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Spinach & ricotta cannelloni
Keep a few portions of this vegetarian classic in the freezer and you'll never be stuck for a satisfying supper
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal711
- fat47g
- saturates27g
- carbs44g
- sugars15g
- fibre5g
- protein30g
- salt1.59g
For the tomato sauce
- 3 tbsp olive oil
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- 8 garlic cloves, crushed
- 3 tbsp caster sugar
- 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
- 4 x 400g cans chopped chopped tomatoes
- small bunch basil leaves
For the topping
- 2 x 250g tubs mascarpone
- 3 tbsp milk
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- 85g parmesan (or vegetarian alternative), grated
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- 2 x 125g balls mozzarella, sliced
For the filling
- 1kg spinach
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- 100g parmesan (or vegetarian alternative), grated
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- 3 x 250g tubs ricotta
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- large pinch grated nutmeg
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- 400g dried cannelloni
First make the tomato sauce. Heat the oil in a large pan and fry the garlic for 1 min. Add the sugar, vinegar, tomatoes and some seasoning and simmer for 20 mins, stirring occasionally, until thick. Add the basil and divide the sauce between 2 or more shallow ovenproof dishes (see Tips for freezing, below). Set aside. Make a sauce by beating the mascarpone with the milk until smooth, season, then set aside.
Put the spinach in a large colander and pour over a kettle of boiling water to wilt it (you may need to do this in batches). When cool enough to handle squeeze out the excess water. Roughly chop the spinach and mix in a large bowl with 100g Parmesan and ricotta. Season well with salt, pepper and the nutmeg.
Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Using a piping bag or plastic food bag with the corner snipped off, squeeze the filling into the cannelloni tubes. Lay the tubes, side by side, on top of the tomato sauce and spoon over the mascarpone sauce. Top with Parmesan and mozzarella. You can now freeze the cannelloni, uncooked, or you can cook it first and then freeze. Bake for 30-35 mins until golden and bubbling. Remove from oven and let stand for 5 mins before serving.
Recipe Tip
Tips for freezing cooked cannelloniFreeze individual cooked portions in ovenproof dishes or foil trays. Simply reduce the cooking time slightly when re-heating.
Recipe Tip
VariationsMake the recipe healthier by doubling the quantity of tomato sauce. Use to top cannelloni instead of creamy sauce. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs. To make it meaty, fill the cannelloni with a meat ragu or try adding some chopped fried bacon to the spinach mix.
Recipe Tip
Tips for freezingAllow the cannelloni to cool at room temperature before covering well with cling film, then freeze. Always freeze on the day you make it. Defrost uncooked cannelloni in the fridge overnight, then cook as per recipe. To cook from frozen: heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3 and cook, covered with foil, for 1 hr 25 mins. Remove foil, turn oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and cook, uncovered, for 20-30 mins.


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OCEAN CITY – City Council chambers at City Hall was packed last night as a group, General Employees for Organization, surfaced to express their grievances with the City Council and their intent to be granted collective bargaining.
Ocean City Public Works employee James Moxley, who works in the maintenance division, spoke on behalf of the General Employees for Organization on Tuesday evening.
Moxley said the general employees are requesting City Council amend the town charter to recognize municipal employees' rights to organize and collectively bargain. Moxley did not mention whether the employees are seeking binding interest arbitration as well.
Currently, Ocean City police officers have collective bargaining rights with binding interest arbitration as recourse, while town paramedics and fire personnel have collective bargaining. The cops had to get their rights through a referendum process, while the paramedics scored their rights through a simple council vote later.
Last month, The Dispatch caught wind that a large contingent of municipal employees was weighing their options to unionize. At that time it was reported that a document expressing the intent of general city employees to potentially create a union was circulating throughout the town, and approximately 80 percent of employees reportedly signed it.
Council President Jim Hall and Councilwoman Margaret Pillas responded that they had met with individual general employees to briefly discuss the matter but were not provided any grievances until the group organized and elected a representative.
This week, Moxley expressed a few of the group's grievance, the first being "equality.'
"There are other city employees who enjoy the right to collectively bargain and it is only proper to extend these rights to all," he said. "That is if everyone in this room can agree that there are no second-class employees. Furthermore, any reasoning for granting other groups collective bargaining rights can also directly be applied to general employees. Such as, attracting the best applicants for open positions …"
The next grievance was titled "rules and regulations."
"There is a lack of continuity regarding rules and regulations, regulations not only between different departments but also individual employees," Moxley said. "Managements styles, although vary, must not rise to be so diverse as to violate specific rules and guidelines spelled out clearly in the Ocean City employee hand book. We can't have different rules for different divisions, different rules for different people."
The last grievance Moxley listed was "proper advocating."
"At this time, the general employees feel there is a lack of people advocating," he said. "General employees must have an advocate to address issues and problems that arise on the job. This person must be an employee who can be trusted to share and keep their best interest at hand. Obviously, a superior city employee and even worse one close with upper management at City Hall is less than a desirable person to suit this job. As an advocate, this situation would only lead to mistrust and even fear for the employee and employees seeking help."
Moxley added the movement for general employees was taking place long before the erupt dismissal of former City Manager Dennis Dare, which shocked the municipal employees.
"Never before did Ocean City employees felt so naked … naked to the whims of a small majority," he said.
Moxley furthered that the general employees of Ocean City feel unappreciated by the people they work for, not the visitors or taxpayers, but by the council.
"The majority of employees feel dislike and to some degree despise members of the City Council," he said explaining that the increasing split vote of 4-3 among the council has created a lack of confidence.
Moxley concluded that the general employees no longer want to be held captive by the current or future "employee unfriendly councils".
"The general employees, although already doing the best for this city, granted collective bargaining rights probably would do even more for the city," he said. "Both the city and its employees will be better off when they are granted. Do the right thing, if not for the employees, but for the town of Ocean City, America's finest resort town."
The Mayor and City Council did not respond with any questions or comments. Moxley then asked, if the council was unwilling to amend the charter, what would it take to have the matter placed on the ballot in a future election.
"There is a procedure under state law to get on the ballot for a charter amendment by gathering sufficient signatures from the qualified voters of the town," City Solicitor Guy Ayres said.
Moxley asserted that there is also a procedure for the council to amend the charter.
"I just want to make it clear to the public … that everybody [council] is unanimously against amending the charter," he said.
Council President Jim Hall said the council has heard the complaints made and will take them into consideration.


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RA's Second Day Celebrates Independence, Service, and Renews Activism Call
Photo by Calvin Knight for RA Today
Delegates honor the legacy of LBJ and pledged to further his vision of quality public schools for all children
July 4, 2010
On the second day of the 89th Representative Assembly – Independence Day -- patriotic delegates turned the convention hall red, white, and blue, honored the legacy of President Lyndon B. Johnson, and pledged to further his vision of quality public schools for all children.
The July 4th tribute for President Johnson focused on the legacy of his Great Society – created by his signing into law a number of reforms, including the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 45 years ago. As Johnson put pen to paper in 1965, the delegates put pen to paper for a giant petition demanding educators' voices be heard in the impending reauthorization of ESEA. That petition will be carried to the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
Election results were announced, with NEA Executive Committee members Christy Levings and Paula Monroe elected to another term. As for the at-large candidates for NEA Board of Directors, the number of candidates equaled the number of positions open, so the following were elected by acclamation: Jeff Hubbard (administrator at-large), Donna Mirabelli (alternate administrator at-large), Pam Mikkelson (ESP at-large), Judy Near (ESP at-large), and Ruthie Wright (ESP at-large).
A runoff is scheduled Monday for alternate ESP at-large position between James Ojeda and Melinda Smith.
The big attraction of the day was Bob Chanin's book signing. The legendary former NEA General Counsel was in New Orleans to sign copies of More Than a Lawyer. Written by Michael Edwards, it chronicles Chanin's career and follows the history of public education and the NEA's role in everything from the fight for civil rights and affirmative action to current struggles against vouchers and the pitfalls of No Child Left Behind.
NEA's 2010 Education Support Professional of the Year, Helen Cottongim, delivered an inspiring speech. Cottongim, a bus driver and student transportation safety coordinator in Kentucky, helped establish the Kentucky Education Support Professional Association in 1980. Her commitment to her fellow ESPs and her students since then made her a fierce advocate for NEA, and she encouraged everyone to join her in this role.
"If you're not already an Association addict who cares about kids and public school, you must become one," Cottongim said.
In addition to the activism celebrated during the RA, delegates also spend time in each host city participating in community service projects. President Van Roekel thanked Karen Seeling McInnis -- a delegate from Lakeville, Minnesota -- who has organized volunteers at the RA for the past 15 years.
This year, more than 300 NEA members volunteered with the annual Outreach to Teach event, sprucing u Belle Chasse High School in Plaquemines Parish, which sustained heavy damaged from Hurricane Katrina. Delegates have also helped stock the New Orleans Food Bank, served meals to the homeless, and "raised the roof" in Slidell, Louisiana, for Habitat to Humanity. And today, NEA's HIN Disaster Relief Fund donated $37,000 to North Bay Elementary School in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Students have been learning in portable trailers since Katrina came ashore in 2005 and will be moving into their new building this fall.
Delegates also met the RA's international guests, visiting from countries such as South Africa, Chile, the Netherlands, Australia, and Singapore. In paying tribute to the hard work of these and other activists around the world, President Van Roekel emphasized that international solidarity and advocacy not only protects public education but also, in some cases, educators' lives.
Delegates can read more stories on the RA Today Blog, view multimedia, and connect to the RA Today Facebook page, Twitter and Flickr.
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Casio Partners with the National Breast Cancer Foundation to Offer Special-Edition EXILIM Digital Camera Bundle
Breast cancer affects hundreds of thousands of women and their families each year. It's a disease that can strike any one at any time – no one – man or woman is exempt. National Breast Cancer Awareness Month is devoted to building awareness and finding a cure while sharing stories and information about breast cancer. This October, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Casio, Inc. will release a special-edition camera bundle, featuring a pink EX-Z75, a camera case embossed with the pink ribbon and a pink ribbon-clad lanyard to show their proud support of the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF).
The EX-Z75, a 7.2 megapixel digital camera which is part of Casio's highly-regarded zoom line of EXILIM cameras, will be available as a special bundle in the month of October to help raise awareness of NBCF's mission – Help for Today…Hope for Tomorrow. ®
" The National Breast Cancer Foundation was founded to give help, support and hope to those facing breast cancer," said Janelle Hail, Founder and President of the National Breast Cancer Foundation. "We thank Casio, Inc. for joining us in helping save lives through education and early detection."
The EX-Z75 is packed with a 2.6-inch wide LCD display, Anti-Shake DSP for reducing photo blur due to shaky hands or moving subjects and eBay mode which allows for photographs to be easily uploaded at the appropriate size for selling on eBay or for personal web use.
"We are proud to be a sponsor of the National Breast Cancer Foundation," said Bill Heuer, Vice President of Casio's Digital Imaging Division. "We hope that by purchasing the EX-Z75 in honor of breast cancer patients and survivors, users will capture every valuable moment with their friends and family."
The special-edition pink
EX-Z75 will be available beginning
October 2007 and can be purchased at
Staples, Sears, Adir, Fred Meyer, BJ's,
Nexcom and AAFES. The bundle package will have an MSRP of $179.99, and will
proudly sponsor the
National Breast Cancer Foundation.
For more information, please visit www.casiousa.com.About Casio
EXILIM is a registered trademark of CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. "FSE" is a product provided by Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. For more information about " FSE", visit OKI's website at http://www.oki.com/. Any other company or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of those companies.
Casio, Inc., Dover, N.J., is the U.S. subsidiary of Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics and business equipment solutions, established in 1957. Casio Inc. markets calculators, keyboards, digital cameras, mobile presentation devices, disc title and label printers, watches, cash registers and other consumer electronic products. Casio has strived to realize its corporate creed of "creativity and contribution" through the introduction of innovative and imaginative products. For more information, visit www.casiousa.com.
About the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. ®
The National Breast Cancer Foundation extends women's lives through education about breast cancer and early detection. The organization provides hope to women and families affected by breast cancer through a community of caring support and encouragement that enables those diagnosed with breast cancer to have fulfilling lives during their treatment and afterward. Learn more at www.nationalbreastcancer.org


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Last week, we covered Intel's plans to introduce dual-core Celeron processors specifically aimed at the $34-$59 price segment. The logical result of that announcement comes today from a Digitimes article stating that Intel will begin phasing out single-CPU production in the first quarter of 2008. The new dual-core E1200 Celeron (1.6GHz, 512K of unified L2 cache) will debut with a $53 price point in 1K quantities. For the moment, Intel is reserving its 45nm process technology for its mainstream and higher-end products—the E1000 Celeron series will be built on 65nm Conroe technology.
The entry-level Wolfdale 45nm part will be the E4700. That processor will be equipped with a 2MB L2 cache (presumably unified), and run at 2.6GHz on an 800MHz FSB with a 1K price of $133. Intel is reportedly releasing a second 45nm part with a 1066MHz FSB and 3MB of L2 cache, but neither clockspeed nor model number has been disclosed.
If they overclock as well as their Core 2 Duo brethren, the $53 Celeron part could be quite popular with the low-budget overclocking crowd, while the lower speed and limited cache should keep the CPU's power consumption (and volume) low for anyone looking for a silent PC. There's no word yet on how AMD may respond to Intel's low-end conversion to dual-core, but the X2 3800+ (2GHz, 512K of L2 per chip) is only $59.50 at NewEgg. Trimming prices isn't exactly a good idea for AMD right now, but it'd probably be far cheaper for the company to position the 3800+ - 4200+ (currently $59-$69) against the incoming Celeron models than to convert Semprons into dual-core processors.
Regardless of what AMD does in the short-term, however, dual-core processors will soon be the only game in town—and that's nothing but a good thing as far as speeding along the development of multi-threaded software.


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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Suicide bombers and shootings in northern and central Iraq were among attacks across the country that left eleven dead on Sunday.
They were the latest incidents in a wave of violence that has claimed more than 2,000 lives since the start of April. Militants, building on Sunni discontent with the Shiite-led government, appear to have grown stronger in central and northern Iraq.
The commander of the army's 12th Division, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Khalaf, said the assault on the police station near the town of Hawija started with a gunman on foot opening fire on the guards. A suicide bomber with an explosives belt then blew himself up in the reception area, and a suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into the building, Khalaf said. Three policemen were killed and five others wounded.
Hawija, a former insurgent stronghold, is about 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Baghdad. The predominantly Sunni town and surrounding areas have been tense since April, when Iraqi security forces launched a deadly crackdown on a Sunni protest there in which 23 people, including three soldiers, died.
In the nearby city of Tuz Khormato, 210 kilometers (130 miles) north of Baghdad, two parked car bombs went off in the early morning in a residential area, killing one civilian and wounding 27 others, a police officer said.
Also Sunday, a mortar round hit a motel in central Baghdad, killing three civilians and wounding nine others, police said.
At night, gunmen, carrying guns fitted with silencers opened fire on a group of people standing in the street in Baghdad's northern Qahira neighborhood, killing four and wounding two others, said two police officials.
Qahira neighborhood was the scene of a deadly suicide attack inside a Shiite mosque last week. At least 34 people were killed in that attack.
Two medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information to reporters.
Associated Press writers Sinan Salaheddin and Sameer N. Yacoub contributed to this report.


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- 1 1/4 cups buttermilk
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoons hot pepper sauce
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 large onion, sliced
- 12 chicken pieces (breasts, thighs and drumsticks) with skin and bones
- 1 cup dry unseasoned breadcrumbs
- 1/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
Recipe Preparation
Whisk buttermilk, oil, hot pepper sauce, mustard, garlic, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper in large bowl to blend well. Add onion, then chicken and turn to coat. Cover; chill at least 3 hours or up to 1 day, turning chicken occasionally.
Place racks on 2 large rimmed baking sheets. Whisk breadcrumbs, cheese, flour, thyme, paprika, cayenne and 1 teaspoon salt in large baking dish to blend. Remove chicken from marinade, allowing excess to drip off. Add chicken to breadcrumb mixture and turn to coat completely. Arrange chicken, skin side up, on racks on baking sheets. Let stand 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 425°F. Drizzle butter over chicken. Bake until crisp, golden and cooked through, about 50 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.


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MLB.TV offers exciting action on Free Preview Sunday
Welcome to MLB.TV Free Preview Sunday.
This is the day that both Boston pitcher John Lackey and Oakland outfielder Yoenis Cespedes are eligible to be activated from the 15-day disabled list, David Price and Cole Hamels each try to avoid winless Aprils, and Bartolo Colon seeks the first 4-0 April of his long career. Major League Baseball fans get to see for themselves why millions of their peers watch live games this way. Here's a closer look at what you can see:
Blue Jays at Yankees, 1:05 p.m. ET: R.A. Dickey faces the Bronx Bombers for the first time since last June 24, when he had a no-decision for the Mets in the finale of the Subway Series.
Cubs at Marlins, 1:10: The North Siders have seen 14 players make their debut for the club already in April, the most players to make their Cubs debut in a single calendar month in the past 98 seasons. This is a good time to get to know the Cubs. Not to mention the Marlins.
Phillies at Mets, 1:10: It's a battle of Opening Day starters, Hamels vs. Jon Niese. Remember when Hamels went 5-0 last May? The Phillies could use some of that magic again. The lefty is trying to avoid a winless April, but his last three starts have been solid. Niese returns after taking a shot to the leg in his latest outing.
Reds at Nationals, 1:35: Bryce Harper is winding down an electric April, entering Saturday with a .363/.440/.750 slash line and among the National League leaders in several categories. You'd pay to watch him, but you don't have to on Sunday.
Astros at Red Sox, 1:35: Lackey is due to return from the 15-day disabled list for this outing, and he hopes to show the latest shelving was "a bump in the road." For the city of Boston, this is the conclusion of a homestand that could not have begun on a more emotional note.
Indians at Royals, 2:10 (Game 1): Justin Masterson tries to make it a five-win April in Game 1 of the split doubleheader, and if he does that, he will be 4-0 on the road. Kansas City is posing a legitimate threat atop the American League Central, and this is a good time to take a look at their sparkplug, Lorenzo Cain, who was 12-for-25 on the most recent road trip.
Rays at White Sox, 2:10: Like Hamels, it's hard to imagine Price going through April winless. The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner tries again in this one. And with Dickey also starting on this day, you've got both Cy winners on the hill for free viewing.
Rangers at Twins, 2:10: Texas is off to a hot start just like last year, and the Rangers were firing on all cylinders entering this series. Choose either TV or radio feed, or choose "Park" for ambient crowd noise only. A free MLB.TV game is a good way to experiment, and it is Minnesota's hope that you won't see Joe Nathan at the end of this one.
Pirates at Cardinals, 2:15: The only bump in the road thus far for Cardinals right-hander Shelby Miller has been that April 17 loss at Pittsburgh, and even that was a quality start. He is 3-1 with an 0.84 WHIP, and, so far, a good reason why St. Louis made Kyle Lohse expendable. Jeff Locke is on the mound for the Pirates, and off to a 2-1 start with six scoreless innings to win his last outing at Philadelphia.
Orioles at Athletics, 4:05: This is the first day Cespedes would be eligible to be activated by the A's from the 15-day DL since he went out with a left hand strain. Baltimore's big bats will try to do something opponents have largely failed to do so far: bother Colon. The Oakland pitcher, who blanked the Red Sox at Fenway Park in his most recent outing, has never gone 4-0 in any April, and even a loss would tie him for his best such month at 3-1.
Angels at Mariners, 4:10: If you are waiting for Mike Trout, Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton to bust out, then you are not alone. It may be worth watching for this reason alone. There are other reasons, though. One is Hisashi Iwakuma, the Mariners right-hander who is making his sixth start of the month and has a 2-1 record, 1.99 ERA, 0.73 WHIP, 29 strikeouts and just five walks.
Rockies at D-backs, 4:10: Jon Garland (2-1) was roughed up in Atlanta during his most recent outing, but the veteran has been a key addition to a Colorado club that has led the NL West for most of the month. Patrick Corbin (2-0) has been brilliant in his first full April in the bigs, and it should be fun to see him face an explosive lineup featuring Dexter Fowler, Carlos Gonzalez, Troy Tulowitzki, Michael Cuddyer and Wilin Rosario.
Brewers at Dodgers, 4:10: Since opening the season with two gems, Clayton Kershaw (2-2) has gone a few starts without a W. He's back home and facing a Milwaukee club that had won nine of its past 10 games entering this weekend's series, and featuring an almost untouchable bullpen.
Giants at Padres, 4:10: While Tulowitzki might be the early choice at NL shortstop on the All-Star ballot, take a free look at Brandon Crawford and give that one some thought. Crawford was hitting .304 with four homers, 10 RBIs and 15 runs entering Saturday's action, and he has been a durable cog for the defending World Series champs.
The Braves-Tigers game on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball is subject to blackout restrictions as usual each week, so the free preview will not apply to the nightcap on the docket.
MLB.TV will stream these available games live online and on connected devices, and there are plenty of reasons to take advantage, in addition to the ones on the field listed above. You can look around and educate yourself as you use your 25 chances to vote in the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com Ballot, sponsored by freecreditscores.com. And then there's the technology behind MLB.TV itself.
The games are all streamed in HD, detecting your speed connection. You can pause and rewind or fast-forward live games and even use Clickable Linescores to revert directly to any half-inning's at-bat. Watch up to four live games simultaneously.
Take advantage of picture-in-picture to choose one game and track another or watch in-game highlights simultaneously in a secondary window. Track the location, type and speed of every pitch. View real-time highlights and player stats that automatically load into the media player, instantly launching a picture-in-picture window with one click. Customize a list to feature entire fantasy rosters and receive on-deck notifications to watch live look-ins for each player.
For those wanting to go beyond the free preview, signups are under way for the 11th season of the technology that changed sports as we know it today. MLB.TV Premium continues to support more than 350 mobile and connected devices, including through the highest-grossing sports app of all time, MLB.com At Bat 13, on smartphones and tablets and those platforms listed here.
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You can see why Braves fan Thomas Chandler fires up his PlayStation 3 console when he comes home from work as an environmental scientist in Longview, Texas, using his MLB.TV Premium subscription to watch the Brothers Upton and a new chapter for his favorite team.
"I started with MLB.TV last season, and it quickly became part of my daily routine," Chandler said. "It truly is a necessity for every baseball addict like myself. During the baseball season, the first thing I do when I get home from work is fire up the MLB.TV app on my PlayStation 3 and flip to the first available game that's playing. That's the beauty of the whole thing -- you can watch every game played throughout the season, no matter what your allegiance is. Also, with it allowing me to watch on all the different devices like my phone and computer, I don't miss games when I'm on the road for work."


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We were kind of hoping it would be a dinosaurs-with-guns Jurassic World.
Entertainment Weekly announced that Vincent D'Onofrio (Men in Black, The Cell) has been cast as lead villain in the fourth Jurassic Park installment, Jurassic World. Which is good because he is a good and that makes two people we like in the new Jurassic Park movie (Chris Pratt and D'Onofio). No details on who his character is and why he hates/loves/wants to destroy/ride the dinosaurs from the park.


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New Mexico's Transportation Department has turned to a cloud-based solution to better create, manage and analyze digital content across websites, mobile devices, social media and other channels.
NMDOT has deployed Adobe Experience Manager, a part of Adobe Marketing Cloud, to redesign and simplify the agency's website and make content more accessible to residents.
By deploying Adobe Experience Manager the agency has reduced 874 website pages down to 72, redesigned and launched an intuitive website in just six months, simplified website navigation and met Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards (Section 508) requirements, NMDOT officials said.
NMDOT wanted to deliver a first-class experience, getting citizens to the information they need quickly and in a compelling way, Bruce Oakeley, IT information systems manager with NMDOT, said in a release.
Meanwhile, Adobe Systems has announced new updates to AEM. As part of Adobe Marketing Cloud, the software can be deployed in the cloud or on-premise at an organization.
Adobe has enhanced the product's Web content and mobile management capabilities. Web site developers can quickly preview responsive design layouts while authoring content to understand exactly how it will perform on desktops, tablets and smartphones. They can precisely control video and image sizing and delivery to ensure the best performance, Adobe officials said.
Developers can also incorporate social elements and user-generated content into websites and create branded communities to help people connect based on common interests, officials said.
Additionally, new capabilities let agency staff repurpose content across online properties, including digital publications, with new article-based authoring and integration with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. From within Adobe Experience Manager NMDOT users now have access Adobe Analytics, which helps them better understand customer activity, officials said.
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Anyone have any ideas of good ESL schools in New York? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Anyone have any ideas of good ESL schools in New York? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> English Schools View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message TrymesterJoined: 25 Feb 2012Posts: 1 Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 6:56 pm Post subject: Anyone have any ideas of good ESL schools in New York? Hello, My girlfriend is anywhere from mid-intermediate to low-advanced when it comes to speaking English (but she does have that thing where she can speak it MUCH better around me, because she's comfortable with me as opposed to speaking with the rest of the world.). She is currently in Japan and wants to move to New York City. She wants to do the whole, find an employer to sponsor her visa thing, but as a simple hair stylist that is not highly likely. Worst-case scenario she would be interested in staying here as a student (thereby killing 2 birds with one stone). Anyone have any recommendations of good ESL schools in New York City where they sponsor your visa for you? Please let me know here or via Private Message. Thanks. Back to top AfraJoined: 10 Jul 2013Posts: 131 Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 6:10 am Post subject: New York Language Center's mission is twofold: to provide high quality, affordable English classes to international students in a supportive, friendly atmosphere where students come first, whether their goal is academic, professional or personal self improvement, and expose them to American culture. At the same time, we are committed to providing immigrant New Yorkers with ESL classes that accommodate their needs and prepare them to be part of the society where they live, work and educate their children. The curriculum at New York Language Center is designed to support this mission by providing students with the necessary language tools to help them achieve their goals. New York Language Center is committed to excellence and service at the highest degree. Read more... New York Language Center Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> English Schools All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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GM is recalling 426,240 midsize sedans because the shift cable might break. That means that when you put the car into Park, it might actually end up rolling down a hill.
Not good.
The cars involved in the recall are 2008-2010 Chevy Malibus, Pontiac G6s, and 2007-2010 Saturn Auras equipped with the four speed automatic transmission. The recall states that "if the tabs were to fracture and separate, the shift lever and the actual position of the transmission gear may not match."
Seems that even though GM killed off Saturn and Pontiac, they are coming back to bite them from beyond the Carpocalypse grave.
GM will be notifying owners shortly and fixing the cars free of charge.


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RAYMOND — Rachel Hill is now free to enjoy the rest of her high school athletic career without the burden of chasing a milestone.
Hill added another memorable chapter to her storybook senior year when she scored her 1,000th career point to lead the Somersworth High School basketball team to a 48-29 win at Raymond on Tuesday night in Division III.
"It was a relief," Hill said. "It was nice to get it done and just move on now."
Last fall, Hill became the leading goal scorer in NHIAA girls soccer history with 151, breaking the previous mark of 147 during her team's final regular-season game. She'll take her soccer game to the University of Connecticut next fall as a scholarship athlete.
"Soccer was a little different because it was a record," Hill said. "It was something nobody's ever done before. But this is definitely right up there with it."
Hill entered Tuesday night's game at Raymond with 999 points, after coming tantalizingly close on Friday with 29 in a 69-52 home win over Campbell. She scored 18 against the Rams, a relatively low output after scoring 24 and 25 in two other games last week.
One of the most remarkable aspects of Hill's milestone? She scored just two points her freshman year, during the only game in which she dressed for the varsity.
"She's our motor and what makes us go," Somersworth coach Jeff Francoeur said. "She leads by example by working hard every day. You can't ask for anything more from a player. The rest follow. Hopefully they can keep up."
Hill reaches the milestone 11 years after the last Hilltopper did it — Katelyn Rideout in 2002.
Another huge game from Hill wasn't really needed as the Hilltoppers led most of the night. After falling behind 2-0 early, Hill hit her first bucket of the night, got the milestone out of the way and Somersworth did not trail again. It was 11-7 after the first period, 20-14 at halftime and 37-25 after three stops.
Hill had a chance to reach 1,000 on Friday night when she missed her last shot of the game. There was no such drama Tuesday as Hill passed the milestone with 5:23 to go in the first period.
Teammate and close friend Allie Francoeur was the first to embrace Hill on the court.
"I told her I wanted to be," Francoeur said. "I'm just so proud of her. "She's worked so hard for this. It's a great accomplishment for her. Obviously she probably would've wanted it to be at home in front of everybody, but we had a lot of fans come."
Indeed. Once Hill scored her first points, a large contingent of Somersworth fans in attendance were on their feet saluting her latest accomplishment. The Raymond team and its fans also gracefully and enthusiastically joined in the ovation.
"It was exciting," Hill said. "I was glad my teammates were here with me to celebrate. Without them, it wouldn't happen."
Somersworth improved to 12-3 with three regular-season games left to play. The Hilltoppers are very much alive for a top-four seed, which would guarantee the team a home game through the first two rounds of the upcoming Division III tournament, which begins a week from next Tuesday.
"I think we can do well and make a dent in the playoffs," Hill said. "If we play to our high standards, I think we'll be fine."
The Hilltoppers' final push for the playoffs begins on Friday when they visit Gilford (11-4), another team gunning for a top-four seed. Somersworth was a 51-47 winner at home when the two teams met on opening night in December.
"We're not done by any means," Coach Francoeur said. "We plan on making a good run into the playoffs, but we have to finish out the season strong to put ourselves in the best possible place we can. We want to finish the year strong and get a good seed for the tournament and see what happens."


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With a rookie quarterback and a running back making his first start since high school, the Philadelphia Eagles will try for their first win in two months.
No wonder even the Carolina Panthers (2-8) are favored on the road.
The struggling Eagles (3-7) have lost six straight games entering tonight's matchup against Cam Newton and the Panthers. They won't have Michael Vick or LeSean McCoy because of concussions, increasing the chances they can go 0 for October and November for the first time in coach Andy Reid's 14-year tenure.
Oddsmakers have listed the Panthers as 3-point favorites, a rare occurrence for a team with the worst record in the conference. Perhaps the underdog role will get the Eagles going. Nothing else has worked in a season that began with Super Bowl expectations.
"Obviously nobody wants to play the way we've been playing, nobody wants to coach the way we've been coaching," Reid said. "We don't want that. We owe it to each other, we owe it to this city to play better. As long as guys own up to that, coaches and players, that's the way you get better and then you work on the things that you're not doing well."
Nick Foles will be under center, making his second start in a row for Vick. Bryce Brown, a seventh-round pick who had just 104 carries in college, takes over for McCoy.
"I expect the other guys to step up and play," Reid said. "It's a great opportunity for them. That's the way you approach it and you cut it loose and you play."
Foles, a third-round pick, has a chance to show whether he can be Philadelphia's quarterback of the future. Vick could be part of a massive offseason overhaul and fans have been calling for Foles to start since his impressive preseason.
Foles has been so-so in the past two games, compiling a passer rating of just 58.9. Like Vick, he's had the misfortune of playing behind a banged-up offensive line that's missing four of its five starters.
"I have to play within myself and understand what's coming at me, and make the best decision," Foles said. "This is my second start and the third game I've played in. I've felt more comfortable this week at practice, so it's just trusting myself in the game and getting into a rhythm."
The Panthers prepared all week for Vick and Foles. They learned that Vick would be out after their final practice but before their Sunday walkthrough.
"I think Nick Foles is athletic enough to give you some problems," Carolina coach Ron Rivera said. "He has a good arm, makes quick decisions."
While the Eagles are banged-up, the Panthers are close to full strength. They have no significant injuries, but are switching things up on the offensive line. Gary Williams, signed on Nov. 14, will start at right guard over Jeff Byers.
Carolina also has a new kicker, Graham Gano. He replaces Justin Medlock, who missed a 40-yard field goal in the first half of last Sunday's overtime loss to Tampa Bay.
If this game comes down to a kick at the end, Gano thrives in those situations. He tied an NFL record with three overtime field goals for the Washington Redskins in 2010.
"That's what every kicker dreams of. If you don't want that pressure, something is wrong with you," Gano said. "I love those situations. I hope every game comes down to that."
This will be a coaching reunion of sorts for Reid, Rivera and Panthers defensive coordinator Sean McDermott. Rivera was Philadelphia's linebackers coach under Reid from 1999-2003. McDermott spent 10 seasons with the Eagles, including his final two as the defensive coordinator in 2009-10.
"Smart. Good person. Good people skills. Good football coach," Reid said of Rivera. "At that time, he knew the linebacker position well and did a good job for us here."
McDermott had big shoes to fill in Philadelphia. He replaced Jim Johnson, a defensive guru who passed away in July 2009. The transition didn't go too smoothly and McDermott was fired after two seasons.
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With a rookie quarterback and a running back making his first start since high school, the Philadelphia Eagles will try for their first win in two months.


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It's time, perhaps, to reconsider the way we look at the Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, it's only three games. No question, it was one game against an NFC West opponent.
It's time, perhaps, to reconsider the way we look at the Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, it's only three games. No question, it was one game against an NFC West opponent.
But, in short, the Chiefs humiliated the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday in front of a skeptical crowd at Arrowhead Stadium. A day later, on Monday, the 49ers dismissed coordinator Jimmy Raye after a dismal offensive performance against the surging Chiefs.
After the Chiefs rolled over the 49ers' defense for 457 yards and four touchdowns, the evidence suggests maybe — just maybe — the organization's rebuilding plan is coming to fruition.
So are you ready to go all in on the 2010 Kansas City Chiefs?
Even if you're not, consider the Chiefs are 3-0 to start the season for the first time since 2003. Dating back to 2000, the Chiefs are one of nine teams (2000 New York Jets, 2001 San Diego Chargers, 2003 Seattle Seahawks, 2003 Minnesota Vikings, 2004 Jacksonville Jaguars, 2004 New York Jets, 2005 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 2008 Buffalo Bills, 2010 Kansas City Chiefs) to start 3-0 after beginning the previous season 0-3.
The Chiefs, under second-year coach Todd Haley and general manager Scott Pioli, have won four successive games dating back to the final regular season game of 2009 against the Denver Broncos. Kansas City's four-game winning streak, by the way, is the club's longest since the Chiefs won four straight late in the 2004 season.
More importantly, Kansas City's defense, after years of futility, is showing incredible improvement after ranking 29th in points allowed last season. So far, the Chiefs' revamped defense has surrendered 14 points or fewer in each of the first three games.
Yes, new Defensive Coordinator Romeo Crennel has helped revive the defensive unit, but the players should receive most of the credit. Remember, with the exception of a few new talented rookies, the roster hasn't changed much from last season, which tells us they're continuing to get better.
"We're 3-0 but every game is important," defensive tackle Shaun Smith said. "Each week we step on that field is important. Now they just start getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger each week. With the bye week, we've got to get ready for Indy (Indianapolis). I'm going to start preparing for Indy tonight, watch whoever they play on film as much as I can, find any tendencies we can get to help us."
Although the roster hasn't changed, the recipe for success on the defensive side of the ball has. The Chiefs, without question, have looked fundamentally sound defensively in all three wins this season. And that's a credit to Crennel, whose game plan Sunday helped bottle up San Francisco's explosive running back Frank Gore and talented tight end Vernon Davis.
Sure, Gore quietly had his first 100-yard receiving game — catching nine passes for 102 yards — but the Chiefs' run defense held him to 43 yards on 15 carries.
Kansas City's pass rush, inept for several years, sacked embattled 49ers' quarterback Alex Smith five times, the club's highest total since recording five sacks against Minnesota in 2007.
Linebacker Tamba Hali, who credited the defensive line's effort up front, tied a career high with three sacks and forced a fumble, and defensive tackle Ron Edwards, who recorded one sack, constantly flushed Smith out of the pocket.
"With them stopping the run, that allowed us to rush the quarterback," Hali said, adding Crennel has helped forge a new identity for the defense. "The offense played tremendous on that side of the ball by scoring a lot of points and making them throw the ball. Credit those guys for allowing me to rush this week."
During training camp, Haley said the Chiefs would be a run-first team, reminiscent of the days under former head coach Marty Schottenheimer with "The Nigerian Nightmare" Christian Okoye and later Marcus Allen.
Well, finally, the Chiefs unleashed Jamaal Charles, one of the league's most dangerous young running backs. Charles and veteran running back Thomas Jones combined for 192 yards rushing. Jones, acquired in the offseason through free agency after the New York Jets declined to bring him back, scored his first touchdown with the Chiefs late in the fourth quarter to put the game away.
Quarterback Matt Cassel, facing a mountain of questions about his ability to become an elite passer entering this season, quieted critics heading into the bye week after completing 16 passes for 250 yards and three touchdowns.
"The receivers made big plays throughout the day and it's just one of those things where we came together as an offensive unit," Cassel said. "With the defense playing the way that they did, and our special teams continues to step up week in, week out, it's a great feeling to come in here 3-0."
Although Cassel isn't completely out of the woods, so to speak, with fans and pundits, there are some encouraging signs about him.
Yes, it's hard to justify spending the kind of money the Chiefs did on Cassel, but that's not his fault. Quality receivers, running backs and offensive linemen, in most cases, surround good quarterbacks. It's easy to argue that Kansas City's rushing attack and line were horrific until Charles replaced Larry Johnson in the backfield last year. Chris Chambers, brought in to give Cassel a reliable target, didn't start the season with the Chiefs.
All those excuses, though, no longer apply.
In theory, the Chiefs hired Charlie Weis, offensive coordinator for New England's Super Bowl teams, to relieve Haley of the play-calling duties, but he also has a knack of helping quarterbacks.
If Haley and Weis, who had gall bladder surgery Monday, according to his agent, can work together in terms of game planning — like they did against San Francisco — Cassel will continue to grow in this system.
"Winning ballgames is what the NFL is all about. They're a lot of guys in this locker room that went through that tough year and the adversity," Cassel said. "To be 3-0 at this point, we're all excited. We're going to enjoy this one, but as I've said before and as Coach (Haley) continues to tell us, 'Hey, we're not satisfied at 3-0 and there's a long season left to go and we have 13 more games.' We're not going to be happy, we're just going to keep working."
Haley, known for taking risks and being an aggressive play caller, said he hasn't changed over the years.
"I just think there are games that you can and games that you can't and this is one where we had a clear-cut plan where we thought we could get some things done," he said. "There are going to be some weeks where our coaches are working hard to try to find ways we can operate and get things done. We're in the process of laying a foundation here."
Look, there's still a long way to go, but for the first time in years there's finally reason to believe Kansas City is close to becoming a legitimate contender.
"We are a team in transition. We've been a team that hasn't won a lot of games in a number of years, a team of great history and tradition, one of the great teams in the league, in my opinion. I'm so excited to be here," Haley said. "But the Kansas City Chiefs have not won very many games or have not accomplished what the purpose of having a team here and playing is. We're in the process of trying to change that. That's exactly where we are."
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ROCKFORD — The Rockford Fire Department is investigating an apparent explosion at a home in the 2900 block of Marshall Street.
Firefighters responded to call about a possible house fire at about 2:30 p.m. Sunday. When they arrived, firefighters saw no fire but did see heavy damage, about $15,000 worth, to a back wall of the home.
There were no injuries. No one was home at the time of the incident.
The cause of the damage is under investigation.
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It's been more than two years since we installed a new package tray and quarter-pillar trim panels in our '69 Mustang project car. That project was in our Aug. '03 issue, and while the result looked good, the rear window leaked. After a year or so, the panels and package tray were ruined from several car washes and a few stints in the rain. While we try to keep the daily driver out of the elements, sometimes it just can't be avoided.
This time around, we'll tackle the leak with a new National Parts Depot (NPD) package tray and a pair of trim panels with better protection from inclement weather. This is also a chance to tackle some other upgrades to our project car, which is getting a little better each time we work on it.
The work was accomplished in one day at Ambrose Custom Interiors. After removing the rear window, we installed new NPD quarter-pillar trim panels. The window, NPD seal, and urethane sealant were installed over the excess, glued-in material of the panels, which is the way these panels should be installed.
While the window was out, we also installed a new headliner. Although the old headliner was still decent, they are reasonably priced at less than $30, and the existing one was sagging. Although we did a headliner installation in our Jan. '06 issue, that car was a coupe, so this gives us a chance to show the differences with a fastback.


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Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation celebrates its crucial role in achieving an AIDS-free generation at PEPFAR's 10 year anniversary event
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) joined the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to mark PEPFAR's 10 year anniversary and celebrate significant new milestones in the global effort to eliminate pediatric HIV/AIDs. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced that as of June 2013, one million babies globally have been born HIV-free thanks to PEPFAR support. Since PEPFAR's inception in 2003, EGPAF has been a key implementer of PEPFAR-supported programs and is directly responsible for approximately 20 percent (213,000) of the one million averted pediatric infections. Today's announcement highlights EGPAF's crucial role in global effort to achieve an AIDS-free generation.
Secretary Kerry was joined by U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric P. Goosby, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo), U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin (D-MD), and Dr. Richard Nehabi Kamwi, Namibian Minister of Health and Social Services to announce additional achievements, including 13 new countries that have reached the "tipping point" in the HIV epidemic—the point at which the annual increase in new patients on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) exceeds the annual number of new HIV infections.
EGPAF Ambassador Tatu Msangi, a mother living with HIV, was a featured guest speaker at the event. Msangi was diagnosed with HIV in 2004 while pregnant with her first child. Thanks to services provide by EGPAF and PEPFAR to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, Msangi's daughter was born and remains HIV-free.
"I am honored to stand before you as a living example PEPFAR's impact on the global effort to eliminate HIV/AIDS," said Msangi. "Thanks to PEPFAR and its implementing partners, such as the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, I was able to access the treatment I needed so I could stay healthy and my daughter, Faith, could be born HIV-negative. My daughter is all the proof you need that an HIV-free generation is possible."
Pediatric AIDS has virtually been eliminated in the United States and Europe but still, more than 900 babies are born HIV-positive every day, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, 57 percent of HIV-positive eligible adults receive HIV treatment, but only 28 percent of eligible children living with HIV have access to the medicines they need.
"We are proud to be a part of today's event and celebrate the accomplishments of the last 10 years," said Charles Lyons, EGPAF president and CEO. "As we learned today, many significant milestones have been achieved, but we still have a lot of work to do to eliminate pediatric HIV/AIDS. I am confident that as long as we are able to continue to build upon this exciting progress, an AIDS-free generation is within reach."
EGPAF is currently one of the largest providers of PMTCT services in sub-Saharan Africa, and a leader in the global movement to end pediatric HIV/AIDS. To date, EGPAF has provided PMTCT and other health services to nearly 16 million women and their babies and operates more than 5,500 sites in 15 countries worldwide. Through PEPFAR and other partners, EGPAF strives to increase access to the treatments and programs necessary to eliminate pediatric HIV/AIDS worldwide.
To learn more about our work and to watch a webcast of today's event, visit www.pedaids.org
About the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF):
EGPAF is a global leader in the fight against pediatric HIV/AIDS, and has reached more than 16 million women with services to prevent transmission of HIV to their babies. It currently works at more than 5,500 sites and in 15 countries to implement prevention, care, and treatment services; to further advance innovative research; and to execute global advocacy activities that bring dramatic change to the lives of millions of women, children, and families worldwide. For more information, visit www.pedaids.org.


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Give to the Max Day will bring in millions for Minn. nonprofits
Thursday is Give to the Max Day, a unique and organized effort to spur people to donate to nonprofits in Minnesota during one 24-hour period. It's the fourth year for the effort and this time more than 200 schools are part of the mix too.
The day of giving is organized through the online fundraising website GiveMN, which loads pages for each registered nonprofit in Minnesota onto its website. It's up to the organizations to then drive donors to their individual page for a donation. Last year, donors gave $13.4 million to nearly 4,000 nonprofits, including Minnesota Public Radio.
Dana Nelson, executive director of GiveMN, joined The Daily Circuit to talk about how her organization - which facilitates the online giving - has changed how we give to nonprofits in Minnesota.


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Serum osmolality, osmolality serum
This test measures the concentration of dissolved particles (osmolality) in your blood.
This test can help diagnose a fluid or electrolyte imbalance, including dehydration. Electrolytes are mineral salts that help move nutrients into your cells and waste products out of your cells.
Electrolytes also control your acidity and pH levels. The more dilute your blood and urine are, the lower the concentration of particles. The less water in your blood, the greater the concentration of particles. Osmolality increases when you are dehydrated and decreases when you have a fluid buildup.
Your body has a unique way to control osmolality. When osmolality increases, it triggers your body to make antidiuretic hormone (ADH). Your kidneys then keep more water inside your body and your urine becomes more concentrated. When osmolality decreases, your body doesn't make as much ADH. Your blood and urine become more dilute.
You may need this test if you have seizures or problems with ADH. You may also have this test if you are dehydrated or if your healthcare provider thinks you might have diabetes insipidus. Diabetes insipidus happens when your body makes less ADH. It's also called vasopressin. This condition can also happen if your kidneys are not responding to ADH, even though you are making enough of it. Signs and symptoms of diabetes insipidus include:
Frequent need to urinate
Very dilute urine
Dizziness when standing
Extreme thirst
Low blood pressure, which can lead to shock and organ failure
You might also have this test if you have symptoms of hyponatremia. Hyponatremia is a condition in which your body retains fluid because it doesn't have enough sodium, an electrolyte. Symptoms of hyponatremia include:
Nausea and vomiting
Mental confusion
Muscle weakness
Spasms or cramps
Seizures or passing out
You may also have this test if you are in a coma. When osmolality increases, it can cause fatal grand mal seizures.
Your healthcare provider may also order a urine osmolality test. The results of both urine osmolality and blood osmolality tests help figure out the cause of osmolality problems.
Your provider may also order:
Antidiuretic hormone test to measure the amount of ADH in your blood
Antidiuretic hormone suppression test to look at problems with ADH
Test results may vary depending on your age, gender, health history, the method used for the test, and other things. Your test results may not mean you have a problem. Ask your healthcare provider what your test results mean for you.
Results are given in milliosmoles per kilogram (mOsm/kg). Normal results are:
275 to 295 mOsm/kg for adults and older adults
275 to 290 mOsm/kg for children
If your levels are higher or lower, it may mean you have one of these conditions:
Diabetes insipidus
Kidney problems
A level that's beyond normal range may also be caused by blood loss, as from trauma, or prolonged vomiting or diarrhea.
The test is done with a blood sample, which is drawn through a needle from a vein in your arm.
Having a blood test with a needle carries some risks. These include bleeding, infection, bruising, and feeling lightheaded. When the needle pricks your arm or hand, you may feel a slight sting or pain. Afterward, the site may be sore.
Eating a poor diet or drinking too much water can affect your results. Intense exercise and being under stress can also affect your results. Certain medicines and the illicit drug ecstasy can also affect your results.
You don't need to prepare for this test. Be sure your healthcare provider knows about all medicines, herbs, vitamins, and supplements you are taking. This includes medicines that don't need a prescription and any illicit drugs you may use. Also tell your provider if you have been drinking a lot of water.


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People often tell Rose Perez they feel like they've stepped into another era and another place when they visit her home.
That's because it really does belong to a different time and it's from halfway across the country. Perez lives in a home built from two frontier-era log cabins, one dating to 1755 and the other from the early 1800s. The cabins were hauled to San Antonio from Virginia in 1952 and reassembled piece by piece on a lot a few miles west of St. Mary's University.
Perez didn't know that history when she lived in the neighborhood as a girl and walked past the home with her family. All she knew was that it was an anomaly in an area dominated by typical suburban homes.
Years later, Perez saw the home listed for sale. By then, it had fallen into neglect and was vacant and vandalized. Still, despite a visit that revealed a musty and dark interior, she found it charming.
"There was something about it that said home," Perez, a catastrophe claims adjuster, says.
She bought the 3,400-square-foot home at auction in 2010 and moved in with her sister and nephew. They began renovations, unearthing the home's story along the way.
"I found out all the history and loved it even more," she says.
She learned that the two log cabins were originally from the Shenandoah Valley of western Virginia. Hal Clayburne, a local contractor and antiques collector, found the tumbled-down cabins, disassembled them and shipped them to Texas by rail.
Clayburne joined the cabins to form the two-story house and preserved many original features, including five fire-
places (a sixth was added later), stone chimneys and an interior wood staircase. The heavy solidity of the centuries-old walls is one of Perez's favorite aspects of the home.
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Persistence pays: After touring the home for the first time, Rose Perez was heartbroken to learn that the house had already sold to investors. She found out months later through her real estate agent that the house would be auctioned in just a few days. While the auction was "nerve-racking," she says, she came out of it as the home's new owner.
Dig into the past: Perez contacted previous owners to learn more about the home. She was curious about the heavy front door, and through one of her contacts discovered that the door hardware came from an old Virginia jailhouse. The previous owner gave Perez the 1-pound key that goes with the door.
Strike a balance: Perez furnished the living room with antiques, including a white Duncan Phyfe sofa and a chaise lounge reupholstered in cowhide. The graceful lines of some of her antiques provide a perfect contrast to the earthiness of the old log cabin.
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"You can't blow this house away," she says.
Perez tackled basic plumbing, electrical and air-conditioning repairs first. She replaced a hodgepodge of roofing materials with a new metal roof and circled the house with a white picket fence.
Previous owners had painted the exterior a uniform ash gray, obscuring its log cabin aesthetic, so Perez repainted the logs a dark wheat brown and highlighted mortar chinks with a sandy color. She enlivened the facade by painting window trim an antique red.
The low, beamed ceilings and dark wood preserved inside, however, made many rooms dim. Perez painted some interior walls white and added more lighting to brighten the spaces.
One room with plenty of light was the kitchen, where Perez made major changes. She relocated the stove, redid cabinets with a simple Shaker trim and added a white farmhouse sink. For functionality, she installed an island with a soapstone countertop. Bright apple-green paint finished the cheery room.
In another major project, she enclosed a back porch to make a master bathroom and laundry room. While thoroughly modern, details such as faux wood tile flooring tie the bathroom to the home's past.
Perez found that her collection of ethnic art and early American, Colonial and Victorian furniture fit right in. For example, the section of the home constructed from the 1800s-era log cabin is one wide room with a vaulted ceiling and walls lined with deer trophies. African art, leather couches and a drum kit in one corner seem at home next to the 200-year-old walls.
Perez has applied for a historic marker for the home.
"I feel like the house and the history of the home deserves that," she says.
Megan Stacy is a San Antonio freelance writer.


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Dear Warner Bros.
You remember me. You bought the film rights to my novel Jennifer Government, for Steve Soderbergh and George Clooney. Didn't work out, but that's not your fault. These things happen. I hope we can work again some day. That's not why I'm writing.
I'm writing because yesterday I rented The Dark Knight, and I couldn't watch it. I tried. But when I popped that DVD into my home theater PC and snuggled up on the sofa with my wife, it wouldn't play.
At first I thought the disc must be damaged. I tried it in my laptop: no dice there, either. So I took it back to the video store and swapped it for a new one. They were very apologetic, by the way, Warners. I guess they understand that physically traveling to a bricks-and-mortar store is kind of a pain, and when you're in business against digital downloads, you don't want to make your transactions more difficult than they already are.
Home with my fresh DVD, I tried again. But still: didn't work. A little Googling later, I discovered the disc was indeed damaged, and by who: you.
You've installed some new anti-piracy protection onto The Dark Knight DVDs, which prevents the disc from playing in my PC. Well, "prevents:" it took me an hour of messing around to figure out how to rip it. I didn't want to rip it, Warners. I only wanted to watch it. I think it may actually be illegal to rip copy-protected DVDs where I live. But you engineered your disc so that it wouldn't play in my DVD player: this was the only way I could access the content I'd paid for.
Now, I understand that home theater PCs are kind of new-fangled, Warners, and not everyone wants to watch their DVD on a computer or laptop. But some of us do, more every day. I think you need to get over the idea that PCs are just for pirates.
Please, help me out here: who does your protection scheme target? It can't be the real pirates; they are barely slowed by such things, and you surely know this. If I'd wanted to download The Dark Knight illegally, it would have been quick and easy; there's no shortage of places to find it, and the copies are high-quality. Unlike your DVD, they are also ad-free, play without a hitch, and would have spared me three trips to the video store.
I think your target must be the average consumer: someone with a PC and a legitimate copy of your DVD, but limited technical knowledge. This person will be defeated by your anti-piracy protection, at least for the moment. But what does this gain you? I'm honestly stumped. These are not the people who are distributing copies over the internet. They are, at worst, time-shifting a rental, or handing out a copy to their friends. A copy of a store-purchased DVD, that is. They are that tiny, precious slice of the population who has decided to give you their money: your customers.
When you optioned my book, Warners, I noticed the contract provided for a cut of the film's eventual revenue to the MPAA. I felt a little uneasy at this, because even back then I wasn't comfortable with the shenanigans that organization was up to. The unskippable copyright notices at the start of movies, for example: that's half the reason I swapped to a home theater PC in the first place. There is something wrong, in my opinion, when a machine I purchased, playing a DVD I purchased, tells me I'm not allowed to use the fast-forward button.
I understand piracy is a serious problem for you. I really do. You'll get no argument from me that wholesale downloading of copyright material easily available from legitimate channels is morally indefensible. If we can sensibly fix that, I'm right there with you. But you seem to be hell-bent on converting your entire customer base into pirates. You are facing competition that offers your product at zero cost and maximum ease of use, and you respond by breaking your own DVDs.
So, next film deal, I'm striking that clause out. No more MPAA funding from my material. And Warners, it's not because I'm angry. It's not because I want that hour back I spent trying to get your busted DVD to play. It's because you need to stop this. Really, it's for your own good.


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If you are not familiar with the package.xml format, you will need to read The description of the file.
This guide is divided into several segments.
If you want to access basic properties such as the name of the package, the channel, summary, description, license, version, stability, date, time, or notes, read the section on Accessing basic properties
To learn about how to manage maintainers of the package, read the section on Accessing package maintainers.
To learn about how to manage and iterate over dependencies, read the section on Accessing dependencies.
To understand how to iterate over and add files to both the contents and release sections of package.xml, read the section on Accessing files
To learn about managing custom tasks, roles, and compatible packages, read the section on usesrole, usestask and compatible.
To learn about accessing PECL-specific properties such as configureoption, srcpackage, srcuri and providesextension, read the section on Accessing PECL properties
The package.xml file is represented using a pear2\Pyrus\PackageFile\v2 object, but most of the time you will access it using the most packagefile version-agnostic pear2\Pyrus\Package class, which supports the same API seamlessly for accessing any kind of package as well as a few higher level options such as directly accessing the source of a file in a package. This documentation assumes you are working with a pear2\Pyrus\Package object named $package.
To instantiate a pear2\Pyrus\Package, simply pass in the path to a local package, a URI of a remote package, or an abstract remote package name to the constructor.
$package = new pear2\Pyrus\Package('package.xml');
$package = new pear2\Pyrus\Package('Release-1.2.3.tgz');
$package = new pear2\Pyrus\Package('http://example.com/Release-1.2.3.tgz');
$package = new pear2\Pyrus\Package('pear2/Release-1.2.3');
Basic properties can be accessed as if they were object properties:
echo "Package name is ", $package->name, "\n";
echo "Package channel is ", $package->channel, "\n";
echo "Package summary is ", $package->summary, "\n";
echo "Package description is ", $package->description, "\n";
echo "Package license name is ", $package->license['name'], "\n";
if ($package->license['uri']) {
echo "Package license URI is ", $package->license['uri'], "\n";
if ($package->license['path']) {
echo "Package license path within the package.xml is ", $package->license['path'], "\n";
echo "Package release version is ", $package->version['release'], "\n";
echo "Package API version is ", $package->version['api'], "\n";
echo "Package release stability is ", $package->stability['release'], "\n";
echo "Package API stability is ", $package->stability['api'], "\n";
echo "Package release date in YYYY-MM-DD format is ", $package->date, "\n";
if ($package->time) {
echo "Package release time in HH:MM:SS format is ", $package->time, "\n";
echo "Package release notes is ", $package->notes, "\n";
By the same token, changing these properties is as simple as setting an object property:
$package->name = 'MyPackage';
// this must be full channel, not a shortcut like "pear2"
$package->channel = 'pear2.php.net';
$package->summary = "My package's short description";
$package->description = "My package's multi-line description
of how things are done with it.";
$package->license = 'BSD License';
// or
$package->license['name'] = 'BSD License';
$package->license['uri'] = 'http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php';
$package->license['path'] = 'LICENSE';
$package->version['release'] = '1.2.3';
$package->version['api'] = '1.0.0';
$package->stability['release'] = 'stable';
$package->version['api'] = 'stable';
$package->date = '2009-12-25';
$package->time = '00:00:01';
$package->notes = "This version of MyPackage has the blessing of the pope, so
it's way better than the last one.";
Maintainers are accessed through the maintainer property. An of maintainers organized by maintainer role can be obtained via the allmaintainers property, but it is also possible to iterate over the maintainer property to iterate over all maintainers.
The maintainer property acts as an array organized by developer handle. To learn more about maintainers in package.xml, see the concepts section on maintainers in the user guide.
An individual maintainer's properties are set via a fluent method call. The order of method call is not important, but a call to the role() method is required in order to properly save the data.
// setting a maintainer's properties
->name('Gregory Beaver')
// access a maintainer's properties
echo "Maintainer cellog's name is ",
$package->maintainer['cellog']->name, "\n"; // Gregory Beaver
echo "Maintainer cellog's role is ",
$package->maintainer['cellog']->role, "\n"; // lead
echo "Maintainer cellog's handle is ",
$package->maintainer['cellog']->user, "\n"; // cellog
echo "Maintainer cellog's email is ",
$package->maintainer['cellog']->email, "\n"; // firstname.lastname@example.com
echo "Is maintainer cellog active? ",
$package->maintainer['cellog']->active, "\n"; // yes
The maintainers can be iterated over as well, and even modified:
foreach ($package->maintainer as $handle => $maintainer) {
echo "Maintainer $handle's name is ",
$maintainer->name, "\n";
echo "Maintainer $handle's role is ",
$maintainer->role, "\n";
echo "Maintainer $handle's handle is ",
$maintainer->user, "\n";
echo "Maintainer $handle's email is ",
$maintainer->email, "\n";
echo "Is maintainer $handle active? ",
$maintainer->active, "\n";
$maintainer->active('no'); // shows modifying a setting in iteration
The allmaintainers property returns an associative array of arrays of maintainer objects indexed by maintainer role.
Before it is possible to understand how Pyrus provides access to dependencies, it is necessary to understand their format in package.xml, which is documented here.
Pyrus provides access to dependencies through the dependencies property. In addition to supporting access to and creation of individual dependencies, it is possible to iterate over all dependencies, or over just required dependencies, or just a particular dependency type.
Each of the dependency types (package, subpackage, pearinstaller, extension, php, arch, and os) is accessed slightly differently based on how they are used in package.xml.
Perhaps the best introduction is 3 examples highlighting the different methods of accessing dependency properties. First, an example highlighting the methods for reading existing dependency properties:
echo "First, required/optional dependencies:\n";
// these same principles apply to all properties for dependencies.
// isset() is used to test presence, ->get to retrieve.
echo "Minimum PHP version supported: ",
$package->dependencies['required']->php->min, "\n";
echo "Minimum PEAR Installer/Pyrus version required: ",
$package->dependencies['required']->pearinstaller->min, "\n";
if (isset($package->dependencies['required']->pearinstaller->max)) {
echo "Maximum PEAR Installer/Pyrus version supported: ",
$package->dependencies['required']->pearinstaller->max, "\n";
echo "PHP extension ext is required? "
? "Yes\n" : "No\n";
if (isset($package->dependencies['required']->os['windows'])) {
echo "Conflicts with Windows operating system? "
? "Yes\n" : "No\n";
if (isset($package->dependencies['required']->arch['*386*'])) {
echo "Requires i386 processor? "
? "No\n" : "Yes\n";
echo "Now for package and subpackage dependencies:\n";
echo "Is package foo from channel gronk.example.com required? ",
? "Yes\n" : "No\n";
echo "Does this package conflict with our package? ",
? "Yes\n" : "No\n";
echo "gronk.example.com/foo2 minimum version required is ",
$package->dependencies['required']->subpackage['gronk.example.com/foo2']->min, "\n";
echo "gronk.example.com/foo2 incompatible versions:";
foreach ($package->dependencies['required']->subpackage['gronk.example.com/foo2']->exclude
as $version) {
echo "\n ", $version;
echo "\n";
echo "Optional dependencies are accessed the same way with optional index\n";
echo "Optional dependency gronk.example.com/foo3 minimum version allowed is ",
$package->dependencies['optional']->subpackage['gronk.example.com/foo3']->min, "\n";
echo "Dependency groups are accessed with the group index\n";
echo "Dependency group foo hint is ",
$package->dependencies['group']->foo->hint, "\n";
echo "channel pear2.php.net package Foo package dependency in dependency group",
" foo minimum version is ",
$package->dependecies['group']->foo->package['pear2.php.net/Foo']->min, "\n";
// and so on...
Iteration is similar to the access, in that each dependency object is the same object as that when accessed using the full access syntax:
// display all required and optional package and subpackage dependencies
foreach (array('required', 'optional') as $required) {
foreach (array('package', 'subpackage') as $packagedep) {
foreach ($package->dependencies[$required]->$packagedep as $dep) {
echo $required, ' ', $packagedep, ' ', dependency,
$dep->channel, '/', $dep->name;
if (isset($dep->uri)) {
// the channel is "__uri" for all URI dependencies
echo "\nPackage URI: ", $dep->uri;
if (isset($dep->min)) {
echo "\nMinimum version: ", $dep->min;
if (isset($dep->recommended)) {
echo "\nRecommended installation version: ", $dep->recommended;
echo "\n";
// iterating over dependency groups and their contents
foreach ($package->dependencies['group'] as $group) {
echo "Optional dependency group ", $group->name,
" (", $group->hint, ")\n";
foreach ($group->extension as $ext) {
echo "Extension ", $ext->name;
foreach (array('package', 'subpackage') as $type) {
foreach ($group->$type as $dep) {
echo ucfirst($type), ' ', $dep->channel, '/', $dep->name;
Finally, setting dependencies can be accomplished in several ways.
// setting minimum PHP version required:
$package->dependencies['required']->php = '5.3.0';
$package->dependencies['required']->php->min = '5.3.0';
// setting minimum PEAR Installer/Pyrus version required:
$package->dependencies['required']->pearinstaller = '2.0.0a1';
$package->dependencies['required']->pearinstaller->min = '2.0.0a1';
// setting excluded versions (all deps supporting the <exclude> tag use this syntax):
$package->dependencies['required']->php->exclude = '5.2.0';
$package->dependencies['required']->php->exclude('5.2.0', '5.2.10');
// setting OS/architecture requirements:
$package->dependencies['required']->os['windows'] = true; // Windows required
$package->dependencies['required']->arch['386'] = false; // Conflicts with 386 architecture
// saying "this package must be installed" to the installer
// saying "this package must not be installed"
// setting up complex versioning requirements
->exclude('1.3.0', '1.2.2');
// depending on a PECL package
// optionally depending on a core PHP extension
// setting up a dependency group "remotefeatures"
$package->dependencies['group']->remotefeatures->hint('Remote management capabilities');
// add dependencies to the group
There are two reasons to access the files within a package.xml
Pyrus supports several use cases for iterating over package.xml:
Iterating for installation purposes
Iterating for packaging purposes
Iterating for traversing a deep package.xml tree
General-purpose iteration
// *************** installation iteration ***************
foreach ($package->installcontents as $file) {
// retrieve actual file path to be used with fopen
$path = $package->getFilePath($file->packagedname);
// retrieve open file pointer
$fp = $package->getFileContents($file->packagedname, true);
// retrieve file contents as string
$contents = $package->getFileContents($file->packagedname);
// get file properties (XML attributes of the <file> tag)
$role = $file->role;
if ($file->md5sum) {
$md5sum = $file->md5sum;
// get relative path of file after applying all modifications such
// as <install name="" as=""/>
$relativepath = $file->name;
// get the path as specified in the <contents> <file> tag
// This is the same as $file->name if no <install as> tags exist
$originalpath = $file->packagedname;
// get the tasks associated with this file
$tasks = file->tasks;
// iterate over the tasks
$lastversion = '1.0.0'; // last version of $package that was installed, or null
foreach (new \pear2\Pyrus\Package\Creator\TaskIterator($tasks, $package,
\pear2\Pyrus\Task\Common::INSTALL, $lastversion)
as $name => $task) {
// $name is the task name, $task is the actual task object, which can be
// processed with $task->startSession(resource $fp, '/full/final/install/path');
// *************** packaging iteration ***************
$packagingloc = '/tmp/example';
foreach ($package->packagingcontents as $packageat => $info) {
// $packageat is the location in which the file will reside in package.xml,
// which is often the same relative path it will end up being installed into
// $info is an array representing the actual file XML
$name = $info['attribs']['name'];
// this retrieves an open file pointer to the file in order to process it
$contents = $package->getFileContents($info['attribs']['name'], true);
if (!file_exists(dirname($packagingloc . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $packageat))) {
mkdir(dirname($packagingloc . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $packageat), 0777, true);
$fp = fopen($packagingloc . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $packageat, 'wb+');
ftruncate($fp, 0);
// copy from the source directory to the packaging location
stream_copy_to_stream($contents, $fp);
$lastversion = '1.0.0'; // last version of $package that was installed, or null
foreach (new \pear2\Pyrus\Package\Creator\TaskIterator($info, $package,
$lastversion) as $task) {
// do pre-processing of file contents
try {
$task->startSession($fp, $packageat);
} catch (\Exception $e) {
// handle task processing problems here
// *************** traversing deep tree iteration ***************
foreach ($package->contents as $file) {
// retrieve actual file path to be used with fopen
$path = $package->getFilePath($file->name);
// retrieve open file pointer
$fp = $package->getFileContents($file->name, true);
// retrieve file contents as string
$contents = $package->getFileContents($file->name);
// get file properties (XML attributes of the <file> tag)
$role = $file->role;
if ($file->md5sum) {
$md5sum = $file->md5sum;
// unlike installcontents, <install as> tags are not applied, so
// $file->name == $file->packagedname
$relativepath = $file->name;
// *************** general purpose iteration ***************
foreach ($package->files as $relativepath => $infoarray) {
// $relativepath is the same as $file->name in the other examples
// $infoarray is the same array returned by the packagingcontents
// iterator
// *************** retrieving post-install scripts ***************
foreach ($package->scriptfiles as $file) {
// $file is the same object returned by the installcontents iterator
Finally, adding files to package.xml is done by directly setting an index in the files property. Properties are manipulated with the setFileAttribute() method.
$package->files['path/to/file.php'] = array(
'role' => 'php'
$package->setFileAttribute('path/to/file.php', 'md5sum', md5('hi'));
// adding a task to a file
$replace = $package->getTask('path/to/file.php', 'replace');
$replace->setReplacement('package-info', '@API-VER@', 'api-version');
$package->setFileAttribute('path/to/file.php', 'tasks:replace', $replace);
Releases are documented here, you should familiarize yourself with this before continuing.
Release properties can be accessed with the following syntax:
// setting release type
$package->type = 'php';
$package->type = 'extsrc';
$package->type = 'zendextsrc';
$package->type = 'bin';
$package->type = 'zendextbin';
$package->type = 'bundle';
// for types other than bundle
// defaults to "min"
$package->release[0]->installconditions['php'] = '5.2.0';
// defaults to "pattern"
$package->release[0]->installconditions['arch'] = 'i386';
// defaults to "name"
$package->release[0]->installconditions['os'] = 'windows';
// defaults to existing
$package->release[0]->installAs('path/to/anotherfile.ext', 'new/name.php');
// add another release
$i = count($package->release);
$package->release[$i]->installAs('path/to/file.ext', 'new/name.php');
// remove release
// remove all releases
$package->release = null;
// retrieve the release that will be used on this system
$release = $package->installrelease;
Accessing PECL properties is relatively simple, here is an example illustrating them:
$package->type = 'extsrc'; // extension source release
$package->configureoption['foothing']->prompt = 'Value for thing';
$package->configureoption['with-zlib']->prompt('Support zlib compression?')->default('yes');
$package->providesextension = 'foo';
$package->type = 'extbin'; // extension binary package release
$package->srcpackage = 'pecl.php.net/foo';
// for packages that are binary releases of URI-based packages
$package->srcuri = 'http://example.com/foo-1.2.3';
When declaring that a package.xml uses a custom role or task, this code should be used:
$package->files['example/file.php'] = array(
'role' => 'myrole',
'tasks:mytask' => '',
// for uri-based packages:
If you are unfamiliar with the <compatible> tag, you should first read the documentation on its use here. Creating and accessing compatible tags in Pyrus is as easy as:
->exclude('1.2.1', '1.2.2');
// remove a compatibility declaration
// test for existence of compatible declaration
// display info:
echo $package->compatible['pear.php.net/Archive_Tar']->min;
// iterating over compatible packages
foreach ($package->compatible as $package => $info) {
echo "Package :", $package, "\n";
echo "min: ", $info->min, "\n";
echo "max: ", $info->max, "\n";
if (isset($info->exclude)) {
echo "Excludes versions ",
foreach ($info->exclude as $version) {
echo ' ', $version, "\n";


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Gratitude vs Ungratitude
This is WEEK 23 of the Character Development Series I am doing for 2012. So glad you stopped by!
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward
Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture. ~Kak Sri
Gratitude turns what we have into enough ~Unknown
Gratitude means: a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation
Synonyms for Gratitude: appreciation, thanks, acknowledgement
Antonyms for Gratitude: disregard, neglect Read the rest of this entry
Like Stars in the Universe
Phil 2: 14 – 15 Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.
Shine Like Stars in the Universe…..
Does it make a difference when we have a grateful heart?,
a positive attitude?
When we don't complain?
He says that it's what makes us stand out in a crooked and depraved generation.
Does that mean in everything?
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Thessalonians 5:18
As this Thanksgiving season draws near, let us remember that it does matter how we view the circumstances of our life, and how we respond to those circumstances. It does matter how we carry out our responsibilities, and how we serve others. Cleaning toilets, washing clothes, running errands, cooking food, all the mundane little duties of our jobs at work and at home. Yes, in ALL things.
You may not realize who observes you as you go about your daily business, or who is impacted by your example. But even if no one on Earth applauds your efforts or even seems to care…. what you do is noticed, and more importantly the attitude and gratitude with which you do it is noticed by your Heavenly Father.
Do we want him to notice you?……then be thankful, don't complain, and you will SHINE in His eyes….. like the stars in the universe!!!!!
PRAYER for you this Thanksgiving season: May you have a grateful heart, and a thankful spirit. May you shine bright in a dark world.


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The headline of this post was going to be Listen To The Ferocious Snarl Of The Mercedes-AMG GT. Maybe with more adjectives. This is Jalopnik, after all. But then I actually listened to it.
Mercedes hasn't shown us what their 911-fighting sports car will look like yet, but they recently released audio clips of what it will probably sound like. And don't get me wrong — it's nice enough. It has potential. But there's something too restrained, too artificial, and maybe even too truck-like about it.
Here it is with "light revs." Once again, it's good, but it doesn't blow me away. Or am I totally wrong here?
The AMG-GT is expected to have a turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 with somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 horsepower. What we're hearing here is called an "early stage development preview" and not the finished product.
I'll hold off judgement until I hear the real thing, but for now, I'm hoping for a little more sturm und drang from this German sports car.