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Well, that is, if you work at Deloitte, which is not out of the question: This huge professional services company employs 78,000 people in the United States.
Deloitte just trumped the benefits of similar companies by announcing a new family leave program under which both men and women are eligible for up to 16 weeks of fully paid family leave to "support a range of life events impacting them and their families," including maternity and paternity leave, elder care, and aid for other sick family members and partners.
"This is about being more inclusive," said Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert in an interview with Fortune. "As we think about innovation in talent, we think about well-being — well-being being the big focus of ours. It goes way beyond the things you traditionally think," she says. "We really want to be known as an innovative talent organization."
Deloitte recently conducted a survey of more than 1,000 workers across the country in which both men and women thought it was important that they have equal amounts of parental leave. Adding to that, 88 percent said they highly valued leave policies that included caring for others besides children, such as elderly parents and sick spouses. More than 77 percent of the respondents indicated they would be more attracted to a company that provided better family leave options.
I recently discussed a seminal study published in February 2016 in JAMA Internal Medicine on unpaid family caregivers that illuminated some sobering details that those of us who work in the caregiving arena have known for many years:
The life of the caregiver is incredibly difficult; it's a role that takes a toll on all aspects of the caregiver's life. The study found that caregivers who were providing substantial help reported fewer opportunities to partake in activities such as visiting friends, going out for enjoyment, attending religious services, or participating in club or group activities. Only one in four caregivers used support services. They were more likely to have missed work because of caregiving responsibilities, and their work productivity had declined.
Many of my patient's caregivers have been forced to quit work in order to care for their loved one. The authors of the JAMA study concluded that "because the magnitude and scope of assistance to disabled older adults by family and unpaid caregivers far exceed those of paid caregivers, devising organizational strategies and healthcare practices to identify and more purposefully engage and support family caregivers merits greater attention by health system stakeholders seeking high value care."
Maybe this kind of thinking caught Deloitte's attention. Their expansion of benefits is a great first step in supporting the more than 34 million people who have joined the ranks of unpaid caregivers. I hope they've started a trend!
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Martifer informs about agreement for financial restructuring
Martifer hereby informs that, following the priorities defined in the restructuring plan, reached an agreement with a group of creditor financial institutions for the restructuring of Financial Debt in the Holding and in the Construction segment perimeters.
The global amount of financing to be restructured reaches around 260 million euros, which corresponds to around 85 % of the Martifer Group's gross consolidated Financial Debts on 30th September 2015.
The agreement envisages the pursuance of the plan for the divestment in non-core businesses and real estate assets that will allow the gradual reduction of the Net Debt in the Holding perimeter and the optimization of operational Cash Flow generation in the construction segment.
This operation will allow:
- to adequate the inflows maturity of the operational activity and investment (divestment) to the outflows of the financing activity

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4 May 2015 Edition
May Day – 'Platform for Renewal' – exciting initiative
4 May 2015
THE SPECIAL 'May Day Conference' on Friday 1 May and Saturday 2 May convened by the five trade unions affiliated to the Right2Water campaign to discuss a set of core principles which will underpin a 'Platform for Renewal' in advance of the next general election is being supported by Sinn Féin. Free article
Living wage policy launched by Sinn Féin
4 May 2015
"TALK IS CHEAP, and that's all we've gotten from this Government in terms of workers' rights," says Senator David Cullinane speaking to reporters at the launch of Sinn Féin's For Decent Work and a Living Wage document in Dublin. Free article
Narrow marriage equality vote at Assembly
4 May 2015
A MARRIAGE EQUALITY proposal tabled by Sinn Féin at the Stormont Assembly on 27 April was defeated 47-49 due to almost total unionist opposition. The measure also faced a blocking move through a Petition of Concern by the Democratic Unionist Party. Free article
Brigadier Frank Kitson faces writs over role in North
4 May 2015
THE FAMILY of Patrick Heenan, murdered by British state agents within the unionist Ulster Defence Association on 1 February 1973 in east Belfast, have travelled to London with Relatives for Justice and solicitors KRW Law to issue legal proceedings against the Ministry of Defence and retired British Army Commander-in-Chief Frank Kitson. Free article
Every vote counts
4 May 2015
THE Westminster election campaign goes down to the wire with canvass teams knocking doors across all 18 of the North's constituencies right up until polling day on 7 May. Free article
Kathleen Funchion challenges Establishment favourites
4 May 2015
KATHLEEN FUNCHION says that a Sinn Féin candidate taking former Fine Gael Environment Minister Phil Hogan's Dáil seat in the Carlow/Kilkenny by-election would send a clear message to Fine Gael/Labour – and Fianna Fáil – that people want change. Free article
Vote Yes for equality
4 May 2015
SINN FÉIN is campaigning for a 'Yes' vote in both referendums which will be put to the people of the state on 22 May. Free article
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A decade of broken promises
4 May 2015
THE WELLINGTON MONUMENT in Dublin's Phoenix Park looms over the rooftops of nearby houses and blocks of flats in O'Devaney Gardens. O'Devaney was built in the 1950s as one of a number of social housing projects to rehome families during Dublin Corporation's programme of slum and tenement clearances. It was named after Bishop Conor O'Devaney, a friend of Tyrone's rebel chief, Hugh O'Neill, who was hanged at nearby Arbour Hill by the British in 1612 for treason, aged at least 80. Premium service article
'The people of the Colin are coming home'
4 May 2015
New Mayor of the Belfast 'super council', Sinn Féin's Arder Carson, talks to Peadar Whelan Premium service article
Mícheál Martin's hysterical attacks on Sinn Féin
4 May 2015
RECENT hysterical attacks by Fianna Fáil leader Mícheál Martin on Sinn Féin reveal a deep desperation within his party's senior ranks as it fails to attract voters, stagnates in opinion polls, and Martin eyes the vultures circling his rudderless leadership. Premium service article
A bad deal for Ireland
4 May 2015
A DELEGATION consisting of farmers, environmentalists and trade unionists was hosted in Brussels by Sinn Féin Midlands North West MEP Matt Carthy in April to discuss their concerns around the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Parntership (TTIP) agreement currently being negotiated between the European Commission and the USA. Premium service article
Against the reactionary core of the European project
4 May 2015
AS the dominant figures in the European Union harden their stance against Greek democracy – with a Greek exit from the Euro looking increasingly inevitable and with questions even being posed about continued Greek membership of the EU itself – the reactionary core at the heart of the European project is being laid bare. Free article


text: These were sanded, painted, sealed, and rehung with the old hardware and hinges. I did the kitchen and both bathrooms within a few days. I even made a wainscot back splash to hide the old funky wallpaper! It made a huge difference for a very small price and we generated absolutely no garbage. I love it! I can't wait to do another one. This was so much fun.


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du showcases location based service
Launches new VLC-service, a highly customisable location based service at GITEX
UAE operator du, Philips Lighting, and Vision Valley have launched at GITEX their new Visible Light Communication service (VLC-service) which is a highly customisable location based service.
The three companies' representatives signed a MoU at GITEX to mark their collaborative effort to launch a new location based service in the UAE market. du intends to launch the location based service in the market and is first planning a commercial pilot. The platform brings together the patented VLC-technology of Philips Lighting and the secure management platform and connected mobile apps from Vision Valley.
The new service provides relevant information and promotions based on the location of smart phone users, all in a single mobile application.
For venue owners, such as retailers, restaurants, museums, shopping malls, banks, showrooms, exhibition centres this service provides the opportunity to enhance the customer experience and create new means for upselling and cross selling of their products and services. This is simply done via smart LED-lights that are VLC-enabled.
Owners of the venues will have the capability to maintain in real time the content they wish to show to their customers in every area of their venue where a smart LED-light is in place.


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Historical re-enactment: This weekend, the N.C. Symphony explores Lincoln.
Even the most mundane experiences now come in multimedia form: You can catch the news on the tiny screen built into the gas pump or the back of a cab. You can snicker at snippets of SpongeBob SquarePants through the back window of the minivan stopped ahead at the traffic light. You can barely find a seat in a restaurant that doesn't afford a view of at least one flat-panel's torrent of ESPN. It's as if American culture lives in constant fear that someone, somewhere, sometime might be bored.
Boredom, of course, has tremendous value: It can motivate children to forge their own pathways to self-reliance and creativity, and it can provide a much-needed mental break from modernity's 140-characters-a-moment pace. Activating the engagement of the reader, a long book seems to leave more information on a brain than a small, ever-changing screen.
By definition, classical music might seem sequestered from the trends and whims of modern technologyorchestral musicians playing centuries-old music on antique instruments uploading video blogs about their performances seems humorously anachronistic, right? In recent years, though, the classical realm has worked to reach new audiences by integrating video and still projections into the concert experiencedepending on your perspective, a simple gimmick or a smart concession for new audiences.
This week, fresh off presenting Gustav Holst's suite The Planets beneath high-definition projections of NASA footage and computer simulations, the North Carolina Symphony presents Explorations: Freedom, a program that includes a photochoreographic performance by James Westwater and a live reading by David Hartman to Aaron Copland's moving piece "Lincoln Portrait."
Explorations: Freedom commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation with an all-American lineup of composers. In addition to Roy Harris' folk classic "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," the Symphony will play Charles Ives' Symphony No. 2 and John Adams' recent "The Wound-Dresser." But Westwater's photochoreographic piece "The Eternal Struggle" is the real draw: As projectors shine large-format Civil War and Civil Rights photographs upon a 440-square-foot, three-panel, panoramic screen, Hartmanfrom 1975 to 1987, Good Morning America's first hostwill narrate Copland's introductions and Lincoln's legendary words atop the music, just as Copland scored it.
"I listen intently to the piece of music, making notes," explains Westwater. "What is happening musically, and what is happening to me emotionally as I listen to the music?"
Westwater began creating photo essays to accompany live music 40 years ago. He assembled images from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society and what was then the Institute for Polar Studies to accompany Ralph Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia antartica (Symphony No. 7), an update of a score Williams wrote for the 1948 adventure documentary Scott of the Antarctic.
While a composer's film score is often secondary to the imagery and action, made only after the film is all but complete, Westwater works in the opposite directionmusic, then visuals. He doesn't produce a secondary work so much as a parallel piece; taken together, the sounds and the visuals render a third, magnified art experience.
The creative process itself fuels that synergy, Westwater says: "I am visually oriented, so I create what is in effect a visual graph of the music through time. It looks like a seismographthere is a continuous line from the first note to the last note. The line goes up or down depending on dynamic range or energy."
The graph bears a theoretical resemblance to visual scores by avant-garde composers John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Only 50 years ago, they were considered radicals for using sound envelopes and frequency graphs to describe their innovative music. Westwater then makes notations on his graph about what imagery would be most appropriate to display along with which musical passage.
Although "The Eternal Struggle" uses archival images, Westwater usually produces the visuals himself. For a work called "A Love for the Land," he followed a farming family for almost a year, photographing their life and livelihood before projecting the stills alongside Copland's Appalachian Spring. At one point in the music, Westwater had the distinct image of a family saying grace at a harvest meal. Later, someone pointed out that Copland had written the orchestral instruction "like a prayer" at that exact point in his own score.
These deliberate hybrids aren't the only such intersections of classical music and cutting-edge multimedia: Video is increasingly finding its way onto opera stages. In the North Carolina Opera's 2011 semi-staging of Faust, extreme close-ups of eyeballs twitched around the set. The surtitles were integrated into these images rather than set apart, above the action. But Timothy Myers, artistic director and principal conductor for the N.C. Opera, offers a caveat of imagery's determinism in a symphonic setting.
"It could be more like a film or an opera, when the visual element ends up having a strong voice. Maybe that's not always the best thing," Myers says. "I think it would be a real shame to hear a performance of Mahler's Fifth that would have any visual elements outside of seeing the conductor and the players in performance of that music."
It's a balance, then, between activity and stasis. When young families have kids, orchestral music easily falls from the cultural rotation, often replaced by the Frisbee- and chicken nugget-friendly concert on the lawn, where youngsters can sprint around barefoot before crashing on the picnic blanket. Now ponder the stress of taking a squirmy primary school child to a two-hour symphonic program in a concert hall; it's OK if you need to breathe into a paper bag.
But if stunning fly-by views of Mars are projected on a 40-foot screen above the orchestra, and your kid loves to spout facts about the solar system, you might spend the babysitting money on a ticket instead. The Planets: An HD Odyssey, performed in Raleigh in early February, has been a significant hit since the Houston Symphony partnered with David Copp to produce the program years ago. Copp knows how to turn this kind of footage into entertainment; he won the award for Best International Film at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival for his In the Shadow of the Moon, which shares the stories of the surviving Apollo astronauts.
When the North Carolina Symphony announced its presentation of The Planets, Associate Conductor William Henry Curry wondered if attendance would suffer because of the multimedia complement. Since it was a special performance outside of the symphony's regular season, the season ticketholders couldn't be depended upon to fill the house. But attendance was strong for both nights of the show, a testament to the idea's ability to draw new listeners. Curry agrees it has to be done with care and with an increased awareness of production values.
"It's a thrill to have visual images with the music, but it all depends upon how it's done," he says. "In the case of The Planets, we had a very professional operation that had been doing this for several years, so it was tried and true and tested. And James Westwater has been in this business for decades. The quality will always have to be at the forefront. These can't be any old imagesnot your daughter's watercolor paintings from the refrigerator door."
For Curry, these visuals are just another step in classical music's learning curve to stay relevant to contemporary culture. Decades ago, he recalls, an outcry from operagoers protested the projection of surtitle translations above the stage. Today, there'd be even more of a stink if those titles vanished.
"We see attendance declining for classical concerts all over the world," Curry reasons. "The question, of course, is how do we adapt? And I think that the visuals are a sophisticated way to go."
Hartman notes that, as a compromise, the Metropolitan Opera put the words of operas in English on the backs of the seats for people to read. Viewing became optional and less obtrusive. "There was a cry from the traditionalists that it violated the music, which I think is nonsense," he says. But the lesson is instructive. "In the case of Copland, as long as the visuals complement the values of the music, then why not?"
Myers shares that same vision, reckoning that, in these days of thinning or absent music education, any inlet into classical music for younger generations has inherent value.
"I don't care how a person arrives at their love and understanding of music. If it comes from loving Renaissance choral music, fine. If it comes from loving the music of John Williams, fine. If it's Marvin Hamlisch, fine," he says. "I can see many avenues in, and multimedia is one of them."
Just so long as they're not bored.
This article appeared in print with the headline "Sound and/or/of vision."


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Building PhoneGap applications powered by Database.com
by Andrew Trice
Table of contents
13 June 2012
Requirements -
|Additional required other products
|Required products
|Sample files
|User level
|Database.com account
|PhoneGap Build
PhoneGap provides a JavaScript-to-native bridge. This lets your application interact with the native operating system without having to write any native code. You build your application logic entirely in JavaScript, and leverage the PhoneGap API to interact with the device operating system.
"Out of the box" PhoneGap provides access to a device's accelerometer, compass, and geolocation capabilities, access to device contacts, the local file system, the device camera, and media playback and capture functionality. You can access all of these features on multiple platforms, without having to write a single line of native code – all can be accessed entirely by JavaScript. If this isn't enough for you, you can easily extend PhoneGap by building "native plugins" on top of the extensible architecture – I'll get into further detail later in this article.
PhoneGap also provides a means of packaging applications to target popular mobile ecosystems. The output of a PhoneGap application is a binary application archive that contains all necessary HTML, CSS, & JavaScript assets for you application to function.
For iOS devices, this outputs an IPA file, for Android this is an APK file, for Windows Phone this is a XAP file, etc… All of these binary formats are normal archives that you could then upload to the iTunes Store, Google Play, BlackBerry App World, the Windows Phone Marketplace, or install directly onto a device. A single codebase for a PhoneGap application can be used to target Apple iOS, Google Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, HP WebOS, Symbain, and Samsung Bada operating systems, and can be used to target both phone and tablet form factors.
As I mentioned earlier, PhoneGap is free and open source. The entire codebase for PhoneGap is freely accessible as a part of the Apache Cordova project. You can download the source, make changes, and contribute back to the project today!
Database.com is the cloud database offering from salesforce.com. Database.com enables hosted relational database capabilities that you easily can tap into within your applications, without having to manage the infrastructure on your own. You can use the Web-based administrative interface to create objects and relationships, and use the REST or SOAP APIs to access your data. You can learn more about the capabilities of Database.com through the Developer Center.
In this article, we will walk through the creation of a basic PhoneGap application that consumes data from Database.com.
Here is the basic concept: It is an application that could be used by workers "in the field" to travel to various locations and collect contacts or "leads". It can be used to gather contact information, as well as notes, and it can record the user's GPS coordinates to identify where the information was captured. It will also allow you to go back and edit data that you've previously captured. Of course, the application also needs to be accessible on a variety of platforms. Let's examine the basic flow, then we'll get into details how it was created.
You can see that there are three main screens, the "home" screen, which gives you the options to either add a new record or view existing records, the "Leads" list, which shows existing records, and the form to add/edit records. There will also be a login/authentication screen, which we will cover later, but for now you can see that it is a straightforward application use case.
The full source code for this application is available at https://github.com/triceam/Database.Com-PhoneGap-Sample.
For data storage, this application will use a single custom table on Database.com. Although this is a basic one-table example, Database.com can also support large, multi-relationship data structures.
After you sign up for a free account, log in, and click "Create A New Object" on the System Overview screen.
This will show the "New Custom Object" dialog. Here's where you enter the label/name for your objects. Here I created an "Lead" object. To contain the leads that will be captured by the PhoneGap application.
The next step is to add custom fields to the "Lead" object. Under the "Custom Fields & Relationships" section, click on the "New" button to add data fields.
I added fields for "First Name", "Last Name", "Latitude", "Longitude", "Notes", "Email", and "Telephone". Just follow the steps in the online wizard – it will guide you through this process.
At this point, we've now created the data objects that will be used to persist data that is captured within the application. However, there is one more step before you can use these objects within a PhoneGap application. In order to access the data data remotely, you must create a remote access "application". The configuration of this application will include a unique key that will be used to correctly authenticate users and identify your data objects.
To create a new remote access "Application", just expand the "Develop" category and select "New".
This will display the "Remote Access Edit" form, where you will need to specify an application name, contact email, and callback URL configuration for your application. The application name will be used as descriptive text when logging into your application, and the callback URL will be used to redirect the user's browser once they have authenticated successfully.
Once you save this information, you will be provided with a "consumer key", which you will need later when logging in and accessing data services from Database.com. Make a note of your consumer key. You will need this later in your JavaScript configuration.
Once you have your consumer key, you're ready to start pushing and pulling data in and out of Database.com.
The application will communicate with Database.com's REST API using the forcetk.js JavaScript wrapper. Forcetk.js (Force.com JavaScript REST Tookit) is an open source wrapper to the REST API that simplifies the consumption of data from Force.com/Database.com inside of JavaScript-based applications. Forcetk.js provides the hooks for OAuth2 authentication, and helper methods that make retrieving and updating data incredibly easy.
When building applications in PhoneGap, you will be able to access the force.com REST API directly without need for a proxy (like you would if you were building a standard browser-based application).
When leveraging PhoneGap, you create your applications entirely in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You can develop these applications in any text editor. It is up to you to decide which approach to use. You can use a simple text editor like TextMate, an HTML editor like Dreamweaver, or a complex IDE like Xcode, Eclipse, or Visual Studio. IDEs like Xcode, Eclipse, or Visual Studio allow you to deploy PhoneGap applications directly onto a device using a USB connection. However, you can also use PhoneGap Build, a cloud-based PhoneGap compiler, which allows you to simply upload your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code, and it will generate platform-specific binaries for you.
Because the application interface is being built using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it is possible to leverage existing tools and frameworks to improve developer productivity. This example will leverage the following tools to speed up the developer process:
- Zepto.js – A development accelerator library that provides utility and shortcut functions for creating interactive and dynamic JavaScript experiences. Zepto.js has a jQuery compatible syntax, with a mobile-centric optimizations.
- Twitter Bootstrap – A UI styling library that provides CSS styles and HTML/JavaScript components to make your application feel more like an "app" instead of "just a web page".
The first thing to do within the application is create your root HTML file that will be the entry point into the application. All PhoneGap applications start with an "index.html" file, which is the "root" of the application. Within the index.html file, I included all of the appropriate libraries, with a blank HTML . The HTML  is blank because the entire user interface will be created dynamically by JavaScript.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/css/bootstrap.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/css/styles.css" type="text/css" />

When a PhoneGap application is initialized, a "deviceready" event is dispatched. This event indicates that the contents of the application have been sufficiently loaded, and all PhoneGap APIs have been initialized.
document.addEventListener( "deviceready", onDeviceReady );
var sfw;
function onDeviceReady( event ) {
//initialize salesforce wrapper
sfw = new SalesforceWrapper();
The first thing that the application does is initialize a JavaScript class that I created called "SalesforceWrapper". The SalesforceWrapper class wraps the forcetk.js library to streamline authentication, and includes all of the configuration information needed to access the force.com REST API. In this class, you'll need to set the clientID value with the consumer key that you obtained through the "Remote Access" configuration that was discussed earlier in this article.
function SalesforceWrapper() {
this.loginUrl = 'https://login.salesforce.com/';
this.clientId = 'YOUR_KEY_GOES_HERE;
this.redirectUri = 'https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/success';
this.cb = undefined; //ChildBrowser in PhoneGap
this.client = undefined; //forceTk client instance
SalesforceWrapper.prototype.init = function() {
this.client = new forcetk.Client(this.clientId, this.loginUrl);
this.cb = window.plugins.childBrowser;
SalesforceWrapper.prototype.login = function (successCallback) {
this.loginSuccess = successCallback;
var self = this;
self.cb.onLocationChange = function (loc) {
if (loc.search(self.redirectUri) >= 0) {
self.cb.showWebPage(self.getAuthorizeUrl(self.loginUrl, self.clientId, self.redirectUri));
SalesforceWrapper.prototype.getAuthorizeUrl = function (loginUrl, clientId, redirectUri) {
return loginUrl + 'services/oauth2/authorize?display=touch' + '&response_type=token&client_id=' + escape(clientId) + '&redirect_uri=' + escape(redirectUri);
SalesforceWrapper.prototype.sessionCallback = function(loc) { var oauthResponse = {};
var fragment = loc.split("#")[1];
if (fragment) {
var nvps = fragment.split('&');
for (var nvp in nvps) {
var parts = nvps[nvp].split('=');
oauthResponse[parts[0]] = unescape(parts[1]);
if (typeof oauthResponse === 'undefined' || typeof oauthResponse['access_token'] === 'undefined') {
} else {
this.client.setSessionToken(oauthResponse.access_token, null, oauthResponse.instance_url);
if ( this.loginSuccess ) {
this.loginSuccess = undefined;
The SalesforceWrapper class simplifies the example from forcetk.js, and enables you to authenticate with a single line of code in your application:
sfw.login( setupHomeView );
The login function of the
SalesforceWrapper just needs a single parameter – a reference to a function that will be invoked once the user has successfully logged in.
Once the SalesforceWrapper class is initialized, the Moustache.js templates are initialized. Each template is a separate HTML file that will be used to render the interface, and they must be loaded into memory before they can be consumed.
var templates = {
loaded: 0,
requested: 0,
function onDeviceReady( event ) {
//initialize salesforce wrapper
sfw = new SalesforceWrapper();
//load Mousetache HTML templates
for (var key in templates) {
(function() {
var _key = key.toString();
if ( _key != "loaded" && _key != "requested" ){
templates.requested ++;
var templateLoaded = function( template ){
onTemplateLoaded( template, _key );
$.get( templates[ _key ], templateLoaded );
function onTemplateLoaded(template, key) {
console.log( key + ": " + template);
templates[ key ] = template;
templates.loaded ++;
if ( templates.loaded == templates.requested ) {
Once the templates have been loaded, the setupDefaultView() function gets invoked. This sets up the initial user interface, based upon the
templates.structure template.
var header, container;
function setupDefaultView() {
$("body").html( templates.structure );
header = $("body").find("#header");
container = $("body").find("#content");
$('#login').tap(function (e) {
sfw.login( setupHomeView );
It then sets a reference to the "header" and "container" elements from that template for future usage, then adds an event handler to the "login" button so that when the user taps the button, the login functionality from the SalesforceWrapper class is invoked.
You can view the HTML fro the templates.structure template below:

Welcome

Press the "Login" button to authenticate via Database.com.

Login
Formatting is applied through CSS styles, and the rendered output is shown below. Once the user taps the "Login" button, the OAuth login screen for Database.com gets displayed.
All authentication is handled within the ChildBrowser, and is completely maintained by Database.com. As a developer, you don't have to worry about user account management or login functionality, as force.com handles this for you. The user simply must have permission to access your data objects (database) in Database.com. Once the user is successfully authenticated, the
setupHomeView() function will be invoked, and will display the "Home" screen of the application.
setupHomeView() function resets/clears the contents of the container element, and then fills it with the contents of the
templates.home template and adds the appropriate event handlers.
function resetContainer() {
//this removes child elements and cleans up event handlers
function setupHomeView() {
container.html( templates.home );
header.html( "Welcome" );
$('#addNew').tap(function (e) {
return false;
$('#queryMyRecords').tap(function (e) {
return false;
You can view the templates.home template below:

Please select an option:

Add New Record
Query My Records
On a device, the user will see the rendered output as shown below. As you can see, there are two buttons, one for adding a new record, and another to query existing records from Database.com.
Next, let's examine what happens when the user clicks on the "Add New Record" button. When the user clicks this button, the
setupFormView() button will be invoked, which creates a new form for gathering data from the user.
function setupFormView(data) {
var html = Mustache.to_html( templates.form, data );
container.html( html );
currentLead = data;
//request current location
if ( !(data && data.Id) ) {
header.html( "New Lead" );
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(onGeoSuccess, onGeoError );
else {
header.html( "Edit Lead" );
$('#save').tap( saveFormData );
$('#cancel').tap( navigateBackFromFormView );
setupFormView() function will clear the container element, and fill it with HTML from the
templtes.form template. This is where you can see that templating become very useful. Next, let's examine the form template:

First Name
<input id="first" type="text" value="{{First__c}}" />
Last Name
<input id="last" type="text" value="{{Last__c}}" />
Telephone
<input id="phone" type="text" value="{{Telephone__c}}" />
Email
<input id="email" type="text" value="{{Email__c}}" />
Notes
<textarea id="notes" type="text">{{Notes__c}}</textarea>
Location: {{Latitude__c}},{{Longitude__c}}
Save
Cancel
The form contains the HTML that will be used to generate the user interface. Values wrapped in double brackets "{{" and "}}" will be populated by data passed into the Mustache templating engine. Each value inside of the brackets corresponds to an attribute of a data object passed into Mustache.js.
The HTML string for the UI is generated using the
Mustache.to_html() function. You can see in the
setupFormView function above that the
to_html() function uses a
data parameter to generate the template HTML. When creating a new Lead, an empty object is passed into this function, so the form's HTML has blank values. When editing an existing lead, this exact function gets invoked, however a populated data object is passed in. This reuses the exact same HTML template, however populates it with the data that was passed in.
When rendered within the PhoneGap application, you'll see the form displayed as shown below. The GPS location is obtained through the PhoneGap API when capturing a new Lead.
The user can enter appropriate data, and click either "Save" or "Cancel". If the user cancels, the application will take the user back. However, if the user saves, this is where the application pushes data to Database.com.
Inside of the
saveFormData() JavaScript function, the data is retrieved from the input form, and assigned to a "data" object, which will be sent to Database.com. The saveFormData() function is used for both creating a new Lead, as well as updating and existing lead. If the currentLead variable exists, then the user is currently editing an existing Lead, otherwise the user is creating a new lead. If the user is creating a new Lead, the forcetk
client.create function is invoked, otherwise, the
client.update function is invoked.
function saveFormData( event ) {
var data = {};
data.First__c = $("#first").val();
data.Last__c = $("#last").val();
data.Telephone__c = $("#phone").val();
data.Email__c = $("#email").val();
data.Notes__c = $("#notes").val();
if ( currentLead ) {
//copy it back to the object in memory
currentLead.First__c = data.First__c;
currentLead.Last__c = data.Last__c;
currentLead.Telephone__c = data.Telephone__c;
currentLead.Email__c = data.Email__c;
currentLead.Notes__c = data.Notes__c;
//use the original lat/lon location
data.Latitude__c = currentLead.Latitude__c;
data.Longitude__c = currentLead.Longitude__c;
else if ( lastCoords ) {
data.Latitude__c = lastCoords.latitude;
data.Longitude__c = lastCoords.longitude;
try {
if ( currentLead == undefined ) {
sfw.client.create("Lead__C", data, saveDataSuccess, saveDataError );
} else {
sfw.client.update("Lead__C", currentLead.Id, data, saveDataSuccess, saveDataError );
function saveDataSuccess( result ) {
alert("Data Saved");
function saveDataError( request, status, error){
console.log( request.responseText );
alert( request.responseText );
When calling
client.create(), you just need to pass the type of object, the data object, and success and error callback functions. When referencing the type of object, you may have noticed that it is "Lead__c", instead of "Lead", as you may have expected. This is because custom objects and custom data fields in Database.com must use a "__c" suffix.
When calling
client.update(), you need to pass the type of object, the ID of the object being updated, the data object containing new values, and the success and error callback functions.
If there is an error when saving data, a message will be displayed to the user. If there were no errors, the user will be taken back to the previous view.
Next, let's examine the workflow for retrieving data from Database.com. From the application home screen click on the "Query My Records" button. This will invoke the
setupListView() JavaScript function.
function setupListView() {
var html = templates.list;
container.html( html );
header.html( "Leads" );
if(lastData) {
else {
$('#cancel').tap( setupHomeView );
The setupListView() function will clear the container, and populate it with HTML from the templates.list template. This template doesn't actually display the data, instead it sets up the
dataContainer element where list data will be displayed.

loading...

Cancel
If the user is navigating back from an edit form, data that is already in memory will be rendered. However, for a new request, the
queryRecords() function will be invoked.
Querying data from Database.com is very easy. When using the forcetk.js toolkit, you simply need to invoke the
client.query() method, and pass in a SOQL query with success and error callback functions. SOQL is the Salesforce Object Query Language, with is very similar to SQL (Structured Query Language) used by other database offerings. SOQL enables you to create countless custom data queries from related objects, just as you may with SQL. Database.com also has an online Workbench tool that lets you test SOQL queries before putting them into your actual application.
queryRecords() function is below, where you can see it passing in the SOQL querty to retrieve data:
function queryRecords() {
var query = "SELECT Email__c,First__c,Id,Last__c,Latitude__c,Longitude__c,Notes__c,Telephone__c "+
"FROM Lead__c " +
"ORDER BY Last__c, First__c"
sfw.client.query( query, onQuerySuccess, onQueryError );
function onQuerySuccess( response ) {
lastData = { "records": response.records };
function onQueryError( request, status, error ) {
$("#dataContainer").html( "Error loading data:
" + request.responseText );
Once data is returned from Database.com, the
onQuerySuccess function will be invoked, which invokes the
renderListData() function.
function renderListData() {
if ( lastData ) {
var html = Mustache.to_html( templates.listItem, lastData );
$("#dataContainer").html( html );
$("#dataContainer").find("li").tap( onListItemTap );
$("#cancel").tap( navigateBackFromListView );
renderListData() function uses the
templates.listItem template to generate a HTML list based on the data the gets returned from the server, and then adds a "tap" event handler to all
 elements.
Next, let's examine the contents of the
templates.listItem template:

{{Last__c}}, {{First__c}}

{{Email__c}}

This template instructs Mustache.js to loop over all "records" and will output a
 element containing the Lead's name and email address.
Once the data is rendered, you may see the interface similar to the following screenshot. All list formatting is handled in CSS, so the visual presentation looks more like a mobile application list, instead of a bulleted HTML list.
When the user taps on a list item, the onListItemTap function will be invoked. This function will obtain a reference to the JavaScript object corresponding to the list item that was tapped, and then will invoke the
setupFormView() function discussed earlier in this article, passing in the appropriate object.
function onListItemTap( event ) {
var target = $( event.target )
while (target.get(0).nodeName.toUpperCase() != "LI") {
var id = target.attr("id");
var data = getRecordById(id);
setupFormView( data );
function getRecordById( id ) {
if ( !lastData ) return;
var records = lastData.records;
for (var x=0; x<records.length; x++ ) {
if (records[x].Id == id ) {
return records[x];
Since it reuses the
setupFormView() function, it will reuse the
templates.form template, however populating it with the data retrieved from Database.com. See the screenshot below to see an example showing populated data.
We've now covered an end-to-end solution for retrieving and persisting data in Database.com, so let's talk about deployment.
One option for deployment is to export application archives from your IDE. For iOS applications you must use Xcode on OS X. For Android applications you must use Eclipse (can use Windows, Linux, or OS X), for BlackBerry applications you must BlackBerry tools, and for Windows Phone you must use Visual Studio (Windows only). Deploying to multiple platforms means having multiple development environments.
Here's where PhoneGap Build comes in to assist! PhoneGap Build enables developers to either upload their code, or point PhoneGap build at a Git or SVN repository, and PhoneGap Build will perform a cloud-based compilation, providing the user with URLs to download device-specific application binaries.
In a web browser, just navigate to http://build.phonegap.com, and log in. Once you are logged in, click on the "new app" button in the upper right hand corner. A dialog will be displayed that allows to upload your code or specify a Git or SVN repository.
Once PhoneGap Build has access to your code, it will automatically perform a cloud-based compilation, providing you with links and QR codes to download your application binaries.
If you use a QR code reader on a mobile device, you can download the application binary directly to that device just by snapping a picture. The QR code reader will start a download of the application binary files, which will be installed on your device.
At this point, you'll now have an application consuming data from Database.com, running on multiple devices, built on top of a single codebase. Pictured below is an image of this application running on both a Motorola Atrix (Android), and iPhone 4 (iOS).
The full source code for this application is available for download at https://github.com/triceam/Database.Com-PhoneGap-Sample. Feel free to use this as a starting point for your own PhoneGap and Database.com powered applications.
If you're still wondering whether or not PhoneGap is right for you, read on to see a few reasons you might want to use PhoneGap on your next project.
Target multiple platforms
Use Existing Skills
Because PhoneGap applications are built using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, developers don't need to learn new languages or development paradigms. Developers can quickly become productive developing mobile applications reusing skills and tools that they are already familiar with. This can save both time and money.
Reuse Existing Tools
Since PhoneGap applications leverage Web technologies, there are countless existing libraries or frameworks that you can leverage to accelerate application development. Whether it is a solution accelerator framework like jQuery or Zepto, a UI toolkit like Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery Mobile, or Sencha, or a data visualization library like Raphael.js, Highcharts, or RGraph.js, there are lots of resources both open source and commercially that you can leverage within your applications.
If you want to integrate a barcode scanner, analytics, push notifications, messaging and notifications, or advertising networks, there are plugins for those too (among many others).
If you want to use a PhoneGap web view as a component inside of a native application, well, that is possible too.
PhoneGap is a tool that enables and empowers developers to create applications that can be consumed in a variety of fashions, developed using familiar and extensible technologies.
Open Source
PhoneGap is completely free and open source. The full codebase for PhoneGap is freely accessible as a part of the Apache Cordova project. If you wish to add or change functionality, then you can do that. If you wish to build tools that build on top of PhoneGap, you can do that too. If you found a bug and want to fix it for everyone else that uses PhoneGap, then you have that ability (which is encouraged)!
For more information on PhoneGap, go to PhoneGap Build. Learn more about the capabilities of Database.com through the Developer Center.


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State troopers pulled over Jose Adorno, 50, of Chicago, Illinois, at 1:30 p.m. after he committed a traffic violation on Route 15 in Stratford, according to police.
During the traffic stop, troopers were alerted that narcotics may be in the car and Trumbull Police responded with its K-9 units.
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I completely agree. Another thing I like to do is try to get a little more granular with metrics to try to get some insights that will make the client happy. For instance, in analytics I always go into the percentage of specifically new visitors that visited the site through organic search (which is typically high). So I can say an X amount of new visitors came to the site through organic search, or the amount of new visitors that came through organic search increased by X amount. Going along with that idea, sometimes I'll go to specific conversion points on the site and track how many of those came from organic search to look for some positive outcomes to show the client.


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OKLAHOMA CITY – Acclaimed civil rights activist and professor Dr. Belinda Biscoe will keynote the 2017 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Program at St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral located at N.W. 7th Street and Robinson in Downtown Oklahoma City. The 2017 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Program will begin at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, January 16, 2017 and is part of the 37th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Celebration of Events.
Dr. Belinda Biscoe is Vice President for University Outreach. Dr. Biscoe is the first African American female VP at OU. Also within University Outreach, she serves as director of the South Central Comprehensive Center (SC3), principal investigator for the Central Comprehensive Center (C3), and director of Educational Training, Evaluation, Assessment and Measurement (E-TEAM).
>Dr. Biscoe'sareas of expertise include: research and evaluation, higher education administration, nonprofit administration, public school administration, school reform, early literacy, public school issues, substance abuse prevention, mental health, resilience, homelessness, workforce development, juvenile justice, lifespan developmental psychology (with an emphasis on early childhood and adolescence), and substance abuse treatment, including client management, women and family issues, polydrug abusers, co-occurring disorders, and self-help organizations. Dr. Biscoe is also a co-founder of the Eagle Ridge Institute, a nonprofit substance abuse organization in Oklahoma City.
During her career, she has written and received funding for more than 47 major grants, resulting in the application of millions of dollars to support initiatives for common education, non-profit organizations, and higher education. She is an accomplished public speaker, having presented papers at local, state, and national conferences.
Dr. Biscoe is certified as an Oklahoma Certified Alcohol and Drug Director/Program Administrator (OCADDPA) and Internationally Certified Prevention Specialist (ICPS).
2017 marks the 37th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Celebration in Oklahoma City. The 2017 Celebration Theme: A Time for Change is Now. The MLK Holiday Celebrations bring together people from all generations, communities and cultures to celebrate the life and works of Dr. King.


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This is only relevant if source is a symbolic link. /a Indicates an ASCII text file. /b Indicates a binary file. source This is the location and name of the file you want to copy. The source may not be a folder and you may not use wildcard characters (the asterisk). destination This is the location and/or file name that the file specified in source should be copied to. /? Use the help switch with the copy command to show detailed help about the command's several options. You can also append files by choosing multiple source files but just one single destination file. Copy Command Examples copy Z:\Software\program.iso C:\Users\Jon\Downloads\Programs\ The copy command above will copy program.iso from the Z: drive to the Downloads\Programs folder. copy Y:\install\j93n.exe Y:\more\m1284.msi You can use the copy command to rename a file and even change the file's extension. In the example above, the j93n.exe file is being copied to a new folder on the Y: drive as m1284.msi. This isn't a file conversion technique (i.e., the EXE file isn't really being converted to MSI) but instead a way to make an identical copy but with the destination file saved under a different name and inside a different folder. The example below is similar... copy D:\i386\atapi.sy_ C:\Windows\atapi.sys In the above example, the atapi.sy_ file, located in the i386 folder on the Windows XP installation CD, is copied to the C:\Windows directory as atapi.sys. Unlike the Y: drive example above, this one is a bit more realistic since copying files like that from a disc is a common practice when fixing some specific Windows problems. copy D:\readme.htm In this example, the copy command has no destination specified, so the readme.htm file is copied to whatever directory you typed the copy command from. For example, if you type copy d:\readme.htm from the C:\Windows> prompt, the readme.htm file will be copied to C:\Windows. copy /y /v C:\Users\Jon\Downloads\*.mp3 C:\Users\Jon\Music\DownloadedMusic\ This example of the copy command will copy all MP3s (*.mp3) from the Downloads folder to the Music\DownloadedMusic\ folder, but we want to make sure that every file is copied, even if there's already one in DownloadedMusic with the same name (/y). We'll verify the copy (/v) to make sure Command Prompt tell us whether the files were actually copied or if an error happened in the process. A folder has to already exist in the destination location before the copy command will copy files to it. You can make new folders in Command Prompt with the mkdir command. copy Z:\file1.txt+Z:\file2.txt+Z:\file3.txt Z:\combined.txt The copy command example above merges three TXT files into one new TXT file called combined.txt. As you can see, each file that should be part of the merge need to be separated by a + sign, but no spaces. In our example, each text file in the source area (right after the word "copy") reads "1st ," "2nd ," and "3rd " on the first line of the document. When combined into one with the copy command, the combined.txt file reads "1st 2nd 3rd," all on the first line. You can also use the asterisk to append multiple files. In other words, in our example, we could replace all of those .txt instances with Z:\*.txt, but only if we want to merge together every single TXT file from the Z: drive. Copy Related Commands The copy command is similar to the xcopy command, but unlike copy, xcopy is able to make copies of folders. 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The New York Times continues to glorify Barack Obama for the speech he delivered on race, eager to help Obama not only move on from Wright, but to paint the whole affair in lambent tones, while suggesting GOP presidents including Reagan went "under cover" and used code words to promote racial strife and win elections.
The latest brushwork is on display on the front page of the Times's Sunday Week in Review, a story by Janny Scott, "Talk About Race."
Americans and their political leaders have been tongue-tied on the subject of race. We were reminded of that last week when Senator Barack Obama, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, took the almost unimaginable step of going before a national audience at a precarious juncture in a close campaign and speaking explicitly about what race means to blacks and whites. He spoke of black anger and white resentment and the significance of race in American history; his purpose was political but he spoke with seriousness and gravity and at length. Whether the speech helped or hurt him remains to be seen. But the moment was unlike virtually any in the more than 40 years since the triumphs of the civil rights struggle tore up party alignments of the past and tamped down explicit discussion of race by presidents and major-party candidates addressing the American people.
Scott implied an old liberal rationale for the success in presidential elections of Republicans (and Ronald Reagan in particular): Racism. Apparently, any popular GOP stand is simply a stand-in for bigotry.
Race did not disappear entirely from presidential campaigns; it went under cover. It lay buried in code phrases like "crime in the streets," "states' rights," and "welfare mothers." Michael Klarman, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School who specializes in the constitutional history of race, said, "Nixon talks about 'law and order,' which is a code term for the urban race riots and rising crime rates. He talks about appointing strict conservatives to the Supreme Court, which is a code term for justices who won't insist on mandatory busing. And he talks explicitly about how we ought to have 'local control of schools.' Without explicitly using the language of race, he is saying whites shouldn't have to go to school with blacks."
In 1980, Ronald Reagan, campaigning on a platform that included "states' rights," opened his general election campaign in Philadelphia, Miss. -- a decision criticized because it was where three civil rights workers had been murdered in 1964.
The Easter Sunday celebration of Obama's speech on race continued in a front-page story by religion reporters Laurie Goodstein and Neela Banerjee. The Times canvassed pastors at mostly urban liberal churches to see how Obama's speech would politicize -- I mean, enrich -- their Easter sermons in "Obama Talk Fuels Easter Sermons -- Some Religious Leaders Interweave Race and Resurrection."
This Easter Sunday, the holiest day of the Christian calendar, many pastors will start their sermons about the Resurrection of Jesus and weave in a pointed message about racism and bigotry, and the need to rise above them.
Some pastors began to rethink their sermons on Tuesday, when Senator Barack Obama gave a speech about race, seeking to calm a furor that had erupted over explosive excerpts of sermons by his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
The controversy drove the nation to the unpatrolled intersection of race and religion, and as many pastors prepared for their Easter message they said they felt compelled to talk about it. Their congregants were writing and e-mailing them: some wanted to share their emotional reactions to Mr. Obama's speech; others asked how Mr. Wright, the minister, could utter such inflammatory things from the pulpit.
After quoting various preachers at urban churches, the Times praised the race-baiting, America-hating Rev. Jeremiah Wright:
Television programs showed recorded parts of sermons by Mr. Wright, who is nationally known for his work in creating economic development programs in the inner city, inspiring many other black pastors to do the same, and for his fiery, prophetic preaching style. In the excerpts, Mr. Wright thunders that the government has inflicted AIDS on black people, and that the United States deserved the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
Mr. Obama responded with a major address that examined race relations through the eyes of blacks and whites, and called for Americans to open up an honest dialogue about race.


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First of all, I changed the background of my blog when I posted last time. And it's been so long ago that I forget I'd done it. Awesome.
I figured out what I want to be when I grow up. I want to be rich. So I can wake up this view every morning.
I normally like to think of myself as a city girl but that could change my mind. I spent the weekend in Onalaska (population 1,174 ) with some girlfriends. One of the girls parent's own a lake house on Lake Livingston. It was so pretty and peaceful. We drank and talked and danced and watched a little sports. Mostly we just sat outside and enjoyed the beautiful surroundings and weather.
I took my Nikon camera but never got it out of the suitcase. So, these pics are all from my blackberry.
They had these awesome hammock-like swings on the boat dock. They didn't know I was aking the picture but you can only see outlines anyway.
And just in case you don't believe I was there, here's a self portrait from Saturday afternoon. It was crazy windy.


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During the final days of the first called special session of the 83rd Legislature emotions ran high at the Capitol as the Texas Senate debated Senate Bill 5. After 15-plus hours, it was disheartening to see both the outcome and the manner in which the legislative process was made a mockery of by various groups.
SB 5 is about raising the standards of care for women who are pregnant and protecting the lives of the unborn who feel pain, by banning abortions after 5 months, both measures I support.
SB 5 requires the same health and safety regulations as an ambulatory surgical center, requires a doctor providing abortions to secure admitting privileges at a nearby hospital within 30 miles and requires a doctor to personally administer abortion-inducing drugs to the patient.
When a woman makes the decision to undergo this procedure, she should have qualified medical services available, especially as she nears the five-month mark, because the more advanced a pregnancy becomes, the more risk there is to the mother.
This bill does nothing to deter current clinics in operation, it simply requires they raise their standards of care.
If they truly care about the issue at hand, providing the women of Texas with the highest standard of care, they will have no issue complying. If not, they are stating they are only in it for the money.
Planned Parenthood's annual 2011-12 report shows they provided 333,964 abortions with 45 percent of their revenue coming from government grants or reimbursements. Total revenue of $1.199 billion dollars is surely enough to comply with the standards SB 5 would require.
The truth is, SB 5 attempts to make the environment in which abortion procedures are done meet medical standards that ensure within the confines of today's technology the safest possible outcome.
Additionally, this bill seeks to protect life by banning abortions after 5 months due to the ability of the unborn to feel pain. A recent University of Texas and Texas Tribune poll shows 62 percent of Texans are for prohibiting abortions after 5 months.
In the end, all life, from conception to natural death should be our number one priority. Life is God's greatest creation. SB 5 is one more tool to provide a safer health care environment which may save a life.
Gov. Rick Perry has called another special session so we may take up and consider the unfinished business of the state.
I'm grateful for the leadership Gov. Perry exhibited by calling another special session and look forward to fighting for those in our state without a voice, our most vulnerable, the unborn.
CHARLES PERRY is state representative from Lubbock, serving House District 83.


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Clad in leather, top hat on his head, cigarette dangling from his mouth -- Slash wailed his way into our lives with the legendary Guns N' Roses decades ago, and has been blazing a smoldering trail of rock 'n' roll ever since. His monumental and influential use of the Les Paul returned it to the spotlight as the quintessential rock guitar. His work with Velvet Revolver has influenced a younger generation of musicians to rock.
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zZ: What was the first song you learned to play?
Slash: The first song that I remember learning to play from end to end was "Tangerine" by Led Zeppelin.
zZ: Which album or song was the one that made you fall in love with playing guitar?
Slash: The Rocks album by Aerosmith had a big influence on me, but there were a lot of albums that really whet my appetite for playing guitar.
zZ: How has your English heritage played into your musical personality?
Slash: I was raised on the British rock bands of the time from as early on as I can remember. That was The Who, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, Gene Vincent -- so all of that British music was a huge influence on me. Then when I moved to the States, that was augmented a bit -- but those bands really set the tone for my guitar playing and the type of music that I wanted to play.
zZ: Who are your 5 most major influences? Are they all guitarists?
Slash: My 5 major influences would be: Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, The Who, The Stones, and the fifth one is a bit of a wild card -- there are so many that could fill that last spot -- but I'd have to say BB King.
zZ: If you were getting ready to jump into the solo for "November Rain" right this second, which pedals do you have on?
Slash: I didn't use any pedals. I just had my amp, and my tone turned all the way off on my rhythm pickup -- that was it!
zZ: What are your thoughts about your signature Dunlop products? Do you and Jim Dunlop hang out?
Slash: I've hung out with Jim Dunlop in the past. I haven't hung out with him in a while, but we used to hang out. The Dunlop products are great! They've been the mainstay of my outboard gear for years. They provide me with boost pedals, wah wah pedals, and any other ancillary effects I might choose to use at any given time.
zZ: Your Slash signature Marshall head sounds amazing. Tell us about it and what makes it so cool. How was it working with Jim Marshall and Nick Bowcott?
Slash: Jim Marshall was always something of a hero of mine, and then he and I became close when I first started working with Marshall back in the '90s. Jim and I remained close all the way up until he passed away. Nick Bowcott has always been the liaison for me with Marshall, and somebody that I trust and respect over there.
The Marshall head has been something I've been developing over there since the '90s. The first Slash model Marshall was a cross between a JCM 800 and a Jubilee. Then there was the AFD one, which was obviously modeled after the sound that I used for the Appetite for Destruction record, and then I also did the little 5-watt combo. We've done some pretty cool stuff, and I'm actually looking to do some stuff with them in the not-too-distant future.
zZ: You're synonymous with a Les Paul live, but is there another axe lurking somewhere in your arsenal that is the "one" we don't know about?
Slash: There are no surprises in my arsenal. It's always been and probably always will be a Les Paul. I have one Les Paul that I've used primarily in the studio, which is actually a Les Paul copy. It's a copy of a '59 made by a guy named Chris Derrig who passed away some years ago, but made some amazing re-issue knockoffs. On some records I might pull a Strat out, or I might use a BC Rich or a 335 or something -- I did that a lot for Lose Your Illusion, and the Velvet Revolver record Libertad. But I just keep finding that I'm much more satisfied trying to get sounds out of a Les Paul, than trying to get a sound out of another guitar where it just ends up sounding like that guitar.
zZ: Your solo material is amazingly cool with Myles Kennedy singing. What drew you to work with him -- besides his amazing voice?
Slash: Outside of his voice, the thing that attracted me to Myles was the fact that he was so easy to get along with, so sincere, and so down-to-earth, and more or less simplistic about what he does. He's also a really hard worker, so those were really the personality traits that I found in Myles that drew me to him besides his voice.
zZ: On your solo records, do you value the vocals as much as the instrumentation?
Slash: I've never been a solo guy that's all about making a record that's all about guitar solos. It's always been more about the songs. The key and primary focus of the songs is the vocals, and then obviously the instrumentation, as far as the arrangement is concerned. But of course, the vocals always drive the song.
zZ: Switching gears, tell us about your Slasher Films production, "Nothing Left to Fear."
Slash: "Nothing Left to Fear" [released in the US October 8, 2013] was a $5-million-dollar movie that we only had 20 days to shoot. We got a lot of outside favors to help get it off the ground and eventually pull it off.
zZ: As one of the premier influences for a new generation of players, what advice would you give an
aspiring "Slash-head" to inspire them?
Slash: My advice to any guitar player is to differentiate what you like from what you don't like, and to be prepared to put an endless amount of work in -- probably more than what should be humanly possible -- and just commit to it. Do what inspires you -- listen to a lot of music and listen to a lot of different guitar players and make sure that you have exposure to a broad range of musical genres, and listen to everything carefully and figure out what it is you really like and learn it. I'd say that even though I don't read music, it never hurts to be able to read music. That's an added bonus for any musician -- if you can play by ear, it's always great to be able to read, too.
zZ: What inspires you to progress and evolve as a musician?
Slash: I'm inspired by the endless road that is music and that is the instrument. The possibilities are endless, and I don't think that I'll ever stop being inspired by it.
zZ: Do you think you've passed your creative spirit on to your children?
Slash: I definitely see a lot of similarities, at least from an artistic point of view, in my youngest son -- I started out as an artist or an illustrator, and he's picked that up and got really good at it at a really young age. And there's a lot of perseverance and work ethic in my older son; I definitely notice his determination. He's just as committed to whatever it is that he does as I am. I really see that trait from both myself and his mom.
zZ: What are the next moves for Slash? Any sneak previews, or hints you can share with zZounds?
Slash: I've got the movie coming out, and I'm working on the next Conspirators record and developing the material for that. Those are really the top priorities at the moment.
zZ: If you were to sum up the last 25 years of experiences into a long sentence, what would it say?
Slash: The last 25 years of experiences has been quite a roller coaster. All things considered, I wouldn't change anything, though -- because, good or bad, every single experience lends you into the next thing that you're going to do. And sometimes negative things turn into positive things, and occasionally positive things turn into negative things, but rarely. So, the last 25 years of experience has just been quite a ride!
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Navy & Marine Corps. Achievement Medal Recipient
National Defense Service Medal Recipient
Order of the Barristers
Ambassador Award, Capital University Law School
2017 Graduate of the Year, Black Law Students Association
Best Oralist, Capital University Law School Moot Court
Alpha Kappa Delta, International Honor Society of Sociology
Why I'm Running
I am running for office because, in 2007, my great-aunt had the audacity to ask me "why not you?"
In 2007, while visiting my great-aunt in the hospital, (the same hospital where I donated my kidney to her exactly five years before) we sparked a conversation about the upcoming presidential election and who we could count on to advocate for change. Little did I know, she would remind me of my life's purpose by simply asking, "why not you?" You see, I grew up in Youngstown, Ohio in a single parent household where my mother, a college dropout, was addicted to drugs. My father, a Vietnam Veteran, never went to college and suffered from addiction as well. My mother and I transitioned frequently, living with friends and relatives. With each move, I questioned why this was my life? And although my mother and father no longer lived the damaging lifestyle they once did, as a young adult, I spent a number of years trying to find an answer for or explanation of my past. From the day I last heard my aunt speak, I have spent my life trying to make a difference by serving others and giving people a voice—the voice, I initially thought, I did not have. I have served my country in the U.S. Navy, advocated on behalf of children and families and worked with organizations providing services to our most vulnerable populations.
I am running for office because I will bring a level of unconditional advocacy to the statehouse. I have become uncomfortable watching on the sidelines as a mockery of our democracy continues to be made. All while, my contribution was nothing more than a complaint. My inaction was unacceptable. I refuse to idly stand by while income inequality, access to affordable and quality healthcare, and the fight for equitable education continue to be growing issues. Columbus is undoubtedly hailed as one of the best places to live, work, and raise a family – yet, there are residents who do not share in that sentiment, who feel as though they and their communities have been left behind. I am running to make sure their voices are amplified and empowered in the statehouse. I am choosing to be a role model, so young people will never have to be asked, "why not you?" They will just know.
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the wallaby is an accomplished and experienced public speaker on a variety of entertaining and informative topics.
He as made presentations at oral history conferences, spoken at Lions and Rotary meetings, spoken to members of the University of the Third Age and to women's organizations. He has talked on a diversity of subjects to school children in both primary and secondary classes and presented many workshops at music festivals.
With an abundance of the famous dry, Aussie wit and capacity for understatement, he can entertain as he informs. Australia is an unknown to many people and its people are too often seen only as stereotypical characters in films and on Tv.
the wallaby can take you from the Roaring Days when Bill the Bullocky strode the plains and Cobb & Co. was king, through the early 20th century to modern times, and have you laughing as you travel—and sometimes bring a lump to your throat.
He can tell you how modern Australians look at the world and inform you on the vastly different attitudes of Aussies of his generation and background: why they want a republic, what colors their attitude to authority, the national anthem, the flag. Why were there once two white Australias as well as an official White Australia Policy. What is Australia really like? Who are the Aboriginals?
I thought we both spoke English: understanding each other
Just the same but really different
Yuuriimen and gunj: little people, ghosts and magic animals
It's that goanna—he's a bloody ventriloquist: the world of Aussie humor and bush folklore
Drawing straws to see who'll hang: the shaping of the Australian character
Why Australians celebrate a military defeat
For the want of an Irish king: the pre-baby boomer generation in Australia
These topics flashed through my mind as I typed the page, but if you'd like to suggest a theme the wallaby will do his best to oblige.
© 2009 Frank Povah
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