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22 Russians Who We Won't Let Vladimir Putin Forget Were LGBT
Are you boycotting the 2014 Olympics in Sochi? Are you pouring your Russian vodka down the loo? Another way to show your support for Russian LGBTs is by remembering these wonderfully talented, beautiful, and iconoclastic figures from the country's history.
Ivan IV (The Terrible, 1530-1584, reigned from 1533)
First off, when we say "terrible" here, we imagine it more like: "Oh Muriel, you're terrible!" There is speculation that a more literal translation would be "formidable." A composer and a poet, Ivan was the first ruler to be crowned tsar of all Russia. In his final years as tsar he vaccilated between extremes. It was all party or all austerity. He married seven times, but what really seemed to keep his samovar brewing was men in female attire. One of the most viscious lieutenants of Ivan's political police, Feodor Basmanov, rose to power by performing seductive dances in women's clothes in Ivan's court. (Sources: Queerhistory.blogspot.com and Wikipedia)
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
Gogol is a Ukrainian-born Russian humorist, dramatist, and novelist, whose novel Dead Souls, and whose short story "The Overcoat," are considered the foundations of the great 19th-century tradition of Russian realism. In The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol, author Simon Karlinsky posits that Gogol's "emotional orientation" was homosexual, and that understanding that is the key to much of his work. (Sources: New York Review of Books, Wikipedia)
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
He wrote the most deleriously beautiful music ever: Romeo and Juliet, the 1812 Overture, his three ballets The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, among many others. The history of Tchaikovsky's homosexuality was suppressed in Russia by the Soviets, and it has only recently become widely known in post-Soviet Russia. Tchaikovsky's letters and diaries, as well as the letters of his brother Modest, who was also gay, make clear his orientation. But as so often is the case, letting the facts speak for themselves about orientation is often denied and countered by censoring views. Some historians still consider evidence scant or non-existent. Many of Tchaikovsky's most intimate relationships were homosexual: Tchaikovsky's servant Aleksey Sofronov and his nephew, Vladimir "Bob" Davydov. Gay author E.M. Forster referenced Tchaikovsky and Davydov in his love story Maurice, written in 1913-14 and published in 1971: "...Tchaikovsky had fallen in love with his own nephew, and dedicated his masterpiece [Symphonie pathetique] to him." (Sources: Russiapedia.rt.com)
Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929)
The legendary ballet impresario founded the Ballets Russes, a collaborative effort of the most talented artists, composers and dancers of the early 20th century. His orientation was fairly well known, as was his relationship with the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. He moved dance away from the formal classicism of the 19th century to a modern freedom, and in doing so liberated the male dancer from his role as tripod for the ballerina to become a focus in his own right.
A stellar pantheon of collaborators included Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Michel Fokine, Leon Bakst, George Balanchine, Igor Stravinsky, Matisse, Marie Laurencin, Georges Braque, and Coco Chanel, as well as his lovers Boris Kochno, Léonide Massine, and Serge Lifar.
Doing away with the lugubrious romantic works of the previous century like Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty, Diaghilev created a repertoire of works that were not only more natural and modern, but also experimental and controversial exploring gender identity, homosexuality, and incest.
Picasso created cubist sets for Parade. Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring caused riots with its challenging rhythms. Nijinsky's masturbatory performance in L'après-midi d'un faune (The Afternoon of a Faun) caused a scandal, as did his choreography for Jeux, a dance depicting a tennis game, that was a thinly veiled depiction of a three-way.
The Ballets Russes, ironically enough, never performed in Russia. They toured the globe attracting both the newly forming café society as well as the intellectual and bohemian crowd of the day. And of course, interspersed in all that strata were large numbers of gay men and women. The Ballets Russes became a symbol of the avant garde and international chic.
Above: Nazimova in her production of Oscar Wilde's Salome; Right: As Hedda Gabler; Bottom: Lady Gaga and Nazimova
Alla Nazimova (1879 – 1945)
This revered Russian actress made it to the Great White Way, where she was discovered by Hollywood and became the prototype of the exotic screen vamp. After two husbands — one a "lavender" marriage — she converted her West Hollywood compound into a playground for the rich, famous, and sexually promiscuous. From then on it was women only. She bedded the famous, the powerful, and merely mercenary.
Brought to Hollywood by Lewis Selznik, she began writing and producing her own extremely stylized and often daring films. Most notable was her production of Oscar Wilde's Salomé with art direction and costumes by Valentino's wife, Natacha Rambova, with whom she is presumed to have had an affair. She had already bedded Valentino's first wife Jean Acker.
Nazimova's mansion, the Garden of Alla, was a hot spot on the corner of Sunset and Crescent Heights that hosted many of the wilder parties for the 1920s film folk. There were a series of villas and cabins, and it is said that once inside the "Garden" all lips were sealed as to who spent the night in whose bed. It was converted to apartments and a hotel in 1927, and Nazimova continued to live there in one of the villas.
Of those others Nazimova is confirmed to have been involved with romantically, the list includes actress Eva Le Gallienne, director Dorothy Arzner, writer Mercedes de Acosta, Oscar Wilde's niece Dolly Wilde, and actress Anna May Wong. Nazimova lived with her very patient, long-time companion Glesca Marshall from 1929 until her death in 1945.
Yusupov's life has three or four novels-worth of adventure. Duels, incarcerations, extreme wealth, and forced exile. He is also one of the two men who murdered Rasputin, the mystic who was an advisor the the Romanovs, the Imperial Russian family.
Yusupov was bisexual and led a flamboyant life. He describes in his autobiography often spending time with Gypsy bands and adopting female clothing. He married Princess Irina of Russia, the tsar's niece, on February 22, 1914 in the Anichkov Palace in Saint Petersburg. The marriage was said to be extremely well matched and very happy. After murdering Rasputin, and after the breakout of WWI, Yusupov and his wife went into exile, but not without first stopping at their palace to grab some jewelry and a few Rembrandts to tide them over. (Sources: Wikipedia, AndrejKoymasky.com)
Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950)
Nijinsky was born into a dancing family. Both his parents were senior dancers with Setov opera company. At nine he joined the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, the most prestigious and powerful dance school in the world. In 1909 he joined the Ballets Russes, a new ballet company started by Sergei Diaghilev (see previous) which planned to present Russian ballets in Paris, where productions of the quality staged by the Imperial ballet simply did not exist.
Nijinsky became the company's star male dancer and Diaghilev's lover. Nijinsky's astounding talent and Diaghelev's star-making machine resulted in international fame for Nijinsky. His body was legendary, with short, powerful legs that performed amazing leaps, and long slender arms that captured a more feminine grace.
In 1912 Nijinsky began choreographing his own ballets, including L'après-midi d'un faune (1912) and Jeux (1913). At the premier of Le Sacre du Printemps (1913) fights broke out in the audience out of shock and dismay at both Nijinsky's choreography and Igor Stravinsky's music. His most enduring moment was the scandal created as he performed his role in L'après-midi d'un faune (The Afternoon of a Faun), which culminated in self-pleasure.
Nijinsky married Hungarian Romola de Pulszky in 1913 while on tour with the company in South America. She had stalked Nijinsky. The marriage was a surprise as neither spoke the same language, but Nijinsky was already showing signs of mental deterioration that was to continue. Diaghilev immediately dismissed Nijinsky from the company. He was interned in Hungary during World War I under house arrest until 1916, finally being allowed to leave after intervention by Diaghilev, who wanted him to perform in an American tour.
Nijinsky became increasingly mentally unstable. After a tour of South America in 1917 the family settled in Switzerland, where his mental condition continued to deteriorate. The rest of his life was spent suffering from mental illness which incapacitated him beyond the ability to dance again in public. For a close-up look at a mind gone mad, read his diary, written in the last six weeks before he was committed to an asylum.
(Source: American Ballet Theatre, Wikipedia)
Erté (1892 – 1990)
Romain de Tirtoff was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, the French pronunciation of his initials, R.T. He was a diversely talented artist and designer who flourished in an array of fields, including fashion, jewelery, graphic arts, costume and set design for film, theater, and opera, and interior decor in a career that spanned nearly the entire century.
According to The New York Times, A major turning point in his career came in 1965, when he met Eric and Salome Estorick of Seven Arts Ltd. Seven Arts remained the exclusive agent for Erte's work until his death. When the Estoricks organized an exhibition of 170 of his works in New York in 1967, the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought the entire collection.
If you lived through the '70s and '80s, you saw an incredible revival of a still-living artist whose control over his meticulously rendered images never wavered. He worked up until the last two weeks of his life at 97. He was fond of the pubilicty he had from his revival, and made many appearances in his celery- and lavender-colored suits with scarves and hats adding extra glamour.
Of his hallucinatory and decadent imagination he said, "I'm in a different world, a dream world that invites oblivion. People take drugs to achieve such freedom from their daily cares. I've never taken drugs. I've never needed them."
This bisexual superstar became the next big thing after Nijinsky's emotional defection from Daighilev and the Ballet Russe. Not only was he immediately filling all the major roles, but he was Diaghilev's bedmate as well. Massine was undisputably Europe's leading dancer and choreographer of the 1920's and 1930's. Massine choreographed over 100 ballets, among them works that are landmarks in 20th century dance.
At left: Massine by Léon Bakst
Massine's collaborators list reads like a compendium of all arts and culture in the first half of the 20th Century: Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Bakst, Gontcharova, Larionov, Derain, the Delaunays, Chagall, Miro, Dali, Stravinsky, Satie, Prokofiev, Cocteau, Noel Coward, Martha Graham, and Moira Shearer in the cult ballet classic film The Red Shoes.
At right: Diaghilev and Massine
In his youth, Massine was the protégé and lover of Diaghilev, and in later life he enjoyed numerous love affairs with beautiful women, and had four wives. His first two wives, Vera Savina (née Vera Clark) and Eugenia Delarova, were both ballet dancers. With his third wife, Tatiana Orlova, he had two children — a son, Lorca, and a daughter, Tatiania. He and Orlova divorced in 1968. He subsequently married Hannelore Holtwick, with whom he had two sons, Peter and Theodor, and made his home in Borken, Germany, where he died in 1979.
(Sources: Massine-Ballet.com, Wikipedia)
Though he only made seven films in his career, his groundbreaking use of montage and symbolism has influenced generations of filmmakers since. He began as a stage-set designer, then director. He moved film away from a static Victorian linear narrative to a spontaneous explosion of images, utilizing radical angles and relationships in the picture frame, often so chaotic that the audience was baffled.
Eisenstein's personal life was also chaotic. He married twice in response to political pressure, but his marriages were never consummated. His unexpurgated diaries, published as Immortal Memories, are filled with accounts of his infatuations with many young men, including his assistant, Grigori Alexandrov.
Often his infatuations were with young heterosexual men whom he would mentor (as in the case of Alexandrov). His drawings, exhibited during the centenary of his birth, include many illustrations of homosexual activity.
(Sources: IMDb, GayforToday.blogspot.com)
Surrealist artist Pavel Tchelitchew was favored by the social set. His chic artwork was of the moment, but elegant. His young lover Charles Henri Ford (pictured, top, with Tchelitchew at left, by Cecil Beaton) was a poet and one of the editors of the surrealist magazine View. His most significant work is the painting Hide and Seek, painted in 1940–42, and currently owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
His crowd included avant-garde siblings the Sitwells, Cecil Beaton, Gertrude Stein, and many other iconic culture movers of the century. As his art moved toward neo-romaticism, he expanded his craft into stage design for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe and others.
For some delightfully NSFW artwork (a sample above right), check out David Leddick's wonderful book The Homoerotic Art of Pavel Tchelitchev.
Above: After the Battle, 1944
Deineka was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist, and sculptor, regarded as one of the most important Russian modernist figurative painters of the first half of the 20th century. Gay? Bisexual? Who is to say? We include his art here for its idealistic view of the male athletic form, and as an homage to the athletes that intend to compete in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.
Deineka was born in Kursk to a railroader family. He was educated at Kharkov Art College. His youth was spent — as was many of his contemporaries — devoted to events around the revolution. In 1918 he worked as the photographer in Criminal Investigation Department, managed a section of the Art of Regional Educational Department, designed campaigns, and became involved in the defense of Kursk. In 1919-1920, Deineka was in the army where he managed an art studio in Kursk Political Department.
Sources: Wikipedia, Deineka.info
In 1920, Kochno became Sergei Diaghilev's secretary, librettist, and eventually, his main collaborator. They were also lovers until Diaghilev's death in 1929 at 57. Kochno was there to witness the collaboration of many of the great artists of the 20th century, as well as befriend them and bed them, including an affair with Cole Porter in 1925, with whom he carried on a lengthy correspondence.
With Diaghilev, at left.
After Diaghilev's death he and dancer/choreographer Serge Lifar tried to continue the Ballets Russes, but to no avail. Later he worked as the Monte Carlo ballet director, where he became an influential figure in post-WWII French ballet. At the end of WWII, Kochno entered into collaboration with Roland Petit and Christian Berard, and they formed the Ballets des Champs-Élysées.
His books about Diaghilev and his good friend Berard are full of art and gossip of the European bohemian crowd as well as its upper crust.
Sources: Wikipedia, Gayfortoday.blogspot.com
Above: Lifar by George Hoyingen-Huene, 1927
By now, in popular dance culture, it could be assumed that the road to stardom involved a trek across the sheets of Sergei Diaghilev's bed. The very ambitious Lifar was only too happy to exploit his own good looks and charm on Diaghilev, Misia Sert, and Coco Chanel to mention but a few.
At left: Lifar with Diaghilev
In 1924, his strategies came to fruition as he became one of Diaghilev's favorites. As a result, he was cast in attention-getting roles and was groomed as a premier dancer and choreographer.
In a frenzy of fame and acclaim, Lifar kept taking so much that even the self-promoting Diaghilev hit his limit. But Lifar's talent had now begun to match his persistence, and he became indispensable as a featured dancer.
His brush with scandal: His open socializing with the German High Command during the Occupation of Paris, he claimed, was related to his work as an undercover agent. Although the appearance of collaboration led to Lifar's "banishment for life" from the Paris Opera Ballet in 1944, he was welcomed back by 1947.
Source: glbtq.com
Above: Nureyev with Rosella Hightower in 1962
Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993)
And finally, a ballet dancer who did not find stardom in Diaghilev's bed! The Russian defector and dance megastar's life has had an enormous effect on 20th century dance and branches out into other arts and media as well. How many people can say they danced with Dame Margot Fonteyn and Miss Piggy?
Within a week after Nureyev defected while on tour in France, he was signed up by the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas, and was performing The Sleeping Beauty. On a tour of Denmark he met Erik Bruhn, soloist at the Royal Danish Ballet, who became his lover in a volatile long-term partnership until Bruhn's death in 1986.
In 1983, Nureyev was appointed director of the Paris Opera Ballet, where, as well as directing, he continued to dance and to promote younger dancers.
He socialized with Gore Vidal, Freddie Mercury, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, Andy Warhol, and Lee Radziwill — while maintaining he had no patience for celebrities.
Stories of Nureyev's adventurous sex life were rife. He was spotted at the Anvil, the infamous New York bar and sex venue, and soon stories popped up everywhere regarding his exploits. The dancer tested positive for HIV in 1984. In the summer of 1991, he began to decline and entered the final phase of the disease in the spring of 1992. He worked almost up to the very end in November of 1992, conducting, choreographing and making appearances to receive awards, including France's highest cultural award, the Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Yup. That Michael Lucas.
Born in Moscow, he was raised in a secular Jewish family. In 1994, after earning a law degree from Moscow State Law Academy, Lucas briefly owned and operated a travel agency until 1995. He left Russia for Munich, Germany, then settled in France for the next two years. In 1997, Lucas moved to New York City.
He started his porn career in Germany with straight films, but while in France, he worked with the influential director Jean-Daniel Cadinot in his first gay films, and then went on to become a Falcon exclusive. He now has his own successful production company in New York.
As a columnist for Out, The Advocate, Huffington Post and Pink News, his reputation is controversial and his writing outspoken. Speaking regularly at universities such as Stanford, Yale, and Oxford, he discusses social, political, and sexual issues. He has been on the cover of hundreds of magazines worldwide and has been profiled in many mainstream publications ranging from New York Magazine to The New Republic.
In 2009, he became a citizen of Israel, denouncing his Russian citizenship in 2010 over Russian homophobia and anti-Semitism. (Sources: MichaelLucas.com, Wikipedia)
Above: Tattoos Graffiti, St. Peterburg, 2004 (self-portrait)
Slava Mogutin (b. 1974)
Mogutin's brash, sexy, and gritty art and photography are at the core of the Downtown scene in New York. Born Yaroslav Yurievich Mogutin in the industrial city of Kemerovo, Siberia, he left his family at age 14 and moved to Moscow, where he began working as a journalist and editor. Mogutin dealt in controversy and defied authority so vehemently that by age 21, he was charged with "open and deliberate contempt for generally accepted moral norms," "malicious hooliganism with exceptional cynicism and extreme insolence," "inflaming social, national, and religious division," "propaganda of brutal violence, psychic pathology, and sexual perversions." So, yes. A bad boy.
In 1995, Mogutin was granted political asylum in the U.S. with the support of Amnesty International and PEN American Center. Mogutin's photography and multimedia work have been exhibited internationally, including MoMA PS1 and Museum of Arts and Design in New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; The Pacific Design Center in L.A.; Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston; Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen; Estonian KUMU Art Museum in Tallinn; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) in Spain; and The Haifa Museum of Art in Israel. His work has been featured in a wide range of publications, including i-D, Flash Art, Modern Painters, Visionaire, L'Uomo Vogue, Stern, The New York Times, and The Huffington Post. He is a regular contributor to Whitewall, Vice, Flaunt, and The Stranger.
Mogutin is the author of two hardcover monographs of photography, Lost Boys and NYC Go-Go. In 2004, together with his partner and collaborator Brian Kenny, Mogutin co-founded SUPERM, a collaborative art project responsible for site-specific gallery and museum shows in the U.S. and across Europe. (Source: Slavamogutin.com)
The latest wave of Russians on the cutting edge are making their statements — in spite of oppression from the mother country — in photography, publishing and music, all with a focus on activism.
Alexander Kargaltsev
Alexander Kargaltsev's photographic project "Asylum" explores the lives of gay men who fled Russia for the United States due to the violence and hatred they have encountered in their motherland.
Kargaltsev's portraits expose the dire situation of the LGBT community in Russia. They contain a poignant message of hope for a life free of fear in the New World. The models, in their nakedness, reveal their courage in shedding many layers of fear, emerging from their harrowing past, bare and vulnerable, yet proud.
For more on this previous exhibit: Advocate.com and Kargaltsev's website, Kargaltsev.com
Agens, which translates from Latin to mean "driving force," describes itself as "A Magazine About Women for Women," and carries a disclaimer warning that the magazine is only for those aged 18 and older. RIA Novosti reports the magazine's claim that it is the only printed, glossy publication for lesbians in the country, and the magazine's editor in chief says it intends to help balance the lack of information available to Russia's LGBT community.
"The LGBT community has to deal with an information blackout," said Milena Chernyavska, the editor in chief and a graduate of Moscow State University's journalism program. "Russian gay men and lesbians don't know each other and think that they cannot be happy, because everyone around them abuses them."
Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk rock protest group based in Moscow. Founded in August 2011, it has a variable membership of approximately 11, women ranging in age from about 20 to 33, who wear brightly colored balaclavas and use only nicknames during interviews. They stage unauthorized, provocative guerrilla performances in unusual public locations, which are edited into music videos and posted on the Internet. Their lyrical themes include feminism, LGBT rights, opposition to the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom they regard as a dictator, and links between the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church and Putin.


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Restaurants in the Theater District
Theater District restaurants have their work cut out for them. Not only do they need to provide good food at a good price, they have to be able to deliver it in time for you to get to the theater before the curtain rises.While its true that many restaurants in the neighborhoodwhose boundaries we have defined as 41st and 53rd streets, Ninth and Seventh avenuesfall short on one or more of those criteria, there are dozens of places where you can enjoy a genuinely good meal. The restaurants listed here range from inexpensive burger joints to ethnic eateries to established bistros. What they all have in common is that they offer value for the money.
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Schnipper's Quality Kitchen $ | Burgers, Restaurant, Salads, American, Sandwiches 620 Eighth Ave. (at 41st Street) New York High-quality burger-stand fare, in a slick, industrial-chic setting. Besides burgers, dogs, fries and "handcrafted" shakes, there are sandwiches (tuna salad, grilled four cheeses, BLT), fish tacos, sloppy Joes, mac and cheese and grown-up salads (beet and goat cheese, fig and blue cheese, Asian chicken). Kid-friendly.
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24 Jan 2013 11:29 AM #1
Influencing Browser Caching with Sencha Cmd for an ExtJS 4 App
Is it possible with Sencha Cmd to add a parameter to a script src property to encourage browsers to dump their cached version of the file?
Right now Sencha Cmd turns this:
HTML Code:
<!-- <x-compile> --> <!-- <x-bootstrap> --> <script src="/ext-4.1.1a/ext-debug.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <!-- </x-bootstrap> --> <script src="/app.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <!-- </x-compile> -->
HTML Code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="all-classes.js"></script>
Is it possible to use Sencha Cmd to instead generate something like this:
HTML Code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="all-classes.js?version=43208374"></script>
P.S. My backup plan is to just do this myself using SED or equivalent as part of our deploy process, but figured I wouldn't re-invent the wheel if Cmd could already do it for me. Looked in the docs, didn't see anything about this.
26 Jan 2013 2:31 PM #2
The name "all-classes.js" is a build property. From .sencha/app/build-impl.xml (line 116 of the "init" target):
<property name="build.classes.name" value="all-classes.js"/>
<target name="-before-init"> <tstamp> <format property="tstamp.full" pattern="yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss"/> </tstamp> <property name="build.classes.name" value="all-classes.js?version=${tstamp.full}"/> </target>Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
Check the docs. Learn how to (properly) report a framework issue and a Sencha Cmd issue
"Use the source, Luke!"
28 Jan 2013 1:00 PM #3
Thanks for the reply. Glad to hear there's a way to do it.
My application was not generated by Sencha Cmd. I'm just using the following command to compile it:
sencha -s=public/ext-4.1.1a compile -classpath=public/ext-4.1.1a/examples/ux,public/app,public/app.js page -yui -in public/development.php -out public/index.php
28 Jan 2013 1:08 PM #4
At that level, the page command has a switch to specify the generated filename. Though now that I think about it, we may need to allow the file name and the src attribute to have different values.
But you could just give the actual file name the date/time stamp instead of using ?version= and get the desired affect.
If you want to experiment with the generated build scripts, the easiest way is to copy the build.xml and .sencha folder from one a dummy app over to your app. There may be changed needed to some config values, but that is probably easier than moving your app around. Depends how similar or dissimilar things are between what you have and what the generated scripts assume.Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
Check the docs. Learn how to (properly) report a framework issue and a Sencha Cmd issue
"Use the source, Luke!"
22 Apr 2013 8:15 PM #5
Quick PSA to help anyone that found this thread searching for how to version deployed builds.
Now that 4.2 is well and truly out in the wild, we've bitten the bullet and started migrating our app from the old folder structure to the new, shiny Sencha Cmd structure that comes with 4.2.
For the last few months I followed dongryphon's original advice about using a switch in the page command to manually specify a version number each time I built.
Now that we're using 4.2 (and Sencha Cmd 18.104.22.1684) I tried to use dongryphon's original suggestion (modify the build.xml file) and realized that the original suggestion doesn't work.
If you put
<property name="build.classes.name" value="all-classes.js?version=${tstamp.full}"/>
However, browsers assume that question marks indicate parameters for a file, so the browser still looks for an "all-classes.js" file. Consequently, no file is found.
You can get around this by simply using:
<property name="build.classes.name" value="all-classes-${tstamp.full}.js"/>
However, none of this really solves the original objective in its true spirit: versioning a deployed file so that browsers clear their cache. We've achieved the same result but by basically cloning the deployed file over and over. This clutters up your build folder and messes with any version control you've got going on.
Now dongryphon already alluded to the way to really fix this problem: split the generated file name and the src attribute into two different variables. If the Sencha team does this in a later Sencha Cmd version we could quite easily version the deployed script in a clean, friendly way.
Here's hoping!
9 Jul 2013 7:39 AM #6
+1 for the feature request of making cache busting a part of Sencha CMD
Good question and clear answers by the way... thnx!
12 Jul 2013 7:01 PM #7
17 Jul 2013 7:29 AM #8
a solution
This works for me:
<target name="-after-page"> <tstamp> <format property="tstamp.full" pattern="yyyyMMddHHmmss"/> </tstamp> <replace file="${build.dir}/${app.page.name}" token="${build.classes.name}" value="${build.classes.name}?version=${tstamp.full}"/> <replace file="${build.dir}/${app.page.name}" token="${app.out.css.rel}" value="${app.out.css.rel}?version=${tstamp.full}"/> </target>varsos
26 Aug 2014 5:02 PM #9
7 Oct 2015 1:07 PM #10
Newbie To Ext JS
We are using Jenkins to do the build using our POM file and the following command
clean package -Psit,sencha -DskipTests -Dcmd.dir=/home/jobs/Sencha/Cmd/22.214.171.124
How can I incorporate the script suggested for browser cache into Pom.xml ? Can someone provide detailed steps please ?


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About the Author
DAVID THOMSON has written about film for The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The New Republic, Salon, Movieline, Film Comment, and Sight & Sound. He is the author of more than thirty books on film, including The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles, and The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood. He lives in San Francisco.


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The Brazilian government is hoping that lower taxes on the country's sugarcane ethanol and petrochemical industries will help boost the competitiveness of exports.
By GERALD JEFFRIS and PAULO WINTERSTEIN
BRASILIA -- Brazil will lower taxes on the country's
sugarcane and petrochemical industries as the government seeks
to boost the competitiveness of its exports as the US expands
shale gas production, undercutting global prices, Finance
Minister Guido Mantega said Tuesday.
Brazil will "neutralize" the so-called PIS/Cofins social
security tax on ethanol producers and petrochemical companies, Mr. Mantega
said Tuesday.
By providing tax credits to ethanol producers equal to the
PIS/Cofins tax burden, which is about 12 centavos ($0.06) per
liter, and providing BRL4 billion in cheaper financing, the
government hopes to spur more investment in the sugarcane
industry. The tax measures will lower federal tax collection by
about BRL970 million this year and about BRL1.2 billion in the
following years, Mr. Mantega said.
The government will also increase the ethanol content in
gasoline, to 25% from 20% currently, he said.
A similar tax break for petrochemical companies will
increase the credit that companies currently receive by about
4.5 percentage points, more than doubling the tax credit they
currently receive, he said. The increased tax credit, which
should reduce tax collections by BRL670 million a year, will be
in effect through the end of 2015, and gradually climb back to
normal levels starting in 2016.
"We have a constituted threat from the production of shale
gas in the US cheapening the cost of raw materials, greatly
increasing the competitiveness of the American petrochemical
industry," Mr. Mantega said. With these measures "we are
reducing taxes on the main supply chains of the petrochemical industry so as to
reduce the prices of products."
Mr. Mantega said that the tax credit for the ethanol industry isn't primarily
meant to lower prices at the pump, but spur more
"The main objective is to make conditions favorable for more
investment in the industry. Producers won't necessarily pass on
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ethanol should also bring down prices at the pump, Mr. Mantega
told reporters. Brazil's government has been struggling to
contain inflation and rising prices forced the central bank to
raise the benchmark Selic interest rate last week, reversing a
cycle of cuts that last year brought the Selic to a record low
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association Unica, Brazil will have excess capacity to process
ethanol only for the next two growing seasons, and so new
investment is needed to increase output.
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jumped -- leading many sugarcane processors to switch over to
producing more of the sweetener and less of the fuel -- at the
same time that bad harvests squeezed supplies and demand rose
as the UScut a tax on ethanol shipped from Brazil.
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March, almost all of it coming from the US, while exporting
2.29 billion liters to the North American country. That
favorable balance is in stark contrast to the previous harvest
year, when Brazil imported 1.45 billion liters, while exporting
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6 Pop Culture Mysteries That Were Solved by Fans
Pop culture is full of unsolved mysteries, like "Was Tony Danza the boss?" "What happened to Tony Danza's career?" and "Is Tony Danza even alive?" Some of them are even unrelated to Tony Danza. And some that we thought would never find an answer finally did, but only through the effort of dedicated fans with way too much time on their hands. Like ...
#6. Kubrick Fan Settles 2001: A Space Odyssey/IBM Debate
The Mystery:
The epic cinematic mind trip known as 2001: A Space Odyssey gave rise to some of the greatest mysteries in pop culture history, among them "How could Stanley Kubrick go more than 140 minutes into a film without any nudity or sexual innuendo?"
Unless you count all that ape nudity and suggestive bone groping.
However, one of the most intriguing questions surrounding the film is whether HAL 9000, the intelligent computer who murders 90 percent of the cast, was meant to represent IBM, the actual computer company (and the pioneers of artificial intelligence). Those who subscribe to this theory point out that the name "HAL" is one letter removed from "IBM" (go back one letter for each), while those who oppose it point out that Kubrick himself specifically said it was bullshit.
Above: Stanley Kubrick, being Stanley Kubrick.
But what about Arthur C. Clarke, the guy who co-wrote 2001 with Kubrick and wrote the accompanying novel and its sequels? Clarke has been even more vocal than Kubrick about denying the IBM connection, even going as far as to have HAL's creator in one of the books say it's "utter nonsense." So, that pretty much settles it.
How They Solved It:
Or so we thought, until Kubrick fan and filmmaker Robert Ager took a closer look at the HD version of the film and found this:
Sadly, there's no button for "I've just been thrown into space by a computer."
Yep, that's the IBM logo on the little keypad on the suit of one of the astronauts. In the previous scene, one of the characters says, "I can't quite put my finger on" what's wrong with HAL -- and then we cut to a finger "not quite being put" on the IBM logo. If we were talking about literally any other director, we could believe that this was a coincidence (another one), but Kubrick was known for putting an insane amount of detail into his work, even if it meant terrorizing the people who worked for him. This seems exactly like the sort of Easter egg he would include.
Also, it turns out that's not the only time the IBM logo is shown: It's visible on the Pan Am "Space Clipper" at the beginning and, apparently, projected across Dave's face when he's trying to reason with HAL. Can you read it?
Hint: That's not an Apple.
Incidentally, "Can you read me?" is what Dave says when the letters flash across his face, which is basically Kubrick's way of saying "Get it? GET IT?" Did Kubrick intentionally lie to everyone who asked him about the IBM connection, including the movie's writer (who admitted that Kubrick alone came up with the name HAL), just so someone could find this previously unreadable detail when the HD version came out 40 years in the future? Honestly, we wouldn't put it past him. Who knows what else is hidden in there.
Probably boobs.
#5. YouTuber Solves the Saw Murders Years Before the Films Do
The Mystery:
The Saw franchise has earned more than $800 million worldwide, but that's not the only mystery surrounding it. Even though the main character (the Jigsaw killer) has been dead since the third movie, they've managed to keep the series going for four more films by slowly revealing different parts of Jigaw's complicated master plan (which, shockingly, is not just "torture as many dudes as possible").
"And then do it again in 3-D."
Clearly they're just making that shit up as they go along, right? You can't guess the plot of the next Saw movie because the writer himself probably doesn't know it until he sits in front of his laptop and begins snorting the computer's weight in cocaine.
"SCENE 1: Something, something, torture porn. Plot twist!"
Specifically, if the killer spends most of the series terminally ill or dead, how do these movies even make sense? Also, does anyone expect them to?
How They Solved It:
At least one person expected them to: His username is Toberoon, and in 2009 he uploaded a YouTube video that explained how the Saw movies tied together ... two years before the filmmakers revealed the same thing at the end of Saw 3D.
In the video, Toberoon outlined an elaborate theory that Cary Elwes' character from the first Saw film (Dr. Gordon, the guy forced to saw his own foot off) was not only alive, but had also become Jigsaw's apprentice in the subsequent films. According to Toberoon, Jigsaw rescued Gordon when he was mostly dead and hooked him up with a prosthetic foot.
Thankfully, mostly dead is slightly alive.
Toberoon was able to find several clues that Gordon was working with the killer, like a video where "Jigsaw" seemed to be limping while torturing a guy, or the fact that he was able to perform surgical operations even though he was an engineer. Most fans probably didn't notice these clues because, well, they're exactly the sort of plot holes you'd expect from a horror film.
Even though Toberoon only had the first five Saw films to work with, in the seventh one his theory turned out to be 100 percent correct -- not only was Dr. Gordon secretly Jigsaw's unpaid intern this whole time, but it happened exactly as Toberoon's video predicted it:
Or maybe the writers just saw the video and said, "Hey, that makes more sense than what we were planning," which would be kind of impressive in its own way.
#4. Message Board Poster Cracks the Entire Zelda Alphabet
The Mystery:
One of the staples of the Legend of Zelda series is the Hylian language, perhaps best known for its odd pronunciation of the word "excuse." You can always find the symbols that make up the language on those awfully convenient signs that some brave soul took the time to place at even the most ridiculously dangerous corners of the land of Hyrule.
"Watch out for the chicken."
Fans curious or obsessed enough to want to know what the signs say usually have to wait for Nintendo to give out the translated alphabet for each game -- but this time they were out of luck. The official Zelda handbook described the language used in the latest game, Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, as impossible to translate.
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Link could be stepping into a rape vortex without knowing it. Again.
Some fans tried to crack the code anyway, only to find out that they were all stumped on the same letters. Keep in mind that even the timeline of the various Zelda games was kept in absolute mystery for over 20 years -- Nintendo could easily keep the language a secret for 20 more.
"We're really surprised people care about this stuff, so we've resolved to fuck with them."
How They Solved It:
Or at least they could have, if it wasn't for a message board poster called Sarinilli, who cracked the code by herself ... within little more than a month of the game's release.
Sarinilli became a hero to Zelda fans everywhere when she found a small sign in the game that seemed to repeat a random string of characters over and over. Upon closer inspection, she realized the characters weren't random -- it was actually the entire Hylian alphabet written down in sequence, presumably by a lazy programmer who wanted to fill some space, or perhaps someone having a long seizure.
She had found Hyrule's Rosetta stone, at which point she presumably got to hear that fancy secret passage jingle in real life. Sarinilli even created a downloadable font that Zelda fans can use to send confidential messages to one another, or simply mess with Nintendo. As for those mysterious signs all over the game: It turns out they say really exciting stuff like "Read me please," "You can read this" and "Sold out."
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Can you help me find battery-operated tealights on a timer?
I like getting crafty after classes let out, and this year I need to do some soldering and spray painting. Hey, it's a manly craft!
Anyway, I'm starting to gather materials I need now so I'll be ready once classes end on the 17th. But I need help gathering supplies. I can find the clear glass Christmas bulbs easily enough, and spray paint/making a stencil is easy, but the last thing I really need is a battery-operated tealight that's on a timer. There are a ton out there with an on/off switch, but there are some out there that will stay lit for some number of hours and turn themselves off. Even more important though is that it's powered off of a button battery, not AA or AAA batteries. Can anyone help me locate some? Pictures will be posted after the craft is done if this all works out! Or pictures of the disastrous results, y'know, whatever.
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Mostly I just want to know what you're making!
@inkycatz: I plan on ripping apart the tea lights and putting the bulb inside of a Christmas ornament that I'll paint. Probably just a stencil and frosted glass paint, not sure yet, but I just need a small enough LED on a timer to make it work...
Darn, those lights are sold out :(
Wal-Mart has these lights on their site, 24-pack for $9.97 (plus applicable tax and shipping): http://www.walmart.com/ip/Holiday-Flameless-Metallic-LED-Tea-Lights-with-Timer-24pk/22001064


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Never tried that in any of mine. I would think that it would work okay. What would make you think otherwise?
How good/bad does Wolf work in your Glock? I'm not sure if I should trust it or not.
Never tried that in any of mine. I would think that it would work okay. What would make you think otherwise?
I tried them in my .40 Glock and .45 SIG. they shoot fine and are not that dirty. My only problem was that the steel case has a lot of friction and I had a hard time getting my magazine full. After 5-6 rounds I could not push any more down.
They shot fine though.
I've only used Wolf in rifles (AR, AK, SKS), but it works fine. I'd have no qualms about feeding a Glock with Wolf. Glocks are pretty tough.
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I have shot hundreds of the wolf through my springfields (45, 40) and had absolutely no problems....To me it was no different than any other ammo I bought from Walmart or at the range....My .40 was always stiff to push any ammo into the mag but no matter what I put in the .45 they go in like butter..My XD9 is a little stiffer that the .45 but not as stiff as the .40 was..
I wouldn't run Wolf unless it was significantly cheaper then everything else. I'm not worried about the steel case, more about the KB stories you here. I know that Wolf is VERY good about getting your gun replaced, but you can expect to be out for at least a month while that gets sorted out...not to mention any damage to yourself.
I'm sure the majority of people have no problems with it, but like I said, I don't mind paying an extra $20/1000 to have better ammo that I can reload as well.
I was wondering the same thing about Wolf's quality, since I found a place where I could get 1k rounds pretty cheap. But I played it safe and picked up Speer Lawman instead , but 1k rounds was about $70 more than the Wolf. I havn't heard any kB stories about wolf, I was more worried about the steel casings possibly causing wear... and the general reliability of the ammo.
I've used Wolf ammo in my CZ, functioned ok, a little on the dirty side, I can only use it in the desert though because most indoor ranges around here don't allow steel casings.
Wolf steel cased ammo is prone to swelling. On some guns, this can cause FTE.
Glocks have unsupported chambers. The extra space around the case should allow Wolf rounds to eject more easily than chambers manufactured to tighter tolerances.
OTOH, swelling combined with unsupported chambers could be more prone to catastrophic failure. IE. kB!


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I've had many emails asking for a tutorial of how it's made.
Each one asks where find it.
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Due to the interest, I've begun a quest to make a wreath of my own.
I've begun collecting what I need.
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IPC staff lawyer Ben Winograd was also quoted in the article:
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n Sept. 9, William Leslie Bedford, 47, Bronson, fleeing/eluding, DRWSR, obstruction W/OV. Bond $20,000.
n Sept. 6, Frank Peter Bernatos, 54, Cross City, trespassing. Bond $5,000.
n Sept. 10, Robert William Bernstein, 46, Bronson, two counts FTA. Bond $325,000.
n Sept. 6, Danny Dewayne Boettner, 34, Old Town, two out of county warrants, obstruction W/OV. Bond $100,000.
n Sept. 10, Frederic Daniel Bonneau, 49, Morriston, battery.
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On Friday, Sept. 2, the Levy County Sheriff's Office, together with Inglis and Chiefland police departments with equipment borrowed from the City of Williston, conducted a DUI checkpoint in Inglis as part of the national "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" campaign. This campaign was to reduce and eliminate impaired driving on our roadways.
A $500 reward is being offered to anyone with knowledge leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for multiple acts of vandalism at Scoggins Chevrolet in Chiefland sometime during the Labor Day weekend.
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n Aug. 22, Lafaye Nicole Adkins, 28, Williston, trespassing fail to leave property upon order by owner. Bond $500.
n Aug. 24, Jeremy Mason Arrington, 31, Chiefland, VOP.
n Aug. 25, Bryan Keith Baker, 47, Williston, VOP.
n Aug. 27, Beverly Sue Bellomy, 44, Williston, four out of county warrants, obstruction W/OV. Bond $19,500.
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n Otis Evan Oliver, petit larceny first offense, 2 counts of fraud by uttering false instrument, petit larceny second conviction, nolle pros; two counts of forgery by altering public record, certificate, and two counts of fraud by impersonation, 36 months with credit for 78 days served on each, served concurrently. Must pay civil judgment and jail fund.
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n Aug. 18, Leroy Brown, 18, Archer, schedule I, III or IV drug, marijuana possession. Bond $5,000.
n Aug. 15, Isidoro Altamirano Bueno, 37, Palatka, DWLSR habitual. Bond $2,500.
n Aug. 16, Cory Taylor Chadwick, 25, Chiefland, disorderly intoxication in a public place causing disturbance. Bond $1,000.
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What is known is that, although how big your child will be is determined genetically, women have an extra influence on the size of their babies while they are in the uterus. So, even if your child ends up growing to 6 ft (1.80 m) tall, if you're small you'll limit how big she gets in the uterus. This makes sense-if you're small, you wouldn't be able to deliver a hefty 12 lb (5.5 kg) baby, so your body limits the baby's size at delivery. Your baby will then catch up on her expected growth after the birth.
There's a condition called cephalo-pelvic disproportion in which the baby is too big or the pelvis is too small for the baby to engage. An MRI scan will be performed to get exact measurements.
After giving birth, your body will spring back into shape overnight; you'll be bursting with energy and raring to go. That's one scenario! The other – more realistic – possibility is that you'll find yourself struggling to get breast-feeding established and to brush your teeth before lunch time. If you don't like living in a mess, act now to prevent resentment (and the laundry) from building up in a few months' time.
You'll be given a very sugary drink and asked to wait for an hour, after which your blood will be tested. If your levels are high, you'll have to take a glucose tolerance test, which is similar, but longer. If you do have gestational diabetes, you will be taught how to test your blood sugar at home. You'll likely be able to control your condition with diet and exercise.
It's reassuring to know that most women who have sugar in their urine have normal blood-sugar levels in the glucose test.
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New to TouchPad..
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A friend just gave me a TP that he had no need for; I did an erase to remove his data, and entered my own. I'm reading up on tips/tricks/user guides, but I did notice that when I tried to make a comment on FB, the keyboard showed up, but nothing I typed on it appeared in the comments window.
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Hello RivergoatJr, I just tried it on my TouchPad and things seem to be working fine.
Just curious, what version of Facebook Tablet are you using? Mine has version 2.0.35.
Or are you using the web to access FB? Might give the download a try from the App store.
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Thanks. I'll check the version. Last night, however, it let me type comments as it should, so go figure. I had at first run it off the Web, then logged back into FB via the installed app.
I'm still getting settled with the TouchPad. Ha, the first thing I noticed with the keypad was the lack of arrow keys. This morning I ran the patch that applied a fixed keyboard, so that is settled. I can't imagine how/why the developers left that out; I found the need for arrows immediately.
Going to look at the rest of the tweaks and tune ups on the sticky, Looks like some good adivce; but I'll also see what version of FB app is installed and update as needed.
(I still want to see how to create my own wallpapers - I d/l'ed an app that has nice photos, but the one I chose is of a State Park 10 minutes from me...I have taken photos of the same waterfall, and would rather use my own work!)
Intersting my friend didn't need the TouchPad and just gave it to me, I'm seeing a variety of ways i can make good use of it....
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To use a pic for wallpaper - go to Settings/Screen & Lock/Change Wallpaper.
It will open a dialogue letting you "pick a pic". ;-)
As you get familiar with it, you may want to consider installing Android on it too! It becomes an amazing dual-booting tablet that few other devices can match!
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Thanks for the follow up. I had read about Android on the TouchPad, I may look into that. Yesterday I got Preware in along with Uberkernel and Govnah (pushing it to 1.7GHz); then the modified keyboard with arrow keys, disabling some of the logging, all the neat tips I read about.
I also figured out the wallpaper thing. I used Photoshop to resize and crop some of my personal shots into 1024x1024; they work as wallpaper, but I see they get cropped just a little more when I save as wallpaper. I may need to tweak with images a little more, and find some that have enough open space around the frame so as to not get the main subject cropped.
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strawberry + rhubarb jam recipe
So the recipe I'm writing up today is for a lovely strawberry and rhubarb jam that I made last week. If you are like me and love strawberry jam but feel like it's a waste using all those lovely fresh berries to turn into jam, this recipe will help you to let go of that notion. Using half strawberry and half rhubarb you manage to stretch the strawberry flavour that little bit further and it adds a lovely acidity to the mix too. Even better if you have a rampant rhubarb plant growing in your back yard like we do!
I've given this jam a little citrus hit in place of the usual vanilla paring. It results in a beautifully fresh flavoured jam. Because strawberries are not naturally high in pectin (needed to set jams), the addition of lemon zest and juice also helps the setting process along. I like my jams to have a soft spoonable set, so I remove it from the heat the second a trail is left on the plate when tested, but if you prefer a firmer set simply boil for longer or use a sugar like Chelsea's jam setting sugar (it contains citric acid and pectin). As I've mentioned before, most homegrown rhubarb tends to be more green than red. But in a recipe like this you'd never notice as the berry colour really dominates.
I used unrefined cane sugar, but use which ever sugar you like.
Makes 4-5 small jars.
2 heaped cups (300g) strawberries, hulled and chopped in half if large
2 cups (230g) rhubarb, cut into 1cm pieces
3 1/2 cups (700g) raw sugar
The finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
Pop a plate into the fridge or freezer to test for setting later. Place the fruit, sugar, zest and juice into a large preserving pot. Bring slowly to the boil, stirring constantly until the sugar has dissolved. Cook rapidly, stirring often to prevent sticking. After 10 minutes start testing jam for setting. To do this, remove the plate from the fridge, drop a teaspoonful of jam onto it. Run your finger through the centre of the jam. If the trail remains in the jam your jam will set on cooling. If it runs into the centre and forms one blob again, return to the heat and cook for a further few minutes before testing again. Once setting point has been reached remove the pot from the heat, skim any foam off the top (or if you eat butter you can add a little knob of this to the jam, mix it in to help break up the foam- a tip from my Nana!) and set aside for 5-10 minutes. This ensures the fruit is evenly dispersed through the jam and doesn't all float to the top. Pour into sterilised jars*, screw on the lids and set aside to cool. Store jam in a cool dark place and refrigerate once opened.
* To sterilise jars, clean them in hot soapy water, rinse and place into 120 C/248 F oven for 30 minutes. Stand lids in boiling water for 5 minutes to sterilise.
Adapted from a recipe featured in the 2010 New Zealand Gardener garden diary.
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Yay, a great way for me to use up some of the out-of-control rhubarb plant I too have in the garden! Thanks!ReplyDelete
Hope Kye is feeling better soon, poor wee poppet.
Emm I happen to love rhubarb and strawberries together. I think it's one of those combos that are made for eachother. Thanks for the post I always enjoy them B:)ReplyDelete
MMMMMMMM,..My mom always makes this jam in summertime with rhubarb from our garden so I willsurely love your jam!ReplyDelete
yum. Looks amazing. I have heaps of rhubarb that seems to go to waste each year, (unless my MIL grabs it)you have inspired me :)ReplyDelete
I hope you feel better soon, Emm.ReplyDelete
I too, feel a bit wasteful everytime I make strawberry jam with perfectly good berries. In our bakery, we use chopped papayas, but the fruit give the jam a bit of funny taste. If I can ever find rhubarb, I would love to pitch this idea to my partner!
Thanks everyone. Kye and I are feeling much better now.ReplyDelete
Jun-papaya and strawberry sounds like an interesting combination! I reckon banana or pear would work well with strawberries to stretch them out too.
What a lovely jam recipe, another great way to cook with rhubarb.ReplyDelete
I also love the styling of your website. Gorgeous!!
I'm going to try this you made it sound so easy! I love this!ReplyDelete
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700g sugar???? Crazy.ReplyDelete
Traditional jam is sweet and made with loads of sugar (unlike sugar-free recipes such as 'chia jam' which only keep a few days). The sugar acts as the preservative so you can store it without refrigeration for years. You can use less sugar if you like, but the consistency will change and it won't keep as well. Also keep in mind that you only eat about 1-2 teaspoons of jam in one serving.Delete
Wow! Amazing Jam! I'll make some rhubarb jam this weekend, yours look very good!ReplyDelete


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WEIRTON - Kenova's Tom Knopp is doing his best to "walk out hunger," one county at a time.
The 68-year-old is 13 days into his mission to walk through all 55 West Virginia counties to build awareness of the plight of those in need of help feeding themselves and their families.
"People are suffering, really suffering," said Knopp, who on Friday walked from Municipal Plaza to Madonna High School by way of Pennsylvania Avenue. Joining him for the four-mile trek were Mayor George Kondik and Hancock County Commissioner Dan Greathouse. "There's no reason in the world people should go without in a country as rich as this."
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HUNGER WALK — "Walking Out Hunger" Friday in Weirton were, from left, Tom Knopp, director of the Kenova, W.Va., Good Samaritan Center; Hancock County Commissioner Dan Greathouse; Mayor George Kondik; and Jim Pauchnik, a member of the board of directors of the Community Breadbasket. Knopp, a 68-year-old cancer survivor, is on a walking tour of all 55 West Virginia counties to underscore the importance of food bank programs. -- Linda Harris
Knopp, director of the Kenova, W.Va., Good Samaritan Center, is hoping to raise $550,000 - that's $10,000 per county - to feed the hungry in West Virginia.
"I hope people who read about it or see me on TV will support us with donations to the two major food banks in West Virginia or local groups serving the less fortunate in their city," he said.
Funds raised in Brooke and Hancock counties will go to the Community Breadbasket, which provides food for about 200 families every month. The group also assists with utilities, baby items for those in need and works as an information referral service.
Tara Shepherd, Community Breadbasket Program Administrator, said they've already raised a little over $1,000 locally through donations from Weirton's Renaissance Committee and Hancock County Savings Bank. They'll also be doing a tag day at nine area businesses in Weirton on May 11 with the help of volunteers from the Boy Scouts of America and several local churches.
Shepherd said 10 percent of the money collected locally will go to the Mountaineer Area Food Bank in Gassaway, which supplies the Community Breadbasket with food. Donations also may be made directly to Mountaineer Food Bank, which currently serves 48 West Virginia countries, or to the Huntington Area Food Bank, which serves Cabell, Wayne, Mason, Putnam, Lincoln, Logan and Mingo counties.
"The need can never be overstated," said the Rev. J.D. Wall of Tri-State Church of God, vice president of the Breadbasket and chairman of the Hunger Walk committee. "The need for services is ever-increasing in our community, so anything that can draw attention to the fact that people don't have to go to a big city, they can get help right here in Weirton, is great. Many families are struggling to feed their families and pay utilities, things Breadbasket can assist with. There's lots the community can do to help meet the needs."
Knopp says it's a subject near and dear to his heart.
Growing up, he said his family received help from a small church outreach program and food pantry, adding "their generosity made a lasting (impression) on me."
He said the lesson was reinforced when he was diagnosed with terminal lymphoma at age 48.
"I'd always prided myself on paying my bills," said Knopp, a barber by trade. "But I was unable to work so I couldn't. I never missed a payment because of the generosity of the people in my community, they would come into my business and say, 'Tom can use this more than me.' It's a humbling experience to be 46 years old and not be able to care for yourself."
Cancer free for 23 years, he credits Divine Intervention with bringing him through it: One night when the future seemed particularly bleak, he said he prayed for the opportunity to spend whatever time he had left "in a way that glorifies you." Six months later his doctors told him his cancer was gone.
"When I had the lymphoma I'd thought death would be a blessing," he said. "But I didn't know what a blessing was until my healing. Then I became a servant, caring more for the less fortunate. It's truly been a blessing for me since then to be able to help the less fortunate."


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I've got both SEXTANTE and GRASS installed on my platform. GRASS-SEXTANTE report an error when I'm trying to create the Modeller, however, other tools (R) work fine in SEXTANTE. Do these tools have separate configurations? Please let me know about your experiences. Best, N
One method you might try to get GRASS commands to work in SEXTANTE involves how QGIS locates the external binaries needed to run those commands. Unless given explicitly defined paths, subprocesses in Python use the
There is some code in the source for the GRASS C++ plugin in QGIS to help with this, but not for Python plugins. Currently, the workaround is to allow your GUI apps to inherit your .bash_profile's (or other shell's)
This will allow GUI userland apps on a Mac to use your bash profile's custom PATH, which in turn, will allow QGIS, and its Python plugins to utilize the
However, it may not be appropriate to have
There is a known bug in running R and GRASS in Sextante on OSX - but you indicate that R is working OK already for you? To fix:
Alternatively - try the QGIS nightly builds - I'm running the latest, which includes an updated Sextante 1.08; works very well.


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I've built a tool that determines a user's Kongregate ID. The code isn't anything clever, but it's an interesting tool nonetheless.
Just enter your name and hit "Go". It will retrieve your ID and output it below.
On a side note, I'm curious if anyone can beat me: 96,439. (Well, granted, 96,438 people can beat me. But not many are still active.)


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This week we talk about the social strategies Microsoft is using to connect and empower its almost 100,000 employees. We sit down with Chris Slemp, a Program Manager overseeing a number of these efforts. We'll talk about his experience, interesting collaborations tools, and communication platforms that Microsoft's IT department built to connect and foster collaboration. Submit your questions via Twitter to Mike Benkovich, @mbenko, or Mithun Dhar, @mithund and append hash tag #msdnradio.
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Dow Tumbles 216 as Vote in Italy, Capitol Impasse Spook Investors
After taking a back seat for weeks, two market demons, Europe and Washington, showed they still had power to haunt investors.
Inconclusive election results in Italy sparked fears of political instability that could unsettle the wider region. And in the U.S., political leaders appeared likely to allow potentially damaging spending cuts to kick in. Both events on Monday came on top of concerns that the Federal Reserve may end its bond-buying program earlier than planned.
All three combined for the worst day for stocks in nearly four months, a rare banner day for gold, and a strong rally in Treasurys.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 216.40 points, or 1.5%, to 13784.17, its biggest one-day point and percentage drop since Nov. 7. The blue-chip average now sits at its lowest level in a month. Of the stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, just 3% achieved a gain.
Gold, which had declined more than 7% over the past month, notched its biggest one-day rise this month, bouncing back 0.9%, to $1,586.20 a troy ounce. The 10-year Treasury note strung together its fourth day of gains, driving its yield down to 1.895% late Monday, a level unseen in more than a month, as bond yields move inversely to prices.
In a sign of rising market concerns, the CBOE Market Volatility Index, the "fear gauge" known as the VIX, soared 34% to its highest level this year. The last time the VIX rose more than 30% in a day was during 2011's debt-ceiling debate.
The reaction was notable because investors had to a large extent dismissed macroeconomic worries in recent weeks. The Dow was up 6.8% this year before Monday, nearing its record, but the gains have been enough to give some investors pause.
Some investors suggested that Italy's political instability could undermine the euro zone's third-largest economy, which could ripple to the bloc's other countries.
"There's been a gradual turn in the news flow away from the positive we've been seeing at the beginning of this year," said Alan Gayle, senior investment strategist for Atlanta-based RidgeWorth Investments, which manages about $48 billion in assets. "The news flow has not been good to begin with, and the final straw came from the Italian elections."
The Italian vote showed no clear winner, though a coalition led by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appeared to be gaining an upper hand in the Senate. That is worrying for investors because many believe Mr. Berlusconi may dial back austerity measures designed to help reduce the nation's debt. One trader described the election as a "disaster," echoing the sentiment of other investors, because the muddled outcome could bring uncertainty for months.
"Renewed European stress is not necessarily priced into the market," said William O'Donnell, head of Treasury strategy at RBS Securities.
At the same time, the U.S. government appears to be barreling toward a set of automatic budget cuts known as the "sequester," which would kick in on Friday, reducing government spending by $1.2 trillion over the course of a decade.
Many investors also are now turning their focus to the second half of this week, which will see a barrage of economic data on the U.S., including the monthly jobs report, as well as congressional testimony by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Prices at the gas pump also are at historically high levels for this time of year, raising concerns that consumers could feel their budgets pinched.
In the U.S., stocks initially jumped on Monday amid expectations Italian voters would favor a government that would continue austerity programs. The Dow rose as much as 81 points, less than 100 points short of its record close, before the tone soured.
"The election complicates some of the steady progress we had seen on the political front in Europe," Mr. Gayle said. "Italy had been moving along in a much more disciplined way, cutting back government spending, and the austerity measures had soothed some of the market anxieties. Berlusconi is viewed as part of the problem, not a part of the solution."
Among stocks, Lowe's LOW 0.01 % fell 4.8% after the home-improvement retailer's earnings forecast trailed analysts' estimates.
Barnes & Noble BKS 1.00 % surged 11% after Leonard Riggio, the company's chairman and largest shareholder, confirmed he has an interest in buying out the retailer's bookstores.
Meanwhile, some investors anticipated selling pressure would carry over into Asian and European trading on Tuesday. That would put the focus on Mr. Bernanke, who heads to Capitol Hill to face questions from legislators over the central bank's commitment to supporting the economy through bond purchases.
On Monday, Italy's FTSE MIB index pared an intraday rise of 4%, briefly turning negative before finishing with a gain of 0.7%. The Stoxx Europe 600 finished down 0.1%, while the euro tumbled 1% against the dollar, to $1.3062, its worst day since Jan. 3. The euro has fallen 3.8% this month against the greenback.
In Asia, Japan's Nikkei Stock Average jumped 2.4% to a 4½-year high after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe moved closer to nominating Haruhiko Kuroda, a proponent of easier monetary policies, as the next governor of the Bank of Japan.
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TOPEKA -- The Kansas Department of Health and Environment's Bureau of Waste Management has been awarded an AmeriCorps grant that will allow KDHE to recruit four individuals as AmeriCorps service members. These members will work with Unified School Districts in rural Western areas of Kansas (West of US highway 281) to conduct environmental audits specific to waste reduction/recycling, energy use and water use.
Selected AmeriCorps members will serve with students and educators throughout the project period which will last nine months during the 2012/13 school year. Ideal candidates will be individuals that have recently graduated (or soon to graduate) from a post secondary educational program with a significant amount of classroom study in environmental studies or closely related areas. Retired science teachers have also found this to be a unique opportunity.
Members must be a U.S. citizen and at least 17 years-of-age and pass a criminal background check. Travel in a three to four county area from the member's residence is required and funding is available to help cover costs.
In addition to a great opportunity to serve rural Kansas and our Kansas environment, a living allowance stipend of $733 per month will be available. All members that complete their 900-hour project will be eligible for Segal AmeriCorps Education Award of $2,775.


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April 11, 2013
Cape Town's best wine, beer and whisky tours
Cape Town has long been renowned for its beautiful winelands and award-winning wines. But more recently, beer and spirits have become a part of its quaff culture. Newlands Brewery is the oldest brewery in South Africa, while microbreweries are popping up all over the region. There is also something to quench the thirst of lovers of fine whisky and brandy, with hotels doing tastings and pairings.
Wine tours
Wine abounds! Constantia Valley, Durbanville Valley and the Helderberg Wine Route are the closest winelands regions to Cape Town central. But 30 to 45 minutes away, visitors will be spoilt for choice in Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, and the Overberg and Overstrand areas. Stellenbosch has the oldest organised wine route in South Africa, while Franschhoek offers bubbly options in addition to wines and mouth-watering cuisine.
Many tours of the winelands are paired with activities such as a harvesting, or cultural heritage and gourmet experiences. Try Cape Fusion Tours, Cape Wine and Leisure Tours or Gourmet Wine Tours, to name a few.
Vineyard Ventures does all of the above, as well as offering trips to inspiring gardens and private homes of residents.
Bikes 'n Wines is South Africa's only carbon-neutral tour of the winelands, with an interesting combination of wine tasting and mountain biking.
The Franschhoek Wine Tram winds itself through the valley, taking travellers back 300 years to the old wine-making days. It stops at some of Franschhoek's most famed wine estates for guests to hop off and explore.
Beer routes
Beer tasting is fast becoming a must-do experience in the Mother City. Microbrewery beers from Boston, Jack Black's or Mitchell's are in the hands of Cape Town's Friday night cool set, while Coffee Beans Routes has launched the Cape Town Beer Route, which takes visitors on a half-day journey from mainstream beer production and emerging craft-beer culture to traditional African beer-brewing history and techniques.
You can also try a bespoke beer tasting at the impressive Newlands Brewery. A tasty part of its guided tours, which see you meandering all over the extensive site, is two free beers in the underground pub.
Whisky and brandy happenings
Looking for something with age or mellowness?
Try the Western Cape Brandy Route or the recently launched Urban Brandy Cocktail Route. The latter takes you to five different Cape Town venues. But if meandering on your lonesome is more your thing, try these recommended brandy distillers: Klipdrift Brandy Distillery , Van Ryn Brandy Distillery, Southern Cape Vineyards and KWV.
- For the first time in Cape Town, a brandy festival – Fine Brandy Fusion – is set to take place, from 9 to 10 May at the CTICC (http://www.brandyfestival.co.za).
- The annual FNB Whisky Live Festival takes place from October 3 to 5, 2013 at the CTICC (http://www.whiskylivefestival.co.za/).


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We had a party Monday night and ordered Sushi for 20 people - about 25 percent of the Sushi went uneaten, mostly plain rolls like tuna and yellow tail. I would hate to throw out 10+ rolls - any suggestions?
I'm assuming these rolls contain raw fish. If that's the case I'd urge you not to eat them raw the following day. It might be safest to just throw it out, but you could try deep frying them in a light tempura batter. Just a few minutes should be enough to cook the fish.
As hobodave points out, you'll need to cook the fish, because the leftovers won't be safe to eat raw. While deep frying sounds tasty, I'd be concerned that the cooking time would be too short to kill much bacteria. Perhaps you could layer them in a casserole dish, maybe throw some more rice, sesame seeds, sauce(s) on top, and bake until browned as an asian casserole of sorts.
Be smart, though, and if they've been out of the fridge for a long time, or if they smell strongly, just toss 'em.
First a red flag on the raw fish here. That said, some shops keep the sushi refrigerated for a couple of days before selling it. It's not what I prefer, but it is still edible. If you kept it out on a buffet for a couple of hours then I'd say you're going to have to say goodbye to the rolls.
If you're willing to take them apart you could go for a stir fry solution. Let's say a fishy variation on this recipe.
Before proceeding, consider carefully where the rolls have been and use your nose.
chop up your left over raw fish into tiny pieces and mix well with finely sliced green spring onion, tiny bit of soy sauce and sesame oil. Top your rice with it and enjoy!