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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 1:34 pm
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from the Random News thread, in need of its own thread
Federal judge overturns Prop 8.
on to the appeals
my favorite part here is that the anti-same-sex-marriage crowd's argument for putting a stay on the judge's decision is that they didn't want gay people to get married during the appeals only to get their marriages annulled or something later on
'cuz, y'know,
they care
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 1:47 pm
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i doubt the 9th circuit will overturn this - as i recall, they made the previous ruling that allowed gay marriages to happen in california. but the opposition will have to go through them before they can take it to the supremes...and then we will see if they have enough sense to see the tide is turning.
we will, of course, in the mean time, be hearing all the idiot arguments about how it's better for children, and how the whole history of civilization uphold the whole "one man, one women" thing - despite all the evidence presented in court to disprove the one, and all the history (including that of the mormon church) that disproves the other.
some filmmaker, i think, has put together a movie about all the shenanigans the mormon church pulled, in their backing this proposition -hope that gets good play as this is making its way through the courts.
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 1:48 pm
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Let's have a voter referendum on whether or not to comply with the federal court!
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Eat it, bigots.
attitude of a street punk, only cutting selected words out of context to get onself excuse to let one's dirty mouth loose
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I plan to celebrate with unambiguous hostility and mocking towards the losing side. They represent little more than entrenched bigots attempting to strip rights from others for the sake of their theological intolerances.
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the full ruling
makes for some interesting reading
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 3:15 pm
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What, then, are the justifications for California's decision in Proposition 8 to withdraw access to the institution of marriage for some of its citizens on the basis of their sexual orientation? The reasons I have heard are not very persuasive.
The explanation mentioned most often is tradition. But simply because something has always been done a certain way does not mean that it must always remain that way. Otherwise we would still have segregated schools and debtors' prisons. Gays and lesbians have always been among us, forming a part of our society, and they have lived as couples in our neighborhoods and communities. For a long time, they have experienced discrimination and even persecution; but we, as a society, are starting to become more tolerant, accepting, and understanding. California and many other states have allowed gays and lesbians to form domestic partnerships (or civil unions) with most of the rights of married heterosexuals. Thus, gay and lesbian individuals are now permitted to live together in state-sanctioned relationships. It therefore seems anomalous to cite "tradition" as a justification for withholding the status of marriage and thus to continue to label those relationships as less worthy, less sanctioned, or less legitimate.
The second argument I often hear is that traditional marriage furthers the state's interest in procreationand that opening marriage to same-sex couples would dilute, diminish, and devalue this goal. But that is plainly not the case. Preventing lesbians and gays from marrying does not cause more heterosexuals to marry and conceive more children. Likewise, allowing gays and lesbians to marry someone of the same sex will not discourage heterosexuals from marrying a person of the opposite sex. How, then, would allowing same-sex marriages reduce the number of children that heterosexual couples conceive?
This procreation argument cannot be taken seriously. We do not inquire whether heterosexual couples intend to bear children, or have the capacity to have children, before we allow them to marry. We permit marriage by the elderly, by prison inmates, and by persons who have no intention of having children. What's more, it is pernicious to think marriage should be limited to heterosexuals because of the state's desire to promote procreation. We would surely not accept as constitutional a ban on marriage if a state were to decide, as China has done, to discourage procreation.
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? Tellingly, when the judge in our case asked our opponent to identify the ways in which same-sex marriage would harm heterosexual marriage, to his credit he answered honestly: he could not think of any.
The simple fact is that there is no good reason why we should deny marriage to same-sex partners. On the other hand, there are many reasons why we should formally recognize these relationships and embrace the rights of gays and lesbians to marry and become full and equal members of our society.
No matter what you think of homosexuality, it is a fact that gays and lesbians are members of our families, clubs, and workplaces. They are our doctors, our teachers, our soldiers (whether we admit it or not), and our friends. They yearn for acceptance, stable relationships, and success in their lives, just like the rest of us.
This was a very straightforward example of a bad, bigoted law suffering the consequences of its truly unconstitutional and bigoted intent.
The defense of Prop 8 was pathetic tap-dancing around the true intent of the law's supporters, who tried as hard as they could to craft an artificial rationale in the hopes that it could have passed a secular test. The end result, a very poor and nonpersuasive set of arguments in its defense, an ultimately overwhelming case in its prosecution.
It, in fact, mirrors the resulting shortcomings of anti-miscegenation laws in many ways.
It will be remembered no more fondly than we recall our anti-miscegenation laws today.
Which all makes the expected torrent of judicial abuse all the more entertaining.
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Always check your moral blind spot or you might end up cutting off someone else's basic human rights.
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 3:55 pm
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Sam wrote:
The defense of Prop 8 was pathetic tap-dancing around the true intent of the law's supporters, who tried as hard as they could to craft an artificial rationale in the hopes that it could have passed a secular test. The end result, a very poor and nonpersuasive set of arguments in its defense, an ultimately overwhelming case in its prosecution.
exactly. i think their extremely poor defense just demonstrated the poverty of their position - it basically came down to "well, we don't have to present any evidence, because everyone knows we are right". well, they aren't right, and even they couldn't come up with reasons why they were. there is no valid basis for this law, just bigotry and narrow-minded religious zealotry. and there is no reason to expect the state to back you up on a thing like that.
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just starting on
the nytimes story
and found this:
Proponents for Proposition 8, which was heavily backed by the Mormon church and other religious and conservative groups, had offered a much more straightforward defense of the measure, saying that same-sex marriage damages traditional marriage as an institution. They also argued that marriage was essentially created to foster procreation, which same-sex unions could not, and
was thus fundamental to the existence and survival of the human race
holy fuck. they _actually_ believe that a) the human race is in danger of extinction due to lack of reproduction and 2) that somehow, allowing people
who aren't going to procreate whether or not they are gay-married
* is somehow the thing that is going to tilt the balance?
......man. how does someone that clueless get around in the world.
hm, all kinds of interesting bits.
There were also signs that Judge Walkers personal life several published reports have said he is gay -- might become an issue for those opposed to his ruling.
are conservatives really going to start screaming that a judge appointed by st. ronald of reagan is gay, and therefore a reagan appointee is untrustworthy?
which, by the way, is completely untrue- i know quite a few lesbians who have given birth to children, thus doing their female duty despite being forbidden to wed the one they love. honestly, the number of things these people don't know about sex and reproduction.....
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:19 pm
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are conservatives really going to start screaming that a judge appointed by st. ronald of reagan is gay, and therefore a reagan appointee is untrustworthy?
was there ever any doubt? I am listening to it happen right now.
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 6:52 pm
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the full ruling
makes for some interesting reading
I'm especially liking the court's assessment of witness credibility. I should have made popcorn for this.
*edit* for example, on page 49:
During trial, Blankenhorn was presented with a study that posed an empirical question whether permitting marriage or civil unions for same-sex couples would lead to the manifestations Blankenhorn described as indicative of deinstitutionalization. After reviewing and analyzing available evidence, the study concludes that laws permitting same-sex marriage or civil unions have no adverse effect on marriage, divorce, and abortion rates, the percent of children born out of wedlock, or the percent of households with children under 18 headed by women. PX2898 (Laura Langbein & Mark A Yost, Jr, Same-Sex Marriage and Negative Externalities, 90 Soc Sci Q 2 (June 2009) at 305-306). Blankenhorn had not seen the study before trial and was thus unfamiliar with its methods and conclusions. Nevertheless, Blankenhorn dismissed the study and its results, reasoning that its authors think that [the conclusion is] so self-evident that anybody who has an opposing point of view is not a rational person. Tr 2918:19-21.
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I want everyone to understand the facts of this case a little better. In fact, a lot better. I want you to read this entire thing. You will be surprised at some of these implications.
Like I skimmed this at first and got a glance at the larger picture. Then I read the whole thing, and a lot came together. You should do this too!
On August 4, 2010, Federal Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that Californias Proposition 8, which prohibits California from recognizing same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional. The ruling was stayed pending appealwhich means that nothing will happen until a Federal Appeals court reviews it. As you might imagine, it will be appealed. The ruling itself is 138 pages long. Ill summarize.
The previous lawsuit challenged Proposition 8 on procedural grounds. My post on that case is here. The California Supreme Court disagreed with me. Since the California Supreme Court gets the final say on the California Constitution, it got the last word.
The new suit was brought by two same-sex couples on different grounds. And, since it was brought in Federal court, the California Supreme Court doesnt get a say at all. Something strange happened. Californias government was sued. The Attorney General said, essentially, I agree that this thing is unconstitutional. The other government groups said, Im not going to bother defending this. So did a number of other people, including ProtectMarriage.com - Yes on 8.
The people who brought the lawsuit (the Plaintiffs) claimed two things. First, they claimed that marriage is a fundamental right under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. (There is some decent precedent on thisthe only question is whether the protected marriage is the one man/one woman kind of marriage). If the 14th Amendment protects same-sex marriage, the court reviews the case using strict scrutiny which Ill discuss below.
Second, they claimed that Prop. 8 discriminates against gay men and lesbians. Generally, the state is allowed to discriminatebut it has to have an adequate reason to discriminate.
For example, racial discrimination is still okay in prisons to prevent gang-violence along racial lines. Since race is whats called a suspect class, the government needs to have a really, really good reason to discriminate. (Narrowly tailored to a compelling government interest.)
Gender, on the other hand, is only a quasi-suspect class so it gets intermediate scrutiny. This means that the state needs to have a pretty good reason to discriminate. For example, we can have gender-segregated bathrooms but not race-segregated bathrooms. (The discrimination must further an important government interest in a way that is substantially related to that interest.)
Most things get rational basis review. We dont really have a history of discrimination of people who have brown hairso hair color falls into this everything else category. This means that the government can discriminate so long as it has an actual reason. (Rationally related to a legitimate government interest.) Rational basis scrutiny generally means that the government wins unless the governments goal is not a legitimate government end or its reasons are so laughably horrible that it is irrational.
There is a point to this digression. The question raised was whether sexual orientation is a suspect class, a quasi-suspect class, or a not really suspect class. The most recent Supreme Court that weighed in on it said that rational-basis scrutiny applied (but still overturned a Colorado Constitutional Amendment on the grounds that discriminating against gays was not, in itself, a legitimate government interest). The Plaintiffs claim that strict scrutiny should apply because sexual-orientation is a protected class. Since this is a fairly extreme claim, they also said that Prop. 8 is irrational or not based on a legitimate government purpose. (In this context irrational means that there are no rational reasonswhich is a very high bar. Similarly, legitimate government purpose can be very broad. It does not, however, include promoting a religious view point.) The 9th Circuitwhich is binding law in this caseseems to say that intermediate scrutiny should apply.
A trial happened. This means that the judge made findings of fact. He found that there was no evidence that Prop. 8 served a legitimate government interest. This is important because the case will be appealed. The appellate court will review the judges legal reasoning without giving any deference to what the judge decided. (De novo.) However, the factual findings will remain intact unless the trial judge did a terrible job. (Abuse of discretion.) When the trial court found the testimony of the anti-gay-marriage expert unreliable, it will keep that unreliable label through appeal. And when the judge says, the trial evidence provides no basis for something there will continue to be no evidence unless the appellate court finds an abuse of discretion.
The court found no basis for the claims that:
California has an interest in refusing to recognize marriage between two people because of their sex
California has an interest in differentiating between same-sex and opposite-sex unions
It also found that Proposition 8 could only be supported by a moral disapproval of gay people.
I should point out that Judge Walker knew the case would be appealed. His ruling essentially written to survive an appeal. For example, rather than disqualifying one of the anti-gay-marriage experts who lacked relevant degrees or peer-reviewed publications, he waited to decide whether the expert was qualified and determined that 1) the expert was not qualified, and 2) that even if the expert was qualified, he wasnt credible.
Because an appeal is virtually guaranteed, the most significant portion of this case is the findings of fact. As the legal maxim goes, bad facts make bad law. And Judge Walker laid out some very good facts. He found that Prop. 8 served no legitimate interest and that it was passed for the purposes of discrimination and advancing a private moral or religious agenda.
Judge Walker also makes these legal findings:
Same-sex marriage meets the historical requirements to be marriage rather than some new thing.
Domestic partnerships are not close enough to the same thing as marriage.
Prop. 8 does not serve a legitimate government interestlet alone a compelling government interest.
Prop. 8 discriminates on both sex and sexual orientation.
The highest level of scrutiny should be applied.
Even if we used the lowest level of scrutiny, Prop. 8 would fail because Prop. 8 satisfies no government interest.
A private moral view that same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-sex couples is not a proper basis for legislation
Proposition 8 was ruled unconstitutional.
So what happens next?
Nothing happens yet. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will review the case. After that, the U.S. Supreme Court will probably review it, regardless of what the 9th Circuit says. If the current ruling survives that, same-sex marriage will essentially become legal in every state. There was nothing to limit this holding to Prop. 8.
Will it survive appeal?
Maybe. The factual findings, as I mentioned, were pretty specific. And the opinion is quite persuasive. But if the Supreme Court doesnt feel like legalizing gay marriage everywhere, its not going to, regardless of how well the facts were laid out.
Some portion of the ruling will probably be narrowed. I would expect the court to choose a level of scrutiny other than strict scrutiny for sexual orientation discrimination.
This opinion has a very good chance of surviving appeal. On the other hand, the current Supreme Court has been handing down some very narrow rulings. This Prop. 8 opinion is pretty sweepingso the court might either reverse it or find a way to reach the same conclusion on much more narrow grounds.
Was this judicial activism?
If judicial activism means that a judge did something conservatives didnt like, then yes, it was judicial activism. Aside from that, this was a very well-reasoned opinion. Everybody got a fair trial. And one side won resoundingly.
Proposition 8 hinged on an operation staged by the Mormon church. The LDS staged a successful campaign and flooded the campaign with man-hours, leadership, operational expertise, campaigning, and money. They were the ones who, ultimately, made this proposition happen. There is sublime, deserving irony in that the mormon church is waking up this morning to the discovery that the sum of all its efforts, entanglements, operations, and funding towards the cause of preventing gay marriage may very well lead to gay marriage becoming legal in all states much, much faster than it would have otherwise.
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I'm throwing a party!
What makes me sad is when I scroll through my friend list, not enough of them would respond favorably to me going "EEEEEEEE PROP 8 IS OVERTURNED!!!!!"
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:26 pm
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just starting on
the nytimes story
and found this:
Proponents for Proposition 8, which was heavily backed by the Mormon church and other religious and conservative groups, had offered a much more straightforward defense of the measure, saying that same-sex marriage damages traditional marriage as an institution. They also argued that marriage was essentially created to foster procreation, which same-sex unions could not, and
was thus fundamental to the existence and survival of the human race
holy fuck. they _actually_ believe that a) the human race is in danger of extinction due to lack of reproduction and 2) that somehow, allowing people
who aren't going to procreate whether or not they are gay-married
* is somehow the thing that is going to tilt the balance?
......man. how does someone that clueless get around in the world.
That it does, dear mouse, that it does.
If you read "
was thus fundamental to the existence and
survival of our faith
" you'll be closer to what many, many people believe everywhere in the world. Time and again, I've seen this. I can recall numerous newspieces where some drama, assault, murder etc... happened because some git felt threatened by the sudden appearance of another lifestyle or religion.
Without making any judgment on your country domestic law, the point would better be why those morons feels they must act this way and how best counter or prevent it before some ugly accident happens again (cf. abortion practioner murders). There is a huge groundwork of explaination/teaching to do.
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Has Hillingdon Borough managed to find a way to introduce an ID card scheme that is non-intrusive, respects civil liberties – and is actually welcomed by local residents?
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In June, Hillingdon started to issue "HillingdonFirst" cards to residents, offering "access to services and privileges not available to non-residents". The council began sending cards out to residents over 18 on 15th June. According to the Hillingdon council website: "We will only store and print your name and card number. No address or financial information will be stored or printed on the card".
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Michael Parker, of campaign group NO2ID, spoke to El Reg. He said: "NO2ID is concerned about the normalisation of handing over huge amounts of info where there is no clear need and no clear strategy for how it will be used.
"This scheme looks fairly innocuous: the danger is it could be a Trojan Horse for future feature creep, leading to the card being far more like a traditional ID card. Our experience of "entitlement cards" in many areas around the country is that although they are marketed as providing privileges to local residents, they almost always end up being little more than excuses for data-gathering."
He added: "All these schemes would work as well with all information on the card and nothing on a central database."
In this case, the initiative appears to have less to do with the drive towards a database state, and far more to do with Hillingdon Council finding new ways to fund their services via stealth taxes. Their stated aim is for this scheme to cost nothing overall, as the price of local services will be fixed for residents – but increased for anyone coming in to Hillingdon from outside the Borough.
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The debate about the HHS mandate and religious liberty took a turn toward the surreal last Saturday when Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria rallied 500 men at the annual men's march against "the entrenched corruption and sheer incompetence of our Illinois state government, and even the calculated disdain of the President of the United States, his appointed bureaucrats in HHS, and of the current majority of the federal Senate." In case you didn't know it, all those people are Democrats. The bishop goes on to note that President Obama "seems intent on following a similar path" to that trod by Bismark in Germany, Clemenceau in France, and, of course, Hilter and Stalin, and, for good measure, "the hatred of Hollywood, the malice of the media, and the mendacious wickedness of the abortion industry."
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Objective: SWBAT identify relevant content for free response questions and communicate their solutions clearly so another person can understand their thinking.
Big Idea: Scoring well on the AP exam requires students to effectively communicate their thinking to others on Free Response Questions (FRQs). This lesson begins that preparation.
Math, motion along a line, Precalculus and Calculus, AP Exam, Differential Equations, calculus ab, Google Forms, calculus, AP Calculus, AP Calculus AB
120 minutes
Warm-up and Homework Review
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Setting the Stage
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Lesson Plan - Exam Preparation 1 - Setting the Stage.pdf
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Lesson Plan - Exam Preparation 1 - Investigation.pdf
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Closure + Homework
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This page is intended to summarize and define Lenya terminology, to point out usage inconsistencies and synonymous terms, and to collect pointers to more detailed information either in the official Lenya documentation or other pages in this wiki.
It is aimed at new Lenya users looking for a short primer, at proficient users in need of a handy reference and at developers and documentation writers who need a quick refresher in order to maintain consistent usage of technical terms in their code comments and docs.
For a comparison of Lenya's terminology with that of other Content Management Systems see CMSTerminologyComparison.
A more concise top-down overview of those key terms concerning Lenya content structure can be found at GlossaryStructure.
This page is meant to apply to all versions of Lenya, although it currently concentrates on Lenya 2.0. Where Lenya 1.2.X usage differs, please mark it with [Lenya 1.2.X].
- access control
- The functionality needed to restrict and control who may edit, publish or visit the content of a Lenya publication.
(see also OverviewAuthenticationAndAuthorization)
- accreditable
An access control object which can have certain =>roles on URLs. See also =>policies. Currently used accreditables are:
=>IP range
(1) n: An =>area. (2) v: The act of moving a deactivated document to the archive area for later reference or re-use (as opposed to deleting it).
In Lenya 1.2, the prefix "info-" can be added to the authoring, staging, archive, and trash areas. This is used to display the sitetree and page information (commonly refered to as "info area").
The areas share many properties (notably the presentation of the content), but can have additional properties of their own (an obvious example are the editing menus in the authoring area). Live and authoring can have different content.
A page moves from authoring to live and back according to =>workflows.
In the docs you will sometimes find term mode instead of "area" to describe the same concept.
(see also http://lenya.apache.org/1_4/concepts/authoring_live.html)
[The area concept is currently debated and will probably be scrapped for the next major release.]
- asset
- A generic term for image and other media files embedded in an XML document. In Lenya 1.2, assets belong to single pages. They are not versioned. In Lenya 2.0, assets are ordinary documents of type "resource", and they are included as links.
- authoring
see =>area
- Cocoon
- An web development framework under the hood of the Apache Software Foundation, built around the concepts of separation of concerns and component-based web development. Lenya is based on Cocoon, and basic Cocoon knowledge is essential to customize a Lenya-driven website.
(see also: OverviewCocoonKnowledge and http://cocoon.apache.org/)
- content
The entirety of information provided by a =>publication.
- content item
- A generic term including XML content (language versions) and assets.
[This is awkward. "document" seems to be the preferred term on the mailing lists.]
- content type
A synonym for =>resource type (Lenya 2.0) or =>document type (Lenya 1.2).
- context
Sometimes called the "servlet context", this refers to a URI prefix that may be required to distinguish the Lenya application from other web applications on the same server. Typically this is absent when running Lenya under the bundled Jetty application server, or "/lenya" when running under Tomcat, WebLogic or others. The context used to be a source of many bugs before Lenya 2.0, because it's easy to forget to include it when you are running in root context, causing your code to break when deployed in Tomcat. In Lenya 2.0, the ProxyTransformer takes care of prepending the context to all URLs before a page is delivered.
- deactivate
The act of removing a document from the =>live =>area. See also: =>workflow.
- document
The set of =>language versions of a piece of information grouped under a common document id, including its =>metadata. In Lenya 1.2, the term document refers to a single language version.
- delete
The act of moving a =>deactivated document into the =>trash.
- edit
To open a file in one of the editors, make changes, and save those changes. See also: =>workflow.
- fallback mechanism
A key concept for =>publication templating. Resources requested using the fallback =>protocol are first searched in the current publication; if not found, the template is searched, then the template's template, etc. If all sitemaps etc. of a publication (including used modules) use the fallback protocol consistently, the publication will completely support templating. The fallback mechanism is also used in modules, where it allows module resources such as stylesheets to be overridden by the publication.
- group
see =>access control
- identity
An object storing information about a client that accesses a Lenya server. The identity contains a reference to the user, to the machine and to the world. If you don't log in, the identity only contains your machine IP address and the world.
- info
see =>area
- internationalization
- The act of abstracting a document from a specific language. In addition to providing translations of entire documents, you can replace often-used strings by special keys which will then be translated ("localized") with a catalogue file. This is handled by Cocoon.
see also: http://solprovider.com/lenya/&cat=Language (Lenya 1.2 specific, but gives a good overview)
see also: http://cocoon.apache.org/2.0/userdocs/transformers/i18n-transformer.html (the cocoon I18nTransformer that governs i18n in Lenya)
- i18n
see =>internationalization
- live
see =>area
- localization
The act of translating the contents of a document that has been internationalized (=>internationalization) into a target language. This can also include re-formatting date/time fields and currency according to local usage.
- l10n
see =>localization
- metadata
- The set of additional information belonging to a document that is not part of the data itself (e.g. data about the data). Lenya 2.0 uses Dublin-Core metadata by default and allows for arbitrary custom metadata as well.
see also: http://lenya.apache.org/docs/2_0_x/reference/metadata.html
- mode
Currently a synonym for =>area, will be used exclusively when the area concept is given up in later revisions.
- module
- Packages providing a certain set of resources or functionality, such as
- a resource type (e.g., docbook module)
- a repository implementation (e.g., jdbc module)
- a collection of XSLTs (e.g., content2svg module)
(see also http://lenya.apache.org/1_4/reference/modules/index.html)
- navigation
- policy
A policy assigns a set of =>roles to an =>accreditable on a specific URL. The resulting role set of an identity is the union set of the roles of the accreditables belonging to the identity. Example:
- policy 1: user John has the role "edit" on the URL "/news"
- policy 2: IP range 22.214.171.124/255.255.0.0 has the role "review" on the URL "/news" If John logs in from a machine in this IP range, he has the roles "edit" and "review" on the URL "/news".
- protocol
A specifier used in URIs to define where the content comes from and in which format. The most famous is likely http://. In Lenya publication sitemaps, you will find the following protocols:
- from Cocoon:
file:// - read a file from disk, using the operating system's path as the URI
cocoon:// - request a resource from the cocoon servlet (handled by the sitemap pipelines, so this need not exist as an actual file)
context:// - request a file from disk, using the webapp context directory as root
- Lenya-specific:
lenya-document:// - request a document from the Lenya storage by its =>UUID and optionally language and revision (i.e. independent of its current location in the site tree)
site:// - request a document based on its sitetree path
fallback:// - request a file using the =>fallback mechanism
fallback-template:// - dito, but skip the current publication and start looking in its template instead
aggregate-fallback:// - concatenate the content of a file in this publication with the contents in all ancestors
Protocols are implemented using =>source factories.
lenya:// - request a file from disk (same as context:/, but the returned source is a RepositorySource with additional features) FIXME: is that correct?
(see also http://lenya.apache.org/1_4/reference/protocols/index.html)
[Needs proofreading and completion. Lenya-Metadata factory is missing.]
- from Cocoon:
- publication
A website created with Lenya. A Lenya installation can contain more than one publication. Publications can either be fully independent, or they can share common properties via =>publication templating.
(see also http://lenya.apache.org/1_4/concepts/publication.html)
[Some people feel this term is unfortunate (why not just call it a "site"?), but for now we're stuck with it.]
- publication templating
A mechanism for sharing properties between publications. Every publication can be used as a template for new publications, producing derived publications or child publications. Provided you use the "New Publication" usecase, all publications will ultimately be based on the default publication that comes with Lenya.
Templating is implemented using the fallback mechanism, a lenya-specific uri resolver that can be applied to any uri reference in xml files by using fallback:// as a protocol specifier. If this is done consistently, publications can share arbitrary properties (i.e. xslt files, configuration files, user/group account files, sample pages, resource types etc.) from their template or from the default publication. The fallback mechanism operates on a file level. Thus it can only be applied to whole files (not parts thereof), and only if those files are referenced by URIs in configuration files. The creation of a new child publication from a template is called instantiation. Therefore, you will sometimes find the term "instance of template X" instead of "child of X".
Child publications can use features of their template(s) in two ways: by copying files from the template during instantiation, or by referencing those files. Copying severs the link between child and template - later changes to the template will not affect the child. Referencing implies that all changes to the template will immediately affect the child as well, since the child uses the template's property.
(see also http://lenya.apache.org/1_4/reference/publication-templating/index.html)
- publish
see =>workflow
- resource
- A generic term in need of clarification that can mean almost anything.
- resource type
An XML source format for Lenya =>documents, together with processing options. It typically consists of
- an XML structure definition (e.g., Relax NG)
- some presentation pipelines,
- some presentation XSLT stylesheets,
- usecases to manipulate documents.
The default publication contains the resource types xhtml, homepage, OpenDocument, CForms and links.
(see also http://lenya.apache.org/1_4/reference/resource-types.html)
- review
The act of proof-reading a =>submitted document and deciding whether to =>publish or to =>reject it. See also: =>workflow.
- revision control
The ability to preserve past states of documents, roll back to them as needed and show the differences between revisions. Lenya currently has a file-based revision control mechanism and an experimental new one based on the JackRabbit implementation of the JCR (or Java Content Repository) API (JCR development is currently stalled, though).
(see also JcrConfiguration)
- role
The capabilities and privileges of an =>identity. Policies are used to determine the roles of an identity for acertain URL. Roles are used to define conditions for =>workflow transitions, and to restrict access to =>usecases. The default publication defines four basic roles that a lenya user can have. An admin can control all aspects of a publication and create, delete or modify users and groups. An editor can modify and create new content, but cannot publish it; for this, s/he hands the work to a reviewer, who does the final check and decides whether the page can go live. The visitor is just allowed to view pages. You can define custom roles and workflows.
Roles are frequently assigned via =>group membership, but do not confuse roles and groups. OverviewAccessControl has a good explanation of how different they are.
- site
A synonym for =>publication.
- sitemap
- A concept from Apache Cocoon; an XML file that governs how page requests are handled, i.e. where the data comes from and how it has to be transformed and presented to the user.
(see also OverviewSitemapStructure and http://lenya.apache.org/1_4/reference/lenya-sitemaps.html)
- site tree
The tree-representation of the hierarchical relationship of documents within a site. Currently implemented as an XML file under <pubname>/content/sitetree.xml.
- site tree node
- A particular document entry within the site tree.
- source factory
A piece of Java code implementing a =>protocol. Used in sitemaps.
- submit
The act of passing on an =>edited document to =>review. See also: =>workflow.
- translation
- Version of a document in a specific language.
- trash
- An intermediate storage space to hold deleted documents. They can be un-deleted until the trash is emptied by the site administrator.
- usecase
- (1) A user-triggered action. (2) The corresponding code to implement it.
(see also http://lenya.apache.org/1_4/reference/usecase-framework/index.html)
- usecase handler
Java class which is used to implement the functionality provided by a =>usecase.
- user
see =>access control
- As of Lenya 2.0, documents are stored based on a universally unique ID (UUID), not on their location. All internal links now use UUIDs as well. This means that links don't break when documents are moved around, and moving documents does not entail data shuffling in the repository.
- version
A particular state of a document with a time stamp, used in =>revision control.
- workflow
A sequence of actions necessary to accomplish a task. For instance, in order to move a page from the authoring to the live area, an editor must submit it. A reviewer can then reject it (it gets sent back to the editor for some more polishing) or publish it, in which case the page moves to the live area. To move a page back from live to authoring, a reviewer must deactivate it. Afterwards, it can either be re-published or deleted.
Workflow transitions are typically invoked when a =>usecase is executed. Moreover, in a workflow context, "usecase" is sometimes used as a synonym for "workflow transition".
In Lenya, the workflow of a document is controlled by a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_state_machine with arbitrary states, transitions, and events, which is expressed using XML. Each resource type can use its own workflow schema. You can implement custom conditions to be checked before a transition can fire, this requires custom java code.
- zones
The Lenya staging server under http://lenya.zones.apache.org. It hosts the Lenya demos and the latest auto-generated docs from SVN.
To do
- cross-reference each term to the appropriate docs
- keep each definition short and sweet. perhaps the more verbose explanations can be merged into the docs if it makes them easier to understand?
- maintain alphabetic order
New terms coined for this section
- property (any file within a publication)
- child publication (we have instance, but i think that's too OOP)
Are there better, already established terms for these concepts? If so, let's use them instead and get rid of these new ones.


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The Taiwan Nurses Association will hold Asia-Pacific Nursing Research Conference on September 11-13, 2014 at Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan. All nursing experts from Asia-Pacific Region are welcomed to submit their abstracts. Participants will have the opportunity to network with nurses from different societies. Papers may be presented in podium, poster and symposium. The conference theme is "Promoting Global Health: From Research to Practice.", Concurrent session including 14 issues: Disaster nursing,Women's health nursing, Infectious/ communicable disease nursing, Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, Burn/emergency/trauma nursing, Aged-related care, Evidence-based health care, Evidence-based health care, Complementary health practice, Nursing education, Nurses practice environment, Patient safety and quality healthcare, Nursing leadership, Global health and others. Please read through directions carefully prior to submitting an abstract. Submission deadline is December 31, 2013.
For more information go to: http://www.apnrc.tw/
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Anthony J. Fredo, 99, crane operator, photographer
Jan. 14, 1914 – April 4, 2013
Anthony J. Fredo, of South Buffalo, a retired steelworker, died Thursday after a short illness in Dallas, where he had lived since January. He was 99.
Born in Fort Erie, Ont., as the oldest of eight children, he came to Buffalo in 1936 and worked for 40 years at Bethlehem Steel Corp. in Lackawanna. A crane operator, he retired in 1976.
Mr. Fredo also was a professional photographer. He owned and operated Fredo's Photos and took photos of weddings from the 1960s to the 1980s.
An avid golfer, he was a member of the Cazenovia Golf Club in South Buffalo and continued playing until two years ago.
He also worked at his son James' driving range, Hideaway Golf in Lackawanna, every summer through last year.
Mr. Fredo was a fourth-degree member of the Knights of Columbus.
A South Buffalo resident since 1955, he spent winters in Bradenton, Fla., for more than 30 years.
His wife of 72 years, Irene Helbling Fredo, died in September.
Survivors include two sons, James and George; two daughters, Diane Orsini and Irene Lessard; and a sister, Antoinette Maloney.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10:15 a.m. Saturday in St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church, 1140 Abbott Road.


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Caltech's faith in the hard-won patent was not matched by industry: three years later, no one had licensed the rights to the invention. So in 2008, Caltech exclusively licensed it, along with 50 other patents, to a subsidiary of Intellectual Ventures, a company that has stockpiled 40,000 patents from which it collects US$3 billion in licensing income. The firm sometimes uses its patents to sue other companies for infringement, yet it rarely develops the inventions described by its intellectual property.
Such patent-assertion entities, sometimes called aggregators, monetizers or 'patent trolls', are questionable homes for university inventions. But in the push to get academic research out of the ivory tower — and to make money — university technology-transfer offices are becoming less choosy about their partners.
"As universities struggle to find revenue sources, one might worry that the monetization industry will be very tempting," says Robin Feldman, director of the Institute for Innovation Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. There are already signs that this is happening, she adds. Last year, she published evidence that 45 universities around the world licensed or sold patents to Intellectual Ventures shell companies (T. Ewing and R. Feldman Stanford Technol. Law Rev. 1; 2012).
Read the full story from Nature here.


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Tom Waits, in full Thomas Alan Waits, (born December 7, 1949, Pomona, California, U.S.), American singer-songwriter whose gritty, sometimes romantic depictions of the lives of the urban underclass won him a loyal if limited following and the admiration of critics and prominent performers who performed and recorded his songs.
Born into a middle-class California family but enamoured of the bohemian lifestyle depicted in Beat literature, Waits lived in his car and in seedy Los Angeles hotels as he embarked on his career. His raspy vocals, delivered in his signature growl, evoked the late-night atmosphere of the smoky clubs in which he first performed in the late 1960s. Drawing on jazz, blues, pop, and avant-garde rock music, he combined offbeat orchestrations with his own piano and guitar playing and stream-of-consciousness lyrics that reflected the influence of writers Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski. Although Waits's albums found considerable commercial success in Britain beginning in the mid-1980s, even his best-selling albums—Small Change (1976) and Heartattack and Vine (1980)—failed to crack the American Top 40. His songs, however, have been recorded by the Eagles ("Ol' 55"), Bruce Springsteen ("Jersey Girl"), and Rod Stewart ("Downtown Train"). He also scored films, cowrote the stage musical Frank's Wild Years (which premiered in 1986), and collaborated with writer William S. Burroughs and theatre director Robert Wilson on another musical, The Black Rider (1990). Waits's 1992 release Bone Machine, typical of his increasingly experimental musical efforts in the 1990s, won a Grammy Award for best alternative music album. His 1999 album, Mule Variations, was also much praised. Later albums include Blood Money (2002), Alice (2002), Real Gone (2004), and Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards (2006), a sprawling collection of 56 songs. In 2009 Waits released Glitter and Doom, a series of live recordings from his 2008 concert tour. Waits's first studio release since 2004, Bad as Me (2011), a collection of blues-tinged, whiskey-soaked love songs, was greeted with wide critical acclaim. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
The theatrical posturing of Waits's live performances led in the 1980s to an alternate career as a film actor, notably in Down by Law (1986). He made further appearances in Dracula (1992), Mystery Men (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), and Domino (2005). His saturnine features and gravelly voice perfectly suited him to Mephistophelian roles, and he deployed these attributes to memorable effect as one of the "people in charge" of purgatory in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) and as the Devil himself in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009).


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The first order of business should be to hire graphic artists who know what they are doing. They will be able to mix the visual and the textual elements so that everything looks great. The pictorial elements are likely to be especially crucial, as they will provide a first impression to anyone who is visiting the site on a whim.(read entire article)
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Community Impact Statements
Community impact statements are presented to the court by prosecutors from the Minneapolis City Attorney's Office to show the negative impact a specific offender or a specific crime has, not only on the victims of the crime but also on the community in which the crime took place.
Submit a Community Impact Statement
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Instant, No Hassle Connections
Universal Serial Bus (USB) connects more than computers and peripherals. It has the power to connect you with a whole new world of PC experiences.
USB is your instant connection to the fun of digital photography or the limitless creative possibilities of digital imaging. You can use USB to connect with other people through the power of PC-telephony and video conferencing. Once you've tried USB, we think you'll grow quite attached to it!


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The MIAA stripped Gardner High of its 2012 South/Central girls' swimming title yesterday and placed the school on probation for two years for alleged rules violations. The MIAA also said the 16-time state champions were "more reflective of a non-school club team than a school team."
The MIAA stripped Gardner High of its 2012 South/Central girls' swimming title yesterday and placed the school on probation for two years for alleged rules violations.
The MIAA also said the 16-time state champions were "more reflective of a non-school club team than a school team."
According to a letter from MIAA president Brian McCann to Gardner superintendent of schools Carol Daring, the Wildcats may have broken the MIAA's "bona fide team" rule, which states that high school team members can't miss "a high school practice or competition in order to participate in a non-school athletic activity/event in any sport recognized by the MIAA."
The letter includes several "alleged" violations of that rule, including days when Gardner High swimmers are said to have skipped school practices to attend club events.
The violations were first alleged by Karen Cornetta, the mother of GHS swimmer Katie Cornetta, who reported the findings of her year-long personal investigation to the MIAA and school officials.
In addition to the alleged rules violations, McCann — the principal at Joseph Case High in Swansea — also said Gardner's 2012 roster included "only one Gardner High student who was not connected to the team through school choice, home schooling, or through a cooperating school."
"This is unusual," McCann wrote.
According to the letter, most of Gardner's swimmers were also members of the Greenwood Swim Club, coached by then-GHS coach Don Lemieux.
"Another suggestion that your team was more reflective of a non-school club team than a school team," McCann wrote.
As part of its probation, only Gardner High students will be allowed to compete on the school's swim team.
In his letter, McCann said "it appears" that "high school team members were permitted to be absent from their high school practice on days when they were participating in club activities (a clear violation of the Association's bona fide team rule)."
Lemieux stepped down in February after he was not allowed to accompany his team to the state meet.
In addition to Gardner's 2012 sectional title, the MIAA sanctions announced yesterday also "require that all regular-season competitions in which ineligible members competed (by virtue of bona-fide team violations, home school ineligibility, etc.) be forfeited."
The MIAA gave Gardner High until Nov. 26 to complete this process.
The letter did not make specific reference to the school's 16 state championships, all won under Lemieux, but suggested they were not won fairly.
"It appears that MIAA championships earned by your teams over the years, if this past year is any indication, were achieved by a non-school 'club team' rather than an education-based high school team," McCann said.
Lemieux, a swim coach with a national following, has denied any wrongdoing. The MIAA's letter makes no reference to him.
"Kids school-choiced to Gardner High for swimming, and I can't control that," Lemieux said yesterday. "Kids came here because they want to swim for me. If the school didn't want them here, they could have told them no."
During its two-year probation, the MIAA suggested that Gardner High's "school leadership needs to demonstrate to the MIAA Board of Directors better institutional control of the athletic program, and establish protocols that will ensure compliance with all local and Association policies."
The letter begins by thanking Gardner High principal Donna Pierce and assistant principal Tim McCormick for their "cordiality and openness."


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How to Make and Can Tomato Juice - Easily! With Step-by-step Photos, Recipe, Directions, Ingredients and Costs
This month's notes: August 2018: Stored US apples are still available. See your state's crop availability calendar for more specific dates of upcoming crops.
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And we have home canning, preserving, drying and freezing directions. You can access recipes and other resources from the drop down menus at the top of the page or the site search. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to write me! Also make your own ice cream; see How to make ice cream and ice cream making equipment and manuals. Have fun, eat healthier and better tasting, and save money by picking your own locally grown fruit and vegetables, and then using our easy directions
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How to Make and Can Tomato Juice at Home - Easily!
Click here for a PDF print versionMaking and canning your own tomato juice is also quite easy. And imagine how much better it will taste in the winter, with the flavor of home grown tomatoes! Just scroll down this page to see how to do it, in easy steps and completely illustrated. I like it with the basil, but you can also make plain tomato juice, too. The only special equipment you need is a pressure canner and canning jars with new lids. Caution: Do not add other vegetables or thickening agents to home canned tomato juice.) If you want to make a Mixed tomato-vegetable juice (like "V8") see this page.
- Tomatoes (any quantity - see step one)
- Lemon Juice (less than a cup)
- Jar funnel ($2 at Target, other big box stores, and often grocery stores; and available online - see this page) or order it as part of the kit with the jar grabber.
- Jar grabber (to pick up the hot jars)-
Big box stores and grocery stores sometimes carry them; and it is
available online - see this page. It's a tremendously useful to
put jars in the canner and take the hot jars out (without scalding
yourself!). The kit sold below has everything you need, and at a pretty
good price:
- At least 1 large pot; I prefer 16 to 20 quart Teflon lined pots for easy cleanup.
- Large spoons and ladles
- 1 Water Bath or Pressure Canner - see this page for more information).
- Canning jars (Grocery stores, like Publix, Kroger, Safeway carry them, as do some big box stores - about $7 per dozen 8 ounce jars including the lids and rings)
- Lids - thin, flat, round metal lids with a gum binder that seals them against the top of the jar. They may only be used once.
- Rings - metal bands that secure the lids to the jars. They may be reused many times.
Optional stuff:
- Lid lifter (has a magnet to pick the lids out of the boiling water where you sanitize them. ($2 at big box stores or it comes in the kit at left)
Step 1 - Selecting the tomatoes
It's fun to go pick your own and you can obviously get better quality tomatoes!
Wash, remove stems, and trim off bruised or discolored portions of the tomatoes.
Quantity: An average of 23 pounds is needed per canner load of 7 quarts, or an average of 14 pounds per canner load of 9 pints. A bushel weighs about 53 pounds and yields 15 to 18 quarts of juice - an average of 31/4 pounds per quart.
At right is a picture of tomatoes from my garden - they are so much better than anything from the grocery store. And if you don't have enough, a pick-your-own farm is the pace to go! At right are 4 common varieties that will work:
|Top left: Beefsteak
|Top right: Lemon Boy, yellow
|Bottom left: Roma, paste-type
|Bottom right: Better Boy
Also, you don't want mushy, bruised or rotten tomatoes!
Caution: Do not can tomatoes from dead or frost-killed vines. Green tomatoes are more acidic than ripened fruit and can be canned safely, also.
Step 2 - Wash the jars and lids
Now's a good time to get the jars ready, so you won't be rushed later. The dishwasher is fine for the jars; especially if it has a "sanitize" cycle, the water bath processing will sanitize them as well as the contents! If you don't have a dishwasher with a sanitize cycle, you can wash the containers in hot, soapy water and rinse, then sanitize the jars by boiling them 10 minutes, and keep the jars in hot water until they are used.
NOTE: If unsanitized jars are used, the product should be processed for 5 more minutes. However, since this additional processing can result in a poor set (runny jam), it's better to sanitize the jars.
Put the lids into a pan of hot, but not quite boiling water (that's what the manufacturer's recommend) for 5 minutes, and use the magnetic "lid lifter wand" to pull them out. Leave the jars in the dishwasher on "heated dry" until you are ready to use them. Keeping them hot will prevent the jars from breaking when you fill them with the hot jam.
Lids: put the lids into a pan of hot water for at least several minutes; to soften up the gummed surface and clean the lids.
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Step 3 - Cut up the tomatoes and quickly put into the pot
To prevent the juice from separating, quickly cut about 1 pound of tomatoes at a time into quarters and put directly into a saucepan on the stove. (If you are not concerned about juice separation, simply slice or quarter all of the tomatoes at once into a large saucepan.)
Juicers? Can you use a juicer? Certainly! It will eliminate step 6 and 7 later on, but, of course, you will need to simmer for 5 minutes (step 5). The one potential downside to using a juicer is that the juice may later separate (clarify) into a top and bottom portion, for the reasons already explained above.
Step 4 - Heat to boiling and keep adding tomatoes
Heat immediately to boiling while crushing (I use a potato masher). Continue to slowly add and crush freshly cut tomato quarters to the boiling mixture; repeating steps 4 and 5. Make sure the mixture boils constantly and vigorously while you add the remaining tomatoes.
Step 5 - Continue cooking
Simmer 5 minutes after you add all pieces. Crush, heat, and simmer for 5 minutes before juicing.
Step 6 - Sieve
Press the heated tomato juice through a sieve or food mill to remove skins and seeds. I use the Foley food mill, shown at right
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Step 7 - Heat the strained tomato juice again
Heat the juice again to boiling.
Step 8 - Add lemon juice and seasoning TO EACH STILL EMPTY JAR
Add bottled lemon juice or citric acid to jars, as described in the next paragraph, to acidify the contents. This helps avoid spoilage and increase safety.
Acidification: To ensure safe acidity in whole, crushed, or juiced tomatoes, add two tablespoons of bottled lemon juice or 1/2 teaspoon of citric acid (such as "Fruit Fresh") per quart of tomatoes. For pints, use one tablespoon bottled lemon juice or 1/4 teaspoon citric acid. Acid can be added directly to the jars before filling with product. Add 1 tablespoon of sugar to offset acid taste, if desired. Four tablespoons of a 5 percent acidity vinegar per quart may be used instead of lemon juice or citric acid. However, vinegar may cause undesirable flavor changes, compared with lemon juice or citric acid.
Seasoning: Add 1 teaspoon of salt per quart to the jars, if desired. I also add 1 teaspoon of ground basil.
Step 9 - Fill the jars and put the lid and rings on
Fill jars with hot tomato juice, leaving 1/2-inch headspace. Adjust lids and process following to the instructions in the tables below according to the type of canner you have. (Acidification is still required for the pressure canning options; follow all steps in the Procedures above for any of the processing options.)
Note: the charts below will help you determine the right processing time and pressure, if you have a different type of canner, or are above sea level.
Water Bath Canner:
|Table 1. Recommended process time for Tomato Juice in a boiling-water canner. (shown at left)
|Hot pack
|Process Time at Altitudes of
|Jar Size
|0 - 1,000 ft
|1,001 - 3,000 ft
|3,001 - 6,000 ft
|Above 6,000 ft
|35 min
Pressure canners:
|Table 2. Recommended process time for Tomato Juice in a dial-gauge pressure canner. (not shown)
|Hot pack
|Canner Gauge Pressure
(PSI) at Altitudes of
|Jar Size
|Process Time
|0 - 2,000 ft
|2,001 - 4,000 ft
|4,001 - 6,000 ft
|6,001 - 8,000 ft
|Pints or
|20 min
|6 lb
|7 lb
|8 lb
|9 lb
|Table 3. Recommended process time for Tomato Juice in a weighted-gauge pressure canner (not shown).
|Hot pack
|Canner Gauge Pressure
(PSI) at Altitudes
|Jar Size
|Process Time
|0 - 1,000 ft
|Above 1,000 ft
|20 min
|5 lb
|10 lb
|Not Recommended
Step 10 - Remove the jars
Lift the jars out of the water and let them cool on a wooden cutting board or a towel, without touching or bumping them in a draft-free place (usually takes overnight), here they won't be bumped. You can then remove the rings if you like, but if you leave them on, at least loosen them quite a bit, so they don't rust in place due to trapped moisture. Once the jars are cool, you can check that they are sealed verifying that the lid has been sucked down. Just press in the center, gently, with your finger. If it pops up and down (often making a popping sound), it is not sealed. If you put the jar in the refrigerator right away, you can still use it. Some people replace the lid and reprocess the jar, then that's a bit iffy. If you heat the contents back up, re-jar them (with a new lid) and the full time in the canner, it's usually ok. You're done!
Once cooled, they're ready to store. I find they last up to 12 months. But after about 6 to 8 months, they get darker in color and start to get runny. They still are safe to eat, but the flavor and texture aren't as good. So eat them in the first 6 months after you prepare them!
This document was adapted from the "Complete Guide to Home Canning," Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 539, USDA, revised 1994.
Please read Using Pressure Canners and Using Boiling Water Canners before beginning. If this is your first time canning, it is recommended that you read Principles of Home Canning.
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I went to the gym on Monday morning to work out some of the soreness on the elliptical machine. We had 2 occupational therapy appointments on Tuesday and Wednesday morning, so I couldn't get to the gym. I had planned to go to the gym yesterday, but decided not to because it seems I have fallen victim to the nasty respiratory yuck that my children seem to have brought home from school. I decided to take it easy and go for a brisk walk instead.
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KIRKLAND -- STRIKE 1: In the spring of 2008 I bought three bicycles for my children at the Canadian Tire Franchise located 16821 Rte Trans Canada, Kirkland Quebec owned by Claude L'Hereux. They cost me around $600.00 and they lasted only one season. One of the bikes even had the handle bars come off when my son was riding. The reason they lasted one season was two of the bikes had the gears break and were non-repairable. The third the brakes broke and were toocostly to replace. The comment from the bike repair shops was the bikes are garbage.
STRIKE 2: In 2009 I bought from them a store brand of a wet/dry shop vac. After one use I returned it, why you ask? The wheels kept coming off during use, the wand for the brush was so thin I thought it would snap and the brush at the end kept falling off. When I returned it to this store it was as if I was creating a great insult to them. When I asked for my money back they refused, saying I was only entitled to a store credit because I had used it. I regretted not buying the real Shop Vac from Costco in the first place. If I had this problem with Costco I would have had my money returned.
STRIKE 3: In July 2009 I bought a gas trimmer on sale with a 2 year warranty from them for $169.00, regular price was $259.00. In September 2010 I brought the machine to manufacturer's service center where it was determined the trimmer was beyond repair. I was given a note from them to return it to the store for either a replacement or refund. I wanted a refund. Guess what? They did not want to give my money back, only a store credit. Imagine the trouble I went through with this machine and they were only interested in forcing me to buy more junk from them.
They even wanted my phone number to check to see if I was one of those chronic returners. Finally after confirming with the manufacturer they relented reluctantly. Although by this time the supervisor took over and tried to stick me with a store credit again. I try to support Canadian business but the quality of the products they carry and how difficult it is to get your money back from them is not worth it. I do think that this particular franchise is worst then average to deal with.
I spend 10k a year at Costco and I only returned a one item in the last year without a bill for $100 with no problems. The quality, the low pricing and service is there. When I had to return something for credit it was with no difficulty.
You know what they say "three strikes and you're out of my purchases Canadian Tire".
WINNIPEG -- On our last visit to the Garden City Mall Canadian Tire location we were very disappointed. I was waiting in the chain aisle for 10 minutes after pushing the service button. (I needed 12 feet of chain cut.) After waiting the 10 minutes I pushed it again, and again I heard the announcement over the PA. When I went to the service counter to see if I could get help, there were 5 employees chatting and laughing. I interrupted (in a pleasant tone) and asked for help and a man in his late 40's, early 50's said he'd "take care of this" to the other staff. (I was later told his name was **.) I thought that was a rude response and said, "sorry, but I've been waiting 15 minutes and no one came.
Then I walked all the aisles in that section while my partner waited by the chains and I couldn't find anyone. He told me I had to push the service button, like I'm an idiot. I told him "I pushed it twice" and he said that I must have cancelled it out. I told him "I heard it announced over the PA both times and there was 10 minutes between pushes". I started to feel attacked and told him it wouldn't be a big deal, but I didn't expect to see 5 employees standing around laughing.
He asked what I did for a living and assured me that at my profession I would be allowed to take occasional breaks. I told him what I do and that in fact, NO, if we're seen to be standing around with nothing to do that we are considered unnecessary and let go. (I work in the entertainment industry and it's pretty cutthroat, but at the wages we get, to stand around and do nothing is expensive.) I also told him that I have done customer service and breaks were always taken off the floor as not to confuse customers, and that I had been waiting for help. He kept saying, "I'm so sure that's the case, ma'am." in a very sarcastic tone.
All he had to do was apologize and laugh it off, say it's a shift change or an employee's birthday or anything that would defuse the situation. Instead he challenged me, which I didn't expect from Canadian Tire. They're usually more laid back. I wasn't actually upset until I felt antagonized. He said a few more condescending comments and I walked away with my partner, telling him what a jerk he had just been. I emailed Customer service and never heard back. Truly disappointing as we spend upwards of $3000 there a year.
KINGSTON, ON CANADA -- Canadian Tire uses false advertising to get you into their Store and then charges you full price for the item in the flier. The flier advertised kitty litter for $4.99, on sale from $8.99. The written description had the brand name and the size of the litter. It did not state selected varieties, or scented only. I went to the store and they had a large display at the end of the aisle all unscented, that usually means that is the product on sale. That's not where I picked mine up though. I went to the regular shelf that had the yellow sale tags all over the shelves. Again nowhere did it say selected varieties or scented only. I get to the cash register and they charge me the $8.99.
Forget about trying to talk to a manager, she accused me of being illiterate because the picture showed a box of the litter and if you looked really closely at the picture it was a scented box. Of course they did not have any scented variety to sell at $4.99, only the unscented at $8.99. It must be much more expensive to make it without the scent!! I requested a rain check but of course they weren't giving those out. BEWARE OF SHOPPING AT CANADIAN TIRE. THEY ARE OUT TO RIP YOU OFF!
TRAIL, BC, CANADA -- My compliments to Canadian Tire in Trail BC on two points. First, the AM Ford dealership diagnosed my vehicle as needing work done on the brakes but could not schedule anything until the week after next because they were too busy selling and changing out tires. I drove over to Canadian Tire and they scheduled me in to accommodate my travel plans. Second, as I was leaving the store, the exit alarm sounded. I had not, of course, taken anything. Also, of course, I waited and staff approached. There was none of that intimidating stuff that you might see in other stores. They were just trying to help me figure out what set off the alarm. I cooperated and we tried a number of things. We never did figure out what was setting it off, and I even offered to let them search me, which they declined to do. After a few minutes they just let me go.
Throughout this they were very pleasant and polite, which I think is unusual in this situation. Admittedly, they probably wouldn't have been so pleasant and polite if it had turned out that I had stolen something, but nevertheless, I think it is worth omplimenting them for their professional behavior.
MISSISSAUGA -- Date Ordered: 2004-08-10 23:59:38. I ordered a mattress on 10th Aug 2004 online being a new resident in city. Due to the very fact of not having own vehicle, I paid online against order by credit card on 10th of Aug for door delivery. To my astonishment till today (March 2005) I have not received the ordered items. My family suffered firstly because of waiting indefinitely in hope of getting the mattress but to no avail. Till today March 2005, I have not received product from Canadian Tire and now - big but not final SHOCK & BLOW - comes to me when my credit card company TD Canada Trust Visa charged me 189 C$ for third time for the non-delivered goods.
I have been so far charged $567.00 and 100s of complaints to Canadian Tire & TD visa card for the undelivered goods which costs only 189$ if delivered. As a new resident in this country I sought help from my bank, Canadian Tire, Dispute Settlement Supervisor - BBB of Mid-Western Ontario Inc - but none were able to help me so far in last seven months, rather they have put a big hole in wallet. Now my credit card company TD Canada Trust visa say Canadian Tire has done fraud, and Canadian Tire says "It is your problem", since their claim is that TD visa is doing fraud.
Wonder What vested interest TD Canada Trust Bank is having with Canadian Tire? Maybe to get some kick offs in return, for boosting their sales by misusing customer's information and credit facility by illegal and unethical means and doing credit card frauds. We have the court system to go about. I am sure Bunch of hungry and aggressive lawyers are willing to work on consignment, No matter how these cheaters hide under TOLL FREE NUMBERS, IVR, AND P.O. BOXES.
Last week, my car stopped running. Turns out it was a broken ball joint. I had it towed to Canadian Tire, even though I have heard the negatives of overpricing, and poor service. They exceeded my expectations. They did the job in the time they quoted, and when something else needed to be done to complete the repair (the axle needed to be replaced as well), they called me even though it was something that had to be done. Also, the bus drives right by the store and goes right by my work. I had mentioned that I would pick the car up after work, and the service advisor got someone to drive me to work. Kudos to Canadian Tire.