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After the chaos that was our vacation I thought I should take a few minutes for some creative time. I headed over to the Collage Obsession site to see what the challenge was for the week to get a little inspiration. So, off I went to create a Time Mixed Media piece. I knew I wanted to start with these vintage Pennsylvania Railway cards I got off of E-bay. Aren't they cool?
I prepared a few canvases at once, which is a great time saving idea and reduces waste of supplies. I layered the cards, some vintage book pages and sheet music and then covered them with a fluid acrylic in Titan Buff. It is close to the colour of the paper and I just applied it with my finger so as not to cover up too much of the papers. I really wanted them to show through.
This was my "Time" piece. Elephants playing on top of a clock, seems possible doesn't it? haha. I incorporated the elephants as our youngest Amelia seems a little obsessed with them lately.
I added this oh so true quote on it.
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According to Us Weekly, onlookers claimed to have seen the R&B singer with husband Jay-Z at Sant Ambroeus in the West Village where she reportedly nursed her child at the table. As she left the establishment, Beyonce protected Blue Ivy from the paparazzi in a blue BabyBjorn, covering her face with a black Donni Charm scarf.
Blue Ivy was born on Jan. 7, and and the power couple posted the very first pictures of their daughter online last month. The images appeared on Jay-Z's Life and Times website for all of their fans to see. "We welcome you to share in our joy," a note on the site read. "Thank for respecting our privacy during this beautiful time in our lives."
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Harlan L. Kelly, Jr. is General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC). He previously served as SFPUC's Assistant General Manager, Infrastructure, and was responsible for implementing over $10 billion in capital programs for water, sewer and power, including the $4.6 billion Water System Improvement Program, the $6.9 billion Sewer System Improvement Program, and the $191 million SFPUC Headquarters and Administration Building at 525 Golden Gate Avenue.
His civil engineering career spanning nearly three decades includes his tenure as the City Engineer of San Francisco. At San Francisco Department of Public Works, he held functional and project management positions, including Acting General Manager, and Deputy Director of Engineering, during which he managed complex capital improvement programs that included the rebuild and seismic retrofit of City Hall, and expansions of convention, hospital, county jail, and public arts facilities. He is a licensed professional engineer, and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. He is the recipient of the Municipal Fiscal Advisory Committee's Public Municipal Excellence Award from the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association; the Public Works Leader of the Year Award from the American Public Works Association – Northern California Chapter; the Eminent Engineer Award from the National Engineering Honor Society Tau Beta Pi; and the Heroes and Hearts Award from the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation for exceptional community service. He is a member of the Construction Managers Association of America, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the National Society of Black Engineers, and the American Public Works Association. He is co-founder of the youth internship program Project Pull, which has been in continuous operation since 1995, and he has served on the Board of Directors of the Embarcadero YMCA.
Michael Carlin was appointed as the Deputy General Manager and Chief Operating Officer in 2009. In that role Michael supervises the agency's efforts in capital planning, emergency response, asset management, and other functions across the three business lines—water, power and wastewater. Prior to this position, Michael served as the Assistant General Manager for Water where he led the effort to diversify the water supply portfolio. He continues in that role leading many of the environmental initiatives including addressing the impact of climate change on the organization.
He joined the SFPUC in 1996 as the Water Resources Planning Manager where he led the effort to develop comprehensive capital plans. That effort led to the establishment and execution of the Water System Improvement Program. Prior to joining the City, Michael worked for more than a decade at the San Francisco Regional Water Board where he was the Planning Chief. Michael is a native San Franciscan and continues to live in the City today.
Juliet Ellis has managed our local, state and federal legislative activities, public and media communications since 2010.
In years of involvement with community outreach, Juliet has managed multi-million dollar projects to benefit under-served communities and businesses throughout the Bay Area. As Executive Director of the Urban Habitat program she successfully transitioned this San Francisco based non-profit organization into a $2 million national leader.
Juliet has been a Commissioner of SFPUC and served on numerous other national, regional and local boards and committees. She's currently a member of the President's White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Environment and Climate Change Taskforce. Juliet received her Masters of Science in Business Administration at San Francisco State University with an emphasis in Environmental and Urban Studies.
Barbara Hale is the Assistant General Manager of the SFPUC's Power Enterprise, San Francisco's Municipal Power Utility, with an operating budget of $150 million/year and capital budget of about $25 million/year. Ms. Hale oversees all aspects of the sales of 1.6 billion kWh/yr to retail and wholesale customers; needed purchases of energy, transmission and distribution services; development and implementation of energy efficiency and renewable generation projects and programs; and maintenance and operation of City-owned and located streetlights, switch gear and substations. Ms. Hale provides strategic advice on energy policy matters to the SFPUC Commission. She also acts as liaison for the SFPUC with State and Federal agencies responsible for energy policy. Prior to her employment with SFPUC, Ms. Hale worked for the State of California PUC in progressively responsible positions, including Advisor to the President, Administrative Law Judge, and Director of Strategic Planning.
Kathy How is Assistant General Manager of Infrastructure, responsible for capital programs and projects implementation for SFPUC facilities, including the Water System Improvement Program, Sewer System Improvement Program and the Hetchy System Improvement Program. Prior to this position, Kathy was Deputy AGM for Project Delivery, and was responsible for managing engineering design, construction management, and environmental review for all capital projects, whether in-house or consultant designed.
Prior to joining the SFPUC in 2003, Kathy was Assistant City Engineer at the Department of Public Works overseeing project management, architectural and engineering design and construction management for projects in the Seismic Safety bond programs, and Program Director for the Marina Yacht Harbor Renovations at the Recreation and Park Department. She joined the SFPUC to work on initiating program environmental review, development of program goals and objectives for the Water System Improvement Program, and implementation of projects. She is a licensed professional civil engineer in California, and holds a degree in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley.
Tommy T. Moala has overseen operations for the City's combined sewer system since 2007. A former US Naval Propulsion Engineer, Tommy has more than 15 years experience in wastewater in-plant management. He joined the agency as a Stationary Engineer in 1990, moving up steadily the ranks to become Operations Manager, and setting the Enterprise's standard for zero-violations along the way.
A team recipient of the National Protection Agency O & M award and the National Association of Clean Water Agency award, Tommy received Mayor Gavin Newsom's Public Managerial Excellence award and our O'Shaughnessy award for organizing the Emergency Response Team dispatched to Hurricane Katrina. He is a member of the Water Environment Federation, the California Water Environment Association, the National Association of Clean Water Agencies and the American Water Works Association. Tommy is also on the board of the Bay Area Clean Water Agency.
Steven Ritchie is Assistant General Manager of the Water Enterprise, responsible for overseeing water system operations and planning from Hetch Hetchy through the Regional Water System to the City Distribution Division and the management of lands and natural resources.
Steve was the Manager of Planning from 1995 to 1998. Prior to his current assignment, he managed the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, a multi-agency effort to restore 15,100 acres of valuable habitat in South San Francisco Bay, while providing for flood risk management and public access.
Steve has worked at management positions at the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (1987-1995), the CalFed Bay-Delta Program (1998-2000), and URS consultants (2000-2004). He has a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University.
Eric Sandler is Chief Financial Officer/Assistant General Manager of Business Services and is responsible for managing a range of internal and external service functions of the Commission including Finance, Customer Service, Information Technology, and Assurance and Internal Controls.
Appointed in 2015, he has over 25 years of experience in municipal and infrastructure financing. Prior to joining the Commission he served as Director of Finance for the East Bay Municipal Utility District, Director of Finance/Treasurer for the San Diego County Water Authority and Director of Financial Planning for the SFPUC. Before joining public service Eric worked in several infrastructure finance positions including renewable energy project finance and municipal investment banking.
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I'm going to let you in on a little secret. For this month's Secret Recipe Club (SRC as it's so fondly referred) I was assigned an amazing blog named Chocolate and Chillies. Yum, right?
The author and recipe developer of this blog is Asiya who is a stay at home mom with two young children. The first thing I noticed when I went to her blog (to scout it out) is the wide array of recipes she has to choose from. Asiya is not afraid of bold flavors and she has many recipes that are unusual (to me). She makes me want to step out of my comfort zone of cooking and try many of the ones that she is so kindly willing to share. I will be back Asiya!!!
This month however I went with a pretty basic Black Bean Soup recipe that she had posted. Asiya had found her original inspiration on allrecipes.com and had adapted her recipe to what she had on hand. Upon reading through her recipe, I realized that I too had most of the ingredients already on hand in my fridge and pantry. Ding! Ding! Ding!
Here is my adaptation of Asiya's Black Bean Soup and my take on her recipe. I made quite a few *additions* to her original recipe (not because it really needed it, just because I can't seem to stop myself).
This soup was hearty, slightly spicy and extremely flavorful. I'm all about textures in food and this soup is loaded with them.
1 pound lean ground beef*
2 – 15 oz. can black beans, drained and rinsed.
2 tablespoons olive oil*
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
1 teaspoon smoked* cumin powder
1 teaspoon ground coriander*
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika*
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes*
2 bay leaves*
2 Roma tomatoes, diced
3/4 cup frozen corn
1 cup beef stock*
1 tablespoon lime zest and the juice of one small lime*
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon fresh cracked black pepper
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro or cilantro paste*
3 flour tortillas, cut in strips and baked, for garnish* (optional)
olive oil spray* (optional)
1 Avocado, diced, for garnish* (optional)
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese for garnish* (optional)
sour cream for garnish* (optional)
-In a large stock pot, over medium high heat, add the olive oil and brown the ground beef until still slightly pink.
-Add the minced garlic and onion and cook until the onions become translucent.
-Add the cumin, coriander, paprika, red pepper flakes, bay leaves. Stir to combine and cook for approximately 1 minute.
-Lower the heat to medium and add the diced tomatoes, frozen corn, beef stock and black beans.
-Add the salt and pepper.
-Cover the pot and allow to simmer on the stove for approximately 1/2 hour to blend the flavors.
-Meanwhile, slice the tortillas and place them in a single layer on a baking sheet. Spray the strips with a bit of olive oil and sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper.
-Bake the tortilla strips in a 325 degree oven, watching them carefully so they don't burn. (approximately 5-7 minutes).
-Right before service, add the cilantro and lime zest and juice.
-Remove the bay leaves.
-Ladle up your soup in bowls and garnish with the tortilla strips, avocados, cheese and sour cream if you wish.
Thank you so much for the inspiration for this wonderful recipe Asiya! I love your blog and plan on visiting more often to try your recipes. This one was certainly a huge hit!!!
Until we eat again,


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Tuesday, December 31, 2013 3 comments
Well It's now new year's eve. I don't do new years resolutions. I feel like then it's something I'm only obligated to stick for one year, not that I ever usually stick to it anyway. I have to say right now I'm not doing well. I've main... Read more
August 8, 2013
Thursday, August 08, 2013 4 comments
Ok so my last blog detailed some stomach and digestive issues I've been dealing with. It's been off and on for more than a year now. I also have low iron and B12, insulin resistance from the PCOS, and anxiety. Someone did comment last t... Read more
Stomach troubles again!
Sunday, July 21, 2013 5 comments
I know I've been rather quiet on SP for a while. I'm having stomach trouble again. I was sick last year with nausea for about 4 months with no real resolution found with my GP. I've been seeing a naturopath since then in the hopes that he can... Read more
Getting back on track!
Monday, February 18, 2013 0 comments
so I posted a blog not too long ago announcing that I'm back, again lol. So I haven't done too much work since then to really get going again. Today, Family Day here in Ontario ^_^ I used my day off to make some plans. I purchased a new game ... Read more
Back yet again!!!
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 2 comments
so here I am back on sparkpeople yet again after a couple months of being away. I need to try and keep at it this time. I know that one of the main issues I struggle with is emotional eating. I have depression and anxiety so it happens ... Read more
Naturopath Visit November 6
Wednesday, November 07, 2012 2 comments
So I saw my naturopath again last night. He wanted a urine sample again but, again, I wasn't able to provide one lol. He gave me one of the containers so next time I can do it anytime that day and bring it with me. This time he gave me a ... Read more
Naturopath Visit #2.5
Friday, October 26, 2012 3 comments
Ok so I'm not due to see my naturopath again until Tuesday of next week but a week ago I started getting some major back pain. I hadn't had a problem before but it's so painful now that I find walking difficult and painful. So last night I cal... Read more
Naturopath Visit #2
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 4 comments
Well I saw my naturopath for the 2nd time last night. It was very interesting and he gave me a lot of information, too much actually I forget a lot of it. I think next time I will go prepared with a notepad to take notes lol. First off my... Read more
On the Road to Health with a Naturopathic Doctor
Tuesday, October 02, 2012 3 comments
So I have been dealing with numerous health issues for the past 4 months. Primarily nausea and a very decreased appetite. Also some muscle pain in my abdomen from spending so much time in bed and on the couch. I have been diagnosed with N... Read more
Yay I'm getting better ^_^
Tuesday, August 07, 2012 2 comments
ok so I'm finally starting to feel better, thank goodness I was sick for almost 2 months. I took a week off work and then went to the cottage for the long weekend with my parents. and with all the time off and then the fresh air and all the sw... Read more
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Monday, July 16, 2012 7 comments
well I have been dealing with stomach issues for over a month now and its getting really tiring. I'm not eating much and when I do eat I get stomach pains and very gassy and bloated. well while waiting for the next test I have to do, an up... Read more
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So I was reading some the feature articles and things on the start page today, and it was talking about using vacations as a reward. I have decided to do that ^_^ I am going to go on vacation after I get down to 300 lbs, it's a ways away bu... Read more
still weak from being sick
Thursday, July 12, 2012 6 comments
well I was sick for about a month, first with a cold, then maybe a day of dehydration, then some nasty stomach bug. I actually went to the hospital a couple times cus drinking water made me nauseous. I am improving now, not nauseous anymor... Read more
Was sick with a cold and then got dehydrated!! Not a great week!
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 2 comments
Well I ended up missing my first appt with the personal trainer because I was sick. I'm going tonight even though I'm not completely better yet. We're just doing goal setting anyway so no exercising, I think I'm up for that now. I always ... Read more
Low expectations
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2 comments
well I try not to have expectations that are too high anyway. If I lose 1/4 pound I'm happy. This week won't be great though. I'm sick with a cold right now, super sore throat and cough. Not really much else for now but I am sucking do... Read more
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Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Sullivan, 81, formally of Chestnut Hill and Blue Bell Pennsylvania passed away peacefully August 15, 2013 at Longwood at Oakmont, Pittsburgh PA surrounded by her family. Raised in Chestnut Hill, Betty was the daughter of the late George T. and Helen E. Higgins. She was the beloved and beautiful wife of the late Juleus J. Sullivan, Jr. She was a devoted mother to daughter, Deborah Sullivan-Kimball, (Jeffrey) sons, Kevin, (Deborah), Juleus III (Ellen) and Steven ( Anette) Grandchildren: Jennifer, Aimee, Elizabeth and Lee Kimball. Heather, Jaime, Sara, Brandon, Courtney, Riley, Olivia, and Colton Sullivan and 7 great grandchildren. Survived by dearest sister Grace Riley (Leo), cousin Joanne Kostos, brothers-in-law William R. Sullivan and James Sullivan and numerous nieces and nephews. Betty was a loving wife and mother. She was a long standing member of Whitemarsh Valley Country Club. In years past, Mary was an active member of Our Mother of Consolation Parish and it's youth organizations. Her husband, Juleus, was the former Vice President of Hiram Walker, Inc. Recently, Mrs. Sullivan moved from San Diego California to Pittsburgh, PA. Visitation held 9 a.m. before the celebration of Mass at 10 a.m. Friday August 23, 2013 at Our Mother of Consolation Chestnut Hill. Interment in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donation may be made to OMC Education Memorial Fund, 9 East Chestnut Hill Ave., Chestnut Hill, PA 19118 or Family House 5301 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232 www.familyhouse.org
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Although Chun-Li and Ryu may not be the absolute best team in the game, this is a great team for beginner players. Both characters have easy to perform combos and their move sets are those that will be recognized by any fighting game player.
Another easy to pick up and play team for beginners. Alex, although he has a hard time getting in on some characters, he has some very easy and powerful combos. His Hyper Combos are also very easy to perform and do a ton of damage or in the case of his Stungun Headbutt, leave his opponent open for more pain.
Ryu of course is what most players have come to know him as: a character with a standard move set and easy to perform combos to help new players jump into the game with ease.


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All eyes are on Texas again this week as the fate of a far-reaching measure to restrict abortions and close many abortion facilities faces its last days of debate. Unlike almost any other issue, abortion generates strong feelings on all sides. This is true within our own organization, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), and we respect that our 58,000 members have deeply held personal beliefs on this topic.
While we can agree to disagree about abortion on ideological grounds, we must draw a hard line against insidious legislation that threatens women's health like Texas HB2 (House Bill 2) and SB1 (Senate Bill 1).
That's why we're speaking to the false and misleading underlying assumptions of this and other legislation like it: These bills are as much about interfering with the practice of medicine and the relationship a patient has with her physician as they are about restricting women's access to abortion. The fact is that these bills will not help protect the health of any woman in Texas. Instead, these bills will harm women's health in very clear ways.
We're setting the record straight, loudly and unequivocally, with these simple messages to all politicians: Get out of our Exam Rooms.
Read more below the jump.Physicians from all specialties insist that there must be only two people in our exam rooms: the patient and the doctor. The sanctity of the patient-physician relationship is central to good medicine, a critical tenet embraced by ACOG and other medical societies such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American College of Physicians. These organizations recently wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine(1):
"Legislators, regrettably, often propose new laws or regulations for political or other reasons unrelated to the scientific evidence and counter to the health care needs of patients. Legislative mandates to the practice of medicine do not allow for the infinite array of exceptions where the mandate may be unnecessary, inappropriate, or even harmful to an individual patient. …Lawmakers would also do well to remember that patient autonomy as well as individual needs, values, and preferences must be respected."
Facts Are Important
Facts are very important, especially when discussing the health of women and the American public. And a lot of "facts" are being asserted in this debate. Truth be told, the scientific underpinnings of this legislation are unsound. First, there's the 20-week ban, which is based on the argument that a fetus can feel pain. Recent and rigorous scientific reviews have concluded that there is no evidence of fetal perception of pain until 29 weeks at the earliest (2) (Third trimester is is 28-40 weeks).
These bills would also impose a number of requirements for abortion facilities that are touted as necessary to ensure the health of the woman, but are, in fact, unnecessary and unsupported by scientific evidence. These proposed requirements, concerning door width and other irrelevant issues, would only make it extremely difficult or impossible for most clinics, including clinics that primarily provide important non-abortion well-woman health care services such as mammograms and prenatal care to low-income women, to stay open. For example, the bills would require physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles and allow abortions only in clinics that meet surgical clinic standards, imposing government regulations on abortion care that are much stricter than for colonoscopy and other similar low-risk procedures. The fact is that abortion is one of the safest medical procedures, with minimal-less than 0.5%-risk of major complications that might need hospital care.
Women Can Make Their Own Medical Decisions Without State Interference
Texas women are renowned for their strength, courage, and smarts. Women across this nation are completely capable of making their own medical decisions with their physicians, as they make many other important decisions every day for themselves, their families, and their businesses. Women do not need-or want-any government to make medical decisions for them.
Women must have access to all needed health care-from mammograms to prenatal visits to reproductive care-based on scientific facts, not political ideology. ACOG opposes Texas HB2 and SB1, which jeopardize women's health care and interfere with medical practice and the patient-physician relationship. Politicians are not elected to, nor should they, legislate the practice of medicine or step foot into our exam rooms.
Jeanne A. Conry, MD, PhD
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Lisa M. Hollier, MD, MPH
Chair, District XI (Texas)
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
(1) Weinberger, Lawrence, Henley, Alden, & Hoyt. Legislative Interference with the PatientPhysician Relationship, N Engl J Med 2012; 367:1557-1559
(2) Bellieni & Buonocore, Is Fetal Pain A Real Evidence?, 25 J. Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Med. 1203, 1205 (2012)
(2) Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Fetal Awareness: Review of Research and Recommendations for Practice 11 (Mar. 2010)
(2) Lee, Ralston, Drey, Patridge, & Rosen. Fetal Pain: A Systematic Multidisciplinary Review of the Evidence. JAMA 2005;294(8):947-954


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What should I do to prepare for a spray tan?
~Exfoliate to prime skin the day before your application. Exfoliating products that leave the skin excessively oily, such as salt scrubs, should be avoided.
~Make sure that all lotions, creams, deodorants, makeup or other toiletries are removed from the skin before a treatment. If these products are left on the skin, discoloration and uneven results can occur.
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~We recommend contact lenses be removed prior to treatment.
~Attire for tanning — Your choice of being nude, topless or wearing a dark-colored bathing suit (or undergarments). TANS recommends that you wear at minimum a thong for your protection. TANS DHA solutions washes out of most clothing and bedding very easily, but tends to stain light nylon and other light synthetic materials.
~Wear dark, loose clothing and shoes to your appointment so that you can wear the same home after your tan. Tight fitting clothing can hinder tanning results as it will rub off the product. Also be careful of women's purse straps on the forearm or shoulder as it can rub the product off in those areas too.
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After 8 hours, the product can be showered off and normal activities can be resumed. You will see some color washing off the first time you shower. This is just the cosmetic color that was applied, your skin will continue to tan for 24 hours as the tanning solution develops.
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Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010
MANHATTAN -- As pets get older, there are many ways pet owners can ease the aging process for their cat or dog, according to a Kansas State University veterinarian.
The average ages vary for cats and dogs to be considered a senior pet, said Susan Nelson, K-State assistant professor of clinical services. According to an age analogy chart by Fortney and Goldston, cats are considered senior from the ages of 8 to 11 years old -- the equivalent of 48 to 60 human years. When cats reach age 12 -- equal to 64 human years -- they are considered geriatric.
The aging process for dogs varies according to weight. Dogs between 0 and 20 pounds are considered senior at 8 years old -- or 50 years old in human years -- and geriatric at 11 years old -- 62 in human years. Dogs that weigh more than 120 pounds are senior at age 4 -- 49 human years -- and geriatric at 6 years old -- equal to 69 human years. Dogs whose weights lie between the two ends of the chart are adjusted accordingly.
"Aging pets are a lot like aging people with respect to diseases and senility issues," Nelson said, citing diabetes, chronic kidney disease, cancer, osteoarthritis, periodontal disease and heart disease as some of the conditions that can afflict aging pets.
"Like people, routine exams and tests can help detect some of these problems earlier and make treatment more successful," Nelson said. "It's also important to work closely with your veterinarian, as many pets are on more than one type of medication as they age, just like humans."
Owners can prevent disease or increase longevity by helping their pets exercise, maintain a healthy weight and stay current on vaccines and heartworm prevention.
"Such actions obviously can't prevent all diseases, but when caught early, many diseases can be managed and extended good quality of life can be achieved," Nelson said.
"It is important to take pets in for a semiannual health exam and lab tests for early detection of problems," Nelson said. "Diseases such as systemic hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus are just a few that can occur at a relatively young age and often take owners by surprise. Urinary or fecal incontinence are other issues that may occur as your pet matures."
As pets age, their behavior can also change, Nelson said. They may have changes in appetite or activity, tend to sleep more, become easily disoriented or interact less with the family.
Pet owners may not expect some of their pets' behavioral changes, such as senility, phobias of thunderstorms or separation anxiety. Because senior pets can develop anxieties -- such as fear of loud noises, crowds and children -- pet owners should try to avoid those situations when possible and talk to their veterinarians about behavior modification and the possibility of behavior modifying medications if indicated.
To ease the aging process, avoid having pets run and jump because such activities are stressful on their joints. Walking or swimming are better alternatives for pets with osteoarthritis. Many joint supplements, pain medications and joint health diets are available to help osteoarthritis.
Owners also can provide a warm, quiet, soft place to sleep, soften food if painful teeth are a problem and change a pet's diet for specific diseases when prescribed by their veterinarian, Nelson said. Owners also can do simple helpful tasks, such as flipping yard lights on at night if a pet is having vision problems or moving a litter box for easier access if stairs are a problem.
Nelson said owners should visit with their veterinarian when they have any questions or concerns about their aging pets so they can learn the best ways to care for them. With some extra preventative care and awareness of their pets' needs, owners can provide a healthy and comfortable life for their aging friends.
"Lastly, give your senior pets lots of TLC -- tender, loving care," Nelson said.


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If there is one country that knows how to pamper its guests, it is Thailand. Bangkok is the perfect destination to spoil yourself from head to toe with massages, beauty treatments and healing therapies.
With an eye for detail and an innate sense of hospitality, the Thai people have elevated relaxation to a true art form. A lovely frangipani flower decorates the massage table before you lay down, soothing music in the background, the skilled hands of the massage therapist and a refreshing cup of tea afterwards. The country's tradition of massage is centuries old - Thai massage was invented as a 'practical expression of loving kindness'.
Most 5-star hotels boast very reputable spas. There are numerous outstanding options, especially in the Bang Rak district on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River. Visit the Oriental Spa in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel for classic Thai therapies. Nearby is Shangri-La Hotel's Chi Spa which specialises in Tibetan and Chinese treatments. On the other side of the river lies The Peninsula, with a spa in a beautiful garden setting. Here you will find both European and Asian-style massages.
Bangkok also offers many day spas where you can let yourself be pampered from early morning to evening. For example the Oasis Day Spa at Sukhumvit Road is a true oasis indeed. From the busy business district you go through a gate, walk down a path and enter a fairytale setting of lush green, ponds, waterfalls and idyllic bridges. The Banyan Tree Spa at Sathom Road and the So Thai Spa at Sukhumvit Road are also highly recommended.
For an authentic Thai massage visit the Wat Pho. This is not only the largest and oldest Buddhist temple in Bangkok but also the place where classic Thai massage was born. Centuries of knowledge about traditional medicine and massage techniques have been passed down from generation to generation. Today the temple also houses a massage school where dedicated students are trained to be expert massage therapists.
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OCERT Honeynet is operated by Threat Analysis Center Team in Oman National CERT(OCERT) . OCERT was officially launched in April 2010 to analyze risks and security threats that may be present in cyberspace and communicates this information to users of Internet services and technical information outlets, whether they are public or private institutions, or individuals. The members of OCERT Chapter are : ::
• Yousuf Alsiyabi
• Nasser Salim Al Hadhrami
• Suliman Al Hinai
Low interaction honey pot technology are deployed as follows :
- A few Dionaea sensors were deployed to capture the malware and find the infected systems in country cyber space .
-Cuckoo : The latest stable version of cuckoo sandbox (0.4.2) is deployed .This version shows great features and enhancement compared to the previous version . We add virus scan result to cuckoo report through the integration of with VirusTotal's API .
-Glastopf : It was deployed as web application honeypot . The latest version Glaspot v3 is tested and will be deployed in production environment .
-Intelligence Gathering Portal (IGP): Web interface application developed in-house to gather information from deployed honeypot .This application use database of deployed honeynet (SQlite , Mysql ) as source of information and represent them in web interface .The application represent different types of attacks and provide global view of different attacks in the word in multi color based on type of attacks .some features of application are :
1. IGP can show three main types of attacks Malware , web attacks and Network attacks
2. It contains dashboard that gather all statics yearly and monthly.
3. It details every type of attacks such as Top source countries of attacks, top attacker IP.
4. IGP has the Search capabilities based on certain criteria such as, Month, Year, IP address and Country.
5. It has online malware analysis capabilities .
We observe increasing number of compromised IP addresses in relationship with the botbets such as Nitol botnet and zbot botnet .A noticeable increase of capture unique malware samples compared to last year .Due to above observation , we initiate Cyber Clean Program in order to increase the awareness and help infected people to address this thread through providing them the right tools and best procedure .The Cyber Clean Program is still in initial stages and we hope to activate it through cooperation with other entities such as ISP and local law enforcement .
Our goal for the next year is to deploy some of other client side honeypot tools that we are still testing currently such as Capture-HPC. In addition, we plan to develop an application that detect web threats such injected malicious script that embedded with certain websites .Moreover , We plan to enhance cooperation with other security communities who are interested in Botnet detection and monitoring .


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By Rob Schabert, TTU Sports Information Director
View the complete WCU Invitational results (PDF)
CULLOWHEE, N.C. -- The veterans led the way Friday afternoon for the Tennessee Tech women's cross country team as the Golden Eagles opened the 2013 season with an eighth place finish at the Western Carolina Invitational.
Tech's first five finishers were the teams five seniors, paced by Rebecca Cline in 29th place and Meghan O'Donoghue in 49th. Cline ran the two-mile circuit in 12:10.43 to pace the squad, while O'Donoghue posted a time of 12:28.09.
Six spots back, Yeshi Dohrman finished 55th in 12:37.69, followed by Peri Winborne in 62nd place with a time of 12:49.20. The high five for coach Tony Cox also included Amelia McCoy in 68th place with a time of 13:14.85.
"It was pretty warm out here today," Cox said. "We've been training all summer, but it hasn't been all that hot this summer. Today's weather was hotter than we've been training in, and it was a tough day."
The cross country course wound from the WCU track out onto a large field on campus that is usually used as a driving range and a disc golf layout. The route wound through the field, around the WCU track stadium, and back to the field before finishing up on the track inside the stadium.
The University of Florida gave a clinic in the heat posting a perfect score of 15 with the top five finishers in the field of 104 runners.
Following the Gator women, Furman placed second with 53 points, followed by High Point (81), UNC Asheville (133), Western Carolina (149), Winthrop (175), Wofford (179), Tennessee Tech (220), Brenau Univerity (267), Gardner-Webb (299), North Carolina A&T (326) and Warren Wilson College (356).
The Golden Eagles will have next weekend off before returning to action on Saturday, Sept. 14, at the Vanderbilt Invitational.
Tennessee Tech finsihes at the WCU Invitational:
29 Cline, Rebecca SR Tennessee Tech 6:05.3 12:10.43
49 O'Donoghue, Meghan SR Tennessee Tech 6:14.1 12:28.09
55 Dohrmann, Yeshi SR Tennessee Tech 6:18.9 12:37.69
62 Winborne, Peri SR Tennessee Tech 6:24.6 12:49.20
68 McCoy, Amelia SR Tennessee Tech 6:37.5 13:14.85
73 Cashin, Claire FR Tennessee Tech 6:44.8 13:29.54
80 Loving, Landry SO Tennessee Tech 6:59.8 13:59.52
87 Wilson, Sarah SO Tennessee Tech 7:08.4 14:16.77
92 Mitchell, Elizabeth JR Tennessee Tech 7:21.2 14:42.37
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Nico Johnson, ILB, Alabama
Johnson blasts through the crowd and can get to the ball-carrier a step ahead of most other defenders. This isn't because of speed or athleticism, it comes down to read, recognition and reaction. Flows with the pile very nicely. Squares up through the running lane, stays on assignment very well and is a handful at the point of attack. Great technique and fundamentals. Lacks great athleticism. Intelligent, blue-collar style of play will carry him. A hustle player.
Long arms and decent frame to challenge passes. Will struggle keeping up with athletic tight ends. Good pursuit angles and plays the run at a high level. Clean lateral movements with few wasted steps. Nice snap to his tackles. Brings down players in one swift motion. Will struggle in open field against speedy players. Can hogtie players consistently around the legs and ankles. Pass rushing is a major concern, basically a non-factor.


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- 1 Audio
- 2 Bluetooth
- 3 Disabling NMI watchdog
- 4 Disabling Wake-on-LAN
- 5 PCI Runtime Power Management
- 6 Wireless power saving
- 7 Writeback Time
- 8 Laptop Mode
- 9 See also
- 10 From powertop, needs to be cleaned up and merged
By default, audio power saving is turned off by most drivers. It can be enabled by setting the power_save parameter to a time (in seconds) to go in idle.
- Intel
options snd_hda_intel power_save=1
- ac97
options snd_ac97_codec power_save=1
Blacklist the
hci_usb module if the driver is loaded automatically.
Disabling NMI watchdog
The NMI watchdog is a debugging feature to catch hardware hangs and cause a kernel panic. On some systems it can generate a lot of interrupts, causing a noticeable increase in power usage.
kernel.nmi_watchdog = 0
or add
nmi_watchdog as a kernel parameter to disable it completely from early boot.
Disabling Wake-on-LAN
Wake-on-LAN can be a useful feature, but if you're not making use of it then it's simply draining extra power waiting for a magic packet while in suspend.
Disabling for one interface:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL=="net0" RUN+="/usr/sbin/ethtool -s net0 wol d"
Disabling for all interfaces:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL=="eth*" RUN+="/usr/sbin/ethtool -s %k wol d"
PCI Runtime Power Management
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pci", ATTR{power/control}="auto"
Wireless power saving
Enabling for a specific interface:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL=="wifi0" RUN+="/usr/sbin/iw dev wifi0 set power_save on"
Enabling for all interfaces:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL=="wlan*" RUN+="/usr/sbin/iw dev %k set power_save on"
Writeback Time
Increasing the VM dirty writeback time can help to aggregate I/O together - reducing disk writes, and decreasing power usage:
vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 1500
To do the same for journal commits with ext4 and some other filesystems, use
commit=15 as a parameter in fstab or with the
rootflags kernel parameter.
Laptop Mode
vm.laptop_mode = 5
See also
From powertop, needs to be cleaned up and merged
SATA Active Link Powermanagement
echo min_power > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy
USB Autosuspend
To enable USB autosuspend after 2 seconds of inactivity:
for i in `find /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/control`; do echo auto > $i; done; for i in `find /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/autosuspend`; do echo 2 > $i; done;
Device Power Management
echo auto | tee /sys/bus/i2c/devices/*/power/control > /dev/null echo auto | tee /sys/bus/spi/devices/*/power/control > /dev/null
View Power Setings
This function shows various power settings. Note you either must be root or you must have sudo.
function aa_power_settings () { sudo bash -c ' for i in `find /sys/devices -name "bMaxPower"`; do for ii in `find $i -type f`; do bd=`dirname $ii`; busnum=`cat $bd/busnum`; devnum=`cat $bd/devnum`; title=`lsusb -s $busnum:$devnum`; echo -e "\n\n+++ $title\n -$bd\n -$ii"; for ff in `find $bd/power -type f ! -empty 2>/dev/null`; do v=`cat $ff 2>/dev/null|tr -d "\n"`; [[ ${#v} -gt 0 ]] && echo -e " `basename $ff`=$v"; v=; done | sort -g; done; done; echo -e "\n\n\n+++ Kernel Modules\n"; for m in `command lspci -k|sed -n "/in use:/s,^.*: ,,p"|sort -u`; do echo "+ $m"; systool -v -m $m 2> /dev/null | sed -n "/Parameters:/,/^$/p"; done '; }


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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
What I've Learned: Year Three
It's February again, which means another year of this nonsense has come and gone. But time doesn't pass without leaving a little residue on the ol' gray matter, so here's...
What I've Learned in my Third Year of Boozeblogging
~ Some spiced rums are very good, some are downright awful, and a lot are in between. Proceed with caution.
~ Living in a warm, sunny region is undoubtedly pleasant, but I really like being able to reach out the back door and chill my gin in a snowbank.
~ People representing liquor brands frequently contact me hoping I'll be interested their product(s). Some will send mass emails describing how awesome their stuff is and telling me why I should like it. Others will mail me a bottle. Guess which approach works.
~ Buy limes & lemons in bulk. It's cheaper, and you're less likely to be out of them at that crucial moment when your friend unexpectedly switches from white wine to Mai Tais.
~ My love affair with rye continues unabated. Hey, if it's good enough for the World's Toughest Milkman, it's good enough for me.
~ Watching sheer panic unfold during the Great Angostura Drought of '09 was hilarious (mainly because I had a full bottle)
~ There is no shame in buying a nut grinder solely to make orgeat with.
~ I fully realize I'm in the minority here, but I garnish my drinks at home. Even when no one is looking. I can't help it- it's part of the experience.
~ No matter how many ways it's described to me in glowing terms, I just can't embrace infusing booze with meat. However, I find the idea of snake wine strangely appealing.
~ My freezer now contains ice in cube, ball, small hemisphere, irregularly faceted, and sometimes cylindrical forms. Don't judge me.
~ Speaking of ice balls, find a way to make some at home. Regardless of whatever method you choose (like this one, this one, or this one), making them is fun as hell and they work great.
~ It is amazing how people who claim to not like whiskey will warm up to a correctly-made Old-Fashioned.
~ If you are offered the chance to judge a cocktail competition, do it. You will taste some great drinks, see some nifty bartending techniques and meet some very nice people. It will also force you to really think about what makes a good cocktail.
~ You can never have too many bitters.
~ There is considerable overlap between the foodie and booze nerd communities. No offense to the gourmands, but if I've got fifty bucks to spend on food & booze, I'm dropping two dollars at Taco Bell and the rest goes to the liquor store.* I'm going to get a lot more mileage from a bottle of Chartreuse than a fancy dinner.
~ Booze storage seems to follow a natural progression. I started with a liquor cabinet. Then it became a liquor closet. I now have a free-standing shelving unit in my basement. I'm guessing in the next year or two I'll be building a shed.
~ It is impossible to be morose if you are drinking from a tiki mug.
~ The reason I know what "Herkimer diamonds" are is directly attributable to my interest in cocktails. I'm still unsure if this is good or bad.
~ There are a lot of problems that can be remedied simply by judiciously applying Havana Club Barrel Proof.
~ As I pointed out in the last two installments of What I've Learned, the booze geek community remains a friendly, generous and encouraging collection of people. Most are wickedly knowledgeable, many are wonderfully off-kilter, and more than a few are genuinely inspiring. They all need to keep up the good work.
*This is obviously an exaggeration. I'd probably spend only about a buck twenty-five at Taco Bell.
13 comments:
- Tony Harion said...
Happy b-day!
I hope your great work continues in years to come!
I agree w/ most of what you listed, but snake wine? really? really? weird...
- February 25, 2010 at 3:56 AM
- Doug Winship said...
There is nothing funny about the Bitterlypse!
- February 25, 2010 at 5:06 AM
- Marshall said...
Happy birthday my friend! May your free-standing shelving units be full and your pen never runneth out of ink!
- February 25, 2010 at 6:52 AM
- Matt Robold said...
Happy Blogiversary Dr. B!
I have to agree with everything here, except for the meat infusions. I still want to do a corned beef infused rum or whiskey just so that I can make a Reuben cocktail with a rye bread and olive garnish.
- February 25, 2010 at 7:50 AM
- Natalie / The Liquid Muse said...
Great insights, Dr. Bamboo!
- February 25, 2010 at 7:50 AM
- Dan said...
B-Day? Should have told me... Anyway have a great day and like a great whiskey, you are getting better with age.
- February 25, 2010 at 7:57 AM
- Ryan said...
I saw this on @forrestcokely twitter. Very good stuff. We're just getting started with Boozeblogger.com. Hope we last 3 years. Good luck to you in the future.
- February 25, 2010 at 8:06 AM
- tallnoe said...
Fabulous. Thanks for the good morning smiles.
Congrats on 3 years!! :D
- February 25, 2010 at 8:18 AM
- Tiare said...
Happy Blogiversary! loved to read your wise words..and wise they are f´sure.
I think i agree with all of it and especially the meat part;-)the only thing i`ve done with meat is a chorizo infused mezcal.
Nice to hear someone else apart from myself that garnish the drinks at home even when being by yourself.
- February 25, 2010 at 3:49 PM
- Jay Hepburn said...
Happy blogiversary Craig! Three years eh? Time flies when you're having fun (or drunk).
- February 26, 2010 at 6:52 AM
- Postman said...
Happy Birthday.
"It is amazing how people who claim to not like whiskey will warm up to a correctly-made Old-Fashioned."
Never a truer word spoken, and refreshing to read on someone's blog, moreover.
Good to find a fellow liquor enthusiast in the aether. Keep up the good work. I'm off to comb through this blog and see what delightfully detrimental things you have to say about Midori.
- February 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM
- Lew Bryson said...
Always good to see a Reid Fleming fan!
- March 4, 2010 at 4:30 PM
- Dr. Bamboo said...
Tony- Thanks! Yeah, snake wine may sound like a good idea in theory, but if I was ever presented with some in real life, I dunno how enthusiastic I'd actually be.
Doug- True. I am cruel and thoughtless.
Marshall- Thanks! My shelves are still standing, so no complaints here.
Matt- Fair enough. I'll try that Reuben if it ever materializes. ;-)
Natalie- Thanks! It's very kind of you to refer to them as "insights" rther than the "random crackpot musings" they really are. :-)
Dan- Thanks very much! Age occasionally works in your favor I'm told.
Ryan- Just added you to the blogroll!
Tallnoe- Thanks! This site is probably more entertaining in the morning, before all your synapses have fully warmed up.
T- Thanks! Yeah, the garnish beckons regardless of whether an audience is present.
Jay- True- the clock hands seem to speed up imperceptibly when there's liquor around. ;-)
Postman- Glad you found some wisdom here. And don;t go too hard on Midori...it ain't easy being green.
Lew- Absolutely! A good friend turned me onto RF back in college and I still get big chuckles out of it.
- March 5, 2010 at 8:06 AM


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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Build An ActiveResource Schema Dumper
It's actually pretty easy to add custom methods on the server side which allow you to use find(:include) to return ActiveResource objects with their association class objects attached - for instance, if you write methods on the server side to support it, and patch ActiveResource's find(), you could easily call User.find(1) and get back a User with that user's Widgets attached. ActiveResource find() can do pretty much anything if you just have new keywords dispatch to new get() methods. It delegates to get() methods on keywords already, so you just follow that pattern and you can more or less send it anywhere. The key is the server-side methods that the get() methods call, but those aren't hard. All you really need on the server side is a reasonable understanding of routes and a #to_xml call on a collection which consists of both the User and their Widgets.
But there's a danger there. You might write code which assumes that ActiveResource models, like ActiveRecord models, will return [] or nil for association classes with no content. If a User has no Widgets, @user.widgets should return []. In fact, an ActiveResource application built on this assumption will raise a lot of NoMethodFound exceptions during development. This is especially true if you use ActiveResource models in form handlers. In fact the real danger isn't writing code with that faulty assumption but using it. You're in a controller, using a popular plugin, when suddenly everything blows up because you're missing methods on your models, but you didn't see it coming because they're only missing in some use cases. Even in the context of good TDD, code built on convention over configuration can blow up pretty badly if you're disregarding convention.
ActiveRecord attaches those methods automatically, but ActiveResource doesn't. Remembering to add them manually is pretty counter-intuitive. There's a simple way to handle this. ActiveRecord generates these methods when the application loads. ActiveResource can do the same thing. You need two parts - a server-side part and a client-side part. On the server, you need a method which generates a schema dump from the database, and on the client, you need code which attaches methods to model classes based on this schema dump. This is exactly how ActiveRecord generates these methods under normal circumstances; the only new addition is the translation to XML, for the sake of using a common network format.
On the server side, generating the schema is easy:
This gives you Ruby. There's a schema_format class attribute on ActiveRecord base; you might think the cleanest way to get XML from here would be to define a new option for that attribute:
ActiveRecord::Base.schema_format = :xml
Unfortunately, schema_format doesn't seem to actually do anything any more. In fact, if you want to dump your schema to a SQL file, you don't even use SchemaDumper; check out railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake for more detail. To dump your schema to SQL, you don't use rake db:schema:dump at all. You use rake db:structure:dump.
Obviously, the correct solution here is to change that. There should be a SqlSchemaDumper and a RubySchemaDumper, each instances of SchemaDumper, which should become an abstract superclass, and Rails should dynamically determine the specific subclass to use based on the schema_format class attribute. But I'm not going to lecture about it; there's no excuse for lecturing about it instead of just fixing it, and I'm not actually going to fix it, so my lecturing isn't worth much.
However, if I was setting up that fix, I'd then add in a third subclass - XmlSchemaDumper. Obviously, this would be the option to go for when writing a server-side Rails controller action to return an XML schema to a client Rails app using ActiveResource.
If you're doing this, fixing the schema dumping process is probably worthwhile; if not, you could do it all ghetto-style and just churn through the Ruby schema dump with regular expressions. That'd be lame, though. In fact this whole thing has me thinking pretty seriously about refactoring this stuff, just out of a general neat freak vibe, but we'll see what happens.
Anyway, on the client side, just to finish up, you get XML (in one way or another) which gives you tables and columns. Obviously, you can map this directly to resources. If your ActiveResource objects correspond directly to your ActiveRecord objects, you're basically home free. The only thing left to do is write a simple bit of Ruby metaprogramming whatnot that takes a list like this:
:users => [:widgets, :other_widgets]
And adds User#widgets and User#other_widgets association methods accordingly. I'm going to skip the details. It's an interesting subject but the post would get too long. In brief, use String#constantize and attr_accessor, and read the final four chapters of "Ruby For Rails" if you don't understand what's going on.
The assumption here is that you're mapping ARec server models directly to ARes client models. This isn't always the way to go. Resources aren't objects, and there are pitfalls involved in treating them as such. Mike Mangino said some pretty interesting things at Rails Edge about how making this distinction, between objects and resources, significantly clarified application design on some of his projects. However, there's a lot of pragmatic benefit in a one-to-one mapping - apart from anything else, you could in theory auto-generate both your ActiveResource and ActiveRecord models/foo.rb files from your schema, eliminating a great deal of repetition. So, if you are doing it this way, model your ActiveResource application load phase on the app load phase from ActiveRecord.
Update: I can't think of any excuse for not implementing this refactoring, except for lack of time, so I may in fact give it a whirl.
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Instead of dumping the whole schema, you can publish the schema for each resource type as a resource itself.ReplyDelete
So now my Video ARes class, which points to example.com, can call the schema URL when it first gets loaded.
SchemasController is dead simple...load up the AR class specified, loop through the columns and spit out some json/xml/whatever with all the info.
That just handles the column data types and default vals (an important end in its own right). But then you can have an <associations> element which specifies...give it your best guess.
The associations element should be quite simple, something like
<association name="hometown" type="belongs_to"/>
<association name="lived_in_towns" type="has_many"/>
You don't need to worry about sorting, conditions, and limits because that's all handled server-side. Also has_many :through is a non-issue because you just specify the association as a regular has_many. For example, if you wante has_many :lived_in_states, :through => :lived_in_towns, you just create a
resource. You don't care how that's implemented on the back end.
So, yeah, I think it's doable, but I also think it's easily doable without having to hack AR to support another schema dumper. Though as you mentioned it'd be worth doing anyway.
Keep in mind that I'm full of shit right now because I haven't done any of this, just spent a few minutes thinking about it.
I'm going to be doing a ton of work with ARes over the next couple weeks most likely, and I wanted to talk to you about some stuff, so be prepared.
It doesn't make sense to invent a new schema format though. Using a standard format such as RelaxNG will get you some interoperability at least.ReplyDelete
Here's the thing. It is totally doable within the context of ARes ideology. Ideology turns things into no-brainers - that's basically what it's for. But just because it's a no-brainer ideologically (a tautology if there ever was one) doesn't mean it's a no-brainer in every sense. Differentiating between a resource and a domain object can improve your design by making it more specific or muddy it by making it unnecessarily specific. If you have to distinguish between User and UserFromNetwork, that's just a waste of time. If you distinguish between User and Schema, that's potentially quite useful. I think it's very context-dependent, which is not the standard dogma.ReplyDelete
I've often changed my mind when I thought DHH was wrong and decided, oh, I should have been a DHH follower all along, but I'm not convinced here. I've remainined a holdout longer on this question than I have on most, and I've used ARes enough that I can say you can get good use out of it without necessarily using it as expected.
In the middle of this TDD training so I can't properly concentrate, but that at least I think makes sense. You've got this tradeoff between differentiating or blurring, and I think there are arguments in favor of either one.
Also - getting all the schemas at once feels infinitely cleaner to me. Getting schemas shouldn't be dynamic; it happens at load time and from there on in the knowledge is just there in the app's brain.ReplyDelete
Hi Giles, you may want to check the reddit page about your last post:ReplyDelete
I would have posted this to the last post, but you disabled the comments.
Thanks Nir. I added my own comments.ReplyDelete


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Tina Sharkey is the Global President and Chairman for BabyCenter, LLC based in San Francisco, California. She is a mom of a five-year-old and an eight-year-old boy. In this interview, Tina shares her thoughts on work/life balance, or rather integration, why it is important for her to have a career and what kind of example she wants to set for her children. Tina also talks about how she stays involved in her children's school and how having children and a family morphed her into a better executive.
Can you tell us a little bit about your job -– what does it entail, how long have you been in this industry and position?
Prior to joining AOL, I served as Group President of Sesame Workshop's Online Services, creating their award-winning Internet business, and in 1995, coined the phrase "Social Media" as co-founder and Chief Community Architect of iVillage.com. iVillage was my second start up and it was an amazing experience. It was very rewarding starting something with a group of colleagues and building a great community.
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If all our r's that are written are pronounced, the sound is more common than any other in English utterance (over seven per cent.); the instances of occurrence before a vowel, and so of universal pronunciation, are only half as frequent. There are localities where the normal vibration of the tip of the tongue is replaced by one of the uvula, making a guttural trill, which is still more entitled to the name of "dog's letter" than is the ordinary r; such are considerable parts of France and Germany; the sound appears to occur only sporadically in English pronunciation. [Century Dictionary]
She goes on to note that in British humorous writing, -ar "popularly indicates the sound of the vowel in father" and formations like larf (for laugh) "are to be read with the broad vowel but no uttered r." She also quotes Henry James on the characteristic prominence of the medial -r- sound (which tends to be dropped in England and New England) in the speech of the U.S. Midwest, "under some strange impulse received toward consonantal recovery of balance, making it present even in words from which it is absent, bringing it in everywhere as with the small vulgar effect of a sort of morose grinding of the back teeth."
The moment we encounter the added r's of purp or dorg in our reading we know that we have to do with humor, and so with school-marm. The added consonants are supposed to be spoken, if the words are uttered, but, as a matter of fact, they are less often uttered than seen. The words are, indeed, largely visual forms; the humor is chiefly for the eye. [Louise Pound, "The Humorous 'R,'" "American Mercury," October 1924]
Zoologically speaking, there are no native rabbits in the United States; they are all hares. But the early colonists, for some unknown reason, dropped the word hare out of their vocabulary, and it is rarely heard in American speech to this day. When it appears it is almost always applied to the so-called Belgian hare, which, curiously enough, is not a hare at all, but a true rabbit. [Mencken, "The American Language"]Rabbit punch "chop on the back of the neck" so called from resemblance to a gamekeeper's method of dispatching an injured rabbit. Pulling rabbits from a hat as a conjurer's trick recorded by 1843. Rabbit's foot "good luck charm" first attested 1879, in U.S. Southern black culture. Earlier references are to its use as a tool to apply cosmetic powders.
[N]ear one of them was the dressing-room of the principal danseuse of the establishment, who was at the time of the rising of the curtain consulting a mirror in regard to the effect produced by the application of a rouge-laden rabbit's foot to her cheeks, and whose toilet we must remark, passim, was not entirely completed. ["New York Musical Review and Gazette," Nov. 29, 1856]Rabbit ears "dipole television antenna" is from 1950. Grose's 1785 "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" has "RABBIT CATCHER. A midwife."
Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine. [Dick Gregory, 1964]In mid-20c. U.S. music catalogues, "Negro." Klein suggests these derive from Arabic ra's "head, beginning, origin" (compare Hebrew rosh). Old English þeode meant both "race, folk, nation" and "language;" as a verb, geþeodan, it meant "to unite, to join."


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When we found out last year that my mom had cancer, I decided to send her a card every week just to remind her that I'm with her on this journey. I also vowed to do the same for my grandma {my mom's mother who will be 92 this year} as I know that this is a difficult time for her too. My grandma will send notes to me from time to time, and she always writes, "I don't know how you come up with so many different designs, but I hope you don't run out of them any time soon."
Ok, so, this book originated from the original Pass-the-Book Queen, Sian - From High in the Sky. I know it's been around for a while, and I'm pretty sure that I am not the second one to borrow this book, but Sian is the only one who signed the inside cover and I cannot for the life of me remember who passed it to me! {I'm so sorry my memory fails me! If you are reading this and it was passed from you please let me know and I'll edit this post to link to your blog! I think it might have come from Karen...?}
Anyway! Who's up for borrowing this book next? It's a fun and simple 95-page book with photos of all kinds of card designs.


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In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Black & Decker Household Products Group of Shelton, Conn., is voluntarily recalling about 35,000 Surge reversible Shar-pei dog hand puppets. These puppets passed all toy safety tests specified under federal regulations at the time they were shipped. However, in response to recent consumer concerns and product returns, Black & Decker initiated additional testing, which revealed that the puppets' eyes, over time, could detach, posing a potential choking hazard to children. Although no injuries have been reported, the company is taking this action as a preventive measure.
The puppets, which were not manufactured by Black & Decker, were distributed in retail stores throughout the United States from April 1994 through November 1994 as premiums (free gifts) with new Black & Decker SurgeXpress Irons, models F850, F855, F860S, F860SP, F895, F895S, and F895SP. Black & Decker also made the puppets available through direct mail order.
The puppets, all labeled with "Surge " on a sewn-on tag on the bottom, are approximately 11 inches tall and have either brown or amber (orange) eyes.
Consumers should immediately take the hand puppet away from children and call Black & Decker for a self-addressed, postage-paid envelope in which to return the puppet for a $10.00 refund plus applicable shipping and handling expenses. For more information about this recall and to obtain a self-addressed, postage-paid envelope for returning the puppet, call Black & Decker at (800) 318-7508 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical or mechanical hazard. CPSC's work to help ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household chemicals -– contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years.
Federal law bars any person from selling products subject to a publicly-announced voluntary recall by a manufacturer or a mandatory recall ordered by the Commission.
To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury go online to www.SaferProducts.gov or call CPSC's Hotline at 800-638-2772 or teletypewriter at 301-595-7054 for the hearing impaired. Consumers can obtain news release and recall information at www.cpsc.gov, on Twitter @USCPSC or by subscribing to CPSC's free e-mail newsletters.
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Roller marks can result if the paint is applied using an incorrect or low-quality roller cover. Using an incorrect technique can also lead to this condition.
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High-quality paints tend to roll on more evenly due to their higher solids' content and leveling properties.
Pre-dampen roller covers used with latex paint and shake out any excess water. Begin rolling at a corner near the ceiling and work down the wall in three-foot-square sections.
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