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German Hazelnut Torte
|4 Ounce (1/4 Pound, Filberts)
|Egg yolks
|Sifted icing sugar
|1 1⁄4 Cup (20 tbs)
|Rum flavoring
|1 Teaspoon
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
|Fine dry bread crumbs
|5 Tablespoon
|Baking powder
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Egg whites
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
|Cream of tartar
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|For filling
|Apricot jam
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Chopped hazelnuts
|2 Tablespoon, or sliced
Grease and line the bottoms of two 8-inch layer-cake pans 1 1/2 inches deep with greased waxed-paper circles.
Spread hazelnuts in a small shallow bake pan or pie plate and toast in the oven at 300F for 30 minutes.
Rub nuts together in a tea towel to remove as much crisp skin as you can.
Blend or grind nuts into fine bits.
Beat egg yolks on high speed in a small beater bowl until thick and lemon-colored, then beat in icing sugar, cinnamon and rum flavoring.
Continue beating for 5 minutes.
Fold in bread crumbs, 1 cup of the ground nuts and sifted baking powder.
Beat egg whites, salt and cream of tartar together in a large beater bowl until stiff dull peaks form, then with a whisk fold in yolk mixture.
Divide batter between the two prepared pans and bake at 350F for 35 minutes.
Cool 10 minutes.
Cut around the cakes with a wet knife.
Leave until cold, then invert and shake out the cakes.
Peel off the papers.
Slice layers in half horizontally using a serrated bread knife, then fill with Cream Nut Filling.
Heat the apricot jam with 1 tablespoon rum, brandy or water.
When hot and bubbly, strain and spread over top and sides.
While jam is still warm, garnish with slivered hazelnuts.
Chill thoroughly before serving.
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Nutrition Rank
Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 3161 Calories from Fat 997
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 116 g178.5%
Saturated Fat 16 g79.8%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 1110.5 mg370.2%
Sodium 1325 mg55.2%
Total Carbohydrates 491 g163.5%
Dietary Fiber 17.4 g69.6%
Sugars 401.8 g
Protein 64 g128%
Vitamin A 26.4% Vitamin C 11.9%
Calcium 64.2% Iron 69.8%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet

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This is what happens when you give a 4 year old a camera at his brother's hockey game.
And as my husband always says… Give a monkey a typewriter and eventually he'll get a word.
by Sheri | Feb 28, 2012 | Family, Wordless Wednesday | 36 comments
This is what happens when you give a 4 year old a camera at his brother's hockey game.
And as my husband always says… Give a monkey a typewriter and eventually he'll get a word.
Aww! Way too cute!!Reply
Never to young for a kid to learn! It's great to see things through their eyes later too!Reply
I love it! Reminds me of my 6 year old's pics on his DS!Reply
Too funny. I love the little glove/hand. Cute shot even if it was by accident. 🙂Reply
I love kids pictures. When my 3 year old takes pictures it is all of me…looking extremely preggo haha.Reply
HAHA! Too cute!Reply
Those are awesome! I love coming across the pictures my kids take with my phone. They are always entertaining!Reply
Awesome…I need to get some of my kiddos photo masterpieces uploaded lol.Reply
My dauhter is the same way! LOLReply
LOL. I find pictures like that on my iPhone from when the kids take it!Reply
I have learned to be careful of what I do and say at ALL times because I've seen some pretty incriminating shots that my kids have taken!! 😉Reply
What are you talking about? These are better than the pictures I take :).Reply
My son loves to take photos also. it' amazing to see the world from their eyes.Reply
I have a ton of those pictures and the videos are even worse!Reply
LOL! There were videos too, but they all had me in them, so you don't get to see them, lol.Reply
Awww!! My siblings love using our old camera to take pictures. They have even gotten some decent shots. It is interesting to see things from their view though. 🙂Reply
I gave my 3 year old my old point & shoot camera since my iPhone camera is far better than it – I LOVE seeing that pictures she takes!Reply
LOL! its fun to see what pictures they took.Reply
I love those kind of pictures. It is always fun to see it through the eyes of my children!Reply
My oldest loves taking pics too.Reply
I LOVE your husband's saying!!Reply
There's been countless times when my son will take the camera and his pics turn out just like that! Too cute!Reply
I love when kids do that so much!Reply
I enjoy seeing kids pics. Nice to see it from their pov.
LOL! Love itReply
Aww, I miss my daughter taking those kinds of photos when she was little. It's always fun to see their point of view!Reply
Awww 🙂 Not quite professional, but very adorable 😀Reply
Too cute! I love the pictures they took:)Reply
I know some adults that take pictures like that 😛 So nice though – giving them a camera to work with makes activities and events so much more interesting for them!Reply
Love it! Little Boo tends to take pictures of himself when he gets my camera. He loves the iPhone's forward facing camera especially. Not vain at all, no …. 😉Reply
lol I love it! I have quite a few like that on my camera!!Reply
Hahaha I love it! Taylor has discovered the "video" option on my iPhone… I get "vlogs" all the time LOLReply
LOL Just wait til the kids are older and constantly steal your phone/camera to snap photos of themselves!Reply
funny! I am sure the pictures will get better with practice.Reply
Thank goodness for digital! Back in the day we had to give our kids film cameras – so much money wasted on shots….we still have some undeveloped 15 years later. 🙂
I love the shots!Reply
Haha! Looks like about half the pictures in my photo album. 🙂Reply


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text: Machine Uses Focused Electrons to Slice Aerospace-Grade Titanium in MinutesJamie Condliffe3/16/16 5:00amFiled to: engineeringgeelectroncsmaterials113EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink GIF Images by GE Global Research Cutting large lumps of aerospace-grade metals can be hard work. So GE has developed a tool called Blue Arc which uses a high-speed beam of electrons to cut through titanium alloy 15 times faster than other techniques. Advertisement The problem with working with exotic new metals is that they're tougher than the metals that can be used to cut them. High-pressure water and laser cutters can help, but they generate a lot of heat—which can deform the material that's being cut.Instead, Blue Arc focuses electrons to erode and remove metal without generating as much heat. The tool can cut through a slab of aerospace-grade titanium alloy in three minutes, whereas the conventional alternative approaches take 45 minutes. Advertisement It's already being used by GE to cut Inconel and titanium jet engine parts. Probably best to avoid getting your hand in its way. [GE]Jamie Condliffe@jme_cContributing Editor at Gizmodo. An ex-engineer writing about science and technology.Reply11 repliesLeave a reply


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I currently have a Java project that creates hash functions and inserts the hash values into a database.
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Kendrick Eagle Message to Obama: 'You said you would have our backs'
Posted by Richard Warnick in Activist groups, Barack Obama, Energy, Environment, National Politics on November 24, 2016
In a plea for President Barack Obama to support protestors of the Dakota Access Pipeline, one member of the affected Sioux tribe reminded him about their personal encounters two years ago.
Kendrick Eagle, a member of the Sioux Nation at Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, addresses Obama directly in a video from filmmakers Lori Woodley, Doug McLea and Jonathan Klett uploaded to YouTube this week. Eagle, one of the pipeline protestors from more than 200 other Native American tribes, first met the president when he visited the reservation in 2014.
…"It's like you cared about me and you cared about my story … it was amazing to hear you say that in front of people, in front of all the tribal leaders in DC," Eagle said.
"You said, 'Let's not make this just a dream,' and right now it kind of feels like it was a dream, because you said you had our backs, and here we are," Eagle continued. "Help us stop this pipeline."
President Obama has apparently decided to ignore the $3.8 billion, 1,134-mile Dakota Access Pipeline (#NoDAPL) until he leaves office. A recent night-time assault by police using water cannons sent 26 people to the hospital and injured hundreds more. The pipeline requires Corps of Engineers approval to cross the Missouri River, which means the President could stop it anytime simply by issuing an executive order.
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— ACLU National (@ACLU) November 24, 2016
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Mike Weinholtz Versus Governor Herbert In Televised Debate
Posted by Larry Bergan in 2016 Elections, Bernie Sanders, Economy, Education, Energy, Environment, Equal Pay, Gary Herbert, Mike Weinholtz, This Blog on September 28, 2016
This second debate took place on September 26th, and will most likely be the last one, as governor Herbert would rather keep his governmental matters close to the vest and probably only showed up to the first one at the last minute because he didn't want to be called, "Unavailable Jones" at that event.
Weinholtz came out swinging like a real democrat should with the problems the GOP has left us in this state and the rest of the country as well, but he has already proven he can work with the other side on the issues.
I hope all those people who showed up to wait in line for hours to register and vote for Bernie Sanders will see that this is the year to get democrats in office again in Utah. The governor's office has never been in Republican hands for this long in Utah before, (32 years). It's time for a change with REAL values instead of the stagnant cronyism we see today.
Short post-debate question and answer session:
The first debate was not televised, so I took this from a citizens cell phone recording.
NOTE: You can stop the unwanted soundtrack by going near the bottom of the page, and pausing the video, or going to the comments section.
Mike Weinholtz Takes On Governor Herbert In First Debate
Posted by Larry Bergan in 2016 Elections, Economy, Education, Energy, Equality, Gary Herbert, Health Care, Mike Weinholtz on September 17, 2016
I took the liberty of modifying the only known recording of this important event by cropping a citizens cell phone recording and amplifying the sound. This one-on-one debate nearly didn't happen. Herbert only agreed to debate Weinholtz once on September 26th, but changed his mind at the last minute. I guess you could call this a flash debate.
I wanted people to see what a great leader Weinholtz would be for Utah. He really did a great job!
Original debate video can be found at Mike Weinholtz's webpage.
Here's Why You Can Fear Trump
Posted by Richard Warnick in 2016 Elections, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Economy, Energy, Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein, National Politics, Public Lands, This Blog on September 7, 2016
If you are looking for a reason to fear a Donald Trump administration, then take a look at his economic plan (emphasis added).
WASHINGTON: At a private meeting of conservatives in Cleveland this summer, Donald Trump's senior economic adviser, Stephen Moore, said the candidate planned to pay for his costly proposals by eliminating the departments of Commerce, Energy and Education; lifting all restrictions on mining, drilling and fracking; ending Temporary Assistance for Needy Families programs, and offering rust-belt factory workers new jobs on oil rigs and steel mills.
Of course, federal restrictions are not stopping the development of fossil fuels at all. The only check on the industry is the current slump in prices.
On the contrary, our public lands (that we own!) are wide open to corporate oil & gas exploration, coal mining, you name it. What is needed is a leasing ban for public lands – but Hillary Clinton refuses to propose such a ban, and she has long since abandoned an earlier promise to phase out coal.
If coal, oil and natural gas didn't get subsidized, renewable energy would be recognized as being incomparably cheaper than fossil fuels. Why are the major-party presidential candidates not proposing to create jobs with nationwide programs for solar and wind energy? Remember candidate Obama's 2008 promise of a "green economy" before he became the fracker-in-chief?
The only candidate with an economic program that will help us instead of the corporations is Jill Stein, who proposes "a human-centered economy that puts people, planet and peace over profit."
CNBC Debunks Industry-Backed Study Behind Trump's Dirty Energy Plan
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Bernie Sanders Will Ban Fracking. Hillary Clinton 'Sold Fracking to the World'
How To Talk To A Brick Wall
Posted by Larry Bergan in 4th Estate (Media), Activist groups, Capitalism, Democracy, Disaster, Environment, Public Lands, Utah Tar Sands on July 1, 2015
The Utah Department of Natural Resource's Division of Oil, Gas and Mining held a hearing yesterday morning because a Canadian energy corporation has plans to mine large areas of Utah tar sands. Under state law, a hearing must be held if residents have objections.
I was worried nobody would be there to document the proceedings, so I took my camcorder to the event. The first part of the meeting was consumed by representatives for "U.S. Oil Sands", defending the Calgary based company from questions about it's protection of Utah's water resources.
The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret Morning News did stories on the matter, but I'm pretty sure I was the only one who filmed the meeting. Television crews sometimes cover things getting set up and then leave when important public events get underway.
I'm only presenting comments given by the Utah activists and citizens who showed up and elected to speak. Obviously I didn't have a tripod. Nothing has been edited except for where the second speaker gives his name. My battery had to be changed.
After the public comments, John Baza, who presided over the hearing said, "There are things that have been said here today that have touched me and I am sensitive to those." My opinion is that the corporation will get everything it wants. Am I being cynical again?
UPDATE: Here is the panel discussion portion of the hearing. This is virtually the entire conversation. The short gaps were due to small camera adjustments. I'm still learning how to use it. 🙂
The man closest to, and facing away from my camera during the video and in the top picture of this post is University of Utah geology professor, Bill Johnson. He is fighting hard for Utah's lands:
Please go to "Utah Tar Sands Resistance" to participate in stopping the destruction of our beautiful Utah lands or Donate!
UPDATE: Jill Merritt made up this handy list to navigate the first video. Thanks Jill!
UPDATE: The Salt Lake Tribune has published two letters to the editor: From July 4th and July 5th. The paper has also published a very good editorial concerning the Tar Sands hearing:
Editorial: Tar sands extraction unproven and risky
UPDATE: As I suspected, the expansion of the "U.S. Oil Sands" project has been approved. The Salt Lake Tribune reports "a partial victory for environmentalists due to requiring the company to monitor nearby springs for potential groundwater contamination and submit documentation showing the mine is in compliance with air quality regulations. Of course none of the environmentalists wanted an expansion at all, and I have my doubts that the monitoring will be carried out sufficiently.
Here's the latest Deseret News article.
Bruce Babbitt: Uninformed, Misguided Politicians Are Attempting To Abolish Public Lands
Posted by Richard Warnick in ALEC, Energy, Environment, National Politics, Public Lands, The Constitution, This Blog, Utah Politics on January 24, 2015
The future of Utah public lands?
Speaking Thursday at the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market in Salt Lake City, former Arizona Governor and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt slammed Utah's illegal and unconstitutional attempt to steal 31 million acres of our public lands. The federal government ignored Governor Herbert's December 31 deadline to close down land management agency offices and turn over control to the state.
"Our public land heritage really is under attack," said Babbitt, speaking at a Conservation Alliance event. "We've really got a crowd of uninformed, misguided politicians who are attempting to dismantle or abolish public lands and the agencies that administer them."
"The sponsors of this are fronting for the oil and gas, coal and tar sands industry," he said…
"Public lands belong to all Americans," he added. "They are used for energy production right now in a careful, responsible way. But for whatever reason, Utah politicians are saying we have to do it faster and do more, cast off environmental regulations and put all our heritage at risk."
…Babbitt cautioned Westerners Thursday against dismissing today's land transfer movement as just another retread of past Sagebrush Rebellions.
"This is different," Babbitt said. "The money is coming nationally, from the fossil fuel industry, and married to the ideology that is being pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council and others, who are wrapping this into broad-scale attack against the federal government."
The Utah legislature has appropriated $2 million of OUR money to sue the federal government in support of their insane ALEC-inspired raid on our national forests, national wildlife refuges, and BLM public lands.
Utah is lone cowboy trying to wrangle public lands
Despite numerous invitations from Utah lawmakers, no other states have signed on.
2014 Was The Hottest Year on Record
Posted by Richard Warnick in Climate Change, Disaster, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, National Politics, Science on January 16, 2015
Time series of five-year global temperature averages, mapped from 1880 to 2014, as estimated by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
The year 2014 ranks as Earth's warmest since 1880, according to two separate analyses by NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists.
The 10 warmest years in the instrumental record, with the exception of 1998, have now occurred since 2000. This trend continues a long-term warming of the planet, according to an analysis of surface temperature measurements by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
In an independent analysis of the raw data, also released Friday, NOAA scientists also found 2014 to be the warmest on record.
While scientists expect temperatures to fluctuate from year to year, the average temperature of the planet as a whole has warmed by about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degrees Celsius) since 1880. This trend is largely driven by increasing human emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
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Seriously? Utah's Plan To Seize Public Lands Would Cost $280 Million A Year
Posted by Richard Warnick in Budget, Energy, Environment, National Parks, Public Lands, Republicans, The Constitution, Utah Legislature, Utah Politics on December 2, 2014
The right-wing Utah legislature began a legal battle to steal our public lands when Gov. Gary Herbert signed HB 148, the "Transfer of Public Lands Act and Related Study" in March 2012. Supposedly, if the federal government does not turn over title to 31.2 million acres of land by the end of this month the State of Utah will spend millions of dollars of our tax money on a ridiculous lawsuit. HB 148 is utterly unconstitutional according to the Property Clause (U.S. Const. art. IV, sec. 3, cl. 2.), the Utah Constitution (Article III), and illegal under Section 3 of the Utah Enabling Act.
We found out yesterday that a theoretical takeover of public lands by the State of Utah would place a heavy burden on the state budget.
A study released Monday by researchers at three Utah universities found that transferring national forests and other public lands to the state of Utah would cost taxpayers at least $280 million per year — a price tag that could only be paid if the state were able to increase drilling and mining, seize energy royalty payments that are owed to U.S. taxpayers, and, if energy prices remain low, raise taxes to pay for the shortfall.
Here's the right-wing "plan": Fire 5,000 or so federal employees, abolish all of our national forests and national parks, and turn over Utah public lands to the corporations– particularly the oil and gas industry and the tar sands industry. These are the same legislators who slashed the Utah Division of State Parks and Recreation budget by nearly 80 percent. What could possibly go wrong?
Are Our Public Lands Up For Grabs Now?
Posted by Richard Warnick in 2014 Elections, Barack Obama, Economic Exploitation, Energy, Mia Love, National Politics, Public Lands, Republicans, The Constitution, This Blog, Utah Politics on November 7, 2014
Tea-GOP Congresswoman-elect Mia Love regarding our public lands: "I support returning ownership back to the state of Utah." The premise of this statement (not to mention the grammar) is completely wrong, because the public lands in Utah have always been in federal ownership since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. The State of Utah did not exist until 1896, nearly a half-century later.
State-level land grab attempts such as the Transfer of Public Lands Act (the 2012 Utah law that demands the federal government hand over public lands to the state by December 31, 2014) violate both the U.S. Constitution and the Utah Constitution. However, the U.S. Congress has the ultimate power over all federal lands. The Property Clause in Article 4 of the Constitution says: "The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States…"
Now that the Tea-GOP controls both houses of Congress, will Mia Love get her wish?
Claire Moser on Think Progress:
For the Republican Party, the growing internal debate over whether America's public lands should be seized and sold represents a choice between the conservation values of Republican President Theodore Roosevelt and the power of a special interest-driven agenda. Former Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar observed in August that the RNC's endorsement of land grabs would "cause Teddy Roosevelt to turn over in his grave."
With the debate escalating over whether public lands should be seized or sold, candidates who dodged the issue but won on Tuesday will likely soon have to say whether they are with the party of Teddy Roosevelt or Cliven Bundy.
President Obama has the power (delegated by Congress to the chief executive in the Antiquities Act of 1906) to proclaim national monuments on public lands. He has already done so 13 times to protect more than 260 million acres of land and water, which is more than any other President. And he says he is "not finished" with national monuments.
There is a proposal for a Greater Canyonlands National Monument in Utah. The Tea-GOP has it coming. Will President Obama bring it?
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Media Fail: New Climate Change Report Ignored
Posted by Richard Warnick in 4th Estate (Media), Climate Change, Disaster, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, National Politics, Science on November 3, 2014
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[O]n Sunday, the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change released a Synthesis Report detailing the dangers of climate change. Hundreds of scientists spent the last five years preparing this final report, which says that carbon pollution must be slashed now or risk "severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems."
None of the network Sunday shows mentioned this latest report or its stark findings.
It's not just a media fail. Has any candidate in tomorrow's election mentioned climate change as a campaign issue?
Take a look at the damage from Superstorm Sandy in the before-and-after aerial imagery. This one storm two years ago impacted more than a dozen states along the eastern seaboard, causing $65 billion in damage. A major factor in the disaster was the higher sea level. Climate models predict that sea level will rise an additional two to three feet over the next century.
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Kalamazoo teen sentenced in beating of gay youth
There are 20 comments on the lezgetreal.com story from Sep 15, 2009, titled Kalamazoo teen sentenced in beating of gay youth . In it, lezgetreal.com reports that:
A Kalamazoo area teen accused of beating a gay 15-year-old Portage boy who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault for his part in the attack last month, has been sentenced to participate in an anger-management program by a Kalamazoo County juvenile court judge.
He is one of two teens who were accused last month of beating 15 year-old Steven Harmon in a Portage, Michigan parking lot.
In addition to the anger-management counseling, which could require the teen be held in the Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home for up to nine months, the 16-year-old defendant was also ordered to pay victim restitution and write a letter of apology to the victim.
In August, Harmon was punched and kicked repeatedly by the 16-year-old boy and a 15-year-old as the attackers called him faggot, queer and other derogatory terms. Portage Police reported Harmon was hit in the head and face about 20 times by the two boys as he, a 17-year-old female friend and her 5-year-old nephew were walking home
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Since: Jul 09
#1 Sep 15, 2009
cool..so I can start killing straight people and just have to go to anger management courses?..good to know!!
#2 Sep 15, 2009
Sign me up!
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#6 Sep 15, 2009
It would appear from our conversations with the Kalamazoo prosecutors this afternoon that this young man many sit in the youth home for as much as 9 more months... this was a plead deal, but the according to the prosecuting attorney the sentence is pretty much in line with the crime of assault in Michigan.
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Since: Jun 07
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#13 Sep 15, 2009
You're right of course. I was being flippantly sarcastic. When I read about stuff like that, it really makes my blood boil. But, just to have it out there, I am a non violent person, and advoacate violece towards none.
Since: Dec 08
#14 Sep 15, 2009
Given his age and the worthlessness of the US penal system as a reform mechanism, I would not necessarily want him to go to jail, but the sentence meted out does not really help with reform. Instead, the judge should have ordered him to spend 1000 hours working non-paid for a gay organization on reaching his 18th birthday when he could understand a bit more and then write a non-nonsensical 10,000 word essay about the experience. Also, while I realize the US criminal system is too stupid to work this way, the parents deserve much greater punishment. They should be required to pay 50% of their net worth, including valuated real estate, to the victim. If their net worth is negative, then their wages should be garnished by 50% for the remainder of their lives. Why does the US let parents of minor (I mean in age) criminals get off with nothing except the threat of a lawsuit? Americans don't respond to jail threats, they respond to loss of money. Heavy fines should be a medium for social reform.
Since: Dec 08
#15 Sep 15, 2009
PS: While the crime in this case is horrible, I am more angry at the people behind the perpetrator than the perpetrator himself. Kalamazoo is a backward piece of excrement full of dull stupid Dutch Reform Calvinists.
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#16 Sep 15, 2009
"You did what? Say you're sorry!"
That's what I get from this. Give me a freaking break! He was 16, he knew what he was doing, he knew it was wrong, he didn't care and exhibited hatred aimed at homosexuals - try him as an adult for a hate crime and throw him in a cell with a big guy named Bubba.
But here's where we need to do something with our penal system. John makes a very valid point. So, bring back the chain gangs. Bring back sentencing to however many months/years of hard labor.
Hey, we always need gravel for our highway system refurbishment, right? What's wrong with striped jumpsuited felons with ankle chains and sledgehammers turning big rocks into little rocks?
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Since: Oct 08
#18 Sep 16, 2009
John, what the hell do you really know about the Kalamazoo area? Kalamazoo is one of the most racially, culturally and socially diverse cities in the state (probably in the country). We have a strong presence in the arts and overall exhibit a friendly, tolerant attitude toward people of all backgrounds. Most of those Dutch Reformed people to which you refer live to the north and northwest of here in the Grand Rapids and Holland areas. If you are up in Toronto, I'd like to know what you are using as a basis for your statement. I defy you to go anywhere where there isn't a certain number of ignorant, intolerant people. You can't do it, so don't slam a city that excels far beyond most others when it comes to tolerance and diversity, because your ignorance is no better than that of the offenders.
By the way, my son is a grade behind this boy in the same school. This boy moved on to high school, but the conversations he had with others on his first day of school about this incident reflected shock and disapproval of these action.
Since: Dec 08
#19 Sep 16, 2009
I stand corrected about the Dutch Reformed. I have been through Kalamazoo when I lived in Chicago. However, if your city is so progressive, why didn't the judge treat this more seriously? The sentence was a slap on the wrist.
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Since: Oct 08
#20 Sep 16, 2009
I would have to believe that the offender's age was taken into consideration. I don't consider up to 9 months in juvi a slap on the wrist. Something like that would have scared the hell out of me when I was that age. Let's hope it will him as well. At least he is young enough that this experience might make a difference in changing his attitude. Still, I'm sure there are plenty of you that would be satisfied with nothing less than keeping him in juvi until he's 18, then sending him up to the big house for the rest of his life.
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#21 Sep 16, 2009
I sure wish that the Americam government would reinstate the draft,so that these straight warmongers can just go away any hopefully not come back.
Since: Dec 08
#22 Sep 16, 2009
Read my previous post. I don't think he belongs in jail. I think the parents should be punished severely. The problem with the sentence is that it does nothing to address hate, only anger.
Since: Dec 08
#23 Sep 16, 2009
If they did it would have to be after DADT were repealed. Otherwise, everyone would get of of the Army by just claiming they were gay. Before DADT they might have had to prove they were gay, but now they would be excused just by stating so. Actually DADT repeal would make an American draft much easier, should it be required. And remember that the quality of volunteers for the American army is much, much lower than those who volunteer for the Canadian services.
"We are the same...yet u H8 me"
Since: Jun 07
Los Angeles
#24 Sep 16, 2009
I would have to say, speaking only for myself, I agree with you on the time served. For a minor it is a big deal. All I would want is the behavior to change. Failing that, then one would assume his actions would land him in more trouble. But, truth be told, I hope he gets it and UNDERSTANDS why what he did is wrong. There are so many people incarcerated that don't give a shit, they're just mad they got caught. I hope he isn't one of them.
Mel in MI
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#25 Sep 17, 2009
This is really disturbing. Sure, he's afraid, just like the 15 yo that died while being beaten. I feel that this is nothing but a slap on the wrist. My husbands nephew was 16 and spent 7 months in jail for stealing, first offense, and the judicial system in K-zoo is giving the murderer 9 months? What the hell?
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#26 Sep 17, 2009
Who was murdered?
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fr spartanman:
>...By the way, my son is a grade behind this boy in the same school. This boy moved on to high school, but the conversations he had with others on his first day of school about this incident reflected shock and disapproval of these action. <
Which boy, the victim, or the slimebag who beat an innocent person?
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Since: Oct 08
#28 Sep 17, 2009
Of course I was referring was to reaction toward the beating of an innocent person.
#29 Sep 18, 2009
YEP! Try Holland MI for a really great time >sarcasm<
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#30 Sep 18, 2009
fr hartfordgurl:
>YEP! Try Holland MI for a really great time >sarcasm< <
Holland is EXTREMELY anti-gay, and should be avoided like the plague.
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At the Open Championship, Adam Scott stood on the 15th tee of the final round with a 4-shot lead. He bogeyed four straight holes as Els birdied the last, the Aussie losing by a shot to the Big Easy.
And on Sunday in Akron, Furyk led the entire tournament, shooting an opening-round 63 and still holding a 1-shot advantage on the 18th tee. But he made a double-bogey on the final hole to lose by one to Keegan Bradley -- who never led until Furyk missed his bogey putt.
"Coming down the stretch, it is your tournament to win if you have a lead, but it's also your tournament to lose," said McIlroy, who learned the hard way at last year's Masters, where he had a 4-shot advantage going into Sunday and shot 80 in the final round. "It's hard. It's hard to win. It's hard to hold onto leads. Last week, Jim got off to that great start, had a bit of a lead, Keegan starts to come back, he charges, makes a lot of putts coming in.
"All of a sudden, the pressure that Jim probably didn't feel most of the way through that round, he started to feel on the last couple holes. It's sort of a shock to the system, a little like me at the Masters. I felt completely in control over the first three days, stepped up on the first tee box on the Sunday and didn't feel in control. So it was a bit of a shock."
Kiawah will not make playing with a lead any easier. The back nine is especially difficult, with both the par-3 14th and 17th holes measuring more than 200 yards. The 17th has been stretched to 223 and is guarded by two bunkers on the left with water in front and to the right. The hole has derisively been called "Lake Calc" in honor of Mark Calcavecchia, who hit three balls in the water during the 1991 Ryder Cup.
One came as the result of a shank during his final-day singles match with Colin Montgomerie -- who had hit his tee shot in the water first.
Talk about blown leads. Calcavecchia was 4-up with four holes to play and needed only to halve one of the remaining holes to win the match. At the 17th, after Monty found the hazard, Calc needed only to find dry land -- and couldn't do it. He ended up losing both closing holes, nearly costing the Americans the Ryder Cup. The U.S. won 14½ to 13½ as the event went to the final hole, the final putt.
"I just freaked out for no reason," Calcavecchia said later.
And that, apparently, is what having a lead can do, as we've seen so many times this year.


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April A. Brown
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WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to the State of Kentucky and provide support to homeowners and low-income renters forced from their homes following severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding last week.
Yesterday, President Obama issued a disaster declaration for Ballard, Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carlisle, Carroll, Carter, Crittenden, Daviess, Fleming, Fulton, Gallatin, Henderson, Hickman, Kenton, Lawrence, Livingston, McCracken, Morgan, Nicholas, Oldham, Owen, Union and Washington counties in Kentucky. The President's declaration allows HUD to offer foreclosure relief and other assistance to certain families living in these counties.
"Families who may have been forced from their homes need to know that help is available to begin the rebuilding process," said Donovan. "Whether it's foreclosure relief for FHA-insured families or helping these counties to recover, HUD stands ready to help in any way we can."
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HUD's mission is to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all. HUD is working to strengthen the housing market to bolster the economy and protect consumers; meet the need for quality affordable rental homes: utilize housing as a platform for improving quality of life; build inclusive and sustainable communities free from discrimination; and transform the way HUD does business. More information about HUD and its programs is available on the Internet at www.hud.gov and espanol.hud.gov.


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BOURBONNAIS, Ill. -- A quick glance at the Chicago Bears' second-team safety combination of Brandon Hardin and Craig Steltz reveals an interesting dichotomy.
On one hand, the 6-foot-3, 217-pound Hardin -- selected by the Bears in the third round of the 2012 NFL draft out of Oregon State -- has the size, speed and athleticism that Bears coach Lovie Smith covets in a safety. Smith has never been shy about starting a first-year safety, beginning with Chris Harris in 2005 then followed by Danieal Manning (2006), Al Afalava (2009) and Chris Conte (2011). But for all of Hardin's impressive physical traits, he missed his entire senior season in college due to injury. So minus the 2012 Senior Bowl, Hardin hasn't seen real game action in quite some time.
"He hasn't played a game for almost two years," Bears secondary coach Jon Hoke said. "I think I'm going to have to hold judgment on that, from that standpoint. You know games are different. It's like you guys and your first big article. What's it going to turn out like? You don't know because you haven't done it for a while. It's going to be exciting. Preseason will be very important for him."
Then there is Steltz, who presents a different Plan B for the Bears if a switch has to be made from incumbent starters Conte or Major Wright. Steltz might not have the same athleticism on paper as Hardin -- although he was a 2007 first-team All American at LSU in the rough and tumble SEC -- but the fifth-year safety has the edge in experience after he finally got a chance to see extended playing time at the end of last season. Steltz made the most of his five total starts in 2011, finishing the season with 48 tackles, two forced fumbles, one sacks and three tackles for a loss. The Bears thought highly enough of Steltz, who is also a contributor on special teams, to re-sign the former fourth-round pick to a two-year deal in the offseason.
"Anytime you get out there you want to make plays," Steltz said. "We preach takeaways, so anytime you can get the ball out whether it's an interception or a fumble, it means a lot and wins ballgames for us. So being able to go out there and force a few fumbles might make a difference, you never know.
"What I take from the starts last year was getting a better feel for situational football. Practice is not scripted for a defensive player versus an offensive player, but in a way it's a scripted situation: seven-on-seven drills, team drills, blitz drills, etc. The next step as a safety we are trying to take is understanding situational football. Being out there in a game, you take in all the stuff like down and distance, situations and you try to make plays. That's what we are continuing to work on."
Smith's past track record always has been to go with the superior athlete, which is this case, figures to be Hardin. But Steltz's performance down the stretch last season, coupled with his intelligence and grasp of the defense, should not be overlooked. In a perfect world, Conte and Wright both stay healthy and are in the starting lineup, but it rarely works out as planned at safety for the Bears. There is a good chance Smith will eventually be forced to decide between Hardin and Steltz. So will he opt for potential or experience?


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Boston Terrier Rescue Net
Internet based network that arranges for emergency rescues for Boston Terriers throughout the country, raises funds to support rescue efforts and increase public knowledge of this wonderful breed of dog, the Boston Terrier.
American Boston Terrier Rescue
Non-profit organization dedicated to education, rescue, rehabilitation, and placement of the breed. Volunteer details, adoption application, available dogs, articles, and shopping. Texas.
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Description here.+
Description here.+
Congratulations, you have finished. Now return to the + start.+
This is the documentation for Apache Forrest 0.6.+
See the Forrest Project for main documents and links to other versions of documentation.+ +
+ This document describes Forrest's internal URI space; how it is managed + with the "site.xml" configuration file, how menus are generated, + and how various link schemes (site: and ext:) operate. + An overview of the implementation is also provided. ++
+ The "site.xml" configuration file is what we would call a "site map" + if Cocoon hadn't already claimed that term. + The "site.xml" is a loosely structured XML file, acting as a map of the + site's contents. It provides a unique identifier (an XPath address) + for "nodes" of information in the website. A "node" of site information + can be: ++
id="general" attribute)
+ In addition to providing fine-grained addressing of site info, the site.xml
+ allows metadata to be associated with each node, using
+ attributes or child elements. Most commonly, a
+ attribute is used to provide a text description of the node.
+ There are currently two applications of site.xml ++
+ Here is a sample site.xml ... a modified version from Forrest's + own website: ++ +
As you can see, things are quite free-form. The rules are as follows:+
http://apache.org/forrest/linkmap/1.0 (Feel
+ free to mix in your own content (RDF, dublin core, etc) under new
+ namespaces)
foo" in
+ "
site:foo" must therefore be a valid NMTOKEN.
href attributes can be used as identifiers
+ in "
site:" URIs
label attributes (and their children)
+ are not displayed in the menu.
external-refs are mapped to the
+ "
ext:" scheme. So "
ext:commons/resolver/" becomes
+ "
Each page can have an automatically generated table of contents. This
+ is created from the titles of each section in your xdoc. By default only
+ sections up to two levels deep are included and the table of contents is
+ displayed at the top of the page. However, you can configure this
+ behaviour in
src/documentation/skinconf.xml using the
+ "
toc" element.
level - is the depth to which you
+ want your table of contents to go. Setting it to "3" will therefore
+ include sections nested to 3 levels. Setting this to "0" will result in
+ no table of contents being generated.
location - indicates where you
+ want the table of contents to be rendered. It can be set to one of
+ three values:
page - the table of contents will be rendered
+ at the top of the body of your page
menu - the table of contents will be rendered
+ in the menu to the left of the body of the page
menu, page - table of contents will be rendered
+ in both the page and the menu positions
+ In earlier versions of Forrest (and in similar systems), there has + been only one URI space: that of the generated site. If index.xml wants to + link to todo.xml then index.xml would use ++ +
+ The theoretical problem with this is that the content producer should + not know or care how Forrest is going to render the source. A URI + should only identify a resource, not specify it's type + [mail ref] and + [cool URIs]. In fact, as Forrest + typically renders to multiple output formats (HTML and PDF), links in + one of them (here, the PDF) are likely to break. ++
+ Forrest's solution is simple: instead of <link href="todo.html">, + write <link href="site:v0.60//todo"> where: ++
todo.xml by reference to a
+ "node" of content declared in site.xml
+ We call this indirect, or semantic linking because instead of + linking to a physical representation (todo.html), we've linked to the + "idea" of "the todo file". It doesn't matter where it physically lives; + that will be sorted out by Forrest. ++ +
+ So how does "
site:todo" get resolved? A full answer
+ is provided in the implementation
+ section. Essentially, the "
todo" part has
+ "
/site//" prepended, and "
/@href" appended, to
+ form the string "
/site//todo/@href". This is
+ then used as an XPath expression in site.xml to identify the string
+ replacement, in this case "
+ Thus by modifying the XPath prefix and suffix, almost any XML + format can be accommodated. ++
+ Notice that the "//" allows us any degree of specificity when linking.
+ In the sample site.xml above, both "
site:new_content_type" and
+ "
site:about/your-project/new_content_type" identify the
+ same node. It is up to you to decide how specific to make links. One
+ nice benefit of link "ambiguity" is that site.xml can be reorganized
+ without breaking links. For example, "new_content_type" currently
+ identifies a node in "your-project". By leaving that fact unspecified
+ in "
site:new_content_type" we are free to make
+ "new_content_type" its own XML file, or a node in another file, in
+ another category.
+ The "
ext:" scheme was created partly to demonstrate the
+ ease with which new schemes can be defined, and partly for practical
+ use. The "
ext:" URIs identify nodes in site.xml below the
+ <external-refs> node. By convention, nodes here link to URLs
+ outside the website, and are not listed in the menu generated from
+ the site.xml file.
Here is a site.xml snippet illustrating "
+ As an example, <link href="ext:commons/resolver"> + generates the link + http://xml.apache.org/components/resolver/ ++
+ The general rules of site.xml and "
site:" linking apply.
+ Specifically, the "@href" aggregation makes defining large numbers of
+ related URLs easy.
+ The "
site:" URIs like "
site:todo" are examples of
+ "source" URIs, in contrast to the more usual
foo.html style URIs, which we here call
+ "destination" URIs. This introduces an important concept: that
+ the "source" URI space exists and is independent of that of the
+ generated site. Furthermore, URIs (i.e. links) are first-class objects,
+ on par with XML documents, in that just as XML content is transformed,
+ so are the links. Within the source URI space, we can have all sorts of
+ interesting schemes (person: mail: google: java: etc). These will
+ all be translated into plain old "
http:" or relative URIs
+ in the destination URI space, just like exotic XML source formats are
+ translated into plain old HTML in the output.
+ So far, the "
site:" and "
ext:" schemes are defined.
+ To give you some ideas on other things we'd like to implement (and
+ wouldd welcome help to implement) here are a few possibilities.
|Example "From"
|Example "To"
+ Links to documentation for a Java class (typically generated by
+ Links to an email, identified by its
+ header. Any mail archive website could be used.
|Link to set of results from a search engine+
|person:JT, person:JT/blog etc+
person:" scheme could be used, say, to insert an
+ automatically obfuscated email address, or link to a URI in some
+ way associated with that person.
+ There are even more possibilities in specific environments. In an
+ intranet, a "
project:XYZ" scheme could identify company
+ project pages. In a project like Apache
+ Ant, each Task could be identified with
task:<taskname>, e.g.
+ The "
site:" scheme and associated ideas for site.xml were
+ originally described in the 'linkmap' RT
+ email to the forrest-dev list (RT means 'random thought'; a
+ Cocoon invention). Only section 2 has been implemented, and there is
+ still significant work required to implement the full system
+ described. In particular, there is much scope for automating the
+ creation of site.xml (section 4). However, what is currently implemented
+ gains most of the advantages of the system.
Full details on the implementation of + link rewriting and + menu generation are available in + the Sitemap Reference+
With Forrest 0.6 it is now possible for projects to "plugin" + to our sitemaps, without needing to copy the main sitemaps and keep + them them synchonised. This will enable hassle-free update to + future Forrest versions.+ +
If a project has a
sitemap.xmap file in it's
+ documentation dir, that gets mounted automatically by Forrest and
+ becomes part of the processing: it is a preprocessing step, and
+ is the first one to handle the request. Because of this it can
+ serve any file directly. If it does not want to
+ serve a file, it can simply not match the URL and Forrest will take
+ care of it as usual.
The cool thing is that if that pipeline serves an xml representation, + Forrest will provide a skinned version of it.+ +
So if the project sitemap matches test.xml and transforms that to a + correctly structured Forrest intermediate "document-v*", + then the user will see test.html fully rendered by Forrest.+ +
Of course, to resolve the directories in your sitemap it is important + to use the 'project:' and 'forrest:' variables to prevent any possible + issue in the future.+
+ See the section "Advanced customizations: sitemap.xmap" in + the Using Forrest document + and then follow the + Example: + Adding a new content type. ++
Forrest provides you with two distinct options for making your + documentation available through full-text search:+
Both options have their advantages and disadvantages. The + purpose of this document is to outline them, and to help you + make a choice. This document also tells you how to disable + full-text search completely, if you so choose.+
Forrest provides a simple interface to the Google search
+ engine. It invokes Google Advanced Search and limits the search
+ scope to the domain of your choice. Since the actual search
+ functionality is implemented on Google's end, you do not need
+ any additional capability on your Forrest server (which may
+ well be a simple static web server serving content generated
+ with
forrest site).
To use Google SiteSearch in your Forrest application, open
+ your
skinconf.xml file. By default this file is
+ in the
src/documentation subdirectory of your
+ Forrest repository root. Find the
+ element; it should be near the top of the file. If the element
+ does not exist, create it below the
<skinconfig> opening tag. If there is any
+ attribute named
provider, remove it. The element
+ should look similar to this:
Then, build your Forrest documentation and open it using your + favorite web browser. You are now invited to peruse the search + box (most skins render this in the top-right corner). Google's + search results will be displayed in a new browser window.+
Needless to say, for this to work your content must be + accessible to Google's indexing robot. It can't be stored on a + server which is only locally accessible, or which requires + authentication. In addition, the content index is created and + updated at a time of Google's choosing. However, the search is fast + and search precision is usually excellent. So if your + Forrest content is placed on a busy, popular public web + server, Google search is probably the best choice.+
Lucene is a high-performance, full-text search engine built
+ entirely in Java. To use Lucene-based search with your Forrest
+ documentation, you will need to run Forrest in a Java servlet
+ environment (such as Tomcat or Jetty). Lucene-based searching
+ will not work in a static site generated with the '
+ site' command.
In order to enable Lucene-based full-text search in your
+ Forrest application, you must first edit your
skinconf.xml file. Locate the
<search> element. If the element does not
+ exist, insert it right underneath the
<skinconfig> opening tag. Add an attribute
+ named
provider with a value of
lucene, so that the element looks similar to
+ this:
Next, create and run your Forrest webapp. This may mean
+ simply invoking
forrest run, or building and
+ bundling a servlet webapp (with
forrest webapp),
+ and then deploying it to your servlet container.
You can now build a Lucene search index by pointing your web
+ browser at
http://localhost:8888/lucene-update.html. This
+ generates the search index and provides some information about
+ the index generation process.
forrest run.
Now you can utilize the full-text search box, located in the + top-right corner of the rendered Forrest pages. Search results + will be displayed in the same browser window and will look + remarkably similar to the rest of your Forrest documents.+
Unlike with Google SiteSearch, the indexing information + retrieved by Lucene is stored on your own server, access to + which you may limit to users in your own organization. + Likewise, you may update or recreate the Lucene index at any + time and at your own discretion. So if you aren't making your + Forrest-built documentation publicly available, and you're + able to run Forrest on a Java-enabled web server, Lucene + search is probably right for you.+
If you are convinced your users don't need any full-text + search capability whatsoever, you may disallow displaying the + search box entirely. You may also wish to do so if you're + keeping Forrest-built content on a restricted server (meaning + you can't use Google), while at the same time not having any + usable servlet-capable web server at your disposal (meaning + you can't use Lucene, either).+
To disable full-text search completely, open the
skinconf.xml file and remove (or comment out) the
+ entire
<search> element.
+ Technically, Forrest can be thought of as a + Cocoon distribution that has been stripped down + and optimized for people with simple site publishing needs. Central to + Cocoon, and hence Forrest, is the sitemap. The sitemap + defines the site's URI space (what pages are available), and how each page + is constructed. Understanding the sitemap is the key to understanding + Forrest. ++
+ This document provides an overview of the special sitemap which + is used at the core of Apache Forrest. ++ +
+ Forrest's sitemap comprises the $FORREST_HOME/context/*.xmap files. ++ +
+ You can add pre-processing sitemaps to your project
src/documentation directory (or wherever
${project.sitemap-dir} points to). Any match that
+ is not handled, passes through to be handled by the default Forrest
+ sitemaps - obviously extremely powerful. The capability is described
+ in
+ "Using project sitemaps".
+ Another way to experiment with the sitemap is to do '
+ run' on a Forrest-using site. Changes to the core
*.xmap files will now be immediately visible
+ at
+ Forrest's sitemap is divided both physically and logically. The most + obvious is the physical separation. There are a number of separate + *.xmap files, each defining pipelines for a functional area. Each *.xmap + file has its purpose documented in comments at the top. Here is a brief + overview of the files, in order of importance. ++
|Primary sitemap file, which delegates responsibility for serving + certain URIs to the others (technically called sub-sitemaps). More + about the structure of this file later.+
|Sitemap defining Source pipelines, which generate the body section + of Forrest pages. All pipelines here deliver XML in Forrest's + intermediate "document-v13" format, regardless of originating source + or format.+
|Pipelines defining the XML that becomes the menu.+
|Defines a mapping from abstract ("site:index") to physical + ("../index.html") links for the current page. See + Menus and Linking for a conceptual + overview, and the Link + rewriting section for technical details.+
|Serves "resource" files (images, CSS, Javascript).+
|Serves files located in
+ that are not to be modified by Forrest.
|Generates a single page (HTML or PDF) containing all the content + for the site.+
|Processes FAQ documents.+
|Generates changes and
+ todo pages from a single
status.xml in the project root.
|Generates a page of content from an RSS feed. Used in Forrest to + generate a "current issues" list from JIRA.+
|+ Support for HOWTO documents that want "revisions". Revisions are + XML snippets containing comments on the main XML file. The main + pipeline here automatically appends a page's revisions to the + bottom. ++
|A Source pipeline that generates XML from a DTD, using Andy + Clark's + DTD + Parser. Useful for documenting DTD-based XML schemas, such + as Forrest's own DTDs. ++
|Defines the "profiler" pipeline. allowing pipelines to be benchmarked.+
+ Most *.xmap files (forrest, aggregate, faq, status, issues, revisions, + dtd) define Source pipelines. Source pipelines define the content + (body) XML for site pages. The input XML format can be any format + (document-v13, Docbook, RSS, FAQ, Howto) and from any source (local or + remote). The output format is always Forrest's intermediate "document-v13" + format. ++
+ Source pipelines always have a "
.xml" extension. Thus,
+ index.xml gives you the XML source for the
+ index page. Likewise, faq.xml gives you XML
+ for the FAQ (transformed from FAQ syntax), and
+ changes.xml returns XML from the status.xml file.
+ Take any page, and replace its extension (
.html or
.xml and you'll have the Source
+ This is quite powerful, because we now have an abstraction layer, or + "virtual filesystem", on which the rest of Forrest's sitemap can build. + Subsequent layers don't need to care whether the XML was obtained + locally or remotely, or from what format. Wikis, RSS, FAQs and Docbook + files are all processed identically from here on. ++ +
+ Most of the usual Source pipelines are defined in
forrest.xmap which is the default (fallback) handler for
**.xml pages. The forrest.xmap uses the
+ SourceTypeAction to determine the type of XML
+ it is processing, and converts it to document-v13 if necessary.
For instance, say we are rendering a + Howto document called "howto-howto.xml". It contains this DOCTYPE + declaration:+ +
The SourceTypeAction sees this, and applies this transform to get it + to document-v13:+ + +
As mentioned above, all non-core Source pipelines are distributed in
+ independent
*.xmap files. There is a block of
sitemap.xmap which simply delegates certain requests to
+ these subsitemaps:
+ One point of interest here is that the sub-sitemap is often not + specific about which URLs it handles, and relies on the caller (the + section listed above) to only pass relevant requests to it. We term + this "binding a URL" to a pipeline.+
For instance, the main pipeline in
faq.xmap matches
**.xml, but only
**faq.xml requests are
+ sent to it.
This "late binding" is useful, because the whole URL space is
+ managed in
sitemap.xmap and not spread over lots of
+ *.xmap files. For instance, say you wish all
+ inside a "
faq/" directory to be processed as FAQs. Just
+ override
sitemap.xmap and redefine the relevant source
+ matcher:
+ To recap, we now have a
*.xml pipeline defined for each
+ page in the site, emitting standardized XML. These pipeline definitions
+ are located in various *.xmap files, notably forrest.xmap
+ We now wish to render the XML from these pipelines to output formats + like HTML and PDF. ++
+ Easiest case first; PDFs don't require menus or headers, so we can
+ simply transform our intermediate format into XSL:FO, and from there
+ to PDF. This is done by the following matcher in
sitemap.xmap ...
(.*?) and filename
([^/]*) parts.
Lastly, we generate a PDF using the fo2pdf serializer.+
Generating HTML pages is more complicated, because we have to merge
+ the page body with a menu and tabs, and then add a header and footer.
+ Here is the
*.html matcher in
sitemap.xmap ...
+ So index.html is formed from
+ aggregating body-index.html and
+ menu-index.html and
+ tab-index.html and then applying the
site2xhtml.xsl stylesheet to the result.
+ There is a nearly identical matcher for HTML files in subdirectories: ++ +
Here is the matcher which generates the page body:+ +
We then apply a custom-written
IdGeneratorTransformer, which ensures that every
+ <section> has an "id" attribute if one is not supplied, by generating one from the
+ <title> if necessary. For example, <idgen> will
+ transform:
into:+ +
Later, the
document2html.xsl stylesheet will create
+ an <a name> element for every section, allowing this section to
+ be referred to as
Tab generation is quite tame compared to menus:+ +
All the smarts are in the
tab2menu.xsl stylesheet, which
+ needs to choose the correct tab based on the current path. Currently,
+ a "longest matching path" algorithm is implemented. See the
tab2menu.xsl stylesheet for details.
In numerous places in
sitemap.xmap you will see the
+ "linkrewriter" transformer in action. For example:
This statement is Cocoon's linking system in action. A full + description is provided in Menus and + Linking. Here we describe the implementation of linking.+
+ The implementation of
site: linking is heavily based on
+ Cocoon Input Modules, a
+ little-known but quite powerful aspect of Cocoon. Input Modules are
+ generic Components which simply allow you to look up a value with a
+ key. The value is generally dynamically generated, or obtained by
+ querying an underlying data source.
+ In particular, Cocoon contains an
XMLFileModule, which
+ lets one look up the value of an XML node, by interpreting the key as
+ an XPath expression. Cocoon also has a
SimpleMappingMetaModule, which allows the key to be
+ rewritten before it is used to look up a value.
+ The idea for putting these together to rewrite "
+ links was described in this
+ thread. The idea is to write a Cocoon Transformer that
+ triggers on encountering <link
+ href="
scheme:address">, and interprets the
scheme:address internal URI as
inputmodule:key. The transformer then uses the named
+ InputModule to look up the key value. The
+ URI is then rewritten with the found value. This transformer was
+ implemented as
+ LinkRewriterTransformer,
+ currently distributed as a "block" in Cocoon 2.1
site:" rewriting
+ Using the above components, "
site:" URI rewriting is
+ accomplished as follows.
First, we declare all the input modules we will be needing:+ +
+ would return the value "index.html".
site:index expands
+ to
ext:ant would
+ expand to
However at the moment, we have only declared the input modules.
+ They will be configured in
sitemap.xmap as described in
+ the next section.
+ Now in the sitemap, we define the LinkRewriterTransformer, and + insert it into any pipelines which deal with user-editable XML + content: ++ +
As you can see, our three input modules are configured as part of + the LinkRewriterTransformer's configuration.+
Most deeply nested, we have:+ +
The "
{src}" text is expanded to the value of the
+ "
src" attribute in the "
+ instance, namely "
+ Thus the
linkmap module reads dynamically
+ generated XML specific to the current request.
One level out, we configure the "
site" and
+ "
ext" input modules, to map onto our dynamically
+ configured "
linkmap" module.
Then at the outermost level, we configure the
+ "
linkrewriter" transformer. First we tell it which
+ attributes to consider rewriting:
So, "
href" and "
src" attributes starting
+ with "
site:" or "
ext:" are rewritten.
By nesting the "
site" and "
ext" input
+ modules in the "
linkrewriter" configuration, we tell
+ "
linkrewriter" to use these two input modules when
+ rewriting links.
+ The end result is that, for example, the source XML for the
community/body-index.html page has its links rewritten
+ by an XMLFileModule reading XML from
+ Why do we need this "linkmap" pipeline generating dynamic XML from
+ site.xml, instead of just using site.xml directly? The reasons are described
+ in the linkmap RT: we need to
+ concatenate @hrefs and add dot-dots to the paths, depending on which
+ directory the linkee is in. This is done with the following
+ pipelines in
linkmap.xmap ...
You can try these URIs out directly on a live Forrest to see what + is going on (for example, Forrest's own + abs-linkmap). ++
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+ This is the evolution of the "pelt" skin, to have naming + conventions for css elements. It is still in development. ++
+ This skin is based on version 1.1 of the + style.tigris.org project. + (It deliberately contravenes our skin naming convention.) ++
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