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By chefmd
My son married a lovely young lady from Yakeshi, Inner Mongolia, China. Mongolian: ᠶᠠᠠᠠᠰᠢ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ (Ягши хот); Chinese: 牙克石; pinyin: Yákèshí
We had a wedding in the US but her family also wanted to have a traditional wedding in China. DH and I have never being to China so this was an exciting opportunity for us! We spent a few days in Beijing doing touristy stuff and then flew to Hailar. There is only one flight a day on Air China that we took at 6 in the morning. Yakeshi is about an hour drive from Hailar on a beautiful toll road with no cars on it. I wish we took pictures of free roaming sheep and cows along the way. The original free range meat.
The family met us at the airport. We were greeted with a shot of a traditional Chinese spirit from a traditional leather vessel. Nothing says welcome like a stiff drink at 9 AM. We were supposed to have a three shots (may be they were joking) but family took pity on us and limited it to one only.
By Panaderia Canadiense
Wow, this is my third foodblog for the eGullet…. Welcome! I'll be with you from Palm Sunday through Holy Sunday to give you all a taste of the veritable food festival that is Easter in Ecuador. As usual, I intend to eat on the streets, visit a plethora of small shops and vendors, and talk about (and eat copious amounts of ) the specialty dishes of the holiday.
A bit of background on me and where I am. I'm Elizabeth; I'm 33 years old and since the last foodblog I've ceased to be a Canadian expat in Ecuador, and become a full-fledged Ecuadorian citizen. I run a catering bakery out of Ambato, and I deliver to clients on the entire mainland. I've got a large customer base in nearby Baños de Agua Santa, a hot-springs town about an hour downslope of me to the east; I'll be visiting it on Wednesday with close to 100 kg of baked goods for delivery. Ambato, the capital of Tungurahua province, is located almost exactly in the geographic centre of Ecuador. It's at an average elevation of 2,850 meters above sea level (slightly higher than Quito, the capital) - but this is measured in the downtown central park, which is significantly lower than most of the rest of the city, which extends up the sides of the river valley and onto the high plain above. We've got what amounts to eternal late springtime weather, with two well-marked rainy seasons. Ambato has about 300,000 people in its metro area; it's the fourth largest city in the country. But maybe the most important thing about Ambato, especially to foodies, is that it's a transport hub for the country. Anything travelling just about anywhere has to pass through Ambato on the way; it gives us the largest, best-stocked food market in South America. I have simply staggering variety at my fingertips.
This view, which was a teaser for the blog, was taken from my rooftop terrazzo. It is a fraction of the panorama of the river valley that I see every morning, and since Easter is traditionally somewhat miserable weather-wise, the clouds stick to the hilltops. The barrio you can see in the middle distance is Ficoa, one of the most luxury districts in the city. Ambato is notable amongst Ecuadorian cities for having small fruit farms (300-500 m2) still operating within city limits and even within its most established barrios - it's from this that the Ambato gets one of its two sobriquets: The City of Fruits and Flowers. The tendency for even the poorest barrios to take tremendous pride in their greenspaces gives the other: The Garden City. My barrio, Miraflores Alto, is a working-class mixture of professors and labourers, and my neighbours keep a mixture of chickens, turkeys, and ducks in their yards; someone down the hill has a cow that I frequently hear but have never seen. Consequently, if the season is right I can buy duck eggs from my neighbours (and if the season is wrong, entire Muscovy ducks for roasting.)
Today, I'll be doing my largest fresh-food shopping at the Mercado Mayorista, the largest market of its kind in South America - this place covers nearly 30 square blocks, and it exists to both buy and sell produce from across the country. Sundays and Mondays it also opens up to a huge, raucous farmer's market where smaller quantities are available for purchase. Sunday is the day of the freshest food and the largest number of vendors. And I'm going to cross more than half the city to get there - I've moved since the last blog, and my new house, on the slopes of the river valley is further away than the old one on the high plain. I promise to take many pictures of this - particularly close to the High Holy days, the Mayorista is alive with vendors and there will be special sections cordoned off for sales of bacalao, truly enormous squashes, and if it follows the previous years' trends, a festival of Hornado (about which more later). Apart from mangoes, which are just finishing up their season, it is harvest time across the country, and the Mayorista will be well stocked with all manner of fruits and vegetables.
To start us off, I'll demystify one of my teasers a bit.
The Minion head that peeks out of my cupboard every day belongs to my jar of ChocoListo, the Ecuadorian equivalent of chocolate Ovaltine. Since I gave up coffee for Lent, it's my go-to morning beverage. ChocoListo normally comes in the plain white jar with orange lid that you see in front of the Minion; that's now my hot chocolate jar because I just couldn't resist when the company came out with the specialty jars. I firmly believe that one is never too old to have whimsical things!
By therese
Good morning, y'all, and welcome to the party chez Therese.
As per the teaser, this week's foodblog does indeed come to you from Atlanta, where I live with my two children (hereafter known as Girl and Boy) and husband (hereafter known as The Man). Girl is 11, Boy is 14, and The Man is old enough to know better.
Atlanta's huge: the total metro population is about 4 million, and there are no physical boundaries to growth like rivers or mountain ranges, so people just keep moving (and commuting) farther and farther out of town. Atlantans can be divided into ITP (inside the perimeter) and OTP (outside the perimeter), the perimeter referring to the interstate freeway that encircles the downtown area and surrounding neighborhoods, separating it from outlying suburbs. The politically minded may note that these areas could be designated red and blue. I'll let you figure out which is which.
We're about as ITP as it gets, with home, work, school, and restaurants all in walking distance. The neighborhood's called Druid Hills, the setting for the play/movie "Driving Miss Daisy". The houses date from the 1920s, and because Atlanta has so little in the way of "old" buildings the neighborhood's on the National Register as a Historic District. Charming, sure, buts lots of the houses need some updating, and ours (purchased in 1996) was no exception. So we remodeled last year, including an addition with a new kitchen, and this week's blog will look at the finished product.
So, some encouragement for those of you presently involved in kitchen renovation, some ideas for those who are considering it.
But never mind all that for the moment: What's for breakfast?
Dutch babies, that's what. And even better, these Dutch babies are produced by my children, the aforementioned Girl and Boy. The first picture is right from the oven, the second is after the somewhat messy job of sifting powdered sugar on top. They are delicious (the Dutch babies, I mean, not the children) and a great weekend treat.
The Man drinks coffee in the morning whereas I prefer tea. He's not up yet, having played poker last night. I'm hoping he makes it out of bed in time for dinner.
I also eat fruit whereas he prefers, well, anything but fruit. This is not such a bad thing, as it means that I don't have to share the fruit. Pomegranates are a pain to eat, but not so bad if you're reading the newspaper at the same time. This one's from California, but you can also grow them here if you've got enough sunshine (which I don't).
By Shelby
Good morning, everyone and happy Monday!
It's me again....that girl from Kansas.
This is VERY spur-of-the-moment. I was sitting here yesterday thinking of all of the canning etc. that I needed to do this week and I thought, well, why not ask you guys if you want to spend the week with me while I do it? I got the ok from Smithy so away we go!
This will not be nearly as organized as my first blog was. But, really, when does a sequel ever measure up to the first?
Most of you know all about me--if you missed my first blog you can read it here.
Nothing much has changed around here. Same furry babies, same house, same husband .
Right now we have field corn planted all around the house. In the outer fields we have soybeans that were planted after the wheat was harvested. Sorry for the blur....it was so humid the camera kept fogging up.
I just came in from the garden.
I snapped a few pictures....for more (and prettier) pictures you can look in the gardening thread. I always start out saying that I will not let a weed grow in there. By August I'm like..."Oh what's a few weeds" lol.
Here's a total list of what I planted this year:
7 cucumbers
8 basil
23 okra
4 rows assorted lettuce
20 peppers-thai, jalapeño, bell, banana
4 rows peas
5 cilantro
1 tarragon
2 dill
many many red and white onions
7 eggplant
3 rows spinach
57 tomatoes
5 cherry tomatoes
7 rows silver queen sweet corn
11 squash
4 watermelon
2 cantaloupe
6 pumpkin
I killed the cantaloupes...and I tried damn hard to kill the squash lol.....sigh...squash bugs came early this year and we sprayed with some kind of stuff. WOW the plants did not like it, but they've come back and are producing.
I just love okra flowers
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By Pille
Tere õhtust (that's "Good evening" in Estonian)!
I'm very, very, very excited to be doing my first ever eGullet foodblog. Foodblogging as such is not new to me – I've been blogging over at Nami-nami since June 2005, and am enjoying it enormously. But this eGullet blog is very different in format, and I hope I can 'deliver'. There have been so many exciting and great food blogs over the years that I've admired, so the standard is intimidatingly high! Also, as I'm the first one ever blogging from Estonia, I feel there's a certain added responsibility to 'represent' my tiny country
A few words about me: my name is Pille, I'm 33, work in academia and live with my boyfriend Kristjan in a house in Viimsi, a suburb just outside Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. I was born and schooled in Tallinn until I was 18. Since then I've spent a year in Denmark as an exchange student, four years studing in Tartu (a university town 180 km south), two years working in Tallinn and seven years studying and working in Edinburgh, the bonnie & cosmopolitan capital of Scotland. All this has influenced my food repertoire to a certain degree, I'm sure. I moved back home to Estonia exactly 11 months and 1 day ago, to live with Kristjan, and I haven't regretted that decision once Edinburgh is an amazing place to live, and I've been back to Scotland twice since returning, but I have come to realise that Tallinn is even nicer than Edinburgh
I won't be officially starting my foodblog until tomorrow (it's midnight here and I'm off to bed), but I thought I'll re-post the teaser photos for those of you who missed them in the 'Upcoming Attractions' section. There were two of them. One was a photo of Tallinn skyline as seen from the sea (well, from across the bay in this case):
This is known as kilukarbivaade or sprat can skyline A canned fish product, sprats (small Baltic herrings in a spicy marinade) used to have a label depicting this picturesque skyline. I looked in vain for it in the supermarket the other day, but sadly couldn't find one - must have been replaced with a sleek & modern label. So you must trust my word on this sprat can skyline view
The second photo depicted a loaf of our delicious rye bread, rukkileib. As Snowangel already said, it's naturally leavened sour 100% rye bread, and I'll be showing you step-by-step instructions for making it later during the week.
It was fun seeing your replies to Snowangel's teaser photos. All of you got the continent straight away, and I was pleased to say that most of you got the region right, too (that's Northern Europe then). Peter Green's guess Moscow was furthest away – the capital of Russia is 865 km south-east from here (unfortunately I've never had a chance to visit that town, but at least I've been to St Petersburgh couple of times). Copenhagen is a wee bit closer with 836 km, Stockholm much closer with 386 km. Dave Hatfield (whose rural French foodblog earlier this year I followed with great interest, and whose rustic apricot tart was a huge hit in our household) was much closer with Helsinki, which is just 82 km across the sea to the north. The ships you can see on the photo are all commuting between Helsinki and Tallinn (there's an overnight ferry connection to Stockholm, too). Rona Y & Tracey guessed the right answer
Dave – that house isn't a sauna, but a granary (now used to 'store' various guests) - good guess, however! Sauna was across the courtyard, and looks pretty much the same, just with a chimney The picture is taken in July on Kassari in Hiiumaa/Dagö, one of the islands on the west coast. Saunas in Estonia are as essential part of our life – and lifestyle – as they are in Finland. Throwing a sauna party would guarantee a good turnout of friends any time
Finally, a map of Northern Europe, so you'd know exactly where I'm located:
Head ööd! [Good night!]
I'm off to bed now, but will be back soon. And of course, if there are any questions, however specific or general, then 'll do my best trying to answer them!
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It would be really nice if there were a way to get all the data that is displayed on the accounts tab of the Stack Exchange network profile for a user (e.g. mine) as machine-readable data with a single request. AFAIK, getting the badge counts requires making an API call to each site, so that getting the equivalent data for a user with accounts on n sites requires at least n+1 API calls.
As with suggested edits*, tag wikis, privileges, and so on... we don't expose things in the API until they've settled down quite a bit.
Also, "Whole network" APIs are something that take a bit of work to get adequately performant. A lot of effort went into getting the network profile pages to scale properly, similar effort will be needed on the API for those data sets.
*Which are still not in the API.
As of v2.0, the /users/{ids}/associated method (now consuming account_ids rather than association_guids) returns considerably more information (in the form of network_users). This should be sufficient to mimic the accounts tab.
As a sort of quick experiment, I slapped together a regex scraping of a single user's accounts page on SE.com and have put it up on the test deployment of se-flair:
The return is, at the moment, a JSON object with the display name, the gravatar URL, and an array of sites, where each site has the various statistics displayed on that page. The raw HTML of the user's SE.com accounts page may be cached for up to 8 hours.
Please do not develop against this without talking to me first—the format of the data is subject to change and the service should not be considered at all reliable. Neither the JSON output at this URL nor the underlying scraping are used in se-flair (yet). If/when there's a more stable version with a more fixed output format, it'll be part of a regular (default) deployment of se-flair (at
Please do comment with feedback.
edit 2011-09-22: Mostly due to repeated breakage of how I'd been getting Area 51 info, I've converted se-flair to using this scraping of the SE.com profile accounts page. This means that
will now get the JSON data and that I consider it fairly reliable. I would strongly suggest not developing against it without talking to me first as the format of the data is still subject to change.


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You will need:
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> Dry beans (I used pinto beans because that's what I had)
> Sewing machine or materials necessary to hand sew your stuffers
> Measuring tape
First you need to measure your boots to see how high your stuffer should stand. My boot stuffer was 18 inches long and 5 inches wide, while my Minnetonkas stuffers were 7 inches tall and 5 inches wide.
Cut your felt according to your chosen size.
Sew each of your stuffers leaving one side open to fill with beans.
Fill your stuffers with beans leaving about 1 inch to sew shut.
Sew your stuffer shut and your done! Use them to keep your boots crease free and happy, don't they look happier?
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The cover of the November 5 edition of the Weekly Standard:And the November 19 edition:
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Did the Standard likewise not read the polls? Another reason to question its analysis...
The GOP obsession that the polls were rigged, the unemployment data was rigged, et al, is a sign of extensive paranoia just as the 'birther' outbreak.was the first symptom. paranoia mutates into other obsessions. . We need to be on the watch for new forms.Donald Trump with his money and media access is a potential Typhoid Mary of paranoia.
The difference, Ed, is that Typhoid Mary was a carrier of disease but, unlike DT, did not show symptoms herself.
That hair cut is not the only symptom? (-:
Does Edward Munch collect royalties for his very bad painting, but very useful illustration?
The Democrats get to drive this bus for another four years that much is clear. Congratulations; I am sure the celebrations have only begun.As a Conservative, I do not get worked up about President Obama; he is one man and will do what he think is best. What worries me more are his minions, and todays Democrat party apparatchiks.Socialism itself is amoral of course. Like a hammer, it can be used for good or ill. Socialism with religion confined to the sidelines (aka freedom of worship i.e., only within the bounds of church buildings) is very worrisome. Full-on secular socialism driven by a people without religious notions or without some sort of creed seems certain to result in a guaranteed moral nightmare; like using aborted fetuses for facial/cosmetic creams or something like thatI have said before that I would rather be sick in a socialized medical system controlled my Muslims than one run by the US federal government. The reason is that while I certainly do not agree with all that a Muslim carries in his mind or is otherwise burdened with, I know at least that he does not think he is God Almighty and that as such, his decisions about medical care will be guided by a basic morality. I do not have that sort of confidence about the HHS and other alphabet soup federal agencies of our national government. They actively avoid applying a creed or moral viewpoint to anything. Lincoln famously said something like People who dont believe in something will surely fall for anything and I think that is as true now as it ever was.The good news is that Democrats have not been this happy in decades; they won fair and square and so let the party begin. For now anyway, few seem worried. In any case I must trust the judgment of my neighbors and countrymen.
Sour grapes, unpure and simplistic.
@Ken Whoever. I think Jim McCrea is wrong about just saying sour grapes. I say it's continued vitriol. . "Full-on secular socialism driven by a people without religious notions or without some sort of creed seems certain to result in a guaranteed moral nightmare; like using aborted fetuses for facial/cosmetic creams or something like that'You say 'or something like that' because you thankfully are running out of hate speech. Ken you are denigrating people like Nancy Pelosi an Italian Catholic Grandmother, a past fellow parishioner of mine. and Joe Biden Catholic Family man of of course Pres. Obama who has reached out to people who bite his hand with tirades. Ken...Get a last name and something else to vent about for the next 4 to12 years.
http://www.lifenews.com/2006/08/08/nat-2486/http://www.law.uh.edu/health...(CM)%20Cosmetic.pdf"... Yet, the debate about the moral and ethical aspects of abortion continues to this day. Now, certain anti-aging cosmetic products are the focus of attention in the ongoing abortion controversy. The anti-aging cosmetics at issue are manufactured by Neocutis, S.A. (Neocutis), which is a Swiss bio-pharmaceutical company founded in 2003 that specializes in wound healing, dermatology, and skin care. Neocutis, Inc., is the U.S. subsidiary handling allcommercial activities. Neocutis states on its web site that its anti-aging products contain a proprietary skin careingredient, Processed Skin Cell Proteins (PSP) which is derived from cultured fetalskin cells. Since at least 1992, medical researchers have discovered that fetal skin cellshave a unique ability to heal wounds without scarring. Because aged skin has the sameneeds as wounded skin for repair, Neocutis claims that its proprietary PSP ingredientcan effectively stimulate the wound healing process, and improve skin texture andreduce the appearance of wrinkles in the eye and mouth areas. . ."http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/aborted-human-fetal-ce...
Neocutis is a Swiss company .. what US Politicians have money invested in Switzerland?.
What a sad commentary that, instead of featuring their champion on the eve of his famous victory, the Weekly Standard had to indulge in one last sneerfest at their champion's opponent.But maybe they were prescient. There don't seem to be any Republicans left who will admit to ever having heard the name of Mitt Romney, much less to have voted for him.
Next to the election of Obama and six new Democratic senators, the biggest news of this election has been the self-humiliation of the Republicans. They were so wrong, so patently wrong in their survey of the facts that they can't escape self-recrimination -- all except the "RINOs" like David Frum, who got himself fired earlier from AEI for criticizing the way the Party was headed. But there were too few of those. The Republican hierarchy is like the Catholic one. They do not disagree publicly about anything, and they're paying for it now with a collapse of confidence in their leadership.
OK. Let's agree that Obama won the election fair and square. But every election is followed by postmortems in which all sides get to analyze the results. One could hardly expect the Weekly Standard to not indulge in a cocktail of sour grapes. Wasn't the good stuff generously passed around in the victors' camps? I've seen more than one liberal writer exact the last pound of flesh, or rub salt into fresh wounds. But the victory only determines that there will be no change of occupants in the White House after January 20. The divisions that existed prior to the election continue afterwards. So we've been treated to a number of Republicans who, in their embarrassment, have thrown Romney under the bus as if the outcome represents some kind of slam dunk rejection of his principles and policies. The principal reason Mr. Romney lost is that about three million McCain voters stayed home. Have we forgotten that the Arizona senator was pummeled by a margin of nearly 9 million votes? This year's margin was less than four million--substantial but a huge decline from four years ago. This means that nearly 60 million Americans are unhappy about the re-election of Mr. Obama. Shouldn't their views be reflected in commentary by WS and other journals of opinion? Spare me the wishful thinking of those who are predicting once again the demise of the conservative movement. That prophecy did not bode accurately for the 2010 cycle, did it? The movement by the Obama campaign and their media allies to smear Romney's reputation was successful. That doesn't make them responsible for the loss, but it made a huge contribution. The country would have been as well served by a different outcome. 60 million of us believe that and are owed appropriate respect since as Americans loyal to what's left of the democratic process we will be living with the result along with the victors.
Ann: " ... the biggest news of this election has been the ..." rejection of US bishops' and other conservative religionists' interference in 3 states who were voting on same-sex marriage, and in 1 state that wanted to enshrine "one man, one woman" into its consitution. The 1st 3 wond and the last one lost.Rejection of teapublican nonsense was a distinct probability. The votes on s/s marriage were not!(Who says that there isn't a just God?)"Lets agree that Obama won the election fair and square." Who was claiming otherwise other than the Grumpy Ostracised Party?
John F. ==You seem to think that "the conservative movement" is the same thing as the GOP. I fear that's too simple. As I remember, there was no talk of "the conservative movement" until Russell Kirk appeared in the 1950s. He was followed by Bill Buckley, et al. They post=dated the GOP by many, many generations. It was a group of people with very similar principles (largely derived from an Englishman, Edmund Burke) which they thought should guide actions. The GOP, on the other hand, like all political parties has tended to be coalitions of interest groups with often only analogous interests and beliefs, and as such they are more likely to compromise than members of movements are. The GOP is a not very well unified process, not a movement. If there is a conservative movement these days, who are its spokespersons? Who keeps the flame? I doubt that Kirk would have liked Mitt at all at all. And who are the clear leaders of the Republican Party? We know who the well=known Republicans are, but who among them lead the others?Not that the Democrats are in much better shape. i can't think of a theorist of any import in the last 80 years except maybe John Rawls and his theory of justice. The Democrats too are a coalition of interest groups.


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Sightseeing? You're Joking, Right?
The Knicks Are in London, but It's a Work Trip
LONDON—Over the course of an NBA career, it is conceivable that a player or coach will travel to over 50 cities and a half dozen countries, and yet see next to nothing.
From conference tournaments in college to the NBA's Development League, from the NBA itself to international tournaments, basketball players and coaches bounce around from city to city. They bounce around so much, the only sight worth seeing on the road is the court. Nothing else seems to count.
And so it is, for the most part, with the Knicks' trip here for a one-off regular-season game Thursday against the Detroit Pistons. Although the players are permitting themselves a few diversions, this is a work trip.
"This is not about vacation," Knicks coach Mike Woodson said. "I don't think any of us is treating it that way. This is a regular-season game and it's a game we've got to win."
It figures that Woodson would say that. He has never been big on sightseeing anyway.
Woodson has barely explored parts of New York and spent at least two years of his life there without ever setting foot in Brooklyn. Only a road game against the Nets changed that earlier this season.
"He's always business-first," the Knicks' Steve Novak said.
Though Woodson said that he loved London, especially after he visited during the Olympics last summer, his plans here don't include any of the city's more than 200 museums and galleries, its world-class entertainment, or its 1,000 years of history. The only reason he will be anywhere near Buckingham Palace is that the Knicks' hotel, off London's swanky Park Lane, is less than half a mile away.
The Knicks arrived early Tuesday morning and went straight into a team meeting. Then, after a little recuperation, the players and staff were allowed just a few hours to themselves. By NBA standards, that counts as a vacation—no matter what Woodson says.
"I've been there before but this is the first time I'm going to be able to enjoy it with my wife," the Knicks' Amar'e Stoudemire said before leaving New York. "So we're going to go out and enjoy the great restaurants there."
Once he arrived, Stoudemire said Wednesday afternoon that he and Jason Kidd, "took the wives out for a little shopping, had a cup of tea," before he ran out of free time and had to make an appearance for a sponsor.
J.R. Smith, meanwhile, was planning on attending a Chelsea soccer game with a couple of teammates Wednesday. "I hear that the fans are very crazy," he said. He added that there was so much to explore here that it was overwhelming, but that he would still try to make it "to one of those museums."
For what it's worth, Woodson used his free time Tuesday to briefly take his niece shopping before returning to the hotel and enjoying the spa.
For many NBA players and coaches, the travel experience is similar, despite how much they fill up their frequent-flier accounts and passports. "Got a hundred stamps on them, but a lot of times we can't tell you much about what we did there," said the Pistons' Tayshaun Prince, whose international basketball highlight was the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. "If we like certain places when we see them, we just have to come back when we have free time, like in the summer."
For a couple of the Knicks, the London game is also a trip down short-term memory lane. Tyson Chandler and Carmelo Anthony were both at the O2 Arena for the last three games of Team USA's gold-medal run at the London Olympics. On that trip, the players had far more time to themselves: LeBron James was spotted in Piccadilly Circus and a Mayfair nightclub, among other spots, always dressed in Team USA gear. Anthony talks about the experience like a long-ago summer at camp.
"When it was all said and done, it was kind of sad to just break up and have to go back to your own teams and start competing against each other," Anthony said.
This visit to London is less camp and more business trip, complete with red-eye flights. But at least it is the only game either team has this week.
During the media scrum before the Knicks' practice here on Wednesday, players were asked over and over what they thought of the O2 Arena, the venue for Thursday's game. As they glanced around the thousands of seats and up to the luxury boxes, they felt right at home: "It looks just like an NBA arena," several players said.
They were right. Judging only by the view from the court, the O2 Arena might as well be in Brooklyn, Memphis or Chicago. Which is exactly how Woodson wants to treat this trip.


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I really enjoyed this one. Maybe I'm insane...
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Installing A Rollbar Kit - Roll Over ProtectionWritten by on January 1, 2005 Installing A Rollbar
Finishing any racing event shiny side up should always be the main goal. On rare occasions, things can get dicey and next thing you know, you're upside down. When we entered into this project, we decided no matter what speed class we would participate in during the Nevada Open Road Challenge, we would outfit the Stealth Bomber with a rollbar. It just made good sense, added negligible weight, and provided us with a modicum of security should things go bad at triple-digit speeds.
Since an M-body can safely be referred to as a less-than-mainstream project vehicle, we had to do some measuring to see what application's rollbar would best fit this body style. We decided that we would source Competition Engineering (C.E.) for one of their rollbar kits. Because our project '68 Barracuda is sporting a C.E. rollcage, a quick measuring indicated the width would be perfect for our Diplomat. So we contacted Competition Engineering and carted our rollbar kit over to Sleeper Suspension Development for a custom installation.
Rollbar Rules
The rollbar rules differ slightly between NHRA (National Hot Rod Association) and SSCC (Silver State Classic Challenge) sanctioning bodies, but with the same objective-to keep occupants alive in the unfortunate event of a rollover. The NHRA requires a rollbar in any vehicle running 11.99 or better (13.99 in the case of a convertible), while the SSCC mandates a bar in the Grand Sport division (130- to 150-mph classes with a maximum "tech speed" of 165 mph), and recommends a rollbar in the Grand Touring (115- to 125-mph classes with a maximum "tech speed" of 140 mph) and Touring (95- to 110-mph classes with a maximum "tech speed" of 124 mph) divisions. But the rules differ basically on a couple of fronts. According to the SSCC's rules, a diagonal brace must be added to triangulate the main hoop. The SSCC also recommends that the brace be attached at the top of the driver side of the hoop and to the bottom of the passenger side. Also, the NHRA requires a sidebar on the driver side of the vehicle that must pass the driver at a point between the shoulder and the elbow, whereas the SSCC does not require such a door bar for a rollbar. The SSCC requires an inspection "window" (a hole at least 3/16-inch diameter) be drilled in an area that will not compromise strength (at least 3 inches from any weld or bend) to allow for verification of wall thickness. Rollbar tubing thickness is also regulated by the SSCC based on the weight of the car (any vehicle over 2,700 pounds has to have an 1 3/4-inch bar), whereas the NHRA mandates 1 3/4-inch tubing (mild steel or chromoly) at .118-inch thick (chromoly can be .083-inch thick). There are some other minor differences, but we feel they are negligible. To acquire an NHRA rule book online, log onto www.nhra.com or call (626) 914-4761. The SSCC rules are posted on their web site at www.sscc.us.
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Layers of padding/insulation/sound deadener, as well as the heavy rubber floor mats had to be removed in order to weld the rollbar in. This was a chance to remove a fairly significant amount of weight. We even removed the headliner as Sleeper likes to butt the bar's hoop right up against the roof. Yes, the interior is a louder place now that the excess has been removed, but in the end we jettisoned roughly 60-pounds worth of useless weight.We measured the floor of the Diplomat in order to center the main hoop, and once the location of the main bar 6-inch plates had been determined, a thorough cleaning of the area to be welded was completed. Wire brushes and sanding wheels aided us in expediting this process. We cannot stress enough the importance of getting the welding area down to bare metal prior to actually welding. Make sure the plate conforms to the contours of the floor. Conformity leads to strength and a solid weld.Use a level to make sure the upright bars of the hoop are straight up and down. Once you tack weld the one side, you can move on to the other side.We measured the back of the seat to determine where the crossbar needed to be located on the hoop to mount the shoulder harnesses and to brace the seatback properly.We then took a measurement on the hoop to locate the crossbar, tack welded it in place, remeasured it, and finish welded the bar in place.The rear down bars had to be run through the package tray in order to keep the back seat functional. Many times racers eliminate the rear seat entirely to lose the weight and to make room for the rear bars, but since the Stealth Bomber serves double duty as an open-road racer and daily driver, this was not an option. Once we marked the location, we cut it out with a small reciprocating saw.A sanding disk was used to clean the trunk area to prepare the surface for welding where the rear down bars will go.A chop saw was the weapon of choice to cut the bars to length. Make sure you measure more than once and are accurate with your measurements. You can always cut it again, but you can't put the material back on.


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It's time again to celebrate and recognize the entrepreneurial spirit.
Global Entrepreneurship Week is Sunday, Nov. 17, through Saturday, Nov. 23. During this week, the Kelley Center for Entrepreneurship at Dakota Wesleyan University will host the DWU Coffee Series, "The Power of Stories to Fuel Innovation!"
The first session will be at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 19, in Java City inside the McGovern Library, with Scott Houwman. Houwman began his own physical therapy clinic in Mitchell and also a real estate investment company with his brothers. The second session will be at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 20, in Java City with Billy Mawhiney, who is the founder of the nonprofit Time at the Table, as well as the owner and operator of Mitchell's Get Fresh on Main Street. These sessions are free and open to all and include one free small coffee.


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* Propensity scores (PS) estimate the predicted probability (propensity) of use of a given drug or procedure in a particular subject, based on his or her characteristics when the treatment is chosen. In principle, the effect of the treatment can then be measured among patients who have the same predicted propensity of treatment, thus controlling for confounding. Use of PS to reduce bias is especially appealing since, under the assumption that all relevant predictors of treatment have been adequately captured, subjects with the same PS should have the same chance of receiving treatment. Therefore, PS are often conceptualized as mimicking randomized trials, although they do so only with respect to factors that have been adequately measured. Randomization, in contrast, removes bias from both measured and unmeasured factors. Taken from: Stürmer T, Joshi M, Glynn RJ, Avorn J, Rothman KJ, Schneeweiss S. A review of the application of propensity score methods yielded increasing use, advantages in specific settings, but not substantially different estimates compared with conventional multivariable methods. J Clin Epidemiol. 2006 May;59(5):437-47. Epub 2005 Oct 13. Review. PubMed PMID: 16632131; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1448214.


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New Orleans's Jazz Fest is a tribute to city's legacy as the birthplace of jazz. A spontaneous concert by Duke Ellington and Mahalia Jackson at the 1970 Heritage Festival in New Orleans initiated what is known as "Jazz Fest" today. By 2001, the internationally known event included 12 stages, over 650,000 attendees, and performers such as Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, and Ella Fitzgerald. Jazz Fest continues to grow in popularity celebrating not only jazz music, but gospel, blues, R&B, rock, funk, African, Caribbean, folk, and much more.
Fun Fact: In its first year only 350 people attended the Congo Square event. By 1975, 80,000 people gathered on a 145 acre site for three days.
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I have setup a filter in my Google account, and I want to forward all the emails that match that filter to another email address. This procedure is no problem for emails that I will receive from now on, but how do I forward the ones I received in the past and that match the filter?
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You could try to edit the respective filter and when you do that, on the second step Gmail shows you all the emails that match the respective criteria. There, you can select the "Also apply filter to X conversations below."
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I don't think you can do that with Gmail itself.
But if you would like to forward your old mail as a backup, then you can fetch all your mails from hotmail by configuring "Get email from other account".
I don't remember whether it has the option to run filters on the inbox.
I think whenever we create a filter and the end of saving, we have an option to run filters now.
I don't remember exactly. In my office Gmail is blocked, otherwise I would have logged in to confirm it.. :)
And if you have any email client like Thunderbird, once you download all messages from Gmail using IMAP/POP3 you can create a filter in Thunderbird.
And I'm sure there is an option in Thunderbird to run filters on any folders.


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So far I have been using LaTeX for writing English documents. My favourite editor is TeXlipse in Eclipse. I am also comfortable with TeXnicCenter. My operating system is Windows. But now my intention is to write some short stories in Telugu. I want to write in my fav word processing tool LaTeX. How can do that? Please suggest me with some basic example. It will be great appreciation.
you need an OpenType or TrueType font which supprts that language, eg Code2000. Then the following works:
You have to run the example with
This is what I get compiling the following file with XeLaTeX:
(The text is what is taken from the main page of Telugu Wikipedia.) How to activate using XeLaTeX with TeXlipse or TeXnicCenter should be looked at in their manuals. But I wouldn't recommend the latter editor as it has Unicode support only in the most recent beta version. A UTF-8 capable editor must be used.


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My friend installed ubuntu via wubi. He says when i select Ubuntu from grub menu, i see Ubuntu logo. One of the orange points turns into white and then there is empty black screen. What's wrong?
This question reads as a graphics issue on boot - possibly an incompatibility between proprietary graphics drivers and KMS - or possibly a problem with the default opensource graphics drivers.
There is not any detail in the question as to what graphics the 'friend' has in his computer, so try the following generic advice:
Add a grub boot option i.e. nomodeset for nvidia/ati or either i915.modeset=0 or i915.modeset=1 for intel based graphics.
See this question and answer on how to add those boot options and it also gives advice on how to fix it permanently in grub.


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Raymond G. Ebmeier of 220 S.E. Third St., Pompano Beach, FL, 33060, died July 13, 2014.
Ray and Adeline, his wife of 70 years, lived in Carmi from 1987-2012 where they enjoyed their retirement years as members of the Carmi community. Adeline passed April 3, 2011.
His life will be celebrated at a memorial service at his home church at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, at Our Savior Lutheran Church at 1102 Jill St., Carmi, IL 62821. Memorials may be made to Our Savior Lutheran Church. Additionally, a grave side service is planned in Lauren, Neb., for Sept. 14, where his ashes and Adeline's will be interred.
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M a finitely generated module over a commutative ring A. I can't think of an example of two maximal linearly independent subsets of M having different cardinality. I know that they all have the same cardinality if A is integral domain. Any suggestions are welcome!
I found an old paper by Lazarus (Les familles libres maximales d'un module ont-elles le meme cardinal?, Pub. Sem. Math. Rennes 4 (1973), 1-12) which contains the the following result: Let A be a commutative ring with unit and M an A-module. In the following situations, maximal linearly independent subsets of M have the same cardinality:
And the examples given in the paper of modules not satisfying this same cardinality property are highly nontrivial.
If you consider rings that are not necessarily commutative, here's an example: let $V$ be a countable dimensional vector space over a field $F$, and let $A$ be the ring of all endomorphisms of $A$. I claim that $A\cong A\oplus A$ (as left $A$-modules); if so, then using (and iterating) this isomorphism you can find maximal linearly independent subsets of any finite cardinality.
To see that $A\cong A\oplus A$, it suffices to exhibit a two-element $A$-basis for $A$. Let $e_1,e_2,\ldots$ be a basis for $V$. Let $f_1\in A$ be the endomorphism that maps $e_2,e_4,e_6,\ldots$ to $e_1,e_2,e_3,\ldots$, respectively, and maps every odd-indexed basis element to $0$; let $f_2\in A$ be the endomorphism that maps $e_1,e_3,e_5,\ldots$ to $e_1,e_2,e_3,\ldots$, and maps the even-indexed basis elements to $0$. Then $f_1,f_2$ spans $A$: if $\varphi \in A$, then we can write $\varphi$ as $\varphi=gf_1+hf_2$, where $g(e_i)=\varphi(e_{2i})$ and $h(e_j)=\varphi(e_{2j-1})$. To see that $f_1$ and $f_2$ are $A$-linearly independent, suppose that $af_1+bf_2=0$; evaluating at the odd indexed $e_i$ shows that $b(e_j)=0$ for all $j$, and evaluating at the even indexed $e_i$ shows $a(e_j)=0$ for all $j$. Thus, $f_1,f_2$ is also a basis for $A$, which gives an isomorphism $A\cong A\oplus A$. Being bases, they are certainly maximal linearly independent sets.


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When her father threatens to marry Abigail Montross off to a man twice her age (and with thirteen children ), she decides to elope instead with the irresistibly handsome Baron de Vasconia. She knows all about his notorious reputation. He is the most seductive man in all of London, but he's vowed to protect her, so she allows herself to be tempted into his bed, promising to guard her heart at all costs.
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5 Famous Hidden Song Meanings (That Are Total B.S.)
Because songwriters worry more about catchy rhymes than deep meaning, song lyrics can be more abstract and esoteric than Jackson Pollock farting chalk dust into a napkin. The problem is that some fans swear that every nonsensical song has some deeper interpretation just waiting to be decoded. That's why so many classic songs have mythical (and often dark and disturbing) alternate meanings that fans insist are true.
They're almost always wrong. For instance ...
#5. "Hotel California" -- It's About Satanism, Right?
Whether you know "Hotel California" as "that weird Eagles song" or "that weird devil-worshiping song" probably depends on how religious your parents were.
When "Hotel California" was released in 1976, everyone heard it but no one really knew what it meant. The lyrics talked about trying to "Kill the beast" and "Stab it with their steely knives," and included the ominous line, "You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave." Honestly, it kind of sounds like they're singing about using the reference section in a library full of giant monsters, since those are the books you can technically check out but aren't permitted to remove from the building.
"Lookin' it up in the local libraaaary!"
That was when someone noticed something odd about the album cover, which features a picture of the band in some luxury hotel courtyard with crowds of people in the background. Above the crowd, looking out from a balcony on the upper left, is a shape whose face you can't fully see, but vaguely looks bald, goateed and threatening.
It Will Pass
"Hey, sorry everyone, but is the ice machine down there?"
Naturally, people came to the conclusion that the figure on the balcony was none other than Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, author of The Satanic Bible and proud parent of a son that he freaking named Satan.
He even had "Anton + Satan = BFFs" tattooed above his ass.
Now that Anton LaVey was found, the lyrics seemed to make sense: "The Beast," "You can never leave" "This could be heaven or this could be hell." "Hotel California" is a song about Anton LaVey converting people to his church of Satanism, from which they could "never leave." The "truth" about the song persists to this day, found in Internet forums, an old issue of The Milwaukee Sentinel and the nothing-if-not-reputable website Jesus Is Savior.
They're on to your globe-spanning Satanist conspiracy, Eagles.
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"Hotel California" has pretty much nothing to do with Satanism. The Eagles have admitted it was a way of speaking out against the greed and hedonism of the music industry in the 1970s (i.e., the drugs, money and women they themselves were drowning in). The photographer responsible for the album cover said the picture expressed "faded loss of innocence and decadence," which is pretentious-speak for "a bunch of assholes standing in a lobby."
"What about the face in the window?" you say. "I heard somewhere they didn't even know it was there. Maybe it wasn't Anton LaVey, but really ... a ghost." Unfortunately not. As Snopes points out:
"The shadowy figure was a woman hired for the photo shoot."
That is kind of a lot of hair for a bald man.
Yep. The person mistaken for a bald, goatee-sporting antichrist was, in fact, just some lady who had nothing to do with anything and wouldn't even have been memorable were it not for the poor lighting of the photograph and the bafflingly deliberate decision to separate her from the rest of the group, presumably because she showed up late for the shoot and/or got Don Henley's name wrong.
#4. Isn't "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" About an Acid Trip?
Mention the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" to a group of people and inevitably one of them will start talking about LSD. And, in fact, we're wagering that most of the people in our readership who know the song only know it as "That song that's secretly about doing acid." After all, it's coded right there in the title, right? Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
In 1967, John Lennon alone accounted for nearly 40 percent of the world's LSD consumption.
And then you get lyrics like this:
"Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain/ Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies/ Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers/ That grow so incredibly high."
So incredibly high.
Clearly it's alluding to an acid trip. And this isn't exactly a stretch: The Beatles, remember, were a band that wrote songs about an octopus inviting people to the seabed to visit his garden, people who believe they are Arctic blueberry animals and general dick-twisting insanity.
Really, we're not sure that most of what the Beatles did wasn't about goddamned acid.
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Shockingly, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" is about a girl called Lucy, in the sky, with some diamonds. See, John Lennon's son Julian drew a picture of his best friend Lucy surrounded by diamonds in the sky, and John liked it enough to name the song after it.
Although to be fair, the kid was clearly on acid when he drew it.
The Beatles freely admit to using drugs as inspiration for songs, and odds are LSD was one of them. But as for this particular song being a metaphor for the drug itself? Sorry, but no. John Lennon said, "It was purely unconscious that it came out to be LSD. Until someone pointed it out, I never even thought of it. I mean, who would ever bother to look at initials of a title? It's not an acid song."
This didn't stop the BBC from banning the song, which, considering they were OK with a song about a child who murdered the fuck out of everyone around him with a goddamn hammer, seems a little hypocritical.
Don't worry, folks. "I Am the Walrus" is still definitely about drugs. All the drugs.
#3. "Puff the Magic Dragon" Is Totally About Smoking Pot ...
Hopefully, you don't need to be told anything about "Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary, but if you do, please click the link. Even for a children's song, it seems overly bizarre and surreal, so of course it wasn't long after its release in the early 1960s when people started trying to dissect the lyrics:
"Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea/ And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee/ Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff/ And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff."
People don't hug like that sober.
Remember, this was the '60s, a time when pretty much everyone was smoking weed. So with "Puff the Magic Dragon," aside from the obvious "chasing the dragon" metaphor, people figured that's what the song was about. "Puff," i.e., to smoke, "dragon," as in "draggin[g]" or "to take a drag" and "autumn mist" being the fog of pot smoke.
"Little Jackie Paper," the little rascal he was, was obviously a reference to rolling papers. Sealing wax, fancy stuff -- bongs, clearly. People have managed to find meaning in pretty much every line in the song, and we must admit, it seems pretty convincing. And it makes sense that a folk rock trio like Peter, Paul and Mary would aim a song at the rapidly growing hippie movement.
Here they are in 2006, looking more like math teachers than doobed-up radicals.
Actually ...
We're sorry to drag you down to earth like this, but "Puff the Magic Dragon's" writers never intended any hidden meanings. In fact, they were pretty upset about the rumors, claiming the song was about:
"... a loss of innocence and having to face an adult world ... I find the fact that people interpret it as a drug song annoying. It would be insidious to propagandize about drugs in a song for little kids."
But what about their 1970 hit, "Hops the Frothy, Full-Bodied Llama"?
"I can assure you, it's a song about innocence lost ... What kind of mean-spirited SOB would write a children's song with a covert drug message?"
Mary goes on to say that if there were drugs to be mentioned, they'd be mentioned up front:
"Believe me, if he wanted to write a song about marijuana, he would have written a song about marijuana."
Peter, Paul & Mary
We look forward to hearing from Peter, Paul and Peter's bong soon.
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Nice article.
Nice article.
The subject of navigation in responsive Web design (RWD) is both exciting and challenging. Best practices are emerging for smaller, boutique-style sites, but for sites with larger anatomies, it's still the Wild West, especially when it comes to migrating legacy information into a new design.
Here are some of the lessons we've learned working on a recent real-life, large-scale RWD project. Specifically, this post focuses on how we chose to deal with deep navigation in the landscape of a templated environment.
Back in October of 2011, Palantir was hired by University of Michigan Medical School to design a system of responsive page templates for their departmental websites. The purpose of these templates were to help sell each department on the idea of migrating their content to Drupal. Historically, each department had been accustomed to a certain level of autonomy when it came to the visual design of their websites. As you may imagine, there was a distinct lack of "Michigan" brand consistency across the board. The challenge was figuring out an approach that was both templated and flexible.
The Palantir design team (consisting of Patrick Grady, Colleen Carroll, project manager April Peck, and myself) were excited to get our hands dirty with a large-scale RWD project. The intense focus on navigation came from the fact that each department did not have the same information architecture (IA). With all the Tweets, posts, and lectures about "Mobile First" and "Content First" buzzing around in our heads, this particular situation seemed far from one that would be ideal for the RWD approach.
We didn't really let that get us down, though. Ideals are nice, but these were real clients with real budgets and real problems. It's our job to accommodate such scenarios. Apprehension turned into excitement at the thought of all of this. How could we build a successful, responsive navigation pattern for such a flexible IA?
After studying a dozen of the existing departmental sites that would eventually be ported over into the design system we were building, we began to look deeper, trying to find the outliers. Looking for examples of department sites that for whatever reasons were the edge-cases in terms of the quantity and depth of their navigation.
These edge-case examples helped to define the true needs of our flexible navigation solution:
In summary, our pattern needed to able to sustain up to four levels of navigation and be able to visually accommodate a wide range of child items.
Instead of thinking about the navigation pattern from a content perspective, we approached it from the next possible level. Simply seeing pieces as levels of primary, secondary, tertiary and child items. The pattern would have to make sense of these relationships, and present them to the user in meaningful ways across all viewports.
Once we'd analyzed the edge cases, we began focusing on how this would all play out in the mobile and tablet viewports. After several bouts of sketching, we quickly vetted our initial concept with our co-worker, front-end Drupal developer Greg Leroux. While our approach made sense design-wise, we obviously wanted to make sure that it was sustainable from a Drupal perspective. He explained that by using Drupal's menu_block module, we would be able to visually reconfigure the menu system in user-friendly ways for each media query. This solution would also not place any extra burdens on the site administrator.
Since this was a templated approach, the basic problem to solve was *where* a user would need primary navigation (blue), search (yellow), and sub-navigation (green). This approach was all about giving the user context in the tablet and mobile screens. There was also the issue of avoiding potential "swipe fatigue" in situations where a user may feel like abandoning the content they were currently viewing, and go elsewhere within the site. We addressed this by displaying the entire navigation menu in a sub-footer (orange). From a visual design perspective, this configuration kept the header height fairly slim, while maintaining the look and feel of the desktop site from viewport to viewport.
Since the number of primary navigation items was a known variable, our design could not logically sustain a horizontally oriented navigation area. Thus, the main navigation block was placed in the left rail. This vertical orientation was dead simple and scalable. Another known variable was the client's need for a navigation structure with an unlimited number of children. Since each navigation item had a destination, we chose to not reveal child items through flyouts or accordion menus. Child items were only revealed in the navigation block *after* arriving on the said item's landing page.
For both the tablet and mobile viewports, the main navigation block becomes wrapped in a touch-friendly toggle menu labeled "Navigation", and placed next to the Search block. A user can open the menu and select an item from a scalable, vertical list of primary navigation. Unlike the main navigation block on the desktop version, this menu never displays child items. Child items are contextually served up and the end of the page's content, with a touch-friendly menu similar to the treatment of the toggle's navigation.
Should a user not be interested in browsing the contextual child items, they have the choice of either swiping up towards the top of the page to choose a new primary navigation item, or continue swiping down towards the global nav in the super footer, where again they can see every piece of navigation the site has to offer.
Navigation patterns for RWD is exciting territory that we as an industry are all still exploring. We were lucky to have a client who was willing to come and explore along with us. In our experience, higher education sites are never one-size fits all. The addition of a RWD approach seemed to amplify this. It's the nature of the beast. Characteristically, different types of departments have very different needs. In the case of Michigan, these "very different needs" ultimately translated to designing a sustainable navigation system based on existing IA. By embracing this need at the very beginning of our process, we were able to steer the design system in the right direction.
Nice article.
Very useful article. Simple, clear, right to the point!
Not just theory, shows how to solve a real problem.
Looks great!
Has a department site made it to production yet? It would be great to see it in action.
We're currently in development on the department sites, but we'll let folks know as soon as they launch.
I was just working on a small RWD site and have been thinking about different models for complex child navigation menus. Very interesting approach to put child navigation below the primary page content and limit top nag to parent items. Will have to see if that survives customer usability.
Good clean design. We've been playing with responsive design as well and have implemented our own design patterns. http://www.raisedeyebrow.com/blog/2012/04/responsive-design-patterns
This is such an interesting space right now because we're able to work with designers to create new ways for people to interact with the web and customize that experience for different sized devices.
Thanks for sharing.
"Ideals are nice, but these were real clients with real budgets and real problems. It's our job to accommodate such scenarios." Isn't that the truth! Great article!
My development company has begun recently working on some responsive websites. We ran into some of the same issues that you addressed in this article. I wish I would have read this before we started our projects as I think it would have helped us.
I also would be interested to see the final website if it is live.
Love the work you did around the navigation patterns. With RWD still in it's relative infancy we're going to see a lot of different approaches before we see any clear winners.
We'll be sure to share your work for Week 3 of http://www.responsivedesignweekly.com
Thanks for sharing your process and work Michael! Great stuff.
This is a very interesting time for web design and development, advancements are happening so fast that it's getting difficult getting a grasp of things. Articles such as this makes it more manageable. A couple of years ago I wasn't even thinking about responsive designs and now not including it in the conceptual process may even cause you tons of headaches down the road and even to lose the project. Brilliant article!
Very nice article
Thanks for the article - it's always helpful to see how other people are getting round navigation problems. I found this a good read too (not my site): http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/web/responsive-nav-patterns/
Excellent article - thank you so much for sharing! Has this project deployed live? When I do a quick search for the top-level Medical School or many of the subdepartments (such as Internal Medicine as in your example), my mobile phone displays very different sites to the ones shown here. It would be great to see this work in action!
The sites discussed in this blog post are still in development, but we'll definitely be letting folks know when they launch.
I am about to add navigation menu to my site and your tips will definitely help me :)
We're currently in the middle of a responsive redesign for a local government website with 8 top-level items, and up to 10-12 second level items (and then some...). We ended up going for something very similar for our tablet/mobile viewports, so it's nice to know we're on the right track.
Just wanted to comment on how clean your overal type + layout treatment of your page is! Beautiful.
I really liked this article. We are working on a couple of responsive site as well and found a couple of good tips.
Thanks, Michael! Our university is about to undergo a Drupal 6 > 7 migration, with multisites.
Navigation is something we are really wanting to get right, especially for our mobile devices. This article totally helps.
Hi, Michael! It's nearly impossible to find knowledgeable people about this subject, but you sound like you know what you're talking about! Thanks, you really have good information about designs.
Menu_block module is awesome solution. Thanks.
I understand that hierarchical navigation would be the difficult part while trying to make the design responsive, but did you first look at any responsive CSS frameworks ? goodcause.in makes use of the skeleton CSS framework and while there are no hierarchical menus, it does scale beautifully with the minimum of the effort !
During the design/prototyping phase of this particular project, we used my co-worker Patrick Grady's own framework. At the time it was just quicker to use code that we were familiar with. Since then, we've started using John Albin Wilkins' Zen Grids.
Amazing how simple it can be to communicate with people and have them understand a certain topic, you made my day.


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JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and XBRL Reporting
By Steve Dalton on Aug 07, 2014
By Karen Brown on August 7, 2014
Do you have requirements to provide Financial Statements and Reports in XBRL format? Are you wondering exactly what XBRL is?
XBRL is a reporting language based on XML. XBRL is specifically used for submitting financial statements and reports to governments and other governing bodies (i.e. US SEC, German Government). Each governing body has different requirements for the types of reports to be submitted and the content of each of them.
Details of XBRL:
- XBRL Standards are known as XBRL Taxonomies.
- These taxonomies are the definitions of the documents, formats, and elements that are needed for a specific XBRL requirement
- Documents are things like a Balance Sheet or Profit & Loss
- Elements are things like net profit, depreciation expense, statement annotations
- National jurisdictions have different accounting regulations, so each may have its own taxonomy for financial reporting.
- Many different organizations, including regulators, specific industries or even companies, may also require taxonomies to cover their own business reporting needs.
- These taxonomies are governed by the XBRL International Standards Board
- New taxonomies are continually being added
- here are 30+ existing taxonomies which are being updated on a regular basis
There are many solutions available for your XBRL requirements. Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management is Oracle's solution for XBRL. To generate XBRL tags and complete filings for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management, here are the steps:
- Download the XBRL required taxonomy from the XBRL Website into Hyperion Disclosure Management to create a company taxonomy.
- Publish the report from JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word.
- Create the final report in the Microsoft programs and perform the XBRL tag mapping in Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management.
- Submit the company taxonomy and XBRL instance document to the proper authority.
Get more details about Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management.
There are also many 3rd party XBRL solutions in the marketplace to choose from with a wide variety of price points. A few of these solutions are:
- Crossfire - http://rivetsoftware.com/crossfire/
- Semansys - http://www.semansys.com
- Fujitsu - http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/software/interstage/solutions/xbrl


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Battery-operated devices have connectors to take in power from batteries in order to work. However, if the batteries are left there and the devices are not used for a few months or more, green and brown substances can be formed on the connectors.
Are there ways to clean up those substances on the connector without buying a new one or damaging it?


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Some Muhlenberg County parents are upset over the school board's selection of a site for a new elementary school. The 44-acre tract of land in the south part of the county sits less than a mile away from a series of chicken houses.
Parents say they are concerned over the air quality around the school, especially for asthmatic students. Superintendent Dale Todd says several air quality tests have been conducted, and all have come back clean.
The vote was 3-2, with the school board member representing the district where the land is located voting "no" and voicing his concerns. Supt. Todd says he will continue to examine the property, and the system does not plan on purchasing the land for another six weeks.
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Ohai guise! I've been meaning to come here for a while, but never got around to it until now. I like games. Game design, story, art, music, talking about them, watching them, basically everything to do with them. It's usually simple interface things that most people overlook that I get a lot of enjoyment out of noticing. I hope to maybe make games at some point in the future, but lack any of the skills to do so at the moment. That's the kind of stuff I hope to be talking about.
As for what I play, I'm a Nintendo fanboy. And yes, I am aware of their flaws, but I can't help but love them anyway. Other than Nintendo platforms, I play most of my games on PC. Genre-wise, I don't care, as long as it plays well and/or has a good story.
So yeah, look forward to talking to ya'll about stuff.
Edit: At the request of Vahnati, I will now begrudgingly list some games I am playing and games that I find to be the most enjoyable in all the land.
Dota 2
Sanic Calours
Whatever else I can get my hands on since my dad's a dingus and won't let his 20 year old son play vidjagames till he's moved out (Seriously. Dick.).
Best games evar (don't judge):
Golden Sun (1 and 2)
Link's Awakening
Megaman Battle Network 1-3
Megaman X
Master Blaster
Resident Evil 4
Chibi Robo
Metroid Prime series
Pokemon Snap
All of the Paper Mario games
And probably some others that I forgot about since I can't see my collection right now.
Also, fun fact. I can't play a shooter with a standard dual stick controller. Literally cannot. I played the Prime Trilogy and Resi 4 on the Wii.


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Have just bought my NN3, and after my first efforts at a panoramic, I am having a few teething problems.
I think I have nodal/entrance point lined up correctly, but when I stitch the images together in Real Viz Stitcher Express 2, the corners of each picture do not line up exactly. Imagine each picture is being squeezed from the sides and the tops and bottom are bulging slightly. So the final panoramic has slightly wavey lines top and bottom where each picture is slightly curved. To produce the final picture I had to crop the top and bottom to level the edges.
Looking at the manuals and user guides this definately shouldn't happen. Can anyone help? I am off on holiday on Thursday and really want to have it mastered by then.
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My bad, I was talking about Anthony Johnson.
I don't care what happens. Butler is amazing.
I bet Donavan regrets not taking a timeout there
Those guys make some stupid fouls.
Butler never quits, man this guys are easy to root for
Gus Johnson is about to wet his pants lol
What a game wow
These refs suck. Let them play the damn game!
Reggie Miller is Butler's good luck charm!
This is a hell of a game. I love march madness so much.
Donvan takes the timeout this time.
Damn, Mack needed to make that one there.
I'm pulling for Butler.
This is a battle out there.
Stevens probably didn't draw up a 30
Howard again, damn.
That should of been 3 shots
Oh man this team fights every single game and for the whole game.
I'm happy this went Butler's way.
Donvan is really bad at drawing up plays that was a horrible look.
Bluter did it again. what a game
Wow, good thing I don't gamble. Betting against Butler making it back to the Final Four would have appeared to me to be the safest bet of all time. All I can say is WOW. Lightning just struck twice. This team is for real.


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I was trying to install TeamViewer, and I followed the instructions here even though they specify 11.10 instead of 12.04 (what I'm running).
In particular, I executed.
$ wget http://www.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_linux.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i teamviewer_linux.deb
dpkg command failed, and after this point my packaging system has been broken. The software center instructs me to try:
$ sudo apt-get -f install
which leads to
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
9 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 89.0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 81.9 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main dash amd64 0.5.7-2ubuntu2 [89.0 kB]
Fetched 89.0 kB in 1s (83.9 kB/s)
E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true returned an error code (100)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true
At this point I'm stumped.


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By RYAN TRACY
The cost of complying with a federal mandate to use corn
ethanol in fuel has risen sharply in the past few months,
putting a squeeze on oil refiners.
The price of each credit that refiners need under the law
topped $1.00 last Friday, up from just a few cents last
"Eventually that cost is going to get passed along," said
Bill Day, a spokesman for Valero Energy, which sells
gasoline to about 5,000 filling stations in the US.
Valero and other big refiners, such as Marathon Petroleum
and Tesoro, haven't publicly estimated how the compliance costs
would affect earnings. The industry has been reporting steady
profits recently.
The new expenses "will have an impact on refinery margins," said Tom Kloza,
chief oil analyst with the Oil Price Information Service.
Refiners could attempt to pass the higher costs on to consumers
but so far that hasn't happened, he said.
The sharp rise in ethanol-credit prices reflects
broader problems with the 2007 law, which sought to drive
increased use of renewable fuels. Another piece of the mandate,
requiring industry to buy fuels made from nonedible plants, has
run into trouble because there isn't enough supply to meet
federal requirements.
The ethanol provisions require that the oil industry blend
more of the corn-derived fuel with petroleum-based gasoline
each year. The government required the use of about 13.2
billion gallons of ethanol last year. When an ethanol maker
produces a gallon, the company receives a credit representing
roughly that much ethanol.
Such credits are subsequently bought by refineries to establish
how much ethanol they have blended into fuel. If a refinery doesn't have enough
credits, it can be fined.
Until now, refiners have been able to hit their quotas
because about 10% of US gasoline is ethanol. The US consumed
about 133 billion gallons of gasoline last year, according to
the Energy Information Administration. That meant that about
13.3 billion gallons of ethanol was blended into gasoline,
just above the requirement of roughly 13.2 billion gallons.
The Environmental Protection Agency's
proposal for this year, which could be made final as soon as
next month, could force refiners and fuel importers to use more
than 14 billion gallons of ethanol.
But refiners are reluctant to blend gasoline with more than
10% ethanol largely because auto makers say most vehicles can't
handle a higher rate. That 10% figure is known as a "blend
wall," keeping more ethanol from entering the market.
If Americans don't buy more gasoline this year than last,
the blend wall creates a conflict with the government's ethanol
requirement. The oil industry is pushing the EPA to lower the
2013 ethanol requirement.
Fears that they will hit the blend wall appear to have made
refiners and fuel importers eager to buy credits on the open
market, pushing credit prices higher. On Jan. 14, the price of
a credit rose above nine cents for the first time in more than
two years, according to the Oil Price Information Service. The
price has jumped more than tenfold since.
"I'm reluctant to say that we've hit the blend wall, but
there certainly is the perception we have or that we are about
to," said Mr. Kloza, the analyst.
The Renewable Fuels Association, an ethanol-industry trade
group, said refiners could market fuel blends with 15% ethanol.
That would allow more ethanol to be sold and make more ethanol
credits available.
Lawmakers "knew that they were driving changes to the
marketplace as well, and it's those marketplace changes that
the oil companies are resisting," said Bob Dinneen, the
association's president.
Refiners say consumers don't want 15% blends, largely
because auto makers generally advise against using blends that
high, except for models such as flex-fuel vehicles and some
2013 vehicles.
Marathon spokeswoman Angelia Graves said the high prices for
ethanol credits showed that the government's mandate is
The EPA said it would determine this year's ethanol mandate
after a public comment period closes in April and declined to
address criticism of the rule until then.
Stephen Brown, Tesoro's vice president for
federal-government affairs, said the situation could give US
refiners an incentive to export gasoline because exports aren't
subject to the same ethanol requirements.
Dow Jones Newswires
All comments are subject to editorial review.
All fields are compulsory.
I can't believe we voted for four more years of this bull S--T!Barry O has the EPA running wild and only the next election can stop it! Green cars run on electricity generated by coal fired plants, and they are going to shut down all the CFP's they can! At least here in Florida we can choose to sweat, by running less AC.But all the North East liberals are going to freeze their butts off when the juice and oil run out!
George Kosanovich
How is it that auto engines in Brazil made by the same companies routinely use 20-25% ethanol in their gasoline with no deleterious effects?
Cal Hodge
Given the reduced gasoline demand and the President's mandate for tougher CAFE standards which will further reduce gasoline demand it is time for a techical ammendment to the RFS. As a nation we cannot risk damaging millions of cars to satisfy a mandate that was made when gasoline demand was expected to increase. Also, cellulosic ethanol technology has simply not developed. I propose the following technical corrections.1) E10 be the basic US gasoline.2) The ethanol portion of E85 be made exempt from the road tax .3) The cellulosic mandated volume be based upon the prior year's production.
Arthur Thomposon
Ethanol takes more energy to make than it yields making it a lose lose product. Ethanol is a terrible fuel source as it is lower in energy than gasoline which means I have to use more to do the same task with gas. My vehicle is not made to use the higher ehanol blends, who is going to absorb the cost of making it safe to use the higher blends? It sure as heck isn't in my budget.
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This is in the same vein as my previous question on the representability of the cohomology ring. Why are the homology groups not corepresentable in the homotopy category of spaces?
Corepresentable functors preserve products; homology does not.
One replacement is the following. Let X be a CW-complex with basepoint. Then the spaces {K(Z,n)} represent reduced integral homology in the sense that for sufficiently large n, the reduced homology Hk(X) coincides with the homotopy groups of the smash product:
pin+k(X ^ K(Z,n)) = [Sn+k, X ^ K(Z,n)]
This is some kind of "stabilization", and it factors through taking the n-fold suspension of X. Taking suspensions makes wedges more and more closely related to products. This doesn't make homology representable, but provides some alternative description that's more workable than simply an abstract functor.
While it's true that there are lots of internal things that a corepresentable homology functor wouldn't support, I think it's also enlightening to see that you wouldn't get the nice sorts of dualities that homology and cohomology theories have. After all, we've already agreed that cohomology theories ought to be somehow representable, so maybe we should start there. Instead of using stable maps $X \to E_n$ to produce $n$-degree $E$-cohomology classes of $X$, you can think of these instead as elements in the stable homotopy groups $\pi_{-*}^S F(X, E)$, where $F(X, E)$ denotes the function spectrum of maps $X \to E$. This presentation makes the right choice for defining $E$-homology somehow much more obvious: the functor $F(X, -)$ has an adjoint, called the smash product (this is the whole point of the smash product -- it plays the role of "tensor product" for spaces!), and so for homology we think about maps $S^n \to E \wedge X$ instead. That homology and cohomology are not (usually) exact duals in a linear algebraic sense is somehow measuring the twist introduced by this adjunction. This does actually turn out to be the right definition for homology; (extraordinary) homology theories in the traditional sense are in fact modeled by functors of the form $\pi_*^S (E \wedge -)$.
This construction has a number of attractive features -- for instance, it means that we can (under some flatness and ringy conditions) think about "homology cooperations" associated to a spectrum, and they look like $E_* E$, a pleasant mirror of cohomology operations living in $E^* E$. We also always get a pairing $E^* X \times E_* X \to E_* E$ of cohomology and homology classes that lands in homology operations, by composing as $S^n \to E \wedge X \to E \wedge E$. (This pairing even gets used occasionally, though I'd be hard-pressed to come up with an obvious citation.)
For the most familiar homology theory, singular homology with $\mathbb{Z}/p$-coefficients, this flatness business does hold, the operations and cooperations even turn out to be $\mathbb{Z}/p$-vector space duals, and the coaction and action line up in the way you'd expect from Milnor's work.
(This belongs as a comment on Lawson's answer, I think, but it looks like I'm too new here to make that happen.)
The dual to cohomology in the functorial sense turns out to be not homology, but homotopy (as described here).
For instance ordinary homotopy groups are the homotopy theory co-represented by spheres.