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Critic's Log: Earthdate - June 7, 2012. Review #7: Hetalia: Axis Powers - Paint It, White
Hetalia: Axis Powers was a funny show, it got popular enough that Studio Deen decided to make a film based on the series, end result: Hetalia: Axis Powers: Paint It, White!
I decided to watch this after watching the Axis Powers TV show, since the last two seasons of Hetalia are called "World Series". What did I think of this movie? You'll find out now.
The story has a bit of a plot. An alien race known as Pictonians have invaded the earth and they assimilate the human race and painting them white (actually they are turning people into the white colored Pictonians you see in the movie, does anyone know what I am talking about?) Only the great nations are able to stop them... if they ever stop bickering with each other. How will they stop the Pictonians? If they don't think of something, the world will be pretty much screwed.
Knowing that Hetalia is a show that has political and historical satire. Having the nations fight an alien invasion is kind of okay since this is the feature length film of Hetalia, and Hetalia doesn't give two fucks about storytelling anyway because the story is bouncing everywhere from one place to the other. If you liked The TV show, you'll like this. If you are starting with the movie, you probably have no idea what the hell is going on. Take my advice, start with the show.
I already mentioned that Studio Deen is behind Hetalia. Need I say more? Well, maybe just a couple of things. When it comes to anime feature length films, they usually have better animation than the TV show. The Animation looks 80% the same from the TV show. There are some new animation effects but not used too much. There is one other problem I had with the movie; I'll get to that in a bit.
The music isn't too special in the movie but it doesn't hurt the movie whatsoever
The quality of voice acting is nearly the same as the show, you can't go wrong with either dub or sub in this series. They are both good. I still prefer the dub.
The characters are still lovable and they haven't changed for the worse yet.
If there is one thing I could not stand in this movie... It was the recycling of scenes from the TV show. the use of having the scenes jumping from place to place worked in the TV show, because the episodes only lasted 5 minutes, but to use the same scenes and put it into the movie just to take a brief break from the action...IS A BAD MOVE! It was the most hackneyed use of getting away from the action for a little bit. If you are planning on seeing the movie, get that fast forward button ready! The main plot isn't bad, the recycling of clips from the show... IS! I think Studio Deen was being both creative and lazy when they were making this movie... I have said enough about this, so let's move on.
I just received intel that the reason behind the use of scenes from the TV show was because of a poll from the viewers in Japan. Well... I guess that is somewhat okay. But I still think it does not translate well in the movie, but since the movie is self-aware that it is strictly for the fans... My argument is now invalid.
Also, Rome's rocking out moment was both Awesomely funny and stupidly funny at the same time. Prepare to laugh your ass off because here'e the FUNNIEST ROCK OUT EVER!
If you know who The Nostalgia Critic is, I will say that this is a "Big-Lipped Alligator Moment". If you don't know who he is, then colour yourself confused.
Hetalia: Axis Powers: Paint It, White is available by Funimation. I just want to make a quick note, The outtakes are kinda funny.
With all that said, The Hetalia movie is strictly for the fans of the show (I just said that a second time). It isn't too bad. but it was a bit disappointing that some of the time of the movie was wasted on scenes that were recycled from the show (again my argument is invalid). If you are watching this with friends, you and your friends will have fun with this.
I give the Hetalia: Paint it White! a 7 out of 10, it is GOOD!
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To be honest, while I am a huge fan of William Gibson, I don't read much of him. Don't read much fiction in general. But every conversation I have had with Gibson, and every time I have heard him speak, or read an interview with him, I have come away amazed and giddy. He's among the best conversationalists I have ever met. He tosses off insights the ways others toss off curses. I just caught up to a good one in a rave interview with him by Joel Garreau in the Washington Post. Gibson said:
"I saw an older gentleman walking down the street in San Francisco last week," Gibson says, "and he was like majorly Bluetoothed and rigged for very high connectivity and I thought, that's what we're all going to look like. The geezer of the future will have more plugs and jacks — will be more into that, probably, than younger people — because he'll need it."
I like that image: that out of geriatric need the baby boomers may be more jacked in than the young. Hip replacements, hearing aids, and 24/7 embedded online connection. And half of what the geezers (that'll be all of us soon) are talking about will be our health.


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Hanzaki (ハンザキ, Hanzaki) is the leader of the Fūma clan.
He was one of the members of the Fūma clan who was not seduced by Orochimaru's promise of power.
As the leader of his clan, Hanzaki participated in and led most of the clan's activities, including the robbing of random people, in these instances he proves to be willing to kill and steal in order to survive. He did however show some respect for his fellow shinobi, offering to let Jiraiya live in exchange for his money. This respect however turned to instant fear when he found out who it was he was dealing with. Hanzaki also harbours great resentment towards Orochimaru for seducing many of his clansmen.
He has dark eyes, as well as cheek-length dark-brown hair. He wears a red band around his head.
Hanzaki is a strong melee-based shinobi who fights with a giant sword called a zanbatō. He has showed to be rather resilient, being able to stand up immediately after having taken a direct Rasengan and subsequently being slammed through a wall.
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He first encounters Jiraiya alongside members of the Fūma clan when a female member lured him to them. Jiraiya managed to defeat him and then gain information from them. After the incident in Orochimaru's lair, Sasame and Kotohime were placed under his care by Jiraiya.
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User guide
It is assumed that you have installed Rote already. If not, please consult the README for installation instructions.
Task names – Rote's standard tasks are always referred to with the base-name doc , e.g. doc_pages
, doc_clean
, and just plain doc
. This is the prefix used by the built-in Rakefile, but since it can be changed when using Rote in your own Rake builds you should of course substitute whatever is appropriate if you have chosen to modify it.
Starting out with Rote
Creating a project
To get started quickly, we'll use the built-in project template, which provides a standard Rote directory tree with a single page, and Rakefile ready for customisation. The template gives a convenient way to get started on a new Rote project. To invoke it, just type:
rote create someproject
If all goes well, you should see a single line (cp_r ...
) indicating that Rote copied the template to your specified directory (someproject
in this case). This directory will have the following layout:
someproject | |--> Rakefile | |--> doc | |--> res | | |--> images | | |--> rote-tiny.png | | | |--> layouts | | |--> normal.thtml | | | |--> pages | |--> COMMON.rb | |--> index.thtml | |--> index.rb
Template sources under the 'pages' directory may have any extension (except rb
), and will be rendered to the same base-name under the output directory, with their file extension supplied by the original, possible via an extension mapping
See the section on Layouts below for details on layout name resolution.
Ruby source is optional, and allows you to define instance variables and methods on a Page instance. COMMON.rb is applied to all pages in a given
directory. See the section on templates for more information on the specifics.
To build the sample page, simply type rote
or rake
from the top-level directory. This will start the default doc
task to transform all
modified pages / resources (everything, in this case).
The README included with the project template has further information about build options and available tasks, as well as pointers to possible
next steps.
From the command-line
If you are generating a standalone documentation set (i.e. not as part of some wider build) and you don't want to worry maintaining a Rakefile
you can use the built-in build via the rote
command. This works with the standard directory layout above, and wraps invocation of rake
on a
built-in version of the standard Rakefile.
Given the above layout, you can generate the documentation set by running:
from the top-level directory (project
in the example above), you should get a 'html' directory created with the (transformed) templates, and any
resources should be copied as necessary.
Being based on Rake, Rote supports last-modified checking, and provides an individual file task for each page in your doc set. For example, running
the 'rote' command again with no options will cause it to exit almost immediately, since all output is up to date. If you change a file, and run
rote again, then just that file will be updated. Even dependencies that are determined dynamically (such as layout files) can be tracked for incremental build purposes.
The file tasks are named for the target files, so for example to generate just the top-level index.html (regardless of whether it's been modified)
you'd run:
rote html/index.html
The clobber
task supports deleting all output files to start from scratch:
rote clobber
Of course, multiple file or task names (or a mixture) can be specified.
You can get a list of valid tasks in the current context with:
rote --tasks
Further command-line usage information is available with:
rote --usage
and Unix installations performed with install.rb
should also make a manpage available for the rote
Note That, for most purposes, you should prefer to use a Rakefile based build, as created by the rote create
command. The command-wrapper functionality in Rote is maintained only as a quick start option, and is not guaranteed to remain supported in 1.0.
If you do choose to use a Rakefile approach, do not use the 'rote' command to build documentation, since it will ignore your local Rakefile and can result in inconsistent behaviour.
From your Rakefile
If you are wanting to build documentation as part of a larger build process, or commandline setup, then you'll want to get started on integrating Rote with your own (existing) Rakefile
. If you bootstrap a project with the rote create
command, you'll get a Rakefile which you can modify to suit your requirements.
There is nothing special about this Rakefile, and it can use any of the other Rake tasks, or indeed any other Ruby code. It is run with a command like:
rake doc
If all goes well, you should see each command and transformation output to your console as Rote runs.
See the main Rote Rakefile
for an example of integrating Rote with your software project, including linking to Rdoc generation and so on. The
Rake task configuration section has more information on the options supported by Rote's task library.
Creating templates
Wherever directories and files are mentioned, they refer to the appropriate path/name/etc supplied during rake task configuration.
In all cases the default settings can be seen in the layout created by the rote create foo
The Basics
As mentioned, templates are simply files in the specifed pages directory (doc/pages
by default) that match the supplied glob (default: all files,
though ruby source is implicitly excluded). The directory layout beneath the page root is retained when transforming pages, and is also used to provide hierarchical structure to the common page code.
The default behaviour is to transform all matched templates pages with ERB, and optionally apply a second render pass with a layout, before writing to the same base filename beneath the output directory. You can customise this behaviour by specifying extension mappings for specific file extensions – see the Rake task configuration section for details.
Each page and layout template used by Rote may have associated with it an optional Ruby source file, allowing variables to be defined for use in ERB code, and supporting interaction with Rote via the methods of the Rote::Page
class. Page and layout code is loaded from a rb
file alongside the template itself.
Code can also be applied across multiple pages based on filesystem hierarchy by placing it in COMMON.rb
files in the pages tree. The order of evaluation of these files travels down from the most remote COMMON.rb to the page code itself, and this provides a simple yet fairly powerful way to apply various configuration options, filtering, and user variables across your pages.
See template code and erb for more information on the search path and evaluation order for page code.
Rote additionally allows a variety of formatting and postprocessing options thanks to it's support for filters – little bits of Ruby that perform some text transformation, macro expansion, or postprocessing during page rendering. Rote provides standard filters to support Textile and Markdown formatting, syntax highlighting, processing with HTMLTidy, and more.
Template code and ERB
All templates may contain embedded Ruby code (ERB), delimited by the standard <% … %> (for executed code) and <%= … %> (for output) tags. Any (valid) Ruby code may be placed in the templates, and variables may be defined to allow information to be passed into templates. There are four places where you might define such variables. The following is in order of evaluation:
- A block supplied to the extension mapping that matched this page (if any).
- Any COMMON.rb files from the filesystem root down to this directory.
- This page's ruby code, basename.rb.
- In the template itself (via ERB).
When a Page
instance is created, Rote looks for these, and if found evaluates them, in order, in the same binding as the template is later rendered in (i.e. the Page
instance binding). Therefore, you can define instance variables to pass data around, or even helper methods if you wish.
Additionally, when layout is used the following evaluation takes place after rendering the template text and can be used to make variables available for the layout pass(es):
- This layout's ruby code, layout_basename.rb.
- In the layout itself (again, with ERB).
Template code is used to support a great deal of flexibility in Rote, from selecting layouts to mixing in format helpers to controlling the filter chain. You can find details of the methods available in the Rote::Page
Plaintext Formatting
If you are using Rote to generate HTML, you'll probably want to utilise some kind of plain-text formatting. Rote has out-of-the-box support for
Textile, Markdown, and RDoc formatting, which can be applied to any page using standard filters.
These filters can be applied to any page directly from page or common code, and if you are using the built-in Rakefile (either using the rote
command to build, or with a rake
build created with the rote create
command) then the following extension mappings are defined by default, allowing the filters to be applied without resorting to page code:
Each of these filters is covered (along with further usage instructions) in the filters section.
Layouts allow common template to be applied across several pages. This is handled via multiple render passes, with each layout responsible
for including the previously rendered content (via ERB).
Layouts are stored under the doc/layouts
directory (by default). They may be organised into subdirectories, but this hierarchy is not connected to
the hierarchy in pages
. To apply a layout to a page, simply call the Rote::Page.layout
method from code applied to that page, passing the
base-name (and path, relative to layouts
, if used). If no extension is specified, then the same extension as the page itself is assumed. Examples:
- layout 'one'
- layout 'main/wide'
- layout 'dark.txt'
- <% layout 'my' %>
Note the absence of the = sign in the ERB tag in the last example, indicating that this is code to be executed rather than code that should generate output.
With that done, Rote would first render the template text (including textile) and set the Page instance variable \
content_for_layout@ before rendering the layout (in which textile is currently not supported). The layout is responsible for inserting the rendered template where appropriate, with e.g.:
- <%= @content_for_layout %>
This pattern shouldn't be unfamiliar. Again, note that Rote doesn't mandate HTML, despite the appearance from the ERB tags – any (textual) format can
be templated and laid out.
Layout code
Like page templates, each layout may have associated with it some layout code, which is executed just prior to rendering the layout, in the same
way as the page code.
There is no equivalent of COMMON.rb
for layout templates, however.
Nested layout
Layout code (see above) may call the Page#layout
method (i.e. to apply a layout). This will result in the result of the current rendering being
passed (via @content_for_layout
) to the specified layout in a further render pass. In all respects this is no different from the initial layout pass – layout code is executed, and rendering performed. Obviously, this may result in additional layouts being applied to the page.
Layouts can only be nested by calling layout
again from layout code (or ERB in the layout template itself). Multiple calls to layout
or page code will result in consistent page code behaviour, i.e. any previously-specified layout will be overriden.
There are no special requirements for layouts that are used in this way – from the user point of view a layout simply needs to include the @content_for_layout
where appropriate.
All layouts are rendered prior to post filtering.
As well as rendering ERB and applying layout (both universal features of Page
), Rote provides the ability to apply custom filters to a page or set of pages. Along with this ability, a number of filters are provided as standard:
For example If you're generating HTML, you'll probably want to use some plaintext formatting, rather than writing HTML by hand. Rote directly supports this (thanks to RedCloth and BlueCloth) via filters_, with Textile, RDoc and Markdown support out of the box (assuming those libraries are available on your machine). See the plaintext formattingformatting for more details on this.
Filter chaining
In order to filter a given page, filter instances are added to that page's filter chain. There are actually two separate chains, for page filtering
and post filtering.
* Page filtering takes place on the page content itself, after any ERB is executed, but before the layout pass is applied. Most of the standard filters are pre-filters.
* Post filtering takes place on the final output of the render pass, after layout is applied. The Filters::Tidy
filter is a post filter.
Adding filters to a page's chain can be done anywhere you can call that page's filter-chain methods. This could be page code, COMMON.rb, or even inside the template itself. Filters can also be applied to all files with a matching extension by adding filters inside an extension mapping block. Bear in mind that the order in which filters are added is important, since each filters output becomes input for the next. You must ensure that filters are applied in a compatible order – should you need to prepend filters or otherwise modify the chain prior to rendering you may do so by directly accessing the page_filters
and post_filters
array attributes.
See the section on template code for more information on adding code to your pages.
Standard filters
Rote supplies the following filters 'out of the box':
Filters::BlueCloth – Supports conversion of plain-text (Markdown) formatting to HTML.
This is a text filter, and should be applied in the page filter chain:
# in page code or common.rb
page_filter Filters::BlueCloth.new
Filters::Exec – Pipes the macro body to an external command, and replaces the macro with the output of that command.
This is a macro filter, and should be applied in the page filter chain:
# in page code or common.rb
page_filter Filters::Exec.new
Code can then be inserted in the page like:
print "Hello, World"
Filters::Eval – Evaluates the macro body as Ruby code, capturing standard output and using it as the macro replacement.
This is a macro filter, and should be applied in the page filter chain:
# in page code or common.rb
page_filter Filters::Eval.new
Code can then be inserted in the page like:
puts "Hello, World"
Filters::RDoc – Supports RDoc formatting with optional custom markup, to any supported output format (defaults to HTML).
This is a text filter, and should be applied in the page filter chain:
# in page code or common.rb
page_filter Filters::RDoc.new
Filters::RedCloth – Supports conversion of plain-text (Textile) formatting to HTML.
This is a text filter, and should be applied in the page filter chain:
# in page code or common.rb
page_filter Filters::RedCloth.new
Filters::Syntax – Supports code
macros with pluggable syntax highlighting (via the Syntax library) and Ruby-code support out of the box.
This is a macro filter, and should be applied in the page filter chain:
# in page code or common.rb
page_filter Filters::Syntax.new
This filter uses the Syntax library, passing the macro argument as the language ('ruby', 'xml' and 'yaml' are supported out of the box). The output is wrapped in
 …
 for output, with highlighting handled by  tags, allowing syntax colours and styles to be applied via CSS. You can find a full list of the Ruby highlight classes
in the Syntax documentation but you will need to experiment with the highlighter to find the XML and YAML classes.
Code to be highlighted is inserted into pages like so:
def amethod
"some code"
Note that the closing tag in the above example is missing a closing '#' – this works around a limitation of the current Syntax filter (and macro implementation in general), which means that a macro cannot contain it's own end-tag.
Since macros are rendered separately from the page text, you don't have to worry much about spacing and so forth – your code will not be touched by any of the formatting filters.
Filters::Tidy – Post filter that corrects markup and semantic errors in HTML markup to produce valid HTML or XHTML using the HTML Tidy command-line tool.
This is a post filter. It should be applied in the appropriate filter chain:
# in page code or common.rb
post_filter Filters::Tidy.new
Filters::TOC – Supports automatic generation of basic navigation from headings in documents. See the RDoc for more details. It should be applied as a page filter, and a reference is usually required for use in the layout:
# in page code or common.rb
post_filter @toc = Filters::TOC.new
Some of the filters support various options to change the way they operate, and many support different arguments (the second part of the #macro#args# tags) to those shown above – see the RDoc for the individual macros (linked from the headings above) for more details.
Filters are of course very simple to write. See the 'Writing filters' subsection (in Extending Rote) for details, including how to implement your own macro filters.
Format helpers
TODO This section is under construction.
Please see Rote::Format::HTML
for currently available information.
Of course, you're likely to have resources for your site (images, sounds, etc) and you'll need to copy them over to the target too. Such resources should be placed under doc/res
(with the commandline setup) or in your specified res
directory (from a Rakefile).
As you'd expect, the directory layout beneath res
should mirror that of the output, and will be preserved during the copy. Resources are copied only if necessary (determined by existence and last-modified timestamp), in a similar way to pages.
Rake task configuration
Reference Rakefile
The following Rakefile demonstrates most of the methods you can use to customise Rote's rake task configuration.
# Rakefile
require 'rote'
include Rote
# This defines all our Rake tasks. The symbol we supply here (:doc is
# default) gives the base-prefix for the tasks that are generated.
ws = Rote::DocTask.new(:doc) do |doc|
# Output directory and layout sources
doc.output_dir = 'html'
doc.layout_dir = 'doc/layouts'
# Page directory and include globs.
doc.pages.dir = 'doc/pages'
# Resource directory and include globs. This directory
# could be the same as the pages directory.
doc.res.dir = 'doc/res/'
# Define an extension mapping
doc.ext_mapping(/(html)/, '$1') do |page|
# Let's use the HTML helpers everywhere ...
page.extend Format::HTML
# use 'page' layout on all html files
# This can also be set from COMMON.rb
page.layout 'page'
# textile formatting, ruby syntax
page.page_filter Filters::RedCloth.new(:textile)
page.page_filter Filters::Syntax.new
# To valid xhtml with Tidy postfilter
page.post_filter Filters::Tidy
Please refer to the RDoc for specific information on each method.
Extension mappings
The default behaviour when transforming pages is to make each filename matched by the pages.include
glob relative to the output directory, using the same extension as the input file.
If you want to change this behaviour, you may supply an extension mapping as demonstrated above. The general form is:
# Define an extension mapping
doc.ext_mapping(/regexp/, 'replacement') do |page|
# call page methods
The regexp is matched against processed page extensions (not resources) and the replacement supplies the output extension. The optional block is executed for each matching page during instantiation, before any COMMON or page code. Note that you must not include the leading '.' in either the regexp or replacement – doing so will fail to match the desired extensions.
For more advanced mappings, you can supply a capturing regexp, and use the $n
notation in the replacement to extract the captures. As shown in the
(contrived) example below:
doc.ext_mapping(/(html)/, '$1') do |page|
# do stuff
Extension mappings also support per-extension output directories, which can be supplied as a third parameter to the ext_mapping
doc.output_dir = 'html'
doc.ext_mapping(/ttxt/, 'txt', 'plaintext') do |page|
# do stuff
Where no output directory is supplied, the default output directory will be used.
Defining additional tasks
The command-line build will automatically look for a file in the top-level directory (above doc
) named local.rf
. If found, this file will be
evaluated by Rake, making any tasks defined within it available to your build. This can be used to define an auto refresh task
for the monitor feature, for example, or to define tasks to publish your site (most likely using one of Rake's directory publishers).
Source monitoring
When making changes to a documentation set, you frequently need to render out your changes to check formatting or ensure something works correctly. In this situation it's inconvenient to keep dropping out to your shell to run rote
(or rake
) manually, particularly when making a lot of incremental changes.
Fortunately, Rote provides a simple mechanism for monitoring your documentation source and automatically performing updates as needed. Simply specify the doc_monitor
task and Rote will go into a loop, periodically running the top-level doc task which will transform / copy any pages or resources that have been modified. It will of course take notice of any custom file or directory dependencies you add to the doc task (e.g. to generate RDoc as part of a website), and in turn monitor their dependent files too (for example rebuilding the RDoc if you modify a source file). It does not however attempt to track format-specific dependencies between resources (such as which pages use which CSS), since this would imply some knowledge of the format in use. In practice this means that you may need to trigger a clean build after updating such resources, although it is actually fairly easy to set up this kind of relationship by specifying that certain file-tasks relating to pages depend on the appropriate file-tasks representing the resources (for instance).
By default, monitor
checks for updates approximately once per second, but you can specify a custom value when using a Rakefile by setting monitor_interval
in the block passed to DocTask.new
Note that the monitor functionality is deliberately kept simple with respect to IO and concurrency, reflecting the fact that output files are rarely anything more than that – it would be almost pointless to complicate the way monitoring works with any kind of semaphore or file-locking scheme. Of course if this does cause problems in your particular scenario, let me know because it just might make me reconsider.
When you're done with Rote simply hit CTRL-C (or use kill
) to stop monitoring and exit.
Auto refresh task
When using Source monitoring, it's often handy to be able to inform some other program that something has changed. For example, you may want to automatically refresh your browser after changed HTML is rendered. Rote supports this via the doc_refresh
task, which is triggered whenever doc_monitor
finds changes in your source set (after rendering, of course).
The following (Mac) example uses OSA script to refresh the Safari browser when your rendered documentation changes:
require 'osx/aeosa'
task :doc_refresh do
OSX.do_osascript('tell application "Safari" to do javascript "window.location.reload();" in document 1')
As with all rake tasks, multiple actions can be associated, and you can of course add prerequisites to the refresh
task as with any other Rake task.
Rote does not provide any direct support for publishing your site at present, relying on you to configure an appropriate publish task if required, using the publishers supplied with Rake (in rake/contrib
), or your own. This allows maximum flexibility, and allows Rote to concentrate on creating your documents.
See the section Defining additional tasks for details on how to supply your publish tasks.
See the rake task configuration section for more details.
Extending Rote
Although Rote is designed to be as quick and easy to use as possible, with sensible default configuration and reasonable convention throughout, it also has ample flexibility when it comes to generating more complex documentation sets. Thanks to it's 'option for every default' and simple extension points, Rote should scale to even complex documentation sets quite easily.
Writing filters
Filters do exactly what they say on the tin – they filter the output of a page, perhaps rendering markup or inserting additional text. Filters can be divided into two general categories: Text filters and Macro filters. Either type can be a page or post filter – it depends only on the design of the filter and the job it will perform as to which chain it should be used with.
Text Filters
Text filters process the text in a page, with all macros replaced by a standard plain-text marker. The purpose of this is to allow macros to coexist with plain-text formatting without causing markup clashes.
Most of the standard filters are text filters. The RedCloth filter is representative:
class RedCloth < TextFilter
def initialize(*redcloth_opts)
@redcloth_opts = redcloth_opts
def handler(text,page)
rc = ::RedCloth.new(text)
# hack around a RedCloth warning
rc.instance_eval { @lite_mode = false }
(again, this example is slightly simplified with respect to auxiliary functionality for the sake of clarity).
As mentioned above, TextFilter
also provides help with writing non-macro filters that removes much of the headache of working around macros (which must not be modified by any filter except that which handles the macro).
Text filters can optionally access the macro data using the macros
If you want to implement a one-off filter quickly, there's no need to create a new subclass – you can supply a block directly to TextFilter, which is executed to render the textual content:
page.page_filter Rote::Filters::TextFilter.new { |page, text|
For text filters, a convenience in the implementation of page_filter
allows the above to be shortened to:
page.page_filter do |page, text|
Note the curly braces in the first example, which cause the block to bind to the filter rather than the method. If do..end
were used, the second form would actually be called and a new filter created. The block filter you supplied would be discarded.
The post_filter
method supports the same convenience.
Macro Filters
The standard Syntax filter is a typical macro filter. The following is slightly simplified for brevity (the actual one allows custom macro tags to be supplied):
class Syntax < MacroFilter
def macro_code(lang, body)
converter = ::Syntax::Convertors::HTML.for_syntax(lang)
"
#{converter.convert(body,false)}
"
As you can see, a macro filter simply inherits Rote::Filters::MacroFilter
and implements one or more macro_XXXX
methods, which is passed the arguments supplied to the macro (used here to indicate the code language) and the raw macro body.
If you want to implement a macro quickly, perhaps across a section or set of pages, you can use MacroFilter
itself, supplying a block:
page.page_filter Rote::Filters::MacroFilter.new([:foomacro]) { |tag, args, body
"FooMacro Replacement!"
This can be done from any page code, a COMMON.rb (see Template code and ERB), or on a per-extension basis with extension mappings.
Note that macro data is passed raw, and excluded from rendering by text filters. The output, however, will be processed by any filters that follow the macro filter in the chain.
Duck Filters
This being Ruby, you don't have to inherit one of the above filters to create your own – a filter is just an object with a filter(text,page)
The standard TOC filter takes this route.
Rake Extensions
Rote supplies a number of non-intrusive extensions a number of the Rake classes, in order to support dynamic dependency caching, caching dependency-based block memoize, and task reset for use in monitor mode. These features are very new, and only lightly documented at present. You are advised to see the RDoc and source if you want to find out more.
These extensions were almost exclusively contributed by Jonathan Paisley.
Dynamic dependency caching
Since layout files are specified in Ruby code, and may be calculated dynamically, it's not possible to determine the layout files upon which a given page depends without running that page's code (including all COMMON.rb files that apply to it, extension mapping blocks, and so forth). This would have (or, had) an adverse impact on Rote's incremental build functionality, especially from the point of view of source monitoring.
This problem is addressed by a small Rake extension that adds the ability to dynamically register dependencies on the current task, and to have those dependencies cached when Rake exits. Internally, Rote automatically registers any layouts loaded by a page, and you can easily register additional dependencies from any Ruby code, by calling methods on the Rake
Note that this extension is intended, and tested, for Rote – it is not designed to be a general extension (though one could easily be extracted from it). In particular it takes advantage of other extended functionality provided by Rote, and takes no account, for example, of parallel task execution.
By default, the cache is maintained in the project root, in a directory named .rake_cache
. This is managed by Rote, so for the most part can be ignored, though you can of course supply an alternate path if you wish (via Rake.cache_dir=
Caching and clean builds
When performing a clean build, the cache will also be removed (as part of the clobber
task), and all dependencies will be re-evaluated and cached afresh. Caching exists only to allow accurate dependency resolution during incremental builds.
Disabling the cache
There may be occasions when you want to disable use of the cache (for example when diagnosing unexpected dependency chains). This can be accomplished by setting an environment variable, NO_RAKE_CACHE prior to invoking Rote (or Rake). For a single invocation, the easiest way to do this is from the command-line:
rake clobber doc NO_RAKE_CACHE=true
Specifying this option (or setting the variable) will completely disable use of the cache, causing any existing cache to be ignored and all dependencies determined during the run to be discarded.
Dependency-based block memoize
Somewhat related to dependency caching, Rote also provides the ability to memoize Ruby block results, caching them to disk, and only execute the block during incremental builds. This is handy if, for example, you want to incorporate information derived from external commands, for example, or index large files in your documentation.
The following (OSX-specific) example illustrates usage of this feature:
def image_size(fn)
Rake::Task.memoize "image_size" => fn do
# This code only runs if the cache is out-of-date with
# respect to the file
puts "image_size for #{fn}"
# OSX-specific stuff here
s = `sips -g pixelWidth -g pixelHeight #{fn}`
[s[/pixelWidth: (\d+)/,1], s[/pixelHeight: (\d+)/,1]]
Final notes
Rake is a very flexible tool, and supports a wide variety of configuration options and advanced features you can use to fit Rote to your needs. Such configuration is (far) beyond the scope of this manual – see Rake's Documentation for information on the features supported by Rake.


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Top Five Regrets of the Dying
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Big subject, big challenge but as we write here of embracing life and optimal health perhaps this is also a timely reminder for us that "in the midst of life we are in death." And especially today as we mark the passing of winter..
So below are listed the top five regrets of the dying.
(And there was no mention of sex or parachuting, fast cars or loose women)!
How do we know? We read it in a book (of the same title) written by an Australian palliative care nurse called Bronnie Ware who cared for people in the last 12 weeks of their lives and recorded their dying "epiphanies". And what Ware sees is the phenomenal clarity of vision people gain at the end of their lives. And what Ware notes is that "when questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently," she says, "common themes surfaced again and again." And we can learn deeply from this:
Here are the top five regrets as witnessed by Bronnie Ware:
1 I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
"This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people have not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it."
2. I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
"This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship. Women also spoke of this regret but as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence."
3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings
"Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result."
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
"Often they would not truly realise the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone missed their friends when they are dying."
5. I wish I had let myself be happier.
"This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realise until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called comfort of familiarity overflowed into their emotions as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others and to their selves that they were content, when deep within they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their lives again."
Makes you think, doesn't it?
What would your biggest regret be if this was to be the last day of your life?
Live life like a mountain gorilla
I know a man who says he wants to live his life like a mountain gorilla. He tells a great story with it which I have ignored but his point is basically this: a mountain gorilla matures fast to adulthood and independence, lives a long healthy active life then dies gracefully at the end. Humans, by contrast spend ages maturing (some much longer than others, some never getting there), live a life of dubious health and well-being and then spend ages getting old and dying. Why do we do that? Answers on a post card please…but seriously, the story is just an interesting reflection on the choices we make, on the habits of thinking and behaving.
How do you see your future? Share your thoughts, we would love to hear from you!


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Why This Year's Physics Nobel Winner Never Patented Graphene
from the keeping-the-legal-profession-employed dept
You haven't yet patented graphene. Why is that?It's certainly not an anti-patent statement (he sounds like he'd happily patent some uses of graphene), but it is illustrative of how companies view patents these days.
We considered patenting; we prepared a patent and it was nearly filed. Then I had an interaction with a big, multinational electronics company. I approached a guy at a conference and said, "We've got this patent coming up, would you be interested in sponsoring it over the years?" It's quite expensive to keep a patent alive for 20 years. The guy told me, "We are looking at graphene, and it might have a future in the long term. If after ten years we find it's really as good as it promises, we will put a hundred patent lawyers on it to write a hundred patents a day, and you will spend the rest of your life, and the gross domestic product of your little island, suing us." That's a direct quote.
I considered this arrogant comment, and I realized how useful it was. There was no point in patenting graphene at that stage. You need to be specific: you need to have a specific application and an industrial partner. Unfortunately, in many countries, including this one, people think that applying for a patent is an achievement. In my case it would have been a waste of taxpayers' money.


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Smoky spiced salt with orange This makes enough for a 20-pound turkey. Allow 2 generous tablespoons per 5 pounds of turkey weight. 1/4 cup kosher salt 1 tablespoon smoked paprika or pimenton de la Vera 1 1/2 teaspoons onion powder 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1/2 teaspoon brown sugar 2 teaspoons freshly grated orange zest Pulse together the salt, smoked paprika, onion and garlic powders, cumin, black pepper, brown sugar and orange zest in a spice grinder or mash them in a mortar and pestle. Makes a little more than 1/2 cup. The mixture can be stored in a tightly sealed jar for up to 2 weeks. Each tablespoon: 7 calories; 0 protein; 2 grams carbohydrates; 1 gram fiber; 0 fat; 0 cholesterol; 1 gram sugar; 1,681 mg. sodium.
Recipe: Smoky spiced salt with orange
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Five years ago, there I was, sitting alone, away from the crowds, hating The Lovely Bones all by my lonesome. I hated that book so much, I threw it away upon completion. My contention was that Alice Sebold had transplanted Ghost into a poorly-written, horribly sugary teen drama where life (and death) is just heavenly. Her notions of family and pain, especially of the magnitude hinted at in the book, were nothing short of pedestrian – naïve, even. Every word of the thing made me cringe – was I reading the latest literary bestseller full of grand themes and poetic sentences, or a hunk of godawful trash slapped together by someone trying to rip off R.L. Stine?
I was then and remain still flabbergasted at the worldwide response to the book as some kind of gift from above. Every somewhat competent book-judge from Oprah to Michiko caught the Lovely Bones disease—sugar-shock, probably – and the few of us who doubted Sebold's ability were slammed for so many things, among them sympathising with rapists (I kid you not). I'm sure I wasn't the only one with a distaste for Bones, but damn if it didn't seem like Sebold's fans all chose me to rant at. Never have I received so much feedback on any single book review. Although, I guess they're right—I should have used a **spoiler** warning. Sorry.
Still, vindication has come at last! My mum rang me this morning to read the Age review of Sebold's new novel, The Almost Moon, published in the Saturday culture lift-out: "The Almost Moon is easily the worst second novel to follow a good first novel that I've read," writes Michelle Griffin. "It's almost baffling in its willful embrace of bad choices." Ooh, wow.
Michelle is not alone. From USA Today to the Guardian and back around to the New York Times Sunday Book Review, most everyone is wondering what the hell happened to their favorite first-time novelist. And they're doing it with vitriol. Lee Siegel at the Times musters up more grit than Griffin: "This novel is so morally, emotionally and intellectually incoherent that it's bound to become a best seller." And this, which I might just print out and peg to the wall:
Even the schlockiest popular novels of yore—By Love Possessed, Marjorie Morningstar, The Chosen—had accurate, if mundane, social and psychological perceptions. Danielle Steel has that. You and I have that! It's beyond comprehension that Sebold can publish a novel pretending to reflect reality that's so severed from reality.
Much the same could be said about The Lovely Bones. Man, what was it about that damn book that had the world so transfixed?
Anyway – time has revealed all, and Sebold appears to have much work to do to grab back her place in the book world as a name to watch. Meanwhile, can I say I told you so?
'Steep' Loves Its Mountains
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"SSX wanted you to fight its mountains, Steep wants you to love its mountains.
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A lot of folks in the blogosphere have been talking about what the BGCT should be. And there have been a lot of different visions presented.
Yesterday, Buckner President Ken Hall provided his thoughts on his blog. I'll post a portion below. What do you think of what Ken has to say? Is he on target? What do you think the future of the convention should be?
Because we need to be reminded that the denominational part of the BGCT was and is about the institutions of the convention. That's why the churches came together in the first place, not so they (the churches) could be served, but so that they could serve (through their institutions).
But something has happened over time. We've turned our convention into a denominational form of fast-food service in order for the bureaucracy to meet the needs of the churches. We've trained our churches to ask the Baptist building, "What can you do for us?" But that's not how it was set up more than a hundred years ago by our Baptist forefathers. Instead, they asked the questions, "What can we do for others? What can we do for orphans and widows? How can we educate more young people in a Christian setting? How can we start more churches across our state? How can we win more people to Jesus, even if they don't join my church?"
A recent theme of the BGCT has been "Together We Can Do More." Amen. But I'm afraid the too many in our BGCT family interpret that as being, "Together we can do more for my church," when it should be, "Together we can do more for others."
I've heard a lot of people say recently that we need the convention to be closer to the SBC, or the CBF, or the New Baptist Covenant. That's not the convention's decision. That's a local church decision. What we need is for the convention to be closer to the institutions it was established to support in the first place. That's what our churches want. They want to see orphans served; widows taken care of; lost people saved; churches started.
I heard the late Baptist comedian Grady Nutt say once that Baptists just can't stand silence. His example was that if there's more than a minute of silence in a Baptist church service, the organist gets up and starts playing. And historian Walter Shurden has written a terrific book about Baptists called "Not a Silent People."
The longer I live and observe Baptists, the more I'm convinced that we degenerate into denominational politics because we just can't stand silence. But if we were busy about Kingdom business like Jesus taught us, we'd be too busy to get sidetracked with that stuff. Maybe that explains why the BGCT as a convention is so caught up in politics – because we've lost the focus of what we're supposed to be doing. Wouldn't it be great if all those Baptist pundits out there talked about the needs in our world instead of focusing on denominational politics?


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The weather in New York City today is cold and rainy, and if it wasnt for this deliciously scented Project Art by NEST Fragrances Beach candle thats sitting on my desk, Id probably be severely depressed. It smells like summer in a jar! If you love candles as much as I do, youll definitely want to add this one to your collection. Project Art by NEST Fragrances candles are available at Bed Bath & Beyond and Dillards.
Whats your favorite candle scent?
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Mildred N. Whitman, age 88, of Washington, Iowa, died quietly on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at her residence.
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Today a conversation with John Archer, recorded while he was making a campaign stop in Washington. We talk about what he hopes to do if elected and he shares his stances on a few key issues.


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This week I've been grumpy. I even called a friend and said, "I'm really really grumpy." What can you do when you feel so grumpy? Art helps, because it pulls you out of negativity. I start thinking about poetry also. Mostly, I just want to get to a happier place.
So I did some goofing around with painting this week. In my push to get ahead on work at the end of the year, I neglected doing art, and maybe that's why I was grumpy.
Both of these paintings are related to a poem I wrote years ago called "Real Life Princess" from my book The Difference Now and also in my "greatest hits" book New and Selected Poems. The background on the poem is also based in grumpiness. I was running around one day years ago, exhausted, taking care of my grandparents, working long hours, and when I came home at the end of the night I didn't have anyone there to spend it with. The poem was as much about having a life filled with busyness and not love as it was finding that special someone to love.
I wrote:
"Just for one day
let me lay my head down
next to a real life princenot perfect
not wealthy
not completing me
not making me wholebut there
beside me
with mesharing this life of
lovetaking a burden from my arms
like a bag of groceries
not to keep forever
but to take off my hands
just long enough
to let me rest my sore muscles
so I can pick them back up
and push on.For just one day
let me wake up in the life of a real life princess."
I wrote this a couple years before marrying my husband, and like most of my poems, I wrote it and forgot about it. Then, at my wedding, my maid of honor surprised me by getting up at the mic to read the poem:
Everyone in the place just lost it. We were all bawling. DH and I looked to each other as she started to read and just sobbed as the reality of those words hit us. The words of the entire poem seemed to call out for my husband, the very person he turned out to be, years before we even met.
So I was thinking about that moment, one of the happiest of my life, this week as I tried to un-grumpify myself. I painted two pictures that, in my mind, related to this poem, and all of it left me in a better mood. Yay for art!
I call the first piece "Pink Princess." You'll notice I even tore up an old book of mine to use in the background.
The second one is called "Real Life Princess," after the poem.
Both "Pink Princess" and "Real Life Princess" are available in my Etsy store.


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Brand-new business owners are sometimes surprised to find out that in addition to their federal income taxes, they must also pay a significant percentage of their income to the government in the form of Self-Employment Contribution Act (SECA) taxes.
The SECA tax is basically the business owner's version of the FICA tax that employees pay. Like FICA, it is made up of your "contributions" to both the Social Security and Medicare programs. However, the basic tax rate for the self-employed under SECA is 15.30 percent (twice the 7.65 percent rate that employees must pay on their paychecks as FICA tax) to reflect the fact that employees pay one-half the FICA tax and employers pay the other half.
Reduced Rates for 2011 and 2012 Only. The SECA tax rate is 13.30 for 2011 and 2012. This reduction is to ensure that self-employed individuals have a comparable benefit to the payroll tax reduction that employees will enjoy during this period. For 2011 and 2012, the employee's portion of the Old Age, Survivors and Disability Income (OASDI) tax was reduced from 6.2 percent of wages to 4.2 percent of wages. The employer's portion remained at 6.2 percent of wages, and the employee and employer Hospital Insurance tax (Medicare) remained at 1.45 each.
In 2013, the employee's portion of FICA reverted to the 6.2 percent rate on March 1, 2012. And, the SECA rate reverted to 15.30 percent as of that date.
What income counts? For starters, you don't have to worry about paying the SECA tax at all if your total business income, from all Schedule Cs combined and from any partnership or S corporation income that is treated as self-employment income, is less than $400. But if your total income is $400 or more, you must file a Schedule SE and pay SECA tax on your entire net business income, including the first $400.
If you are filing jointly and your spouse also files one or more Schedule Cs, each spouse must count his or her own income separately.
Since it's the net income from your business that is the basis of SECA tax, certain types of income are not included: interest and dividends, sales of business property or other assets, and rental income from real estate or personal property. There's an exception to this rule if generating that income is your core business; for instance, if you are a real estate developer in the business of renting or selling property, you operate a bank, or you are in the rent-to-own business. Do not count any income from your hobbies.
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- partnership distributions
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...if sag is what you think may have been the issue, then just add some grosgrain ribbon to each side of the center with shock cord tied to it, and a mitten hook on the free end. Shug has a video some where on this. Then once your in your hammock and slide your UQ to where you want it, reach down and then attach your shockcord to your ridgeline. It pulls up and keeps it there. Hope that made since. It's an easy fix.
By the way, draft tubes will be easy for you to do. K.I.S.S approach to them.


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Part Time Key Holder
Hours per week: 10-25
Manager Name: Andrea Wilczynski
Full Job Description
Please apply online at www.Clarksjobs.com/Retail To which we will call for an interview.
We are currently looking to hire someone who has open availability and has retail/key holder experience.
Our culture is one of caring and commitment for our employees' well-being and growth, while working together in an atmosphere of trust and respect. We sincerely believe that in our retail environment our employees are the competitive advantage. We provide training that is the best in the business, giving you the tools you need to excel in your position.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide excellent customer service.
Fit, measure, and educate customer on product.
Lend support of achieving the highest standard of store appearance.
Understand store concept, target customer and mall/center competition.
Engage customers in conversation and assist in the understanding, demonstration, description and selection of merchandise.
Responsible for meeting individual productivity goals set by Manager.
Required Experience:
Essential physical requirements of all in store positions include; standing for long periods of time, frequent bending to tie and fit shoes, climbing and moving of ladders, and lifting up to 50 lbs. Retail experience is preferred. Candidates must pass a State and Federal background check.
Additional Information:
Clarks offers a benefits package that leads the industry. We offer comprehensive medical, dental and prescription drug plans to all employees working thirty hours or more a week. Our 401(k) retirement program is also available which includes a generous employer match. We provide company paid disability, life insurance, and a paid time off benefit and flexible work arrangement options. Our unique training program through Clarks University and our Tuition Reimbursement program offer opportunities for both personal and professional growth and development. In addition, we offer an employee discount on all Clarks products.
Community Involvement:
As much as we grow as a company, we never forget that people are most important.
We believe that as a company we have an inherent responsibility to help in the community. Giving back is an important part of the way we do business. As an employee of Clarks, you'll have the opportunity to join our Newton, MA team who collect and distribute food to needy families; participate in The Two/Ten Foundation with other shoe organizations for corporate volunteer day; sell coupons to help raise money for Triangle (one of our non-profit friends assisting people with abilities); join our Kennett Square, PA team working to improve adult literacy, donate items to the Toys for Tots program in our Hanover, PA location, or work with multiple organizations to support breast cancer research with colleagues in the rest of the footwear industry.
We welcome your interest in Clarks and look forward to learning more about you.


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Our first site and primary gathering space is located on 2nd and Clarke. We worship here Sunday mornings at 9 and 11. Programming happens here almost 7 days a week. The Harambee Campus is also the business office for the congregation.
2600 N 2nd Street, Milwaukee, WI 53212.
Click on the picture for a map.
The second home to All Peoples is on the corner of 40th and Florist in the Thurstonwoods, Havenwoods, and Berryland communities. We have Sunday evening gatherings with an open mic at 5pm and worship at 5:30pm. This is also home to the Bread of Healing free health clinic.
5975 N 40th Street, Milwaukee WI 53209.
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In it, but not of it. TPM DC
Walker's Office: We're Still Enforcing Anti-Union Law -- Court Order Doesn't Apply To Us
Here is Huebsch's full statement, via WisPolitics:
"I have a legal obligation to execute all laws pertaining to my department that have been passed by both houses of the legislature, signed by the Governor, and published into law. The Department of Justice has concluded that 2011 Wisconsin Act 10 has met those requirements and is now effective law. My legal counsel agrees with the Department of Justice's legal reasoning and conclusions. Accordingly, it is my duty to administer that law.
"On the other hand, Judge Sumi made clear in comments from the bench yesterday that she intended to prevent further implementation of Act 10 by anyone including, apparently, non-parties such as myself and the Department of Administration. Yet, the TRO she issued fails to state that Act 10 is not in effect. In fact, Judge Sumi declined a request to declare that Act 10 was not lawfully published. It is unclear how she can issue an order binding non-parties to a case who have not had their day in court.
"Because of the questions this TRO raises, its legal effect on my implementation of Act 10 is also unclear. DOA will continue to monitor court proceedings and work with legal counsel and the Department of Justice to determine an appropriate course of action."
Two Fridays ago, Judge Sumi blocked the law on procedural grounds, issuing a temporary restraining order on the grounds the plaintiff, the Dane County District Attorney, had a likelihood of success in his complaint that a key conference committee used to advance the bill -- and to get around the state Senate Dems' walkout from the state -- had violated the state open-meetings law by failing to give proper 24-hours notice. The judge's order "restrain[ed] and enjoin[ed] the further implementation" of the law, including the prevention of Secretary of State Doug La Follette (D) from publishing the act in the Wisconsin State Journal. The State Journal acts as the state's official newspaper for the purpose of giving the public official notice of new laws -- the final step for the law to take effect. That decision is now going through an appeals process, which remains up in the air.
This past Friday, however, state Republicans had the bill published by a different state agency -- the Legislative Reference Bureau, which handles drafting and research for the legislature -- according to the LRB's statutory requirement to publish legislation within ten days of enactment. Notably, the LRB itself has said that this publication does not constitute action that would put the law into effect. But state Republican leaders, including Walker's office and the state Attorney General, say that the law is now in effect.
And Monday, Huebsch announced that he was now carrying out the law, with government employees' paychecks starting on April 21 to contain deductions for contributions to their health care and pensions -- and to no longer deduct union dues.
Then on Tuesday, Sumi issued another order to block the law -- and Assistant Attorney General Steven Means, who worked for Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, said the law would still hold:
"Apparently that language was either misunderstood or ignored, but what I said was the further implementation of Act 10 was enjoined. That is what I now want to make crystal clear," she said.
But minutes later, outside the court room, Assistant Attorney General Steven Means said the legislation "absolutely" is still in effect.
Correction: This post has been edited in order to clarify the nature of Judge Maryann Sumi's order blocking the bill.