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It's really too bad The White Stripes broke up before this Moscow motorcycle enthusiast had his brainstorm of a three-man band cycle, because Jack and Meg would have looked kinda bitchin' playing "Hotel Yorba" at freeway speeds.
According to the video's poster, the builder is one Alexander Ishutin, who wanted to revive motorcycle customization in Moscow and was concerned the city wasn't weird enough. Don't worry, Mr. Ishutin, Moscow seems plenty interesting to us.
(Hat tip to 4x!)

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Cursive writing was excluded when North Carolina�s curriculum standards were revised for 21st Century learning this year. Schools were left the discretion to instruct the skill, which Lenoir County Schools does. Now, the state is rethinking its decision to de-emphasize cursive writing with a recently filed bill that would make it mandatory in instruction.
When Prophecy Jones was enrolled in Northwest Elementary School this year, he didn�t know any cursive handwriting.
He came from another county that didn�t teach it, because cursive writing instruction isn�t required under the new Common Core curriculum standards. However, school systems in North Carolina have the option to teach it.
Jones, 9, has spent a few months with Lenoir County Schools, and now his teacher Heather Rouse said he�s got the most beautiful cursive she�s ever read.
�I looked up at the (cursive chart) and that�s how I learned,� he said. �I kept practicing and practicing. I like that it can teach you how to write really good.�
The fading art of cursive handwriting has not been completely erased out of Lenoir County Schools.
When North Carolina, along with 44 other states, converted to the Common Core this year, cursive writing was excluded from those standards. The 21st century-based curriculum left school systems in the Tar Heel state the decision to teach a craft that many find obsolete in this rising technological age.
�(Cursive writing) truly is losing its relevance very quickly as we do more in the digital age,� said Ellen Benton, LCS executive director of instruction. �Standards are a minimum, and (local education agencies) can always go above and beyond what the standards say.�
In Lenoir County, schools haven�t killed cursive completely with the district still teaching it during third grade, reinforcing it the next two years and forming a committee to outline cursive writing guidelines.
The �Back to Basics� bill filed in February would require North Carolina public schools to include cursive handwriting in the curriculum. If approved, it will go into effect in fall. Schools would be required to provide instruction for students to create legible, cursive documents by the end of the fifth grade.
Under LCS current cursive guidelines, students aren�t expected to be completely proficient in cursive writing by the end of fifth grade. When the system revisited the topic at the beginning of the school year once it was taken out of the core requirements, school therapists said some students struggle with manuscript � print writing � and excel in cursive writing.
�If (students) are never given that chance, they�ll never realize that�s their best style of writing,� Benton said. �I�m not opposed to the law that is going to require it as part of the curriculum, but I just don�t want anything in place that puts its important over that reading, writing and math.
�Our teachers will make the right decisions about how much time to give it.�
Rouse, a fourth grade teacher at Northwest, reinforces cursive writing during her students� spelling test review. She instructs them to print the word and then write it in cursive.
�I still personally think that (cursive) is important, because they need to be able to read it,� Rouse said. �All the time, I�m coming in contact with cursive writing to read. If you can�t write in cursive, you probably won�t be able to read the cursive, and the kids need to be able to write their signatures, too.�
Rouse said students are learning how to use computers instead of focusing on physically writing.
�If you think about it, instead of writing letters, we�re just sending emails or texts,� she said. �All papers are typed. When they�re in college, they�re not going to be writing papers to turn them in.�
She said the relevancy of cursive is fading as the only time people typically use it is to sign their name, but the instruction will continue.
While LCS teaches cursive during the third grade, a committee decided to introduce cursive letters to second grade students. Some elementary schools have already begun this semester.
�It�s fancy and you can write it faster than normal,� said McKensi Williams, a Northwest fourth grader. �You can use it as you get older.�
Her classmate, Nya Peoples, said cursive writing strengthens your overall learning.
�I like that it helps you learn more,� Peoples, 9, said. �It starts to get hard at first, and when you keep practicing, it gets easier.�
Rouse circled her class as students spelled out 10 review words one-by-one. She told the students how impressed she was and referenced a cursive chart above the board for those who needed to see a specific letter.
The LCS guidelines encourage teachers to occasionally write in cursive for students.
�That�s a real life skill,� Benton said of reading cursive. �The whole thing is what�s best for students to be ready for the next level. We don�t want it to go totally away, but its not going to be a major emphasis. � That�s where we are right now.�
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
»Julie Perini, Art faculty, receives a residency at Yaddo Artists' Colony in Saratoga Springs, New York, for July through August 2012, where she will complete work on new video and audio documentary projects.
»Randall Bluffstone, Economics faculty, presents "Social Capital, Rural Livelihoods and Natural Capital Investments: Evidence from Ethiopia" at the Environmental Economics Seminar Series, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden, March 16.
»Jennifer Dill, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, gives an invited talk, "Gender and Active Travel: Promoting Walking and Cycling by Women" at Rutgers University at the 20th anniversary of the Bloustein School, April 27.
»Julia Freybote, Business Administration faculty, presents "The Impact of Transaction Price Feedback on Valuation Judgment in a Depressed Real Estate Market" at the 2012 annual conference of the American Real Estate Society in St. Petersburg, Fla., April 1
»Sherril Gelmon, Public Administration faculty, presents three workshops on "Community -Engaged Scholarship" and one on "Effective Partnerships with Philanthropy" at the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health conference in Houston, April 18-21.
»Karen Gibson, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, presents "All New and Shiny? Social Inequality in Portland's Albina District" at the 42nd annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Pittsburgh, April 18-21.
»Amy Hofer, Library faculty, and Michael Flakus, Library staff, present "Library Widget in the LMS: Way Cooler Than it Sounds" at the Online Northwest Conference, Corvallis, Feb. 10.
»Ted Khoury, Business Administration faculty, presents "Social Capital Signals and Their Conditional Reward: Exploring the Dynamic Nature of Alliances in Biotechnology IPOs" at the Conference for Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice's Special Issue on "Socia
»Tom Larsen, Library, presents "Using MarcEdit in Daily Life: Sharing the Why and How" as part of a panel at the Oregon Library Association Conference, Bend, April 27.
»David Sailor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, gives an invited presentation on "Causes, Effects, and Mitigation Opportunities for the Urban Heat Island" at the bicentennial sustainability series of Drexel University's Natural Academy of Scie
»Junghee Lee, Art faculty, presents a paper, "The Influence of the Eight Buddhist Deva Guardians of Central Asia on China," as part of a panel she organized entitled "Kingship, Flaming Triangles, Envoys, and Buddhist Deva Guardians on the Silk Road" at the
»Shung Jae Shin, Business Administration faculty, presents in a symposium titled "International Advances in Innovation and Creativity in the Workplace" at the Annual Meeting of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Diego, April 26-28.
»Jennifer Tappan, History faculty, presents a paper, "Malnutrition, Motherhood and Community-Oriented Primary Healthcare in Post-colonial Uganda," at an Emory University Conference on Development, Health and Humanitarian Crises in Post-Colonial Africa, Atl
»Janet Walker, Regional Research Institute and Social Work faculty, presents an invited plenary talk on "Best Practices for Supporting Transition-aged Youth and Young Adults" at a Young Adults with Behavioral Health Concerns: Improving Access to a Medical/
»Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan, Business Administration faculty, with Donald Truxillo and Layla Mansfield, Psychology faculty, coauthor a chapter titled "Temporary Workers: Who Are They and How Can We Select Them for Success," which appears in Handbook fo
»Meredith Farkas, Library faculty, authors an article "Research Guide Technologies" in the Spring 2012 issue of Tips and Trends, Instruction Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
»Miguel Figliozzi, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, coauthors "A Model and Heuristic Solution Approach for the Capacitated Freight On-line Network Assignment with Transportation Disruptions and Recourse" published in Transportation Research Rec
»Harrell Fletcher, Art faculty, co-organizes a project with students from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs that involved walking from the campus to the top of Pikes Peak over three days while each participant (students, faculty, and alumni) d
»Jeremy Spoon, Anthropology faculty, presents "New Challenges, New Solutions: Sherpa Ecological Knowledge Change in Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal" at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Baltimore, in March
»Lauren Simon, Business Administration faculty, coauthors an article titled "The Psychic Cost of Doing Wrong: Ethical Conflict, Divestiture Socialization, and Emotional Exhaustion" published in the Journal of Management.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
»Steel Bridge Team of PSU Student Chapter of American Society of Civil Engineers Wins Regional Competition
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
»Talya Bauer, Business Administration faculty, receives the Distinguished Teaching Contributions Award from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology for her contributions as an educator, innovator, and mentor.
»Randall Bluffstone, Economics faculty, presents "REDD+ and Community-Controlled Forests in Low-Income Countries: Any Hope for a Linkage?" at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, World Bank, Washington, D.C., April 24.
»Berrin Erdogan and Talya Bauer, Business Administration faculty, co-chair, facilitate, and present sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Diego, April 26-28. Together, they facilitate a session titl
»Harrell Fletcher, Art faculty, presents a lecture and project for the Art Education Masters program at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va., May 2.
»David Johns, Political Science faculty, presents a paper, "Reconnecting the Western Wildway: Biology and Politics," at Biodiversity Without Borders, the Nature Serve and Natural Heritage Conference, Portland, April 22-26.
»Sean Kohles, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, presents a poster, "Biomateriomics: Multiscale Investigations in Cell and Tissue Engineering" co-authored by Shelley Mason, Biology doctoral candidate, and Randy Zelick, Biology faculty, at Biomed
»Junghee Lee, Art faculty, co-organizes the Prehistoric and Ancient Arts and Pan'gudae (Bangudae) Petroglyphs of Ulsan, Korea, with the Bangudae Petroglyphs Institute of the University of Ulsan and the Korea Institute of Harvard University. She was invited
»Inger Olsen, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presents "Realism and Predestination in Kirsten Thorup's Novel Himmel og Helvede [Heaven and Hell]" at the 102nd annual Society for Advancement of Scandinavian Study conference in Salt Lake City, May 3
»Lauren Simon, Business Administration faculty, presents a paper, "Placing Personality in Context: Linking Work and Within-individual Personality Variation," and was a presenter in the session titled "Expanding New Frontiers of OCB Research: Context Matter
»Janet Walker, Regional Research and Social Work faculty, presents an invited keynote, "Policy Themes in Community and State Support for Comprehensive Transition Systems," at the annual grantee meeting for the Healthy Transitions Initiative in the Substanc
»Will Parnell, Education faculty, co-authors "iDocument: How Smartphones and Tablets Are Changing Documentation in Preschool and Primary Classrooms?" published in Young Children, May 2012.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
»Read about Kent Hartman (BS '83) and his new book, The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
»Making More Students College And Career Ready: What It Means to be Ready and How to Get the Right Information to Determine Readiness
Monday, May 21, 2012
»Dave Ervin, Economics and Environmental Science faculty, served on a National Academy of Sciences National Research Council planning committee for the "National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds" and participates in a summit in Wash
»Sherril Gelmon, Public Administration faculty, presented the closing plenary "Where To From Here? Considering Impact of Community Engagement from Multiple Perspectives" to the national conference of the Canadian Alliance of Community Service Learning in S
»Alastair Hunt, English faculty, presented a paper, "Death by Birth," at the American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting at Brown University, April 1; and at an Epistemologies of the Undead conference at University of Potsdam, Germany, June
»Eva Nunez, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented an invited lecture, "Fundamentals of the History of the Spanish Language," at University of Washington, Seattle, during May and at University of California, Irvine, in April.
»Jamie Ross, Women's Studies and University Studies faculty, and students in her Work of Art Freshmen Inquiry class will present their photojournalism project, a collaborative effort with Sabin CDC and Catholic Charities, at the McCoy Village Apartments
»Desiree Pacheco, Business Administration faculty, presented "Non-Market Actions and Emerging Industry Growth: A Study of the Solar Energy Industry" at the Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship Conference at the University of Denver, April 12-13.
»Karen Seccombe, Community Health faculty, gave a featured talk, "The Family Side of China," at the Northwest Council on Family Relations Conference, Portland, May 18.
»Nora Wendl, Architecture faculty, presented a paper, "After Pruitt Igoe," at Society of Landscape Architects' Preconference Symposium before the 65th annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Detroit, April 17.
»Leni Zumas, English faculty, read from her new novel, The Listeners, at Powell's Books, Portland, May 16.
»Heather Burns, Educational Leadership and Policy faculty, co-authored "The Learning Gardens Laboratory: Teaching Sustainability and Developing Sustainable Food Systems Through Unique Partnerships" published in the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and
»Susan Chan, Music faculty, performed a piano recital of contemporary Chinese works as guest artist at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, April 16. She also performs the world premiere of "Pianobells," a newly commissioned work by Pulit
»Paul Collins, English faculty, authored an article, "The Postman Rings Every Now and Then," published in Slate, April 13.
»Miguel Figliozzi, Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty, and graduate student Jesse Boudart authored a paper, ''A Model and Study of the Key Variables Affecting Bus Replacement Age and Lifecycle Costs," forthcoming in a 2012 Transportation Research
»Erna Gelles, Hatfield School of Government faculty, co-authored a chapter, "Question Mapping: A Method for Organizing and Sustaining Dialogue" published in Resolving Community Conflicts and Problems, Public Deliberation and Sustained Dialogue, Columbia Un
»H. Thomas Johnson, Business Administration faculty, wrote a review of "When Accountants Come To Power Management From Hell: How Financial Investor Logic Hijacked Firm Governance" by Robert R. Locke, emeritus professor of business history at University of
»Suwako Watanabe, World Languages and Literatures faculty, authored an article, "Climactic Effect Markers in Spoken and Written Narrative: Japanese Conditionals Tara and To," published in Test & Talk: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse & C
»Dave Ervin, Economics and Environmental Science faculty, served on a National Academy of Sciences National Research Council planning committee for the "National Summit on Strategies to Manage Herbicide-Resistant Weeds" and participates in a summit in Wash
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
»NASA article "Capillarity in Space -- Then and Now, 1962–2012" features PSU professor Mark Weislogel
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
»Jill Emery, Library faculty, won the 2012 Marcia Tuttle International Grant from the North American Serials Interest Group.
»Tracy Prince, English faculty, received the 2012 Northwest Examiner Award for Historic Preservation on May 12 for the book Portland's Goose Hollow. "An exceptionally comprehensive and enlightening illustrated history of her neighborhood," wrote the awards
»Ben Anderson-Nathe, Child and Family Studies faculty, presented a keynote address, "When in Rome: Young People, Sexuality, and the Power of Discourse," at the Adolescent Sexuality Conference, Seaside, April 24. He and graduate students Kiera Hansen and Mi
»Jack Corbett, Public Administration faculty, presented "Preserving Memory, Sustaining Communities" at the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies meeting in Kelowna, B.C. Portland State students Anabel Lopez Salinas and Mandy Elder a
»Andrew Giarelli, University Studies adjunct faculty, presented "Cheyennes, Folklorists and 'Authenticity'" at Charles University American Studies Institute in Prague, Czech Republic, May 17; and "The Birth of Hippie Subcultural Formulae" at The American C
»Eva Nunez, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented an invited lecture, "Ten Most Asked Questions About the History of the Spanish Language," at the Department of Romance Languages, University of Oregon, Eugene in May.
»Desiree Pacheco, Business Adminstration faculty, participated in a workshop, "Regional Electricity Transmission Planning in the West," for the Energy Policy Institute at Boise State University, April 26-27. This was part of a National Science Foundation g
»Jelena Simonovic Schiff, Music adjunct faculty, presented "Composers from Former Yugoslavia Active in the United States: Bogojevich, Miljkovic, Paranosic, and Vrebalov" at the 25th College Music Society Pacific Northwest Regional Conference, Vancouver, B.
»Sue Taylor, Art History faculty, presented a lecture, "Grant Wood, Odd Man out in Iowa," in conjunction with the exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, at the Tacoma Art Museum, Wash., May 19.
»Suwako Watanabe, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented an invited paper, "Lessons Learned from OPI: Context- and Discourse-based Instruction," at the 19th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, Princeton, N.J., May 19-20.
»Lisa Bates, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, authored an invited chapter, "Housing: Policy and Planning Challenges," published in the Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning, Oxford University Press, 2012.
»Paul Collins, English faculty, authored "Ruffians, Pickpockets, and Jewel Fences" published in Slate, May 4.
»Dave Ervin, Environmental Sciences and Economics faculty, and Gary Larsen and Craig Shinn, Public Administration faculty, authored an essay, "Simple Ecosystem Service Valuation Can Impact National Forest Management," published in the Association of Enviro
»Jeff Fletcher, Systems Science and University Studies faculty, co-authored an article, "Spatio-Temporal Differentiation and Sociality in Spiders," published in the journal PLoS ONE, April 24.
»Alastair Hunt, English faculty, authored "Rightlessness" published in a special issue of the New Centennial Review, D. Clark ed., Vol. 11.2, Fall 2011.
»Sean Kohles, Mechanical and Materials Engineering faculty, co-authored "Plasma Levels of Polychlorinated Biphenyls, non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, and Causation" published in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health, Vol. 2012:258981, 2012.
»Leni Zumas, English faculty, authored a novel, The Listeners, published by Tin House Books, May 2012.
»Robert Scheller and Melissa Lucash, Environmental Science faculty, received a $716,697 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative grant for the study Integrating Climate Science Into Forest Management Decision-Making Using A Collaborative Network Approach.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
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An interesting back of the envelope calculation: UC Irvine is using the differential equations book as standard, that's a couple of hundred students every quarter, and there are at least a few other places with large and small lectures using the book. A reasonable estimate at the current adoption, there are at least 1000 students every year who use the book. I recently checked on amazon how much does Boyce-DiPrima cost: the new edition is $184 (Yaikes!). It costs $110 just to rent for a semester (a used version was $165). That's 110-184 thousand dollars a year saved by students, just because of one open book adopted in a couple of large lecture classes. Presumably, the adoption rate can only go up, so this number will go up, just from one of my books (savings from the real analysis book are going to be much smaller due to less students taking that kind of class).
Now I have nothing against the publishers, but they have their incentives wrong. Boyce-DiPrima is a fine book, but … There is really no reason to print big bulky books on expensive paper for these classes. Locally printed coursepacks or cheaply printed paperbacks are much more efficient. And the students might actually keep their books and they might help them along in other classes. Currently most students return their books as soon as they can to recover most of the cost. So if you're teaching say a PDE class as I did this semester, you can hardly tell them to brush up on their calculus from their calculus book. They don't have it anymore!
The incentive for me is to simply make the best book because I want to (makes me feel good, that's I guess all I can expect). Since I make almost no money on it, I don't really have to inflate page count just to make it more expensive, or add color and pretty pictures just for the hell of it (it would make the book quite a bit more expensive). Plus the book is more accessible. I already know students use the web version even from their phones.
So anyway, I guess I'm providing at least 2 to almost 4 times my salary in free books.
Anyway, if you do want to buy the books (and I make $2.50 on each, yay! I made almost $400 so far, it's mostly for making me feel good rather than making money), here are the links to lulu:
Real Analysis, $13.09 + shipping
Differential equations, $16.78 + shipping
Yes, I'm a fan of arbitrary looking prices. Actually the reason for those prices is that I simply set the price so that I get $2.50 from the book, so it's the (cost of printing)+2.50+(lulu's cut).


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The next major legal battle involving the federal health care law inched a bit closer to the U.S. Supreme Court last week.
The 4th Circuit upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's employer mandate, a move that sets the stage for the high court to take up the constitutional challenge to the provision, requiring employers to provide health care coverage to employees or pay a penalty, as soon as next term.
The circuit court had previously dismissed the case Liberty University v. Lew on procedural grounds, finding that it lacked jurisdiction to take up the matter under the Anti-Injunction Act. But after the Supreme Court rejected the AIA argument it its landmark health care law ruling last year, the 4th Circuit revived the case and ruled on the constitutional challenge.
More here from our sister publication The Daily Record, and from the Lawyers USA archive.


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Molasses-Mustard Glazed Pork Chops with Apple Butter Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
I have a real soft spot for pork chops and apples, especially around this time of the year. That's initially why I was into this recipe from Bobby Flay's Grill It!, as the apple butter seemed like an interesting twist. However, this isn't so much "apple butter" as we know it—which doesn't contain any actual butter—but apples cooked with gobs and gobs of real butter. Still wanting my pork and apples to look like pork and apples, I only mixed half of the cooked apples with butter, saving the other half to enjoy on the side. My plan worked.
What didn't work was cooking the pork chops indoors. Now, I know that it's a grilling cookbook, and that I should have known better, but I've had a lot of luck over the years cooking on a cast iron grill pan. Sure, it's missing the aroma of a real charcoal fire, but it is a good compromise for a weeknight. (Plus, I even get the great grill lines!) I just wasn't thinking about that molasses glaze, which is utterly delicious, but also smokes like crazy when it gets over high heat. My smoke detector went nuts. Be careful.
Even still, I think this came out really well. The molasses glaze is balanced by both a Dijon and a whole-grain mustard. The cooked apples made for a perfect accompaniment, and the apple butter, as loaded with actual butter as it was, worked wonderfully well on top of the chop.
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:1 hour
- For the Apple Butter
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
- 2 large Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and chopped
- 3 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- For the Pork Chops
- 1/4 cup Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons whole-grain mustard
- 1/4 cup molasses
- salt and black pepper
- 4 pork chops (about 1-inch thick)
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
For the apple butter: Pour the two tablespoons of canola oil into a large skillet set over medium-high heat. When shimmering, add the onion and cook until soft, three to four minutes. Add the garlic, stir well, and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the apples and brown sugar. Cook, stirring occasionally, until apples are softened somewhat but haven't broken down, five to seven minutes. Add the cinnamon and salt, stir well, and cook for one minute. Then turn off the heat, and transfer half of the mixture to a food processor and the other half to a medium-sized bowl.
Add the butter to the apple mixture in the food processor. Puree the mixture, making sure to occasionally scrape the sides with a spatula. When smooth, transfer mixture to a bowl and place in the fridge to cool. If you have the time, let this hang out for an hour.
For the pork chops: In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together the Dijon mustard, whole-grain mustard, and molasses. Season with a pinch of salt and pepper.
If using a grill (totally recommended) heat the grill to high. Otherwise, heat a cast iron grill pan over high heat.
Coat both sides of the chops with the canola oil, and season each with salt and pepper. Place each on the grill or grill pan and cook until the bottom is lightly browned, three to four minutes. Brush the top of each pork chop with the mustard glaze. Then flip each, and cook until each has been cooked to medium, four to five minutes. During the last minute of cooking, brush the top of each with more glaze. When done, set aside and let them rest for five minutes.
Serve the chops with the cooked apples along the side. Top each with a tablespoon or so of the apple butter.


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The research conducted at the Department is divided into:
Swedish, Swedish as a Second Language and Nordic Languages offer opportunities for many different research interests. The main areas are currently Modern Swedish and Swedish as a Second Language. Some research foci can be said to be more persistent than others: Natural Language Processing and Språkbanken (the Swedish Language Bank); the Institute of Lexicology and the Institute of Swedish as a Second Language (ISA). Other research emphases tend to vary over time. At the moment, many researchers are involved in grammatical research, for example on dialectal syntax.
Even if all communication is situated and takes place in specific situations, where the speakers adapt to the current situation in various ways, we still use the same language system when we tell our children a bedtime story, write reports, read blog texts and talk to telemarketers. Research on grammar tries to abstract away from the situation specific aspects and instead focus on the language tools we carry with us and use in all these activities.
At the Department of Swedish, we offer courses on the language system of Swedish at all levels (undergraduate, advanced and doctoral) and carry out grammar research using several different perspectives, often in collaboration with the other profile areas. Three special areas are currently in focus: Construction Grammar, Information structure and Microvariation among the Nordic (North Germanic) languages, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish, including Finland Swedish.
Interesting grammar questions pop up wherever language is used. For instance, compare the use of "we" in the two preceding paragraphs. In the first paragraph, "we" includes all speakers of the language, in the second only grammar researchers at the department. How do we capture this flexibility in our grammatical analysis?
Grammar at the Department of Swedish
The discipline of Modern Swedish can be described as the study of the present structure and usage of Swedish. Modern Swedish grammar and semantics constitute the core, but there are other sub-disciplines involved as well, such as sociology of language, language cultivation, stylistics, rhetoric and language learning, the latter in connection with Swedish as a Second Language in particular, where also language pedagogy and language didactics are included.
The discipline of Nordic Languages can be described as the study of the Nordic region as a language area, especially the development of the North Germanic languages and the links among them. The core of this discipline, which mainly relates to language history, consists of many somewhat different sub-disciplines such as Nordic philology, vocabulary research and onomastics, runology and the history of Nordic language research. The modern Nordic languages (other than Swedish) are of course also studied in Nordic Languages, while dialectology is included in both disciplines.
The Institute of Swedish as a Second Language (ISA) was established in 1997 and serves to support the discipline Swedish as a Second Language by conducting research and by increasing competence in the area among educational institutions via close contact with the educational system. ISA currently funds a number of school-related projects that for example explore how internet-based tools can be used in the teaching of Swedish as a second language. Other projects focus on second-language students' development in terms of writing and vocabulary, and on the vocabulary used in school textbooks and how students with a native language other than Swedish relate to it.
Language technology is one of the University's strong areas, and the research in this field is organised at the Centre for Language Technology (CLT), which engages researchers from two faculties and four departments. CLT has been allocated strategic funds for three years of research (2009-2012).
Natural language processing belongs in the cross-disciplinary research area language technology, in which language and language usage are studied with the ultimate purpose to get computers to handle language in a human-like manner, meaning with an understanding of the actual content of texts and other language production. Natural Language Processing deals primarily with written language, mainly as large text masses (corpuses). Such empirical language material is used in the development of dictionaries and other language-related databases and tools that can be used within for example language technology. Thus, the research is focused around these so-called linguistic resources and their use in research and education. Information refinement, computer-aided language learning and corpus linguistics are some important areas of application.
Research in lexicology involves both studies of the entire vocabulary of Swedish and studies of the properties of individual lexical items. Research in lexicography consists of analysing, describing and structuring the vocabulary found in dictionaries and other lexical resources.
The lexical analysis focuses on different aspects of words. Three important aspects are the grammatical properties of words, such as part of speech and inflectional patterns, the combinatory properties of words, as shown by e.g. collocations, constructions and idioms, and the different meanings of words in different contexts. The origin of individual words and the ways they have changed over time are other important areas of study. Recently a new area of study has developed, viz. the challenges involved when speakers of other languages learn to master the Swedish language.
The lexical research in the department is carried out both within individual research projects and in connection with large dictionary projects such as the monolingual Svensk ordbok utgiven av Svenska Akademien (SO), Svenska Akademiens ordlista, SAOLhist and Lexin, which have been developed at the Centre for Lexicology and Lexicography. A collaborative Nordic project has resulted in the multilingual web dictionary ISLEX.
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There was a fire at 'Just Good Food' in La Fortuna early this morning and just between me and you, it has 'sketchy' written all over it. I heard the FBI will be investigating so we'll see, but for now, I'll keep my thoughts to myself. If you don't know, 'Just Good Food' is a small, soda-style, pizza/hamburger joint where a lot of us gringos like to hang-out and drink too much. For the tourist visiting La Fortuna, it's cheap, decent eats for those traveling on a budget.
The owner of 'Just Good Food', Mike, is a friend and I feel bad for him and his family because really, it's been one thing after another since he took over the restaurant about 9 months ago so it definitely hasn't been the easiest of rides. Every time things seemed to be looking up for the restaurant- another issue. You know, 2-steps forward, 3-steps back.
Hopefully he'll rebuild, we'll see. The kitchen didn't seem to get damaged, it appears to be mostly the ceiling and roof area so to me it looks worse than it actually is.. but obviously that's totally speculative.
Anyway, the first video pertains to the fire, the second was made by D'Angelo and myself to help 'Just Good Food' get the word out and the last video is an interview I did with Mike about how things were going for him at the time. The last video explains some of the issues/problems he's had to deal with since taking over the restaurant.
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Rosario to have MRI on sore hand
LOS ANGELES -- Rockies catcher Wilin Rosario said he plans to have an MRI on Monday on his sore left hand, which kept him out of Sunday afternoon's 6-1 victory over the Dodgers.
Rosario left Saturday night's 6-3 loss to the Dodgers with pain at the bottom of his left hand. Sunday was a day off, but it's not clear when he'll return to the starting lineup. Jordan Pacheco started Sunday, with Rosario available in emergency.
"I started feeling it a couple days ago, I felt it a little bit when we played in Denver," Rosario said. "When I felt it a couple of days ago I felt one area, but yesterday I felt it in another part of the hand. So tomorrow they're going to do an MRI to detail what it is.
"For right now, we feel like it's a bruise. So we're going to work on it, we're going to ice it. Then we'll find out tomorrow what happened."
Rosario said he feels it on swings, especially when he misses. But he said he felt it during a double on Saturday night.
"I don't think it's a DL situation, but we are looking at him day to day here," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said before Sunday's game.
Rosario, hitting .244 with three home runs, five doubles and 13 RBIs in 22 games, was scratched from the lineup April 11 with a left wrist issue. Weiss said this isn't related to that issue, which occurred when he was sliding into a base.
"He's OK, but his hand is pretty sore, though," Weiss said. "He felt it on his swing last night. It's a little tender."
While the Rockies are counting on Rosario not having an extended absence, situations like those are among the reasons the Rockies signed Michael McKenry, who has caught in the Majors for the Rockies and the Pirates. McKenry is batting .310 with two home runs and 10 RBIs in 11 games at Triple-A Colorado Springs.


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The Pleasant Valley High wrestling team enjoyed senior night in a big way, beating Oroville 67-12 in a dual meet Wednesday.
The Vikings (3-1) won all but two matches on the night and took five bouts by forfeit.
The match of the meet was at 222 pounds, with Cody Young pulling out a 5-3 decision over Dalton Schism.
Pins for PV included D.J. Hanley needing 42 seconds to get the fall in the 162 match, Michael Briscoe (108) in 1:01, Jacob Brown (154) in 1:04, Jonathan Travis (197) in 1:44 and Edgar Castanada (287) in 5:40. Carl Robinson earned a major decision at 12-1 in the 134 match.
Oroville's two wins came in the middle weights with Michael Ripley getting a pin at 3:25 in the 140 bout, and Sam Parmentier needing just 29 seconds for a pin in the 147 match.
Paradise 50, Las Plumas 24
The visiting Bobcats (12-7) won nine of the 14 bouts, including seven by pin, to take the dual meet.
Wyatt Wyckoff needed 30 seconds for his pin in the 134 bout. Other Paradise pins were: Logan Hoskins (115) in 2:24; Skyler Caldwell (128) in :50; Keefer Fulton (172) in 1:45; Andrew Hunsaker (197) in 3:12; Cameron Williams (222) in 3:23; Ed Fortenberry (287) in 4:58. Paradise's Devon Wilkerson edged Gabe Hindman 5-4 at 140. James Longero (154) recorded a technicall fall at 16-0.
Las Plumas had pins from Robert Lansdale (162) in 5:22 and Anthony Perez (184) in 3:45. Derek Schaefer earned a 4-2 decision at 122, and Marcus Smith won 11-5 at 147.
Paradise hosts Pleasant Valley next Wednesday.
Corning 45, Anderson 26
The Cardinals wrapped up a perfect 3-0 record in Northern Athletic League dual meets as they topped the visiting Cubs.
Corning's Juan Ruiz (184) needed 51 seconds to pin his opponent, and Dakota Henry (147) got his in 1:23. At 162, Ben Meister registered a technical fall with a 16-0 score. Alex DeJesus earned a 13-1 major decision at 115.
Corning (5-7, 3-0 NAL) won eight bouts, four of them by forfeit and next competes in the NAL championships on Feb. 9 in Susanville.
Boys Prep Basketball
Pleasant Valley 64, Oroville 47
Tyler Tullius scored 18 points and Blake Marchant added 13 points for the Vikings in their victory against Oroville. For the host Tigers, Josh Malone had 12 points, Johnny Xiong had 11 points, Tanner Andoe had 10 as did Justin York.
Girls Prep Basketball
Pleasant Valley 37, Oroville 32
Jessica Gallaway scored 19 points and Izzy Bonacorsi had 13 points in the road victory. Brittany Younan added six points and six rebounds. The host Tigers were led by Amanda Kelley's 10 points.


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Saturday, August 25. 2012
vfsStream 1.1.0 released
With the release of vfsstream 1.1.0 a whole range of new features is introduced. First and foremost is support for new features which became possible with PHP 5.4, namely that 5.4 enables support for touch(), chown(), chgrp() and chmod() on stream wrappers. vfsStream 1.1.0 now supports these functions, which means they can be applied to vfsStream urls. This allows to test functions and methods which change file permissions or ownership.
Another new feature that came along with PHP 5.4 is support for truncating stream wrapper streams via ftruncate(). Of course, vfsStream now supports this as well.
Despite support for the new PHP 5.4 features vfsStream 1.1.0 can still be used with PHP 5.3, but of course without the features requiring PHP 5.4.
Last but not least vfsStream 1.1.0 introduces a new quota feature. This allows to limit the available space in the virtual file system and allows to simulate how your code behaves in case you run out of disk space. For more details check the documentation.
As there was no release announcement for 1.0.0, here is what changed with 1.0.0: vfsStream was changed to make use of namespaces, which means support for PHP 5.2 was dropped. All vfsStream classes now reside in org\bovigo\vfs. (Yeah, it is. Maybe I'm spoiled by Java here. ) Besides that, the release contains some bug fixes. See changelog for a complete list of changes.
Additionally, since 1.0.0 vfsStream is no longer available via PEAR, but via Composer. You can get releases via Packagist.
As the old PEAR server on pear.php-tools.net ceased to exist I made a 0.12.0 release available at pear.bovigo.org. This one is not supported, for bc purposes only and only if you still require a version running with PHP 5.2. Otherwise, it is recommended to upgrade to the 1.x series using Composer.
Sunday, December 4. 2011
vfsStream 0.11.1 released
Today we released vfsStream 0.11.1 which contains an important bugfix for usages of mkdir(). Until 0.11.1 calls to mkdir() with vfsStream URLs replace already existing directories or files, instead of returning false and trigger a warning. This has been fixed with 0.11.1. Thanks to Julien Fontanet for reporting the issue.
As always you can get the new release via our pear channel.
Tuesday, November 29. 2011
vfsStream 0.11.0 released
Some minutes ago vfsStream 0.11.0 was released with several bug fixes and new features. Unfortunately this introduces a BC break to the vfsStream::create() method introduced with 0.10.0. While in 0.10.0 it completely replaced the directory structure this is not the case any more. It now only adds the given structure to an existing structure, either to the directory given with the second parameter, or to the root directory without removing any other childs of the root directory. If you want to replace the whole directory tree you can use the vfsStream::setup() method which now has a third parameter. See create complex directory structures documentation for code examples.
Another new feature is the possibility to import a file system structure from disc into vfsStream. This way you can emulate an existing file structure in vfsStream without having to recreate it from scratch. See copy from file system documentation for more details.
Additionally, three bugs were fixed: unlink() does not remove non-empty directory any more, vfsStreamDirectory::hasChild() now doesn't give false positives for nested paths (patch provided by Andrew Coulton), and opening a file for reading only doesn't update the modification time any more (initial patch provided by Ludovic Chabant).
Thanks to all contributors and issue reporters for their help to improve vfsStream.
As always you can get the new release via our pear channel.
Monday, August 22. 2011
vfsStream 0.10.1 released
Today vfsStream 0.10.1 has been released, containing two bug fixes. The first was a problem with the vfsStream::create() functionality introduced with 0.10.0, where using numeric directories failed because of implicit type conversions (in PHP) and explicit type checks (in vfsStream). Thanks to Mathieu Kooiman for finding this issue and providing a patch.
The other fix is a mix of a documentation and type hinting fix: now you can only use directories as root instance - before it was allowed to add files as vfsStream root with with vfsStreamWrapper::setRoot(), however this failed latest when trying to access other files with a directory name. Starting with 0.10.1 you can not add files as root any more, and this was also used to change the return type documentation so you can get better auto completion when retrieving a directory object with vfsStreamWrapper::getRoot(). Thanks to Dmitry Kabanov for reporting this issue.
As always you can get the new release via our pear channel.
Friday, July 22. 2011
vfsStream 0.10.0 released
Not even ten days after the release of vfsStream 0.9.0 today the fresh version 0.10.0 hits the streets, containing various improvements to make your life with vfsStream much easier. Especially when you want to create more than just two or three files it's really noisy to create the directory structure. To ease this vfsStream now provides a vfsStream::create() method which accepts an array and builds the directory structure from it. See create complex directory structures for more details.
Another improvement is that vfsStream now supports flock() meaning that you can call flock() with a vfsStream file url and afterwards check the file instance whether the lock was set correctly. Another requested feature was the possibility to print out directory structures, but I had the idea of providing even more possibilities on what you could do when inspecting the directory structure. For a more detailed view on what this new feature provides check the wiki page about Visitors.
Also this release introduces a BC break. As announced with 0.9.0 the then deprecated method vfsStreamContent::setFilemtime() was removed now - please use fsStreamContent::lastModified() instead.
In order to ensure better compatibility between PHP 5.2 and 5.3 calling support for stream_set_blocking(), stream_set_timeout() and stream_set_write_buffer() on 5.3 was added. However calls with these functions always return false and do not have any influence on vfsStream, which is rather because concrete usage scenarios are a bit unclear at the moment. If you have any ideas or feature requests on how vfsStream should treat such calls feel free to add your comments on issue #15.
You can get the new release via our pear channel.
Wednesday, July 13. 2011
vfsStream 0.9.0 released
Today the new 0.9.0 release of vfsStream was shipped to our PEAR channel. This release ships with a new feature that allows (unit) test scenarios which make use of file access time and file attribute modification time. While there is no restriction on usage of the file access time, support for file attribute modification time is still quite limited due to the fact that PHP's stream wrapper do not support changing file attributes via chmod(), chown() and chgrp(). However, this might change with PHP 5.4 but this is some month away from today.
Another issue fixed (well, kind of) is the problem that calls to stream_select() with vfsStream-URLs did not cause problems with PHP 5.2 but with 5.3 - this release makes sure that vfsStream behaves the same under both versions. Unfortunately it continues that stream_select() does not work with vfsStream-URLs as the only possible implementation of the stream_cast() method was to return false. Actually it is expected to return the underlying resource, but there is no such resource in vfsStream, and returning resources pointing to data:// scheme URLs does not work either.
More changes are the deprecation of the vfsStreamAbstractContent::setFilemtime() method in favor of vfsStreamAbstractContent::lastModified(), which means the aforementioned is scheduled to be removed with the next minor release (most likely 0.10.0). You should change your code accordingly if you make use of this method. Last but not least there was a bug that not all given URLs were resolved correctly, leading to the problem that in the second parameter of rename() and in mkdir() no dots could be used, which is fixed now.
You can get the new release via our pear channel.
By the way, did you notice that development of vfsStream has moved to Github?
Monday, March 14. 2011
Stubbles 1.6.0 released
Today we released Stubbles 1.6.0, which is another major step of abandoning our XJConf for PHP dependency. The variant manager configuration can still be done using XML, but we don't use XJConf any more, but an own parser which is much simpler and uses less resources. It is not as powerful as XJConf, but powerful enough for all features required for variant configuration, and still being able to extend this configuration with user-defined tags. So the 1.6 series will also be the last one where XJConf is bundled. In the 1.7 series XJConf will not be part of the release any more, and all XJConf related code will be moved into a separate project.
Another improvement is the fact that there is no need any more for specific annotation classes. If no specific annotation class is present the new stubGenericAnnotation class will be used. This is sufficient for most use cases, and Stubbles will only use the new generic class internally.
One last improvement is the possibility to use injection providers for constant values as well. Until now it was only possible to set a concrete value for a constant, but starting with 1.6.0 it can now be bound to an injection provider which may calculate the value at runtime or use other classes to retrieve the actual value.
See the full changelog for all details of changes for this release.
Tuesday, March 1. 2011
Stubbles 1.6.0 RC1
To start with the Stubbles 1.6 series the first release candidate 1.6.0 RC1 is now available:
Please test it thoroughly with your applications and report any bugs into our Trac installation.
For a list of changes please see the changelog.
If no obstacles rise up the scheduled release for 1.6.0 is March 8th.
Wednesday, February 23. 2011
Stubbles 1.5.1 released
Today we released Stubbles 1.5.1. This is a bugfix release, fixing one bug inside the XML/XSL view engine that prohibited usage of the common page path for including xsl stylesheets from the common project. You can get the release from our downloads page.
Monday, February 14. 2011
Stubbles for XP: an experiment
Last Friday I went to farewell party of a friend of mine, and on this evening I talked with Alex Kiesel who is one of the XP framework developers about various things, injection support within the XP framework amongst them. As you might or might not know, both Stubbles and XP are similar in some areas, mostly because the developers share a common mindset about what a framework should provide and how things should be done. This got me into thinking about the injection topic more deeply, as I was convinced that a port of the Stubbles IoC package should be feasible without any large efforts, providing the same features as in Stubbles.
Over the weekend I stopped thinking about it and fired my IDE to just code it. And as it turned out, the port was almost a no-brainer. I got everything to work very quickly, and was able to port the test cases as well, gathering 33 running tests.
Unfortunately there is one feature which the XP port can not provide, which is named injection for more than one argument on constructors or setter methods. This means if you need to have a named injection you require a single setter method for each named injection. This is due to the fact that XP does not provide annotations for method parameters, so the @Named annotation can only be applied to methods and therefore is used for all arguments of such an annotated method.
While the idea of "Stubbles for XP" has been thought more than once in the past and this little experiment shows it is possible, it would still be a long way to go, and the IoC package is just a very small part of it. However, to have room for more experiments of such a kind I named the experiment "Stubbles for XP". If you are interested in the source just have a look at the subversion repository. If you just want to play around with it you might simply download the stubbles-for-xp-0.1.1.xar file.
Update: thanks to a hint from Timm it is now possible to use the 0.1.1 release against XP without applying the aforementioned patch.
Wednesday, January 26. 2011
On annotations and logic
When we started Stubbles and implemented the annotation feature we drafted them as first class citizens within the code, being classes containing their data and also with the possibility to contain logic. While this was quite a good idea in the beginning and it offered a lot of possibilities and freedom to implement features which revolve around the usage of annotations, I came to the opinion that it's not such a good idea at all.
The most simplest reason for this is the idea that annotations are markup. They mark (or, to keep the notion, annotate) code as being special or to be treated in some special kind of way, depending on the scenario where the code is used in, with scenario meaning something like creating the object graph for the application, serializing data to XML or into a database, or populating objects with values from a given source. What is common to all these scenarios is that you have some kind of logic which treats arbitrary objects where both logic and treated objects don't know anything about each other. The only thing which ties them together and tells the logic how to to treat the object are annotations, they give hints how the logic should perform in regard to the object.
From a design point of view this makes it clear why annotations should not contain logic. If annotations contain parts of such logic, it becomes splitted and possibly cluttered throughout different classes: in the main class of the logic, possibly in any subclasses which you can and should not prevent if required, and in annotations. It's basically a violation of the single responsibility principle. The single responsibility of an annotation is to mark up code, not to execute logic which is not related to the markup itself.
A second reason is that logic in annotations does not promote code reusage. It's bound to the specific annotation, and there is no way to reuse it in another scenario without annotations. Probably the logic is useful in another way, were informations about how to treat an object does not come from annotations - than it is really helpful to not have any part of the logic in annotations. Or the other way round, it's even harder to reuse other code within the logic constrained in annotations as you are limited to what you can insert into the scope in which annotations are read and created.
What does this mean for Stubbles? In the past days I've revisited all framework code which makes use of annotations, and changed it in a way that all parts of the logic are in specialised classes which are part of the logic. This allowed to get two improvements: for the filter annotations api this means that annotated filters can now be created in exactly the same manner as filters which are explicitly requested, via the same source and configuration. The other improvement is within the XML serializer, it lead to much clearer and simpler code then we had before. The improvements are part of the next milestone release 1.6.0 (no release date yet).
I'm also questioning the requirement of the possibility to have different annotation classes. However, I did not came to a final conclusion on this issue yet, but in regard to the language and environment I think it might be enough to have a single annotation class which simply works as data container, maybe even to force logic out of annotations this way. On the other hand, having a separate class might be a good way to provide validation of the annotation values and to prevent wrong usage of the annotation.
One might also consider the point of being able to restrict annotations to certain places, e.g. to restrict the usage of annotations just to methods or properties. But is this really required, e.g. does it provide a useful feature? This has to be answered with no if viewed from the logic, as the logic simply ignores annotations on places it does not use. It might be answered with yes as wrongly placed annotations could raise errors and inform the developer he placed the annotation on a wrong place, leading to cleaner code. But, this only comes into play if annotations on such a place are read at all. If an annotation is in the wrong place, but this place is never parsed for annotations, no such error will ever be raised. The question is: does this tiny positive point outweigh the additional complexity for developers who want to create their own logic with annotations? I don't think so, which leaves validation of annotation values as only use case for having separate annotation classes. Currently the trend is towards having a generic annotation class as data container, but for the moment I will leave the possibility to have a specific annotation class in case it becomes clear that a generic class is not always the answer.
Thursday, January 20. 2011
Stubbles 1.5.0 released
A new year, a new minor release. With Stubbles 1.5.0 we continue to adhere to our release early, release often approach. The release contains further improvements on our IoC feature, as well as API improvements for various classes in the ipo package. A major change however is that we discontinue to provide several different versions of the release. Until now, all releases contained various packaged versions of the framework classes inside the lib directory. This has changed, starting with 1.5.0 we only provide the stubbles.php file. For a full list of changes please see the changelog.
But we don't stop at this point. Work on the 1.6.0 release has already started and will see tweaks to how we use annotations. But more on this in a separate blog post coming soon.
Wednesday, January 12. 2011
Stubbles 1.5.0 RC1
To start with the Stubbles 1.5 series the first release candidate 1.5.0 RC1 is now available:
Please test it thoroughly with your applications and report any bugs into our Trac installation.
For a list of changes please see the changelog.
If no obstacles rise up the scheduled release for 1.5.0 is January 19th.
Friday, December 31. 2010
Stubbles 1.3.4 and 1.4.4 released
On the last day of 2010 the probably last releases of the Stubbles 1.3 and 1.4 series are now available: releases 1.3.4 and 1.4.4. Both contain bug fixes for handling of variant cookies so that detecting a variant from cookies now works properly.
You can get the latest release from our downloads page.
Friday, December 17. 2010
Stubbles 1.3.3 and 1.4.3 released
Today we released Stubbles 1.3.3 and 1.4.3. The releases include improvements for the XML/XSL view engine. One of them is the removal of a required xsl-imports.ini configuration file if only the default imports should be used - as the engine would not work without the default imports properly the configuration file needs only to be used if there are additional user-defined XSL stylesheets to be imported.
The other improvements revolve around the variant support. Until now the cookie which stores the variant was not re-evaluated when the variant configuration changed. This is different now, as the name of the variant configuration is now stored in another cookie. If the name of the variant configuration changes the variant cookie will not be used to determine the correct variant for the user. This means the user will get a fresh new variant, even if he has the name of an older variant in his cookie and the old variant is still configured, which is especially useful when starting a new variant test.
In order to ease selecting the correct variant when working in development or stage mode, especially when it comes to random variants, the stage assistant now contains a variant selector which can be used to change the current variant of the website.
You can get the latest release from our downloads page.
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After getting a free DVD boxset when I subscribed to SFX magazine earlier this year, I've been working my way through seasons 2, 3 and 4 of Fringe (just in time to catch it's shortened final season with everyone else next year!). Few sci-fi and fantasy shows can get through three or more seasons without some kind of Classical reference popping up and I was delighted to see that Fringe was no exception.
(Some of this may not make much sense if you haven't seen Fringe. I've been deliberately vague about anything relating to the show's overall story arc, to avoid spoiling too much for anyone who hasn't seen it yet - up until the last paragraph, which is majorly spoilery, so don't read if you don't want to know. The show is worth a look, though it lost me a bit after, ironically, season 4's 'The End of All Things'. The moral here is, even if your cast includes one of the stars of The Lord of the Rings, it's still not a good idea to call an episode 'The End of all Things.')
'Os' is not, it has to be said, an especially good episode of Fringe. For one thing, we all have our personal limits for what we can or can't suspend disbelief for, and where the lines are drawn will depend partly on the nature of the show as well (for example I'll buy things in The X-Files, one of Fringe's obvious foreunners/inspirations, that I won't buy on Fringe, because The X-Files is based on the paranormal, not mad science). People floating around in the air is a bit close to the line for me - plus it looks a bit silly. (This is why the one plotline that totally lost me on this show, which I hope is not going to reappear in season 5, was the Porcupine Man. Utterly daft). The episode is also a bit clunky, and features a reveal at the end that both distracts from the rest of the episode, and means that some fairly significant character development was abruptly dropped and, so far, has yet to reappear.
What I did like about this episode, though, was its use of the myth of Icarus. The story of Daedalus and Icarus is one of the best-known Greco-Roman myths, and probably one of the most frequently referenced behind the all-time number one, Oedipus. Aside from overly obvious spaceship-naming (do not get on a spaceship called Icarus and fly towards the sun - it will not end well for you) the story is usually used to symbolise reaching too far in a quest for artistic or scientific achievement and suffering or even dying for it - 'flying too close to the sun'. Given that Fringe is based almost entirely on scientists destroying themselves and/or others (up to and including entire universes) in their quest for scientific advancement, it's just surprising it took them until season 3 to give the Icarus story a shout-out, really.
At first, it looks like Walter's direct references to the Icarus story in his dialogue are just a rather clunky way of trying to make the story more affecting. Formerly wheelchair-bound young men are becoming weightless, but if they don't stay tethered to the ground they'll float off into the atmosphere, in a literal rendition of the Icarus story - and if your story comes from a myth, this always gives it a level of kudos that stops the audience from saying 'hang on, seriously - floating people?' But then the story's resemblance to the Icarus myth is revealed to be even closer than just the flying thing, and that's where it gets more interesting, tapping into an aspect of the story that is often forgotten when it's reduced to the bare bones of 'don't over-reach or you might get burned'.
I can't help it - it looks silly. I draw the line in weird places.
Fringe is a show that is obsessed with relationships between fathers and sons and, more specifically, with the lengths to which fathers will go to protect or help their sons. (Other parent/child relationships get a look-in sometimes as well, and mothers and daughters start cropping up a bit in season 4, but fathers and sons is the focus). This is the driving force behind the show's overall mythology and it crops up in another context in season 3's 'The Abducted' and season 4's 'The Consultant' (though it's weirdly and inexplicably absent from the episodes following 'The End of All Things' - another dropped plotline that continues to annoy me!). At the end of 'Os', it's revealed that Stuart from Spin City has been experimenting on wheelchair-bound young men because he wants to help his own son, who is also confined to a wheelchair. It's at this point that Walter brings up Icarus again, not because of the rather obvious flying connection, but because the reason Daedalus built the wings in the first place was because he was trying to help his son, and the attempt backfired horribly.
In myth, the reason Daedalus built the wings was that he was being held prisoner on the island of Crete, and his son with him. He built the wings so that they could escape - so he wasn't just messing around with things we ought not to mess around with for the sake of Science, Art or the Betterment of Humankind, he was trying to achieve a specific goal to help his son (well, to help himself really, but his son too). In Ovid's version in the Metamorphoses, Ovid places an enormous amount of emphasis on Daedalus' love for his son, the tragedy of the boy (he's quite young in this version) getting carried away and killing himself, and Daedalus' grief at his son's death. Ovid then undercuts this by adding that the partridge uttered a cry of triumph, because the partridge was formerly Daedalus' young nephew Perdix, whom Daedalus murdered (except a goddess turned him into a partridge instead). This rather undercuts your sympathy for Daedalus, and implies that the death of Icarus may be the universe's way of restoring the balance after what Daedalus did to Perdix.
katra already) that one line raised it from pretty bad to vaguely OK.


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"Why can a commercial
establishment get a waiver of the antiquated 2,000-foot-rule between traffic lights and St. Gregory's church and school cannot? There's not even a school speed zone in place on 278 to protect the school children, while on 170 and Buckwalter Parkway, both public and private schools have these."
"Hey here's a little tip for the South Carolina lawmakers. Instead of worrying about the cameras out in Ridgeland, which are doing just fine, you're picking on people who are choosing to speed and you're picking them up for it, there's a bigger issue to worry about. Why don't you pass a law if there are bike paths or sidewalks available, bikers must use them or be cited for failure to do so. That's a law needs to be passed."
"Corporate kings grab our tax subsidies but create no new jobs."
"In the past two years, 55 percent of workers have lost a job or taken a cut."
"OK, children, shut up and eat your sugar."
Editor's note: Mom?
"I hope someone in Voxland can help me on this. I have three or four used pairs of hearing aids. I'd like to find ears for them. Please call the Vox and let me know where to donate them. Thank you so much."
"Does anyone know where there are adult typing courses offered in the Bluffton area, either during the day or in the evening?"
"To the Vox caller who admonishes Sarah Palin to get a grip, why don't you get a history book? Paul Revere during his ride was captured by the British. At such time, he did warm them that they wouldn't be able to conquer the Americans because the Americans would come in numbers and well-armed. Nice try, read a book."
"Look at Sarah Palin's bank account if you want to see money made by spewing a bunch of hot air. Which I believe is contributing to global warming whether Al Gore says so or not."
"I think it's far worse for the president of the United States, Obama, not to know how many states there are, I believe he said 57, than it is for someone who's not in public office at all to make a mistake about the British. There's no comparison there. Are you too dumb to realize that?"
"We have no friends out there. Do you understand? The United States has no friends. We are in competition with some countries and those are the ones we think are our friends and the ones we're not in competition are envious of us. We have no friends. Quit talking about the United States and their allies. Whatever. Allies. Friends. It's not interchangeable. Quit thinking that we have friends out there because we don't. We are all alone. United States is all alone and the sooner y'all realize it the better chance we have of survival."
"The other Republican presidential candidates are doing a better job of destroying Mitt Romney than the mainstream media. It's going be fun to watch Republicans point their anger in tough talking, sharp tongues at each other for a change."
"Great, we have a governor who puts the tea party over public education. Our House and Senate want to ... restore funding to public schools but not Govenor Haley. She won't even sign an application to compete for federal funding. ... everything is about money and never the human factor."
"Three days in a row no papers at Coligny. Three days in a row. That's not very professional of you."
"This is a BT complaint. Parker's Gas Station on Buckwalter is always out of Bluffton Todays. They sell out quickly. Why do you not increase the number of papers you give to them? They're stocked up with Island Packets and USA Todays, but BT is always sold out. I wish you could fix this. Thank you."
Editor's note: We passed this on to our circulation department. If you spot an empty box, please call 815-0808.
"It would have been a good idea to include the dangers of leaving pets in cars in the feature story on Thursday but it was not mentioned. Maybe you could do an additional warning of that. That it also happens to be against the law. They don't warn when giving the weather either about animals. Maybe someone could do that since, the animals can't very well call in themselves."
Editor's note: Please be sure to read Courtney Hampson's column.
"That previous call was of course pertaining to the extreme heat that we have. Also a reminder to the idiots that have the trucks with the dogs in the back how dangerous and harmful that is to the animal."
"So the National Labor Review Board of Obama's is suing Boeing over the new non-union facility in South Carolina. Here's what I think Boeing should do: What many of thousands of other companies have done. Just close the plant in South Carolina, close it down and move it to China."
"I think the people of New York are morons for allowing this man to resign. They should have fired him. This way, he would not have been able to get more taxpayers' money for his resignation. We all know who I'm talking about."
"Thank God the Weiner is resigning. Zip it up, Weiner and go away (maniacal laughing)."
"Another example of how MSNBC tries to whitewash the news regarding Anthony Weiner: Their description of the porn star who Weiner asked her to lie. MSNBC describes her as an adult entertainment star."
"Bill Roe, here's truth that castrates your far-right untruths. There is no magic economic bullet for Washington to shoot that will make our area's economic growth disappear. It will require old-fashioned American innovation and hard work. Our Congressman, who is on the Armed Service Committee, should think of our returning troops every day he fails to keep his jobs promises. They never give up and neither should he."
"Periodical newsperson Bill Roe has been exposed by Sherry McKnight. Roe's unverified vilification of our president shows how far Roe and the others of his ilk will go."
"Thank you, Sherry McKnight, for your very well-written letter and your fact-checking on Bill Roe's column. I very frequently disagree with Bill Roe and oftentimes what he writes makes me question it as I'm reading it, but I don't know enough about research to properly vet what he writes. Thank you, Sherry. We appreciate the truth."
"I was shocked to learn to Anthony Weiner, who resigned yesterday, has $14 million in his campaign fund. No wonder these jokesters want to run for political office. Where could they go in the private sector and collect that kind of money? No where."


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Toothless in Seattle2/09/2012 11:51:00 AM Edit This 0 Comments »
It's official, we are toothless in Seattle. Lexie lost her first tooth last night while simply sitting in church school. She was so excited....
We stopped by the store on the way home and of course she had to show every stranger she met.
Once we got home she got really silly.
What a goof ball. She asked how long it would take for her adult tooth to grow in. I explained it could take a while (since I didn't want to have to count down the days.) She thought about that for a minute and then she said "once it grows in then I'll be an adult - right Mommy?" Oh sure Lexie. Here are the car keys and a credit card.....NOT!!
Finally she calmed down enough to take her shower. Once she was out, Lexie was very concerned about where to put the tooth so it wouldn't get lost. We decided to put the tooth in a jewelry box.
As I was getting her ready for bed she then said "tell the story with pictures, please Mommy!" So here is the story of her first tooth being placed under her pillow to await the tooth fairy and all her magic.
The famous placing it under her heart pillow...
Then my favorite part - snuggling under the covers and getting ready to close her eyes and GO TO SLEEP!!
All of this prep must have worked because the tooth fairy did in fact come and left her two gold coins (the new dollar coins that are goldish I should say.)
Her smile is defiantly different...
but so happy!!
This morning as we were getting ready, Lexie informed me that the tooth fairy makes necklaces for her daughters and granddaughters out of the teeth.....And she makes cell phones for the boys. I didn't even know what to say to that. I mean teeth cell phones?
I wonder how long all this tooth talk is going to go on?
Regardless, I LOVE my toothless princess!!


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It's Wednesday again! That means another load of fresh comics to devour! Unfortunately, if you think there were slim pickings last week, my list was even shorter this week. In fact, I have just enough comics to talk about three of them. Do you think that means I'll have less to say this time? Noooooo!
Let's get started!
I loved…
The prison cafeteria scene in Nate Cosby and Ben McCool's PIGS #6 – I know what you're going to say: once again, I'm about to praise writers for actually NOT writing. Indeed, in the whole three pages that this scene takes, there are no more than eight speech balloons for a grand total of only 31 words.
However, it's easily one of the most characterization and mood-heavy scenes I've seen in a while. It's all done by the actions of background characters and switching camera angles. Here's the setup: a crime boss (name unknown – correct me if I'm wrong) is sitting in the cafeteria when his bodyguard, "Fred", comes in. Now keep in mind Fred is covered head to toe in swastika tattoos and has just cut off a man's foot with what looks like a dozen plastic knives – one AFTER the other.
Page 10 (7 panels)
Panel 1
Wide elevated shot of the cafeteria showing PRISONERS having lunch.
Panel 2
Wide shot of a single table with PRISONERS eating and taking every seat except one in front of the BOSS. From the right side, we can see FRED's hands entering the panel, holding his lunch tray.
Panel 3
Medium shot of the BOSS seated and eating.
Panel 4
Inverted shot: FRED is sitting down with his tray in front of the BOSS.
Panel 5
Long shot from the opposite end of the table showing the PRISONERS picking up their trays and getting up. The BOSS and FRED are seated calmly at the end of the table in the background.
Panel 6
Same shot but now most of the prisoners have gone; the last two are getting up and leaving. The BOSS and FRED haven't moved.
Panel 7
Same shot but the BOSS and FRED are now alone at the table.
Page 12 (6 panels)
Panel 1
Wide shot showing the BOSS' head, cocked to the side, on the left side of the panel, with PRISONERS seated and eating in the background.
Panel 2
Wide shot showing FRED's head, cocked to the side, on the right side of the panel, with nothing in the background.
Panel 3
Close-up of the BOSS' glasses reflecting the pudding in FRED's tray, the same image repeated in both lenses.
Panel 4
Close-up of the pudding in FRED's tray.
Panel 5
Tight overshot of FRED's hand and arm, pushing the tray towards the BOSS.
Panel 6
Worm's eye view from just beside the pudding looking up to the BOSS holding a spoonful of pudding near his mouth.
This could easily have taken the form of a long exchange between the two criminals with some exposition and witty repartee. However, Cosby and McCool chose instead to focus on the essential: the relationship between the two men and the way they come into contact with others around them. And for that, not many words were needed but wisely omitted.
By the way, I have to mention the way letterer Rus Wooton has chosen to treat Fred's speech bubbles: all shaky, no caps at all and not a single punctuation mark. It's the kind of voice you don't want coming from under your bed but you just know it would sound like this if you ever heard it.
I liked…
Andrea's speech to Rick in Robert Kirkman's THE WALKING DEAD #94 – In this latest issue, Rick's group is finally shifting gears and have decided to try their luck at finding this other community that their prisoner "Jesus" is seemingly scouting for. As Ricks gives his final orders before departing, he has an exchange with Andrea that ends on this panel:
Now part of me immediately shot up with "Andrea's dying next!" After all, we've been long overdue on Kirkman's credo of "No one is safe." Andrea's one of the last few remaining members of the "old guard". It wouldn't be surprising to see Kirkman ramp things up on his way to his 100th issue by cutting short the existence of one of his most remarkable and enduring creations.
After all, declaring so frankly how you constantly cheat death is one of the surest ways in comics to reserve a seat on Charon's yacht. But is this hubris at its best (worst?), an inspiring character mission statement or a rare tongue-in-cheek lampshade-hanging?
Can it be all three at once?
Only time will tell but I'm ready to wager a nice crisp Queen's portrait that this little speech should come back to haunt us in one way or another in the following months. It's not the best sample of foreshadowing, but it's certainly one of the most entertaining.
I was disappointed by…
The fact that this was the final issue of Kurtis J. Wiebe's GREEN WAKE – Yes, I'm already breaking my own rules and using this section to praise a comic instead of chiding it.
I was very saddened about a month ago when I learned that GREEN WAKE was getting cancelled after issue10 for lack of sales. To be perfectly honest, I was angry. It angered me to see something so thoughtful disappear while other publications could go on thanks to the simple rote purchasing habits of the blindly faithful.
Mostly, I was angry at the average and maybe hypothetical comic reader. The one that buys every comic with Wolverine on the cover. The one who has to own every spinoff and tie-in to an "event" that never ends. The one that only looks for premises he's seen on TV first. The one who won't take chances. The one who's still stuck in his teenage power fantasies. The one who won't hesitate shelling out four bucks for yet another polybagged mainstream title but bitches about not having any budget for creator-owned indie books with literally a dozen pages of backup material for the same price. The one who has memorized every Teen Titan roster in publication history but finds it too tedious to learn the names of unknown characters in a new mystery mini.
The main problem I think is that the average comic reader is not educated enough for the medium. I'm not talking about school education. I don't care if you've got an MBA or if you flunked out of kindergarten. No, the problem is that he's not educated enough about his options when buying comics. It's not that there's nothing that indie comics can offer to this reader, it's just that getting him to learn about the alternatives means meeting him halfway – halfway of the ocean parting these two worlds. But I'm not getting into whose fault is that…
In the end, it's all a business and publishing companies are there to make money. And so the wheel of the comic market keeps on turning and other ideas break the surface at the water's edge.
That's why I'm not as angry today as I was a month ago, not with the slew of new books coming for Mr. Wiebe. PETER PANZERFAUST is already off to a very respectable start, GRIM LEAPER has a premise that's a sure-fire hit and DEBRIS, just recently announced at IMAGE EXPO, has him reunited once more with his GREEN WAKE accomplice, Riley Rossmo. So things are not completely bleak. Some projects die peacefully while others see the light of day. I just hope Wiebe's growing exposition with these titles, his blog and his podcast are enough to better his chances at keeping afloat the sales figures wave.
I see GREEN WAKE's early cancellation as a warning that if we don't nurture burgeoning talent and originality on the comic market, we're just condemning ourselves to more of the same old stories, retold, rehashed and regurgitated in redesigned costumes. That's the real death of comics we need to be wary of, not by lack of sales, but by lack of creativity.
I think Kermit had the best words for closing: "It's not easy being green."