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as long as your discourse is civil and your language is not blue.
Happy reading, and come back often!
And whether my cup is half full or half empty, fill my cup, Lord.
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Monday, July 31, 2017
One little, two little, three little hymnals. Four little, five little, six little hymnals...
It made me chuckle. Actually, there have been several editions of the Methodist Hymnal since that particular one was published. More about that later in this post.
Snowbrush also said, "I left my last comment while listening to "With Heart and Voice," which is a weekly program of religious music. Its original presenter was an Englishman named Richard Gladwell (sad to say, but the current presenter is not his equal) who served on a bomber during WWII, but ended up living in the U.S. Though Gladwell was an Episcopalian, he received the Benemerenti medal from the pope."
Having never heard of the Benemerenti medal, my naturally inquisitive self ("Curiosity killed the cat" according to my mother, but my wife adds, "Finding out brought it back") had to learn more. I learned that Benemerenti means "well-deserved" in Latin and the medal has been awarded many times by many popes since its creation nearly 200 years ago. The current version looks like this:
The design of the medal does change from time to time. Here's what it looked like in 1984. This particular medal is on display in the Cork Public Museum in Ireland:
(Photograph by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, used in accordance with the terms of CC BY-SA 3.0)
"While studying your new blog format," Snowbrush continued, "I noticed that the book in the photo is a very old Methodist hymnal, and I was rather hoping that you would say more about it. I was also wondering if any of the old Methodist hymns have since been "cleaned up" in terms of gender references (one of the most appalling instances that I've heard was changing "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" to "Parent, Child, and Holy Spirit")."
The Methodist Hymnal up at the top of the blog (here's a smaller photo for those of you who don't scroll) was given to me by Mrs. Joan M., who found it among her mother's things after her mother died two or three years ago. It is quite small and contains lyrics only, no musical notes. And lest you think I placed a very large cup next to a normal-sized book, here is the book next to my very wrinkly hand to give you some perspective:
This book is the oldest item in my home. I have a maple rocking chair my mother bought me when I was four (1945), a torchiere-style floor lamp from my wife's mother's living room (circa 1940), and my maternal grandmother's triple-strand of pearls that she wore at her wedding (1897), but the title page of the little book of Methodist Hymns indicates a publication date of 1845:
Snowbrush added, "I own several hymnals (Episcopal, Church of Christ, and Southern Baptist--the latter arrived by way of Peggy who, as you might recall, grew up in an observant Southern Baptist household), some of them old. I also have various Episcopal prayer books, some of which are SO old that they contain references to debtors' prisons, and have prayers for prisoners who were about to be hung."
As it happens, I own several hymnals also. On either side of my computer monitor and keyboard is a six-foot-tall bookshelf with five shelves each (let's see, five shelves times two bookcases, that's, er, um, carry the four, divide by seven, that's ten shelves in all) that I put together with my own two hands, ten shelves of books in our bedroom sitting area, and the highest shelf in the left side bookcase contains these:
I was going to add that Methodist Hymnals traditionally begin with Charles Wesley's, "O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing My Great Redeemer's Praise" (the 1845 version does) but a quick check of the dark blue one on that shelf burst my bubble. It is from the 1930s and begins with "Holy! Holy! Holy!" -- so much for supposed traditions.
Snowbrush's comment ended with a request: "I usually listen to religious music on Sunday morning, but my private collection isn't great, so I'm wondering if you could offer some suggestions, preferably something newer than Bach but (ideally, though not necessarily) a bit older than the Fanny Crosby era. I prefer music that includes singing."
That is a hard one. I was going to suggest several Charles Wesley hymns, but his lifespan overlaps Bach's. So does Isaac Watts's. So does George Frederic Handel's. There are many, many hymns from the mid-to-late nineteenth century, but that's Fanny Crosby's era. What to do? What to do?
I am recommending that Snowbrush and everybody else listen to the oratorio Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn. There are some wonderful selections in it including "If With All Your Hearts Ye Truly Seek Me" and "O Rest In The Lord, Wait Patiently For Him" and "Then Shall The Righteous Shine Forth As The Sun In Their Heavenly Father's Realm" and -- my favorite -- the gorgeous choral number "He Watching Over Israel Slumbers Not Nor Sleeps."
Here's the first one (3:18), and you should look for the others on Youtube yourself.
I'm grateful to Snowbrush for inspiring this post. I need all the help I can get.
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"Having never heard of the Benemerenti medal"ReplyDelete
I had never heard of it either.
"Curiosity killed the cat"
What a horrible thing to tell a child, and it's a rare companion to the nine lives theory, and to the fact that cats outlive dogs.
"here is the book next to my very wrinkly hand to give you some perspective"
I get to see my friend's hand—oh the joy! It's a healthy looking hand as far as I can tell—good circulation and all that. I see that you can still fit into your wedding ring. Because I only weighed 125 when I was married—and 175 now—the day that I could wear my ring is long gone, but I don't like rings anyway. I do wear a little squirrel that hangs from a chain around my neck, and it represents Peggy to me for reasons that would take more space than I would dare to claim in the comment section to your blog.
"As it happens, I own several hymnals also."
Who would have guessed it?!
"ten shelves in all) that I put together with my own two hands"
I'm impressed, although I would be more impressed if you had built it by the light of a new moon with one eye covered and one hand tied behind you.
"This book is the oldest item in my home."
I don't suppose you collect rocks. My oldest rocks are around 40-million years old, but since it is possible to "own" rocks that are between 3 and 4-billion years of age, I can hardly boast. I think my oldest thing with a human associations is "Family Prayer Book" and is by Bishop Brownell. It's 809 pages in length and was printed in 1841. I wish I hadn't bought it (because of space issues), but now that I have it, I'm loathe to let it go and would worry about how it would fare if I did let it go. I feel responsible for all my things, but especially for the ones that I cherish the most and the ones that have been loved and protected by generation after generation of people. I should think that to neglect such a book would be a sin. Indeed, it seems to me that all things are alive, and therefore all things have rights. Every item that goes into the garbage represents a failure…While we're (or at least I'm) on the subject of age, I would be remiss if I failed to point out that, to my knowledge, Oregon's oldest object with a human connection is way older than Georgia's oldest object with a human connection. In fact, it's the oldest item with a human connection that has been found anywhere in North America. I offer the story of that item for your consideration as a blog topic: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2012/07/fossilized_feces_earliest_americans_shat_in_the_perfect_cave_.html . And again: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080403-first-americans.html
I appreciate the suggestion and listening to them now. When I joined the Episcopal Church I greatly missed the gospel songs that I grew up with in the Church of Christ. Now I've come to love the music of the Episcopal Church. My favorite hymn—Abide With Me—is sung in many churches. Since you like suggestions for posts, why not write a post about the circumstances of the song's lyricist at the time he wrote Abide With Me? He was staring death in the face, and I suppose he believed what he wrote, although I'm unclear as to where belief ends and hope begins.
We grew up with 'curiosity killed the cat too.' And 'satisfaction brought it back'. Curiosity is one of my defining characteristics so I am glad of the addendum. Some days I feel like the oldest thing in our home but, as is true in Snowbrush's home, rocks have a better claim to the title.ReplyDelete
I would like to inspire another blogpost. It is something I have often wondered about. In the north of England and indeed in The Midlands every village of any size has two churches. There will be the ancient parish church - perhaps dating back to Norman times or beyond - and there will be a brick built methodist church from the nineteenth century (many have now been converted to other uses). What I want to know is this - Why did methodism blossom in the nineteenth century? Presumably those who turned to methodism had previously just visited their local church (Church of England) in previous times. What caused this change?ReplyDelete
An interesting as coincidentally I've taken an interest in Methodism myself of late. I have been researching the history of our house and it transpires that it was built by a Primitive Methodist minister to form part of his annuity in the 1880s. But he wasn't just any old minister - James Garner was one of three brothers who at various times were each President of the Methodist Conference. And our home was named Leake House in honour of his place of birth.ReplyDelete
"Why did methodism blossom in the nineteenth century?"ReplyDelete
Hello Robert! Are you okay? Did Yorkie stump you? I am eagerly awaiting your answer to his question so that I won't be forced to do my own research. If memory serves, the Wesley brothers were priests, and were initially more interested in reform than in separation.
What I don't understand about the Methodists compared to the Episcopal Church (Anglicanism's American branch that is forever at risk of being expelled from the Anglican Communion due to the Episcopalians' liberalness, especially in regard to the rights of women and homosexuals to hold any and all offices within the church), is how people who had previously been Anglican's and presumably loved ritual could so abandon ritual that their services became as plain as those of the Southern Baptist's. I really don't get it. I just know that outside of Anglicanism and Catholicism, most Christian churches bore the socks off me.
All,. I'm still here, I am not ignoring you, really I'm not. It has been been only four days since I put up this post -- which can seem like an eternity but is really only 96 hours -- but it has been veddy, veddy busy around here of late as this week I completed the first three sessions of what should become about 40 in all of cardiac rehabilitation; shopped for groceries twice; filled the car's petrol tank with, guess what, petrol; taken Mrs. RWP out to lunch twice and breakfast once, although we did eat at other times as well; paid beginning-of-month bills; reconciled my bank statement with my checkbook ledger; and this morning we had an unscheduled trip to the dentist that resulted in someone's having a tooth extracted. That leaves very little time for doing much of anything except collapsing at the end of the day.ReplyDelete
To answer Lord Pudding's question, Methodism blossomed in the nineteenth century because John and Charles Wesley were born in the eighteenth century. It could not have blossomed in the nineteenth century if they had not been born until the twentieth century.
"It has been been only four days since I put up this post"ReplyDelete
But you had been seriously ill, you know, and I am not an optimist. It's also true that I run more on my emotional time than on Greenwich Mean Time (the word "mean" discouraged me about it when I was still a wee lad). Hence, here I am, now, quite some time after your initial post, my erudite comment to that post, and your final comment in which you sought to curry favor with foreigners by using their lingo…. I hope that it doesn't bother you that my comments are often about as long as your posts—if you weren't so stimulating, you wouldn't get so much out of me.
"filled the car's petrol tank with, guess what, petrol"
Do you mean to say that American cars run as well on petrol as do British cars, or else that you have a British car, and it won't run on gasoline? Finally, does petrol cost more than gasoline, and isn't it true that you have a Japanese car?
"reconciled my bank statement with my checkbook ledger"
I used to do balance our checkbook, but when the Internet started taking care of it, I let it go, but Peggy wasn't content, so now she verifies that the Internet did it right. I don't even remember the last time I wrote a check, so when I say "balance a check book," what I really mean is "balance an electronic copy of an automatic deposit and payment registry." Would I be wrong in guessing that you balance an actual paper copy of your check registry?
"To answer Lord Pudding's question, Methodism blossomed in the nineteenth century because John and Charles Wesley were born in the eighteenth century."
That kind of remark causes me to suspect that you have a source of income other than this blog. Look here, Rhymes, if you want people to suggest topics, that, by golly, give serious thought to their suggestions. I thought that this was a very good question (I could tell it was a good question because I found it interesting), and while I think the answer might have something to do with the split between Anglicanism and Methodism occurring gradually, I'm really not certain, but since you're a faithful Methodist scholar, I would love to know what you have to say, if you would be so kind as to indulge at least two of your readers by addressing it.
Snowbrush, goodness gracious, great balls of fire, what a long and involved comment! I hope it is a sign that you are feeling somewhat better while waiting for your "wee surgery"...it's also a pleasant surprise to learn that you find my posts "stimulating" (that was a compliment, wasn't it?)...petrol, gasoline, it's all the same to me, but they do not cost the same as petrol is sold in imperial gallons and gasoline is not, but price is only an outward difference, I suppose. I'm confused, but you knew that...how did you know I have a Japanese car? Did I divulge it somewhere along the way or are you clairvoyant in addition to your other attributes? We drove Toyota Camrys for years but currently have a Nissan (nee Datsun) Murano. I prefer the Toyotas...my bank sends me a paper copy of my statement each month because I want to have a physical, tangible copy of my transactions if we ever lose the grid, so no, you would not be wrong in your guess...I repent in sackcloth and ashes for the somewhat flip and not all that amusing answer I gave Lord Pudding regarding why Methodism blossomed in the nineteenth century, and I intend to address the subject more seriously in a separate post soon. Until then, regards.ReplyDelete


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As reported, a retired homeowner from Stuart, Florida used his handgun to defend himself and his wife from an early morning home invader.
Police say that just before 5 AM, an intruder entered a married couple's home, which is in a retirement community on the 7200 block of Lillian Court, awakening the wife. She reportedly went to investigate the noise, and found a male intruder in the hallway, prompting her to wake up her husband and inform him of the situation. The husband grabbed his 9mm handgun and shot the intruder in the hip area, after the intruder advanced on him, according to news reports. The intruder fled the home, and a suspect that was armed with a knife and suffering from a gunshot wound was found hiding in the bushes next door, according to police. A suspected accomplice was also apprehended in a nearby vehicle, police say. The homeowners were unharmed.
Those opposed to gun ownership for self defense often argue that a crime victim who is caught unawares will be unable to get their gun and defend themselves. As this case shows, such theoretical arguments don't necessarily reflect reality. In this case, the homeowners were asleep while the attacker was wide awake and ready to commit a cime. Yet the victims managed to wake up and defend themselves, without suffering any injury in the process.
Nor is this an isolated case of self defense success. Many crime victims are able to defend themselves against criminals who seemingly have the upper hand, as some recent examples show: This man managed to shoot 2 armed robbers in self defense, despite being choked by the robbers and held at gunpoint in his own home. This homeowner managed to get his gun from a drawer, despite the fact that a criminal held a knife to him. This elderly man managed to grab a self defense gun, despite being shocked with a stun gun and beaten by a 24 year old man. This man managed to draw his concealed carry handgun and shoot an armed robber in self defense, despite the fact that that robber was standing behind him and pointing a shotgun at his back. This jewelry store owner managed to grab his gun from under a desk, despite the fact that two robbers were in his store, one of whom had a gun pointed at him. This pawnshop manager managed to shoot an armed in self defense, saving himself and his teenage employee, despite the fact that a gun was being held to that employee's throat. I could go on with many more examples, but the point should be clear – armed self defense works.
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Shelby County voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment that would allow the county to spend money earmarked for the landfill on water improvements.
Unofficial but complete returns showed the amendment passing with 30,873 votes, or 58 percent, in favor of it, and 22,535 votes, or 42 percent, against it.
The county currently has $18.5 million in reserves in its landfill budget and now will be allowed to use some of it on water upgrades if the county commission determines the funds are not needed for landfill operations.
Heading into the vote, County Manager Alex Dudchock said the federal and state regulations in the county's landfill license requires the county to have enough money on hand to close cells at the landfill and monitor them for 30 years after they've been closed.
A cell is an area of the landfill where trash is dumped. Dudchock said the county has sufficient funds to close cells at the landfill and to construct a new cell next year.
He said the county plans to use $700,000 of the landfill money each year on water improvements, a figure that could go up or down depending on the needs at the landfill.
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What is your favorite low-tech tool?
A lot of my friends tell me it is the Post-it note. A few say that they favor its less colorful cousin – the index card.
Ask around. Some of your own friends may have a stack of index cards tucked away for learning a new language or as presentation notes for the next meeting. Apply them as a memory aid and they become flash cards.
For me, the no-frills index card leaps to the rescue when life is bottle-necked by details. The little rectangle of paper helps to simplify with a few lines of text or a hastily drawn doodle. I use it to remember a little from the umpteen life hack tips How to Easily Organize & Remember All the Life Hack Tips You Read How to Easily Organize & Remember All the Life Hack Tips You Read We forget things if we don't repeat them. That's bad news for the endless words of wisdom we read every day. The good news is that forgetfulness can be beaten. Read More I read every day.
And I am not the only one who finds the productivity in it.
I believe in lists and I believe in taking notes, and I believe in index cards for doing both.
~ Anne Lamott (Author of Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)
Carl Linnaeus invented the index card and he is often considered as a pioneer of information retrieval. People had problems with information overload even three hundred years ago. The term does sound familiar, doesn't it?
The deluge of information has swamped us again. So thankfully, index cards are still around. And we can use them to sharpen the capacity of our data-numbed brains. Head to your nearest office supplies store and buy a stack. Or, save yourself the cost and launch Microsoft Word. It does a fine job of creating index cards from scratch.
All you need now are the ideal measurements and the right kind of paper to print your index cards on. I will leave that choice to you as we pick one from the three methods.
The Quickest Way – Use Index Card Templates
Templates can save you a lot of time. Microsoft Word has an entire gallery of templates 10 Templates to Save Time at the Office 10 Templates to Save Time at the Office Are there documents that you write over and over again? Whether it's meeting agendas, invoices, or status reports, templates could make your work easier. We have compiled 10 template ideas to save you time. Read More that are designed for any personal or professional need. And, it hasn't forgotten about index cards or flash cards. The way to get to them is through a search.
Open Microsoft Word. Go to File > New. Type Index card in the search field.
The results are displayed as thumbnails and you can easily sort through them visually or with the category list on the right. If you need a specific type of index card, try a search with that.
For instance, you can type "flash card" to scour for educational flash cards. The template gallery has a variety of flash cards for basic English and Math. Select the template and it opens as a new Microsoft Word document.
Use the index card as it is or re-purpose it around your content. For instance: how about styling your fonts How to Style Fonts in Microsoft Word to Make Your Text Stand Out How to Style Fonts in Microsoft Word to Make Your Text Stand Out A well formatted text can grab your reader's attention and help them flow through your document. We show you how to add that final touch in Microsoft Word. Read More and make the text on the card stand out.
Make an Index Card in Microsoft Word from Scratch
The templates won't fill every need. So, a do-it-yourself approach will not only give you the power to make your own custom designed index cards but also fit it around the printer you have at your disposal. The good news is that Microsoft Word makes the process easy.
Open a new Microsoft Word document. To set the right size for the index cards, head to the Layout tab on the Ribbon. Click the little arrow at the edge of the Page Setup group to open the options.
On the Page Setup panel click on the tab for Paper. Scroll down the paper sizes given. If you get a size close to your desired number select that. If not then select Custom Size which is the last choice on the drop-down list. Enter the Width and Height as per the dimensions of the size of your index card. Click OK to set the dimensions.
You can also arrive at the same options by selecting Size from the Layout tab. The scroll-down list brings you to different paper sizes and the More Paper Sizes command at the end. It opens the same dialog box we see above.
Index cards can be of different sizes. Wikipedia says that the most common size for index cards in North America and the UK is 3 by 5 inches. It is commonly known as the 3 by 5 card. Other available sizes include 4 by 6 inches, 5 by 8 inches, and ISO-size A7 (74 by 105 mm or 2.9 by 4.1 in).
Set the Margin (& Other Design Tweaks)
If you want to keep them organized in a binder file, you might like to set a margin that leaves space for a punch hole.
Set the print margins on the card from the default 1″ to the Narrow .5″. Go to the first button on the Layout tab that says Margins. Choose Normal (which is the default) or Narrow from the drop-down. Or, any other dimension that is suitable for the look of the cards.
The Word document is now set up with your custom dimensions. By default, Microsoft Word will print the cards in portrait. Flip the orientation between Portrait and Landscape if you wish (Layout > Orientation). For instance, a recipe card would look better in portrait. A vocabulary card would be ideal with a landscape adjustment.
Design Your Index Cards to Fit Their Purpose. Your first blank index card is ready. Now you can fill it with any information you desire. From clipart for illustrated information The Best Websites for Free Clipart Downloads The Best Websites for Free Clipart Downloads Today's clipart needs to be modern, colorful, and less cartoonish. Try these 13 the top websites for free clipart downloads when you need to search for the right image in a short time. Read More to charts or just normal text — format the look as you would do for a normal Microsoft Word document.
Press Enter or do a Page Break to open the second page or in this case the second index card with the same dimensions. Create as many index cards as you wish.
Make an Index Card with Word's Inbuilt Label Standards
Open a blank Microsoft Word document. Go to the Mailings tab on the Ribbon.
On the Create (Envelopes and Labels) panel click on Labels. In the Envelopes and Labels settings choose the Labels tab click on Options.
The Options box lists a huge number of Label Vendors and their Product Numbers. You can use these pre-configured label templates to create index cards easily. The Label Information on the right gives the dimensions and the page size required.
From the drop-down, choose Microsoft or a vendor like Avery US Letter. Scroll down to an Index card dimension (Avery Number 5388) – it will give you three 3″ x 5″ cards on an 8.5″ x 11″ sheet. This is an Avery standard for the index card type chosen (I got the number from the Avery website). Select OK.
Like any print job, you should check that your label dimensions and page margins are not larger than the actual paper size. Click on Details to preview the dimensions. Tweak a setting like Page Size as per the size of the paper you plan to print on.
Microsoft Word as always allows you to make your own custom-sized labels when the pre-configured measurements don't help.
Select New Label in the Label Options box and enter the dimensions in the Label Details dialog box. The custom label will be added to the list with the descriptive name you attach to it.
Click OK. In the Envelopes and Labels dialog box, select New Document. The Microsoft Word document shows the three index cards marked out by dashed border lines. All you have to do is to insert the content, print it and cut it out into three. Click on New Document again to get the next sheet of index cards.
When Was the Last Time You Used Index Cards?
Paper can still be the killer productivity app 6 Simple Reasons Why Paper Can Still Be Your Killer Productivity App 6 Simple Reasons Why Paper Can Still Be Your Killer Productivity App Paper can be a more potent tool for productivity than a computer or a touch device, and shouldn't immediately be dismissed. Not convinced? Here are six reasons why paper is still relevant. Read More . A few extra bits of card stock won't harm it.
America's first woman ambassador once said that the height of sophistication is simplicity. Much before it was mis-attributed to Steve Jobs. Even Google has embraced this simplicity and has brought back the index card in a new digital avatar.
The look of everything from the Knowledge Graph to Google Keep is a subtle tribute to the index card. In a Co.Design article, Matias Duarte, UX director for Android said,
We've actually tapped into one of the oldest pieces of graphic and information design around–business cards, calling cards, greeting cards, playing cards.
Now, what about you?
Maybe, you can use them like a memory index of alternative ideas as Maria Popova does? Or, be like Ronald Reagan who used them to throw out his funny one-liners? You can mimic Vladimir Nabokov and plot your entire book (or just the next term paper) on a series of index cards. At the very least, you can use them to leave love notes for your better half!
Tell us your own experience with index cards. And, throw your best creative ideas in the comments that will help us squeeze benefits from a simple stack of card stock.
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I love paper. I love index cards. I use post-it notes, index cards, a paper planner (Day-Timers), a paper calendar. But the calendar on my MacBook is also useful because I only have to enter birthdays once and because I can always see five weeks at a time.
And here is a non-paper note-cardy trick that has served me well for more than a decade: The Excel Ultimate-Simplicity Database. Open a workbook. On a spreadsheet, change the width of column A to approximately the width of the screen. Okay, programming is now finished. Begin data-entry: Every idea or piece of information you want to save, type it on a line. Give it a 2-4 letter code: "add" for an address or phone number you need to write down. "home" followed by a space and then the name of the plumber or electrician whose name you will need later. "travel" and the name of the B & B you stayed in in Michigan. Save the file under the name Misc Note for Miscellaneous Notes. You can do a data sort to put all items together. You can use search function to find information faster than with a stack of index cards. You can create a new spreadsheet for each year.
I'm the local hero when my wife can't remember the name of the person who worked on the stucco five years ago. I search the workbook for "stucco" and there it is. I collect humor, make notes about events in our lives. It never takes more than seconds, but later it is a treasure trove. "When were we in Paris?" "That was five years ago." "Are you sure?" "Yeah, just looked it up."
Thank you very much, you just made studying for my psychology finals a thousand times easier :]
ok - sorry to jump the gun - it worked - many thanks...
hi, i tried this - but can get only 1 label in the new document and not three as shown in the picture.
please help,
I have a similar problem - I need to make hundreds of Spanish Verb conjugation flashcards, but I want to make 6 flashcards per 8.5 x 11 sheet...haven't figured out how to do it on Word yet...sigh...
I wish this tutorial had came out earlier - it would have come in very handy for an earlier project. Well, thanks; I've been looking for instructions on how to do this.
Can you do a tutorial for OpenOffice users?
How about a downloadable OOo template so you don't have to make it yourself? >> http://www.adrive.com/public/a38837633c31e1356fa38d9dcde44dfccbc5ce45da32632c567e127a93fd3e0b.html
Wow, ADrive is full of ads. I count 1 Flash ad, 4 image ads, 3 text ads, and 2 popups.
You can just ignore them and grab the template.


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The big story in media relations in 2011 was the continued influence of social media in outreach to journalists. Twitter has become essential in both following and alerting the media. Yet traditional media relations techniques like the press release and desk-side interviews still have a place in media relations. PR News asked two media relations experts to give their take on trends to expect in 2012.
Priya Ramesh, Director, Social Media Strategy, CRT/tanaka
Twitter will position itself further as an "information" network, not just a social network, which means that a growing number of journalists will seek information and news sources on Twitter. By making yourself relevant, content-rich and a thought leader on Twitter, you may well be increasing your chances of getting some media attention. Twitter also helps you to get to know your reporters and bloggers more in terms of what's on top of their minds.
Communicators will start tying search to their media relations efforts. For example, press releases/blogs/online newsrooms will be search engine optimized to make it easy for journalists to find your news.
Social media will continue to empower citizen journalism, as anyone with a smartphone device can instantaneously create and share news in real time. This compels communicators to start treating their community as news distribution channels. Facebook and Twitter were the top outlets where people found out about the U.S.' attack on Osama bin Laden's compound. This just shows the evolution of social networks as news sources, which means communications pros must at the least have an active listening/monitoring plan in place to stay close to their community online as well as their targeted media.
Johna Burke, Senior Vice President, BurrellesLuce
- Blogging will grow increasingly important for otherwise "traditional" publications. Journalists will be required to generate more stories with an eye for driving traffic.
- Journalists' "influencer ranking" will start to outweigh other influencers as they expand their reach and scope to multiple channels with an increased focus on blogging and traditional stories. Thought leadership and developing compelling and popular stories will drive this authority.
- SEO will be increasingly important. This will be important for journalists looking for sources and for journalists posting stories. Just as the media use search to find experts and be the first with the story, they will find their own content development will drive traffic to their own site(s).
- Geo-targeting efforts will extend to the media and their need to find sources that are relevant for their stories in a hyperlocal world.


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Torchiador wrote:It would be a nice idea but I think that it would introduce some logistic problems.
Hmm.. A potential solution could be a second data projector, if the organizers can provide one. I would also suggest no amplified audio in the projected matches of Saturday. It's not just the delay in switching cables, it would be distracting for everyone else who is playing at the same time.


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We wanted to give homeowners an option to see a host of colors on homes to aid them in their search for new siding!
-Emilio Bonilla, of SidingMagazine.com
(PRWEB) July 02, 2012
Picking the color of the siding has long been a trial and error thing for most people. Imagining color and how it matches a specific house design is very difficult, especially for those who do not have an artist's eye, which is actually most people. The eyes are relied upon to gauge the total effect. It is for this reason that SidingMagazine.com is offering the Siding Designer Tool on their website.
The tool is easy to find. Upon entering the website, the siding designer tool can be seen in the middle portion of the homepage beside the Siding Price Calculator. Simply click on it, and the Composite Siding Designer Tool will appear. Clicking on the Start Designing tab will bring the user through a straightforward, user-friendly siding design process.
Siding Design Options
There are several house design styles available that the user can choose from. The selections are as follows: Cape, Colonial, Contemporary Colonial, and Ranch. These house styles are the most popular ones throughout the country. It is highly likely that the house the user envisions reflects the design concept of one of these.
There are nine colors to choose from (i.e. Canvas, Cabernet Red, Chestnut, Harbor Blue, Misty Taupe, Sand Dune, Seaside Gray, Spanish Moss, and Antique Ivory). The tool is interactive in that the depicted houses siding changes color to illustrate how a particular style would look in the chosen color. This makes it easy for those planning to purchase or replace their siding to make a more informed color choice.
Printing The Design
An option to print the siding designed is also provided. This will allow the user to keep a colored copy of the house siding he or she designed as reference. It is not guaranteed, though, that the colors will come out exactly as seen on the Siding Design Tool, as this aspect is dependent on the equipment available to the user.
Other Useful Things On The Site
The Siding Price Calculator is another useful tool that can be found in SidingMagazine.Com. It aids the user in estimating how much might be spent on new siding. Those who want to know more about the various sidings on the market may download the Free Comparison Guide.


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I'm putting together a mini-DAW (digital audio workstation) for iPhone as a personal project and I've suddenly been faced with some performance issues. Basically, the program needs to be able to play multiple files at once. I have my sounds being initialized with "createStream" (I've also tried createSound) and I've got a channelGroup for each to enable some features. The sounds right now can be compressed audio files of a few minutes long each. Also, as you might imagine, there are lots of sliders and vu meters and timers that are all getting updated.
When I launch the app on the iPhone, everything is working fine. As soon as I begin playing a song though, I experience a minor performance hit. The buttons and sliders aren't as reliable, but all the vu meters and time indicators update fine.
When I play a second song, the app's interface becomes almost non-responsive. Again, every vu meter and time indicator update, but hitting a button or slider has very little effect, and if it does have an effect it is extremely slow and choppy. Interestingly enough, the audio output is fine.
If I pause one or both of the songs, the app comes back to its snappy self.
In the simulator, everything works fine.
Do you have any suggestions on how to troubleshoot performance or increase it?
I've played around with XCODE Instruments, but I'm not getting much out of it right now. I plan on delving into how to really use it. I'm hoping that someone here could shed some light first.
- George
- CuriousG asked 9 years ago
Thanks Mathew,
Yes, I was testing with the "wave.mp3" file that is included with FMOD. It is a 96kbps stereo MP3 file. It's actually a pretty small file. Does that seem right, that even with that small file there should be a performance lag?
I converted it to a WAV file (16 bit, stereo, 44.1khz), and indeed, I did get a major performance increase. Below are the numbers. Could you take a look?
All paused:
Stream: 0.49
Update: 0.12
Total: 1.98
1 Channel Playing:
Stream: 1.91
Update: .11
Total: 5.91
2 Channels Playing:
Stream: 2.63
Update: .12
Total: 9.05
I've started taking a look at the offlinedecoding example. Any chance there is one already made for iPhone? How long does the processing take?
I've also experimented with createSound and FMOD_CREATESAMPLE, which provides a comparable boost in performance, even with MP3s, but I'm sure at a cost to memory.
Any other thoughts? Thanks!
- George
The length of the file will not affect the performance, since you are streaming from the disk you take in a chunk then decode it, if the file is longer you just keep decoding for longer, the processing at any one time is not greater or smaller.
Those numbers you are getting when playing a wav file look normal, since no decompression is required for WAV the CPU overhead is much lower.
There should be an offline decoding example for iPhone in versions after (and including) 4.25.04.
When you do FMOD_CREATESAMPLE, FMOD decompresses the entire file to PCM at load time, then plays it as PCM, so the cost is once upfront. You should see the same runtime CPU performance as playing a WAV file. Although the entire file is decoded in memory, so if the file is large there will be a significant memory cost compared with streaming.
Thanks Mathew,
I've implemented the decodeSound function into my app, but FMOD is not able to load the file using createStream. It says:
FMOD error! (25) Unsupported file or audio format.
I've tried to load the file into Audacity and it can't read it either. Looks like I need to specify the format using FMOD_CREATESOUNDEXINFO. Would you happen to have any examples of that?
- George
PS: Thanks for all your help. I truly appreciate it!
If you want to load raw PCM data, you need to pass in the FMOD_OPENRAW flag to System::createSound() and you need to provide an FMOD_CREATESOUNDEXINFO structure.
In the structure you need to specify cbsize, length, defaultfrequency, numchannels and format. Check out the CreateSound() and FMOD_MODE sections of the docs for more details.
You should be able to load it in Audacity by choosing File -> Import -> Raw PCM.
Alternatively instead of outputting raw PCM data, you could output a simple WAV file. Unfortunately we don't have an iPhone example for it yet, but the Mac version has some code you could use in the recordtodisk example. (Just ignore all the big endian stuff since iPhone is only little endian).
Thanks Mathew,
I've started playing around with it and it looks like I'm getting some good results. I appreciate all the great help you've given me.
- George
Firstly, the simulator isn't useful for testing performance. It only simulates the iPhone by giving you comparable APIs, it does not emulate the hardware of the device or the performance of the device (so you are executing on 2Ghz Core2Duo processor instead of the much slower phone ARM processor).
To get an idea of what is using up all your CPU you can do a couple of things. Firstly you can try System::getCPUUsage(), this will give you CPU usage figures for the DSP (mixing and effects), Stream (decompressing streamed files) and Update (properties, voice management, etc that happens on the main thread).
If you need finer grain usage, you can connect to your app with the FMOD Profiler (running on your Mac) over the network (to the device Wi-Fi). With the profiler you can show CPU usage for each element of the DSP tree. Note that the overall costs will go up when using the profiler but the relative costs between the items will be the same (which is what is important).
You should be able to see where the costs are, which effects are hitting the processor hard, and how much you are paying for streaming highly compressed formats, etc. If you have any questions about the usage costs you see let me know and I'll help you out.
Thanks Mathew,
I am going to try those out immediately.
- George
Ok here is some additional info from the FMOD Profiler, which is a pretty cool tool I must say.
When no channels are playing, I get the following values (approximate because they change frequently):
Stream: 1.54 / 100%
Update: .08 / 100%
Total: 1.97 / 100%
With 1 channel playing I get the following:
Stream: 10.58
Update: .24
Total: 16.2
With 2 channels playing I get the following:
Stream: 27.75
Update: .14
Total: 36.37
So, it looks like the DSPs and Streams are adding load. I have multiple channelGroups set up so I can apply effects to them separately. Also, I have multiple versions of the same DSP (really just instances of the same DSP as part of the class instance) because I will have different DSP parameters for each channel. For example, if I could want a bass boost for both channels but a different amount of boost for each.
Can you see a problem with my network here?
Thanks for all your help.
- George
From a performance stand point, I can see you are probably playing stereo sounds, maybe MP3 or Ogg Vorbis. These can be quite expensive to runtime decode. Depending on the requirements of your app (memory usage, cpu usage, download size) you can probably make some savings.
Using a less expensive format could help, like ADPCM for instance, that would probably halve your stream usage but your source files would be larger (increase in download size).
You could also ship your sounds as MP3 and decode them to PCM on first run, then stream the PCM from disk (this keeps download size small, but costs space on the device). See the offline decoding example.
Also remember if you write your own DSPs, the cost of float operations is quite high, a good optimization is to make sure when you compile you disable "compiling for thumb", you will get a nice performance boost when working with floats.
As for the DSP network, you can make it as simple or as complex as you need, but obviously each point that requires adding effects or mixing will cost precious CPU (as you can see with the CPU numbers), so it is a delicate balancing game of functionality vs performance.
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My Theatre of Tranquility.
Been down lately. Got two of my short stories rejected. I'm kind off trying to get use to this.
Did a stop motion video with the kids. Do check it out
It means so much to them and a "like" will encourage them to do better. 🙂
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As you may know, we have a weak spot for cured meats. Check out the rebuilt Slimjim.com, which features more beef jerky and meat sticks than you're probably ready for. Try the link from your mobile phone also as there is an optimized page. Now, there are no limitations to where and how you can satisfy your beef jerky cravings.Launch Project


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Assisted Fresh Body with converting their previous WordPress site over to BigCommerce to have full e-commerce capabilities. Custom theme and template modifications built and implemented into BC.
Custom solution and theme built on BigCommerce. Music was packaged as downloadable content, samples served using SoundCloud
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Site design and theme implementation and BigCommerce store setup. Assisted client with online business decisions and trained them on the system.


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Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish on Friday defended the club's actions in the wake of Luis Suarez's ban for racist abuse, insisting they had not "caused trouble."
Liverpool issued a strongly worded statement attacking the ruling on Tuesday while the club's players also released a statement of their own announcing they were firmly behind the Uruguayan.
Dalglish and Liverpool's players also wore t-shirts with images of Suarez on them ahead of Wednesday's draw with Wigan, a move that was criticised by anti-racism campaigners.
However Dalglish remained steadfast on Friday.
"The statement couldn't have caused anyone any trouble and I don't think the players have caused any trouble with the FA either by their statement or support by their T-shirts," said the Scot.
"If we are not in any trouble we will leave it at that before we do get in any trouble."
Dalglish meanwhile said Suarez had been moved by the support from the club and his team-mates.
"He's been quite emotional and very grateful," added Dalglish.
"I don't think it is ever a disappointment when the people you work for give you their undivided support and I think that is the least he deserves."
Liverpool will only decide whether to appeal the ruling once they have received the full written verdict of the disciplinary panel.
"Most of the people have had their say, we've had our say but we will wait for the judgement and take it from there - but it won't be tomorrow," he said.


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Sub-millimetre accuracy for global positioning
A new antenna calibration facility installed at Geoscience Australia will significantly improve the accuracy of satellite positioning technologies that underpin a range of industrial and research applications.
The state-of-the-art Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) robotic antenna calibration facility, consisting of two outdoor robots, is one of only three of its kind in the world and the only one in the Southern Hemisphere. It will increase satellite positioning precision to less than one millimetre.
The facility was officially opened by the Minister for Science and Research Senator Don Farrell at Geoscience Australia's Canberra headquarters on 20 May, 2013.
"This calibration facility will improve the accuracy of the national GNSS network, and will form an important component of the National Positioning Infrastructure announced in the recently-released Australia's Satellite Utilisation Policy," Senator Farrell said at the opening.
The $1 million facility will enhance some of the leading-edge geospatial capabilities already available to Australian researchers. It will be used to calibrate 200 GNSS antennae acquired as part of the AuScope Australian Geophysical Observing System (AGOS). AuScope is a collaboration that brings together the CSIRO, Geoscience Australia, state government agencies and 11 universities, to transform understanding of the structure and evolution of the Australian continent.
Geoscience Australia Geodesy researcher Dr John Dawson said the system will allow geoscientists to monitor changes in the surface of the continent and support an improved understanding of processes which deform the Earth, including subsidence caused by activities such as groundwater and coal seam gas extraction.
"The data will ensure better long-term management of activities and services associated with Australia's future energy needs, including in energy-rich sedimentary basins and their emerging geophysical issues," Dr Dawson said.
As well as supporting development of the resources industry, this calibration facility will also help to address the increasing demand for greater positioning accuracy in scientific investigations such as earthquake hazard mapping, monitoring the effects of climate change and tracking environmental variations over time.
By improving the accuracy of the national GNSS network, the system will improve the accuracy in hand-held devices and smart phones that rely on GPS, as well as scientific and industrial applications in positioning for transport systems, mining, engineering, construction and land survey activities.


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Big Crazy Family AdventureExtreme Living
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The Kirkby's are going on an unthinkable and spectacular family trip. Traveling 12 thousand miles across 12 time zones by container ship, trains, donkeys, bicycles, and using with their own 8 feet, they are taking the road less travelled. No planes allowed. Big Crazy Family Adventure follows adventurer, guide, writer, and photographer Bruce Kirkby as he treks from Vancouver to the Himalayas with his wife and 2 young sons. This journey will take the family across undiscovered landscapes, through challenging climates and inside unique cultures in an effort to disconnect from the daily pressures of technology and information overload, and open their children's eyes to the simple wonders of the world.


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TWITTER is fast becoming an important channel for public companies to communicate with investors, but the platform's 140-character limit for messages creates compliance challenges that may be preventing more companies from participating.
In many situations, regulated communications require disclaimers or warnings that don't fit into Twitter's character limit. While most of the 600-odd public companies we are tracking on Twitter seem to either ignore or openly flout legal considerations, companies that do take compliance seriously are hamstrung by Twitter's inflexibility.
In this article I suggest that Twitter could remedy the problem by attaching a disclaimer link to the metadata that accompanies each tweet on the Web and the API. The addition of a disclaimer link to individual tweets could provide a compelling reason for more companies to join the service and for existing businesses to upgrade to paid accounts.
Current ineffective workarounds for disclaimers
For public companies that use Twitter, legal concerns include compliance with the adoption and endorsement rules for third-party content, forward-looking statements, and non-GAAP financial measures. Companies in certain industries, such as financial services and pharmaceuticals, also must contend with other regulatory constraints when communicating via Twitter.
Since it is currently impossible to include disclaimers with every tweet due to Twitter's limits on message length, well-meaning companies that take their compliance obligations seriously have attempted to use workarounds to apply disclaimers to their communications on Twitter.
However, in all cases these fail to ensure compliance because people can access companies' tweets without ever seeing the relevant disclaimers or having direct access to them. Companies currently use one or more of the following ineffective methods when attempting to apply legal cautions to their tweets:
Twitter backgrounds
Some companies add disclaimer text to their Twitter account background images. The problem with this is that many users will never see the disclaimer on a company's background image because they do not need to use the Twitter website to follow its tweets.
People can follow a company via one of many popular Twitter clients like TweetDeck, Seesmic or Tweetie, which means they will not see the company's profile page that contains the disclaimer on the background image. Twitter backgrounds also do not appear on Twitter's mobile site.
And even if people do use the Twitter website to follow the company, they still might not be properly cautioned. Any disclaimer on a Twitter background is likely to be incomplete and require people to visit a fuller version on the company's website. However, no hyperlink can be provided without users installing special software since the disclaimer is part of an image.
It's also worth noting that even if people do visit a company's profile page on the Twitter website, they still may not see the disclaimer text if their browser window is set to a small size, if they have images disabled, or if they're using a screen reader.
Consequently, adding disclaimers to Twitter backgrounds is almost entirely ineffective, although one should not blame companies for trying this approach because they have little choice.
Twitter bios
A few companies use their one-line Twitter bios to try to caution their followers or make them aware of a disclaimer. This approach is slightly more effective than putting disclaimers on Twitter backgrounds because bios are more visible. Bios typically are included in the profile information on Twitter clients such as TweetDeck, whereas company backgrounds are not.
However, users of these Twitter clients still can follow company accounts without ever viewing a company's bio information, which means they may never become aware that the tweets are subject to a disclaimer. Twitter restricts bios to no more than 160 characters, which does not leave much room for an effective caution.
Companies can provide a short URL for a fuller disclaimer in their bios, but people will have to copy or manually type in the address because links in bios are published as text instead of hyperlinks. Overall, using Twitter bios for disclaimers is ineffective.
Tweeted disclaimers
eBay Inc. famously uses a set of four disclaimer tweets prior to "live-tweeting" its earnings calls (see screenshot below). These link to a more complete disclaimer on the company's corporate blog and to the investor presentation that contains the GAAP reconciliations.
While the company's lawyers deserve credit for recognizing the potential legal pitfalls of using Twitter in this way, there is no assurance that investors will be aware of the disclaimer when they view individual tweets from the live session.
For example, investors who access the tweet shown below via a referral from a friend or from search results will not be cautioned about forward-looking statements as required for the company to claim safe harbor.
How Twitter could add disclaimer links to tweets
The fundamental problem with current approaches to applying disclaimers or cautions to tweets is that people can view tweets in isolation from the disclaimers that apply to them.
To address this problem, Twitter could add a new "disclaimer" parameter that could appear below each tweet and link to a page containing a comprehensive disclaimer. This would be similar to the new "contributors" parameter that Twitter is currently testing for business accounts.
The new contributors link is meant to personalize business accounts managed by multiple people by showing which contributor wrote the tweet. Twitter itself is using the contributors link on its account, as shown in the following tweet.
Importantly, the contributors link is retained when tweets are re-tweeted on Twitter's website (but not when the RT convention is used).
While I'm sure the contributors link is valuable to business users, I'm even more sure that a disclaimer link for tweets would be just as attractive, if not more so.
Companies that are currently sitting on the Twitter sidelines for legal reasons will have more confidence to use Twitter if they can reliably attach legal disclaimers to their tweets.
And the disclaimer feature is something worth paying for if it means avoiding costly litigation or regulatory action.
Here's what a disclaimer link might look like:
Just a thought.


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MILFORD, Pa. — Bonnie La Fé, a specialist in residential and commercial real estate, was inducted into the International Diamond Society based on her gross commission sales for 2013.
La Fé, of Milford, has been affiliated with Coldwell Banker Pinnacle Realty for 15 years.
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About the Book
About the Book
Dead by Midnight
The last sounds Dean Wilson hears are a clock striking 12 and a
killer's taunting words, and his death is just the first.
One-by-one, victims are stalked and shot at close range. Only the
killer knows their sins, and who will be the next to die at
In the 10 years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie
Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the
first death threat arrives, she assumes it's a joke. Then she
gets a second note. Sheriff Mike Birkett, her high-school
sweetheart, has avoided Lorie since she returned to Dunmore, but
when investigators uncover her connection to a string of recent
murders, he's drawn into a case that's terrifyingly
With every murder, the killer edges closer. Soon Lorie's
will be the last name left on his list. Her only hope is to unearth
a deadly secret…before the clock runs out for good.
Award-winning and national bestselling author Beverly Barton is
the author of over 30 romances. She lives with her husband in
Tuscumbia, Alabama and is currently working on her next novel of
romantic suspense.
DEAD BY MIDNIGHT © Copyright 2011 by Beverly Barton.
Reprinted with permission by Kensington. All rights reserved.
Dead by Midnight
- Publication Date: February 1, 2010
- Genres: Fiction
- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Kensington Mass Market


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A concrete deck weigh bridge using quality Flintec stainless steel loadcells has been installed by Ultrahawke for Rose Grange Pastoral Co. on its property in Little River near Geelong.
The 28 metre x 3.5 metre concrete deck weigh bridge will be weighing all trucks in and out of the property to assist with tracking the regular movements of grain and livestock.
A ranger 5000 digital weight indicator powers the weigh bridge loadcells and transmits the acquired weight readings to both a basic strip printer and an externally mounted remote display to enable the truck drivers to see the weigh bridge weight readings.


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London: Third seed Simona Halep made the most of the Centre Court stage gifted to her in a scheduling change, disposing of her Brazilian opponent Teliana Pereira 6-2 6-2 in a clinical display on Tuesday.
Runner-up at the French Open last month and a quarter- finalist at the Australian Open in January, Halep called the victory which opened her account at this year`s Wimbledon "pretty easy".
The 22-year-old Romanian, who has raced up the rankings over the last year, found out her match against world No.88 Pereira had been shifted to the main show court just an hour before play.
"The court is beautiful. I had a good start to this tournament," she said.
Braving gusty conditions to reach the second round at the All England Club, the Romanian equalled her best past performance at the competition, having also made it beyond the first round last year and in 2011.
This year, though, she said she can progress further.
"Tennis is different on grass but I like to play here. I want to go very far in this tournament," she said.


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Cheetah spot by spot: sysdbopen/sysdbclose
Continuing the Cheeta's new features articles, it's time to talk about sysdbopen and sysdbclose.
These are DBA controlled procedures that are run by the users when the try to connect/disconnect to/from a database.
These procedures are regular SPL procedures but with a few particularities:
- Only DBAs can create or drop them
- The owner has more meaning than usual. If you create a procedure called myuser.sysdbopen, only "myuser" will run it when he connects to the database.
If you create a procedure called public.sysdbopen, then all users that don't have a matching user.sysdbopen procedure, will run public.sysdbopen
- Can be used to do some kind of logging for connects and disconnects
- Can be used to change the isolation level when changing the application code is not an option
- Can be used to change the LOCK MODE in the same situations as above
- Can be used to stop the creation of new database sessions (inhibit connections during a maintenance period)
- Can be used to restrict certain users from connecting at certain hours, or from certain hosts...
- sysdbclose can be used to gather session statistics (and save them in some history table)
This mechanism was made available in XPS (DW Informix engine) a long time ago, but it took really too much time to be ported to IDS. Flexibility is the keyword here. It improves usability and adds functionality.
One final note. There is an environment variable (IFX_NODBPROC) that can be used to stop the server from executing these functions, BUT it can only be used by DBAs. Since a DBA could even drop the function this is a nice feature.
It could be nice to have sysdbopen/sysdbclose procedures associated with database roles. Currently this is not possible, but you can use the generic "public.sysdb*" procedure and put some logic in it so that it behaves differently for different default roles (just an example).
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We want more, we want more: Red Sox in position for multiple titles
By Ryan Hannable
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Winning a championship in any sport is obviously extremely tough, but with all the free agent movement, trades, etc., maintaining a winning baseball team over the course of multiple seasons is difficult. After a championship in 2004, the Sox lost in the divisional round in 2005 and missed the playoffs altogether in 2006. The holdovers from the 2007 title team made it back to the Championship round in 2008. But the Sox began a downward trend from there, getting swept out of the ALDS by the Angels in 2009 before missing the playoffs in three consecutive years.
The coming seasons for the Red Sox are set up to be just as good as this year's as going into next season, the team retains a group of young, talented players ready and willing to step up.
"We had a good core. We had seven free agent acquisitions and we had a young player or two who came up and contributed like [Brandon] Workman, [Xander] Bogaerts and [Jackie] Bradley Jr. early in the year. It was the perfect blend of young, medium and old," Red Sox President and CEO Larry Lucchino said.
After starting the season with Double-A Portland, Bogaerts and Workman had the biggest impacts, as in their rookie seasons Bogaerts became the starting third baseman for the last two games of the ALCS, carrying through the World Series, while Workman was a guy manager John Farrell depended on coming out of the bullpen.
Bogaerts was called up on Aug. 30 and hit .250 with five RBIs in 18 regular season games. He then excelled in the playoffs, showing no signs of being a 21-year-old rookie, as he always stayed patient at the plate. In 27 postseason at-bats, he hit .296 with an on-base percentage of .412, playing a significant role in capturing the World Series title.
With a need in the starting rotation, Workman was called up on July 10 and started three games before moving to the bullpen for the remainder of the season. In 20 appearances he finished 6-3 with a 4.97 ERA. Like Bogaerts, his youth didn't show much in the postseason as in 8.2 innings he didn't allow an earned run, pitching in some high leverage situations.
There are also a number of talented prospects up and coming in the system, including pitchers Drake Britton, Allen Webster, Matt Barnes, Henry Owens, Anthony Ranaudo and position players Garin Cecchini and Mookie Betts, some of whom could be part of the next great Red Sox team.
"I think it's noteworthy we had this success while still preserving the core and the strength of our farm system," Lucchino said. "We didn't mortgage the future to win this year and I think that is noteworthy and I give Ben Cherington great credit for that. Yes, it does set up well for the future."
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The Architects presented an elegant yet very efficient design that includes adaptable and multi-purpose community spaces, a double-gymnasium (dividable into four sections), a double arena (main arena with 1000 seats; second with less than 100 seats), an indoor walking/running track, a concession area, change rooms and washrooms, and an atrium / lobby area. (Please click here to see the Architect's slide presentation.)
Based on an item-by-item-review of the design and informed by their experience on more than 30 community facilities, Ball Construction estimated the construction costs at $32.5 million. The construction managers also pegged total project costs – including design, furniture, fixtures, permits – at $36.2 million. (Please click here to watch a video of Ball Construction's presentation.)
Staff stated that the Community Centre will cost $46.66 for an average residential property (assessed at $309,200) or 3.44% on the 2016 Pelham portion of the tax bill only. That amount will allow the Town to purchase a 30-year debenture of $9.07 million from Infrastructure Ontario. Since Council already approved project funds in our 2016 Budget, the Town will not require any further property tax increases to build the Centre beyond this year.
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In 2005, the Town purchased the 32-acres at the corner of Rice Road and Hwy 20 for $3.6 million ($112,000 per acre). After re-designating, re-zoning, and fully-servicing those lands, the Town will be able to sell nearly 20 acres for an estimated $12 million ($600,000 per acre). (Including the $1.1 million in interest payments, this sale would represent a return on investment of +150%.)
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It's one of those ingredients (like butter) that you can just lump on anything and it tastes good.
Seriously even with steak.
Actually, steak could be one of those ingredients as well. Mung on some caramel with ya green beans and chippies and you're set for a good wholesome dinner. Slash toilet. Double slash G.P.
My friend and her fabulous beautiful gorgeous lovely sister lived at Mooloolaba with some other room mates who refused to go shopping so when times got tough, these two would have to make do with what they had.
One hopeless case of this was when she woke up craving an egg on toast.
And when this girl craves an egg on toast...there is no fucking stopping her getting her egg on her toast.
This girl would put her hand up a chicken to get an egg to cook to put on that toast.
You catch my drift.
Anyway, she went into the fridge, got her egg, her toast and plonked it on the counter. Cooked the egg, cooked the toast and went into the fridge to get the butter.
Need I say more?
Yeah I probs should aye.
Holy guacamole, what do you do when there's no butter! Margarine? Are you crazy? Do you have a condition? Because you talkin' smack gurl.
So, in her fury and rage, she picked up the closest thing to butter in the fridge she could find...spread it on her toast...plonked her egg on top...and munched that bad boy right up. And she was happy.
Just so you know...that condiment...was passionfruit yoghurt.
Back to the point of my story...you can put caramel on anything if you can eat passionfruit yoghurt + egg + toast.
Personally, it tastes a hell of a lot better when you bake it into a tart. Like I did. Which leads me to the recipe that is the point of this blogpost. A caramel tart. A custardy almond caramel tart.
However before I divulge in this recipe...I promised I'd feature some of my mates on the blog because I told them I wrote Cookie Jar and they didn't believe me. Just wanted to explain the model shots that were popping up between my preamble paragraphs.
Enjoy! (Double enjoy da babez presenting you da TaArRt!)
Caramel Tart (adapted from epicurious.com)
(Now this tart is pretty average...The components by themselves are FREAKING BRILLIANT but the whole thing all together just doesn't seem to mesh. I think I'd suggest serving the custard by itself or just using the recipe for the tart base for a lemon tart or something along those lines...)
1/2 cup dry roasted almonds
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup icing sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1 large egg yolk
2 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 cups of milk (preferably whole milk for the consistency)
3 large egg yolks
1 cup sugar
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup water
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup water
1 cup flaked almonds (I used whole but use flaked)
1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract
three tablespoons of coconut cream
1 tablespoon butter
For crust.Butter 9-inch-diameter tart pan with removable bottom. Combine almonds and 1/4 cup sugar in processor to make an almond meal. Add flour, powdered sugar, and salt and blend the bad boy. Add butter and blend again (SO MUCH BLENDING) until coarse meal forms. Add egg yolk and blend until moist clumps form, about 30 seconds. Knead dough into ball. Press remaining dough evenly onto bottom and up sides of prepared pan. Pierce bottom all over with fork. Cover pan with foil and freeze crust at least 1 hour and up to 1 day.
Preheat oven to 175 degrees celcius. Bake crust uncovered until deep golden brown, checking often and pressing sides and bottom with back of fork during first 15 minutes when crust puffs or bubbles, about 20 minutes total. Cool completely.
For pudding.
Place cornstarch and salt in medium bowl. Gradually add 1/4 cup milk, whisking until cornstarch dissolves. Whisk in egg yolks.
Stir sugar and 1/3 cup water in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat until sugar dissolves. Bring to boil, brushing down pan sides with wet pastry brush. Boil without stirring until syrup is deep amber, swirling pan occasionally, about 10 minutes. Add 2 cups milk (mixture will bubble). DO NOT FREAK OUT LIKE I DID AND WHEN IT GOES ALL HARD THE CARAMEL WILL EVENTUALLY MELT. Whisk until caramel bits dissolve. Slowly whisk hot milk mixture into yolk mixture; return to same pan. Whisk until pudding thickens and boils, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Whisk in butter and vanilla. Transfer to crust. Chill uncovered until cold and just firm, at least 3 hours.
For topping.Stir 2/3 cup sugar and 1/3 cup water in heavy medium skillet (do not use nonstick) over medium-high heat until sugar dissolves. Bring to boil, brushing down pan sides with wet pastry brush. Boil without stirring until syrup is medium amber color, about 7 minutes.
Add butter and coconut cream and vanilla. Yum. Add almonds and stir to coat evenly with caramel. Immediately scrape coated almonds onto sheet of foil. Working quickly with 2 forks, separate almonds and spread out in single layer. Cool completely. Do ahead Let almonds stand at room temperature up to 6 hours or cover and chill up to 1 day.
Break almonds into small clusters before using.


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There's a certain feeling you get while talking to someone like Katherine Cartwright.
The energy changes. The air crackles as though a storm's on the horizon. Her enthusiasm rubs off and you suddenly feel inspired, like you might try organizing the garage or finishing the first draft of your novel.
It doesn't seem to matter that she's only 8 years old.
Katherine's always had big ideas and the drive to follow through on them. So her mom wasn't the least bit surprised when Katherine a dog-lover who once saved up her Christmas money to adopt her three-legged rescue dog named Duke wanted to do something more for her furry friends.
For her 8th birthday, Katherine decided to give up her gifts and do something special for the local shelter instead.
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The Cartwrights are regular volunteers at their local humane shelter, and that's how Katherine got the idea to do something special to improve the lives of the animals who lived there.
"I saw lots of dogs and cats without toys and stuff," she says. She felt that the animals needed new things more than she did, and she just happened to have a birthday coming up.
Katherine's mom, Rachel, created a hashtag, #Donate4Katherine, and with the help of State Farm, got friends, family, neighbors, and even strangers involved. They collected far more blankets, beds, and toys than Katherine had ever anticipated. When Katherine's day finally came, she was totally surprised by all the support and donations.
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According to the Cartwrights, this was far from a one-time deal. They're regular volunteers at the Humane Society and Katherine does lots of community work with her Girl Scout troop. She's also always thinking up new ideas for the future. "I want to be a vet," she says. "For my whole life, I want to help animals."
Katherine's a pretty amazing kid. But what's even more amazing is that her story isn't all that unusual.
Just this year alone, 8-year-old Falyn Svalstad collected more than her weight in nonperishable food, twins Jemima and Helen Snyder donated all their gifts to Philadelphia charities, and Gess Gallien's family sent his birthday funds to a Virginia organization that helps families pay emergency bills.
Those are just three examples and it doesn't take much searching to find dozens more. There's even an online platform that helps parents and children plan their own charitable birthday party. It seems that charitable efforts can be contagious after the success of Katherine's donation celebration, a few kids in her class announced similar parties, with plans to give their presents away to children in need.
But you don't need to have a birthday party in order to do good. State Farm is making it really easy to find giving opportunities, so that we can all live in one big Neighborhood of Good.
Selfless kids like Katherine give us a lot to look forward to as younger generations grow.
These donation projects they're taking on prove something important: Kids are realizing early on that it can feel just as good to give to others as it does to receive, and there are a million different ways to help out a neighbor (whether people or puppies!). Their giving attitude and commitment to making a difference could be just what it takes to change the world for the better. Certainly, the more people in the world like Katherine, the better off we'll be.
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I was bored well before the end, but found the first half hour pretty funny.
Their incessant, obscene banter is meant to be endearing; their total lack of presence makes it simply annoying.
What kind of movie is it where Yasmine Bleeth is the best thing about it?
The vulgar, obvious humor of Zucker brother David and South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone elicits easy, guilty laughs, yet the material has an underlying innocence that's just shy of good clean fun.
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The creators of South Park trade their voice-over and production abilities for on-screen acting abilities, which makes BASEketball just as hysterical. The films cross-over script will be enjoyable for those who crave sports or comedy, but it's just downright gaudy of a film. 3.5/5
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BASEketball is a pretty decent comedy that is pure mindless entertainment. To watch this film, you really need to empty your mind, and enjoy. Starring the creators of South Park, BASEketball is a sports film about a sport combining Baseball and Basketball. The film has some laughs throughout and it relies on crude, vulgar comedy to make the audience. If you're familiar with South Park, then this should be no surprise. This film is funny, but I felt it could have been much better than what it turned out to be. The jokes are offensive, but it manages to make you laugh, but the film did have potential of being something far better. I mean you get David Zucker direct the two guys who created South Park in a film and you're sure to get something very funny. As it stands, the film is worth watching, has some good laughs, but lacks something to really make it stand out. The film works well as a mindless Friday night viewing with friends but if you're looking for a great comedy, pass up on this one. This is a pure mindless comedy that has some crude humor, a so-so plot and decent acting. The film is nothing too special, but is a must see for fans of South Park. I found the film enjoyable, but thought it could have been much better too. As far as comedies go, BASEketball definitely does deliver, but lacks in some areas, and you realize that it could have been a better film. This had the potential of being a great film, but it ends up being a decent film. For what it is, it's an enjoyable, crazy ride that is sure to make you laugh if you're in the right state of mind.
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As you can see on the photo above, the ![Breguet replica watches][1] Tradition GMT has the fluted round gold case that I praised so much in our Breguet replica watches Classique Grande Complication (5447BR) article. Although I am not the type of guy that often wears classic or dress replica watches, the Breguet replica watches cases are something I really could get used to.
The dial of the replica watch is as impressive as its transparent case back. The hand-made guilloché dial at 12 o'clock displays the home time while the small sub dial at 8 o'clock displays the 2nd time zone. At 10 o'clock there is another little sub dial to indicate day / night for the 2nd time zone (reference time zone).
The version we have here is the rose gold model with a 40mm diameter case. A very attractive size for a dress replica watch as I feel that many of its competitors have cases that are rather small for tall people. With a thickness of just 12,65mm it is a watch with modest dimensions. If the rose gold puts you off, you might want to check out the white gold version. Both versions come on a handsome leather alligator strap with a gold folding clasp.
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