budgetary Approval is the responsibility of the hiring
Note: All paperwork MUST
be completed and submitted to the Office of Administration
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of employment. For a student to perform a service without
proper employment authorization is a violation. Both the
individual and the employer are subject to possible sanctions
by the Department of Labor and/or the INS.
International Students
Hiring General Eligibility Requirements:
International Students With SSN
Documents needed to complete the employment packet:
All original hard copies of the
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and Finance, DTC 265, to be copied and forwarded to the
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NOTE: International
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employees who are newly hired or will continue to work for
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Use "sub"-Account "6307" for NON-WORK
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processing before anyone begins working for you. There have
been a few recent cases in which the required paperwork
was submitted after the student/PT Temp began working. This
puts the institution at risk with the federal government
and could result in the possible termination of federal
financial aid. Therefore, please be sure to adhere to this
critical policy.
The student pay rate will remain at $10.00 per hour.
Use 12/31/2010 for ALL International Students, if a student
is a December 2010 graduate and/or if you are unsure whether
to hire him/her through the end of the school year. (A new
Payroll Authorization must be done each term for international
Use 5/31/2011 if you want to hire students for the entire
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during the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters. IIT approved
Community Service positions are funded 100% by the federal
government and are NOT available for hiring of faculty research
assistants or general departmental employment.
General FWS
Faculty research assistants and general departmental employment
for FWS eligible students can be hired at 50% FWS funding
and 50% faculty/departmental funding during the Fall and
Spring semesters only. The reason that the general work
study split is different than last year (75% FWS/25% dept)
is because FWS support from the federal government was significantly
less than previous year levels.
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INTERPARK, INC. located
at 525 West Monroe (entrance
on CLINTON between Adams and Monroe) is offering
discounted parking rates $13
per 12-hour day for members of the DTC community.
STANDARD PARKING located
at PRESIDENTIAL TOWERS
continues to provide discounted parking rates $12
per 12-hour day for members of the DTC community.
IMPERIAL PARKING located
at 550 West Jackson Blvd
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member of the DTC community.
Faculty, staff and students who wish to take advantage
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for the Fall 2010 semester from:
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and the Stuart School.
located at PRESIDENTIAL TOWERS
(Rooftop Parking ONLY)
Monroe, Jefferson and Madison Streets (Enter on Jefferson)
IIT DTC Discount Daily Rate:
*$12 per 12-hour day.
*MUST be purchased in packets of 5 @ $60
Current Normal Rate: $26 per 12-hour day.
Monthly Pass: Not available.
The daily rate will be honored provided you follow these
Effective October 1, 2010 for the Fall 2010 semester.
(Spring/Summer 2010 Parking Passes will be honored through
September 30, 2010.)
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(entrance on CLINTON between Monroe & Adams)
The garage is an enclosed, heated 2-level facility.
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Toshio Shibata, Constructed Landscapes
On view April 20, 2013 to August 31, 2014
One of Japan's preeminent landscape photographers, Toshio Shibata is known for exploring the delicate balance between human-made structures and nature. Photographing erosion control barriers, water catchments, roads, dams and bridges, he examines the unique appearance of such structures in his native land. Through his lens, riverbeds can look like origami, and waterfalls resemble kimono.
This exhibition of 28 large-format works will be the artist's first solo show in an American museum since 1995 and the first time his color pictures will be shown in America.
Shibata was recently featured in a two-person show at the National Arts Center, Tokyo, and in a solo retrospective at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum.
All works are by Toshio Shibata, and appear courtesy of the artist; Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica; and Laurence Miller Gallery, New York. Black and white works are gelatin silver prints, color works are color coupler prints. Support provided by the East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum.


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Walter Isaacson's much-anticipated biography on Apple cofounder Steve Jobs gives us an amazing look into the life of one of the greatest innovators of our time.
It is worth the read perhaps as much for its insight into Jobs (early in his adult life, he often walked barefoot, even to interviews and sales meetings) as it is for the history on some of the technology that has shaped our lives.
The tech giants and their founders that played a key role in Jobs' rise to greatness ranged from Hewlett Packard to Atari to Microsoft.
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OFF SAN DIEGO, Calif – A U.S. Navy fighter jet crashed into the water off Southern California while approaching an aircraft carrier Wednesday night, the Navy said. The pilot of the F/A-18E Super Hornet ejected, was recovered and is in stable condition aboard the USS Carl Vinson, the Navy said Thursday morning.
The F/A-18E Super Hornet is based Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, according to WTKR.com.
The crash happened hours after a separate military plane went down in California: the nonfatal crash of one of the Marines' AV-8B Harriers into a neighborhood in Imperial, California.
In Wednesday night's crash in the Pacific, the Super Hornet was on approach to the Carl Vinson when it hit the water about 10 p.m. PT, the Navy said.
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All air operations aboard the Carl Vinson were suspended after the crash. The carrier had been taking part in an exercise in preparation for a deployment, the Navy said.


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Hi there everybody, I'm new to this forum, so let me first introduce myself. I'm Maurice, I'm 23 years old and I am from Holland. I am still a student (I have studied Chinese Studies and other miscellaneous courses so far), and last year I also began studying Sanskrit. As I am interested in learning ancient Greek, I would like to know if anyone here is interested in learning Sanskrit. I'm looking for a kind of language exchange (text-chat or voice chat are both fine to me) where we could teach each other the basics of Sanskrit/Greek respectively and guide each other through simple texts.
I am certainly not an expert on Sanskrit as I have only studied the language a little more than half a year in college (though pretty intensively), but I have a fair grip of the basics and the Devanagari-script. So far I've worked through Jan Gonda's A concise grammar of the Sanskrit language (I also have the German version if you prefer) and I also have Michael Coulson's Teach Yourself Complete Sanskrit which so far I can fairly handle too, except for some sandhi parts which at times can be horrible and boring to go through;besides it's better to see sandhi at work in a predictable (semantic/morphological) context. Lately we've started reading Charles Rockwell Lanman's Sanskrit Reader in college, so if you would be particularly interested I could pass on to you what I've learned in translating Nala and Damayanti's story (for the biggest part).
If you have one of these materials and/or if you have a better suggestion for working through some other online material and are struggling through learning the basics of Sanskrit I think I can help you. If you have a fair grasp of (the basics of) Ancient Greek (you don't need to be an expert either) and can help me in my pronunciation then I am very eager to have a language exchange with you. So far I only have a Dutch textbook on Greek but if necessary I'm willing to buy a Teach Yourself-book.
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text: Compassionate_Conservative Report post Posted July 29, 2007 The Red Jumpsuit ApparatusThe Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is a pop punk and post-hardcore band that formed in 2003 in Middleburg, Florida. The band consists of lead vocalist Ronnie Winter, lead guitarist Elias Reidy, bassist Joey Westwood, guitarist Duke Kitchens, and drummer Jon Wilkes; all perform back-up vocals. HistoryThe Red Jumpsuit Apparatus released their demo, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus in 2005. They then released a demo tour EP with "Ass Shaker", "Justify" and "Face Down" demo versions. Later in 2006 they released their first LP, Don't You Fake It, which was certified gold on November 27, 2006 by the RIAA for sales shipments exceeding 500,000 copies. As of February 2007, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus will be taking part in the US Take Action! Tour organized for the prevention of youth suicide. Their song "In Fate's Hands" is featured in the video game Madden NFL 07.The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus "Don't You Fake It" Deluxe Edition (CD/DVD) was released on April 3, 2007. The CD features the album and two exclusive songs, an acoustic version of "Face Down" and a never released out of Australia bonus track "Disconnected". On the DVD be a part of the RJA's real world as you meet each band member individually, as they explain the creative process that became their Gold debut album and go along to their video shoots as well. The DVD includes the Face Down and False Pretense music videos and a just filmed day in the life of RJA 2007 update, filmed on the Take Action tour. Other bonus content includes five exclusive postcards of the band, new packaging, photos, and lyrics.The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus did a concert in Fort Rucker, Alabama on May 3, 2007 to raise money for Enterprise High school, which was destroyed by a tornado on March 1, 2007. Eight people died that day and they were honored at the concert. Other local bands such as Skyline Drive, Brandon Kelly, Course Of Nature and Mayday also performed. Tickets for that concert completely sold out. EHS students were also granted free admission to the event.Members Ronnie WinterDuke KitchensElias ReidyJoey WestwoodJon Wilkes Source:Wikipedia Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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After losing a seven-run lead that cost it a chance to make the Gold Finals of the Diamondback Division, the Belleview softball team got going in its next outing.
After losing a seven-run lead that cost it a chance to make the Gold Finals of the Diamondback Division, the Belleview softball team got going in its next outing against an old foe in the Doc 4 Life Varsity Showdown.
The Rattlers, ranked No. 7 in Class 5A, earned the Silver Championship of its Division with a 7-1 win over Class 5A No. 5 Ponte Vedra, a team it knocked off in last year's state semifinals.
"We allowed one run in about 24 or 25 innings and then had those two innings (in a 10-7 loss to Clermont East Ridge) that were just odd," said Belleview coach Gary Greer. "Sometimes those type of things happen in tournament play, but overall we played pretty well over the weekend."
The tournament, which is named for the late Dr. Robert Mick, a former pitching coach at BHS, continues to grow and has become a staple of the BHS program.
"This is the 13th year that we've done and I think (Mick) would be proud to see what this tournament has become," Greer said. "It started off with eight teams and now it is up to 28 including JV teams and we've had teams in it from Tallahassee to Miami.
"He's still part of this and I know he's looking down and smiling at what this tournament has become."
In getting past Ponte Vedra, the Rattlers turned to pitcher Brooke Hale and a strong early offensive output.
Belleview scored three times in the first and Hale held the Sharks (16-5) without a run over the final six innings in a complete-game two-hitter.
Alexis Day led the Rattlers with a homer and two runs scored against Ponte Vedra, while Eryn Chester, Rachel Knowles and Linsey Hinerman added one hit and one run scored each.
Greer cited the play of Hinerman on defense, as also being critical to the win by BHS.
"We moved her to first base due to injuries and she played great," Greer said of the Seminole State signee. "I thought we played pretty good defense overall and that was a key."
Belleview (16-6) led East Ridge 7-0 and looked to be heading to the Gold Final, before the Knights rallied.
Chester (two runs scored, single), Day (double), Hale (double) and Alex Suzuki (double, two hits total) led the way for the Rattlers against East Ridge in a game that was called after five innings due to the 1 1/2 hour time limit for all games prior to the championship round.
In the Gold Finals of the Diamondback Division, Lake City Columbia knocked off Naples 7-6, which was trying to become an overall division winner for the second time in three seasons.
The Tigers, who went 3-0 in pool play, rebounded from a loss to Gainesville P.K. Yonge the night before the tournament and ran an impressive gauntlet in tournament play.
Columbia (17-4), ranked No. 5 in Class 6A, defeated three ranked teams, including North Marion 5-3 on Friday night and Ponte Vedra 2-1 on Saturday afternoon to earn its way to the finals.


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The term `Scheduled Areas has been defined in the Indian Constitution as "such areas as the President may by order declare to be Scheduled Areas". Paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution prescribes following procedure for scheduling, rescheduling and alteration of Scheduled Areas.
Scheduled Area:-
(1) In this Constitution, expression Scheduled Areas means such areas as the President may by order declare to be Scheduled Areas.
(2) The President may at any time by order.
(a) Direct that the whole or any specified part of a Scheduled Area shall cease to be a Scheduled Area or a part of such an area
(b) Increase the area ofany Scheduled Area in a State after consultation with the Governor of that State.
(c) Alter, but only by way of rectification of boundaries, any Scheduled Area.
(d) On any alteration of the boundaries of a State on the admission into the Union or the establishment of a new State, declare any territory not previously included in any State to be, or to form part of, a Scheduled Area.
(e) Rescind, in relation to any State of States, any order or orders made under this paragraph, and in consultation with the Governor of the State concerned, make fresh orders redefining the areas which are to be Scheduled Areas and any such order may contain such incidental and consequential provisions as appear to the President to be necessary and proper, but save as aforesaid, the order made under sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph shall not be varied by any subsequent order". Thus the specification of Scheduled Areas in relation to a particular State/Union Territory is by a notified Order of the President, after consultation with the State Governments concerned. The same procedure will apply while altering, increasing or rescinding any order(s) relating to Scheduled Areas.
(3) The criteria followed for declaring an area as Scheduled Area are preponderance of tribal population; compactness and reasonable size of the area; under-developed nature of the area; and marked disparity in economic standard of the people. These criteria are not spelt out in the Constitution of India but have become well established. They embody principles followed in declaring `Excluded and `Partially-Excluded Areas under the Government of India Act 1935, Schedule `B of recommendations of the Excluded and Partially Excluded Areas Sub Committee of Constituent Assembly and the Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes Commission 1961.
(4) In exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution, the President after consultation with the State governments concerned had by Orders called `the Scheduled Areas (Part A States) Order, 1950 and the Scheduled Areas (Part B States) Order 1950 set out the Scheduled Areas in the States. Further by Orders namely the Madras Scheduled Areas (Cesser) Order, 1951 and the Andhra Scheduled Areas (Cesser) Order, 1955 certain areas of the then east Godavari and Visakhapatnam districts were rescheduled. At the time of devising and adopting the strategy of Tribal sub Plan (TSP) for socioeconomic development of Scheduled Tribes during Fifth Five Year Plan (1974-79), certain areas besides Scheduled Areas, were also found having preponderance of tribal population. A review of protective measures available to the tribal of these newly identified areas vis-à-vis Scheduled Areas was made and it was observed that a systematic use of protective measures and other powers available to the executive under Fifth Schedule will help in effective implementation of the development programs in sub-Plan Areas. Therefore, in August 1976 it was decided to make the boundaries of the Scheduled Areas co-terminus with the Tribal Sub-Plan areas. Accordingly, Clause (2) of the paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule was amended vide the Constitution (Amendment) Act, 1976 to empower the President to increase the area of any Scheduled Areas in any State. Pursuant to above the President have issued from time to time Orders specifying Scheduled Areas afresh in relation to the States of Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Rajasthan. The tribal areas. In Himachal Pradesh were scheduled on 27.11.1975. While scheduling the areas in Himachal Pradesh the principle of making the sub plan and the Fifth Schedule areas coterminous was kept in view. Thus, presently the Tribal Sub-Plan areas (Integrated Tribal Development Projects/Integrated Tribal Development Agency areas only) are coterminous with Scheduled Areas in the States of Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Rajasthan. The State of Andhra Pradesh, where the Tribal Sub-Plan areas are not coterminous with Scheduled Areas, has also furnished a proposal to this effect which is under examination.


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Soon-to-be-renamed Big East conference signs long-term TV deal with CBS
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Big East conference will have a new name when it plays games on CBS.
The conference that plans to rename itself this spring has signed a deal with CBS Sports to televise basketball games through the end of the season in 2020. CBS will have the first selection from conference and nonconference games, including those played at neutral sites.
The conference did not reveal financial terms of the deal, which provides up to 12 appearances on CBS each season, half of which will be league games. Starting in 2014, the league's basketball lineup will include Connecticut, Cincinnati, Temple, South Florida, Central Florida, Houston, Memphis, SMU and Tulane.


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Diane S. Sykes (1957- )
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice (1999-2004)
Justice Sykes was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1999 and elected to a 10-year term in April 2000.
Born and raised in the Milwaukee area, Justice Sykes received her bachelor's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1980, and her law degree from Marquette University Law School in 1984. Between college and law school, Justice Sykes worked as a reporter for The Milwaukee Journal.
Justice Sykes was elected to the bench in Milwaukee County in 1992, and served there in the misdemeanor, felony and civil divisions until her appointment to the Supreme Court in September 1999. Prior to her election to the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Justice Sykes practiced law with the Milwaukee law firm of Whyte & Hirschboeck S.C., and served as law clerk to Federal Judge Terence T. Evans.
In 2004, President George W. Bush appointed Justice Sykes to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, replacing Judge John Coffey – former justice of the supreme court – who moved into "senior" status.
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We as a country have re-elected the most irresponsible president this country has ever seen.
Obama has more than doubled our national debt in his first four years in office.
We as a country have re-elected the most irresponsible president this country has ever seen.
Obama has more than doubled our national debt in his first four years in office.
He has taken our country farther down the path toward socialism.
He has publicly stated that the U.S. is not a Christian nation.
He has publicly stated that all of us who have worked hard, who have taken huge risks to start businesses and have succeeded, are just "lucky" or that "we didn't build our businesses."
He has made a mockery of the very basic moral principles that all of us adhere to.
He believes in redistribution of wealth, in same-sex marriage, in abortion on demand paid for by the taxpayer.
He has completely failed in almost all aspects of his foreign policy.
Because of his failure to send extra security to our ambassador is Syria, the ambassador is dead along with three others including a Navy SEAL.
Obama won't let our domestic energy producers move forward to energy independence even though we have enough energy resources and the technology to produce the needed energy to run this country at current energy consumption rates for 200 years.
Right now, under Obama's watch every child born in this country is inheriting more than $210,000 in debt.
What right do we have to put our children and grandchildren in debt?
This is a fiscally and morally wrong thing to do to future generations.
If we as a country are willing to re-elect such a leader, then we as a country must be willing to accept the fiscal and moral decay that comes along with it.
I am 57 years old and have been working since I was 14 — I will continue to do so because that is what I was taught by my parents.
The basic Christian principles that this country was founded on are being attacked.
The basic economic principle of "never spending more than you make" is being ignored.
I have a son who is a registered nurse.
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Rev. Samuel Edward Elrod
Rev. Samuel Edward Elrod, age 88, of Malvern was called Home on Tuesday, April 9, 2013.
He was born in Casscoe, Arkansas on January 1, 1925.
Visitation will be held at Regency Funeral Home, in Malvern, on Thursday, April 11 from 6:00-8:00pm. The Funeral Services will be at Calvary Baptist Church, in Malvern, at 10:00am on Friday, April 12. A Graveside Service will be held at Cedarcrest Memorial Gardens, in DeWitt, at 3:30pm.
Memorials can be made to Calvary Baptist Church, 1267 Ford Drive, Malvern, AR 72104.
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