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This week in Island history
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago From the Newport Daily News, May 26, 1908
The ferry company is having its wharves put in condition for the resumption of summer travel. The hourly schedule goes into effect May 30, after which tickets will be collected as the passengers go aboard instead of as they pass off, as has been done during the winter and spring.
From the Newport Daily News, May 27, 1908
Rev. H. N. Jeter appeared before the (town) council asking for the free use of the town hall for religious meetings, permission being granted on the same condition as in previous years. … An ordinance prohibiting the hitching of cattle in the highway was passed and the chief of police ordered to enforce the same. … The petition of H. Audley Clarke for street signs was taken up and it was voted that Charles Sowle be a committee to have signs placed on the principal streets running from Narragansett avenue. … Two bids for the lighting of street lamps at Conanicut Park were received Wilton S. Arnold, $10 and John Rosa $12 per month. Arnold was awarded the contract. (In the compact part of town the contract was awarded to G. W. Peckham, Jr. for $130. Alton Head received the contract for watering the streets with cart, team and man for $5 a day.)
75 years ago From the Newport Daily News, May 26, 1933
(At the town council meeting it was) voted (that) Arthur B. Mitchell and Charles A. Westall be grant- ed to sell fireworks from noon Saturday July 1 to 12 o'clock midnight Tuesday, July 4, subject to the following conditions: That no blank cartridges, no explosive firecrackers over three inches in length or firecrackers containing dynamite be sold.
From the Newport Daily News, May 31, 1933
A large number of townspeople and summer residents gathered at Shoreby Hill Memorial Day to witness the parade. … After the three volleys by the firing squad and taps, the line marched to the Four Corners cemetery. Commander of the Jamestown Post, A. W. Bowser, presented to the town council, as a gift from the Jamestown Post American Legion, the gates of the cemetery, which have recently been placed there, and they were accepted on behalf of the council by Captain Shackford.
50 years ago From the Newport Daily News, May 28, 1958
The prospective construction of the Commerce Oil refinery in Jamestown was cited today by the Navy as a factor which argues against further buildup in the torpedo testing program at the Underwater Ordinance Station at Newport.
The Jamestown School Committee adopted a $200 a-year wage increase for all teachers at its meeting last night in the Jamestown Elementary School. This raises the minimum from $3,400 to $3,600 and the maximum from $5,400 to $5,600. An additional $200 was granted four teachers holding masters' degrees.
From the Newport Daily News, May 31, 1958
Cmdr. Eugene Lamimam, USN of Jamestown was the principal speaker at the town's Memorial Day exercises yesterday. … The exercises were held at the Four Corners Cemetery following the parade sponsored by the American Legion post. … A short memorial service at the east waterfront preceded the parade. … In the first division, Spanish-American War veterans were represented by William D. Eddy and Cmdr. C. Clay.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News, May 31, 1983
The annual Memorial Day parade in Jamestown stepped off Monday at 10 a.m. led by Lt. Col. Peter F. Drury as marshal. The parade went its entire route with only a few scattering drops of rain as it ended. Thunder and lighting flashed to the north of the island but skirted Jamestown. Rogers High School Band played lively patriotic tunes. … Also in the line of march were all fire engines and vehicles and three ambulances from the Ambulance Corp. … The parade stopped at the Four Corners Town Cemetery for ceremonies and the firing squad fired its volley. … The parade continued to the East Ferry waterfront where ceremonies took place in memory of the veterans who died at sea.
15 years ago From the Jamestown Press, May 27, 1993
A temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge to block work on the state Department of Transportation cross-island highway project had not been lifted by late Tuesday afternoon. .. The order was requested last Friday by a coalition of environmental groups, including Save the Bay, which filed a suit against the project last October, claiming that construction of the four-lane bridge-connector highway violates federal laws.
10 years ago From the Jamestown Press, May 28, 1998
The first report is in from the Ft. Wetherill Committee on the state's plan to turn the area into an aquatic resource center, and the committee's list of "serious concerns" is long.
A bill in the General Assembly that would allow Jamestown to charge a transfer tax on top of the sale price of a home on the island for the purpose of purchasing open space seems to have stalled in the House of Representatives, at least for the moment.


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The pledges made at the Tokyo Conference clearly demonstrated the sustained commitment of the international community in supporting Afghanistan's long-term development. They were a clear sign that Afghanistan will not be abandoned after 2014. The Afghan government, on its part, is committed to implementing the objectives that were mutually agreed in Tokyo. These commitments need to be respected by all.
It is vital that both the international community and the Afghan government now concentrate on implementing the outcomes of the Tokyo conference, with special reference to mutual accountability. The finalization of National Priority Programmes is equally important.
Finland has consistently given its strong support to Afghanistan's development efforts. Afghanistan is one of Finland's largest development cooperation partners. Our total official development assistance to Afghanistan between 2012 and 2016 is scheduled to be over 125 million euros. A major part of this aid will be channeled through the UN system and the World Bank.
Mr. President,
The Tokyo Conference highlighted two important priorities for Afghanistan's future development; good governance and human rights.
It is crucial for the consolidation of democracy that the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2014 and 2015 be credible and transparent. In this regard, the passage of the Electoral Law and the duties and structure of the Independent Electoral Commission should be secured within the first quarter of 2013. Every effort should be made to enable the elections to be free and fair. Full and effective participation of all citizens, including women, in the electoral process is essential.
Good governance, democracy and the rule of law are priorities in Finland's cooperation with Afghanistan. The Afghan Reconstruction Trust Fund, which pays for example the salaries of Afghan civil servants, has been a key financing channel of our aid. We plan to channel around 45 million euros to the ARTF between 2012 and 2016.
Mr. President
Human rights, particularly women's rights, were another major priority in Tokyo. Although remarkable gains have been made since the overthrow of the Taliban, progress in fulfilling Afghanistan's human rights obligations has not been sufficient. Today, Afghan women still face insecurity in public spaces and at home, as well as lack of access to an unbiased justice system and legal representation.
Full and equal participation of women at all levels of society is a prerequisite to development, economic success and social stability. We should ensure that human rights, including women's and children's equal rights, remain at the heart of our common strategy for Afghanistan.
In 2010, Finland started a twinning cooperation with Afghanistan in the implementation of the Council's resolutions on Women, Peace and Security. Trilateral co-operation between Finland, Afghanistan and UN Women has recently started with the ultimate goal being the Afghan National Action Plan.
In any country, an active and constructive civil society can play a central role in developing society. In Afghanistan, civil society can offer valuable support to the government's efforts to improve the well-being of all Afghans and in fighting corruption.
Finally, Mr. President, I would like reiterate our full support for the dedicated work of the UN and its agencies in Afghanistan. In particular, UNAMA has a central role to play by providing good offices to the peace process, promoting and protecting human rights and coordinating international aid efforts.
Thank you Mr. President

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MSI K8N Neo 4 Platinum
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The PCI Express X2 slot onboard is an open-ended slot for ordinary PCI Express X1, X2 add-on card or PCI Express X16 graphics card population. The major advantage of PCI Express X2 slot as second graphics interface versus PCI legacy that is 4 times higher bandwidth. And most important of all, the bandwidth of PCI Express X2 is point-to-point and exclusive for single add-on device. Bandwidth of PCI bus is shared by every PCI devices. When more devices are installed, there is less bandwidth left for sharing, but more interruptions.
Based on benchmarks results on PCI Express X16 and PCI Express X2, there is only 3% drop on 3D Mark 2003 and 15% on DOOM3. These facts indicate that PCI Express X2 is sufficient for moderate 3D Graphics and daily usage.


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JERUSALEM (AP) — Casualties and attacks in the Israel-Hamas conflict since the fighting began:
— More than 130 Palestinians, both militants and civilians, have been killed in Gaza.
— Four Israeli civilians and one soldier have been killed while dozens more were injured by Palestinian rockets.
— Gaza militants have fired over 1,400 rockets at southern Israeli communities, 810 exploded inside Israel, the military said.
— Israel says its Iron Dome missile defense system has intercepted about 400 rockets.
— The Israeli military says it has hit more than 1,550 military targets in Gaza.


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Ray Lewis makes surprise visit to Ravens
Team leader not likely to play for rest of season
Ray Lewis makes surprise visit to Ravens
Team leader not likely to play for rest of season
The Baltimore Ravens received a surprise visit from injured star Ray Lewis, who was placed on the injured reserve-designated to return list over three weeks ago.
The 17-year veteran linebacker, rehabbing a torn right triceps away from the Ravens' team facility, wasn't expected to return to the team at this juncture of the season. However, Lewis is in town for a scheduled appearance Friday night and decided to catch the Ravens practicing during the day.
Lewis did not speak to the media Friday but released a statement saying he's happy to return to the team.
Baltimore's outspoken leader says, "I will speak in person when I know a little more about my progress. I'm working hard and looking forward to coming back and helping this team.


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Research indicates people rationalize cheating by distancing themselves from unethical actions.
ISU psychologists find mother's self-fulfilling prophecy influences child's alcohol use
Effects of self-fulfilling beliefs can add up over time and may lead to inequalities between individuals, according to a study on mothers' beliefs about their children's alcohol use by Iowa State University researchers.
Vet med faculty co-develop new vaccine
Two Iowa State veterinary medicine faculty were instrumental in the six-year development of the first, fully licensed vaccine for one of the worlds' most significant pig viruses. First identified in the early 1990s, the porcine circovirus type 2 causes respiratory diseases that can kill up to 30 percent of herds infected. Dr. Patrick Halbur and Dr. Tanja Opriessnig partnered with scientists at Virginia Tech to develop and test the new vaccine, which is being manufactured by Fort Dodge Animal Health, Overland Park, Kansas.
Farm Bureau commits $1 million to Iowa State bioeconomy program
The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation's gift will be used to provide support for the Office of Biorenewables Programs, including additional faculty and staff salaries and new collaborations in research, educational and outreach activities.
ISU finishes sixth in tractor design competition
The Iowa State Cyclone Power Pullers finished sixth at the recent 2006 International 1/4 Scale Tractor Student Design Competition in Peoria, Ill.
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The country's fear over computer identity theft is high again following the recent theft of personal information for 26.5 million military personnel and veterans. Iowa State offers several experts who can provide advice on both how to prevent identity theft, and what to do if your identity is stolen.
Researchers explore news coverage of Facebook
In analysis of newspaper stories about Facebook, ISU researchers found topics dealing with "sex and games" and "relationships" were associated more closely with student newspapers' coverage, while history and business were covered more in main line press stories.
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Bergstrom Indoor Facility earns architects' award.
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The Kansas Department of Commerce continues to accept nominations for the 2013 Governor's Exporter of the Year Award, which is presented to a single Kansas business for excellence in international trade and marketing.
Nominated companies will be evaluated on the totality of their international efforts, specifically:• increase in jobs because of international activities.• innovations in global marketing.• number of countries exported to.• effective use of international distributors.• long-range international strategies and prospects for future growth.• commitment to the state and local community.
The winner will be announced in June of 2013. This is the 25th annual installment of the award.
"The Governor's Exporter of the Year Award has acknowledged the success of Kansas companies in international trade for more than two decades," said Kansas Commerce Secretary Pat George. "Every year, we see a growing number of Kansas businesses competing for this award. As these companies achieve success internationally, they help spur the growth of the state's economy and create more jobs here in Kansas."
Businesses can nominate themselves or be nominated by any other organization or individual. Visit KansasCommerce.com/Exporter to download a nomination form. The nomination deadline is Monday, Jan. 28, 2013.
Nominations can be emailed to April Chiang at email@example.com or mailed or faxed to:
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Babies, children, and adults all wear socks for a variety of reasons. Physically, baby socks and toddler socks serve many purposes. They can serve as protection from the elements, and can enhance safety during activities such as walking, running, or jumping. Baby socks can protect the baby, infant, or toddler from rough surfaces, insect bites and splinters by providing a barrier between the skin and the environment. Baby socks can insulate against cold or hot conditions. Further, they can provide a hygienic barrier, keeping infectious and toxic materials away from the body. Socks also provides protection from harmful UV radiation.
Socks protect feet against many things that might injure the skin. Baby and toddler socks act as protection from the elements, including rain, snow, wind and other weather conditions, as well as from the sun. However, if socks are too thin, small, or tight, the protection effect can be minimized. Rubber grippers on the bottom of little baby socks or toddler socks can also reduce the level of risk during activity, such as walking or running. Always be extra cautious of children walking or running on slippery surfaces in socks without rubber grippers.
The primary function of infant socks is to improve the comfort of the wearer. In hot climates, baby socks provides protection from sunburn or wind damage, while in cold climates they help to keep little feet warm. Baby socks also cushion the feet and protect the skin inside of shoes. Many times infant socks help to prevent blisters.
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100% Networking at Newport's Best Sunset Spot
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Kei Kita and Paul Otte each shot 2-over par 146 to help UC Santa Barbara to a fifth place tie after two rounds of the OGIO-UC Santa Barbara Invitational at Sandpiper Golf Club on Monday.
As a team, the Gauchos' score of 589 is tied with Seattle University. Both teams trail first place Saint Mary's by 25 shots. The front-running Gaels combined for a 12-under par 564, five shots ahead of Long Beach State, 18 ahead Loyola Marymount and 23 up on Southern Utah.
Through the first two rounds, Saint Mary's was led by the individual leader, Anders Engell. Engell was 3-under par after one round and then he topped that performance with an outstanding 5-under par 67 in the day's second 18. His 8-under par 136 is four strokes better than Xander Schauffele of Long Beach who carded a 140. Five players - Mac McClung and Ben Geyer of Saint Mary's, Kevin Lin of Long Beach, Cameron Rappleeye of Sacramento State and Bryan Bergna of Loyola Marymount - are tied for third at 2-under par.
Otte shot 73 in the first and second rounds for UCSB while Kita shot a 74 in the first round and then an even-par 72 in the second. Michael Haeri led the Gauchos in the first round with a 72, but he was unable to play in the second round because of leg cramps. Tyler Sterk (5-over par 149, tied for 30th) and Russell Boring (6-over par 150, tied for 35th) round out Santa Barbara players.
The 13 teams and several individual will play the third round on Tuesday at beautiful Sandpiper Golf Club. The first groups will tee-off on the first and 10th holes at 7:50 a.m. and the final groups will go off at 10:00 a.m.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Sep 2010 20:24 UTC
Well, this was rather unexpected. As it turns out, Commodore USA's CEO Barry Altman isn't particularly pleased about the article I wrote earlier today in which I placed a considerable amount of scepticism with regards to Commodore USA and its business (and website). He (not his lawyer) sent us a threatening email demanding we take down the article, post a new correction article, the whole shebang. The entire email - as an image, you'll want the original formatting - after the break. Our reply? We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram.
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by kragil on Wed 1st Sep 2010 21:35 UTC in reply to "hit a nerve much"
Yeah, I think so too, but I kinda knew this might happen, I just wish I commented on the article to proof it. Thom was quite harsh in his critique and small companies sometimes go ballistic when people write negative things about them.
Let's see what happens, Thom is safe, but David might get more trouble than he might want.
Justice is a cruel mistress, there is always the difference between being right, getting justice, enforcing justice. A lot of times it is just a lottery. Stay away from courts, people.


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Repaving project begins in downtown Milwaukee
Repaving project begins in downtown Milwaukee
Work to create a smoother ride in downtown Milwaukee started Tuesday.
Michigan Street between Water and Van Buren streets is being repaved.
The westbound lanes of East Michigan Street closed Tuesday, but there will be two-way traffic in the eastbound lanes.
When the paving is completed on the westbound lanes, the eastbound lanes will be closed and two-way traffic will switch to the westbound lanes
There will be no on-street parking during the re-paving, but when the work is done, there will be new traffic lines, crosswalks and parking lines.
Milwaukee Public Works Department said the work should be done by Friday.


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Reviewed By Joe H (Jacksonville, AR) Reviewed for a 2007 Chevy Avalanche —11/30/2014 8:11 AM
The kit took way too long to arrive...over a month before shipping and it looks great but had to trim it myself so would fit right. Some buttons didn't work openings not large enough and the sticky foam adhesive should be thicker so won't have to trim to get the piece to be able to stick. I really need the Driver side door piece resent to me at least.


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Obama's gun control wish list
I remember when the Democrats were telling us gun nuts during the election earlier this year that we were being irrational in our fears that this president would be coming for our guns, because he hadn't up until now. ABC News reports that they've gotten a bit more specific on the kinds of gun laws they'd like to see;
The White House today indicated President Obama would support legislation that would reinstate the ban on certain types of semi-automatic rifles – known as "the assault weapons ban" — and may support other efforts, such as a proposal to ban high-capacity magazines, in the wake of the deadly massacre in Newtown, Conn.
"He is actively supportive of, for example, Senator Feinstein's stated intent to revive a piece of legislation that would reinstate the assault weapons ban," White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters, publicly backing for the first time legislation Feinstein plans to introduce. The White House had previously been reluctant to publicly named any specific action it might support in an effort to prevent future massacres.
"Certain types of semi-automatic weapons" means that they don't know what they're talking about. They plan on going back to banning the sales of scary-looking black rifles with bayonet lugs and flash suppressors – which has nothing to do with the lethality of the weapons, but everything to do feelings of fear. It certainly won't "prevent future massacres".
They don't need to ban high capacity magazines – I spent three hours last night looking for magazines. Cheaper Than Dirt and Amazon have apparently quit selling them, while everyone else is just out of them. Everyone is back ordered on 5.56mm ammo, too, well, except tracer ammo.
The article goes on to say that the president wants to "close the gun show loophole". I don't know what that means – I've bought two guns at gunshows in the last few years and both times I had to go through the same background checks I would in a store.
The president says that he reached out to my Senator, Joe Manchin for advice. Funny, but I tried to reach out to Manchin yesterday, too, but I went straight to voice mail.
ADDED: NBC broadcast new is reporting that Joe Bite-Me will be spearheading the anti-gun legislation, you know like he spearheaded the strategy in Afghanistan, so we're boned.
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With home décor, the items we use most every day, such as a door or a chair, often can be taken for granted. And so it is with lighting.
Illuminating our homes, especially during this time of year, when night overtakes day by early evening, is a necessity. But there's more to lights than just function. Looks and feel also play integral roles.
"From an aesthetic point of view, lighting we like to equate to jewelry," said Paula Minton, general manager of Kentucky Lighting & Supply, which has a showroom on Winchester Road.
Minton and her staff ask customers about the style of the space.
"We want to know what are you feeling when you're in the room," she said. "We try to hone in on what we in the trade think of as masculine — clean, kind of boxy — and feminine — maybe more ornate with slimmer lines with a lot of high design."
There's an amazing array of types of lighting: table lamps, sconces, pendants and chandeliers, to name a few. To choose the best style for a room, it's best to think about how the lights will be used.
"There's some practical consideration like the amount of light you need for the task, the size of the room, what the use of the room is," said Minton. "Are there tasks carried out there, or are you interested in ambient light? Do you want the fixture to be a focal point or do you want it to disappear?"
It also pays to be conscience of energy use. The American Lighting Association, a trade group representing the lighting industry in the United States and Canada, offers energy-saving lighting tips from Joe Rey-Barreau, an associate professor at the University of Kentucky College of Design.
Rey-Barreau suggests replacing incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents. For an inviting glow, choose products labeled "residential color," "warm" or "soft white."
For an easy fix, retro-fit recessed lighting with LED fixtures.
"You just take off part of the existing fixture, and the replacement fixture fits into the old housing," says Rey-Barreau. "LED fixtures have a high initial cost, but the fixture will last literally the lifetime of the project." For more information, go to Americanlightingassoc.com.


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Why Did a Peeping Tom Hide Inside the Toilet of a Porta Potty?
Police are looking for a man in Boulder, CO who hid inside the toilet (er, cesspool) of a porta potty and spied on people while they handled their business. He was apparently covered by a tarp and a complete lack of hygiene.


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Gold and Platinum prices are mostly flat this morning, while Silver and Palladium are down slightly. Analysts continue to say that the high physical demand in Asia is one of the driving forces behind Gold's price, though it seems the major topic is quantitative easing (QE) around the world. Recent comments from central bank officials have supported ongoing QE in many regions, as seen yesterday when a European Central Bank official confirmed the eurozone's monetary policy stance "for as long as necessary."
Roubini Global Economics' Managing Director of Research Christian Menegatti chimed in, saying, "We are talking about 2014, in terms of winding down quantitative easing. We'll have to wait much longer for rate hikes… well into 2015 and maybe towards the end of (that year)." The driving force behind Gold being stuck just below $1,600 has been fear that QE could be coming to an end soon, but these views seem to refute that. In a recent CNBC poll, over 70 percent of voters said they were still buying Gold instead of selling it.
At 9:10 a.m. (EDT), the APMEX Precious Metals spot prices were:
- Gold, $1,593.60, Down $0.10.
- Silver, $29.15, Down $0.09.
- Platinum, $1,598.50, Up $1.50.
- Palladium, $772.80, Down $1.80.
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Editors' Picks — Citrus & Olives
Once again, we want to give a big thanks to all of our volunteer recipe testers for your thoughtful comments and for helping us continue to strengthen our recipe recommendations. You can read each tester's comments by clicking through to the recipes. And even if the recipe you tested wasn't chosen as an EP, please feel free to leave your testing notes in the recipe's comments section. Constructive criticism is always encouraged!
Congratulations to another great batch of Editors' Picks!
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- Lemon Roasted Potatoes with Kalamatas
- Chicken Tagine with Fennel, Preserved Lemons, and Green Olives
- Citrus Salad with Vanilla Bean-Black Pepper Vinaigrette
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Beanie Wells will be back in the Arizona Cardinals' backfield Sunday against the St. Louis Rams.
The Rams remember him all too well.
The last time Wells faced them, almost exactly a year ago, he rushed for a franchise-record 228 yards in a 23-20 Arizona victory in St. Louis.
With Wells coming back from an injury and the Rams' defense greatly improved, no one is expecting anything close to that this time around. But the presence of a healthy Wells is a welcome addition to an Arizona team that's looking to end a six-game losing streak with a rookie quarterback, Ryan Lindley, making his first NFL start.
"I feel great," Wells said. "I'm excited to finally be able to say 'I feel great.' I feel good enough to go out there and do my job at a high level.'"
What was described as a "severe turf toe" injury sustained by Wells in the Cardinals' Week 3 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles was the official reason he was placed on the NFL's new inured/designated for return list, but the true benefit was to his right knee, which had not fully recovered after arthroscopic surgery following last season.
"To me, it was all for the knee," he said. "My toe, I didn't think it was a big issue, but it is what it is. I feel like it was a blessing in disguise that it did happen because it gave me enough time to get my knee back to where it needed to be."
Under the new NFL rule, Wells had to be out eight weeks, which translated to seven games because of Arizona's bye week. Under the previous rules, the Cardinals either would have had to place Wells on season-ending injury reserve or keep him on the roster even though they knew he wouldn't play for quite some time.
Wells, drafted by the Cardinals late in the first round (31st overall) after their 2008 Super Bowl season, is coming off his best season, rushing for 1,047 yards and 10 touchdowns in 14 games despite being bothered by the sore knee most of the year. He was unable to participate in summer workouts and didn't begin playing until late in the preseason.
No one expects Wells to come in and carry the ball play after play.
"I think you've got to get a feel for it," Whisenhunt said. "I certainly don't think he's going to get an overload of work because you don't want to do that, but you've got to see how he feels and the rhythm."
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I have composed a short essay about Moral and Cultural Revolution to address change. I would want to ask for your honest and sincere suggestions, criticisms, additions, etc about the essay.
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"Change is like a fertilizer; i order to do good, it must be spread around."
If we want change for our country, people should make the initiative to realize it. When I speak of people, i mean everyone; i mean all that represents us in the government. Morally speaking, our government (public servants) should start being true to their duties. Honesty and Integrity is a must as they fulfill their duties witnessed by the constitution and people. It's time that they should serve first the people whom they vowed to provide better lives. It's time that they put sincerity in their responsibilities so as to be worthy of their names - President, Senators, Congressmen, etc. It's time that they renew themselves to be able to start everything in a good way.
In order for us to organize a cultural/nationalistic revolution, it is necessary for us to change our ways and values to. Let us not every time blame others of our misfortunes and downfalls. Look at ourselves and try to assess if we are working for our own good too. Cultural revolution calls for a great change in people. Great change includes optimism regarding life, expression of ourselves, exercise of rights and freedom, maintenance of peace and order, and courage to stand for the truth.
As a Thomasian Scholar, I can help in providing inspiration and information to people on how to bring about change. Scholarly advices and wisdom are few of the things I can offer to my fellow countrymen. But what is important that should accompany the work or efforts I make is PRAYER - constant prayer. It's time to lift it all to HIM. It's time that we repent for all our misdeeds. It's time to pray.
Thus, I favor Moral revolution and Cultural revolution for both sides so as to promote change. Change that will eventually lead to progress and development of our beloved country.
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So, South Carolina governor, Nikki Haley has named a replacement for Jim DeMint as a US Senator for the state. It's Tim Scott, according to the New York Times;
Mr. Scott, 47, also offers a unique story and background, one that is in scant supply in the Republican Party right now. Raised by a single mother, he was, by his account, a lost child who struggled with school and with life until a Chick-fil-A franchise owner took him on as a protégé and schooled him in conservative principles.
"Coming from a single-parent household and almost flunking out of high school," Mr. Scott said in 2010, during his bid for the House, "my hope is I will take that experience and help people bring out the best that they can be."
Of course, Tim Scott is Black, and since the Republicans are supposed to be racists, Democrats and Liberals have been Tweeting racist shit about Scott all day, according to Twitchy.
Now, I'm just guessing, but I think the reason that there are so few blacks who are Republicans because of the way they're treated by the Democrat Party. Who wants to be treated in their neighborhood like Michael Steele, Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, Allen West and Condoleezza Rice?
I've seen some of them get worked over verbally by their peers and it's not a pretty sight. Conservatives, on principle, don't do well reaching out to minorities because we see everyone as equal regardless of superficial things like skin color. But since Liberals are all about superficial and irrelevant differences and completely emotional with no real principles beyond undermining the principles that built this country, somehow they attract people who see their superficial differences as the main thing that defines them as people and voters.
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The 56-year-old actress, who is currently starring on Broadway in the musical Cinderella, will be presenting on stage this evening.
Fran was joined at the event by both her ex-husband Peter Marc Jacobson (right) and her new boyfriend Shiva Ayyadurai (left).
In case you didn't know, Fran and Peter got divorced back in 1999 after he revealed that he is gay, but they have remained best friends ever since and even turned their story into the TV Land series Happily Divorced.


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DUBAI (Reuters) - A once-feared prosecutor at the center of a row between two of Iran's most powerful figures was charged and freed from two days' detention on Wednesday, adding a new twist to their feud just months before the country's next presidential election.
Neither Monday's arrest nor the release of the former Tehran prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi, who faces unspecified charges, have been accompanied by any public explanation from the authorities.
But Mortazavi was detained a day after his political ally President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad publicly accused the family of Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani of attempting to use their prominence for financial gain.
Larijani is a high-profile possible candidate to succeed Ahmadinejad, who is nearing the end of his second term and cannot run again straight away.
The timing of the detention suggested it was linked to the accusations and was a clear indication Ahmadinejad has lost the favor he once enjoyed from Iran's most powerful authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The Tehran prosecutor said Mortazavi was taken to court on Wednesday for a hearing of charges against him before being released, Mehr news agency reported. The report did not detail the charges but said investigations were continuing.
On Wednesday afternoon, Mortazavi resumed work as head of the social security office, Fars news agency reported. His appointment to the post last year outraged MPs after a parliamentary report accused him of being linked to the deaths in custody of three protesters in 2009 when Tehran prosecutor.
The squabbling between members of Iran's ruling elite has intensified despite repeated calls from Khamenei, the final arbiter on all matters in Iran, for officials to avoid airing their disagreements in public ahead of the vote in June.
The supreme leader is in direct charge of nuclear policy, but analysts say greater unity after the election may aid talks over a program Western leaders say appears to be moving towards a weapons capability and Tehran says is purely peaceful.
Fars reported on Tuesday evening that judiciary chief Sadeq Larijani, the parliament speaker's brother, held a meeting with Khamenei after Mortazavi was detained. It did not elaborate.
Ultimately Mortazavi's arrest was a key sign of the discord in Tehran's corridors of power and his release was intended to restore calm, say analysts.
"It seems Iran's supreme leader is trying to contain the situation by ensuring that the tensions between Larijani and Ahmadinejad do not escalate any further," said Meir Javedanfar, a lecturer on Iranian politics at the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzliya, Israel.
"The most important goal of the supreme leader is stability before the upcoming presidential election."
Khamenei has not commented on Mortazavi's arrest or Ahmadinejad's accusations against the Larijanis, and analysts say he is unlikely to publicly involve himself in the recriminations.
Ahmadinejad, in Egypt on Wednesday for an Islamic summit, has been under increasing pressure from hardline factions.
His critics in parliament accuse the government of adopting policies that have worsened economic problems caused by Western sanctions over the nuclear program.
In November, parliament called off plans to summon Ahmadinejad for questioning for what would have been only the second time after Khamenei called for greater unity among officials.
On Tuesday evening, Khamenei's foreign policy advisor Ali Akbar Velayati suggested in a speech that a candidate selected from Iran's conservative "principlist" faction could avoid the strife that has marked Ahmadinejad's second term.
Velayati is part of a three-man committee tasked with uniting parliament's principlists - hardline conservatives loyal to Khamenei and hostile to Ahmadinejad - around a single candidate to minimize chances of the virulent political divisions being carried into the election.
"If principlists are divided in the elections and the presidency is not in the hands of principlists in the future, we will have a tragedy," Velayati said.
"From these three people one person will be introduced as a candidate, so we can finish the job in the first round (of voting)," said the former foreign minister and possible presidential candidate, Mehr news agency reported.
"We hope ... we can in the future have a government that is responsive to the demands of the supreme leader and the people."
(Additional reporting by Marcus George; editing by William Maclean and Philippa Fletcher)


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At a retreat I was at a few weeks ago, a speaker talked about the great temptation of today of just "checking out" rather than engaging in the world and its problems. You sit on the couch and watch worthless, stupefying cable television programming late into the night. A symptom of this disease: You know about Snuggies, the blanket with arms, advertised on such programming.
Most of us at the retreat laughed sheepishly because, indeed, we had seen the commercials for Snuggies, the type of mail-order product that garners the label, "As seen on TV!" in stores.
It turns out, though, that Chicago young people are doing something good, sort of, with their sloth-like desire to be warm and numb their minds—they are hitting up city bars to drink in their Snuggies with the proceeds from the first annual Snuggies Pub Crawl going to an orphanage in Tanzania.
Oddly, the event has become incredibly popular with 3,000 Snuggie wearers signed up. Young adults in other cities are planning similar pub crawls as well.
I'm not condoning such behavior, but it's an interesting story—what's behind the event's popularity?
I suspect it's somewhere between this tug-of-war between caring, wanting to be part of something bigger and apathy (as symbolized by the Snuggies, to go back to the retreat speaker). Drinking all day long with a thousand of your closest friends allows you to "check out" just like vegging in front of the TV by yourself. It's also interesting to note that the news coverage hardly mentions the charity connection.


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Partly because he's done it before, partly because he specifically left it on the table in a not-yet aired interview with ABC's Barbara Walters this week, but mainly because it's a terrible policy idea, progressives are saying loudly that if President Obama agrees to raise the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 he'll have, as one notable critic put it, "hell to pay."
As secret offers and counter-offers have been exchanged between the White House and the GOP leadership in the House over the last several days, speculation has peaked about whether or not Obama will relinquish his strong negotiating position by giving in to demands that he do something—no matter how ineffective—that would simultaneously please Republicans while proving he's willing to ignore the desires of his political base.
Proving that history may in some ways repeat itself, it seems that Republican unwillingness to take a deal or accept concessions offered by the President—as happened in last year's debate over the debt ceiling—could ultimately save Obama from himself. Relating to the offer made by Boehner to Obama on Tuesday, the Huffington Post reports:
House Republicans proposed permanently extending all of the Bush-era income tax rates for the wealthy in their "fiscal cliff" offer made to the White House on Tuesday, according to a CNN report and confirmed by the Huffington Post.
House Speaker John Boehner and his Republican negotiating partners have said they don't believe the White House has made them a serious offer and that President Barack Obama has refused to budge on spending cuts. Tuesday's suggestion that all the Bush tax cuts be extended permanently was a sharp signal to the White House that Republicans don't feel the president is being reasonable. [...]
Permanently extending the current rates is thus a nonstarter with the White House.
But, when asked about the possibility of including the age increase for Medicare by Barbara Walters in an interview scheduled to air Friday, Obama reportedly answered:
When you look at the evidence, it's not clear that it actually saves a lot of money. But what I've said is let's look at every avenue, because what is true is we need to strengthen Social Security, we need to strengthen Medicare for future generations, the current path is not sustainable because we've got an aging population and health care costs are shooting up so quickly.
Ironically, as shown by a series of recent polls, even most self-identified conservative voters reject the idea that cutting social programs like Medicare and Social Security is a good idea.
Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus in the House scolded the idea of raising Medicare's eligibility on Wednesday.
"Raising the Medicare eligibility age to 67 would create a new health care donut hole. This would leave thousands of seniors with no health care coverage and jeopardize the future of affordable health care for all Americans," said CPC co-chairs Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Raul Grijalva (D-AZ).
"Increasing the Medicare eligibility age is bad policy because it hurts seniors who worked hard all their lives, but it's especially harmful during a fragile recovery," the pair said. "If we really want to bring down costs, we should root out waste, fraud, and abuse – as the Affordable Care Act is already doing – and allow Medicare Part D to negotiate drug prices. Medicare operates more efficiently than private insurers, and it should be protected. We will not accept any measures that would take away health care coverage from our grandparents."
As a report released on Tuesday by the Center for American Progress (CAP) confirms, raising the eligibility age would harm seniors dramatically and could leave as many as 435,000 people uninsured if implemented.
The reports says that such a move would pose the greatest threat to low-income seniors "now that the Supreme Court's decision upholding the law rendered the Medicaid expansion optional for states."
According to CAP, "tens of thousands of low-income 65- and 66-year-olds, who would be cut off from Medicare—particularly the most vulnerable seniors living below the federal poverty level—will have nowhere to turn for coverage if their states reject the Medicaid expansion."
Conservative politicians, however, have pinned their entire strategic aims surrounding the ongoing fiscal talks in Washington on cuts to social programs. Leading GOP Senator Mitch McConnell specifically called for the Medicare age increase all last week and on weekend news shows.
As Greg Sargent writes at the Plum Line:
Obama has repeatedly indicated he expects to make some kind of sacrifice he and Democrats won't like in the quest for a fiscal deal, since he sees compromise as a preferable outcome for the country. And it does seem very clear that conservatives will dismiss any entitlement reform that doesn't harm beneficiaries as insufficient — making it a prerequisite to any deal.
But as Ezra Klein, wonk-in-chief at The Washington Post, explains:
Raising the Medicare eligibility age makes no sense. It cuts federal health-care spending but raises national health spending, which is what really matters. It doesn't modernize the system or bend the cost curve. It doesn't connect to any coherent theory of health reform, like increasing Medicare's bargaining power, increasing competition in Medicare, ending fee-for-service medicine, or learning which treatments work and which don't.
Paul Krugman called even the suggestion of such a deal as "crazy," writing:
It looks like a deal that makes no sense either substantively or in terms of the actual bargaining strength of the parties. And if it does happen, the disillusionment on the Democratic side would be huge. All that effort to reelect Obama, and the first thing he does is give away two years of Medicare? How's that going to play in future attempts to get out the vote?
If anyone in the White House is seriously thinking along these lines, please stop it right now.
And Len Nichols, director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics at George Mason University, told MSNBC that the idea to raise the Medicare age epitomizes a policy recommendation pushed by wealthy elites with no consideration of the impact it will have on poorer Americans and blue collar workers.
"Raising the age of eligibility, the legal retirement age, sounds like a good idea if what you do for a living is talk and write, mostly while sitting in comfortable chairs in climate-controlled buildings," Nichols observed. "But if what you do for a living is pick up and move heavy things, or spend eight to ten hours a day on your feet without interruption bringing food and clearing tables, or waiting on retail customers, or doing one physical thing over and over on an assembly line, then being required to do that for two or five or 10 more years before you can join Medicare is fairly cruel."


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Plecturocebus caquetensis
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|Scientific Name:
|Plecturocebus caquetensis Defler, Bueno & García 2010
Common Name(s):
Callicebus caquetensis Defler, Bueno & García 2010
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Byrne, H., Rylands, A. B., Carneiro, J. C., Lynch-Alfaro, J. W., Bertuol, F., Da Silva, M. N. F., Messias, M., Groves, C. P., Mittermeier, R. A., Farias, I., Hrbek, T., Schneider, H., Sampaio, I. and J. P. Boubli. 2016. Phylogenetic relationships of the New World titi monkeys (Callicebus): first appraisal of taxonomy based on molecular evidence. Frontiers in Zoology 13(10).
|Taxonomic Notes:
Belongs to the cupreus group which includes C. caligatus, C. cupreus, C. discolor, C. dubius, C. ornatus, and C. stephennashi (see Defler et al. 2010).
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|Mittermeier, R.A. & Rylands, A.B.
This species is listed as Critically Endangered because of a suspected population decline, estimated to be more than 80% over a period of 24 years (three generations), due to a reduction of the area of occupation caused by extensive ranching and illegal crop cultivation, and the causes of the reduction have certainly not stopped. The species is also affected by introduced taxa and contaminants (spraying of deofoliants as a measure to reduce cocaine production).
|Range Description:
This species occurs in eastern Colombia in the south of Caquetá department between the Orteguaza and Caquetá rivers near the base of the Cordillera Oriental de los Andes. It is separated from Callicebus ornatus by 230 km and by Callicebus discolor to the south by 140 km. The limited known range may prove to be larger when more field work is done (Defler et al. 2010, García et al. 2010).
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|During the surveys conducted during 2008–2010 (García et al. 2010), 82 animals were seen (including the holotype and the paratype).
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Caquetá Titi Monkeys have been observed in disturbed humid tropical lowland forest fragments on terra firme (Defler et al. 2010, García et al. 2010) often surrounded by pasturelands and in low swampy land (Moynihan 1976). The entire known distribution is severely fragmented by human activities.
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|This species is locally hunted for food.
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|This species occurs in an area subject to intense human colonization that has caused widespread habitat destruction and fragmentation. The habitat is in an advanced state of fragmentation caused by extensive ranching and illegal crop cultivation. In 2001, more than 50% of the territory of nine municipalities of Caquetá had been converted to grassland (García et al. 2010). In addition, continuing fumigation of illegal crops with glyphosate causes environmental pollution and has never been evaluated in terms of its damage to arboreal fauna (García et al. 2010). Socioeconomic conditions in southern Caquetá are difficult, and the rural population suffers from the lack of basic necessities. These conditions threaten the species in as much as many people use the forest fragments to satisfy basic needs, notably hunting for food.
|Conservation Actions:
So far, no populations have been found in protected areas. Guerilla activity has made it difficult to work in the zone, although J. García has found ways to successfully gather data that rely on local participation and advice. Although there are no large blocks of forest in the area confirmed as the range of C. caquetensis, there are still possible small reserves for this species and the possibilities will be investigated and studied over the next few years (García et al. 2010). A two year study plan including field studies and genetical studies for this species has been funded by an oil company and is about to begin (May, 2012).
|Defler, T.R. & García, J. 2012. Plecturocebus caquetensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T14699281A14699284. . Downloaded on 25 September 2018.
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- Arrives in a fun pumpkin container.
- Hand delivered to the recipient's home or office.
- Same day delivery available.
- A plush teddy bear, balloons, or candy can be added to your order.
Measures 17.5" x 16".
During checkout, please be sure to indicate your preferred occasion when you choose a gift card. Exact flowers and container may vary depending upon location and availability.
Same day delivery is available if you place your order by 2pm in your recipients time zone, M-F and by 10am on the weekends.Gift #17356
Perfectly Pumpkin Bouquet is a hand delivered gift. These gifts are delivered by one of our local design centers located throughout the United States and Canada.
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ApexBetter than expected.October 28, 2016
Arrangement arrived beautiful as expected! Recipient was very please!
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Sent this to the office manager. It was absolutely perfect. Brightened up her office and put a smile on everyone's face. Much nicer than the picture shows.
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We run several Open events through the year for men, ladies, seniors and mixed. Our events are well established in the county and you can enjoy a great day out, with good food, excellent company on a great course for as little as £12.50 per person.
The Chapel course offers visitors a challenging yet easy walking course for an enjoyable day out with friends or colleagues. Visitors new to the course are always amazed with the flatness of the course, which is not normally associated with a course in the heart of the High Peak.
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Drupal How-To: Responsive or adaptive images
In this 3 part Drupal How to series, I'm going to show you how various options for configuring images on your site. In Part 1, we looked at how to tweak the default image options. In Part 2, we saw ways to allow inline images.
In this post, I'll discuss the various options for responsive/adaptive images on your site. Though I'm writing for beginners to Drupal, I assume you're aware of responsive design and of course you've read my first two blog posts so you also understand how Drupal handles images. If you're not sure, check out this info to start:
- Responsive Design - Drupal.org Docs
- Responsive Web Design with Drupal - Jan 2012. A screencast about 2.5 mins long.
- Build a Responsive Website with Drupal [May 9, 2012] Webinar with our training partner, Evolving Web.
- Creating Responsive Drupal Sites with Zen Grids and the Zen 5 Theme [July 19, 2012]
- Responsive Web Design with Drupal and the Omega Theme [March 28, 2012]
The image problem
Creating any website is an obstacle course, but taking the responsive route means you'll run into a few tricky turns: tables, grids, images are pose problems when you try to use the same content across different browser widths.
Images pose the biggest problem because not only does a image need to resize, in some cases you need a totally different proportion, and of course, you don't want to serve up a large desktop-sharp image to a 320px mobile device over a 3g connection. Also, the size of the image isn't neccessarily related to the width of the device, but the container around it.
Below, I've made an illustration of the image problem with an example 3 column website with a wide lead image. You can see how you could compromise somewhat on the images across your desktop, laptop and tablet. Perhaps you could use CSS to resize the images where there is only a small difference. Media queries check the dimensions of the browser window, and allow you to set CSS specific to that browser width. However, for mobile device, a different crop of an image would be more suitable.
It's bleeding-edgy
Any solution for so-called fluid images, responsive images or adaptive images right now is going to be a bleeding-edge case. That means it's likely to be fragile and need tweaking and updates. Here's a good round up of related articles on the topic.
The Responsive Images Community Group has proposed the new <picture> element as a solution http://responsiveimages.org/ This would allow the markup to specify multiple image sources, and display the appropriate one based on specific browser widths, and then rely on a "fallback" in any other case. The proposed markup would look something like this:
<picture width="500" height="500">
<source media="(min-width: 45em)" src="/large.jpg">
<source media="(min-width: 18em)" src="/med.jpg">
<source src="/small.jpg">

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The proposal has been in development since last year, though it was only decided in October 2012 to postpone work to get it into the official HTML 5 specification. The proposal is a "living document" with frequent updates and changes. http://picture.responsiveimages.org/
So what are the options?
There are lots of quick hacks you can use. For our Movember page, we whipped up a scalable vector image (SVG) and used CSS to resize it depending on the browser width. But that isn't going to work in many cases where you need a specifically different image.
Evan Scheingross has a good demo of Evan Marcotte's recommendation to dynamically resize an image based on a proportion of the browser width. (Marcotte is credited with laying the foundation for 'responsive' design in 2010). However, as shown in the diagram above, a tablet in portrait mode with a single column may have more space available than a laptop with sidebars.
A good solution is to use server-side resizing and caching of images so you can serve up the appropriate image size as needed.
Fluid, Adaptive or Responsive image solutions in Drupal
Responsive themes, such as the Zen theme do take care of a certain amount of image sizing for your site applying CSS based on media queries, taking care of backward compatibility very elegantly. You'll need to choose a module however to give you the options for controlling what images display and when- particularly in the case you detect a small browser width and want to display a lower resolution and smaller file size.
At the bleeding edge of design in Drupal - you'll see a bunch of new modules pop up proposing slightly different solutions. Over time, the community has been really good about standardizing on 1 or 2 solutions, making it easier for maintainers, and also users.
Right now, the situation is so volatile with responsive images, there are a several equally good and popular solutions, each with their own caveats. There are two potential solutions: solve the image resizing on the server side or on the client side as markup. Even in the case that you use markup as the solution, you still need those alternative images available for display. However, the wider web design community doesn't neccessarily agree that either is the right solution.
The Adaptive images script by Matt Wilcox takes care of image resizing on the server side. A screencast explains: http://vimeo.com/38947881 This is a PHP script which resizes and caches the images, and directs the server to hand out the right image to your viewer. It aims to work "right out of the box". This is overwhelmingly the most popular solution up until now, with two modules leading the pack:
- Adaptive images - 3198 sites http://drupal.org/project/adaptive_image Works with screen size, not window size.
- Adaptive Image Styles (ais) 1484 sites http://drupal.org/project/ais This module integrates with inline images, Media and WYSIWYG.
If we judged by popularity alone, we'd assume either of these Adaptive images was the best solution. However, there are alternative modules which give you control when you manage display of an image field on a content type. I've chosen not to list all the options here because two seem to have taken the lead.
- Responsive images and styles 1550 sites using this now. http://drupal.org/project/resp_img
- Picture - 142 sites using this now. http://drupal.org/project/picture
Drupal 8 is forming a clear path with the Picture module. That is already part of Drupal 8 and has been backported to Drupal 7. Though there are few sites using this module now, you can expect to see many improvements coming soon, and more sites adopting it.
I drafted this blog post about 2 weeks ago, when I contributed documentation to the Picture module. I backtracked after realizing I had to cover some basics first (in Parts 1 and 2). In the meantime, Chris Ruppel at Four Kitchens has written up a blog post about this very situation. Responsive images: A Drupal solution.
How the Picture module works:
- Check out a demo for the Drupal 7 Picture module http://atix.be/Zke. Inspect the source to see the markup provided.
- First you specify breakpoints in your theme. This defines at which widths you want to offer alternative images. The Picture module reads the configuration from your theme's .info file.
- Configure custom image styles if needed. Picture module provides a wizard to help you create the styles, but you'll need to set the widths.
- Map the image styles and set the display options for the image field. Picture provides an alternative to the "Image" display formatter for image fields. For me, that was the only tricky step.
Read the complete tutorial on Drupal.org for the full step-by-step you need to set this up:http://drupal.org/node/1902264 I recommend combining the Picture module with a responsive theme such as Zen.
But is it future-proof??
I always have to be really careful about what we include in our training materials. We have to recommend reliable, stable modules and trusted solutions. Right now, the Picture module seems the most future-proof solution as its inclusion in Drupal 8 (hopefully) means a smooth upgrade. Can I guarantee that a better solution won't come up in a few months? Well... not really.
I'm always wary when I ask my colleagues for reports about what is happening "in the field", and they come up with as many responses as people I ask. My colleagues on the Acquia Professional Services team work with some of the largest brands and organizations and advanced teams of designers and developers. They see a cross-section of solutions which actually work in practice. And right now, all of my colleagues admitted they aren't seeing a lot of brands choose a responsive or adaptive image solution.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't try it however. It's great to see established brands such as The Boston Globe leading the charge, and there's no reason you can't attempt it if you think it's going to enhance your user's experience.
Don't forget to sign up for my training newsletter and check out our Drupal training events across the globe.
Also in this series
- Drupal How-To: Responsive or adaptive images
- Drupal How-To: Basics, tweak the defaults for adding images to your site
- Drupal How to: Get inline images on your Drupal site.
Thank you for this article. I'm getting to grips with responsive design using Zen 5, and I'll now try the Picture module. However, I notice that the Picture module depends on the Breakpoints module, which requires that breakpoints be set in the .info file.
Could you tell me how setting breakpoints in .info relates to media queries in CSS?
Recently i configured Responsive Images and Styles with Omega in one of my projects and it works well for displaying single image in different content types, but not in galleries. I haven't tried Picture yet but it seems to be a robust replacement for responsive images in drupal.
Images play an important role for making a website popular among people. However, the image size plays an important role, as well. The best part of Drupal is that it helps you to resize the image according the website's need.
Thanks for the tutorial, i was able to get this working. However. I have the image field "Hidden" as i need to display images Inline and used the same image via Wysiwyg CK Editor and this effect applies only on the Image Field and not the image directly. How can we make it to apply on image within body content?
Hi Heather,
I have picture working with breakpoints for wide, normal and narrow. But what to do about mobile? There isn't a good way to detect a size smaller than narrow, and these images can often be larger on a smartphone to fill the screen than they can in a column on a tablet. So how do you make the image fluid below the narrow breakpoint?
Hi Heather
More than one year later, is there anything new on the subject?
The 4 modules you mentioned are still in active development, but the last dev version came out between sept 2013 and Nov 2013. Does it mean they came to a stable state of development ?
Did any of them appear to be better than others ?
Thanks for any opinion or advice.
Well, I just found that :
https: //www.acquia.com/blog/using-adaptive-images-drupal (Mar 04, 2014)
The author points Picture as the "best one" (but it seems
it is based on screen size and not browser size ?) + Borealis (not
mentioned here)
Responsive Images and Styles seems to be a good choice as well.
If anyone has other experience or more to say about it ...
If you look at the cross-posted copy of that article on the other website the author mentions, the post date is June 2012. So this article is actually older than Heather's. I figured that out when I noticed the Borealis issue she mentions has been closed for two years.
I'm trying Borealis on my latest site after attending a great BoF on Focal Point and Borealis at DrupalCon Austin.


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YES! Recommends: Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots
Founded in 1991 by Dr. Jane Goodall and a group of Tanzanian students, the Roots & Shoots program is about making positive change happen—for our communities, for animals and for the environment. With hundreds of thousands of young people in more than 120 countries, the Roots & Shoots network connects youth of all ages who share a desire to create a better world. Young people identify problems in their communities and take action. Through service projects, youth-led campaigns and an interactive website, Roots & Shoots members are making a difference across the globe.
Roots & Shoots Service-Learning Curriculum:
Animal Community
Each year in this country, millions of dogs and cats are put down in shelters. Today, clouded leopards—denizens of the tropical rainforest—are at risk from over-hunting and habitat loss. The good news is that there are many things that your students can do to save these animals.
Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots K-12 service-learning curriculum wants to enhance the livelihood and survival of the animal community, the human community, and the environment by engaging students of all ages in positive change.
Not only does this curriculum bring an awareness about these three precious communities, but it also provides motivating tools to help your students experience a sense of empowerment—even leadership—as they learn and contribute beyond the classroom.
Service-learning projects for elementary, middle school, and high school are treated as campaigns. Your students will focus their efforts on a finite period of time, culminating in a final event from which they will document and reflect upon their achievements.
The learning theme of the Animal Community campaign is for students to gain an in-depth understanding of the unwanted animal population and why there is a need for animal shelters or sanctuaries in this country. However, the biggest impact will be felt in your community, where your students will put their ideas into action.
Below is a sampling of Animal Community resources:
Middle School lesson plans
Middle school students will learn about why there are unwanted animals in their communities, and have an opportunity to do something about it. Lesson plans build knowledge (What are the most common reasons animals are brought to shelters?) and compassion (How do you think it affects animals to be in a shelter?). They also frame activities, such as making toys or items for pets waiting to be adopted, or educating younger students on why pets don't make good holiday presents.
To see lesson plans, click here.
High School sample campaign
Check out the Roots & Shoots campaign of 11th grade science teacher Mr. Adams from Washington D.C. His time line takes you from the campaign introduction to event day, and includes details and anecdotes that will fire up your students to create their own unique campaign. Visit Mr. Adams' campaign here.
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On the Edge: Hope for Animals Campaign
This campaign focuses on helping endangered or near extinct species. Your students will learn about some of the amazing people who are saving species from the brink of extinction. Better yet, they can write the next hope-into-action chapter by learning about endangered species in their community, planning a project, and telling their story. Click here to get started.
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Cheat app alert! This app will solve algebra, trigonometry and statistics problems for you and then tell you how to do it yourself (in the premium version). Imagine if this had existed when we were at school – more reliant on tech but more time to play games. Hmm, tough call.
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In the weeks leading up to Election Day, the KUNM News team has been exploring the lives and politics of New Mexicans- in frank and intimate conversations.
This next installment in the KUNM Voices Behind the Vote series took us to visit with a couple in Rio Rancho. Marriage equality for same-sex couples is the number one issue for them this year.
When Mary Houdeck and Norma Vazquez went on their first date in the late 1980s marriage for same sex couples was like a fantasy dream for many in the gay and lesbian community.
They commuted back and forth between Las Cruces and El Paso for a year and then Mary asked Norma to marry her, even though they couldn't do so legally. Norma wondered when exactly it was that Mary fell in love with her.
"She said it was when I shared a jalapeno with her," Norma laughs, "and I said, well, you were kind of looking at it and drooling, so I thought I'd share."
"I'm a true South Dakotan," Mary responds, "The way to my heart is through my stomach."
Surrounded by friends and colleagues in the tight knit LGBT community in Las Cruces, Mary and Norma committed to living the rest of their lives together. The two women spend a lot of time in their lush backyard garden. A recent cold snap has shriveled many of the plants including the green tomatillos.
In 2004, the Sandoval County Clerk approved marriage licenses for over 5 dozen same sex couples, saying the state law on marriage did not specify gender. Mary and Norma had gone down immediately to get one and were told they could take their time to plan a wedding, even invite their families who had long since accepted their relationship.
But within hours, the New Mexico attorney general issued an opinion that the licenses were invalid, and the two women were married hastily that same night in order to squeak in under the wire.
"I felt like I was 16," Mary remembers,"Running away to get married without the family."
"We had been together 17 years," Norma adds, " we are going to live and love no matter what. I sat and looked at that piece of paper. I just could not believe we were actually having a civil marriage."
In a recent court ruling, a state district judge found a same sex marriage license issued in 2004 to be valid under state law. But the marriages of the 64 same sex couples who got licenses that day are not recognized by the federal government or in many other states. That's what drove Mary and Norma to vote early for President Barack Obama this year.
But ack in 2008, Mary didn't feel this way, so much so that she didn't vote for a presidential candidate. "I actually was not in favor of Barack Obama at that point," she explains," I didn't agree with his stance on gay politics and some other issues. I was a brokenhearted Hillary supporter. But this election, I did vote for Barack Obama because he's come out positive on the issues I care about. He's proven himself to me."
Norma agrees with her wife's analysis of President Obama's first term. "With the strike of a pen he gave fed employees equal rights. I cried that the first sitting president affirmed gay and lesbian families."
And Mary says she's concerned about the way Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan talk about religion and government as if they were one and the same. She says it infringers on her rights, her life, and her relationship. "And that makes me angry. I will be angry until this is settled and resolved, because I have a family and I love my family and those that are in association with us love us, too. I have the same family values anyone else does."
Norma and Mary's four kids agree- Boo, Mochi, Aspen, and Chicago. The four cats sprawl over sofas and under coffee tables. It's very clear they know this is their family.


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