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Auditions II
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Regional sounds
Lincoln, NE–
With three days of auditions now in the books, I can safely make this statement:
Regional sounds are disappearing amongst teenagers.
We have heard folks from nearly every state in the country. With few exceptions, each of these students sounded pretty much the same. I heard two kids who sounded like they were from the South, and one who sounded like New Jersey. But for the most part, a generic Midwestern flatness is now part of the speaking voice of the several hundred high school students who auditioned this week.
I lament the loss of regional vocal differences!
Musical theatre audition songs, round 2
Earlier this week:
And this list of audition songs from Monday and Tuesday: https://musicatwebster.wordpress.com/2014/06/24/musical-theatre-audition-songs/
From the 2014 International Thespian Society college auditions in Lincoln, Nebraska:
Here is a list of songs heard at on the third day of auditions . . . .
(In no particular order, and not check for duplicates)
- Castle on a cloud, Les Miserables
- Someone else's story, Chess
- I know it's today, Shrek
- Close Ev'ry Door, Joseph and Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- All that jazz, Chicago
- If you want me, Once
- Ten minutes ago, Cinderella
- Safer, First Date
- Caitlin & Haley, Edges
- Why, Tick Tick Boom!
- Last One Picked, Whoop De Do
- How could I ever know?, Secret Garden
- What do I need from love, Thoroughly Modern Millie
- My Ship, Lady in the Dark
- Astonishing, Little Women
- If I Love Again, Hold Your Horses
- I'll never say no, Unsinkable Molly Brown
- Art is calling for me, Victor Herbert
- Take me or leave me, Rent
- Some girls, Once On This Island
- I hate the bus, Caroline or Change
- You've got possibilities, It's a Bird . . . Plane . . . Superman
- Pretty Funny, Dogfight
- Race you to the top of the morning, Secret Garden
- Everything else, Next to Normal
- No More, Into the Woods
- Always a bridesmaid, I Love You . . . Perfect . . . Change
- I know things now, Into the Woods
- I'll know, Guys & Dolls
- With you, Ghost
- I'll be here, Adam Gwon
- Back to Before, Ragtime
- Gaston, Beauty and the Beast
- Bill, Showboat
- One normal night, Addams Family
- Rags, Rags
- Make Believe, Showboat
- Love never dies, Love never dies
- Waiting, Addams Family
- Spark of Creation, Children of Eden
- Honey Bun, South Pacific
- Go the distance, Hercules
- Get out and stay out, 9 to 5
- I'm not at all in love, Pajama Game
- Stepsister's lament, Cinderella
- Make them hear you, Ragtime
- Role of a lifetime, Bare
- It's hard to speak my heart, Parade
- Everybody says don't, Anyone can whistle
- Screw Loose, Cry-Baby
- After today, Dr. Doolittle
- Light in the Piazza, from Light in the Piazza
- If my friends could see me now, Sweet Charity
- Another day, Rent
- Girl in 14-G, Tesori
- Too close to the sun, Making of Madeline Moore
- Live out loud, Little Princess
- I get a kick out of you, Anything Goes
- Everything else, Next to Normal
Repost: What NOT to sing
Here's a blog entry I posted after attending the Thespian conference in 2011.
These statements are still appropriate!
Musical theatre audition songs
I am finished now with two days (11.5 hours!) of auditions at the 2014 International Thespian Society annual conference. We have more to go on Thursday and Friday.
I have been keeping track of most of the songs that have been used for auditions here as rising high school seniors are singing for various college and university reps.
Herewith, a nearly-complete list in no particular order (and not checked for duplicates):
- Someone Like You – Jekkyl & Hyde
- Life of the Party – Wild Party
- Blow Gabriel Blow – Anything Goes
- I am Aldolpho – Drowsy Chaperone
- When words fail – Shrek
- Breathe – In the Heights
- As long as he needs me – Oliver!
- Somewhere that's green – Little Shop of Horrors
- Fly, fly away – Catch me if you can
- In these skies – Ace
- Green finch and linnet bird – Sweeney Todd
- Many a new day – Oklahoma!
- Benny's Dispatch – In the Heights
- Here I Am – Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- Notice me, Horton – Seussical
- Corner of the Sky – Pippin
- So Anyway – Next to Normal (I would urge careful consideration and caution before using this for an audition! It's too specific, too hard for a youngster to understand, and too identified with a particular singer.)
- Gimme, gimme – Thoroughly Modern Millie (I would urge careful consideration and caution before using this for an audition! It's overdone.)
- Maybe This Time – Cabaret
- Lost in the Wilderness – Children of Eden
- Together Again – Young Frankenstein
- Now I Have Everything – Fiddler on the Roof
- Pulled – Addams Family
- Being Alive – Company
- She Loves Me – She Loves Me
- Javert's Suicide – Les Miserables
- If you were gay – Avenue Q
- Part of your world – Little Mermaid (I would urge careful consideration and caution before using this for an audition! The song tends to be a bit cloying when taken out of context.)
- Change – A New Brain
- What About Me? – 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- Cross the Line – Big
- Live in living color – Catch Me If You Can
- All through the night – Cole Porter
- Giants in the sky – Into the Woods
- Mama who bore me – Spring Awakening
- Beyond my wildest dreams – Little Mermaid
- Love, look away – Flower Drum Song
- Little Shop of Horrors – Little Shop of Horrors
- Once more I can see – Wonderland
- I don't remember you – Happy Time
- A Mix Tape – Avenue Q
- I will prevail – Wonderland
- The Life I Never Led – Sister Act
- Loose Ends – Witches of Eastwick
- Model Behavior – Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown
- The gentleman is a dope – Allegro
- If I loved you – Carousel
- Don't rain on my parade – Funny Girl (I would urge careful consideration and caution before using this for an audition! It's identified with an inimitable star.)
- King Herod's Song – Jesus Christ Superstar
- Fire Within Me – Little Women
- Some things are meant to be – Little Women
- In know the truth – Aida
- Santa Fe – Newsies (I would urge careful consideration and caution before using this for an audition! The song is too current with a particular show.)
- Magic to Do – Pippin
- Pretty Funny – Dogfight
- Grow for Me – Little Shop of Horrors
- I can hear the bells – Hairspray
- Some Day – The Wedding Singer
- Cabaret – Cabaret
- Miracle of Miracles – Fiddler on the Roof
- Sailor of my dreams – Dames at Sea
- Dancing all the time – Big
- And this is my beloved – Kismet
- Run away with me
- Colored Women – Memphis
- Far from the home I love – Fiddler on the Roof
- This world will remember – Bonnie & Clyde
- Man Inside the . . . – Catch Me If You Can
- Out of my dreams – Oklahoma!
- I got plenty of nothin' – Porgy & Bess
- Go the Distance – Hercules
- I Don't Do Sadness – Spring Awakening
- O mio babbino caro – La Rondine
- Once upon a time – Brooklyn
- Lonely Town – On the Town
- Who I Be – Shrek
- Waiting for life – Once on This Island
- Fine fine line – Avenue Q
- Patterns – Baby
- Don't Let Me Go – Shrek
- Pirate King – Pirates of Penzance
- When I'm not with the girl I love – Finian's Rainbow
- I want to be bad – Follow Through
- Sunset Boulevard – Sunset Boulevard
- A little brains – Damn Yankees
- Bigger is better – When Pigs Fly
- Watch What Happens – Newsies
- Someone to watch over me – Gershwin
- Dying Ain't So Bad – Bonnie & Clyde
- Perfect – Edges
- A trip to the library – She Loves Me
- History of Wrong Guys – Kinky Boots
- Quiet – Forward
- Climbing Up Hill – Last Five Years
- Hello, Tom
- How are things in Glocca Mora – Finian's Rainbow
- Any place I hang my hat – St. Louis Woman
- I decided to marry you – Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
- My white knight – The Music Man
- Everlasting – Tuck Everlasting
- DeLovely – Anything Goes
- Where is love – Oliver!
- If he walked into my life – Mame
- May I like it this way – Wild Party
- Mr. Snow – Carousel
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Const Correctness – C++ Tutorials – Cprogramming.com
Const Functions
The effects of declaring a variable to be const propagate throughout the program. Once you have a const object, it cannot be assigned to a non-const reference or use functions that are known to be capable of changing the state of the object. This is necessary to enforce the const-ness of the object, but it means you need a way to state that a function should not make changes to an object. In non-object-oriented code, this is as easy as using const references as demonstrated above.
In C++, however, there's the issue of classes with methods. If you have a const object, you don't want to call methods that can change the object, so you need a way of letting the compiler know which methods can be safely called. These methods are called "const functions", and are the only functions that can be called on a const object. Note, by the way, that only member methods make sense as const methods. Remember that in C++, every method of an object receives an implicit this pointer to the object; const methods effectively receive a const this pointer.
The way to declare that a function is safe for const objects is simply to mark it as const; the syntax for const functions is a little bit peculiar because there's only one place where you can really put the const: at the end of the function:
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On 13th December, Aberdeen City Council approved BAA's application for a runway extention with a 33:6 majority. This decision is deeply disappointing, and a lot of us feel very unhappy with the way it was reached and with the debate that preceded it.
We have been advised that the Scottish Executive might decide to call in such an application if enough local objectors write to their MSPs and to the Minister for Communities.
You can write to your MSPs via this website: http://www.writetothem.com/ .
Since Malcolm Chisholm's resignation, not new Minister for Communities has been appointed. You can write a general letter to 'The Minister' at firstname.lastname@example.com, and also to the Deputy Minister of Communities, Des McNulty (same email address).
You might like to make the following points in your letter:
It is our understanding that Councillors were given no clear assurance that opposing the application against the advice from Planning Officers, and on grounds of global warming concerns, would not result in disciplinary/legal repercussions (they were told that this was unlikely but not that it could be ruled out).
Councillors were clearly advised that local authorities were not competent to refuse such an application on grounds of climate change. We do not know whether this is correct under Scottish planning law.
Councillors were advised not to allow a 'deputation', ie non-Members to give evidence because if the application was refused then BAA could challenge the refusal on grounds of 'bias' because both sides had not been given the opportunity to speak. After agreeing with this advice, it was then revealed that BAA themselves had asked for a deputation, thus undermining the argument regarding possible bias.
Chief Council Officer Margaret Bochel advised Councillors that the decision made by Uttlesford District Council to refuse an application by BAA to expand Stanstead airport was not relevant because this was not a comparable type of application. We subsequently enquired with campaigners against Stanstead airport expansion who state that they believe the Council's arguments and reasoning would have applied to a runway extension in exactly the same way as they applied to the application for an increase in the total number of flights (ie the one which was refused).
Statements made in the Environmental Impact Assessment (commissioned by BAA) were accepted as facts without being questioned – despite clear evidence submitted by ourselves and individuals which completely undermine a number of those statements (see our briefing paper in the previous post).
One of our members took some very detailed notes of what was said at the meeting. If you would like us to email you those details, please contact us at email@example.com. Many thanks.


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I came across a wonderful list of things to love about autumn over on The Inspired Room and I couldn't resist doing a list of my own. I like autumn (it's my second favorite season) but I love summer and parting is always such sweet sorrow. So in the spirit of embracing the present moment, here's my list of autumn favorites.
- Snuggly sweaters with my favorite jeans that are long enough to allow me my one summertime holdover, flip flops.
- Homemade sweet potato pie.
- A crackling fire in a stone fireplace.
- Driving north to see the leaves change.
- Childhood memories of family trips to Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
- Delicious red wine.
- Apple picking.
- An abundance of good hair days.
- Crisp breezes.
- Warm apple pie a la mode.
- New stationery and starting fresh.
- Carving pumpkins with my ducklings.
- Cozy socks to putter around the house.
- My extra fluffy down comforter.
- Hot chocolate with whipped cream.
- Halloween costumes.
- Leisurely walks in Central Park.
- Boots and blazers.
- Quality movie releases.
- Fall TV.
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This hearty soup is served at Belvedere Mansion in Staatsburg, New York.
- 4 ounces pancetta or thick bacon slices, cut into 1/2-inch-wide strips
- 1/2 cup chopped shallots
- 1/2 cup finely chopped carrots
- 1/2 cup finely chopped celery
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 cups water
- 2 cups beef stock or canned beef broth
- 1 1/2 cups chicken stock or canned low-salt chicken broth
- 1/2 cup pearl barley
- 1/2 ounce dried porcini mushrooms,* brushed clean of grit
- 2 large Swiss chard leaves, thinly sliced crosswise (about 2 cups packed)
- Extra-virgin olive oil
- Shaved Romano cheese
- *Dried porcini mushrooms are available at Italian markets, specialty foods stores and many supermarkets nationwide.
- Cook pancetta in heavy large pot over medium-high heat until crisp, about 6 minutes (if using bacon, drain off excess drippings). Add shallots, carrots, celery and garlic to pancetta in pot; cook until soft, about 5 minutes. Add 2 cups water, both stocks, barley and porcini and bring to boil. Reduce heat; simmer until barley is tender, stirring occasionally, about 40 minutes. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cool slightly. Refrigerate uncovered until cold, then cover and refrigerate. Bring to simmer before continuing.)
- Add chard to soup; cook until wilted, about 1 minute. Ladle soup into bowls. Drizzle with oil. Top with cheese.


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From The Military Times: Since BronyCon, regulars on the Military Times forums have been questioning whether it was legal (or tasteful) for a national guardsman to appear there in ACUs with a My Little Pony-themed patch on his arm, called a "cutie mark." A picture of him with the rainbow-colored lighting patch, which appeared on BuzzFeed, got no love on our forums.
"He should lose his man card for [attending the convention] alone!" wrote garhkal.
But, evidenced by the Facebook fan page, "Military Bronies," which has more than 1,500 "likes," there appears to be a burgeoning community friendly to the movement.
On the Military Bronies page, one poster was was worried. How common are bronies in the Army? He was about to join and wanted to know how open to be.
"Hard to say," was the reply. "Best advice I can give is be subtle about it. Those who share your interests will notice, and you may even make some battle buddies that way. Best of luck to you as you launch your Army career!"
On military brony website FOB Equestria, there are forums with topic headings you might expect about fan fiction, My Little Pony music and getting teased for "being brony." Then there's "What are you packing for heat?"
"All the other soldiers have AR rifles but I want a lever action Marlin in .45/70, I could even have ponies carved into the buttstock," writes BinderBlues.
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As close to 180 young hockey players get set to converge on Prospera Place in Kelowna next week, scouts, coaches and management for the Kelowna Rockets are getting set to welcome another crop of potential players.
When the Rockets 2013 training camp begins next Wednesday, Aug. 21, it will be one of the biggest rookie camps the Rockets have ever held, with players split into 10 teams that will play two games a day for three-and-a-half days.
Rockets scouts from all over Western Canada will be in attendance getting reads on the young players, the majority born in 1998 and heading back to minor hockey.
"Every year we have a big camp and this year is one of the biggest," said Lorne Frey, the Rockets director of player personnel and head scout. "Our idea with having a big camp is to see as many kids as we can. We try to invite as many local kids as we can and we try to invite the kids that were on the bubble in last year's draft but didn't get drafted. We've done it this way for years and we've been happy with it."
Included in the players that will be hitting the ice are the majority of the 12 players drafted in the 2013 WHL Bantam Draft. The only player not coming is second round pick Cal Foote, the son of NHLer Adam, who is injured and unable to attend.
Frey says they will be looking for how far kids all of the kids in camp have developed since they were scouted last season.
"We want to see how they've progressed," he said."Some may have grown two or three inches and that's all they needed. They are bigger, stronger and faster."
With 180 kids and 10 teams it will be a busy few days for Rockets scouts as they look at prospects that could be protected on the team's 50-man list and eventually make the WHL team.
Frey says it all starts at rookie camp.
"Every year at this camp we usually find some players that we are very pleased with and we will either add to our list or certainly follow them through their season," he said.
Rockets rookie camp begins Aug. 21 with player registration. From Aug. 22 to 24 games will be played all day starting at 7:30 a.m.
Kelowna's main training camp begins Aug. 26 and the team plays its first WHL exhibition game Aug. 30 at Prospera Place.


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With all the news coverage focused on the election, there are a lot of important and/or awesome things that have escaped attention. Here's a quick overview of environmental news that's worth following:
First off, it's common to get a craving for pumpkin pie around this time every year. But it would take hundreds of people to eat a pie made from this enormous 1,900 lb pumpkin. This behemoth is expected to set a new record for giant pumpkins (a record that has grown bigger every year in recent memory). Maybe this is the monster that Charlie Brown's been waiting for.
I'm sure that pumpkin wasn't grown naturally, but no one tried to stick an organic label on it at the store. On the other hand, some businesses have been caught making false environmental claims to sell their products. It can be challenging to tell greenwashed products apart from their legitimate green competitors, but one way to make informed choices is to research the companies involved. Many large companies now publish yearly 'Corporate Sustainability Reports' that describe their environmental track record. Corporations are also assigning a dedicated board member to oversee environmental performance. Many of the pro-environment changes that companies are adopting also contribute to the bottom line, and make great economic sense while money is in short supply.
On a related note, the credit crunch is slowing down plans to build new wind farms. Even though wind power accounted for about a third of all new power capacity built last year, the credit climate is making it really hard to line up investors. Wind energy is also running into some problems of scale. Windy days in Washington state are causing salmon deaths in a weird series of unintended consequences. As the wind picks up, wind turbines generate more and more electricity. The excess electricity floods the transmission lines, and automatic controls kick in to shutdown other sources of power. In some cases, this causes hydroelectric dams to idle their turbines and dump water over spillways. If only there was an efficient interstate transmission system, or a better way to store electricity, this whole chain of events could be avoided.
But what if we lived in a world without any need for a power grid? Bloom Technologies is trying to create a lower pollution future based on efficiencies of micro-scale. With small fuel cells, the company hopes to eliminate power loss from transmission lines and bring electricity to the third world. As a bonus, they are designing fuel cells that produce hydrogen as a byproduct – that waste gas could be used to warm homes and fuel vehicles.
Whether cars burn hydrogen or gasoline, tailpipe emissions are pretty much inevitable. This waste product has something that is surprisingly useful though – untapped energy in the form of heat. Researchers are developing new thermoelectric systems that can harvest electricity from tailpipe emissions. If they can keep cost and weight to a minimum, these devices will likely be incorporated into a wide range of hybrid vehicles to boost mileage. The energy recovery isn't 100 percent, but it can really add up to a serious boost in efficiency:
GM researcher Jihui Yang said a metal-plated device that surrounds an exhaust pipe could increase fuel economy in a Chevrolet Suburban by about 5 percent, a 1-mile-per-gallon improvement that would be even greater in a smaller vehicle.
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Center Court Pub & Grille [edit]
1118 N. 4th St.
Milwaukee , WI 53203
(414) 226-2323
1118 N. 4th St.
Milwaukee , WI 53203
(414) 226-2323
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Located a slap shot (or is it jump shot) from the Bradley Center, Centercourt is owned by Rick Kohen (Connections Ticket Service) and Brian James (Rosie's Water Works). It's pretty much your typical sports bar, but the food and drink offerings aim a bit higher than most people would expect for a place with such a choice location. The bar opened late in 2009 and is hoping to end a trend of failure in the location (Legends, GameTime).
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After a long wait, during which most UK fans have resorted to other means to see the third (and fourth) series, it has been announced that the third series will get it's first Free-to-air screening on the all-new 'Sky Three' channel due for launch next month on Freeview (a digital television service which requires only a £50 set-top box to receive). Speculation would suggest Sky have waited this long so as not to dent the shows real pulling power which has seen thousands sign up for their Pay-TV service.
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dragging those words around for days (in my head), unable to do a damn thing with them.
i wrote the above a week ago, then i became enmeshed in something that is totally beyond my control – the debt ceiling debate, or whatever that thing is called.
is it a debate? a battle? a conflict? a theater piece? a drama?
it's saturday night and i'm waiting for news. earlier today i listened to the weaselly-turtle McConnell, that terrified stooge Boehner (the scared one) and loads of talking heads and quasi-experts yammer home some trite bullshit about how everything's gonna be just fine or whatever.
intellectually, in my brain of brains, i don't care anymore, that is of course, if i ever really cared to begin with, but it's like my mind needed something to latch onto to get away from the wholesale slaughter going on inside me.
sometimes i could be extraordinarily cruel to myself for reasons i can't even imagine…..
so, i key into an ongoing trainwreck running-on in real time – the debt.
the murdoch thing disappeared from the headlines – along with the dead guy , who hasn't been even mentioned since the day he was found in his home on the 18th of july.
i'm running on low-grade headaches of late, the kind that reminds you how uncomfortable you are just often enough to let you know that, "this is not normal."
i huddle next to cablenews and listen to the warnings of dire terribleness, the kind where they remind you about the potential downgrading of the entire united states economy's credit rating. how moody's and standard and poor's could lower america's creditworthiness and all the hoo-haa that'll result because of this.
these are the same agencies that raved about Lehman Brothers who tanked, Bear Stearns who was sold for pennies and Merrill Lynch who was sold for dimes.
three years ago these bastions of business foresight and wisdom were bought and blindfolded.
i wonder why the greatest economy on earth (well, what was the greatest economy on earth) couldn't polish a few apples and carry some chocolates to those same corporate schoolmarms and squeeze a little favor from the same darlings. we've got enough borrowed cash to grease a bigger economy than greece, right?
a ratings agency? no problem….
re/ this great economy – now it's just a gang of hustlers and shills being groomed and plucked by my below-the-beach-located friends who i visited a couple of nights back, but that's another story.
i just visited my friend.
he reminds me of me when i was dancing the cancer calypso a few years back. we talked about this load of hooey going on in washington.
he told me that his sweetheart across the earth told him that the debt-deal was made and it probably happened while i drove to his house.
all my hours of angst for nothing.
like missing the bus when i went into the bodega for a yoo-hoo, walking outside only to see the red lights fade away before me.
like i give a damn.
the screws will be set, as always.
they will deal under the deck.
now, about that umbo box……


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For Stephen Harper's Conservatives, war is a big deal -- as long as it generates good ad copy. This government is spending $28 million to commemorate a war that happened two hundred years ago. But, as veterans gather at the War Memorial on Parliament Hill tomorrow, they will be engaged in yet another battle with the Harperites to remember the soldiers who have returned from Canada's wars -- most recently the War in Afghanistan. Tom Walkom writes in today's Toronto Star:
This week's appearance on Parliament Hill of disabled veterans and military widows critical of the government was just the latest chapter in an ongoing dispute.
Disabled veterans had to take Ottawa to court once to stop it clawing back portions of their pensions.
Now a separate group of vets is suing the government over another pension issue — Ottawa's decision to replace lifetime disability pensions with a cheaper, one-time, lump-sum payment.
In the first court case, Stephen Harper's government spent $750,000 in legal fees fighting its own vets and conceded defeat only after the judge ruled Ottawa's clawbacks blatantly unfair.
In the second case, Ottawa remains obdurate.
Hypocrisy has been the byword for this government ever since it came to power. But it is particularly galling that these armchair warriors should treat Canada's living veterans with such disrespect. However, it's worth remembering that Mr. Harper defined contempt as being outvoted in the House of Commons.


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DOVER— Perhaps the only thing more popular than the spanakopita at the Dover Greek Festival was the sense of tradition felt by those both organizing and attending the annual event.
On Friday evening, dozens of people came to the Hellenic Center on Long Hill Road to enjoy food, music, festivities and good company as many have done for decades.
Dennis Kostis, co-chair of the festival, said the yearly event attracts thousands through the door and into the food line. One by one, he rang up dinner orders behind the cash register while platefuls of spinach pie, lamb, fish, souvlakia, and other treats passed by in the hands of hungry festivalgoers.
He said the festival began in the mid 1980s, but became a yearly event in 1995.
"What I like about it is working with our own people and seeing us all come together," he said. Proceeds from the event help the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Dover as well as local charities such as the Dover Police charities, My Friends Place, fuel assistance and many others.
"It brings the community together and the parishioners," Evelyn Savage, a volunteer, said.
Many of the attendants are parishioners at the church, and many come simply for the fun of it.
Walter and Beverly Ross have been going for the last three years, they said, and were enjoying platefuls of Greek cuisine Friday evening as tables at the Hellenic Center began to fill with patrons.
"The food is awesome," they said.
The variety and quality of the homemade dinner items and pastries was a huge draw for most who visited, as was the people responsible for making each dish.
"The people are very pleasant," Geraldine Crowley, said.
Paul Maskwa, responsible for purchasing the food that will serve between 26,000 and 28,000 people over the course of the two-day event, said the event is more about community than anything else, but the food really stands out.
"That's how many meals we'll go through," he said of the expected number of visitors to the Greek festival.
Six different baking sessions were held in the weeks leading up to the festival where volunteers spend their time baking the baklava and other goodies that lined the pastry table, like the 1,400 cookies that one baking session yielded.
He said at least 12 local businesses help to support the event and planning begins early in the spring.
"People look forward to coming back each year," he said.
In addition to the food, diners were entertained by kitchen staff who came out for a traditional Greek dance.
Standing behind the bar, Nick Kostis, said beverages like the Mythos Greek beer and Ouza, a black licorice-flavored alcohol and the brandy flavored Metaxa are chosen based on the popularity of previous years. He said sometimes people come up and ask him to just give them something Greek and he surprises them with the drink he chooses.
"The whole sense of community thing is pretty great," he said.
Enjoying one of the Mythos beers and a hearty dinner, Mary and Tim Odell, who have been coming to the event for about 20 years, said attending is as much a tradition to them as the music, food, and dance is.
"It's just tradition," Mary said.
And that's what organizers said the event really came down to, involving the community in their culture.
"We just pass on our traditions," Savage said.
Greek Festival in Dover a tradition of fun for all
DOVER— Perhaps the only thing more popular than the spanakopita at the Dover Greek Festival was the sense of tradition felt by those both organizing and attending the annual event.


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Sweet Inspirations were founded by Cissy Houston' [mother of Whitney Houston, and sister of Lee Warrick 'herself the mother of well-known Dionne Warwick'). And Sylvia Shemwell
Myrna Smith. Estelle Brown joined the team soon after, and the line-up that was to become an Atlantic recording
group was set.
The group sang backup for many stars, including
Wilson Pickett, Solomon Burke, Esther Phillips and Aretha Franklin.
In a recording session on March 28, 1967, The Sweet Inspirations provided the back up vocals for Van Morrison on his classic hit "Brown Eyed Girl". It was released in June 1967 and rose to #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. In October 2007, Morrison was awarded a Million-Air certificate by BMI for 8 million air plays of "Brown Eyed Girl"
The Sweet Inspirations recorded by themselves for the first time in April 1967 for Atlantic Records. That session produced the first two singles released by Atlantic, a version of "Why (Am I Treated
So Bad)," a song previously recorded by The Staple Singers and a soulful version of "Let It Be Me", a French song which had been a pop and R&B hit
for Betty Everett & Jerry Butler in 1964.
Though their first singles lacked
much chart success, Atlantic was committed to the group, and an August session in Memphis yielded the bulk of songs used for the group's self-titled debut album, released in the late
fall of 1967.
Within a month of their chart climb,
the group began work on their second album - a gospel record entitled Songs Of Faith & Inspiration. It was released
in 1968 Shortly after cutting the gospel set, the group was back in Atlantic's studios
to record their third album. The late April session yielded a version of The Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody", which became the group's fourth R&B chart hit, and a
version of The Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody," which surprisingly gave the group a charted, though minor hit.
In 1968, the group did studio work on Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland
album, performing backing vocals for the track "Burning of the Midnight Lamp."
In 1969, The Sweet Inspirations began working with Elvis Presley as both background singers and his warm-up act, as well as doing occasional 'live' dates
with Aretha Franklin.
The Sweet Inspirations' fourth
album was recorded in February 1969 in Muscle Shoals, Alabama with the famed Muscle Shoals rhythm section, who had played on hit recordings by a number of acts including
Aretha Franklin, Percy Sledge, and Clarence Carter.
Cissy's last
recording session with The Sweet Inspirations was in October 1969, since she wanted to pursue a solo career and concentrate on her family. The session produced the group's
biggest R&B hit in some time. A Gamble & Huff composition, "Gotta Find Me A Brand New Lover" appeared on
the group's fifth album (Sweet Sweet Soul).
The remainder
of the album was recorded in November 1970, with Sylvia, Estelle, Myrna and new member Ann Williams, a friend of Estelle's who stayed for
what turned out to be the group's last full Atlantic album. Also included from that set are "That's The Way
My Baby Is", and "Flash In The Pan". Ann disappeared during a tour with Elvis Presley and did not return to
the group.
A final Atlantic session in June 1970 brought the group (now a trio with Estelle, Myrna, and Sylvia) its last two singles for the label:
"This World" (from the musical "The Me Nobody Knows"), and "Evidence".
In 1973, Estelle, Myrna, and Sylvia recorded an album for Stax Records. By 1979, Estelle had quit the group and was replaced by Gloria Brown, who toured with them but didn't
sing on The Sweet Inspirations' last LP, Hot Butterfly, on RSO, with singer Pat Terry featured on the actual recording. They group broke up shortly thereafter.
In 1978, the group sang backing vocals on Frankie Valli's No.1 hit "Grease" from the film of the same name.
The Sweet Inspirations (Estelle, Myrna and Sylvia) got back together again in 1994, with new member Portia Griffin. They perform at Elvis Presley convention and tribute shows none more
bigger than the 'Elvis the concert experience' where past members of Elvis's group perform live on stage
with Elvis on the big screen. Soon to be back on tour in europe in 2010.
suffered a stroke in 2001 that kept her from performing with the group. and on February 13, 2010 Sylvia passed away.
In 2004 Kelvin Ford of 'yesterday once more' invited the
sweet inspirations over to the uk to perform back up vocals for Colin Paul and the persuaders. And on the 15th
september live in great yarmouth' Colin Paul and the persuaders and the sweet inspirations took to the stage to what
was to become a memorable show. So much so that the following year at the same venue on the same date' a packed house
witnessed a second and far superior show.b oth shows were filmed and On returning to the united states, myrna smith personally
phoned Colin paul and told him that out of everybody they had worked with' he had the most sincere and closest
voice to Elvis. Then thanked him for a wonderful show. Colin has remained in contact with the girls and plans are in place
to work with the sweets again soon.
in 2009 Portia' Myrna and Estelle recorded a new album 'in the right place' and an Ep of
six classic Elvis songs. entitled The Sweets sing Elvis.In February 2010 while on tour with Elvis The
Concert in the uk Myrna took ill and On Christmas Eve 2010 69-year-old Myrna Smith passed
away in a hospital in Los Angeles.
on a personal note The best shows
I ever did were with The Sweets, I will eternally be grateful for their friendship and the wonderful shows I did with them.
Colin Paul.


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Transfer objects to and from Azure Blob Storage using .NET
This repository contains a sample project to help you get started using Azure Storage with .NET Core and C# as the development language.
To complete this tutorial:
If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.
Create a storage account using the Azure portal
First, create a new general-purpose storage account to use for this quickstart.
- Go to the Azure portal and log in using your Azure account.
- On the Hub menu, select New > Storage > Storage account - blob, file, table, queue.
- Enter a unique name for your storage account. Keep these rules in mind for naming your storage account:
- The name must be between 3 and 24 characters in length.
- The name may contain numbers and lowercase letters only.
- Make sure that the following default values are set:
- Deployment model is set to Resource manager.
- Account kind is set to General purpose.
- Performance is set to Standard.
- Replication is set to Locally Redundant storage (LRS).
- Select your subscription.
- For Resource group, create a new one and give it a unique name.
- Select the Location to use for your storage account.
- Check Pin to dashboard and click Create to create your storage account.
After your storage account is created, it is pinned to the dashboard. Click on it to open it. Under Settings, click Access keys. Select the primary key and copy the associated Connection string to the clipboard, then paste it into a text editor for later use.
Put the connection string in an environment variable
This solution requires a connection string be stored in an environment variable securely on the machine running the sample. Follow one of the examples below depending on your Operating System to create the environment variable. If using windows close out of your open IDE or shell and restart it to be able to read the environment variable.
export storageconnectionstring="<yourconnectionstring>"
setx storageconnectionstring "<yourconnectionstring>"
At this point, you can run this application. It creates its own file to upload and download, and then cleans up after itself by deleting everything at the end.
Run the application
Navigate to your directory where the project file (.csproj) resides and run the application with the
dotnet run command.
dotnet run
More information
The Azure storage documentation includes a rich set of tutorials and conceptual articles, which serve as a good complement to the samples.
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact firstname.lastname@example.com with any additional questions or comments.


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You read correctly, Off Hours is nearing its end. But I'd like to give a break to the artists who have been working ceaselessly to make Off Hours what it is. It's time for some "new blood" and I'm asking for volunteers.
We have 6 - 8 pages that have not been assigned. Let me be clear: I am not asking one person to do 6 - 8 pages. You might only do 1 or 2 pages. But we need several artists if we're going to get all the pages completed.
I've got the scripting done, we just need artists to implement the scripts. I need to know who's doing these pages and get them wrapped up PRONTO! It would help if you're already familiar with Off Hours but it's not critical.
If you're interested, just respond to this thread or email me at email@example.com and give me a link to your comic. How's that for simple? B)
Please respond right away!
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West Nile case confirmed in SA
A San Antonio man infected with West Nile virus was hospitalized at San Antonio Military Medical Center, military officials said Wednesday, adding they also had found the mosquitoes carrying the virus in water sources at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston.
The patient, described only as an older man, was in stable condition late Wednesday at SAMMC, but the military is also treating a second, suspected case as an outpatient, this one a woman, said spokesman Dewey Mitchell.
"I think he is improving," Mitchell said, of the confirmed case. "I don't know if he is totally out of the woods."
The Texas Department of State Health Services recently issued a statewide alert, warning of a spike in West Nile cases – particularly in North Texas. Statewide, 158 people have been infected by the mosquito-borne virus, and five have died. About two-thirds of the cases were in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and included two deaths.
It was unclear if civilian health officials were looking into any other potential cases. Officials with the Metropolitan Health District were unavailable for comment late Wednesday. The state health department listed only one case in Bexar County.
People get West Nile infections from mosquitoes, which in turn pick up the virus after feeding on birds and mammals. While the vast majority of cases are mild and clear on their own, West Nile can be serious and even fatal if it invades the nervous system.
Symptoms can range from fever, headache, body ache, nausea and drowsiness in the mild form, to stiff neck, visual problems, body tremors, mental confusion, memory loss and seizures in the serious form.
Tests done July 18 at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston found West Nile in three of seven mosquito pools. All three pools were at the post's honor guard stables, which were treated and cleared of the virus.
Army Lt. Col. John Completo, chief of preventive medicine at Brooke Army Medical Center, said he was notified of the confirmed case on Aug. 6.
State health officials said the rise in infections this year are a result of a warm winter and recent rains. On average, the state has 49 cases by this time of year, compared to 158 this year. Brent Boller, a spokesman for Joint Base San Antonio, the logistics arm for the city's three installations, said steps have been taken to mitigate the problem, including placing larvae-killing bacteria in pools and fogging some areas, as well as continuing surveys.
People should empty standing water, drain children's wading pools, and change water in flowerpots, bird baths and bowls for animals. They should use insect repellant and wear long-sleeved shirts and pants when outside, and should remain indoors at dusk and dawn — prime time for mosquitoes.
More Information
West Nile virus strikes San Antonio
The report that a man has been hospitalized here after contracting the West Nile virus underscores a new trend in Texas, where a warm winter and recent rains have led to a higher-than-usual number of cases.
It is the first confirmed case in Bexar County.
A look at the number of cases in the hardest-hit areas in the state:
Dallas County: 72, two deaths
Tarrant County: 36
Denton County: 9
Harris County: 5
Collin County: 5
Texas Department of State Health Services
Centers for Disease Control
Staff Writer Don Finley contributed to this report.


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little girl in the rain, originally uploaded by unpink
one moment, originally uploaded by unpink.
Keeping all of my Texas friends in my prayers this weekend-
Keeping all of my Texas friends in my prayers this weekend-
Gorgeous pictures!
fun shots! I love Flickr!
She is sure a walking Disney advertisement!
Most days they are. :) They love them some princesses and fairies. And those are jammies- she was so excited to see it was raining that day and finally use her new umbrella she didn't even get dressed first.
She is simply adorable.
I stayed at home all weekend. It was wonderful. Painting, cleaning and organizing. I am a wild mama.
Cute photos! Love the spot coloring & framing in the first one. :)
Alright - that's it. I need to go see what this Flikr is all about....ugh.
Great shots!
My goodness, what CUTE pictures!!
(Got any more muffins to share? That sounds yummy right now...)
My four-year-old daughter was looking over my shoulder as I was reading your blog and now desperately wants her own princess jammies, umbrella, and boots!! Great pics!!!
Your princess is a real darling. Her boots are priceless!
Loni- Disneyshopping.com!!! I watch for their sales...those jammies only cost me $6!!!!!!! And the rain boots were Target. If you shop online don't forget to go through Big Crumb (the link is on my sidebar) every month I get cash back in my PayPal account!!
Great photos. She is adorable and I LOVE the outfit.
Those photos are just precious!!!
I love the pics!!


text: Many milk production facilities were nationalised during the Chavez era [Reuters]Valencia, Venezuela – Despite living in an oil-rich country and making a decent salary, Leonardo Gonzalez often can't buy milk in Venezuela. Grocery stores are full of fine imported chocolates, Chilean wines and frozen fish, but basic staples including fresh milk, sugar and eggs are often unavailable. "People should get as much milk as they wish to buy. That is how it used to be in Venezuela," Gonzalez, the purchasing manager at Kromi Market, a grocery store, told Al Jazeera in October 2012. "Now, people just get what they can find." Described as an "upper middle income country" by the World Bank, Venezuela wouldn't typically be associated with food shortages. A combination of price controls, factory expropriations and alleged "hoarding" by some companies have contributed to scarcity of some products. "The problem began probably five years ago. Sometimes the situation improves, sometimes it gets really bad," Jose Quevedo, an employee at the Cotoperi Bakery in Valencia, Venezuela's third-largest city, told Al Jazeera. "We used to get six to seven packs of milk a day. Now we only get one to two packs daily, and mostly from unpopular brands." Skim milk is especially elusive, consumers say. Milk is not the only basic item missing from store shelves. Harina Pan, special flour used to make Arepas, a popular local dish eaten at breakfast, is often out of stock. 'More demand' Officials say milk production has increased since the current government first won elections in 1998. "We have had greater production, but there is more demand for milk," Paulo Ulloa, a government official in charge of distribution in Carabobo state, told Al Jazeera. "People often buy 10 cartons at once and that causes shortages." In Depth More from Venezuela: Chavez support high among poor Cuban doctors prescribe hope In Pictures: Venezuela's graffiti Chavez savours victory Expropriations stir controversy Others blame government policies, rather than thirsty customers, for the shortages. "Fundamentally, the regulation of milk prices is the problem," Rafael Araque, a spokesman for the National Federation of Breeders, an industry group, told Al Jazeera. "Producers are at the point of bankruptcy… diversification is the only way to keep afloat in the market." Some dairy farmers have switched from producing fresh milk to yogurt or non-refrigerated UHT milk to avoid price controls. Araque cites rising prices for inputs as another issue affecting producers. During 2011, inflation rose above 25 per cent, one of the highest rates in the world. Tight currency controls mean business owners cannot enter currency exchange shops or banks to buy US dollars, except under exceptional circumstances. Accordingly, they say they are unable to buy machines, fertilisers and other products. "Animals are bought by the government [from producers] at the official exchange rate," Araque said. "Producers buy everything at the black market rate - the materials, even the animals." Socialist economics High oil prices in recent years allowed for increased public spending, but a decline in the value of crude could cause a full-fledged currency crisis, according to some economists, further inflaming shortages. Government supporters contend that before the "21st-century socialism" pioneered by now deceased President Hugo Chavez, much of the population couldn't afford milk in the first place. The government has been distributing a quarter carton of milk per child to schools across the country, Ulloa said, as part of the "scholar glass of milk" campaign. Allocating milk to needy school children is more important than keeping the stores fully stocked, government supporters say. Mercal, a grocery-store chain where the government sells subisidised food in poor neighbourhoods, endears Chavez to his working-class supporters. Some of the products sold here, including Bolivian soy beans, are shipped to Venezuela in exchange for crude oil. These stores frequently suffer shortages, but lower-class consumers are often happy to have access to cheaper food. "The shortages affects us because we lose a hook; a person who comes to buy milk and cannot find it, may leave the store without buying anything. By noon, there is no milk left in refrigerators." - Leonardo Gonzalez, manager at Kromi Market The household poverty rate in Venezuela dropped from 49 per cent in 1998 to 26.7 per cent in 2011, according to the Centre for Economic and Policy Research, and Chavez's redistribution policies have been credited for the improvement. Inequality has also fallen significantly. Self-sufficiency in food has been a goal of the state, but that aim seems unlikely to be achieved in the near future. Expropriations Government-backed expropriations affecting "monopolies and landlords" who "tried to starve the population" began in 2002, said Rafael Calles, the mayor of Guanare, a city in Venezuela's west. Now that Chavez has won an unprecedented third term by a significant margin, expropriations could increase, the mayor said. "If we want to move from capitalism to socialism, companies must transform from the hands of private people to the workers," Calles told Al Jazeera. These calls from elected officials worry some farm operators and consumers. "The government has expropriated many companies, and one of the most affected sectors is agriculture," said Quevedo. "They are not producing enough milk." Back in his grocery store, Leonardo Gonzalez is worried about the future. Shoppers often arrive in the early morning, waiting in lines for the store to open so they can have first dibs on new supplies. "The shortages affect us because we lose a hook. A person who comes to buy milk and cannot find it may leave the store without buying anything," he said. "By noon, there is no milk left in refrigerators." SOURCE: Al Jazeera ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chris Arsenault and Maria Isabel Heshmatpour Politics Latin America Venezuela


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In today's world, there's a lot of talk about consumer privacy issues. Glatco Credit Union wants you - our member/owners - to know that we appreciate the trust that you place in us. Protecting personal information and using it in a manner consistent with your expectations is a high priority for everyone associated with Glatco Credit Union. Our credit union stands behind the following privacy statement:
Glatco Credit Union will collect only the personal information that is necessary to conduct our business. That means just what is necessary to provide competitive financial products and services - no more.
Glatco Credit Union will protect your personal information. Our credit union will maintain strong controls to ensure that member information in our computers and our files is protected. We pledge to do all that we can to protect against unauthorized access to personal records, ensure accuracy and integrity of communications and transactions, and protect member confidentiality.
You will always have access to your information. As a member of Glatco Credit Union, you will always have the opportunity to review your information and make necessary changes to ensure that our records are complete and accurate.
Glatco Credit Union will only share information when absolutely necessary. We will only share information to administer the products and services we provide, when required to do so by the government, or when we partner with other businesses to offer a broader array of products and services or other opportunities to better serve you, our member/owners.
Glatco Credit Union will only partner with businesses that follow strict confidentiality requirements. The business we select will offer products designed to enhance our members' economic well-being. Under no circumstances will we authorize these firms to charge your account without your express consent, and we will not sell member information to telemarketing firms.
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text: Have you managed to get an JavaFX running on the emulator. I've tested with one of ours and while it works great on the real device. It crashes in the emulator. > V/GLASS ( 1121): JNI call notifyViewEvent to lensView 0x1d30041a > W/System.err( 1121): java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Pixel format BYTE_BGRA_PRE not supported on this device > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.prism.es2.ES2Texture.create(ES2Texture.java:103) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.prism.es2.ES2ResourceFactory.createTexture(ES2ResourceFactory.java:86) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.prism.impl.ps.PaintHelper.initGradientTextures(PaintHelper.java:118) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.prism.impl.ps.PaintHelper.getGradientTexture(PaintHelper.java:141) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.prism.impl.ps.BaseShaderContext.validatePaintOp(BaseShaderContext.java:450) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.prism.impl.ps.BaseShaderContext.validatePaintOp(BaseShaderContext.java:385) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.prism.impl.ps.BaseShaderGraphics.renderGeneralRoundedPgram(BaseShaderGraphics.java:847) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.prism.impl.ps.BaseShaderGraphics.renderGeneralRoundedRect(BaseShaderGraphics.java:607) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.prism.impl.ps.BaseShaderGraphics.fillRoundRect(BaseShaderGraphics.java:1549) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGRegion.renderBackgroundRectanglesDirectly(NGRegion.java:1110) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGRegion.renderBackgroundRectangle(NGRegion.java:847) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGRegion.renderAsRectangle(NGRegion.java:750) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGRegion.renderContent(NGRegion.java:571) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGNode.doRender(NGNode.java:2043) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGNode.render(NGNode.java:1951) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGGroup.renderContent(NGGroup.java:225) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGRegion.renderContent(NGRegion.java:575) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGNode.doRender(NGNode.java:2043) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGNode.render(NGNode.java:1951) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGGroup.renderContent(NGGroup.java:225) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGRegion.renderContent(NGRegion.java:575) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGNode.renderForClip(NGNode.java:2282) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGNode.renderRectClip(NGNode.java:2176) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGNode.renderClip(NGNode.java:2202) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGNode.doRender(NGNode.java:2037) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGNode.render(NGNode.java:1951) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGGroup.renderContent(NGGroup.java:225) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGRegion.renderContent(NGRegion.java:575) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGNode.doRender(NGNode.java:2043) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.sg.prism.NGNode.render(NGNode.java:1951) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.ViewPainter.doPaint(ViewPainter.java:469) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.ViewPainter.paintImpl(ViewPainter.java:324) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.PresentingPainter.run(PresentingPainter.java:97) > W/System.err( 1121): at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:422) > W/System.err( 1121): at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:279) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.tk.RenderJob.run(RenderJob.java:58) > W/System.err( 1121): at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1112) > W/System.err( 1121): at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:587) > W/System.err( 1121): at com.sun.javafx.tk.quantum.QuantumRenderer$PipelineRunnable.run(QuantumRenderer.java:129) > W/System.err( 1121): at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:841) I have to say that I've never seen a crapier thing than this emulator. Could we produce x86 binaries so that we can use genymotion? Tom On 09.01.14 11:05, Johan Vos wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Doing this step by step, we probably need a solution on the use of JDK 8 > language features first. As you mentioned in > https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-35165, there is probably > (unfortunately) no real option apart from having different source > directories. How do we tackle this? > I think we only need to have the affected files in a different directory, > but then we need a build mechanism that use the alternate directory first > in the Android(/iOS?) case. How can this be done without polluting the > build system? Also, we need to make sure that general changes in affected > files are also changed in the alternate directory. > It seems we somehow need a fork of the javafx source files, do the > modifications, and merge changes from the upstream into the fork whenever > changes occur. This is how we currently do it on bitbucket, but I don't > think that is an option here? > > Apart from this building issue, I agree that we need to have a solution for > the Java 8 features. Retrolambda probably fixes the lambda > incompatibilities (haven't used it yet, but at least from a theoretical > point, it should be possible to use this). The default interfaces is more > tricky, but we'll have to come up with a solution for this as well. > > - Johan > > > 2014/1/2 Stephen F Northover <steve.x.northover at oracle.com> > >> Hi Johan, >> >> I looked and the kinds of changes that you are making in >> https://bitbucket.org/javafxports/android-graphics-rt and I can see that >> they fall into a number of different categories: >> >> 1) JDK8 Language Features >> >> - work arounds for ObservableList default methods >> - work arounds for the use of lambda (in test and example code) >> - work arounds for the lack of final declarations (in test and example >> code) >> >> I have entered https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-35165 to track the >> defender method problem. >> >> Eventually, OpenJFX will embrace lambda expressions and it is likely that >> iOS and Android will need to use RetroLambda. When we embrace lambda, >> there will be a JIRA that covers the work and you an watch progress there. >> In the meantime, you could look into RetroLambda now and see if it will >> help you. Since it works on byte codes, you won't be able to step in the >> debugger because the source won't match the executable. This might not be >> an issue for you. ASIDE: I've attempted to build the code under Android >> Studio and it runs out of method handles in dex during compile. Any ideas? >> >> In the case of final declarations, I think that there are so few of them >> right now that we can just fix them as then sneak in. You will need to >> keep track of them as they happen. Eventually, if you earn commit rights, >> you can just fix them. >> >> 2) JDK8 Library (modules/compat/src) >> >> - missing classes and annotations (such as FunctionalInterface) >> - missing API in JDK7 classes (I thought I had gotten rid of these) >> >> This code is not part of OpenJFX and should not be in the repo. Instead, >> you need to maintain and build the code somewhere else and make a jar >> available as part of your build. For example, when OpenJFX is built, it >> gets the SWT jar from Eclipse.org. You will need to do something similar >> when OpenJFX for Android or iOS is built. >> >> 3) Android Build Files and Tools (android-tools and more) >> >> - files like dalvik.gradle and shell scripts etc. >> >> Some of this is being tracked by >> https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-35123 . I suggest that you enter >> JIRA for each part that you want moved over. For example, android-tools is >> not covered by this JIRA. >> >> 4) Android Specific Files (New and Changed files) >> >> - src/dalvik >> - android.h, LensApplication.c etc. >> >> You will need to enter JIRA for these. I'm not sure which changes are >> needed and which are not. FX embedded committers will need to go over the >> changes as Android and Lens share the same code. >> >> 5) "Unnecessary Changes" >> >> - these are mostly due to being out of sync with OpenJFX >> - some of these are related to FunctionalInterface which you should add to >> your JDK8 compat library >> >> As more of your code moves over to OpenJFX, the list of changes here will >> become zero. I suggest that you browse all the changes that you have and >> get rid of as many as you can while preparing patches for OpenJFX. >> >> Best of luck Johan! Our goal is to bootstrap you port as quickly as we >> can subject to the rules of the OpenJDK which we must follow. Please enter >> JIRA as necessary to track your work and we can interact there. >> >> Happy New Year! >> >> Steve >> >> On 2013-12-31 3:47 AM, Johan Vos wrote: >> >> Steve, >> >> The main issue is currently getting bootstrapped. If we want to build the >> Dalvik-runtime using open-jfx, we need a location on where to put the >> dalvik files. This is what I tried to describe in >> https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-35123 >> >> Please note that we're not really doing an Android port, but a Dalvik >> port. The (excellent) work done by Oracle in the past allowed for both >> using Dalvik as well as an Oracle-internal VM. There are no indications >> that the latter is ever going to fly, so I don't want to have an >> abstraction on top of {Dalvik, OracleVM} if only the first one exists. I do >> hope there will be other VM's (Oracle VM and more) later, as that will make >> it easier to have Java 8 and so on, but right now we have to stick with >> what we have (dalvik). >> >> Without these files, we can supply patches for existing files in >> open-jfx, but by no means we can build the runtime. I do understand it is >> not trivial to "add" a directory for the sake of a port, but then, a port >> is not trivial as well. I'm open to all suggestions. >> The longer we wait, however, with synchronizing the bitbucket repo with >> the open-jfx repo, the harder it gets. Right now, I have no other option >> than committing all changes in the bitbucket repo, as I need to be able to >> build a runtime. We had 419 downloads of the runtime in 10 days, so clearly >> there are people interested in this. >> >> - Johan >> >> >> 2013/12/20 Stephen F Northover <steve.x.northover at oracle.com> >> >>> Hi Johan, >>> >>> This is very good news. We need to work together so that you are able to >>> run OpenJFX unmodified. This may not be practical for all sorts of >>> reasons, but we need to seriously explore this and work towards this goal. >>> Please open JIRA for the various problems you are seeing and we can try to >>> deal with them there and on this list. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Steve >>> >>> >>> On 2013-12-20 12:56 PM, Johan Vos wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> As you might know, 2 months ago I started a community effort for >>>> "porting" >>>> JavaFX to Android. Today, we released build 3 of the JavaFX Android >>>> runtime, which can be downloaded at >>>> https://bitbucket.org/javafxports/android/downloads/dalvik-sdk-b3.zipwith >>>> instructions on how to build applications at >>>> >>>> https://bitbucket.org/javafxports/android/wiki/Building%20and%20deploying%20JavaFX%20Applications >>>> >>>> Building the runtime itself is explained at >>>> >>>> https://bitbucket.org/javafxports/android/wiki/Building%20the%20JavaFX%20Android%20Runtime >>>> >>>> At this moment, most of the Ensemble suite runs on Android (positive >>>> reports starting with Android 3.x). >>>> >>>> The downloadable runtime is created using the bitbucket project at >>>> https://bitbucket.org/javafxports/android-graphics-rt which is a fork of >>>> the openjfx-graphics-rt mirror on bitbucket. We merge often, so all >>>> changes >>>> made in openjfx-graphics should be in the Android runtime as well. >>>> >>>> There are a number of issues left: >>>> * touch map issues causing applications to crash if "touched too much". I >>>> created a JIRA ticket for this and will create another one (related, but >>>> not same cause) later. >>>> * Java 7 only. Currently, applications cannot make use of Java 8 >>>> features. >>>> Dalvik has no invokedynamic, so we can't do lambda's. >>>> * we just started, so there will be plenty of other bugs. >>>> >>>> We are also spending efforts in documentation and community interaction. >>>> The google group javafxandroid has a pretty active mailinglist. Build 2 >>>> of >>>> the runtime has been downloaded 291 times in 2 weeks, and build 3 has >>>> been >>>> downloaded 60 times since it was released a couple of hours ago. So there >>>> is definitely community interest and involvement. >>>> Clearly, there is involvement from Oracle as well. Most of the effort so >>>> far has been done by Tomas Brandalik and the Prague team. I was >>>> positively >>>> surprised to see the amount of native code that was already available for >>>> Android. >>>> >>>> After a few discussions, it has been agreed that we should try to >>>> synchronize as much as possible with the OpenJFX repositories, without >>>> jeopardizing the stability and performance of the main ports, and without >>>> running into legal trouble. >>>> >>>> I will run a diff on the current code versus the OpenJFX code, and I will >>>> try to create issues with patches for sending the changes back to >>>> OpenJFX. >>>> Not all changes can go back to OpenJFX. We had to add a number of classes >>>> that are missing on Dalvik and that are used by OpenJFX, and clearly we >>>> can't commit those in OpenJFX. >>>> >>>> We had to make a number of changes to JavaFX files as well, in order to >>>> make them compile with JDK 1.7. Most of these were about removing >>>> Function >>>> and adding implementations for the default interface methods on >>>> ObservableList. >>>> I have no clear opinion on how these changed files could somehow be used >>>> from within OpenJFX, but I'm very open to suggestions. >>>> >>>> Finally, keep in mind that this is a community effort. Nobody is paying >>>> for >>>> this, and it is done in our spare time. I'm doing my best to move forward >>>> as soon as I can, but I have other things to work on as well of course. >>>> However, the collaboration between the Java community and Oracle (mainly >>>> Tomas) has been great so far. It is in the interest of anyone working on >>>> or >>>> with Java to show the world that JavaFX runs on Android devices. >>>> >>>> - Johan >>>> >>> >>> >> >>


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I have encountered the following problem:
We have a web application based on lansas paradigm of signaling
events for switching between reusables (panels).
In a reusable let's say A I have a list and whenever I double click a row we want
the application to switch to another panel (reusable) B and run a function there
than populates some fields an lists on screen.
So my code in A looks like
The 1st line sets the policy property and the second signals the event ShowINFO (#gApplicaton has also Scope(*APPLICATION))
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Evtroutine Handling(#BROWSE.ItemDoubleClick)
#B.policy := #POLNUM * poliy is an auto property in reusable B, also B has Scope(*APPLICATION) in A
#gApplication.Show_INFO * this hides this screen of A then enables and shouws reusable B and signals the event ShowInfo
Within the reusable B I have the following:
The problem is that even though the code within BeginSearch() runs normally
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Evtroutine Handling(#gApplication.ShowINFO)
If (#policy > 0)
#POLNUMX := #policy * #POLNUMX is a visual field
#COM_OWNER.BeginSearch() * this returns some info on the screen
#policy := -1
the results don't show on the screen.
But whenever the #POLNUMX is hardcoded e.g.
everything runs fine.
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Evtroutine Handling(#gApplication.ShowINFO)
#policy := 1249469
If (#policy > 0)
#POLNUMX := #policy * #POLNUMX is a visual field
#policy := -1
any ideas?


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Bishops Itchington, Warwickshire Family History Guide
Bishop's Itchington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Warwickshire. Chadshunt is a chapelry of Bishop's Itchington.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin: 1559
Nonconformists include: General Baptist
Parishes adjacent to Bishop's Itchington
Historical Descriptions
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BISHOPS-ITCHINGTON, a parish in Southam district, Warwick; on the river Itchin and on the Oxford and Rugby railway, 2 miles SSE of Harbury station, and 3¾ SW of Southam. It has a post office under Rugby. Acres, with Chapel-Ascote, 3,026. Real property, £4,586. Pop., 598. Houses, 131. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacies of Chadshunt and Gaydon, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £416. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is good; and there are an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £22.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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So I compared this to the prosilver overall_header.thml to the one in this theme and looks like the whole site description section has been removed therefor relying solely on an image for the site logo and the text portion from your ACP will never show up.iorG19 wrote:no, is not! that is only from this style; if you change style id fromLumpy Burgertushie wrote:admin panel, general tab, board settings. you have to put something in the blanks for site name and description for them to show up on the page.
style=1or ... nothing. Just delete preview viewing main /index.php and you will see!
Without looking into it more right now I cant give you a quick way to fix it but if NextGen doesnt have a solution, I will look into it tomorrow.
So your option is to figure it out on your own, wait for NextGen, myself, or someone else to figure it out, or just make an image with the info you want and use that.