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Winners, Losers: The BlackBerry Flash Sale
The week in winners and losers includes several telecom companies with two different story endings. David Benoit joins MoneyBeat. Photo: Getty Images.
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Twitter a hit on Election Day
President Barack Obama's tweet about being reelected became his most retweeted ever — with more than 415,000 retweets and counting.
Shortly after beating GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to get a second term, Obama tweeted:
Four more years. twitter.com/BarackObama/st…— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012
Election Day tweets totaled 32 million, with 23 million tweets coming after the first poll closed, according to data released by Twitter early Wednesday morning.
The peak moment of the night came as the broadcast networks announced that Obama won, with tweets per minute average 327,452, the most tweeted moment of this election cycle, according to Twitter.
At 2 p.m., election tweets totaled 6.4 million for Election Day.

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Actually I modified the building process recently, to make it faster by using multithreading. But maybe the first version of my implementation used too many threads, which consume a lot of RAM (and this may slow down the building machine). Now I've decreased the number of threads and added an option for modifying it.
Wuzzy {l Wrote}:Anyway, now I can at least start Yorg and click around in the main menu and stuff, but when I start the first single race, I only come to the loading screen, but it crashes after a few seconds. I don't get to see the actual race track.[...]
The branch master is expected to be unstable, since it is where I introduce new bugs almost daily. The bug you reported has been fixed, thank you for reporting.
If someone prefers a stabler branch, there are the other branches. Anyway, since I have just worked on them for creating a new branch, so they aren't really stable right now. But this will definitely change in the future: the stable branch will be considered stable, and the testing branch will be considered as the "pre-release" branch.
Wuzzy {l Wrote}:PS: You seem to use the "NB" awfully lot. I think this abbreviation is quite obscure, at least in English. Better remove it or find something better to avoid confusion.
Thank you very much (I didn't know it), I've changed that!
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Wow, thank you very much! I've added your translation, and credited you on the site and in the game (please let me know if you prefer not to be credited). If you need to submit another version, you may start from the current one, since it is up-to-date. I've written a small guide for translators, there could be some hints. Thank you very much!


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Lindsay Gaskins' first foray into the brain-game market was a bust. After raising $75,000 in seed money from Chicago venture capital firm and incubator Sandbox Industries, Gaskins opened a "brain fitness" mall kiosk in May 2008. Customers who stopped to check out the games, puzzles, books and software expressed interest in the products, but most didn't reach for their wallets. Because the kiosk was adorned in bright, kid-friendly colors but sold a number of products made for adults, many shoppers were confused about the intended audience.
Rather than scrap the business altogether, Gaskins tweaked the model, improving on what did work. "The few products that did sell were the ones that were open," says Gaskins, who worked as a buyer for Sears for five years. Likewise, the salespeople who sold the most were those who'd actually tried the games, knew how they worked and could explain them to customers.
After raising another $450,000 from Sandbox, Gaskins ditched the kiosk, rebranded as Marbles: The Brain Store and opened a shop in downtown Chicago that October. The new logo, décor and signage spoke to kids and adults alike, and the bigger space allowed for a more interactive experience, so that customers could test-drive any product. Gaskins also required sales staff--dubbed BrainCoaches--to play with the inventory so they could deftly navigate customer questions.
The store was an immediate hit with shoppers of all ages looking to stay mentally sharp. In 2009, Gaskins opened three additional Chicago stores. More followed, including outlets on the East and West coasts. Today Marbles: The Brain Store boasts 27 U.S. locations and employs 185 people. Annual revenue is close to $20 million.
Each store stocks about 250 carefully curated products, 50 of which the company developed itself, says Gaskins, who has enlisted neuroscientists, psychologists and occupational therapists to evaluate Marbles' products and offer testimonials on which parts of the brain each one strengthens. It might sound tedious, but the playful stores and displays of products with names like Idiom Addict, Rock Me Archimedes, Stick Bombs and Catchoo prove otherwise.
Online shopping is no match for this brainy brick-and-mortar empire. "Interactive retail is kind of the future," Gaskins says. "And very hands-on, fun, engaging retail is where it's all going." In-store events such as Teacher Tuesdays and Monthly Game Nights continuously feed the chain's growing customer base.
Investors have taken notice. Cuneo & Company, a New York-based private venture firm, has led two investment rounds since 2012, putting up more than $3 million total. Gavin Cuneo, a partner at the firm, points to the skyrocketing market for brain-health software and biometrics, which research firm SharpBrains predicts will increase to $6 billion by 2020. The burgeoning Boomer population, longer life expectancies and consumers' heightened interest in healthful living feed this industry.
"This could be a 500-store chain at some point," says Cuneo, who now sits on Marbles' board and imagines the business expanding from shopping malls to airports and other novelty locations.
In addition to opening more stores, Marbles is allotting investment funds to its in-house product development team, which aims to beef up the number of proprietary products the company sells. "Our goal is to get up to 40 or 50 percent proprietary," Cuneo says. This not only differentiates Marbles from competitors; it also boosts profit margins. Pretty smart, indeed.
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WASHINGTON � Management failures by the Obama administration set the stage for the computer woes that paralyzed the president's new health care program last fall, nonpartisan investigators said in testimony released Wednesday.
Behind the administration's repeated assurances that consumers across the land would soon have seamless access to health care, a chaotic procurement process was about to deliver a stumbling start.
After a months-long investigation, the Government Accountability Office found that the administration lacked ''effective planning or oversight practices'' for the development of HealthCare.gov, the online portal to coverage for millions of uninsured Americans.
As a result the government incurred ''significant cost increases, schedule slips, and delayed functionality,'' William Woods, a GAO contracting expert, said in testimony prepared for a hearing Thursday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
GAO is the nonpartisan investigative agency of Congress. Its full report is also expected Thursday.
Spokesman Aaron Albright said the administration takes its responsibility for contract oversight seriously and has already started carrying out improvements that go beyond GAO's recommendations. The congressional investigators recommended a cost control plan and other changes to establish clear procedures and improve oversight.
Investigators found that the administration kept changing the contractors' marching orders for the HealthCare.gov website, creating widespread confusion and leading to tens of millions of dollars in additional costs. Changes were ordered in seemingly willy-nilly fashion, including 40 times when government officials did not have the initial authority to incur additional costs.
The report faults the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services � which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services � for ineffective oversight.
The Medicare agency, known as CMS, was designated to administer Obama's health care law.
GAO concluded:
◼ Contractors were not given a coherent plan, and instead they were kept jumping around from issue to issue.
◼ The cost of the sign-up system ballooned from $56 million to more than $209 million from Sept. 2011 to Feb. 2014. The cost of the electronic backroom jumped from $30 million to almost $85 million.
◼ CMS, representing the administration, failed to follow up on how well the contractors performed. At one point the agency notified one contractor it was so dissatisfied it would start withholding payments. Then it quickly rescinded that decision.
◼The type of federal contract that the administration selected for HealthCare.gov was open-ended, which may have encouraged costly changes.
Two contractors took the lead on the computerized system:
Virginia-based CGI Federal built HealthCare.gov, the consumer-facing portal to subsidized private health insurance under the law. The site serves 36 states, while the remaining states built their own systems, with mixed results.
QSSI, based in Maryland, was responsible for an electronic back office that helps verify personal and financial information to determine if consumers are eligible for tax credits to help pay their premiums.
The front end of the system locked up the same day it was launched, Oct. 1, and was down most of that initial month. T
he electronic back office had fewer problems.
Despite crippling problems with the part of the system used by consumers, CMS ultimately paid nearly all of CGI's $12.5 million in fees, withholding only $267,000, GAO said.
Confronted with a flop, the White House sent in management consultant Jeff Zients as a troubleshooter. He removed CMS as project leader and gave the agency a supporting role.
CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner later personally apologized to Congress saying that ''the website has not worked as well as it should.''
Zients' rescue operation got the site working by early December.
Another major contractor, Accenture, was brought in to help fix things. Eventually, some 8 million people managed to sign up, far exceeding expectations.
Nonetheless, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stepped down amid complaints by White House officials that the president was blind-sided by the problems.
The original contractors testified to Congress that they did not have nearly enough time to test the system before it went live.
Indeed, Tavenner took the unusual step of signing the operational security certificate for HealthCare.gov herself, after CMS security professionals balked.
The site has since passed full security testing.
The GAO's findings amplified earlier conclusions in a report by Zients after his team got the website to work.
In addition to hundreds of software bugs, insufficient infrastructure and subpar monitoring of problems, the White House troubleshooter found ''inadequate management oversight and coordination'' that ''prevented real-time decision making and efficient responses to address the issues.''
Obama has already weathered the worst storms from the bungled health care launch, so the report is unlikely to create major political problems for the White House and Democrats generally.
But it does shine a light on what was going on behind the scenes even as administration officials fostered the impression that signing up for health care would be simple, like shopping online.


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Earth from Space: Madagascar
The north-western area of Madagascar – the fourth largest island in the world – is seen in this Proba image. Madagascar is located in the Indian Ocean, off the eastern coast of Africa. The island was once attached to the African mainland, but broke away more than 150 million years ago.
The island nation became a French colony in 1896, and regained its independence in 1960. Along with Malagasy, French remains one of the country's two official languages.
Madagascar is the home of five percent of the world's plant and animal species. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), 98 percent of Madagascar's land mammals, 92 percent of its reptiles, 68 percent of its plants and 41 percent of its bird species exist nowhere else on Earth.
Recently highlighted in the animated comedy 'Madagascar', furry, tree-hopping lemurs are endemic to the island. Although they appear to resemble felines or canines, lemurs are primates – as are monkeys, apes and humans.
There are approximately 33 different species of lemurs in Madagascar, and they are considered the most endangered primates in the world. Loss of habitat through deforestation is believed to pose the biggest threat to the island's flora and fauna.
Madagascar is recognised as one of the highest priority hotspots with numerous international conservation organisations and the Malagasy government working together to preserve the island's unique biodiversity.
This image was acquired on 16 September 2004 by the Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS). Built by UK-based Sira Technology, CHRIS is the main payload on ESA's Proba micro-satellite, designed to acquire hyperspectral images with a spatial resolution of 18 metres across an area of 14 kilometres.
The size of a washing machine, Proba was originally launched in 2001 as a technology demonstrator, but is now operated as an ESA Earth Observation Third Party Mission.


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The blue duck is endemic to New Zealand, the blue duck was previously widespread throughout the country (2). A significant decline has occurred however, and remaining populations are severely fragmented in isolated areas of habitat that remain (4).
Blue ducks are found only in riverine habitats, where the water quality is good and there is bankside vegetation (3).
The blue duck is classified as Endangered (EN) on the IUCN Red List (1).
Habitat loss has been one of the major causes of decline in this species. The clearance and grazing of riverside vegetation has led to the depletion of water quality in many rivers and has restricted the blue duck to less accessible mountainous areas. Predation by introduced mammals such as stoats and competition with introduced trout may also have played a part in the decrease and fragmentation of this species' range (2).
The New Zealand Department of Conservation published a Blue Duck Recovery Plan in 1997 in an effort to secure the survival of this species in the wild and to downgrade its current threat status. Some of the conservation measures involved include captive breeding and release attempts and the protection of key areas of habitat. Ongoing population monitoring is also a priority in the conservation of this attractive waterbird (4).
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Hussiteshŭs´īts [key], followers of John Huss. After the burning of Huss (1415) and Jerome of Prague (1416), the Hussites continued as a powerful group in Bohemia and Moravia. They drew up (1420) the Four Articles of Prague, demanding freedom of preaching, communion in both kinds (i.e., both wine and bread) for the laity as well as priests, the limitation of property holding by the church, and civil punishment of mortal sin, including simony.
Although it ultimately failed, the Hussite movement is of permanent historical significance. It was the first substantial attack upon the two bulwarks of medieval society, feudalism and the Roman Catholic Church. As such it helped pave the way for both the Protestant Reformation and the rise of modern nationalism.
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Videos | November 3, 2011
What's Up for November 2011?
Planets on parade as we prepare for Curiosity Rover Launch
What's Up for November: magnetospheres and a Mars rover launch. Hello and welcome. I'm Jane Houston Jones at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Every magnet generates a magnetic field.
And several objects in our solar system generate their own magnetic fields.
The magnetic field of a planet extends into space and is called a magnetosphere.
The sun, Earth, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all have them.
Earth's magnetosphere shields us from the constant barrage of high energy particles that the sun emits -- the solar wind. A magnetosphere protects our atmosphere and oceans, which would otherwise gradually erode into space.
Mars lack of a magnetosphere may partly be responsible for the thinness of its atmosphere and absent oceans.
This month the Mars Science Laboratory, also known as the Curiosity rover, launches on a 23-month mission to Mars.
Curiosity will study Mars' habitability using the most advanced suite of instruments for scientific studies ever sent to the Martian surface. The rover will analyze samples scooped from the soil
and drilled from the rocks, along with many other activities.
If you stay up late, you'll be able to see the red planet this month.
Red-orange Mars will be in Leo near the blue-white star Regulus.
Jupiter rules the skies this month. You can't see its magnetosphere, but if you could, its apparent size from Earth would fill a space bigger than the full moon.
While Earth's magnetosphere is dominated by its interaction with the sun and the solar wind, Jupiter's is driven largely by the planet's fast rotation.
This month try looking for both Mercury and Venus, low on the southwestern horizon just after sunset during the first part of the month.
Finally, this is a great time to check out the sun and see sunspots.
But only through a safe solar telescope.
You can learn about Mars missions at mars dot nasa dot gov.
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With a little less than 48 hours to go before the world gets a glimpse at the PlayStation 4, there's some news for the PS Vita coming out of Japan today.
Sony announced that the company lowered and equalized the price point for the Wi-Fi and 3G/Wi-Fi-versions of the PS Vita to 19,980 yen ($212) from 24,980 yen ($265) and 29,980 yen ($319), respectively. Sony didn't carry the announcement over to the U.S., but it's possible that the company may use a portion of its PlayStation event in New York on February 20 to announce a similar price cut.
Naturally, those prices depend on currency conversions and don't represent the effect of a Vita price cut in the States, which could see prices for the handheld fall to $199 or less.
In related news, Sony introduced a new color, Ice Silver, for the PS Vita. The Wi-Fi-only gaming device features the same innards as a regular Vita and hits Japan on February 28.
These announcements came way by a video feed shown to Japanese consumers today. The video contained many previews for upcoming Vita titles, including highly-anticipated role-playing games such as Valhalla Knights 3, Eiyuu Densetsu: Sen no Kiseki, Dragon's Crown, and several others.
This long-awaited preview of Final Fantasy X HD for Vita generated a lot of buzz:


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Black Printmakers and
King-Hammond, Curator
|"Claude Clark biting plate to bring out design: carborundum process" (detail)
While there have been shows about the WPA Graphic Arts Section and exhibitions
of Black artists of the '30s, none has focused specifically on the impact
of the Federal Arts Projects upon the work of Black printmakers. This
exhibition is intended to reveal the esthetic and technical contributions
of these artists.
The Great Depression might easily have brought to an end that period of extraordinary richness and vitality in Black American cultural life known as the Harlem Renaissance. Instead, the years from 1934 to 1943 proved to be rich with new opportunities. Acting as employer of last resort, the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration provided dignified jobs for professional artists, Black as well as white. Paradoxically, many artists were able for the first time to devote themselves uninterruptedly to their creative work instead of dissipating their energy scrambling for a living. Young people who could not otherwise have afforded it received instruction from artists employed as teachers in newly established art centers. If in a very real sense the WPA created the conditions that made possible the triumphant emergence of American art as a major cultural force in the post-World War II period, it also helped to ensure the continued development of the arts in the Black community.
As well as fostering the talent of numerous individuals, the WPA had a particularly significant impact in the field of print making. By providing sophisticated equipment and employing artists with technical expertise as teachers, the Project stimulated interest in the graphic arts and developed the skills of artists who would contribute to the extraordinary resurgence of print making in the second part of this century. Black artists participated actively in this process. Robert Blackburn, whose early works may be seen in this exhibition, went on to work for Tatiana Grosman at Universal Limited Editions, pulling prints for Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, Larry Rivers, and Robert Rauschenberg. As the founder and head of the Printmaking Workshop in New York, he has transmitted his enthusiasm and his expertise to countless artists, both minority and mainstream, over the years. In a number of the WPA art studios, Blacks worked alongside whites, and in
Philadelphia, it was Dox Thrash, a Black man, who developed a strikingly
effective new lithographic technique known as the Carborundum print.
When the Federal Arts Projects closed down in 1943, no provisions were
made for cataloging or archival storage. Some prints were turned over
to libraries, and individual works remained in the hands of artists and
their friends. The works of only a few of the better-known artists have
since been extensively documented and acquired by museums. That is not
the case for most of those represented here. The ma jority of the prints
included in this exhibition are being shown for the first time.
Thanks are due to Leslie King-Hammond, whose efforts uncovered so many fine prints that have remained virtually unseen since they were first made, for introducing us to a number of unfamiliar artists who are surely deserving of our notice. Elisabeth Lorin's careful fact checking was invaluable in the preparation of biographical entries that shed some light on the activities of these artists. We are most grateful to the individuals and institutions who have loaned works to the exhibition.
An exhibition of this complexity could not have happened without the efforts and assistance of many individuals and institutions.
Special thanks are offered to Dierdre Bibby, Curator of the Schomburg
Research Center; J.B. Post, Curator, and Gloria Hibbit, Librarian, at
the Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan Square; Robert Killian, Secretary,
Department of Graphics, National Museum of American Art, Beth Rhodes and
Conna Clark, Department of Prints and Photographs, Philadelphia Museum
of Art; Robert Blackburn Artist and Director of the Printmaking Workshop;
Alice Loranth, Librarian, Cleveland Public Library, Jay Fisher, Curator
of Prints and Drawings, Baltimore Museum of Art; and Lowery Sims, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, as well as the following individuals: Richard Clarke, Ouida
Lewis, Ernest Crichlow, Corrine Jennings, Allegra Ockler, Sandy Ray, Julia
Lisowski and Pamela Scherch We would also like to express our appreciation
to the Gallery Association of New York State for its collaboration and
assistance in organizing the show and making it available to other institutions.
Kelly Fiske and David Ferguson were especially helpful, and Molly Sullivan
of our own staff did a heroic job of coordinating the unusually complex
logistics of this project.


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Workshop: Influenza vaccination campaigns of healthcare workers
The uptake of seasonal influenza vaccination in EU Member States has not reached the target levels in the 2009 Council Recommendations. This knowledge sharing workshop is intended to support communications activities surrounding national influenza vaccination campaigns, specifically campaigns targeting healthcare workers. The workshop will highlight good practices and success stories, as well as share encouraging and challenging experiences of the Member States' campaigns. It will also discuss and consider ways ECDC can support Member States in their campaigns through the creation of a "community of practice", and how best to achieve that via the existing platforms and tools.
ECDC-ASEF workshop: Strengthening the link between emergency risk communication and preparedness planning
For the first time, ECDC and the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) jointly organised a capacity-building workshop to discuss the challenges of incorporating emergency risk communication in all aspects of public health emergency preparedness planning. The workshop 'How can we be better prepared for the next global health threat - Planning and implementing emergency risk communication' took place 7-8 September in Stockholm and convened over 60 public health experts from Asian and EU/EEA countries.
European Health Forum Gastein 2016: ECDC workshop discusses life-course vaccination approaches and challenges
The aim of this workshop was to prompt reflection among key stakeholders on the benefits and challenges of implementing a life-course approach to vaccination.
Acute respiratory pandemics: how to plan for and manage
This practical course will cover outbreak investigation, pandemic planning, recent developments in respiratory pathogen biology and therapy, and will focus around two practical scenarios in which participants will gain experience in managing an acute epidemic. Research during an epidemic and ethical aspects will also be covered.
Cross-border health threats: assessment, evidence-based decision making & communication
The aim of the workshop was to strengthen capacity in Member States of the European Union (EU) and of the European Economic Area (EEA) in increasing and strengthening knowledge on the use of scientific evidence for assessment, decision-making and communication of cross-borders health threats in the European Union.
Addressing vaccine hesitancy in challenging times: ECDC workshop at European Health Forum Gastein 2017
ECDC is hosting a workshop at the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) 2017, highlighting the complex nature of vaccine hesitancy, as well as the necessity for an inter-sectorial approach and political leadership.
ECDC/EFSA Regional workshop on One Health approach against antimicrobial resistance in EU pre-accession countries
The overall aim of the workshop was to boost the advancement in this field, to reflect on the work done by countries, to share experiences with EU/EEA Member States, and to identify key priority areas that need to be addressed at regional level in Western Balkans.
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Public Health Genomics – an introduction
This workshop is designed to strengthen the capacity to use whole genome sequencing of human pathogens for public health investigations in EU/ EEA Member States.
Active tuberculosis case finding in migrants – ECDC workshop for EU Member States
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Jameis Winston is just the latest in a long line of 2-sport stars
Jameis Winston, the country's best college football player, is spending his spring playing baseball.
That may not be easy to do in Florida, a state where, as the old jokes goes, the two biggest sports are football and spring football. (College basketball, where the University of Florida is No. 1 in the country, is still third).
But having delivered a national title to Florida State in football, Winston hopes to bookend it with one this spring.
Here's a full list of multi-sport athletes
Winston, who played Tuesday against the Yankees and went 0-for-2, said his "dream" is to play two sports professionally, and he's cited Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders as precedents, and that's understandable: Both played in the NFL and MLB, Jackson is also from Winston's hometown of Bessemer, Ala., and Sanders also attended FSU.
But it's worth remembering a few more two-sports college stars, some of whom played two professionally, and some who did so even before ESPN was around to celebrate them.
Winston wasn't born when Charlie Ward won Florida State's first Heisman Trophy in 1993, but Ward played 10 years in the NBA. Dave DeBusschere pitched two seasons for the White Sox, played 12 seasons in the NBA (played and coached for three of them) and won titles in 1970 and 1973 for the Knicks.
Shortstop Dick Groat was an All-American college basketball player at Duke, played a year in the NBA and 14 in MLB, winning an MVP and the 1960 and 1964 World Series.
And nearly a century ago, George Halas played a dozen games for the New York Yankees in the outfield in 1919; a year later he helped form a professional football league and the Yankees settled on Babe Ruth in right field.
With hindsight, it's safe to say both Halas and the Yankees made correct decisions. Winston should be as wise.


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Bebo London Office (Video)
Bebo has a surprisingly small UK office for a company that's so popular with Brits. This one is used mainly for deal making, it seems, while the San Francisco office is where the web development happens.
The video, below, gives us a tour (credit to Boomtown). Speculation remains about whether some needy big web co like Yahoo might want to acquire Bebo.


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This is to the place to come to if you need Techie help with your Word Press blogs. Hopefully some savy Mom Bloggers will be able to answer any questions and get you going or fixed!
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Wordpress.org is just a self-hosted Wordpress blog. You'll be able to run javascript applettes, and add as many plugins as you can find!!!
If you can navigate wordpress.com having your own site is no big deal. It's like learning to drive on an automatic and having to learn to drive a stick shift. You're still driving you just have to remember to use the clutch.
Just buy a domain name and get a good host. Some even come with wordpress already installed. And follow the instructions at wordpress.org.
Hi, I have a blog on Worpress.com and was thinking about switching it to Wordpress.org. I was wondering if anyone has had experience with doing this?
I was thinking of switching b/c wp.com seems pretty restrictive, example, you can't do plugins and they don't let you advertise.
However, I'm worried that if I switch to wp.org that you have to be really tech savvy. Is that true or does it work pretty much like wp.com.
Also, it looks like I can keep my domain name but I wondered if others had done that. I've only been blogging since Thanksgiving and I'm just now starting to get consistent readers. I'm afraid that if I move I'll have to start over.
So basically, has anyone done the move and are you glad you did it? Thanks so much! www.racingandsavingmama.com
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hope this helps!!!
this isn't exactly what you're looking for but it will help you start to understand how to use hooks and css to style and format thesis
php is just a scripting language that makes it possible to write small shorthand files to call code so you don't have to write thousands of lines of code
hope that makes sense
let me do some more checking and i may find the answer for you
have my son here for the day for Christmas so will look later this afternoon
Thanks Julia! I have Thesis wordpress 3.0, don't really understand what php file is. Would appreciate if you would explain that. Thanks again!
You should have a php file with a reference to the author's name...
just take it out of the file,
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if you can't find it let us know what theme you're using so we can help
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Star Wars
I could watch this for hours, which is more than I can say for a good half of the actual Star Wars films. YouTube user H1tmonchan caught this video from a toy store window in Steinkjer, Norway.
It seems like an awful lot of effort gone into marketing a product that pretty much sells itself. The combination of LEGO and Star Wars is not one that requires further sweetening.
Not that I'm complaining. I'm too busy grabbing popcorn and full-screening this mother to complain.
Lego Star Wars Hologram [YouTube via Reddit]


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I bought a house in the Twin Lakes Community of Gilmer about five years ago. The property is governed by a home owner's organization/club of which I now own stock known as Gilmer Boating and Fishing Club (GB&FC). You must be voted in to the club and become a stock holder to own a home in the community. When they voted me in, I told them I would not purchase the home unless my brother and any of my adult children were allowed to live with me. They agreed to allow my brother and any one or all of my children to live there. I have been in my home now for five years. My brother who is a disabled veteran and my son live with me. GB&FC has since filed a lawsuit wanting me to throw my son and disabled brother out on the street. They lied under oath and said the conversation where they agreed to allow my family to live with me, never took place. As for the results of the law suit that they had no rite to file Judge Parish found against me and gave me 90 days to through them out. I guess now that Judge Parish has not granted my request for retrial based newly found evidence that proves that witnesses called by plaintiff perjured themselves in her court, they will probably be filing for eviction, because I absolutely refuse to put my family on the street. I intend to fight the eviction as well. I am know longer held to there restriction because they refused to give me copies of all restrictions and minutes of all club meetings in which I am entitle to by law. I would advise anyone to have nothing to do with that bunch of crooks. They are very dishonest and hateful people.
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Thank you so much PhilXXX,
That's what we have been trying to get people in the judicial system to understand but all of the elected officials in Upshur County are in on it and when we try to go out of county we are told to see our County District Attorney Billy Byrd but he will not see us, speak to us, return calls or reply to registered mail from us. During the civil trial for the suit that was filed against me by Gilmer Boating and Fishing Club while the board members of GBaFC came into court one at a time and so obviously perjured themselves in front of Judge Lauren Parish by direction of Attorney Barry Wallace, County DA Billy Byrd and Sheriff Anthony Betterton were busy laughing and hugging all of the witnesses who were waiting outside in the hall way. After Judge Lauren Parish disregarded all statutes presented by my lawyer and the trial was dismissed they were all in the parking lot hugging and dancing around in celebration of victory and Judge Lauren Parish had not even announced her findings yet. She said it would be next week. My son and brother are getting extremely poor representation from their Attorneys appointed to their cases by the Court. These Attorneys will not see any of us or return calls as well.
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Guest opinion: Newspaper theft law protects readers' constitutional rights
Former state representative
Sometimes when you see something that is wrong, you know you need to do something about it.
Nine years ago, I was serving as the state representative in District 56, representing the people of Eagle, Lake and Summit counties in the Colorado House of Representatives. Someone was upset about something written in one of the free distribution newspapers in my district and decided the best way to stop everyone else in town from seeing it would be to steal all the newspapers.
The theft of those newspapers was damaging to virtually all of my constituents. The people who depended on that paper for news and information were victims as the thieves effectively violated their First Amendment rights to benefit from a free press when they censored that newspaper by stealing all the copies. The businesses that advertised in the paper spent hard-earned money and made business decisions based upon the advertisements they'd purchased were hurt when the entire run of that newspaper was stolen for the express purpose of making sure that no one, including their customers and potential customers, would ever see anything printed in it.
Finally, the newspaper itself was hurt. It lost financially as its investment to make the newspaper available was stolen, but even more so by a thief who stole the paper's right to communicate with its community.
When local prosecutors declined to prosecute the case because they said they no crime had been committed under Colorado law because they couldn't establish a value for newspapers that were distributed to the public without cost, I knew something had to be done.
Working with representatives of law enforcement, business organizations and newspapers, Sen. Jack Taylor and I introduced House Bill 1057 in 2004. The bill made it a crime to steal newspapers for the purpose of depriving other people access to information. It passed the legislature by huge margins and was signed into law by Gov. Bill Owens.
I was shocked to hear earlier this year that a task force of the Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice was considering recommending doing away with the newspaper theft law and was even more amazed that the full commission has now recommended repeal to the Legislature.
It seems pretty simple to me. You don't take things that don't belong to you. But beyond that, we carefully crafted HB 1057 to only bring the law into these crimes when it could be proved that the theft took place to deprive other people of the right to read what was printed in the newspaper.
If the Legislature accepts this ill-conceived recommendation to repeal the law, it will create open season on a free press as stealing papers for the purpose of censoring information will be legalized in Colorado. I urge the CCJJ to reconsider its flawed recommendation, but if it goes forward, the Legislature owes it to all Coloradans to swiftly kill the bill and leave existing protections in place.
Carl Miller, D-Leadville, served in the Colorado House of Representatives from 1997 until 2004. He also served as a Lake County commissioner and as a member of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.
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Tuesday, Sept. 10: Apple Is Key Stock to Watch
Chris Dieterich joins the News Hub with a look at which stocks traders will be watching during market action, including McDonald's, and Five Below and Apple, which is expected to unveil a new line of iPhones on Tuesday.
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In October 1922, National Geographic devoted an entire issue to the continent of Africa which included this beautifully crafted map. Discover Africa in the early 20th century when transportation on the continent was in its infancy and many rivers were yet unexplored.
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The WBC: Canada's quest for coffee supremacy
Posted by TheShot on 25 May 2006 | Tagged as: Barista
Today the WestEnder of Vancouver, Canada posted an article on one of my favorite baristas in the world, Sammy Piccolo: Canada's quest for coffee supremacy. Sammy has made some of the best espresso I've ever had in North America … if not the world. Back in 2000, along with his brothers Vince and Michael, he also co-founded the outstanding Caffè Artigiano chain in Vancouver, BC.
Sammy also has the distinction of being a repeat Canadian barista champion and placing in the world's top three baristas for three consecutive years now at the World Barista Championships (WBC).
At the 2004 WBC in Trieste, Italy, Sammy dominated the technical categories of the competition. However, he ultimately lost ground to the eventual 2004 WBC champion, Tim Wendelboe of Norway, in the much more subjective categories covering taste and performance. Sammy ultimately came home sporting the WBC silver medal — no small achievement.
After taking home the bronze at the 2005 WBC in Seattle, Sammy hoped the third time would be the charm at this year's WBC, held last weekend in Bern, Switzerland.
After the opening round, the competition was narrowed to six finalists with Sammy once again holding a solid lead. But just as in Trieste, Sammy was overtaken in the final round — this time by eventual 2006 WBC champion, Klaus Thomsen of Denmark — and Sammy took home the silver medal once again. Despite his luck with judges in the final rounds of the WBC, Sammy has always been a champion in my book.
Also worth noting is that Matthew Riddle of Chicago's Intelligentsia , winner of this year's US Barista Championship, came in third place.
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[…] My favorite part of the film, however, was seeing Caffè Artigiano's Sammy Piccolo (who is called 'Salvatore' Piccolo in the footage) competing at the 2005 World Barista Championship in Seattle. Sammy placed third that year. If only The Roxie offered you one of Sammy's espresso shots, it would have made it worth the price of admission. […]


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The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which houses Julia Child's extensive papers, is sponsoring this symposium to mark the centenary of her birth.
Distinguished speakers will focus on three "sites" that Julia Child inhabited, learned from, and influenced:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
National Television
The event is free and open to the public.
Explore the Julia Child Papers at the Schlesinger Library online.
Lizabeth Cohen, Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
Nancy F. Cott, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America; Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Laura Shapiro, author of Julia Child and Perfection Salad who has also written for the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Granta, and Gourmet
Alice Kaplan, John H. Musser Professor of French at Yale and the author of Dreaming in French, French Lessons: A Memoir, The Collaborator, and The Interpreter
Alex Prud'homme, coauthor with Julia Child of My Life in France, trustee of the Julia Child Foundation and grandnephew of Paul and Julia Child
Bob Spitz, author of the biography Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child and The Making of Superstars, Barefoot in Babylon, Dylan, and Shoot Out the Lights
Philadelphia Cousins, a trustee of the Julia Child Foundation and a niece of Julia Child
Dorothy Zinberg, lecturer in public policy and faculty associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and a longtime neighbor of the Childs in Cambridge
Michela Larson, longtime restaurateur in Cambridge and Boston
Jane Thompson, an urbanist, designer, and planner with Thompson Design Group who, with her husband Ben Thompson, equipped Julia Child's television kitchen and came to know her well
Mark DeVoto, musicologist, composer, and professor emeritus of music at Tufts University; his mother, Avis DeVoto, worked extensively with Julia Child and was a close friend of hers
Russell Morash, a television producer and director at WGBH of many PBS television shows—including The French Chef and other Julia Child series
Dana Polan, professor of Cinema Studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and author of numerous books, including The Sopranos, Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film, and, most recently, Julia Child's "The French Chef"
Lisa Abend, TIME correspondent in Spain whose writing about food has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, and the Christian Science Monitor.


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Blake Shelton's 2013 ACM Awards Co-Host? Luke Bryan!
The 2013 Academy of Country Music Awards co-hosting gig goes to Blake Shelton and... Luke Bryan!
Shelton will be returning for his third stint as the co-host of the ACMs, but the award show's longstanding host, Reba McEntire, has resigned from her position on the red carpet event's stage. Thankfully, it'd be hard to think of a better replacement than Bryan to take her place at the 48th Annual ACMs, booked at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas for Sunday, April 7.
Shelton and Bryan are both as famous for their senses of humor as they are for their country songs, so anyone who tunes in will certainly be entertained by their antics. As we write this, they are probably already plotting ways to get laughs out of people at one another's expense.
While we already know how well Shelton fares as host, Bryan isn't exactly a wildcard choice. He did a pretty bang-up job as the red carpet correspondent at the CMAs for 'The Ellen Show.' Just this past November, Shelton planted a big ol' kiss on him during their interview, so that should give us an idea of what we're in for.
As for 'The Voice' coach, he did express displeasure at McEntire's decision to retire as host, saying, "I hate it — I really do. But, you know, she's busy. She's got her sitcom going now, and I get it. So, those are big shoes to fill."
Can Bryan fill them with the same sort of grace, class and poise as Reba? Definitely not -- he'd probably tell you that himself. But he'll fill 'em with jokes, a good sense of humor and that terrific smile of his.
The show will broadcast at 8PM ET/delayed PT on your local CBS affiliate.


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Mr. Java: "None. I quit last month because my cardiologist told me to cut out codeine."
Dr. Grumpy: "You mean caffeine."
Mr. Java: "Aren't they the same thing?"
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
I am rolling on the ground laughing!! For me, yeah, they are about the same. Alas, codeine keeps me up all night, too. Takes all the fun out of tylenol 3.
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It is a miracle that your patients get to that "certain age". Alcohol, methyl or ethyl what is the big deal.
@ Anon,
If the dolts are debating methyl or ethyl they probably think the extra "C" is good for them :)
omg duh duh duh, homer simpson has nothing on these guys!
caffeine, codeine, compazine, carbamazapene. all conjugations of the same verb- careen.
I'm with the above commenter....they all start with "C" don't they? Hahahahahha. How did you keep a straight face? Instead of " C is for cookie" a la Cookie Monster on Sesame Street- just insert said drug.
I had an ICU nurse ask me (25 years ago) if clonidine and quinidine were the same thing.
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the doctor should write a script for two cups of coffee instead of tylenol 3 and see if works the same
Maybe the cardiologist meant he should sprinkle codeine in his coffee to temper the effects of the caffiene.
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*** This essay and I are part of the Messy, Beautiful Warrior Project. To learn more and join us, click here. And to learn about the New York Times Bestselling Memoir Carry On Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life, just released in paperback, click here. ***
Dear friends,
The fact that Kate called me from college during the middle of a business meeting, which I was leading but which I interrupted to answer, was odd enough.
Her questions were even odder.
"I have Sunday off and I'm going to the city to have lunch with Aunt P. I was wondering if you know of a good place to eat in her neighborhood. Also, I want to go to the cemetery and place flowers on Grannie's grave and I don't know how to get there."
On the surface, there are easy answers to Kate's questions. But my sweet daughter unknowingly unleashed a hornet's nest of angst in two simple sentences — so much so that I excused myself from the meeting to step outside, where stepping outside equals stepping into the vast wasteland of my emotion on the topic of my sister.
I've had what can politely be described as a "difficult" relationship with my sister. At the time of my mother's death nearly four years ago, she and I were estranged for reasons not necessary to detail here but related to her lifetime of addiction and my lifetime of carefully cultivated anger. Right before my mother passed, Mom said very little other than she'd had a good life and she wasn't afraid to die. But she had a final request: "Please stay close to P," she asked quietly. "She doesn't have anyone and she needs you."
Let me tell you — I could write an irrefutable essay on why deathbed requests should be immediately outlawed, but that's not the point of this story. To those living and those departing, deathbed requests are an unfair entreaty, or at least that's how I felt after eight weeks of being the only family member holding vigil at my mother's side during her final illness. But faced with my mother's last request to do the one thing I knew I couldn't do, I did what any loving daughter would do.
I lied.
"Okay," I whispered. "I will."
Six months later, I moved out of state. I moved for a lot of reasons, but being five hours away from my sister was surely at the top of the list.
And, now, here was my daughter, away at college and willing to drive two hours to have lunch with her aunt, whose calls I mostly don't answer and whose texts I only occasionally return. I've always believed the universe sends people signals when they most need them. On this day, I thought the universe must be drunk, too. I didn't like this signal and it surely was nothing more than a kind of cosmic glitch, an errant sign that had nothing to do with me.
But I took a deep breath and answered my daughter's questions amid the traffic noise outside my office. I was surprisingly composed but unsurprisingly terse. I told her my sister lives in a terrible neighborhood and there's no decent place to eat within miles of her house. But don't take her anywhere fancy, I cautioned, because she looks like a homeless person. And don't bother going to the cemetery because the grave is still unmarked and you won't be able to find it. It's a long story, I said, with the kind of exasperated tone that made it clear the failure to buy a headstone had everything to do with my sister's broken promises.
It was the worst kind of explanation a mother could give a daughter, especially one as good-hearted as mine. It was shameful, really, but it was all I had. Love didn't exactly win at that moment.
You know — those of us who are fans of Glennon Melton would break a leg to meet her. I adore Glennon, but you know who I really want to meet? I want to meet Glennon's Sister. I want to pull Sister aside and ask how she managed to be Sister to the Drunk all those years. Because during my sister's awful, horrible years when she stole my car and my money and my jewelry and found every way humanly possibly to hurt my mother and nearly got herself killed, more than once by a drunken male companion — I stayed the hell away.
I made sure P knew she was not invited to my wedding. I made my mother promise not to take my children around her. When she was sent to jail, many times, I never bothered to ask where or why or for how long. I refused to visit her in the hospital after she was nearly beaten to death with a steel pipe until my mother tearfully begged me to go, after which I stood in the doorway of her dingy hospital room because I wasn't brave enough to cross the linoleum abyss between my anger and her pain.
You know, for as hard as it must be to be Drunk — and Glennon has given me so many insights into that experience — it's also hard to be Sister. I'm not making excuses, I'm just saying sobriety, especially my kind of protective sobriety which looks a lot like furious disapproval, is hard, too. The addicted and the sober — we're like two jagged stones tumbling down a dirt road, crashing into each other and knocking off our smooth edges, unintentionally making each other sharper and scarring up the soft earth around us. We might be doing the best we can, the only ways we know how — and for Pete's sake we ought to give each other a break given the circumstances — but it's so ugly and so painful we don't know what to do so we just keep tumbling.
Surprisingly, though, after my mother died the anger I had nurtured about my sister over so many years began to fray in a way that startled me. The unraveling of what had safeguarded and sustained me, the tattering that had moved beyond the edges into the center of my tightly woven gall, left me unsteady, as if I had lost the only emotional compass that worked for me with P. I sought a counselor's assistance because the problem with losing your anger is that it's not immediately replaced with an emotion you know how to work with. The absence of fury doesn't create compassion. It's something more like benign forbearance, which isn't particularly conducive to family reconciliations. The counselor advised me to set the boundaries I needed to protect myself, but to commit to taking action in keeping with my values. Apparently the boundary I needed was 300 miles wide.
I figured I'd think about the values part later.
You know, my husband has this theory that the incarcerated aren't the only ones in prison. He believes the wardens — and the System that retains them — are locked in the same dreadful dynamic, and the keepers aren't any more free to leave than the criminals. Who's to say which side of the bars is more subjugating, he asks?
His insight resonates with me because I haven't known for a long time who's on what side of what jail, P and me. She's paid a steep price, including her health, a good bit of her sanity, and an unbreakable tether to her daily dose at the methadone clinic.
But I've paid a price too, one I'm just beginning to calculate. I've never believed in a literal hell but I can tell you hell away is a torturous place, maybe exactly what God warned us about, but so close to our noses that we humans couldn't see it and instead we told stories of fire and brimstone because, you know, speck in her eye.
I don't have a tidy answer today. I know P loves me, because she never fails to tell me. I know I love her too, because I am starting to let myself feel it, no matter how hard I try to resist and how few times I say it. I know we are sisters because we are breathtakingly imperfect in our sameness and because a million years ago, when she was 16 and I was 6, we rode around in the car together, the windows rolled down and the am radio playing Janis Joplin, who taught us "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."
The lyrics held true for her and I suddenly think they have held true for me, too. Maybe we were destined to spiral downward together, to plumb the depths of our souls in tandem until she hit the rock bottom of reckless addiction and I hit the rock bottom of hardened sobriety. The landing always hurts, I suddenly realize, but there's comfort in finding hard ground, in stopping the free fall.
Who knew we would be emancipated together 45 years later?
With gratitude {for daughters, sisters, and second chances},
Joan, but, like my sister, you can call me JM


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The Vegetarian Option: Hallo Berlin
Dining out meat-free.
Although you may not immediately think "vegetarian" when you think of German food, lots of vegetables are used as side dishes. True, sometimes the potato salad contains bacon, but at Hallo Berlin in Hell's Kitchen, they make sure that the vegetable sides are actually vegetarian.
To get a good sampling of those vegetables, Hallo Berlin has thoughtfully provided the Vegetable Bowl ($10). Among the best things on the plate are: the German fries, crispy potatoes covered in spicy ketchup; creamy potato salad; bright, acidic red cabbage; and spaetzle. Unlike the small, teardrop-shaped spaetzle I've had before, at Hallo Berlin they serve long, almost linguine-like noodles, soft on the inside but crisp (from a sauté in butter) on the outside. The plate offers a wide variety of flavors, textures, and temperatures, and is a great way to get the full spectrum of German vegetarian food.
There are a few other vegetarian sides worth ordering to bulk up your meal, such as the potato pancakes ($6.50). Served with the complimentary flavors of applesauce and sour cream, the pancakes are greasy in all the right ways, with crispy edges and soft interiors that earnestly taste of potatoes. They're perfect for sharing.
The jumbo pretzel ($5) is also quite good, though maybe not worth the price. Warm and slightly chewy, it embodies all that a pretzel should be. My only quibble: the mustard served along with it is too sweet for my taste; I prefer spicier mustard with my pretzels.
Hallo Berlin is situated on busy 10th Avenue, but if you can snag a seat in the back yard you'll feel miles away from all of the hustle and bustle. Drink a large beer, order up some great vegetarian food, and relax. I've never been to Germany, but I can only hope that it's a lot like that.
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All of the above are examples of calls to action – something that inspires an email recipient to take action – that work. We see examples of well-intentioned emails that are missing this crucial element to email success.
If you want your readers to do something, tell them what you want them to do – don't assume they know what to do. For example, if you want your recipients to click through to your site, tell them. If you want them to pick up the phone, make it obvious that they should call, or use a stylized button with a telephone image and the words "Call us now!"
Compare the two images below. Guess which one gets a higher click rate and therefore more people who are in a position to make a purchase?
Don't give your readers just one time to click to your site, either. Don't link every word in your email communication, but make sure you give your readers more than one opportunity to click to your site.
Smashing Magazine, a periodical for web designers and developers, has a fantastic (and long) article with LOTS AND LOTS of examples of calls to action that work. Take a look at your email marketing to make sure that calls to action are plentiful and prominent.


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I'm primarily a Java developer, and I come to you with a question that straddles the divide between developers and sysadmins.
Years ago, when it was a novel thing to run Tomcat as an app server, it was customary to front it with Apache. As I understand it, this was done because:
- Java was considered "slow", and it was helpful to have Apache serve static content directly.
- Tomcat couldn't listen to ports 80/443 unless run as root, which was dangerous.
Java is no longer considered slow, and I doubt adding Apache to the mix will actually help speed things up.
As for the ports issue, there are probably simpler ways to connect app servers to ports 80/443 these days.
So my question is- is there really any benefit to fronting Java Webapps with Apache these days? If so, is Apache still the way to go? Should I look at Nginx? Instead of Tomcat I'm using Glassfish, if that matters.


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Some while back, I made a Basssoon arrangement of The Lone Ar-ranger!, to add to the various other smaller ensemble versions I have already been asked to produce.
A few days ago, fellow SibeliusMusic composer, Rob Heathcote, asked me to come up with a version for clarinet ensemble, which I have been happy to do. Rob, in fact, lives not that far away from me in Plymouth - just up the M5 nearer Bristol, and has written a number of pieces for clarinet himself. The arrangement is based on the wind quintet version, but has some alterations and changes, partly to accommodate the instrumental ranges.
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Gas mileage top factor in Ram pickup revamp
With gasoline around $4 in much of the nation, fuel economy has never been more important to pickup truck buyers. That's why engineers who worked on revamping Chrysler's Ram put it at the forefront of their work.
Chrysler won't reveal the exact figures, but the company says the new Ram will have the best mileage of any full-size pickup when equipped with either a V-6 or V-8 engine.
Along with more efficient engines, the 2013 Ram has better aerodynamics, an eight-speed automatic transmission, technology to shut the engine down at stop lights, and other improvements to boost mileage.
The truck, due in showrooms in September, will be introduced Thursday at the New York International Auto Show:
UNDER THE HOOD: Ram buyers get a choice of a new 3.6-liter, 305 horsepower V-6 or the venerable 5.7-liter, 395 horsepower Hemi V-8. The eight-speed transmission, which raises fuel economy because the engine works less at highway speeds, comes standard with the V-6 and as an option on trucks with the Hemi. There's also the stop-start system, a first in big pickups. It shuts off the engine when the truck comes to a complete stop, restarting it when the driver's foot comes off the brake. There's also a system that keeps the transmission fluid at 190 degrees, reducing friction. And the truck gets electric power steering. The old one ran the steering off the engine, creating drag and cutting mileage.
OUTSIDE: The revamped truck keeps the aggressive look of the current version. Its cab looks like a semi, and it has an intimidating presence. The pickup gets a larger grille, some new lights and optional running boards. The bigger grille has shutters that close when the engine doesn't need as much air, cutting wind drag and raising gas mileage. The Ram borrows an air suspension from the Jeep Grand Cherokee. It's an option that raises and lowers the pickup's height to cut down on wind resistance.
INSIDE: Chrysler says it's redesigned with upgraded materials. It has new heating and air conditioning controls, new shifter controls and added touch-screen systems.
FUEL ECONOMY: Chrysler won't release numbers yet, but it did make the promise of best-in class fuel economy. It also promised that the new V-6, when paired with the eight-speed transmission, will get at least 20 percent better gas mileage than the current model. That would put the new V-6 around 24 mpg on the highway, up from the current 20. It also promised that the V-8 version with the eight-speed transmission would get at least 10 percent better mileage than the current truck, taking it to around 22 mpg on the highway.
PRICE: Chrysler hasn't released the number yet, but it is likely to be more than the current truck. The base 2012 two-wheel-drive Ram with a V-6 starts at $21,820.
CHEERS: Buyers want to save money on fuel, and Chrysler has gone to great lengths to raise the Ram's gas mileage. It's also increased the horsepower and towing capacity of the V-6 engine, making it more appealing.
JEERS: The truck doesn't look much different from the old one, and it faces stiff competition later in the year from a new Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra.