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STYLE: Fall 2016 Trends and Styles for Women
What's going to be hot this Fall? Think curls, reds, velvets, boots, jewels, and bags galore. The name of the fashion game this fall is femininity. Get ready to embrace your own style in your own way with these 5 style tips. I've already cleaned out my closet and I'm ready!
Hair Trends: the best styles to try
According to Rebecca Fearn over at Glamour Magazine: "This Autumn/Winter 2016, it's all about curls, cool cuts and ultra intricate, pretty hair accessories. The season as a whole is all about embracing your beauty and what works for you. Be it naturally curled hair or shaggy 70's style texture, individualism is a big part of hair and beauty for AW16."
Fashion Trends: velvet, red, & femininity
The Daily Star reports that "we are still living it big, but the styles are much cleaner. Now the '80s are back, along with their explosive silhouettes. The highlights of this season: Victorian-era styles are a big theme, with a focus on the collar and ruffles, lapels, ribbons and bows, giving a new stylish look and keeping us warm as temperatures start to drop." Velvets, red, and furs are going to be huge.
Shoe Trend: the fall ankle boot trend to wear
Megan Gustashaw at Glamour reports that second-skin boots are a trend she's seen on the runway recently, so it's not entirely surprising that they've surfaced in fashion. Rendered in dressier materials and cut higher than your average bootie, they have of way of bringing a sexy enough outfit to a more fabulous place. And, not for nothing, they'll also keep your toes warm when the temperature starts to drop.
Purse Trends: styles galore
According to Vogue, the fashion shows are predicting bags hugged to the hip, laundry-inspired bags were worn over the shoulder, and satchel bags were carried across the body. Meanwhile, the Seventies saddle bag showed no signs of dropping off the radar.
Jewelry Trends: 10 of the season's biggest jewelry trends
From big and bulky to tiny and sleek, check out the 10 of the season's biggest jewelry trends in this slideshow from Stylecaster.
So what did I get? My own style is more important to me than following a trend. I opted for the ankle boot in a black leather rock-n-roll style, leather leggings, and delicate sparkles for jewelry. My purse is a handheld clutch with a bow and my clothing is black, grey, or merlot. I don't like big bags or velvet so you won't see any of that on me this year! Make these trends work for you!


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Aug 7 (Reuters) - TMX Group Ltd, owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange, posted a 9.5% rise in quarterly profit on Wednesday, helped by lower operating expenses.
Adjusted net income rose to C$81.8 million ($61.50 million), or C$1.45 per share, for the second quarter ended June 30, from C$74.7 million, or C$1.34 per share, a year earlier.
Revenue rose to C$210.3 million from C$209.5 million. ($1 = 1.3300 Canadian dollars) (Reporting by Arunima Kumar and Manojna Maddipatla in Bengaluru; Editing by Sandra Maler)


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One school of thought says that a bull market exists when at least 80% of all stock prices rise over an extended period. Another school of thought also says that a bull market exists if market indices rise at least +15%. Of course, different market sectors may experience bull markets at different times.
The probable causes and characteristics of bull markets vary, but most financial theorists agree that both economic cycles and investor sentiment both play a role in the creation and momentum of bull markets. In general, a strong or strengthening economy, indicated by high employment, high disposable income and high business profits usually ushers in a bull market.
Rising investor confidence also indicates a bull market and is perhaps more powerful than any economic indicator. When investors believe something is going to happen (a bull market, for example), their actions can turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Although difficult to quantify, investor sentiment can show up in mathematical measurements like the put/call ratio, the advance/decline line, IPO activity and the amount of outstanding margin debt.
In a bullion market, when the market is booming, your share trading approach should be to purchase fundamentally healthy firms, which would earn you big returns whether you are an shareholder in Ghana, Africa or wherever else in the global share market. It is often important to notice and appear for firms with the golden tracking characteristics:
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- Conducting business in a healthy sector.
- Operating in a rising market.
In times of duress, use market volatility as a gauge for your risk tolerance. When market conditions return to calm, fine-tune your approach to investing to be better prepared next time. Don't worry, the market always survive the shocks.
Please remember the value of investments can go down as well as up and you may not get back the amount you initially invested. If you have any doubts about which investment product is right for you please contact your financial adviser.


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Orange, walnut & stilton salad
Cook: 15 mins No cook
This light, sweet and salty salad with crumbled blue cheese makes a great no cook midweek supper with crusty bread
Nutrition and extra info
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal356
- fat30g
- saturates10g
- carbs8g
- sugars8g
- fibre3g
- protein14g
- salt0.8g
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- 2 x 100g bags rocket, watercress & spinach salad
- 2 oranges
One of the best-known citrus fruits, oranges aren't necessarily orange - some varieties are…
- 1 tbsp walnut oil
- 85g walnut piece, roughly chopped
- 140g stilton or vegetarian alternative, crumbled
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Empty the salad bags into a large bowl. Peel the oranges over a small bowl to catch the juices; then, over the same bowl, cut the segments from the pith. Whisk the walnut oil into the orange juice, season, and pour over the salad leaves. Toss the salad, then arrange on a large platter. Scatter over the orange segments, walnuts and stilton.


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This week's food has chicken, carrots, oats, celery, potatoes, peas, brewers yeast and flaxseed. Yummy!
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
New Food Day
Posted by Dachshund Nola at 11:53 AM
Labels: Food
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Yummmy! Do you think your momma could start making my food?ReplyDelete
Pauley James
Oh, how yummy that dinner looks? Wish we could get Mom to make that for us!ReplyDelete
Woos ~ Phantom, Thunder, Ciara, and Lightning
Okay, this is the second homemade meal that I have...YUM! I am a newer reader to your blog and read that you have allergies so your mom makes your meal, which I am a big fan of, BTW. My mom was wanting to know if your mom would share a few recipes and how she makes them. We are very interested in trying some. My mom makes me homemade snacks, which are always a big hit around here, but maybe she should try my meals as well!ReplyDelete
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It is a Super-Sized episode with:
- Jarf & Kyle joining Brad to talk about the More Than Mean Project.
- Heather & Brad talk about seeing Scott Patterson from Gilmore Girls in concert.
- Dani Bradford, who might be the coolest person on the planet, talks about taking a solo motorcycle trip through 18 countries over five months and 18,000 miles. See?! How cool is that?
The Digressions:
- Jarf listens to the 1A Podcast
- Kyle listens to the 538 Podcast, To the Point & Left, Right And Center
- Brad listens to Trumpcast
- The Just Not Sports blog
- Chelsea Cain's Mockingbird comic
- Kathleen is a lioness.
- The Rihanna/Lupita heist movie
- Emma Watson doesn't let fans take selfies with her
- Undrafted
- The Glow Netflix show
- Brad's a Dan Savage fan.
- The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost
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Hi, a question please for caregivers in Ontario.
Have anyone seeing a posting or change on winter outdoors cold warning policies. I checked the Cceya doc. I couldn't find it. Yesterday, it was supposed to get -18 c in my city but my back yard has is nestled in a sunny area so it got to be -11, when a parent picked up their child and they have their older one in a preschool they mentioned that children should not be taken out even at -10 according the new Ceya Doc.
I have never had an issue in regards of my decisions of when can children be taken outdoors but -10? We go out even for 20 min. When it is -20 when it is sunny and play a bit on my deck and get indoors.
Please if you know about this change let me know or what is your outdoors policy during winter. Thank you.


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Transportation Statistics Annual Report 1997
NOTE: This edition of the Transportation Statistics Annual Report is provided as a historical reference. A newer edition of this publication, with more recent data for many items, is available. Some information and data in the historical document for a stated time period may differ from that for the same time period in the newer edition, reflecting revisions in the data by the source.
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|Chapter 6 - Transportation Mobility and Acccessibility: An Introduction
|Chapter 7 - Personal Mobility in the United States
|Chapter 8 - Transportation and Access to Opportunities
|Chapter 9 - Mobility: The Freight Perspctive
|Chapter 10 - Global Trends: Passenger Mobility and Freight Activity
|Chapter 11 - Mobility and Access in the Information Age
|Appendix A: List of Acronym
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Cinco de Mayo is great and all, but we can't forget to honor the women of Juarez. If you're in the NYC area, stop by the exhibit Flor de Tierra. Homage to the Women of Juarez" from Mexican-born, New York-based artist Andrea Arroyo, which will be on view May 6-June 18, 2010 at Women's eNews (6 Barclay Street, 6th fl, New York, NY 10007, between Broadway and Church).
Arroyo is a proud recipient of the 21 Leaders for the 21st Century Awards, which celebrate the achievements of those who have bettered the lives of women and girls. Her artwork is in numerous private and public collections including The Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Richmond Museums, the National Museum of Mexican Art and The New York Public Library.
This particular exhibit features a selection of works from Arroyo's project in progress Flor de Tierra, which looks to commemorate the women of Juarez, the border city in Mexico where more than 400 women have gone missing or been killed in the past 15 years (the phrase is also a Spanish expression that means something is buried or planted in a shallow place.)
Arroyo is creating a pastel-on-paper drawing as an abstract tribute to each victim. When completed, the project will feature 400 pieces. The artist uses white lines on black paper—a technique reminiscent of police chalk outlines—to render stylized female forms that speak to the presence and resilient beauty of these women. The project celebrates femininity and life while examining notions of race, gender and justice.
For more about Arroyo, visit womensenews.org.


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It's Mardi Gras time in Austin, so laissez les bons temps rouler! Start things off with local treasure, Austin Samba, which brings 50 performers and special guests to the Stateside Theater for the "Big Easy" on Friday, Feb. 17 and Saturday, Feb. 18, 6 p.m. doors. Austin Samba will cook up a gumbo of classic New Orleans tunes simmered in Brazilian percussion and spiced with beautiful choreography. Enjoy a wild mash up of Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, The Neville Brothers, Dr. John, Jerry Lee Lewis and Clifton Chenier, that celebrates the irresistible joy of Mardi Gras and Carnaval with rhythms and dance from throughout Brazil.
On Saturday, Feb. 25, the beloved cultural institution, Carnaval Brasileiro, marks its 40th anniversary at Palmer Events Center. One of Austin's longest running annual traditions, which began as a 1975 celebration for UT Brazilian expatriates and friends, has turned into the largest indoor Brazilian Mardi Gras celebration anywhere on the globe. It's an epic evening with an infectiously danceable pulse of samba drums, an endless parade of exotic costumes and the uninhibited euphoria of over 6,000 attendees.
The heart and soul of the festivity is found in the authentic, fiery Brazilian carnaval music provided by high energy bands. At the center of attention once again is Austin Samba, composed for the occasion with approximately 160 local drummers and dancers trained in performing authentic renditions of Rio's great carnaval groups, the escolas de samba.
They'll be joined by Brazilian native Dandara Odara, who leads the Pragandaia Band. Their music is inspired by the rich, sensuous swing of Brazil and Bahia's African-based culture. Odara's sound comes from a mixture of sources involving rhythms from the Caribbean, Africa, and Cuba.
Tickets to Carnaval Brasileiro are $40 advance/$50 door and are available at sambaparty.com/tickets and Waterloo Records, Nelo's Cycles, Studio Brasil Salon and Lucy in Disguise.


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You can see why Horrors frontman Faris Badwan might feel drawn to make an album with its roots in the sound of 60s girl groups. Like the Horrors – whose journey from presumed music-press joke to authentically thrilling Mercury-nominated experimentalists is about as improbable and cheering as pop stories get – the girl groups weren't supposed to last. Their music was disposable pop born out of the most disposable pop era – the bleak, forgotten period between the end of rock'n'roll's first wave in the late 50s and the rise of the Beatles in 1962/63. But the girl-group sound refused to stick to the script. It was anything but short lived; you can currently hear its influence all over the place in alt-rock, from Glasvegas to Best Coast to the Vaccines. Meanwhile, one of the most omnipresent styles in modern pop – retro soul a la Amy Winehouse – has its roots, according to Winehouse's producer Mark Ronson, in a game attempt to find a middle ground between the grimy funk samples of the Wu-Tang Clan's C.R.E.A.M. and the Shangri-Las singles produced by Shadow Morton, the latter being the only man in history to listen to Phil Spector's Wall of Sound and come to the conclusion that it was a bit too subtle and understated for its own good.
Perhaps Ronson's sound has proved so pervasive because it attempted to offer something more than homage or pastiche. You could say the same thing about Cat's Eyes. It avoids most of the obvious girl-group signifiers in favour of odder period details – the reverb that was intended to suggest grandeur, but occasionally ended up making the records sound dislocated and strange; the distortion that was an inevitable byproduct of overloading primitive equipment with sound.
Cat's Eyes also draws in more esoteric musical influences. Badwan's collaborator in Cat's Eyes, Rachel Zeffira, is operatically trained – although her default style here is a kind of guileless, wide-eyed vulnerability that perfectly fits songs called things such as Not a Friend and The Best Person I Know – and an admirer of the Hungarian-Jewish composer György Ligeti. The Horrors are famously connoisseurs of the weirder byways of 60s rock and pop, as evidenced by the remarkable show they hosted on BBC 6 Music in the wake of their Mercury nomination, which opened with the Apple's recherche Brit psych single Buffalo Billycan, and got progressively more obscure thereafter. You can catch the results of long afternoons Badwan must have spent in secondhand record shops in the orchestrations, which tend more towards Ennio Morricone than Spector, in the tick-tocking of primitive drum machines that must once have sounded impossibly futuristic, in the spindly, racing, garage rock sound of Face in the Crowd and in the explosions of noise that punctuate The Best Person I Know, both of which recall the kind of thing the producer Joe Meek got up to in the studio after his moment passed and mental illness began to overwhelm him.
Most satisfying of all, Badwan and Zeffira understand that the real power of girl-group records lies less in the melodramatic productions than their emotional heft: almost uniquely among pop music of the period, they ventured beyond the standard cliches of teen romance to address more substantial issues that might affect their audience: the girl weighing up the prospect of pre-marital sex in Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?; social deprivation in the Crystals' Uptown; the spectre of sexual abuse that seems to haunt the Shangri-Las' Past, Present and Future. Although Cat's Eyes' narrative arc is pretty straightforward – over a half-hour it documents a love affair, from The Best Person I Know to I Knew It Was Over – something dark and compelling lurks at the heart of the songs: they're not just melodically strong, they're genuinely moving and haunting in a way that, say, the oeuvre of latterday girl-group pasticheurs the Pipettes never was. The lyrics display a canny ability to catch the listener unawares, by suddenly switching from knowing, old-fashioned teen-pop chestnuts to something more adult and potent. "I know I'm not the prettiest girl," sings Zeffira on I'm Not Stupid, adding: "I'm realistic."
Indeed, the album's only flaw comes when it ramps up the darkness too far: Sooner Or Later is a groaning drone that reveals what you might politely call Badwan's vocal limitations within the first 20 seconds, and goes on revealing them for another four very trying minutes, while it huffs away trying to channel Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Weirdly, it sounds like just the kind of thing people who dismissed the Horrors at first might have imagined they'd come up with a few years into their career, assuming the band survived that long. It's fair to say said detractors would never have imagined their frontman would be capable of coming up with music as poised and beautiful as the rest of Cat's Eyes' debut album, but he has: the latest step on a career path built on confounding expectations.


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I Made Another Cake
No big deal, I mean, it's what adults do. We have cake in adultland.
As if you're wondering -- but yeah, that's definitely Ryan's contribution right there.
Anyway, here's the recipe. I followed it exactly, except I also threw in a handful of blueberries. A think a lemon cake is just zingier with blueberries.
The sun is really good and golden right now and it's about to set on another finished weekend. Too bad -- Saturday and Sunday have to be the quickest moving days of the week. I'm not even convinced there's the traditional full 24 hours in those two days. Or maybe good things like laying on the beach and drinking a glass of wine make time speed up.
Anyway, the sun was less golden earlier and more bright and white.
We were on the hunt for a good beach and we sort of accidentally ended up on Old Mission Point, which was good enough. Neither I or my Oma have ever been there. It was a good adventure. And anyway, we found a good beach on the way back.
Right around this time of year, I usually start to really start looking forward to fall. I don't know what's different this year, but I really just wish summer would stick around for a few more months. I don't feel stagnant, and I'm not sick of the heat just yet. I'm really more frozen lemonade and less pumpkin spice lattes right now. I don't miss my jeans or socks and I have no desire to be cozy.
Maybe it's because summer looks like this.
And tastes a little like this--
I guess what I'm suggesting is please, August, please slow your roll.


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Hi Everyone,
This look started off from this incredible teddy bear jacket; I loved the colour and texture and I hadn't really seen anything else like it. Tonal looks are in this season and the mixture of the orangey browns and nudes works so well to create an Autumn look.
Can I also just take a minute for this snake necklace too which I literally purchased the second I spotted it! I love anything that's unique and it's going to be perfect with high neck tops and knitwear this season.
Jacket – Boohoo
Top – H&M
Jeggings – Select
Boots – ASOS
Bag – Stradivarius
Hat – M&S (Can't find online, check in store)
Necklace – H&M (Can't find online, check in store)
Much Love,


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This is the third post in a series detailing information about the newly announced Google App Engine support for Java. In this post I thought I'd go through the steps you need to take to get a JRuby on Rails application working on GAE/J, and also what kind of characteristics you should expect from your application.
You need a fairly new copy of JRuby. Most of the changes needed to JRuby was added to JRuby trunk right after the JRuby 1.2 release, so check out and build something after that. The newest Rails version works fine too.
Once you have the basic Rails app set up, there are few things you need to do. First of them is to install Warble and pluginize it, and finally generate the Warble configuration file. You do that by doing "jruby -S gem install warble", "jruby -S warble pluginize" and then "jruby -S warble config". The last two should be done in the root of the Rails application.
You should freeze the Rails gems too. Once you have done that, you need to go through all the files there and remove anything that isn't necessary. As it turns out, GAE/J has a hard limit on a 1000 files, and a typical Rails application will end up with much more files then that. You can remove all of ActiveRecord, all the test directories and so on.
Since you're on GAE/J, you won't need ActiveRecord, so you should not load it in config/environment.rb. The next step is to modify your warble.rb file. These are the things you need to do:
First, make sure that the needed GAE/J files are included, by doing:
config.includes = FileList["appengine-web.xml", "datastore-indexes.xml"]
You should also set the parameters for how many runtimes will be started:
config.webxml.jruby.min.runtimes = 1
config.webxml.jruby.max.runtimes = 1
config.webxml.jruby.init.serial = true
The last option is available in trunk version of JRuby-rack. If you don't have min=1 and max=1 then you need this option set, because otherwise JRuby-rack will actually start several threads to initialize the runtimes.
Finally, to be able to use newer versions of the libraries, you need to set what Java libraries are used to the empty array:
config.java_libs = []
You will add all of the jar-files later, in the lib directory.
The last configuration option that I added is something to allow Rails to use DataStore as a session store. You can see how this is done in YARBL.
I have set several options in my appengine-web.xml file. The most important ones are to turn off JMX and to set os.arch to empty:
<property name="jruby.management.enabled" value="false" /> <property name="os.arch" value="" />
This is all pretty self explanatory.
One thing that I still haven't gotten to work correctly is "protect_from_forgery", so you need to comment this out in app/controllers/application.rb.
You need to put several jar-files in the lib-directory, and you actually need to split the jruby-complete jar, since it is too large for GAE/J in itself. The first jar-file is the appengine-api.jar file. You also need a late build of jruby-rack, and finally you need the different slices of the jruby-complete jar. I use a script like this to create several different jar-files:
#!/bin/sh rm -rf jruby-core.jar rm -rf ruby-stdlib.jar rm -rf tmp_unpack mkdir tmp_unpack cd tmp_unpack jar xf ../jruby-complete.jar cd .. mkdir jruby-core mv tmp_unpack/org jruby-core/ mv tmp_unpack/com jruby-core/ mv tmp_unpack/jline jruby-core/ mv tmp_unpack/jay jruby-core/ mv tmp_unpack/jruby jruby-core/ cd jruby-core jar cf ../jruby-core.jar . cd ../tmp_unpack jar cf ../ruby-stdlib.jar . cd .. rm -rf jruby-core rm -rf tmp_unpack rm -rf jruby-complete.jar
This creates two jar-files, jruby-core.jar and ruby-stdlib.jar.
These things should more or less put everything in order for you to be able to deploy your application to App Engine.
As part of my evaluation of the infrastructure, I created a small application called YARBL. It allows you to have blogs, and post posts in them. No support for comments or anything fancy at all really. But it can be expanded into something real. I use both BeeU and Bumble in YARBL. BeeU allow me to make sure that only logged in users that are administrators can actually post things or change the blog. This support was extremely easy to add through the Google UserService.
You can see a (hopefully) running version at http://yarubyblog.appspot.com. You can find the source code in my GitHub repository: http://github.com/olabini/yarbl.
Bumble is a very small wrapper around DataStore, that allow you to create data models backed by Google's DataStore. It was developed to back YARBL, so it really only supports the things needed for that application.
This is what the data model for YARBL looks like. This should give you a feeling for how you define models with Bumble. One thing to remember is that the DataStore actually allows any properties/attributes on entitites, so it fits a language like Ruby very well.
class Person include Bumble ds :given_name, :sur_name, :email has_many :blogs, Blog, :owner_id end class Blog include Bumble ds :name, :owner_id, :created_at belongs_to :owner, Person has_many :posts, :Post, :blog_id, :iorder => :created_at end class Post include Bumble ds :title, :content, :created_at, :blog_id belongs_to :blog, Blog end
To actually use the model for something, you can do things like these:
Blog.all Post.all({}, :limit => 15, :iorder => :created_at) blog = Blog.get(params[:id]) posts = blog.posts Blog.create :name => name, :owner => @person, :created_at => Time.now Post.all.each do |p| p.delete! end
Here are most of the supported methods. The implementation is incredibly small and you really can't go wrong with it. Of course, it is not tuned at all, so it does lots of fetches it could avoid. I'm happily accepting patches! The code can be found at http://github.com/olabini/bumble.
When working with Google's user service, you can use BeeU – a very small framework for helping with some things. You basically get a few different helper methods. There are three different filter methods that can be used. These are assign_user, assign_admin_status and verify_admin_user. The first two will create instance variables called @user and @admin respectively. The @user variable will contain the UserService User object, and @admin will be either true or false if the user is logged in and is an administrator or not. The last one will check that the current user is an administrator. If not logged in, it will redirect to a login page, and if logged in but not administrator, it will respond with a Not Authorized. These three methods should all be used as before filters.
There is a high level method called require_admin that you can use to point out what methods should be protected with admin access. This is really all you need.
Finally, there are two methods that generate a login-URL and a logout-URL, both of these will redirect back to where you were when the URL's were generated.
BeeU can be found in my GitHub repository: http://github.com/olabini/beeu.
Overall, JRuby on Rails works very well on the App Engine, except for some smaller details. The major ones are the startup cost and testing. As it happens, you can't actually get GAE/J to precreate things. Instead you'll have to let the first release take the hit of this. Now, GAE/J does a let of preverifying of bytecodes and so on, so startup is a bit more heavy than on other JDKs. One runtime takes about 20 seconds wall time to startup, so the first hit takes some time. The good news is that this used to be worse. The last few weeks, the infrastructure has gotten a lot faster, and I'm confident this will continue to improve. It is still a problematic thing though, since you can't precreate runtimes, which means that some request will end up taking quite a bit longer than expected.
It's interesting to note that performance is actually pretty good once it gets running. I've seen between 120ms to 500ms for a request, depending on how much calls to DataStore is involved on the page – these times are not bad, considering what the infrastructure needs to do. It also seems mostly limited to the data access. If I'd had time to integrate memcaching, I could probably improve these times substantially.
The one remaining stickler for me is still testing. It's not at all obvious how to do it, and as I noted in my earlier post there are some ways around it – but they don't really fit in the way most Rails applications are built. In fact, I have done mostly manual testing on this application, since the cost of automating it seemed to be costly.
In all, Google App Engine with JRuby on Rails, is a really compelling combination of technology. I'm looking forward to the first ThoughtWorks project with these pieces.
Have you tried JAR-ing your gems to avoid hitting the 1000 file limit?
More details here:
Would Bumble be nice as DataMapper source? This way you could easily switch between datasources and so on. Just a thought…
Well, the good thing is that Bumble is small enough to throw away entirely. I know wycats was thinking about whipping up a real DM adapter for GAE though.
No, I avoided trying that since I was a bit scared to introduce another shaky piece. I wrote much of the low-level support for that in JRuby, and I know it can be tricky. Especially since Rails likes to do lots of file-based tricks. That said, it should probably work fine.
"jruby -S gem install warble"
Should that be
"jruby -S gem install warbler" ?
Couldn't the full java SQLiteJDBC driver work with App Engine?
Not for a big app, obviously, though (-;
nice write up on how to get a rails app deployed.
I wrote a little tutorial bringing up a sinatra app and levarage some of your scripts.
You can find it here. http://blog.bigcurl.de/
Replying to my own post: actually, it won't be possible, since filesystem writes are forbidden.
I thought I had found a free Camping hosting service…
Thanks very much for this. It gave me a jump on getting Ramaze running on GAE as well, which, thanks to help from manveru and #jruby, works quite well.
I plan on writing that up in the next day or so.
Man. You're brainy!
Luckily, for the rest of us, we have Azure :-)
What will happen if I user gems written in C, such as hpricot?
I recomend your article, in the part you talk about freezing the gems, advising to take care with this.
Thank you for your great post. I've translated this post into Japanese.
Thanks again.
This is pretty cool, I'm glad that Ruby is finally able to run on Google App Engine.
Just so you know, your demo at http://yarubyblog.appspot.com/ is currently down with 500 Internal Server Errors for me.
Great work Ola. Just an FYI. I think the first command you have in one of the beginning paragraphs to install warbler,
"jruby -S gem install warble"
should instead be
"jruby -S gem install warbler"
Excited to start my first JRuby app on GAE!
Is it possible to load the App Engine (Datastore, Mail APIs, etc) environment in Jirb?
Regarding my previous comment, Ivan Schneider came up with a solution to loading the GAE environment manually: http://dev.massivebraingames.com/past/2009/4/17/unit_tests_on_google_app/
I had a lot of trouble getting gem install warble to work. Maybe you meant gem install warbler?
Thanks for the great article. One thing I noticed is that I can't seem to get my rails app to use map.route in routes.rb. From looking around and reading some docs I think this has something to do with Rack. I have very little familiarity with java web apps so sorry for the noob question. Maybe you can just point me in the right direction?
Hi Ola. I've modified BeeU to work with my GAE Merb application. Would this be of any interest?
I have JRuby + Sinatra on GAE up and running without problems.
My question is, it is possible to use some kind of "autoreload" like shotgun? It's too bad restarting dev_appserver.rb everytime I want to see my changes.
Thanks in advance.
I am new to GAE sorry if it is silly question,
is it possible to deploy directly my existing application in GAE, Or we need to start from scratch
thanks in advance.
Brilliant post, so many things I don't know! Thanks for compiling and sharing.
I avoided trying that since I was a bit scared to introduce another shaky piece. I wrote much of the low-level support for that in JRuby, and I know it can be tricky. Especially since Rails likes to do lots of file-based tricks. That said, it should probably work fine. Yes I totatly agree with this.


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Van Jones
While working with the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco, Van Jones grew outraged by the numerous instances of police misconduct and intimidation in inner city communities. With $50,000 seed money he raised in 1994, Van founded Bay Area Police Watch, one of the first organizations in the country dedicated to providing counseling and legal services for victims of illegal police harassment and brutality. Since its establishment, Police Watch has evolved into the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a non-profit aimed to ensure all citizens feel empowered in their interactions with the justice system and that police officers operate within the law. The Center is also dedicated to prison reform for youth and adults with a branch in New York City.
Van Jones is a CNN political contributor, regularly appearing across the network's programming and special political coverage.
Jones has founded and led numerous social enterprises engaged in social and environmental justice:
- The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which promotes criminal justice reform
- Color of Change, which works for racial fairness through its one million members
- Rebuild The Dream, a 21st Century "think tank" that champions innovative solutions to fix the U.S. economy and uplift the next generation.
- The Dream Corps, which promotes innovative policy solutions. The Dream Corps' major initiatives are: #YesWeCode, committed to helping train 100,000 low-opportunity youth to become top-level computer programmers; #cut50, which is working to cut the U.S. prison population in half in the next 10 years; and Green For All, which lifts people out of poverty through green job training and job creation
Jones is a Yale-educated attorney. He is the author of two New York Times best-selling books, The Green Collar Economy (2008) and Rebuild the Dream (2012). The second book chronicles his journey as an environmental and human rights activist to becoming a White House policy advisor.
He was the main advocate for the Green Jobs Act. Signed into law by George W. Bush in 2007, the Green Jobs Act was the first piece of federal legislation to codify the term "green jobs." During the Obama Administration, the legislation has resulted in $500 million in national funding for green jobs training.
In 2009, Jones worked as the green jobs advisor to President Barack Obama. In this role, Jones helped to lead the inter-agency process that oversaw the multi-billion dollar investment in skills training and jobs development within the environmental and green energy sectors.
Jones has been honored with numerous awards and spotlighted on several lists of high achievers, including: the World Economic Forum's "Young Global Leader" designation; Rolling Stone's 2012 "12 Leaders Who Get Things Done"; TIME's 2009 "100 Most Influential People in The World"; and the Root's 2014 "The Root 100." He is presently a fellow at the MIT Media Lab.
Awards & Honors
- One of The Root's 100 Honorees for 2014
- One of National Priorities Project's 30th Anniversary Democracy Champions
- One of Ebony Magazine's 2013 Power 100
- One of The Root's 100 Honorees for 2013
- One of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2009
- Recipient of the NAACP's Image Award
- Rolling Stones' 12 Leaders Who Get Things Done in 2012
- One of Essence Magazine's 25 Most Inspiring African Americans in 2008
- One of Ebony Magazine's 2011 Power 150
- One of Fast Company's 12 Most Creative Minds on Earth
- Visiting Fellow in Collaborative Economics at Presidio Graduate School
- Member of the international Ashoka Fellowship
- A 2005 World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader"
- Former distinguished visiting professor at Princeton University
- Former Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and American Progress Action Fund
Leadership on Human Rights
While best known as a pioneer in the environmental movement, Van has been hard at work in social justice for nearly two decades, fashioning solutions to some of urban America's toughest problems. He is the co-founder of two social justice organizations: the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Color of Change. He currently serves as a board member of the Ella Baker Center.
Van is on the board of several organizations and non-profits, including: Presidio, Campaign for America's Future, Demos, Million Hoodies Movement for Justice and AFRON African Robotics Network.
Van Jones has authored two books, The Green Collar Economy and Rebuild the Dream.


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Koi in the Trees
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Always a fan of the white highlights on grey tone sketches. What instruments are you using for the grey shading and white highlights? Lovely form and line work with your sketching. I tend to be far more in precise (and by in precise I mean sloppy as hell) with my lines when I sketch. Far more searching.ReplyDelete
I also marvel at artist who can sketch people in motion, especially multiple people like this. The movement throws me off quite a lot and I end up losing the form and gestures. This is great though. Lovely.Replies
Hi Scott! Glad to hear you're enjoying them! These are the tools I use:Delete
As for movement, it gets easier with more practice. It's not easy for me either, which is why I try to do these sketches!
Beautiful sketches again! I think you captured the movement of the fish really well :)ReplyDelete


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When Mickey brings home a small kitten that he found roaming the streets, Pluto feels neglected when he sees Mickey paying more attention to the kitten than to him. He also finds it puzzling when Mickey enjoys watching the kitten play with his hat and sit in his favorite chair.
The next morning, after the kitten wakes Mickey up to say good morning, Pluto attempts to do the same thing, but Mickey scolds him for that. Pluto then brings Mickey the morning paper and is thanked for it. The kitten then tears up the paper, but to Pluto's confusion, Mickey doesn't even scold her for that. Pluto goes outside, where Morty and Ferdie are raking leaves into a big pile. The kitten comes outside and starts playing around in Morty and Ferdie's leaf pile. Pluto goes and does the same thing, but Morty and Ferdie scold him for scattering the leaves they just raked. Feeling dejected, Pluto walks away and sees Minnie coming by. He tries to greet her, but she instead gives her attention to petting the kitten.
At lunch, Mickey pours a bowl of milk for the kitten after she jumps onto his lap. Pluto starts thinking maybe it would be better if he tried acting just like the kitten, but he only ends up making a mess of things. After Mickey scolds him again, Pluto goes to lay by the door, feeling sad. While cleaning up the kitchen, Mickey realizes and tells his nephews and girlfriend that Pluto is feeling neglected because they seem to like the kitten better. Upon hearing that, the four of them go to comfort Pluto and tell him that they still appreciate and love him, with the kitten even telling Pluto that she wants to be just like him she grows up.


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Australia investigates oral health of population in national study
The University of Adelaide is conducting a national study of adult oral health for the first time in more than a decade. The 2017-2018 study will randomly select 15,000 Australians to interview over the phone or via a web-based survey and will offer free dental examinations to assess their oral health.
The AU$5.8 million study will evaluate the level of oral disease among adults, and the effectiveness, sustainability and equity of dental services across Australia. The study will be conducted by the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health (ARCPOH) in the University's Adelaide Dental School, in partnership with federal, state and territory departments of health and dental services.
"Our study will inform government policymakers and dental service providers about the delivery of fair and effective dental services for all Australians over the next decade and more. Importantly, the results of our study will directly impact on the dental care people receive in the community, which in turn will impact on their quality of life."
Prof. Marco Peres, Director of ARCPOH and Prof. of Population Oral Health at the University of Adelaide
The study will also monitor the 5500 participants from the previous national study 10 years ago, also conducted by ARCPOH at the University of Adelaide, to provide a more detailed picture of the state of Australia's oral health over time. The University of Adelaide also offers a Bachelor of Oral Health to improve people's oral health and promote awareness on how oral and general health are closely connected.
"Oral health is vitally important to our general health – with well-established links to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and many other conditions – as well as to people's quality of life. Unlike general medical care, the high cost of dental care is largely borne by the individual. And with some oral diseases being very expensive to treat, this places a large section of our community at a further disadvantage, with treatment being almost unattainable for some people. It's critical that we understand the changes in dental health among adult Australians, and the quality, prevalence and accessibility of services they receive."
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April 8th, 2011
My suggestion to everyone:
On the following Monday, it will be one month from March 11th when the massive earthquake, massive tsunami and nuclear plant accident occurred.
It doesn't seem to me that the disaster of this time was a mere disaster. I feel that it is the beginning of the catastrophe phenomenon that has been the subject among people in this past recent years. So, even though the reactor problem is once solved this time, it's possible that new difficult problems will affect us one after another.
Come to think of it, the 9-11 attacks occurred on September 11th, 2001. We could say that, for the citizens of the planet earth, it was the first day when the catastrophe happened. And 10 years after 9-11 was March 11th 2011 when the second catastrophe affected us in my country, Japan.
Now I have a suggestion for all.
Let's make 11th of each month "The Day of Prayer for the Peace on Earth" and let's pray hand-in-hand all together for the peace on Earth.
At noon on the 11th, local time, please say the following words called "The Grand Invocation" to pray:
"Uchu no Mugen no Chikara ga Kori Kotte, Makoto no Daiwa no Miyo ga, Nari Natta." (This means: The eternal power of the Universe has gathered itself to create the world with true and grand harmony.)
This is the Kotodama -spiritual power of words - that Dr. Nobuo Shioya created for peace on earth. Dr. Shioya is said to be the reincarnation of Laozi, philosopher of ancient China, and I highly respect him. He was an admirable medical doctor who served as a primary physician of the Empress, Showa Emperor's wife".
Dr. Shioya passed away about 5 years ago at the age of 106. While he was alive, he said to me that he was wishing that 10% of the whole people in the entire world would chant the Great Invocation. He was the last Japanese hsien (meaning enlighted person, mountain hermits) and devised these words since he was concerned that we would face the catastrophe.
So, let's call out to people around you and chant the words of the Great Invocation on every 11th at noon to prepare for the catastrophe.
With love and gratitude,
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The age old practice of confinement postpartum dates back over 2000 years ago. Women were made to stay in bed and avoid drafts and cold water so that they can restore their bodies to good health and avoid physical ailments in future. Fast forward to modern times, many Asian women still practice confinement to help with recovery after delivery. Adhering to a 30-day confinement after child birth is believed to help:
- Restore uterine function
- Restore blood loss
- To avoid postpartum depression
- Promote breastfeeding and breast milk supply
- Avoid rheumatism and joint pain
- Improve complexion and avoid hair loss
- Prevent back pain
- Restore prenatal physical figure
But does the rest and consumption of confinement foods really make a difference to a woman's recovery?
Based on my own experience, I think it makes a big difference to a new mum's physical and mental health. I have a four year old and recently gave birth to my second. With my first child, I was young, headstrong and naive and didn't believe that it would make a difference. I didn't think I needed to rest and recover. I insisted I could and would just bounced back even after cesarean section, which was considered major abdominal surgery. I had the mindset that I needed to prove that I can manage everything on my own. But I was wrong.
Yes, you might be okay at the start. You will have good days and some bad days but you will keep at it. Some days you ate well and some days you ate whatever you can with one hand. At times, you could manage to get some exercise into your routine but most days it seemed impossible. It doesn't hit you back right away. Over time, the cost of my lack of recovery and not allowing myself to be nurtured by others following childbirth contributed to my postnatal depression and mummy burnout when my son was between 18-24 months. Of course there were other factors involved, I was working on my PhD and treading in uncharted waters of motherhood (determined to raise my kids different to how I was raised). In retrospect though, if I had allow myself to recover initially, I would have been in a better state of health, and would have been able deal with my circumstances better.
Second time around, I was four years wiser (I certainly hope!) and mustered help from my family. I learnt to be nurtured and practiced some of the confinement rules to allow myself to recovery. Having had a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean), I stay off my feet as much as I could to reduce the stress on the pelvic floor muscles and ate foods that promoted physical recovery from blood loss and the exertion of childbirth. I was not strictly adhering to the confinement rules because I am abit of a rebel (I NEEDED MY SHOWERS and SUNSHINE!) but I did dressed warmly and avoid cold and chilled food. Four weeks after birth, I certainly felt more energetic and looked more radiant then I did when I had my first.
Motherhood is a tough gig, and nature has programmed us to jump right into the roles as mothers fiercely. But motherhood is a long journey and in the grand scheme of things, allowing yourself the first month after birth for recovery is not taking the easy way out nor does it make you lesser of a mum. It makes you human. And in the long run, it makes you a better mum.


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In this week's issue… Maine meteorologist dies – House steps back in CT – NY AM seeks solar future – PA FMs sell – Plus: Baseball on the Radio – AA Edition
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*We start our column this week with a sad ending to a gripping story from MAINE, where WCSH (Channel 6) meteorologist Tom Johnston never returned from a trip he took a week ago to an appearance at the Sunday River ski resort in Newry.
After Johnston met with fans at the Springfest event on April 1, he didn't return to his home in Old Orchard Beach, where his girlfriend reported him missing on Monday. That touched off a search that ended Thursday night, when Johnston's car was found empty on the side of a road in Auburn.
Auburn police say Johnston appears to have walked off alone into the woods, where they think he took his life.
Johnston's disappearance, and then the news of his death, prompted an outpouring of emotion from co-workers and viewers. The Rutgers University graduate had been with WCSH and Bangor sister station WLBZ since 2014, when he moved back north after stints in Fort Myers and Jacksonville, Florida. Known as "TJ Thunder," Johnston was the weekday 5, 5:30 and 6 PM weatherman on WCSH/WLBZ. He was just 49.
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Yup, we've been doing this a long time now, and so we're digging back into the vaults for a look at what NERW was covering one, five, ten, fifteen and – where available – twenty years ago this week, or thereabouts.
Note that the column appeared on an erratic schedule in its earliest years as "New England Radio Watch," and didn't go to a regular weekly schedule until 1997.
One Year Ago: April 11, 2016
*One of the newest translators to put a signal over parts of NEW YORK City is selling for a near-record price.
W248CG (97.5 Jersey City NJ) is a 110-watt signal that Ted Schober's City Commons LLC put on the air last year. For the last few months, he's been leasing the signal to Erick Salgado's Cantico Nuevo Ministries, which has filed to convert that lease to a $1.6 million purchase.
Cantico Nuevo has been using the translator as a relay of WJDM (1530 Jersey City), which it's been leasing from Multicultural Broadcasting, but its sale filing indicates that it will instead run the translator off an HD subchannel it will lease from Pillar of Fire's WAWZ (99.1 Zarephath NJ).
The deal includes $350,000 in cash and a $1.25 million note held by the seller.
*In CONNECTICUT, University of Northwestern – St. Paul completed its deal with EMF on March 29, turning the former WCCC (1290 West Hartford) into WNWW, "Faith Radio 1290." EMF had been running the AM station as a simulcast of its Hartford K-Love outlet, WCCC-FM (106.9); it donated the AM signal to Northwestern in exchange for Northwestern's agreement to pay $1000 a month in tower rent for the AM and its purchase of a translator from EMF.
*Hall Communications has changed formats on a central PENNSYLVANIA AM/translator combination. WLPA (1490 Lancaster)'s contract to carry "America's Best Music" ran out at the end of March, and now the AM signal and its FM translator at 92.5 are simulcasting ESPN Radio with sister station WONN-FM (92.7 Starview). The simulcast alleviates some of the interference that existed between the 92.5 translator and the 92.7 signal, which was formerly WLPA-FM.
Five Years Ago: April 9, 2012
*In CANADA, the week's big news came from the CBC, which responded to federal budget cuts ($115 million over three years) by announcing plans to cut 650 staffers and eliminate some of its programming services and transmitters.
The most dramatic cuts come at Radio Canada International, which will shutter its shortwave transmitter at Sackville, New Brunswick after seven decades and will end its newscast services and all its Russian and Brazilian programming.
For domestic audiences, the cuts will include some of CBC television's original programming – and some TV transmitters that now carry CBC-TV and Radio-Canada TV to remote communities. The CBC's plan calls for the shutdown of hundreds of analog transmitters at the end of July instead of keeping them on the air for an additional year, and that would mean the end of English-language CBC service anywhere in Quebec outside of Montreal – and in much of the Maritimes as well.
Francophones outside Quebec would lose even more Radio-Canada service, with transmitters in Windsor, London, Kitchener and Sarnia (and in even bigger cities such as Calgary) shutting down, leaving viewers forced to use pay TV services, either cable or satellite, to receive CBC/Radio-Canada programming.
And then there's this: CBC executives say they'll apply to the CRTC to sell commercial time on CBC Radio Two and Radio-Canada's Espace Musique network. If approved, it will be the first time since the 1970s that the CBC has carried commercials on its radio networks. (CBC-TV and Radio-Canada TV have always competed for ad dollars with Canada's commercial TV broadcasters.)
*And of course we can't let the death of Mike Wallace pass without comment. There's no shortage of tributes out there to Wallace's many decades with CBS News on "60 Minutes," but long before he found network news fame, Wallace was already a local TV star in New York. The Brookline, Mass. native had already tasted network exposure on CBS in the early 1950s as an actor and talk host, but he moved to DuMont's WABD-TV (Channel 5) in 1955 to start a local news operation in the wake of the demise of DuMont's network.
At WABD, Wallace made a name for himself as the pugnacious host of "Night Beat," a freewheeling late-night show in which a cigarette-wielding Wallace questioned a guest in front of a plain black backdrop, decades before Charlie Rose. "Night Beat" moved to ABC in 1956 but didn't last long, and by 1959 Wallace was back in local TV at New Jersey-based WNTA-TV (Channel 13), where he ran the newsroom and anchored the local "News Beat" newscast and a new version of "The Mike Wallace Interview."
By 1963, Wallace had made it back to CBS News, and of course he never left; "60 Minutes" came along in 1968 and Wallace continued to make appearances on the broadcast as late as 2008.
Wallace was 93 when he died on Saturday night in New Canaan, Connecticut.
We remember Walt Sanders, one of the mainstays of WBZ-TV (Channel 4)'s long era of ratings dominance in the 1970s and 1980s. Sanders came to Channel 4 in 1968 as one of the station's (and the city's) first African-American TV reporters, and he stayed at WBZ until his retirement in 1995. Sanders died last Monday (April 2) at his home in Spring Hill, Florida. He was 81 years old.
Ten Years Ago: April 9, 2007
*There's always some risk involved in tweaking a station that's consistently at the top of the ratings, but when that station is at the top of the NEW YORK ratings, any tweak at all becomes a decent-sized gamble.
But Clear Channel has some pretty solid reasoning behind its quiet shift last week that moved WLTW (106.7 New York) away from the "Lite" identity that's been the station's cornerstone since its debut in 1984.
While the "Lite" branding still appears from time to time on the station, it's now "New York's 106.7," with what looks like a pretty hasty Photoshop job on the station website, now accessible at 1067newyork.com and newyorks1067.com in addition to the old 1067litefm.com and wltw.com.
So what's wih the new identity? One factor, of course, is the new competition from CBS' "Fresh FM" WWFS (102.7 New York), which is missing no opportunity to associate "Lite" with the sleepy soft AC music that 106.7 spent so many years playing. WLTW's gradual move away from that music toward a hotter adult contemporary sound (verging, at times, on almost a pop-CHR sound) is another factor in the change.
And then there's the people-meter factor: WLTW understands, as so many PDs will learn soon enough, that as Arbitron shifts over to its new automated ratings system, a lot of the old realities of the diary system will no longer apply. Already, the word is that most of the station's entries in Arbitron diaries were simply "106.7," without calls or slogan, and once the Portable People Meter kicks in in New York, all that will matter will be getting radios to land on that frequency, no matter what the slogan.
*It's really in CANADA, of course, but CKEY-FM (101.1 Fort Erie ON) continues to target the Buffalo market, just over the Niagara River, and now it's doing so with a new nickname. "Wild 101" was replaced by "Z101" last week, with a more mainstream top-40 format and a reworked airstaff.
Ellen Z is out in afternoons, with Keith Kelly handling that shift for now, and PD Dave Universal created a minor message-board stir when he installed "Taylor Kaye" (Jenny Wade, late of WKSE in Buffalo) in late nights. There's a Taylor Kaye across the lake at Toronto's CHUM-FM, too, and at last check, the new Z101 website didn't show any name at all in the 10 PM airshift. (Interesting, too, given the CRTC's previous interest in CKEY's Canadian bona fides, that the new Z101 site, unlike the old "Wild" site, shows only a Buffalo request-line number, and no Canadian studio phone.)
*Now that western MASSACHUSETTS is hearing NPR news and talk from WFCR (88.5 Amherst) on the big 50,000-watt signal of Clear Channel's WNNZ (640 Westfield), Pamal has a new format on its orphaned WPNI (1430 Amherst), which had been carrying the WFCR news-talk programming. Until WPNI can be sold, it's now simulcasting WUMB-FM (91.9 Boston), bringing that station's folk music to what's presumably a very receptive Pioneer Valley audience.
*In VERMONT, we hear that Pamal has peeled WZRT (97.1 Rutland) away from the "Kiss FM" identity it had under Clear Channel ownership; the station's still top 40, but it's back to its old "Z97" moniker. (We also note that Clear Channel's vermontkiss.com site, while mostly updated to show only WVTK 92.1 Port Henry NY/Burlington VT, still has some "Kiss FM 92.1-97.1" logos around, too.)
CBS' Philadelphia TV stations, KYW-TV (Channel 3) and WPSG (Channel 57) made their long-awaited moves to 15th and Spring Garden last Monday, launching news on KYW in HD at the same time. Meanwhile, back in KYW's old Market Street neighborhood, former next-door neighbor WTXF (Channel 29) has a new VP/general manager, as Mike Renda moves to that Fox O&O from sister station WJW (Channel 8) in Cleveland. And across Independence Mall, WHYY (90.9/Channel 12) is reportedly losing its leader; a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer says Paul Gluck is taking a new job running Drexel University's Rudman Institute for Entertainment Industry Studies.
Back to CBS – it had a rough start last Monday to its new FM talk station in Pittsburgh. WTZN-FM (93.7 the Zone) was supposed to have premiered the new Scott Paulsen show at 4 PM after John McIntire's shift, but the lawyers apparently got involved, and so McIntire ended up being forced to fill an extra 90 minutes of airtime, without even being able to use Paulsen's name to explain what was going on. The station eventually plugged into Sporting News Radio to give McIntire a break, and the legal issues were resolved in time for Paulsen (formerly at Clear Channel's WDVE) to go on the air Tuesday.
Fifteen Years Ago: April 8, 2002
It's rare to see a big-city directional AM station move its entire transmitter site – unless the government steps in and gives it no choice. That's what's happening in New York City, where WOR is losing its site in the Meadowlands, and it's what WJAS (1320) in Pittsburgh, PENNSYLVANIA is going through now as well. WJAS' current two-tower site sits along the river near the eastern portal of the Squirrel Hill tunnel, on land that the station leased from the Standard LaFarge Company. In 1994, Standard sold the land to the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, without giving WJAS the right of first refusal to buy it, something WJAS says it was entitled to by contract. The URA tried to end WJAS' lease on the land, only to find itself in the midst of a three-way lawsuit, which the agency now hopes to settle by selling WJAS another piece of land that it owns, a few miles north at Highland Drive and Leech Farm Road in Penn Hills. WJAS' application calls for a three-tower array, with two towers used by day with 6000 watts and two towers at night with 3300 watts. Normally, stations that change sites have to reduce nighttime interference on the frequency by 10 percent; WJAS is asking the FCC to waive that power-reduction requirement because the move is involuntary.
Moving along to NEW YORK, WDRE (98.5 Westhampton) wants to move west on Long Island. The station, which relays the modern AC of WLIR (92.7 Garden City), now shares a site near East Quogue with WWXY (107.1 Hampton Bays); it's filed an application to move about five miles west to the site just north of Eastport and south of the Long Island Expressway that's used by WRCN (103.9 Riverhead). WDRE's new facilities would be 3000 watts at 100 meters, with a directional antenna nulled towards WRKS (98.7 New York) and WPLR (99.1 New Haven).
Speaking of WLIR, its "big announcement" Monday was, unsurprisingly, an April Fool stunt: a claim that musician Moby had bought the station and was turning it into "WMBY." Moby did, in fact, program the station for a few hours, playing a much more diverse list of tunes than normally heard on the commercial dial in New York!
Other stunts worthy of mention around the region: in Syracuse, WNTQ (93.1) morning team Ted and Amy claimed the state was about to outlaw eating and drinking in cars. It would have been only mildly amusing – until talk host Jim Reith across town at WSYR (570) was taken in on the stunt by a caller! Up in New Hampshire, WJYY (105.5 Concord) claimed its morning team was being "suspended" – and they were, from a crane 40 feet up during the entire (very rainy) morning show.
It may have sounded like an April Fool joke, but Binghamton's WCDW (100.5 Susquehanna PA) is really changing format. The station says it will let listeners decide over the weekend, voting among a series of stunt formats that will run in one-hour blocks; whatever happens, it appears the station will cancel the Greaseman's syndicated morning show and perhaps let some of its airstaff go. (We still suspect oldies are on the way to this rimshot signal.)
Twenty Years Ago: April 10, 1997
We'll start this week in Massachusetts, where Glenn Ordway is out as program director at all-sports WEEI (850). Ordway tells the Boston Globe the decision was a mutual one, to allow him to focus on his on-air duties. Brad Murray takes over PD reins at WEEI, in addition to his duties at sister talker WRKO (680). Up in Gardner, meantime, little WGAW (1340) is about to be doing independent programming for the first time in years. Doug Rowe kept WGAW when he sold WSRO (1470) in Marlborough, and word has it that WGAW's program schedule will soon include Red Sox baseball and other simulcasts from nearby WEIM (1280) in Fitchburg.
New Hampshire news: It's the end of an era for independent TV in the Granite State. WNDS (Channel 50) in Derry was officially transferred to Ramcast, Inc. last Saturday, bringing with it a switch to Global Shopping Network programming. Most of the station's staff, including well-known weatherman Al Kaprelian, was laid off. WNDS had recently been improving its cable coverage in the Boston market, and is now available to viewers in most of the metro area – for whom it's now at least the fourth all home-shopping signal on the UHF dial.
There could be a new AM signal in the Upper Valley area. Koor Broadcasting, which owns WNTK AM-FM (1020 Newport/99.7 New London), is applying for 720 in Hanover. No word yet on facilities, but we'd suspect a few thousand watts daytime, possibly directional to protect CKAC (730) in Montreal, and a few watts at night. Apparently the plans for 720 in Billerica MA are now completely dead and gone…
One bit of news from Rhode Island this week: the long-awaited debut of Providence's WB affiliate is now set for 5:30 PM on Sunday, April 13. WLWC (Channel 28) is licensed to New Bedford MA and will be operated by NBC's WJAR (Channel 10). WLWC is owned by Fant Broadcasting, which has similar LMA deals in other markets around the country.


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If you are in the tourism or wine industry, prepare yourself for the 6th Annual International Wine Tourism Conference to take place in Tbilisi, Georgia. The conference is scheduled for March 28 and March 29, 2014. The conference is geared toward travel agents, wineries, restaurants, bloggers, writers and more.
The conference takes place at the Tbilisi Marriott Hotel that has seen 100 years of history. A number of renowned people have stayed at the hotel including John Steinbeck, Jean Paul Sartre and Margaret Thatcher.
Georgia wine has a long history that has been traced back to 6th century BC. When visiting Tbilisi, I am looking forward to learning about and tasting some of the Georgian grape varieties and seeing some of the historic winemaking equipment. Some of my goals during our visit to Georgia include discovering the culture, food and architecture as well as taking numerous photos.
According to the IWINETC website the registration fees include:
Access to conference talk and after conference activity program
Access to exhibitor area
Morning coffee break and full lunch
Access to wine tasting area and wine tastings
Certificate of attendance
Early Bird Registration is available now. To register for the Conference go to http://www.iwinetc.com/2014georgia/register/.
When you make plans to attend IWINETC, plan to stay a few extra days.


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The event is coming together. I need to start publishing the cue sheets and I already started getting my kit together for the day of. Re-routing supplies, and lights, and papers, etc. I have to get my truck looked over for the long day into night into day. Which reminds me. I need to find a jack for that dang thing!
I'm sure many of the riders are fretting over last minute preparations as well. Bikes, long rides, testing nutrition, and clothing. It's all going to come to a head in about three weeks.
Okay, I am also going to announce here today that I plan on doing audio-blog updates, which will appear on this blog, for Trans Iowa again this year. On that note, here are a few things you can expect from this....
- I probably will not mention most riders by name, tell you who is in or out, or maybe even when riders will appear at certain places on the route.
- The updates will definitely not occur at regular intervals, and may not even be possible at times when I am out of cell phone range.
- I may or may not make it to announce the finisher(s) as they come in.
I will also be Tweeting on the hash tag #tiv8 on Twitter and my handle there is @guitarted1961. Again- don't expect detailed reports with lots of names, places, and pertinent "Cycling Dirt" type stuff. I don't do that. You might learn a few things about what is going on though.
Generally, my gig is to track the leaders, so you may hear about that part of the event. Maybe. You'll just have to tune in and see.....


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A man once gathered a crowd at the edge of Niagara Falls as he stretched a cable across the river and began to push a wheelbarrow across the Falls. The people watched in awe as the man filled the wheelbarrow with rocks and proceeded to push it back and forth over the cable. The man then asked how many in the crowd believed he could push a person across the Falls in the wheelbarrow. Everyone in the crowd raised their hand. The man then asked, "Can I get a volunteer?" Of course, all hands went down! In many respects, our salvation experience is similar. It is not enough to realize that we have all sinned and fallen short of God's glory, as the Bible teaches us. It is not enough to be sorry for our sins and have a desire to be a better person, though repentance is an essential ingredient.
It is not even enough to understand that Jesus lived a sinless life and died to pay for our sins and rose on the third day. What we must do is by faith, get in the "wheelbarrow". That is, we must trust completely in Jesus to forgive our sins and save us. A head knowledge of the gospel is good, but it takes believing totally in our hearts in Christ alone for salvation to take place. That means we aren't depending on good works, church membership, or anything else except the sacrifice of God's Son on the cross to pay for our sins.
Are you disgusted with your sin and ready to make a change? Call upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Confess your sin and your desire to be forgiven. Trust completely in Christ alone to save you and make you a home in heaven. He will be glad to hear from you!