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The Canada Reads team has stepped up to the plate to defend their chosen title every week. They're now experts on the subtleties of strategy, how to dodge punches (both metaphorical and physical) and what it takes to give it all for a book you love. So this week, as the panelists gear up for the competition, we asked our in-house defenders to offer their celebrity compatriot advice on what to do once they enter the Canada Reads ring.
Dear Ali,
Three words of advice: DON'T TRUST ANYONE.
Don't be fooled by the smiles and bear hugs and convivial chats over coffee in the final minutes before the show. Your competitors are watching, and they're out for blood. Don't reveal anything.
Keep an eye on the quiet one. Lorne Cardinal. He's up to something.
When the show begins, be forthright and honest about the fact that reading is a personal experience, and that it's impossible to quantify the emotional experience one gets from a great book. Then, whilst maintaining a dignified compassion for your fellow panelists' lamentable taste in books, be cruelly honest about the multitude of failings that plague each and every one of their novels. Go for the throat. It's not pleasant, but it needs to be done. The broadcast only lasts three days.
Whatever you do, don't feel sorry for the authors. They're resilient; trust me. They toil in the arts.
Besides, let's be honest, there's no real question about the quality of these books. Thousands of Canadians voted for them. They're all pretty great.
Still, it takes something very special to be named the essential Canadian novel of the last decade. So present your best case, find the chinks in their armour and then have at them with your basilard.
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Dear Debbie,
I can call you Debbie, right? Even though we haven't met in person — I'm the only team member who works in Halifax — I feel like we can be on a first name basis because we treasure the same book so dearly.
Here's my humble advice to you, framed by my degree in public relations. Take 3-5 key messages and just keep driving them home during the debates. You're the dream defender for The Birth House what with all the women's issues tied into the main themes, so definitely stay true to that. But, remember, there are a lot of Y chromosomes out there listening to the show too and several of them are on the panel. If you can illustrate the more universal appeal of the book you'll be on your path to victory.
Also, I think you need to seriously consider delivering key messages against your opponents and their books. At the same time, you want to build allies because Canada Reads is kind of like Survivor in that the losers become your jury. So tread carefully. Here are some things to consider:
Finally, have fun. I'll be rooting for you here in Nova Scotia.
Your online BFF, Kimberly.
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Georges, mon ami,
In the cut and thrust of the Canada Reads debates, anything can happen and nothing is a sure thing. (That's part of the fun, isn't it?)
But if I have to give you one piece of advice for defending The Bone Cage, it would be somewhat antithetical to the enforcer role that you played for years in the NHL, when you were expected to be intimidating: play nice, at least at the start. Size up the competition, don't wade in with the haymakers. If you come out swinging hard at the other books, you risk alienating your fellow panelists and having them, in retaliation, gang up on The Bone Cage.
Oh, and remember to keep your elbows up at all times — you never know when someone's going to lash out with a cheap shot.
I know you've got game — so go out and give it all you've got!
Dear Sara,
Before the final rap battle in 8 Mile, Eminem's character is asked how he will defend himself against the taunts of his opponent. He already knows he'll be made fun of for his skin colour, his alcoholic mom and his unfaithful girlfriend. So what does Eminem do? He takes the stage and admits all these things and then challenges his opponent to "tell these people something they don't know about me."
Essex County's biggest obstacle is overcoming the prejudice against its format: the graphic novel.
My advice to you is to follow Eminem's lead: address the book's comic status early on and force the conversation to be about the quality of Essex County, not its format. Everyone who has read Essex County agrees it has complex characters, fantastic scenery and a relatable story. If you steer the debate to focus on the quality of characters and story of the book, Essex County has a very good shot at winning Canada Reads this year.
Dear Lorne,
They don't call Canada Reads "the battle of the books" for no reason. This is reality-style radio. You'll need to present your arguments in clear, punchy bites that resonate with the other panelists and are memorable. But the key to Canada Reads success is to not get too caught up in the cut-throat action. The most successful panelists are those who don't come out swinging, but instead take a more thoughtful, measured approach. This year's list is stacked with books that could breeze through the first and second vote by virtue of hitting a niche or being a bit flashy, so the key to success for Unless is to come from behind. If you can make it past the first two votes, there is no doubt in my mind that you can go all the way. Head to head, none of the other books can hold a candle to Unless. If you can make it out of the pack, it'll be a clear line to the finish.
What advice would you give the Canada Reads 2011 panelists?


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Exploring IEEE 802.11s mesh networking
Big Mesh
Mesh networking comes to with the IEEE802.11s draft standard. We'll show you how to mix a mesh.
The average wireless network depends on the presence of an access point device, which serves as a connection point for wireless clients and links the WLAN to the Internet. This technology is so widespread in urban areas that a wireless user is never far from a point of connection – in airports, coffee houses, offices, and even millions of homes.
In spite of its omnipresence, the access point is, in fact, not really an essential element of the wireless network. An access point--style network is said to be operating in infrastructure mode. An alternative approach, known as ad hoc mode, lets computers establish direct connections with each other. Ad hoc mode is sometimes used for one-to-one connections between (say) a laptop and a desktop system when no access point is available. Computers that connect through ad hoc mode do not have the benefit of DHCP and other services that typically run on the access point, so they must negotiate any network settings.
In remote areas, and in developing countries without a pervasive networking infrastructure, decentralized alternatives such as ad hoc mode become increasingly attractive. However, users who attempt to operate in a conventional ad hoc setting run into restrictions fairly quickly. Although you can communicate with immediate neighbors, conventional ad hoc networking does not let you use neighbors as intermediaries to access other systems, so the range of the network is limited to the range of a single wireless device. Some operating systems, in fact, don't even support more than two peers in an ad hoc network.
A further extension of the ad hoc concept is the mesh network, which is embodied in the IEEE 802.11s draft standard. Mesh networking expands the size and range of the ad hoc network by letting network peers forward messages and transmit network information to other peers. The peers can thus build a collective picture of the network topology, and a message can pass through a chain of peers to a node beyond the immediate signal range.
IEEE 802.11s received renewed attention through the work of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, which was formed with the goal of providing network-enabled laptop computers for millions of school children in developing countries. The OLPC developers needed a way to interconnect these little laptops in a setting in which a whole village might have only a single access point or Internet gateway. Mesh networking provides the solution [1]; even if a device can only find one peer, it can still access other devices (and, ideally, an Internet access point) by transmitting through a chain of connections across the mesh. Mesh networking also has uses in the developed world, although it is unlikely to ever replace the convenience and simplicity of access point networks. In rural areas, or in situations in which a network must assemble and self-configure temporarily, mesh networking might someday play an important role.
IEEE 802.11s is still a draft [2], and it is unlikely to be officially approved before 2010.
In August 2008, the Linux kernel added a patch for meshing support in the ath5k module, with native support available for the b43, libertas_tf, and zd1211rw wireless drivers. In Linux kernel version 2.6.26, zd1211rw already has rudimentary IEEE 802.11s support based on the mac80211 subsystem [3]. The code in kernel 2.6.26 does not let users set up genuine mesh networks, but the current developer version of the wireless-testing.git repository adds additional mesh networking support [4].
Unless you happen to own an OLPC laptop or some equivalently pre-configured device, the game of mesh networking in Linux is not exactly for beginners, but if you feel like experimenting with your own mesh network, the necessary tools are certainly available – but make sure your wireless hardware supports IEEE 802.11s.
How It Works
In an IEEE 802.11s network, each node is in contact with its direct neighbors. The nodes can be computers, laptops, or devices such as IP-capable smartphones. The mesh protocol tries to auto-discover the best possible route for a packet. (See the "OLSR and Batman" box for more abou routing on mesh networks.)
No fixed connections exist between individual nodes. A node transmits packets to a specific target node that it considers most suitable for taking the packets closer to their final destination. The next hop uses the same approach until the package reaches its target.
In meshing, data is synchronized as often as possible – typically every few seconds. This approach keeps the network dynamic and allows it to react to changing conditions caused by moving nodes, obstacles, or direct connections. The mesh evaluates each active link path on the basis of specific criteria and chooses the best path. Thus, routing is one of the most critical, and the most expensive, tasks in meshing.
OLSR and Batman
Developers have used different approaches to implement meshing. Two popular options are Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR ) [8] and the more sophisticated Better Approach to Mobile Ad hoc Networking (Batman) [9]. Both options use OSI Layer 3 routing to discover paths across the mesh. The more recent Batman Advanced [10], a fork of Batman under independent development, uses OSI Layer 2 switching.
In OLSR, each node sends Hello messages at fixed intervals. Each node that receives the messages evaluates them. After creating a map of its environment, a node reports its findings to its neighbors in the form of a TC (topology change) message. When a TC message reaches a node, the node recalculates the network topology. This means that each node will know the best way to route a packet at any time. Topology changes are recalculated with the Dijkstra algorithm [11]. Individual nodes propagate their knowledge of the network structure to neighbors, thus incrementally improving their knowledge of individual path characteristics. The algorithm is regarded as stable, but slow to converge in some cases.
OLSR does not recalculate the topology for each packet, and in this way saves computational cycles. It uses the existing network while recalculating the topology. OLSR evaluates the number of hops to the target over a certain path to calculate the best route. This approach guarantees a cheap route to each reachable target on the network after an initialization phase. Because the structure of a wireless network is susceptible to change, it is important to exchange Hello messages at relatively short intervals. The typical update interval is 5 seconds. In addition, message packets from other nodes arrive, causing the node to recalculate the topology. This can be an issue, especially for small devices with less powerful CPUs: These devices could use up much of their computational power just recalculating the network topology.
Plugins and alternative algorithms are available for OLSR to mitigate the effect of poor hardware scalability. Batman took this issue into consideration at the development stage. Both protocols let users specify whether a node has Internet access and is thus capable of acting as a gateway for other nodes. In addition, Batman lets you configure the bandwidth the gateway uses to connect to the Internet. This feature allows clients to discover the most favorable gateway and removes the reliance on a centralized entity to manage this information.
The Batman alternative attempts to solve the problem of OLSR with the use of too much computation time to calculate the topology. Batman uses a different approach to discovering the best route among the available alternatives. Just like OLSR, Batman first floods the network with originator messages.
Each node generates a message and lets its neighbors distribute it. Each neighbor thus duplicates each message it receives and broadcasts the message. Nodes do not store the complete network topology, in contrast to OLSR, but just the part they need to reach their immediate neighbors. Each node thus only knows which node to use to transmit a packet, but not what the rest of journey will look like for the packet. This approach reduces the overhead for recalculating the best route and allows the protocol to scale more easily. Although the physical limit for OLSR is around 100 nodes – especially if the nodes happen to be embedded systems – Batman will scale to support networks with as many as 500 nodes.
Because the more recent Batman Advanced protocol operates in the link layer, to the user, the mesh network looks like a segment managed by an Ethernet switch. From the user's point of view, each participant has a direct connection; the protocol hides the underlying details. Batman Advanced is most compatible with the 802.11s standard because it relies entirely on Layer 2 (switching). Unfortunately, this design removes the ability to define a node as a gateway. This administrative task is left to the administrator or a higher-layer protocol.
Mesh Networking Up Close
Mesh networks with Internet access typically have a main node that provides broadband Internet access via DSL or UMTS. This main node often offers other network services, such as DHCP. The network admin sets up gateway functionality on this node only by, say, running the echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward command and possibly adding NAT rules for masquerading.
The individual mesh nodes should have at least two WLAN modules. Three modules will improve availability and increase the maximum number of possible clients. Typically, one module will run in access point mode to give other clients access, or the other modules will use ad hoc mode for meshing. In a perfect world, all of these modules have omnidirectional antennas that cover a large reception area (see Figure 1).
As you might guess, the effectiveness of mesh networks is largely dependent on the range at which the nodes can receive the signal. For systems that are built specifically for mesh networking, the antenna configuration receives significant attention. (Notice the two external antennas in the OLPC XO laptop shown in Figure 2.) A network with multiple modules per node can use a more flexible antenna configuration; for example, one module can use a sector antenna to reach peers within a wide range, and another can work for nodes in close proximity. The following sections describe how to set up mesh networking in Linux.
Setting Up the Mesh
The wireless-testing.git repository now has an updated, mesh-ready version of the kernel with matching drivers. The command
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git
downloads the current version.
A Question of Location
In a truly mobile networking scenario, such as the world of OLPC laptops, the positioning of the nodes within the mesh zone is essentially arbitrary, and it is not possible to define a fixed location for the peers operating in the mesh. In other mesh scenarios, however, the admin might have some control over the location and overall topology. For example, a mesh network might consist of desktop systems assembled temporarily at a conference or construction site. In such cases, it is a good idea to choose the location of the nodes carefully.
To optimize throughput, the WLAN devices should have a line of sight connection if possible. If a node can reach one or multiple other nodes reliably and permanently, a directional beam antenna can improve the mesh's performance.
The space in which the radio waves propagate between a transmitter and receiver is referred to as the Fresnel zone. It is an ellipsoid in which the transmitter and receiver occupy the focal points (see Figure 3). Because the ellipsoid is higher in the middle, mesh participants should locate their nodes as high up as possible.
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When milk mixture is lukewarm, add yeast, egg, and 2 c of the flour.
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Calories 3067 Calories from Fat 582
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 66 g100.9%
Saturated Fat 17.9 g89.5%
Trans Fat 5.9 g
Cholesterol 234.1 mg78%
Sodium 3111.3 mg129.6%
Total Carbohydrates 534 g177.9%
Dietary Fiber 21.1 g84.2%
Sugars 43.8 g
Protein 78 g155.1%
Vitamin A 9.5% Vitamin C 0.01%
Calcium 37.2% Iron 166.8%
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If the Doctor Who team does this right, the angels won't be the only ones weeping.*
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Bryan Fuller is planning for his upcoming drama Hannibal to cross over with Wonderfalls. Chelan Simmons, who was recently seen on The L.A. Complex, will reprise her role as Gretchen Speck-Horowitz. This won't be the first time a Wonderfalls character appeared in another one of Fuller's shows. Beth Grant also brought her Wonderfalls character to a 2008 episode of Pushing Daisies. I think that means it's time we started debating what we should call the various shows that are a part the Wonderfalls universe — the Fullerverse? the Wonderverse? Also, someone let me know when there's fanfic of Clarice Starling, Jaye Tyler and Olive Snook solving crimes together.
Bones is planning a dance-themed episode with a role for this season's So You Think You Can Dance winners.
It turns out that Vogue Knitting has become your source for former America's Next Top Model competitors.
Fox is holding a contest to promote Raising Hope where the winner will get their home cleaned by Martha Plimpton. I expect in many homes that translates into finally getting around to cleaning your home because Martha Plimpton is coming to visit and is prepared to check the corners of your bathrooms.
After cancelling Last Comic Standing (the first time), NBC considered another comedian competition show where comedians battled for a role on Saturday Night Live. In the end, the series never made it to the air because NBC thought the reality TV drama would damage the SNL franchise. Plus, Ryan Murphy could tell them that sometimes the runner-up turns out to be far more interesting on screen than the winner.
Kate Mulgrew has joined the cast of Netflix's upcoming prison drama Orange is the New Black.
Joel McHale will continue to host The Soup for two more years. Additionally, he'll develop reality shows for E! (please don't disappoint us the way Chelsea Handler did.) and scripted series for Sony Pictures Television.
TNT has ordered a second season of Major Crimes and made me very happy.
Let me echo the praise for Go On and its lesbian character, Patti. She's great.
Speaking of Go On, Lauren Graham will be making an appearance on the Tuesday-night comedy.
Magic Mike and Attack of the Show alum Olivia Munn is set to appear in a story arc on New Girl as a love interest for Nick.
If The Sopranos was the most influential drama of the past 20 years, is Louie on the verge of similarly transforming the TV comedy?
TV Land has signed Kirstie Alley to a comedy it's developing. Giant Baby will star Alley as a Broadway star who seeks the baby she put up for adoption 26 years earlier, only to discover a nerdy schlub who she decides to make over.
Wednesday's ratings news wasn't great for ABC and terrible news for NBC. Modern Family still dominates, but a preview of The Neighbors didn't do much better than Happy Endings, which also had critics cheering for it. Meanwhile, Animal Practice and Guys with Kids make last year's combo of Up All Night and Free Agents look like a golden age.
Friday's Listings
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The Carol Burnett Show's reunion tour continues as Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence and Tim Conway visit Anderson.
The View (ABC) Check local listings
Andy Cohen is one of today's guest-hosts as Homeland's Damian Lewis and Once Upon a Time's Jennifer Morrison visit.
Days of Our Lives (NBC) Check local listings
It sounds like we've got more parent-child drama as Adrienne and Lucas discuss their reservations about their sons being together. As good soap city residents, they don't check to make sure there's no one in earshot who could turn that conversation into drama.
America's Next Top Model (CW) 8:00 PM ET
Friday night is Uncharted night as the remaining models go to a studio that will turn them into videogame characters, with the winner making an appearance in … er, Uncharted 3? (I thought that already came out? Maybe people who have played the game have been spoiled on who wins the challenge?) Then it's time for Uncharted fans to wait for that big reunion on Haven.
The White Room Challenge (HGTV) 8:00 PM ET
This week, the designers have to turn a trip to the restaurant supply store into impressive design. Whoever makes use of dough-rising buckets wins my votes.
Boss (Starz) 9:00 PM ET
Kane's starting to feel better, which means it's time to take back power. Unfortunately, there's a hurdle to taking back power and it might mean that Kane has to ask the Transit Authority to clean off the bus wheels.
Grimm (NBC) 9:00 PM ET
Not only does this week's Grimm have Monroe going undercover (please tell me there's a follow-up coming, "Wesen in Chains") but this week also explores wesen culture further as Nick investigates a robbery at a wesen church.
Haven (Syfy) 10:00 PM ET
There are a couple new residents in Haven this week (played by Bullet to the Face's Kate Kelton and One Life to Live alum Bree Williamson) as Audrey and Nathan have to deal with a barbarian invasion of Haven. Yes, that's what the episode description really says.
Saturday's Listings
Homeland Marathon starting at Noon ET
Showtime's giving subscribers a chance to catch up on its Emmy-winning series with a run through the entire first season. I recommend clearing your schedule and emptying your DVR before you start watching this one, you're not going to want to take any breaks.
A Mother's Nightmare (Lifetime) 8:00 PM ET
Glee alum Grant Gustin (did you catch our interview with him?) stars in this movie about a boy who falls for the new girl at school (90210's Jessica Lowndes), one who turns out to be a dangerous and possessive manipulator, leaving his mother (Annabeth Gish) to try to save him. Huh, is this the first time a Lifetime movie put a guy in peril?
Doctor Who (BBC America) 9:00 PM ET
We got a four-episode reprieve (which, admittedly, had its moments that inspired a combination of cringing and head scratching) but it's finally time to say goodbye to Rory and Amy. Thankfully, to make it a little less sad, the Doctor Who team is bringing back River Song and the weeping angles to distract us.
Lake Placid: The Final Chapter (Syfy) 9:00 PM ET
Can you really have a final chapter for a cheesy horror franchise about giant crocodiles? I mean, sure, Syfy also has Gatoroid, Dinocroc and Supergator but can Syfy really go "and there were no more giant crocodiles, the end"? That's what the latest installment (this time starring Robert Englund and Elisabeth Rohm) of the Lake Placid series promises.
If this picture is any clue, the green screen on Revenge is going to be even more convincing this season.
Sunday's Listings
Call the Midwife (PBS) Check local listings
PBS is hoping this BBC hit drama, which looks at the role of midwives in 1950s London, can be the next Downton Abbey. With a period setting that asks the viewer to question how things have changed, and a cast that includes Vanessa Redgrave (in a series of voice overs), Jenny Agutter and Miranda Hart, it sounds like it has potential, at least.
The Amazing Race (CBS) 8:00 PM ET
It's time for another race to begin with two teams that include out gay men: Team Beekman (made up of Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell of The Fabulous Beekman Boys) and Team Chippendale (out Chippendale dancer Jaymes Vaughan and his fellow dancer James Davis).
The Simpsons (Fox) 8:00 PM ET
For its 24th season, the Simpsons are returning to New York City in search of Bart's lost love, Mary (Zooey Deschanel), and memories of enjoying Shakespeare in the Park for Lisa. As you'd expect, complications and hijinx ensue.
Once Upon a Time (ABC) 8:00 PM ET
The first season of Once Upon a Time combined some intriguing ideas, genuinely surprising twists, some questionable plotting (a sluggish middle followed by a rush to the finale) and a great end. Now, the town of Storybrook has to deal with the fact that magic has returned to their lives, along with their memories, but they're still stuck in Maine. There's a new status quo in town. It should be interesting to see where this goes.
Oprah's Next Chapter (OWN) 9:00 PM ET
We don't often get an unfiltered look at Stephen Colbert, since that faux pundit persona works as a barrier to getting to know the real man, but he's taking Oprah to visit his family in Charleston, South Carolina, and to sit down with Stephen's wife Evelyn for her first television interview. I hope we get her take on Jane Fonda's habit of kissing Stephen whenever she appears on The Colbert Report.
The Good Wife (CBS) 9:00 PM ET
We've seen some amazing guest actors and that doesn't change for the fourth season's premiere, which has Kristin Chenoweth and Nathan Lane, as Kalinda gets ready to reunite with her ex-husband (Marc Warren).
Revenge (ABC) 9:00 PM ET
After a nearly-perfect first season, Revenge moves to Sunday nights, where Emily works to manage a plot that continues to get more and more complicated. I can't wait to see how she takes her next target down.
American Dad (Fox) 9:30 PM ET
Roger's latest venture sees him opening a crooner bar where Hayley becomes a big star thanks to her voice. Since this is American Dad and Roger, it gets inappropriate quickly.
Copper (BBC America) 10:00 PM ET
As Annie's behavior keeps getting worse, Corky finds himself questioning what he's done for her recently, wondering if he should try to back up and try to change things.
Homeland (Showtime) 10:00 PM ET
As great as the first season of Homeland was, I'm approaching the second season with a little bit of trepidation. The first season could look to another well-done show for inspiration, but that series lasted just one season, and the unfortunate lesson of Being Human is that showrunners who can brilliantly adapt a show can get completely lost when creating their own storylines. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this season.
666 Park Avenue (CBS) 10:00 PM ET
Since ABC has decided to put two of its campiest shows together, there's quite a lot of pressure on its new supernatural series, which mixes deals with the devil, fabulous real estate and Vanessa Williams' ability to toss off a withering glare. Let's hope it lives up to that pressure.
Watch What Happens Live (Bravo) 11:00 PM ET
Andy's week begins with Joanna Garcia-Swisher and a guest to be named at a later date.
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Anderson will be chatting with America Ferrera, Olivia Wilde, Meg Ryan and Gabrielle Union on Monday.
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The American Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor once remarked that a person goes to Lourdes to pray for himself or herself but ends up praying for others.
Perhaps more than the cures that still occur in this holy place, this is the miracle of Lourdes: each pilgrim invariably finds that he or she is no longer alone in the struggles of life that we all have. Malades, their family members and volunteers discover the importance of being with one another, sharing in one another's delight and in carrying one another's burdens.
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Ordre de Malte France's medical teams went into action in the hours after the attacks to bring first aid to the victims. The teams, consisting of 40 volunteers and 5 ambulances, were deployed in the attack areas. Besides medical assistance, the Ordre de Malte France's volunteers also attempted to comfort and reassure survivors of the attacks, in an evident state of shock.
The Order of St John of Jerusalem is one of the oldest institutions of Western and Christian civilisation. Present in Palestine in around 1050, it is a lay religious Order, traditionally of military, chivalrous, noble nature. Its 12,500 members include Professed Friars and others who have made vows of obedience. The other Knights and Dames are lay members, devoted to the exercise of Christian virtue and charity. What distinguishes the Knights of Malta is their commitment to reaching their spiritual perfection within the Church and to expending their energies serving the poor and the sick.
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The Order has recently returned to Malta, after signing an agreement with the Maltese Government which granted the Order the exclusive use of Fort St. Angelo for a term of 99 years. Located in the town of Birgu, the Fort belonged to the Knights from 1530 until the island was occupied by Napoleon in 1798. Today, after restoration, the Fort hosts historical and cultural activities related to the Order of Malta.


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This "Secret City" once housed more than 75,000 people at the peak of the Manhattan Project, the top-secret mission to develop the atomic bomb. People in neighboring towns had no idea that the town even existed. Every resident over 12 wore a badge at all times, and no visitors were allowed without prior approval. Military police manned the gates, and guardhouses were set up along the fence line surrounding the site; three remain today. Stop along the way for great photo ops or visit one of two replicas at the American Museum of Science & Energy (point 11) or the Children''s Museum of Oak Ridge (point 15).
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Logan Verrett is quite the talented young pitcher. Last Night's Quick Scores Las Vegas got rocked by Tacoma, 8-2. Binghamton defeated Akron, 7-2. St. Lucie blew out Bradenton, 13-5. Savannah edged out West Virginia, 1-0. Prospect Pipeline I strongly urge you to click the above link leading to the Binghamton recap, which features a wonderful analysis of Logan Verrett's most recent start on Saturday afternoon. I remember writing on Verrett months ago and noting that he came into our system at 21 with fairly advanced stuff, so I expected him to advance quickly. Binghamton was supposed to be a serious test for him, and he seems to be passing with flying colors right now. He embodies a lot of great intangibles that you can appreciate in a young pitcher – he works fairly quickly, he pitches with confidence, and has sound mechanics. Verrett won his fourth game, which is tops in the EL. Rainy Lara has been gaining ground as a Mets prospect this season and with good reason, as he is findi...
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21 Orange.
My name's Joe, I'm a website designer based in Reading & Hereford.
This is my portfolio.
Over the past few years I've taken on a number of different projects, involving web design and branding solutions, which you can take a look at below. Bear in mind that while most are finished, a couple are still a work in progress!
As I'm a student I have no overheads, meaning my website design prices start much lower than most others.
From a very young age I've loved building things, from Lego buildings to Mobile SaunaVans (take a look!). In 2011 I enrolled at Hereford Sixth Form College where I studied Computing, Law & Psychology. Whilst studying Computing I coded many different programs, some for coursework purposes and others for fun - I realised coding programs isn't too dissimilar to building things.
During my time at college I co-founded a campervan hire company with my step dad, Wye Valley Campers. We soon realised that it was going to cost us a lot of money to have a website designed, so I decided to have a go myself. A few weeks later I'd managed to teach myself the basics of HTML & CSS. Soon after completing my first website a friend approached me asking if I could design a website for her B&B to which I gladly obliged and thus 21 Orange was born.
I've always been passionate about technology and I've got a keen eye for design. I'm currently studying for a Computer Science degree at the University of Reading as well as working for a startup tech company called Autino.
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George Osborne's fifth budget on Wednesday will dominate financial news this week, but there's also a strong crop of companies reporting.
The first big numbers come from Sainsbury tomorrow, in the form of fourth-quarter trading figures. After Morrisons' disastrous results last week, investors will be watching Sainsbury's closely to see if Morrisons was a straggler or an indication of broader supermarket health.
Jefferies is expecting a 2.5 per cent fall in Sainsbury's sales and warns that it is most vulnerable to competition from discounters such as Aldi and Lidl.
Spirit Pub Company serves up its first half trading numbers on Tuesday. Last time we heard from the pub group it reported strong Christmas trading and Numis is predicting more good news, pointing to a 4.3 per cent rise in sales in the first 20 weeks of the period.
Chilean-based copper miner Antofagasta will also deliver its full-year report tomorrow. Investec predicts earnings before exceptional costs of $2.7bn (£1.6bn).
The Aim-listed fashion retailer Asos will update investors on trading tomorrow. Sheridan Admans at The Share Centre highlights US sales figures and news on expansion in China and Russia as the key things to look out for.
Wednesday sees second-quarter figures from the engineer Smiths Group. Shareholders will be looking to see if divisions such as defence and healthcare have been hit by government cuts and hoping for more news on the sale of its medical devices business.
The retail goliath Next will lift the lid on how it's been trading in the past three months on Thursday. Merrill Lynch expects good news, predicting pre-tax profit above consensus thanks to online strength and benefits from the recovering housing market.
The advertising group M&C Saatchi's full-year figures come out on Thursday. The house broker, Numis, is bullish, predicting a pre-tax profit of £18.5m.
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Voting starts in March for the Drupal Association Board election.
This release of Webform gets ready for the 4.0 final release! We've fixed a bunch of bugs in this release.
Upgrading is recommended for all users of the 4.x branch.
A few new minor features
This release of Webform 4.x fixes several issues discovered shortly after the release of 4.0-beta2 (which included a security update). Please read the release notes for 4.0-beta2 for a list of recent changes if upgrading from a previous beta or alpha version.
But fixes since 7.x-4.0-beta2:
SA-CONTRIB-2014-018 - Webform - Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
This release of Webform 3.x fixes several bugs and an XSS security issue. No new features in this version. Upgrading is recommended for all users of Webform 3.x.
Changes since 7.x-3.19:
Bug fixes since 6.x-3.19:
SA-CONTRIB-2014-018 - Webform - Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
This release of Webform 4.x fixes a large number of bugs and addresses an XSS security vulnerability. Beta2 introduces a new feature to preview submissions before submitting them in multipage forms. Upgrading is recommended for all users of Webform 4.x.
Bug fixes since 7.x-4.0-beta1:
This release never saw the light of day and has been deprecated, see the 8.x-5.x branch.
This version of Webform moves Webform closer to a stable release. It should also contain the last significant API changes before the release of Webform 4.0. This version adds flexibility around the provided data used to provide analysis, enabling charting of data using the existing hooks. This version also makes some changes to the themed output, if you're overriding theme_webform_element() you may need to update your implementation to ensure conditional functionality continues working.
This release of Webform includes several new features. Including an Excel-native exporter that generates true XLSX files for better compatibility with Excel, Google Docs, OpenOffice and LibreOffice, which can all read and write this file format.
This release also increased PHP requirement to PHP 5.3. Make sure you have it available before upgrading. The new Excel exporter depends on this version of PHP, as well as the ZipArchive PHP extension (which is enabled by default in PHP installations).
This release fixes a major problem when sending e-mails to a custom e-mail value. This release also adds batch-based exporting of results, allowing for large exports of tens of thousands of rows (or more).
Changes since 7.x-4.0-alpha8:
These notes are the same as webform 7.x-4.0-alpha7, which was released for a short time but had a critical access control bug. This release is identical to alpha7 with that bug fixed. Thanks @pjcdawkins for reporting the problem.
This release of Webform adds several new pieces of functionality and fixes many bugs in the 4.x branch of the module. New features include HTML5 placeholder support, custom CSS classes for components, better e-mail support, and several other long-requested features.
This release of Webform includes maintenance fixes for the 3.x branch. Upgrading is recommended for all users of Webform 3.x.
Bug fixes since 7.x-3.18:
This release of Webform fixes a security vulnerability where unsanitized labels could be displayed to users creating or configuring Webform content. This problem only exists in the Drupal 6 version of Webform. For more information see SA-CONTRIB-2013-050 - Webform - Cross Site Scripting (XSS).
In addition to the security fix, this maintenance release includes several bug fixes as listed below. Upgrading is recommended for all users of Webform 3.x.
Bug fixes since 6.x-3.18:
This release fixes a critical issue in alpha5 that would prevent the creation of new forms, causing an error when the first component was added to any node.
This release also adds a significant expansion to our Views integration, enabling full access to all user-submitted data through Views. w00t! Thanks to all the contributors on that feature.
Changes since 7.x-4.0-alpha5:
This version of Webform 4.x fixes a few bugs and adds full token support in the confirmation message, both as a message and as a full page (extra thanks to Liam Morland for his work on this feature).
Changes since 7.x-4.0-alpha4:
Lots and lots of bug fixes since 7.x-4.0-alpha3. This upgrade is recommended for all Webform 4.x users, as it solves several issues with the conditional support and handling of drafts and multipage forms. Special should out to Liam Morland for all his great work on this release, and to fenstrat, who has joined the Webform development team as a co-maintainer!
Bug fixes:
This release fixes several major bugs found in the 4.x alpha2 release. Upgrading is highly recommended for any users of the 7.x-4.0-alpha2 version.
Changes since 7.x-4.0-alpha2:
This release adds an entirely new conditional logic system to Webform. With built-in support for same-page conditionals, multiple conditionals per component, and drastically improved user experience. See issue #1215456: Multiple and same-page conditional rules for background.
The first release of Webform 4.x. This version is identical to the current stable release of Webform (3.18), but includes the patch at #1001798: Rewrite token replacement system to use D7 tokens. Being a new branch, the 4.x APIs may change in the future and not be compatible with other Webform add-on modules.
The 4.x branch is a Drupal 7 targeted version of Webform. Upgrade from Webform 3.x with care, database updates are non-reversible.
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Spicewood Springs Trail is a 3.8 mile moderately trafficked loop trail located near Bend, Texas that features a river and is rated as moderate. The trail offers a number of activity options and is best used from March until October. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
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Wilderness trek with some good elevation on the hike! Nice wilderness hike on a dirt/gravel/vegetation trail. The hike has scenic overlooks of the river below. Entrance fee to state park is $4.00.
Great hike!!
This review is for the actual Spicewood Springs trail in Colorado Bend State Park. It was well worth coming back to the park to do this (these) trails. I would recommend starting at the Spicewood Canyon point and take that all the way to the end. Then loop back using the Spicewood Springs route. You will cross the water a few times and if the water is high...you might get your feet wet. Bring a spare pair of socks...maybe even a second pair of shoes. There is also an area to swim at the turn around point. Wish I brought some shorts and a towel.
Very hot if you go during the summer, the spring pool is amazing. I'm looking forward to going after it cools down so I can explore more.
added this onto the spicewood springs trail.Made for a nice way back to the starting point.
enjoyed the challenge of water crossings and very varied terrain.
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Horrible! Took me to the middle of nowhere! Wasted an hour of my life just to drive to BFE!
this is actually in Colorado Creek state park. no dice at the address listed
How do I get into the trail ? It just took me to a gate
There was just a gate no signs no way in this needs to be updated
Great mostly shaded trail in Colorado Bend SP.
This is a really great beginner trail with lots of different terrain to adjust to. Always something to look at on this trail and the water crossings are never too deep. Me and my husky puppy love it!
The trail was extremely hot in the middle of the day so take plenty of water. There is a few places that require climbing over rocks and it crosses the springs a few times. Overall an excellent hike with some great views up on top of the canyon wall. I will be back for this trail.
got here and the gate is closed but not locked.... not sure if I should go in or not.
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Engaged learning microsite selected among nearly 13,000 entries
A Rider University microsite has been selected as an Official Honoree for the 20th Annual Webby Awards. The distinction puts Rider in the top 20 percent of nearly 13,000 entries from 66 countries around the world.
The microsite focuses on engaged learning at Rider, showcasing the multiple ways in which the University creates opportunities for profound learning experiences. The site highlights the opportunities and results of students participating in internships, study abroad, service learning, student/faculty collaboration, the arts and leadership development.
"The engaged learning microsite takes users through a series of high-impact visuals, which include video and interactive storytelling, that portray how our students take part in a vibrant learning community and cultivate the foundation needed for future career and personal success," says Rider's director of enrollment digital strategy, Tara Laposa, who oversees every aspect of the website, including design, strategic planning and execution.
Plethora built this microsite from the ground up and designed its UI with jQuery, CSS, and a responsive layout.
That's right, Drupal 6 is at 'end of life' (EOL).
Drupal 8 and 7 have both had security patches. Drupal 6 got a final security patch as well.
If your Drupal installation has not been updated in a while, make sure to get it taken care of soon, or drop us a line.
Our design for EIT Avionics was recently featured on Drupal.org's Featured Showcase. It is currently displayed on the drupal.org home page and as the first item on https://www.drupal.org/case-studies . In our case study we go into detail about the process of building a Drupal 8 site before the full release was out, which certainly posed some challenges. View case study »
Drupal just celebrated a major milestone - its fifteenth birthday!
The Drupal project has grown tremendously over the years and with Drupal 8 it is now 'off the island'. Since its early days, Drupal has held on to its own internal ways of coding and using PHP, but with Drupal 8 this change changed dramatically. Now Drupal uses Composer, OOP, Twig, YAML, and Services to name a few. This new policy of openness will help Drupal grow and improve. It will allow themers to do their thing and coders to do theirs - better than before.
Drupal founder Dries Buytaert's post about Drupal's 15th birthday
We receive our fair share of RFPs and often have mixed feelings about how to respond to these. All too often such RFPs are just companies or organizations going through the motions, when they may already have an agency selected. Other times the client has done a lot of internal work and stakeholder discussion to get to this stage, but have not yet involve an agency. We feel it's important for clients to know that early involvement of a web agency can be the difference between project failure and success.
Clients often start a project with pre-conceived notions.
By the time clients contact web development agencies, they often will already have formed ideas about problem definition as well as the correct solution. Many times, these are based on incorrect assumptions about the nature of the problem, subsequently exacerbated by deciding on a solution without first asking some important questions. This often takes the form of an RFP (Request for Proposal), which may mean the project is already fairly far along. This is a shame, because it would benefit clients to work with a web development agency earlier on, to define the problems, goals, and scope. Such planning can save a lot of grief later in the process.
Asking the right questions to understand the client's needs:
Following are a few examples of typical issues that come up, and how we might ask questions about these:
Client: "We need this site built with XYZ." (insert Drupal, WordPress, or Joomla here!)
Us: "Why XYZ rather than {insert other CMS name here}? How did you come to that conclusion?"
(The point of this question is to understand WHY the client selected WordPress. Ideally this decision-making process would involve input from the eventual web developer, who could advise on the merits of one CMS over another.)
Client: "Here is a list of 10 pages we must have in the new menu."
Us: "Why so many items? Users won't know what to focus on. We need to cull this list."
(Often older sites will contain a slew of menu items, which make visitors' eyes glaze over as they hit their browser's Back button, or they continue to search your site in frustration. The short answer here is that less is more, and giving visitors fewer choices initially is much better than throwing a dozen of different things on the screen at once.)
Client: "Please make our site SEO-friendly, too."
Us: "What are your goals, in terms of SEO? Which keywords matter most, and which pages are top priority? Who on your end will be editing content?"
(SEO is not just a one-time technical implementation, but a process. It requires ongoing content addition and editing, so it is as much a workflow training issue as it is a technical implementation issue.)
A project is never just about one goal or one thing.
There is always more than meets the eye, and it is our job as information architects, web developers and project managers to uncover all of those aspects of a project.
First, we find out what the client believes the problems, needs, and goals to be. Then we set out to uncover items the client may not have considered, or may have overlooked. This can lead to some very different project scopes by the time this discussion is over.
Asking the right questions early on can make the difference between a bloated scope, a lean and mean scope, and a "staged happiness" approach. This helps the client know what their options are, and know that they have considered their options carefully and with sufficient technical input.
Clients often ask us to set up CSV feeds / exports of views (lists of data). Now that Drupal 8 rc1 is out and we're starting to use Drupal 8 more and more, we're running into more and more requests for CSV export on Drupal 8.
For example, let's say the site has a page that lists a company's staff directory, and HR wants to be able to download CSV containing all the staff member details for use elsewhere. This is a perfect use case for the Views Data Export module, together with Views. Views is built into Drupal 8 core.
We can just add that CSV export onto an existing view.
As of about one month ago there is now a Drupal 8 port of Views Data Export - have a look here and here. We have used it to put together a basic CSV export display in a Drupal 8 view, and it works as expected. This module is still very much under development, but it is looking quite solid and promising so far.
Coming right on the heels of DrupalCon Barcelona, Drupal 8 release candidate 1 is here!
Drupal 8 comes with many improvements and features, including:
- Object-oriented backend leveraging Symfony components
- Built-in configuration management (the Features module)
- The Views module is now part of Drupal core
- Theming is much improved now with Twig and MVC separation of logic from design.
- Multilingual support was given much more attention in this release.
We are already running Drupal 8 on several small client sites and are excited to start adopting it more widely in the near future.
We are very proud to mention that nnpn.org (National New Play Network) is now in Drupal.org's 'Featured Showcase":
See https://www.drupal.org/node/1708254
To quote Drupal, "Drupal Case Studies are detailed overviews of well-crafted, innovative websites or applications built using Drupal.
WordPress is great - we love it and gladly support it. But ... at a certain point it can become difficult to customize things. We consider using Drupal when we sense a customer is likely to exceed WordPress's capabilities, or if WordPress is going to start to become a pain to customize, or if there's a fair chance of needing to customize more things as time goes on. If it's going to be just a basic static site + blog posts forever, WordPress could be just fine. It wouldn't save much in terms of development time though, because getting things set up correctly with WordPress requires more grunt-work / custom coding than we're used to with Drupal. It would be mostly a wash. Some items, like automatic URL redirects, might not even be deliverable in a reliable way if we went the WordPress route. There certainly are WordPress plugins out there such as Simple 301 Redirects that would handle that, but we'm pretty wary of those 3rd-party plugins (having been burned one too many times by some that seemed nice but ended up buggy) and have more faith in the community-tested Drupal modules.
WordPress: Pros: great admin interface, easy to set up. Cons: not terribly granular, and extending its capabilities requires a mix of plugins, which can lead to problems.
Drupal 7: Pros: good admin inteface (can be made great), very extensible, modules ("add-ons") are very well-tested by the Drupal community. Cons: harder to set up and configure than WordPress, theming usually involves custom theming, more resource-intsensive.
I can write a lot about the benefits of Drupal over WordPress .... but here are some things that come to mind:
- Pretty, easy to use, great for blogs and basic sites that don't need too much customization.
- Has a good built-in SEF URLs (search engine friendly URLs) system that's easy to configure and use, as long as you are coo with the same URL pattern for all blog posts / pages.
- Many plugins that can extend its functionality. However, the best WordPress installations rely on < 10 plugins. More than that and you're likely to face some upgrade issues eventually. Choose your plugins wisely.
- Automatic updates. This is a great feature; just make sure you also have a backup system in place in case the automatic upgrade breaks your site. We haven't seen it happen yet, but it could.
- Mobile-friendly admin interface and tons of responsive themes
- Again, it offers loads of plugins and themes, but many of these are commercial and require commercial support.
- Version 3+ is pretty, pretty easy to use
- Can be used as a CMS (mainly) but also for blogging.
- The URL aliasing system still leaves something to be desired. This can be partly overcome with addons like sh404SEF.
- Mobile-friendly admin interface and a decent selection of responsive templates
- Joomla itself is free, but many of the best add-ons are commercial, and require subscriptions in order to keep them secure and up to date. You should be using the best commercial addons because there are many shady third-party add-ons out there, and while free, they will cost you much more in the long run because they will wreak havoc on your site during your next major upgrade. Choose your Joomla extensions wisely!
- Its name is Dutch, meaning "water drop". So that's an advantage over WordPress or Joomla right there. Admittedly, we're biased. Plethora Design's founder, Casper Voogt, was born in Amsterdam.
- Super extensible. At its core is a system of content "types" and fields, so you can design your own content types, whether it's for news, blog posts, products, user profiles, and so on.
- It has Views. Here at Plethora Design we LOVE Views. And it ships as part of Drupal 8's core! You might be wondering what this is. It's a query builder that comes with many display options. You can display a list of content as a table, responsive divs, bulleted list, slideshow, iCal feed, CSV export, and so on. This allows you to reuse content items in a myriad ways, all the while exercising full control over the code output, so that you can style specific content fields discretely. Joomla and Wordpress, by and large, do not offer this granular level of control. It can be added, but takes custom coding to accomplish in most cases.
- Features an awesome ACL / permissions system. It is incredibly granular, such that every add-on can add its own specific permissions as it sees fit. Joomla 2.5 and 3 offer similar ACL controls, though these have been baked into Drupal for over a decade, whereas Joomla is still absorbing these new features.
- A critique of Drupal has long been its seeming lack of good themes when compared to WordPress and Joomla. This is partly true, because Drupal is more developer and enterprise oriented, so there is a certain expectation that the functionality and theme will be custom-built or at least heavily customized. As such, there are not many commercial ready-made Drupal themes out there, but there are some truly wonderful "base themes" such as Zen and Omega, which are the only ones we work with on Drupal sites. The beauty of using such frameworks is that the framework is free, and enables you to leverage a community of many thousands of dedicated developers, versus relying on a commercial entity to provide support. It's a great choice if you need to exercise a great deal of control over layout, but don't want to reinvent the wheel. All the bells and whistles you might see on WordPress and Joomla sites can be done with Drupal, and then some. It's just that Drupal is geared more towards those who have a need to heavily customize workflows, content types, layouts, and so on.
- Out of the three, Drupal has the strictest coding standards. It has unit tests and processes in place that modules (add-ons) must pass before they are approved for general use. There is a spirited community that reviews modules, and as a result Drupal modules tend to be capable of more robust functionality than many (not all!) Joomla / WordPress add-ons. And if you don't like some aspect of the user interface you have the freedom to change it. As they say in Drupal-land, "there's a module for that".
- Debugging Drupal modules is more straightforward. This speaks to how Drupal attracts more developers than either Joomla or WordPress. Drupal has automated testing and patch testing in place to ensure code is up to snuff. This avoids much of the ridiculous forum discusssions on Joomla and WordPress forums, which often involve hard-to-reproduce issues which are subsequently no tracked as bugs. With Drupal, the default position is to track issues as bugs and resolve the in a an orderly fashion that benefits the community at large.
OK, let's be honest. We favor Drupal. But Joomla and WordPress can be very good choices for some projects, and we do recommend these for new projects all the time. When planning a project, just make sure to plan for eventual 'enhancements' and extra functionality, because more often tban not these things will happen.
Out of the three, Drupal may have the highest learning curve, but it does offer the most flexibility in terms of handling any complex requirement you may throw its way. For even greater flexibility you could build your own home-grown CMS, and in many ways that is what Django does, but that is for another post.