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Bicycle Spoke LED Light
Enlightens your spokes.
- Easily installs in your bicycle spokes to add some lights to your ride.
- Helps you be seen in low light conditions.
- Also looks like those cycles made out of light from that movie with the computers and things.
Hey, remember that movie with the cycle things that were made out of light and computer stuff? We forget what they were called, or what the movie was called, but we sure would love to drive those things. Oh well, at least we found an inexpensive way to fake it; just slapped two Bicycle Spoke LED Lights into our regular bicycle and pretended!
Bicycle Spoke LED Lights just slide down into the spokes to lock in and turn on with a squeeze. Choose from either flashing mode (flashes) or steady on mode (doesn't flash) and get ready for a light show with every pedal. Go fast enough, and your Bicycle Spoke LED Lights might make you feel like you are actually in that computer movie with the things and stuff. Glowy throwing disk not included.
Please Note: Your Bicycle Spoke LED Light will arrive in "Try Me" mode, which shuts off after 1 minute. Just follow the easy instructions to enter "Real Life" mode.
Bicycle Spoke LED Light
- Increase your visibility while looking cool with these easy to attach spoke lights.
- Easy to install in your spokes and sort of makes your bike look like those cool bikes from that inside the computer movie and its sequel!
- Two light modes: constant on and flashing.
- Shock and weather resistant.
- Fits most common round, straight-gauge spokes laced in a three cross spoke pattern in wheel sizes 16" - 27" (with a spoke count of either 32 or 36).
- Sold in single units (i.e. you'll need to buy 2 if you want one for each wheel).
- Color Choice: Blue.
- Batteries: 2 x 2016 3V Lithium (included).
- Dimensions: 4.75" x 1.5" x 1".

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Boron (B), chemical element, semimetal of main Group 13 (IIIa, or boron group) of the periodic table, essential to plant growth and of wide industrial application.
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Properties, occurrence, and uses
Pure crystalline boron is a black, lustrous semiconductor; i.e., it conducts electricity like a metal at high temperatures and is almost an insulator at low temperatures. It is hard enough (9.3 on Mohs scale) to scratch some abrasives, such as carborundum, but too brittle for use in tools. It constitutes about 0.001 percent by weight of Earth's crust. Boron occurs combined as borax, kernite, and tincalconite (hydrated sodium borates), the major commercial boron minerals, especially concentrated in the arid regions of California, and as widely dispersed minerals such as colemanite, ulexite, and tourmaline. Sassolite—natural boric acid—occurs especially in Italy.
Boron was first isolated (1808) by French chemists Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis-Jacques Thenard and independently by British chemist Sir Humphry Davy by heating boron oxide (B2O3) with potassium metal. The impure amorphous product, a brownish black powder, was the only form of boron known for more than a century. Pure crystalline boron may be prepared with difficulty by reduction of its bromide or chloride (BBr3, BCl3) with hydrogen on an electrically heated tantalum filament.
Limited quantities of elemental boron are widely used to increase hardness in steel. Added as the iron alloy ferroboron, it is present in many steels, usually in the range 0.001 to 0.005 percent. Boron is also used in the nonferrous-metals industry, generally as a deoxidizer, in copper-base alloys and high-conductance copper as a degasifier, and in aluminum castings to refine the grain. In the semiconductor industry, small, carefully controlled amounts of boron are added as a doping agent to silicon and germanium to modify electrical conductivity.
In the form of boric acid or borates, traces of boron are necessary for growth of many land plants and thus are indirectly essential for animal life. Typical effects of long-term boron deficiency are stunted, misshapen growth; vegetable "brown heart" and sugar beet "dry rot" are among the disorders due to boron deficiency. Boron deficiency can be alleviated by the application of soluble borates to the soil. In excess quantities, however, borates act as unselective herbicides. Gigantism of several species of plants growing in soil naturally abundant in boron has been reported. It is not yet clear what the precise role of boron in plant life is, but most researchers agree that the element is in some way essential for the normal growth and functioning of apical meristems, the growing tips of plant shoots.
Pure boron exists in at least four crystalline modifications or allotropes. Closed cages containing 12 boron atoms arranged in the form of an icosahedron occur in the various crystalline forms of elemental boron.
Crystalline boron is almost inert chemically at ordinary temperatures. Boiling hydrochloric acid does not affect it, and hot concentrated nitric acid only slowly converts finely powdered boron to boric acid (H3BO3). Boron in its chemical behaviour is nonmetallic.
In nature, boron consists of a mixture of two stable isotopes—boron-10 (19.9 percent) and boron-11 (80.1 percent); slight variations in this proportion produce a range of ±0.003 in the atomic weight. Both nuclei possess nuclear spin (rotation of the atomic nuclei); that of boron-10 has a value of 3 and that of boron-11, 3/2, the values being dictated by quantum factors. These isotopes are therefore of use in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and spectrometers specially adapted to detecting the boron-11 nucleus are available commercially. The boron-10 and boron-11 nuclei also cause splitting in the resonances (that is, the appearance of new bands in the resonance spectra) of other nuclei (e.g., those of hydrogen atoms bonded to boron).
The boron-10 isotope is unique in that it possesses an extremely large capture cross section (3,836 barns) for thermal neutrons (i.e., it readily absorbs neutrons of low energy). The capture of a neutron by a nucleus of this isotope results in the expulsion of an alpha particle (nucleus of a helium atom, symbolized α):
Since the high-energy alpha particle does not travel far in normal matter, boron and some of its compounds have been used in the fabrication of neutron shields (materials not penetrable by neutrons). In the Geiger counter, alpha particles trigger a response, whereas neutrons do not; hence, if the gas chamber of a Geiger counter is filled with a gaseous boron derivative (e.g., boron trifluoride), the counter will record each alpha particle produced when a neutron that passes into the chamber is captured by a boron-10 nucleus. In this way, the Geiger counter is converted into a device for detecting neutrons, which normally do not affect it.
The affinity of boron-10 for neutrons also forms the basis of a technique known as boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) for treating patients suffering from brain tumours. For a short time after certain boron compounds are injected into a patient with a brain tumour, the compounds collect preferentially in the tumour; irradiation of the tumour area with thermal neutrons, which cause relatively little general injury to tissue, results in the release of a tissue-damaging alpha particle in the tumour each time a boron-10 nucleus captures a neutron. In this way destruction can be limited preferentially to the tumour, leaving the normal brain tissue less affected. BNCT has also been studied as a treatment for tumours of the head and neck, the liver, the prostate, the bladder, and the breast.
In its compounds boron shows an oxidation state of +3. The first three ionization energies of boron, however, are much too high to allow formation of compounds containing the B3+ ion; thus, in all its compounds boron is covalently bonded. That is, one of boron's 2s electrons is promoted to a 2p orbital, giving the outer electron configuration 2s12p2; the s and p orbitals can then be mixed to give sp2 and sp3 hybrids, which allow boron to be three- and four-coordinated, respectively. The three-coordinated derivatives (e.g., halides, alkyls, aryls) are planar molecules that readily form donor-acceptor complexes (called adducts), with compounds containing lone pairs of electrons; in these adducts the boron atom is four-coordinated, the four groups being tetrahedrally disposed around it. The tetrahedral bonds result from the reception of an unshared pair of electrons from a donor atom—either a neutral molecule or an anion. This allows a variety of structures to form. Solid borates show five types of structures involving several anions (i.e., BO33-, formed of boron and oxygen) and shared-electron bonds. The most familiar borate is sodium tetraborate, commonly known as borax, Na2B4O7∙10H2O, which occurs naturally in salt beds. Borax has long been used in soaps and mild antiseptics. Because of its ability to dissolve metallic oxides, it has also found wide applications as a soldering flux.
Another boron compound with diverse industrial applications is boric acid, H3BO3. This white solid, also called boracic, or orthoboric, acid, is obtained by treating a concentrated solution of borax with sulfuric or hydrochloric acid. Boric acid is commonly used as a mild antiseptic for burns and surface wounds and is a major ingredient in eye lotions. Among its other important applications are its use as a fire retardant in fabrics, in solutions for electroplating nickel or for tanning leather, and as a major constituent in catalysts for numerous organic chemical reactions. Upon heating, boric acid loses water and forms metaboric acid, HBO2; further loss of water from metaboric acid results in the formation of boron oxide, B2O3. The latter is mixed with silica to make heat-resistant glass (borosilicate glass) for use in cooking ware and certain types of laboratory equipment. Boron combines with carbon to form boron carbide (B4C), an extremely hard substance that is used as an abrasive and as a reinforcing agent in composite materials.
Boron combines with various metals to form a class of compounds called borides. The borides are usually harder, chemically less reactive, and electrically less resistive and have a higher melting point than the corresponding pure metallic elements. Some of the borides are among the hardest and most heat-resistant of all known substances. Aluminum boride (AlB12), for example, is used in many cases as a substitute for diamond dust for grinding and polishing.
With nitrogen, boron forms boron nitride (BN), which, like carbon, can exist in two allomorphic (chemically identical but physically different) forms. One of them has a layer structure resembling that of graphite, whereas the other has a cubic crystalline structure similar to that of diamond. The latter allotropic form, called borazon, is capable of withstanding oxidation at much higher temperatures and is extremely hard—properties that make it useful as a high-temperature abrasive.
Boron reacts with all halogen elements to give monomeric, highly reactive trihalides (BX3, where X is a halogen atom—F, Cl, Br, or I). These so-called Lewis acids readily form complexes with amines, phosphines, ethers, and halide ions. Examples of complex formation between boron trichloride and trimethylamine, as well as between boron trifluoride and fluoride ion, are shown in the following equations:
in which the heavy dot indicates that a bond is formed between the nitrogen and boron atoms. When boron trichloride is passed at low pressure through devices delivering an electric discharge, diboron tetrachloride, Cl2B–BCl2, and tetraboron tetrachloride, B4Cl4, are formed. Diboron tetrachloride decomposes at room temperature to give a series of monochlorides having the general formula (BCl)n, in which n may be 8, 9, 10, or 11; the compounds with formulas B8Cl8 and B9Cl9 are known to contain closed cages of boron atoms.
Boron also forms a series of halides with the general formula BnXn, which also contains closed cages of boron atoms. One example is the boron chloride B4Cl4. Unfortunately, these interesting halides, most of which are highly coloured in sharp contrast to the more typical boron derivatives, are exceedingly difficult to prepare and to handle. The substance B4Cl4, for example, can be prepared only in milligram quantities, and complex electrical-discharge techniques are needed for its production; furthermore, it ignites spontaneously in air and is rapidly decomposed both by water and even by the grease used to lubricate the vacuum equipment employed in its preparation.
With hydrogen, boron forms a series of compounds called boranes, the simplest being diborane (B2H6). The molecular structure and chemical behaviour of these boron hydrides are unique among inorganic compounds. Typically, their molecular structure reveals some boron and hydrogen atoms closely surrounded by or bonded to more atoms than can be explained by an electron-pair bond for each pair of atoms. This variance led to the concept of a chemical bond consisting of an electron pair not localized between two atoms but shared by three atoms (three-centre two-electron bond). The unusual three-centred two-electron bonds led to a variety of polyhedral boron hydride compounds. The most common and well-known boron hydrides include the decahydro-closo-decaborate ([B10H10]2−) and dodecahydro-closo-dodecaborate ([B12H12]2−) anions. When boron hydride clusters include carbon atoms, they form carboranes, or carbaboranes (according to International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry nomenclature). The most commonly encountered carborane cluster is icosahedral dicarbaborane (C2B10H12). Depending on the location of the carbon atoms in the boron cage, dicarbaboranes are classified into three isomers: ortho-carborane (1,2-C2B10H12), meta-carborane (1,7-C2B10H12), and para-carborane (1,12-C2B10H12). Polyhedral boranes and carboranes have applications in fields such as hydrogen storage and medicine, and they also act as building blocks for dendritic macromolecular structures. Diborane combines with a wide variety of compounds to form a large number of boron or borane derivatives, including organic boron compounds (e.g. alkyl- or aryl-boranes and adducts with aldehydes).
The presence of boron compounds can be detected qualitatively by the green coloration they impart to the flame of an ordinary laboratory, or bunsen, burner. Quantitatively, boron is most easily analyzed by converting the material to be analyzed into boric acid by treatment with acid; the excess mineral acid is then neutralized and the much weaker boric acid is titrated (neutralized on a volume–volume basis) in the presence of a sugar, such as mannitol, to make the acid detectable.
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The main argument against it, as stated by the resistant Justices, is that some Justices would showboat for the cameras and try to get the sound bite of the day. I think an unspoken reason why they resist cameras — when they release audio to the world — is that they don't want us all checking our how they look, particularly if they look tired and old. As I said back in 2005:
The Justices have life tenure, and they know how to use it. We just saw 11 years pass without a retirement. Presidents go through through entire terms without a single opportunity to choose a fresh voice for the Court. It has become the norm for Justices to hold their seats as they pass into old age and severe illness. With the support of four gloriously able and energetic law clerks and the silence of the other Justices, no slip in a Justice's ability ever shows in his writing. But the Justices do need to take their seats on the bench for oral argument, and it is here that the public has the chance to judge them.A new counterargument occurs to me as I reread that. A President with the power to appoint a new Supreme Court Justice will think about how well the nominee will represent the administration's political agenda on TV. He'd want someone who looks and speaks persuasively to the public through the new medium.
This judgment may be unfair. Some Justices, as noted, are better looking than others. Some will subject themselves to hair and makeup specialists, and others won't tolerate it. And getting older damages even the prettiest face. Some Justices love the verbal jousting with the lawyers in the courtroom, while others think that all they need is the written argument and opt out of the live show. With cameras, Justice Scalia would win new fans, and "The Daily Show" would wring laughs from Justice Thomas's silent face. The read is inaccurate.
But the cameras would expose the Justices who cling to their seats despite declining ability. It is true that the journalists in the courtroom might tell us if a Justice no longer manages to sit upright and look alert. But the regular gaze of the television cameras would create a permanent but subtle pressure on the Justices to think realistically about whether they still belong on the Court. Self-interest would motivate them to step down gracefully and not cling too long to the position of power the Constitution entitles them to. I think this new pressure would serve the public interest. It would institute a valuable check on the life tenure provision, which has, in modern times, poured too much power into the individuals who occupy the Court.
Justice Kagan talked about making people feel so good about the judiciary, and, obviously, she intended to convey the notion that the Justices stick to legal arguments and apply themselves to puzzling through the various texts. But if one Justice — say, Elena Kagan — has the skill and charisma to project into the camera and make her approach to interpretation lodge in the minds of the people, those who support the other "side" would want an equivalently powerful voice. That good feeling could be comfort with the abuses of power by the other branches of government or a complacency that whatever we need and want can be provided by a benevolent Court.
And yet, I suspect, that if people had more access to the arguments, we would become involved in the substance of the law and attempt to work through the actual legal problems at a higher level than we do now. I know I would love the ability to make clips from the video to incorporate into blog posts that discuss and explain the issues. Of course, I would jump at the opportunity to extract funny little things for all sorts of diverse bloggerly purposes. But the Court, like the other branches of government, deserves to be laughed at too.


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With its quiet tropical beaches, Buddhist temples, exuberant nature and heart-warming friendly locals, Sri Lanka is one of the most diverse destinations in Asia. The 'Cultural Triangle' offers a huge number of attractions. We highlight the following 3: the Sigiriya Cloud Maidens, the Buddha's tooth in Kandy and the ancient temples of the Anuradhapura kingdom. But there are many more attractions – most visitors take around 3 days to explore the Cultural Triangle, but you can easily spend a week here.
For 3 decades, Sri Lanka was a no-go area: the government army was embroiled in a bloody battle against the Tamil Tigers. But peace has returned and travellers can once again safely visit the top attractions of this tear-shaped island. The Cultural Triangle extends from Kandy in the centre to Polonnaruwa in the east and Anuradhapura in the north: a region of approximately 10,000 square kilometres, packed with ancient royal cities, ornate palaces and magnificent temples, all World Heritage monuments.
Kandy is Sri Lanka's most important religious city, home to the holiest of shrines: the Temple of the Tooth. And yes, the temple features a 2500-year-old tooth of Buddha. 3 times a day, the relic is displayed to the public, albeit from a distance and wrapped in 7 gem-encrusted golden chests set on a throne. The worship is accompanied by a deafening sound of drummers, flutists and dancers – a fascinating display for those who seek to understand the importance of Buddhism in the lives of many Sri Lankans.
Temple of the Tooth, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Anuradhapura was the capital of Sri Lanka for 13 centuries. This was once the political and spiritual centre of the island, with a royal palace, numerous temples and gigantic stupas, the holy Bodhi tree that is the mother tree of all other Bodhi trees on the island, lush gardens, swimming pools and monasteries that housed up to 10,000 monks. Today, the city has become an enormous open-air museum with dilapidated ruins, stretching over an area of approximately 40 square kilometres.
Another former capital: the spectacular rock of Sigiriya towers 200 meters above the Sri Lankan landscape. Halfway up the 1,000 steps, you will find the Mirror Wall. After 16 centuries, the wall has turned orange but it hasn't lost its mirror properties. A dizzying spiral stairway leads to the Cloud Maidens, the oldest rock carvings in Sri Lanka. Once there were 500 of these maidens, who according to Buddhist traditions bring flower offerings. Now only 22 carvings remain, of which 12 are on display to visitors. At the top of the rock stand the remains of King Kashyapa's citadel, blessed with the most spectacular view.


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Watch Lady Gaga Get Her Septum Pieced [Video]
If you have a weak stomach and are squeamish about things like needles, then perhaps it's best if you sit this one out. However, if you love Lady Gaga and want to experience everything you can with her, then check out this video of Mommy Monster getting her septum pierced.
The photos of her new piercing are all over the web, but this video is somethin' else.
It's graphic in that it gets up close as she lays down and has the procedure done. With no makeup, no eyebrows, dark hair and a rock tee, Gaga is showing off her gritty punk side while getting this piercing.


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When I was growing up in Hawaii, Mochi Chicken was common and favorite dish for pot lucks, picnics, school lunches, etc. As an adult, it's one of my favorites to add to my bento box lunch (served with rice, of course).
4-5 lbs skinless chicken thighs, deboned
1/2 cup mochiko flour (Japanese glutinous rice flour)
1/2 cup cornstarch
1/2 cup sugar
5/8 cup shoyu
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp salt
4 eggs
Cut deboned chicken into bite size pieces. Mix ingredients and marinate overnight or approximately 6 hours. Fry in oil until brown. Can be served hot or cold
Very interesting! Does the chicken come out with a sticky mochi surface, or is it crispy?
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yum! i love mochi(ko) chicken. thanks for sharing the recipe.
maki: it comes out with a "hard" crispy surface.
I've just posted a recipe for Mochi Tofu Nuggets inspired by this recipe!
Just want to be clear on the instructions. You mix up EVERYTHING as the marinade? Even the flour? Or do you marinate the chicken in everything but the flours and then dip the marinated chicken in the flour mix just before frying?
This sounds really good and I want to try it this week but want to make sure I'm doing it correctly.
I've always prepared it ALL mixed together as a batter. Remember to toss the batter and chicken before you cook it because the chicken tends to settle to the bottom. Also, don't crowd the chicken when frying.
That being said, I've got to admit that I avoid deep frying because I end up with too much leftover cooking oil and it's a pain to clean up all the oil splatter. It also requires too much attention to deep fry. Although the end results are not exactly the same, I prefer to oven fry my mochi chicken. I preheat the oven to 425 and melt 1 Tablespoons of butter in a large glass baking dish. I put the chicken on the baking dish (don't overcrowd them) and bake it for 15-20 minutes (depending on how small I've cut the chicken). If the chicken is cut-up small, there's no need to flip it. If you have to flip it, cook it for another 5 minutes or less.
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ATLANTA -- A trio of nationally respected developers will partner with the Atlanta Braves organization to develop the 74-acre, $400 million mixed-use development that will be integrated with the new ballpark the franchise is developing in partnership with the Cobb-Marietta Coliseum and Exhibit Hall Authority.
The organization announced today that three local companies -- Fuqua Development, Pope & Land Enterprises, and Pollack Shores Real Estate Group -- will be its partners in developing the project, which includes up to 630,000 square feet of class A office space, 500,000 square feet of upscale retail, 450 hotel rooms and 500 residences. The Braves will retain a majority ownership stake in the development and will continue to guide the development process in conjunction with its partners.
"In just eight months, we have made tremendous progress on our ballpark and mixed-use project," said Atlanta Braves Chairman and CEO Terry McGuirk. "Were thrilled to announce a partnership that reflects our local roots and global brand as we move forward on the mixed-use portion of the project."
Fuqua Development will partner with the Braves on the retail portion of the project. Jeff Fuqua and his partners have made a tremendous imprint on metro Atlanta, developing many of Atlanta's most notable urban retail mixed-use developments, including Town Brookhaven, Perimeter Place, The Prado, Lindbergh Plaza, Lenox Marketplace, Peachtree Corners Market and the Edgewood Retail District. The firm has deep relationships with local and national retail tenants and experience working on challenging sites.
"Anchored by the excitement and prestige of the Atlanta Braves, this unique project is already the buzz of the industry and is quickly becoming, even before its official launch, an irresistible magnet for first-to-market retailers, major restaurants and entertainment concepts," said Jeff Fuqua, Principal, Fuqua Development. "We already have received many expressions of interest by potential tenants eager to be part of such an innovative, 365-days-a-year, mixed-used project. We obviously expect that to intensify as we move forward with our retail development plans. We think this is certain to become the most exciting mixed-use development in the Southeastern United States."
Pope & Land will partner with the Braves on the office component of the development. The 35-year-old company, with roots in Atlanta and Cobb County, is responsible for developing some of the defining office buildings and developments in Atlanta, including Atlantic Center Plaza, 3630 Peachtree and others. The company specializes in developing mixed-use real estate projects and also offers third-party leasing and management services.
"We are proud to have been selected as the team that will co-develop the exciting mixed-use community adjacent to the new Braves ballpark," said Jay Land, Executive Vice President and Partner at Pope & Land Enterprises. "Along with our partners, we will coordinate the mix of uses and deliver an exciting, new office building centrally located between the ballpark and the retail/entertainment district. This partnership is going to make a one-of-a-kind, fully integrated destination."
Pollack Shores Real Estate Group will partner with the Braves on the residential portion of the project. One of the leading multifamily developers in the region, Atlanta-based Pollack Shores was founded in 2006 and has an investment portfolio worth over $1 billion. The company specializes in creating luxury apartment communities with retail and restaurants close by and amenities including resort style pools, fitness centers and high-end club rooms. In Atlanta, Pollack Shores is completing several developments including Citizen at Perimeter, Steelworks next to Atlantic Station and The Jane at Colonial Homes, a landmark rental community in Atlantas Buckhead neighborhood next to the Atlanta Beltline and Bobby Jones Golf Course.
"As a long standing Atlanta-based firm, we are excited to partner with the Braves, and we look forward to creating a world class mixed-use destination," said Marc Pollack, Chairman and CEO of Pollack Shores.
Jones Lang LaSalle, which has served as the Braves real estate and development consultant throughout this project, will remain actively involved with the development group. The Jerde Partnership, which has served as the master planner on the development, will continue to guide the land planning aspect of the development. The organization expects to name development project architects and an entertainment partner in the coming weeks.
"From the day we announced this project, we have talked about the role that the adjoining mixed-use development will play in the overall success of our ballpark project and its impact on the local community," added McGuirk of the Braves. "This new development will be a vibrant district on game days, as well as an exciting destination for people in the region throughout the rest of the year."
Construction on the new stadium is scheduled to start later this year and will be completed by Opening Day 2017. The goal of the mixed-use development will be to open Phase I, or a substantial portion of it, by spring of 2017 as well.


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The previous version of this page is obsolete due to the model syntax change. Additionally, there's now a better reference for this topic:
magic-removal: Model Inheritance
This is a proposal for how subclassing should work in Django. There a lot of details to get right, so this proposal should be very specific and detailed. Most of the ideas here come from the thread linked below:
Here are some additional notes from Robert Wittams on allowing different storage models.
For subclassing, there are 3 main issues:
- How do we model the relations in SQL?
- How do joins work?
- How does the API work?
Note that I have only provided examples for single inheritance here. Is multiple inheritance worth supporting?
The examples will use the following models:
class Place(models.Model): name = models.CharField(maxlength=50) class Restaurant(Place): description = models.TextField() class ItalianRestaurant(Restaurant): has_decent_gnocchi = models.BooleanField()
1. Modeling parent relations in SQL?
The general consesus seems to be this:
CREATE TABLE "myapp_place" ( "id" integer NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, "name" varchar(50) NOT NULL ); CREATE TABLE "myapp_restaurant" ( /* PRIMARY KEY REFERENCES "myapp_places" ("id") works for postgres, what about others? */ "id" integer NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY REFERENCES "myapp_places" ("id"), "description" text NOT NULL ); CREATE TABLE "myapp_italianrestaurant" ( "id" integer NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY REFERENCES "myapp_restaurant" ("id"), "has_decent_gnocchi" bool NOT NULL );
2. Modeling joins in SQL
When we want a list of
ItalianRestaurants, we obviously need all the fields from myapp_restaurant and myapp_place as well. This could be accomplished by inner joins. It would look something like this:
SELECT ... FROM myapp_italianrestaurant as ir INNER JOIN myapp_restaurant as r ON ir.restaurant_id=r.id INNER JOIN myapp_place as p ON r.place_id=p.id
But what if we want a list of
Places, what should we do? We can either just get the places:
SELECT ... FROM myapp_place
Or we can get everything with left joins (this allows the iterator to return objects of the appropriate type, rather than just a bunch of
SELECT ... FROM myapp_place as p LEFT JOIN myapp_restaurant as r ON r.place_id=p.id LEFT JOIN myapp_italianrestaurant as ir ON ir.restaurant_id=r.id
Imagine we have more than one subclass of
Place though. The join clause and the column list would get pretty hefty. This could obviously get unmanageable pretty quickly.
I think some dbs have a maximum number of joins (something like 16), and even within the maximum, the query optimizer will either spend a while deciding which way to best join the tables or it will give up and choose the wrong way quickly. This wording is FUD-- I'll try to find specifics. --jdunck
Another option is to lazily load objects like
Restaurant and
ItalianRestaurant while we're iterating over
Place.objects.all(), but that requires a lot of database queries. Either way, doing this will be expensive, and api should reflect that. You're much better off just using
Places fields if you are going to iterate over
The following API examples assume we have created these objects:
p = Place(name='My House') r = Restaurant(name='Road Kill Cafe', description='Yuck!') ir = ItalianRestaurant(name="Ristorante Miron", description="Italian's best mushrooms restaurant", has_decent_gnocchi=True)
For the following examples, assume
Place.objects.get(2) returns
r and
Place.objects.get(3) returns
| 'Yuck!' or
Change the current usage of subclassing
class MyArticle(Article): ...fields... class META: module_name = 'my_articles' remove_fields = ...some fields...
would change to:
class MyArticle(meta.Model): ...fields... class META: copy_from = Article remove_fields = ...some fields...
Ramblings on Magic Removal Subclassing
For the above Restaurant example:
class Place(models.Model): name = models.CharField(maxlength=50) class Restaurant(Place): description = models.TextField()
we want Restaurant to have a 'name' CharField. However, fields from parent classes are not included when the class is created.


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New York, NY " Two of AKCs Companion Events " Agility and Obedience " are celebrating sport milestones at the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship festivities this December 17-18, 2011 in Orlando, Florida at the Orange County Convention Center. Agility, AKCs fastest-growing canine sport, is on track to hit one million entries in 2011, while the sport of Obedience celebrates its 75th anniversary.
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By Mary J. Henold (University of North Carolina Press, 2008)
Sisters Theresa Kane, Marjorie Tuite, and Margaret Ellen Traxler. Rosemary Radford Ruether, Mary Daly, and Sidney Callahan. The names of these women are well known among Catholics who lived during the 1960s and '70s, but not, apparently, to feminist scholars. A tendency to be antagonistic toward religion in general—and toward Catholicism in particular—has left feminist histories bereft of the work of these and hundreds of other Catholic feminists.
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THURSDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Too many Americans are not aware of all the warning signs of a heart attack, and the percentage who know what to do when one is suspected is not as high as it could be, a survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds.
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The survey results, released Thursday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, are part of an ongoing effort to reduce deaths from heart attacks. More than 900,000 Americans have heart attacks each year, and there are more than 150,000 deaths, about half of which occur within one hour of symptom onset, the CDC said, so awareness and quick action are vital.
And yet, according to a statement by Dr. Jing Fang, a CDC epidemiologist and the study's lead author, "It is clear that the overall public awareness of heart attack signs and the importance of calling for emergency medical assistance quickly in the event someone is experiencing a heart attack or stroke was alarmingly low."
The state-by-state differences are important, she added in an interview. "We see marked disparities between states, and those states that have lower awareness should be more aggressive," Fang said.
The survey used data from the 2005 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System involving 71,994 Americans in the District of Columbia and 13 states. They had been asked about their awareness of the five warning signs of heart attack: pain or discomfort in the jaw, neck or back; feeling weak, lightheaded or faint; chest pain or discomfort; pain or discomfort in the arms or shoulder; and shortness of breath. They were also asked what they would do if such symptoms occurred.
Overall, a large majority of people knew the right answer to that last question: Call 911 to get emergency help, rather than calling a doctor or going to a hospital. The proportion of people who said they would call 911 ranged from 77 percent in the District of Columbia to 78 percent in Mississippi to 89 percent in Minnesota.
Knowledge about the warning signs was much less satisfactory. Only 31 percent of those questioned knew all five signs. For example, awareness that feeling weak, lightheaded or faint was a warning sign varied from 53 percent in the District of Columbia to 70 percent in Iowa; for pain or discomfort in the jaw, neck or back, awareness ranged from 34 percent in the District of Columbia to 59 percent in West Virginia.
There were also sharp socioeconomic and ethnic differences. While more than a third of those with a college education knew all five signs and the need to call 911, only 15.7 percent of those with less than a high school education did. Awareness was significantly higher among whites (30.2 percent) than among blacks (16.2 percent) and Hispanics (14.3 percent).
"It is such a low percentage," said Dr. Martha Daviglus, a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association and a professor of preventive medicine and medicine at Northwestern University. "Maybe it is because they are unaware or misinformed. Or maybe it has to do with going to the emergency room of a hospital, thinking, 'We don't have any money, we'll have to pay something'."
The goal of the U.S. government and the heart association is to increase awareness of heart attack signs to 50 percent of the American population, Daviglus noted. "Maybe you think that is not much," she said. "Eventually, it should be our goal to reach the entire population. We can do it little by little. But it is only through the help of the public that we will achieve it."
One barrier is an unwillingness of many people to learn about heart attack signs, Daviglus said. "People believe this is never going to happen to them," she said. "They believe it is a problem for someone else."
SOURCES: Jing Fang, M.D., epidemiologist, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; Martha Daviglus, M.D., Ph.D., professor of preventive medicine and medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago; Feb. 22, 2008, CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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Monday, November 1, 2010
Why Are Asians So Smart?
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I discussed this yesterday with the mothers I teach after school--- sort of. We were talking about why Korean students score so much higher than U.S. students. After reminding me that our president thinks Americans should be like Koreans when it comes to education, we got down to brass tacks. The mothers think that there should be a mix-- they love the pride that comes from scoring so highly, but they are fearful that their children are under too much pressure to succeed. It appeared that most of them deperately wanted the Korean education system to be toned down so that they could quite literally have their children back (not kept in hagwon until one or two A.M.).
- November 17, 2010 at 2:55 PM
- Jones said...
Well, they are not really genius but they are just better.
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- November 18, 2010 at 8:15 PM
I am a professional teacher with 14 years experience teaching in the UK. I have to admit Korea is a teachers heaven. Of course, the Korean system can be criticised but the lack of anti-intellectualism which has atrophied the British educational system, is refreshing.
And I'm in favour of the stick and punishments and use them. In the UK there is no efficient method of punishing a bad student and students are empowered the moment they step into the school premises. I've been spat at, called every name you can imagine and been assaulted. When a student attacked me with a chair, I put my hand on his chest to prevent him hitting me. The parents wanted the police calling into the school because I had 'made physical contact' and my boss almost supported them.
The Korean system is effective because education is more highly regarded, by virtue of Confucian influences. And it is more effective because children are controlled better. In 4.5 years of teaching in Korea, I have not once had to teach a thoroughly rotten kid who is scum and a nasty human - but I've taught plenty such characters back home.
And perhaps the most soul destroying experience in the UK, is seeing the learning of decent kids ruined by the scum which spoil many lessons.
It is hardly surprising, Britain for example, trails behind Korea in terms of academic success given that morons often become national heroes. Jayne Goody, winner of Big Brother, didn't even know the capital of France or the name of the river which runs through London. She became a millionaire, and then there are examples such as Vinny Jones and Wayne Rooney - violent morons who are iconised.
- December 5, 2010 at 9:24 AM
- EvieKay said...
Elwood, what you have said I find very interesting. I've taught school in Atlanta and so many of the students are just so out of control (wouldn't quite call them scum though- but I can tell where you are coming from- I have met one or two students like that) that the whole class is just chaos- jumping on tables, yelling, fighting, stabbings took place on campus, and there were students in the class that you could tell had rather tainted attitudes toward learning simply because of their constant exposure to students who had no discipline in their lives. There was no detention, nothing.. all you could do was send them to the principal's office if he wasn't too busy and he would decide what to do with them (expel or not). And you can hardly expel students because you would have to expel like half the class on a regular basis, and this would be considered neglecting the children and giving up on them. So-- needless to say, it was a MESS!!! I'm surprised that the UK has problems so bad too! I always pictured students there much better behaved-- considering the test scores of public schools there are much higher than here in Georgia. Crazy! I'm glad that Korea will be something to look forward to.
- December 14, 2010 at 2:46 PM
- afranke77 said...
Check out the book 'Outliers' by Malcolm Gladwell. There's a chapter on why Asians regularly score higher on math tests and he attributes it to Korean, Chinese, and Japanese kids having an easier time learning numbers in their languages and getting a head start on math compared to western students. Numbering in these three languages tends to be simpler and more logical. Consider the following numbers in Korean and English:
2= two, "ee"
12= twelve, "ship ee"
20= twenty, "ee ship"
English speakers have to learn three distinctly different words for 2, 12, and 20 despite each number revolving around the same digit (2), while Korean retains the name for 2 and arranges numbers in a simpler way (literally: "ten two" and "two tens")
- January 11, 2011 at 7:07 AM
- AndreaIndeed said...
Well, I've been a teacher for 5 years at international schools in the U.S. and Europe, and I am really surprised that other experienced teachers would find the Korean system to be heaven.
I have found that it not only discourages intellectualism, but most kinds of creative and divergent thinking. These skills are needed for innovation and invention, and I'm sorry to say that the Korean kids I've taught are severely lacking in it. This is not, of course to say, that they are unable to think creatively. It's just that they are raised to think that test scores are the measure of intelligence and I couldn't disagree any more with this sentiment.
People criticize the U.S. for being to soft on testing and too interested in misguided ideas about self esteem. That may be so, but I don't think the Korean system is a solution. There must be a middle ground!
- February 8, 2011 at 12:31 AM
- WonTaek Chung said...
I don't think Koreans are smarter. I think we are just more aware of the importance of grades. In terms of brain power, I feel Indians and a lot of Americans have the potential to be so much smarter than Koreans.
- August 31, 2011 at 1:24 PM
- Green Gables said...
At Green Gables, we believe education is a natural 'give and take' where we learn as much from children as they from us; that our children transform us as we transform them.
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- December 29, 2015 at 10:25 PM
- Indra Imperia said...
Actually,it does not depend on continent.
It depend on system,which makes them smarter.
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Runaway 13-year-old boy drives across Europe
A 13-year-old runaway boy who took his father's car and drove nearly 1,000km (620 miles) across Europe is being re-united with his family.
The boy fled after a reported row with his parents in Italy.
Having driven from Italy into Austria, he proceeded to Germany where he was stopped by police after his family had alerted Interpol.
The boy, who had been adopted two years ago, was reportedly heading to his original home country, Poland.
The teenager lives in the northern Italian town of Montebelluna.
After an argument with his adoptive mother - allegedly over a mobile phone payment - the boy, a keen go-cart racer, left on Thursday afternoon.
And he seems to have been completely confident at the wheel of his father's high-powered Mercedes car.
His parents say he was probably heading for Poland - he was said to be missing his sister who lives there and to have been in touch with her via the internet, according to Italian media.
The car was eventually tracked and stopped near Moisburg, in northern Germany.
Police said it was "incredible" that the boy-driver had managed to cross two international borders and filled up with petrol twice without anyone en route raising the alarm.
The teenager's parents are understood to have gone to Germany to bring him home.


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Hong Kong artist May Sum sculpts figures out of lipstick. While she sculpts animals and other objects, most of her figures are modeled on influential women in a series titled "Woman Power." Lipstick comes in various shades, packaging, and shapes, and Sum uses this variety to her advantage creating a series of finely detailed iconic busts. The medium used to sculpt these women is fitting as powerful women are often judged against cultural ideals of beauty and image.
Sum doesn't just limit herself to iconic women as subjects for her sculptures. She also takes custom orders. If you send her a photograph of what you'd like sculpted, she'll create a miniature lipstick sculpture in its likeness. (via design taxi)


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The Stone Age, circa 1995
Although it involved a lot of manual labor, mighty Stonehenge and the pyramids were built with very simple tools (or by aliens, but let's deal with that topic another day).
Web development was pretty basic back then, but conceptually simple enough.
The Dark Ages, circa 1998
Some pretty amazing castles were built during this age, and they still stand today.
The basic tools had improved a lot, but they were still recognizable. Even an Neanderthal from the previous age could probably be effective with these tools.
The Age of Enlightenment, circa 2002
The gothic cathedrals from around this time look awesome, but were (and still are) inhabited by unpleasant religious fanatics.
At this point, great thinkers with lots of free time combined art and science to build magnificent works of beauty and elegance.
The Age of the Astronauts and the Race for Space (via the Clouds), circa 2008
A lot of very expensive spaceships were built during this age.
The great empires fought a cold, mostly ideological, war to see who could be the first to reach the moon.
Of course this all ended with a ka-boom and the eventual retirement of the space shuttle program.
A New Hope, 2011
Realizing that space tourism and new houses on Mars might be out of reach for most people in the foreseeable future, there is a renewed interest in more lightweight approaches to building and transportation. You might even call it eco-friendly.
Even the otherwise lethargic Microsoft jumps on the bandwagon, to the acclaim of professional developers.
"WebMatrix is full 180 from the highly abstracted cathedral that is ASP.NET. (...) WebMatrix is focused on simplicity and the "Get It Done" developer. Which, to me, is a massive undersell as we're all "Get it Done" developers."
"... you have to use raw SQL to query the database. This is going to turn off the Ivory Tower crowd who prefer to wade through XML Soup and tedious designers - but that's to their detriment. As I've always said - the best DSL I've ever seen for working with data is SQL."
That's cool. This is what web development looks like with WebMatrix:
Looks strangely familiar, doesn't it? A mix of HTML markup and code, and direct data access without any of that ORM stuff? Yes, that's right. For comparison, let's bring up that screenshot from the Dark Ages (1998) again:
Conclusions & Take-Aways
(Because there always needs to be a take-away.)
I am (definitely) not saying that "Frameworks are evil", or that "Progress is uncool". I'm just as lazy as any programmer, but I prefer the simplest thing that could possibly work.
I prefer frameworks that don't try to obscure that what we (most of us) are trying to do (most of the time) is to generate some HTML based on data from an SQL database.
Do we really need something like this
If something like this can do the job?
The golden path is probably somewhere in-between those two extremes. But keep in mind: Stonehenge has lasted for 5,000 years, while the space shuttle is being retired after less than 50 years.


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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Weekend in the North Georgia Mountains
Now, 16 years later, I finally got the opportunity to do the AT Approach Trail! We started at the Visitors Center, oohing and aahing our way up the 600+ stairs next to the waterfalls. The tread was smooth and runnable, with spring blooms and carpets of lovely Mayapples flanking the trail.. On top of Springer we encountered the summit volunteer, an amazing 78-year-old gentleman who thru-hiked the Colorado Trail last year! We also met "Three Dollar Rob" from Minnesota just setting off on his GA-ME adventure. (He found $3 on the trail earlier in the day, so we gave him a trail name.) The route Chris and I took totalled about 19 miles, returning from Springer Mtn. via the Hike Inn, where the caretakers kindly let us take a warm & dry break next to their woodstove. Except for the first hour, it rained steadily the entire time so we were thankful for the breather.
The next morning at Woody Gap, we joined running buddy Scott, along with Liz and Phil, for the Appalachian - Benton MacKaye - Duncan Ridge loop, the so-called "toughest backpack in Georgia." All told, we did about 54 miles, climbed close to 18,000 feet, and spent just over 16 hours playing in the woods. On the 23-mile DRT alone I counted 17 individual climbs and descents, including Akin Peak and Payne Knob (ha). Unlike many southern trails, the DRT went straight up and straight down--one guidebook refers to "kamikaze descents"--with only a couple of switchbacks on the entire trail. None of the climbs was particularly long; there were just a lot of them! Except for one tiny streamlet from which we refilled bottles and bladders, there was no water on the ridge; however, there are also a few off-ridge water sources marked by "W" signs. The Appalachian and Benton MacKaye sections were much mellower with plenty of water sources. Chris generously crewed us while getting in a good number of miles himself. Thanks Chris!! :) In contrast to the day before, Sunday's weather was blissfully perfect! We had a great time--this loop ROCKS and I highly recommend running it if you get the chance.
I also learned something new after our runs this weekend: Waffle House is open 24 hours!!
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- Sunshine Girl said...
Hunh! Last year I was contemplating an adventure in Georgia to go take a run on the Pinhoti Trail. Your loop sound aaaaawesome! Just my style with lots of elevation an big ups and downs. Can I be envious again? Fortunately it's spring so I can at least have some adventures in my own backyard....
- April 27, 2010 at 9:02 PM
- Thomas Bussiere said...
Sounds like you had a good hike. I love to do hill repeats up Brass Town Bald in N GA - Something a bud of mine said was not possible. I love it when people say no way is that possible.
- April 28, 2010 at 8:04 AM
- SteveQ said...
There's another Minnesotan on the Appalachian Trail (hopefully, north of you by now) you should check out. He's blind and doing it without anyone to guide him!
- April 28, 2010 at 8:49 AM
- RunSueRun said...
I did hear about the blind guy--amazing!
We did Brasstown Bald, GA's high point, a couple of years ago... by automobile. :)
Leslie, there are A LOT of nice trails in this part of the USA. For starters, check out the wonderful book 'Trekking the Southern Appalachians.' I think this (springtime) is the best time of year to be here since it gets very hot & humid in the summer. Autumn weather is probably nice, but the hunters are out, too...
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Jerk-Spiced Shrimp (Adapted from CL)
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground thyme
1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 1/2 pounds peeled and deveined large shrimp
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Chrysler IPO Filing Triggered by Bitter Feud
Chrysler filed plans for an IPO as the auto maker takes its first step to return to the public market. The filing doesn't state a price for the shares or indicate how many will be offered. Christina Rogers reports. Photo: AP.
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