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August 25, 2014
Pre-Holiday Power-Up: Building Better Subscriber Profiles
I bet you already have your holiday plan all wrapped up, or you're at least close enough to have the wrapping paper and tape on stand-by. Most marketers focus early holiday planning on campaign and promotional details because they …More...
August 20, 2014
Macy's Continues to See Results from Omnichannel
Macy's is continuing to see in-store sales driven by its online channel at both its Macy's and Bloomingdales stores, the company told analysts and investors in a Q2 earnings call.
"The Internet-generated demand continues to grow rapidly and …More...
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August 20, 2014
Staples Plans to Close 140 Stores to Focus on Ecommerce
Staples announced it would close approximately 140 of its North American stores in 2014, according to its Q2 earnings call.
"As customers shift online, we are taking aggressive action to right-size our retail footprint," the company said in a prepared statement. "We …More...
August 19, 2014
Retailers Say Hello to Next-Generation Personalization
Personalization in retail has become so established that many retailers have embraced approaches that are good enough. I see standard features like "you may also like" recommendations as "Gen 1" personalization using web cookies to establish product-to-product connections.
But the dramatic …More...
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August 18, 2014
What the Marketplace Fairness Act Means to Small Businesses
Before heading out for summer recess, the U.S. Senate made plans to extend the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which bars states from levying taxes on internet access. The act is set to expire November 1, 2014, but with strong bipartisan support …More...
August 18, 2014
How to Organize and Execute Omnichannel Strategies
Retailers are finding various ways to address the issues that surround the "multichannel problem" and executing the omnichannel experience that best fits the consumer.
In a panel discussion at eTail East 2014, Jessica Coogan, online marketing director for The Container Store, …More...
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August 16, 2014
QA Testing Technology is Key for Seamless Integration
A recent column on The Future of Commerce cited an eBay study which found that 77 percent of shoppers expect a seamless, integrated experience regardless of whether they're in store, online or using a mobile device.
So software companies serving today'…More...
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August 7, 2014
B2B Sees Faster Online Sales Growth than B2C
B2B ecommerce has grown at a faster sales pace than B2C, according to Epsilon's 2014 Multichannel Trend Report.
B2B online sales grew nearly 8% during that time, and accounted for nearly two-thirds of all sales, according to the Epsilon …More...
August 6, 2014
4 Tips to Beat Amazon's Price Advantage
Ecommerce giant Amazon has put the pressure on every in-store retailer. It's hard for many brick and mortar stores to compete with Amazon's convenience and price advantage, but they need to learn that the secret to beating Amazon …More...
August 6, 2014
Mobile Website vs Native App: Which is Better for Merchants?
Marissa Mayer said it best – 2014 will be the year of mobile. Earlier this year, Mayer announced that over the course of 2014 Yahoo's mobile traffic will surpass its desktop traffic. Yahoo's mobile traffic influx is indicative of the …More...


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On every site except on SO and MSO in the top right of a user's main profile there is a link to the same user's meta profile and on a user's meta profile there is a link to the same user's main profile. Here is an example:
I want to suggest to add this kind of links to SO and MSO (I am aware of there being links to all accounts in the profile but this is not what I'm suggesting). This suggestion was argued against but I think that argument is bad. Even if MSO is independent of SO it makes sense to have links between user's profiles (for which there is an account of both sites). After all, there is an important relation between SO and MSO even though the former is not strictly the parent of the former. Adding such links will make
- it more convenient to switch between user's SO and MSO profiles, and
- the structure of profiles will be more consistent across the SX network.

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Feature Builder 101 - Creating the "Tools"
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In part 1 of the "Using Feature Builder" screencast series, Michael Lehman provides a step-by-step walkthrough of how to get started with authoring Visual Studio automation using the Feature Builder Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010.
The "Tools" refers to the easy-to-author Visual Studio extensibility features provided in the Feature Builder.
With Feature Builder you can add menu items to any Visual Studio menu, including context menus, as well as add context menu items to UML and DSL model designers and even support drag/drop operations between models.
On-going hints-and-tips along with FAQs can be found on Michael Lehman's MSDN blog: Adventures in SoftwareLand.
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text: Richard A. Simpson is a partner with Wiley Rein, LLP, with offices in Washington, D.C., and McLean, Va. For over 20 years, Simpson has had a national insurance coverage and litigation practice, with an emphasis on claims against lawyers and other professionals (both defense and coverage) and appellate litigation, and also has represented individuals (including White House officials and a U.S. Senator) in connection with criminal and congressional investigations. Simpson has acted as lead appellate counsel in ten of the federal courts of appeals, and in state appellate courts in California, Florida, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Texas and Virginia. In addition to private practice, he has served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, attorney adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice, deputy independent counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Curtis Emery von Kann (confidential investigation conducted under seal), associate independent counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel James C. McKay (investigation of Attorney General Edwin Meese) and law clerk to Judge John D. Butzner Jr. on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He graduated first in his class from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1977 and magna cum laude from Wesleyan University in 1974.


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No more tanning for Ohio teens?
June 29, 2013
MARTINS FERRY — Ohio Lawmakers are working to limit the use of anyone under the age of 18 using an indoor tanning beds....
I have no problem with say..you must show ID to use a tanning bed. If you are not 18 then one of your parents has to come into the salon and sign a waiver allowing the child to tan there and how many sessions per week she is permitted. I should not go any further than that and signing the waiver should also clear the owner / operator of the salon from any lawsuits pertaining to skin damage.
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My opinion is these people have long avoided doing their jobs properly. They have also written and passed an extreme amount of laws that WE THE PEOPLE do not like. I think it is time to strip them of their power to make laws. They can write them, vote on which ones can go on a ballot and once per year every state will have an election to vote on the proposed laws. all new federal laws would also be on each state ballot. This is the only was we can take our country back. i would also like to citizens by petition be allowed to add laws that they seem fit to be added to the ballot.
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But, let's be absolutely clear. We encourage you to get outside and play in the real sun as much as possible, and oh yeah, you can go to the pharmacy and buy the "morning after" pill without your parent's permission no matter regardless of your age. Insanity!!!
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Kentucky Humane Society held its Tuxes & Tails benefit auction and gala, presented by Brown-Forman, at the Louisville Marriott Downtown Aug. 18.
WAVE 3's Brian Goode and The Voice-Tribune's Angie Fenton were emcees for the elegant evening. Proceeds from the "Starry Night" themed event will benefit cats and dogs through KHS's life-saving mission.
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We have a broken step on our carpeted staircase. How can I remove then refit the carpet without damaging it? When the carpet has been removed, I will have to repair the step if possible, then refit the carpet.
Staple or tack the carpet to the bottom side of the tread above the broken tread, just past where you staple it, cut it with a sharp carpet knife and peal it back, fix the broken tread and then pull the carpet back in place and staple it back into place. Since all of the stapling and cutting will be on the underside of tread it shouldn't be very noticeable.
Or hire a carpet guy on craigslist or something to come and pull all of it up and relay it for you after you've fixed it. I assume this would cost about $100.


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Kentucky State Police need your help identifying a group of teenagers accused of burglary in Adair County.
KSP says the group broke into the State Highway Department several times within the past month.
Troopers say they stole food and money from the vending machines.
They also took two trucks mudding.
KSP says the Adair County Barn was also hit when the group stole two trucks, and got them stuck in a field.
If you have any information, please call KSP Post 15 at 270-384-4796.


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WKU's Habitat for Humanity chapter is building houses out of cardboard tonight in the center of the town to send a message.
"We're doing it in front of the courthouse so we can show the town what we've been doing all year long and what Habitat's purpose is... to get people out of this state," said WKU Habitat for Humanity Special Events Coordinator Sarah Jones.
After tonight these students will know what it's like to sleep inside something like a cardboard box.
"To see what it's like to not eat for twelve hours... or be in a home for twelve hours.It is sad that people have to go through this on a daily basis," said Jones.
One architecture major says he's used to building homes, just not quite like this one.
"It's definitely a new material. I've never built anything out of cardboard before. It's new," said WKU Habitat member Andre Frits.
He hopes it wins the award for best shanty house despite the limited resources.
"Good water runoff. The rain is not going to pull up on our roof. It's very energy efficient. It keeps the heat in. It's duct taped on all the holes," said Frits.
It was just a few weeks ago, many in this group were building real homes for others.
"I'm so blessed to actually give up my entire spring break to go to a state I've never been to and help out someone in need," said WKU Habitat member Alex Shurfield.
That's the goal of Habitat for Humanity helping those less fortunate become homeowners, and a message they hope to send tonight.
The WKU Habitat for Humanity's ReStore, place where you can donate items for homes will be moving to a new location at 1232 Adams St.
They will meet their at 8 a.m. to move supplies and they welcome anyone to join in and help out.


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Tony Longshanks LeTigre (TLongshanksLT) has many names. Don't try to remember them all; Tony can't himself. Just "Tony" or "Longshanks" will do. "Monsieur LeTigre," if you're feeling absurdly formal (and French).
Mr. Longshanks has voyaged far and wide through cyberspace for years uncounted and has established many outposts. We're pretty sure you can track them down without much trouble if you're of a mind.
Tony along with the entity known as the Wonderful Wizard of ZiP (Whimzy, for short) co-created ZiP: Zine in Progress in December, 2011. ZiP is a fully autonomated, highly mutable, frequently festive, quasi-quarterly MegaZine of the hackerspace persuasion.


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I'm having a hard time grasping the structure of my "TeX" installation ...
it is Tex Live 2010. I'm a european user - so some default settings are included ...
but I need the most general, most uncustomized, most geniue, maybe most US version of LaTeX.
Why does it make no difference:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article} and
\documentclass{article} on my system?
Why do I get
\thispagestyle{empty} still a page number at the bottom center for my title page?


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I purchased a domain name for my website but the files are hosted some other place. The domain registration website show four name servers addresses. What are these. Can I forward my domain to a specific url by modifying these name servers.
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The DNS servers (domain name servers) are the directories that know what your domains are pointing at. To point your domain to your website you need to change the records inside the DNS. Probably you want to change the A record named @ to point at your website ip address, and then have www point at @.
Some registrars will offer some kind of web interface to do this. If yours don't, and you still can change the name servers themselves, you may want to change it to point at one who does.
The name servers tell the domain where the files are hosted basically. Go to where the files are hosted and get the name servers for the host and then add those to the name servers for the domain (you will enter these where you bought the domain). After that you need to add the domain into your hosting account (usually can be done in your cpanel). When this is done it can take up to 24 hours for this to work (although it does not normally take more than 1 min). If you are still not able to see your site after this it's probably because your browser cache needs to be cleared.
First you should login into your account at which you got your domain name. Then get(learn) the nameservers of your hosting company.After learning your hosting firm nameservers add them into your domain by using your domain management page.


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I have a question regarding your favourite GIS environment. Over the past few decades, there have been the usual major players, MapInfo, ESRI, Intergraph (Grass?), and we all love and hate aspects of the major players of GIS.
The purpose of my question is to provide some forum (community wiki?) where we can place suggestions that better our working lives. So please be specific.
Please try and be constructive, give descriptions of process, data, expected outcomes and scenarios.
Constructively, What are your primary issues with your GIS package of choice?
The Seed for the Question
Looking at the Hadoop project by Apache and some of the impressive work completed there, which started the thinking cogs. Since GIS is such a computationally intensive profession, how has this technology not being incorporated in our favourite GIS software! There are some fantastic solutions that could enhance a GIS professionals life.
The other purpose is to look at the possibility of taking some of these ideas and potentially incorporate them in FOSS4G projects (QGIS? GeoServer? New Project???), increase usability and functionality and give the big guys a run for their money ;)


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7 Nov 2012 1:22 AM #1
Unanswered: Advanced form (form in a table)
Good day,
I'd like to create an advanced form. I attached a mockup made in Photoshop, this is exactly what I would like to create:
- Multiple fields next to each other;
- The amount of rows should be based on the amount of records. One record represent one field. The fieldname should be based on a field of the record;
Can anyone tell me how I can achieve this? Somehow using an Xtemplate? But how?
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Each row be a container using hbox layout and the fields for children of the container.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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Thank you. What exactly do you mean by "and the fields for children of the container."? Could you explain that please? Thank you.


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Jaguars Announce Special Home Game Ticket Pricing for Coastal Law Students, Alumni, and Staff
The Jacksonville Jaguars are offering Florida Coastal faculty, staff, students and alumni special discounted home game tickets for the 2009-2010 season. The discount varies depending upon the section and the demand and the tickets are first come first serve for people purchasing at regular prices elsewhere – so when they are gone, they are "gone." You can order online using the special discount code provided in the attached flyer. ENJOY!


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13 Jun 2012 3:55 PM #1
Centered Issues
I'm trying to display a large image so that it scales down to the height and width of the Container it resides in. This Container is being instantiated in my Viewport, which is a TabPanel.
Ext.define('App.view.ImagePage', { extend: 'Ext.Container', alias: 'widget.imagepage', config: { style: 'background:url("resources/bg-image.jpg")' }, initialize: function() { var imagePanel = Ext.create('Ext.Panel', { centered: true, html: '<img src="resources/imagepage/image.jpg" />' }); this.setItems(imagePanel); console.log('View/ImagePage: Initialized') } });
1.) Why do I have this space across the bottom of my floating image? It's almost as if there is a padding/margin issue. You can also see the problem if you use 'Ext.Img' instead of 'Ext.Panel':
var imagePanel = Ext.create('Ext.Img', { centered: true, mode: 'image', style: 'border:5px solid black;', src: 'resources/imagepage/image.jpg', });
Please help. I have tried many different styling solutions, but can't seem to get it perfect. If anyone has a recommendation I'm all ears.
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14 Jun 2012 6:13 AM #2
I would just make it a component and control it via CSS
{ background-image:url('smiley.gif'); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-size:contain; }
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I've tried using 'background-image', but the Panel doesn't find the image dimensions when initialized, so it only shows up as a black dot in the center of the screen. The image does show up when I set an explicit height and width for the Panel, but that defeats what I'm trying to accomplish which is to display the image in an overlay that is sized to the image.
14 Jun 2012 7:58 AM #4
I've done this in a tab panel before with success. You have a panel nested inside a container which you should avoid. Make your panel with the image a component.
.c-panel-background { background-image: url('../images/Background.png') !important; background-color: #003272; background-size: cover; } .c-tabpanel { @extend .c-panel-background; .x-layout-card-item, .x-form .x-scroll-container { background: transparent; } }
14 Jun 2012 10:56 AM #5
I'm not sure where your css goes, but I have a further complication related to the Panel the image resides in.
Each image will be dynamic, because this particular Container (what I've called 'ImagePage') is the detail view pushed from a Navigation View List. Each item on the list loads a different image into this detail view. Also, there need to be buttons attached to the image at particular coordinates on the image, to account for different screen sizes and orientations; I do this by assigning a 'top' and 'left' to each button. (pic attached). The only way I know how to do this is to put them into a Panel or a Container as items.
I am only prototyping my app at the moment, so that is why I'm writing everything inline rather than in my controller.
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A well known result about the natural numbers $\mathbb{N}$ says that for any finite subset $A \subset \mathbb{N}$ there exists $R \ge 0$ such that if $n$ is in the subgroup of $\mathbb{Z}$ generated by $A$ and if $n \ge R$ then $n$ is in the semigroup generated by $A$.
Are there any references to a higher dimensional version of this result?
The version I want goes like this.
- Take a finite subset $U$ of $\mathbb{N}^n$. Let $C_U$ be the smallest closed cone in $\mathbb{R}^n$ containing $U$, i.e. all non-negative real linear combinations of $U$. Let $G_U$ be the subgroup of $\mathbb{N}^n$ generated by $U$, i.e. all integer linear combinations. Let $S_U$ be the subsemigroup generated by $U$, i.e. all non-negative integer linear combinations. Then there exists $R>0$ such that for every $v \in G_U$, if the ball around $v$ of radius $R$ is contained in $C_U$ then $v \in S_U$.


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Darryl Holter and "West Bank Gone"
A lot of musicians will talk about how the West Bank area of Minneapolis is a haven for emerging artists...and Darryl Holter is one of them.
Holter lived there in the 1960s, a fertile time in Minnesota music history, when guys like Koerner, Ray and Glover play regularly at places like Palmers Bar and Bob Dylan was...well, Bob Dylan.
Darryl Holter has worn many hats and now runs some businesses in Los Angeles. But he's also a singer songwriter himself. His latest album is kind of a time capsule of Minneapolis. It's called, "West Bank Gone". Holter stopped in the Radio Heartland studio to talk about the new release.
This in-studio feature aired on Radio Heartland October 14, 2010.
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3PL boosts narrow aisle performance
For more than 40 years, Regal Logistics has served as a leading third-party logistics provider (3PL). Supported by 1.3 million square feet of high-velocity distribution facilities space, Regal serves retailers including Walmart, Target, Amazon and Kohl's.
Regal offers a comprehensive program of distribution, transportation and value-added services from port to end consumption point for companies that manufacture in Asia.
The 3PL has an advanced online shipment tracking system featuring advanced dashboard, warehouse management system (WMS), electronic data interchange (EDI) and radio frequency identification (RFID) to streamline the supply chain, provide high-quality customer service and support and satisfy retailers' standards for packaging, labeling and on-time performance.
In the same way, Regal relies on its sophisticated freight-handling equipment to streamline warehouse operations within its bicoastal DCs.
Following an on-site dealer consultation to ensure the correct selection of products, Regal added three turret trucks and four orderpickers to replace the existing fleet.
When the company upgraded its existing fleet of narrow aisle warehouse products, Randy Neeves, vice president of operations and technology at Regal, says it soon became clear the new lift trucks are faster, smoother, quieter, more comfortable and experience less downtime. They also operate for two shifts without a battery change.
"The operators appreciate the machines and their stability going up to the highest level," says Neeves. "The lift trucks are very stable, even with a large, heavy load. They're very quiet and fast, making it enjoyable for the operator."
The fourth-generation AC technology turret trucks and order pickers use energy reclamation through regenerative braking and lowering. Regal's operators have also commented on the design and ergonomics.
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Hungry Swiss villagers in the 18th century are credited with having discovered that hunks of crusty bread make a satisfying meal when dipped in cheese that's bubbling in a pot.
But it took The Melting Pot restaurants, with headquarters in Tampa and more than 145 locations in 37 states, to turn that simple concept into a culinary sensation that appeals to 21st-century tastes.
Lori and Jerod Hagen discovered The Melting Pot while vacationing in Florida in the late 1990s, unaware that Louisville had a franchise at 2045 S. Hurstbourne Pkwy.
"We instantly fell in love with the concept," said Lori, who paid for her education at the University of Kentucky by serving and bartending in the hospitality industry. "I never dreamed we would own not one but two restaurants ten years later. We opened the Lexington location in June of 2008, and bought the existing Louisville one six months later from the previous franchisee."
Sharing Switzerland's national dish from a single vessel creates a phenomenon that Jerod and Lori call "the fondue effect," during which conversation becomes effortless, even for couples on first dates.
Unlike those hardy Swiss of old, diners at The Melting Pot can savor fondue that stars beef filet, buffalo chicken or lobster all accompanied by fine wine.
Dessert fondues include assorted flavors of chocolate into which fresh fruits, cake and other morsels can be dipped and savored.
From the beginning, the Hagens have looked for ways to make eating at their restaurants a special treat for their patrons — placing roses on the table before a couple arrives on their anniversary, celebrating the life of a cancer survivor during a girls' night out filled with pink balloons, and helping a soldier just back from duty surprise his girlfriend with an engagement ring tucked into a flower made of strawberries.
All of that, and more, took place on a single evening.
Lori and Jerod's concern for others has also led them to be partners with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and other non-profits; since 2008, they have helped raised over $75,000 at both restaurants.
"We have hope that there will be a cure for childhood cancer soon," Lori said. "We believe it's our duty to give to others before we give to ourselves. Helping our team members be part of something much bigger is such a rewarding experience to watch. Our team is passionate about giving back, as well as passionate about pleasing everyone who dines in our restaurants."
A sign in the kitchen is a reminder of that goal: "Our guests expect a good night out, they want a great night out, but will always remember a perfect night out."
Like many other restaurants, the Hagens' Melting Pot locations have faced economic challenges, but report a recent increase in sales.
"There are lifetime members of our Club Fondue who not only crave their favorite fondue, but also need a place where they can still celebrate and enjoy each other's company," Lori said.
"They may not order the four-course fondue like before, but they crave the creamy cheese and chocolate fondue along with their favorite wine. We're grateful to our guests for continuing to support us even when the economy hasn't been so supportive. We have faith that we'll be able to continue to serve lasting memories for a lifetime."
The Melting Pot is at 2045 S. Hurstbourne Pkwy. and is open Monday-Thursday, 5 p.m.-10 p.m.; Friday, 5 p.m.-11 p.m.; Saturday, 4 p.m.-11 p.m.; and Sunday, 4 p.m.-9 p.m. For information, visit www.meltingpot.com or phone 502.491.3125.


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Thinking he was inheriting a profitable saloon where his acting career might flourish, he was actually bequeathed the Lucky Lady Salon, a beauty parlor. Flat broke, Rawlins has no choice but to raid the costume trunk and transform himself into a down-on-her-luck British aristocrat, Lady Claire Rawl, now head hairstylist of the small town's only salon.His pal and fellow actor, Roger Gaines, played by Peyton Churchwell, becomes a French stylist, Rogaine. Together with the ladies in the troupe-Heidi Gray (Brittany Little), Bobbie Pinz (Carley Hayman) and Nell Clipper (Laura Patrick)-they reopen the beauty salon to great success. But their good luck runs out when, unbeknownst to them, two crooks plot to acquire Rawlin's salon as part of a scheme to rob the bank next door.
Other members of the cast are Melody Plunkett, played by Cortney Lara; Colt Revolver Jr., played by Caleb McGurk; Jessica James, played by Anne Marie Ogden; Barbara Seville, played by Hiliary Irby; Carrie O'Key, played by Caitlyn Petrus; Eileen Dover, played by Katy Smith; Phillip Glass, played by Maurice Shorter; Will Reader, played by Trey McCollough; Smitty Black, played by Haley Priestley; Bob Burr, played by Jacob Buckley; Bill Holder, played by K D Raburn; R. I. Peay, played by David Denton; Levy Fines, played by Sean Sanford; Rhoda Steed, played by Rachael Lara; Russell Grubb, played by Derek Holt and Sadie Blessing, played by Christy Clay.
For ticket information, call the theatre's boxoffice at 281.0911 or go the Visitor Center located at 124 N. Washington, March 4 – 8.
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Professor Laura Cohen: A Leader in Juvenile Justice Reform
In April of this year, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey gave Laura Cohen, Clinical Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, its Legal Leadership Award, acknowledging her as a leading voice advocating for juvenile justice in New Jersey. Four months earlier, Cohen received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Models for Change program's Champion for Change award for successful activism on behalf of youth in the criminal justice system. And last October, Cohen and Rutgers–Camden clinical professor Sandra Simkins shared the National Juvenile Defender Center's Robert E. Shepherd Award for Excellence in Juvenile Defense.
|Shown at the 2012 National Juvenile Defender Leadership Summit are Professor Laura Cohen and Rutgers–Camden law professor Sandra Simkins with (l-r) former clinic client Eric Campbell and MacArthur JIDAN Fellows Stella Lyubarsky '10 and Lisa Geiss, Rutgers-Camden Law '09.
Cohen has dedicated virtually all of her career to social justice lawyering and, in particular, to representing indigent juveniles, "filling a vital role," said Dean John J. Farmer, Jr., "in making us a better society." Some efforts, such as winning reversal of a wrongful conviction, she undertakes knowing that the case may have limited allies and will likely involve her and her students for years. Others, entailing a broad coalition of advocates with social science literature on their side, she signs onto with more optimism about an earlier impact.
Most recently, the Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic headed by Cohen along with advocates from across New Jersey won support from editorial boards for their petition to the Juvenile Justice Commission (JJC) to stop the solitary confinement of juveniles in state and county detention facilities. The JJC also agreed to start discussions with the petitioning groups.
The petition noted the growing evidence of the deleterious effect solitary confinement has on young people. "Think about the inner turmoil inside every teenager," stated Cohen in the release announcing the petition, "and then imagine a young person stuck inside a windowless cell, alone, for 23 hours a day. Children occupy a unique place in our society and are more likely to successfully rehabilitate through other, more humane forms of punishment."
Cohen's career might have been something entirely different had her graduate fellowship kicked in a year earlier. As an undergraduate at Rutgers College, from which she graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English, Cohen vacillated between wanting to pursue a doctorate in literature and being attracted to the more activist life of a lawyer.
She applied both to law school and for a Rotary International fellowship that would fund a year of graduate study abroad. She was admitted to law school and also won the fellowship, which would not begin until 18 months later. "This was the perfect solution," she recalled. "I'd go to Columbia Law for a year and (to quote James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life) 'see what they know,' then try grad school for a year, and then make a decision."
Going through the 1L year "with an open escape hatch and one foot out the door was not the healthiest or most productive way to do it," she said. "Even still, I soon realized that, as much as I loved reading and writing about literature and literary theory, I was better suited to the law. I had a wonderful year in Ireland but returned to Columbia, with greater resolve, the following year."
Cohen has been at Rutgers–Newark Law School since 2001, teaching in the Urban Legal Legal (recently divided into the Civil Justice Clinic and the Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic) and a seminar on Juvenile Justice. Her clinical work has been pivotal in cases like In the Interest of P.M.P. that helped to expand a juvenile's right to counsel and In the Interest of V.A. which significantly raised the bar for transferring a youth to adult criminal court.
Her publications include "Freedom's Road: Youth, Parole, and the Promise of Graham v. Florida and Miller v. Alabama," forthcoming in the Cardozo Law Review, and for adolescents looking to understand a relevant Supreme Court case, The Gault Case and Young People's Rights.
Cohen also co-directs the Northeast Regional Juvenile Defender Center, an affiliate of the National Juvenile Defender Center, and is a co-team leader of the MacArthur Foundation-funded New Jersey Juvenile Defense Action Network (JIDAN), which works with the Offices of the Public Defender to design strategies to improve juvenile defense policy and practice.
Cohen discusses her clinical teaching, passion for expanding protections for youthful offenders, and her downtime away from the law school in the following Q&A:
Juvenile rights and juvenile justice have been the focus of most of your legal career. How did you become interested in those issues?
I took a law school clinic! I went to law school intending to work in non-profit arts management or book publishing and spent the first two years in pursuit of that goal. During my third year, a friend — arguing that we should spend our final months as students doing things we'd never do again — convinced me to take the Child Advocacy Clinic, which was taught by three very charismatic, inspiring professors. Within a month, I was completely hooked on both the subject area and the pedagogy. I decided I wanted to do two things: represent children and teach a clinic. I've been so fortunate to have been able to meld these passions together, particularly at Rutgers, with its deeply-rooted commitments to both clinical education and social justice lawyering.
An incontrovertible body of research establishes that the adult prosecution of youth has no deterrent value, causes young people to recidivate more frequently and seriously than their peers who remain in the juvenile system, and leads to high rates of institutional abuse and suicide among incarcerated adolescents.
Your legal arguments have been key in several cases that have won new protections for young people in the criminal justice system. Are you hopeful of continuing progress in how adolescents accused of crimes are treated by the justice system?
"Cautiously optimistic" is perhaps the better way to frame it. Glimmers of light are beginning to pierce the darkness of the past two decades.
An incontrovertible body of research establishes that the adult prosecution of youth has no deterrent value, causes young people to recidivate more frequently and seriously than their peers who remain in the juvenile system, and leads to high rates of institutional abuse and suicide among incarcerated adolescents. Nevertheless, every state legislature in the country, including New Jersey, passed draconian laws permitting or requiring transfer of certain children to the adult criminal system between 1990 and 2005.
With the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 decision outlawing the juvenile death penalty, however, we began to see signs of a counter-revolution. In an unprecedented flurry of activity, the Court has issued four landmark juvenile justice rulings in the last eight years which have sharply curtailed the imposition of life without parole sentences on adolescents and held age to be a significant factor in determining the voluntariness of youths' statements to police. Similarly, a number of states, including New York, have passed or are considering measures that would curtail adult prosecutions of children and adolescents and raise the age of criminal responsibility.
Thanks in part, unfortunately, to the "kids for cash" scandal in Pennsylvania, greater attention than ever before has been turned to the critical importance of skilled, vigorous defense counsel for children enmeshed in the juvenile justice system, although many states, including New Jersey, continue to deny children access to counsel at key points in the process. And several states (but not, unfortunately, New Jersey) are closing their large, remote juvenile prisons in favor of smaller, more treatment-oriented facilities located in the communities in which the youth and their families reside.
Like its federal counterpart, the New Jersey Supreme Court has issued several key rulings in the last seven years that extend greater protections to system-involved youth. (Clinic students wrote amicus curiae briefs in three of these matters). Along with the juvenile crime rate, the number of children held in the State's juvenile detention centers and long-term facilities has plummeted in recent years. And, thanks to our MacArthur grant, we have been able to close the gap in access to counsel for a number of youth incarcerated in state-run facilities. For the first time, lawyers and clinic students are on the ground in the State's three secure institutions, allowing us to witness first-hand our clients' day-to-day lives and the conditions in which they are held.
Although much work remains to be done — children continue to be subjected to multi-day periods of solitary confinement and its attendant harms, for example — our advocacy has begun to bear fruit for individual clients and in terms of systemic reform.
|Professor Laura Cohen and her son, Adam Sullivan, backpacking in Utah.
With the recent restructuring of the clinical program, you are now the director of the Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic. What would you like Rutgers law students to know about the clinic?
The restructuring primarily involves re-naming, in order to reflect more accurately the unparalleled range and depth of our clinical program and to give students a better idea of the type of work that we do. The CYJC will continue to provide holistic, skilled, and vigorous representation to clients caught up in the criminal or juvenile justice systems. Our docket includes the following types of cases:
- Original criminal matters, in which students represent the client and handle all aspects of the case from the initial interview through the final disposition and, often, expungement. Many of our clients in these proceedings are 18-25 years old and often have unmet educational, social services, and treatment needs that are similar to youth charged with delinquency. We try to help them address those needs, as well as the more immediate defense issues, whenever possible.
- Representation of adolescents incarcerated in the New Jersey juvenile justice system, including advocacy around conditions of confinement, institutional disciplinary proceedings, resident grievances, education and treatment services, re-entry planning, early release, the parole process, and parole revocation.
- Parole advocacy on behalf of clients who were convicted of serious crimes when they were teenagers and have served long prison sentences. I believe that this is a unique focus for a law school clinic.
- Investigation and litigation of actual innocence claims on behalf of the same population of clients.
- Amicus curiae briefs to the New Jersey Supreme Court and Appellate Division, usually on juvenile issues.
- Community education and outreach, including, among other efforts, an annual mock trial program in the Essex County Juvenile Detention Center.
What do you most enjoy about your clinical teaching?
The close interaction with students, the symbiotic and interactive nature of the process, the ability to bring the classroom into the community and the community into the classroom, and the joy of seeing students come in as neophytes and leave as lawyers.
What do you do for relaxation?
First and foremost, spend as much time as possible with my family, which includes two very busy teenagers! Also, triathlons, distance running (an occasional marathon and frequent half-marathons), open water swimming, biking, backpacking, skiing, sailing. I'm an avid reader (favorite genres are 19th and early 20th-century British and American novels, literary biographies, and adventure memoirs, especially those about high altitude mountaineering, solo sailing, etc.) and enthusiastic traveler.


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21 Jan 2013 8:59 PM #11
The "sencha build" command is a low-level command that is equivalent in scope to "sencha compile". So if you have a build process based on JSB files and the like, "sencha compile" is the logical upgrade to that.
On the other hand, if you had used the SDK Tools v2 "sencha app build" process previously, then this is the same in Cmd - except that internally Cmd uses the compiler vs the old JSB process. This is the best option in many cases because "sencha app build" automates so many more pieces of the build process.
But if you had not been using that in previous versions, the upgrade from "SDK Tools and JSB files" to "Cmd and app build" is a bit of apples-and-oranges as it were. I believe you will be better off basing higher-level builds on "sencha app build" but it is a bit different than the low-level approach.Don Griffin
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26 Jan 2013 10:06 AM #12
I just ran into the same issue...
The only reason I got interested in compile instead of build is so that I could:
- Choose the compressor
- Only generate the JS (not the HTML, assets, etc.)
Are there config switches for build that would do that?
Wouldn't it be easier for Sencha to publish the exact compile command used to build a project?Olivier - interfaSys
Developing custom solutions for BlackBerry 10 using Sencha Touch.
26 Jan 2013 1:33 PM #13
There are options in the build script you can set to control this - more so in an Ext JS app than Touch at the current time, but we are working to regularize that. I encourage you to read the build script to see what is going on - it is found in .sencha/app/build-impl.xml. I would not recommend changing that file as it is replaced when you upgrade Cmd, but that should give you the details you are wanting. In a pinch, of course, you can edit the file if needed but just be aware of this or you may lose your edits on upgrade.
The "sencha app build" command simply loads the generated build,xml (which imports .sencha/app/build-impl.xml) and invokes the "build" target. This target comes from the build-impl and consists of many stages to handle JS compilation, SASS building and resource copying. Each of these stages can be "hooked" by providing "-before-" or "-after-" targets in your build.xml.
This is only going to gain more features as we ship Cmd 3.1 with vastly improved theme support, so the ideal division of labor is to leverage "sencha app build" or the build.xml directly and look at the tuning properties we provide. If we have missed some, let us know.
Having said all the above, there are advanced use cases that require more direct interaction with the compile command. This can be addressed by augmenting or editing the build scripts or by learning what they do and making your own. According to the "one size never fits all" rule, we also need to document this low level support provided by Cmd. Sadly, all that documentation can just be misleading for folks that would be content on the simple path.Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
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27 Jan 2013 3:24 AM #14
For 3.1, I'll definitely want more granularity with steps like these
- js, generates app.js
- html, generates both the JS and html
- sass
- theme
- assets, could take care of all the non-js things?
"sencha app build testing js" to build app.js
"sencha app build package sass" to compile the finalized css for our app
Compression could be available per classpath, defined in sencha.cfg
And I agree, documentation is key. Took me a while to figure out what to put in a command file as the syntax differs from what you would type on the command line.
Regarding build-impl.xml, I'm guessing that we can only play with the properties found in the "-page" target, which means that things like compression are not available. Correct?Olivier - interfaSys
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3. Perform static stretching at the right time. continued...
Why? Think of it this way: Rubber bands and muscles are similar in that they both have elastic properties. A rubber band that's too stretchy cannot be pulled back quickly enough to provide a strong "pop." Likewise, an overly elastic muscle has to work harder to generate the appropriate level of power. This can overtax and strain a muscle.
Most of the recent research suggests that static stretching right before playing a sport or exercising can impair performance, such as reducing jumping height, lowering muscular strength and power, and slowing sprint time.
Static stretching is not bad. As a matter of fact, it can be the safest and most effective form of stretching. It just simply should not be done as a warm-up.
That's why I (and many other experts) suggest that you save static stretching for a cool-down activity, after you're done exercising, or as the main point of your workout (after you have warmed up). During this time, the muscles are warm, more elastic, and less likely to become injured.
Never statically stretch a cold muscle. Cold muscles are more likely to tear when stretched improperly. Be sure to warm-up with active, dynamic movement -- next, I'll tell you how.
4. Use dynamic movement as a warm-up for exercise.
The best way to warm up for exercise is to perform low-intensity, dynamic movement that is similar to the main type of activity that you will perform. Here are three examples:
- You're going to jog three miles. First, do some dynamic movement to warm up: slowly walk, gradually speeding up for about five minutes.
- You're about to do a set of bench presses. First, bench press a much lighter load -- one that is about 50% to 70% lighter than what you're planning to lift later. Do 2-3 sets of those light bench presses (10-15 repetitions per set).
- You're going to stretch your leg muscles. First, do some high knee marches and walking lunges to warm up those muscles.
Movements such as arm circles, jumping jacks, and rope skipping are other good dynamic choices for warming up. Low-intensity activity will gradually raise your heart rate and increase blood flow to the muscles. It will also slowly warm up your body's temperature, so you may even break a little sweat.


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Miranda Laws Have Flexibility
A federal law-enforcement official said Friday that authorities would take Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev into custody without reading him his right to remain silent, in order to question him about other potential explosive devices or accomplices and to gain critical intelligence.
- Manhunt Ends With Capture
- WHAT WE KNOW: The Suspects, Miranda Rights, Watertown
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- A Young Officer Shot Dead, And Another Critically Hurt
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Such a move is part of an exception to Miranda laws that officers can use when there is a concern for public safety. The Federal Bureau of Investigation considers the exception to Miranda rules to be a "powerful tool with a modern application for law enforcement," wrote Carl Benoit, a legal instructor at the FBI Academy, in a law-enforcement bulletin.
The Obama administration set new emergency rules in 2011 for Miranda rights, allowing for extended questioning of suspects before they are read their right to remain silent. The move was intended to blunt criticism from Republicans that a valuable intelligence-gathering opportunity might be lost if suspects were allowed access to lawyers quickly.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) on Friday took to Twitter, before Mr. Tsarnaev was captured alive, to urge the administration to detain a Boston suspect as an enemy combatant for intelligence-gathering purposes. "The last thing we may want to do is read Boston suspect Miranda Rights telling him to 'remain silent,' " said a post on Mr. Graham's Twitter account.
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A spokesman for Mr. Graham didn't respond to a request for comment.
Benjamin Wittes, a national-security expert for the Brookings Institution think tank and co-founder of Lawfare Blog, a national-security blog, said that unless there was evidence that Mr. Tsarnaev is linked to any terrorist group at war with America, "military detention is simply not lawfully available."
But Mr. Wittes said the 1984 U.S. Supreme Court case on which the public-safety exception is based, New York v. Quarles, offers some flexibility.
Says Mr. Wittes: "You do have under 'Quarles' some period of time at least to make sure there aren't other accomplices running around, and to make sure that if there is a foreign connection, that this isn't part of some unfolding plot of attacks."
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The Count: Aren't College Kids Supposed to Love Road Trips?
College basketball's heavyweights have turned into quivering weaklings this season when faced with an increasingly formidable foe: an opposing team's gym.
Through Sunday afternoon's games, teams ranked in the Associated Press's top-25 poll have won just over half of their true road games (.569), the second-worst rate this decade, off from a peak of .627 in 2004-05. (True road games are ones played in the opponent's arena, as opposed to at a neutral site.)
Third-ranked Michigan, No. 5 Kansas and No. 15 New Mexico all lost on the road Saturday to unranked teams. The Jayhawks' defeat was their second road loss in a row; on Wednesday, Jeff Withey and Kansas fell at Texas Christian, the Big 12's last-place team.
No. 1 teams have led the way in crumbling amid hostile climes. On Thursday, top-ranked Indiana lost at Illinois on an uncontested layup to become the fifth No. 1 team to lose since the Jan. 7 AP poll. All of those losses were on the road except Louisville's home loss to No. 6 Syracuse.
One team that has both fallen prey to and bucked the jinxed-visitors trend? The Hoosiers, who followed their loss to the Illini by easily winning at No. 10 Ohio State on Sunday.
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As an organization that works with the medically fragile and intellectually disabled, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to Butler County EMS for providing the opportunity to participate in the EmergencyLink program.
We currently serve over 100 folks that are living, working and traveling in and around our county. The possibility that any one of these people will need emergency medical assistance is proportionately higher than for the average citizen.
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When exporting / saving images with a transparent background that are intended for websites, should I save it as PNG or SVG? Why?
I would say PNG simply for the fact it seems to be a more accepted format than SVG.
SVG is scalable, if you have a vector-graphic that is a clear advantage. For pixel-graphics PNG is better. A downside is, that the Internet Explorer supports SVG only with the coming version 9 (before with plugin). Mobile browsers may also have limited support for SVG.
EDIT: As ClemDesm points out, older IE-versions don't support fully transparent PNG, since IE8 that is supported. Non-transparent PNGs work fine. The answer of Computerish has a great solution for handling vector images for now: Keep them as SVG, but export them for web as PNG. I fully agree with this solution.
The simple answer here is use both.
The fact that you've named SVG as an option, means we can rule out photo graphics as an intended use case - because SVGs are only good for line-art graphics such as logos, icons and clip-art-like illustrations.
If you are considering this choice for photo graphics, there is no choice; PNG will probably always be better. For graphics where SVG is a viable option, SVG is the best option with a PNG/JPEG fallback. PNG has many strengths, but on scalability and file size, it will often not match up to SVG.
Using only one or the other means you will have to sacrifice either backwards compatibility or progressive enhancement.
Looking at what we know the future holds; forever higher resolutions, wider support and wider use of SVGs across the internet; it makes sense to build for what's coming.
In general, websites should be built to last for many years; in 5 years time your beautifully backwards compatible website might look amazing for the 2% of internet users still using old browsers, yet fairly poor on the up to date browsers with crazy resolutions - so it's very much a stack of hard choices on which way to compromise.
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In summary, I think it depends on whether you're looking for more backward compatibility or more progressive enhancement, and how much
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Definitely use PNG for a website. SVG is simply not sufficiently widely supported and it has few (if any) significant benefits over PNG for a flattened export. That said, keep all of your working copies in SVG.
I would stick with PNG to be on the safe side. SVG is still not fully accepted by many big internet companies & browsers. Although SVGs are scalable and are vectors they are often unnecessary, take up more space and overcomplicated the website.
I hope that answered your question :)
Even though SVG isn't globally accepted and some people have a frustrating time scaling PNGs, I have always found that creating an icon within Adobe Illustrator works best at scaling up or down a "reasonable" amount.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Kansas lawmakers are considering an anti-racketeering measure aimed at boosting sentences for convicted gang leaders.
The Wichita Eagle reports that the Senate bill would create the Kansas Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, better known as RICO.
The statute would resemble the federal RICO law, which was enacted to combat the Mafia and allows prosecutors to charge gang members for engaging in a string of criminal activity, rather than for individual crimes.
The Kansas measure faced a possible vote Thursday in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A similar bill died in the House two years in a row but it's been updated with stricter provisions focusing mainly on serious felonies.
Wichita Police Lt. Scott Heimerman helped draft the revised measure, which he says is aimed at gang leaders.
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Rays celebrate before focusing on Indians
Rays celebrate before focusing on Indians
Monday night, the idea of facing the Indians hadn't exactly scratched the surface of the Rays' conscience as they partied in the visiting clubhouse at Rangers Ballpark after a 5-2 victory.
"Get your 92nd win, you go to Cleveland against a really good ballclub," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "They're rested. I like the notion that we've pretty much been playing this [elimination-type] game for about a week now.
"This game has been a carryover of the last week. We've been playing these elimination games for a bit. I'm really proud of our guys. I thought winning the game like we did Sunday would let us come out relaxed tonight and that's what happened."
Soaked in champagne and beer after Monday's game in which he drove home the first run with a first-inning sacrifice fly, Delmon Young spoke about the coming one-and-done series against the Indians.
"They're a good team, they got in," Young said. "But we knew every team was going to be good. We're going to have to go out there and do the same thing we did tonight. Score, pitch well, and play good defense."
Alex Cobb will start for the Rays, opposed by Cleveland's Danny Salazar.
"If Cobb pitches the way he's been pitching since I got here, we're in good position," Young said.
Added Fernando Rodney: "I think we have the right pitching for Cleveland. A guy who throw strikes. And I'm ready to go."
Salazar went 2-3 with a 3.12 ERA in 10 starts this season. The 23-year-old right-hander has not faced the Rays.
Meanwhile, Cobb is 1-0 against the Indians this season after holding them to no runs on four hits in 7 1/3 innings on April 4 at Tropicana Field.
Cleveland holds a 4-2 advantage over the Rays this season.
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Florida Governor Charlie Crist recently appointed James E.C. Perry '72 to serve as a justice on the Florida Supreme Court.
"I am confident Judge Perry will rule with restraint, fairness, and humility," Crist said. "He has shown throughout his personal and professional life the ability to balance justice with humanity."
Perry was in private legal practice for 21 years before he was appointed in 2000 to Florida's 18th Circuit Court, which serves Seminole and Brevard counties. He was the 18th Circuit's first African-American judge, and he will be the fourth African-American to serve on Florida's highest court.


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Mr. Bardone, its EASY to throw the word Christian out of one's mouth, but to live like one is different. You and others always talk about "your" money and tax payer's "money". Sounds like hoarding "your" wealth to me. You have never offered anything positive input on how to help the poor, yet you bash them. This goes for the rest of the people "being Christian". We all want to see our pay checks go further, but if it does not, oh well. I am blessed with a job and income. I get what I need for my family and still try to help the unfortunate and that's good enough for me. My blessing will come one day and I don't wake up every day looking it.
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Mr. Bardone is EXACTLY right. Why would you care about taxes, prices, etc., when you live off of govenment hand-outs? The problem is, these people are allowed to vote!
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Thanks Mr. Bardone I couldn't have said it better myself.
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Brian Groth and Mark Berman can be found in building 25. They work across the hall from a datacenter (not everyone at Microsoft has so much hardware within arms reach). What caught our attention about Brian and Mark? Well, Brian sent
us an email which we'll just print here:
I work in the Redmond MTC (Microsoft Technology Center) and we have a very interesting Service Oriented Architecture solution that uses InfoPath, BizTalk, ASP.NET Web Services, RPG on an AS/400, CICS on a Mainframe, J2EE on WebSphere, Pocket PC, SQL Server, Speech Server, and MOM. It is really a solution to put web services in front of these non-Microsoft apps, and use MOM to monitor events and play back web services, and use BizTalk to orchestrate everything together.
Here is a very rough idea of what we have:
Do you grok this? Well, then you'll enjoy seeing Brian and Mark's solution.
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Sorry the video never got to the Microsoft Speech Server part, which consists of getting a phone call and having the shipping information, including order number, spoken to whoever answers the phone. Also, my description above forgets to mention Microsoft Host Integration Server. - Brian
Have you looked at Visual Studio Team Architect (Whitehorse) for your datacenter and application design needs? Guess what, we are in the same building:)
This isn't close to enough information. I work for an enterprise that runs CICS, UNIX, Oracle, AS/400, DB2, Teradata... we have the emulators on every desktop and are mainframing away.
I get that you have wrapped services around your mainframe functionality. Great! This would be so much better than the scraping we currently do.
I think I understand that you mirror some of the data in the AS/400 in SQL Server and then have, what? procedures that move the data into the AS/400 as well? or is the procedure that adds it to SQL Server the same one that adds it to the mainframe? and where does SAP fit in?
What is InfoPath...
Ok. So, InfoPath is just the latest smart front end. No different than an old Access Form type of thing, except it is designed to work well disconnected as well as connected to server infrastructure (and be light weight and easy to develop and deploy)...
So what the hey is BizTalk?
What is RosettaNet?
The BizTalk Server Accelerator for RosettaNet implements several RosettaNet specifications such as Partner Interface Process (PIP) and RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF) 1.1. RosettaNet is a consortium of more than 400 of the world's leading companies working to create, implement, and promote open e-business process standards. http://www.rosettanet.org/" target="_blank"> http://www.rosettanet.org
About Biz Talk from MSDN VS.Net 2003 Library...
BizTalk Server provides a gateway for sending business documents between your company and your trading partners (also known as vendors). For example, if your company uses BizTalk Server, you can trade catalogs, orders, documents, and other electronic forms with your trading partners. BizTalk Server manages the data translation, encryption, digital signatures, and document tracking services for many different transport mechanisms.
Exactly how do I wrap old mainframe processes using BizTalk and then expose as services? Once this is done, we can write pocketpc or smart apps to consume the services. This should get rid of screen scraping.
- create asynchronous send adapter by using SDK adapter base classes
- Implement runtime functionality of adapter
- Solicit Response Adapter
- Sends a request message
- receives a response and submits it back to the server
- Asynchronous engine-adapter interaction (adapter does not block engine's thread while sending data)
Ok, that's not too complicated. It's kinda like using a web service to create items in MSMQ. The messages in MSMQ will be processed and answered by a number of separate processes screen scraping away and the server will return the value returned to MSMQ.
The code in the msevent video seems to show how to handle the message queue for the most part (in addition to making sure you don't use a memory stream (virtual stream so you can write to hard drive if your stream exceeds available memory)). This covers the
adapter run time for the adapter base classes with the Samples and SDK for Biz Talk. Please know, this is my inept attempt to translate this to something I know. I'm sure no screen scraping will be implemented in the end result with Biz Talk.
I guess I probably need some new book from Microsoft Press on this issue. What does VS.Net code for BizTalk look like? How hard is it to implement this solution? It would be so much better for us to do this in house!
And why exactly do we need Host Integration Server? How does this fit in with Federated Security as described in The .Net Show?
We made use of Host Integration Server 2004 to expose the existing CICS application via a component called WIP (Windows Initiated Processing) http://www.microsoft.com/hiserver/techinfo/whitepapers/2004/processing.asp. We get to import existing Cobol code that defines the parameters for the associated method which we will be calling. Once complete, HIS generates a .NET Managed assembly, which we then create a remoting proxy, and implement this proxy within our Web service. Hope this helps.
All, there are a lot of posts asking for more information on products, in particular BizTalk and Host Integration Server. There are a series of recent and upcoming webcasts that detail a lot of the information being requested – here is a listing of some that may be of interest. In addition Simon Guest has recorded a series of 14 short 15-minute videos on web services interop with specific vendor technologies such as WSAD and MQSeries. All of these can be found at http://www.interopmonth.com/">http://www.interopmonth.com, Simon's can also be found via his blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/smguest/articles/webcasts.aspx. In addition, if any community members want more detailed information at a local level, please send an e-mail to email@example.com and we will be happy to connect you with either a telephone briefing or a local developer evangelist who can provide deeper engagement on any of these products.
MSDN Webcast: Legacy Integration with Microsoft BizTalk and .NET Made Easy (Level 200)
TechNet Webcast: Security Integration between Windows and IBM Mainframes (Level 200)
MSDN Webcast: Strategies and Tactics for Interoperability Using BizTalk Server (Level 300)
MSDN Webcast: Web Services Interoperability with BizTalk Server 2004 (Level 200)
MSDN Architecture Webcast: .NET Interoperability with the OS/390 and z/OS Data Center (Level 200)
MSDN Webcast: .NET Interoperability with the AS/400 data center (Level 200)
Recorded MSDN Webcast: An Architectural Comparison Between IBM Mainframe CICS and the Transaction Processing Services of the Windows Server System (Level 300)
Recorded MSDN Architecture Webcast: Integration Patterns (Level 200)
Recorded TechNet Webcast: HIS Bi-directional Transaction and Data Inter-op Between Windows and IBM Mainframe Systems (Level 200)
Recorded Web Services Interoperability between IBM WebSphere Application Developer 5.1.2 Client and Microsoft .NET Web Service
Recorded Web Services Interoperability between Microsoft .NET Client and IBM WebSphere Application Developer 5.1.2 Web Service
Recorded Web Services Interoperability using Microsoft WSE 2.0 to send Web Services messages over IBM WebSphere MQ 5.3.
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WASHINGTON � �Maxed out on the medications,� is how Bill Ezzell describes his struggle with blood pressure. It�s dangerously high even though the North Carolina man swallows six different drugs a day.
Hypertension may be the nation�s sneakiest epidemic, a time bomb that�s a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure, and one that�s growing worse as the population rapidly grows older.
Despite an arsenal of drugs, millions of people in the United States can�t get their blood pressure down to safe levels. Now, in a high-stakes experiment at dozens of hospitals, scientists are testing a dramatically different approach for the toughest-to-treat patients, by burning away some overactive nerves deep in the body that can fuel rising blood pressure.
To attempt an invasive treatment � a catheter is threaded through blood vessels in the groin up to the kidneys � reflects doctors� frustration with a disease that too often is underrated because people with it don�t look or feel sick until a lot of damage has been done.
Pharmaceutical therapies have been the cornerstone of medicine for nearly a century, offering convenient, noninvasive treatment for countless diseases. But when it comes to some of the most stubborn chronic conditions, including diabetes, obesity and hypertension, medications too often aren�t enough.
Researchers increasingly are trying medical devices and minimally invasive surgeries to help, such as stomach-shrinking techniques that improve obesity-caused diabetes and the new hypertension experiment.
�I think we have to hit on all cylinders if we�re going to take on these very important diseases,� said Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of the Cleveland Clinic�s department of cardiology. �There are many examples where this convergence is taking place, where you push the drugs as far as you can, but when they can�t go any further, you step in with more invasive approaches.�
Cardiologists� interest in the nerve-zapping procedure also reflects how severe the burden of hypertension is poised to become, with many middle-aged boomers already affected.
�People are living longer with hypertension, and the disease tends to get worse as you get older,� said Dr. Suzanne Oparil, a hypertension specialist at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. �The complications pile on later.�
If deadening kidney nerves sounds like a strange way to attack hypertension, consider that nerves in the body�s �fight or flight� system play a role in signaling kidney functions, which in turn help regulate blood pressure, such as by relaxing or tightening key arteries.
�If there was a snake in the room, all of our blood pressures would go up, appropriately so,� explained interventional cardiologist Dr. Manesh Patel of Duke University, one of more than 60 medical centers around the country studying Medtronic Inc.�s nerve-zapping procedure.
But sometimes those nerves stay switched on when they shouldn�t be, something today�s medications can�t address. The hope is that destroying a small number of the nerves could calm an overactive system, relaxing arteries and lowering blood pressure.
�Interrupting that signal makes physiologic sense,� Patel said, adding that some patients have driven hundreds of miles to see if they�re candidates. �There�s a large unmet need.�
Some 78 million people in the country, about 1 in 3 adults, have high blood pressure, meaning readings of 140 over 90 or higher. An additional 27 million people will have it by 2030, says a grim forecast from the American Heart Association. That�s because the population is getting fatter and older. In fact, about half of people in their 50s have high blood pressure, but by age 75, three-fourths do.
�If people live long enough, the vast majority are going to have hypertension,� says Dr. Michael Mussolino of the National Institutes of Health�s cardiovascular division.
Only about half of patients have their hypertension under control. Most need multiple drugs to treat it. Some 10 percent, more than 7 million people like Ezzell, have the resistant hypertension that is the initial target of the nerve-zapping procedure � people with high blood pressure despite three or more different kinds of medications.
Renal denervation, the procedure being promoted by Minneapolis-based Medtronic and other companies, has its roots in primitive nerve-severing operations performed in the 1950s, which often lowered blood pressure but at the expense of permanently injuring patients. Only in recent years have researchers revisited the technique, after companies developed easy-to-use catheters that can beam radio frequency waves to burn away specific nerves without damaging the surrounding blood vessel.
It�s aimed at only the hardest-to-treat patients. In small Medtronic studies, those treated saw the key top number of a blood pressure reading drop an average of 33 points, although they still needed their medications. Medtronic reported in March that the improvements were lasting up to three years. The company�s Symplicity catheter is approved to treat hypertension in Europe and Australia, as are some competitors� versions.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration required a more rigorous study, now enrolling more than 500 people, that includes an unusual step to prove if it really works. Some patients receive the real procedure and some get a fake � just the catheter, no zapping. Patel describes patients wearing a blindfold and earphones while lying sedated on the treatment table, to ensure they don�t know which they�re getting.
Although pilot studies show few side effects, potential risks include bleeding, an injured blood vessel, immediate blood pressure or heartbeat problems, or complications from medications used in the procedure.
Ezzell�s systolic pressure, that top number, hovers around 190 and sometimes jumps to a super-dangerous 230, despite his six daily drugs.
�The doctors seemed at wit�s end as to what to do about it,� says Ezzell, 74, of Jacksonville, N.C. So he got on the Internet, tracking down the Medtronic study at Duke, about two hours away.
Ezzell was treated last month and is waiting to see if his blood pressure drops, which earlier research shows happens gradually over six months.
Cardiologists are excited by the early findings, said Dr. Gordon Tomaselli, the heart association�s president.
But �what we don�t know is the long-term effect� of nerve zapping, Tomaselli cautioned. �It�s going to take a little bit of time to make sure there are not adverse effects two years, three years, 10 years down the line.�
In the last three years, the FDA has approved similar catheters that beam radio waves to treat asthma and a type of irregular heartbeat, conditions traditionally treated with medications.
More than five dozen companies are pursuing devices for hypertension, from catheters similar to Medtronic�s to permanent implants left in arteries to regulate blood pressure.
In Europe, Medtronic�s hypertension procedure costs about $14,000, sticker shock compared with the generic prices of standard hypertension medications and another reason for careful study to prove its effects.
Gwen Dirks, 71, of Virginia, Ill., was grateful to get the procedure in an early study. Her blood pressure was 200 over 120 despite two drugs.
�I�ve been on medications since I was 40,� Dirks said. �Over the years I have tried many different things and got to the point where they no longer worked.�
Two years after her experimental treatment, Dirks says her blood pressure is stable at about 130 over 80, although she continues to take her medications.


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A common failing of reviews is to take the author to task for not addressing the issues the reviewer would have. Preziosi wishes that Malcolm Gladwell had more directly addressed the problem of the "obnoxiously different", rather than just sidling up to it in his enlightening account of the Waco massacre of the Branch Davidians.
The issue Preziosi is interested in is an important one; perhaps he has written (or will write) something more about it. However, it seems unfair to criticize Gladwell for what he didn't write.
This article was fascinating. The weakness in my view was that so much of what we know is hindsight. But I guess that Gladwell's point was that there was virtually no analysis of the group as it was at the time to determine the likelihood that anyone was in true danger (Jonestown style) or whethere it would have been possible (not to say far preferable) to arrest Koresh in a way that would have avoided the conflict. The FBI assumed that the group was a cult, and further, that all cults were at high risk of suicidal behavior. The FBI had a typology of cults and cult criminal behavior that was based on a universe of one (Jonestown). They were fighting the last war.
I'm only halfway through the piece, but what struck me as I read last night was that Gladwell kept insisting that the Branch Davidians weren't a "cult" and Koresh wasn't a cult leader, and then illustrating his point with what sounded to me like standard features of cults and their leaders. When he got around to describing how Koresh had invented a religious reason he had to claim lots of young women as his "wives" -- I've heard that one a few times before, and it wasn't in a story about religious communities that are not cults. Anyway, my impression is that it's (clearly) correct to say the FBI misjudged the situation, but Gladwellian overreaching to say their errors were due to a complete mischaracterization of what kind of group the Branch Davidians were and then generalize from that conclusion.
If there are insufficient reasons to be convinced the Branch Dividians were a cult and David Koresh was a sociopath, perhaps someone would be helpful enough to explain what behavior constitutes sufficient reasons. A true religion is identified by its usefulness as much as it is by its passion. Cults and sociopaths have plenty of passion and precious little usefulness. Based on my assumption they were a cult and he was a sociopath, it seems to me Gladwell has once again danced off into the world of hyperintellectualism in a seemingly unending journey tighly bound to the goal of convincing himself he is the most clever fellow in the room. It is quite simply not possible to explain legal lunacy with largely predictable logic and expect useful understanding to occur.
As for the FBI misjudging the situation, lunacy and sociopathy are identified by a pervasive lack of good judgement. Bring all the good judgement you can to the situation but the fact is you will be flying by the seat of your pants and praying alot.
The things Gladwell focused on were the continuity of the enterprise (it had been around for 30 years) and the fact that people came and left voluntarily, and that many worked in Waco in secular jobs.
Even if they were a cult, why does that justify improvident and ill-informed law enforcement tactics resulting in the deaths of dozens of children? Doesn't it seem ironic that in an effort to avoid another Jonestown the FBI ended up inflicting so much carnage?
"Molehills are made precociously out of slightly larger molehills"--that's just about the best description of Gladwell's style of thinking I've ever heard.


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A drug addict is locked up by his mother in a house to stop him from getting drugs. Seeing how much he suffers going through withdrawal the mother decides to give him a fix. She actually prepares the drugs in a spoon (using a lighter maybe). I remember they didn't have a syringe and had to improvise something. It was a pretty intense scene.
The movie probably appeared in the 90s or early 2000s and I don't think it was an american movie. I think they spoke Spanish or French, but I may be wrong.


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It is discussed at length in Siman 20 of Yore De'ah. Essentially the shochet needs to cut through the Trachea, Esophagus, carotid artery and the jugular vein. Both of these shield the esophagus and trachea at the place where the cut is to take place. This would lead to a fairly quick bleed out with the animal becoming nonsensical in a matter of seconds. Siman 24 discusses what happens if the cut wasn't deep enough. Thus only slicing the major blood vessels but not the breathing apparatus.


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