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As soon as Mayor Hajibala Abutalibov stepped out of his black Mercedes on an impromptu visit to one of the city's refurbished parks, he was surrounded by well-wishers. People shook his hand warmly, thanking him for cleaning up this capital and, of course, asking for help with personal problems.
Mr. Abutalibov is a laser physicist by training and a politician by instinct. He accepted the praise and the pleas with equal enthusiasm, smiling, nodding and responding with apparent sincerity.
When an unshaven man with bleary eyes pointed at the worn sandals on his feet and said with some anger that he had no job, Mr. Abutalibov wrapped an arm around his shoulder and talked with empathy about the plight of Azerbaijan's poor.
Since he was appointed mayor at the end of January, Mr. Abutalibov, who is 57, slightly built and gray-haired, has gained cult status through a well-publicized campaign to clean up the city of three million. His frequent and unscripted forays into public places have turned him into Azerbaijan's second most popular politician, after its long-serving president, Heydar Aliyev, who gave him the job.Continue reading the main story
Taking a page from the playbook of the more famous mayor of a larger metropolitan American city, Mr. Abutalibov has crusaded to remove the once ubiquitous street vendors from the streets and sidewalks, cracked down on prostitution and repaired more than 50 fountains and countless monuments and parks, all of which had fallen into decay over the past decade.
''I have not met Rudy Giuliani, but I have been told a lot about him and I know that he did a lot for New York City,'' said Mr. Abutalibov who, like Mr. Giuliani, has stirred complaints with tactics some see as aggressive. ''A person who loves his city can make a great difference.''
Mr. Abutalibov has great ambitions for his city. ''I am committed to turning Baku into the cleanest and most beautiful city in the world,'' he said in an interview at city hall, an ornate, century-old replica of city hall in another beautiful city, Paris.
On the shores of the Caspian Sea, Baku traces its roots back to the seventh century B.C. But the good stock of baroque apartment and office buildings that line its wide boulevards date to the early 20th century and the city's first oil boom.
The Nobels, Rothschilds and Rockefellers came to Baku a century ago to exploit the oil discovered along the shores of the Caspian. They built fine mansions, museums and theaters in the city's first golden age. The Soviets added a less pleasing though equally distinctive layer of architecture during more than 70 years of ruling Baku and Azerbaijan.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Azerbaijan went through a difficult period of civil strife and lost a war with neighboring Armenia over an ethnic Armenian enclave. Even when the second oil boom started in the middle 1990's, signs of prosperity were restricted to a few fancy restaurants and new office buildings occupied by foreign companies.
In January, Mr. Aliyev decided it was time to spruce up the capital city, and he chose an unlikely candidate for the job.
Mr. Abutalibov had spent his career as a physicist, mostly in St. Petersburg, Russia. He returned to his native Azerbaijan in 1992 after independence and was mayor of a small municipality and then a relatively unknown deputy prime minister under Mr. Aliyev.
''The first thing the president told me was to clean up the city,'' said Mr. Abutalibov, whose office contains seven photographs of Mr. Aliyev and several books about him.
The first step was repairing the fountains, which dot parks and plazas in every neighborhood. Not a single one was working. Today more than 50 are operating, some transformed into ''singing fountains'' with electronic music, earning the mayor the nickname ''Mr. Fountain.''
He also made sure every park had a working drinking fountain and plenty of flowers and grass. In time-honored American style, he began fixing potholes and roadways, including the road from the airport to the city center.
The results are evident to anyone who visited Baku six months ago and returns today. While Tbilisi, the once elegant capital of neighboring Georgia, seems dowdy and frayed, Baku's parks and plazas are filled with people strolling and children splashing in the fountains, and its skyline is dotted with at least 20 high-rise buildings under construction. Dozens of older buildings are being restored.
But construction in the historic walled Old City was halted until plans and permits were approved by the mayor's office and representatives from Unesco, the world cultural organization.
More controversial were the tough measures the mayor took to rid the streets of prostitutes and street vendors. He forced the vendors to move their stalls to organized bazaars to and undergo medical tests before selling goods. There were mass arrests of prostitutes in regular midnight raids.
''We will continue until we get to the last prostitute in Baku,'' the mayor said, sounding every bit as tough as Mr. Giuliani with his campaign against sex shops and prostitution.
As part of the strategy, a new law was passed requiring bars and nightclubs to close at midnight to encourage safer streets.
There were mild protests this week when 25 police officers closed a popular pizza restaurant for staying open past midnight, though its owner said it was not covered by the law.
Closing down the street vendors drew criticism because many were from Baku's impoverished population of 250,000 refugees and were barely surviving selling secondhand clothes and other items on street corners. There have also been complaints that people must now travel farther to get food.
''What can I do now except beg?'' asked Elchin Mammadov, who used to sell fruit from a small box on Fountain Square in the heart of the city's commercial district.
But the mayor's campaign seems to have the backing of most people. ''We have a civilized competition now,'' said Tarlan Aliyev, who operates a clothing store on Fountain Square, echoing comments of many other merchants and strollers.
Inevitably the high-profile success stirred speculation that Mr. Abutalibov might be destined for higher office, perhaps prime minister. He dismissed the idea, saying, ''For the time being there is enough work for me to do in the city.''Continue reading the main story


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MOSCOW: Russian and Chinese military transport planes dropped more than 200 paratroopers and heavy weapons during a dress rehearsal on Monday for a massive joint military exercise by the two former Cold War rivals, the first on Russias territory.
A 1,600-member Chinese military contingent backed by aircraft, tanks and other heavy weapons has travelled to the Chelyabinsk region in Russias Ural Mountains for the war games, to be held on Friday and watched by the leaders of Russia, China and other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
The SCO, which also includes four ex-Soviet nations in Central Asia, was created by Moscow and Beijing to address regional security threats, foster economic integration and counter US influence in the strategically placed, energy-rich Central Asia. The manoeuvres will follow an SCO summit in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday.
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Shanghai Cooperation OrganisationNow there's a trusty-worthy sounding group.
They may play nice now until it's Chinas turn to supply the tainted K-rations.
They're practicing for the big one on the plains of Megiddo.
I'm glad they don't trust each other because China and Russia "hooking up" wouldn't necessarily be a good thing !!!
Why practice for wargames. that's a little like warming up for sex.
Russia cutting their own throat... again. I hope Putin is getting rich, at least. /sarcasm
That's just lovely, so the prophesy is coming true is it?
The Bear and the Dragon are teaming up to declare war on the Free World and as part of that plan they've enlisted the Islamic Facists, yep, it's going to get real interesting over these next few years, especially if one of our socialists/commies gets elected. Maybe I should start storing food, I've got to do something, because it doesn't look good.
yes it certainly does not pass the smell test
No need to fear; Karl Rove is going over there on secret assignment to blow up levees, collapse bridges and mines, and cause typhoons, heat waves, blizzards, and cold snaps. He's not stepping down, he's just redeploying.
They are just practising joint exercises for paratroopers to drop into Iran when the USA unlimbers itself against the mullahs of Sesame Street , Tehran.
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WEIFANG, Aug. 25(Xinhuanet)-- Chinese and Russian troops launched a forced isolation drill in east China's Shandong Province Thursday as the last item of actual combat in the joint military exercise dubbed "Peace Mission 2005".
At 11:00 a.m., two Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers flew near the drill zone after two and a half hours flight from Russia, which unfolded the forced isolation drill. At that point, an A-50 early warning plane took off to establish the airborne early warning system. Other segments of thetroops also went into operation.
At 11:07, four Tu-22M3 Russian long-range bombers from Russia also entered the drill zone and launched continuous attacks on theairport of the "enemy troops".
Immediately after that, the airborne formation sent 18 fighter jets in nine batches to attack the enemy troops, commanding posts and defense works in the depth.
At 11:17, the artillery began to bombard the frontline defense works and other targets in the depths of the enemy region. Meanwhile, bombs carrying propaganda materials were fired to the enemy region.
After the attacks, the enemy forces began to readjust their deployment and retreated to the airport and key positions in the depths.
At 11:26, a formation of 10 IL-76 transport planes carrying Chinese and Russian paratroops arrived at the airspace of the combat zone covered by electronic-jamming planes and fighter jets.
At 11:38, the transport planes began to drop combat vehicles for the paratroops and in less than 10 minutes, 24 combat vehicleshad been dropped. After that, 86 Chinese and Russian paratroops dropped to the ground from a height of 800 meters.
The paratroops quickly gathered around the fighting vehicles and got ready to attack pre-set targets. They launched operations and captured the airport, cutting off the air link of the enemy.
At 11:53, a transport helicopter arrived at the dropping zone on the right of the enemy region under the cover of air fire and let out troops, who immediately launched attack on the pre-set targets to cut off the the enemy's link to sea.
Immediately after the air link and route to sea of the enemy were cut off, the Sino-Russian joint forces sent rangers to attack the defense line of the enemy under fire cover and quickly made breakthroughs in several spots.
At 12:15, scores of armored vehicles from the southeast and southwest rumbled quickly to the depth of the enemy region.
The Sino-Russian forces has successfully established the forcedisolation zone on land through sending picked troops to make breakthroughs, launching multi-point attacks, thrusting troops into the depth of the enemy region to isolate, surround and annihilate the enemy troops.
Although the enemy troops still put up a desperate struggle, their failure has become a foregone conclusion.
Chinese defense minister Cao Gangchuan and his Russian counterpart Sergei Ivanov were at the drill zone to observe and issue instructions.
Other observers included Kyrgyz Defense Minister Ismail Isakov, Tajik Defense Minister Sherali Khairullaev, Kazakh Deputy Defense Minister Abai Tasbulatov and Uzbekistan Deputy Defense Minister R. Niyazov. Enditem
yeah but I bet the Russians cooked the lunch
Did the US ever get the observer status it applied for?
i have no idea
Well what the heck would you want, borscht or Sub Gum Wapoah Nying Jin Xiating Na Gah?
I should have said practicing for wargames is like warming up for mastur, nevermind. It seems a little redundant. My first effort at capturing that idea would not have scored well as an LSAT answer.
The language issues establishing fields of fire must have been interesting.
One guy with a multichannel scanner and radio transmitter along with a Russian-Chinese speaker would likely have a real field day.
CINPAC has a Naval exercise every couple of years, and the Chginese follow it with their ships often getting in the way.
It seems the CHICOMS are , if nothing elese, real busibodies, who seek to follow Sun Tzus dictates of conquering minds without actually fighting to expand their hegemony.
Russia is the real looser here.
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Defense Procurement: Air Force Did Not Fully Evaluate Options in Waiving Berry Amendment for Selected Aircraft
GAO-05-957: Published: Sep 23, 2005. Publicly Released: Sep 23, 2005.
In April 2004, the Secretary of the Air Force approved a permanent waiver of the requirements of the Berry Amendment for 23 commercial derivative aircraft systems, representing more than 1,200 aircraft in the Air Force's inventory. The Berry Amendment generally requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to purchase certain domestically grown or produced items, including specialty metals used in defe...
DOD Excess Property: Management Control Breakdowns Result in Substantial Waste and Inefficiency
GAO-05-277: Published: May 13, 2005. Publicly Released: Jun 7, 2005.
Based on limited previous GAO work that identified examples of purchases of new items at the same time identical items in excellent or good condition were excessed, GAO was asked to assess the overall economy and efficiency of the Department of Defense (DOD) program for excess property reutilization (reuse). Specifically, GAO was asked to determine (1) whether and to what extent the program includ...
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GAO-05-278: Published: Mar 11, 2005. Publicly Released: Mar 11, 2005.
The Department of Defense's (DOD) ability to provide superior capabilities to the warfighter is dependent on its ability to incorporate rapidly evolving, cutting-edge microelectronic devices into its defense systems. While many commercial microelectronics advances apply to defense systems, DOD has some unique microelectronics needs not met by industry. Therefore, to maintain military superiority,...
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The heightened visibility of advanced U.S. weapons in military conflicts has prompted foreign countries to seek to purchase such weaponry. In 2001, transfers of U.S. weapons and technologies to foreign governments totaled over $12 billion. The potential loss of U.S. technological advantage has been raised as an issue in recently approved transfers of advanced military weapons and technologies--suc...
Defense Space Activities: Organizational Changes Initiated, but Further Management Actions Needed
GAO-03-379: Published: Apr 18, 2003. Publicly Released: Apr 18, 2003.
In January 2001, the congressionally chartered Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization--known as the Space Commission--reported that the Department of Defense (DOD) lacked the senior-level focus and accountability to provide guidance and oversight for national security space operations. Congress mandated that GAO provide an assessment of DOD's actions...
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At the direction of the House Committee on National Security, the Army began developing the Army Workload and Performance System (AWPS) in 1996. This automated system was intended to address a number of specific weaknesses highlighted in several GAO and Army studies since 1994 regarding the Army's inability to support its civilian personnel requirements by using an analytically based workload fore...
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The Exon-Florio amendment to the Defense Production Act authorizes the President to suspend or prohibit foreign acquisitions, mergers, or takeovers of U.S. companies if (1) there is credible evidence that a foreign controlling interest might threaten national security and (2) legislation, other than Exon-Florio and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, does not adequately or appropriate...
Defense Space Activities: Status of Reorganization
GAO-02-772R: Published: Jun 26, 2002. Publicly Released: Jun 26, 2002.
To meet long-standing concerns about the Department of Defense's (DOD) organization and management of national security space activities, Congress chartered the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization to study the organization and management of space activities that support U.S. national security interests and make recommendations for improvements. DO...
DOD Systems Modernization: Continued Investment in the Standard Procurement System Has Not Been Justified
GAO-01-682: Published: Jul 31, 2001. Publicly Released: Sep 4, 2001.
This report reviews the Department of Defense's (DOD) ability to contract for goods and services by acquiring and implementing a standard procurement system (SPS). DOD's management of SPS is a lesson in how not to justify, make, and monitor the implementation of information technology investment decisions. Specifically, DOD has not (1) ensured that accountability and responsibility for measuring p...
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|Wang, Xiayi; Ayati, Bruce P; Brouillete, Marc J et al. (2014) Modeling and simulation of the effects of cyclic loading on articular cartilage lesion formation. Int J Numer Method Biomed Eng 30:927-41
|Jang, Kee W; Ding, Lei; Seol, Dongrim et al. (2014) Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound promotes chondrogenic progenitor cell migration via focal adhesion kinase pathway. Ultrasound Med Biol 40:1177-86
|Ding, Lei; Guo, Danping; Homandberg, Gene A et al. (2014) A single blunt impact on cartilage promotes fibronectin fragmentation and upregulates cartilage degrading stromelysin-1/matrix metalloproteinase-3 in a bovine ex vivo model. J Orthop Res 32:811-8
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|Diestelmeier, B W; Rudert, M J; Tochigi, Y et al. (2014) An instrumented pendulum system for measuring energy absorption during fracture insult to large animal joints in vivo. J Biomech Eng 136:064502
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This is a renewal of a Research Project Grant R01DA019912 "Parallel MRI for High Field Neuroimaging" for the development of techniques for rapid, artifact free functional MRI (fMRI). During the previous funding period numerous methods were developed for correcting image artifacts using "parallel transmission" (PTX) and "tailored RF" (TRF) pulses. These artifacts include RF field (B1+) inhomogeneity and susceptibility artifacts (B0 inhomogeneity). B1+ inhomogeneity produces large intensity variations in images and B0 inhomogeneity creates large signal voids that obscure many brain regions crucial to understanding disease in the brain including addictive disorders. Recently Simultaneous Multi-Slice (SMS) imaging has been shown to be a promising technique for ultra-fast fMRI. SMS imaging excites multiple overlapping slices that are unfolded during reconstruction using multiple receiver coils. SMS imaging is significant for numerous applications including fMRI because it allows for increased acquisition speed on the order of four to eight. Although SMS imaging is gaining popularity, there has been little work done on improving SMS RF pulse excitations, extending it to PTX, and to non-Cartesian spiral data acquisitions. Improved pulse designs and PTX will allow for SMS excitations with reduced B1+ and B0 inhomogeneity. Spiral imaging has a highly efficient gradient usage allowing for shorter acquisition times and further increases in acquisition speed. This renewal will focus on these innovations to SMS imaging at 3T. The PI has assembled a team of internationally recognized scientists including Dr. Lawrence Wald at Massachusetts General Hospital, who is a world expert in PTX coil design and SMS imaging, and Dr. William Grissom at Vanderbilt University, who is a top researcher in PTX and RF pulse design. We will pursue the following Specific Aims: (1) Develop SMS excitations for PTX;(2) develop SMS TRF pulses that compensate for B1+ and B0 inhomogeneity;(3) develop non-Cartesian spiral acquisitions and reconstructions for ultra-fast SMS imaging;and (4) validate the methods with fMRI in control subjects.
This is a renewal of a Research Project Grant R01DA019912 Parallel MRI for High Field Neuroimaging for the development of rapid, artifact free functional MRI (fMRI) methodology for brain disease research including drug addiction. During the previous R01 funding period numerous innovations were developed most notably using novel techniques called parallel transmission and tailored RF pulses for correcting image artifacts at high field. During the new funding period we propose several novel methods for simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) fMRI. SMS imaging holds great promise for numerous MRI applications including fMRI because it allows for high (factor four and greater) increases in acquisition speed. We propose to develop parallel transmission, tailored RF pulse, and spiral sampling methodology for ultra-fast artifact free SMS imaging. We will validate these methods using fMRI.
|Sharma, Anuj; Bammer, Roland; Stenger, V Andrew et al. (2015) Low peak power multiband spokes pulses for B1 (+) inhomogeneity-compensated simultaneous multislice excitation in high field MRI. Magn Reson Med 74:747-55
|Guérin, Bastien; Setsompop, Kawin; Ye, Huihui et al. (2015) Design of parallel transmission pulses for simultaneous multislice with explicit control for peak power and local specific absorption rate. Magn Reson Med 73:1946-53
|Deng, Weiran; Boada, Fernando; Poser, Benedikt A et al. (2015) Iterative projection onto convex sets for quantitative susceptibility mapping. Magn Reson Med 73:697-703
|Zahneisen, Benjamin; Poser, Benedikt A; Ernst, Thomas et al. (2014) Simultaneous Multi-Slice fMRI using spiral trajectories. Neuroimage 92:8-18
|Harkins, Kevin D; Does, Mark D; Grissom, William A (2014) Iterative method for predistortion of MRI gradient waveforms. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 33:1641-7
|Zahneisen, Benjamin; Poser, Benedikt A; Ernst, Thomas et al. (2014) Three-dimensional Fourier encoding of simultaneously excited slices: generalized acquisition and reconstruction framework. Magn Reson Med 71:2071-81
|Poser, Benedikt A; Anderson, Robert James; Guerin, Bastien et al. (2014) Simultaneous multislice excitation by parallel transmission. Magn Reson Med 71:1416-27
|Poser, Benedikt A; Barth, Markus; Goa, Pal-Erik et al. (2013) Single-shot echo-planar imaging with Nyquist ghost compensation: interleaved dual echo with acceleration (IDEA) echo-planar imaging (EPI). Magn Reson Med 69:37-47
|Deng, Weiran; Yang, Cungeng; Stenger, V Andrew (2011) Accelerated multidimensional radiofrequency pulse design for parallel transmission using concurrent computation on multiple graphics processing units. Magn Reson Med 65:363-9
|Yang, Cungeng; Deng, Weiran; Stenger, V Andrew (2011) Simple analytical dual-band spectral-spatial RF pulses for B(1) + and susceptibility artifact reduction in gradient echo MRI. Magn Reson Med 65:370-6
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This topic contains 13 replies, has 11 voices, and was last updated by steve232__nc 4 years, 7 months ago.
July 3, 2012 at 12:00 am #416308 Report Abuse
I've been waiting for these zinnias since late winter when I found the seeds for them and finally they are beginning to open.
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July 4, 2012 at 12:00 am #4559158 Report Abuse
Steve, none of my zinnias are anywhere near opening yet. They seem to be late this year. As for my glads you should go read my post on Stella's 12 step thread. They do fall over & I don't like that. This year they are taller than ever . Some are at least 5′ tall. Next year they're outta here. Might put them in a different bed, might get shorter varieties or maybe none. Haven't really decided yet.
Gloriosa Daisy. I hope to have more of these next year.
And some garden variety no name daisies. No worry about having more of these. They come up all over the place every year.
Community Team MemberJuly 4, 2012 at 12:00 am #4559159 Report Abuse
What an unusual color but beautiful zinnia Steve.
My calla lilies are still going strong. I took a pic of a deep burgundy one too but the pic didn't turn out.
Kathy zone4July 4, 2012 at 12:00 am #4559171 Report Abuse
I love those calla lilies, Kathy. They bloom in such romantic colours. [:O]
I took this picture through the arbor, of the east border gardens on Canada Day.
July 4, 2012 at 12:00 am #4559172 Report Abuse
Good morning all & Happy Independence Day. Nice & cheery yellow flowers & lovely Calla Lily today. Iris, I love your gardens, they are beautiful & look welcoming.
These were planted last year, my 1st try with Coydalis. Was able to save the Martha Washington Geranium & Coleus over Winter but Cory never returned.
I know you've all seen these before (I'm kind of partial to them); anyway reds & whites: Double Impatiens, Euphorbia & Fuchsia.
One of my true favorites (planted tons of seed for them everywhere this year) Echium Blue Bedder.
American Painted Lady butterfly on Joe Pye Weed.
This is kind of cheating but it's the only Caryopteris I could ever get to bloom for me…& it was brief.
This is another late Autumn (kind of messy) mixture of red, white & blue colors. Oh no, I don't believe I planted any Marigolds this year???
One of my first red Sunflowers a few years ago.
Hettie Rose after the storm.Black & Blue Salvia last year. Hope eveyone has a great day with very limited labor required. Speaking of which I should go water the plants while the weather is nice:-)
July 4, 2012 at 12:00 am #4559210 Report Abuse
Another phlox starting to bloom.
July 4, 2012 at 12:00 am #4559211 Report Abuse
What beautiful flowers for the fourth, I don't have a Patriotic one today just a pic of my first Kopper King Hibiscus with two JB's on it (they didn't live long after that pic was taken, they swam in the soapy water)
July 4, 2012 at 12:00 am #4559213 Report Abuse
Gayle, get you some of those round wire supports (has legs you push into the soil) and it will hold the glads up (easy fix and you should be able to get them on clearance this fall, I got several last year and then only used one (STUPID)). LOL MD I love that echum blue bedder, its beautiful and I do believe I'm gonna have to see about getting seeds for that next year. How tall does that get? And I love the double impatients, think I'll get seeds of that and the sunpatients next year. This doesn't show the beauty of the color of this Imagination Verbena I grew from seed with the sun on it, but its a beauty and will grow it again next year.
Sandy this will show you the bells of ireland that self-seeded, went to the ground and came back up, they are huge in behind that mum on the right.
Another shot of that flower bed
Double petunia that is in with the imagination verbena
And not a flower but this is priceless to me this morning, puppy got her position right to catch rays of sunshine through the window, can you see her smiling and what do you think she is thinking, I think "Thank you Lord for my rays of sunshine"
July 4, 2012 at 12:00 am #4559493 Report Abuse
I can see by all of the beautiful photos here today that everyone's gardens are flouishing! I'd love to comment on all of them….but I'll leave that up to Steve.
Steve….in answer to your question yesterday…"how do you borrow seeds"…..here is a picture of Kathy doing just that….lol. I guess I should have said that we deadheaded them.
Since it is the 4th of July….guess I'll do a red white and blue theme today.
Will Rogers Red zinnia
White Double click cosmos
Blue Delphiniums….sorry to say these are from last year….and they winter killed.[:'(]
July 4, 2012 at 12:00 am #4559495 Report Abuse
Wonderful pictures.Wish we could have flowers all year long. Here is mt bee balm blooming.Sandy
July 4, 2012 at 12:00 am #4559276 Report Abuse
GiddeyUpBlockedJuly 4, 2012 at 12:00 am #4559328 Report Abuse
MD, all your flower pictures are wonderful…they always are. But I especially love your b'fly!
Deloris, I had some Bells of Ireland self-seed too. They are not as stunning as yours….this is the second year I've had them. Your picture inspires me to keep trying.
GiddeyUp, my neighbour has some Broom. He said he had a hard time finding it as none of the nurserys carried it. Your is really outstanding. And a wonderful setting for it, too.
July 4, 2012 at 12:00 am #4559334 Report Abuse
Del I don't think they make those supports tall enough for my glads. I need tomato cages. LOL & I'd have to buy so many just to use for a week or two. Wouldn't be worth it. I have others just like these that are planted against my fence so I can tie those up. But I need some Really pretty ones. These are kind of Blah. I'm scattering some more Poppy seeds in a different bed this winter & thinking of planting a shorter variety of glads in with them., When the Poppies are done the Glads will be blooming. (I hope) along with some Cosmos.
Community Team MemberJuly 5, 2012 at 12:00 am #4559660 Report Abuse
Gayle… Those are beautiful daisies. I especially like the gloriosa daisy with the red center.
Kathy… What nice looking calla lilies. I have saw some before that my Mom grew but they weren't nearly as pretty as the ones you are growing.
Iris… Nice peep into the arbor. Looks like theres lots of pretty flowers there.
MDgreenery… You sure have a beautiful group of pictures there but that geranium has to be my favorite in the bunch.
Wendy… I always love seeing phlox pictures. Hope we get to see those when they do get in full bloom.
Molly… Thats a beautiful hibiscus. Hope your Japanese Beetles enjoyed their swim in the soapy water.
Deloris… You too have a nice group of flowers and of course most any purple flower is one I really like. That little puppy looks to me like shes waiting for someone to come give her a little petting.
Giddey… Nice looking flowers in there. I even saw some lilies coming up in there.
Charlene… What a nice looking red, white and blue flowers you have there……. Oh I thought you said y'all borrowed some seeds but in actuality y'all were just "helping" to care for the plants. How kind of y'all. [:O]
Sandy… Thats nice tall looking bee balm. I bet you also have hummers visiting your bee balm.
[color=violet] Thanks to each of you for posting todays pictures and comments. [/color]
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This is covered in the mockups in the meta bug (Bug 698594), but here it is broken out explicitly.
In addition to inviting users to set up sync on the start page (Bug 708414), we have to have an entry point for it in Settings as well.
This is the overview of what this leads to, before and after sync is set up:
Instead of a whole Sync section of prefs, as we used to have, this is a one-liner that leads to other screens, so we can just put this in the "General" section.
I expect this to come with strings?
(In reply to Axel Hecht [:Pike] from comment #1)
> I expect this to come with strings?
Yes. It will just be "Sync"
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Created attachment 590842 [details] [diff] [review]
patch v2
some minor refactoring
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ARGH. removed unused var. last fix, hopefully.
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patch v3
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with those changes.
::: mobile/android/base/SyncPreference.java.in
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> + *
> + * The Original Code is Mozilla Android code.
> + *
> + * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Mozilla Foundation.
> + * Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 2009-2011
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> +import android.util.AttributeSet;
> +import android.util.Log;
> +
> +class SyncPreference extends Preference {
> + private static final String LOGTAG = "GeckoSyncPreference";
Not used
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> +
> +class SyncPreference extends Preference {
> + private static final String LOGTAG = "GeckoSyncPreference";
> + private static final String FEEDS_PACKAGE_NAME = "com.android.providers.subscribedfeeds";
> + private static final String ACCOUNTSYNC_CLASS_NAME = "com.android.settings.AccountSyncSettings";
ACCOUNT_SYNC_CLASS_NAME instead.
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> + @Override
> + protected void onClick() {
> + Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
> + Account[] accounts = AccountManager.get(mContext).getAccountsByType(FENNEC_ACCOUNT_TYPE);
> + if (accounts.length > 0) {
What happens if there are more than one account?
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> + Account[] accounts = AccountManager.get(mContext).getAccountsByType(FENNEC_ACCOUNT_TYPE);
> + if (accounts.length > 0) {
> + // show sync account
> + intent.setComponent(new ComponentName(FEEDS_PACKAGE_NAME, ACCOUNTSYNC_CLASS_NAME));
> + Account account = accounts[0];
what if there is more than one account?
I was under the assumption that we will not support multiple Sync accounts. If we do, we need to modify the flow described here:
The Sync settings screen (show at the bottom of that diagram) is a per-account screen. The "Sync" preference in Fennec, however, is a general setting that does not correspond to a specific account. If we do support multiple Sync accounts, the Sync pref in Fennec should probably point to the general Android "My Accounts" screen (second image from the top left).
Yes, if/when we do multiple accounts we'd have to sort out that flow (as with going to the accounts screen rather than the particular account), but for now -- just one account.
Landed on inbound with nits fixed:
Also included a comment about the single account assumption.
backed out on inbound:
Reopened due to bug 720734.
I got the "Accounts & Sync" class name from logcat (and also discovered the necessary "account" extra by looking at the Android source) on a pre-ICS phone. However, we are crashing in ICS because this class name is different on ICS. According to rnewman and liuche, there's no reliable way to directly open sync settings for a specific account. That leaves us with 2 options:
1) open the generic Accounts & Sync activity (this is consistent with other apps, such as Gmail and Contacts)
2) create our own custom layout/activity for modifying the sync settings (this is what Twitter does)
Created attachment 591610 [details] [diff] [review]
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This patch associates the Settings > Sync option with the generic "Accounts & Sync" page. We may want to have a custom Sync preferences page in the future, but I think this is sufficient for now as bare-bones functionality.
Landed fixed patch on inbound:
(In reply to Doug Turner (:dougt) from comment #12)
> backed out on inbound:
> https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/a79f4ada8343
Now backed out of m-c (https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a79f4ada8343), the relanding didn't make this merge (not yet PGO green), will be in the next.
(In reply to Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson) from comment #15)
> Landed fixed patch on inbound:
> http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/50a68eb941f9
Verified Fixed on M-C
Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Android 4.0.3)
Aurora nom?
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patch v4
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Adds Sync to settings. Mobile only. Contains string changes. Low risk.
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Brian Lara is only 31 but he has already identified his natural successor in the West Indies middle order. To anyone who saw his candidate bat this summer, Lara's selection will come as no surprise. It is Ramnaresh Ronnie Sarwan, aged 20, who batted at six in three Tests and topped his side's batting averages with 40.75, compared to Lara's 26.55.
Brian Lara is only 31 but he has already identified his natural successor in the West Indies middle order. To anyone who saw his candidate bat this summer, Lara's selection will come as no surprise. It is Ramnaresh Ronnie Sarwan, aged 20, who batted at six in three Tests and topped his side's batting averages with 40.75, compared to Lara's 26.55.
When the two of them were together for nine overs after lunch on Monday at The Oval a small worm of doubt began to gnaw at the minds of England's fielders. Gough went for 10 in an over, and the pair had added 46 for the fifth wicket when Lara called for a quick single, and changed his mind just too late for Sarwan to regain the crease at the bowler's end. Graham Thorpe's direct hit had removed the bails, and poor Sarwan lay writhing on the pitch, having been accidentally kicked in the head by Thorpe as he followed through.
In a famous panegyric about Sarwan at the start of the summer, Ted Dexter wrote: "What a treat it will be to watch him and Brian Lara playing together, and I would not like to bet who would look the better." Before his inglorious exit, Sarwan had outscored Lara, and maybe even looked better. The lingering memory is of hard-hit drives off the full face of the bat as well as delicate nudges behind square, and of four fine boundaries in his score of 27 off only 31 balls. In the coming decades, the full house at The Oval will remember a great day for England, but they may well also recall this cameo, one of the early innings in the career of a great Test batsman.
Sarwan is a slight figure, weighing less than 10 stone. He gives his height as 5ft 8in, though, looking at him in the middle, that may be a tall story. Lara is taller than he is, but height has rarely been an attribute of a great batsman. Think of Tendulkar, De Silva, Langer, or of the West Indian with whom Sarwan is most often compared: Rohan Kanhai, another elegant Indian from Guyana.
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How much exercise are kids actually getting nowadays? Not nearly enough! And adults haven't exactly been the ideal role models, since more than 60 percent of all American adults aren't regularly physically active, and a quarter of them do not exercise at all. In fact, adults may unconsciously contribute even more to the problem.
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Only 31 percent of high school students engage in daily physical education classes at school, with lower grades participating more than seniors. Many schools have removed physical education classes, and others only offer very limited PE classes (once or twice a week rather than daily). There is, however, a glimmer of hope — some schools are beginning to implement the "new" PE, that is, participation in a wide variety of physical activities (including rock climbing) rather than competition, in order to be more inclusive of kids of all sizes.
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The overall level of inactivity has escalated even more dramatically now that kids are not only less active in school, but are also replacing physically active leisure-time pursuits with sedentary ones like surfing the Net, playing computer and video games, and watching countless hours of television. Fewer kids, on the whole, are participating in after-school sports and other physically active extracurricular pursuits.
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